question : why do WWE-related queries account for so much Wikipedia traffic?
A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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Ok, I see. Just for fun: - In Silicon Valley... Magic Johnson has more google searches than Larry Page. - In India... Larry Page has more google searches than Magic Johnson. - https://imgur.com/a/KwQ5wJt Just checking Google Trends, as you suggested...
Larry > Magic might be the HN bubble, but Magic > Larry definitely is the US bubble. Most of the world does not care about basketball at all.
Except China. I’m always asked about the NBA when I visit China, and I know nothing about basketball.
Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
#173So it's not "this is the person most wikipediaed in this city" but rather, "this is the person amongst those who are affiliated with this city, who is the most wikipediaed"
Is this why San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Mountain View are all Steve Jobs?
SF shouldn't be associated with SJ in my opinion. He lived and worked in the peninsula and just came up here to give talks.
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#174I'm from Utah....I love how Ted Bundy is #1 for not just Salt lake but looks like the whole state. Edit: I'm living in utah, from Ohio, I do not claim Utah citizenship. I'm also not Mormon (ex-mormon/agnostic). Cheers!
Robert Redford comes up ironically enough for Provo. I thought his house was in Park City, but I guess it’s a weird city limits thing. Hope he isn’t letting any unmarried couples stay over!
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#175Ah fuck, what a good idea and fun project this must have been. How do people come up with awesome ideas like this? Whenever I have time for a personal project it'll be like... "guess I'll uh.... make this LED on a raspberry pi blink... wheee"
I would bet you probably come up with a really good idea about once a week, and that's being conservative. The trick is just to store them in some always-accessible note taking app (e.g. Evernote, OneNote, Apple's Notes app) as soon as they come to you (i.e. in the middle of a totally unrelated lecture), and accumulate them over a long period of time (talking years here).
The real "trick" is to be able to execute on any one of those. Whenever people see some cool project they instantly go "wish I had thought of that", but 99% of the time it's overcoming all the implementation challenges which is the hard part, not coming up with the idea.
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> Even the US Postal Service doesn’t necessarily respect local political boundaries. I grew up in Phoenix, close to the Glendale border, and my address said “Glendale, AZ”. Oh what the heck! How does that even work? So the official city you live in is not the city that USPS considers you to live in? If a federal form asks you what city you live in, what do you put down (without committing perjury if there is such a r…
Nope, the "City" in the address is the name of the Post Office that delivers the mail. So you may be on the west end of one town, and the post office that's closest to you is in another town (or is just named after another town, the name of the post office can be arbitrary as well). That's your address. It even affects property values. You can look at boundaries between post offices and people will pay more to have a…
People even fight over city boundaries all the time, just so their side of the street would fall into a posh area.
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Probably because he went to Reed College there before dropping out.
That explains it.
Some more info: https://pdxpeople.com/steve-jobs/
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Larry Nassar is decidedly bad. But you've lost all sense of perspective if you think he defines the place. Or you're a hyper-partisan Wolverine fan; I'll just name one thing that came out of MSU and that the cancer drug Cisplatin. It's saved millions of lives and is known as the gold standard of cancer drugs. I could easily name hundreds more with more impact than Larry Nassar. https://msutoday.msu.edu/feature/2018/d…
I didn't cherry pick Larry Nassar to make MSU look bad, it was just the first news story from Google when I googled Michigan State University. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/29/fears-about-a...
It wouldn't take too many more revelations for deviant sexual exploitation to be the first thing non-sports people think of when they hear the phrase "Big 10". Penn State, Michigan State, Ohio State...
Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
#179Re: A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another point is that in some parts of the country the concept of “city” breaks down. There is basically no meaningful difference between being from suburban neighborhoods of Glendale, AZ and nearby suburban neighborhoods of Phoenix. (People who are too young to be dealing with water bills, garbage collection, etc. often don’t even know which one they live in). Even the US Postal Service doesn’t necessarily respect l…
> Even the US Postal Service doesn’t necessarily respect local political boundaries. I grew up in Phoenix, close to the Glendale border, and my address said “Glendale, AZ”. Oh what the heck! How does that even work? So the official city you live in is not the city that USPS considers you to live in? If a federal form asks you what city you live in, what do you put down (without committing perjury if there is such a r…
The "city" in your postal address is simply the city of your closest post office, the one that delivers your mail.
Municipal boundaries don't matter at all to USPS because that's simply not how they deliver mail. I've lived in three different addresses in three different cities in New York whose mailing address city was a different city than where that place was located.
There exists entire towns that don't have any mailing addresses.
To answer your questions:
you don't really tell government forms when you live, you tell them your address. If anyone (government or not) asked where I lived I'd tell them the city where my house was located, not it's mailing address. But your mailing address could also be a "valid" response, because it's got that mailing address. It's just not at all a big deal and "close enough" is not a problem, honestly, because people don't often know exact political boundaries.
>And how does one figure out what city they officially live in then?
A map, property records, memos from town/city, nearby signage, looking at who's provides your municipal services (garbage, police..), looking who's sending you your property tax bill, maybe your state's website, or just call the closest town/city hall and ask (they can at the very least tell you if your address is or is not in their political jurisdiction)