“What are you doing? You cannot give me money. This is not Russia!” “Everywhere is Russia,” said Mr. Rybakov philosophically. “Everywhere you go . . . Russia.” “Now I want you to place your upturned palm on the table,” Vladimir instructed. “I will quickly throw the money in there, you put the money in your wallet, and we […]
Vía snarkmarket: The Curta is a mechanical calculator, but to say that seems to do it injustice. It can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and even square roots and more. Gibson describes it as “heavy, dense, knurled for gripping”, seemingly “executed by a small-arms manufacturer” while “the sensation of its operation is best likened […]
En un momento Soylent Green is people, Facebook acaba de revelar que perpetraron un experimento psicológico contra sus usuarios para estudiar el efecto de las noticas positivas y negativas en el estado de ánimo de 600.000 usuarios: Evidencia experimental de contagio emocional a escala masiva en redes sociales. Además de ser su principal producto, somos también sus […]