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by jpurnell 2377 days ago
Isn't this heavily "adapted" from this NYTimes article from last year??

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...
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dang 2377 days ago
Whoops! Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651.

I was wondering why Knuth set aside an entire precious Sunday for the "Denton Daily". Big NYT profile makes more sense.

Googling a sentence from their "David and Victoria Beckham keen to present a unified front!" article reveals the same plagiarism—albeit not from the NYT that time—so we have banned the site.

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masonic 2370 days ago
Why ban the site but leave this clickbait intact? (Rather than change the URL)
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chrisaycock 2377 days ago
Agreed. This is word-for-word stolen from the NYT. Worse, the article's by line credits "Denton Staff Contributor". This is a massive copyright violation.
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bryanrasmussen 2377 days ago
Damn! I did not know this when I posted it. I did think it was a little weird though, that the Denton Daily would have it.
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