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by cthor 3y ago
This is already possible if you look through the revision history and talk page. Outside of very rare circumstances, contributions don't get redacted.
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by cthor 3y ago
linode has a $5/mo plan
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by cthor 3y ago
That masonry layout diagram is horribly deceptive. The boxes aren't to scale at all.
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by cthor 4y ago
Every officer on the scene at Uvalde knew there was a shooter in the classroom. Gunshots had been heard by people on the scene. Eyewitnesses on the scene had seen a shooter entering with weapons. Children in the classroom were calling in fr
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by cthor 4y ago
School essays and actual essays aren't even the same thing.[0] It sounds like a more didactic use of these kids time would be arguing on forums about their favorite anime. [0]: http://paulgraham.com/essay.html
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by cthor 4y ago
The self-claiming thing has at least been done already (through the use of online music labels): < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz14Ul-r63w > and < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieErnZAN5Eo > Y
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by cthor 4y ago
GP refers to "last decades" but that source is from 2011 with data ending at 2009. Do you have data for the last decade?
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by cthor 4y ago
Ratio of women:men using the service. Say there are 10 women and 30 men on the service, and each woman matches with 3 men. 30 matches total. Assuming equal distribution, the men have 1 match each. You can also then have a more extreme distr
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by cthor 5y ago
Blogs are perfectly capable of embedding media as appropriate, including videos. On the contrary to your suggestion, blogs (or more specifically, webpages) are what can do more than anything else, since they can also feature interactive m
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by cthor 5y ago
The main antitrust complaint against social media giants is that competitors are either acquired or bullied out of the market. The only reason this hasn't happened with TikTok is it's based in China.
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by cthor 5y ago
Setting the alt attribute to whatever input generated the image should cover that.
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by cthor 5y ago
That the mere existence of rules is not enough. They must also be enforced. Basically, I think you're letting Valve off the hook. Sure, the competitors shouldn't cheat, but Valve should also make sure they create an environment in
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by cthor 5y ago
Are you also under the impression that most Olympic medalists aren't doping? Following the rules doesn't get you very far when cheaters don't get punished.
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by cthor 6y ago
It's Wikipedia's fault that search engines are filled with blogspam?
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by cthor 6y ago
Modern fascination with samurai is less idolizing and more fetishizing. Plenty of people telling stories. Not a lot practicing the art. And those that do are (rightfully) snickered at for taking seriously something that is supposed to be me
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by cthor 6y ago
There's no reason the number of humans dealing with these problems can't scale alongside the number of humans creating them. But it's a lot cheaper to pay for a few really expensive programmers to make a just-good-enough AI t
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by cthor 6y ago
SSPL isn't being used as an alternative to permissive licenses (e.g. MIT). It's being used to shore up the holes that AGPL doesn't cover[1], to enable the business model of "free for small guys, paid for by the big guys&
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by cthor 6y ago
You also need DDoS protection. Cloudflare has booted people off for naughty speech before and got away with it, so no reason to expect anyone else in the game wouldn't.
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by cthor 6y ago
It's not as though it's some herculean task to get your writing hosted somewhere without ads and trackers. VPS providers with 1-button WordPress installs are dirt cheap. Netlify and GH pages are free. It's slightly easier to
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by cthor 6y ago
Could just turn the knob on your oven's timer and use a measuring jug.
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by cthor 6y ago
It's probably related to their policy of preferring secondary sources[1]. (Without a link to the article in question though I can only guess.) You could argue this is a bad policy, but it's certainly not a new one. [1]: https:&#x
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by cthor 6y ago
Doesn't have the tactile feedback of pencil and paper. Needs additional software and mental overhead to get the sketches on screen.
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by cthor 6y ago
One step at a time. I know multiple people who use voice assistants like Alexa that are effectively wiretapping their house. When asked how they feel comfortable with that, they say, "Well, my phone's already compromised anyway...
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by cthor 6y ago
Geopolitics is a little more complicated than phrases we tell children. At the core of it, the kind of protectionism China has engaged in is defecting in a prisoner's dilemma. If you play always cooperate against a defectbot, you'
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by cthor 6y ago
Even GitHub Pages behind Cloudflare is capable of issuing a 301.
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by cthor 6y ago
Still no support in any mobile browser. 35% isn't a lot of coverage. And of course Safari is a holdout -- they haven't even adopted VP9 yet.
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by cthor 6y ago
If the rules were decided by the English Wikipedia community following their process for making such decisions then this would be a meaningful criticism. But this is an edict from the WMF ivory tower. To say it's representative of the
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by cthor 6y ago
You've just given a bunch of evidence that those things are happening despite our benevolent censors' best efforts. I think giving people the idea that they've stumbled onto dangerous truths just makes them more resolute. Or
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by cthor 6y ago
All the limitations you mention are already explicit in the text. You have any other studies demonstrating lack of cognitive decline in 22 year olds on 4 hours sleep? Otherwise, you're just poo pooing on someone having actually having
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by cthor 6y ago
Eldred vs Ashcroft held that the CTEA (Sony Bono act) was constitutional. This is a good point worth bringing up, since the GP seems to imply it isn't with reference to the wording of the constitution's Copyright Clause. However,

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