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Monthly Archives: January 2019
“By the metrics of a Mafia state, though, the Trump Presidency has yielded great results for Russia.”
Link. A Russian analyst with a different, and persuasive, theory of the Trump-Russia relationship.
Schultz analyzed.
Link. Conclusion: He’s very vain, maybe stupid.
Second Apple employee accused of stealing ‘Project Titan’ car trade secrets, this time for a Chinese competitor.
Link. Sounds like he may have been a plant.
“many Americans already pay wealth taxes, in the form of property taxes on their homes”
Link. Estate tax or wealth tax. Dems can run on this.
Media layoffs: “they are a devastation”
Link. Panic evolved for a reason.
Sanders interview.
Link. Appallingly good at being evil. Hit multiple Trump-evangelical targets spot on. Suggestion evangelicals have give up on moral superiority, laughter is effective there.
The Most Commonly Spoken Language in Each State Besides English and Spanish. Map.
Link. Hmong for MN not surprise. Tagalog and Korean surprise. German default.
How To Force Refresh a Google Calendar subscription
Link. Tweak URL of the source calendar
“the cave was continuously occupied for over 300,000 years”
Link. Mostly Denisovan. We won’t last anywhere near that long.
Cold Phone: “Allow it to slowly come up to room temperature before you recharge it. Failing to do so sets off a different, unwanted chemical reaction that could damage the battery permanently.”
Link. Bet most don’t know that.
Conscious sedation failures.
Link. Ugh.
Adapting to more expensive Apple products.
Link. Moore-era over. Devices last a lot longer so don’t swap as often.
Venezuela’s Lessons for American and Bolivia.
Link. Another: angry voters can destroy a nation.
“next larger collider would be able to falsify a huge amount of predictions. Indeed, if you count precisely, it would falsify infinitely many predictions”
Link. Building models on models with falsification tests.
“I’m disturbed to see how ubiquitous the use of Google fonts is on the web”
Link. Worth reading. Google is the American web.
Apple Still Charging Customers for iPhone 7 Microphone Defect
Link. The worst.
“serving sizes on food labels will increase “
Link. Unintended consequence of honesty. Average American BMI is borderline obese now.
Persistent effects of shutdown – loss of confidence among federal workers and contractors.
Link. A pro-recession factor. McConnell-Trump.
Poptech and the problems of affordable housing.
Link. Americans want to own homes, but American homes are fundamentally expensive.
Axolotl: “only be found in the canals of Lake Xochimilco, in the far south of Mexico City.”
Link. Regenerative power prob because metamorphosis stalls. Extinction would have lost these clues
Screen Time shows old devices that no longer exist
Link. 277 people “have this question too”. I think the long wiped ghost device is preventing control of the new device despite “Share Across Devices”. It only shows up here, not in iTunes or iCloud device list.
Alleged bug with macOS metadata loss.
Link. Does anyone else see this?
The Evolution of the English Alphabet – a poster
Link. From pictographs to letters. -1650 to modern era.
“China is not just cheap. It’s a place where, because it’s an authoritarian government, you can marshal 100,000 people to work all night for you,”
Link. Would be enormous decade long effort for US to build China scale manufacturing capability.
The American legal foundations of white supremacy.
Link. The slavery war never ended.
Exercise And Its Signaling: visceral fat, IL-6 and arthritis monoclonal
Link. It looks complicated.
Gingivitis and infectious Alzheimer’s.
Link. I was skeptical, but if Lowe is excited then it’s game on.
“pre-modern” population, an outgroup to all of today’s modern people but maybe only 400,000 or 500,000 years diverged”
Link. Their Y chromone lives among us.
“The business case for women had been made,” Ms. Milligan said. “We were rocking it. And then #MeToo happened.”
Link. Many men following Pence rules.
Mac traveler guide by a road warrior.
Link. Instapapered.
How capable were early hominins of crossing water?
Link. Capable for a 10K at least.
Tay Sachs – how it ended.
Link. World’s most successful eugenics program. Never described that way. History is ironic.
Google’s version of Apple’s Screen Time.
Link. Hope they keep stealing from each other.
Oracle vs Google goes to Supremes.
Link. Oracle Evil is old and dark and oozy.
Be the Best You Can Be: How did the story end?
Link. A year 15 update to a blog about special needs parenting.
Why you must not give your Smart TV WiFi access.
Link. In time they won’t work without WiFi access.
Vocal Fry: “the way a Kardashian speaks”
Link. Doonesbury made me look this up. I stopped radio news post-Trump so completely missed this. (I’ve never watched much TV. Life it soo short for that.)
Mojave and macOS: some old problems, some reasons for hope
Link. Lousy: documentation. Mixed: quality control. Conclusion: I’ve moved my Sierra to Mojave migration forward from 4/19 to 2/19. (Aperture seems little worse than under Sierra.)
“The Authy app is free for end users because, in essence, it’s paid for by businesses working with Twilio to ensure you stay protected”
Link. Out of laziness I still use Google Authenticator. I should switch.
Alois Brunner: remembering the Nazi who got away (2014).
Link. “The Mossad did target Brunner twice with letter bombs, causing him to lose an eye and three fingers”.
How money laundering works.
Link. Oil and drugs distort economy, and might have made an industrial grade money launderer President.
Early success in curing sickle-cell disease.
Link. Was much harder problem than thought in 80s. A rare but terrible disorder.
“It is because of the use of dead drops and hierarchical structures that we call this kind of organization a Dropgang.”
Link. Modern illicit drug distribution.
There are no good analgesics for cats
Link. Dogs can use some human meds.
iOS 12.2 Downtime can vary by weekday.
Link. Screen Time is Apple’s best software work in many years.
When you die your family will lose your iCloud photos.
Link. Until the court order anyway. I have taken extensive measures to avoid this. Apple needs to implement shared Photo Libraries. Note 2FA makes problem worse.
Cognitive bias cheat sheet – Better Humans. 2016.
Link. The post that is supposed to become a book.
Ending the government shutdown.
Link. Why didn’t this happen years ago?
Germany’s coal conversion: “a focus on job creation through innovation.”
Link. That won’t work.