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by dexen 6y ago
>Wikipedia is vastly different from anything I’d normally recognise as news media Agreed - Wikipedia is not news media . Instead it's media fact & opinion aggregator and editor. It does function as media platform , with cont
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The key point was wrong wrt Wikipedia :-) >a forum for free thought >if it [isn't] policed by content moderators around a set of culture rules The rules are mostly invisible to us because we are surrounded with, and submersed
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The citogenesis xkcd is right, but could & should take one more step and say openly: Wikipedia has became part of the media ecosystem, not much different from any other part of the media ecosystem. Journalists at typical outlets are a
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Excellent post, one nitpick: >Wikipedia is another example [of the public square] Quite the opposite; Wikipedia is explicitly based on published reliable sources. They have a specific rule[1] excluding information that was not pub
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Simplicity has strong potential for standing the test of time.
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Very amusing - and brings back memories of when a friend actually did remove the /bin (and IIRC the /lib64) a couple months ago :-) Getting stuck on #/oops_print_file_contents - the command times out. Not sure if I'm mis
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The alternative - hiding people in homes until vaccine is widely available - means death. From alcohol & substance abuse, from increased suicides, from domestic violence, and so on. Extended period of being prevented from running your b
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>If someone says they can hear a high-pitched noise that you can't I guess this is an accidentally in-apt example...? It certainly detracts from the essay ( mildly and in oh so many words) pushing against accusations of wrongthin
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Ah yes, the angels on hairpin. The debate was about inifinite vs. finite, not about a particular number. It was couched in the terms of angels rather than physical items specificaly to avoid preconceived notions about our physical world -
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>As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable." There is a reason behind every single epigram selected for the list. >As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free va
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Please try your luck with Quillette[1] - it's a dissident media magazine, not only open for, but indeed interested in , publishing articles that go against the popular narrative. -- [1] https://quillette.com/about&#x2F
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underrated - for a very meta reason
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Thank you for the interesting angle. >the lengths people will go, to try and control community projects I've heard that echoed a couple times in Tim Pool's discussions of the (american) OWS. Scary stuff indeed.
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Counting contributors & contributions is about as sensible as counting kLOC and pages of manual. Conway's law about software architecture implies existence of management-space CAP theorem equivalent. Communication suffers combinat
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This. The underground in underground programming refers to maintaining low visibility, as to present low target silhouette. Additional benefit is not attracting too many participants that are in it for the clout, rather than for solving
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Thank you for the visual write-up. You've named and described something that wasn't even aware of - how I came to develop my best functionalities. Initial work in a half-dreamy state, and clean up later on. Probably more of a holi
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While you are making convincing case for that particular farm, let's take it into the next decade or two: The difference between a U graduate and a non-U software developer is in the experience (and mindset) of fixing a problem vs scal
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Light turned into exotic Laughlin matter(nature.com)
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The list of police chiefs is solid. I share your concerns over Qualified Immunity (and other problems). The relevant discussions are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379910 ("As Qualified Immunity Takes Cen
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>cherry picking Baseless accusation. The protests are mostly in the blue-voting cities, and the GP's list is representative. [edit] Here is how it works: Minneapolis, Chief of Police: nominated (...) by the Mayor of Minneapolis (B
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>Sure, but that code is generally tied to a license That's a whataboutist tangent, but let's entertain it for a while. The copyright law is usually restrictive, in the form of "everything which is not explicitly allowe
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Counter-point: the "silence is violence", and the "being silent is being complicit" are somewhat popular suppositions. You can find public posts chiding people with those words for not being politically active enough.
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>How would you feel if someone took your output without permission, whether it's designs or code or something else unique and hard to make? While I'm somewhat ambiguous about this IA matter, the example you bring up is rather
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>dinner party rules That won't protect you. When your employer is actively signalling and funding support for particular groups or political positions, failure to join in is taken as a political action, and you might get attacked
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>>Like it or not, a couple tech platforms are the de facto new town squares. >I'd agree, but de facto is not de jure. In 2018 there was a decision of a district court[1], subsequently reaffirmed by the Courts of Appeal, that
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>the government took it down to protect itself That's a far-fetched hypothesis, bordering on conspiratorial thinking. A more mundane, realistic -and more common- scenario: due to mistakes made (as noted in OP: downtime, misplaced
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Bell Labs Innovations Song(youtube.com)
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There is a similar problem where Youtube's recommendations and auto-play are mostly big name brands, to the exclusion of individual reporters, commentators, and other content producers. Since recently, a "De-Mainstream Youtube&quo
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You bring up an interesting case. On the one hand, we have matter of privacy - people presumably request the forecast for their present location, or their travel destination. This may be sensitive information, depending on personal circumst
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Cars are typically specced to handle 75kg (~165lb) of baggage on roof rack without breaking a sweat. Think carrying skies + personal gear on a trip across Europe. And if you are concerned about momentum, please note it's common to carr

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