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Why is pepperoni considered the default topping on pizza? | Pepperoni, Sausage and just Cheese are "default" or common because they are cheap enough ingredients and the market majority likes them. |
how is the weight that we lose excreted out of our body's? | We exhale it. The fat is metabolized for energy, leaving water and CO2 as wasteTaken from a different Reddit post: " Cool TedTalk video explaining the science behind where the weight goes: _URL_0_ " |
Trolling and troll accounts on Reddit. | Trolling is making a disingenuous post design to provoke a response. It is like going to a friend and saying, "oops, I accidentally scratched up your new car in the parking lot, sorry dude." then laughing at his reaction when he get upset. Trolling can be funny when it is clever, especially if you can push someone bein... |
Why are the people of reddit so completely angry about things that are reposted? Do you truly believe that everyone has seen everything you have seen all the time? | Two reasons: 1. It fills up the feeds of people who spend a lot of time on reddit. They want to see new things instead of old posts. 2. The reposter is getting attention and karma for something that they did not create and many people have a moral problem with that. |
How can you "buy" an election? Why does it work if we regularly hear about the concept in the news? | Its a reference to when the super rich like to Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson or corporations like Comcast and oil companies spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to finance propaganda through advertising from bogus think tanks and lobbyist groups for certain candidates. When that candidate wins, thanks to a... |
How did China become a permanent member of the UN Security Council? | The countries considered "victors" of World War II were included in the permanent member. China actually played a rather significant part in World War II.Buzz word is '4 policemen'. This would later grow to 5 with the inclusion of France to the group of 'policemen' or, as they are also known, permanent members of the U... |
How does coloring black and white pictures work and how do you know which colors to use? | If you mean "how do you change an image to greyscale" Color has three "dimensions". Hue, saturation, brightness. Hue is the "color family". and it goes in a circle: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, and back to red. . Saturation is the colorfulness of the color. Low-saturation means the color looks dull or grey... |
How do antidepressants work? If I'm depressed about my student loan debt, how is a pill gonna make me forget about it? | They're not? You're mixing up clinical depression and being sad. Clinical depression requires being 'depressed' for an extended period of time without a reasonable cause. You have a huge amount of debt and your mom died? That's not clinical depression, it's being depressed for a good reason. As for how antidepressants ... |
Criminals in films spray paint cameras but they show their face anyway. Why? | You saw the person spray paint the camera. You didn't see the person commit the crime. At least, not from that camera. When it's time to charge the suspect, if the camera footage is the only available evidence, that distinction could prove crucial.Its usually a trope. The only reason this would be otherwise useful is t... |
Joel Tenenbaum has to pay 675,000 to the RIAA for pirating 31 songs. How does an average dude pay for this kind of fine? | Probably what will happen to Mr. Tenenbaum is that he will be subject to a 'Wage Garnishment'. Folks who owe child support will be very familiar with that term since it's also used against them. _URL_0_ Assuming that he or his lawyers don't find a way to duck the $675k fine, this means he owes a debt of $675k. Of cours... |
When jumpstarting your car, why do you connect the black cable to the engine block instead of the black/negative terminal? | Sparks near the battery can cause hydrogen fires. Sparks near the engine block are much safer. That said, modern batteries are sealed and pretty safe, but safer is always better. |
Why does re-heating something in the microwave make it soggy, vs the oven or toaster oven? | When you heat something in the oven or toaster you are directly exposing the food to heating elements that give off intense radiation and heat which stimulate all kinds of chemical reactions in the upper layers of the food, usually causing a toasting and hardening of the outermost layer. Microwaves do not work by expos... |
Why bacon is seen as a manly food and seen as the best food ever? Is it it's high calorie and fat content that makes it extremely palatable to humans? | Because the people that like it dont judge taste by how many calories or grams of fat. We judge taste by simply the smile it brings to our face when we eat it', "it's the kind of food that provides the energy and motivation to smash a wild animals head in with a rock |
Why can we heal broken major bones? | It's the same trait that allows us to heal minor bones, just on a larger scale. Healing broken bones is just a single act, healing the bone, it doesn't depend on if the bone is someone small like a finger bone, or a rib, or something large like a femur or tibia. |
What happens to light beams when the source has been "turned off" or extinguished? | Think of a beam of light as being similar to a stream of water being sprayed from a hose. Except instead of water molecules moving relatively slowly, you have photons moving at the speed of light. When you shut off the hose, the stream stops spraying more water, and all of the existing water molecules keep traveling un... |
Why do stimulants cause some people with ADHD to feel drowsy? | For every drug that is supposed to do "Y" to someone, it does "X" for a small percentage of people. This is what is known as a paradoxical reaction. It is very well accepted in pharmacological study. As to *exactly what causes it*, that is a very large and broad question to tackle. But a good way to understand it is to... |
Why do Canadians use bags for milk but not other beverages? | I live in Ontario and I remember seeing juice in those bags when I was younger It was the same exact bags that the milk comes in, and you would put it in the same exact milk jug thing and it just worked. I remember my mom would freeze them, and as they thawed she would turn them into some sort of "poor mans slushy". Th... |
When two black holes merge who attracts who? | When any two massively dense objects get near to each other they both attract one anotherThe same as with a person and the Earth. We attract each other, but Earth is so massive that the tiny bit of attraction we make is negligibleThey both gravitate towards each other in a hypothetical black hole collision. |
Why was Cherice Moralez reported as being raped? | Statutory rape is rape. Media in particular is cautious about not referring to things like rape as what they are, as it can be seen as extremely offensive otherwise. |
Why are most bluray torrents (1080p) not at the quality of true bluray (1080p)? | Blu-Ray discs are big. They can hold 25-50 gigs. Depending on the movie, all of that can get used. Nobody wants to download a 50 gig file, so encoders try and compress it as much as possible while keeping the quality as high as possible. It's nice to start with as high def as possible an original, and usually Blu-Ray's... |
My tongue at the end of a USB cable attached to my laptop counts as an unrecognized device | Yes: the port can detect *something* is attached, but can't tell what it is, because your tongue doesn't communicate via the USB standard :-P |
How is a spider's silk stronger than steel? | It is by relative strength, yes. If you had a string of steel as thin as a thread of [spider silk], the silk would be stronger.It is both cases, if you made a huge spider silk line or shrunk down steel to be like a single strand of spider silk. The factor that determines strength is the stress that the material can wit... |
Why does it hurt to wash my nostrils with pure water while salty water is fine? | The insides of your nostrils are lined with mucous membranes, which are made of cells which are filled with slightly salty water. Water can flow through cell walls through osmosis, and in such a situation the water flows in a way that equalizes the cell's salinity with the water around it. So when you pour unsalted wat... |
why do we stretch? And does it feel so good to stretch? | Stretching tenses the muscles which helps pump blood back to the heart, which is part of the cardiac cycle. The 'feel so good' part of has to do with the sudden rush of rich oxygenated blood, which feels good. Hope that helps. |
Why does a bad smell become unnoticeable after spending a short while next to it? | Our senses are designed to emphasize new information. Once information is stale, it's less useful to us, so we tune it out. Smell is just the same as our other senses in this regard. Our eyes adjust to light or dark. Our ears adjust to loud or quiet. Our noses adjust to smells. |
If pain occurs when something is going wrong in my body, why doesn't losing feeling in a limb (limb falling asleep) hurt? | The nerves have blocked, your body is trying, but the telephone lines have been cut. The tingling after is the nerves comming back onlineAn interesting tangent I would recommend going on would be to look up "phantom limb pain." It's basically what you're talking about, but more extreme. People who have lost parts of th... |
Why aren't we constantly terrified about dying or knowing how insignificant we are? | Some of us are, this is a very real & common problem. It keeps the anti-anxiety med makers & the shrinks in business. |
why are the Japanese dying at 110 when southern Utah Summers easily hit 115-120 and everybody's fine? | 1) Acclimatization. They are not used to the weather and so the abnormality of it can cause their body to overreact. They also do not know what to do to handle it, such as drink extra water. 2) Much of Japan is far enough north that they do not use AC in their homes or buildings. Many literally have no place they can g... |
Why is there so little research on the effects of Marijuana compared to other drugs when it is not only the most common drug, but one we are actually thinking of legalizing? | Well, it's very very difficult to ask the public to volunteer to help test the effects of a drug that can, as silly as it is, ruin your life. This has kept any studies from happening - a schedule 1 drug cannot be studied. Hell, as far as the DEA and many people are concerned, the very fact that it's schedule 1 means th... |
- The problems with economy/business regulation or: the advantages of deregulation | regulation is corrupting. regulation reduces competition. regulation enshrines obsolete business practices in law. regulation is expensiveVery simply: Too little regulation: What if the private sector messes up! Too much regulation: What if the government messes up! Middle of the road regulation: What if the private se... |
If the Taliban has spokespeople and twitter accounts, why doesn't we just track them down and end them? | Press confidentiality. A journalist who meets with the Taliban is both blindfolded so as not to reveal their location and can't reveal their sources.The Taliban are not as shadowy and secretive as you think they are . The Taliban governed Afghanistan for ~ 5 years and were considered by a few countries to be the "legit... |
If cooler conductors transfer electricity better, why would cold on a sore muscle block pain receptors? | Because pain receptors work mainly on chemical reactions, with electricity playing a secondary role. Cold slows chemical reactions. |
Why air moves in planet earth? | Air does move in a box! It just have to be a big box before you'll notice. The reason is that hot air is lighter than cold air, so if one part of the box is heated faster than another part, the air at the hot part will start moving up, which leaves space for the cold air to move to the hot area, which lets air from abo... |
What is the point of a "smart" credit card (with the chip)? | The main benefit is that in order to clone the chip, you need to get access to the private encryption keys on the chip itself. Short of breaking into the bank/credit union's computer systems, you're not getting those. Meanwhile, cloning the magnetic stripe on the back is a simple matter of buying $150 worth of equipmen... |
How do protons stay bonded together. I thought 2 positively charged particles pushed away from each other like magnets. | They do. In the universe, physics has established that there are 4 fundamental forces; gravitational, electromagnetic, strong, and weak. You likely heard of gravitational and electromagnetic, but the force responsible for holding together the nucleus of an atom is called the strong force. As its name implies, it is the... |
Why can I eat salt and drink water, but not drink saltwater? | You can drink salt water. There's no law against it. You don't die if you drink it. It's just that salt water has enough salt in it that it doesn't hydrate you. In fact, it dehydrates you. . If you drank nothing but salt water, you'd get too much salt and die. When you eat salt and drink water, you are taking in water ... |
How do anti-satellite missiles work? | These missiles work a lot like the rockets used to launch satellites into space, except that they don't go as high and the payload isn't a satellite, but a kill vehicle. The kill vehicle is typically just a mass with a very complicated guidance system on it. It doesn't carry explosives because when it hits the target, ... |
How do animals such as chameleons and some squid know which colour to change to? | I can't answer for squid, but chameleons don't know what colour they're changing into: it's more of a signalling of mood, temperature and probably a few other things I'm forgetting", 'If I recall correctly, they perceive the background colours through their eyes and also foto receptors in their skin. However, we still ... |
How does cheese get its flavor? What differentiates cheddar cheese from american cheese? Is it ingredients or something in the process of it being made? | Cheese is made by adding colonies of certain types of bacteria to milk. The bacteria eat proteins and sugars from the milk and produce new compounds that make the milk thicker until it becomes cheese. Depending on what types of bacteria are used, the byproducts will be different and the resulting cheese will have diffe... |
Whats the physics behind pumping your arms when you run? | Your arms counterbalance the swing of your legs. Try running with your arms down Fred Flinstone style and you'll notice it is actually more difficult. |
Why are American police generally despised while the military is very highly regarded? | The military don't take actions against the citizens of the country, they're regarded as protecting the interests of the nation as a whole. The police are active in the community to serve and protect, this leads them to having more contact with the individual citizens and the perception that they're the enemy because i... |
Why does heat hurt more than cold? | I think it's just personal experience. Cold hurts me more than heat. It hurts my body parts like my nose and hands, whereas heat doesn't hurt me, it's just annoying and bothers me", 'This is how I see it: Think about what heat and cold actually are.Heat is essential molecules that are moving around at a more frantic ra... |
Why does YouTube buffer but TV doesn't? | Cable sends the exact signal you need for a tv show and has been optimized for that functionality. The show actually comes through the cable in a direct signal and is pretty much a direct line to your cable provider. Each channel has its own signal coming from the provider so all you have to do is tune to that signal a... |
How/Why do dryer balls work? | Theoretically, the dryer ball stops the fabric from sticking to itself, so when you run it through the dryer, it fluffs up instead of just flopping around stuck together. Whether it actually does lead to softer clothes is still under debate. Popular Mechanics ran an article on this that you can read here: _URL_0_ |
why Argentina wants the Falkland Islands so badly? | Argentinian desire for the Falklands is inversely proportional to how well their economy is doingProximity, they think because its closer to them they have more right to it than the people living there.Argentina thinks the islands are theirs, and that the British stole them. They don't read reddit comments explaining w... |
Why wasn't the world settled West to East? | There were actually people in the Americas before Europeans came over the atlantic and evidence suggests that they came over the Bering Straight land bridge from russia to alaska when the sea was lower due to half the world being covered in glaciers. |
why is it, that when you take any body part out from underneath a blanket, you become freezing. But when you have your head out the whole night, your fine? | Your temperature sensors can only measure change in temperature. That is why metal feels cold , you are feeling the rate in which that heat is transferred to or from your body. Your body under the covers would be warmer, so when you remove the blanket, it cools quickly, feeling cold. Your head is in equilibrium where t... |
If my skin never touches my eyeglasses, where does the oil on my glasses come from? | They do contact skin at points and by putting them on when you touch them. OR from frying bacon |
How can I wipe 30-times after taking a dump and it just never gets clean? | I would imagine the composition of your feces has something to do with it. A normal, healthy, and regular bowel movement should be one or possibly two solid masses that hold themselves together in such a way that smearing does not occur. Those optimal turds that result in the one-and-done wipe with the toilet paper are... |
When an insect or similar gets stuck in a fast moving vehicle, do they just have to start a new life or would they try and find where they were previously? | Insects do not know where they are to begin with, so it doesn't bother them. Insects don't really *know* anything. They simply don't have a complex enough nervous system for that sort of thing.I always think about that when a bee gets stuck in my car. Like they have a hive and home and stuff. Do they fly back the extra... |
What would happen if you were swimming in a body of water struck by lightning? | It depends on how close you are. Pretty sure I read it's something like either 30 yards or feet is still potentially deadly in water.You might find these previous posts helpful: _URL_0_ |
Why when we squint our eyes do we see a squiggly line? | Sweet. I love this question. I used to tell my doctors I could see these but he always said they were 'floaters' I was like no! they are cells, I can not directly look at them.. Okay.. So.. This is a thing known quite commonly as the [Blue Field Entoptic phenomenon]. You can click the link there and see a wiki on this.... |
Why is it so expensive to go to college in the United States? | Because US schools are built on the foundation of "Better Research Better Education" which is generally saying the better the schools research department is, the better the school will be, the rarer the degree and the better it will look if you attended. Therefore we have an economical arms race where every school is d... |
How safe are parachutes exactly? How often do they fail? | Parachute failing, yes. Close call, no. There are some complete mishaps, but if well maintained, well inspected and packed property, they're safe. |
Why do headphones label each earbud? | There are two reasons: Reason 1: Some ear buds are designed to fit a specific ear. They might be shaped such that they only really fit in the proper ear. Reason 2: Most audio is mixed in stereo so that the audio isn't exactly the same going to each ear. For music it doesn't really matter if you mix up the left and righ... |
Why is the term "God-fearing people" seen as a compliment? Why not replace it with something like "God-loving"? | In this case, "fear" is being used in it's older, more general sense, referring to showing respect or awe. So, God-fearing people aren't afraid of God, they respect himGod was explicit in his desire for you to fear him, for him to be revered and have great impact on our lives. |
What do modern Russian spies sent to live in the west, actually spy on? | Defense contractors. Getting the designs for missiles, submarines, and similar weapons of strategic importance can help a spying country in two ways: copy the ideas rather than doing their own R & D, figuring out how to defend against or defeat those weapons in a warPretty much what you 'd think, I 'd assume. Individua... |
Does coffee actually stunt growth in children and teens? If so, how does this work? | It's been studied pretty well that there caffeine cannot stunt your growth, so you can rest assured that your height is just genetics. I've been drinking coffee since I was 5 and I'm 6'. Enjoy the caffeine! Embrace your height. |
how does a thermostat switch things (AC, header, lights) on/off? | If you have your own heating system, you should already have one. IF your heat is by radiator, then you control the heat at the radiator. If you have some other whole-building heating system, then it's likely you won't be able to install your own thermostat, unless the system can handle it, but most apartment managers ... |
How do film actors do two films at once? | Voice acting and on-camera acting are usually handled differently. Generally, for a feature-length Hollywood film, there will be a chunk of time where the actors are full time dedicated to this movie. This approach usually is the most cost-effective when it comes to crew and location/staging . Once the actor and crew i... |
Why do I and professional athletes pull hamstrings all the time but you never see a cheetah or a gazelle pull up lame with a strained calf or something? | You know, if I was a cheetah, I'd probably enjoy a little strained calf every once in a while. I'm not a cheetah, but it still sounds pretty good. Maybe with some sourdough toast?", 'Cheatahs and gazelles do not have the same fan club. They also suffer from physical injuries, such as appendicitis, heart disease and str... |
why do people walk in a circle when they're in a fistfight? | I'm no professional boxer, but I spar once a week. Constantly moving is good for three things: * It makes you harder to hit* It makes looking for openings of your opponent easier, since people can only protect their front and not their side* It hides your attack movements. Good power comes from low in the body, so it i... |
Why do gas stoves start at the highest heat setting instead of the lowest? | For lighting. The gas comes out at maximum so it will reach the pilot flame and ignite right away. |
If my son is highly allergic to eggs, why is he not allergic to chicken? | Egg is made out of egg stuff, which you can be allergic to. As the chicken grows, it eats the egg stuff and turns it into chicken stuff. Once the chicken is ready to hatch, the egg stuff has been completely used up. All that remains is delicious chicken stuff.Because an egg has all these different proteins inside it to... |
How do those machines in gas stations work? Like, where do they store the gas? Why do they require us to turn off our cellphones? What's the calibration for? | Gas is stored in underground in large tanks. You can see where the tanks are by large, round, often slightly raised fill ports that will be off in an otherwise empty corner of the gas station. They are filled by tanker trucks, you will occasionally see them parked at odd angles surrounded by orange pylons. The thing th... |
Why does drinking water after a workout make it easier to breathe? | It is not because water contains oxygen molecules. We cannot breathe the oxygen presented to us in that manner. We breathe O2 molecules, which are 2 oxygen atoms bonded together, whereas water is 1 oxygen and 2 hydrogen atoms bonded together. Remember we can't breathe underwater! Anyway, while I'm not sure that we real... |
Why does one aching tooth cause other teeth that are healthy to hurt as well. | Referred pain. Basically, pain in one area causes nerves to fire, and the chemical and biological processes from that can spread slightly, causing other, unaffected nerves to fire. |
How is snow formed? | way up in the clouds, it's very cold. Water vapour begins freezing piece by piece to tiny particles of dust called a "Nucleus." Once those particles get too big and heavy, they fall to the ground. If the temperature is high enough, that snow will warm and melt as it falls to become rain. If it is winter, that melting d... |
how does dry heat cause nose bleeds? | I believe that since the skin inside of your nostril is usually kept wet with lubricating mucus to at least some degree, drying it out would cause it to contract and crack more easily, causing a nosebleed. |
How can a small amount of medicine (like a pill) affect my whole body? | It's not unreasonable that small amounts of things can have a dramatic effect on the body. A tiny thorn only effects a very small number of nerves which sends a small number of signals to your brain. Yet it can overwhelm your senses. A small amount of poison from a sting can effect your body. Also consider that your bo... |
Why do nut packages display the warning "May contain nuts" instead "Do contain nuts"? | I assume you mean packets of peanuts. Peanuts [aren't actually nuts]. Someone with a nut allergy may not be allergic to peanuts, and vice versa. So if you had an allergy to nuts, but could eat peanuts fine, it is important to know if the packet may contain traces of nuts.The warning is mandated in some states to protec... |
why did UK sign up to the China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and USA was so object to it? | Because there is soft movement in Europe to attempt to remove some of the influence that the US government and corporations are abusing in the world.. |
This one should be tricky: Aristotle's unmoved mover argument. | it's fairly hard to explain, but I'll try my best. The basic Greek View was that everything the world was cause and effect. As a result, the universe is the effect of some cause. So, what was the cause? Nut what caused this cause? Following this train of logic you either have an infinite chain of cause and effect, or t... |
What exactly is it in water that we need to live? | Water is used as a solution fluid, lubrication, as a cooling agent, and many others. It is not broken down.The most significant thing about water is its hydrogen bonding capacity. Closely behind that is its neutral pH and then comes abundance. Very few things hydrogen bond like water does. This allows it to be used to ... |
Why do we bite our nails? It is a completely useless function, but is still embarassingly addictive. | Humans also pick our noses and scrape wax from our ears. It's not useless, it's grooming, and despite being gross it's essential for hygiene. Imagine if you NEVER picked your nose. Tissues don't do much for really stubborn dried blobs. |
Why is it that when I'm under mental duress, physical pain helps it go away? | Pain causes your brain to release dopamine. It's why cutters cut etc. Also physical pain can be a pretty good distraction from stress so you momentarily change focus as well. |
E: Is it theoretically possible to manipulate genes in their early stages to produce an endomorph, mesomorph or ectomorph? | First off, it's worth mentioning that Sheldon defined discrete somatotypes for the purpose of using them to draw conclusions about personality. Nowadays it's pretty widely accepted that body type isn't a reliable gauge of personality. Could you **theoretically** manipulate genes *In utero* to control bone structure or ... |
how does cloning animals work? | Here's an analogy: Imagine every person has an apple which define them and sex cells are half-apples . When sperm and eggs merge; there are now a whole apple . Now imagine the egg as a basket with a half-apple . The half-apple is taken out of the basket, leaving an empty basket. A whole apple is then taken from a non-s... |
Could you separate an electron completely from an atom? | Certainly. If you excite the atom enough, an electron flies off. If you pump enough electrons into metal they bunch up on the surface and start to fly off. This is the principle of the electron gun inside the cathode ray tube - at one end of the tube is the gun, which fires a stream of electrons, which are directed by ... |
How is my radio's reception affected by my physical position around it? | Same way that when you stand in front of a light you make a shadow. When you stand between the radio source and the radio receiver, it blocks the signal. Hard mode: radio waves don't act like light and they actually bounce around a lot. As long as the antenna gets hit "enough", the signal is strong. So depending where ... |
Why can I "feel" things about to touch my skin without having actually made contact yet? | 1. hair.2. it might be hot or cold 3. it can block wind, draft.4. you see it and your brain tricks you5. you know it's there and your brain tricks you. Sorta related, I suggest you test this theory in a truly dark environment . I once thought I had the force until I endlessly bumped into things in a truly dark space. |
Archaeologists, how do you know that damage to bones was done prior to death? | When a bone is injured, it heals, even if badly. Signs of that healing can be seen, The healing signs alter over time, thus a deduction can be made of how long before death that the injury occurred. |
What exactly causes hiccups that seem to last forever? | Hiccups are caused by the irregular, uncontrollable movement of the large, sheet-like muscle between your chest and belly called the diaphragm. The main reason the muscle suddenly acts up is because of irritation to the muscle. Blood, a full stomach, hard to swallow food, reflux from the stomach and sometimes an irregu... |
Would fire be considered matter or energy? | Fire is matter releasing enough energy to become red hot, like a stove is red hot. It's just air that is as hot as a stove is. |
Why is it so socially acceptable to refer to someone as 'white' or 'black', but never 'yellow' or 'red'? | Language just develops in different ways, the ways that race is presented in colour is very interesting.\r\rFor example Chinese people thought of themselves as white for years. When what we now know as "white" people first visited china then in Chinese they were known as "purple" people and thought of as barbarians for... |
How do game engines or physics engines for video games work or how are they actually made? | Most games have several main components: Graphics, audio, input, physics, AI, and logic A game engine helps automate many of these tasks. For example, the graphics section of a game engine might have a model handling component. This section would help with loading the models into memory, putting them on the screen, and... |
Why did the population of a lot of large cities decline between 1970 and 1980. | The largest factor is that many of these cities were industrial giants. Manufacturing was huge. To save money, many of these jobs went overseas. Electronics, motor vehicles, steel, textiles - all started to be produced elsewhere. When these jobs left, so did the people. They moved to cheaper, less developed areas they ... |
What is "Clearing" and how does it work? (Finance) | Do you mean clearing as when money has to clear to close out a transaction? Clearing is the process of verifying that the payment interest that has been proposed to cover off a transaction is valid. E.g. when an electronic transfer takes place it is only when the bank with whom the money is lodged transfer the money to... |
What makes 50 the magic number when it comes to the number of states in the US? Is there potential to add more someday? | Mostly coincidence, the US happened to run out of territories suitable for statehood at 50 . It is possible the desire to reach an even number accelerated the push for new states, and once reached, sapped enthusiasm for additional states. That is merely speculation, but in 1994, Michael Moore's *TV Nation* ran a poll, ... |
Why do we still feel the waves the night after being in a wavepool/ocean? | Actually, there's no definitive answer to this one although it's a regularly reported phenomenon. It could be because you are still feeling the effect from the frequency of previous stimulation, or it could be because you 've got used to adjusting your gait or posture while at sea and then don't modify it when you're b... |
Why is it it legal for a P.I. to do their job (follow, take photos, rummage through trash etc | They are regulated by a branch of the state government. The process and requirements vary by state, usually requires relevant experience but not always, usually involves a testing process, always involves paperwork and fees paid. Not cops by any stretch, but licensed and given specific powers, with penalties if they ab... |
eBay, Amazon (to name just two of many) make billions in the UK but pay hardly any tax in the UK, why doesn't any government do anything about it? | Example: Company has to pay more taxes. Company pays more taxes for the first year. Company relocates, 1000s of jobs lost. Company no longer in the country, so no longer paying taxes. The jobs are also source of tax money, as all employees would pay income tax, so the country would lose that too. And of course unemploy... |
How can they "confirm" a Tornado and the intensity after the fact? | > How can they know there was a tornado? I'm sure all of the visual sightings and reports and path of destruction is a big clue. Unless it was a tornado-shaped herd of rampaging elephants. > Then, how can they deduce the level from that? The basic tornado intensity scale - the Fujita scale - is measured based off of th... |
How do batteries in series work? | You can skip trying to think of electrons in the circuit, or whether the poles are electrically insulated. The + and - ends of an AA battery, for instance, are at a 1.5V potential difference. When you connect two terminals with a wire, you essentially make them have the same potential . This means that connecting one A... |
Why do I sweat so much at night? | I don't want to alarm you but this was one of the symptoms I had before getting severely ill. Do you get quickly tired ? For example, after running for a bit ? Does your face seem a little fatter than before ?Do you cough without any apparent reason ? |
How does a country -test- a long range missile | > Do they launch an actual rocket? Yes, this is perhaps the most important part of a "rocket test". > Do they just launch something with gps on it? They launch a rocket with some method of tracking it, but without a live warhead. The tracking method probably will not be GPS unless it is the US or a US ally, as the GPS ... |
Why do some formerly obese people have a lot of skin to remove and some don't? | It's all a matter of how fast you lose the weight. Gaining weight is a natural process. The body is meant to gain weight when it receives excess energy that it does not use. Just as gaining weight is natural, so is losing weight. When you lose weight in a healthy way the body slowly removes excess skin with your fat. T... |
Why do many programmers/technical people prefer Macs over PCs? | It varies based on industry too, there are definitely a lot of developers who prefer Windows-based dev tools. The real deciding factor is where your code is ultimately going to run: because it's probably not going to run on just your personal machine. & nbsp; If you're say, a video game developer, you're probably going... |
What exactly does the outcome of the Turkey referendum mean? | Turkey is a mixed political system, with a president and a parliament headed by a Prime Minster, balancing power . Recep Tayyip Erdoğan served as Turkey's Prime Minister beginning in 2003 and then President since 2014. During his time in power, he's tried to consolidate power within his own office and move Turkey in a ... |
CERN's testing next week to find Parallel Dimensions | The imminent testing is recommissioning with beam. Collisions won't happen for a few months. There's no magic way of trying to do something exotic with the LHC. It just collides beams of protons , and the detectors measure what happens. No one says "this week we'll try to make black holes" or "we'll try to make Higgs b... |
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