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by hk__2 2y ago
> But how many paid wikimedia employees are involved in the governance/moderation of the platform? Hopefully none, because each instance should govern/moderate itself.
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by hk__2 2y ago
The Foundation has made lots of efforts in the past years to make this universal code of conduct and it’s (almost?) finally here.
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by hk__2 2y ago
> They take so much money yet use none to acfually police wikipedia. https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_...
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by hk__2 2y ago
> Or how about the fact that they beg for donations You’re conflating the Wikipedia comunity with the Wikimedia foundation: lots of editors don’t agree with what the foundation does, especially regarding donations.
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by hk__2 2y ago
I meant that it generates curiosity, but it does not satisfy it.
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by hk__2 2y ago
It makes it intriguing, not interesting.
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by hk__2 2y ago
> if they get a copyright-violation request from someone, they won't contact you about it. they'll just take your server down immediately and ask you to respond That’s not my experience. We get these emails about once every 6 m
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by hk__2 2y ago
This thread is not really interesting because we don’t have the Hetzner’s side of the story.
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by hk__2 2y ago
'Just' too was simple at the beginning [1], but with time and usage things always become more complex that some script you do for your own specific use-case. [1]: https://github.com/casey/just/tree/v
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by hk__2 2y ago
It will be the same, but worse.
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by hk__2 2y ago
It’s in the "Further Reading" section at the bottom: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26443-0
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by hk__2 2y ago
Why should one contribute to this dataset instead of OpenStreetMap?
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by hk__2 2y ago
> There is no monopoly. There are a lot of other browsers. A lot of people use them. There is market dominance: Chrome has 65%, Safari has 18% but that’s because of iOS, and the few others have the rest. It’s false to say there are &quot
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by hk__2 2y ago
> How do you do this for something that's a basic necessity at this point? The response is further in OP’s comment: > I'd argue that a browser should be a part of the OS or be a paid product
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by hk__2 2y ago
I get "Sorry, something went wrong. If this error persists, contact us." every time I type something.
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by hk__2 2y ago
It should be, but sadly it’s not.
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by hk__2 2y ago
All I’m saying is that it’s really not as easy as your comments make it sound like. The problem with citing successful writers is the selection bias: you see only the successful cases and not the millions of failures. If it were easier than
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by hk__2 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430258
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Awful truths about book publishing (2023)(ideas.bkconnection.com)
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by hk__2 2y ago
> Follow the path of those who have written many successful books, and you'll find that it's not almost impossible to find an audience e.g., William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde et al. Yo
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AImong Us: a reverse Turing Test game(gianluca.ai)
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by hk__2 2y ago
> Moreover, finding an audience is also not as difficult as it used to be in the past if you have a large active following base Well, "if you have a large active following base" is the key here. If you don’t, it’s almost imposs
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by hk__2 2y ago
Congratulations on this! One remark: it seems you forgot to make the repo public; I get a 404 on https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn .
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by hk__2 2y ago
> This has to be a joke seeing how much of a fuckup "swimming in the Seine" for the Olympics has been, but I gather this writer hasn't kept up to date with people commenting on L'Equipe's related posts on social
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by hk__2 2y ago
> I was very obviously only making a joke. I know; it was a tentative to make the thread more serious than these snarky, unconstructive comments.
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by hk__2 2y ago
> You must be new around here The commenter you respond to joined HN 4 years before you, with 10 times more karma points.
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by hk__2 2y ago
Paris is kind of partially swimmable in the Summer: a little portion of the Canal Saint-Martin is open to bathing under supervision during the months of July and August, only during weekends. This is because otherwise the canal is a dangero
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by hk__2 2y ago
For comparison, in Paris it costs €3.5 to enter one of the ~40 public swimming pools. > The idea for showing ID, which happens in other countries too at least for events, is probably to keep the undocumented and migrant ones out. For whi
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by hk__2 2y ago
> I've come to the conclusion that ORMs are good for simple queries like User.find_by(email: "john@snow.com"), but once you get beyond that you are better off just writing sql. When your queries become very complex having
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by hk__2 2y ago
Isn’t it largely a myth? I’ve heard this story for Inuit people but if you dig a bit you realize they just have a couple words for it.

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