Link. Still not boring.
Daily Archives: September 20, 2018
Amazon Fire TV Recast OTA DVR $230.
Link. Wanted this for years. No subscription. Will buy.
“Echo Input costs $35, the same as a Chromecast Audio.”
Link. Apple doesn’t have a product in this space
“40,000 different bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals.”
Link. Airborne things we live in, breathe in. Not counting viruses.
“why Ron Wyden seems almost amazingly well-informed on very technical computer security matters”
Link. Dems have the best staff.
Fake science: “Simple environmental cues can help people lose weight and eat healthier, without the need for rigorous dieting and intense exercise.”
Link. Guy was a fraud. I’d never heard that false meme though. Wonder what impact it had beyond usual Oprah nonsense.
The Apprentice: Trump and Putin
Link. I underestimated Putin.
MDMA: “an animal whose brain evolved completely independently from our own reacts behaviorally in the same way that we do to a drug”
Link. Extreme conservation.
“Facebook is worried that banning white separatist groups would negatively impact other separatist movements around the world like black separatist groups”
Link. China is interesting to contemplate
A CEO’s take on Zuckerberg.
Link. A useful persoective.
NYT explores right wing slander machine in Kavanaugh case.
Link. All the usual scum.
“playlist of music that iTunes shows as “No Longer Available,” which currently contains 674 items”
Link. Don’t get attached to virtual things.
Restore iPhone with many apps is a big probem now
Link. Connectivity lags.
“tap that microphone icon on the keyboard and say “Tab key,” iOS will insert a tab for you.”
Link.
“Apple is actually being fairly consistent with the size of the price tag it wants to see on its base-level [new] iPhone”
Link. Wonder how much China drives the big jump at the top
Activity tracker like iPhone or Apple Watch now mandatory for John Hancock life insurance.
Link. This is bad. Incidentally, works for walking, bad for CrossFit.
Must read: “Commercial paper is a specialized form of extremely low-risk, short-term bonds”
Link. History aside this is important. I had no idea.