Dave's linkblog for 12/19/2017

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Dave's linkblog for 12/19/2017

218541 Unconfirmed (BitCoin) Transactions. blockchain.info

Collins decries coverage of her tax bill support as 'unbelievably sexist'. politico.com

We’re witnessing the wholesale looting of America. vox.com

‘Willing to Do Everything,’ Mothers Defend Sons Accused of Sexual Assault. nytimes.com

Dunkin Donuts Beer -- a sign of end times or a crime against nature, you decide. wgme.com

[Putin] knows how to handle an asset, and that’s what he’s doing with the president. observer.com

Tony and his crew took over his business, starting ordering goods that they’d fence for cash. They ran up every debt they could. When they couldn’t squeeze anything more out of it they burned it down to collect the insurance money. talkingpointsmemo.com

Corporate tax rates by country. wikipedia.org

Want To Guarantee Net Neutrality? Join Peer-To-Peer, Community-Run Int. fastcompany.com

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear. buzzfeed.com

Firefox May Soon Start Publicly Shaming Sites With Crappy Security. (Easy fix, use a different browser.) gizmodo.com

As Nets make progress, Jeremy Lin takes note. nba.com

Trump is not Nixon. Nixon could be shamed. He resigned rather than put the country (and himself) through impeachment. Trump seems to revel in his own degradation and humiliation. He thrives off it. scripting.com

2016: Ignore Trump as much as you can. scripting.com

Why humans are cruel. vox.com

Profiles in Cowardice by Nina L. Khrushcheva. project-syndicate.org

Frightening ways Trump’s America mirrors Hitler’s Germany. salon.com

Anthony Davis is still the NBA's great big trade obsession. espn.com

Bob Corker discovers corruption in the Corker-Collins Billionaire Relief Act of 2017. #corkerkickback youtube.com

Say hello to Schnack.js: A new Disqus-like commenting drop-in for static websites. vis4.net

What Ever Happened to the Russian Revolution? smithsonianmag.com

I could have written this as a future-history back in 2000 or so when REST pushed XML-RPC out of the way. It was a huge mistake, they were throwing out the bits that this guy now wishes he had. SOAP was too complex, and deserved the disrespect it got. medium.com

The Arctic will never be frozen again. grist.org

Repubs steal from the US Treasury. An old story. A con people fall for over and over. crfb.org

Today's snarky slogan: Slow down to hurry up