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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Those "papers" are gold, they're mostly a few pages long, and they span such a wild range of topics as:

  • How to calculate a mean of numbers?
  • What is a number?
  • Atheism is actually a religion.
  • Ethereum is a store of energy.

I've never seen someone in such a dire need of a wedgie, come on man, you spend the hours of your life writing your farts into LaTeX and generating DOIs for them, this isn't healthy.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Ethereum is a store of energy.

fucking WHAT

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

I am unfairly misrepresenting that for sneer purposes but if you want to see what happens when someone with typical cryptobro brainworms gets access to a paper-looking PDF template:

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17616.99845

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13443.99364

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

jaysus, mary, joseph and the wee donkey. (ESPECIALLY the wee donkey.)

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