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How can a car detect that a Windows has been broken and sound the alarm?
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Most car alarms are vibration sensitive, which is why they go off when someone bumps into the car. Because you will require a significant force to smash a window, the car will register the hit and sound the alarm.
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Why is chloroform not used as a sleeping medication?
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Because chloroformed sleep is a sedated, unnatural state of unconsciousness. The compound depresses the central nervous system and too much can easily kill a person.The main components in chloroform, at least the most common way to make chloroform chemically, is with acetone and bleach. Neither of these are exactly safe to inhale, and chloroform keeps those properties after a chemical reaction combines them. Chloroform almost immediately knocks you out, and not in a good way. It's very unhealthy for you to inhale, and so it's not used commercially.
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who decided that vulgar language was vulgar?
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This is a bit like asking who decided what is polite and what is kind and what is mean - they are bound to culture, context and they ebb and flow with social norms. While we can talk about how and why words get put on lists that the MPAA uses in ratings, or that are OK or not OK on broadcast televition, it's nearly impossible to pinpoint the evolution of the meaning of a word, or the change in its interpretation within a culture.This is the same question as why do words have meaning. They are just symbols that represent concepts that common language speakers agree on. Offence is cultural and usually boils down to describing behavior that hurts or embarrasses people. If you got enough people to replace the word tree with fuck while talking it would eventually show up in the dictionary.
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Film: what does a producer and executive producer do?
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From Wikipedia: * Executive producer is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or with associated legal issues .[1] In films, the executive producer generally contributes to the film's budget and usually does not work on set, in contrast to most other producers. * Film producers fill a variety of roles depending upon the type of producer.[1] Either employed by a production company or independent, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting script, coordinating writing, directing and editing, and arranging financing.[2] During the "discovery stage", the producer finds and acknowledges promising material.[3] Then, unless the film is supposed to be based on an original script, the producer has to find an appropriate screenwriter.[4] So in short: the EP is overseeing the administrating side, the P the entire creative aspects. Overlaps can happen.
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How does forcing car companies to sell through dealers "protect the consumer"?
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It's from back in the days where trying to hold an out of state car company liable was pretty much impossible for the average person. The dealer exists partially because in that era it was important to have somebody nearby to hold responsible for the car you bought."Protect the consumer" is just an excuse. The goal is to protect the dealers, but of course politicians cannot say that.
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Why are modern day toys and electronics so flimsy compared to, say 15 years ago?
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Consumers would rather pay less and buy devices more often. If there was more profit to be found by charging more and being durable, that's what you would see. The obsolescence curve for many technologies is also getting faster, so manufacturers can more safely assume their product will have a shorter life anyway.1. To lower costs 2. To make mass production easier
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Why does time move at the speed it does?
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How would you know the difference if it ran at any other speed? It would still be "normal" to you.Time is moving at a speed set by humans. Seconds, mintues and hours are arbitrary. Things don't move in slow or fast motion because we are used to this speed.The word is spacetime, one word. Basically speed through space + speed though time = a constant value K. Move faster through one you go slower through the other. A good post on it _URL_0_
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what does more damage to the brain, a single KO blow or a flurry of smaller blows that result in a TKO?
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With CTE studies and the NFL we are only just beginning to understand head trauma. It appears that its not a single concussion that is the cause but more of repetitive hits to the head. Dont be mistaken, though, both is not healthy brain wise.
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Why are most television shows made to censor curse words and other possible offensive vocabulary, but are allowed to show the visual representation of things along the same lines as the omitted/edited speech?
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because children who don't always necessarily understand whats going on under the covers it could go over their heads and they wont realize it was a rude scene but if its swearing or talking about sexual subjects it the kids will definitely realize what the shows trying to convey.
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With the rise of automation in manufacturing and retail, what's next in the line of work for the people who will lost their jobs?
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Many of those jobs will go away. But not all will, and other jobs will become necessary because of the change, and those will employ some of the others. A number of workers and jobs will stay directly in transportation. Many transportation workers provide more service than just an act of driving, and because they're human they'll appeal to older or technology-uncertain citizens. Tour bus operators still guide and announce, and cabbies can have a conversation for a lonely senior. So they'll still have a percentage of the market because a robotic voice will just not be the same. Others will move to support roles in the companies that build and run those transportation methods, working inside the factory or office rather than out in a truck somewhere. Others will move to the loading and unloading functions. The truck can drive itself so the middle part of a shipping company's work is covered, but it would be a very sophisticated and VERY expensive fully robotic system for its cargo to load and unload and store itself. That still needs a human to perform economically for most mid-sized companies. You might need less of them than you did of drivers, but the function will employ some ex-drivers. And the others will either find work elsewhere, or simply not find work by retiring early or not working.This is not a new trend. Machines of various kinds have been replacing people in workplaces for a good 150 years. So, two suggestions: 1. Look into what has already happened when workplaces are automated. 2. Ask somewhere besides this sub. Perhaps /r/AskHistorians or /r/AskEconomicsGenerally there will be an increase in health and social care jobs for looking after the elderly population.
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Why is it assumed to be liquid water on Mars as opposed to some other liquid.
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It's not assumed, it's known. They used a spectrometer to analyse the chemical composition of the liquid in the channels.
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Who are the Oath Keepers and what do they do?
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The Oathkeepers are a group that is supposed to consist of people who take an oath to defend the Constitution as part of their work---so soldiers, some other government workers, police, and the like. The organization asks its members to swear that they will never follow an unconstitutional order, meant as insurance against potentially tyrannical government action. They are considered to be a fairly conservative organization. Many accuse them of tending toward conspiracy theories and reactionary views.The Oath Keepers are an organization dedicated to soldiers and policemen keeping their oaths to protect and defend the US Constitution in case they start receiving illegal orders to violate citizens' constitutional rights. In general, the members tend to be libertarian in their politics. The implication is that they want to be prepared in case a violent resistance to the government is necessary, though their primary method is to make such resistance unnecessary by reminding the soldiers and police that would be hypothetically tasked with enforcing the tyrannical policies that their oath is the the constitution rather than any political leader.
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Why do storefronts have two sets of consecutive doors (usually automatic) at the entrance?
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This design is particularly common in regions with cold climates , even for relatively small stores, because having a single door system that opens directly to outside where there is heavy foot-traffic is simply not feasible in extreme weather conditions . The fact is, using a single door system in a heavy-traffic area with cold weather conditions would make it near impossible for the central heating system inside the store to maintain any form of climate control. At most, the store may be a few degrees warmer than outside and freezing cold air would constantly be flowing in at rates faster than the heating system would be able to replace. Even just the fact that you have two doors and a space separating indoors from outdoors, can do wonders in terms of reducing the flow of air from outside to inside and vice versa . There is another component to the double-door system that you haven't mentioned though. What you may not realize is that, in the gap between the two doors, there are usually heavy duty fan blowers which typically reside above the door / on the ceiling and force air downwards. These fan blowers help form a virtual barrier between indoors and outdoors and prevent most of the cold air from rushing in from outside and prevent most of the warm air from escaping outside. These double-door systems can also be used in reverse to keep cool air in and hot air outside.
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Why does pee foam when it hits the ground outside.
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Foamy urine can be caused by rapid urination. At times, when you delay going to the washroom, large amounts of urine gets collected in the bladder. Also, proteinuria or presence of significant amounts of protein in the urine, is one of the most common cause of foamy urineDoes your piss not make bubbles in the toilet?', "If you are only notice it outside on the ground or in very small amounts in the toilet then it is likely caused by the speed and force by which you are urinating. Because urine does not typically flow uniformly, when it contacts a surface quickly it can form bubbles by mixing small liquid particles with air. If you see any moderate or large amount of urine, particularly when urinating into another liquid such as the toilet then it is likely being caused by the presence of proteins in the urine such [proteinuria] or [albuminuria]. Having protein in your urine indicates that either you are consuming large amounts of proteins in your diet, or that your kidneys are not functioning properly. Rarely is this ever something severe like kidney failure, but it might be worth mentionig to your doctor. Btw sorry for any typos; I'm on my mobile.
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How do 501c4 non-profits work and how do they threaten democracy?
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They don't in and of themselves. A 501c4 is a tax exempt organization that is allowed to use their money to influence public opinion which includes influencing elections. So people can donate money to the 501c4 and that organization can then spend money to influence the election via TV ads, etc. Some people feel that too much money is being put into these organizations by wealthy people and companies which means that certain people/viewpoints can afford to have more influence.
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What law guides the confessions in a R.Catholic confessional?Suppose a Catholic priest decides to give data on a penitent to the CIA?Or the FBI puts its staff in the seminary?
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*Canon law*- the religious law of the Catholic Church - provides for the immediate and automatic excommunication, which can only be lifted by the Pope, of any priest who reveals information obtained through confession. In parallel to that, in the United States, there's a legal principle called *confessional privilege,* according to which priests can't be forced to testify about what they know through confession or other private religious communications. The details of how this rule is applied are, unfortunately not ELI5 material: they're technical, and vary from state to state, because each state writes the Rules of Evidence for its own courts. As for the last part of your question, *what if the government planted its own agent to pose as a priest,* well, all I can say is that there would be a spectacular legal fight about it that the government would almost certainly lose, either because of the First Amendment's establishment clause, or because of confessional privilege.
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Why do the desktop computers (Dell Optiplex 9010) that I get on at my university run so fast and smooth while the 6-month-old netbook laptop I use runs so slowly?
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A base model Optiplex 9010 has much better specs than your average netbook. It's actually a very good computer for school/office work, I'm surprised your school has computers that nice. The processor that it has was only released about six months ago and is very much "high-end" for non-computationally intensive applications. So, like other people said, school computers have less bloatware, but you should also keep in mind that the school computers are just as old as your netbook, and a $700 desktop computer that was released at the same time as your netbook will *always* outperform the netbook. edit: by the way, my school computers have pentium 4's, and I have to sit around for about ten minutes every time I need to do an intensive simulation, whereas your school computers would take about a minute to do the same thing, so you should feel pretty luckyno bloatware, only the necessities, you cant install anything and a lot of computers get reset on a regular basis. also porn, but really who needs to dl porn, just stream it braj
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What the Black-Scholes Model is and how it works.
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The Black-Scholes formula works by assuming changes in the stock price are Gaussian distributed/normal distributed around 0. This means a few things: * The expected value at any time in the future is the current value. * The variability around 0 is something we can measure and account for. * Taking those together we can make predictions about how likely certain outcomes are. Since we're interested in how likely we'll be able to cash in an option we can work out a 'fair' price, where the expected return is 0. * It doesn't work and leads to massive blowouts, like [what happened to the company set up to operate using it.] For further reading on why these models are bad I recommend [The behaviour of Markets] or any of Taleb's books.
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How do they determine which song hits number 1?
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It's the song with the most revenue in that week. They look at sales online, downloads and in stores.
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How are portable powerbanks able to stuff 30,000mAh worth of energy into such a small body as compared to a 28A portable car battery?
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You can't compare Lithium-polymere accumulators and the Lead-ones currently used in cars. In your car you need a battery that has no problems with pumping out high currents but you seldom need a long lasting battery since most of the time your engine should be running while in the car. . The LiPo in your powerbank will give you 1-2 A max current but has a higher charge capacity in relation to size. Also your Lipo Powerbank supplies only 5 V Voltage and your car 12V. So at 12V 28Ah your car battery supplies 12V*28Ah=336Wh power, your Powerbank 5V*30Ah=150Wh. The car battery actually is supplying double the power of the powerbank.Your guess is right and that explains part of the difference -- small powerbanks for phones/USB charging omit the voltage, which is the nominal 4V of so of a Li-ion battery. The car battery box is more likely a 12v lead-acid battery. So when you multiple out the mAH by the volts to get the actual amount of energy -- the watt-hours -- your 28A pack comes out 3x ahead. The other part is just that lithium ion batteries have 2-3X the energy density of lead acid batteries, so they can be 3X smaller . This is just due to the different chemical reaction being used inside the battery. Lead acid is just very old tech compared to newer li-ion cells.
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How does a 'child recovery' operation work?
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It's basically a kidnapping. Most countries agree to a certain set of protocols to handle international custody disputes but some countries don't. So with Lebanon, if you are Lebanese and get your kids there, there is little the other party can do. So they hire some professional kidnappers to get the kid back. More generally it can happen as a form of jurisdiction shopping. Normally the presumption is against disrupting the child's life further because a child isn't property. So if you want to jerk the system you take the child to a different country that places more emphasis against disrupting the child's life.
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how can the Hollywood studios acquire so many cars from the 20s - 70s period?
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Car clubs. They baby their cars and would like nothing more than to have them on a movie setThey build them. From cheaper materials. They are not fully working vintage cars, but modern replicas. Cars from the 70s are probably still available, but those from the 20s will almost certainly be replicas. [Here is a video] which shows part of the process, and explains it.
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Why do pain killers like tylenol or paracetamol make flu shots less effective?
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Paracetamol works by stopping your body from making chemicals that naturally increase blood flow by dilating blood vessels. When you get a big bruise that's swollen, these drugs reduce the blood flow in that area, which helps reduce swelling. If you've gotten a flu shot after taking a bunch of drugs like this, there's less blood flow at the site of the injection. The contents of the shot can't as easily get into your blood stream. We do the same thing if you need to get an injection of a numbing drug -- except we use another blood vessel constrictor, epinephrine, which stops the numbing drug from spreading farther than we want.
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What is the purpose of a five-star military rank?
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Those ranks exist so that during wartime a single supreme commander can be appointed in a given operational area. This simplifies the chain of command by making it totally clear who is the senior officer. Remember that in a large operational setting there may be a large number of very senior flag officers, potentially from multiple countries. Advancing one to a rank outside the normal system of progression makes him officially the most senior officer in the room, whether or not he has the highest peacetime rank or longest time in grade. These positions aren't used in peacetime because they are unnecessary. In peacetime it is relatively rare for there to be serious confusion about chain of command, and if there is it can be worked out through the bureaucracy.
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What Is Visual Snow, Why Does It Exist & Does Every Human Have It?
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It’s considered as a disease, or at least as a symptom of a disease , so no, everyone does not have it. It happens when a part of you cerebral cortex goes into overdrive, causing your ocular nerves to misinterpret information.As for what it is, you can picture it as the visual noise on a broken TV.
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Why insulin is so important.
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Insulin is a hormone which regulates sugar levels in the bloodstream. With another hormone called glucagon, it keeps sugar levels in the bloodstream at a nearly constant level by breaking down or building up glycogen stored in the liver or sometimes fat or protein stored elsewhere. Having glucose in the bloodstream is important because cells use it to generate energy. In a process called cellular respiration, they use the energy in the sugar to make a substance called ATP, which is used to preform many functions around the cell which require energy. Insulin also functions in diabetes, which is probably what you were looking for, but I don't know very much about that.
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How does phantom limb syndrome work?
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Your nervous system has been sending singles to your brain about how your limbs feel since before your were born. Right now, reach down and touch your pinky toe without looking at it. You can do this because your pinky toe is constantly sending signals to your brain with "status updates". Now if your pinky toe was suddenly cut off, there is still a long network that takes signals form your pinky toe to your brain. These pathways have been in constant use your entire life. They are use to sending signals to your brain, and your brain is use to 99/99% of the time receiving the exact same signals. So even though your toe is not there, sometimes you brain forgets it is not there. As odd as that sounds, it happens. The normal feeling is that you have a toe there. The new feeling is no toe. Sometimes your brain forgets there is a new feelingIt can be a bit more complicated than "signals used to be sent and are no longer from X limb." While this is true, this is not the entire cause. Because no signals are being sent through the neural pathway which told your brain "leg is being touched" etc, that pathway will begin to deteriorate. The various pathways which manage these senses are in close proximity, so when one becomes atrophied, it can become "tangled" with pathways directly next to it. This causes a signal from a still-present limb to be interpreted as both that limb being touched AND the phantom limb. This has been demonstrated in patients by inducing the phantom limb by figuring out which pathway it tangled with and inducing that signal . Unfortunately there's not much to be done about this, as the mechanism evades surgical repair.
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What happens to ants that a separated from their colony?
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If the distance is close enough, they will be able to find their way by scattering to scout and tracking each other via the pheromones they lay on their path. However, 5km might be a little long for them; I think after first scrambling away for a little while, some of them will get lost in their own trail and go around in circles till they die of starvation/exhaustion. If there are ants not originally from the same colony but of the same species in the vicinity, they may however assimilate themselves with the new ants and join their colony. Really sad, lost stragglers will just well, instinctually do what life heeds them to do, they will live alone and forage alone henceforth - their future is bleak and dim, and they will eventually die to the elements, but alas what else can they do when a human wills their separation from their brothers? Cruel, *cruel* life.
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Why is every planet spherical?
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Planets form spheres because of the gravity emitted by their own mass. In space, any mass in space that exceeds about 6x10^20kg, or about 1/10,000 the mass of Earth, will compress itself into a sphere because its gravity pulls all of the mass in. Ideally, this leads to a shape where all the mass is equally distant to the center, or, a sphere.
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What is Cop Baiting?
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It's when you do something in order to provoke a cop into doing something. The most common topical example would be to harass a cop with insults while filming them until they respond inappropriately. You then share the last half of the video where the cop acted inappropriately.
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What are the pros & cons of using a neural network as opposed to a symbol system?
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The obvious ones are that neural networks don't have transparency, in the sense that you can't easily tell what they are doing. Typographical/symbolic systems are constructed by humans and have obvious, engineered structure. That lets you figure out how logical structures work and how to construct inferences from deductive, relational philosophical structures. Neural networks evolve quasi-randomly to represent the decisions, recognitions, and inference paths they take; and therefore networks that do more than make trivial inferences are generally impenetrable to easy human understanding. That makes them hard to manipulate or engineer. However, by observing them it is possible to abstract some idea of "natural types" -- what sorts of connections do naturally evolved systems tend to create, and what are the simplest paths to detailed comprehension?I believe connectionism is modeled much more closely with how our brain operates. We use some simple tricks to train neural networks like backpropagation - however it's not very clear how the brain itself performs these operations. Neural networks are kind of designed to be trained. They have a better concept of "abstract" thinking then symbolism . Symbolism seems to rely more on situated approach learning where you build up the concepts from the ground up. Personally I don't think either of these will help you understand human cognitive abilities. They are ideas taken from nature but our brain is far more complicated and likely uses many techniques we have learned in combination.
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Why do most people enjoy potatoes but don't like other vegetables?
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Though botanically classified as vegetables, potatoes are nutritionally classified as starchy foods that differ greatly in taste and texture from the traditional leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, and kayle.
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From where does Earth get energy to rotate around itself and revolve around the Sun?
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Earth is falling towards the sun, for the same reason that you'd fall to the ground if you jumped - gravity! Why doesn't it hit the sun though? Well, orbits are just when you move sideways fast enough to miss the object you're falling towards. That's we use the term free fall in space, you're always falling, you just keep missing what you fall towards. It got that from when it was formed. And since there's no air to slow it down, it just keeps going. Rotation is the same way. It started so long ago, but nothing had made it stop. Orbits do eventually decay, though! And spins slow down to where the day and year are the same length. The Moon is already there, that's why the same side always faces us. No worries, it takes so long to happen that you don't need to worry about it in your life.
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What makes my nose "blocked"?
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I just had surgery to fix this sort of thing 2 months ago. There are several reasons this could be happening, it is most commonly caused by inflammation of the sinuses called sinutitus. Sinutitus can be managed with a steroid nasal spray, and it may be caused by continuous and long lasting sinus infections. You could also have non-cancerous tumors in your nose called polyps. I had surgery recently where they cleared all my sinuses of infections and mucus , and they also removed polyps from the inside of my nose. I couldn't understand why I had a hard time breathing for years, and i didn't know why blowing my nose never helped. Long story short, i went to an ENT doctor, he assessed me and told me i needed surgery. I got surgery and 2 months later I literally can breath 100% better. I no longer snore, I no longer sleep with my mouth open, I can breath through both sides. It's amazing, go see an ENT doctor and see what they say.
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Why is desertion a serious crime?
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I would say that it is a *bit* obsolete, but originally, this is due to morale and discipline. When your army is charged, you don't want them to flee. When you are losing, you don't want them to run, or turn on you. If someone is allowed to just disagree, and leave, discipline breaks down in the ranks as everyone realizes they can do the same thing. War is hell.
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Anyone care to explain the axiom of choice? Thanks.
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Let's say you want to know why the sky is blue. I could tell you that it's because the light from the sun is mostly blue and that the air makes things seem even more blue than they are and so on, and you would then ask "but why is the sunlight mostly blue?" and so on. Theoretically we could play this game forever, and in fact this is in a way what scientists are doing. Mathematics is different. It is built the other way up: People come up with stuff that they think is "obviously true", like the sentence "it's possible to draw a straight line between any two points on a piece of paper" and then see what they can build by combining those simple sentences. These simplest sentences are called axioms - They are the ones for which, by definition, it makes no sense to ask "why?". One of theses axioms is "the axiom of choice". It says that if I give you boxes with marbles in it, you could take one marble out of each box. Sounds like a no-brainer, right? That's why it's an axiom! The thing is that very strange things happen when I give you infinitely many boxes. People have shown that if you assume it to be true, it follows that, theoretically, it is possible to chop up a ball into tiny pieces and glue them back together to make two balls - without adding anything! So some mathematicians reject it, some use it, and in the end it doesn't matter much for you because you don't have an infinite number of boxes. But it shows that things that seem to be completely clear can turn out to be much more difficult once you start looking closely. EDIT: Cleared up thanks to DennyTom.
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How do lips still sync up in slow motion music videos?
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One way to do this is to film people moving at normal speed, but the music they're lip syncing to is sped up. That way when they slow the video down and play the song at normal speed, the song is playing normally, the lips still match as long as they sped it up the right amount in the original recording.
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How do MOBA's and MOBA style games make so many different heroes and terrains and make the art style match?
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The individual artists aren't working in a vacuum. They will reference the intended look and feel of the game as they work. Also there will generally be a lead designer or artist who instructs the other members of the team on overall style. Process varies from company to company, but typically each character will be drawn on paper as a concept first, and the concept will be refined until it is both good on its and own and appropriate for the look and feel of the game, then that concept will be used as a reference when making the 3D assets. I haven't done game dev for a while now, but I currently work in advertising and it's sort of the same thing. Many artists and designers will work on an individual brand, but each brand has a brand book that defines things like the logo, what colors to use, tag lines, and such and the appropriate ways to use all the messages, etc so that everyone who works on the brand is consistent. Also all work will be reviewed by a brand manager and modified if it deviates from the desired feel of the brand.
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If energy cannot be created or destroyed, what happens to the energy and matter that gets sucked into black holes?
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Black holes do not violate these conservation laws. Think of a penny that you drop into an ocean. For any practical purposes, that penny is gone, but that doesn't mean it just disappeared, it's still somewhere deep in that ocean. Black holes don't destroy energy, they just "trap" it, if that makes senseblack holes are not "holes" so things dont fall into them and disapear think of a black hole as a giant ball of rubberbands that keeps getting more and more added to it. Nothing can get away from it but its all still there just added to the increadibly dense ball.Some of it accumulate in the black hole, we can't see it because the gravity is so strong that no photon can escape and reach our eyes, but the matter and energy is still there. A black hole is just a super dense sphere of matter. It will eventually get re-emitted out of the black hole through evaporation , but that take a long time. But when a black hole attract a large amount of matter, a large portion of that matter get blasted off in space by angular momentum before it can truly reach the black hole. That matter got into orbit around the black hole and was going so far and heat up so much that it radiate away in x-ray.Everyone here is correct but also: Black holes emit radiation back into the universe, so the energy/matter does return and isn't "lost forever"', "Black holes aren't as black as we once thought. This was Stephen Hawking's contribution to science. The matter returns to the universe in the form of the epyonomously named Hawking Radiation. It's also why the LHC doesn't create black holes that destroy the Earth.
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On a cold day after baking, will leaving the oven door open warm my house any more than leaving it closed?
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At the end of the day, the same amount of energy would be released into your household. Opening or closing the door will just allow the release of heat to happen faster or slower. With the door closed, the only effective way for the oven to lose the heat is to just radiate it out. There is a small vent that will allow for some convection currents to carry heat out. If you open the door, you are allowing for more convection currents to dissipate the heat into the room, as well as the normal thermal radiation. So if you open the door, the room will heat up faster, but it won't last as long. If you close the door, the room will heat up slower, but it will heat it up over a longer period of time.
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Why do we make the sound "Ow!" when we get hurt as opposed to any other noise?
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Because that's what we observed our surroundings do when we were babies. It's culture. Like how many cultures have different ways to articulate animal sounds.
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Barbers/beauticians paying for "their chair"
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The stylist is an independent contractor, not an employee basically they are their own small business. Imagine a strip mall with 5 storefronts. A landlord owns the whole building, and each business that wants to reach and serve their customers pays rent for the store. Doesn't matter if they make $1/month or $1million/month, they pay the rent they set with their landlord. Now imagine a salon as a tiny strip mall with 5 businesses that each offer hair cuts as their business. Each makes the money they charge for cuts, other services, plus tips for access to that chair, they pay a set amount and keep whatever they make. The chair fee covers the space, the equipment, the utilities, etc. Instead of a stylist bringing in $50/hour and getting paid $20/hour, they pay toward the fixed costs and then keep everything beyond that.
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How do we know we aren't in a simulation? What is the science behind the studies and how do we know that science isn't just programming?
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This isn't a theory that is currently testable by science; it's more a philosophical issue than a scientific one. As humans, all our perceptions are filtered through our senses as nerves. Per the [Brain in a Vat] scenario, we have no objective way of proving that our sensory input is 'real\'. As such, science has no real way of attacking the "Universe is a Simulation" problem, as any tests we run would, by definition, have to obey the rules of the simulation . If I were designing a simulation and didn't want the AIs I put in it to be able to know its a simulation, I simply wouldn't give them access to the source code.In short we don't. Its one of many philisophical premises you can come up with that can't be disproven.
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Why do fans always have controls that go: off, 3, 2, 1 instead of off, 1, 2, 3?
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because when you turn on a electric motor, you want it on it's max setting as having it on it's lowest setting may not be enough power to start the fan so then it will burnout.
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What is a realistic way to get rid of the drug cartels in Mexico?
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I am sure I won't be the first person to suggest this, but legalization seems like the only answer to me. Legalization would make drug prices plummet, and create of flood of legitimate businesses into the market. This cuts off their money, and thus their power.
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How are presidential polls considered to be representative of public opinion when I've never met someone who has actually sat through a phone interview for one?
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Your typical professionally-conducted presidential poll talks to around 1000 people; in the presidential election season, there might be two dozen major polls conducted in a month for two years. That's roughly ~576,000 people polled per presidential election, or about 1 person in 600. And by the way, I am one of those people. ", 'Not sure how its done in US, but in Canada when they do poll they alway say somewhere on the bottom how many people they actually asked. And its usually no more than 2000 people. In city with population of 2.5 million what are the chances that somebody out of those 2000 is someone you know? And usually its older demographic who has that extra time to spend on their phones, or being stopped on the street.You're right that there's a problem with only stay-at-home people being surveyed. Many younger people have no landline. _URL_0_
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Why are people so against wind farms?
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Apart from the wildlife issues and the fact that a lot of people don't like looking at them, the real problem is the pay-off time is often longer than the service life of the hardware and the energy cost to produce them is huge.
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Are transgenders allowed in the sports?
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Your question brings up a couple of issues that can be easily conflated. I read your question to be: "Are transgendered persons allowed to compete as the sex they have transitioned to? " The answer to that is that it depends. On the international level, the IOC recently released new guidelines on the issue: _URL_0_ TL;DR: A trans male can compete as a man ; a trans woman can compete as a woman if they can prove their testosterone levels have been below a certain point for at least a year - surgery is no longer required. In the US, the NCAA has had a policy since at least 2011: _URL_1_ TL;DR: A trans male student-athlete who has received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone may compete on a men’s team, but is no longer eligible to compete on a women’steam without changing that team status to a mixed team; A trans female student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team withoutchanging it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment. This also often gets confused with how to determine if someone is a man or a woman . There are a number of conditions wherein someone is either hermaphroditic or has a disorder that causes a biological male to develop ~female sex organs . These can cause problems for simple divisions of gender, but are not technically related to trans athletes. EDIT: At lower levels, the rules are not as consistent or have not been formally put in place and its possible some trans female athletes are getting an advantage.
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Why do we feel the weird banging in our body when listening to loud live music
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Sound is pressure waves moving through the air that vibrate your eardrums. Your ribcage doesn't have much that is solid behind it to stop it vibrating to large, low frquency pressure waves.
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Why a humidifier doesn't use as much energy as an electric kettle?
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A kettle's job is to boil a whole lot of water very fast. A humidifer's job is basically boil a small amounts of water slowly. The amount of energy used to boil 1L of water in a kettle dry is the same as the amount used by a humidifer to use up 1L, however a kettle will use all that energy in like a minute, whereas the humidifier will take hours. So working it out as energy / hour the kettle use much moreKettles boil water. Humidifiers simply allow water to evaporate into the air and dispersed with a fan. Water in a humidifier is absorbed in a sponge-like filter that allows maximum surface-to-air area so that more air is able to pick up water molecules. There is no boiling involved.
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How do bare-knuckle boxers not/rarely break their own fists?
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Bare knuckles boxers don't hit as hard as ones with gloves. It may seem counter-intuitive, but a fighter with gloves is actually far more dangerous than a fighter without them. The fighter with gloves can launch full-force attacks that create a huge impact wave in their target. In contrast, the fighter without gloves will break their hands long before they break the opponent's bones. That's why sports such as MMA and rugby tend not to have concussion issues but sports such as boxing and American football do - the padding allows you to deliver far more force . Note that true 'bare knuckles' boxing is extremely rare not due to breaking bones but due to tearing skin. In an athletic competition, you'd put tape on their hands to prevent it from turning into a bloodfest.Most bare knuckle fighters will still use tape. So it’s not actually bare knuckles. The tape is what really protects the hands or boxers. There is a documentary on Netflix about bare knuckle boxers. Haven’t seen it. Don’t know if they touch on the subject or not', "Over time the bones grow denser and denser and over time you'll be able to be bare knuckle boxing. Source: i started boxing with no gloves and i couldn't hit the bag once without being in extreme pain 2 months later I can train for a good 10 minutes without gloves It still hurts but nowhere near the beginning
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Why do old broken bones and injuries hurt when there are extreme highs or lows in the weather.
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Weather is caused by pressure differences. Like when you see on the weather channel the and converging. [here] you can see a great visualization of that. All our joints have fluid in them and we're used to the fluid expanding and contracting normally under different atmospheric pressures, but after an injury it changes the way we feel that fluid, and when the pressure changes suddenly it changes the pressure inside our bodies as well. That's why my grandma's magic knee can predict the weather. Not because she used to run in the rain like she says.
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How come people who are crossing Europe illegally are considered migrants and not illegal immigrants?
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Well a migrant is just somebody who travels, could be an immigrant or an emigrant. As for the North African and Middle Eastern immigrants, they're refugees of a war zone so referring to them as "illegal immigrants" creates a certain stereotype which they don't deserve.Immigrant means a person who goes to a country with the intention to live there permanently. Emigrant means a person who leaves their own country to live permanently in another country. Migrant means people who leave one country but not necessarily permanently. Perhaps just temporarily. And that's a general assumption about these people--they're fleeing a war, but it doesn't mean they want to leave their country or that they intend to remain permanently in the place where they've fled to.
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With so much advancement in communications. Why are we still not able to find the missing flight Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?
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I think many people that believe MH370 can be discovered easily is mislead by how enormous the area of search is, and how minute the plane is compared to it. I made an image to show how much this plane can cover in an hour. : [_URL_2_]. Note that the graduation is one per 200 kilometres, and each graduation is 84 pixels on my screen. The overall length of an 777-200 is 63.7 metres and its wingspan is 60.9 metres, which means it will take 0.026754 pixels by 0.025452 pixels to show it on my screen . If I zoom in, this time the graduation changed to one per 2 km, this means the aircraft will show up as 1.75175 pixels by 1.67475 pixels, rounding it to 2 pixels by 2 pixels, it will look like this: [_URL_1_] . You can see how misleading the pin on the map can be. When the blackboxes hit water, an underwater locator beacon should be activated, which, if function properly, will send certain radio signal at certain frequency for a certain period of time . If the search and rescue team can locate the beacon, they should be able to locate the fuselage. But as I previously mentioned, it can be really hard, as the area of search is just huge. *The 777-200 overall length and typical cruising speed is taken here: [_URL_0_]*
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Why are some people not immune to Hepatitis B?
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Like anything else 1. Maybe they did not receive the vaccine 2. Maybe the vaccine they received was ineffective 3. Maybe their body did not properly react to the vaccine and therefore never built the right anti-bodies 4. Maybe they are immunosuppressed due to transplant or disease
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Why do tickets dispensed by arcade machines always seem to arrange themselves into neat piles?
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One of the ways tickets can come from the factory is in accordion-folded stacks. After they're fed out of the machine, the tend to fold back the way they were.
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Why don't we, instead of filling tires with air, just make them out of solid rubber?
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Solid rubber weighs way too much. Edit: they are experimenting with airless tires though. Imagine a hollow honeycomb in a circle. I think they're plastic. I've looked into this, and will post a link as soon as I find it. Edit edit: [Link] this is some pretty cool stuff. I last looked into it a few years ago and there wasn't much info on it except the military was testing it. The pictures I saw then, the outer surface was hexagonal too, and it was said to be a really bumpy ride.
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What would happen to a plane that was flying within the Earths atmosphere but suddenly began to experience no force of gravity?
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well let's suppose that can happen. who would happen. plane's going at some 500 mph relative to ground at altitude of 30,000ft. God turns off gravity in the entire universe. first thing that'd happen. all the passengers would freak out. next thing that'd happen, the plane would start gaining altitude fast. not just because of lift, but because the plane was traveling at 500mph on a vector tangent to the Earth ground. the only thing that was keeping it at a constant 30,000 feet is gravity. so as the plane still has the engines on, its still accelerating further and faster away from the ground. after a while, air itself gets thinner and starts drifting into space, because gravity is what holds the air to the ground. all of that isn't as important as what happens to the Sun. without gravity, there's nothing to hold the Sun together. it explodes and within 8 minutes, you're toast.
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how does circumcision not count as illegal genital mutilation?
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Simply because it's a socially accepted act that is rooted in religion with Western cultures. If the act were not Westernized, it would be considered mutilation.
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How is Stephen Colbert a character? What is different between Stephen Colbert and "Stephen Colbert"?
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Stephen Colbert played a character by the same name on his Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report". The fictional Colbert was a parody of the kind of personality-driven opinion shows common on nighttime cable news networks. While that was a very popular character that was appropriate for his cable show, it wouldn't be appropriate for a host of a major network late night talk show. So, what you're seeing there is Stephen Colbert, the comedian, and not the character he previously played of the same nameStephen Colbert the actor had a show *The Colbert Report*, on which he played a twisted version of himself. The big difference is that their politics were considerably different -- Colbert the pundit was a conservative, while Colbert the actor is pretty damn liberal. They also went to different universities -- Colbert the actor is a graduate of Northwestern, while Colbert the pundit talked about going to Dartmouth. Both were Catholic and were huge Tolkien fans.It's sort of like how Will Smith in Fresh Prince was a character played by the actor of the same name. Certain elements may or may not play in, but they are otherwise a fictional representation of a person with the same name.The stephen colbert who you was in colbert report was a character. In reality he is not dumb and conservative and his views are total opposite on colbert report than his real views.
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Why do black tattoos turn blue eventually?
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Cheap ink and Sun Exposure.Not all black inks fade to blue.My grandfather's 35yr old tattoo is still black, mind you it's blurry due to 30 years of aging.
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How does a jail broken phone work? Do they create a whole new OS or just add stuff on to the old OS?
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Jailbreaking , is the same operating system it was before, you're just modifying the system to allow you to do things that were previously not allowed. It's called jailbreaking because normally apps run in a jail or a sandbox that keeps them contained and limited. So once you've modified the system you've literally jailbroken it. iOS , are designed so that everything runs in a sandbox that can't do any harm to the more important background stuff. This is to prevent viruses and other malicious code from running and causing problems. That sandbox is very restrictive though and prevents you from doing a lot. Android lets you access a lot more, but until you root it, it's limited too. . Apple is slowing allowing more and more , so jailbreaking is much less necessary that it used to be. There are some things we'll never get without one though,
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How can the Department of Homeland Security actually run out of money? (since the House just failed to extend funding) A
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Congress doesn't budget for departments to build reserves like that, so when they stop cutting checks that's all she wrote", 'Government money for "non-essential" things can *only* be spent if Congress agrees to a budget, and those budget agreements don't last forever. The last one ran out today, and they couldn't agree to a new one until today. This new one is only for one week because there are lots of portions they couldn't agree upon_URL_0_ Actually it is funded for a week.
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Why do we feel like time has passed after sleeping but not after being given general anesthetic?
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I had my first experience with general anesthesia this year and felt the same. Waking from a nap or a night's sleep, there a sense of time having passed. After general anesthesia there's just a blank with no sense of duration.
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why is it a bad idea to make hate speech /political incorrectness illegal?
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> I can't quite articulate why *and I'd like to read the opinions of others*. Because you wouldn't have the opinions of others if you ban free speech. Some things aren't nice to say/hear, but education is the key.
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How does Grooveshark play whatever song you want for free while Pandora requires you to listen to radio stations with mandatory commercials?
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Pandora operates completely legitimately, while Grooveshark technically does not. Grooveshark has been involved in the occasional lawsuit, and more will likely come. Its more a matter of the fact that Grooveshark has remained more under the radar, and with so many different sources of what may be called copyright infringement on the internet, it takes massive popularity for one roll into the spotlight enough so that it is targeted specifically by the RIAA or whoever else may be involved.Also note that you don't need to listen to commercials on Pandora if you use something like Elpis or Pianobar. Also unlimited skips! But if you do use this, since you aren't supporting Pandora, please think about buying Pandora One, it's cheap and really helpful to their cause :D _URL_1_ _URL_0_", 'Grooveshark uses the youtube model. It says "Don't upload copyrighted material ;)", everyone uploads copyrighted material, but Grooveshark doesn't do anything until they actually get a take-down notice by the copyright holder.
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The purpose of the painted spiral on the front of an aircraft engine.
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It visualizes the speed at which the turbine spins, since the turbine blades move so fast that you can't distinguish between a slowly idling engine and one which has full power. The spiral can be distinguished even at high speed, since it changes only a little bit each revolution. This is mainly useful for reasons of safety, but [apparently it also deters birds.]
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Why does pouring beer into a glass of ice make it go flat?
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CO2 bubbles usually don't form just at random in the middle of a fluid. Instead, they need to form in cavitation points, which are basically tiny nicks in the surface of something which change the properties of the carbonic acid form of CO2 enough that it turns back into a gas. This is why you usually see a stream of bubbles coming out of one or two places at the bottom of your beer glass. Those streams are above cavitation points. Adding ice increases the total surface area the beer is touching, and thus increases the number of cavitation points available. In addition, ice can crack and become rougher than glass, creating a ton more cavitation points than you would get on the surface of a glass.
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What are CETA and TTIP, and why are some countries so opposed to it?
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[This] is actually a really good article about why people are scared of it. Add on top of that. all the negotiations have been behind closed doors, so our fearless leaders are going to push things that a lot of people are dead against down over their heads. Thus the pushback. Some of us consider ISDS a crime against humanity. So what's good about it? Well, trade is going to be easier. But also mobility. Right now, as a European, you're a second-rank citizen if you want to get a job in the US and vice versa. So NAFTA allows Canadians to just grab a job if they want. A German or an Ethiopean end up on the second tier. This would change, and Europeans and Americans would find it easier to get job permits for the other respective countries. And both governments are very protective when it comes to trade. This would open up trade and make it easier for a dutch manufacturer to sell to the US market. All depending on what they actually agree to.
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the numbers in the periodic table of elements
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It depends on which numbers you are referring to. They all deal with the chemical and physical properties of the element. The most common are: Atomic Number : which essentially defines the element. For example, an oxygen atom is only oxygen if it has 8 protons. Atomic Mass : which says how much the element ways assuming you have the normal distribution of isotopes. Anything else?[Example: Iron] The most important number is the element's atomic number. This is the number of protons in an atom of the element. This is the defining characteristic of the element. The other number usually printed on a periodic table is the element's atomic mass. This is the average mass of an atom of the element in multiples of the mass of a proton*. Some atoms of a given element may have more neutrons in the nucleus than others; an element with a given number of neutrons is called an "isotope". The number on the table indicates the average mass, as found in nature. Elements that are never found in nature instead have the mass of their most stable isotope shown in parentheses. * The units are actually Atomic Mass Units or Unified Atomic Mass Units , also called daltons . They are very nearly precisely the mass of a proton or neutron .So if you look at the periodic table, For each element, the number on the top left is The Atomic Number . It will then give the symbol and then below that is the Atomic Weight So horizontally, they're laid out in order of their Atomic number. Some columns are grouped up by the atoms that have the same number of Valence electrons. So Na and K both have 1 valence electron and they're vertically next to each other on the table. That means they react similarly to other molecules. Both have similar reactions when thrown into water, for example.
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Why do governments not put extra taxes on sugar, salt and fat to make the population healthier?
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Take a look at how New York City's ban on large sodas went. Soda lobbies fought it. People didn't like it, they felt that the government was impeding on their freedom to consume how they deem fit.Because taxes are very unpopular not to mention such a tax would hurt the lower class more.than any other. To do such a thing one would need to make healthy choices just as cheap as junk food and so far it is notBecause doing so won't "make" anything happen. They tax cigarettes, people still smoke. They tax alcohol, people still drink. And nearly every food on the planet has at least one of those three things in it in some form, so basically everything would be more expensiveIt would work if the market place was at all fair, but it isn't. "Healthy foods" are considered "premium foods" in supper markets. By premium I mean that they're similar to another product but because of a slight superior quality they have highly elevated prices. Because of this increasing the prices on the cheaper foods you indirectly are taxing the poor and making it really difficult to survive at the bottom. Now if healthy foods were given a healthy price tag, there would be no issue. Until healthy foods can be priced appropriately for the poorer populations it'll just never happen.The people who eat unhealthy food often can't afford the higher taxes or don't want to change their diet
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How is it that the Monty Hall problem and the gambler's fallacy don't contradict each other?
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The key to the Monty Hall problem is that the door that's removed from play is *never* the door with the prize and *never* the door you initially chose. So if you choose a door at random, you initially have a 1/3 chance of being right and a 2/3 chance of being wrong. One of the doors you didn't choose is then removed from play; if the prize is behind one of those two doors, you now know that it *must* be behind the remaining door. Hence the 2/3 chance if you change your guess. The gambler's fallacy only applies to independent events. The Monty Hall problem is two dependent events.
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Why are there 360 degrees?
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"The Sumerians watched the Sun, Moon, and the five visible planets , primarily for omens. They did not try to understand the motions physically. They did, however, notice the circular track of the Sun's annual path across the sky and knew that it took about 360 days to complete one year's circuit. Consequently, they divided the circular path into 360 degrees to track each day's passage of the Sun's whole journey. This probably happened about 2400 BC. That's how we got a 360 degree circle. Around 1500 BC, Egyptians divided the day into 24 hours, though the hours varied with the seasons originally. Greek astronomers made the hours equal. About 300 to 100 BC, the Babylonians subdivided the hour into base-60 fractions: 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute. The base 60 of their number system lives on in our time and angle divisions. An 100-degree circle makes sense for base 10 people like ourselves. But the base-60 Babylonians came up with 360 degrees and we cling to their ways-4,400 years later." -*Abraham Lincoln* Jk this quote was taken from [here]360 is a really great number that can be divided by 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,18,20,24,30,36,40,45,60,72,90,120 & 180. 400 is only evenly divisible by 2,4,5,8,10,16,20,25,40,50,80,100 & 200because 100 degrees like 90 is arbitrary. but 360 for a cicrle or for angles adding up in a rectangle or rombus means that 260 can be divisble by angles like 90, 120,180,12,15,18, and those in turn, are all very divisble by 3,4 5,6,8,9,10 etc
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Why do European forests seem to have less underbrush than forests in the Eastern U.S.?
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Im no expert but I believe its because they've been left alone to grow longer, when trees get bigger it cuts off sunlight to the floor, over time you get a lot less smaller plants in the underbrush due to that and maybe the bigger trees using up more nutrients. I recall reading that in USA it used to be possible to ride a horse through the forests easily because there was much less underbrush to deal with. Then practically all the forests were cleared at some point and in most places once they get big enough loggers come through and do it again. Also most forests in USA arent entirely natural, certain varities of trees are planted for certain purposes and it's never with the goal of recreating a naturally occuring forest environment. Could be wrong or lacking info but that's my understanding of it.Eastern US forests are very young they were all almost entirely clear cut during colonization, ever walk through the woods and find a stone wall? They didn't farm in the woods that used to be a field. Young forests have more underbrush as the trees are smaller and more light makes it to the ground, supporting underbrush growth. Also many European forests are "managed" meaning that people clear them and remove branches and cut down brush, or clear them by virtue of walking there and keeping new growth down. Also I would imagine that there are some local specices differences and that the US has species of brush that survives low light conditions better than EU ones, but I don't know much about that.
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what consequences if any are there from streaming tv shows on your computer?
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Hardware like your monitor and the CPU have to be working, and those can only work for very roughly 50 000 hours. Your ISP might bill you if you go over your cap if you go over your cap and have a cap to go over to begin with. Were you thinking there was something special going on here?
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If/Once the Cuban Embargo is lifted, what will change?
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It will be easier people in the US to visit Cuba, acquire Cuban goods and do business in Cuba. Vice-versa for people in Cuba dealing with the USCuba will finally be able to buy newer, safer cars. _URL_0_There are two hypotheses about this. Critics of lifting the embargo are afraid that the injection to the Cuban economy will strengthen a repressive regime. Supporters argue that the exposure to American culture will drive calls for expanded freedom in the countryThe biggest change for Cuba will be access to 21st century farm technology. All of our best fertilisers, crop varieties and pesticides are owned by American companies. Cuba is forced to use more dangerous and toxic alternatives when they can find anything at all.Cuba's economy will have a chance to recover since Cuban sugar and tobacco products will have a chance to be exported
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After a recent deed, someone told "that was mighty white of ya". What does that phrase mean?
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Their intended meaning: that you did something nice that they appreciate. The actual meaning: black people are incapable of goodness or decency.At some point I believe the phrase was used to imply that white people are more virtuous than other people. However, for a while now it's been a sarcastic way of saying that a good deed you did wasn't actually that impressive or you should have been expected to do it anyway.
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Why do the majority of living things, like animals, insects, and bugs, require oxygen to survive?
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Living cells need Oxygen to react with the food we eat to get energy - It's basically the same thing as burning, but much less ''violent'', and produces the same waste . Oxygen is used for this due to how easily it reacts, but it's possible to use other gasses as well. There are lots of bacteria that do not need oxygen, even some that can get poisoned by it. However, all anaerobic life is pretty much microscopical. The biggest thing not using Oxygen was found a few years ago: _URL_0_
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Explain 4k vs 1080p and other TV display resolutions to me
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There are two things to consider : resolution, and pixel size. All "1080p" screens will be 1,920 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels tall. However, you can have a 1080p screen that is pretty small or you can have a 1080p screen that is 50+ inches across the diagonal. The way that is accomplished is with the pixel size . A smartphone will have some of the closest packed pixels out of any screen, while a computer monitor is more moderate, and a TV typically has the largest pixels. For reference, a "4k" screen is 3,840 pixels wide and 2,160 tall. Note that 4k is named for its horizontal measurement, while 1080p is named for its vertical measurement, as is 720p, 480p, 360p, etc.I'm no expert but you basically have four times the amount of pixels on screen in 4k when compared to 1080p, thus, your images will have a higher quality since there are more pixels to draw them, making them look smoother and more vivid . That's a very basic explanation though, I expect someone that knows more will explain this in depth.
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Who/what is the "Chair" of the Senate, and who tells him/her what to do?
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The [president pro tempore of the senate], meaning president for a time, is the second highest ranking Senator and a senator who serves as something like acting senate president in absence of the Vice President. The position was created in the Constitution : > The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States. In practice, the president pro tempore frequently delegates the day to day operations of presiding over the senate to more junior members of his party to provide them practice with the parliamentary process, and senators address whomever is filling the role with the honorary titles. The woman conferring with the Senator presiding over the senate is possibly to be the [Senate's Parliamentarian], who is their senior adviser on Senate rules and proceedings.
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Where do creationists say the flood water drained to?
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It's in the atmosphere now. Prior to the flood it had never rained. Edit: I inferred this from the Bible. It is my interpretation.Mostly, they don't. The water was supposed to have come from "the firmament,"--whatever that is--which opened up and flooded the world. Some sources say the firmament was a canopy of water in he sky, while others insist it was subterranean. If it *was* subterranean, then it's possible the water could have drained back there. Zero actual evidence exists for any of that. There's plenty of subterranean water, of course, but not *nearly* enough to completely flood the world. In fact, there's surprisingly little free water on Earth. Although some 70% of the surface is covered in it, the average depth isn't that great. Here's an image of what all the water on Earth would look like if you gathered it together: _URL_0_ The question of where the Flood water came from or where it went to is, of course, pretty much the LEAST of the claim's problemsDuring the Nye debate, the creationist side quoted the line from the Bible of "god gathered the waters together" to provide biblical evidence of Pangaea. I would gather from this that creationism believes that the oceans flowed over the land, draining out of where they used to be._URL_1_ This video, in a very entertaining way, describes the many major flaws of a literal interpretation of Noah's ark. My personal favorite, which never occurred to me before, is what would happen to all of the sea life with the MASSIVE increase of fresh water.
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Why do planes disappear in the Bermuda Triangle?
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The area actually has no special power to make planes disappear. However, it is prone to storms, and there are wide stretches with no place to land, so from time to time a small plane is lost with no witnessesPlanes and ships disappear everywhere. Not so much any more with modern GPS and tracking, and in line with that the Bermuda Triangle isn't exactly a hot bed of activity any more either. If you want to invent a "mysterious area of the sea where planes and ships simply disappear" then pick any part of the ocean that has ever served as a major commercial shipping lane, and grab the inevitable list of 10,000 ships and early planes that have disappeared there. A few of those were undoubtedly the victims of freak accidents that although were simply "one in a million occurrences of bad luck" will seem kind of eerie when backed up by the tons of other shipwrecks. The same basic principle could be applied to roads in the modern day if you wanted to. Pick any busy intersection in a major city, and you'll find that a ton car wrecks have occurred there in the last 50 years, and probably a few deaths. Find even 1 death that occurred from a "wow that's bad luck" kind of accident, and you can invent yourself a myth about how the intersection is obviously cursed.The Bermuda Triangle is actually pretty much a hoax. Statistically speaking it's actually not a hot zone for disappearances, but its reputation has made it so that any time a plane DOES go missing there it's hyped up. Pretty common case of confirmation bias.
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How do people move giraffes from one location to another?
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In a crate on a truck. [Like this] There was a recent incident in the news where a giraffe was killed when its head hit an overpass, but that sort of incident isn't the accepted standard of care in most facilities.
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What would happen if you filled up a tire with a liquid, say water, instead of air but to the same psi?
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It would be much bumpier ride as water doesn't compress like air does. It might also cause the tire to explode if you hit a bump for the same reason. Edit: It would also make your car quite a bit heavier. So you would have slower acceleration and longer stopping distance.
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What do babies dream about?
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I have a 12-month-old baby who can say about 10 identifiable words now - meaning they might not sound like the word to someone else, but she says them consistently so I know what she means when she says them. Anyway, I turned on the TV and there was a picture of the ocean, which she had never seen before. It had rolling white waves crashing on a beach. She lit up and said, "Milk!" So yeah. I think she dreams of oceans of milk.When my daughter was a few weeks old she'd make the sounds and mouth movements like she was feeding in her sleep. So I guess eating as that was pretty much all she did when she was awake. As she got older she'd sometimes laugh in her sleep and now she'll occasionally say words. I've been told dreaming is part of your brain organising memories and it helps you learn new things, so that fits with her doing more things in her sleep as she's got older.
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how do water and sun benefit flowers after they've already been cut from where they grew?
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Cut plants don't die immediately -- they're not like animals that need circulating blood to transfer oxygen around constantly. One main purpose of roots is to carry water from the earth up to the leaves -- there's no heart pumping, the water moves through capillary action, which can happen at any point along the plant's veins -- so if you cut off a stem and put it in water, it will still draw water up to the leaves and petals as if it were roots at the bottom end. As long as the leaves are still getting water through the stem and can [respire] they can still perform photosynthesis, so sitting in the sun still helps the plant live. Being cut off, though, means that not all plant biology keeps acting normally, which is why cut flowers eventually die off. Some plants, like a pothos, can grow new root systems from a cut stem, which is a way the plant reproduces. Growing from cuttings is pretty common; it's because it's part of the plant's survival mechanism that they can grow that way.
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How can sulfur hexafluoride stay in someone’s lungs, but co2 doesn’t even though they are both more dense than air?
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I hope another commenter corrects if I'm mistaken, but I would think that Sulfur hexafluoride CAN stay in your lungs, but doesn't automatically stay there like it's stuck. It takes more effort to get it out because it's very heavy, but I've seen videos of people inhaling it so clearly they're able to get it out too, maybe with some extra effort. It's also way heavier than CO2. Sulphur hexafluoride is gonna be Sulphur and six Flourines. I'm too lazy to look up the weight of that but it is a hell of a lot heavier than a carbon and two oxygens.The body knows all about CO2. When it detects CO2 it signals the muscles to get that stuff out of the lungs, because too much CO2 can kill you. SF6 and CO are larger suffocation risks because the body doesn't have sensors for them. Since the body doesn't make them and they are uncommon in the natural world, the risk is small. However, people die from them because we have fossil fuels that produce CO and stupid young people inhale SF6 as "the deep voice gas". makes your voice high and squeaky.)
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I am near sighted, how come when I look through a scope, or binoculars, without corrective lens', everything is not crystal clear?
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Any scope you look through will have a focus adjuster. You can adjust the scope so that your sight will be focused on any specific point. This action will also correct for any vision issues you may have
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Why do we sometimes blank out and stare off into space?
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Psych doctoral student here. Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot of understanding around the mechanism of action of daydreaming . But when it comes to the brain, we SUCK at multitasking . Think about reading a book; have you ever found yourself a page or two in without remembering what you read? Or maybe you were on autopilot when driving and can't remember how you got somewhere? It's basically the same thing, our subconscious thoughts came to a conscious level and we got distracted by them. It takes a lot of mental willpower to focus on a single task, and if we're bored, tired, stressed, etc That's difficult to do. The previous mental states are also associated with lowered levels of excitatory neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine so the brain becomes sluggish and stops focusing on tasks that require engaging the prefrontal cortex . TL;DR: We can't multitask well and we need "excited" chemicals to help us focusBecause you are focusing your mental resources on whatever you are thinking about and not actively processing your surroundingsThis particular behavior could be linked to dopamine. In schizophrenia, this behavior can be extreme and prolonged as the patient is overly involved in the internal thought patterns, for example paranoia or intrusive thoughts.
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Why isn't the for-profit business model of hospitals in the US under more fire than the healthcare system?
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Even "nonprofit" hospitals are generally out to make a profit, or at least break even. The parent organization needs to be financially stable.
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Why does the order in which you mix things together matter?
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as a person who cooks for living, in your case you just hasnt mixed things enough in first case. Adding dry to wet makes mixing easier and faster as opposed way creates dry clumps, that require extra mixing. thats why dry to wet is preferred cause it makes things easier and faster.
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How do shows like DragonBall Z Abridged and Yugioh Abridged stay on Youtube without being copyright claimed?
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They're works of parody. As such, if the creators were sued and fought back, they'd probably win under 'fair use,' which allows limited use of copyrighted material for things like commentary, criticism, reviewing, and parody.Well, fair use allows them the ability to make works of parody, furthermore a lot of the users that do these works of parody also give a free bit of advertising for the respective shows with lines like "[show] is licensed by [compan] and is an original work by [artist], please support the production through official channels". For the most part its not the artists that get mad about fan-works , but the publishing companies that tend to have a lot of draconian protectionism going on. That said though, anime is INCREDIBLY expensive to produce, so as said, please support the official productions through the proper channels. Even stuff as simple as crunchyroll without adblock has a portion of their revenue go to the right people.
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what kind of applications won't benefit from increased multi-thread performance?
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One reason is if the application is primarily I/O bound. Adding more threads won't make your hard drive any faster.
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How do people change their identity? eg. get new social security numbers fake deaths etc.
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> Fake deaths That's easy, get someone to think a dead body is yours or disappear for a few years and someone will have you declared dead. Common examples are place a similar sex/gender/aged dead body in your car and set it on fire. If no one is suspicious they won't go through getting a DNA test, or if it's burned enough they might not be able to. Disappearing is even easier, just get-up walk out the door and never come back, don't use your credit cards, phone anything that can be traced back to you. There are several cases of people disappearing and turning up years after they are declared dead. > Change their identity That's really hard. You would have to steal someone else's identity. Common methods where using someone's social security number that was about your age and dead. Forging or getting copies of that persons birth certificate or ID to generate real actual ID's. So you would take a birth certificate for John Doe and a NY state ID for John Doe that had your picture on it, and use that to get a new ID for John Doe in California. The problem is that because there are a lot of crimes you can commit with a faked identity there are a lot of things in place to stop that. Now there are computers that will list who is dead by Social Security numbers and cross checks for people getting new IDs and stuff.
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The IRA, The Real IRA, and why they exist.
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Basically. British occupation. We wanted independence. Best we got was a divided Ireland. 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland. 6 in Northern Ireland. Depending on the year, There are many different forms of the IRA. From Wikipedia. Earlier organisations Society of United Irishmen Young Ireland Irish Republican Brotherhood Fenian Brotherhood Clan na Gael Easter Rising Irish Citizen Army Irish Volunteers Cumann na mBan Irish War of Independence Irish Republican Army recognised by the First Dáil as the legitimate army of the Irish Republic Irish Civil War Anti-treaty Irish Republican Army the anti-treaty IRA which fought and lost the civil war and which thereafter refused to recognise either the Irish Free State or Northern Ireland Later organisations Saor Uladh • Saor Éire Provisional IRA which broke from the OIRA in 1969 over the latter's failing to protect Catholic communities in Northern Ireland. Official IRA the remainder of the IRA after the 1969 split with the Provisionals; led by Cathal Goulding and primarily Marxist in its political orientation. It is now inactive in the military sense, while its political wing, Official Sinn Féin, became the Workers' Party of Ireland. Irish National Liberation Army Irish People's Liberation Organisation Continuity IRA broke from the PIRA in 1986 because the latter ended its policy on abstentionism . Real IRA a 1997 breakaway from the PIRA consisting of members opposed to the peace process. Óglaigh na hÉireann If you are really interested, Watch the Liam Neeson film Michael Collins. He was Director for Intelligence, helped bring the British to their knees. Later incarnations are/were less than noble.
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How does a Medical Examiner determine the Cause of Death?
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Mostly by autopsy. Cutting the body open, looking for anything that looks wrong. Looking at the heart for signs of a clot, lungs for blockage etc. Blood tests are also taken to test for anything unusual like heart attack signs or drink/ drugs. Everybody dies for the same reason, the heart stops, medical examiners job is to find out why it stops. Some trauma is easy to see, all to the tiny details as tiny bit of water in lungs or small damage to heart. If a person has a existing medical condition this will be explored and either ruled out or ruled in as the cause. Edit, missing word', "There is usually evidence of what the cause is. Things like bleeding and bruising only occur while the person is alive, so if they have wounds but no evidence of the body responding to those wounds, they weren't the cause of death. Most evidence is similarly tied to how the body responds to trauma and examining what the body did or didn't do before finding its way to the examination table.
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Why Do we tend to panic more when running from a scary situation than walking from it?
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I think you may have your causality backward. You run because when you can't control your panic, and you walk when you can. If the walking increase your panic, you would already be running.The body has two opposing systems that govern it's response to anything that happens around it: the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. The "fight or flight" system kicks in whenever something stimulating happens, like someone jumps out at you. To put it very simply, it pumps you up and gets you going. However, what you do with that energy is up to you . The "rest and digest" system is when you're chilling and nothing exciting is happening. It lets you relax and keeps your body calm. When you keep yourself walking, you're helping prevent the body from getting as pumped up with energy as it would if you ran, so you're basically not letting your "fight or flight" system from taking over as much as it would if you ran. Running would only get your body more ready to fight or flee. So it's not really that the running is causing any panic, but it's that you're consciously doing the opposite in order to try and prevent the "fight or flight" system from going 0 to 60. Make sense?', "There's a feedback between your body and mind. Your brain notices if you are running and that feeds back so you _feel_ more scared, because hey, you decided to run so that probably means the situation is actually dangerous and you should be panicked about it, right?
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Why are bugs so good at getting in the house, but so bad at getting out?
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If there are a lot of bugs outside only one has to find its way inside for you to notice. If there is one bug inside that bug specifically has to find its way outside for you to noticeThey brute force it. It may take thousands of bugs until one gets inside, but when only one is inside chance might not be on its side. Also you may not notice those that come and go', "There's something like a million bees in the world and one of them got in your house. I'd say there not that good at getting in our out.When flying insects want to get into something, they look for a dark spot. When they want back out, they head for the light. When this is a hole in the ground or a bucket or something, this works fine. But in a building with windows, it's different. They may find their way in, but not out: the light spot they find that looks like it leads "out" is probably a window pane. This is why flies tend to buzz around the window. And even if the window is partly open, they're just as likely to focus on the part that isn't, bump against the glass, get confused, and try somewhere else.Some insect traps take advantage of this as well - dark hole leading in, lots of windows, there's a way out but it's not the brightest part so they don't find it.
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If I fell through a cloud would I come out soaked or 'misted'?
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Neither, when a cloud is on the ground it's fog. When you walk in the fog you don't get that wet. If you fall into a rain cloud you get wet, or a snow cloud you get snow on you, but a non-precipitating cloud won't get you that wet.
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what is it about the structure of vegetables that makes them so nutritious yet contain relatively few calories?
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We cannot digest cellulose. That is the physical structural component of plants. Because we cannot digest it we cannot get nutritional value from it. We call it dietary fiber and it passes through our bodies mostly intact. We are able to digest other components of plants and so get many vitamins and such from them, but the sugars that make up their cellulose are locked away from us. This is perhaps the greatest proof that we are omnivores and not herbivores.Cellulose. Plants contain cellulose , which is indigestible for humans and becomes bulk roughage in our bodies. Much of the rest of it is water. There's pretty much no fat in actual vegetation as well. Compare this to fruits, which are generally high-sugar, and meat, which is basically solid protein and fat.
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