is it legal if you cheat off yourself?

Tuesday, April 08, 2003, at 02:35PM

By Eric Richardson

So today I was strolling through my access log, and noticed for the first time a referrer from turnitin.com. I had sort of been curious to see when they indexed the papers on my site. A couple of my professors require that we submit our papers through them, and I have to say that I have very mixed opinions on whether that's a good thing or not. Largely I guess it depends on the algorithms they're using, and those we'll never know. I'm just waiting for the first time I post a paper on my site at the same time I turn it in, and their site flags me for copying from myself. That would make my day.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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