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Isn't Twitter a private organization that can ban anyone they want?
Isn't Twitter a private organization that can ban anyone they want?
Yup. Private citizens and organizations can do many shameful, reprehensible things, such as engaging in arbitrary (and legal) censorship, such as what Twitter does. Only assholes decide unilaterally for other adults what they're allowed to see and read.
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That’s a lot smaller than I expected, means they’re spending a lot of money on something
This isn't intended as personal criticism of your comment, but I've noticed that people with minimal experience in business often overestimate margins and don't entirely understand what they mean. A 37% margin is crazy high and truly exceptional; there are only a handful of businesses that profitable at scale. When you hear a 30%+ margin, think of businesses like Mastercard, that collect a percentage of most transact…
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Under the new Administration Twitter will assuredly ban anyone who doesn't appropriately mouth the narrative. The bans are already picking up steam, and have been since the election. Trump: gone. Khamenei? Still tweeting about how America is the devil and the Holocaust wasn't real. Where's the explainer under this tweet [0] telling me that this information is disputed wrongthink? 0 https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/sta…
I've got a weak conspiracy theory that Twitter has to take drastic action like this because they're not relevant anymore. I don't know a single person who uses Twitter. I don't know that there's a single proprietary thing about their platform that Parler/Gab couldn't copy. I don't know anyone who thinks Twitter is well-designed. If they aren't centered in the news like they are constantly, I'm not sure that they woul…
Really?
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Why? For somebody not familiar with how research publishing works it might just look like xeroxing books.
Ironically, xeroxing books is a pretty similar case, in that it's commonly done to school and university textbooks, because publishers are running similar rackets. It's hard to ethically justify fighting that either.
My point wasn't that xeroxing books is good or bad, just that coming up with arguments against it is easy and so is for research paper piracy. Having worked for a while in research, I absolutely condone what sci-hub does and used it many times.
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Could/has SciHub been replicated with a database of magnet links to torrents of papers, or similar? Or does it have features that rely on centralisation at this point? Can this be remedied so that SciHub can be operational in a truly decentralized, Bitcoin-like manner, where governments can't interfere short of blocking entire networking protocols? This is not really my area of expertise, but I'd like to understand t…
Torrents are available here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/repository_torrent/ Apparently it was 55TB two years ago. It's probably still somewhere in the realm of a smallish NAS and I bet a couple people on /r/datahoarders have it all downloaded. Hosting is a different matter. I'm not sure if there's some effort to have it available on IPFS or DAT
So there's a monolithic torrent, but we still need to implement a way to search for and download one specific paper, in a decentralized way?
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Could/has SciHub been replicated with a database of magnet links to torrents of papers, or similar? Or does it have features that rely on centralisation at this point? Can this be remedied so that SciHub can be operational in a truly decentralized, Bitcoin-like manner, where governments can't interfere short of blocking entire networking protocols? This is not really my area of expertise, but I'd like to understand t…
IIUC the Library Genesis project mirrors SciHub (i.a.), and Libgen is mirrored on IPFS and has torrents for every 1000 files or so.
So it's mirrored, and the monolithic mirror is broken into chunks, but we still don't have a fully decentralized way of searching for and obtaining one specific paper?
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Could/has SciHub been replicated with a database of magnet links to torrents of papers, or similar? Or does it have features that rely on centralisation at this point? Can this be remedied so that SciHub can be operational in a truly decentralized, Bitcoin-like manner, where governments can't interfere short of blocking entire networking protocols? This is not really my area of expertise, but I'd like to understand t…
Torrents are available here: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/repository_torrent/ Apparently it was 55TB two years ago. It's probably still somewhere in the realm of a smallish NAS and I bet a couple people on /r/datahoarders have it all downloaded. Hosting is a different matter. I'm not sure if there's some effort to have it available on IPFS or DAT
I’m not intimately familiar with the interactions between libgen and sci hub but the wiki page for sci hub says it hasn’t been using libgen as a storage backend for a few years now.
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I’ve wanted to give comments multiple upvotes before, but this story makes me wish HN had some sort of ‘super favorite’. #PiracySavesLives
At first blush I laughed at the hashtag, but it’s not too far from the truth. With the a la carte model of $30 a paper there is no way she could have read the literature. My wife would read the papers slowly and look up words as necessary. 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…