Link. Evangelicals can justify anything that is desirable or convenient. They have a universal out.
Monthly Archives: June 2018
“there has never been a disaster like the G7 meeting that just took place.”
Link.
Inside MN DFL politics: Mike Hatch.
Link. The smaller the hole…
“Wilhelm’s patronage of the aggressive, nationalistic right left him surrounded by ministers who held a collective conviction that a European war was inevitable and even desirable”
Link. All stupid leaders are similar.
“Trump’s populism, divisiveness and friendliness toward dictators is also reminiscent of Charles Lindbergh’
Link. He said he was going to be this way. Blame the voters.
Michelangelo did not say – “A single block of stone holds every sculpture”
Link. Including itself. This is how I think of the multiverse. Or perhaps the nooverse.
Organic Chemistry on Mars – kerogen and methane
Link. Best discussion I’ve read.
Athenahealth: Reider’s take on who will buy
Link. He knows this world.
Oval chainrings return
Link. I remember them from the 80s.
“2005 single middle-aged women were as much as 2.8 times more likely to kill themselves than married women, and their single male peers 3.5 times more likely than married men to do the same.”
Link. Correlation strong.
Colon Cancer Screening: review with 45yo guideline
Link. Good discussion. Physicians will wait for dust to settle
Trump has “worked consistently on really every front to advance the interests of Russia.”
Link. The revenge of the USSR is awesome to behold.
The 2013 Mac Pro: “high-profile failure”
Link. Did Apple do a failure analysis? My guess would be Ive.
Latest ACA attack: “flagrant a violation of the President’s constitutional duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed as you can imagine.”
Link. Why is anyone surprised?
Sun and Earth: what a nice day.
Link. Trump shall pass.
Voters like cities to spend on sports and corporations
Link. The wisdom of crowds eludes me.
GOP moves to kill ACA.
Link. White voters chose this.
Apple “free trials” hurt family sharing.
Link. Effectively makes apps more expensive – but buyers won’t know. It’s a dumb move.
A good rant on Mr Mehmet Oz.
Link. Stop calling him Dr.
Shorter NYT: everyone despises Giuliani
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Google AI principles
Link. Read well.
Why I Can’t Delete Facebook
Link. MN Mountain Bike Coach Group. CrossFit St Paul.
macOS 10.14 Mojave: “Apple no longer cares about non-retina Macs like the MacBook Air”
Link. Text wil look worse.
“Adenoidectomy was associated with about double the relative risk of obstructive pulmonary disorder”
Link. I’m skeptical.
REM sleep as brain shivers?
Link. Unpersuasive, but neat data.
Fox rebel: “With the rise of Donald Trump, Fox did become a destructive propaganda machine”
Link. Serving Putin.
Uehlines – funders of the right: “broad access to assault weapons and assail transgender rights”
Link. Despicables.
Beyond passwords: Web Authentication standards.
Link. Not Apple of course. iOS 12 password management is separately interesting.
Things old persons don’t understand — what happens to all those school Google Docs?
Link. Google ownership transfer process sucks.
PCOS and the brain: more evidence of neuropsychiatric component
Link. Long way from understanding.
H2 blockers and sleep disturbamce
Link. H2 blockers have complex activities
Rova-T lessons for “right-to-try”: “turns out to be worse than the standard of care”
Link. Most early miracles fizzle fast.
Human working memory mechanism looks crappy.
Link. Terrible constraints. AIs will exceed by many orders of magnitude.
America: “Affluent person with two kids in college is actually poorer than an Upper-Middle income person with two kids in college”
Link. For the colleges they selected, considering income.
REST and healthcare transactions.
Link. Ignore the misguided HL7 critique, this is otherwise a nice explanation.
“Trump era puts attorneys general in the spotlight”
Link. Keith Ellison running for MN state AG
“concrete cycle-paths generally require no maintenance for 30 years”
Link. Would resurrect inline skating.
Birth of the Ninety-Nines – a club of female pilots.
Link. Still around.
“children who spend more time outside are protected from the onset and progression of myopia”
Link. 11h daylight a week
Microsoft’s Newest Data Center Is a Giant Metal Can at the Bottom of the Sea
Link. Hudson’s Bay is power rich.
“Dr. Oz continues to be full of shit.”
Link. He’s trolling the sentients.
Weight training and depression
Link. Lack of dose-response is suspicious.
Prion infectivity: “specific glitches in a molecule’s structure, and not by the mere presence of misfolded proteins.”
Link. C-terminal domain
Why Pruitt?
Link. Because he annoys the sentients, executes on Trump’s wishes, and provides useful chaff.
Quantum computing for policymakers. Aaronson summary
Link. Much less disruptive than some imagine.
“Either Zuckerberg is a liar, or he’s a liar with absolutely no concept of the sunk-cost fallacy”
Link. Sane people do not become billionaires. (Ok, maybe Buffett.)
Backing up kids Google school accounts with CloudPull
Link. Schools ending, so added child school Google accounts to my CloudPull backups. Get Office versions of their Google Docs.
June 5 2018: Google has no hits comparing Apple Swift Playgrounds to Google Grasshopper
Apple’s iPad-only Swift Playgrounds (learn Swift) has been out for months.
Google’s smartphone-only Grasshopper (learn JavaScript) has been out since April.
Today my Google search found zero comparisons of the two approaches. (Ok, it found one webspam algorithmically generated page. That actually counts as -1.
Even five years ago Google would have found many by now.
The web is dead.
HIV-1 adult lymphoma-leukemia accelerated by checkpoint inhibitor.
Link. Big nasty surprise.
Project Fi: Google’s family support
Link. This *sounds* great. I’m jealous.