.....On another note, I notice most of the jobs being offered have a "remote" option. I wonder if they are having trouble getting people to come to San Francisco? m Nobody can afford San Fran any more, the average rent in 2015 was $3,460/month according to Business Insider . Also, they wa...

Found at random: J. Arch Getty, Gabor T. Rittersporn, and Viktor N. Zemskov's academic paper "Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-war Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence" ( link here ) from October, 1993. Using the numbers from the various ministries (includ...

.....On another note, I notice most of the jobs being offered have a "remote" option. I wonder if they are having trouble getting people to come to San Francisco? m Nobody can afford San Fran any more, the average rent in 2015 was $3,460/month according to Business Insider . Also, they wa...

I should post a note on this: in May they enabled a totally new user interface. And it became slower. Plus the front page is now openly full of fake-post and banner advertising. And I swear the front-page posts have gotten even more stupid: m You can opt out of "New Reddit" (which was des...

Cruizir wrote:If any Calexit/Calsplit plans were any good to anyone I don't think there would be this many completely disapproved of ones.

Allegedly there have been 200 plans to split the state since the 19th century. Draper's plan is a tax dodge scheme for Silicon Valley.

But as critics, we already know he isn't special in that regard, and he isn't the first person to write about it either. It's certainly not special or unique to Arab-Israel, it is simply Wikipedia+controversy=craziness. It's unique in this case because somebody is writing about being wiki-stalked i...

Rather hilariously, both editors are theoretically prevented from participating in..... m .....due to Wikipedia's ARBPIA restrictions, which are a little more crude than profiling, but just as ridiculous. Still, restrictions on Wikipedia are nothing if not easily ignored. The AfD is, after all, pro...

Found this over at Richard Silverstein's blog: My Wikipedia Stalker . Silverstein is fluent is Israeli Hebrew, writes about how Israel is lurching into a military dictatorship, he acts as an outlet for news stories that are squashed inside Israel because the government can do so at any time, and he ...

The only people who made more money than Wales off Wikipedia were Google, through their search engine algorithm.

Daniel Brandt could possibly fill in the details.

Because those details are probably gory.

Evil Dead gory.

The obligatory Alternet article: Experts Say Splitting California into 3 States Is Just Another Silicon Valley Fantasy “Breaking up and reconstituting California into three separate parts would be more complicated than Brexit." Nicole Karlis / Salon (link to original) In 2014, serial venture ca...