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“as industrial conglomerates are breaking up, a new breed of conglomerate has emerged: Big Tech companies like Amazon and Alphabet have embraced the strategy of multiple business lines”

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I disliked being a worker in a conglomerate. Conglomerates get managed by finance. But private equity is worse.

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M1 Mac: managing external startup and doing system repair.

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “their boot process always starts from the internal SSD”

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Monterey: “If you’ve never opened that app’s Help book before, when you try to open it, it appears empty.”

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Some version of Windows had the best Help/User Guide format. I miss good documentation.

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Eddie Gallagher and the corruption of the Navy SEALs

Posted on November 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He was, and is, a monster.

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The bike snob’s guide to cycling tribes (2010 Weiss).

Posted on November 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A classic I did not remember. So good.

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UK mountain bike slang.

Posted on November 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Almost identical to US! Two we do not use and we define huck differently in MN (or maybe I’m confused).

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Infrastructure bill has a lot for bike and ped.

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Electing Dems matters everywhere.

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Twitter Blue: “I don’t want to deal with micro-payments for articles, newsletters, and other content worth our attention”

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. STRONG disagree. I want to buy a $25 ticket that I can spend on 1 click micropayments. When it is spent I buy another.

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“Price became for the world a heartbreaking symbol of hatred’s sheer waste. But the shooter? He simply faded into anonymity, becoming the evil that men do.”

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. WW I’s end.

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CO: “all adults in his state to receive a vaccine booster dose, going further than current federal guidelines.”

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bold, but I like it.

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“there’s never a good reason to tax foreign steel. If you want to support U.S. steelmakers, use subsidies instead. Otherwise you’ll just hurt American manufacturing out of pure economic illiteracy.”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. FWIW

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“A crime boss with a jones for the days of Soviet glory is a dangerous combination.”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nichols has a gift for the pithy phrase.

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10 Image File Formats That Didn’t Make It

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is great for old geeks.

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iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911.

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 911 operators will LOVE this. So if I crash my mountain bike will it call 911 when I hit the dirt?

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“we don’t know how to calculate the zero-point energy of space from these quantum field theory methods”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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Plantar Fasciitis: aggressive PT.

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Unorthodox, but personally I’d give it a try. Similar to how I’ve managed some similar issues.

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Ukraine explained: from Manafort to Trump to Biden.

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Manafort is a remarkable story.

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“This is what we call crowd turbulence. You don’t want to be where two waves cross, because the pressures come from opposite directions, and that’s really dangerous.”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Useful tips.

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Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage.

Posted on November 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The price in article seems too low. I wonder about this as a service for vulnerable adult iPhones.

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Bandit trails and gravel from Utepils.

Posted on November 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. MSP Strava Utepils bike singletrack gravel

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Dr. Edward Vanek, DO, 63, Atwater, CA, Orthopedic Surgeon. Anti-vaxx, dead from COVID.

Posted on November 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sad. Go Tucker. Go Murdoch.

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A repository of stories of anti-vaxxers who died or came close to dying of COVID.

Posted on November 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Send the link to Rogan.

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“The wife of Nyce tells the newspaper he tested positive on Nov. 2 and died Saturday at a hospital in Manteca.”

Posted on November 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nyce was a cop who refused vaccination and was put on leave. Thank you Joe Rogan.

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Profile of Trump’s hooligans.

Posted on November 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Weak minded people are easy mob fodder.

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Your chronic pain is really all in your head.

Posted on November 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In the glia perhaps. Very misleading headline, this does NOT “solve” chronic pain. It more tells us things not to do. (Current mainstay approach is exercise, psych meds and some centrally acting agents.)

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Muller’s Ratchet. xkcd May 2021

Posted on November 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Explaining gene edits by net image analogy.

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Lots of “openings”, but employers very picky.

Posted on November 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Employers prefer to wait, even at the cost of current earnings. This could explain unhappiness in face of supposed growth. “Nearly half of employers say they quickly reject candidates who haven’t worked in more than six months.”

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The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth.

Posted on November 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “the trend is your friend til the bend at the end.” 1976 was when history changed.

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Disk Utility much improved in Monterey.

Posted on November 9, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “enable you to maintain snapshots and to copy items from them”

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Romania: “many local clerics and some influential bishops denounced vaccines as the Devil’s work”

Posted on November 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not selected for smarts.

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Telegram is new home of the whacko right.

Posted on November 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Surprised Trump doesn’t use it.

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Peloton finding less ad targeting success, blames Apple.

Posted on November 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Makes me feel good about the iPhone! The real reason is people returning to the gym. (Hope all are well vaccinated.)

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“I deeply regret not making the decision to get vaccinated,” he told one of his doctors.

Posted on November 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “the hospital staff treated him with compassion and kindness at every stage.” and “He’s urging those who are skeptical about the vaccine, as he was, to speak directly to their doctors.”

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Inevitable “human trafficking” blunder traumatizes mixed race family.

Posted on November 8, 2021 by jgordon

Link. When my daughter was young and traveling with me this would have hurt her a lot. We always carried adoption documents and family photos. The “spot trafficking” campaign is hysterical stupidity.

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“Even people whose bodies compensate for 50 percent or more of the calories they expend during physical activity will burn more calories per day than if they remain still, Dr. Halsey pointed out. A more intractable problem with using exercise for weight

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It takes extreme exercise.

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“Alan Greenspan wrote a book lauding ingenious new derivative securities that would spread risk to those most willing to take it and lower the cost of mortgages and other borrowing to the rest of us. This would usher in a new era of economic growth and pr

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 2007. Forgot he’d done that.

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Persian-American scientist: “he placed seventh out of 1.3 million”

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Work-life balance isn’t for everyone. His compulsion is a win for science.

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Oil and Gas against humanity: “Among the climate provisions that are likely to be left out of the plan is an effort to dismantle billions of dollars in fossil-fuel tax breaks.”

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Immense amoral power. Successful with barely any effort.

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China’s Latest History: “Traumatic times like famine and purges will fall further into a soft-focus background — acknowledged but not elaborated.”

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Reminds me of my 7th grade World History text. (Quebec, 1971, written and published by pre-Vatican II church.)

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75 million years ago the Earth burned.

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We don’t know why but Oxygen levels fluctuated quite a bit.

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Cry socialism: roots of the GOP’s perennial panic.

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Hah. They should be glad I am not the Tyrant.

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“Mike Elk, a labor reporter and founder of paydayreport.com, has compiled a database of 1,600 walkouts since March 2020 that included as many as 100,000 workers.”

Posted on November 7, 2021 by jgordon

Link. An system of semi-stable local minima has a disruptive jolt.

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Cancer therapy changing: less chemotherapy.

Posted on November 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Rise in alternative treatments and genetic testing to target therapy — but also a recognition that sometimes there’s no treatment and chemo would be pointless.

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“obese people typically lower their risks of heart disease and premature death far more by gaining fitness than by dropping weight or dieting.”

Posted on November 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 30% reduction with exercise alone, 16% reduction with diet alone.
Conventional wisdom is you can’t lose weight by exercise. I don’t agree, but it takes far more exercise than most can imagine.

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Bots for hacking accounts by obtaining 2FA codes.

Posted on November 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Fully automated so performs at scale.

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Using Apple Locator devices (AirTags) with an older iPhone

Posted on November 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It wasn’t obvious they’d work with my i8.

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Orthodox C++

Posted on November 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 90s OOP, in retrospect, reminds me 1980s renal physiology.

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Refurbished used bikes, supposedly from sponsored riders.

Posted on November 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. COVID prices now.

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“It’s believed that the Fabric of the original M1 probably contains as many as a dozen of these ARM cores.”

Posted on November 6, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I learned more than one new thing.

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“Around 60% of people with South Asian ancestry carry the high-risk version of the gene”

Posted on November 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Doubles COVID bad outcome risks.

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