It predates Pythagoras by over 1,000 years.

Study math for long enough and you will likely have cursed Pythagoras’s name, or said “praise be to Pythagoras” if you’re a bit of a fan of triangles.

But while Pythagoras was an important historical figure in the development of mathematics, he did not figure out the equation most associated with him (a2 + b2 = c2). In fact, there is an ancient Babylonian tablet (by the catchy name of IM 67118) which uses the Pythagorean theorem to solve the length of a diagonal inside a rectangle. The tablet, likely used for teaching, dates from 1770 BCE – centuries before Pythagoras was born in around 570 BCE.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I do choose weird hills to fight on, don’t I?

    Let me try this another way, this time with less sarcasm.

    1. The websites we link to generate revenue by displaying ads. If we copy the important parts of the articles, and put them on lemmy with the link, then, as you also brought up, people won’t want to read the original article as well. That results in fewer views and less revenue for the author. Is it the same as holding a gun to the author’s face and robbing them? Of course not. But I also don’t think it’s fair to the author either.
    2. It’s copyright infringement. Plain and simple infringement. If you copy all the relevant parts and don’t offer additional content, like commentary, then the fair use clause is really hard to argue. How copyright attorneys are going to handle getting content taken off the feddiverse is a different thing, but it is still copyright infringement.

    Why not reduce the posting rate, and take the time to just write a short enticing description instead?

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Why not reduce the posting rate, and take the time to just write a short enticing description instead?

      Laziness

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        ooooh that’s a bingo!

        I’m sorry, I promised no more sarcasm.

        Now I don’t have a problem with laziness, but when someone’s laziness becomes disrespectful and rips people off, then I believe that we should try to do better. Or at least not expose our instance of choice to IPR liabilities.

        Maybe I’m being a pedant. That we can argue, and I’ll give you a head start by agreeing with you. But I refuse to believe that I’m also wrong.

        • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Eh, most of the entities that get fucked by posting the article in the text body, I couldn’t give two shits about. Also no one is getting ad revenue off me, ads can be an attack vector for malicious code, they’re also annoying. I agree you’re being a pedant, that’s what I like about you. I do think you’re wrong though. That said, I feel like we can agree to disagree, and leave it at that.