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by derleth 14y ago
That would destroy Wikipedia's utility as a reference for stuff that exists in the real world. A website should be allowed to focus on what it does best without being forced to be all things to all people.
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by derleth 14y ago
Everyone is a deletionist about something. Now watch as people try to delete this comment with downvotes.
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by derleth 14y ago
One more reason to love Xen and friends.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Sorry gentlemen And ladies.
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by derleth 14y ago
It would be great if you could expand this to ER or EER diagrams.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Can we please not turn this thread into a complaining session about SO's policies? No, because every website has to be all things to all people, even if it means the destruction of the few things it was actually good at.
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by derleth 14y ago
What if your backup systems get compromised? What if your backup systems get destroyed by inclement weather? Not a backup then, obviously. Only a backup is a backup, until it's not a backup anymore.
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by derleth 14y ago
> we definitely have something most animals don't "Religion and control of fire" seem to be the big things that humans have and no non-human animal has. "Language with recursive grammar" is a possible differentiator, but that's currentl
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by derleth 14y ago
So... if they think we all look alike, does that make them racist? ;)
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by derleth 14y ago
I live in America and you're completely incorrect.
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by derleth 14y ago
I2P manages human-readable domain names, but not necessarily reliably (the equivalent of DNS is just as distributed and unreliable as the rest of the I2P network).
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by derleth 14y ago
The problem with this is the same one that lead to the ADA mandating ramps: The handicapped are too small a population with too little money for businesses to financially justify adding ramps simply to get their business, but without the ra
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by derleth 14y ago
Makes me wonder when web fora will go all the way and simply recapitulate everything Usenet has allowed since the 1980s, by pushing all the complexity involved in threading and filtering into the clients and making servers just big, dum
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by derleth 14y ago
Being part of a group that is, statistically and on the whole, more powerful does not necessarily make an individual more powerful. Contrariwise, being part of a group that is, statistically and on the whole, less powerful does not make an
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by derleth 14y ago
> There's been plenty of humor by cruel people perpetrating injustices. They thought it was genuinely funny at the time. Yes. Exactly. And there is no hard-and-fast rule to determine what kind of humor perpetrates injustices, because, f
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by derleth 14y ago
> the crazy and untrue implication that women are too dainty to handle off-color jokes Which is sexist, and I can't see how others can't see how sexist it is. It is pure, straight-up middle-class Victorian bullshit of the kind first wa
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by derleth 14y ago
> It's an "experiment", which means it could be using some of the latest and cutting edge HTML5 specs. It uses WebGL. Firefox has WebGL. This isn't really an excuse. The only reason to only support Chrome is to advertise Chrome. This is
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by derleth 14y ago
Sexual and sexist are only the same if you believe women are chaste, which is horrendously sexist.
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by derleth 14y ago
But when you heard men's rights you immediately assumed the reactionary label would apply. That is a problem.
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by derleth 14y ago
But not most relationship abuse. http://moxymag.com/2011/03/man-beater/
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by derleth 14y ago
And "Bri'ish" because replacing a 't' with a glottal stop is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
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by derleth 14y ago
> touts it's privacy features And again, autocorrect makes someone look the fool.
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by derleth 14y ago
> The poor are doomed to work all their lives because they can't get above the magic level of wealth where they don't have to, meanwhile those with the piles of wealth dispense tiny fractions to them to buy necessities. A historical ex
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by derleth 14y ago
Clutter is not bad in and of itself.
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by derleth 14y ago
> The good thing about google voice is that when it is finally axed, the US laws require them to give a way to port numbers. Or what? What's the penalty if they don't?
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by derleth 14y ago
> I have heard that our grammar may be better than those of native speakers Not better, just closer to an arbitrary standard that has been held up as 'correct' by some subset of academics (who are not, by the way, linguists, as linguist
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by derleth 14y ago
> I wonder how many people are willing to take on the real adventure of living in any of the twenty poorest countries in the world, or twenty most tyrannical countries of the world (there is overlap between the two sets) to try to chang
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by derleth 14y ago
Have you finished anything yet?
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by derleth 14y ago
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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by derleth 14y ago
Except AGW is massively well-supported by the evidence. http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-globa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c... http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

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