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What the Web Said Yesterday

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>>Perma.cc promises “to create citation links that will never break.” It works something like the Wayback Machine’s “Save Page Now.” If you’re writing a scholarly paper and want to use a link in your footnotes, you can create an archived version of the page you’re linking to, a “permalink,” and anyone later reading your footnotes will, when clicking on that link, be brought to the permanently archived version. Perma.cc has already been adopted by law reviews and state courts; it’s only a matter of time before it’s universally adopted as the standard in legal, scientific, and scholarly citation.

Glad to see this exists and is being properly utilized.

The Strelkov post mentioned in the article (translated to English) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...

This essay is about two hundred thousand bytes.

In disbelief at the fact that I did not feel like I had read 200KB of text, I had to check and it was around an order of magnitude off. The page with the markup included is around half of that.

I suppose that in this era of GB and TB, people are going to overestimate a bit more.

Likely they were writing the essay in a desktop editor and are referring to the size of the file on disk (potentially including references, revision data, etc). In plaintext the essay seems to be ~36kb.

Ironic that this article's publication date is 6 days from now.

"Annals of Technology JANUARY 26, 2015 ISSUE"

Think of the date on a written publication not as the publication date, but a version number. This is the "January 26, 2015" version. The version number just happens to look like a date, but it isn't. Much like Windows 95. :)

It's a print-world legacy style. It is, to a first approximation, when that issue of the New Yorker will be replaced on the newsstands by the next one.

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