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259 points the-mitr | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 04:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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megaloblasto ◴[28 Aug 25 12:10 UTC] No.45051186[source]▶

I have to read a lot of papers for work. Sometimes 2 or 3 a day. Often when I find one I'm interested in, they want $60 to read the one paper. If I have to read one paper a day, that's about $20,000 a year just to stay up to date with the science.

That's ridiculous. Thankfully someone is breaking down these barriers to science.

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1. sneak ◴[28 Aug 25 13:37 UTC] No.45052008[source]▶

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I agree that that is ridiculous, but for many definitions of “for work”, $20k/year is well within the low end of “cost of doing business”.

I spend that much on computer hardware, and again that much on cloud services, and again that much on airfare each year, and I’m a one-person shop with very high margins.

Services are also a supply chain.

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