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How can Sci-Hub and LibGen be mirrored? When I last looked into it, it was closed source.
Download the web app from http://gen.lib.rus.ec/code/libgen_legacy_catalog_20190831.ra...
Download the database from http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/
Rights holders have been trying to get rid of sites like the pirate bay for more than a decade, and if anything PB is easier to find and more reliable to use than ever before. If they really want change, it's time for them to dispassionately consider their situation. The way to "beat" piracy is to consider it as a competitor, which it is. When I was a kid, everyone downloaded raw mp3s and now that number is a fractio…
When our daughter was born with a rare life threatening condition my wife used SciHub to read articles about her condition. While the doctors had merely skimmed the pages, my wife pored over them and found a suggestion of using a particular drug. After asking five different doctors about it, one finally agreed to prescribe it. It was strange how reticent doctors were to prescribe something and instead just told us sh…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yval98eOyZc
http://minikanren.org/workshop/2020/minikanren-2020-paper10....
I donated ~$300 to SciHub and encourage you all to donate as well. Please give what you can, her bitcoin address can be found at the bottom of the homepage. https://sci-hub.do/
Also please post somewhere your support of her with your real name, and reach out with kind words. Every PhD I know relies on this site, but more importantly 10x+ more people I know who are otherwise "outside" academia rely on this site. How many of the world's best researchers in 30 years will have turned out to get their start in research not thanks to Academia but thanks to SciHub? My guess is most of them. And ma…
Rights holders have been trying to get rid of sites like the pirate bay for more than a decade, and if anything PB is easier to find and more reliable to use than ever before. If they really want change, it's time for them to dispassionately consider their situation. The way to "beat" piracy is to consider it as a competitor, which it is. When I was a kid, everyone downloaded raw mp3s and now that number is a fractio…
Maybe, but part of the reason content creators will keep getting screwed is that there’s no way to pay them equitably with $5/mo subscriptions. Prices would have to rise. So it seems that the market alternative to piracy is gross exploitation.
How can Sci-Hub and LibGen be mirrored? When I last looked into it, it was closed source.
Rights holders have been trying to get rid of sites like the pirate bay for more than a decade, and if anything PB is easier to find and more reliable to use than ever before. If they really want change, it's time for them to dispassionately consider their situation. The way to "beat" piracy is to consider it as a competitor, which it is. When I was a kid, everyone downloaded raw mp3s and now that number is a fractio…
When our daughter was born with a rare life threatening condition my wife used SciHub to read articles about her condition. While the doctors had merely skimmed the pages, my wife pored over them and found a suggestion of using a particular drug. After asking five different doctors about it, one finally agreed to prescribe it. It was strange how reticent doctors were to prescribe something and instead just told us sh…
When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer my dad poured over literally hundreds of medical papers to determine the best course of action. I believe he saved her life. Scihub was instrumental in that. I helped a little in checking and challenging his conclusions. I think it's unlikely she would have had as good an outcome if we'd just listened to the doctors.
My conclusion is if you want the best medical care be sure to do your own research and talk to many doctors about your findings and treatment options. Do not blindly trust the medical community. They are years behind the current state of knowledge in their field and just do not have the time and energy to spend per patient to get the best outcome.
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> Trump who has been very clearly violating twitter TOS on a daily basis How has Trump violated Twitter's TOS on a daily basis? It feels like every policy that has been put up is typically put up specifically for Trump. I don't see how people can post photos of Kathy Griffin showing a decapitated Trump head as being kosher, or CNN's Como saying violent protest is constitutionally protected, and claim Trump is violati…
Posting election misinformation violates Twitter ToS, and since the election he has posted something violating that policy (in their judgment) if not every day, very close to it. These policies have been around since before the election [1]. These examples don't appear to be hypocritical to me on the surface, but I am certainly open to more information. Many people are not happy with Kathy Griffin doing that, on both…
If Russian authorities call another dubious election in favor of Putin, do we just accept that now and ban any dissenting opinions?
I mean after all their authorities have set the official narrative, isn't anything else misinformation now?
At some point we need to stop the hypocrisy, recognize that SciHub is too valuable to the community to be shut down, and fix laws so that it becomes either legal or useless. That's no easy task, but it's much better than having scientists from all over the world rely on it while simultaneously pretending they are dangerous criminals.
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wow, vanilla comment but this is just really inspiring. kudos to her and best wishes to y'all going forward.
I’ve wanted to give comments multiple upvotes before, but this story makes me wish HN had some sort of ‘super favorite’. #PiracySavesLives
We read about a surgery that could potentially help our daughter, which the head of neurosurgery declined to do. We then said we’d take her to another children’s hospital (it turns out our insurance actually wouldn’t have covered that, but we didn’t know we were bluffing) and he begrudgingly agreed to perform the surgery. Had to get the expert who is a professor at Washington University to give a second opinion recommending surgery before it happened.
Most of the doctors really didn’t like my wife, there are notes about her obstinance in our daughters file. But our daughter is doing well, and I’m glad I married someone so doggedly persistent.