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The anecdote is telling, and of course for the HN crowd we are as susceptible to cargo cults as anyone. Personally I'm very interested in the survivability of
by kjellsbells 3y ago
The anecdote is telling, and of course for the HN crowd we are as susceptible to cargo cults as anyone.
Personally I'm very interested in the survivability of scientific information. I used to think that this was a worry of the Internet age, but papers locked up in working group reports and journals are increasingly hard to find beyond about a 25 year window. There was a thread on HN in 2020 where someone was looking for a NATO working group report from 1960 and you'd think NATO of all people would preserve records...but there's a black hole.