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- Wed Jul 04, 2018 6:38 pm
- Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
- Topic: WMF looking for a Privacy Engineer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5144
Re: WMF looking for a Privacy Engineer
.....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...
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 5:15 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: (Pointless) Russian Elections: Putin won by 74%!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14304
Re: (Pointless) Russian Elections: Putin won by 74%!
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...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:50 pm
- Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
- Topic: WMF looking for a Privacy Engineer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5144
Re: WMF looking for a Privacy Engineer
.....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...
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:25 am
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Is Reddit evil?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19926
Re: Is Reddit evil?
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...
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:58 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Tim Draper is at it again.....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9053
Re: Tim Draper is at it again.....
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.
- Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Kigelim, Israeli POV-pusher
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3586
Re: Kigelim, Israeli POV-pusher
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...
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 12:32 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Kigelim, Israeli POV-pusher
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3586
Re: Kigelim, Israeli POV-pusher
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...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Kigelim, Israeli POV-pusher
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3586
Kigelim, Israeli POV-pusher
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 ...
- Thu Jun 21, 2018 12:09 am
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: Why should Jimmy lie here?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3665
Re: Why should Jimmy lie here?
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.
Daniel Brandt could possibly fill in the details.
Because those details are probably gory.
Evil Dead gory.
- Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:33 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Tim Draper is at it again.....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9053
Re: Tim Draper is at it again.....
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...