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what credit rating actually is | The most important thing to remember about your credit rating is that it is **not** for your benefit. It is for the benefit of those you want to borrow money from. Your credit rating is a conventient way for money lenders to know what kind of risk is associated with lending you money. Basically, how likely are you to p... |
What do people gain from uploading or seeding torrents? | The torrents you see every day are part of [The Scene] and do it mostly for pride and nerd cred for being the first to release something. Most of the initial seeders are affiliated with those groups, many on zombie botnets. From there, it goes into general P2P distribution. Basically, they do it to prove they can. Surp... |
How did the selfie Ellen took at the Oscars generate so much money? ($3M) | _URL_0_ Basically Samsung, having gotten tons of free publicity out of it decided to donate $3 million to two charities of Ellen's choice.Samsung spent something like $20M on the Oscars with, as has been said, the selfie being a planned stuntSamsung chose to donate that much. |
How and why do female's periods sync up when they spend time together. | They don't. This comes up about once a week, and the answer is always the same. It's a myth based on confirmation bias.The idea of women's periods "sync\'ing" is a myth. With any two periodic phenomenon, there will always be times when they seem to be occurring at the same time. However, this doesn't mean they're the s... |
What's going on in Canada right now? | It just happened today. It's literally the top story on /r/news, /r/worldnews, /r/canada, _URL_1_, _URL_2_, _URL_0_, _URL_3_ and pretty much every other source of news in the English speaking world. Some nut shot some random soldier on guard near the Canadian parliament. He was shot & killed. They suspect he may be tie... |
Why does the US have poor schools but the world's best universities? | People pay for university, and tuition has gone up a lot. Universities only accept the students they want to- a public high school has to use a lot of resources on the underperforming. The federal government puts a ton of money into the university system, mainly through grants. Schools can use up to 30% of that grant m... |
When watching a scary show or feeling fearful, why do I always think something is over my shoulder? | Your body is going into Fight or Flight mode. Adrenaline is being pumped into your blood in preparation for a sudden and possibly life saving move. It's not that your senses are any "better" in that the blind can now see, it's just that they're heightened, moving quicker, and accepting more information than you are use... |
If a semi-hard food item falls to a hard surface is the "five second rule" valid for recovery and safe consumption? | The 5 second rule is invalid for all itemsThe 5 second rule has no basis whatsoeverLots of people are claiming that the 5 second rule is invalid, which is true, but the amount of bacteria you get from a clean floor would not be enough to really harm youFor me it depends on where im at, what kind of floor. Obviously at ... |
Why did the marine/ offshore industry tank in the last few years? | In 2011 Crude hit $120/barrel and held that around that level until June of 2014. For offshore drillers with fantastically expensive extraction processes and 700 million dollar rigs, this is great. It's costing them $60+ a barrel to finance their operations and then they double that on the sale. Great. Then oil crashed... |
Why it was decided that Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 5:00 is considered a "standard work week". | Law. It used to be much, much more. Children as young as 4 worked, if you were disabled at work you were fired, you were paid crap, you could die Unions tried fighting for more, however union strength has declined with membership - and coincidentally, wagesTo answer that question you first have to ask why 09:00 to 5:00... |
The difference between SSDs and HDD drives | HDD has mechanical parst. Such as [this]. The head will drive on the surface and write/read data through the electrical impulses. The partition of the disk will get magnetized. Which translates into the binary form as 1, 0. Now SSD does not include a mechanical parts. The binary data is stored in micro transistors. vol... |
What is a 401K? (Non-American) | 401 is the section of the US tax code that deals qualified pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans and some other stuff. A 401 is a subsection of that. It defines a type of retirement savings account, where an employee has a defined regular contribution taken from their paycheck automatically by the employer. Th... |
the difference between normal and synthetic marijuana | Marijuana is the flowers of the cannabis plant. They're grown because they contain large quantities of THC, a rather enjoyable drug . It's been used for hundreds/thousands of years & is known to be fairly safe. Unfortunately, it's quite illegal. Some clever chemists came up with some chemicals that are *sorta* like THC... |
how do viruses like HIV transmit through fluids like blood, breast milk, semen, and vaginal secretions? | I'm not sure what you are asking. The viruses are within those secretions, moving there as they do through any sort of tissue. By their presence they are transmitted to whatever encounters those substances. |
What a person in my family tree being 2 times removed means. | x times removed refers to the generations between you. Your father's sister's son is your cousin. Your father's sister's grandson is your cousin once removed.Your father's sister's son's grandson is your cousin twice removed. |
Why is it we feel very motivated towards the night and when waking up in the morning we don't have the same drive? | So you're in bed about to sleep and you start thinking of things you want to do tomorrow. Let's just say that one of your goals is to read that book thats been sitting on your bookshelf. You'll feel really motivated and excited to read the book TOMORROW. But think of it this way, if you're so excited, why not just flip... |
how did Humans fight other animals before weaponry? | As long as there have been humans there has been weapons. The use of tools predates humans. Plus you'll be surprised how "cowardly" lions actually are. Most animals actually. Even without weapons they're unlikely to attack a group that bands together and starts screaming at it. |
Why Does Puppy Breath Smell so Distinct? | There are things in this life so wonderful that you shouldn't question them. Puppy breath fits squarely into that category.It smells of amines because their tiny little metabolisms produce them faster than their kidneys can remove them from their systems. These same compounds are released when curing many epoxy resins ... |
Why does the physical volume of food not reflect how much weight you gain by eating it? | Some of the chemicals are burned by our cells and exhaled as gasses. Some of the water and other chemicals are released as sweat, oil, earwax and other bodily fluids. We constantly shed skin and hair. The rest is either stored or excreted.It does immediately after you eat it, but food is stored in the body in the form ... |
When it comes to computer parts, how does cpu/ram/ssd have "speed"? | Speed comes down to things; how quickly the data can be read or written, and how quickly an instruction can me executed. RAM, ROM, SSD and hard drives all play on getting at sata while the cpu plays on speed of execution. Before you upgrade for speed you need to identify what is slowing your computer down. You can use ... |
"Used to" vs "Use to" - A little Help? | I USED TO = I once did, but now no longer do I AM USED TO= Something that you are accustomed to Also, there is I AM NOT USED TO. I AM NOT USED TO is basically the opposite of I AM USED TO |
Why do we make that "ahhhh" sound after drinking something hot or refreshing? | Just a supposition here: When you drink something GOOD, you take multiple gulps in a row. While doing it, you don't breathe. The "ahhhh" comes out of the deeper/longer exhale after that "apnea". It may also be an evolutionary behaviour; a way of signalizing your peers that the water is fresh and satisfying . |
If the human body consists of 70-80% water, and if said water were to be drained out, what would my actual weight be? | I feel like this is just a question of simple math with the unknown variable being OP's original weight. What is the concept to be explained here? |
Why don't public fountains get clogged with all of the coins people throw in there for good luck? | The community or other person responsible for the functioning of the fountain employs someone to fish them out.Coins are metal and so very dense. They tend to sit on the bottom where ever they initially fall and so they don't get sucked into the outlets and filters. |
Why are human senses so underdeveloped comparing to every other animals species? | This is simply not true. We have senses that are far better than many animals, and many animals have senses better than ours. Animals have evolved to utilize different senses to different degrees. Our vision, for instance, may not be as good as an eagle's, but it's no slouch in the animal kingdom. |
Why is it whenever a PC "freezes" or stutters during a game it repeats the same sound over and over again? | The hardware that produces sound has a small amount of memory that holds the sound that it is currently playing. It is the job of the operating system to continuously update that memory with the latest sounds to play. Once the operating system freezes it no longer updates that memory nor does it tell the sound hardware... |
Why can I never get out of bed in the morning, even if I've had a good night's sleep? | There are various causes, but I'd link them to one of three: 1. You may have some type of sleeping issue/disorder, whether it's something like needing a better mattress/pillow or your posture or sleep apnea. Something like sleep apnea is very serious and definitely affects your ability to be rested as well as your over... |
Is it possible for a moon to have a moon? Like... A moon of Jupiter having a moon... That's sort of what human built satellites of Earth are right? | The ask science people don't answer because you're asking a question which has an obvious answer, but you don't seem to know what the issue is, and they think you're trolling. But anyway. What you're asking about is satellites. A moon is a satellite, and the satellites we build are also satellites. But in the same way,... |
how do computers update themselves? | So your Windows or your Mac software is programmed to contact Microsoft or Apple at regular intervals and say "Yo, you got any updates?". Most of the time the answer comes back "no", but sometimes it comes back "yes". When that happens the update is downloaded and installed. What's the update doing? You may have seen m... |
Why aren't trees in dense forest areas buried half way up the trunk from all the soil dead plants and leaves make? | * The mass from the leaves comes, in part, from the soil. The leaves later become soil, round and round. * The leaves compact down a fair bit. Imagine a big pile of leaves, now dry them, shred them and squash them all down. You'll get a surprisingly small amount. * Decomposing lets some of the mass escape as gas. * Soi... |
Why would ISIS kidnap North Koreans? | Just because the buffalo and the lion hate the elephant, doesn't mean the lion won't try and eat the buffalo. ISIS views anyone who doesn't subscribe to their version of Islam as an enemy - North Koreans included. |
What is the 'circlejerk' subreddit all about? | There are certain trends on Reddit that garner a lot of upvotes. /r/circlejerk mocks these trends and by extension, reddit. They make intentionally stupid posts to parody common reddit attitudes. |
How do "mints" and companies that make special edition coins not run afoul of counterfeiting laws? | They're explicitly labeled as not being legal tender, even if it's just in microscopic text on the bottom of the screen. It's not counterfeiting if you flat out deny that what you're creating is actually money. |
What do people on reddit mean by "Cake Day"? | Your "cake day" is the birthday of your account. On that day a small cake will appear next to you account name hence the name. |
Why is it suggested not to eat a lot right before bed? | Multiple reasons. For one, you enter an energy saving state when you sleep. Your body repairs itself and conserves energy, so eating before bed can lead to weight gain. Another would be sleeping position. A large part of digestion is gravity pulling the food down. Things get caught up in the stomach when you lay on the... |
Why are Americans frequently labeling socialism as un-American when FDR's socialist New Deal programs helped solve the depression in the 1930s? | The American left would certainly make the argument that the New Deal demonstrates that we shouldn't be so scared of socialism. The right would reply that the New Deal didn't actually end the Depression. FDR has a rather complicated legacy in American politics, which that just scratches the surface of. |
Why were volcanoes so active millions of years ago and not so much now? | *Billions of years ago Earths environment was incredibly volatile after the planet first formed, over time the core has calmed down |
Why is porn more censored than violence ? | The US has a significant religious population, the main religion of which, considers sexuality and nudity as being inherently negative or inappropriate in any other context outside of heterosexual sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreationI think you should qualify that with "in the U.S." Grante... |
why do you get tears sometimes when you yawn | Cause you're compressing your face thus squeezing your tear ducts which causes them to then excrete some tears? Question mark due to knowing basic anatomy and phys and not having reviewed in awhile, just a guess on my part. I am not an expert. |
Why is it that batteries don't go dead when you connect their ends with wire? | The point is, resistance isn't around zero. A battery might have 2500mAh capacity at 1.5V. The battery itself has a resistance of about 0.2 ohms. A wire connecting both terminals might have about 0.002 ohms. According to Ohm's law, this setup will draw around 7.5 amps, or 7500mA. A 2500mAh battery can deliver 2500mA fo... |
How are coding programs coded? | They use another programming language to code up that one. And they use another language to make *that* one. And it goes on further and further back, until at some point they're writing the first text based programming language by putting punch cards in a machine. But what reads the punch cards? Go further back and the... |
Why does getting hit hurt more than getting pushed with the same energy? | Speed of energy transfer, imagine sitting in a car that speeds up to 100km vs being hit by a car that is doing 100km.Used to see this on a fishing boat in rough seas, when the deckhands were trying to get ropes around the trawl to haul it in they used to be trained to keep in close, because if the trawl snapped towards... |
How do Muslim women bear the heat of wearing a hijab or a burqa? | I asked the same question until I hiked the Grand Canyon in June. It's better to have your body covered & slightly hot than uncovered and cooking in UV radiation. Everyone in our group had long sleeves and head covering. Look at the average temperature for a July day in Yuma, Arizona. Then look at the 2007 movie [3:10 ... |
Why did television show seasons use to have 20-24 episodes, while most seasons nowadays contain 10-13 episodes? | I suspect you're comparing major network shows, which still typically have 20-24 episodes, with the more recent influx of popular shows from other sources: HBO and other premium channels, Hulu/Netflix/Amazon/etc, and BBC imports. The major network shows stick to their format because network programming is really strong... |
Why you have to pay the BBC for your TV Licence to watch programmes on ITV, CH4 etc. | Because they are all part of the same funding pool. The obviously don't know what station you are watching at any given time, so there is no way to make that distinction, or somehow split profits based on what percentage you watch one over the other. > Are there any other situations that occur where you have to pay a r... |
Why "hanged" is the correct past tense of "hang" when you are referring to an execution? Why not hung? | They started out as two separate verbs. One was what you did to another thing, and one was what the thing itself did - the picture *hung* on the wall because you *hanged* it there. Over time the two verbs merged and "hung" took over both meanings, except in the specific case of being sentenced to be "hanged by the neck... |
Is the blue I see even slightly different than the blue you see? | This is a good question! This is pretty much impossible to know or disprove because the colors we see is subjective to the processing of the brain. But yeah I guess it would be slightly different depending on age or other physical differences within the eye. Also we cannot describe the "blue" we see because there is no... |
Do dogs have object permanence? | Yes, dogs have object permanence. This is proven by the fact that if you throw a ball which goes out of sight, they will hunt for it instead of simply accepting that it no longer exists. Dogs act so excited because they are incredibly social creatures. They also tend to get pretty bored when left alone. Throw in a less... |
What is the legal justification for open container alcohol violations besides cops just wanting to write tickets? | TIL, through reading OP's comments to answers and such to his post, that OP is bitter for getting a citation for breaking the law. Stop being a baby, OP, and just suck it up. |
Why do pianos lack a black key for E# and B#? | A sharp note is just a note a half-step above the root note. F is a half step above E, therefore it's E#, but it's known as F, so we just call it F. |
What are the advantages of a duodecimal system ? Would it be worth to change the way we usually count ? | The main advantage is that 2 and 3 are factors of twelve. That means that 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, and 1/9 can all be expressed with a finite number of "decimal" digits. It also means if you have "10" dollars, it can be split evenly 2, 3, 4, or 6 ways. By comparison, in base 10, only 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/8 have a finit... |
Why do some cats look completely different from both parents and siblings? | Female cats often mate with more than one tomcat - and it's common in this situation to have kittens in the same litter which have different fathers. The mother is the same but they can and do look very different from their siblings and from what you might have thought the father was.Ok, basically every genetic sequenc... |
Lagrange Points L4, and L5, they continue to elude me. | I think a they're easier to visualize this way. Lagrange points are all at [inflection points in the curves]. L3 if shifted to either side wouldn't have balanced effects from the satellite on the opposite side of the orbit. It might be easier to conceptualize L4 and L5 points on a binary system . |
How to credit rating agencies (eg Standard & Poor) work and why are they allowed to rate countries? | The work by applying time tested principles of financial solvency to all sorts of entities, such as corporations and governments. They are allowed to rate countries because it's a matter of opinion and free speech. The ratings only matter if people have confidence in the source.They look at many factors and assess the ... |
When people describe "pathways" in the brain, what are they referring to? | The pathways refers to different routes of communication between the cells in the neuronal environment. Think of a rather large company or business. If you have a specific question or issue, you would talk to the secretary or admin for that particular department, who would then turn the question over internally to the ... |
Do Nebulas create planets and, if so, how? | First, a supernova. A star's gravity cannot hold together the constant explosions from within caused by hydrogen bonding to form helium. The star explodes, leaving behind a cloud of cosmic residue made of gas and dust. This is a "star nursery." New stars are born here. Gravity eventually pulls the gases together, mainl... |
Why does Snowden need to seek political asylum in the first place? | He broke the law by displaying classified info, also he violated his freely taken oath that come with getting a top secret security clearance. He would be arrested and questions if he returns to the USHe released classified information that he was not authorized to release to the public. Period. Full stop. |
If one were to jump into water while being completely covered in a hydrophobic coating, what would happen? | Doesn't change your density. You would still sink, or float, as you normally would in water. Objects, lik cellphones, coated in hydrophobic coating still drop to the bottom of a tank of water; they just stay dry doing it. You would stay dry, and this would probably keep you more insulated against cold water than withou... |
What would happen if the U.S. national debt was suddenly paid off? Short term and long term effects? | It is impossible to know the effects without knowing how it was paid off, and by whom. That will determine most of the impacts. |
Why do Edge (2G) seems absolutly useless now ? | Most websites are way 'heavier' now and use more bandwidth. Back when 2G was popular, mobile websites were designed in such a way to work with 2G. |
What's with the daily mass earthworm suicide on my driveway? | They try to take advantage of the cool, wet morning conditions to surface and cover longer distances. Once the sun heats up they burrow back under the topsoil before they dry out. Back in the day this was a good strategy to spread the worm population far and wide, but now they often find themselves stuck on pavement wh... |
The usage of Coefficient Variation? | Are you talking about the statistical Coefficient of Variation? If so, it is simply the ratio of the population standard deviation to the mean. It is useful for comparing the spread of different populations where the means are quite different, or the units of measurement are different. |
what are the different kind of milks? | The percent is about the amount of milkfat remaining. Whole milk stars with about 3-5% milkfat, depending on the breed of cow. Usually it's around 4%. 2% obviously has 2% milkfat remaining, and skim is almost no fat. edit: meant 3-5%, not 3-6%", 'They're all entirely milk. The classes of milk refer to the butterfat con... |
What are DNA, genes, and chromosomes and where are they located in the cells? | Okay, so here's the breakdown: DNA is the building block of the other two. It is comprised of a double helix of four possible base chemicals attached to a backbone. A "gene" is a sequence of DNA that provides instructions to make a protein or a bit of other material. A chromosome is one incredibly long molecule of DNA.... |
Is there an explanation for when you're watching a movie you've already seen 20 times and then all of the sudden you come across a scene you have no recollection of at all? | Sometimes when movies are broadcast on TV they add in scenes that were cut from the theatrical release.Yeah, it's because your kids watched it so many times, and after a while you find that its been on your television 24/7 for the past month, but you've been blocking it out so you don't have a complete mental breakdown... |
Why does high blood glucose cause nerve damage? | The endothelial cells lining the blood vessels take in more glucose than normal, forming more glycoproteins on their surface than usual. This causes the basement membrane to grow thicker and weaker. The walls of the vessels become thicker and weaker than normal, resulting in bleeding, leaking of protein, and slowing bl... |
Why doesn't the government just legalize drugs? | Financially, politically and 'morally.' A big piece is the infrastructure that has been set up to supplement the 'war on drugs.' DEA and other agencies, as well as local law enforcement, employ many people and purchase and use new technologies to 'fight.' I'm not trying to imply there is some conspiracy, there's just a... |
How would a blind person hallucinate on a psychedelic drug? | They would still experience all the non-visual effects such as time dilation, euphoria, strange physical sensations, possibly auditory hallucinations. If they had not been blind all their lives, they might possibly still have some type of visual hallucinations . I was with a blind dude for a couple years and he used to... |
What makes people allergic to certain things? | There are a bunch of hypotheses but it doesn't look like there is a straightforward answer .genetics, environment, up-bringing, environment in the womb, repeated exposure .all these things could play a factor in making someone react to a foreign, but harmless protein. |
Why can my eyes smoothly follow an object in motion, but when there is no object to follow (like staring at a wall), my eyes skip focus from point to point? | We have evolved a specific tracking system for our eyes, [smooth pursuit] for tracking moving objects. A component of smooth pursuit is feedback from the optical system to the brain, to allow it to predict the movement we are tracking. Without that feedback most people cannot kick off smooth pursuit modeThe "jumpy" mot... |
Why is it that dash lights in a car seem to last forever, and normal light bulbs "burn out" after a period of time? | Okay, well the brightness of a filament bulb depends on the size of the filament and how much voltage you shove through it. The more voltage you run through a filament, the hotter it gets, the more light it produces, and the more fragile it is and shorter the lifespan. Dashboard bulbs run less voltage than normal for a... |
Why is bullying all of the sudden a hot-button national issue? | It's mostly because of Cyberbullying. I'm currently in secondary school and we spend about one class a week learning about it.I think in 30 years people will say, "seriously, people used to allow children to torture other children? Really, parents would watch their children go to school afraid, and come home miserable,... |
Why does a shot in the heart = absolute immediate death? | The death isn't immediate - what you're seeing in a movie is just that - just a movie. Until the brain is starved of oxygen and eventually shuts down, you'd still be alive.It depends. Sometimes the shock means you lose consciousness immediately. Other times there is a very short time before the lack of blood to the bra... |
I know that passports take a while to come, but what is the fastest way to get one? | You can pay extra for expedited service, which bumps your passport to the top of the line and gets it processed faster. Go to your local passport issuing authority and ask about itYou can get same day passports in Chicago. The faster you want it, the more expensive. _URL_1_ step by step: _URL_0_ |
Why are car insurance companies allowed to charge based on age and gender? | Because statistically men under the age of 25 are the most likely to get into an accident. A young driver is inexperienced and that can cause them to make stupid decisions that get them into crashes. Young men are generally more reckless then young women. This means that young men are more likely to get into an acciden... |
How do "they" calculate how many jobs were gained or lost in the economy? | [The Bureau of Labor Statistics does monthly surveys.] Their sample is a data set of 147,000 businesses, and they rotate about 55k of those each year. Initially, they do phone interviews, and after a few months let firms self report. Since the IRS gets a nearly-complete set of that data as part of tax collection anyway... |
How was it decided which word represents each letter in the military alphabet? | From [Wikipedia - ]The ICAO developed this system in the 1950s The final choice of code words for the letters of the alphabet and for the digits was made after hundreds of thousands of comprehension tests involving 31 nationalities. The qualifying feature was the likelihood of a code word being understood in the contex... |
How is Apple Pay or Samsung Pay Safer Than Using a Credit Card? | Unlike a mag stripe, wireless phone payment methods do not send your actual card number to the payment system, they send a one-time, cryptographically generated token instead. This means, even if the vendor stores the transaction in their computers, the information is useless after the transaction is complete. Similar ... |
Why can both heat and cold be used to treat pain? What are the differences between their effects? | Cold causes blood vessels to constrict, so cold is usually used in immediate injuries to help prevent excessive swelling. Less swelling means less pressure on the area which can lessen pain. Cold can also have a numbing effect on nerves to dull the pain. Heat on the other hand causes blood vessels to expand, increasing... |
How do college campuses support fast wifi speeds across a huge area and among so many people? | Massive numbers of access point relays, routers, and switches. A given access point can handle 5-10 people at decent speeds and it is hardline wired to a router or switch that can handle 10-30 access points. These are then connected to the main servers of the campus which in turn connect the campus internet main line h... |
Will Google Chrome In Cognito mode protect my IT admins from viewing my browsing history at work? | No. It even says so on the page it opens. > Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Think of it this way. In order for Person A to talk to Person C, they must pass the message through Person B. Person B reads every message they get, and makes a copy of it to store in a giant f... |
Why do lipids have hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions? | well depends on the lipid. i assume your talking about phospholipids in the cell membrane. the hydrophobic region acts as a protective barrier between the inner and outer cell-so that everything within the extracellular fluid can't just seep right into the cell. In layman's terms the cell can "select" what goes in and ... |
How do automated ice makers work? | Water goes into a tray and freezes, turning into ice.The tray then empties into a large container.Water goes into empty tray and forms more ice.Repeat until you have lots of ice. Press button or open container for ice stockpile. |
Why do you feel a bad taste in your mouth when you drink water after eating pineapple? | I can't really comment on the taste of water after pineapple, but I can say pineapple contains the same chemical you find in meat tenderizer. I once bought a cheap ass cut of beef and marinaded it in pineapple juice, and forgot about it for a week. When I finally got to it to cook it, the meat had dissolved into a sort... |
how come there are no primates in Europe or North America compared to Africa,Asia and South America? | There are. Barbary macaques in Gibraltar and howler monkeys are in southern Mexico/Yucatan. From the fossil record they used to be more extensive in Europe and North America but climate change caused the destruction of their habitat. North America wasn't connected to South America yet and the surviving ones were in Sou... |
How Does Guitar Pricing Work? | Im an adept guitar player, and i can honestly say no two guitars sound the same, while close they are unique. That guitar i believe is a hollow body, i have the same type different brand, they generally have a a brighter sound. What determines the price is how nice does it sound, brand, size, distance from fret to stri... |
Whenever I hold my nose and blow out to pop my ears, what is actually happening? | What happens is that air pressure from your mouth wants to be equal to the pressure that is in your ear, so some air goes from your mouth through small canals into your ears and the pressure rises. This is also done when you are in an airplane and you "yawn" to make that weird feeling go away in your ears. no, this is ... |
If I don't consume more calories than what is recommended for my height/weight/age but eat junk food like pizza etc. is it still unhealthy? | With the right toppings, pizza could supply you with everything your body needs, but if it's only ham and cheese, you'll eventually be lacking some important nutrients and develop nasty conditions like scurvy. A more immdiate problem is that "eating the right amount of calories, just in the form of junk food" is a very... |
If you can get the same degree from any college, why does it matter which college you go to? | You're paying for 3 main things in my opinion. The quality of the educator. Your professors at a lower tier school may just know how to regurgitate the information they know back at you where a top tier school will have you being taught by professors and doctoral candidates who are currently contributing to the field. ... |
Why does part 15 of the FCC Rules demand that the device accept any interference received, including [when it] may cause undesired operation? | That doesn't mean you can't shield it. It means you have to live with whatever gets through, and can't complain to the FCC about interference . If the device isn't working right with interference, it's a design flaw of the device, not the fault of whoever's interfering.Part 15 describes requirements for *unlicensed* de... |
why is Adobe Flash regarded as 'obsolete'? How are people going to replace it? | Flash has a lot of "legacy code." Legacy code is code from older versions that is kept for backwards compatibility. Flash has been around since 1995, which means it was through a lot of changes as the web changed. This stuff is useless for 99.9999% of the web and since it's so large and complicated, it's filled with se... |
Something I don't understand about the anti-vaccine movement. Why is potential autism worse than measels, mumps, polio, smallpox, etc? | Nobody in the US know anyone who died to one of those diseases. Autism is real and present. Many parents don't want to believe that random fate has left their child autistic, so blaming someone feels good. So when confronted with the vague threat of diseases people don't even see anymore, versus the chance to say "its ... |
How come obese people don't have strong leg muscles | They do. An example being in a P.E class I took over the summer. Had a 200 - 230 pounds guy in there, who could bench/lift/squat what have you about three times as much as me, and him never having lifted a weight in his life. ', "It depends on how much those obese people actually stand up and walk around. There are obe... |
Why hydraulic? Also how does the water seal work? | A pump is a motor. The advantage of hydraulics is the motor doesn't need to be right where the force is needed or connected with a rigid structure. You can route the force anywhere you can route a hydraulic line. |
What is grass? Is each blade a plant? Does this mean a field is thousands of individual plants or one big plant? | Each blade is a leaf. Grass plant can have many leaves. So no not every blade is a different plantTurfgrass major here. A field of grass, ie. a golf course, contains many individual plants. However, not every blade represents a single plant |
Why are there so many clones of the same game on the play store | Game mechanics can't be patented. As long as the exact art assets aren't used, anyone can make a game similar to any other. |
How do AI bots work? | The details will vary from game to game, and engine to engine; obviously you can't take an AI from a racing game and expect it to do well in Call of Duty. But I will try to keep this general. Most games give bots a set number of behaviours to follow, and then a decision tree to decide what behaviour to follow. The actu... |
How most animals get older even though cells "reproduce"? | We get old because we are programmed to. From an evolutionary perspective, a species can only adapt to its environment over time if the old generation dies and makes way for the new generation after reproducing. A species in which the older generation never aged and died wouldn't be able to evolve; the environment woul... |
what causes someone to develop a strong connection to someone, and what causes sadness/being hurt when rejected by the person. | imagine you were building a house from bricks, whole bunch of bricks, some small, some large, altogether they make up the house now imagine you remove one of the large bricks. if it's a foundational brick the whole house might fall apart and need to be rebuilt, if it's just part of the facade it will none the less leav... |
Why do a lot of full-screen applications on Windows have so much trouble with minimization? (i.e. alt tab) | When a game goes fullscreen it is granted something exclusive access to the relevant graphics resources. This allows it to perform better as it doesn't have to think about resource sharing, or competing with other applications for the resources. However when you alt-tab you revoke the exclusive privilege, which means t... |
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