That sounds like something I'd listen to and would be super useful, sign me up.
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On a more serious note, "Wikipedia is wrong" and "Wikipedia is doomed" really need to be separated. These clickbait headlines are getting excessively tiring, particularly if anyone is taking them at face value. A solid attempt at collecting the whole sum of human knowledge will obviously have issues given the nature of how we operate.
However, claiming some >current and developing< topic being misrepresented spells the doom of the best attempt at a concise and well-indexed source on human history, the development of our species, and the thoughts/ideals that our civilization stands on is a bit much.
Perspective, please.
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Getting a full list of those would be particularly useful.
The amount of money lost is a little easier to get your head around when you see so many traders buying at relatively high prices towards the end.
When you want to listen to some Drum & Bass, you already have a personal classification of the music style and artists that you're looking for. It's going to be different from someone getting into that genre right now but if you wanted to listen to what they wanted to listen to, I'm guessing you already have some personal term for it (Nu, progressive, modern vs classic, ect.).
When talking to other people and using music services, that all breaks down and you usually start going by similar artists or meaningful tags. Similar artists is an inefficient way to classify your music (both in your mind and in your folders) and meaningful tags works but requires significant effort to actually keep them 'correct' (and if they're not correct and just for personal use, you might as well use genre's).
I think it's a bit overpriced (20-30$) but beyond that, different people value different things in their keyboards. This should not be a revelation to anyone whose been in an office pissing match over the subject.
The disable switches on the back of the keyboard are a very nice touch but beyond that, there is a lot from the ad that's standard fare for higher end keyboards these days. That price really needs to go down by 20-30$ for it to stay competitive beyond the initial rush of Atwood fans.
It looks like it's the real thing in terms of being able to do a lot of useful quantum calculations that can't be done as easily with classical computers. It's not the full deal in terms of being able to do everything a 'true' quantum computer should be able to do - sounds like it might be able to help the NSA out with their data problem though.
Until I can get the same level of information (quantity wise) from another source, Wikipedia has immense value that fills a very large market gap -- even if they can't get their taxonomy of American authors quite right.
To say "Wikipedia’s about over" ignores the actual value of the site and greatly over-reacts to another mishap in the history of the user-run site.
1 and 2 you can ascertain through intensive reading and finding the right courses (which could cost money) - you have to be a pretty good autodidact but if you are, they're certainly possible. If you're not, then college will probably be a preferable path for learning most things - even stuff that's easily digestible online.
3 certainly isn't locked in academia; whether you can 'obtain' the knowledge from the field either is the interesting question. I'd guess the best way would be to just fail fast/iterate and hope you get the key pieces quickly.
You don't need your web hosting provider to look good on the backend as long as everything you need is there and fairly easily find-able (and that itself is good design). Doesn't matter if they provide an awesome service if you can't set it up and use it quickly and efficiently.
You also want your front-end consumer-facing application to look good, especially if you're trying to disrupt a market rather than create a new one.