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Sep 2, 2011

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Brass Key posted:



Alexandra Elbakyan, the neuroscience grad student from Kazakhstan who founded sci-hub, which uses proxies to scrape research papers for free access to anyone who wants to read it. Currently under attempted litigation from Elsevier, who aren't having much luck because, well, she's somewhere in Kazakhstan.

I have precisely zero sympathy for the publishers that want $50 per article where you can't even tell if it's going to be useful or not from reading the abstract, and none of the money goes to the actual researchers. The whole world of academic publishing is hosed up.

Yeah journal publishers can get hosed. Researchers find funding - often public money - for their research, then either submit papers for free or even have to pay to do so, the reviewers work for free, often the editors work for free, and then the publishers charge out the nose to sell the results back to the research community and the people who paid for it in the first place. The entire industry, including open access journals, is a mess and sci-hub (and to an extent arXiv) has done more to further modern science as a whole than almost anything I can think of in the last five years.

Unrelated:

https://twitter.com/LondonerAlex/status/793746104340869120

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Sep 2, 2011

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https://twitter.com/ObamaMalik/status/813412610284683264

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Sep 2, 2011

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Cool dude who in the name of justice confronted the bad guy who punched that poor alt-right activist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmbWKV6jn0

Guess what? He's a white supremacist too!

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lmao what an insecure little babby.

By forums poster Another Person in UKMT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeijxbILfIA

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Sep 2, 2011

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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/829703279441539073

:qq:

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mobby_6kl posted:

Punching Nazis is bad

Wrong, it's actually extremely good.

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Sep 2, 2011

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https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/831890773511647232/photo/

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An inspiring story of the self-made entrepeneur who never had anything handed to them.




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Sep 2, 2011

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Friendzone? More like friends own.



Luv 2 have friends and make new friends.

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Bip Roberts posted:

That's clearly not a sine function.

Like most people, most scientists are idiots. It's only through the combined, cumulative efforts of millions of scientists throughout the world and throughout the centuries that we've managed to get anywhere at all.

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Sep 2, 2011

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Not sure about this American remake of Monkey Dust.


"Machine Learning artist Gene Kogan demonstrates what happens repeatedly re-apply the smile filter over the same image until a face is no longer detected."

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Sep 2, 2011

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https://twitter.com/parliawint/status/854773612292788224

https://twitter.com/parliawint/status/855531682342084609

https://twitter.com/parliawint/status/855530228919279618

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big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 27, 2017

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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Given that Spain is south of the U.K. and the U.K. Is north of the Tropic of Cancer, Spain is always closer to the sun than the U.K.
At local night Spain is further away from the Sun than the UK is.

Anyway, the equator isn't warmer because it's closer to the sun, the difference is negligible given that the sun is ~93,000,000 miles away and the Earth has a radius of only ~4,000 miles. Places near the equator are warmer primarily because the sun is more directly overhead, so a given amount of sunlight is concentrated on a smaller surface area. At higher latitudes the sun hits at a shallower angle, so its rays are spread out over a greater area.There are other effects but that's the main one.



Also,

https://twitter.com/ORStatePolice/status/885597812980711424

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Sep 2, 2011

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Ein cooler Typ posted:

I don't see anything wrong with employers monitoring to see if their employees are drinking. They're already allowed to test for off-hours marijuana usage, and alcohol is way more harmful than marijuana

Serious username/post content mismatch here.

Also RIP. At least for now.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/886873122628136961

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Sep 2, 2011

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https://twitter.com/mjntendency/status/886558239483191297

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Sep 2, 2011

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LIVE:

https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE4

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Sep 2, 2011

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https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/892889560086073344

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Sep 2, 2011

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when he's right he's right

e: whoops, thought I was in a different thread.

https://twitter.com/spitfire/status/894969900627775488

big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Aug 9, 2017

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Sep 2, 2011

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lol surely even in America tenants aren't expected to pay rent for a building that's literally uninhabitable? Don't landlords have a responsibility to do repairs?

https://twitter.com/Mich_Cooke/status/903918405949972480

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Sep 2, 2011

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i follow that twitter and i probably shouldn't cos it kinda gets me down reading so many bad opinions


i guess being a dictator means nobody ever telling you couples who match clothes are super lame

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want to see that dude in the middle with his aviators on, bet he looks like a badass

more pictures of the event from our very own forums:

BowlingForPoop posted:

I went to the Nov. 4 thing in Chicago. I don't really give a poo poo about RevCom, so here's some pictures of counter-protesters:


This kid with the flag was just the cutest little thing...


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https://twitter.com/cszabla/status/928864307370217472

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