Link. Consistent with Russian hack of US.
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Carroll injects sanity into cancer-alcohol story
Link. These stories cause harm
GOP bill is classic “trickle down”
Link. Tiny trickle.
Pathology of an infamous “CTE brain”.
Link. We do not understand CTE cause.
Invest in the bubble and get rich!!
Link. Different this time.
Mental illness and mass murder: “numbers of victims are fairly small up until the 1960s”
Link. When came the AK-47.
Pace of Sign-Ups Under Affordable Care Act Blows Past Prior Years
Link. Resist!
The misogyny communities of low status males
Link. Vestigial gender
Evangelicals for pedophilia: “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter”
Link. Remember when we thought them inflexible?
The Paradise Papers: How Apple evades taxes
Link. MegaCorp competitive advantage
Roy Moore’s pedophile past.
Link. “legal age of consent in Alabama, then and now, is 16”
“a fungus in ants’ clothing”. Parasite rex
Link. Horribly fascinating
“common thread of support for Obama and for Trump was resounding: anti-elitism”
Link. This.
Disable NK nukes and await the plagues
Link. Robust bioweapons
NYT: Is Trump using antitrust to punish CNN?
Link. Probably. Would be his style
Gig economy promoted ACA enrollment
Link. Routing around the toxic president.
Brain implants get real, researchers walk SF roads.
Link. Living SF less fun than reading.
“difficult … to overstate the carelessness with which Crosscheck handles the personal data of US voters.”
Link. GOP voter suppression initiative
An thoughtful & expletive enhanced Twitter rant.
Link. Users are collaborators
Streaming HDR video: Pogue likes Roku and Apple
Link. Purchase prices dwarfed by media costs.
Claim that college whites turning on Trump
Link. Others say non-college remain Trumpers
iPhone 8 vs iPhone 6s photos – closer than you’d think.
Link. The 6s is a great camera. I wonder if some of color effect is the new compression algorithm.
Virginia Gerrymander: Despite large popular vote win Dems unlikely to win legislature.
Link. Very successful GOP strategy.
Trump on tax plan: “so bad for rich people, I had to throw in the estate tax just to give them something”
Link.
For WWC all Trump needs to do is rant.
Link. Professional wrestling.
“DOJ is now telling AT&T that it needs to sell CNN if it wants the acquisition approved.”
Link. Trump moves against CNN.
GOP whackos, Trump included, push nutjob theory on CIA director.
Link. For the record.
Why mid-range smartphone is best
Link. Like laptops.
“Democrats would only be about even-money to claim the House even if they won the popular vote for the House by 7 percent”
Link. Gerrymandering and rural bias
China joins Facebook wars
Link. Maybe we can get them to fight Russia
Claim that this time white women will make a difference.
Link. The key is non-college white women. Need data
Schneier on Equifax: “Two months later, Equifax had still failed to patch its systems”
Link. Should be dissolved
Daily alcohol use and cancer risk
Link. Big association in some infrequent cancers. Surprising to me.
GOP tax plan: “tuition waivers would be taxed as regular income,”
Link. Makes grad school more costly.
Google “publisher Knowledge Panels”
Link. Expose fake journals
“Techniques for visualizing and understanding neural networks”
Link. Think strong AI won’t happen? Read this.
CybercriminalHacking E-Mail Networks to Divert Customer Payments.
Link. Use Google Apps.
“ADHD” is at least 3 distinct brain disorders.
Link. Finally we make progress.
Polling 1y later: Struggling to adjust for “education”
Link. Education, in whites, is polite term for IQ.
Microbiome, arthritis, and curious antibiotic effects of some meds.
Link. Hydroxychloroquine likely alters microbiome.
Robots that learn
Link. 2017 was AI year. Also 2018, 2019, …
“tsunami of questionable money crashing into the tech industry.”
Link. Lost hordes of money with nowhere to go. Inequality end-game
Trump pivots from Korean War II
Link. Did SK draw the line?
China rises still
Link. American vacuum will be filled. Russia pleased?
Kelley, poster child for the NRA.
Link. Don’t be friends with NRA members
How Khattala was captured
Link. Meticulous and very dangerous for the informer
Disney caves when journalists defend LAT
Link. Print still has power?!
PalmPilot vs iPhone SE.
Link. Omits key enabling feature: Palm had superb synchronization to desktop app.
Arthritis 10y after joint injury much more common than thought
Link. This is too weird. Need more data.
It is insanely hard to get humans to take life saving medications.
Link. Rational humans are atypical.