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Re: Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python

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Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?

Are you trolling? It's a scientific paper.

He's right about those generally not actually needing PDF for non-print purposes though - simple text and a few images is way more web-friendly as HTML. Sadly only very few repositories make HTML versions available as well.

Re: Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python

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Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?

Are you trolling? It's a scientific paper.

What makes it "scientific"? The fact that it is a PDF and the impersonal tone?

Re: Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python

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Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?

The project was inspired by the paper. Which is in fact a real bonafide scientific paper.

The kind of publication that has a distribution model based around print. Something that has usually been best served by PDF rather than html.

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