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Sturgeon's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law) states "90% of everything is crap" so you're not too far off.
Visualizing All ISBNs
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Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with such judgment is that they are subjective and subject to biases that change over time. Almost every scrap of information from ancient civilizations is considered priceless at this point because so few is left of it. Anything from obscene graffiti, shopping lists, personal messages, etc. All of it. Many autocratic regimes editorialize and censure all forms of publications. But even in the US, which is…
All action is "subjective and subject to biases that change over time". This would then imply I could never take any action, because it's just subjective and biased. Maybe that's an exaggeration of your position, but you do seem to be suggesting inaction or the impossibility of judgement. I reject this position 100%. I would suggest that judgement is a critical part of our civilization, and it's judgement that says t…
> All action is "subjective and subject to biases that change over time".
This is poppycock. Backing up all books -- the very action discussed by the person you're answering -- is by definition neither subjective nor subject to biases.
> This would then imply I could never take any action, because it's just subjective and biased.
And even if the first quoted claim were true, this, too, clearly isn't. Nowhere does the comment you're answering imply that the bias or subjective rationale of an action should, ipso facto, discourage a person from taking it.
Your comment is replete with similar reasoning, so warped that it's difficult to characterize as anything other than in bad faith. Indeed, this is the snottiest, rudest, least constructive comment I've seen on HN in quite some time -- excepting a couple of my snotty remarks on language or the quality of someone's writing.
I have no idea what response you expect, but the only one you deserve, I think, is one that just points out your dismissiveness, sarcasm, and breathtaking contempt. What an awful way to move through the world, let alone through HN.
Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works fine here from a European IP.
It's blocked at least in the Netherlands. Weirdly it mentions it being part of the sanctions against Russia, while from a cursory search I only found a judge ordering the site to be blocked because of copyright issues (thanks Brein). They probably just show the wrong error page?
I'm also in NL. Ziggo's DNS server blocks it:
$ dig annas-archive.org @89.101.251.228
annas-archive.org. 360 IN CNAME unavailable.for.legal.reasons.
unavailable.for.legal.reasons. 339 IN A 213.46.185.10
Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Major efforts at creating "everything" libraries are usually looked upon as a positive effort that benefits all of humanity, and we generally mourn the loss of any such effort, regardless of whether the effort is against the laws of the state at the time the effort was undertaken, or even if the collection was created in a morally reprehensible way. See: Library of Alexandria, Library of Congress, GenBank, the Svalba…
No one is objecting to knowledge preservation - when you just preserve it instead of abundantly replicating it with a wink. Reasonable people are objecting to copyright law violation, for the simple reason that it disincentivizes further knowledge creation. Even more reasonable people are objecting to weaponizing copyright law violation on behalf of the vilest dictatorship on the planet.
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Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#45Anyone else seeing this?
"This server couldn't prove that it's annas-archive.org; its security certificate is from *.hs.llnwd.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection."
Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#46The thing is, ISBNs aren't hierarchical --- they are bought in blocks (or even individually at an exorbitant markup, says the guy who bought one to reprint a single book), so this doesn't show anything really interesting/useful.
A visualization using LoC or even Dewey Decimal would be far more useful, esp. if it also linked to public domain and copyright-free repositories/lists, say an interactive and visual version of John Mark Ockerbloom's:
Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#47Anyone else seeing this? "This server couldn't prove that it's annas-archive.org; its security certificate is from *.hs.llnwd.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection."
No, sounds like you are being mitm for them. Though the domain appears like a legitimate CDN.
Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#48is it illegal to download and use their isbn file? like what is wrong with having that information?
Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#49The thing is, ISBNs aren't hierarchical --- they are bought in blocks (or even individually at an exorbitant markup, says the guy who bought one to reprint a single book), so this doesn't show anything really interesting/useful. A visualization using LoC or even Dewey Decimal would be far more useful, esp. if it also linked to public domain and copyright-free repositories/lists, say an interactive and visual version…
It shows what they want to show, which is mostly how much of the world books they have. Hierarchical has nothing to do with it.
Re: Visualizing All ISBNs
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Major efforts at creating "everything" libraries are usually looked upon as a positive effort that benefits all of humanity, and we generally mourn the loss of any such effort, regardless of whether the effort is against the laws of the state at the time the effort was undertaken, or even if the collection was created in a morally reprehensible way. See: Library of Alexandria, Library of Congress, GenBank, the Svalba…
No one is objecting to knowledge preservation - when you just preserve it instead of abundantly replicating it with a wink. Reasonable people are objecting to copyright law violation, for the simple reason that it disincentivizes further knowledge creation. Even more reasonable people are objecting to weaponizing copyright law violation on behalf of the vilest dictatorship on the planet.
> Reasonable people are objecting to copyright law violation, for the simple reason that it disincentivizes further knowledge creation.
how?