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Why he choose Pakistan?
I'm guessing that it's easier to sneak bogus edits in for Pakistan than for, say, New York City.
it looks like the user who did the edit was from Pakistan
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I wish Apple would do the obvious thing and allow 3rd party apps to send public transport data directly to the official Maps app, via a new extension point. That way, if you have the right apps, everything would always be up to date, and maybe you'd even be able to see things like real-time bus and subway markers if your public transit apps supported tracking! Google has some amazing technology, but their web-based i…
like this experiment? http://vta.amigocloud.com
Yes! That's beautiful.
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Wikipedia is actually pretty bad, try following up on any of the references. If they're web references, the chances of it being a 404 page are almost 100% in my experience. Not to mention the editors being almost all white men and the opaque process that limits most "non-male" topics: http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-college-classes-... Wikipedia is basically infotainment, the Buzzfeed of encyclopedias. Se…
>Wikipedia is no substitute for a real subject encyclopedia. Who says it is? It's for quick pointers.
A subject encyclopedia will have much better pointers, definitely real citations, often annotated citations.
What "serious" purpose does Wikipedia serve, other than being a timely source for things that haven't made it into a subject encyclopedia yet?
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#164haha, these are great! i am always surprised when people find things like this.
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#166Inspired by the "Peeing Calvin" stickers, which as far as I know is a distinctly American phenomenon. https://triviahappy.com/articles/the-tasteless-history-of-th...
Meh :( They're fairly common on the rear ends of taxicabs in a few cities in India as well.
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Also, never use Wikipedia for anything. Since everybody can change it, it's useless.
Wikipedia is actually pretty bad, try following up on any of the references. If they're web references, the chances of it being a 404 page are almost 100% in my experience. Not to mention the editors being almost all white men and the opaque process that limits most "non-male" topics: http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-college-classes-... Wikipedia is basically infotainment, the Buzzfeed of encyclopedias. Se…
My primary annoyance when reading Wikipedia is when authors will generalize the opinion of two or three cited sources into something like "...many scholars believe X." At that point they're lending more credence to a statement than is actually attributable. In reality, it's more like "three people in the world think that X." It's probably not always done intentionally, but it's really quite sneaky how isolated opinions or viewpoints can gain acceptance as facts simply by how they're presented.
Ever wondered about all the things that this group of "many scholars" have concluded? Check out this Google Search:
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Do you essentially have to be a Google employee to do this? I remember a few years ago when I annotated some custom maps, but no one ever saw my annotations publicly. Also my annotations were running routes and forest trails that weren't marked on maps at the time.
I submitted a fix to google maps, where they were forcing people to detour around a perfectly straight section of rural highway because it was marked as impassable. Imagine my surprise when I got an email ONE YEAR LATER saying "your revision has been accepted!"
i had the same experience with two different roads in chicago area where it would avoid a simple overpass on 55, instead advising to take exit, go around in a longer route and come back to 55. Only in the east / North bound direction.
Another one in Schamburg where it thought a left turn was not allowed at a big intersection.
both were corrected on my report, but after a year or so