{"id":181190,"date":"2016-09-08T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/08\/linkage-273\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T04:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:12:00","slug":"linkage-273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/08\/linkage-273\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2016\/08\/31\/37-billion-year-old-fossil-makes-life-mars-less-long-shot\/89647646\/\">3.7-billion-year-old fossil makes life on Mars less of a long shot<\/a> (<i>USA Today<\/i>)  Space geek time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_feature\/vice_freelancers.php\">Vice shows how not to treat freelancers<\/a> (<i>Columbia Journalism Review<\/i>) Even by the standard of how stringers are treated, it&#8217;s pretty bleak.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/in-1975-a-cat-co-authored-a-physics-paper\">In 1975, a cat co-authored a physics paper<\/a> (<i>ScienceAlert<\/i>) Physics and cats, what&#8217;s not to love.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/memory-and-attention-are-affected-by-much-lower-levels-of-dehydration-than-previously-thought-63950\">Memory and attention are affected by much lower levels of dehydration than previously thought<\/a> (<i>The Conversation<\/i>) Drink up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/09\/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-3-trillion-per-year\">Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year<\/a> (<i>Harvard Business Review2<\/i>) As an aside, these people, whether in government, academe or business, raise the cost of college, finance, and generally doing business.  It is a parasitic class.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coppolacomment.com\/2016\/09\/austerity-and-rise-of-populism.html\">Austerity and the rise of populism<\/a> (<i>Coppola Comment<\/i>) The belief in the myth of the &#8220;Confidence Fairy&#8221;, which posits that reducing spending leads to more academic activity, doesn&#8217;t work, and leads to a nasty turn in politics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/09\/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-exclusive\">Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes\u2019s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down<\/a> (<i>Vanity Fair<\/i>) Theranos appears to have been an exercise in self-delusion and fraud from the beginning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2016\/09\/apple-introduces-iphone-7-and-iphone-7\/\">Apple introduces iPhone 7 ($649), iPhone 7 Plus ($769), and wireless earbuds<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Apple just disposed of the 3.5mm ear phone jack, they have an adapter, but you cannot charge the phone and use it at the same time, and it&#8217;s yet <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">another<\/span><\/b> thing that you have to charge.  BTW, the new wireless earphone is $150, yet <b>another<\/b> tax on your Apple fetish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/09\/07\/spoof_an_ethernet_adapter_on_usb_and_you_can_sniff_credentials_from_locked_laptops\/\">Spoof an Ethernet adapter on USB, and you can sniff credentials from locked laptops<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) The computer is your friend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>H\/T DC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a> for this hilarious take-down of hipsters:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRlBtabKRFM?rel=0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.7-billion-year-old fossil makes life on Mars less of a long shot (USA Today) Space geek time. Vice shows how not to treat freelancers (Columbia Journalism Review) Even by the standard of how stringers are treated, it&#8217;s pretty bleak. In 1975, a cat co-authored a physics paper (ScienceAlert) Physics and cats, what&#8217;s not to love. 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