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 Discussion on answer by WHO's NoToOld…

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March Ho
May 18, 2022 15:58
In addition to Avery's comments, your cited article doesn't support your claim that the WBC gets most of its funding from lawsuits. The article itself states So how do they afford that? Most of it comes from within the organization, which consists of about 70 followers-most of whom are offspring of or related to founder Fred Phelps.
 

 Discussion on question by cmcv: How d…

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March Ho
Oct 21, 2021 18:56
I'm confused about this phrase: emailed every department staff about me behind my back. Are you suggesting that you should have been CCed in conversations between the department chair and staff, in a discussion about their issues with your behaviour?
 

 Discussion on answer by T. Sar: What …

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March Ho
Jan 15, 2021 19:38
To add on to what's already said, I don't think the OP meant that using swords and spears is easy compared to using a gun (it's not), but that a poorly trained or untrained user likely would still fare better in a fight holding a sword/spear, whereas that would almost certainly not be the case for a longbow.
 

 Discussion on answer by jamesqf: My p…

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March Ho
Jun 12, 2019 19:32
@Kialandei While that is true, these organizations usually require a sponsor (basically someone to co-sign on your educational loan), and they are almost always the parents. They also generally are relatively sought after and therefore have high barriers to entry.
 

 Discussion on answer by Starfish Prim…

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March Ho
Jun 7, 2019 09:48
It's highly appropriate that a user named after the nuclear test that caused severe EMP wrote an answer about nuclear rockets without electricity.
 

 Discussion on question by MoritzLost:…

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March Ho
May 10, 2019 15:59
I was under the impression that most German written documents use a shorter inclusive form Student(inn)en or Studenten(m/w). This doesn't disrupt the flow and is understood to mean the same thing as the longer form.
 

 Discussion on question by Jenny Tengs…

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March Ho
Mar 27, 2019 06:30
@GustavoMP It seems that the link you posted mentions Android P (the current version) and the article was written in 2018 (last year).
 

 Discussion on question by Eries: How …

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March Ho
Nov 6, 2018 16:51
@Eries It's just a coining from ornithos (bird) and anthropos (human), literally "bird human" in Greek.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dim: ETcetera…

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March Ho
Jul 18, 2018 21:51
Interesting TIL: Nucular is used so commonly that it has its own Wikipedia article, along with multiple dictionary references.
 

 Discussion on question by Chris: What…

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March Ho
Jul 16, 2018 06:43
@ThorstenS. I don't think that's right. The speed of the particles from the beam itself is bound by the speed of light, but the effect of the beam (in this case, cutting) is not, just like a laser pointer dot can move faster than the speed of light.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan Romik: De…

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March Ho
Jun 26, 2018 08:43
As someone who is concerned about privacy (and like you, would not want to appear in a Youtube video), I find this answer distasteful and have downvoted it. Nowhere in the question was it stated that the student was doing so out of privacy concerns, and producing videos for educational purposes or to enhance a publication is scarcely a violation of privacy. This answer then goes off on a tangent about "you don't understand people who value privacy" and fails to address the actual problem.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan Romik: De…

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March Ho
Jun 21, 2018 13:06
As someone who is concerned about privacy (and like you, would not want to appear in a Youtube video), I find this answer distasteful and have downvoted it. Nowhere in the question was it stated that the student was doing so out of privacy concerns, and producing videos for educational purposes or to enhance a publication is scarcely a violation of privacy. This answer then goes off on a tangent about "you don't understand people who value privacy" and fails to address the actual problem.
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 Discussion on answer by Brian M. Hunt…

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March Ho
Sep 14, 2017 02:53
I'm extremely surprised and disappointed that this answer is positively voted despite the massive amount of borderline fraudulent misrepresentation. The answer calls a non-peer reviewed magazine a "journal" and tries to ride on the reputation of its parent company (which has publicly disavowed the "journal" nature of Europhysics News). And this is only in the first paragraph, before the actual "answer" begins.
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 Discussion on answer by einpoklum: Ho…

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March Ho
Jul 27, 2017 13:45
I don't see how that affects the discussion, but there's a mix of reviews and new experiments with 5-15 pages of body text. Many of those are also in "high-impact" journals, if that's a factor of consideration for you.
March Ho
Jul 27, 2017 13:45
At least in my field (biology/chemistry), a nonrandom sample of the 10 latest manuscript PDFs I have read in my viewer showed that every one of them had an acknowledgements section, and 9 of them acknowledged peers for intellectual discussions (7) or proof-reading (5).
March Ho
Jul 27, 2017 13:45
The acknowledgements section is precisely made for non-scientific and minor scientific contributions. If the contributions are scientific and significant, they should be acknowledged as authors instead.
 

 Discussion on answer by guildsbounty:…

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March Ho
Jun 2, 2017 02:21
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but the SI unit is spelled "terajoule". Unfortunately, the block of matter isn't being pulled from the Earth's core, because it would make much more sense then.
 

 Discussion on question by Bryan McClu…

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March Ho
Jan 19, 2017 03:02
@user6760 You might be interested in the web novel Pantheocide
 

 Discussion on question by Bombyx mori…

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March Ho
Nov 21, 2016 19:55
@Bombyxmori I certainly believe that you did not intend to troll the student, and that you believed you had a good reason to make that statement. I think this answer is the best explanation of why you shouldn't give such extreme answers in general.
March Ho
Nov 21, 2016 19:55
I don't understand why you had to respond in that way. From what you said happened, it sounded like you were intentionally trolling the student (even if you thought you were not), and that the student was right to complain about your behaviour. I would simply have answered "I will not reveal any information about the test except that all content taught can be tested" and be done with it. The comments about "you could die" and "you could win the lottery", while technically correct and valid, were completely irrelevant to the topic being discussed.
 

 Discussion on answer by Magisch: Why …

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March Ho
Sep 16, 2016 02:48
+1 because the first point is somewhat reasonable, although the following 3 points are rather weak. Points 2 and 3 can be done before giving notice, and most of the time half-assed work beats no work.
 

 Discussion on question by enderland: …

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March Ho
Sep 16, 2016 02:48
I had the exact same reaction to reading this question, and was about to ask a question when I saw this question already asked. \
 

 Discussion on answer by Henry Taylor:…

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March Ho
Aug 14, 2016 04:56
While this answer may explain why the majority of people do not intend to return to the past, it doesn't stop overoptimistic do-gooders from trying to fix it. It only takes one person to want to try and reverse this trend for a time-traveller to appear in the 21st century.
 

 Discussion on answer by A L: Is the s…

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March Ho
Aug 12, 2016 01:09
No need to apologise. It is encouraged to answer your own questions on SE.
 

 Discussion on answer by James: How ca…

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March Ho
Jul 29, 2016 23:58
@Delioth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill
 

 Discussion on answer by Thucydides: M…

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March Ho
Jul 19, 2016 15:55
@CharlesRockafellor The black hole would work in absorbing all incoming radiation and matter, but the problem is that it would also be pushed kinetically by the supernova blast wave. It would need an equal and opposite push to not be pushed towards the planet, which it would presumably then engulf as well.
 

 Discussion on question by Bryan McClu…

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March Ho
Jun 15, 2016 00:39
Relevant: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatEarthAtheist
 

 Discussion on answer by munkeyoto: Is…

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March Ho
May 12, 2016 06:20
-1. Almost all commercially available VNC software come with authentication by default, and a significant proportion of them (all the ones I have used) have the option to disable prompts. This answer makes the unsupportable logical leap that just because no prompt was shown, no authentication occurred.
 

 Discussion on question by Motig: Are …

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March Ho
Apr 30, 2016 05:45
Yes
March Ho
Apr 30, 2016 05:45
Do you have any evidence this is a widely believed claim?
 

 Discussion on answer by mk444: How sh…

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March Ho
Jan 17, 2016 17:18
@MarkBuffalo More like cotton-nylon blend hattery
 

 Discussion on question by Mohammed: P…

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March Ho
Jan 10, 2016 02:15
@guifa I am not saying that your statement is inaccurate, but that it is off topic.
March Ho
Jan 10, 2016 02:15
@guifa It doesn't matter whether the majority, the minority, or even if literally every other country recognises Palestine. The U.S. does not recognise it, and since the OP is applying to a school there, any discussion of whether it is recognised by other countries is irrelevant for the purposes of admission to a school in the U.S.
 

 Discussion on question by Joulupukki:…

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March Ho
Dec 17, 2015 16:01
FWIW, it's almost sacrilegious (for low cost airlines) to say that they "drive the plane from the garage". Other than for mandated maintenance, the planes are expected to be flying as much as possible.
 

 Discussion on answer by Spehro Pefhan…

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March Ho
Dec 2, 2015 18:42
So the "ij" is pronounced like modern Dutch? That's surprising to me, considering none of the other Germanic languages pronounce "ij" that way.
 

 Discussion on answer by Oddthinking: …

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March Ho
Oct 17, 2015 00:31
Yup, I did that, but my point was that the reverse does exist, and shows how bad the situation is.
March Ho
Oct 17, 2015 00:31
FWIW, this member of Biology SE has a female sounding username but is in fact male. I have seen him being belittled for being female more than once in the questions/answers.
 

 Discussion on answer by imallett: Is …

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March Ho
Sep 10, 2015 08:50
This is a very good point. As the one who posted the "interesting comment" to begin with, I too agree that not using such words just for the sake of a few people somewhat reduces one of the great advantages of a cosmopolitan language.
 

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March Ho
Sep 9, 2015 06:30
@amr I think that idiomatic phrases are perfectly fine if understood by a large majority of people. This idiom seems too localised to the US, which is why I pointed it out. Had I not known German, I probably would not have figured out its meaning (other than its positive connotation) from context alone.
March Ho
Sep 9, 2015 06:30
Your "be a mensch" comment might be a little localised for American English, I (as a British English / German speaker) wondered why you were telling them to "be a human" before realising it was probably a Yiddish import from the American Jewish community with the appropriate semantic shift.
 

 The Biosphere

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March Ho
Aug 30, 2015 05:06
I thought it was a vandal adding the line, when it was a user removing the line.
March Ho
Aug 30, 2015 05:06
The relevant edit is an edit to the downvoted answer biology.stackexchange.com/questions/37252/…
March Ho
Aug 30, 2015 05:03
Is there a way to reverse reviews that you made a mistake on?
March Ho
Jun 9, 2015 05:03
*I mean that mods can answer questions.
March Ho
Jun 9, 2015 05:03
I can say for sure that the answer to the last question is false. scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/…
 

 2015 Biology Moderator Election

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March Ho
Jun 22, 2015 20:42
@fileunderwater Assuming the statistics are similar, previous elections such as the Scifi one scifi.stackexchange.com/election/3 are valid data sources.
 

 Hub of Reason

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March Ho
Apr 18, 2015 21:19
since they would produce <1 ton of coal equivalent emissions.
March Ho
Apr 18, 2015 21:19
Seems fair, so given that a typical solar panel is assumed to be 1.5 sqm in size, the conclusion would then have to be changed to "false".
March Ho
Apr 18, 2015 21:15
(which again highlights the extreme vagueness of this claim)
March Ho
Apr 18, 2015 21:15
and therefore this range depends greatly on the size of the panels.