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How has that worked out? What are you looking at when you compare that to what you were doing before last year?

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/kyc-and-aml-beyond-th... > You might look at the standard KYC questionnaire for a new retail account and think “Really? You ask questions whi…

https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

Request for clarification: 13% of what?

In addition to the more concrete reasons, abstractly they're getting a bit of extra usage out of the namespace by segmenting it. A 9ZZZ999-type license plate is not just any licens…

> Personally i feel like its kind of like democracy: the worst system except for all the other systems. It's exactly this, in large part because Wikipedia happens to also be a larg…

> Maybe there is something I'm not taking into account but I have a hard time seeing the meaningful cost of some obscure wiki page merely existing. The thing you're not taking into…

The general notability guideline is another thing that's effectively downstream of "there's not enough editor time to keep everything up to basic standards." If Wikipedia had 10x t…

You can create a page as an anonymous user. The content and subject is much, more more important than the fact of being created as an anonymous user. If that's the process you want…

For most things the talk pages will explain why it is restricted, but if someone forgot to put a notice there, there's also a giant list of "the following topic areas reliably attr…

I am going to say a thing I say a lot: please edit Wikipedia. It is easier to do than you probably think! Wikipedia's biggest constraint is no longer money or server space, it's ed…

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"But this means his pro and con opinions don't match typical opinions and this makes him polarizing. And hence some people will flag his articles reflexively or post reflexive dism…

An important part of the historical context here is that the black community in America has a lot of scar tissue around sketchy investment opportunities, and those scars go back, o…

Unfortunately that well-worn example usually only proves that "false positive" as a technical term fails to match people's intuitions. The underlying problem about the base rate is…

I'm glad your proposed solution was "Spend a few hours monkeying around in Jekyll to make dates radically less prominent [and] somehow alter the URL structure to take them out of U…

That one (as I am seeing it now) cites the Jacobin article as a source, but the Jacobin article itself is fuzzy on sourcing.

They can construct various internally-consistent models of what's going on, debate the merits of those models, and check them against the available evidence while doing their best …

A lot of textual analysis is fairly mundane — it's the equivalent of a document allegedly from 1962 saying "when Reagan became President" or being typeset with LaTeX or referring t…

The byline is kinda small, but it's helpful contextual information that this article is by Mike Duncan, who is likely to be familiar to HN readers as the guy who did the Revolution…

"appeasing brutes like russia has a long history of not working" is a true statement that, in this context, does not do any of the work one would like a true statement to do, but i…

Please go into detail about how this would be implemented, with particular attention to what could go wrong at each stage of the process and what the consequences would be, especia…