Anne, la figlia del generale De Gaulle.
Money quote: “Anne de Gaulle era nata il 1° gennaio 1928, ultima di tre figli. A pochi mesi dalla nascita fu chiaro che era disabile. In quel periodo i bambini disabili erano tenuti nascosti se non allontanati e inseriti in istituti scarsamente attrezzati a prendersi cura di loro. La trisomia 21 non era ancora stata identificata come tale – avverrà solo 30 anni dopo la nascita di Anne – e si ipotizzava che la causa fosse l’alcolismo di uno dei genitori. Vista la caratteristica facies venivano chiamati mongoloidi, appellativo che anche allora aveva un significato sgradevole”
http://www.pernoiautistici.com/2017/09/quella-bimba-speciale-del-generale-de-gaulle/
Money quote: “Anne de Gaulle era nata il 1° gennaio 1928, ultima di tre figli. A pochi mesi dalla nascita fu chiaro che era disabile. In quel periodo i bambini disabili erano tenuti nascosti se non allontanati e inseriti in istituti scarsamente attrezzati a prendersi cura di loro. La trisomia 21 non era ancora stata identificata come tale – avverrà solo 30 anni dopo la nascita di Anne – e si ipotizzava che la causa fosse l’alcolismo di uno dei genitori. Vista la caratteristica facies venivano chiamati mongoloidi, appellativo che anche allora aveva un significato sgradevole”
http://www.pernoiautistici.com/2017/09/quella-bimba-speciale-del-generale-de-gaulle/
Pernoiautistici
Quella bimba speciale del generale De Gaulle – Per Noi Autistici
Alla pazza giapponese che consiglia di buttare via tutto e vivere la vita di San Francesco Fujisama, preferisco questo anonimo (nel senso che non lo conosce nessuno e che, a giudicare dalla foto, resterà anonimo a vita) il quale consiglia di rimettere a posto per riscoprire, non per svuotare.
Money quote: "The best studio tidying is a kind of exploring — I’m re-discovering spaces as I sift through the objects that occupy them. The reason I tidy is not to clean, but to come into contact with something special that I’ve forgotten that I can now use. This is a slow, dreamy, ruminative, reminiscent form of tidying."
https://austinkleon.com/2017/11/28/tidying-up/
Money quote: "The best studio tidying is a kind of exploring — I’m re-discovering spaces as I sift through the objects that occupy them. The reason I tidy is not to clean, but to come into contact with something special that I’ve forgotten that I can now use. This is a slow, dreamy, ruminative, reminiscent form of tidying."
https://austinkleon.com/2017/11/28/tidying-up/
Austin Kleon
Tidying up - Austin Kleon
I have this Oblique Strategy hanging up in my studio. Note that it says WHEN IN DOUBT. It doesn't say ALWAYS. Tidying up is for when I'm stalled out or stuck.
Il primo videogioco che potrebbe diventare ufficialmente una medicina
Money quote: “In a study of 348 children between the ages of 8 and 12 diagnosed with ADHD, those who played Akili's action-packed game on a tablet over four weeks saw statistically significant improvements on metrics of attention and inhibitory control."
https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/04/adhd-video-game-akili/
Money quote: “In a study of 348 children between the ages of 8 and 12 diagnosed with ADHD, those who played Akili's action-packed game on a tablet over four weeks saw statistically significant improvements on metrics of attention and inhibitory control."
https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/04/adhd-video-game-akili/
STAT
Could this be the first prenoscription video game? New data show it helps kids with ADHD
Akili Interactive Labs plans to seek FDA approval of its video game, designed to activate specific neural networks to treat ADHD.
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel via @like
Vi prego, vi scongiuro (e scongiuro soprattutto quelli di voi che per lavoro hanno a che fare direttamente o indirettamente con i bambini): ascoltate il podcast di Repubblica "Veleno". Sono 7 puntate e sono già tutte disponibili. Continuate ad ascoltarlo anche dopo la prima puntata, che è ostica e sembra voler portare da tutt'altra parte. Dico davvero: serve saper riconoscere un tipo di errore che viene spesso fatto (e non solo da noi: è ricorrente in varie parti del mondo) per non far sì che sì ripeta malgrado le premesse siano note.
E se per caso ci fosse anche qualche rappresentante delle istituzioni che che si impegnasse per rimuovere dai rispettivi incarichi e dagli albi professionali i colpevoli di quel particolare caso (nel dettaglio, una psicologa infantile emiliana e una ginecologa milanese che la clinica Mangiagalli ha già allontanato, ma continua a praticare presso il suo studio privato e si dice specializzata in un tipo di ginecologia che fa uso di fitoterapia, aromaterapia e Fiori di Bach), ecco, anche quello non sarebbe male.
Link: http://bit.ly/2ij7sWJ
E se per caso ci fosse anche qualche rappresentante delle istituzioni che che si impegnasse per rimuovere dai rispettivi incarichi e dagli albi professionali i colpevoli di quel particolare caso (nel dettaglio, una psicologa infantile emiliana e una ginecologa milanese che la clinica Mangiagalli ha già allontanato, ma continua a praticare presso il suo studio privato e si dice specializzata in un tipo di ginecologia che fa uso di fitoterapia, aromaterapia e Fiori di Bach), ecco, anche quello non sarebbe male.
Link: http://bit.ly/2ij7sWJ
Repubblica.it
Il paese dei bambini perduti - Veleno - Podcast - Repubblica.it
Veleno è un podcast di sette puntate che racconta una storia sparita dalle cronache dei giornali. Vent'anni fa 16 bambini furono portati via per sempre dalle loro famiglie: i genitori vennero accusati di essere dei pedofili satanisti.
Si parla spesso del fatto che in Africa stia partendo Internet ma senza pc, ovvero usando solo i telefonini. Il Kenya è un buon esempio: 53% di penetrazione nella popolazione, al 99% fatta da smartphone
https://www.telecompaper.com/news/kenyan-internet-penetration-reaches-53-with-99-of-web-access-on-mobile-phones--1220998
https://www.telecompaper.com/news/kenyan-internet-penetration-reaches-53-with-99-of-web-access-on-mobile-phones--1220998
Telecompaper
Kenyan internet penetration reaches 53% with 99% of web access on mobile phones
The majority of Kenyans are addicted to the internet and even more, to higher internet speeds, according to a study conducted by market research company Consumer Insights, published by the Daily Nation. Penetration is at 53 percent, compared with just over…
Una storia molto americana di uno scandalo che tocca qualcosa di ben conosciuto in quel Paese.
Money quote: "But wait, hold on—who said anything about a fraternity? This situation didn't involve a frat house. In fact, it was maybe the furthest thing, even the direct opposite of a fraternity. It was an a cappella group. And not just any a cappella group, but the a cappella group that inspired me to write a book called Pitch Perfect, which was adapted into a hit movie that's probably airing for the billionth time on HBO right now. (A third Pitch Perfect film is due out at Christmas.) The same a cappella group that I sang in—20 years ago—during my years as an undergraduate at Cornell. So no, not just any a cappella group. My a cappella group."
https://www.gq.com/story/cornell-a-cappella-hazing-scandal
Money quote: "But wait, hold on—who said anything about a fraternity? This situation didn't involve a frat house. In fact, it was maybe the furthest thing, even the direct opposite of a fraternity. It was an a cappella group. And not just any a cappella group, but the a cappella group that inspired me to write a book called Pitch Perfect, which was adapted into a hit movie that's probably airing for the billionth time on HBO right now. (A third Pitch Perfect film is due out at Christmas.) The same a cappella group that I sang in—20 years ago—during my years as an undergraduate at Cornell. So no, not just any a cappella group. My a cappella group."
https://www.gq.com/story/cornell-a-cappella-hazing-scandal
GQ
The Great Ivy League A Cappella Hazing Scandal
A cautionary tale of Icy Hot, brotherhood, and sequined vests from the group that inspired the book 'Pitch Perfect.'
Se arrivassero gli alieni, o comunque se scoprissimo l'esistenzaa di vita non terrestre, che impatto avrebbe sul nostro sistema di pensiero? Cosa accadrebbe delle nostre etiche e delle nostre filosofie?
Money quote: "Suppose we woke up tomorrow to learn that extraterrestrial life had been discovered. What difference would that make? Set aside the extreme scenarios of popular fiction. The truth will probably be more mundane – not massive spaceships suddenly filling the sky but, instead, microorganisms found deep inside an ice-covered Moon, a non-random radio signal from a distant star system, or the ruins of a long-dead alien civilisation. What difference might those discoveries make? Would they strengthen or weaken our faith in God, or science, or humanity? Would they force us to re-evaluate the importance of our own lives, values and projects? "
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life-would-change-morality
Money quote: "Suppose we woke up tomorrow to learn that extraterrestrial life had been discovered. What difference would that make? Set aside the extreme scenarios of popular fiction. The truth will probably be more mundane – not massive spaceships suddenly filling the sky but, instead, microorganisms found deep inside an ice-covered Moon, a non-random radio signal from a distant star system, or the ruins of a long-dead alien civilisation. What difference might those discoveries make? Would they strengthen or weaken our faith in God, or science, or humanity? Would they force us to re-evaluate the importance of our own lives, values and projects? "
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life-would-change-morality
Aeon
The ethics of ET
The discovery of independent life beyond Earth would have deep philosophical implications for us, and our ideas of morality
Diciamo che siate utenti un po' avanzati e che utilizziate VIm per editare file su server remoti. E che vogliate trovare un modo per farlo più comodamente, senza dover aprire nuove sessioni SSH per ogni nuova finestra del Terminale. La risposta c'è e si chiama Tmux: però non fatevi spaventare, se iniziate a usarlo in modo minimalista è molto molto semplice. Talmente semplice che ci riesco anche io...
Money quote:
To install tmux, you can run sudo apt-get install tmux on Linux with apt-get or brew install tmux on a Mac with homebrew. Once it’s installed, you can create a new tmux session simply by running:
$ tmux
https://medium.com/@peterxjang/a-minimalist-guide-to-tmux-13675fb160fa
Money quote:
To install tmux, you can run sudo apt-get install tmux on Linux with apt-get or brew install tmux on a Mac with homebrew. Once it’s installed, you can create a new tmux session simply by running:
$ tmux
https://medium.com/@peterxjang/a-minimalist-guide-to-tmux-13675fb160fa
Medium
A minimalist guide to tmux
Let’s say you’re using vim to edit code on a remote computer using ssh, and you want to open a new terminal tab to start a development…
Un vantaggio competitivo è vederci chiaro, in maniera sintetica e con gli indicatori giusti. Una parte della strategia di Elon Musk legata alla sua Tesla e alle altre cose che rigurdano l'elettricità è che ha capito qual è la tendenza del mercato per le batterie al litio. Cioè, i prezzi si abbassano. E lui scommette su questo.
Money quote: "With battery prices tumbling by almost half since 2014, large-scale projects are popping up around the world. Developers have announced lithium-ion battery projects with total capacity of 1,650 megawatts per hour in 2017, four times the amount for all of 2016, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-30/musk-s-battery-boast-will-be-short-lived-as-rivals-go-bigger
Money quote: "With battery prices tumbling by almost half since 2014, large-scale projects are popping up around the world. Developers have announced lithium-ion battery projects with total capacity of 1,650 megawatts per hour in 2017, four times the amount for all of 2016, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-30/musk-s-battery-boast-will-be-short-lived-as-rivals-go-bigger
Bloomberg.com
Elon Musk's Battery Boast Will Be Short-Lived
Large-scale projects are popping up around the world.
Il problema degli aeroplani con motore elettrico è che le batterie, che siano piene o che siano vuote, pesano sempre lo stesso. Questo pone importanti diseconomie. Però ci si lavora lo stesso, soprattutto per i voli a corto raggio, quelli da "pendolari" o "regionali". Il consorzio Airbus-Siemens-RollsRoyce è la punta di diamante nello studio per queste opzioni. Qui il comunicato originale di Airbus (che troverete straordinariamente simile a molto lavoro della stampa nostrana).
Money quote: "The E-Fan X hybrid-electric technology demonstrator is anticipated to fly in 2020 following a comprehensive ground test campaign, provisionally on a BAe 146 flying testbed, with one of the aircraft’s four gas turbine engines replaced by a two megawatt electric motor. Provisions will be made to replace a second gas turbine with an electric motor once system maturity has been proven."
http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2017/11/airbus--rolls-royce--and-siemens-team-up-for-electric-future-par.html
Money quote: "The E-Fan X hybrid-electric technology demonstrator is anticipated to fly in 2020 following a comprehensive ground test campaign, provisionally on a BAe 146 flying testbed, with one of the aircraft’s four gas turbine engines replaced by a two megawatt electric motor. Provisions will be made to replace a second gas turbine with an electric motor once system maturity has been proven."
http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2017/11/airbus--rolls-royce--and-siemens-team-up-for-electric-future-par.html
Airbus
Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Siemens team up for electric future Partnership launches E-Fan X hybrid-electric flight demonstrator
Il modo con il quale è stata pensata la Brexit non è dilettantesco, anche se le sue conseguenze lo fanno pensare, ma è basato su priorità dei suoi leader diverse e molto più personali. Una campagna populista per il bene di chi l’ha ordita. Però le cose poi succedono veramente.
Money quote: “When Brexit happens, it will create the U.K.’s first-ever land border with the E.U., on the frontier between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This shouldn’t pose passport problems, because the U.K. and Ireland have a longstanding passport-free Common Travel Area agreement. But because Britain is on course to leave the E.U.’s tariff-free single market, imports and exports must somehow be monitored across this 310-mile-long barrier”
https://www.citylab.com/amp/article/546887/
Money quote: “When Brexit happens, it will create the U.K.’s first-ever land border with the E.U., on the frontier between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This shouldn’t pose passport problems, because the U.K. and Ireland have a longstanding passport-free Common Travel Area agreement. But because Britain is on course to leave the E.U.’s tariff-free single market, imports and exports must somehow be monitored across this 310-mile-long barrier”
https://www.citylab.com/amp/article/546887/
Una cosa secondo me interessante: dopo aver costruito sistemi per il trattamento automatico dellì'informazione (quelli che tradizionalmente chiamiamo "computer") basati su una logica deduttiva (dall'algoritmo si deducono i passi necessari a risolvere un problema concreto) adesso con l'intelligenza artificiale andiamo nella direzione opposta, cioè quella della logica induttiva (il sistema deduce e costruisce le regole dopo aver analizzato un corpus di dati).
Tutto bello, ma già sappiamo, dopo qualche secolo di riflessione, quali sono i punti di forza e di debolezza del procedere di entrambi i metodi logici.
Se però volete rivisitare il problema dell'induzione di David Hume, cosa meglio dei suggerimenti di Sam Dresse, "I hope this helps"? (video in inglese)
Money quote: "Il ragionamento induttivo anche se non è logicamente inviolabile, esso sembra comunque un modo perfettamente ragionevole di formare credenze sul mondo.
Che cosa giustifica la nostra fede nell'induzione? Il filosofo scozzese David Hume argomentò che il principio di induzione non può affatto essere giustificato razionalmente. Hume ammetteva che usiamo continuamente l'induzione nella vita e nella scienza, ma insisteva nel sostenere che si tratta di una mera abitudine animale. Pensava che sfidati a fornire una buona ragione per l'uso dell'induzione, non avremmo saputo dare una risposta soddisfacente.
Hume notò che ogni volta che compiamo delle inferenze induttive, sembriamo presupporre ciò che chiamò "L'uniformità della natura"."
https://aeon.co/videos/can-the-problem-of-induction-save-anthony-s-dismal-dating-life
Tutto bello, ma già sappiamo, dopo qualche secolo di riflessione, quali sono i punti di forza e di debolezza del procedere di entrambi i metodi logici.
Se però volete rivisitare il problema dell'induzione di David Hume, cosa meglio dei suggerimenti di Sam Dresse, "I hope this helps"? (video in inglese)
Money quote: "Il ragionamento induttivo anche se non è logicamente inviolabile, esso sembra comunque un modo perfettamente ragionevole di formare credenze sul mondo.
Che cosa giustifica la nostra fede nell'induzione? Il filosofo scozzese David Hume argomentò che il principio di induzione non può affatto essere giustificato razionalmente. Hume ammetteva che usiamo continuamente l'induzione nella vita e nella scienza, ma insisteva nel sostenere che si tratta di una mera abitudine animale. Pensava che sfidati a fornire una buona ragione per l'uso dell'induzione, non avremmo saputo dare una risposta soddisfacente.
Hume notò che ogni volta che compiamo delle inferenze induttive, sembriamo presupporre ciò che chiamò "L'uniformità della natura"."
https://aeon.co/videos/can-the-problem-of-induction-save-anthony-s-dismal-dating-life
Aeon
The problem of induction
Can the problem of induction save Anthony’s dismal dating life?
Il futuro di Starbucks è in Cina
Money quote: “China is becoming crucial for Starbucks. Same-store sales gained 8 percent in the country during the most recent quarter, compared with 2 percent globally. Revenue from the Asia-Pacific region accounted for almost 15 percent of Starbucks’ revenue for the fiscal year ended in October. That’s up from 5.5 percent five years earlier”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/starbucks-woos-china-s-affluent-with-giant-cafe-in-overseas-test
Money quote: “China is becoming crucial for Starbucks. Same-store sales gained 8 percent in the country during the most recent quarter, compared with 2 percent globally. Revenue from the Asia-Pacific region accounted for almost 15 percent of Starbucks’ revenue for the fiscal year ended in October. That’s up from 5.5 percent five years earlier”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/starbucks-woos-china-s-affluent-with-giant-cafe-in-overseas-test
Bloomberg.com
World’s Biggest Starbucks to Open in Shanghai
Starbucks Corp. sees China surpassing the U.S. as its largest market within a decade as it counts on the country’s affluent consumers to offset stagnant growth in the rest of the world.
È il mistero di Cuba. Ventiquattro dipendenti dell’ambasciata americana a Cuba sono stati colpiti - o almeno, così si pensava - da una misteriosa arma sonora e rimpatriati in fretta e furia. O forse no, non sono stati colpiti. O forse sì, ma chissà. Un mistero minore ma affascinante.
Money quote: “It's the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains. The finding is also one of several factors fueling growing skepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-identify-brain-abnormalities-cuba-attack-patients-110255428--politics.html
Money quote: “It's the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains. The finding is also one of several factors fueling growing skepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-identify-brain-abnormalities-cuba-attack-patients-110255428--politics.html
Yahoo
Doctors find brain abnormalities in victims of Cuba mystery
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors treating the U.S. embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memory damage, The Associated Press has learned.
Un po’ di sana psicanalisi (e meno neuroscience). Sarebbe l’ora...
Money quote: “What went wrong? In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote that ‘the demise of Freudianism can be summed up in a single word: lithium’. The American author described how in the early 1950s, after years of psychoanalytic ineffectiveness, rapid physical relief for sufferers of bipolar disorder arrived in the form of a pill. Wolfe’s example is microcosmic of a wider state of affairs. The waning of psychoanalysis corresponds precisely to the rise of modern neuroscience, whose physicalist approach now drives psychiatry. Today, almost anyone could have a go at describing serotonin, or dopamine, or Prozac. Few of those same people could define the primal scene, or the super-ego. As the American author Siri Hustvedt puts it in The Shaking Woman, or a History of My Nerves (2010), Freud is now seen by many if not most as ‘a mystic, a man whose ideas bear no relation to physical realities, a kind of monster of mirage who derailed modernity by feeding all kinds of nonsense to a gullible public until his thought was finally shattered by a new scientific psychiatry founded on the wonders of pharmacology’.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-neuroscience-rehabilitate-freud-for-the-age-of-the-brain
Money quote: “What went wrong? In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote that ‘the demise of Freudianism can be summed up in a single word: lithium’. The American author described how in the early 1950s, after years of psychoanalytic ineffectiveness, rapid physical relief for sufferers of bipolar disorder arrived in the form of a pill. Wolfe’s example is microcosmic of a wider state of affairs. The waning of psychoanalysis corresponds precisely to the rise of modern neuroscience, whose physicalist approach now drives psychiatry. Today, almost anyone could have a go at describing serotonin, or dopamine, or Prozac. Few of those same people could define the primal scene, or the super-ego. As the American author Siri Hustvedt puts it in The Shaking Woman, or a History of My Nerves (2010), Freud is now seen by many if not most as ‘a mystic, a man whose ideas bear no relation to physical realities, a kind of monster of mirage who derailed modernity by feeding all kinds of nonsense to a gullible public until his thought was finally shattered by a new scientific psychiatry founded on the wonders of pharmacology’.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-neuroscience-rehabilitate-freud-for-the-age-of-the-brain
Aeon
Freud in the scanner
A revival of interest in the power of introspection and thought has brought Freud’s ideas back into the scientific fold
Assurdo, ma c’è oggettivamente spazio anche per questo
Money quote: “Hey guys! I’ve heard way too many broflakes telling me they have no idea how to interact with women since Weinsteingate. Can you hug? Can you smile? Will you be arrested for opening a door? Dear god, won’t someone stop the madness? It’s almost as if men are expected to think about acting with empathy and reflection in their actions”
https://medium.com/athena-talks/the-hanson-test-are-you-safe-to-work-around-women-4a4876d8aea
Money quote: “Hey guys! I’ve heard way too many broflakes telling me they have no idea how to interact with women since Weinsteingate. Can you hug? Can you smile? Will you be arrested for opening a door? Dear god, won’t someone stop the madness? It’s almost as if men are expected to think about acting with empathy and reflection in their actions”
https://medium.com/athena-talks/the-hanson-test-are-you-safe-to-work-around-women-4a4876d8aea
Medium
The Hanson Test: are you safe to work around women?
The quick quiz to tell you whether you need to rethink your interactions with women
Pensavo fosse la classica presbiopia della mezza età, invece dopo aver letto questo articolo sto cambiando radicalmente regime di schermo digitali. Perché essi, gli schermi dei contenuti digitali, ci stanno mangiando letteralmente gli occhi.
Money quote: “After reading this story, you’ll know how to identify the damage they cause, and spot the early warnings of digital eye strain and computer vision syndrome. You’ll also learn how to protect your eyes while using technology and screens. Plus, you’ll find some extra tips about how to get the most out of your smartphone (without allowing it to damage your eyes!).”
https://medium.com/the-mission/digital-eye-strain-is-destroying-your-eyes-4ac7f8e87b24
Money quote: “After reading this story, you’ll know how to identify the damage they cause, and spot the early warnings of digital eye strain and computer vision syndrome. You’ll also learn how to protect your eyes while using technology and screens. Plus, you’ll find some extra tips about how to get the most out of your smartphone (without allowing it to damage your eyes!).”
https://medium.com/the-mission/digital-eye-strain-is-destroying-your-eyes-4ac7f8e87b24
Medium
Digital Eye Strain Is Destroying Your Eyes
This story will help you protect your eyes, and the eyes of those you care about
AlphaZero di Google batte il miglior computer per giocare a scacchi - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/alphazero-google-batte-miglior-computer-giocare-scacchi/
https://www.macitynet.it/alphazero-google-batte-miglior-computer-giocare-scacchi/
Macitynet.it
AlphaZero di Google batte il miglior computer per giocare a scacchi - Macitynet.it
Dopo il Go, fino all’anno scorso dominato da giocatori umani, adesso è la volta dei campioni di scacchi automatici, asfaltati dall’intelligenza artificiale di DeepMind
Il Michelangelo di Excel, che dipinge con il foglio di calcolo - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/michelangelo-excel-dipinge-foglio-calcolo/
https://www.macitynet.it/michelangelo-excel-dipinge-foglio-calcolo/
Macitynet.it
Il Michelangelo di Excel, che dipinge con il foglio di calcolo - Macitynet.it
Se pensavate di averle viste tutto, dovete fare un salto a Nagano, in Giappone, per incontrare un artista che utilizza la più improbabile delle tele per realizzare i suoi lavori
Una storia dalla quale dovrebbero fare un film. Bombardato da esattori privati che chiedono soldi (e minacciano la moglie) un agente di commercio americano comincia una straordinaria investigazione, una crociata che lo porta a fare delle scoperte straordinarie e a prendersi (parte della) sua vendetta. Uno straordinario viaggio nel mondo recupero crediti americani.
Secondo me non tanto la storia, quanto il modello di recupero crediti estremamente aggressivo sarà presto su di noi. Equitalia era solo l’inizio...
Money quote: “Therrien had been caught up in a fraud known as phantom debt, where millions of Americans are hassled to pay back money they don’t owe. The concept is centuries old: Inmates of a New York debtors’ prison joked about it as early as 1800, in a newspaper they published called Forlorn Hope. But systematic schemes to collect on fake debts started only about five years ago. It begins when someone scoops up troves of personal information that are available cheaply online—old loan applications, long-expired obligations, data from hacked accounts—and reformats it to look like a list of debts. Then they make deals with unscrupulous collectors who will demand repayment of the fictitious bills. Their targets are often poor and likely to already be getting confusing calls about other loans. The harassment usually doesn’t work, but some marks are convinced that because the collectors know so much, the debt must be real.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
Secondo me non tanto la storia, quanto il modello di recupero crediti estremamente aggressivo sarà presto su di noi. Equitalia era solo l’inizio...
Money quote: “Therrien had been caught up in a fraud known as phantom debt, where millions of Americans are hassled to pay back money they don’t owe. The concept is centuries old: Inmates of a New York debtors’ prison joked about it as early as 1800, in a newspaper they published called Forlorn Hope. But systematic schemes to collect on fake debts started only about five years ago. It begins when someone scoops up troves of personal information that are available cheaply online—old loan applications, long-expired obligations, data from hacked accounts—and reformats it to look like a list of debts. Then they make deals with unscrupulous collectors who will demand repayment of the fictitious bills. Their targets are often poor and likely to already be getting confusing calls about other loans. The harassment usually doesn’t work, but some marks are convinced that because the collectors know so much, the debt must be real.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
Bloomberg.com
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance
Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.