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@mcdemarco EHRs were not designed for productivity or safety. Primary design goals have been to support regulatory, legal, and (horrific) healthcare accounting rules — and maximize revenue capture.
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Reflecting back on my #1 son’s special needs education – from the perspective of skills and learning retained we would have been best off to do age-adjusted variations on a 4th grade curriculum. Different topics, different framing, same skills.
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Ptel prepay discovery: Data use can blow well beyond account balance before cutoff occurs. At that point ptel requires payment of overage before reactivating number. Dirty Ptel, very dirty.
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Apple software is so messed up – exhibit #6654 from Podcasts.app. [photos.app.net] Bug triggered by iTunes vs iCloud sync with lousy identifier strategy.
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Surprised there aren’t more denial of service attacks on Fidelity customers. If you known/guess user name it’s trivial to deny someone account access.
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Complexity is a weed. Every few years I need to tear it out.
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@clarkgoble – Is it correct to say that the non-anthropic response to fine tuning in physicics is to say that the fine-tuned variables only appear to be independent, but are in fact two manifestations of underlying variable?
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The Alibaba/Apple valuation ratio could be an interesting guide to index fund dollar cost averaging strategies. #t
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Microsoft Access 2007’s object aliasing and name reference feature is so dysfunctional it can’t be accidental. It must have been a act of vengeance.
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Locked out of Fidelity account today; robust random generated pw unrecognized. Had to reset using evil “secret questions”. Funds seem intact – still investigating. Disturbing. Did Fidelity do a silent pw reset? Were they hacked?
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Advice sent to parallel-universe-self-running-slower-clock-rate: NEVER buy a used Carbon frame bike.
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Ebola: I appreciate need to justify intervention by “homeland risk”. However, if were 1 million white folk to save, would be different conversation.
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When something missing for two weeks appears in plain site my confidence in the Simulation is shaken. Are the Producers running out of cash? Maybe we should save less, party more.
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Has Apple done something to break iMessage again?! Old iPhones losing iMessage activation.
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I wonder how FDA will test food and drugs for human microbiome compatibility? Big mission jump. Also, reorg!
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30 years after 8.3 filenames, I frequently exceed Windows 7 path length constraints. Which Win 7 handles very badly.
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Would VERY much like to use no-DRM as a filter when searching for eBooks on Play or iBookstore. Doubt we’ll see that though…
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Instapaper navigation to document top is weirdest UI I know of. Tap letter size, pagination off, back to doc, double tap top…
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WordPress blogs that hide/disable their feeds – why? My guess: blog is primarily about customer targeting, and feeds hide much reader identity. Also, ignorance. Most annoying.
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Pet Peeve #3414: apps that exclude tag text from search. WTF?! Simplenote is an egregious offender.
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Tried Locko – 1Password alternative on Mac app store, free pending iOS version. No CSV import, no CSV export. Data Lock. Deleted.
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… That’s not snark by the way. My #1 son (special needs) is that way. Took me 15 years to understand that big difference in worldview. Narrative is so dominant in my mind. I think he is not alone. Explains a lot about the world. #b
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It is interesting to realize many humans do not need a self-consistent narrative.
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NYT just gave me a mobile ad with a minuscule dismiss target. Had to whack repeatedly to hit as ad scrolled on. Expect more like this.
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Testing PhotoCard.app as way to send family photo and note as snailmail to 92yo father in long term care. Mail is from San Jose to Montreal. $3/card. Wonder if any competition prints in destination country.
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… Actually the import file regression with 1Password 4 is more severe than I realized. 1Password 3 had a UI for mapping columns to headers. 1Password 4 assumes format is correct. Ugly.
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Dream: Despite 40 years of failed efforts, the IndieWeb and Plaintext communities will produce a flexible cross-platform solution for representing knowledge about people, things and notes.
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Sweden’s disability policy [bigstory.ap.org] is good lesson for US: “Sweden, by contrast, workers can take sick leave and then transfer if necessary to temporary disability.” In US disability is a one way exit.
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How stem cell transplant might work. Mix adult cell components with donor mitochondria. Force reversion. Culture stem cells, discarding neoplastic. Infuse. Billionaires at first, then automated.
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… In the midst of article on developmental amnesia: “Prozac, which also encourages neural growth, had the same [amnestic] effect. “. Would be _nice_ to list that in pharmaceutical labeling.
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Raising a special needs child to adulthood gives a different perspective on “odd” or “difficult” adults. It is hard to describe the gulfs between human minds. It is astounding that human societies exist, and unsurprising modern capitalism is in crisis.
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… #Airbnb: It was kind of nice for a privileged white male to experience gender discrimination with room rental. I feel a tiny bit less #genderpigmentguilt. Airbnb discrimination isn’t something to encourage though; I deleted my account.
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Why do cyclists run stop signs? One non-obvious reason. For a bike the best stopping point is about 3-5 feet beyond stop sign. Only there can one see oncoming traffic safely. I never see this mentioned…
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Parents laugh at #3 complaining about memorizing her one phone number. Then realize she has no practice at number memorization or number dialing. Is a foreign concept to her.
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Do giga-corps deliver goods and services to preserve appearances? Could they now exist purely by extraction? Have some finance corporations managed this transition? #b #ecoecon
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Anyone else notice that the iPhone’s total cellular data usage tracking is significantly greater than the sum of the listed contributors? There’s something broken with iOS 7 data use.
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@martinsteiger when I append to my app.net posts IFTTT puts copy on a microblog I own…
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“In an armed society there will be sacrifices, in an unarmed society there will be genocide”. Fb share by confused relative. American Gonnism needs to be understood in religious terms.
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Idea: electronic bike shifters and “IOT” would enable a kill-switch for bike theft. Push smartphone button, bike is permanently in 1st gear. Ok, that’s not much “kill”. But explosive charge disrupting frame seems a bit extreme…
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@clarkgoble I think political scientists and economists should think seriously about the tripartite power model of corporations, billionaires, and voters. Corporations are much more than CEOs. They need to be modeled separately.
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Two things I learned from IOT about our sun. Rotation period is 26 days, and there is a growing suspicion it is atypically stable and well behaved.
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NYT coverage of Hamas execution of “informers” is disturbing. Too often omit words like “accused” and “alleged”. This should get a review.
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Tagging is still broken in nvAlt [brettterpstra.com]. I wish developers would implement pay-for-features more broadly.
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… Credit card business – banks have privatized profits and socialized the risks.
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In 1994 I thought 2004 would bring fiber to every home, 1:1 computers in all classrooms, $10 handheld computers, amazing clinical computing benefits, and 70% universities would close. Didn’t expected wireless movie delivery.
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Recently had to go through Microsoft volume purchasing procedure. They’re finished. Seriously, completely dead. Hopeless. Ex-parrot. They needed to fire their exec layer six years ago.
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I’ve created a Google Alerts RSS feed [www.google.com] to track anything written about what ‘iTunes Accounts’ really means in iOS 8 cellular services. Yes, Google Alerts still work… more or less…
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Kitchen granite counter tops are equivalent of peacock feathers and Irish Elk antlers.
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#1 son (cognitive disability) has many of my traits, but his mind is very different. It is frustrating and fascinating to live with an alien I love. I now understand 100,000 years of anatomically modern humans with largely static technologies. #b
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