Il sito di Anobii è momentaneamente down per un aggiornamento importante: cerchiamo di far fuori lo spam nei forum (che si è accumulato letteralmente per anni) e dobbiamo creare le pre-condizioni per operare bene e il più velocemente possibile

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2019/09/26/stiamo-aggiornando-i-server-siamo-offline-ancora-per-qualche-ora/

Potrebbe essere un'ottima idea o una tavanata galattica. In ogni caso, ci stanno provando. Ecco "Dark".

Money quote: "Backends today are too complicated to build. Dark is designed to massively reduce that complexity. Dark is a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure for building backends. You write in the Dark language, using the Dark editor, and your program is hosted on Dark’s infrastructure. As a result, you can code without thinking about infrastructure, and have safe instant deployment, which we’re calling “deployless”."

https://medium.com/darklang/unveiling-dark-e0be6f1e0b06

Il lavoro del futuro secondo Microsoft - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2019/09/28/news/il-lavoro-del-futuro-secondo-microsoft-1.37513854

Salvate il pianeta. Ci pensa Patagonia?

Money quote: "“We’re losing the planet because of climate change, that’s the elephant in the room. Society is basically working on symptoms. Save the polar bear? If you want to save the polar bear, you got to save the planet,” Chouinard says. “Forget about the polar bear, they’re toast anyway. So I decided to make a very simple statement, because in reality, if we want to save the planet, every single company in the world has to do the same thing. And I thought, well, let’s be the first.”"

https://www.fastcompany.com/90280950/exclusive-patagonia-is-in-business-to-save-our-home-planet

Sapevatelo

## Why are eggs in Italy not refrigerated?

Eggs in Europe are not refrigerated because they don’t need it. The reasons why American (and Japanese) eggs must be refrigerated is that:

They are washed, which removes the natural protective layer on the egg’s surface which keeps bacteria out.

In the US (not in Japan) the conditions of the egg laying farms are frightening and extremely unhealthy, and most chicken is infected with salmonella.

In Italy (and generally speaking in Europe) the eggs are not washed and commonly the chickens are kept in much better conditions, so the eggs don’t need refrigeration

Ebbene sì, i dati della pubblica amministrazione sono rilevanti. Ma non sempre ottenibili. Metti la lista dei vincitori delle lotterie statali negli Usa, dove pare ne succedano di cotte e di crude (e poi per forza che non ti vogliono dare i dati)

Money quote: "The odds are extraordinary even for winners with far smaller win tallies. According to the analysis, Nadine Vukovich, Pennsylvania’s most frequent winner, would have had to spend $7.8 million to have a 1-in-10 million chance of winning her 209 tickets worth $600 or more."

https://www.cjr.org/watchdog/lottery-winners-foia-reporting.php

Ritratti: Giacomo Papi - la mia intervista per il blog di Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2019/09/27/ritratti-giacomo-papi/

Da Aquaman a Conan passando per Shanghai (per non parlar del Ratto) - il mio articolo per il blog di Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2019/09/30/da-aquaman-a-conan-passando-per-shanghai-per-non-parlar-del-ratto/

Morgan Stanley "boccia" la guida autonoma e declassa Waymo - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/morgan-stanley-boccia-la-guida-autonoma-e-declassa-waymo/

Tegola su Whatsapp: dovrà fornire accesso ai dati crittati degli utenti - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/over-the-top/tegola-su-whatsapp-dovra-fornire-accesso-ai-dati-crittati-degli-utenti/

Scegliete una città, magari la vostra città, fate invio e guardate dove stava 500, 600, 700 milioni di anni fa. Anche solo 20, eh.

Fichissimo! Anche dal telefono

http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66

"Stop a tech-dipendenza dell'Europa": von der Leyen svela la strategia per la "sovranità" - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/sovranita-tecnologica-ecco-la-strategia-ue-per-battere-gli-usa/

Gdpr Usa, le big-tech già in allarme per le nuove norme in California - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/privacy/gdpr-usa-nellimpasse-le-big-tech-gia-in-allarme-per-le-nuove-norme-in-california/

Il suprematismo bianco è la cultura dell’élite americana, non si possono sostenere opinioni contrarie. Il faro della democrazia planetaria è una luce intermittente e talvolta alquanto ambigua.

Money quote: “But a new paper by several economists, including one directly involved in the trial, provides stark evidence that Harvard does give preferential treatment to affluent white applicants through legacy preferences and sports recruitment.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/harvard-university-and-scandal-sports-recruitment/599248/

Zuckerberg all’attacco di Warren: in un audio segreto minaccia causa - il mio articolo per Corcom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/zuckerberg-allattacco-di-warren-in-un-audio-segreto-minaccia-causa/

Net neutrality, la vittoria di Pirro della Fcc - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/net-neutrality-la-vittoria-di-pirro-della-fcc-si-a-corsie-preferenziali-ma-anche-no/

La GDPR e gli Stati Uniti: le cose sono bloccate

Money quote: "More than two months after the GDPR took effect, hundreds of U.S. news websites — including digital properties operated by Tronc, Lee Enterprises and GateHouse Media — are unavailable in Europe, frustrating many American tourists, business travelers, and ex-pats as well as Europeans interested in news from the States.

“Usually, your media is seen as an example for ours. I think is safe to say that, in Portugal, there’s a big community of people that not only reads the Portuguese media but reads the U.S. press as well on a daily basis,” said Flávio Nunes, a journalist in Lisbon."

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/more-than-1000-u-s-news-sites-are-still-unavailable-in-europe-two-months-after-gdpr-took-effect/

Samsung abbandona la Cina. Non regge la concorrenza - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/samsung-abbandona-la-cina-non-regge-la-concorrenza/

iPhone, via alla class action contro Google: 4 milioni di dati “trafugati” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/privacy/iphone-via-alla-class-action-contro-google-4-milioni-di-dati-trafugati/

Volevo tenerla per la mia newsletter Mostly Weekly (abbonati abbonati! si parte dalle info di questo canale), ma non mi va di aspettare altri tre giorni.

Boeing è diventata una azienda tremenda sotto gli occhi di tutti. La stampa italiana però tiene i suoi lettori totalmente all'oscuro di tutto questo. Il lavoro di noi giornalisti è collegare i puntini, non solo dare le notizie crude e poi lavarsene le mani. Per quello bastano i comunicati stampa. Ritengo sia mio dovere se non altro fornire il punto di vista ultra-documentato che viene offerto ai lettori negli Usa.

In questo caso, indiscrezioni rivelano che Boeing ha rifiutato le procedure di sicurezza che avrebbero evitato i due incidenti mortali del Boeing 737 Max.

Money quote: "The ethics charge, filed by 33-year-old engineer Curtis Ewbank, whose job involved studying past crashes and using that information to make new planes safer, describes how around 2014 his group presented to managers and senior executives a proposal to add various safety upgrades to the MAX.

The complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by The Seattle Times, suggests that one of the proposed systems could have potentially prevented the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people. Three of Ewbank’s former colleagues interviewed for this story concurred.

[…]

Managers twice rejected adding the new system on the basis of “cost and potential (pilot) training impact,” the complaint states. It was then raised a third time in a meeting with 737 MAX chief project engineer, Michael Teal, who cited the same objections as he killed the proposal."

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-whistleblowers-complaint-says-737-max-safety-upgrades-were-rejected-over-cost/

A luglio ne aveva scritto anche Matt Stroller:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout

Bombe atomiche? Il governo americano ha declassificato 210 esperimenti nucleari dell'epoca della guerra fredda, tra il 1945 e il 1962: un sacco di funghi da guardare!

Money quote: "The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. These are the declassified films of tests conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5