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Re:When does peer review make no sense? by exelius on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:58PM (#11112234)
> And today, the idea marketplace does not need to be mediated by conferences and papers.

You could say that posting to HN is a form of peer review (in the vain you mention it at least). Anyone is free to comment and tear the author's article apart.

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Re:When does peer review make no sense? by norswap on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:51PM (#11122551)
But then the review themselves get reviewed, and those get reviewed, etc

In the end you get a rough global consensus. It's far (very far) from perfect, but maybe more representative of impact than the opinion 3 guys deeply embedded in a system that doesn't exchange with the outside world enough, and that are often competing with you.

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