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   Penny graph(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by a3_nm 10y ago|0 comments
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   I won't take the initiative of changing passwords, and I will only be doing it for services that ask me to do it. In my opinion, if my accounts get compromised because the provider uses Cloudflare and leaks my data all over, it's
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   Fortunately, as the code is under a free license, F-Droid or anyone else can ship their own builds no matter what Open Whisper Systems prefer.
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   Having a documented API is nice, but I still wouldn't call it "trivial" to migrate out of. Besides, we don't know if this API is going to stay around forever or whether it will be discontinued. (Unlike, e.g., the git rep
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   Despite "the emerging consensus among experts", I'm still happy using OpenPGP-encrypted emails (with mutt) with several of my friends and colleagues for various purposes. Of course the UX of GnuPG is terrible. Of course the s
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   They are using pull requests on Github, and I don't think that these are trivial to import/export.
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   > there are no border controls (when walking or driving). In practice they may not always exist, but I think Schengen member states have the authority to perform border controls in all cases ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   This is a page on internal Wikipedia policy, so there is no question about the accuracy here. The parent comment was pointing out that, in principle, Wikipedia policy is that contributors do not "own" content on Wikipedia in the s
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   by a3_nm 10y ago

   When complaining about inadequate behavior from other Wikipedia editors, it would be very useful to point out concrete links to edits and reverts. This gives a chance to other interested parties to fix the article and contribute to the disc
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Interestingly, CodeWeavers appears to be part of the reason in 2002 why Wine changed its license from MIT to LGPL. They were concerned about the fact that CodeWeaver's fork of Wine was proprietary. (Sources: https://en.wikip
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Of course, caveats about trusting Github also apply. (If Github got hacked, the page https://github.com/[github name].keys would serve the public key of a fresh attacker-controlled key and would trigger shortly afterwards a
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Exactly. My understanding of the push towards HTTPS by Google is that they control the websites more than they control the connectivity, so they want to make sure that ISPs can only aspire to be substitutable intermediaries between users an
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Note that they have a "long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure", so dumb workarounds will not work forever.
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    I second open-sourcing. Another idea would be to offer dumps of your index for people to download. (Pragmatic reason: I worry that you may go offline someday due to misguided legal action, lack of time, etc., and I'd like to have your
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    Babai Strikes Back(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)

    1 points by a3_nm 10y ago|0 comments
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Misleading headline. According to uMatrix, the page still loads at least: cloudflare.com, disqus.com, fonts.googleapis.com, gravatar.com, gstatic.com, google-analytics.com.
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Some URLs are private by design, so I think it would be an awfully bad idea to discover new URLs in this way.
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    > Edit: And open-sourcing makes a huge assumption that your investors (who own the rights to a chunk of this stuff) even agree that you can just give away what they invested in. Interesting point. Is it really accurate? I mean, if invest
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Even if they are available for $0.49, having them under an open source license would be very different. (It would make it possible, e.g., to modify them and ship them in other games.)
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    I don't think it's so important that the Stack Exchange websites are included in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. What really matters to me is that, like Wikimedia websites ( http://download.wikimedia.org&#x2
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Of course not. Compare this with LIPIcs http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics -- they have article processing charges of 60 EUR.
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    I do not understand the point. The barriers to publication (i.e., how selective an academic journal is) have nothing to do with the barriers to access (i.e., subscriptions being required to access the content). And indeed, there are sel
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    The problem is the following: if there is no established OA journal in the field, you can't distinguish the candidate who "deliberately" publishes good quality work in a non-selective OA journal, from the candidate who publis
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Don't forget that you can also decline to review for them: it should also be quite effective, and it should be quite risk-free in terms of career.
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    > arXiv only supports a handful of related disciplines, whereas Elsevier has literally thousands of journals in scores of disciplines Yes, you should probably scale the operating costs of arXiv according to the number of papers published
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    I think this is great news. More unsubscriptions are a good thing because (1.) publishers get less money; (2.) researchers in these universities realize that subscriptions should not be taken for granted, in the frequent case where they hav
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Yeah, but sadly, many tenured academics are not making any such moves either... There is definitely a "pyramid scheme" problem where the need to publish in unethical venues survives because of the needs of non-tenured academics, b
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Fortunately, many fields also have fully open-access journals and conferences which provide the prestige without making your papers hard to access. (In my field, e.g.: the ICDT conference, IJCAI, ICALP, LICS; the LMCS and JAIR journals.) Th
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    The arXiv website operates on less than $1M per year (source: Wikipedia page) and takes care of everything that is needed to disseminate knowledge except for arranging reviews (don't forget that traditional publishers are not actuall
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    by a3_nm 10y ago

    Note that putting your paywalled papers on arXiv or on your website is very often perfectly legal, because, as a result of open access lobbying, many non-open-access publishers allow exemptions for this in their copyright transfer agreement