throwaway38941

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by throwaway38941 5y ago
I've been doing systems work for 20 years. Here's why most of those things are actually good: - Strings are subtly complex, but strings are not variables. You can assign a string, and later handle it as a variable, and not deal wi
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by throwaway38941 5y ago
If you do some research and then want to publish it in a journal, there is a large scope of work on the publishing side which includes hosting. Scihub just redistributes what journals have already spent the money to vet, edit, proof and p
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by throwaway38941 5y ago
> of course scientists could run a reputable journal for free or on donations We can't even get critical infrastructure open source projects funded by donations. What makes you think people will start donating to free research jou
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by throwaway38941 5y ago
> You can run a better journal for free than what you can get from Elsevier. If you staff and pay for it. You're also forgetting that the entire point of Journals is so that research institutions don't have to think about how t
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by throwaway38941 5y ago
> The scandal in my opinion is that a professor or phd candidate is paid by the state to do research and then the state has to pay again to license the contributions their employees made. Meanwhile the taxpayer who already paid for the r
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by throwaway38941 5y ago
Does the "social media industry" provide a service where you, an individual, can sign up to one single site, and access every social media post that exists? No. Because they're different social media sites. They do not work t