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$ brew install pv

# diskutil list

# diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

# sudo dd if=~/Downloads/ubuntu-16.04.3-server-amd64.iso | sudo pv -s 865M| sudo dd of=/dev/disk2

105MiB 0:00:54 [2.09MiB/s] [===>                              ] 12% ETA 0:06:28

and if anything goes wrong and the disk is corrupted, likely Disk Utility won't be worth a damn. reformat with commandline

sudo diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ name /path/to/disk
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