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It's interesting to compare Britannica's article on Wikipedia vs. Wikipedia article on Britannica. I find the former poorly written and biased.

Here's some choice highlights from the actual court case

• "From the perspective of a person in the position of plaintiff herein, a very practical problem arises with respect to the discovery of a paranormal phenomenon: "Who you gonna' call?" as a title song to the movie "Ghostbusters" asks."

• "Therefore, the theoretical basis for granting relief, even under the extraordinary facts of this case, is elusive if not ephemeral."

• "the notion that a haunting is a condition which can and should be ascertained upon reasonable inspection of the premises is a hobgoblin which should be exorcised from the body of legal precedent and laid quietly to rest."

• "the real estate broker, as agent for the seller, is under no duty to disclose to a potential buyer the phantasmal reputation of the premises and that, in his pursuit of a legal remedy for fraudulent misrepresentation against the seller, plaintiff hasn't a ghost of a chance, I am nevertheless moved by the spirit of equity"

I'm dying, this is amazing

For those interested, there is an anime (adapted from a visual novel) called Steins;Gate which plays a lot off of these postings. It's an incredible show, and I recommend it to everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11770

I'm interested in reading that book. But after googling "human error handbook" I didn't get a perfect match.

Is it this book: Sidney Decker - The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error ?

Interesting, but not that surprising as a lot of the religious words come from earlier rituals. The word god has its roots in pagan religious ritual too: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=god

I know for many this is obvious, but I've lost count of the number of people telling me that the very word god is evidence that a god exists when actually the word comes from a a system of beliefs far removed from monotheism.

Killers of the Flower Moon is a great read on the topic, I just finished it. It's insane the things that happened to these people. and the fact that it happened so recently.

Really interesting read.

Also, if you look at his website, one of the first statements is this:

> The Brits are moving to ban "hacking tools". You can take my unassembler from my cold dead hands. The IRA is the NRA for computer people.

As a Brit, that last sentence was beyond peculiar.

the bullet ant bite is also used in initiation into adulthood rituals. the ants are weaved into special gloves, and the initiate is stung for 10 min at a time. here is a video.

Also, the reviews at Trip Advisor (yeah, I didn't even know that there was more than one hotel in Pyongyang) are an interesting read.

There's a compelling theory that Kennedy wasn't driving the car at all. I read this book many years ago: Bridge at Chappaquiddick

Google maps of this pond, anyone? :)

Edit: Found a cool link to see it.

The French, Polish et al resistances were incredibly brave. They continued to act as a vital intelligence network in occupied Europe and to support those suffering under the dispotic regime, despite the constant risk of torture and death at Nazi hands.

For a personal apccount I highly recommend reading Jan Karski's "Story of a Secret State", https://www.amazon.com/Story-Secret-State-Report-World/dp/1626160317. Karski was a spy in occupied Poland, and his account is as fascinating as it is breathtaking.

I was 17 when I first learned of this, waaay back in 1973 thanks to an episode of Kung Fu (will look it up and link below when I find it). When I tried to research it, it was extremely hard back then to find any mention of it. No one I spoke to had any clue what I was talking about.

Info on that episode (sorry, couldn't find it streaming anywhere)

There's a great reconstructed version of modern English (that eliminates as much as possible all the Latin and Norman in the lexicon) called Anglish. It's quite interesting how readable even a document about atomic theory is.

Unless i'm mistaken the greek word for rat is arouraios or αρουραιος

And the origin of the English word, 'Champion' is definitively not Kampeonae primarily because i don't think the word exists.

I wondered about that. Tucked away on their FAQ is this message:

> Content found on Everipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. As a user you may modify, copy, frame, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works from content found on Everipedia.com.

> For more information on the terms of reuse of content found on Everipedia please reference the Creative Commons documentation: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/'

I don't know whether that's legally sufficient! But I'll do some research.

It's 31GB uncompressed but only 7GB compressed. You import the compressed 7GB archive to an offline reader program like WikiTaxi and it turns it into a .taxi file that should be around 12-13GB.

I looked this up a while back when I tried to estimate the volume of Hell. It's about 7 Sydney harbors

> The people responsible for this see China as an evil empire due to the whole communism thing.

The article does quote Wolf saying as much.

But Culberson claims he's concerned about millitarization.

> Last November, the Washington Times reported that Chinese air force commander Gen. Xu Qiliang said, “competition between military forces is now turning toward the realm of space, [and] military modernization is ceaselessly expanding into space.” Statements like this, along with the numerous hostile actions conducted by China in space, are alarming and bring into question the motivations of China’s space program.

I suppose there are a variety of objections, not necessarily limited to the whole communism thing.

Totally! Reddit is villainizing the past.

I mean, how could they have possibly known that pushing the eye out of the way and scrambling someone's brain with an ice pick would do more harm than good?

One of my favorite things about Chrome is their Google Dictionary extension. Double click on any word and a little tooltip pops up giving you its definition. Click "more" next to the definition and you're sent to a page with oodles of information compiled from all over the place.

EDIT: Here it is in case any Chrome users are interested.

On a related topic, I warmly recommend Dan Gilbert's Ted Talk on happiness.

If this submission title is making you think "yeah, right", you really ought to watch the Ted talk. It's worth it, I promise.

If you are interested in this type of stuff, check out Blitzed. It details all Nazi drug use, especially Hitlers. Pretty easy read too.

All universities on the planet should not accept any encyclopedia (including Wikipedia) as a source.

It's a tertiary source. It lists secondary sources. You can't be sure that the claims it makes are valid without verifying the quality of the sources it lists. You should cite the secondary or primary sources, if and only if you've verified their accuracy and suitability for the claim you wish to make.

If it helps, replace the word "Wikipedia" with "my friend Jeff". Which of these sounds better?

• "Quicksort has an average asymptotic time complexity of O(n log n) (source: my friend Jeff)"
• "Quicksort has an average asymptotic time complexity of O(n log n) (source: Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming vol 3, pp120-122)"

It's a dubious legality that collects metadata from all users without warrant; in aggregate, it is content without context. The West should not be using the intelligence machines of Russia and China as an example of how to operate.

As valuable a tool as it is, the potential destruction from information technology warfare is on par with WMD proliferation; by creating these hubs we become less secure as State or well funded individuals can access and use information gleaned from it.

Diplomacy only goes so far and espionage has been a necessity since before Sun Tsu wrote about in The Art of War; so I am left to agree that I do not know what the alternative is.

I am glad we live in the West where we can question and comment the actions of our governments but we must remain ever vigilant as freedom is ever only an election away from being a footnote to history.

It's just a book about how power and influence over people is gained and held this world. It can give the reader a certain useful perspective of how people in power operate and control those underneath them. I don't think it is supposed to be taken as a self-help book, or advice on how to live your life. Like "The Prince" or "The Art of War" people can do with it what they will.

There's a reason for that, and this website does an incredible job of tracing the path from cave paintings to that flat modernism you're talking about. Works way better on desktop than mobile.

Wikidata has over 15,000,000 items. Unfortunately for you, that includes articles from namespaces other than the main one, and projects other than Wikipedias.

Definitely recommend the book Prophet's Prey if you want to deep dive into these communities. I think they made a show about it as well. https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-Prey-Seven-Year-Investigation-Fundamentalist/dp/1608193241

> The surgeon, Dr. Bruner, later elaborated on some of the exaggerated and false claims made about the photograph: "It has become an urban legend," says Bruner, the Vanderbilt University surgeon who fixed the spina bifida lesion on Samuel. Many people he hears from wonder whether it's a fake.

> "One person said the photo had been reviewed by a team of medical experts and they had determined that it was a hoax," Bruner says with a laugh.

> More commonly, people want to know how the photo came to be.

> Some opponents of abortion have claimed that the baby reached through the womb and grabbed the doctor's hand.

> Not true, Bruner says.

> Samuel and his mother, Julie, were under anesthesia and could not move.

> "The baby did not reach out," Bruner says. "The baby was anesthetized. The baby was not aware of what was going on."

> http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/thehand.asp

Street View 12th Street in Detroit. On my phone or I'd link

Edit: Here's a pleasant looking house. Head up and down that street and you'll get a good look at some crap buildings.

I see a lot of misunderstanding here, so I'll try and explain how I see Scholarpedia:

First off, Scholarpedia's breadth is vastly smaller than that of Wikipedia, even if we consider only "hard-science" articles. Its main strengths are in very specific subjects, such as computational neuroscience and neural networks, and perhaps a few others I'm less familiar with. However, the (relatively few) strong articles in Scholarpedia are extremely strong, and written by top experts.

For example, the article on the Hopfield model, an important concept in computational neuroscience, was written by John Hopfield himself. As another example, the article on Boltzmann machines was written by Geoff Hinton, who is undoubtedly the biggest name in the world in this field.

Both these articles go deeper and are more technical than their Wikipedia counterparts, which (for example) make them more fit as resources for students studying this material in a graduate course.

IBM helped the Nazis keep track of Jews to be exterminated. People are offended that so many corporations sponsored fascists and Nazis.

>IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all micromanaged by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris. This Expanded Edition offers 37 pages of previous unpublished documents, pictures, internal company correspondence, and other archival materials to produce an even more explosive volume. Originally published to extraordinary praise in 2001, this provocative, award-winning international bestseller has stood the test of time as it chronicles the story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides nothing less than a chilling investigation into corporate complicity. Edwin Black's monumental research exposes how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies for the Nazis, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.

>The Great Depression spurred state ownership in Western capitalist countries. Germany was no exception; the last governments in the Weimar Republic took over firms in diverse sectors. Later, the Nazi regime transferred public ownership and public services to the private sector. In doing so, they went against the mainstream in the Western capitalistic countries, none of which systematically reprivatized firms during the 1930s. Privatization in Nazi Germany was also unique in transferring to private hands the production of public services previously delivered by government.

I wish it wasn't. The example used here is a good example of why. "I have received literally thousands of letters." I would naturally assume that literally thousands of letters had been received, and if that wasn't the case they'd have to awkwardly clarify. What's a good substitute for the word literally that hasn't been ruined?

It was not about whatever house is truly haunted* but that buyer was not informed about gossip/stories/legends about the house (presumably it would be similar to situation where somebody sold Fritzl's house without informing about situation).

*"the notion that a haunting is a condition which can and should be ascertained upon reasonable inspection of the premises is a hobgoblin which should be exorcised from the body of legal precedent and laid quietly to rest" - source

No, this is a perfect example of a false friend, as they are, in fact, cognates:

>In many Germanic languages "poison" is euphemistically named by a word equivalent to English gift (cf. Old High German gift, Danish and Swedish gift; Dutch gift, vergift). This choice might have been aided by Greek dosis "a portion prescribed," literally "a giving," used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine (see dose).

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=poison&allowed_in_frame=0

Looking into the 1972 Fred Bronner incident where he was left in the wilderness and found at the bottom of a cliff, I found this newspaper article quoting the father:

>I know it is not possible for this child to survive. My son, he was not an athlete. He was fat and he was raised like a momma's boy. He never walked. We always drove him.

Man, that's some cold comment.

How much cojones do you need to lasso a grizzly bear?

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I've driven through one of these a few times in Louisville, CO. Here is a map link. It actually doesn't feel that weird being on the "wrong" side of the road because there's never cars going the other way on your right. The short left turn onto the on-ramp seems smart.

However, that intersection is constantly backed up. I don't know if the volume there is too high, or if it's an issue with the design, but none of the intersections nearby are that bad. The other issue is turning onto the road from close to the divergence. On my link, turning left onto McCaslin northbound from Marshall Drive can take several light cycles to happen just because there's no room. It's not as much of an issue at Dillon just because there's more space. If it were a normal intersection, I think they would just stop northbound traffic on McCaslin at the intersection with Marshall and let people on Marshall go as their own group. That defeats the purpose of only having two lights and two "clearance intervals," though.

It's encyclopedia that uses wiki software. Other than that, I don't see what it has to do with Wikipedia. It's not even the only wiki encyclopedia written by approved experts -- see Citizendium.

Googling 'jeff(rey) alan Castillo' brought this up from disqus:

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There's actually a nice function in WolframAlpha where people can play around with different variables, and check out caloric requirements.

I used:

• male
  
• 35 years old
  
• running for 3 hours at 6min/km with a 5% incline
  
• 165cm and 55kg

And ended up with an expected calorie requirement of 9180 kJ or 2194 Cal, which is in stark contrast to the claimed 1450 Cal taken in according to posts further up.
These numbers are based on the CDC standards, though, so it might be possible to make these values congruent by slowing down the metabolism significantly.

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I'm not American and so I don't know much about the country. I was really surprised to hear that prostitutes are abandoned and kidnapped and killed in America more than other countries. I just did a Google News search for [prostitute stabbed] in America. The top story is about a man imprisoned for stabbing a prostitute, so I think you are mistaken. People are imprisoned for stabbing prostitutes in America.

If you have Amazon Prime, Lore has an excellent episode devoted to the history lobotomies. It's incredibly chilling.

Hmm, it's possible, although the source is about the film, which might not be that accurate. The Oxford Dictionary defines "peasant" as "a poor farmer of low social status", which is not who Martin Guerre was. A poor farmer can't get married to a woman from a rich family at that time.

Actually, it seems like a pretty old word for this usage.

From 1589: https://books.google.com/books?id=cEjWAAAAMAAJ&q=pretender&dq=pretender&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xJndVJ6SIoyyogTvj4D4BQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg

The character isn't really being rendered because the article uses an SVG file. Here's what it looks like at a reasonable resolution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bi%C3%A1ng.svg

That probably means that either there isn't a standard glyph for it or that most fonts don't support it.

While criticism of Wikipedia's insularity is valid, this article is an utter failure of reporting.

Wikipedia has known for a long, long time that it needs to attract academic contributions. This is not a new revelation or a shocking admission. It just doesn't know how. The emergent effect of Wikipedia's editing style is that rules lawyers who enjoy smacking down new contributors get to write all the rules and smack down new contributors with them, and how do you overcome inertia to change that?

Next, "Wackypedia"? This guy can't even write an opinion article without resorting to name-calling. What exactly is he trying to convince readers of? "Oh good point, I never thought of Wikipedia as wacky before."

The worst part is his random praise for Citizendium. Has he seen it? Not only is it failing to attract readers and writers, it is much less reliable than Wikipedia. At least Wikipedia has rules about its content, but on Citizendium, a self-declared expert can get a bullshit article to approved, edited, stable status. And so you get this article on homeopathy written entirely by someone who financially benefits from selling homeopathy. Medical misinformation that is presented like the truth is dangerous.

The closest equivalent situation on Wikipedia would be its article on deconstruction, written almost entirely by people who believe that "deconstruction" refers to something. There may be too much academia in it, remarkably. But at least that article only leaves you baffled, not actively misinformed.

Searching for the current date (e.g., March 20) from the Wikipedia.org main page results in a list of events for the date. Automate this process by creating a dynamic page on a web server.

Ctrl+f - Robert.

I don't want to say I was surprised by it. I guess I never gave it much thought. But I always pictured de Niro to either be married to some 30 something italian gal, or single.

No problem. Sorry I couldn't figure it out. If you're using the epub to throw onto an ereader, you can use a program like Sigil to combine them. And yes, the formatting can be quite nice and sometimes they have multiple editions compared to Gutenberg or editor annotations. If you read older books like these, you might also find the Standard Ebooks project interesting.

While not exactly the same thing I've just finished listening to a fascinating account of A Woman Sergeant with The Serbian Army which is free on librivox, it was published in 1916, mid-war, so is a bit propagandist in places but still really interesting, it's the story of a Nurse who went out and met up with the Serbian army as they were retreating from the Turkish and Bulgarian forces, she stayed with them as they're pushed out the country into Albania where she ends up joining the army proper as the only woman soldier to officially serve in ww1 - she's a really cool character, seemingly fearless and very determined - Smokes, shoots, rides a white horse and just generally gets things done.

One of those rare accounts which only really renders itself believable in that if it were fiction then it'd be among the very best fiction of the era - an author about to dream up a Flora Sandes would be quite the author indeed!

Looks like it's pretty well mapped over on OSM too. Maybe not to surprising, I'd think those folks'd like geographical oddities.

Your link is spreading lies.

The idea of the OS commingled with a single hardware platform is an abstraction used by Apple, which does not apply to Android. Android is an operating system. It is software. It is not, and never was, any single piece of hardware.

Android began in 2003, and has been software since the beginning. It was purchased by Google in 2005, and subsequently announced as the OS used by the Open Handset Alliance, as an open standard across many different hardware platforms and vendors. There were 34 different companies on board the Open Handset Alliance when it began; there are 84 now.

In fact, there were multiple prototypes, of multiple form factors. Even before that infamous "Blackberry-like" Android picture was made, Android supported full touchscreen devices.

Here, you can see a video of that same, clunky-looking, Blackberry style Android prototype, along with a slate-style touchscreen prototype, in the same video.

That sleek, touchscreen prototypes existed at the same time, is a point left out by your link, an omission that is terribly misleading.

Someone needs to get to the bottom of these sellout claims. I've always heard the Redskins have the longest sellout streak in the NFL, but theirs only dates back to 1968.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_NFL_team_has_the_longest_sell_out_streak

According to Forbes the Redskins also have the longest season ticket wait list as well. In 2007 155,000 people were on it:

http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/07/nfl-football-tickets-forbeslife-cx_ls_0907tickets.html

Pretty impressive seeing as how they also have the largest stadium in the NFL.

Full disclosure. I'm obviously a Redskins fan. Ticket sales seem to be the only thing we can win at, so don't take that away from us.

>Somone has to care enough to make an article for a given subject.

Are you unaware of the people on Wikipedia who basically make it their mission to get articles they find lacking in notability deleted?

>In short, you're asking a question that can best be answered by viewing the first major attempt at an "alternative" to wikipedia. The only people who need a second wikipedia are people who need a second reality.

I think you're either unaware of or forgetting about other less political attempts to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, such as Citizendium or Google's Knol.

Anarchist folksinger David Rovics has a powerful song telling the story of My Lai and of Hugh Thompson's heroism: The Ballad of Hugh Thompson

here it is on Google Maps.

Wikipedia is trying to centralize a lot of its data to Wikidata with one of the purposes being to allow automated bot checks for consistency between different language wikipedias.

There's currently work in progress to allow for this, see the WikibaseQueryEngine project which has a few more components. This is also documented in the development plan.

There is Wikidata Query on labs. WD itself also has an API, which may or may not fit your requirements, depending on what you want to do.

In marketing, this is known as the decoy effect.

Given choice A, choice B, and inferior choice B (like choice B but just a little worse), choice B will appear to be a much better choice.

More generally, in behavior economics, people refer to it as relativity. People don't know how to assign value to objects unless it's in comparison to another object. In your case, once they see something better, they'll rate the original worse.

Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational spends the entire first chapter describing this in more detail.

Once it was clear the US could leverage Japan against the Soviets, most war criminals were pardoned for political expediency.

And for those insisting the Japanese weren't so bad, consider the fact 25% of Japanese -held POW's died in captivity while less than 1% of US troops died in Nazi camps. The Japanese also had a Kill-all order in effect for POW's. It was going to be carried out in August just days after the atomic bombs were dropped on japan thereby saving thousands of POW's lives.

For reference see the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

There's a section about this kind of stuff in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!":

> One day, two or three of the young rabbis came to me and said, "We realize that we can't study to be rabbis in the modern world without knowing something about science, so we'd like to ask you some questions." Of course there are thousands of places to find out about science, and Columbia University was right near there, but I wanted to know what kinds of questions they were interested in. They said, "Well, for instance, is electricity fire?" "No," I said, "but... what is the problem?" They said, "In the Talmud it says you're not supposed to make fire on a Saturday, so our question is, can we use electrical things on Saturdays?" I was shocked. They weren't interested in science at all! The only way science was influencing their lives was so they might be able to interpret better the Talmud! They weren't interested in the world outside, in natural phenomena; they were only interested in resolving some question brought up in the Talmud. And then one day -- I guess it was a Saturday -- I want to go up in the elevator, and there's a guy standing near the elevator. The elevator comes, I go in, and he goes in with me. I say, "Which floor?" and my hand's ready to push one of the buttons. "No, no!" he says, "I'm supposed to push the buttons for you." "What?" "Yes! The boys here can't push the buttons on Saturday, so I have to do it for them. You see, I'm not Jewish, so it's all right for me to push the buttons. I stand near the elevator, and they tell me what floor, and I push the button for them."

> So are there really 2 categories -- Concepts and Matter?

According to the Free Dictionary:

> con·cept: A general idea derived or inferred from specific instances or occurrences.

> "Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea." -- Woody Allen, Annie Hall

Here's a quick guide to the different CC licenses. Note that CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, and CC0 (public domain) are the only three that are acceptable on the Commons. CC-BY-SA is the most popular.

ND (no derivatives) and NC (non-commercial) licenses aren't allowed on the Commons since they limit the freedom of the work.

I'm not sure how closely this is related, but it's worth checking out:

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html

Yep, I've eaten there; but when I went it had an actual sign attached to the roof like this. I went through my pics from that island and I didn't have many. That whole weekend I only had a GoPro on me and didn't take a lot of stills. The two pics I did take on my phone totally look like stock photos though, it's amazing.

They haven't built anything there. It's north St. Louis, so when something gets torn down, it tends not to get replaced.

Here's the site on google maps.

Speaking from memory (apologies if I'm misremembering), Peter Heather's The Fall of the Roman Empire has some fascinating material on this battle and its impact on the Romans. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/dec/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview9

For aficionados of Fela Kuti, there's a generally lesser known album that's awesome and well worth listening to, called the 69' Sessions.

While maybe not as immediately catchy as some of his better known following recordings, i think it gives a better overview of his wealth of influences and is a very strong record for it.

as an example track, Funky Horn

Then it is interesting!

Here's another interesting factoid about Flamenco music.

Okay, so we're arguing different points. I was talking about copyright for the author, you were talking about relinquishing copyright.

Regardless, that's why CC0 exists, and is accepted on the Commons.

You can do that. There are mechanisms on Commons, Flickr, and elsewhere to do so. If you live in the US and some other countries, a published statement about releasing content into the public domain has legal precedent (e.g. if you publish them on your own website, even). That's not the case elsewhere, though. Getting unnecessarily detailed here maybe, but "public domain" has an inconsistent legal definition between countries (and can be murky even within a given country). That copyright laws are messy, subject to change, and inflexible is a big reason Creative Commons exists. CC0, "no rights reserved", is a license that gives everything away in a way that should hold consistent internationally. Wikimedia Commons will take any legally published public domain statement, I believe, but CC0 makes it easier -- and easier for people in other countries to use it without worry about legal gray area. If you decide not to upload to Commons and don't want to use Flickr, you could also use a site like Pixabay. Of course, if you release under one of these licenses on one site, someone could just upload them to the others, too. Maybe worth noting that Unsplash is a site that comes up in many lists of free picture sharing sites, but it switched to a proprietary license this past summer which makes it incompatible with Wikipedia/Wikimedia.

Crosspost from Shutupandtakemymoney

An amazing gimbal lock puzzle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wohFfpLU7s http://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney/comments/h0qzr/spherical_labyrinth_xpost_from_rvideos/

If it's any help, the etymology of "rifle" suggests a rifled barrel is more indicative of a rifle than the position it's held. During their advent, the rifling also distinguished them from muskets, which also match the definition you give.

I wouldn't think it would be practical to have a single home water tower. A water bladder tank would be a cheaper, simpler choice, and wouldn't require chlorination.

Not according to the french: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vian&ei=R0enTfb4EI_LswbB6-SeCA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCYQ7gEwAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBoris%2BVian%2Bwiki%2...

This was a fascinating era for Engineers, another great name is Stevenson who's known as 'the father of the steam locomotive' as his vision and tenacity were as powerful engines for progress as the ones he made out of steel and fire... 'If, in the middle years of the nineteenth century you wanted to build a railway, then, if you wanted it big bold and imaginative you might go to Mr. Brunel. If you wanted it to pay however, you would go to the Sephensons.'

There are some interesting old books about them, THE LIFE OF ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL, CIVIL ENGINEER. BY ISAMBARD BRUNEL (by his son) on Gutenberg, and Live's of the Engineers: George and Robert Stevenson as an audiobook on librivox with links to the Gutenberg ebook in the sidebar.

Also interesting and related is Regulatory Capture, which was previously posted in r/wikipedia.

However it was used as a translation from the Latin "to speak well of, to praise,"

>This word was chosen in O.E. bibles to translate L. benedicere and Gk. eulogein, both of which have a ground sense of "to speak well of, to praise," but were used in Scripture to translate Heb. brk "to bend (the knee), worship, praise, invoke blessings." Meaning shifted in late O.E. toward "pronounce or make happy," by resemblance to unrelated bliss. No cognates in other languages.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bless

One of the key figures in the decline of the Klan was Stetson Kennedy, a journalist. He was fervently anti-Klan, but joined the Klan undercover to get information about their ways. He quickly realized how childish and silly most of their names and traditions were, and worked with the Superman radio show to have Superman fight the Klan and mock their rituals and code words.

Reddit is in the top 55 websites in the US according to Alexa.

About.com is 36

Given that, the majority of About.com page views are from people who don't even participate in internet culture at all. Reddit is internet culture. Frankly, sites like 4chan/reddit/SA are the prime source for internet culture (at least the English kind).

Here are a couple of alternatives for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-dictionary-and-google-t/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inline-google-definitions/

Thanks for the upvote. re: your question, it's both. The 48 Laws is something that would be fine if it were a book of interesting historical facts, but it dishonestly extrapolates psychological principles from those historical instances, even if the book doesn't explicitly say they're psychological in nature, and markets those extrapolations as a set of true principles that if followed will lead the follower to power.

To compare, The 48 Laws is marketed as a book of influence principles similarly to "Getting to Yes", but Getting to Yes has psychological backing while The 48 Laws of Power does not.

> According to the American Nuclear Society, using the relatively low official radiation emission figures, "The average radiation dose to people living within ten miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by US residents in a year."

That's 41+ bananas per day: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28100+millirem+in+Banana+equivalent+dose%29%2F%28human+average+lifespan+in+days%29

https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Diaspora-Jewish-Communities-Atlantic/dp/0521192862

Here is a book. On the Jewish settlements in West Africa during the slave trade. Interesting to note, as there were no other European settlements there at that time.

This is not even about 'lançados' (mixed 'News Christian'/African communities)... this is about straight up Sephardic Jewish settlements in West Africa in the 1600's. And what they traded. And how they sold slaves to Dutch Jews. It's all in there. Historically sourced and not debated by.... anyone.

Read the book, tell me what you think.

Lack of knowledge and skills are probably the biggest factors. For example, a large proportion of internet users in the US don't know Wikipedia can be edited. Also, many of the most read articles are "protected" and unless you are signed into an account these pages have no "edit" button.

There's a good scifi novel inspired by this concept, good read. https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Dark-Triad-featured-Married/dp/1098365453?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=f6bb39ff-47c7-48b2-af04-434c97bf2a34

I highly recommend the new biography of Stewart Brand by John Markoff. I went with the audio version. It’s a remarkable life, he was part of the transition from the Beats to the Hippies.

https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Earth-Lives-Stewart-Brand/dp/0735223947

The difference between Christian and Catholic and 1930 and 2020?

See https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/michael-flynn-is-recruiting-an-army-of-god-in-growing-christian-nationalist-movement

Or read / listen to Dutch Sheets’s “sermons” on separation of church and state.

Or read https://www.amazon.com/Tabernacle-Hate-They-Bombed-Oklahoma/dp/0921842562

Seeing the connection between Christian radicalism and the far right isn’t tricky. Of course, you might prefer to retain (or reclaim?) the term “Christian” for your own peaceful and spiritual purpose… but that’s not today’s reality.

Isn't this basically just a solver for the Wikipedia game where you try to find the shortest route between articles? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.armadill.thewikigame&gl=US

Also, people on this sub might like this game.

>Account for boys in either order, and boy and girl in either order.

the two variables are the sex of each child, not a randomly selected configuration and which you then reorder. A family with two children is more likely to have a girl and a boy than two boys, that's all this is saying.

here's a spread sheet, you want to look at cell G7

https://ethercalc.net/onuhpxj6umme

I have the dead tree version on my bookshelf. Great read.

Obviously the C people were Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628/ref=sr_1_1?crid=W86ODDTF0WC5&keywords=c+programming+language&qid=1646584077&sprefix=C+pr%2Caps%2C72&sr=8-1

> Literally no evidence it was such a conspiracy requires proof which you lack

There is a great book, "Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated" that lays out all the evidence. It's pretty compelling.

There is a nice book I read once about medieval torture. It was an everyday occurrence in some places. Kids went to watch immolations in the town square. Things like quartering were a social gathering...

The book:

https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Punishments-Illustrated-History-Torture/dp/1620876183

Probably to keep pocket rockets and the like off of the streets.