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Comment · 8 years ago
Careful, this might only apply to professors, not the rest of the staff.
Comment · 8 years ago
Or simply have local, quick, regular and tested backups.
Comment · 8 years ago
Why would you cite a paper on the technical details of your data source in linguistics?
Comment · 8 years ago
Geospatial anything. Geomatics, GIS, geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry, optics, whatever is related.
Comment · 8 years ago
Before anyone clicks the bait:

> What is this TWO KILOMETRE long secret city unearthed by melting ice in Antarctica? > A TWO kilometre long series of 22 sinister-looking structures have been revealed by thawing ice in Antarctica - prompting claims the installation is a World War 3 fall out shelter for the global elite or even a landing pad for incoming aliens.

'Discovered' on Google Earth. My bet is on simple data processing artifacts.

Comment · 8 years ago
Sample size of 18 and 'on average'. Scienceclickbait, you don't miss anything spectacular by skipping this article.
Comment · 8 years ago
How can data be retracted from a blockchain?

Both those sites are also subject to laws and can easily retract information if necessary.

Comment · 8 years ago
You could just use any free kind of canary instead, access to traps is easy to notice without any need for a complex external dependency or wasting big amounts of money.
Comment · 8 years ago
So what if a story or bit of information has to be retracted by law?

I second my sibling, newspapers have no interest in transparency.

Comment · 8 years ago
Oh, blissful unawareness of the crazy untrustworthiness of Google product longevity.
Comment · 8 years ago
And they track all you read, thanks to being a private, centralized service.
Comment · 8 years ago
And you habe not been killed by frozen poop falling from an airplane in the sky. Which would have been as likely as Bitcoin becoming a speculative hype. Celebrate that!
Comment · 8 years ago
Function definitions are evaluated once and early. Easy rule to learn and not really problematic.
Comment · 8 years ago
So what? Pandas and numpy are still use with Python code using their APIs. The implementation details are not something the users care about. They write Python.
Comment · 8 years ago
Seafile is great

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