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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, …

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 journ…

> 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 thi…

> 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 resear…

> 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 employee…

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 dif…