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Feathers and Fur Fly Over Pterosaur Fossil Finding

24 points by zonotope 8y ago

xupybd 8y ago
Pay wall :(
- chillwaves 8y ago
  Here is a non paywall link. http://archive.is/2xYem http://archive.is/2xYem
- mark-r 8y ago
  I've taken to opening every nytimes article in an incognito window, it seems to help. Probably too late for you now though. Somehow they seem to feel that there's nothing in between a casual observer and someone who gets a vital portion of their news from them. I wouldn't mind slipping them a few bucks, and I've done so for the Guardian, but their full subscription rate is just too steep for what I would gain from it.
- doodpants 8y ago
  Defeating nytimes's paywall is a simple matter of disabling Javascript in your browser.
- dorkwood 8y ago
  The internet needs some sort of fast, widely acceptable pay-with-one-click system. If the article asked me to pay 10 cents to read, I'd do it.
  - shakna 8y ago
    Easy enough to implement with the Payment Request API [0], which is a standard, and implemented in most browsers, and most payment processors. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Req...
  - xupybd 8y ago
    I’d love something like that. Even if I had to buy say $10 a month and had some credits to burn down each month. I don’t however want to subscribe to every news outlet. There are only a handful of articles I’d read from each.
    - samatman 8y ago
      This is close enough to how Brave works that you may as well use it and see how you like it. Adoption is a chicken and egg problem; be a chicken.
  - wnscooke 8y ago
    Simple: dogecoin.
    - justtopost 8y ago
      If its so simple, explain the use case in this situation.
- Tor3 8y ago
  Another article from a different source: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-discovery-feathers-million-years.html https://phys.org/news/2018-12-discovery-feathers-million-yea...
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puranjay 8y ago
Pterosaurs have been such a staple of dinosaur pop culture that you start thinking they were a relatively "recent" phenomenon. Then you read the timeline mentioned in the article - 190-230M years - and it blows you away how long a history this planet has, and now insignificant and short humanity's history is
- sohkamyung 8y ago
  Just a note that Pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs, although they are consider as 'flying dinosaurs' by pop culture.
- samatman 8y ago
  I’ll agree with short. Kicking off the fifth extinction isn’t exactly insignificant; more philosophically, I would suggest that significance of an era can only be appreciated by beings with a sense of the past that reaches past their own birth, so perhaps this is the only significant era.

24 points by zonotope 8y ago

xupybd 8y ago

Pay wall :(

chillwaves 8y ago
Here is a non paywall link. http://archive.is/2xYem http://archive.is/2xYem
mark-r 8y ago
I've taken to opening every nytimes article in an incognito window, it seems to help. Probably too late for you now though. Somehow they seem to feel that there's nothing in between a casual observer and someone who gets a vital portion of their news from them. I wouldn't mind slipping them a few bucks, and I've done so for the Guardian, but their full subscription rate is just too steep for what I would gain from it.
doodpants 8y ago
Defeating nytimes's paywall is a simple matter of disabling Javascript in your browser.
dorkwood 8y ago
The internet needs some sort of fast, widely acceptable pay-with-one-click system. If the article asked me to pay 10 cents to read, I'd do it.
- shakna 8y ago
  Easy enough to implement with the Payment Request API [0], which is a standard, and implemented in most browsers, and most payment processors. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Req...
- xupybd 8y ago
  I’d love something like that. Even if I had to buy say $10 a month and had some credits to burn down each month. I don’t however want to subscribe to every news outlet. There are only a handful of articles I’d read from each.
  - samatman 8y ago
    This is close enough to how Brave works that you may as well use it and see how you like it. Adoption is a chicken and egg problem; be a chicken.
- wnscooke 8y ago
  Simple: dogecoin.
  - justtopost 8y ago
    If its so simple, explain the use case in this situation.
Tor3 8y ago
Another article from a different source: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-discovery-feathers-million-years.html https://phys.org/news/2018-12-discovery-feathers-million-yea...

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puranjay 8y ago

Pterosaurs have been such a staple of dinosaur pop culture that you start thinking they were a relatively "recent" phenomenon. Then you read the timeline mentioned in the article - 190-230M years - and it blows you away how long a history this planet has, and now insignificant and short humanity's history is

sohkamyung 8y ago
Just a note that Pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs, although they are consider as 'flying dinosaurs' by pop culture.
samatman 8y ago
I’ll agree with short. Kicking off the fifth extinction isn’t exactly insignificant; more philosophically, I would suggest that significance of an era can only be appreciated by beings with a sense of the past that reaches past their own birth, so perhaps this is the only significant era.