It's unfortunate that preserving access to scientific knowledge is being associated with piracy.
I get the connection, but Libgen is an entirely different thing than torrenting copyrighted media for entertainment.
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "proof of space" Chia cryptocurrency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27009843
I'm starting to wonder what'll occur first: the bubble popping or the whole hardware market coming to a standstill because of 16 different "proof of xyz" schemes. I cannot wait for internet connections to become unusable after a currency introduces "proof of bandwidth".
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#43If you would like to help out you can seed some at risk torrents which can be found here —> https://phillm.net/libgen-seeds-needed.php For more information you can visit u/shrine’s original post here —> https://old.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/e129yi/charitabl...
These are listed as fiction?
That's not a question?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm starting to wonder what'll occur first: the bubble popping or the whole hardware market coming to a standstill because of 16 different "proof of xyz" schemes. I cannot wait for internet connections to become unusable after a currency introduces "proof of bandwidth".
Add them all together for the ultimate, proof of destruction: cryptocurrency backed by atmospheric pollution, fauna and flora extinction and natural resource exhaustion. Buy it now, it definitely won't last forever! :D Bu seriously, I still don't understand cryptocurrencies. So, your X discoin is worth Y million real money . But that's only while it's in cryptocurrency form. If people start cashing out, the value wil…
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "proof of space" Chia cryptocurrency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27009843
I'm starting to wonder what'll occur first: the bubble popping or the whole hardware market coming to a standstill because of 16 different "proof of xyz" schemes. I cannot wait for internet connections to become unusable after a currency introduces "proof of bandwidth".
Ironically I was speculating the other day if not this whole peer review thing would be a good candidate for a crypto currency
Some mechanism by which to speculate on the impact or future credibility of a paper would create some kind of prediction market
Proof of impact prediction?
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#46Re: Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
#47I've seen estimates of the total sci-hub/libgen size at anywhere from 20TB to 75+TB. Probably there are lots of dupes in there, and a dedicated dedup effort could reduce that size by a bit. But taking the upper end: A WD Black 10 TB platter drive[0] costs $329, which means it would take only $2700 or so to have enough storage space to archive what's basically the sum total of human scientific knowledge. [0] - https:/…
Wow the storage market has gotten distorted. Only a month ago I bought a 12TB drive for $235.
I bought 4x 12tb Western Digital drives for $190 each back in October 2020.
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#48It's unfortunate that preserving access to scientific knowledge is being associated with piracy. I get the connection, but Libgen is an entirely different thing than torrenting copyrighted media for entertainment.
Uhh, you realize Libgen has a fiction section (among other things), right?
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#50It's unfortunate that preserving access to scientific knowledge is being associated with piracy. I get the connection, but Libgen is an entirely different thing than torrenting copyrighted media for entertainment.
Uhh, you realize Libgen has a fiction section (among other things), right?
IME when you move away from Math/Engineering libgen tends to have a much thinner selection (although I'll admit that I've always gone to standardebooks for fiction.)