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can someone share the pdf here for folks who don't wanna share their email?

NikolaNovak 4y ago
I wouldn't. Author is offering their work at a given price. That price is email. It may be worth it to you or not. Requesting a pirated copy of it without paying the price is not something I encourage,given so many of us here are well to do knowledge workers whose live being depends on people paying for our work. (Not to mention, it's same or less work for you to create a temp email account, vs somebody else doing the work of signing up, sharing their email, and uploading and hosting content for your convenience). Yes yes information wants to be free and all that, but this is just lazy :-D
- tr33house 4y ago
  agree. Thanks for changing my perspective
- remram 4y ago
  You say that, yet every paywalled news article posted on HN quickly gets a web.archive.org or archive.is link as a top comment. What is the fundamental difference with this?
  - randStr_ 4y ago
    I've bounced back from so many walled articles that now I genuinely blame the OP (of that post) for not including a non-walled link. HN should have a tag for walled contents.
tpetry 4y ago
To be honest. Just subscribe and the next time I wrote a free article and share it with you unsubscribe. I don‘t spam you. Ans I don‘t mind when you only want to grab the ebook.
- ylg 4y ago
  The problem is not unknown value. It’s unknown cost. Until I know everything you will ever do to me with my email I don’t know the true cost. What I can guess—given the thousands of precedents I’ve encountered over the years—is that the total cost will be time taken from my short life to fend of yet more marketing and yet more marketers. For comparison, if you ask me for currency, I know the total cost of ownership. Usually, for me, a few units of currency are a rounding error compared to the value I place on time.
  - ibdf 4y ago
    The total cost is how much time it takes to google "temp email" and then click on the first link and use that temp email to get the book. It should take about 2 minutes, maybe even less time than writing out your comment.
    - ylg 4y ago
      Sure, same as the total cost of a movie is how long it takes to type the name into a torrent search and click the magnet link. If the OP wanted a bunch of dead temp emails, why ask other people to input them. But, not my point. I think on HN a good assumption is posters want to discuss, to get feedback. Also not a bad assumption the notion of temp email will be news to absolutely no one at all here.

I wouldn't. Author is offering their work at a given price. That price is email. It may be worth it to you or not. Requesting a pirated copy of it without paying the price is not something I encourage,given so many of us here are well to do knowledge workers whose live being depends on people paying for our work. (Not to mention, it's same or less work for you to create a temp email account, vs somebody else doing the work of signing up, sharing their email, and uploading and hosting content for your convenience). Yes yes information wants to be free and all that, but this is just lazy :-D

tr33house 4y ago
agree. Thanks for changing my perspective
remram 4y ago
You say that, yet every paywalled news article posted on HN quickly gets a web.archive.org or archive.is link as a top comment. What is the fundamental difference with this?
- randStr_ 4y ago
  I've bounced back from so many walled articles that now I genuinely blame the OP (of that post) for not including a non-walled link. HN should have a tag for walled contents.

tpetry 4y ago

To be honest. Just subscribe and the next time I wrote a free article and share it with you unsubscribe. I don‘t spam you. Ans I don‘t mind when you only want to grab the ebook.

ylg 4y ago
The problem is not unknown value. It’s unknown cost. Until I know everything you will ever do to me with my email I don’t know the true cost. What I can guess—given the thousands of precedents I’ve encountered over the years—is that the total cost will be time taken from my short life to fend of yet more marketing and yet more marketers. For comparison, if you ask me for currency, I know the total cost of ownership. Usually, for me, a few units of currency are a rounding error compared to the value I place on time.
- ibdf 4y ago
  The total cost is how much time it takes to google "temp email" and then click on the first link and use that temp email to get the book. It should take about 2 minutes, maybe even less time than writing out your comment.
  - ylg 4y ago
    Sure, same as the total cost of a movie is how long it takes to type the name into a torrent search and click the magnet link. If the OP wanted a bunch of dead temp emails, why ask other people to input them. But, not my point. I think on HN a good assumption is posters want to discuss, to get feedback. Also not a bad assumption the notion of temp email will be news to absolutely no one at all here.