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by cooper12 8y ago
No sources are actually blanket "banned". Some exceptionally bad ones like the Daily Mail are "deprecated", but that does not mean it can't be used anywhere ever. For your edification: https://en.wikipedi
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by cooper12 8y ago
I think they're using Macbooks as a reference point for another Apple product that does have a LED wired to the webcam. That's why the title is about iPhones and not smartphones in general.
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by cooper12 8y ago
Of course. Like I said, "not trying to diminish his work". But it also gives the wrong impression of what editing Wikipedia entails. Anyone can edit, and even a single edit adds utility. One doesn't need to devote as much tim
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by cooper12 8y ago
One strange thing about the AMA is the reverent tone of some of the replies. Some people are saying "thanks for this article" or "thanks for getting me through school", etc. I think there's a misconception at play b
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by cooper12 8y ago
The tool is called AWB, [0] and a better way to explain it would be that it lets you work on lists of articles, applying the same change to each, but each edit still has to be approved one-by-one. It's only bots that are normally allow
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by cooper12 8y ago
There are some: http://www.hikikomori-news.com/?cat=38
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by cooper12 8y ago
There's a surprisingly large amount of research done based on Wikipedia. Those interested might want to check out the Research Newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter . By the way, I found t
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by cooper12 8y ago
Sigh, notability in the Wikipedia sense [0] does not mean the same thing as "notable", as in "note-worthy". Rather, it has to do with whether the topic has had significant coverage in reliable sources. The OP article is
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by cooper12 8y ago
Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2283184A/
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by cooper12 8y ago
> but we are talking about maps that don't show road names here That presumes that road names are an intrinsic part of a map. While they certainly were in the past, I think there's a paradigm shift happening that's become
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by cooper12 8y ago
The standards of inclusion for nelogisms are often high.[0] For older terms, you usually only need a few attestations.[1] It also highly depends on what corpora the dictionaries are using, since the past set can include the surviving writte
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by cooper12 8y ago
When you consider dictionaries, they often focus on mainstream published sources. Programming is a specialized field and "semaphore" in the multi-threading sense has not entered into common usage, so it would be unlikely to be pre
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by cooper12 8y ago
If we're also adding on other countries that are not China: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations > Children taken to such institutions were trained to be assimilated to Anglo-Australian culture. P
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by cooper12 8y ago
> I suspect that for people learning languages with a more complex script (chinese comes to mind) modern technology make things a lot easier as well, I remember reading that looking up words in a Chinese dictionary could be quite complic
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by cooper12 8y ago
The cultural marxism article being deleted was far from the result of "one person". There was a deletion discussion [0] with input from multiple users, as well as a deletion review. [1] In fact, the discussion was closed by three
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by cooper12 8y ago
> For the longest time Wikipedia claimed Bitcoin was a pyramid scheme, despite it failing to meet the criteria on Wikipedia's own page on pyramid schemes. The language in the article [0] regarding pyramid schemes clearly notes that
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by cooper12 8y ago
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet . It's in Unicode already and has keyboards :).
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by cooper12 8y ago
What a crap title and article, which spends half its time bootlicking Mukesh Ambani and how he's so rich, when the second paragraph says: > has shelled out $35 billion of the company’s money I'm also tired of all these public
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by cooper12 8y ago
Getting into med school and graduating it are two separate steps.
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by cooper12 8y ago
> what are the use cases for a lossy image with an alpha channel? Basically any image that's not flat and has a shape cut out of it (you can do this with CSS nowadays, but an alpha channel is cleaner and part of the image, allowing
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by cooper12 8y ago
Facebook also deserves credit, though I'm not sure why Messenger has a different set of emoji.
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by cooper12 8y ago
Why are people so desperate to trot out this one tired example while ignoring every other country and pretending context doesn't exist?
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by cooper12 8y ago
The sad part is that Shaw devoted a sizable part of his estate towards establishing the script, but after debtors and everyone else was done with it, there were only enough funds to publish one book (Shaw's Androcles and the Lion )...
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by cooper12 8y ago
They mean useless in the end result. Of course having perfect captions could potentially allow indexable videos, but the case is that the captions suck. They're so bad in fact that it's a common meme on Youtube comments for peop
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by cooper12 8y ago
It's 99% marketing and places like HN and reddit eat it up and try to hype it up even more. When you confront these characters about the basis on which they claim AI will solve whatever problem or evolve to whichever point, they only
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by cooper12 8y ago
To Keller the politics had a lot to do with blindness: > I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human control, found that too much o
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by cooper12 8y ago
The fact that you refer to him as a mass murdered shows he wasn't exactly canonized. I also don't see how you read the quote as a justification unless all you focused on was the name.
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by cooper12 8y ago
It's a very pointed question, in the vein of "when did you stop beating your wife"? The original comment wasn't taking any stance on violence, just commenting on how it's discussed. Trying to shift the focus from th
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Unfortunately, those in charge of writing history are very prone to sanitizing unappealing details. Take Helen Keller for example. We learn a lot of minor details of her history. But students never learn how she was a loud socialist. Inform
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by cooper12 8y ago
It's funny how you committed the exact trap they were writing about in their comment... They didn't advocate for or against violence, they only stated that historically, a lot of major movements have had violent elements and we&#x

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