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is the U.S actually thinking about taking in Syrian refugees?
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Nope they very much are. Back in September Secretary of State John Kerry announced a plan to take about 85k total from around the world in 2016, with another 100k in 2017. _URL_0_ The White House has also come out and said that the Paris attacks will not change the plans. The US has some MAJOR advantages when it comes to accepting refugees. Since most cant get here directly thanks to the whole Atlantic Ocean thing they end up somewhere else first. That means some weeding out and screening will already occur, then US agencies can then screen them from basically handpicked pools from say a UN refugee camp or an EU country which has already invested in doing a first check and such. EDIT: My bad numbers are hard, the 85k and 100k are for GLOBAL totals of refugees allowed to resettle and given aid in the US, with at least 10k each year or more specifically earmarked for those from SyriaThe US has been taking in Syrian refugees all along. We have accepted 1500 so far and allocate a total of 75,000 slots for refugees yearly. Current discussions are about increasing the number of refugee slots to 100,000 and allocating at least 10,000 specifically to Syrian refugees. The US taking in Syrian refugees is more complicated than Europe because they cannot get here on their own. We have to actually go and get them and bring them to the USThe Governor of Alabama says he wants to stop, then asked for details of the Syrian refugees currently in Alabama, presumably to stop the risk of terrorism. There were 14 Syrian refugees in Alabama.
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In my basement I can hear the squeaky floor from the footsteps above, how can I know that my house wont just collapse? Why are the floors squeaky?
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You could [theoretically] remove all the floors in your home and it will not collapse. Over time, nails loosen. They are still in there doing their job, but get a bit of wiggle room over time. It's nothing to be alarmed about.Your upper floors typically have support through the frame of the house. They do not simply stand on the floor in order to stay up.The squeak is caused by too pieces of would sliding across each other. Usually it is caused by a nail of screw coming loose over time. The would bends a little when you step on it causing it to slide past another piece and squeak. I have fixed a few squeaky floorboards in my house pretty easily. If the problem area is on carpet all you have to do is step around the area to find the squeaky then pound a few nails through the carpet to better secure the floor boards. Then just make a tiny slit in the cart so you can slip the head of the nail through and give it one more good hit with a hammer. You can't see little slit in the carpet and it really does stop the noise.
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Why is water a liquid at room temperature, yet hydrogen and Oxygen, which are the elements water is made of, a gas at room temperature?
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Hydrogen and Oxygen are both positive, but oxygen is more positive. Therefore the oxygen atom in water holds onto the electrons most of the time. Because of this, the water molecule looks little bit like a magnet, with the oxygen side being more negative and the hydrogen side being more positive. Because it is slightly magnetic, water molecules will be more strongly attracted to each other, and so it takes more energy to keep them apart. More energy means it takes a higher temperature before they become a gas. This idea of hydrogen holding onto less electrons and becoming positive is called hydrogen bonding.Interestingly enough, this is also why ice is less dense than water - When water freezes, because the molecules are like little magnets, the water molecules want to arrange in a specific way, which takes up a large volume.It's all to do with intermolecular forces, This is what holds the molecules together. Water uses what are called [hydrogen bonds]. These are very strong bonds they need more energy to break than weaker bonds. They have a higher specific latent heat than hydrogen gas or oxygen. Oxygen and Hydrogen have much weaker intermolecular forces therefore require less heat energy to become a gas.
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Why, in many/most US states, is the most populous city not the capital?
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Why does the largest city have to be the capital? The capital is only the seat of the state government. In many cases, if the capital is located in a smaller city, it's cheaper to run the government is a smaller city than in a big city. The best example here is New York State -- the capital is in Albany. If the capital was in New York City, the state would be much more expensive to run.Historically, Capital cities were purposely made to be separate from the financial center. They thought that business and government should be separate from each other and not have too much influence over each other. In those days, physical distance was the best way to ensure that.
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Why can't you see clearly underwater without goggles?
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Our eyes work by bending light so it focuses on our retina. The degree to which light bends is determined by the how fast light travels in both the medium we are looking through and our eyes. The greater the difference between these two numbers, the more the light bends. When we see things normally the light passes from the air then into our eyes. When we're underwater, the light is going from water then to our eyes. The speed of light in water is less than air, so the difference between the speed in water and our eyes is less. That means the light doesn't bend as much so it doesn't focus on our retina. As such we see a blurry image. By adding a layer of air between our eyes and the water, like with goggles, the light can pass from air and then into our eyes, just like how we see normally. That's why goggles give you a clear picture when underwater.
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How bad is Machinima's contract?
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The pretty much come to channels that have like 300 subscribers and make them sign a 6 fucking year contract and the contract is pretty much: Hey for the small price of 60% of your revenue we are gonna sit around like you dont even exist.Oh you wanna leave now that you are a popular youtuber and want money?Too bad 4 more years on this contract.This video explains it pretty well : _URL_0_ And go on Rossboomsocks's channel.He got screwed over if you wanna see his side of the story
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Why does Iceland still use patronymic names (eg Magnus Samuelsson = Magnus son of Samuel)? Does this not cause any bureaucratic difficulties?
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If your system is set up to process it that system is no more problematic than any other naming system.Iceland likes it this way--it is actually very restrictive about names, hoping to preserve traditional Icelandic naming customs. For example, it is not allowed to give children names that do not follow the rules of the Icelandic language, or which are not appropriate for their gender. This frequently causes problems for dual nationals whom may have different naming customs. If you are familiar with the custom, accommodating it is easy. Problems with names usually arise when people make assumptions about the names that people have that aren't true, such as assuming they have a last name or assuming it will be of a certain length. Any known custom is not so big a problem. In countries where surnames are less likely to be unique, as in Iceland, of course people are not as inclined to make the assumption that people with the same surname are related.
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Why are the Destiny load screens so long even though it's saved to my hard drive?
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Some of the loading is also synchronising with the network. Which pulls in the players you have on your team any randomers in the area and any random events that happen on the map. None of that is on the disc or your hard drive :)
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If a space elevator was built, would it get bent or flung out into space because of Earth's rotation?
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It can't be done with current materials. There isn't anything strong enough, that is light enough to use. As for the way it works, it would need a "counter weight" in a geosynchronous orbit. Meaning that it would be orbiting the earth in the same direction as the earth is spinning and at the same speed. This is something that is done with satellites all the time. The Red Mars books covered this idea pretty thoroughly and scientifically. In the books, they actually captured an asteroid and brought it in to orbit as the counter weight. The construction was actually done on the asteroid and the structure was built "down" toward the surface of the planet. As the mass of the structure grew, as materials were added, the "altitude" of the orbit was increased to carry the weight. I know there are other ideas about the design of a space elevator. I like the idea, but I still don't really understand how the designers would account for things like hurricanes or earth quakesThe idea is for the rotation of the Earth to try to fling it out into space. That would keep it standing since it would be anchored on Earth.
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- Inflation. What causes it? How?
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Imagine you exchange lemonade in your stand for marbles. You think hard on how many marbles you will ask for a glass and you come up with 5. So any kid in the block can give you 5 marbles for a glass of lemonade. You keep this going for a while but later, you find out that lately, parents are starting to get their kids more and more marbles! So you, being the greedy little child that you are, think to yourself: If the other kids have more marbles now, that means I can charge more too! So now you charge 10 marbles for a glass instead of 5. BOOM, inflation. What "caused" this inflation? Well, when there are more marbles in play, the relative value of each single marble goes down! They are only valuable as long as there are few of themUse the search before asking a question - this has been answered already.
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Why do they ship tagliatelle as birds nests instead of boxed like spaghetti
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Its a marketing tactic. The bird nest layout makes it sell a lot more because its visually appealingUsually tagliatelle are a type of "egg-pasta". When they dry they are more brittle than wheat pasta. Traditionally the Tagliatelle were cut and then dried in that shape to store them better.Because they're portioned by hand for boiling in small pots and the pasta is too strong to be broken easily with a light touch?
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how do they do background checks on refugees?
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I saw a special on the issue yesterday. They ask them where they're from, if they have family with them, how much money they have, what was their job and where they plan on going. that's it. They simply don't have the resources to do background checks, too many people.
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How do school grades work in America? Bart Simpson is in fourth grade. What "class" is that?
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For most children, first grade starts when you are six years old. You progress one grade per year, graduating at eighteen in twelfth grade-Preschool : 4-5 years old-Kindergarten: 5-6 years old-Elementary school : 5-6 years old to 11-12 years old-Junior high or middle school : 12-13 years old to 13-14 years old-High school : 14-15 years old to 17-18 years old. In high school 9th graders are called freshmen, 10th: sophomores, 11th: juniors, 12th: seniorsWow, TIL school layouts vary greatly from region to region. I always thought it was this: -Preschool -Kindergarten -Elementary school -Middle school -High school -2 year or 4 year college followed by possible post-grad studies Throughout high school, starting from the youngest grade to the oldest students are referred to as freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. This cycle repeats when one begins college. Everything is free and public, except for college, which is expensive, and some are private. But you already know that.
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how and why bread and other things go stale.
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[The wikipedia article actually explains it really well.] From another perspective though, in regards to food safety, there are six things required for the growth of bacteria, which I learned as 'FATTOM' - Food, Acidity, Time, Temperature, Oxygen, and Moisture. All of these variables in various amounts affect the safety of the food and how it 'spoils' or in some ways 'stales'. Staling in bread has something to do with the gelatinization of starch granules, and it affects the texture and taste. 'Staling' in a more general sense , among grains and things like snack foods, is usually due to the nature of dry things to absorb moisture from the environment, leading to a loss of crisp texture. As well as oils which once exposed to light and air begin to oxidize and eventually go rancid. Lower water activity and controlling light exposure can help keep grains fresh longer. Also, the amount you grind them down affects how fast the oils go rancid. This is easy to observe with nuts, whole nuts in the shell will take the longest to go rancid, and as you go from shelled, to halved, to chopped, to slivered or sliced, and finally ground to flour or meal the time it takes to go rancid decreases. This is why you see more and more preservatives or special packaging methods as you process food further. They're trying to counteract spoilage by controlling things like oxygen exposure, moisture, light, etc.
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What on Earth is punctuated Equilibrium? How does it work differently from natural selection
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Natural selection is a process by which adaptive evolution occurs: traits that increase the likelihood of reproductive success are propagated throughout a population of interbreeding organisms through time. [Punctuated equilibrium] is a theory regarding the tempo of evolution. In short, it states that species are morphologically quite stable for very long periods of time , and the bulk of evolutionary change occurs within relatively short intervals. This is in contrast to [phyletic gradualism] which posits slow, but constant evolutionary change. Punctuated equilibrium was developed primarily by paleontologists as a way of explaining the relatively discrete character of fossil species. They argue that evolution basically occurs below the resolution of the fossil record. Tl:dr Punctuated equilibrium is a way of explaining patterns of evolution, natural selection is a way of explaining the process of evolution. IMHO /u/Manfromporlock is incorrect. There is absolutely a difference between these theories, and they are quite compatible. /u/Ansuz07 is incorrect that organisms don't evolve much. They do, but PE says that this evolution occurs primarily within narrow intervals of time.
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What's the difference between wisdom and intelligence?
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“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” ― Miles Kington', "Intelligence is a measure of our ability to learn concepts and make observations about our physical environment. Wisdom is one's capacity to make the right decisions based on past experience. It is more of a learnt gut feeling.
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What software do game developers use to put maps together?
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They make their own most of the time. There are way too many to list, so I'm going to list the 2 most popular ones :- Radiant: used in every single id Tech 3+ game and games based on that engine - Hammer: originated from an unofficial quake level editor , it is the main level editor for GldSrc and Source engine", 'They usually make the terrain as one big piece of land, then they out different assets on it. Trees, houses, billboards, whatever. I have no idea what programs exactly are they using, but I guess the big companies have their own programs that are not available for public.
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Why are sage and salt used to keep "bad spirits" out?
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Centuries old connotations derived from folk lore and religion. Salt is used to purify and preserve food, so it is seen to do the same in a spiritual manner. Thus you can purify an area with the ritualistic casting of salt in some belief systems, and impure things cannot cross a boundary line drawn in salt in those belief systems that believe in ghosts. Sage is similarly seen to have properties of purity and cleansing power. Additionally it is associated with various gods that you end up entreating to aid you when you do the ritual cleansingHalf answer. Salt symbolic of purity especially in religions.
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How does a horror movie scare everyone in general, when each people are afraid of different things?
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> Not everyone is scared of ghosts or zombies You're right. And the people who aren't scared of zombies don't feel horror from them as people who are terrified of zombies. But *everyone* is afraid of being eaten alive - or worse, being bitten and then slowly losing control of themselves and *becoming* a zombie - because these are very natural innate fears that is core to being a person in general. So a horror movie will tap into those primal, natural fears as much as possible in order to evoke the horror response even in people who aren't *specifically* afraid of zombies or whatever other plot contrivance there is.Because most horror movies present a good and frightening concept, but instead only deliver loud jumpscares during quiet moments, or ridiculous amounts of blood to gross people out. Its disappointing and predictable.
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Why do humans float on water?
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The amount of water your body displaces weighs more than your body therefor you float. Essentially a human body is less dense than water
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Why is meth commonly portrayed as a white drug, and crack is portrayed as a black drug? Is there any truth to those portrayals?
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If you're poor, crack is an alternative to freebase if you're interested in smoking cocaine. It can be purchased cheaply in small quantities and gives an instant and noticeable high. As a cocaine derivative, it is only practical in a drug market that is connected to overseas distribution . So urban rich people freebased while urban poor people smoked crack. Meth is produced domestically. As with any manufactured product, it's easier to produce away from urban areas so you can avoid extensive regulation and bureaucracy . Since anyone with a high school education, a bit of patience and a suitably cavalier attitude about explosions can produce it, it ended up being a favorite of rural biker gangs.
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So what's actually happening when a body part falls asleep and why can pressure sometimes speed it up?
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We learned about thin in my AP Psych class months ago, so I may be able to answer your question to a certain extent. When your leg "falls asleep", what is actually happening is that your brain is losing connection with your leg. The nerves from your leg stop sending signals to your brain. Your brain basically goes,"Where is my leg?". It's no longer on the brains radar. The "prickly" feeling that you get when your leg is "waking up", is your brain reconnecting with the leg. I don't know if this is spot-on, but I hope this helped. Keep in mind I learned this in a span of like 5 minutes from months ago.
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Why doesnt the glue get stuck in the bottle/gluestick but comes hardens in minutes when it leaves the bottle/stick
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Many products actually rely on oxygen to activate. You know how some glues require you to mix two different chemicals? Normal glues actually rely on the oxygen in the air to set off a chemical reaction. Some Glues, like wood glue, actually just work by letting water evaporate. If you soak them in water, they loosen back up and come apart. So its not always a chemical reaction.Because in a sealed container it doesn't dry out. Especially compared to spread thin on a surface with lots of area exposed to the open air. Think about a bottle of water in the bottle with the lid on vs spread about across a driveway. Which evaporates faster.
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If unhealthy food is bad for us, why does it taste so good?
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Because it isn't fundamentally bad for you; it isn't poison. You need fats and sugars and so forth to survive. We evolved when such things were scarce and hard to come by, so they taste delicious to encourage us to eat them when we can. Now, though, such things are laughably cheap and abundant, so we gorge ourselves against a famine that will never come.
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How OJ Simpson was able to be proven not guilty
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He was not "proven not guilty", he was "not proven guilty". Big difference. Then again, he lost in civil courtOne of the lead detectives on the case said afterward "We framed a guilty man." Police misconduct became the focal point of the proceedings. OJ's defense was able to make the case about an African American receiving a fair trial rather than a case about a guy who murdered two people. If the police involved never plant evidence, there's a much better chance OJ gets convicted.You don't get proven not guilty. You start off as not guilty and the prosecution has to demonstrate your guilt.
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how do ships "suck" water away from coastlines?
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The ship displaces a lot of water. It pushes a lot of water higher in front of it. It has a 'hole' in the water behind it. In this case the ship first pushed a lot of extra water into that cove when it approached, then the water rushed in behind the ship to fill the 'hole'. When the water went to go fill in behind the ship it left less water in that little cove. It all balanced out shortly after the ship passed.
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How do they actually figure out the nutrition values in food, such as calories, carbs, cholesterol.. Etc?
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Nobody has really answered this question yet. I am a food scientist and work at a large food company and we have a certified analytical lab that does testing on food samples.To get the fat% for instance, one popular method is to boil a sample of the food in a non-polar compound like ether. Since fat is also non-polar you can remove all of the fat from the product and weigh the difference.For protein you basically extract the nitrogen in the product and use that data to tell you the amount of protein.For minerals, you put the product in a furnace to burn off all of the organic material. Moisture you put the sample in a special oven or microwave and cook off all the water.Carbs is usually done by just calculating the difference of all the components from the mass of the sample.There are other methods like using near infrared detection but I don't know the details of how those work.I am asking basically, how do they determine how many of each value is in a product. How do they figure x amount of carbs, x amount of cholesterol and so on. How do they know how much is in each item?
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Why do some people snort when they laugh?
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Tensing the muscles in their throat/nasal cavity and causing them to vibrate as the air tries getting to their lungs.
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Why do anxiety sufferers feel so many physical symptoms? Does anxiety cause them or are our bodies so sensitive we feel every physical sensations "normal people" don't?
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Anxiety sufferer here. When I get my episodes I get light headed, I feel very faint, nauseous, trapped, cold sweats and tingling at the tips of my fingers. I think it's my body reacting to something that's not there, it goes into panic mode even when I'm having a great time, it's kind of ruined some portions of my life unfortunately. And it's a very hard thing to cure and get rid of. If you're getting anxiety frequently go see a doctor I'll tell you right now it makes my life very hard and depressing sometimes and I'm only 15 it gets worse with age. Believe me.
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How does a seemingly unscripted show create cutscenes?
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When you say cutscenes, do you mean like how they switch from the action of a guy chopping salad, to the same guy in a chair going "I felt terrible when I messed up the salad"? Those are recorded after actual show's events complete, they sit down and ask the person TONNNNNS of questions, so they have lots of responses, and cut and edit it all together to build a more cohesive narravitve that probably doesn't **quite** match up with what really happened.I don't believe these are broadcast live. The filming is done on-the-spot, but the footage is re-cut with later interviews to build a narrative later. It is always questionable how much of a reality show is real. I think that that Ramsey's shows tend to be less scripted, but that may only be in reference to the early seasons.
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Why can't veterans be automatically enrolled in obamacare and seen at local hospitals?
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Obamacare is not a health insurance plan or provider. Obamacare refers to the [Affordable Care Act] and puts forth guidelines by which insurance companies must comply by force of law. Your question therefore makes no sense at all. It would be like asking "Why can't I buy a speed limit to drive around in?" "Obamacare" is a law. For instance, you can no longer be denied insurance for a pre-existing condition while under 19 years of age. It also makes sure companies do not arbitrarily cancel your coverage because of a mistake on your part . The link provides a list of the new laws that healthcare companies must abide by. Here is an example they provide for the pre-existing condition clause: > On October 1, 2010, Sally purchased a new individual health policy for herself and her 13-year-old child, Miranda, who has been treated for asthma in the past. The new health policy excludes coverage for treatment of pre-existing conditions for all enrollees. On November 1, 2010 — one month after coverage began for Sally and Miranda—Miranda is hospitalized for an asthma attack. Her insurance company denies payment for the hospitalization, because under the policy Miranda’s asthma is considered a pre-existing condition. > *Under the new law, the insurer can’t deny payment for the hospitalization based on Miranda’s pre-existing asthma condition. Miranda is under the age of 19. Sally’s policy is new and therefore subject to the pre-existing condition rules of the new health care law. Sally’s policy year began after September 23, 2010, when the law’s rules on pre-existing conditions took effect.*', "They can. But they'd be paying the rates for the insurance, just within the regulations created by the affordable care act. Their VA benefits are granted them by being a veteran and gives them rights to enroll in one of a few different [VA health plans].
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How people can be spiritual and not religious.
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It's like being able to believe in something bigger than yourself, without all the crazy garbage that comes along with it. A belief in 'god' without necessarily believing in a burning bush or walking on water, being spiritual is having a general faith without having all the craziness about the religion dictated and shoved down your throat.
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why do you have to jailbreak a smartphone to remove bloatware?
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They load it on as part of the OS so it's not removable. It's like how you aren't allowed to uninstall the default keyboard. If they just put on some default apps using the app store they'd be removable the standard way but some organizations go out of their way to be a bother with their bloatware. Someone can make an app but it'd need root permissions to touch protected OS files and that means the hassle is still there to go through. They load it on that way because they don't want you getting rid of it simply. They make money off it some way or another.You can remove some bloatware by resetting a phone to factory defaults.
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What happens when you call the national suicide prevention hotline?
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They talk to you, mostly. They’re trained to assess your situation to see if you’re actively suicidal, depressed, or just lonely. Depending on how suicidal they judge you to be, they’re able to contact law enforcement in your area and possibly take you into protective custody . If you’re not actively suicidal, they can usually just give you the contact information for a local mental health service. Or they’ll just talk to you and help you through a troubling time.
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Why would paramedics actively try to resuscitate someone who's dead?
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Sorry for your loss, mate. Hollywood, as usual, has it wrong when they use a defibrillator on someone who has no pulse. A defibrillator actually resets a heart that is pulsing erratically. If there is no pulse, the defibrillator just damages the heart unnecessarily - it can't restart it. However, hearts can restart themselves. There are a number of reasons hearts stop, and often the signal can be sent from the brain stem and get it beating again. It really depends on why the heart stopped, though. In the mean time, your body still needs oxygen. Even if your heart stops, your cells and tissues and organs haven't immediately died. But without the oxygen from your blood, they soon will. CPR is a way to keep a minimal amount of blood flowing, and the hope is that enough oxygen will get carried to the organs to keep them alive. If the organs last long enough, maybe the heart will restart. It's a long shot, but it definitely happens. I hope that helps.
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Is fresh water a finite source or is more created everyday somehow?
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It depends what you mean, there is definitely a finite supply of water full stop, whether it is fresh or not is a different matter as it can be contaminated and purified many times over by processes like evaporation. The water you're drinking might have been peed out by a dinosaur once!
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How is it possible to cook while camping without being attacked by animals?
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Most animals are timid around humans. Even large predators like bears and mountain lions are usually hesitant to approach them. The reason being that any injury could very easily lead to infection or being too injured to catch prey and thus death. This is especially true of the people are in a group. However, bears can and will smell out food left out unattended, ripping open bags and containers to get at it. Thus when camping in bear country, you pack all your food in a bag at night and hang it in a tree away from camp.> Wouldn't the smell attract every nearby animal that eats meat to your campsite? Wouldn't you be surrounded by hungry bears or mountain lions by the time your food is ready?? Smelling meat is something which may attract predators, that is true. But smelling *cooking* meat can only mean one thing: Humans. Traditionally speaking humans have been by far the most terrifyingly lethal predator in any environment and most animals will respect this fact. While these days they might come across some helpless city slicker who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, the instinct to avoid humans have been bred into wild animals from a hundred thousand years of primitive humans who ruthlessly slaughtered any animal foolish enough to stumble into a human camp looking for food around the campfire.
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What the fuck is wrong with r/The_Donald?
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r/News locked a thread/report about the Orlando shooter/shooting and that he was connected to ISIS. r/News locked the thread because there was a lot of people talking 'down' about muslim extremists. Mods on r/News basically didn't want any Muslims, who may be on reddit, to become offended. In addition to that, the r/News mods began deleting every single post in the entire thread, including posts that called for donating blood locally. r/News mods continued to delete similar threads. Many people, especially those on r/The_Donald were outraged because they saw it as censorship and putting political correctness ahead of those in need of help in Orlando, as well as those people who were on reddit looking for more information on the shooting. r/News caught a lot of flack for this from many different subs. r/The_Donald suddenly became the new hub for news/assistance for the Orlando shooting , hence why there were a large amount of r/The_Donald threads on r/All. **tl;dr** : r/News was censoring users, deleting posts and threads. r/The_Donald took this as an opportunity to be the 'hub' for news and assistance, promising not to censor posts/threads. A lot of people who were upset at r/News went to r/The_Donald.
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Why exactly is Twitter considered to be going downhill despite it being in the top 3 of social media?
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Basically twitter is having less MAU than they have in the past, they have been on a decline since Q4 2014. The biggest issue is that their MAU numbers are getting inflated from smart phone usage. Do you have a twitter account, have the twitter app installed on your phone even though you NEVER use it? Congrats you make up one of the millions of MAU's! This means that while we are already seeing a decline in MAU's that decline in "real" users is probably even higher. Further during this time of decline twitter has also been restricting information about user activity and so on even more. Making firm numbers are "truly" active users even harder to nail down if not impossible without leaked internal twitter documents. Finally, just because someone is on the decline doesn't mean its dead/worthless/unused/unpopular. It just means its not growing, which is bad for business generally speaking but not the end of the world.
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How does the firefighters uniform let him go into burning buildings?
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Volunteer firefighter here. The other comments got fairly close. They are fire resistant, but not fire proof. The gear has two layers, separated slightly. The layers create an air pocket between them which protects us. If you are in a very hot environment and compress the layers that allow more freedom for things like that, but they are fragile and can't take a beating like our turnout gear.
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What happens when food goes down the "wrong tube"?
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You have a flap in your throat called your epiglottis. When food or drink goes down the wrong way this prevents you from inhaling it. You then cough to try and relocate any food that's down the wrong tube back into your mouth to be swallowed.Well, as a speech therapist I can expand the comments above. /u/Chrismichaels3000 has it close: your body normally knows when stuff is in the airway vs. in the "foodway." This is *penetrattion*: the object is above the vocal folds and a good hard cough/clear will get it out of there under most circumstances. In fact, coughing is a good sign: you're getting air around the foreign object. When you CHOKE it's like a cork in the airway: this is when you need Heimlich\'ed. Now, **aspiration** is when that food or liquid gets below the vocal folds. This is bad because essentially you 've got bacteria from the mouth with a food source, dark, moist, and warm in your lung and without that pesky stomach acid that normally kills it. Hello possible pneumonia . Scary at times.
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How do we know that marble is formed from limestone if all of the recognizable features such as fossils, pore spaces, and the distinction between grains have all disappeared?
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Firstly, metamorphism does not require original sedimentary fabrics and structures to be destroyed. Metamorphism is simply the alteration or recrystallisation of minerals in a rock in response to temperature and pressure. Marbles that experienced lower grades of metamorphism can still contain recognisable original small-scale structure and even more intensely metamorphosed marbles can still include remnant sedimentary structures such as original compositional layering. But hypothetically suppose we have a marble where all original sedimentary fabric has been destroyed. How do we know that was originally a limestone? Well, we know the composition of our marble, namely almost entirely carbonate 2). Where could this material originally have come from? One option is from an igneous rock, but this is *extremely* unlikely because carbonate minerals are very rare in igneous rocks and are only associated with very special types of volcanoes. It's technically possible but incredibly unlikely and knowing the regional geology and/or geochemistry would allow us to discount that. The carbonate material could theoretically have come from somewhere else. However, complete replacement by carbonate is not very likely unless the rock was sedimentary in the first place and has undergone certain special geochemical conditions, in which case it would be classified as a limestone anyway. The only remaining option, by far the most likely, is that the rock was originally a sedimentary rock made mostly out of carbonate minerals, a.k.a. limestone.Marble is a metamorphic rock. It is limestone changed by heat and pressure. Geologists can and have found limestone rocks which show the change every step of the way. In other words you can find limestone which has been altered by heat and pressure to varying degrees. Eventually you call the limestone low grade marble. Then it becomes really beautiful marble.
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What is WEB-GL and how does it do such sorcery as this?
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OpenGL is an API for accessing graphical hardware resources; on consumer systems this is generally a dedicated GPU. Web-GL is a Javascript-accessible API that can leverage OpenGL support in the system. Web-GL support is baked into all major browsers and isn't a separate plugin like Flash is. The reason it runs smoothly on an ipad is because all the heavy lifting is done on the GPU just like a graphically intensive native app would do. Try it on a system without hardware support and it runs like crap.
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Why do businesses often lock one of the front doors to their storefronts?
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The doors are designed with only one lock, on the door which is typically open. The other door is held in place by pins at the top and bottom which are retracted with a recessed lever which is on the edge. The next time you pass through take a look, they are fairly obvious. The levers are such that they cannot be operated if the other door is shut, which means the one lock will work for both doors. Now, why is the other door always locked? When opening the store for business the locks are opened but to release the other door would require operating the two levers. Whoever opens the business is too lazy to do that and just leaves it locked. This is a bit of a problem because the size and number of doors is defined by the occupancy rating as per the fire code. If doors are locked shut to people trying to flee a fire they don't count, so technically they are violating fire code. But, the fire inspectors pretty much everywhere don't care to check such things and neglect any enforcement. Probably it would be too much for the manpower available for them to actually inspect for such things anyway, but still.
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Why do transplanted organs need a much more specific match than blood does for transfusions?
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Most of our tissues have what are called MHC proteins. MHC proteins are complex and are involved with a variety of immune functions, for example in the presentation of virus fragments to immune cells to trigger an immune response. Our blood cells do not have MHC proteins on their surface and our MHC proteins have a huge amount of variation, much more than the eight common blood types. Because of this high amount of variation, it's much more likely that an unrelated person does not have a MHC proteins that match your own, so when you get a transplant your body recognizes the MHC proteins as foreign and attacks the transplanted tissue. Since blood types vary much less, it's relatively easier to find a safe match.
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How is it that deep sea animals aren't crushed by the pressure of the ocean?
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Because they're the same pressure inside as the ocean depth is outside. As a human, you're filled with gases at near 14.7psi and fluid in contained pockets. Add 1000psi to the outside of your body and those pockets like your lungs and eyeballs will squish.
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Why did/does the US hate communism so much?
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The US was founded on the idea of a Open economy with strong individualism and individual rights. Communism is basicaly the opposide where the economy and industry is state owned and planned and invidiual rights can be negated in favor of group planning. This lead to strong pressure from industry leaders in the US to push anti communist sentiment in both propaganda directed at the public and economic lobbying of public officials. This sentiment was reinforced by how russia pulled out of World War I from the ally side since the war was a "rich mans war" and wokers should not get involved in it, this was followed by a civil war in russia between the Tsarist and Communist and the allied poweres did send volunteers unofficialy to fight on the Tsarist side. The sentiment was reinforced when russia started providing logistical and economic support to socialist and communist political activists in europe and the US during the 1930´s great depression which lead to more animosity towards communism and the USSREvery real world "Communist" government has been a brutal authoritarian regime that uses Communism as a dogmatic justification for its villainy. Even if you speculate about an idealized Communist utopia, you're still structured your society around the notion that people are merely fungible elements of a certain socio-economic class rather than individuals with their own needs and wants. Given the strong streak of individualism in classical American character, such a notion doesn't tend to sit well.I would guess that it was a scare tactic from the us gov so they could legitimize military actions of some sort. People with lots of money don't want communism bc they thrive in capitalism. I'm not saying that there aren't problems with communism, but communism doesn't help greedy people accumulate more wealth. As we know now, money controls everything
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How did the Chinese Civil War start?
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So in 1911, we had the first Chinese Revolution, it overthrew the last hereditary dynasty that ruled the Chinese Empire for about 300 years. In theory, they established a democratic republic, known as the Republic of China. But the new government was weak, and rich warlords undermined its authority at every step, basically whoever had the most military might was the person really running the show. A lot of stuff happened over the next few decades and it was very complicated, but the important thing is that eventually power was consolidated between two political parties and their armies, the Nationalist party, Kuomintang , and the Communists from the Communist Party of China . They fought a decades long civil war for control over all of China. When Japan attacked and conquered much of China before and during World War 2, the KMT and CPC made an uneasy truce to unite against Imperial Japan, but the moment the war was over, the truce broke down and the KMT and CPC resumed fighting. The CPC eventually gained the upper hand and pushed the KMT out of mainland China and onto their last remaining territory, the island of Taiwan, which today is stilled rule by the KMT and is called the Republic of China, while mainland China is still ruled by the CPC and is called the People's Republic of China.
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Why do girls generally find it harder to achieve an orgasm despite having way more nerve ending than men in their privates?
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It is hard to say exactly. They are still doing research into this. What we can say though, that when it comes to women having orgasms, there is a significant different between women of different orientations that we do not see in men. This seems to indicate to me that while there is probably a biological reason as well , there is probably also a very huge social component. Honestly, it may just come down to there being a lot of ignorance about female sexual pleasure. It is not something we pay attention to in sex-ed. In a lot of places, the clitoris is not even mentioned in diagrams. And when that is the main source of a woman's sexual pleasure, well yeah. It seems to me that when it comes to heterosexual couples, there is either less of a focus on the sex acts that make it most likely for a woman to orgasm, there is less experience in performing these sex acts, or women feel less comfortable with asking for what they actually want which may be a result of certain sexual attitudes where women who are too vocal about what they want from sex are labelled as sluts. Though as for the biological reasons why women may orgasm less, you have to keep in mind that women are far more likely to be on drugs that diminish sexual libido / pleasure namely anti-depressants and hormonal birth control. Those may also play a role in all of this. [Source for the orgasm rates]
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How does an spacecraft engine blast cause movement if there is nothing for the ship to push off from? Like if space is nothing, what is the engine propelling from?
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Imagine you are standing on a skateboard carrying a bowling ball. Now, throw the bowling ball away from you with all your strength. What will happen?', "It's from Newton's 3rd law, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So if a spacecraft blasts mass out the back, then it will move forward. It doesn't have to push on anything.
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Why is it that in blooming season, bushes tend to grow their leaves and become green before the taller trees around them do?
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There's two factors at play. First, it takes taller trees longer to leaf out. Plants that lose their leaves in winter store nutrients in their stems and roots, and then break them down and move them to the tips of their branches in the spring. Naturally, this takes longer for taller plants. Second, bushes have an incentive to rush, and stretch their head start. Think about the forest in summer: the trees in the canopy catch the vast majority of the sunlight, leaving little for the understory plants below. By quickly growing leaves in the spring before the trees can, smaller bushes can get a brief burst of full-intensity sunlight at the start of the season, which they wouln't otherwise be able to take advantage of.
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Why are materials like metals cold to the touch, whereas materials like towels never seem cold?
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Certain things are good conductors of heat. They're good at pulling heat from your body . Metals are very good at it, whereas cotton is not.
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Why do people on reddit have a need to have multiple accounts?
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Some people can't face the reality of their whole personality. Rather than take responsibility for *all* of what they're saying online by presenting and preserving the record of an integrated consciousness, they compartmentalize the different faces they show to different subcultures in real life, and assign each piece of themselves different username. Also, too: paid shills, trolls, tricksters, work accounts, vote manipulation, forgetfulness and justforthehellofit.I have two accounts. A public account where I share details of my real life and am much more measured in what I say. And this account, where I feel free to say whatever the fuck I want.Reddit has now made it possible for anything you say to suddenly appear anywhere on the internet at any time. That can be uncomfortable if you've shared personal information on a different post. No one wants to put their jobs or friendships at risk. Plus, Reddit has some utter jerks who, if they don't like a post, will follow you around to make nasty comments on your other posts, or down vote every post you make. Multiple accounts can make sense.
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Where does matter go once it goes through a black hole?
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The term 'hole' isn't accurate. A black hole isn't a 'hole' in any sense. Basically they're the remains of dead stars, that have collapsed under their own weight. The gravity they exert is strong that light can't move away from it so we can't directly see the object at the center of the Quantum singularity. Everything that falls in just gets added to the pile.To the best of our knowledge, it doesn't "go" anywhere. It's now part of the black hole, and adds to the black hole's mass. Now, it's hypothesized that black holes slowly radiate away absorbed matter as energy via Hawking radiation, so it could be the case that all of the matter will *eventually* be released back into the universe, but the time scales involved are **enormous**. We're talking much, *much* longer than the current age of the universe for a large black hole to evaporate.
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Why does my ISP offer high download speeds but such low upload speeds?
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Your instincts are correct -- it's demand. Almost all residential Internet customers download far, far more than they upload. So, they could make it equal. But if the capacity of the connection was 20 Mbps, they could make it 10 up and 10 down. But what would happen is that people would very often max out the down speed, and hardly even touch the upload speed. it's more useful, in this example, to have 19 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up.
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Why when websites are finished loading, the page scrolls up/down slightly so that you end up clicking on the wrong thing
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The last thing that loads on the page changes the location of the rest of the page. For example it might be an image which is of unknown size and the final configuration of the entire page isn't known. Once it loads everything jumps down to accommodate it.
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a recount and how it could uncover discrepancies that were missed the first time?
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If you have ever worked in retail and had to close a register you know how this works. Imagine you are closing the register, you count all the money and get $1284.00. But the system tells you you need $1295.00. So you recount. Turns out some ones and a five were stuck together, and there were some quite a few dimes mixed in with the pennies. Now you have $1295.00 and you can close your store without having to fill out any paperwork for the missing $11.00. It is kind of the same in an election, except you don't know what you *should* have, but one party definitely thinks you are wrong. Basically, doing something more than once increases accuracy as you are more likely to catch something you missed the first time.
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How do firefighters know when fires are started by cigarette butts?
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Generally, certain areas will have been on fire longer than others. Sometimes that's indicated by the spread of the fire over time, other times that's indicated by which areas are burnt more than others. If they can figure out roughly where the fire started, they can start looking at objects near there that plausibly could have started a fire. Maybe there are chemical traces, maybe there are burnt remnants of something.
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When a US governor declares a state of emergency for their respective state what exactly happens?
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This allows the release of certain funds in the state budget to assist with recovery, and in some cases may allow for assistance from the federal governmentMostly it relates to emergency funds that the governor gets to tap into. In the case of snow, it means that the state can spend more money on plowing . They can also tap into federal resources and other organizations like the American Red Cross who will mobilize and help work the problem. Since snow often causes power water problems, a state of emergency allows the water and power companies to "buy" more support from out of state, and get reimbursed at least in part for the additional money they have to spend to keep the power and water on. These funds usually come out of a reserve budget.
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Why is our saliva disgusting after we spit it out, though we swallow it all day?
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It's a natural mechanism. Once you have expelled something from your body you don't want it back in. You spit because you want to get rid of something that's bad for your or causing some discomfort. The same way that you stay away from the smell of feces, saliva, snot and any other excrements are considered not desirable for you to touch or get back in your body. So the icky factor is just a natural mechanism to tell you to stay away.
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If we somehow managed to cool the Earth's core down to room temperature, what would happen?
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the outer core would solidify and earth would lose its magnetic field. we would likely all die if not from the immense amount of solar radiation that would start to hit us in the oncoming years, Then it would be by solar winds stripping away the atmosphere over the next 100 years or so. Basically all life on the planet would die in 200 years max.
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when a police officer commits a crime why is the police department in charge of the investigation?
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there is a division in law enforcement specifically for this. It's called internal affairs.It's not *always* the police who investigate, nor is it always the police department the accused belongs to. It all depends on the nature and severity of the crime. Some crimes automatically get kicked up to another agency, like the FBI, while other crimes will be handed off to a neighboring police department to avoid bias. Minor crimes can be handled by the accused officer's department. Most police departments can handle their own affairs, because they have an Internal Affairs division that investigates crimes and other issues committed within the department. That's why you hear people trash-talking "IA" on TV shows and movies - since their job is to investigate other cops, they're seen as traitors or the enemy.The police are there to investigate crimes. We don't have some other body to investigate crimes. But instead we set up a separate group *within* the police, whose job it is to investigate other police. We call that group Internal Affairs. Ideally, it does operate separately, although I don't know how well that works or doesn't work in practice.Internal affairs is the separate division that "polices the police". But any organization that you have investigating crimes would be policeIn the UK, police alleged crimes and major complaints are handed by a third party agency, [IPCC].
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How do parabolic maneuvers work to create a zero gravity environment?
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It's not actually zero gravity, it's just *free fall* which creates the illusion of gravity -- the parabolic arc of the vehicle is the same as the plummeting path of its occupants, so they all seem to be neutrally floating with respect to one another.The parabolic arc is what an object does when acted upon by a constant external force. When done right, the plane traces the path an object free falling would take, thus allowing the objects inside to fall without hitting the sidesIf I launched you in the air in a catapult, you would travel in a parabola, and experience free fall. Now imagine doing the same thing, surrounded by a large airplane travelling at the exact same speed and trajectory.
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If reposts on reddit are not against any rules, and recycling content is a good way to keep the site popular, then why do people always complain about it so much?
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Have not been on reddit long but from what I gather is reposts are not a problem. It is when people repost them as their own to reap sweet Reddit karma.
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Unsual family law question for book I'm writing
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You probably want to go to a legal subreddit, like legaladvice or something, depending on how realistic you want this to be. And you probably want to mention where this story is set , since that has a huge effect on what laws may apply. If the birth parents' estate is still open they may be able to sue for any civil damages, though idk what those would be here. A couple of states allow civil suits for parental kidnapping, but that's not what happened here. You can threaten to sue/decide to settle without any justification at all though. And your protagonist may decide to this to preserve her adoptive parents' good name or whatever. As for the second, yeah. Being declared dead *in absentia* happens all the time in the United States. It's probably a much, much more straightforward if you have an established life, but the Social Security office handles it with sufficient proof/documentation .
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Why do some products that are "made with real fruits and vegetables" seem to contain none of the nutrients of the fruit or vegetable according to their nutrition labels?
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> Is it because of the processing? Is "real fruit" one of those FDA phrases that doesn't really mean anything? Is a term like that even regulated by the FDA? Both, really. Processing takes some of the nutrients out of some foods. Your yogurt, for instance has blueberry jelly and syrup in it - which was made from blueberries but was processed in such a way that it destroyed a lot of the nutrients. So when they say "made with real fruits and vegetables" they really just mean, "tastes of real fruits and vegetables because we extracted the flavors from them." So it's a combination of both the processing and loose regulations for marketing phrases.What does it list? Some abbreviated lists only have space for macronutrients. If you look at, say, Chobani bluberry yogurt online it says 6% DV for Vitamin C. Maybe it just doesn't go into detail; or maybe the fraction of a cup of blueberries in a cup of your yogurt times the fraction of a cup per serving is less than 1/24.
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What is an easy way to remember what a pronoun, adverb, compound, etc is + other language & writing tips?
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As for the 3 in your title, there are pretty easy language features in the words themselves. Pronoun = Proper + noun. Proper refers to names, places etc. etc. Adverb = Adjective + Verb. Usually 'ly' words like slowly, quickly . Compound = 2, like a compound in chemistry, or compounding in pharmaceuticals. Is like 2 words joined together e.g. breakfast or because.
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Please eli5 why does it take my printer a full 5 minutes to cancel a scan when I push the cancel button?
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I'm sure there's a technical answer, but the long and short of it is printer software is terrible and that is because they sell the hardware for nothing and make their money on the ink.
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How does saving the receipts from all of my various transactions help me?
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If you do it correctly, you can use a lot of things you buy not just at home but also for your business, making their purchase a deductible business expense. From having a home office, to storing work materials in the garage, to purchasing stuff at Lowe's or Home Depot or Office Depot, to the miles you drive your car, many things you do are deductible from taxes for business use. Just do it legally, like Exxon and GE and Bank of America does, with a CPA. And a big part of doing it legally is **having receipts** to show the IRS when they ask why you deducted so much income from your taxable amount.Certain items are tax deductible, ie their value can be taken off the amount of tax you pay. In order to prove you bought it, you need the receipt.Receipts help you if you ever need to prove that you bought something. So if you want to return something, you'll need a receipt to prove that you bought it. If you're accused of a murder, you'll need a receipt to prove that you were shopping at the time the murder took place. I'm not too familiar with how receipts relate to tax returns , but if the IRS comes at you, I suppose it's good to have something proof of the things that you have bought. Wouldn't hurt to have them, right?
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How do people determine the artist of a song and the featured artist of a song?
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If you were making an album and invited me to sing parts of a song on it you'd be the artist and I'd be the featured guest. If it was my album and you came to rap part of a song I'd be the artist and you'd be the feature. It all depends on who is releasing the song as part of their catalog.
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How medieval people were able to translate languages they never came across. For example japanese.
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It is more than likely that there was a lot of pointing at things and hoping the word was said, for example; I am one of the first Westerners to come across Japan, I land in a port and meet with a local, I point at a dog and say "dog" the Japanese person may then respond, "Inu" thus the word for dog was shared, then in some cases the word might of been written in Japanese thus providing the sounds for 2 Hiragana, in this case it was い ぬ in Hiragana or 犬 in Kanji, this process could be applied to any word and from there readings of Hiragana where recorded and words were learnt. This is also a very very simple explanation yet the process is more or less correct. This is my first ELI5 post so it may not be as clear as I hope, if that's the case feel free to ask more questions.
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Technological unemployment and the possible impact on society
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The basic idea is that, as machines get better at doing more and more things, they will start to reduce the need for human workers or replace them altogether. For example, if self-driving cars catch on, then we won't need nearly as many truck drivers, taxi drivers, and so on. That will lead to a lot of unemployed truck and taxi drivers, who will either have to train for other jobs or who will end up collecting welfare. What we don't know is how fast this will happen, how many jobs will get replaced, and how hard it will be to retrain people for new jobs. What we do know is that technology has been replacing jobs for the last 250 years or so and that the technological advances usually result in higher productivity and a higher standard of living overall. We also know that some people suffer pretty badly because they can't or won't retrain to other jobs, or their jobs become very low-paying. Some people think that we will need to implement some form of universal basic income so all the newly-unemployed people won't starve in the streets. Others think that we will all end up making money by developing phone apps or making funny YouTube videos .
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Why are 'of the year' awards not at the end of the year?
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"Of the Year" awards are typically at the end of the year, and are given by a third party This is a case of the publisher/developer giving themselves the title in the game description as a marketing tactic. It's nothing more than their opinion.
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Why is that hot-spicy sensation exists at the anus during diarrhea?
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This question concerns one of the more frequently asked topics on ELI5, so it has been removed. Try the searchbar! It's okay to re-post questions, but please indicate that you did a search and that previous questions/answers didn't help you understand.Not everything is digestible in food. What's left in your stool can have quantities of capsaicin, the chemical responsible for irritation or "spiciness" when in contact with any tissue. So it makes your butthole burn.
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How do balding people still manage to have a full beard?
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The first law of hairodynamics states that male adult hair can never really be created nor destroyed, only transferred. This is what happens to balding men - they lose hair atop their head, but the hair accumulates in other regions. It could manifest as beard hair, an unruly chest forest, a few curly nostril follicles, or a luscious mane for your elephant trunk. The key thing to remember is that the hair is never really going anywhere!', "[Has to do with testosterone] Here's the reddit link, and it includes the link to an article on the subject of why it happens. TLDR: If you get a manly beard early in life, you're more likely to go bald sooner.Male pattern baldness affects head hair, not beard hair. The two types of hair are very different.
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Why are the confederate monuments a problem now and not while Obama was in office?
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This wasn't something that was decided at the federal level; most of these statues had people voting in local elections or voicing their opinion at things like town hall meetings and saying that they wanted those statues out of their communities; It seems that over the last 8 years, public perception of those statues has shifted to the point that most people no longer want them. It's also part of a cycle: Republicans lost to Obama, which made them less complacent and made them more active in local/mid-term elections during Obama's run as president. Now they won the Presidency, and Democrats are less complacent and are becoming more active in local/mid-term elections; this is especially true of younger voters, which tend to skew pretty heavily left compared to other demographics.
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if corn just goes straight through you how does it give you any nutritional value along the way
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It doesn't go straight through. It's a partial myth. There is a *chance* that the hard cores of the seed pockets don't get digested properly, but especially if you break them by chewing on them or when you use corn meal to bake things your body can easily digest the mass. Also the yellow pockets themselves have nutritional value, tooThe outside of the kernel is indigestible, not the inside. Your body simply breaks down the contents inside the kernel and leaves the outside.
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How can charities, like Cancer Fund of America and Kids Wish Network, give less than 5% and still call themselves a charity?
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They don't "keep" any of the money, but they sure do have a lot of expenses to pay out. That CEO for example works really hard at collecting donations, and it costs a lot of money to rent space in his posh home. So most of the money goes to "admin" expenses. Many celebrities have this same problem. At one point Kanye's charity had zero in charitable donations.In the US, non-profit status is less about being a charity, and more about *not* being a corporation. So long as your revenue doesn't directly go into owners' pockets, you can be a non-profit and enjoy the tax benefits. So from a legal perspective, there is little difference between a soup kitchen and a bowling league. These charities are allowed to *waste* donations, they just can't pass them along to their owners. They also can't lie about what the intend to do with the money.
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Why do we get restless when excited?
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Adrenaline - your brain sends a signal to release the hormone adrenaline from your adrenal glands which in turn speeds up your heart rate and breathing, and prepares your muscles for fight or flight, leaving you feeling restless.
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How can anxiety/depression be passed down from parents?
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In order to make that statement, you have to first prove conclusively that we know exactly where depression comes from. We don't. At best, we can say that a constellation of factors determines depression, and genetics are one factor of many. Before people go nuts on genetics, remember that: - "Family" factors like poverty, poor access to educational opportunities, poor access to good food, poor access to green spaces, poor access to employment opportunities, poor access to recreational and social activities, and other community-level concerns correlate significantly with mental illnesses and effect everyone, not just one or two people here and there. - Children learn how to cope with problems and set-backs from parents and other important adults. Sorry to be blunt, but a lot of adults unintentionally pass on some pretty unhelpful coping skills.It's genetic. Depression can be seen as an imbalance in the brain caused by one or more chemicals not being produced properly. Just like parents might have a gene for a crooked nose which could be passed down to their children; they might also have a gene for those particular chemicals not being produced properly and that is then passed down to their children.
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Is someone more skilled at something if they learned it during developmental years?
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. I would generally say yes the younger you learn a sport the better you will be. A parallel that makes me wonder is a 2nd language. I was just listening to "stuff you should know" podcast and they mentioned how is it much easier to learn another language in grade school rather than high school because the brain is still making connections. When those connections have not been made up to adulthood the brain prunes unused limbs so to speak. I would imagine muscle memory in connection with the brain probably has a similar mechanism. Now the question should also include coachability of an individual. If you were to start boxing at 21 you would most likely be doing it out of your own interest. A 16 year old would have many other factor that could motivate them to start boxing. For example a sibling, friend, parent, or role model boxes. Or just to be part of something. At 21 you may be more willing to take coaching tips than at 16.
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How is capital made?
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Robinson Crusoe making a stick with a hook to harvest coconuts instead of using the same materials to reinforce his hut is making capital instead of consumer spending. You make capital by deferring resources into the means of production not consumption. The stick with the hook on it took time and wood that could have been used for a nice fire, or a clothesline, but instead building tools that help you harvest more food is making capital. To this day the shovels owned by construction companies are classified as capital. In the modern age you might take part of your paycheck, and rather than buy a new comfy bed as consumer spending, you buy a GM bond. GM uses that money to build car making robots, which are capital, and return the money with interest at which point you can decide again if you want to use the resources for capital accumulation or consumption.
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What NATO is, who controls it, and why it is in Libyra right now?
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NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a very large military alliance. This page lists the members: _URL_0_ Essentially they all agree to defend one another if attacked. They also sometimes take part in more offensive measures against other nations, like currently in Libya.
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The ruling that just happened regarding Fanduel and Draftkings
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The New York Attorney General declared it as gambling and doesn't want the two sites taking bets from New York residents. The site has always been a mix of gambling and fantasy. Here's the full article _URL_0_", 'It is illegal to gamble on sports in the United States . There has been for several years an exception to this rule for fantasy sports, which are deemed "games of skill" instead of "games of chance." It is okay to bet on games of skill but not to bet on games of chance . The New York Attorney General just declared that the State of New York no longer believes Fan Duel and Draft Kings are games of skill, but instead are games of chance. That makes them illegal, and the companies are now no longer allowed to accept money from the reported 500,000+ players in New York. The companies are going to appeal this, if they haven't already.
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Why Are There 660 Executive departments In The US Government?
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Congress has the power to create executive departments. Over the last 230 years they've created a variety of departments to handle different things. If there's a specific department you think is wasteful, and unnecessary it would be easier to answer your question.There are only 18 executive departments in the US government. If you're talking about the top positions in each one of those, that comes closer to 660. If you're asking why each of those sub-departments exist, that's basically because the government has existed for a long time and gotten bloated. Think of the original government as a computer program. The initial program had a few lines of code, but it got a bug. So the programmer put in a patch. Then down the line, that patch conflicts with some new code. So they add another patch. This continues until the code is made up more of patches than it is useful code. It has become bloated and inefficient. That's what happened with the government. They needed someone to make X decision, so they created a department for that. They needed someone to regulate Y thing, they created a new department. Over time, certain departments become redundant. Others become obsolete. The problem is, you can't get rid of the shoddy patchwork of "temporary" patches without rewriting the entire piece of software. Likewise, you can't fix the inefficient and bloated bureaucracy without, well, rewriting the government.
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What do the Watts and Volts mean in a 12v 5w water pump and a 12v 20w solar panel respectively?
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It means if you connect the pump to as 12V source, the pump will draw 5W of power. The solar panel rating means that the panel is capable of delivering 20W of power at 12V. So if you connect the solar panel to the pump, it'll run. Certainly you will want to make sure this stuff is wired to code and has all the appropriate breakers.
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I hear a lot of good AND bad things about e-cigs. Can someone just lay down the facts about them?
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Here's a list of all the research conducted on ecigs. Take a look and form your own opinion. That article the other redditor posted is sensationalist trash. _URL_0_
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Can you swim after you eat?
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It's perfectly safe. Your body won't go, "Sorry arms and legs, it's digestion time," and redirect blood to your intestines. That's bulldust.If you can already swim, then you will still be able to swim after eating. The issue with swimming after eating are just like doing any physical activity after eating. If you eat a big meal and then run like crazy, you might find yourself not feeling so great. But if you take a casual walk afterwards, you'll be fine. The same is true with swimming: you may find yourself ill if you swim a lot of laps, but you'll be fine if you are just cooling off.Yes. Its not about puking, its about once you eat, the blood rushes to your stomach and you have *slightly* less energy. Not enough to be dangerous.
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why do us humans swing our arms when we walk?
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To maintain balance. EDIT: Swinging arms stabilizes the motions of walking and also actually saves us energy .
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What happens if an undocumented/illegal immigrant/visa overstayer refuses to tell the police/immigration department where they are from?
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Once they ran your finger prints you'd be deported with either a ten year or lifetime travel ban to the US. If you didn't say a word and your fingerprints came back inconclusive you'd be incarcerated until they could verify your identity. And they'd be pissed.I know sometimes with Latin American immigrants they will just drop them off in Mexico regardless of where they are from originally. So it's also possible that if they talk to someone who you met and they were like "oh yeah he had some kind of European accent" they would just chuff you off to the UK and have them deal with you', "I live in australia, they wouldn't randomly pick you up but if you did commit a crime or suspicion of a crime or even driving and not producing a license, they would detain you until they can prove your identity - detention centre/psychiatric ward/prison just depends on what they suspect you of.
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Why can't an ostrich fly?
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It's GGGGGGGGGrandparent stopped needing to fly. Other body parts changed over time to support running on land rather than flying. Evolution.
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If deserts were former oceans, then what is stopping current oceans from turning into deserts?
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The continents consist of less dense minerals. Granite is less dense than basalt. Cool basalt will sink into lava. It is more dense. The continental minerals will stay above lava. When there is not much ice in the world the ocean levels are high producing shallow seas above the continental rocks. When ice sheets form the shallow seas become deserts as the ocean levels drop. Beyond the continental shelves the oceans are thousands of feet deep. Sea levels vary about five hundred feet depending on how much water is locked up in iceA lot of the surface of the Earth was previously underwater, and many millions of years from now there will no doubt there will be dry surfaces that are today underwater. The shape of the Earth is constantly, if very slowly compared to human lifetimes, changing.Only that their low elevation keeps water flowing into them. If you could make the bottom rise up high enough , an ocean area that doesn't see much rain would then be a desert.
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How did we determine which parts of the brain actually are the areas that deal with certain emotions, or how we think, etc?
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In the high and far-off times we waited for someone to have survivable brain damage and found out what they couldn't do after estimating where the [tamping iron] passed clean through their brain. More common these days is a thing called fMRI that uses a very high powered MRI scan to see what areas of the brain have more blood flow while certain tasks are performed. fMRI studies are usually very interesting but the findings can be hard to interpret because the human mind is a complex and poorly localized system for many tasks and sitting in a very very small tube as still as a statue isn't the standard way we process stimuli as human beings.Mri scans and cat scans allow us to track brain activity. So you put someone in one of those and then stimulate them. You then watch which bit of their brain lights up, and thats what area is working on that emotion/thing
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why is it brighter out at night with snow on the ground?
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The snow scatters light from all kinds of sources better than grass or pavement when there is no snow. This means more light reaches your eyes.
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smoking is uniformly banned on planes, so why do all planes have no smoking lights just like they have seatbelt lights?
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Not all aircraft are sold for commercial airline use. Some are used by private companies and they may not ban smoking.Many were probably built before smoking was uniformly banned. But I'm not sure if that explains their presence in new aircraft.
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Photosynthesis (Specifically the calvin Cycle)
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Step 1: Carbon enters the cycle as CO2Step 2: An enzyme adds RuBP forming 3 unstable six-carbon moleculesStep 3: The molecules break into six three-carbons molecules Step 4: 6 ATP turn into 6 ADP + 6P You are taking a P out.Step 5: NADPH turns into NADP+ ATP and NADPH from the light reactions provide the energy and electrons to convert the 3-PGA to G3P Step 6: Carbon then exists the cycle in one molecules of G3P. Plant cells will use the G3P to make glucose and other organic compounds. This leaves 15 carbon atoms remaining in 5 G3P molecules. Step 7: 3 ATP is turned into 3P + 3 ADP Step 8: ATP provides energy for enzymes to rearranged the G3P molecules to regenerate RuBP, ADP and NADP+ and they are returned to the start of the light reaction. This bring us back to step 1 where 3CO2 is added to the system and the cycle repeats. This creates: 6 CO2 + 6H20 ---- > C6H12O6 + 6 O2 6 Carbon dioxide with 6H20 in the presence of light yields energy and oxygen.
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If the human brain was a hard drive, on average how much usable memory would it have?
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Its not something you can accurately measure because of genetically inherited knowledge. But for short term memory its not very much, say maybe 100gb. Long term memory can store maybe 2 - 10 terabytes. Its important to remember that long term memory is highly fragmented. maybe only a few megabytes of its original short term memory origin.
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why we don't raise more bison instead of cows
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Bison are very difficult to corral and domesticate. They're more aggressive and freaking huge. So pretty much, yes to all of those reasons."First off, purchasing buffalo for breeding stock costs a bit more than beef. Second, it does cost more for buffalo fencing and facilities than beef. Thirdly, processing costs for buffalo are much, much higher than beef . Forth, USDA inspection for Beef is FREE; while for Buffalo it is billed at over $32.00 per hr. Fifth, there is not much information available to the public on buffalo meat so buffalo producers like Buffalo Groves), spend lots of money on marketing, education and web sites. Our industry does not help us with this big expense."Up here in parts of Canada, there are quite a few buffalo farmers. The buffalo are wilder and more difficult to deal with than cattle but they self manage their grazing better than cattle. It seems that people sort of, buy a buffalo or half a buffalo and have it slaughtered at a local butcher shop. It is more of a specialty item. The meat is leaner than cow, so it is a bit harder to cook , and it has more flavour than beef. Most people are not so much accustomed to the taste.For the same reason moose farming is a bad idea, they are aggressive and much more dangerous than cows, cows just tend to go with the motions, other large herbivores wouldn't be as happy to get chased by small dogs and men on motorcycles.
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Why does a dead battery in a car get recharged if you just jump it and leave it running ?
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Your car has a system in it called the alternator, which is essentially a generator. It takes some of the energy from your motor and converts it to electrical energy. The alternator, among other things, keeps your battery charged. Your battery runs low when you do things like leaving your headlights on all night - that kills the battery, because the engine isn't running and so the alternator isn't running either. So, basically, you jump the car, and you leave it running, and the alternator recharges the battery.
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When someone creates a password on a website, where is that password stored?
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Ideally, the password itself is not stored at all - only a hash of it is. But that hash is stored in a file or a database on one of the machines that make up the technical infrastructure for the site you are creating an account on.Short answer: The actual password is not saved . A "scrambled up" version of the password is stored in a database . The database is often located on the same server as the webpage. When you log-in, your typed-in password is scrambled up the same way and compared to the database. You may ask why all the scrambling of the password. It is in case the database gets stolen, the scrambled up version of the password can not be used for log in. "scrambling" is being done by a hash function. A hash function is is a set of instructions that convert for example your password in a different text. My made up example: password: mypassword123 password after hashing: fwdfsgg34gvgv33gv34g.
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