Post B4msZmy1c7sOilaZXc by realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk
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 (DIR) Post #B4msYQzXphBGH9ebFQ by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
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       Something I love about engineering/physics/CS culture is that almost every intellectual resource is available for free. There's a real presumption of non-gatekeeping that is, in my experience, not present in other fields.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4msYS4BpuUTbqpp7w by ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social
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       Like for A City on Mars, I dove into a lot of fields, and man, medical, aerospace, and legal texts are PRICEY. Can't remember which now but there was this big privately compiled book of space data that was so expensive to access they gave you the option to pay by the hour, as if it was phone-sex.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4msZmy1c7sOilaZXc by realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk
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       @ZachWeinersmith  The problem is the publishing model, not the researchers or the research, per se.Too many grifters making a mint off knowledge they did not create (or even fund the creation of) as if modern publishing is an expensive affair. It is, but only because that's always been the framework.