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"They don't think they are scamming, they think Americans are rich and they just get their share. Otherwise they will suffer and find no food to eat."
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I mean hot take, but the whole “United Kingdom” concept is sort of pointless. Either confirm to international norms, or accept that no one outside your borders cares. There’s a reason why the only major organization that respects the distinction is the governing body of the national sport.
Not being from the UK: It's not really pointless. Scotland is way different from England, and I haven't been to Wales but I think that is, too. As for Northern Ireland: I don't even need to cover that one.
I'm a Swiss working in Bangkok (I'm fluent in Thai). So I'm quite a bit acustomed to people cheating in many situations of life. When we started hiring a couple of Indian coworkers for management level as well as data science roles, I became close friends to the whole group. Whenever we discussed frauds like that, I always said that we shouldn't think people (or Indians in particular) wanna game the systems and not e…
Is the Apu trilogy good for real?
Webpage is one thing, how about things you consume?
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I would love to have a way to punish people for submitting knownlingly bad information to publicly editable databases like IMDB (note I don't care about Google, it is IMDB that should be protected) Jail is too much, but it woukd be nice to have a fine of some sort, because "poisining the well" for everyone is really not cool. (in practice any such system would be abused a lot, so we are probably better off with statu…
Right. We can achieve heaven if we just punish every sin. Not trusting almighty Google's algorithm is just too much sacrifice the good people are making. Promoting publicly editable database as authoritative is high bar we must achieve at the cost of just banning juvenile behavior.
I am not sure why you keep bringing up Google here -- no one cares about it, it is megacorp and it can take care of itself. We want to protect entities like IMDB and Wikipedia. It does not matter why it was vandalized (and that's what happened here) -- to fool Google, or to impress friends, or to get to backstage -- it was bad, and it should not be encouraged.
And finally, learning that actions have responsibilities is an important part of the growing up. I certainly got some parking tickets when I was younger and it taught me an important lesson. (Of course the punishment should not be excessive, nothing that stays on your record for the whole life).
BTW since India makes a great many of medications and supplements for the USA and the world, and those factories are never inspected or products tested, do you think this "cheating" / "hacking" attitude doesn't spill over into each and every industry? Webpage is one thing, how about things you consume?
I interned at a pharmaceutical company's factory in India for the summer that used to regularly export medications to it's subsidiaries in the western world including United States. The standards are super high, we literally threw away millions of medications due to small uncertainty in a Quality control check.
Besides the local regulations and inspections, a team from FDA regularly visited the factory to audit it for like 10-15 days. Just for one factory. I distinctly remember this as we had a more americanized menu for lunch when the team visited LMAO.
So yeah, when you don't know or are not sure, please don't make statements like "factories are never inspected". It makes it seem like you know something, which you clearly don't.
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Wikipedia allows anyone to audit edits and raise issues if things are fishy. IMDb allows edits but the history is only visible to admins.
Me and my gang of companion editors, who have a long edit history going many years back (100% deleting content) shall revert your audits and reject your issues. There are 10 of us! You have no further questions. If you continue being disruptive you will be banned.
I'm a Swiss working in Bangkok (I'm fluent in Thai). So I'm quite a bit acustomed to people cheating in many situations of life. When we started hiring a couple of Indian coworkers for management level as well as data science roles, I became close friends to the whole group. Whenever we discussed frauds like that, I always said that we shouldn't think people (or Indians in particular) wanna game the systems and not e…