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It's too bad humanities people tend not to use plain text that are checked into git, with hash codes and time stamps that are hard to fake. That way, she could
by bluenose69 9y ago
It's too bad humanities people tend not to use plain text that are checked into git, with hash codes and time stamps that are hard to fake. That way, she could have shown the various Deans that her work predated that of Dr Mao.
I didn't follow the ideas of Mao's suggesting that she had copied something in the literature. It seemed to be the material that she said Mao copied from her, but if that's the case, wasn't Mao plagiarizing? Or was Mao the author of that earlier work (and therefore a self-plagiarist)?
It's a great read, and I think the author should consider a job as a writer. Maybe all that work paid off, after all, in honing her ability to hold the readers' attention. Writers can do a lot of good for the world.
- thethirdone 9y ago> It's too bad humanities people tend not to use plain text that are checked into git, with hash codes and time stamps that are hard to fake. That way, she could have shown the various Deans that her work predated that of Dr Mao. It is not hard to fake timestamps in git. There are many tools used to generate patterns for the Github contributions graph. If you want to move a file back in time in git, you just have to do some rebasing and edit the commit times.
- KingMob 9y agoThis is something a blockchain is actually good for. Just submitting a hash of the work into a block proves you wrote it before a hash in a later block.
- thethirdone 9y agoDefinitely, a blockchain is just about the only way to do this without trusting a third-party. Git on a blockchain sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has done that.
- Balgair 9y agoOh, yeah, none of those committees would have cared, let alone known what git was to begin with. It's not about the truth, it's about the posturing.