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"With a $145 billion cash hoard, Apple could acquire Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and Yahoo — and still have more than $10 billion left over. Despite its uncommonly flush balance sheet, Apple borrowed money on Tuesday for the first time in nearly two decades. In a record bond deal, the company raised $17 billion, according to a person briefed on the deal, paying interest rates that rival those of debt issued by the United States Treasury. Apple’s corporate-finance maneuver raises a riddle: Why would a company with so much cash even bother to issue debt? — The answer has a lot to do with the frenzied state of the bond markets. Companies are issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt to exploit historically low interest rates and strong investor demand for bonds as an alternative to money market funds and Treasury bills that paying virtually nothing." - × × ×

"The idea of asking authors to annotate their first editions as a way of raising money for PEN came originally from the literary agent Peter Straus, who is well known in the book world for his laconic but encyclopedic recall of Booker prize winners and other literary lists. He first suggested it in 2005, but it was only when Gekoski joined the board of PEN in 2010 that he took charge of the idea and made it work. Together with his wife, Belinda Kitchin, he set about making a list of authors and choosing which of their titles was most likely to make a good price at auction. He then wrote to each of them, suggesting which book he’d like them to use. In most cases he supplied the first edition, which he sourced through his contacts in the trade. When writers asked him what “annotate” really meant, he told them, “… like ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘It means whatever you want it to mean. Though I have my own sense of it, it would be impertinent for me to tell you how to respond to your own book.’ And I sometimes added, ‘Whatever it is, please do a lot of it!’” • #прокниги - #теория_поля - × × ×

Хочется взять и уэтосамое? Разумеется. Поэтому пошли и сделали этосамое через Stylish. • #the_daily_wtf • #ящик_кейсов - × × ×

Судя по классам, кусок какого-то сплита. Ещё, наверное, мне не нравится position:fixed, но я не определился. - × × ×

Как же красиво они перешли от игры «про машинки в песочнице» к миру с альтернативной безумной физикой. • #проигры • #у_вас_скучные_константы - × × ×

/* #funnyvaluesofpi */ - 9000

“Eve has cultivated the most loyal following of all the massively multiplayer games and turned into something of a controlled experiment in human nature and unfettered capitalism. It’s also the brightest spot in Iceland’s real-world economy. In the wake of the 2008 global credit crisis, as the country’s banking sector smoldered, CCP plotted its expansion and put the finishing touches on a new office. Last year it brought in about $65 million in revenue. The company employs close to 600 people, or 0.2 percent of Iceland’s population. (An equivalent U.S. company would have about 626,000 employees.) And unlike fishing, aluminum smelting, or Iceland’s other major industries, running a digital space empire does not deplete natural resources.” • #проигры - × × ×

Дада, а человека, который переводил эту статью для inosmi, ждёт страшная мучительная судьба, наверняка - Michael Bravo

Тем временем большой симфонический оркестр Исландии через пару минут заиграет саундтрек от EvE Online, и таки я вам хочу сказать тут аншлаг. А билеты на юбилейный фанфест раскупили полностью более двух месяцев назад. - Michael Bravo

“At Buffer, employees know everything about everyone else: how much they make, what their equity is worth — even how much they sleep.” • #прозрачное_общество - × × ×

насильно прозрачен не будешь, кмк. - xekc@xekc.com

Спасибо, кэп. - × × ×

"So, Yahoo's finally decided to close Upcoming.org, the events community I started nearly ten years ago. And, in Yahoo's typical fuck-off-and-die style, they're doing it with 11 days notice, no on-site announcement, and no way to back up past events." - × × ×

Для этого нужен какой-то специальный тег уже. Например, #because_fuck_you_thats_Y - × × ×

Традиционные способы веселья: дашборды, тотализатор, сообщения об ошибках и другие удивительные каналы получения обратной связи. • #малая_механизация - × × ×

Проиграл тем временем кровные 500 руб. Смотрю на дашборд с укоризной. После праздников «ещё пойду». - × × ×

"Primarily, PaintBottle (Seriously: NSFW. If you’re offended, why are you still reading?) is a discovery engine. To look at videos you simply scroll through a curated, filtered list. All of the content I saw is, shall we say, first rate, although arguably I grew bored after about three minutes of browsing. Best of all, the interface offers ability to fast forward through movies, Dish Hopper style, to various “positions” in the film. You can also filter by film types, although the filter is fairly limited right now. The interface is simple and easy to use with, ahem, one hand. The company has seen about 20,000 visits so far after a bit of coverage on Hacker News. They have also noted that their average time on site is 40% higher than the time on site at other “tube” sites. While competitors usually see an ATOS of seven minutes, PaintBottle sees 9.25 minutes, which either suggests more stamina or the positive influence of the site’s clean design and curation." #порно - × × ×

«Есть те, кто проходит через n-back, и все остальные». #lumosity - × × ×

Чак Норрис единственный кто прошел n-back для n=sqrt(-1) 0/0 раз - Ye Olde English Kane

“There is a missed opportunity, it seems, as the mysterious real life of Leon Theremin is stranger than fiction, involving the invention of listening devices and abduction by the Soviet Union, among other episodes. So many holes dot accounts of his life that it seems a fictionalized account would be perfect. Instead, we get a sort of James Bond Doctor Who Buck Rodgers thing. If they’re going to go there, I would want to see Theremin somehow incapacitate people with musical performances or something. But check out Theremin sporting a ray gun. I had already intended to pick this up, but author Curt Pires himself stops in to set the record straight. It seems we do, in fact, get some of the historical episodes: — I actually think people will find a lot to like if they give the book a chance. We did quite a bit of research. The book includes Leon’s historical meeting with Lenin, the development of the instrument itself , along with all that Buck Rodgers ray gun stuff you mentioned.” - × × ×

Боюсь что жизнь Термена была действительно куда богаче комикса. http://theremin.ru/termen... например. - nazer

Чем хороши публичные чекины с лайками — можно всегда прийти поныть и пожаловаться на то, как всё непросто, а тебя погладят и подбодрят незнакомые люди и вообще. • #прозрачный_мир • #стайность - × × ×

Трудно переоценить роль, которую все «сервисы осознанности» производят на нас, конечно. Поэтому, с одной стороны, со взрывом интернетов и фейсбука идёт дикий перекос в сторону «вагонов ненужной информации и загромождения мозгов», а с другой — нормальный такой grass-roots-подход по расчистке авгиевых конюшен, от собственных занятий и диет до каких-то больших проектов, за которые без поддержки могут взяться единицы, а с поддержкой — уже десятки. А с ведением — так и сотни людей. Нормально. • #aqsc - × × ×

«Всё, что уменьшает энтропию, делает нас сильнее». - × × ×

Демон мониторит звук и дыхалку, и, когда владелец восторженно присвистывает или задерживает дыхание на пять секунд, включает распознавание лиц на видеопотоке, захваченном в последние тридцать секунд. После этого все лица прогоняет перед взглядом, давая выбрать нужное. - × × ×

Потом запускает поиск по чертам лица в гугле и фейсбуке по базе картинок и видео. И вытаскивает тихонько видео со всеми похожими тёлочками-двойниками. Парень окупился десятикратно за счёт друзей ещё на этапе тестирования. • #порно • #порно_два_ноль - × × ×

Сначала порн, потом реклама по той же самой технологии. - so трудник

"First of all we would like to reassure you but no we were not last night victim of a DDoS but instead victim of our own success! Indeed the rather astonishing amount of new account opened in the last few days added to the existing one plus the number of trade made a huge impact on the overall system that started to lag. As expected in such situation people started to panic, started to sell Bitcoin in mass (Panic Sale) resulting in an increase of trade that ultimately froze the trade engine! *** To give you an idea of how impressive things were here are some numbers that we would love to share with you guys: - The number of trades executed triple in the last 24hrs. - The number of new account opened went from 60k for March alone to 75k new account created for the first few days of April! We now have roughly 20,000 new accounts created each day." — https://www.facebook.com/MtGox... - × × ×

"Draw a circle. This is the center ring. In it, put the name of the person at the center of the current trauma. For Katie's aneurysm, that's Katie. Now draw a larger circle around the first one. In that ring put the name of the person next closest to the trauma. In the case of Katie's aneurysm, that was Katie's husband, Pat. Repeat the process as many times as you need to. In each larger ring put the next closest people. Parents and children before more distant relatives. Intimate friends in smaller rings, less intimate friends in larger ones. When you are done you have a Kvetching Order. One of Susan's patients found it useful to tape it to her refrigerator. *** Here are the rules. The person in the center ring can say anything she wants to anyone, anywhere. She can kvetch and complain and whine and moan and curse the heavens and say, "Life is unfair" and "Why me?" That's the one payoff for being in the center ring. *** Everyone else can say those things too, but only to people in larger rings. *** When you are talking to a person in a ring smaller than yours, someone closer to the center of the crisis, the goal is to help. Listening is often more helpful than talking. But if you're going to open your mouth, ask yourself if what you are about to say is likely to provide comfort and support. If it isn't, don't say it. Don't, for example, give advice." - × × ×

And don't worry. You'll get your turn in the center ring. You can count on that. - Starepolsky smok

Из серии «я у себя очень котик» и всё такое. - × × ×

сделать пост с сотней комментов-плейсхолдеров «-» сразу и вписывать туда теги, повесить ссылку на него в профайл?.. - обречённый зверёк¹

Или так. - × × ×

офф. постучался в почту - адская скорлупа

От Дейва Вайнера, мастера OPML, который повернулся, наконец, к нам, немытым массам от своих колдовских штук. - × × ×

"India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent a new version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that healthcare activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines. Novartis had argued that it needed a new patent to protect its investment in the cancer drug Glivec, while activists said the company was trying to use loopholes to make more money out of a drug whose patent had expired. The decision has global implications since India's $26 billion generic drug industry supplies much of the cheap medicine used in the developing world." - × × ×

“Gleevec, used in treating chronic myeloid leukemia and some other cancers, costs about $2,600 a month. Its generic version was available in India for around $175 per month.” - × × ×