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What is the point of posting a link to HN that nobody can read ?

They may not have realized that no one can read it. ScienceDirect silently lets you past the paywall if you arrive from Google Scholar. I imagine that HN strips query parameters, and even if it doesn't, the token is only usable by one person.

You can access the full HTML by clicking the link here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C45&q=Sex...

Edit: this only works if you're logged in to a Google account.

This does not work here (Europe).

That may be. I also just learned that you need to be logged into a Google account.

It's not a great solution anyway, a far cry from open access. But I feel like any hole in a research paywall should be public knowledge, however small and clunky it maybe.

I am logged in.

This isn't working in the US. I'm logged into Google.

That’s exactly the fun of HN.

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