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> All the rules, bureaucracy and lawyering has produced a remarkable resource. Eh, I'm not so impressed. I've seen how the sausage is made. IMHO, a lot of its
by tivert 3y ago
> All the rules, bureaucracy and lawyering has produced a remarkable resource.
Eh, I'm not so impressed. I've seen how the sausage is made. IMHO, a lot of its kudos is due breadth (which is legitimately impressive) and to people trusting it because it's cheap (i.e. it's good because I happen to use it).
> I'm sure it's easy to find anecdotes of failures, but if it does well in most cases,
Wikipedia likes to toot its own horn about how it's detected and corrected 100% of the problems its detected and corrected.
> and better than any other alternative
Mainly due to a race to the bottom that's left no other alternative, because most people have low standards and you can't compete with free.