Link. What percent is that of active Chinese scholars in the US?
Monthly Archives: December 2019
“United States finds itself in a position where few powerful Iraqis are willing to stand up for it and its role in the country.”
Link. MAGA.
Spying in the surveillance age is much much harder.
Link. Also, China hacked OPM comprehensively 6y ago. The US doesn’t seem to be able to secure anything anymore.
2010 recap: moral collapse of American conservatives.
Link. A quick revap. The perversion of the Evangelicals was faster and more complete than I imagined.
ProPublica forces IRS to confront Intuit scam.
Link. Avoid Intuit. They are the worst.
“Best known as the most feared and frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag, Magadan struggles to keep its residents from fleeing.”
Link. A true marketing challenge.
“electric cars, which are easier to assemble and require fewer workers and fewer parts”
Link. New assembly plants will be built for robotic future. This is going to hurt. More.
Biden: “Anybody who can go down 3000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Link. Even by the standards of politics that’s really dumb. I miss our Vulcan President.
Focused deterrence: policing urban violence.
Link. A dvet summary of one approach. I think St Paul MN is trying it but not sure about MPLS. Their police more troubled.
Is it possible to access a list of wifi networks my iPhone has used?
Link. Nope! No UI for those keychain entries. Need to sync to Mac and inspect there in network settings or keychain access.
Exercise-linked FNDC5/irisin rescues synaptic plasticity and memory defects in Alzheimer’s MOUSE models.
Link. Mice are a lousy AD model. But, this is why I started CrossFit 7y ago. (Exercise addiction is bigger driver now.)
“opioid deaths were about 85 percent higher among people of prime working age — 16 to 65 — in counties where automotive assembly plants had closed five years earlier, compared with counties where such factories remained open”
Link. Even if only half is causal that’s noteworthy
Brett’s Favorites 2019: ios, mac, software, hardware
Link. Great stuff
Why Is There No Male Birth Control Yet?
Link. Nobody dared to point out the Pill worked because women are naturally infertile during pregnancy and lactation
“Bumblers who thought they were too internet-savvy to accept a casual midnight hello from Sharon Stone will have to live to regret it.”
Link. Her tweet complaint was quite charming.
“Juul employees and reportedly even the company’s founders Adam Bowen and James Monsees continued to vape in the workspace”
Link. Kudos for sharing the fate of their teen victims
Comparison of Reverse Image Search Engines.
Link. Yandex.
Noah Smith contemplates the end-stage of capitalism.
Link. “Peak Horse” in DeLong’s terms. Never mentions Baumol.
He: “guilty of forging approval documents from ethics review boards to recruit couples in which the man had H.I.V. and the woman did not, Xinhua, China’s official news agency, reported.”
Link. Three years is a minimum for what he did. if he’d done this to a child he’d be facing aggravated assault charges. In US 20 years.
“maternally expressed imprinted gene UBE3A has been implicated in autism, schizophrenia and psychosis”
Link. The autism-schizophrenia boundary blurs.
California “has the highest poverty rate based on its cost of living”
Link. Inequality outcome.
“unclear when the popular meaning of “neoliberal” changed from “hardcore capitalist” to “anyone who’s not a hardcore socialist,”
Link. Yeah. Guess I’m one.
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome.
Link. Much of this was written about @1980 post oil crisis. If the crisis had continued …
“Mr. Trump’s demands sent shock waves through the White House and the Pentagon, created deep rifts within the senior ranks of his administration”
Link. There should have been a hundred whistle blowers. Instead there was only one patriot in the whole damn place.
“using SSDs, this proliferation of extended attributes in file system metadata can result in some bizarre effects which by anyone’s standards are bugs, but have in Catalina become standard features”
Link. Technical debt meets architecture collisions.
Myths of war fog its economic costs: “85 percent of German battle deaths were caused by Soviet forces.”
Link. Sad that his economics writing is paywalled in a minor paper.
NYT comparison of US vs. Australia, UK, New Zealand: “None of those groups particularly want a pay cut.”
Link. Lack of Canadian comparison is suspicious.
“hotlinking with Photobucket hosting was used for posting to messageboards, blogs, or even Amazon listings, leaving the old internet pockmarked with missing photos.”
Link. End of a golden age.
Minnesota Inline Skate Club (MISC) directory of MPS inline skating trails.
Link. Great to see this old resource updated. I still enjoy my inline skates.
Correcting the inanity of the Left: What Obama achieved.
Link. “Neoliberal” as epithet is now marker of worthless opinion.
Prepare your Mac for service: “You’ll almost certainly need to give the service provider the password which they’ll need to access your Mac through its FileVault protection”
Link. I create admin account for tech to use.
White nationalist murderer: “At a very young age I picked out a dog for my family,” he wrote in the note. “I spent the next several years loving her and occasionally torturing her”
Link. We need new mental health approaches for people like this.
“Donald Trump is a war-crimes enthusiast.”
Link. Nov 2019. Gallagher now. Fox, McConnell, Murdoch, Trump. Every Trump voter. Cheney.
Quora post is a readable seminar on image processing: “When we train KNN on Digit recognition, we are basically creating a 10-dimensional space and plotting on it.”
Link. Wonderful, but a quora post is sand art. So also tragic. It would be the basis for a course text. I did instapaper it.
Supernova means death by neutrino.
Link. Hiding behind the sun won’t save you if you are in the kill zone of a supernova.
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
Link. “You can visit a feed in Safari, and it will prompt you to open the feed in Apple News, then silently ignore that request”. Hope it dies soon.
Andrii Telizhenko: another bizarre Ukraine connection.
Link. Ukraine is hot.
Apple Watch afib screening value unclear
Link. We don’t know what to do with intermittent afib, especially in younger people.
Saudis disappointed by Trump blustery inaction
Link. With Iran and NK Trump’s talk and actions are radically different. Unprecedented in modern history
“ultrawealthy show that they are very conservative, obsessed with tax cuts, opposed to environmental and financial regulation, eager to cut social programs.”
Link. They are sometimes good at money, rarely are they clever or wise.
Betelgeuse: “I’d like to see a supernova as much as you.”
Link. I tend to think of the planets with sentients waiting to die
Deficit spending: “Given Republican insistence on electoral advantage above all else, Democrats may have no choice but to respond in kind.”
Link. True.
“satirists in Pakistan, Argentina, and Chile critique elements of the government and the systems that enabled leaders’ rise to power”
Link. Trumpism, not Trump. McConnell for Darwin’s sake. Murdoch is, of course, off limits.
“The battle over Donald Trump’s rightful place in the presidential tallness hierarchy has waged on over the past several years, without ceasefire, on the Wikipedia page “Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States”
Link. How tall was Lenin?
Howard Oakley: Who killed the eBook and why?
Link. Death by a thousand cuts.
Sale of second-hand e-books infringes copyright, rules CJEU
Link. eBooks have failed.
“It is my sincerest wish that breast-owners come to recognize–and even celebrate–their unique shape, and then find and support brands that are suitable for them.”
Link. I had no idea. Obvious in retrospect. Great essay on a failed startup.
“New York experiencing a new gilded age, porte cochères are making a comeback in high-end buildings”
Link. Since this has no appeal to me it’s a curious story rather than incitement to revolution. Would be funny if Sanders won however.
Scalzi: “I don’t exercise to lose weight, I exercise so that I can eat more calories and still lose weight”
Link. I’m an exercise addict, but this is a more common experience. My wife is like this I think. I dislike treadmills!
The Most Influential Mountain Bikes of the Last Decade
Link. I ride a bit and still find this hard to follow!