букмейт предложил послушать роман «портрет дамы с жемчугами» / 真珠夫人 от японца кикути кана. роман свежайший — издан 100 лет назад, так что успел отлежаться. проходная шлачина за век обычно теряется, а относительно хорошее остается с нами. книгу, кстати, переиздали в бумаге, можно купить у гипериона или эксмо. я честно прослушал 3/4, а потом психанул и дочитал электронную версию, потому что уже трясло от нервов — и ждать еще два часа я не собирался.
букмейт предложил послушать роман «портрет дамы с жемчугами» / 真珠夫人 от японца кикути кана. роман свежайший — издан 100 лет назад, так что успел отлежаться. проходная шлачина за век обычно теряется, а относительно хорошее остается с нами. книгу, кстати, переиздали в бумаге, можно купить у гипериона или эксмо. я честно прослушал 3/4, а потом психанул и дочитал электронную версию, потому что уже трясло от нервов — и ждать еще два часа я не собирался.
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” "Your messages about the movement of the enemy through the official chatbot … bring new trophies every day," the government agency tweeted. For example, WhatsApp restricted the number of times a user could forward something, and developed automated systems that detect and flag objectionable content.
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