Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)

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Post by mrlinx » Tue, May 11, 2021, 11:50 PM UTC

bufferoverflow wrote: post #52

bserge wrote: post #38

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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…

You spending time on social media or driving or eating does destroy the nature too, but you somehow justify it to yourself.

Hey, Any way I can email you?

Re: Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)

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Post by Black101 » Wed, May 12, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

Causality1 wrote: post #15

na85 wrote: post #11

I'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 an 8TB for $125 in November 2018 ... The same drive is $180 today: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07D5V2ZXD

Re: Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)

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Post by JetSpiegel » Thu, May 13, 2021, 11:24 PM UTC

eloisius wrote: post #87

givepause wrote: post #67

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They only host PDFs and EPUBs, so there's no software involved.

While I think it’s incorrect to assume PDFs cannot be exploited, I’m using computer viruses as a metaphor. What if a legit chemistry paper was tampered with such that the procedure creates and explosively releases a nerve agent and a cheap grad student that didn’t pay for the legal copy unknowingly follows it?

> What if a legit chemistry paper was tampered with such that the procedure creates and explosively releases a nerve agent and a cheap grad student that didn’t pay for the legal copy unknowingly follows it?

That grad student is visited by representatives from the military-industrial complex and is quickly drafted to doing that again. Imagine creating nerve agents by accident, what a breakthrough!