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“Starting a business is a dangerous thing. ¶ A larger competitor might undercut your prices. Someone might sue you for patent infringement. Someone else could sue you because your products doesn’t do what you said it would. Or, well, the market may have no interest in what you’re selling. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about half of all businesses fail within five years. ¶ But Thomas Thurston thinks data science could remove a fair amount of the risk. For the past nine years, he’s been honing techniques for evaluating business plans statistically rather than intuitively. He calls it business model simulation, and you can think of it as something akin to Moneyball for investors.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The biggest collection of Design Principles on the Internet.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Вчера смотрела отрывки из его документального фильма об Освенцем. - Irrational Numbers

Удобно, в общем, всё объяснять. - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Глава РЖД Владимир Якунин подал в суд на американскую газету New York Times. Иск подан в Пресненский суд Москвы, рассказали РАПСИ в пресс-службе суда». • #the_daily_wtf - urbansheep@gmail.com

“That’s the most interesting and significant insight I’ve had so far,” said Homann, the app’s affable (and newly famous) founder. “I know how it works, I know what’s behind the curtain … but in testing it out, I felt this compulsion to respond to my Invisible Girlfriend as soon as she texts me. That’s how it feels to talk to someone, even if they’re — not someone.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Букварь! Букварь! Букварь для благородных девиц! - urbansheep@gmail.com

только на месте этой конструкции вертушка мини-дрон - make some noise

^ ...сидит на штыре, как на насесте, готовый взлететь, если надо. - 9000

селфи, однако - 50 оттенков кошкости

Favorite pic: http://i.huffpost.com/gen... BTW do they sell oxygen in cans as they did in Tokyo in 1970s? - 9000

Также в новостях: «Президент РФ Владимир Путин заявил, что Россия сможет ответить на вызовы других стран, не принимая участие в гонке вооружений. Такое мнение российский лидер высказал на заседании Военно-промышленной комиссии. ¶ «Мы не намерены втягиваться в дорогостоящую гонку вооружений, Россия никому не угрожает и все спорные вопросы стремится решить за столом переговоров. Мы так и будем поступать в дальнейшем, будем придерживаться именно этой политики», – цитирует главу государства ТАСС.» — http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfree... - urbansheep@gmail.com

Очень заметно, когда пытаешься обрезать кусок цитаты — независимо, в фикшене или нет. Нужно уложить в фразу-контейнер всё, чтобы она не обращалась к другим частям местоимениями, была, в идеале, без всего лишнего, и содержала в себе ту одну идею, которую ты хочешь в этой цитате выдернуть. - urbansheep@gmail.com

После этого опыта становится немного понятнее, как устроен афоризм, и чуть яснее становится, почему кто-то, вроде Фрэнка Херберта, становится более цитируемым, а кто-то, как бы хорош ни был, не становится. Очень сложно цитировать килобайтами. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Зверёк, это отличный тед-ток про прайваси и её значение для общества и отдельных людей, в нём Гринвальд озвучивает то, чем приходится жертвовать людям, которые оказываются в мире постоянного принудительного наблюдения. — “Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see — and write about — the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide.” • #прозрачное_общество - urbansheep@gmail.com

О разном понимании хорошего и плохого у простых коротышек и у непростых: “The last point I want to observe about this mindset, the idea that only people who are doing something wrong have things to hide and therefore reasons to care about privacy, is that it entrenches two very destructive messages, two destructive lessons, the first of which is that the only people who care about privacy, the only people who will seek out privacy, are by definition bad people. This is a conclusion that we should have all kinds of reasons for avoiding, the most important of which is that when you say, "somebody who is doing bad things," you probably mean things like plotting a terrorist attack or engaging in violent criminality, a much narrower conception of what people who wield power mean when they say, "doing bad things." For them, "doing bad things" typically means doing something that poses meaningful challenges to the exercise of our own power.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

О том, как возникает выученная беспомощность в мире паноптикона: “The other really destructive and, I think, even more insidious lesson that comes from accepting this mindset is there's an implicit bargain that people who accept this mindset have accepted, and that bargain is this: If you're willing to render yourself sufficiently harmless, sufficiently unthreatening to those who wield political power, then and only then can you be free of the dangers of surveillance. It's only those who are dissidents, who challenge power, who have something to worry about. There are all kinds of reasons why we should want to avoid that lesson as well. You may be a person who, right now, doesn't want to engage in that behavior, but at some point in the future you might. Even if you're somebody who decides that you never want to, the fact that there are other people who are willing to and able to resist and be adversarial to those in power — dissidents and journalists and activists and a whole range of others — is something that brings us all collective good that we should want to preserve. Equally critical is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy. But the most important reason is that a system of mass surveillance suppresses our own freedom in all sorts of ways. It renders off-limits all kinds of behavioral choices without our even knowing that it's happened. The renowned socialist activist Rosa Luxemburg once said, "He who does not move does not notice his chains." We can try and render the chains of mass surveillance invisible or undetectable, but the constraints that it imposes on us do not become any less potent.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“I’ve skied steep slopes and hung from a rock face by a short length of rope, but staring into someone’s eyes for four silent minutes was one of the more thrilling and terrifying experiences of my life. I spent the first couple of minutes just trying to breathe properly. There was a lot of nervous smiling until, eventually, we settled in. ¶ I know the eyes are the windows to the soul or whatever, but the real crux of the moment was not just that I was really seeing someone, but that I was seeing someone really seeing me. Once I embraced the terror of this realization and gave it time to subside, I arrived somewhere unexpected.” • #дейтинг ∙ via @weekend - urbansheep@gmail.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2015... — No. 37: Big Wedding or Small? The 36 Questions That Lead to Love - urbansheep@gmail.com

Мы попробовали эти вопросы сегодня на обеде с коллегами - столько нового друг о друге узнали. Правда, за час только до 16 вопроса дошли. - teinett

Два с половиной миллиона продаж, больше 10 млн устройств, 5,6 млн USD прибыль, 81,7% iOS. • #проигры ∙ #графики_и_диаграммы ∙ #говоря_статистически - urbansheep@gmail.com

“IN THE pirate-infested waters off the coast of Somalia around 180 private military contractors from 35 countries work to protect international shipping. They cost as little as a tenth of the official protection provided by the governments of France, Holland and Spain. Yet they can deploy lethal force and have proved very effective; they have even formed an industry group, the Security Association for the Maritime Industry, to represent their interests.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“As Sean McFate shows in a fascinating and disturbing book, “The Modern Mercenary”, the provision of private armies to the world’s conflict zones has boomed in the past 25 years. The market for these firms could evolve from a monopsony, in which the dominant buyer has been the American government, into something more open and competitive. As it does so, he argues, these armies may turn from a force that is mostly for peace into a threat.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

"The Emperor was a highly competent leader and a wise negotiator, but was nonetheless hindered in several respects. To start with, the insurgency did not die with their leaders on Mustafar. A shadowy group of imperial senators took advantage of the power vacuum, and assumed leadership of the terrorist rebellion. Furthermore, there was widespread political resistance to the rule of the Empire, due to several individual star systems unwisely rejecting the fact that they would benefit from Imperial rule, both economically and militarily. ¶ To resolve these niggling issues, the Emperor adopted a two-pronged strategy. Firstly, he dissolved the Imperial Senate, which meant that the inefficiency of bureaucracy could be replaced by a more streamlined decisioning process, thus greatly accelerating the pace of governance and legislation. Secondly, the Emperor ordered the construction of a space station known as the Peace Moon.” • #now_this_is_awesome ∙ #рубрика_прекрасное - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The Peace Moon was meant to be a symbol of the Empire's technical advancement, as well as the advantages of hegemony. While it could theoretically be used in an offensive manner, its commanding officer, Grand Moff Tarkin, gave repeated statements that he had no intention of using it in such a way. However, the fact that the Peace Moon could be used for attack gave the rebels an opening. In IY19, a prototypical false flag operation, the terrorist rebellion timed their attack for when the Peace Moon was touring near the planet of Alderaan. Using means that have yet to be fully understood, the terrorists detonated the entire planet, and blamed it on the Peace Moon.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

via “5 Comics You Should Be Reading Right Now” — http://www.wired.com/2015... - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The FBI agents who arrested Ross Ulbricht in the science fiction section of a San Franciso public library in October of 2013 left nothing to chance. When plainclothes feds grabbed Ulbricht’s laptop and put him in cuffs, the prosecution in Ulbricht’s case says he was chatting online with an undercover agent who had infiltrated the staff of Silk Road, the massive online drug market Ulbricht is accused of creating. Now that undercover agent has told his story for the first time. And he’s revealed that just before his fateful conversation with Silk Road’s kingpin, he had been watching Ulbricht from less than a block away.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The cypherpunks are winning the second crypto-war against government spies. What will happen when everyone is anonymous?” • #прозрачное_общество - urbansheep@gmail.com

Интернета много, хоть и не быстрый, но свои 6 ГБ за восемь дней на два айфона и два айпада уговорили даже всяких обновлений приложений и потокового видео с амедиатеки — тут немного новостей, там почта, тут немного тедтока на 20 мегабайт, здесь трейлер Rainbox Six Siege с ютуба. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Всё ещё ищу ответы на вопросы «как не тупить и структурировать время до, а не после». Рефлексивная фаза более-менее работает нормально, а вот планирование всё ещё не даётся. Заставить и научить других спланировать свои шаги — легко и понятно как, а сделать то же самое с собой (или позволить другим это с собой делать) по-прежнему мучительно. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Из зеркальной артели хочу теперь вытащить идею про «некоммерческий репозиторий личных дневников» и написать несколько историй словами. - urbansheep@gmail.com