#consequential — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #consequential, aggregated by home.social.
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#Consequential:
"#Browsers provide critical #PublicInfrastructure to over five billion people. To cover the high cost of maintaining such complex feats of engineering, #browser vendors and #searchengine providers have improvised a system in which money is levied from search revenue and distributed to browsers. This #specification…formalizes a browser/search #levy that improves on the current one and addresses its shortcomings." -
#Consequential:
"#Browsers provide critical #PublicInfrastructure to over five billion people. To cover the high cost of maintaining such complex feats of engineering, #browser vendors and #searchengine providers have improvised a system in which money is levied from search revenue and distributed to browsers. This #specification…formalizes a browser/search #levy that improves on the current one and addresses its shortcomings." -
It seems the industrialization of #science has not been great for #innovation, and maybe we ought to consider giving scientists more time, more #flexibility, more security, and more #resources to produce #consequential work, rather than let them do the #publish or #perish hamster wheel.
Interesting paper either way:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x