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What Else Was Lost In Translation (NY Times, 2003)

What Else Was Lost In Translation (NY Times, 2003)

IT doesn't take much to figure out that ''Lost in Translation,'' the title of Sofia Coppola's elegiac new film about two lonely American souls in Tokyo, means more than one thing. There is the cultural dislocation felt by Bob Harris (Bill Murray)

2010 and 2020 (xkcd)

2010 and 2020 (xkcd)

2030: "I just bought a house for one bitcoin. No, it's the equivalent of a dollar. Houses are often transferred for a nominal fee because the buyer is taking responsibility for containing the holo-banshees in the attic." https://www.xkcd.com/2280/

Crise du coronavirus : une occasion historique pour le climat ? (Les Échos)

Crise du coronavirus : une occasion historique pour le climat ? (Les Échos)

En gelant l'activité humaine, l'épidémie de coronavirus a déjà fait chuter les niveaux de pollution en Chine et en Italie. A l'heure de l'après-crise, faudra-t-il renflouer les industries polluantes pour repartir de plus belle ? Ou au contraire coupler la relance économique à

Coronavirus : profitons de la quarantaine pour retrouver le sens de nos vies (Courrier International)

Coronavirus : profitons de la quarantaine pour retrouver le sens de nos vies (Courrier International)

Dans un billet publié dans le quotidien tchèque Hospodárské Noviny, l’économiste Tomas Sedlacek invite les lecteurs à revenir à l’essentiel pendant cette période unique qu’est le confinement. Puisque le temps va désormais s’étirer comme un filet de miel, dit-il, il convient d’en profiter au mieux.

Code Review Best Practices (Palantir)

Code Review Best Practices (Palantir)

(…) This blog post presents Palantir’s take on code reviews. We perform code reviews (CRs) in order to improve code quality and benefit from positive effects on team and company culture. For example: * Committers are motivated by the notion of a set of reviewers who will look over the change

Pourquoi les entreprises détruisent-elles la planète ? Comment changer ça ? (Loom)

Business & Economy

Pourquoi les entreprises détruisent-elles la planète ? Comment changer ça ? (Loom)

Il n’y a pas un jour qui passe sans que quelqu’un de notre entourage nous demande notre avis sur telle ou telle marque. On nous le demande sur les vêtements mais aussi sur la nourriture, la banque, les cosmétiques et même les vélos. Et ça se comprend : en

Pourquoi le socialisme n’existe-t-il pas aux Etats-Unis? (Werner Sombart)

Pourquoi le socialisme n’existe-t-il pas aux Etats-Unis? (Werner Sombart)

Au fur et à mesure que la situation matérielle du salarié s’améliorait et que son mode de vie gagnait en confort, il se laissait tenter par la dépravation matérialiste, il était progressivement contraint d’aimer le système économique qui lui offrait tous ces plaisirs ; peu à peu il en

Aneutronic fusion (Wikipedia)

Aneutronic fusion (Wikipedia)

Aneutronic fusion is any form of fusion power in which the majority of the energy released is carried by charged particles. While the lowest-threshold nuclear fusion reactions release up to 80% of their energy in the form of (uncharged) neutrons, there also exist reactions in which the energy is released

What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy (Bloomberg)

Business & Economy

What We Want Doesn’t Always Make Us Happy (Bloomberg)

Much of modern economic theory is based around a simple idea: Human beings maximize utility. But what is utility? Many people think of it as happiness or pleasure; British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the inventor of utilitarianism, conceived of it this way. But this isn't how modern economists think

Reconnaissance faciale, 5G : les choix technologiques ne doivent plus échapper aux citoyens (Le Mouton numérique, Libération)

Reconnaissance faciale, 5G : les choix technologiques ne doivent plus échapper aux citoyens (Le Mouton numérique, Libération)

Les controverses liées au numérique se multiplient. Cependant, prises unes à unes, elles ne permettent pas de voir un enjeu plus global : le cruel manque de démocratie dans ces décisions. Pas une semaine ne passe sans qu’un scandale lié aux nouvelles technologies n’éclate. A peine voit-on les dégâts

The cultural foundations of modern democracies (Nature Human Behaviour)

The cultural foundations of modern democracies (Nature Human Behaviour)

(…) Cultural values lead to, rather than follow, the emergence of democracy. This indicates that current stable democracies will be under threat, should cultural values of openness to diversity and institutional confidence substantially decline. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0769-1 https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0769-1

How to Encourage Employees to Assume Best Intent (Inc)

How to Encourage Employees to Assume Best Intent (Inc)

(…) Assume best intent simply means that you opt to give people the benefit of the doubt, rather than assuming that they are out to get you. If someone sends a seemingly rude email, we can assume that they want to embarrass us in front of the people copied or we

The real class war (American Affairs)

The real class war (American Affairs)

(…) The socioeconomic divide that will determine the future of politics, particularly in the United States, is not between the top 30 percent or 10 percent and the rest, nor even between the 1 percent and the 99 percent. The real class war is between the 0.1 percent

Adopting and Developing Business Source License Software (MariaDB)

Adopting and Developing Business Source License Software (MariaDB)

Business Source License (BSL) was created (…) to provide a mutually beneficial balance between the user benefits of true Open Source software that is free of cost and provides open access to all of the product code for modification, distribution, etc., and the sustainability needs of software developers to continue delivering

On Privacy versus Freedom (Matthew Hodgson, Matrix)

On Privacy versus Freedom (Matthew Hodgson, Matrix)

(…) All of this completely ignores one critical thing - the value of freedom. Freedom to select which server to use. Freedom to run your own server (perhaps invisibly in your app, in a P2P world). Freedom to pick which country your server runs in. Freedom to select how much metadata

No Brown M&M's: Van Halen's Insane Contract Clause (Entrepreneur)

Business & Economy

No Brown M&M's: Van Halen's Insane Contract Clause (Entrepreneur)

At first glance it appears to be a crowning symbol of obnoxious rock star excess, yet a closer look reveals a deeper story about how a band used a tiny candy to alert them to major problems. The 1970s saw the rise of Van Halen. Like every band, when Van

Pour résoudre le problème écologique, il faudra baisser notre pouvoir d'achat (Jancovici, Marianne)

Pour résoudre le problème écologique, il faudra baisser notre pouvoir d'achat (Jancovici, Marianne)

> Tout ce qui nous a contraint jusqu’à maintenant dans cette gloutonnerie énergétique n’a été que des contraintes externes : déficits locaux ou autolimitation liées à des risques considérés comme trop importants. Il est donc vraisemblable qu’il en sera de même dans les vingt années qui viennent, et

Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs (Leo Widrich)

Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs (Leo Widrich)

(…) When I ask people what the most difficult thing is about being a founder, CEO, VC or otherwise high-achieving individual, some answers are this: hiring, fund-raising, sales, building the team, etc. What I’ve learned time and again this year especially, is that this is not the case. The hardest

Simone Weil : une philosophe-reine à l’usine (Paul Colrat, Alternatives Catholiques)

Simone Weil : une philosophe-reine à l’usine (Paul Colrat, Alternatives Catholiques)

Simone Weil rentre chez Alsthom et écrit en 1935 le Journal d’Usine, (...) phénoménologie de la non-pensée inhérente au travail, qui a pour but de décrire l’anesthésie de celui qui travaille. (...) « Mon expérience de l’an passé me permet peut-être d’écrire de manière à alléger un peu le

Is the Catholic Church anti-capitalist? (Jacques-Benoît Rauscher)

Is the Catholic Church anti-capitalist? (Jacques-Benoît Rauscher)

"We can no longer have faith in the blind forces and invisible hand of the market." This quote is not from a political party manifesto, but an apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis in 2013. Far from making the sovereign pontiff a Marxist preacher, these comments are in fact

‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims (NY Times)

‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims (NY Times)

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region. The students booked their tickets home at the end of the semester, hoping for a relaxing break after exams and a summer of happy reunions with family

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome (Manzoni, Barsoux, HBR 1998)

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome (Manzoni, Barsoux, HBR 1998)

When an employee fails — or even just performs poorly — managers typically do not blame themselves. The employee doesn’t understand the work, a manager might contend. Or the employee isn’t driven to succeed, can’t set priorities, or won’t take direction. Whatever the reason, the problem is assumed

The Lure of Luxury (Paul Bloom, Boston Review)

The Lure of Luxury (Paul Bloom, Boston Review)

Why would anyone spend thousands of dollars on a Prada handbag, an Armani suit, or a Rolex watch? If you really need to know the time, buy a cheap Timex or just look at your phone and send the money you have saved to Oxfam. Certain consumer behaviors seem irrational,

Doing a Job — The management philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover (1982, GovLeaders)

Doing a Job — The management philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover (1982, GovLeaders)

Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900-1986), the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” was one of the most successful — and controversial — public managers of the 20th Century. His accomplishments are the stuff of legend. For example, in three short years, Rickover’s team designed and built the first nuclear submarine — the Nautilus — an

Building Online Communities (Pieter Hintjens)

Building Online Communities (Pieter Hintjens)

In his book "The Wisdom of Crowds," James Surowiecki wrote, "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them." He noted that a collective intelligence usually produces better outcomes than a small group of experts, even if