Link. Nobelist too
Daily Archives: October 4, 2018
Luxardo Maraschino Cherries
Link.
Cărturești Carusel Bookstore in Bucharest, Romania
Link. Hope.
This annoys me: “existence of a revanchist core of white men”
Link. 52% of white *women* voted Trump. The problem isn’t just white men.
Solar electric bicycle raced 12,800 km in 64 days.
Link. Love the 99% saddle discount.
“The truly wealthy end up paying a much lower effective tax rate than the merely rich, not because of loopholes in tax law, but because they break the law”
Link. Trump is less surprising now.
Neanderthal genes protected against Neanderthal HIV.
Link. We got both, long ago.
“It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump.”
Link. Trump era is tutorial in human nature.
The Bandwidth Needed to Restore an iPhone
Link. “Designed for a California network connection.” Weekly app updates suck bandwidth too.
Russian cyberwarfare is kind of rogue, kind of nutty
Link. Makes no military/strategic sense. Kids on vodka?
War between China and US is not unthinkable.
Link. Missing Obama.
Supermicro hack: “traced the malicious chips to four subcontracting factories that had been building Supermicro motherboards for at least two years.”
Link. Not clear FBI wanted this known. So far Supermicro presented as victim. Would be surprising if they were not penetrated though.
Lessons from Trump: American tax law corrupt for decades.
Link. Trump’s GOP has made clear how rotten our society has been.