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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
At some point that's just going to become a subreddit with a very, very loose sense of geography built into it that's more of a hindrance than an asset. For this type of thing, you either go all in like yik yak did with the geo or
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Can you go into more detail on this, or just provide a link/documentation so I can also look into it for our own startup? Sounds very cool/interesting.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Agreed. Also, if IPFS is not the preferred way to go about this kind of endeavor, there are the guys at https://lunyr.com/ who are building a Wikipedia in blockchain architecture. About time someone actually attempted this.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
As someone who contributes to many knowledge projects, including Wikipedia and Wikidata frequently, I'm curious about what you mean that Wikidata is not yet suitable for any purposes. Am I wasting my time contributing to it? I thought
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
I agree with your post. The OP is a bit fearmongering, however there is some general issues that are definitely true of Wikipedia, but because it seems to be doing well overall (in terms of traffic and ubiquity), nothing will change even if
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Your post would have some semblance of significance and taken even slightly seriously if it wasn't so hyperbolic. What happened to nuance on HN?
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
As an angry, rejected nerd who is financially very successful (albeit not even close to Zuck), I would gladly get behind that. He represents me in a closely literal way.
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
>A decentralized cryptocurrency is a lovely ideal, but in the dirty real world, Ethereum and its ilk will win out. So basically you're saying centralized, institutionally backed and controlled currencies are better, or at least you&
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Actually you're right. I can see this being one of facebook's bigger high profile flops. After talking to the "Facebook at Work" team at F8 (very very nice people), I thought that they might be in for a rougher time gett
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
This might not be a popular opinion here (so please reply too if you intend to downvote me), and I might be biased because I just came back from F8 Dev Conference yesterday, but I don't think the reason Facebook beats a lot of rivals i
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by WikipediasBad 9y ago
Relevant username. But your #4 is silly, SNAP stock's valuation is exactly so high because of "that BS" that you are complaining about other companies doing.
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
Wikidata is very interesting experience. Using their API is rather cool. For example, here is the wikidata API call for Hacker News: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=... The mainsnaks sny
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
It would be nice if Wikipedia let you vote on citations kind of like reddit. That way there is an easy consensus on what the top citations are and what the most dubious ones are. There can also be software/bots written to react to low
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
It's probably in between. It's incredible how he does not talk about compatibilism in a serious post about different possibilities of free will. I don't understand how that can be missed on purpose. But, his arguments and con
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
As much as I like competition, I think Wikipedia (in terms of Wikis) is as close to Google (in terms of search) as it can get to having a monopoly. And I am more OK with Wikipedia having a monopoly than Google since it is a non-profit. The
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
This way of thinking makes ethereum bring nothing new to the table vs. democratically elected rulers of government changing monetary policy. So nothing aside from the fact that you can make little programs using its language makes it unique
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
I think that's because hacker news is actually smart and not delusional like reddit. On reddit it's a de facto disagree button but a de jure spam report button. It's like they are in denial of what 99% of users use it for or
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
>Isn't Craig living the hacker's dream? A reasonably useful service that provides value to customer, that once built you don't have to put much effort into maintaining or improving - because it works. Then you spend the re
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
Ah..Wikipedia. Nice to know my HN Username is relevant for this thread. Jokes aside, Wikipedia has a ton of flaws and the abuse is definitely one of them regardless of what percentage of people do it, but there are just no other realistic s
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
Great. I agree with you on what you are saying, just like your last post. I agree the bar has changed dramatically for getting into startups and building software, hosting software, and building infrastructure. AGAIN....that doesn't co
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
With all due respect, even though that might be true, that still doesn't necessarily conclude why YC has to continue to grow and take a larger and larger number at the pace that it is. It's clear what you're saying is true. S
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
This is a complete Non sequitur. Yes, all of what you said is correct about a different landscape, but none of that concludes to why YC has to be less prestigious, less exclusive, take many more startups, and make the entire process as impe
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
This is a great donation by Craig. I fully support it. I also think there should be more legitimate alternatives to Wikipedia and some more competition, but there is not unfortunately. I've tried to edit Everipedia which bills itself a
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
How did you come up with that? Did you even understand the article? It is quite literally saying social/cultural changes leave an impact on genetic transcription of DNA through methylation and epigenetic markup. In fact, this proves ju
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
This looks really interesting wow!! We might give this a try out our startup that me and a friend are doing. We need a type of script that would help users drag and move around pictures/gifs in large blocks of text so they can get the
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
I honestly screenshotted the python comment and framed it on my wall. I love python, my entire startup's backend is coded in python, and getting zuck to give a direct shoutout to any language other than a PHP family framework made me e
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by WikipediasBad 10y ago
Saudi? Have the Wahhabi rulers invested a lot of money into Uber? Since when was this a thing. That is quite alarming.