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Re:About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean by calf on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:06PM (#25309529)
That's no justification for the rationale that critique or negative results in general are not paper worth or do not advance science in less short-sighted ways.
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Re:About Google's approach to research publication – Jeff Dean by BeetleB on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:08PM (#25309550)
I wasn't discussing the appropriateness - I was pointing out that this behavior is normal in science. Your original comment was:

> Since when is a scientific paper required to do that.

Unfortunately, for a long time (since well before my time, at least).

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