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> Everyone's a deletionist about something.

That's a very broad definition of deletionism, and I'm not interested in arguing about terminology. (Hey, I don't want any wedding gown photos on my hard drive. Am I a deletionist too?) Besides, distinguishing between private desire/preference and public editorial behavior is exactly what I'm trying to advocate here.

> None of these are objective, though, meaning this argument will never end.

Objectivity is not black and white. Some rules are easier to enforce fairly than others, and some rules are more subjective than others. I'm not saying that Wikipedia should officially adopt any of the rules that I listed off the top of my head, but they were meant as examples that may be less subjective than "notability". The less room a rule for deletion leaves for subjective interpretation, the better.

> There's the danger of the more out-of-the-way articles becoming spam-traps.

An article that is over 50% spam might be a good candidate for deletion. Compare this rule with "notability". Which one is more objective? Deletionists are patrolling every out-of-the-way article anyway. If they really want to contribute to Wikipedia, they should devote more energy to deleting obvious spam instead of arguing pointlessly about "notability".

> Why not? How is not having a page for every John Doe and his cat not simply deletionism?

Because not everyone gives a fuck about having his or her own Wikipedia page. Just like not everyone wants to have a public Facebook wall. Lack of interest is a powerful resource that modern societies should learn to leverage to the benefit of all. If the page doesn't get created in the first place, there is nothing to delete. You can call this deletionism too, but then we're back to arguing about terminology.

> Non sequitur based on psychological projection or other such nonsense.

Maybe it is, but so is your so-called criticism. (Yes, that's tu quoque.)
And I'm from a poor country, with a tired economy, so it's even more expensive for me (not to mention Apple stuff costs around 40% more here, when the price is translated back to dollars).

But even I find the argument somewhat silly. If you are a "poor student" then don't buy it. It's like saying that a Porsche is too expensive for you. Well, then get something else.
>And why should serviceability be sacrificed for qualities like weight, form factor, etc?

Because serviceability is a one-off process you do when the product fails or when you want to update it, whereas weight, form factor are things that make you buy a product specifically in the first place, and things you deal with every day.
> Well if there isn't, as I've already mentioned, you can make your own sub-reddit.

That doesn't mean anyone's going to use it. It takes a long time to grow a community. I would love for /r/trueskyrim to take off because /r/skyrim has become 99% garbage, 1% content. Unfortunately trueskyrim hasn't had a post in 6 months.

The only reason /r/Games ever took off was because it was started by the mods of /r/gaming and got lots of attention on /r/gaming's front page. Don't get me wrong /r/Games is wonderful, but without the publicity that it got from /r/gaming I doubt anyone would use it.
Apple outsources manufacture according to their _specs_.

Do you believe it goes like this:

Apple: We want 20,000,000 SSD drives.

Samsung: How do you want them?

Apple: Surprise us!
In a city, with 10-20% grade practically everywhere? Yeah it's passable in flatlands or sparsely populated areas, but frankly automatic cars aren't really going to be any worse than humans at traversing bad conditions, so an impassable road for an automatic car would be impassable also for a human driver.
The only two big things the US can do anymore is momentum and war. We might start new things, but they'll be dismantled with every reverse of Congressional control.
I don't see how paying for VPN or Usenet helps.

First, you are basically replacing the ISP with the VPN / Usenet provider -- your entire traffic goes through them! If the ISP has to follow some given law, what makes you think the VPN/Usenet company will be above it?

Second, using Usenet to pirate, for example, is even worse than doing it from home. You leave a credit card trail and you have a specific user/password to access the service. So if your user copies something, there's a slim chance it was the neighbor using your free WiFi.

Speaking of NewsgroupDirect it seems to me very expensive. 1000GB (~1TB) isn't $40, it's $100. And the monthly plans are also expensive. I guess it has US prices but I'm paying here about $20/month for a 12MB net/phone/TV package.
Methinks there already is a website with more or less the same function. It's called Facebook, and from what I've heard, people don't seem to be particularly enthusiastic about recording their lives to be displayed in public in perpetuity.
What could possibly be left? Ribbons on the bottom?
That has not been my experience.

I also use a 1st gen iPad.
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So you completely agree that it's possible to replace the battery in a working rMBP and that it is not in any way permanently affixed to the case? The rest are irrelevant (for the purpose of this discussion) implementation details.

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Doesn't work. It opens the narration window and that's it. Using Chromium on Mountain Lion
Is this different from LLVM? Or does it use LLVM? Could someone explain?
Not quite. Taft Hartley prevents labour organizations from pressuring workers into boycotts. I don't think its applicable.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1069361?uid=3738032...

The suggested strategy doesn't seem all that different from the Open Invention Network to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network
Ah, sorry. I had sharing and discovery confused. I thought Bonjour allowed (easier) installation of shared printers though.
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Damn this European smugness gets on my nerves so much for some reason.

If you have these driving conditions 1/3 of the year 1) Finnish drivers grow up learning how to handle it because they have to, 2) most if not all of your cars have 4 wheel drive and ice-capable tires.

That is not the case here. Those driving conditions are rare.
Counting calories can not be a long term solution for obesity. A workable solution must be based on easier to implement facts such as the more sweets one eats, the more one craves sweets. I would recommend the No S Diet: www.nosdiet.com "I would have them eat a lower-calorie diet. They should eat whatever they normally eat, but eat less. You must carefully measure this. Eat as little as you can get away with, and try to exercise more." -Dr. Jules Hirsch. This is incredibly poor advice, based in physics, and ignoring psychology.
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My story:

Whilst on a university placement doing some web coding and databases work, the guy in the office next to me was having real problems with his website.

Being curious, I asked for the URL and took a look. A classic ASP and Access database powered website that was probably held together by bubblegum. He had outsourced the work to a Chinese company because they were cheaper than UK based companies (important point for later).
The site was full of every web security hole known. Mainly lots and lots of SQL injection holes.
He asked if I could fix the pile of garbage and I honestly couldn't, I don't like rewriting but when its an old (this was 3 years ago) tech with no English comments and their code quality zero, copy pasting everything.

So in the evenings and weekends for a month I rewrote it to ASP.NET MVC (1.0, latest at the time) and SQL Server. I got him to select a template off Themeforest for $15 that I reworked slightly (and badly, I'm not a designer).

He is happy, I am happy with £500 for my work. I finish my placement and go back to university but came back to my placement for another year to do a startup idea. He had moved offices and we have very little contact.

After finishing university and 2 years later, I join a "Soul Destroying Corp" (not the one you are thinking of) and decide that isn't what I want to do with my life, so I setup my business and tell him that I'm now doing my own thing and looking for clients.

Turns out my weekend/evening £500 website generated him around £500,000+ in revenue (not profit) and his business grew from just him to 5 people. All his sales leads came through the website.

From September last year till now, I have rewritten it and we are automating more of his "manual" (lots of Word, Excel and paper) to be totally automated or a few mouse clicks.

Wow, when I think back, that website was terrible but it worked well for 2 years and grew his business. Huge ROI for him but now he is paying me back by hiring me to rewrite/automate more of his business.
That sort of setup might be considered fraud by Kickstarter, or their financial services.
FWIW, it's not really an inner-city scooter - at 300cc, top speed about 140km/h, it's well capable of touring, and I have toured on it.

But even if it was, it seems to me that you're assuming a boundary where none exists. There is no fixed point in the road where it's suddenly urban vs suburban vs rural; the most marked points are entry and exit to motorways, but they have lower per-mile risks already.

I'd be the first guy to say that 2000+kg cars ought to be move more safely and predictably; I'm a committed biker, and that would be safer for me too. But in the chaos of UK traffic, I don't really see how it's workable without converting everything - absolutely everything, pretty much overnight - to automated vehicles.

I mean the streets have one lane most of the time, but occasionally two or more lanes between certain traffic lights, junctions are not regular, roadworks at some point in your journey are statistically almost certain, pedestrians are always wandering out into the road, wobbly cyclists, etc. The only way I can see an automated vehicle working in that environment is one that moves unacceptably slowly to mitigate the risk of tort suits against the manufacturer; or an entirely separate road network, strictly for automated vehicles.
I think this would be a great idea, to have articles on "non-notable" subjects.

The underlying motivation for "notable" is a potential bug in Wikipedia, not a problem with "notability" per se. The notability requirement is epiphenomenal, a kind of code smell for the Wikipedia guidelines.

The underlying issue is whether the Wikipedia attribution and citation guidelines are strong enough to indicate when an article contains content that is possibly fallacious. Non-notable topics are more likely to have fewer references, and hence the information about a non-notable subject are more subject to manipulation.

It would be an interesting acid test for Wikipedia (perhaps a sub-Wikipedia, like http://everything-en.wikipedia.org/) to open the floodgates on "non-notable" entries. Articles would start out by default with a banner that says "No editor has reviewed whether this article contains credible sources." Another editor could swoop in, read the citations, and remove the banner, or change it to: "The sources cited in this article are easily manipulated, and lack independent review."

Iterating over http://everything-en.wikipedia.org editor guidelines, Wikipedia could evolve a strong set of guidelines for remaining authoritative over the long-tail of information.

I wish this would happen, but I don't know if/how it would.
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No. When you apply pressure on ice it becomes liquid. In other words: water doesn't lift things by freezing if that requires an amount of energy larger than what is needed to change state.
I wonder, why do they ask for an email to read a website?
And likely tell me, that I need to install Chrome also.

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Maybe it was rejected because your 'quip' sounds like your scanning a users data for juice?
Genuine question: what fate is that?
I read a good few paragraphs there thinking they were talking about the OS.

> "Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'can't install Debian'" -- Mark Pilgrim
Phones generally "give up" if they have basically no power. I spend significant chunks of time in rural areas with no service, and battery life isn't ever a problem.
It's very different. LLVM is a portable assembler. PyPy is a compiler generation toolchain. Using LLVM means you don't have to write your assembler backend, however, there is much more to the Just in Time compiler than that. LLVM is good at optimizing, but all the optimizations are low level. In order to provide a dynamic language VM, you need to provide optimizations like escape analysis, frame removal, etc. which are out of scope for the LLVM project. On the other hand PyPy gives you that level of optimizations for free (although for example it supports less assembler backends and low-level optimizations might be sub-par).

In short - LLVM is great if you want to write a language like C, PyPy is great if you want to create a dynamic language VM like Python or PHP.
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Oh yeah, that's an annoying one and we have that problem too. We have sharing controls that reload as you cycle through images - but the delay / iframes reloading for the share widgets looks terrible. To get around it we use fake versions like soundcloud.
Yeah, Musk is not, AFAICT, guilty of encouraging the cult personality following. But all that really means is that any cults that develop around his personality are really not his fault.

And when you're talking to grads, it's an accepted norm to tell them to go and be individually superstar awesomesauce. It's not necessarily a bad thing to do so, and it's not a poor reflection that he did.
I'm quite certain this would be one of those things people would be uncomfortable with for a few months - a year, tops.

Then they get used to it.
Oh come on

Yes, a calorie is a calorie (as long as dietary: macro/micro nutrients needs are supplied), still there may be advantages to the diet, as it is pointed in the article

"They report that people on the Atkins diet were burning off more calories. Ergo, the diet is a good thing." (it's not necessarily all good especially if you think low-carb diet==eating bacon at will, still)

Also, there may be other advantages, like hunger sensation in different diets.

Dieting is calorie balancing but there are several other aspects that should be considering and dismissing 'low-carb' diets because you're only focusing on the calorie balancing is naive.
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Electronics is my absolute worst subject but wouldn't it just be a component over which a reducing voltage causes an increasing current flow; presumably that breaks Ohm's law? How to achieve that, vacuum energy!?!?
>Fantastic. Just a 5 hour round-trip to my nearest apple store. Why would I want to service it when I have access to that level of convenience?

5-hour round-trip when (and _if_) your laptop fails!

1) Oh, the humanity.

2) Oh, how I wish I had a 5-hour round-trip solution available to me...

3) Whereas your alternative would be what? Opening it yourself and using the stack of compatible batteries, screens, logic boards, touchpads etc you have on your house "just in case"?

4) Even if you had that crazy alternative, that applies to what percentage of laptop buyers? And what engineering tradeoffs would it take in that form factor to have user serviceable parts?
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also doesn't accept email in the form 'foo+bar@baz.com' so I can't flag them. Really annoying.
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Yes, you surely are representative of a large user base that self-replaces their laptop screens, one that should be catered by all major computer companies in their designs...
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There's a bot I think that marks new articles as speedy delete by default. At least I wrote a stub, marked as such, and seconds after completion got a deletion notice.
How is Google's wifi data relevant here? Unless Google themselves operate the hotspot, they won't know what devices polled it or connected to it.

Near as I can tell, the privacy threat here is very specific. You come within a few hundred feet of a hotspot, and for as long as you are in that location, the hotspot receives polling messages with your MAC address. The hotspot's operator can in theory log information like "device with MAC address 00:11:22:33:44:55 was within a few hundred feet of [hotspot location], Sat Jul 14 from 00:29:05 to 01:13:22".

How big of a threat this is depends on:

1. The difficulty of mapping a phone's MAC address to an individual. Do we know this is easy? Is there a big database with this information? A quick search suggests that it's possible to spoof the MAC address on a rooted phone, so it could be configured to change randomly every few hours. That would seem to defeat this attack on privacy, though doing so may be outside the technical know-how of most people.

2. How common is it for those who operate hotspots to log, aggregate and share this data? I'm confident the locally-owned cafe down the street doesn't log this data. What if it's something corporate-owned, like a Starbucks? Is this kind of logging, sharing and aggregating to track users just a theoretical possibility, or is it actually commonplace? I'd suspect the former.

I don't have answers to the questions I posed above. But barring evidence to the contrary, I strongly suspect that setting a smartphone to wifi only makes location tracking go from trivial to at least moderately difficult.
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To be fair, while there is invoke dynamic, he might be alluding to other aspects of the JVM (and referencing Parrot hints to that).

Eg. class loading in the JVM is (afaik) still static, classes once loaded cannot be modified, which is a problem for languages such as Ruby and JS, the basic data types of the JVM might not match your language, etc.

Not sure if that makes a big difference, in essence you'll have to implement those semantics in either case, be it in RPython for PyPy or Java for the JVM.
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I tried to pinpoint down some problems, but let me elaborate on this. As far as Parrot goes, it's not done despite years of development and it has lots and lots of problems, some with the approach, some with the actual implementation. But the truth is you can't do much with it today.

As for JVM, which is definitely "done", you don't get access to low level concepts and you don't get support for most dynamic language concepts. For example in Jython escape analysis does not work at all, because everything escapes via frames (which in python is accessable from application level using sys._getframe). Invokedynamic only helps marginally here - you still need a JIT that can optimistically remove unlikely paths of the execution or a very smart compiler-to-the-JVM, which is unnecessary in PyPy.

The other element is low level stuff. JVM is opaque, you can't code in terms of C structures. RPython as well, but it allows you if you insist and sometimes there are very good reasons to insist. Look in rpython/ directory in the hippy checkout for an implementation of an ordered dict with all it's oddities. In the JVM if such a primitive does not come (and it's unlikely enough), you're out of luck.
Asking for email for a site which doesn't need it? Instant turn-off. I persevered because I found it intriguing.

I wasn't familiar with Indonesian Ramayana, and thought how could they get the names of major characters and facts wrong(Shinta is Sita here, avlenka is lanka, ayoda is ayodhya, rahwana is ravana, and so and on). But a quick trip to Wikpedia says Indonesia has its own interpretation.

That said, though the concept is intriguing, I don't think html5/js/css is an appropriate medium for this type of interactive storytelling yet. Say what you will about flash, it's a far better medium for this kind of interactive storytelling.
>So where are the '?' coming from? I think I have to call shenanigans / database, there aren't any in the image, or even any shapes like it.

How about it's what they output when they are not sure?
It doesn't? I thought it was pretty funny.
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If there are good references, Wikipedia has been moving in this direction. But as an encyclopedia, and one that claims no authority for itself based on any kind of expertise of the authors, articles really need to be referenced to good sources in the published literature.

If you do have good sources for something, e.g. there is even a relatively small biographical section on someone in a published book, or a journal article, or something similar, the separate "notability" requirement has been increasingly going away, so that "but I've got sources" trumps it. I wrote a bit on that last year: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability... (I also discuss some of the history around these requirements, some of which were motivated by trying to do something about Usenet physics cranks who found Wikipedia and decided it'd be a great place for articles on all their pet theories.)

I've been systematically going through several references and adding articles on everything in them, and haven't run into people objecting to my articles or trying to delete them for several years, since the end of the more "notability" focused era. Now as long as my articles include some references, they seem fine. One of my projects is marching through the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie adding articles on random people who were mayors of Prussian towns in 1850, and that kind of thing. There's even a Wikiproject trying to organize efforts to cover everything in that particular reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_e...

I do think it's also valuable for there to be other projects, which catalog information that can't be referenced well. For example, Know Your Meme does a pretty decent job of doing original research in history-of-memes. There are several genealogy projects that attempt to catalog people more exhaustively as well. But those are pretty different projects from Wikipedia's goal of summarizing stuff that's published in the existing literature, with references. Wikipedia doesn't have to be the only wiki on the internet, so I don't see why those original-research projects can't develop in parallel.
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