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“Federal officials are investigating hundreds of cases involving the potential theft of intellectual property by visiting scientists, nearly all of them Chinese nationals.”

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. What percent is that of active Chinese scholars in the US?

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“United States finds itself in a position where few powerful Iraqis are willing to stand up for it and its role in the country.”

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. MAGA.

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Spying in the surveillance age is much much harder.

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Also, China hacked OPM comprehensively 6y ago. The US doesn’t seem to be able to secure anything anymore.

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2010 recap: moral collapse of American conservatives.

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A quick revap. The perversion of the Evangelicals was faster and more complete than I imagined.

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ProPublica forces IRS to confront Intuit scam.

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Avoid Intuit. They are the worst.

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“Best known as the most feared and frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag, Magadan struggles to keep its residents from fleeing.”

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A true marketing challenge.

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“electric cars, which are easier to assemble and require fewer workers and fewer parts”

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. New assembly plants will be built for robotic future. This is going to hurt. More.

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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!”

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Even by the standards of politics that’s really dumb. I miss our Vulcan President.

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Focused deterrence: policing urban violence.

Posted on December 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A dvet summary of one approach. I think St Paul MN is trying it but not sure about MPLS. Their police more troubled.

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Is it possible to access a list of wifi networks my iPhone has used?

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Nope! No UI for those keychain entries. Need to sync to Mac and inspect there in network settings or keychain access.

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Exercise-linked FNDC5/irisin rescues synaptic plasticity and memory defects in Alzheimer’s MOUSE models.

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Mice are a lousy AD model. But, this is why I started CrossFit 7y ago. (Exercise addiction is bigger driver now.)

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“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”

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Even if only half is causal that’s noteworthy

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Brett’s Favorites 2019: ios, mac, software, hardware

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Great stuff

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Why Is There No Male Birth Control Yet?

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Nobody dared to point out the Pill worked because women are naturally infertile during pregnancy and lactation

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“Bumblers who thought they were too internet-savvy to accept a casual midnight hello from Sharon Stone will have to live to regret it.”

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Her tweet complaint was quite charming.

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“Juul employees and reportedly even the company’s founders Adam Bowen and James Monsees continued to vape in the workspace”

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Kudos for sharing the fate of their teen victims

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Comparison of Reverse Image Search Engines.

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Yandex.

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Noah Smith contemplates the end-stage of capitalism.

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Peak Horse” in DeLong’s terms. Never mentions Baumol.

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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.”

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jgordon

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.

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“maternally expressed imprinted gene UBE3A has been implicated in autism, schizophrenia and psychosis”

Posted on December 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The autism-schizophrenia boundary blurs.

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California “has the highest poverty rate based on its cost of living”

Posted on December 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Inequality outcome.

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“unclear when the popular meaning of “neoliberal” changed from “hardcore capitalist” to “anyone who’s not a hardcore socialist,”

Posted on December 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Yeah. Guess I’m one.

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How to solve climate change and make life more awesome.

Posted on December 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Much of this was written about @1980 post oil crisis. If the crisis had continued …

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“Mr. Trump’s demands sent shock waves through the White House and the Pentagon, created deep rifts within the senior ranks of his administration”

Posted on December 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. There should have been a hundred whistle blowers. Instead there was only one patriot in the whole damn place.

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“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”

Posted on December 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Technical debt meets architecture collisions.

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Myths of war fog its economic costs: “85 percent of German battle deaths were caused by Soviet forces.”

Posted on December 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Sad that his economics writing is paywalled in a minor paper.

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NYT comparison of US vs. Australia, UK, New Zealand: “None of those groups particularly want a pay cut.”

Posted on December 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Lack of Canadian comparison is suspicious.

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“hotlinking with Photobucket hosting was used for posting to messageboards, blogs, or even Amazon listings, leaving the old internet pockmarked with missing photos.”

Posted on December 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. End of a golden age.

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Minnesota Inline Skate Club (MISC) directory of MPS inline skating trails.

Posted on December 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Great to see this old resource updated. I still enjoy my inline skates.

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Correcting the inanity of the Left: What Obama achieved.

Posted on December 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Neoliberal” as epithet is now marker of worthless opinion.

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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”

Posted on December 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I create admin account for tech to use.

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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”

Posted on December 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We need new mental health approaches for people like this.

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“Donald Trump is a war-crimes enthusiast.”

Posted on December 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Nov 2019. Gallagher now. Fox, McConnell, Murdoch, Trump. Every Trump voter. Cheney.

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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.”

Posted on December 27, 2019 by jgordon

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.

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Supernova means death by neutrino.

Posted on December 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hiding behind the sun won’t save you if you are in the kill zone of a supernova.

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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

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.

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Andrii Telizhenko: another bizarre Ukraine connection.

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Ukraine is hot.

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Apple Watch afib screening value unclear

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We don’t know what to do with intermittent afib, especially in younger people.

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Saudis disappointed by Trump blustery inaction

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. With Iran and NK Trump’s talk and actions are radically different. Unprecedented in modern history

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“ultrawealthy show that they are very conservative, obsessed with tax cuts, opposed to environmental and financial regulation, eager to cut social programs.”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. They are sometimes good at money, rarely are they clever or wise.

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Betelgeuse: “I’d like to see a supernova as much as you.”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I tend to think of the planets with sentients waiting to die

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Deficit spending: “Given Republican insistence on electoral advantage above all else, Democrats may have no choice but to respond in kind.”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. True.

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“satirists in Pakistan, Argentina, and Chile critique elements of the government and the systems that enabled leaders’ rise to power”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Trumpism, not Trump. McConnell for Darwin’s sake. Murdoch is, of course, off limits.

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“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”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. How tall was Lenin?

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Howard Oakley: Who killed the eBook and why?

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Death by a thousand cuts.

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Sale of second-hand e-books infringes copyright, rules CJEU

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. eBooks have failed.

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“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.”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I had no idea. Obvious in retrospect. Great essay on a failed startup.

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“New York experiencing a new gilded age, porte cochères are making a comeback in high-end buildings”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

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.

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Scalzi: “I don’t exercise to lose weight, I exercise so that I can eat more calories and still lose weight”

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’m an exercise addict, but this is a more common experience. My wife is like this I think. I dislike treadmills!

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The Most Influential Mountain Bikes of the Last Decade

Posted on December 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I ride a bit and still find this hard to follow!

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