Foolish and Stupid Americans Ruined Relationships with Russia

- Litvinenko poisoning
- Annexation of Crimea
- War in Donbass
- The downing of the Malaysian Boeing
- Chemical attacks in Syria
- Elections hacking
- Novichok poisoning

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Хуйло: Всем очевидно, что двусторонние отношения переживают сложный период, однако эти трудности, сложившаяся напряженная атмосфера не имеют объективных причин.

http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/58017

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Here's some recent work that relates to the quesion whether the principle "use at your own risk" when applied to networked consumer services (as opposed to standalone consumer products) creates unique negative externalities.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022053116300837

We develop a theoretical model of security investments in a network of interconnected agents. Network connections introduce the possibility of cascading failures due to an exogenous or endogenous attack depending on the profile of security investments by the agents. We provide a tractable decomposition of individual payoffs into an own effect and an externality, which also enables us to characterize individual investment incentives recursively (by considering the network with one agent removed at a time).

D. Acemoglu, et al 2016.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2016.09.009

Quote of the Day: BS men

Women find BS* men attractive because BS attitudes and behaviors signal that a man is willing to invest. Five studies showed that women prefer men with BS attitudes (Studies 1a, 1b, and 3) and behaviors (Studies 2a and 2b), especially in mating contexts, because BS mates are perceived as willing to invest (protect, provide, and commit). Women preferred BS men despite also perceiving them as patronizing and undermining.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167218781000

*Benevolent sexism (BS).

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Корректно было бы сравнивать web-based emai (WBM)l со стиральной машиной(СМ) в том случае, если бы у СМ был масштабный и сравнительно быстрый сетевой эффект. Например, если бы короткое замыкание в СМ вызывало бы отключение электричества в целом районе города. Или если бы прорыв шланга затопил квартал.

С другой стороны, требования к устойчивости к WBM должны быть выше, чем к СМ, потому что ошибка глупого пользователя может стоить гораздо дороже всей системе.

Dumb and Dumber

Another interesting aspect of the "WBM vs WM"* problem is that we might have to introduce a reverse learning curve. That is, in traditional WM systems users improve their performance over time because the system stays basically the same, while user skills improve with experience. In mutating WBMs, users' performance may decline because the system changes faster than experience-based skill improvements. In other words, WBM users can be dynamically stupid.

* e.g. Web Based Mail

* e.g. Washing Machine

И все-таки, она вертится!

Инквизиция выбила из нашего лживого хуйла (нах) клятву, что он верит святой американской разведке. По специальной бумажке нах зачитал на весь мир смехотворное чистосердечное признание официальной догмы: "I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place.".

Но не выдержала душа и, как настоящий Галилео Галилей, он вставил, "Could be other people also. A lot of people out there."

Горжусь нашим несгибаемым лживым хуйлом!

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A - opportunity;
B - outcome;
Z - cumulative capital;
E - [new technology with] minimally viable cumulative capital;

u : Z ≥ E.

Technology works as as an equalizer that eliminates the Matthew effect (f, g) on opportunity as a function z of cumulative capital.

If we consider human capital to be a kind of cumulative capital, then a new technology eliminates return on human capital. What you have left is return on the learning curve associated with the new technology.

Lying Hall of Fame

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For the news generation of teenagers, online seems to replace TV:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-44860598

More than 80% of those surveyed said performing well in exams or succeeding in their chosen career was their top priority, compared with 68% who said spending time with friends was of most importance.

Young people were also more likely to view time with their family as of high importance than time with their friends.

And many said work and study commitments meant organising time to see friends was difficult.

But daily diaries filled in by teenagers as part of the survey also reveal they are spending an average of almost five hours online every day for non-work or study reasons.