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- Paper Sizes and Formats https://www.swiftpublisher.com/useful-articles/paper-sizes-and-formats-explained 62 comments
- International Standard Paper Sizes https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html 73 comments
- Format PDF docs as 5X7 landscape for on-screen reading, not letter-sized paper http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/2010/07/format-your-pdf-docs-as-5x7-landscape-for-on-screen-reading-not-as-letter-sized-paper/ 2 comments
- I Cannot Change the Font or Paper Size for the TikZPoster Document Class https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/647450/i-cannot-change-the-font-or-paper-size-for-the-tikzposter-document-class 2 comments latex
- No April Fools joke! A Semi carrying industrial size toilet paper overturned and caught fire WB I-20 at I-45 in Dallas. The driver is ok. https://twitter.com/mikeforbeswfaa/status/1245308046601060354?s=20 4 comments nottheonion
- Any paper that adds thread properties (stack size) to std::thread? https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/c2jkrf/any_paper_that_adds_thread_properties_stack_size/ 23 comments cpp
- I want to write a regex that only captures the A-paper sizes from a website https://papersizes.io/a/ 4 comments regex
- Where can i buy US letter size (8.5 x 11 inch) paper in India? https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5io2zx/where_can_i_buy_us_letter_size_85_x_11_inch_paper/ 8 comments india
- Women are comparing waist size to piece of paper http://www.wflx.com/story/31496336/women-are-comparing-waist-size-to-piece-of-paper 10 comments nottheonion
- Lavabit gives FBI middle finger, hands paper with 2560 character 4 pt font size http://www.vyralize.com/4834/lavabit-gives-fbi-the-middle-finger-with-2560-character-ssl-key-in-4pt-font-size/ 3 comments politics
- Flipbacks - pocket size books on lightweight paper http://www.flipbackbooks.com/ 6 comments books
- Accelerometer Made of Paper, About the Size of a Nickel - Cost: 4 Cents http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/paper-accelerometer-could-mean-disposable-devices 3 comments technology
- The United States is the only nation (out of 180) issuing paper currency that prints its bills in identical size and color in all their denominations. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-12-12-currency-redesign_x.htm 22 comments reddit.com
- A paper on identifying encrypted traffic based on packet sizes, timing, and direction. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1248647 6 comments netsec
- International paper size idea is simple and ingenious! Why US don't want to adopt it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paper_size 6 comments reddit.com
- Full size Spartan laser made from paper http://www.hlfallout.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=61917&#pid=1449181&st=30&%23entry1449181 2 comments reddit.com
- Dr. Peter Rizun's paper on "A Transaction Fee Market Exists Without a Block Size Limit" https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/resources/feemarket.pdf 87 comments btc
- [2017-18] The original paper where I tried to explain the reasoning behind EIP 1559 as well as state size economics (the reason why we'll need statelessness or state expiry) https://ethresear.ch/t/draft-position-paper-on-resource-pricing/2838 41 comments ethereum
- Customizing printout of a website to fit the paper size correctly... Help please. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/b9jds9/customizing_printout_of_a_website_to_fit_the/ 2 comments webdev
- I have a really long one page pdf that I want to split into multiple full size paper pages https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bAUUs1sS4hZITg3O3lSt3TcZZx_9PhaN/view?usp=sharing 5 comments techsupport
- Mailing my Income Taxes (with W-7 because spouse does not have SSN), do I send in a normal letter envelope with the forms folded or in a full-paper sized shipping envelope? https://www.reddit.com/r/tax/comments/6phc9t/mailing_my_income_taxes_with_w7_because_spouse/ 8 comments tax
- Print a paper iphone 6 to see which size you want. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iphone-scale.pdf 4 comments apple
- Paper on the reliability of acceptability judgments of small sample sizes (by Sprouse, Schütze, and Almeida) http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jsprouse/papers/ssa.comparison.pdf 62 comments linguistics
- The link between action and perceived size--inspired by a new paper in Psychological Science http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201205/size-does-matter-when-you-re-putting 4 comments cogsci
- Artist sets sail in life-size paper boat [with pics] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=477786&in_page_id=1811&in_a_source= 6 comments reddit.com
- A Nature paper provides the first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star in the form of a disc of gas formed from its evaporating atmosphere. The Neptune-like planet orbits a star a quarter of its size about once every ten days. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1789-8.epdf?shared_access_token=mmqyudmk0z0utdl3__aevtrgn0jajwel9jnr3zotv0nmf7xwimx_leszj7bmddicsfflnvou0khapvlrv9immu5k44bfixo06wq42jsjre-obanplfigs8bcg6lfx9k0wemzwt_oun0gezv0vat5ha%3D%3D 3 comments science
- New paper reveals methane is also emitted from lake surfaces, scaling to the size of the lake itself: "Our research shows that well oxygenated lake waters are an important, but long overlooked, source of methane emissions to the atmosphere." https://phys.org/news/2019-12-lake-methane-emissions-prompt-rethink.html 13 comments worldnews
- New paper reveals methane is also emitted from lake surfaces, scaling to the size of the lake itself. "Our research shows that well oxygenated lake waters are an important, but long overlooked, source of methane emissions to the atmosphere." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13320-0 25 comments science
- A 2015 paper showed that increasing the max block size to 4MB would only result in %10 of nodes being unable to keep up, these are the most worthless ten percent and the amount of potential new users and nodes is much more. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5ww5dt/a_2015_paper_showed_that_increasing_the_max_block/ 37 comments btc
- Paper suggests replacing bar and line graphs with scatterplots, histograms, and box-plots, especially when using data with small sample sizes http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002128 5 comments science
- Biggest Ponzi Scheme in the world, Singapore is only half the size of New York yet has a population of 5.3 million. The government is boosting it to 6.9 million through the controversial Population White Paper. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-14/ponzi-schemes-built-on-people-always-crash-too.html 8 comments worldnews
- These guys say they have amazing post quantum public key crypto (key/signature sizes of curve25519, orders of magnitude faster), but I can't find any paper… are they for real? http://g-wan.com/blog/20160801.html 11 comments crypto
- Survival of the fittest spider group - Nature paper provides first-ever field evidence of controversial ‘group selection’: The individual spiders are only the size of a pencil eraser, but they form organized groups that can catch prey ranging from fruit flies to small vertebrates http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?page=news&storyid=19294 3 comments science
- Gross Photos Show Sewer Workers Battling A 'Fatberg' The Size Of A Boeing 747 Under London.[A fatberg is a congealed lump of fat, sanitary items, wet wipes, and similar items found in sewer systems, which do not break down like toilet paper.] http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-fatberg-the-size-of-a-boeing-747-under-shepherds-bush-road-2014-9 5 comments worldnews
- "a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper which posits that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (or some 30 kms in radius), could trigger a cosmic ray shockwave large enough to initiate a global electromagnetic Armageddon." http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2012/11/30/sun-grazing-comets-as-the-trigger-for-electromagnetic-armageddon/ 5 comments space
- you remember that study that blockstream drones often quote saying that 4MB block size was the maximum safe limit ? reality check : the most recent data source quoted in the paper is from 2015! http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf 27 comments btc
- A team has designed an app to turn the global network of smartphones into a planet-sized cosmic ray detector, according to a paper posted today to the physics website arXiv. http://news.uci.edu/press-releases/smartphone-network-could-track-incoming-cosmic-rays-uci-led-research-finds/ 2 comments technology
- “The size of the problem suggests that restructurings will be needed, for example, in the periphery of Europe, far beyond anything discussed in public to this point.” Reinhart and Rogoff conclude in IMF Working Paper http://mises.ca/posts/blog/europes-future-inflation-and-wealth-taxes/ 3 comments europe
- High school students discover exoplanets during mentoring program. They co-authored a peer-reviewed paper describing the discovery of four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth. The fourth planet is labeled a “super-Earth” for its large size and rockiness https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/high-school-students-discover-exoplanets-during-mentoring-program/ 7 comments science
- Mystery of Mars Polar Cap Solved - The shape of the two-mile-tall Texas-sized ice cap at the north pole of Mars has puzzled scientists for forty years, but new results to be published in a pair of papers in the journal Nature on May 27 have put the controversy to rest. http://spacefellowship.com/news/art20485/mystery-of-mars-polar-cap-solved.html 4 comments science