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The Wikipedia fight over the Holocaust sparks death threats against a professor(thecjn.ca)
7 points by kurtreed 3y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous hacks Russian site to honor Taiwanese soldier who died in Ukraine(taiwannews.com.tw)
2 points by kurtreed 4y ago|1 comments
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by kurtreed 4y ago
Within the XSS hack contained the following popup messages: > Anonymous says hi to Cocaine Polar Bear on behalf of NAFO fellas! > How Wikipedia distorts Holocaust history! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full&#x2F
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by kurtreed 4y ago
It's a tip of a tongue, but I recall reading somewhere that anarchisistic-run models are prone to corruption in the respect that where the faction with the biggest power can rule it as a de-facto dictator. They suggest that acknowledgi
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by kurtreed 4y ago
In principle, they should. However, it's been known that ArbCom and the rest lives in thought bubbles which insulate them from getting grasp on what the public opinion might hold against them. Perhaps this is the silent part that not m
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Gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by kurtreed 4y ago|1 comments
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Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to review Polish-Jewish history during WWII(slate.com)
79 points by kurtreed 4y ago|77 comments
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Anonymous hacks into Chinese weather balloon that flew over India twice(taiwannews.com.tw)
1 points by kurtreed 4y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia 'intentionally' distorts history of the Holocaust, study claims(ynetnews.com)
8 points by kurtreed 4y ago|1 comments
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5 Min Justapedia (Wikipedia Alternative) Intro HD 720p(youtube.com)
1 points by kurtreed 4y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia Erases Indigenous History(slate.com)
5 points by kurtreed 4y ago|0 comments
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by kurtreed 4y ago
I believe it is. Somewhere it's said that Y Combinator had plans to fund exactly such kind of project.
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by kurtreed 4y ago
https://wikiindex.org/Encycla > Encycla isn't quite a wiki, instead, it's sort of a 'next generation' wiki. Unlike a traditional wiki site, where everyone edits a single page, on Encycla, each user ma
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Encycla – a Git based Wikipedia alternative for everyting(encycla.com)
15 points by kurtreed 4y ago|5 comments
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by kurtreed 4y ago
> So Wikipedia should stay, and iron out the crinkles instead. Let's just not expect it to be perfect. They could, but the author is pessimistic that nothing will change at all because of inertia resisting such change. He used Fram
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by kurtreed 4y ago
I think the GitHub-style wiki he talked about has existed already: https://www.encycla.com It's founded by those behind LocalWiki. https://wikiindex.org/Encycla > Encycla isn't quite a wiki, instead
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Wikipedia is not so great, and is overrated(old.reddit.com)
12 points by kurtreed 4y ago|8 comments
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by kurtreed 4y ago
What did you find arrogant about the neovim developers?
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by kurtreed 4y ago
bool are_equal = memcmp(&a, &b, sizeof(some_struct_t)); Isn't this a bug? Structs are allowed to have padding bytes between bytes occupied by fields, which will have unpredictable ("garbage") values. So a pa
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by kurtreed 4y ago
Sometimes it's helpful, sometimes it's not. Unfortunately it always sounds fully confident.
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by kurtreed 4y ago
It wasn't framed as "find an approximate/heuristic solution".
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by kurtreed 4y ago
What have you made with it?
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by kurtreed 4y ago
Same here.
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by kurtreed 4y ago
In one Amazon interview the guy asked a coding challenge that he had apparently come up with himself. I realized later it was NP-complete.
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by kurtreed 4y ago
No
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by kurtreed 4y ago
I gave up on using Vim as an IDE and now I use an IDE as an IDE.
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by kurtreed 4y ago
> I think it's going to change whole industries. Which industries?
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by kurtreed 4y ago
Who's Sorkin?
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by kurtreed 4y ago
I think the issue is that there's an externality: you go around annoying people.
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by kurtreed 4y ago
Thankfully it's illegal now in some jurisdictions.

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