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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by seszett on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:25AM (#14872378)
> I don't know what that link is, but after 10 seconds of loading over LTE I gave up in favor of my data bundle.

The whole thing is 283 kB and half of that is due to three small images that are already compressed as much as is possible (but that are actually part of the comment about the paper formatting, not the paper itself).

That seems very reasonable for a scientific paper which would have been about the same size as a PDF.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by TeMPOraL on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:32AM (#14872402)
It's my fault. The link originally was this:

http://worrydream.com/#!/ScientificCommunicationAsSequential...

which loads the article... plus the entire homepage of Bret Victor, which is kind of heavy.

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