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Hahaha in my 37 years I don't think anyones mentioned looking it up, cheers. I chose it when I was 8 by flipping open my mom's 2000 page tome of a Merriam Websters, closing my eyes, and putting my finger on the page.


Let me explain how many times I went back-and-forth with the opticians about "is this coating/feature optional?"


My optician's office charges an extra $100 for blue light filtering. They at least make it clear it's optional but recommended for frequent screen use.


By the time I started staying up late, it seemed that most United States-based stations didn't "sign off" much at all.

However, the "border blaster" stations in Mexico would sign off precisely on schedule, playing the Mexican National Anthem [audio] with men's chorus and brass band.

The radio stations were required to broadcast "The Mexican National Hour" in the Spanish language, which turned Sunday evenings into a series of special-programming blocks.


> the archive targets

Isn't there a substantial overlap with the copyright holders?


Overlap?


[citation needed]


Ironic, I know. I couldn't find where I originally heard this years ago, but the InternetArchiveBot page linked above says "InternetArchiveBot monitors every Wikimedia wiki for new outgoing links" which is probably referring to what I said.


If the WMF had a dollar for every proposal to spend Endowment-derived funds, their Endowment would double and they could hire one additional grant-writer


Do you have experience with this? I'd like to hear more, really. I think this is the first time I've seen a suggestion for something new they can spend money on. I usually just see talk about where to spend less.


If the endowment is invested so that it brings very conservative 3% a year, it means that it brings $4.32M a year. By doubling that, rather many grant writers could be hired.


Well the last annual report I could find actually says that they got a return of 17.65% so 3% would be pretty bad

https://wikimediaendowment.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annua...


Spammers and pirates just got super excited at that plan!


There are various systems in place to defend against them, I recommend against this, poor form against a public good is not welcome.



It's an Internet trope — we could link to knowyourmeme, or link to the HN Guidelines


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