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- what does it mean when people say they're going to "write it off" on their taxes? | in most taxes you are being taxed based on profit , sometimes on assets, but that's for another time. When you write something off you count it as a cost that lowers your profit. There are very detailed rules what, how and when you can write off - and that part is one of the things you learn in accountancy. By doing th... |
Why can I spell words perfectly fine when I write them down, but find it almost impossible to spell off the top of my head? | Visual versus sound memory prevalence? Could also be concentration, by the time you are on the 4th letter you lost count of where you were, something that doesn't happen when writing. |
Explain speaker watts and their relation to audio receiver out put. | To add to nalc's excellent answer, sound volume doesn't exactly equate to speaker power. It is possible to send the same power to different brands/models of speaker and get different perceived volume levels. This is related to the speakers' efficiency, that is, how good a job they do at turning electricity into sound. ... |
Why have all the popular subreddit's gone private? | _URL_0_ Tl;dr: A very helped admin for /r/IAMA was fired for no distinctive reason. The reddits are being blacked out in protest over this massive injustice, since Victoria basically helped run, schedule, and provide proof for many big-ticket, celebrity AMAs. |
What is the difference between LLC and Corporation? | LLC stands for Limited Liability *Company*. It is not the same as a corporation, but has many similarities. A corporation has one or more classes of stock, shareholders who own stock, and a board of directors elected by the stockholders. They're required to hold an annual stockholders meeting and to periodically elect ... |
How do neo-Nazis account for objectively brilliant members of "inferior races", such as Einstein or MLK? | if you read into their policies and definitions on what exactly constituted a nazi aryan, you'll find it's actually a very broad definition. it would easily incorporate hitler himself , and possibly even einstein, since einstein was biologically speaking quite watered down from original jews. the jews were an exception... |
Why dont TV remotes have little solar panels, just like some calculators? | A calculators battery is really small and easily chargeable with a cheap solar panel. Remotes generally operate on double or triple A batteries, which would be slower to charge and cost more to pre-install with rechargeable batteriesHow often do you bring your television remote outside? |
In the movie, "The Perfect Storm" Why didn't the Andrea Gail stay in the eye of the storm until the storm fizzled out. | Following a quick google search , the boat could probably go about 8 knots. A typical storm might move at 13 - 26 knots. Even if my numbers are off, I suspect the answer is still that they couldn't keep up. Also, maybe they just didn't think of it. Mark Wahlberg doesn't look like the brightest guy |
How Do 3DS Screens And None-Glasses 3D Screens Work | They've got essentially two projectors pointed in slightly different directions. If you hold the device at the right angle, a different projector will be shining in each eye, giving you two different pictures which creates the illusion of 3D. It only works from one distance and viewing the screen at one angle though, w... |
How do countries successfully implement/maintain gun control? | By enforcing the laws. Why do people in America pay for a license to drive a car? You could easily drive without one, and you could even go years of driving with never getting caught. But for whatever reason very few people actually take the risk. There's also a social element I'm sure. So it comes down to enforcing th... |
what is/is there, a maximum capacity to the human brain? And if so how is this measured? | Yes, the theoretical upper limit is the [Bekenstein bound]. In reality memory capacity is obviously significantly less than that, [estimated at something like 2.5 petabytes]. The thing is, we still have a very poor idea of how exactly neurons store information. The brain is obviously very efficient at some tasks and te... |
video editing before computers. | There are various techniques like physically cutting or multiple exposure, or overlaying of two films etc etc etcLots of scissors and transparent tape. For film, that is. Analog VHS, Beta and other video formats were edited the same we did audio tapes, mechanically. |
Why is reheating Chicken/Rice such a bad idea? | Bacillus cereus. If the spores in the rice are left to germinate at room temperature they are not killed by reheating. If you cook your rice, chicken etc, then cool it rapidly and keep it at fridge temperature, and reheat only once - then never a problem. Leaving rice out - always dispose. You can NOT refrigerate and t... |
If someone hires a prostitute and later police raids his place, what's stopping both of them claiming it was 'one-night stand' ? | Thats specifically why they wouldnt do a raid "after the fact". The thing thats illegal here is the transfer of cash, if they dont see that then they know they have no case. |
Why is nuclear power not as cheap to produce now? | Nuclear power is extremely cheap to produce. I don't know about the time's article you're referring to but nuclear power has gotten more expensive while natural gas power plants have gotten MUCH cheaper. The utility I work for though is building more nuclear plants though, because it's still really cheap, so I'm not su... |
Why do school buses have to stop at railroad tracks before going over them? | All buses do. It's in case the signals aren't working and there is a train coming. Buses are a very large target filled with lots of people, accidents are bad.[Video explanation] It is not just buses. It is also certain hazardous materials carriers. It is for safety. They also have to open the door and listen for train... |
Why does a companies share price drop even if they had no involvement in an incident? | Stock values, like everything else, are ultimately determined by what people *think* they should be worth. Over the long term, this works out about right. However, especially with stocks, it's prone to short term fluctuations based on emotion. All it takes is a few people to say "crap, maybe the engine caused this!" Th... |
Why don't flies die when they hit windows? | The same reason that an insect can fall x40 times the height of it's overall body, but you can break bones by falling x4. Weight. A fly is quick but it's also very light, therefore the overall force of impact is substantially lower.Something called the Square-Cube law. Say you had a 4x4x4 cube. The surface area is 4x4x... |
Why do you laugh more at movies and stand-up comedians when with others than if on your own? | Because people take their social cues about how to act from what people around them are doing. If the person next to you is laughing then you get the idea that laughing is the acceptable and right thing to do in this situation. It's all part of being a social animal. |
What does it mean when a cough “moves into your chest”? Was it somewhere else before? | People generally say that in references to colds.A “cold” is a blanket term for any viral infection of the nose and throat. In the early stages of a cold, your body is fighting the cold directly and most of the symptoms are in your sinuses, nose, and throat. After a few days the virus is pretty much dead and the nose s... |
Why don't we wake up during lucid dreams? | I always wake up as soon as i go lucid. It really sucks. Haven't had a full lucid dream since my early teens. |
Once meat is defrosted, why do people say that you shouldn't refreeze it again? | Freezing doesn't kill microbes, only suspend their reproduction. Defrosting brings the temperature of the product up to a level where microbial action starts up again.Add to this, many people defrost food on bench tops where at least parts of the food are at room temperature. Defrosting should be done in a fridge. I wi... |
Rap. The misogyny, the rivalries, the skits, the self aggrandizing lyrics. | It's the culture. Before they are famous they live in that type of world, with drug sales and use, illegal gun ownership and use, misogyny and prostitution. Eminem's film 8 Mile shows this well, I don't know if it's accurate. If you want nicer rap try Drake, he does mention pot and hot girls, but not murdering his ex-w... |
So what exactly were John Nash's contributions to mathematics? | John Nash came up with the idea of Nash Equilibrium. The concept has to do with a game theory where the optimal outcome of a game is one where no player has an incentive to deviate from his or her chosen strategy after considering an opponent's choice. Overall, an individual can receive no incremental benefit from chan... |
Why is hot tap water often murky? | I believe it's air bubbles trapped in the water. Hot water is able to keep them in solution for longer than cold water, which is why you can see it. If you let the water sit for a bit, you can actually watch the air bubbles rising to the top, it's kind of cool. |
If Batman has a hard time stopping the Joker and other non-powered humans, why is he so confident to fight Superman? | As /u/superguardian has already mentioned, there's the thing that Superman won't kill him. But there's also one thing you're not quite understanding about Batman. In most incarnations, at least- the Nolan one subverted expectations a little- Batman is known for being prepared for _everything._ He has plans for when eac... |
Did alcohol still damage my body or brain if I didn't have a hangover | Drinking water doesn’t do anything, unless you dilute the alcohol beforehand. Any amount of alcohol damages your body’s cells. |
How do headphones as small as over-ear or even earbuds produce bass frequencies in your ears when the speaker is so tiny? | With earbuds, you're not going to get frequencies as low as you would get with a bigger speaker, but most of the music you are listening to isn't in that range anyways, so you don't much notice that it isn't there. A subwoofer is very big and can produce very low frequencies, but for a lot of music the sub won't be mak... |
When you lose weight, where does the fat go and how does it get there? | Fat is processed into CO2 and waste . If you eat less fat and carbs than you burn, you lose fat .Humans gain energy from the foods that they eat. Fats and carbohydrates consist primarily of long carbon and hydrogen chains, with some oxygen thrown in for good measure. . Our body metabolizes energy by breaking carbs and ... |
The current situation in Syria, and what led up to the internet being cut off | Here we go! So this dude, [Bashar al-Assad], is in charge of Syria. He was never meant to be, the guy was training to be an eye doctor in the UK until his older brother got killed in a car crash and he became the heir. After his dad died in 2000 he came into power and he's been kinda a dick ever since. When the Arab Sp... |
Why exactly are those gurgling sounds our stomachs make? | When you're hungry, it's called the migrating motor complex - it's basically 'house-keeping' to move bits of roughage and fibre out of your intestines and to keep the whole system clean and tidy, without bits of old food sitting around. The sound you hear when your stomach growls tends to be from it vibrating while emp... |
The anatomy and function of HD video cameras | A camera consists of 5 main parts: * A **lens** at the front to focus incoming light.* A **sensor** at the back to capture the incoming light.* A **processor** to take the information from the sensor and compress it into a video file.* A **storage device** to take the video file from the processor and store it somewher... |
Why do we always see the same side of the moon? | First of all, the "dark side" means that radio transmissions from Earth don't get there. There is day and night on the Moon just like it is on Earth. Moon is facing us always the same way, because it is "tidally locked". When you have two things spinning around themselves and around each other, eventually the lighter o... |
Why does listening to music I am unfamiliar with make me more productive? | My humble opinion: New impressions sharpen your mind and take you out of your "auto-pilot" mode. Be it music, a new environment, new people or any other "new" stimuli. You become more aware, focused, get energy and become more productive. |
If AC power can go up and down, then how do lamps not flicker on and off | Conventional incandescent light bulbs have filaments which don't cool quickly enough to really display the effects of the oscillating AC power. Fluorescent and LED lights contain their own transformers which impose their own flickering on the light they output, although this is usually a manageable level.Either they do... |
How do Kilowatt hours work? | It's kilowatts times hours. A watt is a measure of power, power is the rate at which energy is used. When you multiply the rate of using energy by a length of time, you get a quantity of energy. A kilowatt-hour is the amount of energy used by a 1 kilowatt device operating for 1 hour, or equivalently, a 2 kilowatt devic... |
How has Gamestop not gone out of business yet, in a similar fashion as Hollywood/Blockbuster Video? | Games can't be streamed as easily as movies, and the digital store of many services are still very young and not totally adopted. Only in this latest generation of consoles did they even ship with hard drives that could actually support a meaningful game library, and even then they fill up quick. Gamestop sells pre-own... |
What the hell is 'fake news' and why should we care? | Before Trump "Fake News" was news that was intentionally false, or intentionally highly misleading with components of truth presented in a false manner. Its intent is to deceive the public, much like propaganda, but without the government control elements that propaganda has. But with Trump it is any news that he does ... |
Please explain how we are not past the tipping point for climate change? | Define what "tipping point" in the context of climate change you're referring to. I can't explain how we're past or not past a point that isn't agreed upon to exist and for which there is no firm definition. Scientists broadly agree that there are many recursive processes that will lead current warming trends to produc... |
If you would suddenly become unable to use the muscles in your eyelids, would they be closed or open? | The simplest example is "when you die, they stay in the same position, open or closed". Die in your sleep - closed. Die while your best friend is leaning sobbing over you in a bad spaghetti western, and as you stare into their eyes while you're bleeding out from that shot you took in the back, you're telling them to "L... |
"Why does fire wiggle?" (question from my 5yo son) | The way fire behaves is based on two main things on Earth: gravity, and the atmosphere . This is evident if you [see a flame in zero gravity]. It's really cool, it doesn't move at all. So, back to the topic at hand: the fire wiggling is because of two things: 1) Gravity pulls the heavy fuel towards the ground. However ... |
Does time dilation affect people living at high altitudes vs those who are not? | There would, but the difference would be almost impossible to detect. I'm not sure it'd be possible to even create a device that could measure the difference. |
why disposable razors go dull in a week or two, but electric razors take years. | Many electric razors cut more like scissors where the hair has to go past a stationary guard which has a rotating blade on the other side. Feel a good pair of scissors and you will notice that you will probably not get cut touching the cutting edge, but a razor is much sharper than scissors. The cutting edge of the raz... |
Who is the committee doing the Comey Hearing and what can they decide on or change? | It is the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. If your question is whether they have any say on whether Secretary Clinton or anyone else should be indicted, they do not -- that is solely a decision of the Department of Justice, via the Attorney General. Their bailiwick, as their [hearings] and [reports] ... |
Why are videos of people getting hurt considered funny? | Well, humor and comedy is complex, but in my experience it's based heavily in Schadenfreude. It's humorous because you know it's embarrassing for the person. Everyone knows how terrible it is to be embarrassed, or made to look silly in front of other people. So, when you see someone trip over a curb and faceplant into ... |
Why, if I have a great health insurance policy through my employer, do I still have to pay a $20 co-pay for a routine 5 minute doctor visit? | So you don't go every 15 seconds. It's cheap enough to use more or less freely but not enough to abuse it.In addition to all the things stated already, health insurance is meant to cover costs that you would otherwise not be able to afford - expensive surgeries, cancer treatment, etc. Using it for little things like sh... |
What causes cramps like this? | General cramps are usually caused by electrolyte imbalance. That one seems a bit extreme though and you should probably have a doctor take a look if you get them pretty consistently. |
How do paleontologists know where to start looking for fossils, artifacts or bone remains? | You start by looking at rocks from the right age. Generally palaeontologists have a specific area they study, so they know what to look for. if you want Dinosaurs you look for one age, if you want mammalian megafauna you look for something a bit newer. Secondly, you look for the right type of rocks. Rocks like sandston... |
Why is it so important to study Mars? | its the closest planet so its the most similar to earth in terms of year cycle, day/night, and temperature . people think we will be able to live on mars eventually, which is a good idea because earth will eventually destroy itself at the rate we are going. even if we cant live there, we could build a space station or ... |
What is the force pushing the earth around the sun, and will it get weaker or "run out"? | There isn't one really. Just a force pulling us TOWARDS the sun. I'll try explain this but I'm terrible with words, and a picture will show you better than I ever could. When an object is in orbit around something its actually wanting to move away from it, the movement it wants to take is usually perpendicular to the d... |
Why do we experience goose bumps when we're hearing songs and/or experiencing something creepy? | Iirc its a reaction we still have in us from our ancient hairy ancestors. Essentially the hair stood up on ends on our ancestors when they were startled/scared. This happened primarily as a defense mechanism which made us appear larger so that our would-be attackers might decide against eating us. |
Why does all honey taste same when the nectar is collected from different flowers? | Most honey you get in the store is clover honey. Orange Blossom and Buckwheat taste different and even look different. Most honey in the store does not say clover even though that is the industry standard. Orange Blossom honey has a slightly citrus taste and is more viscous then buckwheat. Buckwheat honey tastes simila... |
How are reality TV shows able to show people doing illegal drugs? | Because unlike other crimes, drug use doesn't have a lasting effect . In other words, smoking a joint or taking a hit of acid only affects you directly. The things you do on those drugs may be used against you if caught on tape . Drug laws are very weird in general. Smoking pot, illegal. Possessing pot, illegal. Having... |
How do athletes compete in freezing temperatures? | Humans, like any mechanical thing, aren't 100% efficient. Some of the energy they expend goes into running or whatever, and some is wasted as heat. As such, humans get hot when they do a lot of work, in the exactly the same way that the engine in your car gets hot. The hotter you get, the more cooling you need: eventua... |
What is DNA exactly? | Most of the functions that occur in cells happen through chemical reactions where at least one and often all of the molecules involved are proteins. Proteins are chains of smaller molecules called amino acids. A gene is an area of DNA that holds the information to build a protein . DNA, like proteins, is also a chain o... |
Why do we enforce a licence for driving (because the act requires training and responsibility) but not for similar things, like parenting or voting? | We should have very exclusive restrictions on parenting, the problem is becoming a parent just requires inserting tab "A" into slot "B" so unfortunately people who are too dumb and irresponsible to be parents are more then capable of doing it and the only way to stop them would be to make majorly repressive societies –... |
How does "frequently changing my password" make my accounts any more secure? | > If your password gets hacked it's because someone got access to a database with passwords in it and they'll run brute force algorithms against the encrypted password until they find a match changing your password will have no affect on that process so why do we have to keep changing them? Changing the password has no... |
Why do life-saving drugs in the US cost so much compared to other countries? | Drug pricing is very problematic, and leads to many moral quandaries, such as the one you bring up. To start, the manufacturing of a drug is pretty cheap and easy. If you're not following strict manufacturing regulations, then it's pretty easy to produce millions of pills for pennies each. Regulations, such as those in... |
Why is it that with such advanced technology, people can't charge small batteries in devices like phones instantaneously? | It's largely a tendency for them to overheat when too much current passes through them; this can be managed to a degree, but it's still hard to quickly charge batteries without risking damage or a reduction in its usable life.Battery technology is truly in the toddler stage right now. Its not brand new, but its not tho... |
Why do scammers always seem to have terrible spelling/grammar? | Bad spelling as actually a tactic used so that smart people will see it's a scam. As the scam is more likely to work on stupid people, they only want the stupid people responding.Two things one, oftentimes they are based in Russia or Nigeria so have lousy English skills. Two, to become a person trying to exist by scamm... |
Why is the entire middle east so unstable? | A tl;dr would be Western Christians have been in and out of the area, claiming different lands for different reasons, taking wealth, and committing war crimes for the past 1000 years. As different Semitic groups slide between "kill the infidels" and "might as well go along with it and make the best of things" over time... |
How does Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) work? | A computer controlled machine generates a spark to vaporize a small bit of metal from the stock. This process repeats many times per second. There are two styles: 1) die sink, where the machine uses a die that's the shape of the desired cavity; and 2) wire cut, where the machine uses a fine wire to trace arbitrary shap... |
How does a brita water filter work? Where does all the other stuff go? | Since you are asking specifically about Brita, I will limit my answer to the water filters they use. To my knowledge Brita filters rely on activated charcoal to filter water. The impurities are either attracted to and bind to the charcoal or are filtered because the impurities are too big to pass through the fine charc... |
Whats the difference between communism, democracy and a dictatorship? | communism is an **economic system** where all properly is publicly owned and there aren't any classes, the phrase: to everyone according to their need, from everyone according to their ability, illustrates this concept. Everyone contributes as they can and gets what they need. If you can contribute a lot, this isn't th... |
Why do humans have such a bad grasp of time? | While we survived and grew as a species by being able to remember what didn't work from the past and plan for advancements in the future the main survival instinct has always kept us focused in the now. The now is there immediate danger is, where hunger and thirst are. The need to survive moment to moment is the main l... |
What is the difference between Public Accounting and Private Accounting? | It's more who you work for and what you have in your head as your main goal. Private Accounting, you are there to protect the company you are working for, to ensure they remain within the law. Public Accounting, you are making sure that other people are remaining within the law. This is a VERY generalized view of it. |
Why does my chewing gum start to disintegrate if I chew it along with a piece of ice? | This is all just a guess, so I can be completely wrong. Gum is merely rubber-like substance and saliva after you've chewed on it for a bit. The ice is freezing the saliva and/or causing the rubber to become less elastic. In either case, the result will be the gum becomes more rigid and brittle, thus becoming grainy and... |
how can a man who isn't a child's biological father be forced to pay child support | The priority of Family court is not being just or finding out the proper paternity. The priority is the welfare of the child. So if you have provided for the child for years and the child depends on you financially for their well being you have to pay. The court doesn't are if you were lied to it cares that the child i... |
What makes one person intelligent (IQ 135) and another slow (IQ 95). Assume no physical brain damage, birth defects, etc. | There are so many potential factors that there is no meaningful answer to this question.It's really complex. It's a huge variety of factors, which include genetics, your upbringing, your current environment, and so on. All these things affect your brain wiring in ways too complex to even understand.The basis of your qu... |
Why is genetically engineering embryos so that children aren't born with genetic diseases illegal? | Ethics and morals are not black and white. Ive heard someone explain it to me as Modifying embryos will have may benefits and many consequences ethically. Your affecting a future person's body against their will. It's an argument of rights. How would you feel if your parents deliberately chose your gender, hair colour,... |
why don't we build the aquatic equivalent of spaceships and explore the deepest parts of the ocean that way? | because a perfect vacuum in space is only -14.5 PSI; the pressure at Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean is [16,000 PSI]We went to the deepest part of the ocean in 1960, when Jaques Piccard and Don Walsh went down into the Challenger Deep with the bathyscaphe Trieste. In 2012 James Cameron went down there wi... |
What is the neurobiological basis of memory? | It is the cumulative effect of the type and number of connections between neurons that allow for the reconstruction of a learned sensation. Basically, when one triggers another, their connection is strengthened, and when you try to remember something, the signals travel down the strongest paths and come out with an ech... |
Why does it snow even though it is 34-35 degrees? | Because while it's 34 degrees on the ground, it's colder a few thousand feet up, and that's where the snow forms. |
Why is it that before attempting to stop an addiction, the addicted will often binge on the substance? | The mindset is something like the abused substance will no longer exist after quitting, will no longer be an option, so we try to get as much in as possible before the tap is theoretically cut off for good. Kinda like getting two McRibs the day before they discontinue. I don't believe there is a widely accepted term, b... |
How does Japan have such an efficient railway system? | Some of it is a cultural component. The Japanese place a high degree on efficiency and technology. To them any delay is unacceptable and they the people who run the trains know this. So they must adhere to the standards of Japanese culture and be as efficient and on time as possible. Japan's use of technology is used t... |
why it seems to be nearly impossible for plastic surgery to make someone look genuinely 20+ years younger. | Real young is a lot more complicated and subtle than making a doll face. They can't exactly figure it out, but it's noticeable in the result. Kinda like real/artificial vanilla extract. There's trace amounts of many chemicals in real vanilla extract that chemists can't really tell all of the chemicals, but in the resul... |
Why does stretching your muscles make them feel so much better? | When a person stretches the circulation is measurably increased. The contracting muscles squeeze more blood back to the heart and replenishes oxygen to the lungs. The chest expands drawing in more air. Sometimes as a person stretches they also yawn sometimes. This also enriches the bloodstream with more oxygen and feel... |
Why do refrigerators come with interior lights but freezers don't? | People generally go into their fridge much more often than they go into their freezer. I don't know what else to say, but I feel like I need to type more so this isn't automatically removed. |
What happens if the Government ignores a Supreme court decision? | The primary job of the Supreme Court is simply to interpret the law and resolve any conflicting laws; it is not their job to write the law. For example, if constitutional law explicitly stated that prostitution was illegal, the Supreme Court would be obligated to conclude that prostitution must remain illegal. In this ... |
Why is Switzerland so big on banking? | to all other replies. swiss bank accounts are no longer private. that's a thing of the past. but yes, neutral country = stable finances. |
why do you have to check in for your flight if you already bought a ticket? | Because they oversell flights assuming/hoping that not everybody shows up. If you have 100 seats and sell 105 of them figuring that 5 people won't show up then you just made 5% more money for free |
Why would a human colony on Mars be better than one on the Moon? | Because mars has an atmosphere, water, and gravity. Any settlement on the moon would have to live on what they brought with them. Mars has natural resourcesBecause the Moon is a god forsaken hellhole with no discernible value as anything but a jump off point to somewhere else. Mars at can at least become Earth-like *th... |
What actually happens when a random command is issued to a computer? How does the computer compute something random? | Strictly speaking, it doesn't most of the time. There are algorithms that produce numbers that "seem" random, usually by feeding something like the number of milliseconds since your computer booted up into a function built to scramble things up. Truly random numbers, which are rarely needed, are generated by taking adv... |
Why does Japan get special editions of albums? | With the explosion of consumerism in Japan, it was quickly noted that the Japanese are a nation of avid collectors; to an almost obsessive degree, if they like something they REALLY like it, and will buy the t-shirt, the book, the posters and the sticker album of their favourite musician, as well as all the albums. Rec... |
When are movie trailers made? | Trailers aren't usually made by the same studio that produces the film. Instead, they're made by marketing companies who are given footage by the studio. Because they're only putting together a minute or two of video and don't have the capability to edit effects or do emergency reshoots, they can get the trailer put to... |
Why do different places in he world have different daylight savings times? Why does modern society observe daylight savings time at all? | DST was created to save electricity because the idea was to make it so that the sun was up when people were up. Might have been useful 200 years ago, but since everyone just stays in home with the computer or TV on its usefulness is debated. Why do we keep using it? People are stubborn. Incidentally, another CGPGrey mo... |
Why do so many people dislike Americans? | By no means a complete list, but start by reading about US involvement in Panama 1941, Korea 1945, Syria 1949, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Vietnam 1950's, Cuba 1960's, Congo 1961, Brazil 1964, Indonesia 1965, Dominican Republic 1965, Chile 1973, Afghanistan 1980's, Nicaragua 1980's, Grenada 1983, Panama 1989, Haiti 1991... |
What reason would a former employer have for not wanting you to go on unemployment after they terminate you? Are there negative repercussions for the company? | My understanding , is that all companies pay into unemployment insurance similar to individuals. . However, the AMOUNT of former workers filing for unemployment affects the employers base score, and dependant on their base score, is how much they pay in that type of tax. in other words, more you lay off/fire, the more ... |
How does data go through a wire? | High voltage = 1, low voltage = 0. The bits are sent as pulses of high and low voltages, which trigger switching circuits in the receiving system to interpret the bits as something meaningful. For reference, "high" is usually 3.3 or 5 V, "low" is 0. |
why are people upset about Fluoride being put in our water? | Fluoride in water at appropriate levels is a safe and effective way of preventing tooth decay. However some people may take issue with the concept of a government making personal health decisions for individuals, even if those decisions seem uncontroversial. Add in that there are some people who are completely insane a... |
Happy music in sad and/or violent scenes | This tactic is called '[Soundtrack Dissonance]'. The point of using music which does not seem to match the scene is often to challenge the audience, forcing them to reconcile two or more moods at the same time. This can be used to make the audience think about and sift through their thoughts and feelings. Members of th... |
Why does more profound/clear thought come in the middle of the night, while lying in bed? | Because you have a calm time in your day to think about things. Your mind is free to explore ideas, create ideas, and daydream .rather than stress about daily things. All youre doing in bed is breathing. |
LI5: How can China be manipulating the value of their currency and how does that affect the price of their goods? | When China artificially makes their currency worth less than it otherwise would be, Chinese goods end up costing less. If a country's currency is worth more, it can buy a lot more of other countries goods , but other countries can not buy as many of their goods . So, if China's currency were to rise dramatically in val... |
What is about turning lights on and off that makes it more efficient to just leave them on 24/7? | There is some left over mythology here. Once upon a time fluorescent lights used an electronics system that consumed a lot of power to start up. You'd have to have them on for quite a while to amortize the start-up expense. Recently installed fluorescent systems use better electronics and don't have that penalty. Incan... |
How can non-contagious diseases (like depression or obesity) become an "epidemic?" | An epidemic is a localized outbreak of a contagion, as opposed to a pandemic which is a global outbreak. You're right, though, that the strict definition is about infectious diseases. The use of the word epidemic when talking about obesity or depression is being used metaphorically, just to say that it's a widespread p... |
Why can't I use wifi or data while taking off or landing on an airplane? Does it really make that much of a difference? | I've been taught that the real actual reason is the period of time during takeoff and landing while the plane is below 10,000ft is the time when an accident is most likely to take place. Basically, they want you paying attention to what is happening rather than dicking around on your phone. Source: Studied aviation at ... |
Why do we let corporations carry losses back/forward? | The reason is because the tax year may not represent the actual business cycle and we want taxes to be as fair as possible. A year is a relatively arbitrary period to judge performance - some companies may have very short business cycles or very long business cycles . However, it is too big a burden for the IRS to try ... |
How do states with no personal income tax function? | [Here is a link to the Texas Revenue Estimate for the next biennium]. The short of it is that they collect plenty of taxes, just not income tax. Texas expects to collect nearly $100 billion in taxes in the next 2 years, with more than $60 billion coming from the state sales tax. For some perspective, [New York] appears... |
What's the difference/relationship between the Internet and the World Wide Web? | The Internet is a global network of computers. The World Wide Web is one of many services that runs *on* that network The Web is specifically the stuff you can access through your browser: a set of documents, referencing each other by way of hyperlinks. Email was not originally a web service, but it still runs on the I... |
If the temperature that water becomes gas is 100°c, how do wet things dry off below boiling point? | Water evaporating and water boiling are two different things. Water evaporating is due to there being a difference in water saturation between the wet object and the air and water molecules transitioning to gaseous form to find equilibrium. This will even happen with ice in a process called sublimation where it goes di... |
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