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by privong 10y ago
> How is reviewing a research paper a community service? I don't mean that sarcastically but realistically medical journals specifically like in this article are commonly not free, thus I'm hard pressed to understand how this i
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by privong 10y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. I guess I don't use very many "exotic" packages, so I haven't had much of an issue with old LaTeX files not compiling. Though, I also rarely have to go back and recompile them.
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by privong 10y ago
The notification to targeted individuals was presumably after Google had successfully fought the gag order.
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by privong 10y ago
> No two latex installations are the same. Sure, but that doesn't address my question about whether I should use troff versus markdown for things where I don't need the power and complexity of LaTeX.
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by privong 10y ago
Okay. I guess what I'm wondering is, if I'm already reasonably proficient in LaTeX (for documents where I want/need lots of control) is there an advantage to learning/using troff versus using markdown?
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by privong 10y ago
> Sometimes I feel that contemporary markup languages like Markdown, Textile, etc. fall short compared to the syntax that was just as readable and quite a bit more powerful in troff... I've never used troff myself, but your comment
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by privong 10y ago
While writing the original comment, I quickly browsed the LIGO publications list[0], but nothing jumped out at me as being about the candidate, specifically. The papers with "candidate" in the titles are pre-upgrade, so I don&#x27
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by privong 10y ago
> A fairly obvious one if you think of that - some photons will orbit the black hole. That some photons would orbit black holes is fairly well-known. There's an "innermost stable circular orbit"[0] ("photon sphere&quo
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by privong 10y ago
> Also, the article mentions that LIGO has witnessed 3 black hole mergers. Last I heard LIGO had only witnessed 2. Two have been published as bona fide BH mergers. The third is a signal in the LIGO data that doesn't formally meet th
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LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown(nature.com)
254 points by privong 10y ago|96 comments
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VA Court: License plates must be displayed, so by definition they aren’t private(arstechnica.com)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> These two kinds of objects have comparable numbers of stars and are roughly the same size (though dwarf spheroidals are admittedly larger by about an order of magnitude). This discrepancy can be explained with cold WIMPs [2], but it&#x
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by privong 10y ago
Which received some discussion earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13063564
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by privong 10y ago
> Given Schengen and free movement, why couldn't the legal team from Belgium just 'freely move' through the Netherlands to get to their area of jurisdiction? I suspect this is because it involved official government busine
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by privong 10y ago
> If anyone is wondering: yes, you can own your very own atomic clock for a "reasonable" price! Just to clarify, the clocks used to demonstrate gravitational time dilation were on the order of $10,000 (or more, e.g., [0]). But
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by privong 10y ago
Thanks, but the articles you link don't really describe what I was asking about (and the "TL;DR" doesn't appear to be actually derived from those in an obvious way). I know about the strata and the use of GPS as stratum
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Semantic Scholar Pilot for Computer Science Papers(arxiv.org)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
Thanks, but I was asking why heavy use of GPS in NTP pools was a bad thing, rather than how GPS can be used to determine a reference time (I'm aware of the use of GPS as a stratum 0 clock).
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Network Time Protocol Best Current Practices(tools.ietf.org)
5 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> IMHO, too much of NTP relies on GPS, but that's a separate matter. I'm curious to know more. Can you please elaborate or point to some articles discussing this?
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SignWriting(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by privong 10y ago|0 comments
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by privong 10y ago
> You can't seriously think cities in Europe are all rich enough to be able to afford large infrastructure projects? No, I don't think that. But I do think it's likely that the various levels of US government like to stake
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by privong 10y ago
It's not just the cost of labor and associated regulatory costs. I think a lot of the overhead in the US has to do with such projects often being funded by the federal government, yet implemented by state/county/city governme
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US DOJ Renews Private Prison Contracts Despite Promise to Phase Out Use(qz.com)
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by privong 10y ago
> When using your webcam, do you look at its lens or the screen? It varies. If I'm listening to someone else I usually look at the screen, if I'm speaking I'm looking at the lens. To echo what @StavrosK said, I don't
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by privong 10y ago
> but is it really that big a deal? Seems like its a fair trade off for an edge to edge screen? It was one of the major reasons I went with a Lenovo x250 when buying a new laptop ~18 months ago. I really liked the XPS13, but I do use my
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by privong 10y ago
I am re-analyzing a library of galaxy merger simulations to estimate how much of the sky is covered by debris pulled off during the tidal interactions between the two galaxies. This may have important implications for interpretation of data
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by privong 10y ago
Mods, I think the submission title should be reverted to that of the article: "Fidel Castro, Communist Former Leader of Cuba, Dies at 90". The current submission title ("Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plot
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by privong 10y ago
> But that's not what they chose to focus the article on. The first few paragraphs are about the Millennium Tower, but that's just the hook. The rest of the article discusses the wide-area applications, including SF, elsewhere
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by privong 10y ago
> one could simply query using non-Signal information as the key (e.g. one could ask, 'give me Signal contact information for tel:+15551212, mailto:fizzbuzz@barquux.org and http://plus.google.com/SomeUserName' )

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