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How miraculous was the miracle on the Hudson?

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How does the new CoC apply to second-person pronouns?

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Was this flight a fuel emergency?

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Why bother having different engine options on one aircraft?

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30+ years ago, why was there often a huge split between the presidential and house elections but not anymore?

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What to do if authors don't respond to my serious concerns about their paper?

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Why was Joe Arpaio not given a jury trial?

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Is there anything that has been tried to stop publication shopping

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What is the etymology of “Assistant Professor”?

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Sampling a uniformly random satisfying assignment

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Is it appropriate to request that the department hire a female faculty member?
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Why is the consensus that the Democrats are confident of overturning the House majority in the 2018 midterms?
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Disputed territorial claims in academic submissions
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Can a lecturer force you to learn a specific programming syntax / language?
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Whom should I send the email to? The Principal Investigator or the postdoc who have done the work?
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What is a computer science conference, really?
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Citing a rejected paper in related work
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Is it ethical to omit the PhD credential from my resume?
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Did the framers of the US Constitution foresee huge differences in representation in the Senate, such as between California and Wyoming?
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Is parameterized complexity going to be the future of complexity theory?
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Should a peer review for an academic journal include a recommendation for acceptance?
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Donating money to scientific research after my death
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Matrix permanent is 0
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