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1k97ik | Running sprinklers at night time | _URL_0_ (4 am - 9am)
Read #3, in Texas the water loss to evaporation is rediculous | e56abbc5-5b18-4e32-bf0b-ac6769b2436e |
1ocec9 | How odds work if everything is random? | Odds basically tell you that if the exact same situation were to occur an infinite number of times, what portion of those times would lead to that specific result.
e.g. If you have the Ace of Hearts, King of Hearts, Queen of Hearts and Jack of Hearts in your hand and 48 shuffled cards in front of you, there is a 1 in ... | bfc7b025-7988-4aa5-a9d1-0328349fa973 |
3oj00h | How do Jeopardy contestant's study? | Okay, so no Ken Jennings. How about Arthur Chu?
From [this](_URL_0_) article:
> Literally the first thing I did when I got the call was to ask myself, “Do I feel ready?” And the answer is, “Hell no, I don’t feel ready.” Thankfully, we live in the electronic age. So without having to use too much ingenuity or creati... | 1f7f7a90-47b8-47e4-8513-9d11f8be327b |
1m3lq8 | how can i press my stomach out? | The mechanism for inhaling is using your diaphragm to basically pull down, creating negative pressure in your lungs. When you inhale deeply to cause your abdomen to protrude, you relax your abdominal muscles and your diaphragm pushes down slightly on your abdominal organs, mostly your intestines, causing your abdomen t... | afb27c68-7dd0-4af0-b70b-bcfec06e59e5 |
xwl9r | How do phones and iPods and such know when they are turned sideways? | _URL_0_
It's called an accelerometer. This guy breaks it dowwn. | 6a8ddaee-6927-4a18-9797-37bde51cb98d |
34o46i | What would be the simplest way to "unplug" the internet, causing total shut down by means of disabling hardware? | Like, in your house? Or the whole thing?
In your house, just unplug the cable between the router and the modem.
The Internet as a whole is so resilient (it was intended to survive nuclear strikes) that it would be extraordinarily difficult. Global thermonuclear war might do it. | 61913e7d-ebe2-4d29-80f7-d8e253993cc9 |
xailg | The whole Wiki leaks and assange debacle. | Assange made a website that exposed private and sensitive information about important people and events, in particular the government, and they got angry. | c5f2e4ad-ddba-419e-a988-955a52413197 |
2jbcql | What is homeopathy? | It's basically a magic potion with nothing in it. The idea is that you take a bit of something that causes the symptoms you want (say, some caffeine to make a sleeping pill, because caffeine causes you to stay awake), add it to water, do a magical ritual involving shaking the thing in certain directions a specific num... | d79150bd-61c1-4538-bcdb-6a4b215e7d90 |
2c3ayl | How my wife and kids would go about inheriting things that are only in my name like bank accounts, house, ect.. | By default, after you die, everything will go to your legal next of kin. That person (or persons) is defined in this order, and if you don't have a living member of each group, it passes to the next one down:
Spouse
Children
Parents
Siblings
I believe that next comes grandkids, then grandparents, but don't quote me ... | f44549d5-9d31-4878-8564-8141bba8175c |
2brqk0 | What is my all carbs/protein diet doing for me? | Weight gain is dependent on calories in and calories burned. It doesn't matter where you're getting those calories from, if you burn them all through activity and lifestyle, then you're not going to put on weight. Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps ate somewhere around 2000 Calories for breakfast (remember watching a docum... | c8a39870-bb40-42d4-9bcf-dcff5471363b |
3pu3uy | What ultimately stops you from jumping higher on a trampoline? | Diminishing returns.
The first time you jump on a trampoline, the only real force pushing you upward is coming from your legs.
On the next bounce, the trampoline converts a bunch of your downward momentum into upward momentum and helps push you back up into the air. If you push off again with your legs as that's happ... | 23493c9b-d5c1-48f7-88d9-158cd2e52caf |
6qc4hs | Are calories just calories? Is it the same if you get a calorie from a fizzy drink or a piece of fruit or a slice of potato or a bit of cheese? | Yes, a calorie is a calorie, source is largely irrelevant, but that doesn't necessarily mean your body will react the same way. The input isn't different, but the output can be.
A simplistic analogy might be to consider getting punched with a certain measure of force (say 5 newtons). If you got punched like this in a... | 48e01b8c-f2d6-47dd-a639-4ac0fd768d8b |
50j4ti | What can I do as a single individual to get Gary Johnson in the debates? | You could phone bank, donate to his campaign, that sort of thing.
The question you should be asking yourself is why you want Gary Johnson in the debates. His economic policies are frankly terrible. He thinks that socialized medicine is a bad thing, when it's been proven to be the superior system in every measure excep... | 63395e19-4adb-49f1-9656-f66649bf693d |
nbzoj | (or 18): Indefinite Detention Act | The portion everyone's worried about basically states that if someone is accused or suspected of being a terrorist the US government can detain (lock up) them indefinitely regardless of whether or not they are an American citizen. This is a big deal because, in addition to reminding everyone of the Red Scare in the 50s... | c677b434-4bfa-4962-af09-df923e9f64c9 |
42c3op | Why do computer telephone response systems always ask me to type a bunch of info, then transfer me to a human who asks for the exact same info? | I used to work for costumer service and we do this to make it an unpleasant experience for the costumer so that they never call again.
It's the same concept as those In-mail rebates that tend to be annoying to complete.
That's why I ended up quitting. I didn't like the whole idea of treating the customers bad. | 78fc0e99-e262-4e19-8b4d-93af56887f8f |
4jzzot | Why is it that lakes/ponds around the world have fairly similar fish, instead of them each having their own unique species of fish like land ecosystems do for animals? | The water in the lake came from somewhere. Most lakes are fed by rivers and streams, or were originally parts of a river network as is the case with [oxbow lakes.](_URL_0_)
A lake that was completely isolated from any other sources of water would eventually see evolutionary divergence if it had unique stressors, but ... | 2663e337-b638-4c20-8bb2-3126bae92b43 |
4opi3t | How bars or clubs charge huge crowds of people randomly ordering drinks. | people either start a tab or they pay up front. it's part of a bartender's job to make sure they get paid for their goods/services. i'm sure some bars and bartenders will allow regulars to get away without paying upfront in certain scenarios, but that really depends on the business and employees. | db785d57-ef98-4140-a20f-0394f78a22e5 |
3uu7r2 | What is Operator Overloading | In programming operator overloading is when you take a simple mathematical or logical operator like + or ! and define what that means. It's generally only applied to user-defined types/classes/objects, as the definition of these operators tends to be predefined for numbers etc.
Imagine you have an object X, only you t... | 170b1dff-2722-4560-81b8-8068fb696f5f |
6hxm67 | What is vanity sizing in clothing? | In fashion, womens' fashions in particular, people want to believe they are thinner than they actually are, and if you get north of a size 6, which is still quit thin, you are often looked down upon for being too fat. Some designers don't even make their clothes in the higher sizes.
To make consumers feel better and ... | d0747f36-61f9-4b21-8792-8d1b5a60e831 |
1r7qm7 | Why group mentality is so powerful | Human nature to belong and conform to social groups, empathy, and natural fear of exclusion.
It's kind of instinctual, that's why the weak minded are susceptible to group mentality. Case in point: Reddit. | 0f7dbda3-1157-4276-aa10-cca9ea3ccf11 |
3drimk | Why can't horses get rid of flies on their eyes? | They blink, the fly flies off, goes about two feet, pulls a u-turn and goes back to the eye.
They can get rid of them, but they can't keep them away.
Really, the ancestor to the domestic horse wouldn't have had this problem because they didn't live in stables.
It's the domestic horse's enclosure that attr... | a25bccd5-63e7-41c2-b27e-1d315638a0c9 |
3x24zh | If each pixel is merely a combination of a red, blue, or green light, why don't colorblind people who can, for example, not see red or green colors, only see blue on computer monitors? | It's not that colour-blind people can't see red or green. They can see them both fine; they just can't tell them apart. | 1c60af77-04db-4dbe-930e-32018ebab049 |
1yvn6n | What is happening after a workout in our body? | As I understand it
In a workout with decent intensity(a lot of weight being moved/force being generated) your body releases testosterone and a pulse of growth hormone. After about an hour this pulse gives way to stress hormones like cortisol. During this time you deplete nutrients from the muscles, stress your bones, a... | 21e6792a-5aee-4f09-b1f1-f269b33cc164 |
7iyd1n | What is it like playing intense sport (or exercise) in freezing weather? | Down to -5 no major differences, except you can loose heat rapidly if you stop moving, layering your clothing is important to manage your heat/sweat.
-5 to -20 your get an iron taste in your throat/mouth when breathing heavily, otherwise same as above.
Below -20 breathing becomes painful, your nose can freeze, your s... | cd301520-d454-42d1-9f87-5dfb3b1d7397 |
3x3mlz | what ever happened to Dane Cook? | Credit to /u/noposters for this answer: What people don't realize about Dane Cook is that he was on a mega run before Harmful if Swallowed blew up. Even before his comedy central half hour, he was the highest paid comedian touring colleges at that time (not the highest paid in general, but he swooped in when Sandler st... | 676ac3fd-7ce4-4eac-8f8c-03646adf411e |
3yrw53 | The Hateful Eight in 70mm, is there no way to replicate so every theatre gets that "visual effect"? | Gonna get a little technical:
The movie has a digital equivalence of around 8192x2968 (assuming a 4K equivalence for regular 4-perf 35mm). I don't know of any theater that has a projector above 4K, many are even at 2K (2048x1080, almost the same as regular 1920x1080, as most movies are 2K).
So, seeing it in ... | f8cddcc3-d273-4014-8e00-da53c8cf0270 |
1jv6t7 | Calvinism | John Calvin was a theologian who was part of the reformation. His theology became known as Calvinism.
Basically Calvinism is boiled down to the TULIP beliefs.
* T - Total Depravity - All parts of man are affected by sin
* U - Unconditional Election - We are saved by Christ without any conditions. We do not earn it,... | 2166ecd6-a262-417d-ac78-9cfefe59db85 |
3f4rlt | How does a watch know when a month has 30 or 31 days? | I think you have to manually adjust it every time the month changes, but not sure, sure someone will correct me. | 968ca469-d26d-4ea5-a9ce-65a7d8a8eab1 |
6x2ldn | Why does tiredness feel as though it comes in waves? | Biorhythms. Your body has cycles: breathing, heartbeat, blinking, even which nostril you use. Your wakefulness/tiredness is also cyclic. | f36157a8-b543-4c3b-8532-1a279485d346 |
2yahdf | how does your brain produce a coloured image through staring at a negative? | These are called afterimages and their existence is covered by something called Opponent Process Theory.
Basically, you have 3 types of cells in your eye that detect color. They are called cones. One cone is sensitive to the wavelength of light we associate with "red", another to "green", and another to "blue" light. ... | fce8026f-f246-4638-8b16-5d98625f9901 |
2uxanc | Why are most passwords hidden on-screen by default when you type them, but WIFI passwords are not? | Most on screen passwords are hidden in-case you have any shoulder surfers(people watching you type over your shoulder). WiFi passwords give you the option to either hide or show, in my opinion as WiFi passwords are normally longer than other account passwords they can be hard to make sure your typing correctly without ... | 14284308-35e1-468d-8d4d-625e1ddfa13c |
15shd5 | Why does time use the number 60? | 60 is easy to divide cleanly in multiple ways, and a number based on 60, such as the number of degrees in a circle, can be divided yet more ways. 60 can be divided by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30 and itself. This provides many easy-to-reckon, useful fractions. In the days before pocket calculators, slide rules, Napier... | d1eef01d-ec85-467a-be87-ae02b1178c64 |
10hsdv | - the Monsanto controversy | Worries about engineered foods aside, a lot of people have a huge problem with Monsanto's business model...
They use patent law to force farmers to buy seed from them every year. The farmers do not own the seeds that are created by the plants they are growing - Monsanto has the *patent* on the seed DNA. So they can't ... | c0f274a1-c23d-48ac-8ae5-cd26b7817dee |
7bne7n | The true difference between i5 and i7 processors | The biggest difference between i5 and i7 processors is the number of concurrent threads they can handle. i7 processors are equipped with hyperthreading, which is a technology that allows a single processor core to do almost as much work as two separate cores.
Imagine a single processor core is like a chef. Both the ... | d9b575df-2432-4d67-b3dd-e0add3f90b73 |
5nnlt1 | Why does water taste bitter after eating pineapples? | When the water hits your taste buds, they are stimulated a little. The problem is they have been overloaded with sugar and acid, thus they are temporarily unable to *report* sugar and acid at that moment. Therefore they report the only thing left: alkaline (bitter) taste.
Add that to the fact that most water has disso... | 7527138c-b899-43e3-aaa1-3ee3ec3dca39 |
7loatb | What does fuel stabilizer do to gasoline? | Gasoline should keep indefinitely if stored properly.
However, stabilisers can be useful if fuel is stored incorrectly, for example, in partially full tanks of small equipment. The larger tanks in modern cars are carefully designed to protect fuel from air and evaporation.
Gasoline molecules can evaporate if the tank... | 056ef704-c071-43b5-ab72-7cd27c4d51c6 |
2lc6k5 | Hey Reddit, so what the hell are those squiggly lines I see in my peripheral every once in a while? Don't know why I didn't wonder until now.. | They are called floaters. Mostly they are the shadows cast by bits of the inside of your eye that have broken off and are floating around in the vitreous humor, or eyeball fluid, in your eye.
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js0eq | how a drug goes from needing a prescription to being able to buy it without a prescription | Like you're five? Because the grownups who make the drug (Sanofi) showed the grownups who regulate the drug (the Food and Drug Administration) that the drug is safe enough to take without needing the advice from a doctor. The drug itself does the same thing only now you don't need a prescription from the doctor. Peo... | 6b314ad0-50f5-477c-ac9b-141ee9a80eb9 |
5b6c5j | How do cars calculate speed and preview it on the speedometer? | **NOT ELI5**
The car's driveshaft also powers a *speedometer cable*, which spins a magnet around at the same speed inside the *speed cup*. This magnet rotates continually in an equal direction. This spinning creates a fluctuating magnetic field. The laws of electromagnetism dictate that a current must therefore flow i... | b483b909-f831-41d4-98c1-32d44ea79429 |
2jzsw2 | If Western governments are worried about their citizens fighting for Daesh (the Islamic State) and returning to participate in terrorist activities, why do they have to "monitor" them when they come back rather than arrest them? | In most western democracies you can't arrest someone just because the government doesn't like their political views (there are some exceptions to this rule but in general it holds). You have to be able to prove that they have committed some kind of crime in order to arrest them.
Almost by definition someone who has ... | 2b63bb86-65b2-4773-941d-9150539415f8 |
2yr7ub | What would happen if we could drill a hole to the core of the Earth? | The Earth is molten beyond the crust, so we wouldn't get any further than that. | c1fd3733-e080-4c6c-a17a-e128b8016961 |
72131o | Is there a psychological term for when you finish a game/book/series and feel empty inside? | "Ennui" (pronounced "on-we") is a pretty close fit. Also, it's French and they're very good at feeling empty and dissatisfied inside.
ennui: 1. a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: | 0c6974af-e284-4365-a8aa-456a583e820d |
3dw4ox | Why is it, that even though I genuinely love Whiskey, I shudder nearly every time I drink some? | Your conscious brain loves it, but your subconscious brain realizes that alcohol is inherently bad for the body, and causes you to shudder. It's a subconscious survival mechanism that you're overriding with your conscious brain. | b8f95509-97d7-46b9-a7a0-ce4232d1af2b |
64b1vp | Why do our eyes not see color on the edge of our peripheral vision? | The cone cells that detect color aren't very good at low light or motion detection.
Since motion detection is more important at the periphery than color (does it really matter what color that sabre toothed tiger is?) we evolved to pack mostly rods and few cones in the corners.
Your brain remembers what colors things ... | 60d42749-9fb1-4077-9fa7-e3ee26cbfa20 |
1moxcs | Why is it when I drink a glass of liquid I urinate at least twice as much back out? | Your bladder only sends the "time to pee" message to your brain when it reaches a certain level of fullness. So the amount you pee out doesn't just represent the glass of water you just drank, but all of the water you have drank since the last time you peed plus the water your body needed to dissolve the waste products... | e6b0dccb-1c59-424f-a71e-5af5e29b53f2 |
676bz1 | What prevents DNA from getting tangled? | Proteins!
There are *many, many* proteins in your body that have a specific job of keeping your DNA tangled/condensed the perfect amount. There are topoisomerases, a family of proteins, that specifically twist/untwist your DNA to introduce/remove "supercoils" (like what would happn when you twist an elastic band) to ... | 43f1deff-633f-4ef7-b920-206ad3f61a0f |
5v4xi7 | Why does the tray in a microwave rotate? | Because there are hot and cooler spots due to the way the microwaves reflect around inside the oven. Rotating the food attempts to distribute the heat in the food more evenly. | 677d4ff5-5b03-4643-8e63-49e883da7266 |
3y7usk | why child support is based on income rather than what a child would need monthly. | Child support is partially based on income. It is also partially based on the number of children and their age, the cost of basic living expenses and school in that general area, and whether or not any special needs are present. Which sometimes leads to a very high ratio, but that is also something that can happen when... | c67f471e-0af7-4af8-a40d-88533f4da315 |
4cr5le | If you had a room with all walls, the floor, and the ceiling made of perfect mirrors and you shined a light in there somehow, would the light continue in there forever? Would it somehow disappear? | Nothing is a perfect mirror. The material still ends up absorbing some of the light. Eventually it would all get absorbed. | c3fba5a6-f671-4122-a294-fe8db5ec70ec |
1wsi71 | It seems like the whole world is against George Lucas' remade and remastered version of the Original Star Wars trilogy. What exactly did he do to change the story that makes fans hate it so much? Why all the vitriol? | As Pandromeda mentioned, Han Solo fired first. Also, he added in a bunch of CG aliens that didn't fit, put back in a deleted scene with Jabba the Hutt that wasn't necessary, added cheesy special effects to the Death Star explosion, added in a fucking song and dance number to Return of the Jedi, replaced the original en... | 838801b2-72e9-49de-8052-16d6ab8d7e8e |
6ahc0e | How do blankets work? Why do they allow me to become warm even when the outside is cold? | your body makes heat. this warms the air around your skin. the blanket holds that air close to you. | 4eebe79a-ed9a-4f0e-9688-578dc859a91c |
1qg28u | Difference between computer virus, worm, and trojan horse | All of these are software programs.
Computer virus - the typical attribute here in a software program that makes it behave somewhat like a biological virus, is its ability to copy and replicate itself by "infecting" other software programs - i.e it attaches itself to these programs, either by infecting them as they ar... | 36f1e86f-1c75-4002-b37d-4874a13d5818 |
3vfllb | Why does the media spend so much time covering the question of whether or not Jeb Bush can rise in the polls, but doesn't extend nearly that level of coverage to other non popular contestants? | Jeb Bush is considered (generally) the primary establishment candidate, which means he's expected to have significant political clout with the republican party. Alternatively, he's also a Bush, which means he's entangled in a lot of familial controversy, 'Bush Dynasty' 'Can George Bush's brother win after his unpopular... | 4f4e2075-857f-4a76-9f1e-8fe610a709b6 |
28huk5 | The different between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. | Shi'ites think that leadership in Islam should be hereditary, and that Imams more or less represent the authority of the founder through his bloodline.
Sunnis think that leadership in Islam should be by some sort of democratic process, and you don't need to be a descendant of the founder to hold authority.
It started... | 58b1d78d-5db6-4e6f-852f-4959a0934183 |
4mxv3z | Why did film become a synonym for movies when photography also used film? | It depends on the context, but I'll stick to your examples. People didn't view still photographs on photographic film. They needed to be printed on photographic paper. Slides are an exception, but they didn't get popular until later.
Motion picture film is negative and printed onto another piece of film to make a pos... | 2ef23148-3150-4fff-a9f8-ac90f900f0b7 |
387rob | The core beliefs of American political parties. | This is a difficult question, America is insanely vast. A Republican in New York is going to be much different from a republican in Texas. A democrat in California will be different from a democrat in Michigan. Any person that wants to run for major office with a likable chance of winning usually has to run under one o... | cbcc10a9-6075-4973-ae2b-75aa01a76397 |
2s0edb | How do broadcasters sell and maximize advertising revenue during live sports when they don't know how many commercial breaks there will be? | For American football games they know within one or two how many breaks there will be. On between possessions they will radio down and stop lay during the break a "TV timeout" and a dude in a bright colored red or yellow jacket will come out and stand with the ref until it is time to resume play. | 103c3b72-23a2-42a2-9dfe-57094b064aae |
66cih6 | Why when we are sick/have an infection does our body temperature go up, as in a fever? | Many infections grow best at particularly precise temperatures. Your body raises your temperature as a defense mechanism, slowing down the reproduction of the infectious agent and giving your own defenses a chance to 'catch up'. At the same time it enhances the ability of some of your body's defenders to move around mo... | f0ddd28e-4284-4c69-9e48-0632f3c3abd5 |
3dhi2h | Why do real almonds not taste like almond paste/flavoring? | The almond flavour you taste in almond paste, marzipan and so forth comes from an aromatic called benzaldehyde. This is found in *bitter* almonds, which also have a fairly hefty amount of cyanide; the latter is removed during the extraction of the benzaldehyde.
The almonds you eat in nut form are *sweet* almonds, whic... | e2cb4736-a490-453c-933e-6405994a4d72 |
5xxcgy | Why haven't people as a whole adapted to the cold? We have adpated to the sun by the pigment in our skin changing colour depending on your exposure to sunlight. | Human's primary form of adaptation is the use of technology. So we have adapted to the cold by inventing insulated shelter, controlling fire, and making clothing. | 51cba88a-3b84-4679-b2ca-ceb559497be0 |
3ahe8n | When I swallow a pill, why is there sometimes a heavy feeling in the back of my throat? | I used to get that feeling a lot when I first started taking my daily pills. Turns out I wasn't getting the pill "stuck" in my throat exactly, but I was not swallowing them with enough water.
When someone swallows pills without proper salivation or lubricant the object can "scrape" itself on the back of your throat, ... | d33d53c5-c9ae-4a8d-a01d-f0ddba32aec0 |
6wvrj6 | Why is Reddit valued at "only" ~$1.8 billion, when less popular sites (e.g. Twitter) are worth many times more? | Reddit isn't publicly traded (there hasn't been an IPO yet), so speculation can't inflate the value of the company like Twitter or Tesla.
A company is basically worth how much people are willing to pay for shares of it, but you can't buy shares in Reddit yet.
It's also not profitable, yet, which doesn't help. | 8ba0b57a-9067-4898-b178-257ecfede303 |
4w6xmi | How can there be a sex wage gap in the US if we've had the Equal Pay Law since 1960? | There's a bit of a misconception about the wage gap. For jobs in the exact same role with the exact same responsibilities, the wages are about the same. However, men tend to be more likely to be promoted to higher-paying positions. Women are also more likely than men to take extended time off or work part time while ra... | b463de60-b6b2-4b9f-990d-80925f03d0c3 |
3tbt9h | Why/how does eye-makeup (even simple eyeliner/moderate mascara use) have such a dramatic impact on how attractive women are perceived? Why only women? - is it all just socialization? (Are we just conditioned to think that's attractive?) | Eye make-up is often used to extenuate the size, shape or colour of someone's eyes.
Your eyes can give away a huge amount about your current state - revealing indicators about your health, your energy levels, your age, your state of mind etc.
A good application of eye make-up could take tired, old eyes and transfor... | f611bca1-65fe-44fc-8a51-3297249afd7c |
7clhj9 | How can electric motors for cars be small enough to fit into a car and relatively cheap while industrial electric motors with similar power and torque are the size of a kitchen and cost more than an electric car? | Industrial electric motors are meant to be run nearly 24/7 at higher loads and don't have to be portable, so size isn't usually a factor as much as keeping them cool, so they're built to shed excess heat better, and more surface are = more heat that can be transferred away.
on the other hand for cars, weight and size ... | f5d7bc43-9bc5-4ca7-9b31-d39c73a1c9f9 |
4a1gko | Why are sunglasses universally considered "cool"? | people use their eyes to communicate their level of comfort/aggression/submission with one another. shades will remove this information and allow others to fill in the blanks. for example, you might be avoiding eye contact, but because of your sunglasses this does not register with people and you seem undeservingly "co... | b0e86a00-59fd-486e-9c5a-fb7261f570af |
1mpgid | How To Turn an Extra Wireless Router into a Wireless Extender | You may be better off in one of the tech subreddits (like /r/techsupport or /r/networking).
However, I have done this before with a Linksys router. Find out if one of the popular 3rd party firmwares (like [DD-WRT](_URL_0_) or [Tomato](_URL_1_)) will work on your router. Then find a guide online to help you set it up... | c9d7bc0c-9700-4e1a-bbfb-b672efa461af |
1o62kn | What is the difference between quality sushi and regular sushi? | Fresh vs. Frozen - was it alive this morning?
The Chef's reputation and experience - you're buying his car!
The ambience isn't free, if you're having sushi at a Chinese buffet, it's mostly fake crab and Thai illegal immigrants doing the work.
The exact kind of fish! You're not going to find supermarket fish a... | 969892ff-d66c-4e76-9847-bdedbdc81467 |
43bzmi | Why do American cities often have to take large public transport projects such as light rail and metro system to the voters but don't have to do the same for massive highway and road construction? | Large road projects usually exist to keep the existing road network running, or to improve its relation to the rest of the city. Bridges need to be retrofitted, underpasses capped, tarmac replaced. They may be big projects, but they're really necessary to keep the system functioning like it is.
A major public transpor... | 9fad1c3b-cf73-4b72-a71d-24c1f7b5b43d |
3s321x | How come bluetooth is so much slower than Wi-Fi? | Bluetooth is designed to be short-range very low-power for small portable equipment. Part of the power-savings of Bluetooth come from diminished bandwidth (just as much as the weaker signal). One could speed up Bluetooth to Wi-Fi speeds, but then it would defeat the purpose of BT's major design feature.
If you're look... | 802b282d-ffad-4694-9ab4-af621088485e |
361qlj | How does the ISS avoid damage from solar wind's if it is always in constant orbit? | The ISS orbits beneath the protective shield created by the earth's magnetism. The bulk of the solar wind is deflected away from earth by the earth's magnetic field. | b918f4e9-4ece-4153-bc6e-22b37264ec7d |
5xao6f | Why do we tear up when we yawn | Not 100% sure if this is the correct answer, but the act of yawning presses against the glands which produce tears. These glands are like a sac, so pressing against these sacs make the tear flow regardless of if you need it or not | a41a1123-2dc0-4f0e-a2fd-2519d772ad72 |
2lxlz1 | With the Separation of Pangea, how come we didn't evolve into several different species? | We weren't around back then. The continents were already in their present form when humans evolved (in Africa, almost certainly). | 8018e25b-143c-43bb-818e-eded67df5a27 |
10xx7k | The new changes to paypal's policies, and why its bad for me. | The big one that's mentioned is the change that you can't join a class-action against paypal so I'll explain that.
Lawsuits are expensive. Even a little suit against your neighbor over cutting down your tree can rack up costs from court fees and time spent arguing the case. In a major court case involving a huge busin... | d15436ba-615f-4c07-b1f4-3afe6a782a1c |
2mb88u | How is Canadian healthcare different from Obamacare? | Canadian healthcare is, more or less, single-payer. Basically, you pay a tax to the government and the government insures you.
American healthcare is a big old mess. We have single-payer for some people (Medicare), full-on nationalized healthcare for some (the Veterans' administration, where doctors are government emp... | ef42fd9c-f7c2-48c1-8e60-8b2c6529ea85 |
7cfiri | Why do app developers like supercell release their updates/apps way earlier on one platform than the other? | If you're referring to the time gap between Android and iOS releases, the answer is because of Apple.
Things get on the Android market very easily and quickly, because the Android market is cool. Apple has dozens of excessive rules and guidelines that they strictly enforce, so they actually look through the app/code. ... | f743ccfe-9308-41c7-b2ec-8849ab94591d |
2qs02x | Why doesn't the SAP button work in reverse | conjecture:
English speakers don't watch the shows, so they are not translated.
The shows are not translated because English speakers do not watch the shows. | de23fa3b-e87e-455a-88f9-70265b89661e |
3chhg1 | Why do the vast majority of good police officers and other form of L.E. protect the "bad apples" and not outcast/ help remove them? | Cop here. Truly "bad" cops don't want to get caught. If they're doing something shady, they're probably hiding it.
A couple other factors:
Police departments operate independently from one another. I have nothing to do with the department in the next town over, let alone across County or state lines.
Even withi... | da4ed078-c035-4faa-932e-dcead31b889b |
6tesyr | If we were still at war with Nazi Germany, Nazi supporters would be tried for treason. Why now are Nazi groups aloud to persist, unchallenged by law? | There is a very fine balancing act between avoiding government censorship and persecution of political groups on the one hand, and allowing desctructive elements to fester until they become too big to deal with on the other.
If you give the government powers to imprison people for holding certain political beliefs, ho... | 3017cfb8-7e66-452c-8ed7-e54b89e360d4 |
423v1v | Why is pencil graphite referred to as Lead instead of graphite? | Before chemistry was really a thing, everyone thought that graphite was a type of lead, probably because it's so soft. | 05a2bbff-8767-4db3-a62f-b3fdb7ee04b1 |
5n5tsy | If your shoe comes off why according to reddit, does it normally equal death in an accident? | Can you imagine being hit so hard you fly out of your shoes?? | f17a1927-80a5-45dd-9204-7a695f1432d4 |
7z8qrg | Why are the words "Yeah" and "Oh" always in pop songs and said for so long? | They are used as *filler* where the tune requires a note, but the singer doesn't have anything more to say.
An excellent lyricist will try to adjust the wording so that not too many of these are needed. | 6a5b8482-c145-403e-939e-e9922a1109be |
4dzn17 | How do certain websites offer free copyrighted movies and television shows without being shut down? | I know of a few websites that use servers that are outside of the US, specifically in regions in which they could give fuck-all about US Copyright laws. Think small eastern Euro countries, and the middle east. I personally met someone who ran an operation remotely in Saudi Arabia, from the US, and literally had $25k dr... | 5ded9068-3d57-4821-a586-88801702088d |
yayj4 | The different branches of Christianity, and why they are no longer combated as heresy | In many Christian circles, this is the analogy that applies:
Imagine a target, with three rings. The center, the bullseye, are the core values. I call them "primaries". It's what defines Christianity. Without starting a debate, I'll say that some people disagree on what goes in the middle. These people we'd call heret... | a0b27d30-764c-4c14-ba25-ef040b038b3b |
5bn3ww | Where does color goes when the sun "bleaches" it? | It breaks the molecules that make the color, and the byproducts don't have any specific color. The atoms are still there, but formed into different molecules. | edc65901-8269-46e4-aefa-8186c2da4b34 |
1lk863 | Animal cloning | The egg of a donor animal is obtained. The nucleus is sucked out of the egg, and the nucleus from an adult animal that is desired to be cloned is injected. The egg then will either expire or start to divide. If division is allowed to continue, the embryo may be able to be implanted into a host surrogate mother anima... | 41245392-755f-4281-9215-cd3c7e7b7b15 |
5rm40w | Considering the origins of the English language (of which I have limited knowledge). Could an alien civilisation develop a strikingly similar language? | Well, you have rather easy window into this:
Try comparing languages from other places around the Earth. Do they resemble each other?
Turns out, even if you have people who repeatedly talked to each other, shared environment, and their language was born from the same original language, the languages within just the s... | c780af69-7916-452b-a4a3-df2e2db4c638 |
31f889 | Why does my phone echo sometimes? | issues with the line. there is noise on the line when you call. when you hang up an phone it makes a new connection and this time no issue with the connection.
it can be either the person you call or your phone line causing this issue | eb6a78d4-f33f-4af8-98d9-33cacb0dd122 |
5r7gcz | what are the differences between parliamentary systems and the powers of a prime minister versus a president? | The exact details vary from country to country, but basically the Prime Minister (or Chancellor, or similar term in other countries) is the head of *government*, while the President (or, in the case of countries like the UK, which are constitutional monarchies, the Monarch) is head of *state*. The US President combines... | f47a0d0e-e4d1-43c4-896c-b2bcca84c3cf |
5wmzne | Why does inbreeding cause the offspring to have a significantly lower IQ than average? What is the science behind it? | take it that a human body has 2 sets of genes.
When a baby is made, half the genes are from the mother and other half is from the father.
These genes make proteins which help our body work. However, there are occasionally some errors in the genes which ends up making defective/too much/too little proteins which give ... | 6c42d101-4e24-4639-aaee-9634dbeebcbc |
37d0tg | Why is it that after waking from a bad dream, even though I am awake and aware that the dream was not real, I am still irrationally freaked out and disturbed by the events of the dream for a good amount of time? | If you are having a scary dream your body may start producing Adrenaline, or other hormones that help you deal with stressful situations.
Even though you have woken up, those hormones are still active in your system and the heightened sense of awareness sticks around until your hormone levels return to normal. | 2e188578-9b09-459e-9587-06fdc93ed3ac |
3l3778 | What are some indicators for advancement in relationships? | I'm a little confused as to what exactly you want to know. Are you talking about the stages of a romantic relationship, and if so are you asking for "signals" or are you asking for general stages, like hand-holding to kissing to sex? | 72a075c6-bed4-4f3a-afe2-e7156164347d |
3efakb | Why can't modern houses be economically independent with solar + battery+ a little backup generator just incase? | A) You need a large array of solar powers to provide full coverage to the home (large initial cost, requires a lot of surface area, potentially takes away from the visual appeal of the home)
B) until very recently, there hasn't really been any cost-effective battery solution for homes (Tesla Powerwall is helping to ch... | c6dded69-ede2-4645-8c64-36863b316e85 |
1vivz9 | If we are 70% H2O, why are we considered Carbon based? | The chemistry that keeps us going is based on carbon-chain molecules.
We do use water for some reactions but most of it is just solvent for molecules to float around and react in.
It's somewhat like why we say tea is a plant-based beverage even though it's mostly water. The interesting part isn't the water. | 45a59cfc-43e1-4a0c-8e42-b2519f58584a |
6y4fks | Why do we have speed limits rather than a speed range? | Because that's the top speed you can safely do, assuming ideal conditions (at least that's the premise).
When it's raining, snowing, cold or dark, this changes it from being ideal conditions. It's not safe to drive at that speed any more. Worse it is, the slower you need to go, especially if your visibility is impaire... | f33809df-563b-4467-b534-6e629312866c |
2jnwq8 | After the Big Bang, how did the Universe form multiple galaxies and establish order from disorder? | Simply put, gravity. And distubances in the uniformity of the universe, which caused there to be larger clumps than in other places.
The universe, at the very beginning, was all energy. But then the universe cooled as it expanded (much like an expansion valve in an airconditioning system makes happen.)
This cooli... | ff5a3cf2-b0ae-403e-a492-1c840bb0b685 |
j2xnd | can you explain the NFL lockout to me (what it is, why it happened, outcomes of it etc.) LI5 | Ok, im not a big expert but for some reason I'm not seeing most Reddit users as being highly into sports. So basically, just like with every other corporation we have owners (own the team), workers (players), investors (other corporations), and consumer (us). I will break it down as best I can that way. Like all busine... | 6b712c2b-77bd-4d19-8bf5-893d18bb493b |
3qgzsl | The world can't agree on standard units of measurement for anything except time. H ow come? | They can and did. ISO standard units called the SI units. Most everyone doing serious business is using them for most everything and have been for a while, non-SI units are just used in day-to-day stuff because people have preferences and it's generally not worth it to, for example, force Canadians to actually measure ... | 18f3f9e1-fcf7-4d76-926e-e4892f0ce1e7 |
2hvew7 | We all mostly skip or block ads. What makes companies still believe online ads like on youtube is worth investing? | "We" is comprised of tech-savvy desktop/laptop users. Mobile users and most internet users don't use adblock, and their revenue makes it worthwhile. | 42b640e9-68c9-443c-b25a-8c63061462ae |
1iiucm | Can someone explain what quantum suicide and quantum immortality are? | One cat goes into a box, this cat is [Schrödinger's cat](_URL_1_).
To make a long story short....
> He proposed a scenario with a cat in a sealed box, wherein the cat's life or death depended on the state of a subatomic particle. According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains ... | eda63ec9-f3d0-4fd2-85e5-4a104d141225 |
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