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I hate bureaucracy
Were I still in academia, I could have published this paper I'm writing with my friend/colleague KB today on the preprint server. Since it has to go through various levels of corporate and governmental approvals, even though it is a physics paper and no one on the approval committees will understand enough of it to know whether it should be impounded (it shouldn't), it will take at least a month. ARGH.
I'm particularly annoyed because we were kind of scooped, and each day that passes makes it a little harder for the defense of "We did it independently!" to ring true. And it is true. It's not a disaster, because our analysis is better (not that I'm biased, or anything), and once their paper came out we were able to answer some of their "unanswered" questions, which always feels good. But still.
KB's been awesome about it, though. Even though neither of us is getting paid for writing this stupid paper, which is starting to become really annoying for both of us.
I'm particularly annoyed because we were kind of scooped, and each day that passes makes it a little harder for the defense of "We did it independently!" to ring true. And it is true. It's not a disaster, because our analysis is better (not that I'm biased, or anything), and once their paper came out we were able to answer some of their "unanswered" questions, which always feels good. But still.
KB's been awesome about it, though. Even though neither of us is getting paid for writing this stupid paper, which is starting to become really annoying for both of us.