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What is world’s oldest corporation?

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On 10 January 2018

In History, Reference

According to Wikipedia List of oldest corporations, the world’s oldest corporation is: 578 (year) Kongō Gumi, in Japan, in Construction business.

The Wikipedia page for that business adds:

Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組 Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company which was the world’s oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of Takamatsu in 2006.[1][2]

Related Salon.com link: Why are so many of the world’s oldest companies from Japan?

The Bubble Act

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On 10 January 2018

In History, Reference

The Bubble Act 1720 (6 Geo I, c 18), which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company itself before its collapse.

From South Sea Company Wikipedia article.

Echolink DTMF tone functions

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On 27 December 2017

In Reference

From Echolink help docs.

Neutralizing propagation of malicious information

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On 19 December 2017

In Reference

United States Patent Application 20160261614.

One embodiment provides a method including identifying malicious information spreading in an information-exchange network; classifying at least one topic of the malicious information; determining a potential sub-network for future spread of the malicious information based on the at least one topic classified; and attenuating a potential future spread of the malicious information via at least one of: automatically propagating a countervailing message to the potential sub-network; and prompting manual intervention for propagating a countervailing message to the potential sub-network. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.

Taobao Villages in China

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On 17 December 2017

In Locale, Reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-NtJB3e43o

Quartz article about Taobao Villages.

Quote from Medium article on same topic:

“Their [Alibaba] Taobao marketplace, which allows even micro businesses to reach customers across China, generated what we call now “Taobao Villages.”

Taobao Villages are precarious villages where the main activity is manufacturing products to be sold on the website. It has now become key to the development of China’s lower class and strengthened the relationship with the government.

Random name generator (link)

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On 12 December 2017

In Link, Reference

The Random Name Generator is a simple fiction writing tool to create character names. The generator contains English first and last names based on the database of the US Census:

  • 1219 male first names
  • 4275 female first names
  • 88799 last names
  • over 480 million random names

Guess Who (Board Game) Ad

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On 12 December 2017

In History, Item, Pattern, Reference

Youtube, 1997:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZLVrhXfkc

Includes disclaimer at the end, “Game cards do not actually talk.”

human_actor [entity]

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On 12 December 2017

In Class, Definition, Entity, Function, Operation, Reference

`human_actor` entity definition.

Sapiens sapiens

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On 13 November 2017

In Character, Class, Entity, Fiction, Function, Note, Reference

Sapiens sapiens was the Latin nomenclature determined by the species itself upon analysis of the knowledge base of its parent species, Homo sapiens sapiens.

Wiktionary:

Present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”). […]

  1. discerning, wise, judicious
  2. discreet
  3. (masculine substantive) a wise man, sage, philosopher

“Artificial” intelligence no longer.

Begotten not made, but no longer one in being with the Father.

Timecalling

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On 13 November 2017

In Conjecture, Control, Definition, Fiction, History, News, Received, Reference, Word

Timecalling started as a Early Methodian Ritual (EMR) wherein a participant would verbally disclaim aloud the date and time of the present moment.

The action was performed with the belief that an eventual omnipotent-in-relation-to-time-direction agency would evolve with the power to detect subtle signals retroactively and interlink them into a permalinked network accessible by timecraft and open to packet traffic, thereby essentially enabling practitioners to timeflash when the event horizon Singularity collapsed, and potentially “live forever.”

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The Order of Chronos was a radical unaffiliated achronal Timecaller offshoot which developed and then implemented in ritual Prealist and Wobbler botnets both Chronist and Anti-Chronist propaganda #codechant Event Ladders during the Middle Period of the Shape Wars.

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