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Why did the gamma ray burst from GW170817 lag two seconds behind the gravitational wave?

astrophysics gravitational-waves neutron-stars gamma-rays asked Oct 16 '17 at 14:32
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Why do Americans vote on coroners, magistrates, school directors, and tax collectors?

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Are LDS missionaries taught languages to a level of fluency in under three months which takes other schools years?

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Do the new user pages no longer show if a user is unregistered?

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What benefits do governments receive from not eliminating debt?

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Do I really need to include a licence file for common licences like GPL or MIT?

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Is Academia.edu's “mentions” feature real?

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For what reasons should you make the user agree to a FOSS licence during installation?

licensing distribution installers software-use asked Jun 24 '15 at 0:06
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How do modalists understand the role of Jesus as mediator?

christology mediator modalism asked Jul 7 '14 at 9:32
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How well known and how commonly used was Huffman coding in 1979?

history file-format compression asked Jun 20 at 23:51
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The MIT License – Clarity on Using Code on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
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Are there any English words pronounced with sounds/syllables that aren't part of the spelling?
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Why do some people refer to Linux as GNU/Linux?
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“Official wife” or “Formal wife”?
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Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project!
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Is 'at the time of writing' correct?
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How can I get a friend to stop calling me all of the time?
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“Turing-completeness” in conlangs
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What does constructive criticism of a design change look like?
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A new (2018) update to our Terms of Service is here
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What's with the word “sardonic” in sci-fi?
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What does `in the decade after 1994` mean?
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A new (2018) update to our Terms of Service is here
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How to *show* a controversial reality without seeming like I'm treating it as acceptable and without making it explicit that this is wrong?
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Are we using the term 'apocalypse' in wrong way?
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What does “she was deploying her famous pipes” mean?
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Is there any noun in English which changes the first letter in the plural?
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What do the novel titles of The Expanse series refer to?
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Showcase of Languages
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What's the difference between a graph, a chart, and a plot?
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A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required
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What are some reasons that constructed languages would want to have ambiguity?
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Why is the detection of gravitational waves so significant?
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Why didn't Mal use her totem (spinning top) before she actually died?
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Are the SE additions to the Creative Commons attribution requirements enforceable?
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What great writers have used coordinating conjunctions at the start of sentences?
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Where can I find scans of original Biblical manuscripts?
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What is the earliest non-Judeo-Christian reference to Jesus?
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How did dragons come into existence?
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