Link. Weird character shifts and cardboard armor are common in comics.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
“I generally think macOS is as stable today as it was back in the Snow Leopard days”
Link. Distributed data issues are root of much modern pain.
Fentanyl has replaced heroin, old addicts adjust poorly.
Link. Technological singularity.
“Six weeks pregnant is two weeks after a woman misses her period.”
Link. If humans valued life so absolutely Marx would be on the right.
“Six weeks pregnant is two weeks after a woman misses her period.”
Link. If humans valued life so absolutely Marx would be on the right.
“preferred terms are “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global heating” is favoured over “global warming”,
Link. I’m in.
Why VAT works.
Link. Love the receipt lottery prize.
Iran can easily take out Saudi oil
Link. Yay war.
JavaScript leashes.
Link. Managing the monster.
“speculative vulnerabilities on today’s hardware defeat all language-enforced confidentiality with no known comprehensive software mitigations,”
Link. Manual typewriter startups are hot.
GOP Anti-abortion Rep. Tim Murphy resigns after report he asked lover to end pregnancy.
Link. These are priceless.
The land shark got programmed 500kya
Link. Sharks gotta swim, humans gotta move.
NYT overview of spinal fusion and back surgery outcomes.
Link. Very well done. It is hard in US to get sufficiently intense PT.
Corporations would be stupid to obey the law.
Link. Fines are puny so shareholder value mandates lawbreaking.
Phage Therapy for CF.
Link. More details added to earlier stories.
“Of those 2.2 billion sold, 1.5 billion are still in use.”
Link. iPhone lasts.
“anyone hoping to work into the 60s or 70s to make a realistic assessment of future job risk well ahead of that time.”
Link. Retirement age is 65 for good reasons.
macOS popovers: “detach multiple Calendar events to compare or to leave on-screen for reference”
Link. What else don’t I know?
google.com/travel
Link. Surprised it took so long.
“Safari 12.1.1 failing to properly close and release the weblocs it has written from its Bookmarks page”
Link. Not new!
Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.5
Link. So sad. So many old stupid bugs
Internet backup sucks: VM problems
Link. I do my own
Trump’s name is killing his businesses.
Link. Give me a hostel any day. Even a tent.
“Bolton is that bad – a comically caricatured militarist, an extremely effective and smart bureaucratic player and entirely capable of lying the country into war”
Link. GOP is fine with that.
Get The Research: “Find and understand peer-reviewed research papers”
Link. Jon Udell recommends.
Virginia Tech helmet ratings: WaveCell and MIPS.
Link. Fantastic to see progress.
Argentina: “Inflation is running above 50 percent, and joblessness is stuck above 9 percent. Poverty afflicts a third of the population, and the figure is climbing.”
Link. This is what we should understand better.
Torturing patients for their future benefit.
Link. The sedative meds seem to have worked.
Stem cell quackery abounds.
Link. FDA falling short. I suspect strategic donations and investments help. Reminds me of 1960s medicine.
Brain stimulation overview.
Link. As much garbage as stem cell therapy, but also much promise
Winnie Mandela obit.
Link. April 2. Apartheid’s monster child.
Superionic ice: core of some gas giants.
Link. Landmark in the development of novel forms of matter.
“Biden’s strength is South Carolina confirms which you see in the internals of the national polls – very strong support among African-American voters.”
Link. If he gets O numbers of WWCW he’s the nominee.
The Attacks on Rashida Tlaib Are Dishonest and Disgraceful
Link. And prefictable.
WhatsApp Voice Calls Used to Inject NSO Group Spyware on Phones
Link. One hell of a flaw.
“Social Security moves money from high-income, business-intensive states and regions to lower-income ones”
Link. Good primer.
Norway gets smoker as public health minister
Link. Trump hates smoking so we are saved this.
“Teva, Pfizer, Novartis and Mylan conspired to inflate the prices of generic drugs by as much as 1,000 percent”
Link. Potential fines are too small to make a difference
Pentagon diverts Afghan funds to build wall
Link. Likely to impact future DoD funding.
Friend of Charles, very evil man: “Mr. Ball, 87, who attended Lancing College and Cambridge University, was friends with headmasters of many of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools”
Link. A victim who spoke out then committed suicide
Twin Cities Free Market
Link. List things you’d like to give away. This is old web, meaning the good times.
Another healthcare serial killer.
Link. Pedophiles do kid sports. Necrophiles go into healthcare. How many do we have?
Price hiding in healthcare: insurers pay up to 4 time medicare rates.
Link. I suspect it’s usually 1.4 times, but who the hell knows. I need more beer.
“Trump has blundered into conflict with our competitors, insulted our allies, and generally made the United States into a laughingstock.”
Link. Not sure even Russia is laughing. Though they really should. The most brilliantly bloodless victory in the history of human conflict. I bow to our Russian masters.
Attack of the sex-crazed socialistic pangender atheists: “so help me God”
Link. Not all the news is bad today.
Russia targets 5G, the next measles vaccine.
Link. Ooo. They are *so* good at this game.
Ubiquitous surveillance continues.
Link. We knew this would happen by November of 2001. I’ve rarely been so right in a prediction.
Midwest has a lot of bad early industrial infrastructure.
Link. Not Minnesota (newer state). South and especially East of us. But population is falling …
“At the end of 2018, the average middle income household had wealth of $340,000 while those in the top 10 percent had $4.5 million”
Link. The top 10% of US is wealthier than most imagine.
“everything that has always struck everybody as strange about quantum mechanics can be explained by supposing that the concrete fundamental physical stuff of the world is floating around in something other, and larger, and different, than the familiar 3
Link. After that friendly intro come the Hamiltonians. Also, we need ePUB preprinted, not just this dang PDF.