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260 points the-mitr | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 04:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.716s | 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. dkiebd ◴[28 Aug 25 15:17 UTC] No.45053294[source]▶
I assume those papers are integral for your business. A $20k/year business expense is not really ridiculous. You think it is ridiculous because you can pirate it and get it for free. They are bytes and bytes are worthless or something.
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2. mistercheph ◴[28 Aug 25 15:50 UTC] No.45053712[source]▶
It just depends on what kind of society you want to live in, one where information flows freely, or one where taxes can be levied against the entire society’s access to information, and public funds are used to protect the tax-levying middle men, and to subsidize the discovery and production of valuable information.

And obviously, for most individuals and businesses worldwide 20k USD/year is an insane expense, the fact that big moneybags that could have easily paid might get to come along for the ride is a small acceptable price to pay for making information universally accessible.