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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Ci siamo, è arrivata la GDPR...
Li chiamano i "divorzi grigi", sono le separazioni di coppie che stanno insieme da venti, trent'anni e sono arrivate alla mezza età. Sono tutti baby-boomers. E dato che le persone di mezz'età stanno aumentando di numero (come il nome della coorte demografica lascia peraltro intendere) oltre che in percentuale (si allunga la vita, aumenta l'educazione delle donne, diminuiscono i nuovi nati) aumentano anche i divorzi grigi.

Per quale motivo accadono? Beh, i motivi sono molto più tradizionali di quel che non si potrebbe pensare, almeno negli Stati Uniti.

Money quote: "For the Baby Boomers I interviewed who grew up during the 1960s, one might guess that most divorces would happen because they were no longer personally fulfilled, but that was generally not the case. While some men and women identified growing apart in interests as the central reason for their split, all of the others, surprisingly, pointed to reasons related to violations of binding responsibilities that they felt were the key foundations of a healthy marriage.

For example, for men and women such as Kathy, physical infidelity proved damning for their relationships. Men and women were also similar in pointing to their partners’ mental-health problems as causing their divorces.

But also interestingly, this is where the similarities ended for men and women."

https://aeon.co/ideas/baby-boomers-are-divorcing-for-surprisingly-old-fashioned-reasons
Sono sempre stato affascinato dalla naturalezza (sia nella buona che nella cattiva sorte) con la quale si presentano le relazioni affettive e i sentimenti rispetto alla complessità della loro rappresentazione nella nostra cultura. Uno sforzo epico per cercare di razionalizzare e descrivere cosa sia l'amore, come funzioni una coppia, cosa voglia dire stare insieme, che impregna la nostra cultura oltre che la nostra letteratura. Prendiamo queste due prospettive: qui un rapido articolo per evidenziare un singolo aspetto della dimensione affettiva di coppia, cioè l'autonomia dell'individuo, senza la quale non si riesce a costruire la vita di coppia

Money quote: "Emotional stability and emotional self-sufficiency"

https://medium.com/@krisgage/the-most-important-thing-in-a-relationship-fde6e9087d6f

Qui invece la voce di Wikipedia dedicata alla teoria triangolare dell'amore, che è uno dei più ricchi e articolati, oltre che fruttuosi, tentativi di sistematizzare la natura dei legami sentimentali

Money quote2: "The three components of love, according to the triangular theory, are an intimacy component, a passion component, and a decision/commitment component."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_theory_of_love
Arriva la GDPR, quella cosa del trattamento dei dati personali che sta creando problemi a destra e sinistra: Instapaper è entrata in crisi, ad esempio.

Money quote: "Starting tomorrow May 24, 2018, access to the Instapaper service will be temporarily unavailable for residents in Europe as we continue to make changes in light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect May 25, 2018. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we intend to restore access as soon as possible."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/23/17387146/instapaper-gdpr-europe-access-shut-down-privacy-changes
Fare a meno degli smartphone. Non ridurne l'uso, ma eliminarli. È possibile. È necessario?

Money quote: "Smart phones are useful, but they are also incredibly addictive, and that addiction is at the epicenter of Silicon Valley’s effort to grab an ever increasing percentage of our minds. In that a substance or behavior controls us, it becomes our master, and that just won’t do."

https://nomasters.io/posts/dumber-phone/
Non poteva essere altro che il MIT a lanciarsi nella blockchain per i diplomi di laurea

Money quote: "Learning Machine is behind an initiative called BlockCerts, an open source and open standard securing credentials on the blockchain. Institutions like MIT can cryptographically sign a credential and place it on the blockchain, then another person (say an employer) can use the BlockCerts app to verify that the credential is valid. The project was jointly conceived by the MIT Media Lab and Learning Machine, and will continue to develop as an open-source project."

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/learning-machine-credentials/
I pregi del pensiero atomista. Natura facit saltum? Forse si forse no. Ma alla fine, a quanto pare tra tutti aveva ragione Lucrezio.

Money quote: “This book was one of the most important sources of inspiration for the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Nearly every Renaissance and Enlightenment intellectual read it and became an atomist to some degree (they often made allowances for God and the soul). Indeed, this is the reason why, to make a long and important story very short, science and philosophy even today still tend to look for and assume a fundamental discreteness in nature. Thanks in no small part to Lucretius’ influence, the search for discreteness became part of our historical DNA. The interpretive method and orientation of modern science in the West literally owe their philosophical foundations to ancient atomism via Lucretius’ little book on nature. Lucretius, as Stephen Greenblatt says in his book The Swerve (2011), is ‘how the world became modern’.”

https://aeon.co/ideas/is-nature-continuous-or-discrete-how-the-atomist-error-was-born
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
C’è una bella storia d’amore dietro a una delle migliori App per Sudoku mai apparse sull’Apple
Store (e ve lo dice un fanatico del Sudoku). Dedicata anche ai puristi che amano carta e penna: si può giocare anche con la Apple Pencil.

Link: https://apple.co/2xfiA14
America, la terra delle ineguaglianze

Money quote: “Although the U.S. remains the world’s richest country, it has the third-highest poverty rate among the 35 nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), behind only Turkey and Israel. Nearly 1 in 5 American children lives in a household that the government classifies as “food insecure,” meaning they are without “access to enough food for active, healthy living.”

Beyond that, too few basic services seem to work as they should. America’s airports are an embarrassment, and a modern air-traffic control system is more than 25 years behind its original schedule. The power grid, roads and rails are crumbling, pushing the U.S. far down international rankings for infrastructure quality. Despite spending more on health care and K-12 education per capita than most other developed countries, health care outcomes and student achievement also rank in the middle or worse globally. Among the 35 OECD countries, American children rank 30th in math”

http://time.com/5280446/baby-boomer-generation-america-steve-brill/
Ancora non è neanche segnato nell'apposita pagina dove vengono elencate le carte compatibili, ma Fineco è sbarcata su Apple Pay. Dopo Amex (che però non prendono sempre) er me è una piccola, vera rivoluzione

Money quote: "Fineco è solo l’ultima di una lista di banche che si pian piano vanno ad aggiungersi alla lista di quelle che supportano Apple Pay, anche se al momento in cui scriviamo non figura ancora tra quelle indicate sul sito ufficiale Apple. Nei mesi scorsi erano arrivati Hype, (poi integrata da Tim Personal che opera sullo stesso circuito), BuddyBank (una banca on line di Unicredit) e Allianz. Attualmente la piattaforma Apple Pay conta in Italia un totale di 20, in attesa che exi (già CartaSì) porti ad Apple nuove banche oltre a quelle che sono già compatibili con Apple Pay."

https://www.macitynet.it/fineco-apple-pay-finalmente-disponibile/
Il destino di Microsoft: un re Mida al contrario. Questa volta tocca a Skype, in veloce declino

Money quote: “Bloomberg took a closer look at the Skype and its decline. Microsoft argued that the “criticism is overblown and reflects, in part, people’s grumpiness with software updates.” They say that now the focus is the corporate market. But that doesn’t deny the fact that it is a terrible interface, inhuman and difficult to use. It lacks any imagination”

https://om.co/2018/05/15/skype-interrupted/
La prima, vera medicina contro il mal di testa. Magari...

Money quote: “The first medicine designed to prevent migraines was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, ushering in what many experts believe will be a new era in treatment for people who suffer the most severe form of these headaches.“

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/health/migraines-prevention-drug-aimovig.html
Alcuni tipi di dolore cronico possono essere di origine psicologica. E la cura non è chimica

Money quote: “After weaning himself off the opioid Vicodin and feeling like he had exhausted every medical option, Golson turned to a book that described how pain could be purely psychological in origin. That ultimately took a pain psychologist, a therapist who specializes in pain — not a physician — to treat the true source: his fearful thoughts. Realizing that psychological therapy could help “was one of the most profoundly surprising experiences of my life,” Golson says. No doctor he ever saw “even hinted my pain might be psychogenic,” meaning pain that’s psychological in origin.”

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/17/17276452/chronic-pain-treatment-psychology-cbt-mindfulness-evidence
Se vivete nell’Unione europea, provate a collegarvi a USA Today. Il quotidiano americano, per evitare problemi con la GDPR, ha creato una versione low tech del suo sito, senza tracker e javanoscript vari. Fila via che sembra un missile. Averne...

https://eu.usatoday.com
Perché ci sono poche donne che scrivono codice, spiegato da una donna che scrive codice

Money quote: “Compared to almost any other industry, women are underrepresented in technology. Only 18% of undergrad computer science majors are women, women hold 25% of technical roles at software companies, and 16% of tech companies are founded by women. Since software engineering is central to modern technology, people worry that the serious gender disparity sets us up for an unbalanced future.”

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/a-female-engineers-opinion-on-fewer-women-in-tech/
Questo tecnologo, Justin Garrison, ha scritto un libro per O’Reilly, che è uno dei maggiori editori di libri di tecnologia. Era il suo primo libro e ne racconta la dinamica e le vicissitudine con dedizione quasi ingenua. Mentre Mark Twain riteneva che gli editori fossero i peggiori banditi, è evidente che sono il banco del casinò: vincono sempre loro.

Money quote: “Post production took about a month to complete and then the book went off for printing. At the same time it was posted on Safari Books Online and immediately available. We each received 6 copies of the book in the mail shortly after it was available for sale.

All in all I worked from Feb — Oct for roughly 5 nights a week at 2–3 hours per night. I also worked about 3 weekends non-stop when a draft or final edits were due. Roughly I’d say I worked about 500 hours total. That was only my time and doesn’t include Kris’. I was lucky to have a co-author to share the load.”

https://medium.com/@rothgar/the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book-689d0c12fe39
Il New Yorker racconta la storia della vera e unica rivista per hacker: “2600”. Una rivista di carta che va avanti da trent’anni e che vi consiglio di leggere, prima o poi (su archive. org qualcosa si trova).

Lo so, era una cosa da consigliare per il fine settimana, perché è una bella lettura. Ma voi la salvate su pocket o instapaper e il gioco è fatto, no?

Money quote: “2600—named for the frequency that allowed early hackers and “phreakers” to gain control of land-line phones—is the photocopier to Snowden’s microprocessor. Its articles aren’t pasted up on a flashy Web site but, rather, come out in print. The magazine—which started as a three-page leaflet sent out in the mail, and became a digest-sized publication in the late nineteen-eighties—just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. It still arrives with the turning of the seasons, in brown envelopes just a bit smaller than a 401k mailer.

“There’s been now, by any stretch of the imagination, three generations of hackers who have read 2600 magazine,” Jason Scott, a historian and Web archivist who recently reorganized a set of 2600’s legal files, said. Referring to Goldstein, whose real name is Eric Corley, he continued: “Eric really believes in the power of print, words on paper. It’s obvious for him that his heart is in the paper.” (That love affair comes with a price: earlier this year, 2600 was in danger of closing after a distributor failed to pay the magazine. The case is still in court.)”

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/print-magazine-hackers
Se l'esercizio è quello di conquistarsi un pubblico, e nell'epoca del narcisismo preso sul serio certo che lo è, allora forse la strategia migliore è essere autentici e darsi una propria voce

Money quote: "Listen, future content creators of the world: strike the word “content” from your vocabulary. Write it on a post-it note, douse it in kerosene and set that bitch ablaze. You’re not here because you dream of one day stuffing the “Top Posts” section of the Medium newsletter. You’re here because you dream of creating pretty things that serve a purpose. Those bro-flakes are teaching you how to speak. I’m going to teach you how to fucking sing."

https://writingcooperative.com/where-my-writing-voice-comes-from-178af4e1b5e3