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by 20after4 1y ago
Similar to how Google merged with DoubleClick and threw out the whole "don't be evil" policy. My luke-warm take is that the advertising industry is inherently evil.
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by 20after4 1y ago
It seems to me that instilling conformity and obedience to authority are the true purpose higher education. (Also, tolerance and acceptance when faced with many arbitrary roadblocks.)
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by 20after4 1y ago
Most mobile base stations have a limited backup battery and some have generators on site. I'd expect telephone infrastructure to have 24-48 hours of backup in the USA and I don't know why Europe would be much different.
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by 20after4 1y ago
> Imagine people buying stuff without anyone knowing right away! That should never, ever exist, for any reason. I can imagine it and it happens all the time. Your version sounds very dystopian.
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by 20after4 1y ago
Lead acid batteries are not exactly what I would call reliable. They require a lot of constant maintenance to ensure that they will work when you need them and they can easily degrade in such a way that they maintain voltage and appear to b
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by 20after4 1y ago
An early example of the Streisand effect? Should it be more accurately named the Ginzburg effect? :D
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by 20after4 1y ago
Oh for sure they are not far off, but they always round up to be safe.
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by 20after4 1y ago
I tried the spanish and japanese articles, translated back to english. Neither article seemed to be drastically different, at least not in the first few paragraphs. I'm just not seeing the bias, other than a bias towards reality. The
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by 20after4 1y ago
I think the ongoing hosting cost of any given article is incredibly close to zero with the exception of a very tiny fraction of popular articles. The popular ones obviously deserve to be there as evidenced by their popularity alone. Maybe t
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by 20after4 1y ago
I should disclose that I am a former employee of Wikimedia, however, my impression is based solely on reading about the projects on publicly available project planning pages. That is, on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/
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by 20after4 1y ago
Because they spent it all on performance mods for their car.
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by 20after4 1y ago
You can't keep a constant eye on both the road and the speedometer. Further, you might have missed the last speed limit change or remember it incorrectly. It's also possible for the speed sensor in your car to be faulty or out of
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by 20after4 1y ago
How so? Mostly they use the same panels with slightly different electronics driving them. If anything I've found that monitors have much better image quality and my large screen LG monitor has plenty of video-focused display modes and
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by 20after4 1y ago
My impression has been that the project has never been fully scoped and kind of bounced around between teams with nobody ever fully dedicated to seeing it through to completion. Scope creep and a whole lot of competing ideas, on top of a ge
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by 20after4 1y ago
I think the "deletionist" tendency is one of the biggest problems with Wikipedia. At least it's the main thing that prevents me from making significant contributions. I say tendency, but maybe it really is more of a crusade.
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by 20after4 1y ago
It's pretty straightforward but nothing on Wikipedia is really black-and-white. Most decisions are made through a consensus process. It's really quite different from what most people are used to. A good place to start for informat
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by 20after4 1y ago
Perhaps it is your perspective which is biased and that leads you to project that accusation towards the wiki (and the gp commenter here)
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by 20after4 1y ago
On articles that are either controversial or cover some kind of current events, I often find more value from reading the edit history and the discussions than from the article itself.
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by 20after4 1y ago
I'd interpret it as a bit of Hyperbole, I don't think the specific number is significant. Perhaps "several" would be a better choice of a quantifier.
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by 20after4 1y ago
There are a whole bunch of little utilities like browser extensions and bookmarklets and even an entire in-house cloud infrastructure that is used for hosting various kinds of bots and web-based tools for automating workflows. It's all
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by 20after4 1y ago
Identity is a really hard problem to solve. Just about any scheme you can think of to verify identity, some smart criminal can think of a way to exploit or circumvent/abuse the system.
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by 20after4 1y ago
At the very least, Apple should require conspicuous disclosure of this kind of behavior that isn't just hidden in the TOS.
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by 20after4 1y ago
That's what they want you to think.
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by 20after4 2y ago
Don't buy a TV, get a monitor instead.
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by 20after4 2y ago
It was always a curse.
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by 20after4 2y ago
The scanner is the surveillance state watching your day to day life.
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by 20after4 2y ago
For a long time there have been spammers scraping in search of email addresses to spam. There are all kinds of scraper bots with unknown purpose. It's the aggregate of all of them hitting your server, potentially several at the same ti
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by 20after4 2y ago
It stopped being safe in the USA for anyone not currently popular with the administration. And anyone’s safe status can change on a whim.
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by 20after4 2y ago
This looks pretty cool, I suggest, however, to make your github link prominent on the site, not just here in comments. Also, why is the live demo just a screenshot and why does your comment say [Link to your live demo if public] I can'
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by 20after4 2y ago
Not sure if I would call it an upside but I guess if you destroy everything worth fighting for then maybe people stop fighting? If you then execute anyone still willing to persist I guess you can claim victory. This is how you win the inte

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