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Why are Florida arrest records easily accessible in comparison to other states? | Florida has some of the best Sunshine Laws, that is public record laws in the US. Unfortunately those laws aren't always applied in the executive offices. But fortunately, many local police departments do comply. |
If i bark/meow at my cat or dog, do they think of us as a fellow dog or cat? or do they know we don't really do that? | Meowing is not a common form of communication between cats. Mother cats might meow to get the attention of the kittens, but adult cats mainly communicate with each other through body language, hisses and growls. Occasionally outright screaming. Meowing is used mostly to "communicate" with people.I doubt we make sense t... |
Why should I get the factory recommended oil in my car? | The oil the manufacturer tells you is the guideline. Putting in thinner oil will not provide proper oil pressure and lead to metal on metal contact. That said, jiffy lube is the absolute LAST place you want to take your car to,whether it be Audi BMW Honda Chevy ford GM. The guys that are changing your oil have about 10... |
Why does holding my nose and eating bad food make it taste less bad? | Your sense of smell plays a large role in what flavors you detect when you eat something. Your tongue can detect only a few basic molecule types, but your nose can detect thousands. Preventing airflow past your olfactory bulb by holding your nose reduces tastes considerably. As an experiment you can try yourself, raw a... |
How do atoms actually create what we see? I don't mean physical shapes, but the "textures" of them, like the top of an Oak Table. | They are insanely small, smaller than you are thinking. Even "textures" are made out of millions of little atoms.I don't know what you posted in that second one because hotlinking is disabled on imageshack but the top of an oak table is as much a structure as the oak table itself, just at a smaller scale", 'Have you ev... |
People say music and physics / mathematics are highly related in their harmony and logic. Can you ELI5 how and why this is? | Physics, and thus math, determine the frequency of the sound you hear. From there, chords, progressions, and harmonies can all be created through manipulating the tones. \r\r\rIn effect then, the "pretty" notes are able to be described mathematically. A human brain can then shift these mathematical properties around if... |
When a police department is successfully sued for misconduct what occurs within the department, what long lasting effects are there? | Generally a department isn't sued. The chief, immediate supervisor, and the officer that actually created the tort against the citizen are the ones sued. 99% of these suits are baseless, unfounded, and you never ever hear about them. The ones that you do hear about sometimes make case law and prevent future occurrences... |
can the air inside the bubbles of a bubble wrap contain diseases from the area in which it originated? | Air is not all that good at carrying a disease. So it would be more likely that it would be some kind of liquid inside a bubble. However, [the way bubble wrap is made] is not really conducive to a pathogen's survival. In short, no. Bubble wrap should not be one of your fears. |
Songs that haven't been played for years getting regular airplay again | Often songs are played to death on the radio and after a while listeners get sick of hearing these songs. The music directors who select the song will play these songs less and then eventually not all. This allows room for new songs - the cycle begins. As for hearing them again, the same music directors, for various re... |
In the USA, Why is it forbidden to show womens nipples, but is it ok for men nipples? | Because we sexualize women's breasts, whereas a man's breasts/nipples are not sexualized. Sort of for the same reason breasts/vag are allowed on YouTube if it's for education videos, but a woman flashing the cameraman is taken down. |
What do the infamous abortion videos that Carly Fiorina references actually contain? What is true and what is false about her claims? | Fiorina made an assertive claim that she watched horrific videos from Planned Parenthood. Allegedly, that the doctored videotapes distributed by the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress showed "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, \'We have to keep it alive to... |
When I've got Bluetooth turned on, how can my phone be visible to paired devices but invisible to every other device? | You have to actually tell your phone to advertise itself to other bluetooth devices. Basically, you tell it to go "HEY GUYS!!! I\'M RIGHT HERE!!!" When you tell another device to scan for bluetooth devices, it looks for anything that's advertising itself. That's different from it connecting *directly* to a device it ha... |
that feeling when you take a deep breath through your nose after you finish a mint | Just to clarify before possibly answering, are you referring to the sensation of a sudden temperature dip in the air that you breathe in? |
About Bitcoin: How is a total devaluation of this currency prevented? | Supply and Demand. For total devaluation you need infinite supply or zero demand. Infinite supply is not possible because the [generation is regulated] and limited by the protocol . Each bitcoin is a solution to a computational intensive problem. If too many coins are generated, the [difficulty] of the problem is incre... |
Why isn't min wage a big concern for Europe and Canada? | Its a big concern, just not a big political argument because the populations of Europe and Canada generally agree that having livable wages is a reasonable thing to do. They don't a significant a far-right party like the United States has controlling the legislative bodies. Europe and Canada also tend to socialize high... |
Why Do Computer Screens Have That Wierd Effect When You Touch Them? | This is due to the liquid crystals on your monitor being pushed around, and not letting light in the proper way. Let me explain: In your monitor, there's a backlight which produces light. The light from the backlight then passes through things called "liquid crystals", which alter themselves when an electric current is... |
My college campus in the south closes for just 1 inch of snow. How can a northern campus stay open with harsher weather | Infrastructure. Northern cities build their infrastructure to handle snow. They have salt trucks, snow plows, etc to make travel safe. Southern areas don't because it wouldn't be economical to maintain that equipment for the one to two days a year they may need it. |
Why does Chris Hadfield's version of "Space Oddity" require a license/contract but tons of other covers on YouTube do not? | As far as I know those other covers are illegal. Most don't get enough views to have anybody notice. Chris Hadfield just chose to do things the legal way. |
Why is there a 'voice' associated with gays? Do they choose how to speak or is there another reason? | Long time Redditor here. I can remember at least one occasion where someone answered your very same question with describing how he heard his high-voiced gay roommate talking in his sleep with a low voice"If you did go looking you might discover that minorities adopt specific language traits to reaffirm solitary" Okay ... |
what are the different types of supernova and how do they work? | Type of supernova is a classification of the electromagnetic spectrum of supernova in a attempt to understand them. The first thing that divide supernova is the presence or not of hydrogen. If it doesn't have hydrogen, it's a Type I, otherwise it's a Type II. After that, they look for specific feature in the spectrum. ... |
Why do most people resort to talking about the weather in conversation? | My brother, who works in customer service, said something I thought was really insightful about this: "People make fun of talking about the weather, but it's really the best small-talk topic. It's a great equalizer because it affects everyone no matter who they are. You might be a CEO and I might just be serving you co... |
Why does masturbating help clear out my sinuses out? | Erections work by hydraulics. Blood vessels down there expand, making tissue swell. If the blood vessels contract, then it shuts off. Congestion is also under the control of blood vessels. If the blood vessels around your sinuses expand then the mucus membranes in there leak more fluid into your nose where it mixes wit... |
How do airlines get caught up during massive storms like the one across the US right now? | > Question: When weather causes thousands of flights to be canceled at once, it must cause a nationwide chain-reaction. How do airlines handle such massive shifting of aircraft after storms? > **Answer:\xa0It is very difficult. When the weather causes major disruptions, the airlines bring in extra help in their dispatc... |
Why does making calculations heat up a processor? What generates the heat? | Because the processor chip uses semi-conductors. Which means only part of the current goes through, the rest is wasted as heat.Whenever you pass a current through something with resistance, you're going to lose some of that energy as heat. Processors have resistance in their circuits, the same as almost any conductive ... |
In the US, what do you do if you are seriously ill but can't possibly afford treatment? | Go to the hospital and get a 5 to 6 figure bill in the mail. Negotiate it down and figure out a payment plan, or declare bankruptcy and start over', "It is against federal law for a publicly funded hospital refuse medical service based on finances/insurance.. so, you go in debt. Most hospitals will have forms that they... |
Why does steam come out while I'm taking a hot bath, even though the temperature of the water is not 100°c? | What you are seeing probably isn't 'steam' but more likely water vapor collecting in the air, when the hot water hits the cold bathroom air it creates a mist or fog |
Even if you signed a waiver, if an establishment's ride equipment breaks/malfunctions and injures you, how is it not the establishment's fault? | Because that what a waiver does. You are saying "I understand that equipment sometimes breaks, but I am accepting that risk and want to go on the ride anyway." If you don't agree, you shouldn't sign the waiver. If you do and change your mind after, you are basically a liar. That said, no waiver protects against **crimi... |
Why do people wake up in a bad mood? | Short explanation but the chemical in your head that is responsible for waking you up is actually a large dose of the same chemical responsible for stressPart of it has to do with cortisol, one of your primary stress hormones, which is replenished while you sleep. When you're high on cortisol. You can't think criticall... |
How is Fantastic Four a failure if it's making its money back? | A few things to be aware if here. First is 120mil was the production budget which does not include marketing, advertising and the cost of prints, being phased out in favor of digital. The second thing is the ratio between the studio and the theaters. Opening weeks, the studios get the vast majority of the ticket sales ... |
Why are there often single, large trees located in the middle of open fields or farm fields? | There are several reasons: 1. Trees have deepers and more spread roots than your average crop, therefore, trees are better at keeping the soil together, thus preventing erosion. 2. Trees give shade, which improves animal welfare. 3. Trees can create a microclimate around them, which, usually, benefits the field. 4. Tre... |
Why when we look at a tall building we feel it's not that high but when we're on top and look downw it's the double hight ? | well the sky doesn't have a limit so there's nothing to base the size off of. when you look down you can't even see the people where you would be standing looking up at it so it puts it into perspective. also you can die looking off a building and not looking up at it so that probably is a part", 'I am no doctor but I ... |
How is it that I can have a thought to close my fist, and make it happen? | The somatic nervous system controls all voluntary muscular systems within the body, with the exception of reflex arcs.The basic route of nerve signals within the efferent somatic nervous system involves a sequence that begins in the upper cell bodies of motor neurons within the precentral gyrus . Stimuli from the prece... |
How common are non-repeating, non-terminating decimals? Is pi a lucky coincidence? | There are, in fact, an infinite number of non-repeating, non-terminating decimals . A really quick proof of this proceeds: Consider the number 0.x000000000000000 An example of such a number could be 0.10200300040000500000 A different such number could be 0.52340523500523600052370000 We can check that it's irrational . ... |
Do dogs recognize their own barks? | From what ive seen, no. In a place I lived one time, I would pass a vet's office on the way to the store. across the field from the vet's office was the big flat wall of a supermarket. I would routinely find the dogs there barking in the direction of the wall, creating echos, which made them bark more. I assume they th... |
What makes our brain conveniently unable to recall things in tests but instantly comes back when the test is over? | While i think its fair to say this isn't really answerable with scientific proof, adrenaline is released into your body when triggered by stress or anxiety. This causes the body and the brain to go into fight of flight mode so the last thing you are able to think of is some trivial homework you did weeks ago. Whats wor... |
Why do humans like to be scared, or enjoy watching truly scary media? | fight or flight sends signals to the brain to release chemicals like adrenaline. hence the term adrenaline junkie, people who love to do high thriller activities, like roller coasters and bungie jumping. |
How did the Genbaku Dome survive the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima? | The bomb went off overhead, which pushed DOWN on the building. The walls are pretty strong from that direction. Think of a stack of 10 bricks. If you push from the side you can topple the stack pretty easily. If you push down on it from the top you'd have a much harder time crushing the stack. Buildings that were not b... |
What are you supposed to say when you contact a legislator to voice your opinion? | Nope, you did it right. Short and sweet is the name of the game. A representative's staff is usually fairly busy, and spends a lot of time with weirdos who want to call and complain for an hour about the moon men stealing their beans. When you call and politely inform them of your opinion on some issue or another that ... |
Why do some people fall asleep like clockwork after eating dinner? | Your stomach needs lots of blood to digest the food, and the now-deprived brain wants to sleep. It can become a habit. |
Why does everyone hate Bono? | Even though he seems charitable, the charities he set up are both pretty scummy. They give very little of their revenue to charity and use the defense that they are to raise awareness of the problem rather than working on fixing the problem. Pretty shitty if you ask meBecause he's kind of a jerk. One time at a live sho... |
Why does it not thunder and lightning when it is a snow storm | Sometimes it does. I lived in Green Bay for 8 years and saw thunder snow at least 5 times. It's really creepy. |
How do fan blades get dusty? Shouldn’t all the dust fly off when you turn the fan on? | Movement through the air causes static electricity which attracts and holds the dust. Only if the fan is spinning fast enough to overpower this attraction would the dust fly off. |
What are the essential nutrients my body needs, why do I need them, and what are the best foods to cover these requirements? | This list is massive. But firstly the role of food is energy. Your body needs bonds to break in order to convert ADP back to ATP. Other things you need are iron for your hemoglobin, calcium for bones, the right mixture of amino acids to make proteins, all the different types of sterols that can be metabolized and built... |
Why do people buy full-price houses instead of foreclosure houses? | Have you ever seen a home in foreclosure? Many of them are trashed. This is like asking why someone would buy a new car from a dealer instead of a car from Bubba down at the trailer park. It's not what the buyer wants. Also, "full price" isn't really the opposite of "foreclosure", since many foreclosure houses can be s... |
When the weather is very cold, why do some of my electronic devices operate slow? | Both cases you described use a LCD screen, liquid crystal display. As the liquid gets colder, it responds more slowly. The device, the processor, the electronics, are working as fast as ever , the delay comes from the screen. Around -40 or so, the screen can actually freeze. In normal winter temps, it's just going to r... |
How are sellers on sites such as eBay able to ship items of low cost so cheaply? | The Chinese government subsidizes the cost of shipping products overseas in order to stimulate their manufacturing base. So, a Chinese seller is able to ship it so cheap because they, quite literally, take it to the post office and mail it for free . |
how do computers manage to keep time? | Its pretty much the same way a watch can tell time. In a computer, there is something called a motherboard and that literally pretty much has a watch battery that only keeps basic settings and time being one of those settings. Even if the computer is unplugged that battery will still last for a VERY long time. If you r... |
What's the business model of "TIME" magazine? Subscription rates appear to be cheaper than the mailing cost alone | For almost all commercial publications like magazines and newspapers, most of the revenue comes from advertising, not circulation . At a publication I worked at, the revenue split was 12/88 -- that is, 12% of the revenue came from subscription fees, and 88% from advertising. The goal was for the subscription fees to pa... |
Why is it easier to carry a 50kg human than a 50kg dumbbell? | There are two parts to this problem. First, the human is larger, so you have more even weight distribution. You also generally carry a human differently from how you carry weights. Second, the human moves and shifts center of mass, which may make it harder to carry a person. The combination of these factors causes the ... |
Why can't Jewish people eat porn? | Porn or phonography isn't really often edible unless in like cake form. If you mean pork it's because pigs were seen as dirty and you would catch diseases from it. Pro tip clear your auto correct if it's correcting pork to porn :)", 'That is a common misconception, porn is kosher, as long as any man in it is circumcise... |
why do our eyes get puffy after crying for a long period of time? | When you cry eye ocular muscles constrict and the salt in tears may cause fluid retention in the eye area. |
How tranquilizer darts work as they can't be pinpointing veins? | You use drugs that have a low chance of causing respiratory arrest and aim for big muscles. Usually the dart isn't to knock the animal out. Just to slow it down enough that a vet can administer a sedative safely. |
How do you build a crane? | You do, most cranes are built and taken apart by mobile cranes. Once built some cranes can grow by themselves using special jack sectionsSome big cranes [actually raise themselves] . |
Why do hot drinks soothe a sore throat? If my throat is inflamed, shouldn't cold drinks help? | Your blood vessels react to temperature. When your body is cold, they tighten up and become smaller, in order to retain your body heat. When your body is hot, they relax and open up wide. So when you put heat on a sore area say, drinking something hot to soothe a sore throat, it's causing the blood vessels in your thro... |
Why is there no "big" inflation even though more and more money is printed? | The amount of money being printed may seem like a lot, but it is very very small compared to the current amounts in circulation. Each subsequent bill printed has slightly less of an effect than the last.Not an expert, but I'll take a stab: Because the economy is expanding along with the total amount of money . As more ... |
How is it possible for us to know that dogs see in black and white? | They don't see in black and white. That is a common misconception. They see in color, but their eyes only have two photoreceptor types. They only have blue/violet and green/yellow photoreceptors, unlike humans who also have orange/red. This means dogs have similar vision to humans with red-green colorblindness. Also, t... |
is it statistically true that if you play the same numbers over and over in a game (ie keno) the odds of winning increase, even slighty? If so how? | No. The numbers are randomly generated in a way that has nothing whatsoever to do with your actions or anyone else's, short of rigging.Each drawing of a random series of numbers is a discrete event. A particular series of numbers is exactly as likely to come up in each drawing. |
How does charcoal or black grease that football players apply reduce glare from stadium lights | Instead of the bright lights reflecting off the skin under their eyes, the black paint absorbs the light. This helps them see better in sunny conditions. |
What do Christians believe? | 1. Jesus is the son of God 2. That humanity was and is estranged from God because of sin. 3. Christ's sacrificial death and resurrection make it possible for humanity to be reunited with God and to give us hope of that reunion. 4. That we are called to repent our sins with the hope of eternal life made possible by numb... |
why is it when I'm in a dimly lit room, if I try to focus on something it seems to appear better when I look just to the right or left of it? | The center of your eye is good at high light details. The peripherals are better at low light contrast. It has to do with the concentration of rod's and cones |
What's so bad about GMO altered foods and stuff? | The primary concern about GMO is the interaction between GMO modified foods and non-GMO modified foods. For instance, the growth accelerated salmon that is now coming to market has in theory, plausible chance of interbreeding with native, non-modified salmon and thus introduce a fast growing gene into the native popula... |
What keeps the clouds from settling down to the Earth's surface? | In a sense, the clouds *are* settling down toward the surface it's just that a lot of other things, like the air we breathe, are also settling down in the same way. Heavier gasses settle closer to the surface, and lighter gasses will tend to rise above them. If you ever see smoke rising from a candle or fire, there's a... |
How can I easily explain the health risks of shisha smoke to a former cigarette smoker who believes shisha is safe? | tell them to put a tissue over the mouth piece and to have a hit and then exhale said hit through another tissue. It'll quickly become apparent how much shit is entering their system and then staying there. |
What does it mean when a contemporary musical artist says they're doing analog recording? | > Won't everything have to be digital anyway in order to mix it on the computer? Yes. However, one could also keep it in analogue, and mix to tape. At every stage of the process, you can choose to go analogue or digital. Sound recording is extremely obsessed with the signal chain. At every point where one thing plugs i... |
Why has college become so ridiculously expensive | In short, tons of free or heavily subsidized money has flowed into higher education, leading to the thing that *always* happens when a ton of money flows into a certain area: a bubble. However, this bubble isn't going to collapse in the sense of higher educations suddenly becoming worthless, so don't worry about that. ... |
Why does a glass of water develop bubbles on the inside after a while? | That's excess oxygen that's sort of condensing out of the solution. The places where it gathers are actually microscopic imperfections in the glass. |
v ram vs normal ram | VRAM is video memory, located on and used by your graphics card. It is more specialiserad for that one task. RAM is the normal memory used by your CPU. They are 2 separator things, as the GPU and CPU both needs their own separate memory. |
if the common cold is caused by viruses, why is the ear or sinus infection that may arise as a result able to be treated with antibiotics like a bacteria? | Because the common cold does not have ear or sinus infection symptoms. Your cold, it seems, leaves you vulnerable to ear and sinus infections, and your doctor treats them accordingly. Or maybe we have a misunderstanding and you are talking about typical cold symptoms. It is, as admitted by doctor friends as well as my ... |
Why do men have beards? | Facial hair is a secondary sexual characteristic. It signifies that a male has entered a stage where he's ready to make babies, or get a woman pregnant so she can make a baby - however you look at it. That said, it doesn't establish how they developed, only what they are and one possible reason why they persist. [Wikip... |
Why do apple takes a long time to implement technology that have been for years in other phones. | Apple doesn't make new technologies. What they do is take existing technologies and make them accessible and usable by many, many more people than was previously possible. Look at the iPod, the device which literally saved them from destruction. It wasn't the first music player -- MP3 players had been around for a whil... |
how do our bodies (or brain) know that we're getting closer to a toilet? | Because you know where you are, where the toilet is, and that that is the direction you are currently heading. If you aren't getting closer you are doing it wrong.Id say conditioning. Mentally you know your near a bathroom when you reach a destination so you begin to lose fortitude because you know you will drain soon.... |
How did large games like Pokémon Crystal fit on a GBC cartridge? | Everything in the game is stored in a very space efficient way. All the dialog is text, which is much smaller than voice acted dialog. All the sounds are produced by synthesizers, the game only stores instructions on how to make the sounds. This is also much smaller than storing a recording of the sound. And the game's... |
What are the effects of Marijuana on athletes? | Jamaican team dominate sprinting, so it clearly helps. OK serious answer: not much other than to impair athletic performance slightly. Cannabis has a biphasic effect on the cardiorespiratory system . At low doses it can increase the heart rate and blood pressure, activating the sympathetic nervous system . The extent i... |
Why are American semis so much different than European lorries? | because different laws and different roads. europe has strict maximum length laws on trucks. so you have to fit your truck in that length at the cost of being super-aerodynamic American semi's go cross country from East Coast to West. the width of the US is from Spain to halfway into Russia. European semi's don't norma... |
How do tongue twisters work? (E.g. Red leather, yellow leather) | I believe it has something to do with the repeating but slightly changing sounds . Every time you repeat something, like in sports, memorizing things in class, and so on, your brain first creates a neural pathway, which is strengthened each subsequent time you use it. Hence the reason you practice things you want to re... |
Why don't we just bomb North Korea's leaders with drones? | Because your post isn't asking a simplified conceptual explanation, but rather for an answer, its been removed. You should try /r/answers, /r/askreddit or even one of the more specialized answers subreddits like /r/askhistorians, /r/askscience or others too numerous and varied to mention. Rest assured this doesn't make... |
How do game developers deal with the rapidly changing technology with games like cyberpunk 2077, which has been in development since 2013? | Basically you target a range of hardware. You know roughly what consoles will exist around your ship date and what those consoles can do. You have a rough idea of what an average target PC will be able to do. You target that. This was a much worse issue a decade or more ago when performance was increasing much, much fa... |
Why does spicy food make hot seem hotter and mint make cold seem colder? | The reason mint seems cold is because of the chemical called Menthol. Menthol makes the nerve receptors in your mouth much more sensitive to cold, so that's why it makes your mouth feel cold. Menthol also has topical, local anaestheic properties. Often times when you're at the dentist about to get a numbing shot, they'... |
Why do all the Japanese students at my college (I'm in England) wear traditional Japanese school uniform even though my college has no dress code? | It's probably a culture/upbringing thing. It may also be they recognize dressing a bit more formally puts a person into a more serious mindset and is therefore more likely to pay attention and do better. My parents never let me wear jeans/T-shirt to school through high school because of this attitude. Whereas that was ... |
Why is the singularity of the Big Bang said to be incredibly small when it was absolutely everything? | Space itself was one of the things that existed after the Big Bang, but did not exist before it. Size, like time, is a measure of things. without things, or even space, time and size mean very little. There was no 'before' the Big Bang , and yet I described it that way and you understood it, right? The simply answer is... |
What about amniotic fluid allows a baby to breath it until it is born, at which point it immediately begins breathing gaseous oxygen? | Before birth the baby gets its oxygen from the mother through the umbilical cord, tying into her circulatory system. The baby "breathes" the fluid which is necessary to develop the lungs and also swallows it to develop the gastrointestinal tract. [Source.] |
Why are public toilet lids shaped like horseshoes, while the ones at home are shaped like donuts? [x-post from /r/explainlikeimcalvin] | I read the answer in another ELI5. I can't find it right now but the horse shoe was so pissing on the seat wouldn't be as much as a clean up. I don't like touching public toilet seats so I can see the idea behind it.The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials\' Uniform Plumbing Code, section 409.... |
Why do some stars burn very bright for a few seconds, and then dim to near invisibility? | My guess is that what you're describing is an [Iridium flare]. Iridium is a constellation of 66 telecommunication satellites that will rotate and catch the reflection of the sun. It looks like a star briefly becomes very bright and then dims.It can be a bunch of different things depending on what you 've observed. Assu... |
Why does water make smelly things more smelly? | Adding water to, e.g., dog hair causes any water-soluble material to dissolve. Some of this material is smelly in large enough quantities, but usually is spread out across the dog's hair and skin. At most human-friendly temperatures, the smelly compounds will enter the air via evaporation and from being volatile chemic... |
Why is Korean age different to American age? | In South Korea when a baby is born they're automatically rounded up to 1 year old. When a New Year arrives everyone collectively ages 1 year together. The concept on birthdays is not traditional in Korea, everyone "ages" together during New years. So if a baby is born in December 2011, they're considered to be 1 year o... |
What is Microsoft Azure? What does it do? | basically, a business would normally have to buy their own physical computers to do work on, store things on, etc. using Microsoft azure, they could pay to use Microsoft's computers to do work on and store things on. anyone to correct me if I'm mistaken. |
What is Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation, and how can it be applied to simulating epidemics? | "Agent Based" simulations rely on the idea of an autonomous "agent" acting in a world with a set of rules. For an epidemic simulation, you're trying to simulate some aspect of both people and an infection. This is usually accomplished with a set of [State Machines] tracking the various activities of the people and the ... |
why does Asparagus make your pee stink so bad? | Slight odor of sulfur from the breakdown of organic chemicalsI remember reading and hearing that like 38% of people who are german or some shit have the gene, that originated in europe during that allows someone to smell the digested asparagus compound that ends up being pissed out. |
Why do the pupil of the eyes turn blueish after death? | The pupil has no color. It is literally a dark hole though the iris into the interior of the eye so that light may reach the retina. The bluish color that you see in the pupil after death is the cloudy haze that develops in the cornea *in front of* the pupil as it dries out in death. |
Why are juries comprised of our peers who know nothing of law and not of a panel of attorneys who have a degree in the particular field of crime? | Trials involve two kinds of questions: questions of law and questions of fact. Questions of law are decided by the judge. The jury's job is to decide questions of fact based on the evidence presented to them. They're ordinary people because they're supposed to judge things like the credibility of witnesses and the reas... |
Why some people are more "creative" than others. | I don't know if there's a creativity gene, but even the "creative" types are nothing if they don't repeatedly practice. It's a bit like sports - a lot of people marvel at good athletes as if they were born to be great players, but they only got there after years of arduous practice and many, many unglorious failures. S... |
How many man hours would be required to pave 2 million miles of road? | With the way you 've set up this question, your limiting factor is your steamroller. 2 000 000 miles / 10 mph = 200 000 hours. With 8-day shifts, 200 000 hr / 8 hr/crew*day = 25 000 crew-days. Now, if you set multiple crews up, you can pave more than one crew-day's worth of road in a day. To figure out how many crews y... |
why is it important to finish a full course of antibiotics, even when you're feeling better? | TL;DR: antibiotic resistance We take antibiotics for wiping out bacteria, whether it is a bacteriostatic agent or a bacteriocidal agent . Bacteria, however, can develop a resistance to these antibiotics. Let's say you have a 5-day course of antibiotics. You have 100 bacteria causing the problem. After 3 days, you wipe ... |
The difference between the brain and mind? | Same difference as between computer hardware and computer software. The brain is the physical thing inside your head while the mind is kind of the program running on that makes your thought A brain is a lump of meat between your ears. The mind is the electricity and chemical reactions that the brain carries out . You w... |
Why is investment banking such a lucrative field? | Because the companies that buy services from IB firms are willing to pay top-dollar to get the work done right. A few examples of these services are IPOs and M & As . It's typically not worth it for the client to have dedicated staff or expertise on hand since these types of transactions don't happen frequently for the... |
Why does movie soundtracks contain songs that don't appear in the movie nor credits? | Sometimes, the music has been recorded just for the film or album. Often, but not always, and depending on the type of movie, the soundtrack album will contain portions of the score, music composed for dramatic effect as the movie's plot occurs. By convention, a soundtrack record can contain all kinds of music includin... |
When stars create elements, are they going to be solid, liquid, or gas forms? | None of those, they will be plasma at the time of their formation. Depending on their eventual environment they may change into the other states. > Like is there gold, lead, water, iron ,etc floating around space? Of course. I mean, Earth itself is just floating around in spaceWhen a star creates new elements, those el... |
Gaming PCs- Why are things like resolution and texture filtering dependent on GPU, while other graphical elements like shaders and HDR are dependent on CPU? | The GPU and the CPU are like 100 idiots with calculators vs. 1 Physicist. The idiots can do 1000 division problems much faster but the physicist can do calculus if you give him enough time. The GPU can do calculation really, really fast but there are only a few things that it can do. If you want your GPU to do somethin... |
Why are men raping so many women in India? | It's not the case that the amount of rapes is increasing, it's that the amount of rapes being reported in the media has increased. A few incidents were reported in a short space of time and now a lot more are being reported. Think of it like this. Imagine you went to Starbucks and ordered a coffee with no cream on top.... |
How can autonomous cars work without fail if there are still human drivers on the road? | They can detect and react to human drivers faster and more accurately than a human driver could. They can't work *without fail* ever, since sometimes things happen that simply couldn't be avoided, such as if you're following all the normal traffic laws and going through an intersection just as a speeding car turns arou... |
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