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If we were all Stephan Wolfram, perhaps that would be possible. But very few academics have either the notoriety or the funds to self-publish and ensure their w

If we were all Stephan Wolfram, perhaps that would be possible. But very few academics have either the notoriety or the funds to self-publish and ensure their work isn't stolen in their highly competitive industry. There is a lot of academic work that is very obscure and only becomes important later, sometimes decades later, maybe even centuries, to someone else doing equally obscure work, but it always goes somewhere, and the goal is not to "move fast and break things," but create bodies of scholarship that last far beyond any specific capitalist industry or company.

breck 2y ago
> ensure their work isn't stolen in their highly competitive industry. If you published your work online backed by git with hashes with a free public service like GitHub, how could someone steal it? If you are an academic and don't know git, why can't you pick up "Version Control with Git" from your library or buy a used copy for $5 and spend a couple days to learn it? > the goal is not to "move fast and break things," Who said that was the goal? Why would you want to remain wrong longer? If you want to move slower, why not take slower walks in the woods versus adding unnecessary bureaucracy?
- DiscourseFan 2y ago
  >Why would you want to remain wrong longer? It's not about "remaining wrong longer," academics don't care that much about being right. Opinions on works change throughout the years, and its hard to keep track of who did what if nobody can make proper attributions. >If you published your work online backed by git with hashes with a free public service like GitHub, how could someone steal it? I'll tell you something, because you have very much outed yourself as a dweeb with this comment: there are physical libraries in the world that are over a thousand years old. GitHub is 16 years old. I would much rather have my work stored in a physical library.

breck 2y ago

> ensure their work isn't stolen in their highly competitive industry. If you published your work online backed by git with hashes with a free public service like GitHub, how could someone steal it? If you are an academic and don't know git, why can't you pick up "Version Control with Git" from your library or buy a used copy for $5 and spend a couple days to learn it? > the goal is not to "move fast and break things," Who said that was the goal? Why would you want to remain wrong longer? If you want to move slower, why not take slower walks in the woods versus adding unnecessary bureaucracy?

DiscourseFan 2y ago
>Why would you want to remain wrong longer? It's not about "remaining wrong longer," academics don't care that much about being right. Opinions on works change throughout the years, and its hard to keep track of who did what if nobody can make proper attributions. >If you published your work online backed by git with hashes with a free public service like GitHub, how could someone steal it? I'll tell you something, because you have very much outed yourself as a dweeb with this comment: there are physical libraries in the world that are over a thousand years old. GitHub is 16 years old. I would much rather have my work stored in a physical library.