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by crumbshot 3y ago
You can get a delightful spectrum of colour through the filter as well, using the large square emojis: ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛⬜ ⬜🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧⬜ ⬜🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨⬜ ⬜🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦⬜ ⬜🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪⬜ ⬜⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬜
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by crumbshot 5y ago
For these publishers, that's a welcome side effect. Having a small number of private companies control access to what should be communal resources, solely to enrich themselves and their shareholders, is not how this should work at all.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
It's copying, not theft. The latter deprives someone of an item, the former increases its availability. An important distinction when considering the purpose and goals of Sci-Hub.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
Was her identity well-known before the Elsevier court case, where she was named? I thought the publicity for her efforts was made after this, in English language media anyway. Though perhaps I am misremembering the order of events.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> Let me reply to your last sentence by saying I do not think it is sexist to use the word “hysterical”, which has a well-understood meaning apart from its etymology, to someone who happens to be female. Then do you think maybe you mis
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> Ms. Elbakyan attacked me rather hysterically on Twitter when she learned of an article on my site that describes several methods to acquire free copies of scientific articles, Just looks like an emphatic disagreement to me: https:&
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by crumbshot 5y ago
Not only should there should be no autonomous drones, the non-autonomous remote controller hardware should be wired up such that if they are shot out of the sky, this kills the human operator and anyone sitting nearby. This would be much fa
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by crumbshot 5y ago
This proposed seizure would be conditional on such assets belonging to the royal family. So it would only be a precedent for any additional monarchical assets discovered after the initial transfer of ownership.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> By "fill their pockets" I mean actively engage in political corruption. But they do. For example, the Queen used her power to get an exemption from transparency laws with regards to her own personal wealth: https:/&#x
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> The fact that over 60% of people like to live in a country where birth defines a family's worth as higher than everyone else is mind boggling. On a more uplifting note, polls indicate that this support has been slowly declining
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by crumbshot 5y ago
This supposed 'intellectual property theft' is mostly just reverse engineering of technology. It's not really a problem anyway. If some capitalists in the US and Europe don't get to skim off a slice of profit from anothe
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by crumbshot 5y ago
An upload site for papers, but with a cryptocurrency scam attached. Useless.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
The fact that this is a VC-backed startup pretty much guarantees it will be doing nefarious things with its users' data somewhere down the line. Even if not intended right now.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> The product is not tainted because it was made by prisoners, but because your justice system sucks. The product is tainted because it was made by enslaved workers being exploited for their labour.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> I feel like this article is pointing a gun at the wrong faces. These companies are most likely doing this as a form of social giving. No, they're doing it because they know they can severely underpay these workers and treat them
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by crumbshot 5y ago
This is the most "keyboard warrior" comment I've ever read.
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> We should shut down Russian infrastructure as retaliation. How about, instead of causing harm to innocent Russian people by such pointless escalation, the US makes a serious and meaningful effort to secure their critical national inf
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> Given paying with crypto is as easy as a QR scan these days once someone is onboarded, the other claim that you use, convenience, is about to go out the window: see venmo, PayPal, CB integrations. But why would you want to? In most c
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by crumbshot 5y ago
The article isn't wrong though. The main uses of cryptocurrencies, other than as speculative assets, are online drug dealing and ransomware payments. For almost every other application, real money is more useable, convenient and reliab
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by crumbshot 5y ago
Despite your unnecessary sarcasm, this is actually a good example, seeing as the company was eventually destroyed by the US government for abusing its monopoly position. They did indeed fund a highly successful research centre, but - import
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by crumbshot 5y ago
By her own words, in creating and maintaining Sci-Hub, Elbakyan was driven by communist ideals: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc850001 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/675
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> I have a more charitable interpretation. My impression is that the author is dealing with an ethical dilemma that most of us have not had to contend with, and that this essay is an attempt to resolve it. That's a good point and
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> Are we going to blame lawyers who defend rapists? Only if such lawyers are unethical in how they go about doing this. Lawyers who defend accused rapists are a necessity for a well-functioning justice system. The alternative is a proc
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> Why not reject the advertising model and the payment model until something better comes along? The Internet Archive is a great example of this. A non-profit that relies neither on advertising revenue nor subscription revenue from ind
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> I have a hard time believing the author is unaware of this, so I'm left wondering: why? What was the point of this exercise? I reckon it was mostly a brag about (1) how he earns over half a million dollars a year for inflicting
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by crumbshot 5y ago
> Why couldn't we just have stuck with yellow? It was because of a demonstrated demand for emojis with different skin tones to the default yellow. Before the Unicode Consortium had even considered this, there was a popular app cal
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by crumbshot 5y ago
This reminds me of the "Cash for Ash" scandal in Northern Ireland, where people were doing exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scand...
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by crumbshot 5y ago
That's a separate issue, assuming it really is an issue, and not just an indication that those private housing developments in Portland are being constructed with a cheaper, lower build quality so that their investors can generate more
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by crumbshot 5y ago
That's not how it turned out in the UK. As this graph illustrates, when the local government authorities were prohibited from building more housing, from the 1980s onwards, the private sector didn't pick up any of the slack: http
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by crumbshot 5y ago
It all depends on how it's implemented. The usual method of controlling rent is to cap only a subset of properties in an area - for example, leaving new builds or new tenancies exempt. Which tends to create a two-tier system that benef

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