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by mlinksva 5y ago
> Few people today are priced out of streaming films or buying MP3s The article is trying to underscore the expensiveness of scientific literature (undeniable) with the above, but it is true for any reasonable value of "few"?
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by mlinksva 5y ago
This does not seem like much of a risk. Japan remains wealthy, innovative, and peaceful. If China has these attributes in the future, but is "mired" in debt and slow growth, while the most dynamic catch up growth and attendant ind
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Brave Talk – Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing(brave.com)
178 points by mlinksva 5y ago|214 comments
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Does the author ever explain why they aren't vaccinated? I only skimmed the very long post, looking for a reason. They claim a medical reason for their spouse, and then jump to saying they oppose mandates. They'd be more credible
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Vivek Haldar also has a new video summary of the same paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3fJlHey8kw
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Periodic reminder to support https://allfed.info/
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by mlinksva 5y ago
> Scihub Test Did you just coin that? Well done. Quick web and HN search, nearest I could find is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805134
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Love seeing discussions of Eckhard Höffner's comparative work on English and German copyright history. This Spiegel article has probably given it the most visibility. Höffner has written extensively on the history of books and copyrigh
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by mlinksva 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinePaint and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge each seem to be reasonably up to date.
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Maybe https://github.com/sponsors/alyssais
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Publication of the European Commission’s Study on the Impact of Open Source(openforumeurope.org)
2 points by mlinksva 5y ago|0 comments
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Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Internet Access in Iran(niacouncil.org)
2 points by mlinksva 5y ago|0 comments
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by mlinksva 5y ago
> _replacing_ the favicon with a loudspeaker when the tab is playing audio Ah, that explains how I've inadvertently muted tabs several times over the last few days, when I've never done that before.
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Is there a version of the article without obfuscated/redirect/tracking links? I clicked what seemed to be the most important link and got to (removed cruft) https://onepercentsteps.com/policy-briefs/addressing
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by mlinksva 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210718172613/https://schematro...
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Perhaps I should've added - fire hazard - burn hazard because I'd guess that induction is less hazardous than gas in these respects, and some otherwise would-have-been gas ranges will be replaced by induction.
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by mlinksva 5y ago
The article only mentions climate change, but there are other reasons to eliminate gas hookups: - explosions - indoor air quality - gas infrastructure costs something to maintain, and for new developments, create Especially if cl
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by mlinksva 5y ago
> the most unstable housing in New York City: the public housing How is public housing unstable? Are public housing residents frequently forced to move? AFAIK that's the definition of unstable housing.
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by mlinksva 5y ago
It was published in 2009. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Inspiring article (I love SQL, but it's also frustrating). My only wish would be to see the criticisms used as a checklist to evaluate SQL improvements or new query languages. EdgeQL, indirectly linked at the end of the article, looks
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Celebrating Five Years of Building Software Heritage(softwareheritage.org)
2 points by mlinksva 5y ago|0 comments
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by mlinksva 5y ago
FamilySearch also provides hints ("research helps") with the same up and downsides. Perhaps this is a recent feature, I've only used the site since early this year. I feel like there's an opportunity to do automated data
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by mlinksva 5y ago
FamilySearch data seems OK to me (idly curious rather than a serious researcher) and LDS (which it is run by) doesn't proselytize on the site, while Ancestry and other commercial services are constantly selling themselves. I've us
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by mlinksva 5y ago
I found my great grandfather and great granduncle listed on what seem to be (from skimming autotranslations) missing landowner documents in the Czech Republic, dated as recently as the beginning of 2021 (web version linked below). Which was
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Some people do, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_suffering#Anima... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_animal_suffering
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China bets on open-source technologies to boost domestic innovation(merics.org)
1 points by mlinksva 5y ago|0 comments
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by mlinksva 5y ago
They're very common in the bay area as street trees. The fruits are decent, but indeed don't look or taste anything like strawberries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo
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by mlinksva 5y ago
https://github.com/collections/made-in-china https://github.com/github/explore/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Less travel is also on the table. We should do all of the above. A hefty carbon tax is the holistic instrument, but I'll take any/all paths.
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by mlinksva 5y ago
Is taking the bus between St. Louis and Chicago really more convenient now than the train (Lincoln Service)? Google maps seems to show Greyhound taking over an hour longer, by a less direct route (through Champaign). I've taken the Lin

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