Here is another one: https://goo.gl/maps/rHdBr
Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
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Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#182This reminds me when a the google car caught on camera a guy taking a dump just behind his van. People managed to save the original picture: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RtfjC_R5060/UjpCpNvy3jI/AAAAAAAAAk... But it didn't last long. Google deleted the poor guy: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.952075,-7.948871,3a,75y,28.8...
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
The funny thing is that this guy is driving a beer van. He was in an hurry to get the fresh beer delivered :)
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Handjob Ally has nothing on some of the mediaeval English streets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
Oh well, since we're on the subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Hole_Road
A friend of mine lives in a village called Fingeringhoe...
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are the requisite forms to fill out, approvals to be gathered - it's going to take some time...
Seriously? I work at not so small tech company and here one of the managers/director/vp will take a call and the engineer will patch the changes. The call is specially easy is such obvious example of what should be done.
I don't think it's just calling one engineer - it's multiple teams that need to align for the change to push through.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically, many pages of Wikipedia are useless because they're so difficult to permanently change...
Wikipedia + the talk pages is closer to an ideal encyclopedia. One of the major criticism of Wikipedia is that it preempts the possibility of having multiple encyclopedias, and thus multiple points of view. But, once you consider the talk pages, you not only restore the multiple points of view, but you also get to witness the contests between them. In that way, at least, this is better than having multiple encycloped…
My ideal encyclopedia does not have hundreds of thousands of words of discussion about the important differences between en dash, em dash, minus and hyphen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600342
Here's fifteen thousand words of discussion about en and em dashes and hyphens and minus signs. And at the end of that one discussion? No consensus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli...
And this is about punctuation. Imagine what it's like on actually contentious issues - Balkans wars, various islands claimed by more than one territory. Etc.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wikipedia + the talk pages is closer to an ideal encyclopedia. One of the major criticism of Wikipedia is that it preempts the possibility of having multiple encyclopedias, and thus multiple points of view. But, once you consider the talk pages, you not only restore the multiple points of view, but you also get to witness the contests between them. In that way, at least, this is better than having multiple encycloped…
My ideal encyclopedia does not have hundreds of thousands of words of discussion about the important differences between en dash, em dash, minus and hyphen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600342 Here's fifteen thousand words of discussion about en and em dashes and hyphens and minus signs. And at the end of that one discussion? No consensus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli... And t…
I happen to be a typophile; so, those discussions are interesting to me.
On the other hand, those are probably just examples of bike shedding[1]. The various talk pages on the Balkan Wars articles range from about 9,000 to 15,000 words, for instance.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality
Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps
#187The culprit is here: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... That guy finished his 'masterpiece' after multiple edits less than 24 hours ago.
He apparently got a "skype" logo through too: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lahore+District,+Pakistan/...
Gone now, but here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/DLgxDCZ
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 basically infotainment, the Buzzfeed of encyclopedias. See also: Wikigroaning: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/wikigroaning/ Wikipedia may have problems, but I'm not sure how this particular issue is a mark against it. Wikipedia's editorial resources aren't limited in the same way as a traditional publication. It's not like curtailing "frivolous" subjects will result in better quality "serious" arti…
Do you think they deserve equal intellectual footing?
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
The serious purpose of having a little (a lot) of everything in one place. For free. For everyone. In any language. A kid in India can hop from physiology, to psychology, to medicine, to anthropology, to geography, to history, to economics, to... Do you get the point? I guess we shoould just plug wikipedia off and stick a giant banner that says "Wikipedia is not sufficient for scientific inquiry, so we closed it. Go…
We're talking about two different audiences. To kids or adult novices to a topic, it's fine as a brief introduction in exactly the same way a Cracked.com or Mental Floss article. It's infotainment, which doesn't imply that the information is wrong, just shallow and not necessarily written by someone well-versed and informed about the topic.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 opinio…
And that is why such lines gets tagged with [who?] or the ever popular [citation needed]. You can even tag them yourself.