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Посмотрел русские телеграмм-каналы по поводу взрыва моста и заодно обнаружил интересный материал, как устроены права собственности в российском сегменте. Read more... )
Гарантией же свободы творчества и предпринимательства начинает становиться публичная лояльность одной из кремлевских башен. Грубо говоря, в телеграм приходит принцип «мочи оппозицию и зарабатывай на чем хочешь».
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When it was the Nine Hundred and Thirty-first Night,

She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that every time the owner of an article came to the dyer he would put him off with any pretext[FN#185] and would swear to him; nor would he cease to promise and swear to him, as often as he came, till the customer lost patience and said, "How often wilt thou say to me, 'To-morrow?' Give me my stuff: I will not have it dyed." Whereupon the dyer would make answer, "By Allah, O my brother, I am abashed at thee; but I must tell the truth and may Allah harm all who harm folk in their goods!"


[FN (footnote) #185] It is interesting to note the superior gusto with which the Eastern, as well as the Western tale-teller describes his scoundrels and villains whilst his good men and women are mostly colourless and unpicturesque. So Satan is the true hero of Paradise-Lost and by his side God and man are very ordinary; and Mephistopheles is much better society than Faust and Margaret.


https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3443/3443-h/3443-h.htm#chap23


Later in the same tale, they describe how technology transfer worked in the ancient world, which would be a good contrast to the modern concept of permissionless innovation.
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Interesting, how the story of David and Bethsabee made it into the Arabian Nights:

There was once a King of the Kings, a potent man and a proud, who was devoted to the love of women and one day being in the privacy of his palace, he espied a beautiful woman on the terrace-roof of her house and could not contain himself from falling consumedly in love with her.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54525/54525-h/54525-h.htm#c129


Cf:
2 And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

2 Samuel Chapter 11.
https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b11.htm


And of course, it made it into modern popular culture:



There's something deep in this narrative. I wonder what it is and how I could use it.

I like this version the most

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31. “And Jacob said, “Sell now your birthright to me.” 32. And Esau said, “Look, I am at the point of death, so why do I need a birthright?” 33. And Jacob said, “Swear to me now,” and he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob. 34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and he drank and he rose and he went off, and Esau spurned the birthright.”

Genesis, 25.

--- quoted from Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative.


Another interesting dichotomy here would be short- vs long-term, i.e. "survival budget" expressed as I am at the point of death.
upd. Solzhenicyn also writes about a somewhat similar situation in "In the first circle."
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The mediation of the apothecary between spa and patient, Grew believed and this was a standard physician s view therefore created an intractable problem of credit. Grew realized that he could address that problem experimentally. By converting a social issue into a chymical one, he could also convert it into an opportunity to make a fortune.


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The problem of adulteration was therefore inextricably bound up with contemporary medical institutions and identities. The only case in which a physician could trust to a medicine, it was said, was when he either pre- pared it himself or supervised its preparation in person.
The pugnacious physician Coxe added that London s apothecaries were so un- reliable that neither Physicians or the Diseased have reason to repose that trust in them which they challenge as their due.

When a vessel arrived at the port of Marseille laden with medicaments, its cargo could be expected to multiply threefold in weight by the time it left the city. London was no better. The hub of a pharmaceutical trade extending across the Atlantic and beyond, London furnished huge temptations to dilute, reconstitute, or downright fabricate.

As a patient or as a physician, how did you know what a medicine contained, or that it worked? How did you know that you knew? These doubts mattered for more than therapeutic reasons. Chymical physicians demanded that their new remedies be adopted, and to bolster their case they challenged Galenists to put them to the test empirically. Grew s own salt was publicly associated with this empirical challenge.

-- Piracy.
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https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4330118/Jacobs-Letter-Uber.pdf

Henley and Clark implemented this program of ephemeral and encrypted communications for the express purpose of destroying evidence of illegal or unethical practices to avoid discovery in actual or potential litigation. The Wickr application uses robust encryption which prevents the information from being viewed by anyone except the intended recipient, but more importantly, programs messages to self-destruct in a matter of seconds to no longer than six days. Consequently, Uber employees cannot be compelled to produce records of their chat conversations because no record is retained.
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By storing this data on non-attributable devices, Uber believed it would avoid detection and never be subject to legal discovery. This is because a standard preservation of evidence order typically focused on Uber work laptops, Uber networks, and Uber mobile devices. Non- attributable devices were deemed as not reasonably subsumed by any such preservation order and the team could, and did, "legally" (not so) dispose of any evidence or documentation held on these devices in the intervening period before knowledge of the devices' existence could be uncovered.
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Clark said that Uber needed to "shroud these work products in attorney-client privilege." Accordingly, Clark instructed Jacobs himself and others to address all emails on sensitive intelligence collection to him and ensure the emails were marked as "ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL," to mark any work product as "DRAFT" regardless of its actual status, and, on every communication, to specifically ask a question or request legal advice on some issue-even if no legal advice was needed or warranted. Likewise, he advised that Jacobs and others that they should communicate almost exclusively via phone, video teleconference ("Zoom"), or via the Wickr app, in that order of preference based on the record and audit trail each communications medium creates. Clark explained that the intent was to prevent disclosure of such communications if Jacobs was ever put on legal hold or his communications were ever subject to a preservation of evidence order.

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