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Yeah, that's my fault.

I wrote up an answer and posted it, but I deleted it shortly afterwards (and later undeleted it . . . and then redeleted it). I did so because I've been extremely active on Scientific Speculation already - more so by far than any other user. That can be a double-edged sword; on the one hand, I'm trying to keep us at a reasonable rate of activity, so I've been asking questions on a regular basis. On the other, I don't want to dominate the site - and I don't want to discourage other folks, new users included, from posting answers to questions I've already answered. At our current (low) level of activity, that's still a risk.

Therefore, I decided to delete the answer, give the question some time and let other people take a crack at it, and then maybe undelete it in a day or so if nobody else had written one - completely forgetting that it would notify you. (For what it's worth, that's still my plan - I'll wait a few hours more. I hope that's okay with you.)

Sorry about the confusion and the inconvenience.