Yum, pie!
You deride the "current culture that just expects the world to believe something"
and yet believe without evidence that Wikipedia editing is a Virtuous System.
You are wrong, careful sourced contributions ARE reverted, as AC stated:
I was undertaking a data analysis project at the time which led me to supplement the existing article content as well as restructure it to facilitate web scraping.
Sounds a lot like my contributions - made while I was actively working on the topic, in my field of expertise - and flow edits, carefully made to put the article in line with Wikipedia's own flow model.
AC writes clearly and lucidly. What would you have AC do, spend an hour or two coming up with examples and quotes from long-buried Wikipedia discussion pages?
As I recall there are automatic revert 'bots as well as human editors.
I suffered the same reverting of excellent and sourced facts (and professional writing.) Early days I was able to contribute occasional information in my field of expertise, but as time went on, _occasional_ careful contributions were treated dismissively.
Gradually only those with reputations in the fiefdom of Wikipedia were welcomed to contribute (bored homebounds) while careful contributions by unknowns (people with actual lives) were thoughtlessly reverted.
I assume many valuable contributions were being sidelined, not jut my own, and no longer viewed Wikipedia as a great source of information.
And stopped wasting time making careful smart edits, when it was always a dispiriting struggle against revert-ionists.
"tech companies have become independent fiefs with dry cleaning, gyms, doctors, shuttle buses and bountiful free meals...
Fantastic quote from the article. The fiefdoms of tech campuses are creating a new kind of society: the corporate city, open only to those with a badge. On the large scale practiced in the SF Bay Area, this corporate coddling certainly seems to be capable of whittling away at the vibrance of city life.
NEWS RELEASE: "The independent city-state of Google has declared war on the city of San Francisco by poaching its best chefs." LOL.
I deal with 2 GoogleFi phones -- 'Personality AI' agents are the most annoying feature of Google's AI Call Center.
"Hey pardner,..." -- fake cowpoke dude.
"It certainly is sunny here, how's the weather there?" -- fake nature lover.
"Roger that." -- fake roger dodger.
Per Douglas Adams' classic - “A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.” Arthur: "GPP? What’s that?" Ford: "Er It says Genuine People Personalities."
When I ask Google Call Center responders, "Are you a real human or an AI?" The question is completely ignored, not YES, nor NO. I THINK THE ROBOTIC AI NATURE OF MY INTERACTION SHOULD BE DISCLOSED, that way I can skip the 'how are you' pleasantries, at least.
Update of a simple typo is annoying and boring. "FTFY" is useful only when the meaning of the sentence is changed by the typo! Develop courtesy toward others. Lack of spelling is common to many genius brains, as well as non-native english writers.
Sheesh, people trying to increase their post count...
Troll moderation? My comment above was not intended to cause offence. I believe it is well known that over-consuming sugar, which is everywhere in our modern diet, causes surges in insulin. The over-stressed insulin receptors lose sensitivity to insulin, gradually leading to "Type 2" or Adult Onset Diabetes. The video linked above is a Doctor who runs a Diabetes Clinic discussing the role of a low-carb diet in reversing Type 2 Diabetes. Here is that link again, misguided moderator who tagged my post as trolling: --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As it stands today, there is [nearly] no known limit to caffeine intake. (Investigated this question a few years ago when the newspapers claimed a teenager killed herself with too much caffeine.) However, this THERAPEUTIC METHOD being developed uses caffeine as a SWITCH to turn on the production of insulin...
...and other therapies may use the same switch. That makes it necessary for the patient to strictly limit caffeine, because it will now result in the delivery of a drug therapy.
Type 2 Diabetics ipso facto have trouble with food control. Asking them to control caffeine intake to cure their disease is... [waves hands]... ignoring the obvious.
Black Butte is a "butt" of a mountain, nothing but steep lava talus, if a hike that jarring cannot dislodge the Butt Plug then nothing can. perhaps your Crohn's Disease super-organism is retaining the camera for study.
Previously called a "heavy internet user," the data hog now becomes a "blessed cash cow" as the services that stream large amounts of data will soon be tapped to pay users' data bills.
"We reserve the right to implement a new congestion management system" -- a system that charges those who provide interesting data streams to users -- a system already developed in expectation of the termination of net neutrality regulations.
No "suitable" replacement is possible. A replacement as enticing and persuasive-by-design will feature the same faults. Because the faults are... ***features***
Slashdot on Facebook uses an automated 'bot in its messenger system! SLASH-BOT. Who points the finger at the finger pointer?
Who curses the recursive bots?
Ah, do you mean like making smoking/possession of marijuana a criminal offense and then using that as a basis to disenfranchise people from voting, employment, welfare, etc.?
...And permanently seizing expensive possessions like vehicles and houses, without due legal process?
I can imagine (...) We all get charged 10 cents per gigabyte that we download, stream or otherwise consume by our ISPs. The ISPs, already logging everything we do anyway pay all rights holders from the money collected. Done.
Concerned citizens, I am uninterested in woo-woo spiritualism.
Commentators: Light is carefully blocked from my eyes (eyes-open = eyes-shut); however! Ay hand over my forehead _does_ block light from my visual perception. It's noticeably easier to rest my eyes with forehead covered.
Other people will you please try, with eyes closed, the cover-the-forehead test to detect a difference in light penetration? I do doubt I am an utter outlier, I assume this is a normal but underappreciated quality of our skulls.
-arwen
When sleeping in a room with light pollution, I must cover my eyes (dark silk velvet works best) AND my forehead.
Several friends polled do not notice any light leaking through their forehead. Do I have a hole in my head? Opinions regarding this phenomenon welcome.
-arwen
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Yum, pie!
You deride the "current culture that just expects the world to believe something"
and yet believe without evidence that Wikipedia editing is a Virtuous System.
You are wrong, careful sourced contributions ARE reverted, as AC stated:
I was undertaking a data analysis project at the time which led me to supplement the existing article content as well as restructure it to facilitate web scraping.
Sounds a lot like my contributions - made while I was actively working on the topic, in my field of expertise - and flow edits, carefully made to put the article in line with Wikipedia's own flow model.
AC writes clearly and lucidly. What would you have AC do, spend an hour or two coming up with examples and quotes from long-buried Wikipedia discussion pages?
As I recall there are automatic revert 'bots as well as human editors.
I suffered the same reverting of excellent and sourced facts (and professional writing.) Early days I was able to contribute occasional information in my field of expertise, but as time went on, _occasional_ careful contributions were treated dismissively.
Gradually only those with reputations in the fiefdom of Wikipedia were welcomed to contribute (bored homebounds) while careful contributions by unknowns (people with actual lives) were thoughtlessly reverted.
I assume many valuable contributions were being sidelined, not jut my own, and no longer viewed Wikipedia as a great source of information.
And stopped wasting time making careful smart edits, when it was always a dispiriting struggle against revert-ionists.
But... I still find myself opening Chrome pretty often for various reasons.
Mostly various websites ... I really don't know why.
I don't know why, but your charming name Dallas May makes me cut you slack for such slack comments.
Just upgraded - now, new tabs focus in the URL bar. THANKS! I had been opening Chrome for just that reason--now I can use Firefox without annoyance.
"tech companies have become independent fiefs with dry cleaning, gyms, doctors, shuttle buses and bountiful free meals...
Fantastic quote from the article. The fiefdoms of tech campuses are creating a new kind of society: the corporate city, open only to those with a badge. On the large scale practiced in the SF Bay Area, this corporate coddling certainly seems to be capable of whittling away at the vibrance of city life.
NEWS RELEASE: "The independent city-state of Google has declared war on the city of San Francisco by poaching its best chefs." LOL.
I deal with 2 GoogleFi phones -- 'Personality AI' agents are the most annoying feature of Google's AI Call Center.
"Hey pardner, ..." -- fake cowpoke dude.
"It certainly is sunny here, how's the weather there?" -- fake nature lover.
"Roger that." -- fake roger dodger.
Per Douglas Adams' classic - “A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.” Arthur: "GPP? What’s that?" Ford: "Er It says Genuine People Personalities."
When I ask Google Call Center responders, "Are you a real human or an AI?" The question is completely ignored, not YES, nor NO. I THINK THE ROBOTIC AI NATURE OF MY INTERACTION SHOULD BE DISCLOSED, that way I can skip the 'how are you' pleasantries, at least.
Update of a simple typo is annoying and boring. "FTFY" is useful only when the meaning of the sentence is changed by the typo! Develop courtesy toward others. Lack of spelling is common to many genius brains, as well as non-native english writers.
Sheesh, people trying to increase their post count...
Troll moderation? My comment above was not intended to cause offence. I believe it is well known that over-consuming sugar, which is everywhere in our modern diet, causes surges in insulin. The over-stressed insulin receptors lose sensitivity to insulin, gradually leading to "Type 2" or Adult Onset Diabetes. The video linked above is a Doctor who runs a Diabetes Clinic discussing the role of a low-carb diet in reversing Type 2 Diabetes. Here is that link again, misguided moderator who tagged my post as trolling: --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As it stands today, there is [nearly] no known limit to caffeine intake. (Investigated this question a few years ago when the newspapers claimed a teenager killed herself with too much caffeine.) However, this THERAPEUTIC METHOD being developed uses caffeine as a SWITCH to turn on the production of insulin...
...and other therapies may use the same switch. That makes it necessary for the patient to strictly limit caffeine, because it will now result in the delivery of a drug therapy.
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Type 2 Diabetics ipso facto have trouble with food control. Asking them to control caffeine intake to cure their disease is... [waves hands] ... ignoring the obvious.
Sarah Hallberg | Reversing Type 2 Diabetes. {TED TALK} https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If they could control what goes down the alimentary canal, they would not have Type 2 Diabetes.
Chemotherapy: "YES but..."
Diabetes / other chronic disease: "YES but... the penalty of overindulgence in coffee and chocolate is DEATH.
Nooooo! When will reseachers investigate the healing properties of a hot bath and warm slippers?
Black Butte is a "butt" of a mountain, nothing but steep lava talus, if a hike that jarring cannot dislodge the Butt Plug then nothing can. perhaps your Crohn's Disease super-organism is retaining the camera for study.
Beautiful Black Butt -- https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Diabolical. The dominant paradigm insists that making money is the highest good. ):
Previously called a "heavy internet user," the data hog now becomes a "blessed cash cow" as the services that stream large amounts of data will soon be tapped to pay users' data bills.
"We reserve the right to implement a new congestion management system" -- a system that charges those who provide interesting data streams to users -- a system already developed in expectation of the termination of net neutrality regulations.
With a flick of the switch...
Epigenetic changes. FTFY.
No "suitable" replacement is possible. A replacement as enticing and persuasive-by-design will feature the same faults. Because the faults are ... ***features***
Slashdot on Facebook uses an automated 'bot in its messenger system! SLASH-BOT. Who points the finger at the finger pointer? Who curses the recursive bots?
Slashdot on Facebook uses an automated 'bot in its messenger system. Who points the finger at the finger pointer?
Ah, do you mean like making smoking/possession of marijuana a criminal offense and then using that as a basis to disenfranchise people from voting, employment, welfare, etc.?
...And permanently seizing expensive possessions like vehicles and houses, without due legal process?
Civil Forfeiture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
18 April 2018 100 Sacramento Area Homes Seized -- https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Nope, Tourette's -- a person says (usually rude) things they are _not_ thinking. Terrible affliction.
I can imagine (...) We all get charged 10 cents per gigabyte that we download, stream or otherwise consume by our ISPs. The ISPs, already logging everything we do anyway pay all rights holders from the money collected. Done.
And how does a VPN fit into your imagination?
Concerned citizens, I am uninterested in woo-woo spiritualism. Commentators: Light is carefully blocked from my eyes (eyes-open = eyes-shut); however! Ay hand over my forehead _does_ block light from my visual perception. It's noticeably easier to rest my eyes with forehead covered. Other people will you please try, with eyes closed, the cover-the-forehead test to detect a difference in light penetration? I do doubt I am an utter outlier, I assume this is a normal but underappreciated quality of our skulls. -arwen
When sleeping in a room with light pollution, I must cover my eyes (dark silk velvet works best) AND my forehead. Several friends polled do not notice any light leaking through their forehead. Do I have a hole in my head? Opinions regarding this phenomenon welcome. -arwen
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