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Isn't this heavily "adapted" from this NYTimes article from last year?? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programmin

• chrisaycock 7y ago
  Agreed. This is word-for-word stolen from the NYT. Worse, the article's by line credits "Denton Staff Contributor". This is a massive copyright violation.
• dang 7y ago
  Whoops! Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651. I was wondering why Knuth set aside an entire precious Sunday for the "Denton Daily". Big NYT profile makes more sense. Googling a sentence from their "David and Victoria Beckham keen to present a unified front!" article reveals the same plagiarism—albeit not from the NYT that time—so we have banned the site.
  • masonic 7y ago
    Why ban the site but leave this clickbait intact? (Rather than change the URL)
• bryanrasmussen 7y ago
  Damn! I did not know this when I posted it. I did think it was a little weird though, that the Denton Daily would have it.