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by snori74 6y ago
There's a small, but fairly informative Wikipedia article for the brothers at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_brothers
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by snori74 7y ago
Most (99.9pc) Linux users get all their updates via their distro. Not saying you can't get a bad update, but Much less likely if you're a little patient.
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by snori74 7y ago
"we ....the generation that were adults during World War Il..." Ummm he's 98?
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by snori74 7y ago
Your main point of leverage is always going to be the willingness to drop them. In your case this doesn't appear to be possible, so you have no control. Us non-nasty, reasonable people can't expect to win against people who'v
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Health Stocks Crumble as Fears of ‘Medicare for All’ Snowball(bloomberg.com)
2 points by snori74 8y ago|1 comments
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by snori74 8y ago
Looks great but "Not available in your country". ?!?#@!!? Shhesh, for a while there we thought we had achieved Cyberspace - now we're moving back to thousands of fuedal kingdoms all guarding their borders....
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by snori74 8y ago
Hmm, there's lots of ways you might go about measuring who has "written significant portion of what's there" and this "number of edits" is a poor one indeed. But the nature of Wikipedia means that entropy/
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by snori74 9y ago
Pierrepoint travelled to a America at some point, (not sure whether this was pre, or post WWII) - and was very scathing of their systems in his autobiography. I don't know the numbers, but he certainly hanged a lot of "the Germa
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The Mystery of Zach, the All-Too-miraculous Medical AI(thespinoff.co.nz)
23 points by snori74 9y ago|2 comments
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by snori74 9y ago
As you're surely aware, the problem was that you were editing someone else's personal comment. Here, I can't "fix" the spelling, syntax or grammar of the your comment - and I'm sure you're happy about that
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by snori74 9y ago
Except that any reputable "news source" won't let random people post stories with made up facts - and Wikipedia editors will shoot down disreputable sources such as your personal own blog.
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by snori74 9y ago
It once was in NZ too even in formal environments - we called them "walk shorts" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_shorts - but they are now derided as an historic "fashion crime".
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by snori74 10y ago
One that I've subscribed to for a very long time is "The Scout Report". Weekly set of 20 or so links to eclectic liberal arts things, but would appeal to a proportion of the folks here. ( https://scout.wisc.edu&#x2F
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by snori74 10y ago
Indeed. C2 was the first wiki, and these implementation details show why for a long time such a promising concept never went as far as it should have. The standard 'template' approach of wikipedia pages, and the clarity regards ed
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by snori74 10y ago
To me the initial "So..." is something that was very noticable in conference talks etc a few years ago. (Probably replaced now with "Whassup?", even when talking to a non-existant audince, i.e. by YouTubers)
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by snori74 10y ago
This really is the way to go. Wikipedia is to a large extent simply a detailed 'index' to the best content available online and in paper form. As such it's a great starting place, but the authoritative material should be on
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by snori74 10y ago
Indeed, wonderful stuff.
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by snori74 10y ago
So? The article you created lives on, it simply had a note about "dubious notability" for a year. That is a prompt to you - or anyone else that cares - to add references to reliable sources that demonstrate that it is notable.
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by snori74 10y ago
There's also the very good "Snap Judgement" podcast about that here: http://snapjudgment.org/where-no-one-should-go
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by snori74 11y ago
Same with horses, boats and airplanes... and yes, I think in all these cases it's the global convention.
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by snori74 11y ago
Really? Perhaps you could enlighten those of us that live there and have not noticed this. There is a widely used block on CP sites: https://www.dia.govt.nz/Censorship-DCEFS - but that's a very different thing.
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by snori74 11y ago
Things like this sound cool, but looking at their site ( http://seismo.berkeley.edu/ ) they have plenty of spots on their maps, but it seems that this simply pulls the data from usgs.gov - not their own app. Was anyone in Kan
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by snori74 11y ago
This list of "Piracy Prone Areas" makes interesting reading: http://www.iccwbo.org/products-and-services/fighting-commerc...
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by snori74 11y ago
It is a bit unusual for Hollywood to get laws passed in their favour in foreign countries - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/31/warner-bros-...
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by snori74 11y ago
Yes, but unless you're the ISP that's not going to be possible surely? Mailservers typically don't run over wireless.
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by snori74 11y ago
In fact (as the article admits), the encryption is fine and fully effective against a passive attacker, the problem is that it's not much use against an active man-in-the-middle. But, that's not something anyone but a NSA or ISP
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by snori74 11y ago
Well, there's a deceptive advert on the page now...
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by snori74 11y ago
When I flew out of Chile recently they wanted to know the name and address of where I had stayed the previous night. Crazy that I may not have been able to leave if I couldn't remember that.
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by snori74 11y ago
Well, physicists are not necessarily perfect. The article says that "...the group edited 51 existing physics pages, including Speed of Light...", but that particular edit was this one: Recently, there are some tests<1> on t
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by snori74 11y ago
This seems to be a commonly-aired complaint when these discussions come up. My guess is that it happens when people dive in to fix something that they "know" is wrong, and feel strongly about - and then get upset when it's re

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