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Post by vxNsr »

NmAmDa wrote: post #75
foepys wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or start a war with her own citizens and use hunger as a weapon by destroying infrastructure, farming equipment and blocking foreign aid, creating a famine among millions.

Ethiopian PM choice was really the most stupid thinf they did with the peace prize.

Once they started using it as a political tool to say “we support this persons policies”. I’m happy that they continue to have a near perfect record of terrible winners. It makes it clear if you win the Nobel Peace Prize you’re likely not as good as you thought.

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Post by kongin »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #42

I find it fascinating that SciHub seems to be highlighting two large issues. - Globalisation and the rule of law. Mostly that's a good thing. But SciHub would unlikely survive if Russia was unable to give US courts the middle finger regularly over the last decade. I am not convinced that the benefits of totalitarian regime outweighs the downsides but it is a thing - copyright law is not patent law, science is not pat…

>- Globalisation and the rule of law. Mostly that's a good thing. But SciHub would unlikely survive if Russia was unable to give US courts the middle finger regularly over the last decade. I am not convinced that the benefits of totalitarian regime outweighs the downsides but it is a thing

I can't wait for 2030 when China overtakes the US as the worlds largest economy. We can all then be banned from the internet for having seen the doctored photo of nothing happening on May 35th.

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Post by KNrDajfZ »

sleepingsoul wrote: post #114
londons_explore wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wish someone could build a better UI for this research internet. Hyperlinks for all references would be a good start. Finding some way to make some automatic glossary of definitions of technical terms would make scientific papers substantially more accessible too.

Have you come across scite ( https://scite.ai ) yet? We're also innovating in this space by extracting citation statements from full-text articles and classifying their intent. So let's say paper A cites paper B. If you look at paper B, we show you: - how many times it was cited - the direct paragraphs from paper A where it was cited - the sections from paper A where paper B was referenced - ... and a lot more You ca…

No one cares. This thread is about free access to papers and not another paid service that forces you to pay monthly fees for something that could be a free service. In that sense you aren't any better than large online publishers. 8 bucks a month for a scientific paper search engine? Really?

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

londons_explore wrote: post #12
lcvw wrote: post #5

I really hope sci-hub survives this. Sci-hub and libgen are like an entirely different internet, one allowing you to dive as deep as you wish into any technical subject. There’s really no comparison I have found anywhere for the depth of material available. People always point to Wikipedia, but all of that is surface level. If you to build something, research something, or just really delve into it, there’s no substi…

I really wish someone could build a better UI for this research internet. Hyperlinks for all references would be a good start. Finding some way to make some automatic glossary of definitions of technical terms would make scientific papers substantially more accessible too.

Some of the background data for this is being collected by wikiCite (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite) and Scholia https://scholia.toolforge.org/ projects

Part of this involves turning text data of authors into linked data that used to navigate between texts: https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org/

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Post by logicchains »

hirako2000 wrote: post #65
b215826 wrote: post #3

Sci-Hub and LibGen have contributed more to my PhD than my so-called advisers. So thank you Alexandra for your unselfish efforts to make science accessible to all!

And it has contributed to the majority of the knowledge I've gained from its published documents than I could have ever afforded. Makes me realise I never donated. They have the pudic courtesy to never even prompt for support.

>They have the pudic courtesy to never even prompt for support.

Thank you, I learned a new word today.

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Post by tonyarkles »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #96
ehvatum wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it’s a new and better world. On the other side of the $275 per-paper Elsevier paywall, there are researchers who wish more people would read their papers. In my experience digging into robotics kinematics, authors are happy to answer questions and can point me to the right person when I want to send a check to support investigating specific research questions. The paywall deceives; science is neither an institut…

I have been pleased that The Journal of Field Robotics is well represented on scihub. I have an open source off road robot I am designing and the journal is literally about robots out in fields and stuff. I am a "serious hobbyist" in that I believe my open source contributions to be at least somewhat helpful to others, but it's not the kind of thing that would justify paying for paywalled papers. I just want to glanc…

Wow! The content in JFR is fantastic! Thank you for the pointer!

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Post by einpoklum »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #42

I find it fascinating that SciHub seems to be highlighting two large issues. - Globalisation and the rule of law. Mostly that's a good thing. But SciHub would unlikely survive if Russia was unable to give US courts the middle finger regularly over the last decade. I am not convinced that the benefits of totalitarian regime outweighs the downsides but it is a thing - copyright law is not patent law, science is not pat…

> So patents do seem to provide a way for inventors to protect a revenue stream.

Not necessarly:

1. The vast majority of patents are owned by large companies, not the individual inventors.

2. Patents are very often used purely as "spoilers", i.e. preventing other companies, and even more so individuals, from working in a close enough field to the holding company's, so as not to risk patent litigation.

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Post by ComputerGuru »

KNrDajfZ wrote: post #123
sleepingsoul wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you come across scite ( https://scite.ai ) yet? We're also innovating in this space by extracting citation statements from full-text articles and classifying their intent. So let's say paper A cites paper B. If you look at paper B, we show you: - how many times it was cited - the direct paragraphs from paper A where it was cited - the sections from paper A where paper B was referenced - ... and a lot more You ca…

No one cares. This thread is about free access to papers and not another paid service that forces you to pay monthly fees for something that could be a free service. In that sense you aren't any better than large online publishers. 8 bucks a month for a scientific paper search engine? Really?

I vouched for your comment because you have a very valid point, but you could be more polite in making it. Welcome to HN.

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Post by KNrDajfZ »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #128
KNrDajfZ wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one cares. This thread is about free access to papers and not another paid service that forces you to pay monthly fees for something that could be a free service. In that sense you aren't any better than large online publishers. 8 bucks a month for a scientific paper search engine? Really?

I vouched for your comment because you have a very valid point, but you could be more polite in making it. Welcome to HN.

Thanks. I am really cranky today. I'll do better next time.

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Post by yread »

xoogler234 wrote: post #77
sixtyfourbits wrote: post #26

Torrent seeding effort: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_... All papers on sci-hub are available as torrents from library genesis. The full collection contains 85 million articles (before this announcement), and is about 80TB. If anything ever happens to sci-hub or library genesis, there's enough people out there with backups that a replacement can be set up fairly quickly, albeit without t…

This sounds very appealing. However, from a cursory search I can’t locate any NAS of that size anywhere close to that price point.

8-bay dock ~ 400$ (Icy Box 10-bay)

7x14TB HDD ~ 7*300$ (Toshiba MG07ACA14TE)

total 2500$

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