Will Trump White House tear down journal paywalls? Many anxiously await decision

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15 points·Ankaios··5 comments

Why don't we just wait non-anxiously?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Sounds reasonable to me. At the same time, I think articles about potential new government policies are somewhat different than software release announcements and the like. It's usually easier to influence government policy before it's announced than after.

(And I'm not a fan of the "anxiously" in the title, either. :) I considered trimming off everything after the question mark, but I wasn't sure if that was kosher.)

It's amusing that TFA never mentions Sci-Hub, [0] which arguably renders it all moot.

0) https://sci-hub.now.sh/

To think that a decision like this rests on the whims of the most incompetent public official (and his cronies/family)in known history of the developed world is remarkable.

The decision might come out in favor But the point still stands. When we have public officials that are incompetent everything is just random. In a way it forces us to break the illusion of how we see the world and exposes the reality. Life is fragile, we take things for granted and everything is just random

Honestly is random all that bad? Should eventually trend towards 50/50 positive/negative which I'd take any day of the week considering how useless most government is.

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