Dans sa version moderne, l’antithèse amateur/professionnel n’oppose donc pas, comme on le croit généralement, l’incompétence à l’expertise (dans une conversation à ce sujet, on finit toujours par convenir qu’il existe des amateurs experts et des professionnels incompétents). Il s’agit plutôt d’un outil rhétorique, qui manifeste l’existence d’un conflit de légitimité. Comme la “querelle des Anciens et des Modernes“, il permet d’orienter le débat en désignant d’avance les vaincus.
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« When Walker does his job right, a few people usually get angry. He takes neighborhood boundaries that are flexible and porous and replaces them with rigid lines. « People get upset, they write in to complain: ‘Hey my place should be in the East Village,’ when really it’s not, » says Walker. « Sometimes they have a real argument about the dividing lines, but usually they just want to charge more. » But while a few renters are making less these days, overall Airbnb believes mapping the world is providing a big boost to its business ». (via East Village to East End: Airbnb’s chief mapmaker charts the world’s neighborhoods | The Verge)
Lorsque le livre est expédié à l’acheteur et n’est pas retiré dans un commerce de vente au détail de livres, le prix de vente est celui fixé par l’éditeur ou l’importateur. Le détaillant peut pratiquer une décote à hauteur de 5 % de ce prix sur le tarif du service de livraison qu’il établit.
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly 10 years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,” Levison wrote at the time. “After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations.
The ‘Smith’ project includes a device that sounds like a bit of a hardware beast. The screen itself is not 3D but the device features four cameras, one at each corner of the device that will be used to track eye and head motions in order to move the interface around to ‘give the impression’ of 3D.
Apple’s $147 billion cash hoard now counts for nearly 10 percent of all corporate cash held by non-financial companies
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An FAA advisory committee has concluded passengers can safely use hand-held electronic devices, including those connected to onboard Wi-Fi systems, during all portions of flights on nearly all U.S. airliners, according to one of the group’s leaders.
Today’s 21.5-percent drop pales in comparison to the Bitcoin crash of April 2013, when the currency lost half its value within six hours as an anonymous owner was giving away bitcoins on reddit. Another noted “Bitcoin crash”—which bottomed out in October 2011—saw the currency slowly lose more than 90 percent of its value over the course of four months. (via Amid Silk Road uncertainty, Bitcoin value drops over 20% in 3 hours | Ars Technica)
