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Elbakyan is a hero, but it seems like if anything happens to her sci-hub will die. Her writings in the past appear to make her seem she is at least a little ant

Elbakyan is a hero, but it seems like if anything happens to her sci-hub will die. Her writings in the past appear to make her seem she is at least a little anti-social, so I don't hold out much hope of her creating a team. As others have said, she has truly built a Library of Alexandria.

Y_Y 8y ago
It has a bad "bus factor"[0] but at least Kazakh women have been allowed to travel on inside of bus for stone years now[1]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/2198693/Borat-defeated-Kazakh-women-declare-victory-in-battle-of-the-sexes.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/2...
- dang 8y ago
  Nationalistic slurs will get you banned here. Please don't do this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - Y_Y 8y ago
    Where's the slur? It's clearly a joke, and there's a link included if you didn't get the reference. I think it's absurd that Kazakhs would need to be protected from this, or that anyone would read my post as trying to elevate my country (which I never mention) over theirs. You're the boss, but I'd like if you set a different tone.
    - dang 8y ago
      You say "clearly", but intent doesn't translate clearly online. Often it doesn't come across at all. I believe you that your joke wasn't coming from any mean place. But I do wonder how it would land with HN readers in (or from) Kazakhstan, running across a comment like that on this site. Probably some wouldn't mind, but it's easy to see how some might, especially if they already feel a little bit like outsiders here. And the whole Borat thing did have a demeaning edge to it.
      - Y_Y 8y ago
        Fair point. I apologise.
comment_7171 8y ago
"... but it seems like if anything happens to her sci-hub will die." This article in Science suggests otherwise: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pira... "Even if arrested, Elbakyan says Sci-Hub will not go dark. She has failsafes to keep it up and running, and user donations now cover the cost of Sci-Hub's servers. She also notes that the entire collection of 50 million papers has been copied by others many times already. "[The papers] do not need to be downloaded again from universities.""
throwawaylolx 8y ago
>Her writings in the past appear to make her seem she is at least a little anti-social Could you share some examples?
Fins 8y ago
While what she's doing might have some positive side effect to it, calling a Putin stooge who only does it to stick it to those evil Western capitalists and does not care an iota about, you know, science, a "hero" seems to be a bit of an overkill.

Y_Y 8y ago

It has a bad "bus factor"[0] but at least Kazakh women have been allowed to travel on inside of bus for stone years now[1]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/2198693/Borat-defeated-Kazakh-women-declare-victory-in-battle-of-the-sexes.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/2...

dang 8y ago
Nationalistic slurs will get you banned here. Please don't do this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Y_Y 8y ago
  Where's the slur? It's clearly a joke, and there's a link included if you didn't get the reference. I think it's absurd that Kazakhs would need to be protected from this, or that anyone would read my post as trying to elevate my country (which I never mention) over theirs. You're the boss, but I'd like if you set a different tone.
  - dang 8y ago
    You say "clearly", but intent doesn't translate clearly online. Often it doesn't come across at all. I believe you that your joke wasn't coming from any mean place. But I do wonder how it would land with HN readers in (or from) Kazakhstan, running across a comment like that on this site. Probably some wouldn't mind, but it's easy to see how some might, especially if they already feel a little bit like outsiders here. And the whole Borat thing did have a demeaning edge to it.
    - Y_Y 8y ago
      Fair point. I apologise.

comment_7171 8y ago

"... but it seems like if anything happens to her sci-hub will die." This article in Science suggests otherwise: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pira... "Even if arrested, Elbakyan says Sci-Hub will not go dark. She has failsafes to keep it up and running, and user donations now cover the cost of Sci-Hub's servers. She also notes that the entire collection of 50 million papers has been copied by others many times already. "[The papers] do not need to be downloaded again from universities.""

throwawaylolx 8y ago

>Her writings in the past appear to make her seem she is at least a little anti-social Could you share some examples?

Fins 8y ago

While what she's doing might have some positive side effect to it, calling a Putin stooge who only does it to stick it to those evil Western capitalists and does not care an iota about, you know, science, a "hero" seems to be a bit of an overkill.