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  1. alternate mixed opinion on Electronic Access to Scientific Journals · · Score: 2

    The sum existent papers in even one discipline can have any human agent reading forever. Peer reviewed, filtered papers evaluated important by people of repute will save precious time by presenting clear signal apart from inconsequent noise.

    New papers don't have metadata in statistical metrics such as number of citations and may well not be worth your time, even if written by someone with statistical repute.

    Therefore the peer review and prefiltering that is done at the scientific journal is still very valuable. However, in order not to create a straw man by ignoring the already implied delay period, the profit of the journal must still be taken into serious consideration.

  2. Say wot? on William Gibson On Japan · · Score: 1

    The epitome of the culture industry wherein that which is foreign is novel and subversive, following a simple dynamic of consumption where one moves from one slightly differentiated form of entertainment to the next, hopefully slightly ahead of its climax and decline for its claims to so called status and differentiation in individuality, which is left up to liberal arts majors to find subtext and hidden meaning where there is little or none.