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by a3_nm 7y ago
Hi all, thanks for your interest and sorry for the downtime! I'm in the board of the nonprofit hosting Dissemin. The sad situation is that there is currently no one working full time on maintaining Dissemin, so while we try to keep it
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by a3_nm 7y ago
The "toupée"/"to pay" pun was already done at least in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312004/characters/nm0000146 first quote.
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by a3_nm 7y ago
But calling BAT a "token", and running it as a blockchain, would seem to imply that it has some kind of value... If I can just receive it by running a headless patched version of Brave that pretends to show ads, then how could one
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by a3_nm 7y ago
Sorry, this must be very basic but I've never been able to make sense of one thing about Brave's model. You say that users can get paid in BAT to watch ads. But Brave is open-source. So is there anything preventing me to fork the
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by a3_nm 7y ago
... and this is why it's a good idea to use F-Droid instead of the Google Play Store if you can.
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by a3_nm 7y ago
Smartphone app stores are a duopoly, so I don't think Google should have total freedom to decide what they allow and what they don't.
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by a3_nm 7y ago
I doubt these terms were introduced by Wikipedia -- they're just reflecting the diversity of things that exist out there.
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by a3_nm 7y ago
In addition to privacy, another argument against credit cards are fees like interchange fees and assessments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee . When I pay by card, banks and Visa/Mastercard get a cut o
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by a3_nm 7y ago
You are thinking about the "droit au compte" (right to a bank account) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_au_compte but I think there may be some confusion. People exercise their "droit au compte"
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by a3_nm 7y ago
Ah interesting... but then what could happen? Is the risk that the program could try allocating too much memory and crash? Calling this a "backdoor" seems excessive, no? -- at worst it's just a denial of service.
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by a3_nm 7y ago
> Assuming Elsevier is killed off, someone else will have to put in the work of sifting good from bad. All of this work is performed by unpaid reviewers, not by Elsevier themselves.
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by a3_nm 7y ago
> If Elsevier was really providing no value, why don’t scientists simply submit their work elsewhere? Clearly scientists and universities don’t really care about open access. If it was that important to them, they would just stop submitt
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by a3_nm 7y ago
Even if you already have a PhD and tenure, many academic papers are collaborations, and so if the top relevant journals aren't open-access then you need to publish there if one of your co-authors needs a PhD, tenure, etc. Given that mu
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by a3_nm 7y ago
That's not exactly true -- they allow authors to post their papers, e.g., on arXiv; and on institutional repositories such as eScholarship after the end of an embargo period. Here is the page with the (very complicated) terms: https:&
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by a3_nm 7y ago
Argh, this article is going to give researchers the misleading impression that releasing code as open-source is complicated, that you need to maintain it, ask yourself difficult questions, be an expert in programming, find funding to keep i
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by a3_nm 7y ago
I'm not sure that this study means that one should not take notes with a laptop (as the article's title would suggest). Everyone works differently: just because there is an average tendency for people to perform better when taking
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by a3_nm 7y ago
To find the relationships and entity IDs, you can type the prefix like "wdt:" or "wd:" then type something in English and hit Ctrl-Space. For instance, wd:nuclear<Ctrl-Space>. Alternatively you can search on wikida
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by a3_nm 7y ago
Only tangentially related but: this kind of map is really a good use case for Wikidata and its query service, I think. For instance here's how to get something similar: https://w.wiki/4wz Drawbacks: not all reactors ar
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by a3_nm 7y ago
I don't get the ransom thing: users of a git repository have a clone of the repo that contains the whole history, no? So isn't it trivial to recreate the repository?
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by a3_nm 8y ago
Why assume that the server will eventually get hacked? Why shouldn't the server be designed properly, just like the client? I still think it makes sense in terms of security. If I run a piece of client software X that connects to a ser
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by a3_nm 8y ago
I don't think any kind of disclaimer was necessary. Your point about the Keybase server being closed-source has nothing to do with Signal and is completely valid no matter what competing interests you may have.
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by a3_nm 8y ago
Releasing the server code allows concerned users to run their own servers, and this way they can ensure that they are using a server that runs the code that they expect.
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by a3_nm 8y ago
> you can't be showing people skull-and-crossbones warnings every time they swap out a SIM card But isn't Keybase's solution precisely about ensuring that this doesn't happen? If you change your phone's SIM card,
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by a3_nm 8y ago
This is the phenomenon where, for an unfamiliar-but-notable website X (and especially for startups), the Wikipedia page for X often does an incomparably better job than X of conveying what X is and what it's doing.
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by a3_nm 8y ago
I'm a bit puzzled about this: how do they plan to enforce such a cap in a distributed network? Doesn't this require distributed trust (about multiple users accounting the usage of each client)? Or are they assuming that the networ
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by a3_nm 8y ago
Why would your call be routed just via one single phone?
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by a3_nm 8y ago
IEEE and ACM have the same problem, they paywall the papers that they publish. As they are theoretically nonprofits run by the community, it is even harder to get people to care, but it is still very problematic.
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by a3_nm 8y ago
I'm puzzled by the "You agree to not attempt to determine the identity of speakers in the Common Voice dataset". On some level it's a good idea to want to request this, but as the dataset is public-domain, isn't it
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by a3_nm 8y ago
Yeah -- I'm French and I had never realized that "inoui" was somewhat close to "ennui". In French pronunciation the two first vowels are really different ("ennui" in French starts with a nasal 'a&#x27
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by a3_nm 8y ago
It is known that paywalled articles are less read, and less cited, than open-access articles. See e.g. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/home/open-access-papers... Sadly, this is much less important to researchers t

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