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How to calculate Hamming Code	[ "adapted from wikipedia\n\n1. Number the bits starting from 1: bit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.\n2. Your parity bits are the ones in position 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc\n4. All other bit positions are data bits.\n5. Each data bit is included in a unique set of 2 or more parity bits, as determined by the binary form of its ...
How Pirate bay can be so openly public and not be shut down.	[ "They keep getting shut down. When they are shut down, they start the website back up again in a different country.\n\nThey've been in a lot of countries now." ]
What does "frozen assets" mean?	[ "Imagine you have a big stack of quarters and toys split between piggy banks and toy shelves in each of your friends houses. You want to trade them all for a dirt bike, but mum says no. She tells all your friends to not let you into their rooms.\n\nIn your example, the quarters are Millions, the toys are military...
In movie scenes where a kidnapper asks for ransom money, why do they ask for non sequential bills? (Extra Credit: What are "Marked Bills"?)	[ "Because marked money can be tracked, sequential bills can be tracked. \n\nIn the case of the Lindbergh baby they wrote down the serial numbers of the bills and used them to track down the kidnapper/killer. \n\nSo lets say you kidnap someone and they pay the ransom. They keep an eye out for the bills they marked an...
Why do we still change clocks to Daylight Saving Time (DST) and back, when apparently, most people hate it? If most of us prefer a single time throughout the year - what are the obstacles to making this happen?	[ "> Nobody goes around saying \"Yay! I get to change my clocks! This is the best day since spring!\" But that doesn't mean that most people hate it.\n\nPretty much everybody says that when you get that extra hour to sleep.", "Kids would have to walk or ride bikes to school when its pitch black in the winter. I th...
How can a modern ship sail into a known storm/hurricane?	[ "Not a sea captain, but at least two things here:\n\nThe ships today have been built to handle huge storms, so they are able to go through them without too many issues that would compromise seaworthiness of the ship. But these storms are also so large usually that it isn't as feasible for a slow ship to get around ...
Why is there a difference between girl bikes and guy bikes?	[ "In the early part of the bicycle, women sill wore dresses and the lowering of the top frame bar was to allow the wearing of a dress.", "Well, there is the step-through frame, where instead of having a horizontal tube between the seat and the handlebars, that bar is lower down. This allows women to get on the bik...
What is happening in our muscles when we feel the urge to exercise?	[ "Personally, it's stress that causes that irritability/restlessness. Cortisol keeps your body in a continued mode of being alert and ready to fight/run. Exercise lowers cortisol levels, eliminating stress and causes your body to relax the tension it has built up. Stress usually means that your body doesn't feel com...
Why was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" considered such a revolutionary song? And what's so special about Kurt Cobain?	[ "Nirvana gets a lot of the credit for starting the \"grunge\" movement. What makes smells like teen spirit so different is it's grunge sound and lyrical content. This was the first mainstream song to sort of glorify angsty, awkward teenagers and give them a coherent voice. It probably rings less with you because so...
What is the significance of the recent French presidential election?	[ "Over the last couple years, we have seen a populist trend among voters. People are voting for stricter immigration restrictions, dissolving the EU, adopting a nationalistic approach to governing, among other decision-making policies that would be consistent with the alt-right conservatives in America, or the pro-B...
Langrange's Theorem	[ "I'm most equipped to give you a proof, so I'll do that; if you want anything else, please say something. \n\nSuppose we've got a finite group G and a subgroup of G that we'll call H. Lagrange's Theorem says that \|H\| divides \|G\| and the number of left cosets is \|G\| / \|H\|. We'll prove it in a few steps: \n & nbsp;...
Why can't you point lasers at a plane?	[ "To be accurate, you can do it. You also should get arrested if you do. A laser could possibly blind a pilot. Even if the blindness is not permanent, having a blind person in charge of an airplane is an extreme safety hazard to the people on the plane and to the people on the ground. \n \nDon't do it. Not ev...
The WAR statistic people talk about in baseball.	[ "WAR stands for Wins above replacement. It's basically the amount of wins a certain player is valued at above a player of the same position at the AAA level.\n\n_URL_0_" ]
How are people able to fast for long periods at a time yet stay healthy?	[ "Fasting can be a pretty flexible term, especially when used in a religious context. The people who “fast for 365 days” are eliminating a specific thing, like red meat or bread, for a specific duration, and many of them rotate that “thing” every week or month. So they say they’re fasting, but really they are going ...
Why is gmail (or most email service) free?	[ "It allows google to collect a shit ton of data about you & charge more for advertising directed at you online.\n\nIf you are not the customer you are the product", "When an internet service is free, you are the product. Email providers give you email service in return for information about you so they can se...
What are the defining differences between streets, roads, avenues, boulevards, etc.? What dictates how it is designated?	[ "A boulevard is two lanes in each direction with a median of trees or greenery running the length of it.\n\nAn avenue is often two lanes in each direction and in a nicer part of the area.\n\nA street can be any number of lanes in each direction, but is generally associated with a town or city or suburb....
Why is the majority of the human population right hand and right eye dominant?	[ "So there is definitely a tendency towards right handedness in people, but I would also point out that right now, there is social pressure on that as well: many left-handed children born in the 90s were forced to acclimate to right-handedness. When I was in preschool, I had to wear a sock on my left hand all day ev...
- Magnet links?	[ "I didn't quite understand from the explanations in the other posts. So I did some digging myself.\n\nFrom what I can tell, a regular link is a URL that an internet browser knows what to do with.\n\nThese \"magnet links\" look like they're special URL links but specifically for torrent clients (like uTorrent, Bitl...
Why is it we pass out from standing too long with our knees locked, but not when we are lying down?	[ "Locking your knees causes issues with blood flow which in turn causes you to pass out.\n\nYou don't lock your knees when you're laying down so it doesn't really apply." ]
- What are both sides of this birth control debate and Congress? I've only heard the Rush Limbaugh stuff so I'm confused and would like as unbiased an explanation as possible	[ "So Obama thought that religious affiliated institutions should provide healthcare through their insurance companies to their employees. \n\nThese religious institutions didn't think they should have to provide healthcare options that provided birth control because they morally object to birth control. \n\nRepublic...
Why do police in America not seem to carry or use much non-lethal weaponry?	[ "They do carry non-lethal weaponry.\n\nBut have you considered that when that non-lethal option is used, it's not really newsworthy? Can you imagine a front page reddit post that says \"Officer uses taser to stop suspect, who is sent to jail without injury. Officer goes home and has spaghetti with his family\"?\n\n...
What is the purpose of Information Technology Infrastructure Library(ITIL)?	[ "At its most basic level, ITIL is really a set of best practices for IT Service Management - without a methodical approach, Service Management can be something that's done on a fairly ad-hoc basis without any specific direction to it.\n\nAlthough ITIL doesn't seek to specifically set in stone how things should be d...
Why is it when people see an incredibly cute baby one of the reactions is to 'eat' the baby? Or bite at it?	[ "_URL_0_\n\nTake a read of the article above.\n\nTo put it basically it is because the smell of the baby activates the same receptors of the brain as smelling nice food.", "I feel the same way with cats, because they're so cute I need them inside of me" ]
luxury tax and sales tax are different things?	[ "Sales tax is applied to everything. But on top of that the government can also impose extra taxes on certain products. So for a \"luxury tax\" that means that the government needs more money and taxes certain products a little more with the justification that if you can afford those products, then an extra 0.5% ...
Why is most of society monogamous?	[ "In the way olden days, if you went around having sex with anyone, you'd have no idea who actually fathered the child. Cultural norms grew around the realization that if you were monogamous, you could safely assume the identity of each parent. This is critical to the natural human family nucleus.\n\nWe don't see ...
Why Internet connections are fastest in South Korea?	[ "> People in the United States basically invented the Internet.\n\n[people working at CERN in Europe basically invented the internet](_URL_0_)", "> People in the United States basically invented the Internet. So U.S. connections must be the fastest and cheapest in the world, right?\n\nThis is not a valid conclu...
What is happening with he Chinese stock market and what effect will it have on people ?	[ "Normal correction. [It's been wildly overvalued for a while.](_URL_1_) China's been red-lining their economy for a while, trying to get ahead of their demographic issues, so it's not really a surprise.\n\nNow, what does it mean? Well, a lot of money just went poof, and part of their bubble was driven by margin l...
Radical Reconstruction.	[ "Radical Reconstruction was the radical republicans' plans to reintegrate the south into the union. It's terms were much more strict (50% of the population in each confederate state would have to pledge allegiance to the union) and it aimed for complete social reform as well." ]
In school, when I have to read something out loud, I always concentrate on the reading instead of the content of the text. When I've finished reading, I can't remember a single word I've just read. What's happening in my brain when I'm reading?	[ "I think it's because you concentrate on the reading not the content. You answered it yourself" ]
Marx's Labor Theory of Value	[ "Essentially Marx said that the value of a commodity is equal to the labour that went into it, including the labour that built the tools used to make the item, or the buildings that housed the workers etc. \n \nIt's contrasted by Adam Smith's labour theory of value, which says that a commodity is worth whatever l...
Why are many SE Asian countries mainly Muslim, when they were colonised by European countries?	[ "Those countries had Muslims well before Europeans arrived. Before the Europeans spread all over the world and gobbled up all the land they could take, merchants and sailors from the Middle East had already spread out to distant regions in Eurasia." ]
how the US are allowed to kill civilians with drones.	[ "It's not really a question of being allowed or not. There's no authority above the nation state that can step in and lay down the law - all that exists are states and deliberative bodies composed of states (ie, the UN) . If a state is powerful enough to do something without the rest of the world finding it a worth...
What happens when you're "clenching" your brain/head?	[ "> Is there a name for this phenomenon\n\nIsometric muscle contraction is what is being performed, and the result which you seem to be interested in is a temporary increase in blood pressure and drop in blood oxygenation.\n\n > what is your head actually doing?\n\nThe muscles in the head and neck are building ten...
How do sea shells form? And what enables them to grow in size?	[ "They are formed by the excretions of the animals inside. Snails and such, not the crabs or other things that live in emptied shells." ]
Why do people use 0-60 mph to benchmark the acceleration of cars?	[ "Because the actual benchmark is 0-100 km/h, which get's rounded down to 60 mph. 0-100 is a nice round number, and since everyone except the US uses the metric system that's the standard. So the significance is that 60 miles is about 100 km.", "I believe its because 60 mph is the closest whole number too 100 kmh ...
What's the difference between Space Opera and Sci Fi?	[ "Science fiction is any work of fiction set in the future that deals with technology more advanced than our own.\n\nSpace opera is a particular type of sci-fi that doesn't really care much about the specifics of the science and technology as much as it deals with grand narratives about galactic empires and grand he...
When should I use recirculated air vs. fresh air in my car?	[ "Recirculating air will heat it faster, so yes. You should also recirculate your air when you are in a dirty area (lots of smoke, etc).", "Always use recirculate when you are driving on [I-5 near Fresno/Coalinga RD (CA-145) in California](_URL_0_).", "In my experience recirculating will cause some problems with...
Are there any major nutritional differences between brown and white eggs?	[ "There is no nutritional difference, but markets can charge more for brown eggs because uninformed consumers think that they are healthier. I have had people say this to me. Then I show them the eggs that my sister raises, all different colours. \"So, is the blue or the pink egg the healthier one?\" I'll ask. \n...
Can someone explain how tilt shift photography works like I've just learned to tie my own shoelaces	[ "To answer your first question (how do you make this effect)\n\n1. Get a picture of a large event where you can see for a long distance within the frame of the picture. See how in the picture you posted you can see many cars close up and also many cars far away? That's a good picture to start with!\n2. Without goin...
What is happening to New York City?	[ "Well a lot of small businesses that have been here for decades are being driven out by corporations and upscale businesses due to rising rents and taxes. Many of these businesses give NYC it's unique flavor that you can't find anywhere else. For New Yorkers like myself it hits home hard seeing stuff like this happ...
Why do violinist always play the instrument on their chin?	[ "The left hand of the violin player is the one playing the notes and it has to be free to move up and down the neck as required, not clutching the instrument.\n\nThe strings seen in cross-section form an arced shape, not flat like a guitar. The bow has to be able to \"attack\" through a range of angles so that it t...
How does a satellites stay positioned on a geostationary orbital target that is not on the equator?	[ "Geostationary orbits are only above the equator. Geosynchronous orbits are at the same distance but not necessarily in the plane of the equator.\n\nCommunications satellites are not necessarily geostationary or geosynchronous; if there are enough of them all at different orbits then they can cover most of the eart...
How does doing a "small o" with your mouth produce cooler air while opening up your mouth while "hah-ing" produces warmer air	[ "[It is called the Venturi Effect. Fluids, when constricted-air is a fluid in this discussion-speed up when constricted. That makes things go relatively faster. Fast moving air pulls heat away, making the small o feel cooler](_URL_0_)" ]
Both sides of the Syrian civil war and what each side's goals.	[ "There's probably at least 4, maybe 5 sides. So this isn't going to be easy.\n\nSince you're five, we'll explain it like this: You hate going to school because there's a kid in the class (Bashar Al-Assad) who's always been the biggest and meanest bully, telling everyone what to do, and taking your lunch money whene...
What is the point of harvesting "likes" on Facebook if you are not directly promoting a business?	[ "ALY5: It's the same reason that people try to get karma on Reddit, lad. They want recognition. They want to feel agreed with.", "its the same thing as people harvesting karma. it doesnt do anything, but people do it anyways", "Because when I \"like\" something, it shows up in my feed (\"ssflanders likes \"I Lo...
Why does it hurt more to get an IV put in your hand than in the crook of your arm?	[ "The hand has more nerve endings (sensors) because you need to feel what you're doing with your hand while doing complex tasks (typing for example).\n\nThe high density of \"useful\" nerves to sense touch, temperature, etc, also comes with a lot of nerves that detect pain. Arguably this serves a purpose, allowing y...
Why do some people with special needs have such similar facial features?	[ "Because people who have the same problem generally have the same cause for that problem.\n\nTake, for instance, Down's Syndrome. It's caused by having 3 copies of the 21st chromosome instead of just two. Every single person with Down's has this problem, and every single person with this problem has Down's. Along w...
How do poems translated from one language to another still rhyme?	[ "The translated form is altered in order to rhyme, almost always. Usually the translator is also a poet who understands the original poet's style, so they'll try to keep the meaning and meter (if necessary) as close as possible to the original, while finding rhyming words that fit.\n\nEDIT: Here's an example from...
Can people have smaller than average organs and what does it mean?	[ "If you made it this long with little to no problems, I wouldn't worry about it.\n\nBest thing to do is talk to your doctor about it. She would probably feel bad if she knew what she said made you uncomfortable and she didn't know/therefore couldn't explain things for you so you could feel better.\n\n\nI'm almost ...
why is it that flies seem to appear out of thin air so quickly (even indoors) when rotten things or feces are nearby?	[ "Fun fact, up until recently in modern history people simply believed that things like garbage and feces spontaneously generated life because like you said, it seems like there are no flies, then trash and boom, hella flies. \n\nThe truth is a little more boring and gross, it's simply that flies and maggots are all...
What are fair split screens?	[ "If you're going to ask about a current Reddit post, [it's helpful to include a link to it in the question](_URL_0_).\n\nSplit screen video games are where you have multiple players, each with their own view on half the screen. Think playing Golden Eye/Halo on a single system.\n\nOne of the problems you run into h...
What are mirrors made of? How does it get that reflection quality?	[ "They used to be glass that had electroplated silver on one side and then black paint on top of that. And they also used to be really well polished metal. Now a days it is usually much cheaper aluminum on glass.", "/u/Kamin_of_ressik explained what they are made of, so I will explain their reflective properties...
I'm far sighted. Are there reverse-blurred images that would appear clear to me?	[ "So you want something like this [shortsightedness optical illusion](_URL_0_). but for farsightedness.", "The opposite of blurring is a technique called [unsharp masking](_URL_2_) It effectively increases contrast at the edges in a photograph. Here's an [example picture](_URL_2_) with blurred text at the top and ...
Why stage 4 cancer is "uncurable"	[ "At stage 4, the cancer has spread throughout the body to multiple locations distant from the original tumor. It's considered uncurable at that point because it's not feasible, or really even possible to any degree of certainty, to remove all the tumors. At that point, the odds are pretty good you've not only got t...
Why don't console developers re-release older consoles?	[ "Because almost nobody buys them. The market for any electronic device drops through the floor as soon as a newer version comes out.", "It's happened a few times, actually.\n\nNintendo re-released both the NES and Super NES. The 1993 revision of the NES took some design cues from the Super NES, but otherwise was ...
Why does the US government bail out General Motors every time they go under?	[ "> every time they go under\n\nYou mean once?", "You are forgetting that the lowest base model Tesla would be over $100k if it wasn't subsidized by the US government.\n\nGM makes cheap crappy cars pretty much and they employ a LOT of people. You don't want all those people on unemployment (it costs the government...
Reasonable Force Laws in the UK	[ "Basically it boils down to this:\n > The prosecution must adduce sufficient evidence to satisfy a jury beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant was either:\n\n > not acting to defend himself/herself or another; or\nnot acting to defend property; or not acting to prevent a crime or to apprehend an offender; or ...
Are US Congressional members actually exempt from insider trading laws? Is this okay?	[ "Yes, and define \"okay\".\n\nInsider trading is a broad statute that basically(attempts to) prevents people from trading on material knowledge the general public doesn't have. Due to the broad policy implications of being in congress a given congressmen almost always has some sort of inside information. Be that ...
What happens if Hillary Clinton is charged with an offence by the FBI, how would this affect the Presidential race and would she be allowed to continue?	[ "Legally speaking, it would have no impact. Nor would a conviction, or even being in jail. Article 2 of the US Constitution lays out the requirements for being elected president, and none of these factors enter into it. \n\nIn fact, not having an indictment would be a terrible, terrible requirement. Imagine if ...
Why do children seemingly enjoy being tickled but grow to hate it as adults?	[ "Plenty of adults like being tickled and plenty of kids hate being tickled. People often laugh involuntarily when they're tickled; this is a defense mechanism to signify submissiveness. People will often panic quite a bit because they don't like feeling vulnerable; this is because being tickled activates the part o...
Why is liquor supposedly better the longer it is aged?	[ "Not all liquor and wine improve with age. Many are designed to open immediately. \n\nWith whiskey, for example, the process of making whiskey involves aging for years in a barrel. The alcohol will cause chemical reactions with the wood of the barrel, which gives it it's iconic \"whiskey\" flavor and its caramel...
Carbon-14 half-life and why it's only useful for dating organic materials less than 50,000 years old?	[ "I think you're confused as to what a half life is. A half life is how long it takes for half of the material (in this case the radioactive carbon-14 isotope) to decay. I've never heard of a full life.\n\nFor example, take 100g of Carbon-14. After ~5,700 years (it's half life) you'll have 50g of Carbon-14. Now take...
why do we cringe with certain sounds (nails on the chalkboard, etc.)	[ "why do mods cringe when people refuse to search the archive?" ]
. Why is IPhone so popular? The new 6s has 2gigs of ram the same as my old Galaxy 4 and half as much as my note 5.	[ "Like every Apple product, it is user friendly. It is really hard to screw anything up on it, and it is designed to be intuitive. How it is marketed has something to do with it too. (and their planned obsolescence helps keep them making money)", "IF you're wondering, Specs on cell phones are actually fairly meani...
Why to they have traffic reports on TV? How does it benefit only people watching at home?	[ "People may be leaving the house soon, or they are waiting on somebody to arrive.\n\nAnd I suppose its because people watching the news want to see the traffic. If every time they had a traffic report everybody changed the station, they would stop running traffic reports.", "I've only seen it on morning news. Th...
When a city loses power (like in a lot of movies), why aren't all the lights going off at the same time?	[ "They call it a power grid for a reason, it is an actual grid. The main power lines come in from the power plant, which are then routed to different areas, then routed to smaller areas in each area, and so on and so forth until it reaches the end user. Think of it as an upside down tree. Trunk is the main line, bra...
How do countries export electricity?	[ "> Do they connect power lines to other countries?\n\nPretty much - yes" ]
How long would it take to accelerate to the speed of light in space so that the crew wouldn't suffer any negative effects from accelerating too quickly.	[ "You can't accelerate to the speed of light, and still have the crew made of matter. So let's presume you meant 99% of the speed of light.\n\nPeople deal well with 1g, 9.8m/s^2 of acceleration, and can stand 1.5g for a pretty long time. But to allow for safe sleep and digestion, 1g should probably be your limit. ...
What does the US government do with the millions of dollars worth of bitcoins they seize from online black markets?	[ "The last time they seized a bunch from Silk Road, they [sold it in an auction](_URL_0_), like with other seized property. They sold it in 3,000-coin chunks.\n\nAs for newer stuff, I think [this is the FBI's wallet number](_URL_1_) so you can see they still have over 144,000 Bitcoin." ]
What is it that makes someone a naturally talented singer vs. someone that sounds like nails on a chalkboard?	[ "I work in music production (not my main occupation, but it's the one I am best at). I play stringed instruments, and I can't sing to save my life but I specialise in vocal production. \n\nIn short... You can not be trained to be a great singer if you have nothing to begin with. Every single great singer I have wor...
Why does handwriting differ?	[ "Out of personal experience, I remember when I first was learning to write, my teacher had a certain look to her handwriting I admired. So, I mimicked her until I picked up the handwriting. So to answer your question, it depends. If you like the font/style of the educator, chances are you'll mimick their handwritin...
"Era of Bad Feelings"	[ "The Era of Good Feelings was a period of American history (early 1800s) that fell between major conflicts, expectations were high, the major political parties cooperated and people got along. \n\nThe Era of Bad Feelings is just a cloy way of saying now is a time of conflict, lowered expectations and partisan bicke...
Why is it that pretty much everyone enjoys music?	[ "I used to work on an assembly line and we were allowed to have small radios on our benches while we worked. My supervisor was a really cranky old lady that just never seemed happy about anything. I was working near her desk one night (we rotated benches often) and to as not to offend her (and because I have a ve...
how does your digestive system get liquids separated to your kidneys?	[ "It doesnt't really. The digestive system mostly absorbs everything it can from the food into the bloodstream (nutrients, water, etc.) and the rest of it (fiber, some water stercobilin from bile, etc.) comes out as poop. The kidney then takes the blood and removes the things you don't really need in it (some water ...
Why are certain organs associated with certain feelings? For example, why do people think love comes from the heart?	[ "In Shakespearean time the liver was where courage lied. If your liver did not receive enough blood you would have a pale liver. hence \"lily liverd\"", "TL;DR: these ideas might be rooted in antique Greek-roman medicine notions believing that certain types of personalities emerged from imbalances in organs and t...
Why don't/can't governments just illegalize smoking?	[ "The tobacco lobby is very powerful, smoking is a huge economic industry, tons of people like smoking, lots of people object to the government acting as a nanny and regulating our well being, and prohibition has a poor track record. \n\nIt's a losing proposition for just about the entire country.", "Considering h...
What is happening in the brain when someone has an "Aha!" moment?	[ "One cell in your brain makes a path to another one, and voila you have a scenario that you reference for the rest of your life, unless you dont use it often, then it deteriorates. I don't remember all the specific terms cuz its early in the morning. But i suppose that IS what I'd tell a five year old", "I think ...
Street Sweepers	[ "Without them, major roads would be covered with dust and ground up asphalt and tire particles, not to mention litter. Sweeping streets also reduces pollutants that end up in groundwater when it rains.", "Do you mean human street sweepers? Seems the answers given so far are referring to the vehicular street sw...
Why is the unit of measure placed before the value for currencies?	[ "It's not always. Cents or other symbols denoting fractions-of-a-currency often are placed after the number (example: 59¢ compared to $1.59). And euro symbols are often seen after the number in signage in some countries and sometimes even in the middle (e.g. 1€59.)\n\nBut for financial transactions it's usually up ...
How do they get the bubbles inside the soda?	[ "The bubbles are carbon dioxide which is soluble in water. The main method they get the CO2 into the soda is a two step process. \n\nThe first step is chilling the soda by running it through a chiller. This is necessary because CO2 (and gases in general) can stay dissolved in cold liquids much better and warmer on...
If I use a credit card and only buy 10$ of something, but my "minimum amount due" at the end of a payment period is 35$, do I pay just the 10$ or 35$?	[ "You read the invoice, and figure out why it's 25 dollars more. Was there a fraudulent charge ? Than you call their fraud department. Was there a 25 dollar fee added on ? Was it legitimate ? Then you pay the 35." ]
Why did I have to throw away the lid from my water bottle going into a stadium in Hamburg?	[ "Removing the lid hampers the bottles ability to be used for other nefarious-type uses. It's hard to throw water bottles at the field/other team/your brother-in-law if most of the liquid and subsequent weight is removed while tossed. \n\nAlso, removing the cap puts shame on the bottle which might make it think twic...
How does the 'scene' community work? Where is the motivation? Where does the money come from?	[ "> How is it that you can get TV shows moments after they're done airing, without paying a cent?\n\nPeople recording TV through an input on their computer, encoding it in real-time with good CPUs, and immediately uploading it when the show's finished.\n\n > Who is getting paid for all this hard work- it can't be...
As someone not from the US, what exactly are sororities and fraternities at university?	[ "Reddit is probably not the place to get an unbiased opinion on Frats and Sororities...\n\n/u/glendon24 eplained the entrance system pretty well. You have to pay what usually amounts to a large amount of money. This money is called Dues. The frat/ sorority uses the dues that you pay to fund social events, philanthr...
Could a President-Vice President couple pardon each other? Could the President pardon the VP, then pardon resign allowing the VP to pardon the President?	[ "There is no reason a President cannot pardon the VP or vice-versa. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 and was pardoned by his previous VP (now sitting president) Gerald Ford.\n\nThis pardon does not prevent the impeachment process which could remove the previous VP (now sitting President) from Office." ]
Audio Interface	[ "It's a box that connects to your computer to allow recording of more than one thing at once, for instance a whole band, and playing back through more than one speaker.\nIt has higher quality sound than a computer has built in and often has other features such as effects and controls for the inputs." ]
How is there wifi on buses (ie. megabus) and not on airplanes?	[ "There is WiFi on many planes. The reason there wasn't for a ling time after buses got it is for safety concerns." ]
I googled Iran in the 1970s and none of the women wore burqas. Why has that changed?	[ "Because they had a revolution in 1979, which led to the establishment of an Islamic republic & restrictions on the rights and freedoms of women.", "They still don't wear burqas.\n\nA [burqa](_URL_0_) is a kind of all-over veil, a garment that covers the entire body, including the face, with just a small slit f...
How does our immune system differentiate between good and bad bacteria?	[ "You'd need a PhD in immunology to get any rigorous answer.\n\nOne overly broad way to answer \"how does our immune system differentiate\" is simply: it doesn't. \n\nIf you raised a primary immune response to every bacterial cell you'd be in big trouble. Gut bacteria have evolved with us to either work to our benef...
Why is our current world map, the Mercator Map, not to scale? It represents the US as gigantic is reference to South America and Africa. In reality both of continents dwarf the US in size.	[ "There is no way to accurately project a spherical surface onto a two-dimensional map. Something has to be inaccurate, size, shape, distance, and or direction.\n\nThe advantage of the Mercator projection is that it preserves direction, which is useful for navigation. It is also rectangular, so it better utilizes ...
If jury decisions have to be unanimous, why aren't there way more hung juries?	[ "[Not all juries need to be unanimous](_URL_0_).\n\nI believe that some courts don't allow juries to return hung until a certain amount of time has passed, in order to encourage discussion.", "It certainly does extend how long you have to be in deliberations, but no, they can't keep you until a decision is reache...
How animals like Octopus are discovered to get "bored"	[ "\"Bored\" is a human term, and it's associated with a set of negative behaviors. The \"cure for boredom\" in humans is additional interaction. \n\nWhen an octopus is in a closed area, after a while they start to take on some of these same behaviors, and they stop when they have more interaction. Thus the term \...
How do airplanes take off?	[ "They use their engines to push them down the runway faster and faster, until the amount of wind passing under their wings is enough to lift them into the air." ]
Pleading the 5th Amendment	[ "The 5th Amendment exists primarily because a prosecutor can almost always trick or browbeat any admission they choose out of a suspect.\n\nPeople have trouble understanding this because they've never been placed in such a situation. They think \"oh, I'd never say something incriminating because I was guilty\". But...
why aren't laughs different in the same way languages and accents are?	[ "They absolutely are. It might be harder to detect because, well, it's a semi-involuntary sound, but there are, in fact, different \"laughter\" dialect.\n\nAnother point is tat laughter hardly ever needs translation, so..." ]
How much of a connection is there between being good at basic math and mastering algebra, calculus?	[ "Engineer here.\n\nIt's still a large gap from High School maths to Math analysis / Calculus. College Algebra is more accessible (the initial parts, then it gets hard as the rest).\n\nFrom my experience. To pass with good grades you need to study a bit BUT solving A LOT of exercises. Maths in college are a mix betw...
What made militant Islam what it is today?	[ "I think it's similar to the \"Know Nothing\" party in the US that developed. It's a counter movement to enlightenment, to be proud to be ignorant, because knowledge is frightening to long standing thoughts about the way the world works, such as religion.\n\nCouple that with some seriously barbaric text in the Kor...
Why do most diseases seem to originate from China or India?	[ "Well, it doesn't seem that way to begin with...so, how to ans that?" ]
how does dust form? And what generates the biggest amount of dust?	[ "A lot of people will tell you it's mostly dead skin cells, but that's obviously not the majority of dust. You can easily verify this by leaving stuff in a non climate controlled storage unit for a year and coming back to find a layer of dust. Dust is mostly just particles of dirt and whatever else that is light en...
what is the difference between the cheap batteries that come in toys and major brand batteries, like Duracell, and why does the latter last a lot longer?	[ "Usually toys come with an \"extra heavy duty\" battery which is a generic name for [zinc-chloride](_URL_1_). These batteries are really bad. An AA might hold 1.5 watt-hours of power. Some really cheap toys come with \"heavy duty\" batteries or zinc-carbon. These are the worst and an AA might have 1 watt-hour o...

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