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Negli Stati Uniti il mercato immobiliare è in piena bolla da tempo. Vivendo a Milano, mi sento molto americano anche io. Qui notizie pre-covid Money quote: "Since February 2012, when the price declines associated with the last financial crisis ended, prices for existing homes in the United States have been rising steadily and enormously. According to the S&P/CoreLogic/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index (which I helped to create) as of September, the prices were 53 percent higher than they were at the bottom of the market in 2012. That means, on average, a house that sold for, say, $200,000 in 2012 would bring over $300,000 in September." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/business/housing-boom-how-long-can-it-last.html

Alla ricerca di Vittorio G. Rossi - il mio articolo per Anobii Money quote: “Mode, manie, tendenze, disattenzioni. Anche invidie e talvolta ideologie. Ci sono molti motivi per cui un autore può cadere nel dimenticatoio, tra cui anche quella più banale ma probabile: nessuno si ricorda più di lui. ” https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/08/alla-ricerca-di-vittorio-g-rossi/

Apple, adesso devi rifare tutti i tuoi prodotti - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/apple-adesso-devi-rifare-tutti-i-tuoi-prodotti/

Come si faceva backpacking quando era veramente backpacking, cioè negli anni Settanta. La totale mancanza di informazioni? Check. (Comunque, questo tizio è veramente un americano, eh. Belle foto però.) Money quote: "My first impetus to want to travel was reading Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass—an ode to the diversity of geography. After that I suddenly got this urge to travel, something I had never really had before. Then a friend of mine told me he was moving to Taiwan for a while and invited me to come visit him there. So then I concocted a plan to take photographs in Taiwan and Japan because my father's friend had a contact for me in Japan also. I knew nothing about Asia, or even travelling; I had never even been out of New England. I knew nothing about what to expect. I went to the bookstores and it was really hard to find any information. There were these Fodor's guidebooks for people who had a lot of money. I didn't have any money. They barely covered places like Taiwan, so these books weren't of any use to me. There was no internet, of course, and the libraries didn't have much. I travelled kind of blindly because I had to." https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1218/kelly.html

Una lunga analisi della NPR con una bella intervista per cercare di capire alcuni passaggi di quello che è accaduto a Washington. Money quote: "Now, there was a failure of planning. There was a failure of deployment. There are ways that this could have been prevented. The fact that we got ourselves into this mess in the first place is the real problem. So, while there are clearly sympathies within law enforcement to the demonstrations, to the Trump administration, to the kinds of conspiracy theories that they are in league with, I don't think that that is the way to understand what happened." https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/01/07/613802462/how-the-storming-of-the-capitol-was-and-wasnt-about-police

9 tecnologie e 1 professionista di cui le pmi non potranno fare a meno nel 2021 - il mio articolo per Wired https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/01/07/pmi-tecnologie-2021/

La copertina per la prima audiocassetta di tilde ~. L'ha chiesta un ragazzo giorni fa e adesso sto chiudendo le grafiche. Mi piace, ma qualcosa ancora non torna. Se l'idea supera la notte domani passo in tipografia.

Effetto Brexit: sospesi 80mila domini .eu di aziende e cittadini britannici - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/effetto-brexit-sospesi-80mila-domini-eu-di-aziende-e-cittadini-britannici/

Chi l'ha detto che il 2020 è stato un buon anno? C'è stato di meglio. Le migliori letture del 2018 secondo Hacker News Money quote: "I'd like to know which books HN read in 2018. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661546

Il primo giorno vs il 1448 https://twitter.com/11thhour/status/1346958469073661953?s=12

Dieci anni di Mac App Store: la rivoluzione che è normalità - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-di-mac-app-store-la-rivoluzione-che-e-normalita/

Pensieri carini. Google ha trasferito il dominio Duck(.)com a DuckDuck, il motore di ricerca concorrente. Come minimo avrà avvelenato il Cname... Money quote: "Search giant Google acquired the Duck.com domain name in 2010 with the acquisition of On2, a video codec company. Today, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to me that the Duck.com domain name had been transferred to DuckDuckGo’s possession." https://www.namepros.com/blog/confirmed-duck-com-transfers-to-duckduckgo.1113728/

Apple per le aziende non è più Calimero - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/apple-per-le-aziende-non-e-piu-calimero/

La struttura della lingua inglese e un approccio pragmatico alla scrittura permetterebbero -con la tecnologia di oggi- di avere testi fisarmonica che si allargano e si accorciano come si vuole. Come questi. Money quote: "Parametric Press enables its readers to control how much information they see via a slider that has 4 options: "TL;DR", "Essentials", "Highlights", and "Everything". This post explores whether this feature would be useful in documentation. My initial impression is that the ROI does not justify the effort." https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/information-control

La ricchezza dei collegamenti e la povertà di Kinshasa. Money quote: "When a metropolis the size of Paris has only 13 departing flights per day, it challenges my existing mental model of a city’s necessary ingredients, such as industry, tourism, or trade. That is, big city = big economy. Kinshasa is a surprising break from historical patterns, labeled by Harvard economist Edward Glaeser as “poor-country urbanisation.” To see why, let’s look at the world’s megacities (population is greater than 10 million people)." https://pudding.cool/2018/07/airports/

L'uso delle immagini, dal Rinascimento a Instagram - il mio articolo per Anobii https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/04/luso-delle-immagini-dal-rinascimento-a-instagram/

Nel 2021 Leica potrebbe presentare una nuova "M" a pellicola più economica dei due modelli attualmente inc catalogo (due a pellicola!! La MP e la M-A) Money quote: "The new 35mm Leica will have to be appreciably different from the MP and M-A in order to squash the price without destroying the surprisingly strong market for those cameras. But the new Leica will also have to be appreciably similar to the MP and M-A, or perhaps the still-popular M6, in order to inspire sales to begin with." https://petapixel.com/2021/01/02/what-a-new-budget-friendly-leica-m-35mm-camera-might-be-like/

La storia della quale non si sta parlando dalle nostre parti: i suicidi a bordo delle navi da crociera bloccate con i loro equipaggi in quarantena Money quote: "Cruise ships were an epidemiological nightmare during the early days of the pandemic—combining prolific international travel with line dancing, endless buffets, and indoor karaoke—and they’ve also been a disaster for the mental health of some of their crew. Separated from families, confined mostly to tiny cabins, with no obvious legal recourse and at times no pay, sailors experienced a more extreme version of the household lockdowns that have sent people tumbling into depression." https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-cruise-ship-suicides/

La fine di un equilibrio internazionale, la fine di un sistema, di un ordine mondiale: come avviene? E come si gestisce? E soprattutto, a chi pensano quelli di Foreign Affairs quando scrivono questo dossier? È un'astratta ricerca di politica internazionale oppure si cominciano ad esplorare i segnali deboli della nostra contemporaneità? Siamo insomma già tutti morti e cerchiamo di rendercene conto? Money quote: "Eventually, inevitably, even the best-managed order comes to an end. The balance of power underpinning it becomes imbalanced. The institutions supporting it fail to adapt to new conditions. Some countries fall, and others rise, the result of changing capacities, faltering wills, and growing ambitions. Those responsible for upholding the order make mistakes both in what they choose to do and in what they choose not to do. But if the end of every order is inevitable, the timing and the manner of its ending are not. Nor is what comes in its wake. Orders tend to expire in a prolonged deterioration rather than a sudden collapse. And just as maintaining the order depends on effective statecraft and effective action, good policy and proactive diplomacy can help determine how that deterioration unfolds and what it brings. Yet for that to happen, something else must come first: recognition that the old order is never coming back and that efforts to resurrect it will be in vain. As with any ending, acceptance must come before one can move on. " https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-12-11/how-world-order-ends

Il 2021 di Apple, promesse e premesse di un treno in corsa - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/il-2021-di-apple-promesse-e-premesse-di-un-treno-in-corsa/