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Of course many citizens of the United States don't subscribe to that notion or actively reject it. You're right that it seems to be a common human tendency!

Your comment may have been tongue-in-cheek?

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19iht-wiki.1.7...

I think the most productive move that folks critical of Wikipedia can make is to create an alternative. It's unfortunate that Jimmy Wales and his clique comport themselves the way they do, because Wikipedia would be much stronger if they didn't.

I find it useful for browsing on subjects that interest me but I don't tend to use it for subjects that are too controversial. At least superficially. And yet given what I know about the biases of Internet denizens I have to wonder how much of what I expose myself to is accurate and not the result of some weird personal biases.

I also consider the citations listed in the footnotes which gives me a bit more confidence than none, I suppose.

Evenly distributed

>much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass.

From an agricultural standpoint perhaps.

The list of Editors, Senior Assistant Editors, Assistant Editors, Assistant Senior Editors, Executive Editors, Editors Adjutant, Editors Emeritus, and Editors-at-large _did not stop scrolling_!

Combined with QE were stealth reductions in product quantities for the same price, i.e. the "price remained the same for a package of widgets" and yet there were less widgets per package

some of us were paying attention to the shell game

This is completely untrue. I have in the past and continue to create web components that "hard CS" folks would scoff at and also quietly use in their own projects if my work weren't owned by my employers.

I've built chunking hi-def megapixel web camera services a decade ago when browsers were limited to 20mb uploads. I've suggested building simple structured data protocols based on xml for a high-rate foreign exchange brokerage client-server architectures. We wanted to secure traffic between the client and server so I suggested self-signed certificates.

I'm not stupid but I'm not a "10x developer" either. I work as a software developer because it's the most lucrative, accessible and interesting opportunity for a non-credentialed individual like myself. I've met folks with Masters in CS that unfortunately didn't merit a basic certificate in the same.

An estate sale? Unless I'm missing some nuance.

in the face of immorality, morality stand supreme