lambast

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   by lambast 13y ago

   This line of reasoning makes sense, but so far the evidence has been contradicting it completely... France is borrowing at the cheapest rates it ever has. See for instance: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/markets-bonds-idUS...
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   by lambast 14y ago

   The academics in question might have little choice but to give away some/most of the content for free, as it is often mandated by university- or department-level policy. At least as far as internal use of the courses is concerned, the incen
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   by lambast 14y ago

   What if they sold their code to a different entity, which would rebrand the app and use a different token? Marketing issues aside, wouldn't it buy them slots for 100k new users?
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   by lambast 14y ago

   When you download a paper from JSTOR or ScienceDirect, it is quite easy for them to add various watermarks to the PDF, and they already do (mildly). It might make it harder to scale this concept if the provider can track down who initially