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Ubuntu server 18.04 black screen Motherboard Asus Z170M-PLUS-BR

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0 I'm trying to install Ubuntu server 18.04 in my Server and everything is okay in installation proccess, but after to finish, I'm trying to boot but nothing happens, I just see a black screen, I tried to do a lot of things described but no way.. I tried to boot with nomodeset, but in my case, my config file is different. I just finished my installation using Ubuntu Server version 16.04 at the same server. Do you have any idea? My Motherboard: Z170M-PLUS/BR HDD SSD 120GB 16GB DDR4 Thanks! server 18.04 white-screen share | improve this question asked Jan 22 at 1:59 user3027248 user3027248 ...

Publishing research using outdated methods

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16 1 I'm currently an Economics MA student doing a referee report on a paper that employs a dated empirical method. This particular method was originally created in 1980 but then improved upon in 1998 by other researchers, after they had discovered certain issues with it. This got me thinking about how exactly those on the cutting edge of research seem to lag behind by over a decade (or more) in method and still manage to get published. This is concerning because it shows that published researchers make mistakes and don't review all relevant research before publishing. I can imagine that in the hard sciences and medicine this would happen also, which is especially concerning knowing that those on the cutting edge could be decades behind in knowledge which has been around for a while. Is this acceptabl...