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		sampo on July 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Origin of Banking (2016) I think the main problem is the posted document referring to sources without giving even the title of the papers it refers to. Only a link, nothing else. This a very non-standard way to use references.

dredmorbius on July 3, 2019 [–]

A practice I very much wish would go away, for precisely these reasons.

I've taken flack for writing footnoted HN & G+ posts, even Mastodon toots. I can take the flack.

Bibliographic citations emerged for reasons. Those reasons. remain.

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