Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Last days at the best of social networks: app.net (aka Alpha, ADN).

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My ( @johngordon ) App.net services are beginning to fail - including PourOver . Post counts are gone. I still find some great discussions; ...

Trumpism: a transition function to the world of mass disability.

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We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

What socioeconomic support will look like in 20 years

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This is what I think socioeconomic support will look like in 2040 based on cognitive [2] quintiles. The bottom quintile (0-20%, non-voters)...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Massive phone spam -- from Weatherby Healthcare

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Weatherby healthcare  hires physicians for “locum tennis” roles. That’s filling in for someone on holiday and the like. They’ve contracted ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

What a solution for phone spam will look like

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The FCC wants a vast and unmanageable array of voice communications carriers to fix the robocall plague . I’m here to tell you what will ha...
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Crab Bucket

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Terry Pratchett taught me about “crab bucket” in Unseen Academicals  [1]. I don’t know if it’s a metaphor of his part of England, or if it’...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Those moments when you feel the walls of reality fall away

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I’m working through a tedious form that requires me to look up old information from dusty files. I step away to eat and locate some document...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Creaks and clicks in geriatric bikes

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I like a quiet bike as much as the next neurotic guy. So the creaks and clicks in my 20 yo Cannondale T400 have been distracting. Like denta...
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Sunday, July 31, 2016

In defense of Donald Trump.

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Trump is more racist and sexist than most 70+ yo white men. He is amoral and a con man. He may be a sociopath and probably has a narcissisti...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Life tip: photograph or photo-scan cards and special correspondence

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A few years back, around the time the iPhone camera became very good at close photography, I began to photograph Father's Day cards and ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Double unders

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People come to our gym and in two months they’re doing double unders. I am not those people. After ****** of practice I do about 5 DU with...

Signs of progress from O'Reilly and Limbaugh.

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Limbaugh says that black Americans really need to stop talking about that unhappy slavery episode . O’Reilly tells us the slaves building th...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Informatics core: US genomic and healthcare standards have a common problem.

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My current work means I’ve spent many hours plumbing details of major American and international health care standards, particularly FHIR, H...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Systemic failure in American medicine: combining ICD-10-CM with "leaf code" reimbursement rules

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This is very much “inside baseball”. It’s related to professional work I do. It’s incomprehensible to most people, but it’s having a big imp...
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Saturday, July 02, 2016

Fixing disc brake squeaks - mountain bike.

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I found 2 techniques for silence squeaky disk (disc) brakes — all involving rotor cleaning. (If pads are contaminated they need to be replac...
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