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by Blahah 11y ago
In 2014 Elsevier's profit margin was 34% http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93138f3e-87d6-11e5-90de-f44762bf98...
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by Blahah 11y ago
We've known this result for nearly as long as we've known about alternative splicing too. All it takes is a single exon with some functional motif to allow multiple proteins with different functions from a single gene.
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by Blahah 11y ago
Reproducing semiconductors more cost effectively is a very good thing. Intellectual property deserves very little respect, and using an idea is not stealing.
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by Blahah 11y ago
Even after reading this comment I still mentally classified that box as an ad and ignored it.
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by Blahah 11y ago
why wouldn't you do it free on github pages?
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by Blahah 11y ago
You don't speak on behalf of dads generally. I'm a dad, and would be insulted if the word chosen was dad. Singling out some group as symbolic of something negative (in this case, ignorance about technical matters), is unnecessary
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by Blahah 11y ago
I do. I care about people. I care about making people feel welcome in communities I take part in.
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by Blahah 11y ago
Great! We're exploring using it for the BioJulia project as a result of this HN post. Thanks for all your hard work.
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by Blahah 11y ago
Yes, the entire Ruby language. https://docs.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.3/ example annotation: https://docs.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.3/symbols/Class?#annotatio...
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by Blahah 11y ago
readcube is a spectacular somersault in the wrong direction. It is so much worse than a PDF - it actively fights me when I try to extract information.
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by Blahah 11y ago
I do - email in profile if you want one
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by Blahah 11y ago
Note that the authors do not get materials benefit when journals sell their articles. If anything that sentence means that authors can claim back the profits made by publishers.
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by Blahah 11y ago
Related question: how do you manage service auth credentials for your code? E.g. client secrets for OAuth. I've never found a good solution.
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by Blahah 11y ago
See also scholastica ( https://scholasticahq.com/ ) which is also around $10 per article before you add bells and whistles.
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by Blahah 11y ago
All your other points have been answered, but just to add that Mozilla does offer fellowships, they are very generous and they are consistently scaling up the program. It currently covers open web technologies, journalism, and science. I
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by Blahah 11y ago
Generally IP 'crimes' are not strict liability, so it does work like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea See e.g. the NET act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NET_Act
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by Blahah 11y ago
Can someone explain why this is happening for us non-Americans (or possibly just me if I missed some major news event)?
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by Blahah 11y ago
Julia is not even at 1.0 yet, and will be full of holes until at least then. It's still a wonderful language for technical/scientific computing, but you don't want it to be your only language if you have to make diverse real
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by Blahah 11y ago
got any ideas for names?
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by Blahah 11y ago
Because the arxiv is a place that hosts free pre-prints. By contrast, sci-hub is a way to get normally expensive articles for free. Arxiv stuff is already free.
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by Blahah 11y ago
Sci-hub isn't going anywhere: 1. The data is stored via lib Gen as torrents (for the PDFs), and a metadata database that is mirrored by hundreds of people. 2. In case of a domain takedown the site can be resurrected at a new domain ver
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by Blahah 11y ago
It's pretty easy right now to just change the header of the README, and/or the project description to indicate deprecation. What added benefit would making it a feature provide?
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by Blahah 11y ago
It's 'useful' in countering an image that people who only read Lander's paper might come away with, and useful in drawing attention to the problem he (Mike) perceives. Whether any of this is useful in a broader sense is
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by Blahah 11y ago
Let's just hope the tardigrades and cockroaches don't form an alliance. We'd be doomed.
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by Blahah 11y ago
My grandfather was a chemist at GSK, and at one stage in his career was responsible for sourcing raw ingredients for many of their products (toothpaste, soft drinks, etc). One such ingredient was lemons. He used to travel regularly to Sicil
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by Blahah 11y ago
Barely suppressing my horror at the word 'connectome' to make a relevant comment: As a new (6 months) parent, I can confirm anecdotally that lack of sleep profoundly messes with the brain. Even getting your normal duration of slee
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by Blahah 11y ago
More than just useful, roads are a huge enabler of local economies. Many rural areas in Africa are so poorly served by roads that it is impossible to build any decent size of business there without access to a lot of starting capital. Even
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by Blahah 11y ago
In the UK we have a copyright exception for text and data mining for non-commercial research, and contracts that try to restrict that activity are unenforceable. Elsevier's terms of service are irrelevant except where they protect the
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Reform tax credits with a Negative Income Tax, says new report(adamsmith.org)
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by Blahah 11y ago
Printing is a separate concern to modern publishing - if people want to read paper versions of academic work, they can foot the bill. Academic editors often work free for scientific publishers, and very few journals employ copy editors (tho

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