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Why can my phone's speakers play music completely fine but make conversation unintelligible when I'm using speaker phone? | Well, phone calls are using the other person's mic, so if they aren't talking loud/close enough, it'll be hard to understand them. Second, cell phone calls are very low quality, 16Kbps I believe. VoIP services like FaceTime Audio uses about 50Kbps. |
Why is Russia strongarming Nordic countries to avoid joining NATO? | What are you talking about? The only Nordic countries that aren't in NATO are Sweden and Finland, and both of those countries have had an other-than-NATO defense strategy for decades, and no serious plans to change that. |
Why is food tasteless when we're sick? | Your taste is also influenced by your smell, so when you're sick, your sinuses may not be completely open to what you're eating and you can't smell the food as good, therefore causing this tastelessness. |
What role did China play in WWII? | both the CPC and KMT had been at civil war since 1927 _URL_0_ japan started subtly invading china in the early 1930s, though it went full blown by 1937 _URL_1_ basically, CPC and KMT fought together against the japanese a la guerilla warfare until the japanese surrender to the allies in 1945. there was small help back ... |
How do artificial neural networks work and how do machines learn? | A single neuron in an artificial neural network is just a thing that has some number of inputs and outputs that are either "on" or "off". The "weight" of each input is some number. If the sum of the weights of the inputs exceeds some value, you trigger the outputs. Those outputs can be the inputs to other layers of neu... |
How do airlines get my bag to my destination? | Inside a modern airport is a massive network of conveyor belts that take the luggage from the check in counter to the area where the baggage handlers are. As the baggage travels down the belt, pneumatic pushers or gates redirect the bags into different belts that redirect the bag to the proper staging area. From the st... |
Why is it that no matter what time I set my alarm clock for in the moring, I will always wake up a couple of minutes before it is due to go off? | Your inner clock is like "Ey bro, something around now it's time to get up!". And apparently it works pretty well for you, as it does for me. I wake up minutes before the alarm goes off, and I love it. Wake up from this BEEP BEEP BEEP is not the nicest thing, you know |
How did Shakespeare go from being the theater of the common rabble during his time to high culture that's practically mandatory in modern education? | One of the things that we like to teach is historical patterns of thought and the origins of our own traditions. In Shakespeare's time, those histories and origins were the Greek Epics, which formed the foundation of all literature, as well as both Greek and Medieval philosophers. Shakespeare invented a lot of the stor... |
why humans (and mammals in general) don't poop and pee out of one hole like birds and lizards. | TL:DR - It's literally just the way our tracts work. Birds and lizards have completely different systems than humans. When you drink something or eat food with fluids, it gets absorbed into your body to get the nutrients and is flushed through the kidneys into the bladder. The solid mass of food you eat that isn't abso... |
Why is it so much cheaper to have apparel goods manufactured overseas vs domestic shops? | Because what factories pay a worker in a third-world country is far less than a unionized textile worker will make in the United States.Firstly, the manufacturing process is much cheaper overseas for a number of reason. Mainly it all is based on labor. Salaries are lower, so farming the plants and animals used to make ... |
When i type a network path in the bowser (eg. \\localmachine\Public), it lists the folders with a simple HTML and CSS. Where is this coming from? | It's built into the browser. For example, if you're using Chrome, look at the source for the page // Copyright 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. /** * @fileoverview This is a simple template engine insp... |
what is the difference between REST & SOAP web services? | A SOAP web service has a very structured request and response. Data types, required fields, etc., are all defined in a WSDL that you can consume with your application to automatically build the entire request structure. All of it goes over HTTP POST methods. The entire web service has a single endpoint that covers many... |
Why France and Germany keep their borders open despite the recent terror attacks in their country but other countries around them have decided to close their borders. | One reason is to help trade and everyday life go on as normal. Another is to not show fear to the attackers. Remember that as you close borders and become more authoritarian about border control, your own citizens suffer most and become disgruntled with the government. That is more of a worry than a few terrorist attac... |
Why do our toes taper down in size? | The big toe is a left over from our days as apes. Their feet were shaped more like our modern hands and the big toe functioned like a thumb, allowing us to grip onto branchs to avoid falling. [Human vs Chimp foot] Although good in trees, this wasn’t useful when our ancestors switched to standing and walking on two feet... |
How do allergies to animal fur work? | An allergic reaction is just our immune system trying to attack what it percieves to be a foreign threat to your body. Usually people develop allergies to things because they either weren't exposed to it enough when they were young or genetic reasons. Your body perceives the animal hair as a potential foreign body atte... |
What is a mental/nervous breakdown and what does it feel like? | Psychology degree here. There is no such thing as a "nervous breakdown". It's not a real scientific thing. It's what some people call it when they freak out or start crying or start making bad decisions, but it's not a diagnosable thing with a standard set of symptoms or anything like that. |
why is "nonsensical" a word, but "sensical" isn't. | Language evolution is a bit like biological evolution - there's no intelligently designed plan behind how we 've gotten to where we are, it's just a long, continual process of tiny mutations in use that sometimes survive and spread throughout the speakers of a language, while others don't. So, sometimes we end up with ... |
Last night I woke over 15 times, and every single time I continued to have the same dream. What happened? | There's a chance you didn't wake up at all and that was all part of the dream. Even your bathroom trip ", 'Ive had this happen to me too. I wake up extremely tired because of the broken sleep and often feel some sort of frustration or anxiety for the duration of the dream, even though im not an easily frustrated or anx... |
Why can we reattach a severed limb if we keep that limb in a cold place but a decapitation is basically an instant kill? | The vital bodily functions of breathing and to a lesser degree even heartbeat depend on the brain's input. On the other hand the brain depends strongly on oxygenated blood delivered at a certain pressure , which it gets fron the heart through the major vessels in your neck. The brain has a very high demand for energy a... |
why do people say sitting close to the tv can damage your eyes? Can it actually damage them? | It's an old wives tale and it doesn't do anything to your vision. It should be noted though, that in children, it can also be a sign that the child has vision problems and cannot see from a far distance. |
How do the maximum occupancies of buildings get determined (in the U.S.)? | I'm not a civil engineer, but I'm pretty sure a combination of the structural capacity of the building and the ventilation capabilities of the HVAC system. I'm pretty sure there's a plug and chug formula they use. |
How did humans come to value Gold so highly? Just because it's pretty? | Gold has a number of characteristics that make it useful as money: * Gold is fungible. So any ounce of gold is very replaceable with any other ounce of gold. Take diamonds for example as another rare shiny mineral with unique properties, some have inclusions, some have less color, some are naturally larger crystals, et... |
Why do i need to wash my hands after using the bathroom? What's the worst that can reasonably be expected to happen? | This is the best explanation I've seen: _URL_0_ And you can find sourced documents on the internet pretty easily. Basically, your, ah, groin area is a breeding ground for all sorts of bacteria, but the bacteria really doesn't travel so it's normally not an issue. And when you wash down there, it gets rid off all the su... |
What's the scientific explanation for the head/spine/skin shivers we get when we listen to beautiful music? | I think it is because music is a puzzle and are brain rewards us for trying to solve the puzzle. We shiver because we just got a blast of dopamine. Source: _URL_0_ |
Why do some large knives and cleavers have holes in the blade? Would the knife be less effective if the hole wasn't present, or in a different location? | It's for hanging it on the wall or butchers block. Often these sizes won't fit in a drawer or knife magnet. Hope this helps.if you are talking about knifes like [this], then it is to stop things like potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes from sticking to the bladeIN addition to haning it on something, holes are put into man... |
Why do thunderstorms tend to happen in the late afternoon as opposed to any other time of day/night? | Late afternoon thunderstorms are more common in hot, humid areas than elsewhere . The heat throughout the day causes a lot of water to evaporate. Hot air can hold more moisture than cold air . As the hot air rises, carrying this humidity with it, it meets cooler air above and starts to cool off. Also, later in the day ... |
Why do stars and planets spin? | Stars and planets form in the collapse of huge clouds of interstellar gas and dust. The material in these clouds is in constant motion, and the clouds themselves are in motion, orbiting in the aggregate gravity of the galaxy. As a result of this movement, the cloud will most likely have some slight rotation as seen fro... |
What is the purpose of Nielsen | They gather info on TV habits. One household equates to 200,000 households, if memory serves. The FCC pretty much owns the top floor of their headquarters, you can't get in without a special badge and even then the floors are guarded. It's for advertising, the government, anyone who wants to know who was watching what ... |
Why after I wear my glasses for an extended period of time, my eyesight is significantly worse when I take them off? | Most likely, your eyesight isn't significantly worse--it's just that you notice that things are blurry. When you're wearing your glasses, your brain gets used to the sharp focus and tells your brain that's normal. When you take off your glasses your brain says, "woah, this is very blurry". If you are not wearing your g... |
How do creators of free / open-source applications make money? | Many free applications include advertising which generates money for the creators of the application. Other times, the people develop these applications out of the kindness of your heart, as you said. |
Bronze age - did it all kick off at the same time across the globe and how? | Metal work has been around long before bronze was discovered. Bronze is a mixture of copper and tin at a rate of roughly 10 or 9 to 1 that makes for a much sturdier metal than either of these in their pure forms. Maybe this discovery was made by accident, maybe it was intentional experimenting to achieve different colo... |
How do drugs like Gas-X work in your body? Its not like a pill is able to turn gas into not-gas or make it magically disappear. | Simethicone works differently that you may think it does. It doesn't simply disappear the gas bubbles, it makes the little gas bubbles become a bigger one. When this happens, the tension of the bubbles decreases and the gas is much easier to pass either as flatulence or burping. |
How do people in movies always know how hard to hit to knock a person unconscious, but not kill them? Is that even a reliable thing in real life? | Knocking someone out generally causes enough damage to the brain where they need to receive medical attention right away. More specifically, hitting someone hard enough to knock them out is more likely to kill them than cause them to just wake up hours later with nothing more than a minor headache. It is definitely pos... |
What makes DDOSing so hard to prevent? | A quote from /u/MisterMrErik on the subject: "A DDoS is not a virus. Imagine a game like League of Legends like a McDonald's drive-thru. You show up, you ask the server for something and you use their services.Now imagine a group of 10-15 hooligans decide that they just want to drive through the drive-thru, say "I don'... |
What are the differences between satellite radio and AM/FM radio? What exactly makes one better than the other? | The difference is in the transmission. AM and FM are broadcast from towers and have a limited range; it's usually difficult to receive a terrestrial radio station more than 100 miles away. Satellite radio is, as the name implies, sent over satellite. It has a much, much wider reach. But it's more expensive to do that, ... |
Ordinary people who are obsessed with celebrities | Middle aged, rich, suburban, women. And their SO when their SO is talking about itI 've always thought it was because people get bored with their lives and feel the need to "live" someone else's. Some people do celebrities, others do books.When you watch someone a lot, you start to feel like you know them. They become,... |
How do movie companies know when their movies are being pirated? | Because these are often shared by torrents. The studios go to the torrent sites and start to download the movies. They note the IPs that are sending them pieces of the movie . The studios look to see who owns the netblock, and then contacts the ISPs, who will know which customer had that IP address at that time. |
How our major cities would get electricity without using coal to boil the water at nearly every electricity plant? | I don't think he's correct. According to [this], globally only 40% of our power is coal. [In the united states, stats are similar]. As much as I don't want to rag on the guy, his future as a coal miner is not looking great. Coal usage is going down, and next up in line for stuff we can burn is oil and natural gas. The ... |
How come I take over an hour to fall asleep while others only need a couple of minutes? | This won't be a very technical explanation. Whenever I have trouble falling asleep, the reason is usually anxiety about something or many things, including not being able to fall asleep. The times that i fall asleep quickly are whenever I just don't care about anything. |
why is diesel engines considered more efficient compared to gasoline engines? | It's not just considered; they *are* more efficient. The advantage comes down to a thing called compression ratio, which is the difference in cylinder volume between bottom dead center and top dead center . The short version is that it is a thermodynamic **certainty** that the higher your compression ratio, the more ef... |
Why are cows so sacred in India that they cannot be slaughtered and beef cannot be eaten there | It's part of Hindu culture, not Indian. Muslims eat beef. You don't find cow temples or anything, people do not pray to cows nor are cows given a pimped out life. It is simply considered bad to kill or harm a cow. It has a lot to do with them providing milk. It's similar to how the USA treats bald eagles. |
Why can't a battery be charged instantly? | Several reasons. 1. The pipe that fills it would have to be huge. 2. The chemistry of the battery takes time to go from a discharged to charged state . Along #1, imagine a car battery typically ~50Ah @ 12V. To charge it instantly you need to feed 50Ah worth of current into it in an instant [say a second]. So that's 360... |
Why would gas stations right across the street from each other charge drastically different prices? Likewise, why would they charge the same exact price? | Different brands have different pricing they charge to retailers. The major national brands, such as chevron, shell, 76, tend to be the highest mark-up. Discounters and independents are usually cheaper. Finally the biggest factor. The cost of operating a location, one might have a very old lease, or owned the property ... |
Why do we call 3D functions "vector functions" and call its output "a set of vectors"? | Not really. However you think about it, you 've got a function of 3 variables that returns a 3-variable output: [u,v,w] = F In some applications , interpreting the output as a set of new points in space is appropriate. But for many applications, it's not. For instance, [u,v,w] could be the components of wind velocity a... |
Why do we get butterflies in our stomach? | When you get anxious, your muscles tense and become hyper-sensitive as part of the body's fight or flight response. You feel it in your stomach more because there of the vast amount of neurons linking the stomach to brain. |
Why do they treat tobacco for cigarettes? | Depends where you are in the process. Tobacco is treated with pesticides and herbicides in the field. This is fairly standard for commercial crops of all kinds, unless specifically stated otherwise. Common tobacco pesticides include aldicarb and chlorpyrifos, which is an organophosphate. [Here] is a list of some common... |
what's the difference between antibacterial soap, and just soap? | Regular soap doesn't necessarily kill germs, but it allows water to wash them away. All soap contains antibacterial agents, usually triclosan, but only enough to keep the soap from getting fucked up. Antibacterial soap contains more. There isn't much evidence for regular antibacterial soap being any more effective than... |
Why do dogs crave human touch? | Dogs are pack animals and they crave contact with pack members. If they are domesticated humans, in particular their owners, are their packPetting seems to be fairly universally enjoyed by animals that trust the human touching them. See seals, birds, lizards, etc. |
Why do old cars need antennas for a good radio signal but new cars do not. | not all new cars don't have antennas. Some new cars will have an antenna mounted to the inside of the rear window, it will be a little black circle or rectangle with a wire disappearing into the cars bodywork. Other cars will have the antenna embedded into the cars rear window itself. |
If light goes from nothing to light speed instantly, is there a deceleration rate of light in a black hole? | No, time dilates to maintain the speed of light. The gravitational time dilation formula is the closest approximation to what you're looking for. > Is it correct to assume that if light doesn't slow, it goes at light speed in an orbit around said black hole this maintaining speed but not escaping? Light doesn't slow, b... |
What makes a great photgrapher? | There is not a short descriptive answer to this. Just like it's easier to listen to some music and explain why that piece is good, it's generally easier to have a certain photo and explain why that is good. Photography can, to some degree, be compared with music. Where the camera quality is similar to production qualit... |
What is the purpose of imaginary numbers? | Imaginary numbers can be used together with real numbers to count rotations. quarter turns can be counted by using powers of the imaginary number *i* 1/4 turn 1/2 turn 3/4 turn 1 full turn i, i^, i^, i^4 any fraction of a turn can then be counted using the more complicated e^ where the t is the fraction of a turn. So i... |
Why are some jalapeños hotter than others? | The heat in a jalapeño comes from capsaicin which is concentrated in the membrane surrounding the seeds in the pepper. Easiest way to understand it us more seeds = more heat. This is why jalapeños aren't as hot if you core them . The heat of a pepper can also be affected by the weather during the growing season as well... |
Why do brownie corners taste better than brownie centers? | Brownie center lovers are going to debate you on this, but the reason is because the brownie edges simply taste different due to a process called a [maillard reaction].Off topic, but who would want that shriveled up crunch edge? I'd much rather have a gooey, decadent middle slice. |
Why do pizza places charge a delivery fee and not give any of it to drivers? | The note is there to instruct you that the fee is not a tip, and you should still tip your driver. The delivery fee is to make a couple extra bucks on each delivery for profit and to account for the real cost of doing business that delivering a pizza takes. |
What is a "Bloomberg Terminal" exactly? What makes it different than other stock trading software, like ETrade? | The Bloomberg terminal is real-time, you can see every transaction as it occurs. It's not delayed, or the eTrade subset of transactions. Does this make a difference to you? One could argue yes or no. However, the folks at Bloomberg have spent a lot of money to make a network that will feed your terminal all the informa... |
ELI5:why is 18 considered the age when you become an adult(not 17 or 19 or 20)? | "In the Middle Ages 21 was considered the age of adulthood because that’s when young men were capable of wearing a full suit of armor. 21 stuck until the 20th century. The need for soldiers for WWII, Korea, and Vietnam wars saw 18 years olds drafted and an outcry that they could serve their country but not vote. This l... |
How does the body know how much blood it needs to regenerate? | Your kidney has sensors for oxygen. Most oxygen in the blood. is carried in the red blood cells. If the oxygen readings fall below a certain level, the kidney produces a proportional amount of a hormone . This hormone causes the bone marrow to make more red blood cells . As more RBC's are made, the oxygenation improves... |
Why is poverty level related to diabetes risk? | Type 2 diabetes has a lifestyle attribute to it. That means that in many cases a person's lifestyle can have an effect on their chances of developing the disease. When you consume large amounts of carbohydrates it puts pressure on your pancreas to produce insulin. You also start to develop **insulin resistance**. You a... |
why cats hang open their mouths a bit when they smell something odd | Not an expert, but cats have something called a jacobsons organ or vomeronasal organ located on the roof of their mouth. It is particularly good at detecting pheromones. Breathing through the open mouth would expose the organs to more of the the chemical in the air. The flehmen response is the funny face they make to d... |
Why do pills have to have inactive ingredients? | - preservatives/stabilisers so the medicine doesn't become ineffective once the package is opened- things that prevent the active ingredient being absorbed too quickly/ before they reach a certain point in your digestive system- things that make it easier to be absorbed/processed properly - shiny coating so it's easy t... |
Why is there such a stigma about suicide/suicidal thoughts/suicidal actions? | It provoke emotions of hurt, confusion, denial, guilt, grieve etc. Because of that stigma many people don't seek advice and help.Many people view suicide in terms of the mess it causes, not in terms of the pain that causes someone to consider or do it. Many people see it as selfish because, after the individual is gone... |
The Bioshock Infinite Ending(Prolly gonna be spoilers... As in definitely gonna be spoilers... so you could also inform me how to make spoiler tags for bonus points...) | Comstock only exists because Booker, racked with guilt over the events that took place at Wounded Knee, accepts his baptism as a means of becoming reborn and absolving himself of the sins he committed. This explains the radical racism in Columbia because Booker is able to justify the massacre as something the Indians d... |
What is this character: ¬ and why on earth does it deserve its own key? | It means "not" in math. You stick it at the beginning of a sentence to mean the opposite. For example, "¬0=1" means that it's not true that zero equals one. [Here's the wikipedia page.] |
Why are games from Japanese developers notoriously difficult/or include a difficulty setting higher than most games? | I can't say with certainty, but I would conjecture that it ties into Japanese culture similarly to some of their ridiculously hard game shows. If you've ever seen Ninja Warrior or some of the more obscure Japanese game shows, their difficulty is all kinds of insane. |
Why have there been no supersonic commercial passenger jets since the Concord? | It's extremely expensive to design, build, and maintain such an aircraft, it's extremely limited on where and when it can fly, and the number of people willing to pay that much extra money to shave several hours off a transatlantic flight time just isn't high enough to justify those expenditures. When it was still oper... |
How is Earth's electromagnetic field created? | To check for a magnetic field buy a compass. Or you can do the stroke a needle and float it trick. The Earth has a lot of iron in it. Iron is a ferromagnetic substance. That means iron is magnetic. The Earth is molten inside. We check that by observing volcanos, measuring increasing temperatures deep in wells and mines... |
This year, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving fall on the same day and apparently this won't happen again for another 80,000 years. Why is it so rare and why 80,000 years? | You already said it. A lunar year is simply shorter, about 354 days, which is not the about 365 days the solar year is. Since they are based off different standards, the dates do not always coincide. There are corrections every few years for the slight differernces between the length of the day and year, which keep the... |
Why is anal extremely painful to some, "weird" feeling to some, and pleasurable to others? | It really isn't painful to anyone, just extremely uncomfortable. It can be pleasurable to *every* male person, simply by stimulating the prostate. If you are anxious about it and tense it will be more uncomfortable in the rectum. A majority of it is psychological but physiological differences including proper lubricati... |
Why don't rich people fund projects themselves? | never spend your own money when people will give you theirs', "What's interesting is how far this has made it towards the front page with so few comments. It's pretty clear OP has a bias, but in an attempt to conceal it he relates his concept to something fairly ambiguous in what I perceive to be an attempt to change t... |
Why do some countries use daylight savings and is there a real need for us to use it? | Without DST, in London the sun would rise at 3.45am. That "wastes" a lot of daylight when most people are asleep. Applying DST "moves" an hour of daylight from early morning to the evening, when more people are awake. Originally, the motivation was to reduce the fuel needed for heating and lighting in the evening. You ... |
How come when I am laying in bed at night and left with my thoughts I want to start working proactively in my life, but when I wake up I couldn't care less? | It's the difference between living "idealistically," which can stay a dream, and actually doing the hard work it takes to make those dreams come true. When you lay in bed thinking, tomorrow seems like forever away. When it's morning, the hardships of reality kick inI 'd assume it would have to do with the fact that it'... |
Why do blenders have to be so noisy? | The blender is grinding and chopping, the blades whipping around at crazy speeds. That going to produce sound. The grinding and chopping, etc, is going to make a racket. Regarding this racket, the density of the blender container is not going to be very thick, or made with an aim to keep everything quiet. The simple an... |
How do restaurants, pubs, etc. process credit/debit card "tips". | When you give them your card, they put a temporary authorization on it to verify that the card is valid and has funds available. After you've filled in your tip amount, they simply bill you for the total , which is what shows up on your statement. |
On computers running Windows, how can an empty folder take up 0 bytes? Surely the disk has some trace of the folder there, even if there's nothing in it? | Part of the reason you buy a 60GB hard drive and don't get the full 60GB is that some of that space is sectioned off for information that manages the file system. The space for file system information is fixed, and you can't store things in it. The folder would be an entry in the file system data, and not be present on... |
I'm playing Batman Arkham Origins while I'm also downloading a large file to the same HDD that Batman is stored in. How does the HDD simultaneously read Batman while writing the download files? | Most computers dont actually do anything at the same time. They just do one thing at a time fast enough that it appears that everything is happening at once. Also the game only reads from the hdd when it loads or saves something. Your current game is running in RAM. The computer accesses RAM for multiple processes one ... |
How can debt be good for a country? | Debt can be useful for sovereign nations that can borrow in their own currency. This is because you can borrow to invest in socially useful infrastructure that increases GDP and eventually generates more income and a higher standard of living. Now in terms of repayment, if you've borrowed in your own currency you will ... |
Why can I have 500gb/month of bandwidth at home while I'm only allowed 2gb/month of bandwidth on my phone? & What would they have to do to increase it? | I'm no expert, but, I think they limit you to 2gb/month simply because they can. Just like why do many cell plans still have limited minutes. They can. :/ Greed. |
How is DNA affected (if at all) by transplants? The first penis and scrotum transplant seems successful- will his ejaculate be his DNA, the donors, or a mixture of both? | The patient in question lost his genitals and part of his lower abdomen by stepping on a hidden explosive. The transplant replaced the muscle, skin, the scrotum and the penis. The testes were not transplanted as that would be unethical. Therefore the patient will be able to get erections and to ejaculated but will not ... |
Do Amish people have birth certificates and other and other identifying information? | Usually, yes. Many even own cars, though they often pay non-Amish people to drive them around. Depends on how conservative the group is. |
How does a house way up on a hill getting running water | We have a well. It's water is moved to ground-level by an electric pump. My pump can move water upwards a certain number of feet , so if I run all my garden hoses up the hills too far it will wear out the pump to compensate for the elevation change.Yeah it’s pretty much pumped up at a high PSI.Basically it pumped towar... |
The difference between Capitalism, Objectivism, Neo-/Libertarianism. | Capitalism is a term which solely identifies an economic system. It is generally used pretty broadly to describe a "free-market" system. This means that there are little to no government controls over the economy. Most real-world economies are nowhere near a pure capitalist system, but first world countries are still u... |
What is the threshold for what defines illegal monopolies in American business? At what point is a business too big proportionally? | It depends on how they use that monopoly. Are they using it to put the product's price above what is reasonable? Are they using a monopoly in one area to force customers to use their product in other areas? Are they using illegal means to maintain their monopoly? Medicine companies are getting into trouble by doing the... |
What actually goes down at Burning Man? | Everything. Ever wanted to weld a robot out of scrap metal? Ride that unicycle of yours around while wearing nothing but a top hat? Try out that bitching steampunk costume? Burning man. The point of the festival is to express yourself - be it via riding unicycles or getting high as a kite. [Here] is an album of all sor... |
why biodegradable plastic is taking so long to develop and mass-produce? | Because you need to make it degrade while buried in landfills and not only when exposed to the sun which current ones do. More importantly you need it to do that in a reasonable time while *not* falling apart on the shelf. |
Is shredded cheese bad if it starts to smell like feet? And if not, why? | Cheese essentially is milk which is let to spoil in a controlled way, so cheeses have many chemical odors also present in smelly feet. For example Limburger cheese gets some of its smell from bacteria in the cheese, and the same bacteria also lives on human skin, and contribute to smelly feet. In cultures where cheese ... |
Why are flat head and Phillips head screws both so common? Why is there not one go-to standard? | Because flat and phillips are both garbage. The Robertson screw is the one you want my friend. Stays on the end of your bit, provides great grip, and attractive to boot.Flat head screws allow for more torque to be put on the screw head without stripping the screw but it is not self centering so it's harder to get the s... |
If it really is so easy to DDos XBL/PSN. Why aren't more people doing it? | becouse it requeres huge botnet and its criminal activity. thats like saying if its so easy to shoot a person, why more people arent doing it.It's exactly as easy as it is to get a bot-net. A DDoS only works if you have more bandwidth than the target. Since you don't want to lead people to your house, and you don't lik... |
Why aren't kitchens designed so that they are on the upper floors of a house instead of the ground floor? | It is much easier and cheaper to place all of those heavy appliances and the gas/water piping that feeds into them on a lower floor. I don't know if your hypothesis has been studied extensively, but I, personally, kind of doubt having a kitchen on the upper floor of a house vs a lower floor would wildly impact the risk... |
What's the difference between a scripting language and a coding language? | 'Coding language' is a bit of a broad and ambiguous term. It could refer to all programming languages, but is sometimes used more specifically to refer to more traditional / compiled programming languages like C, C++, etc. where you write the code for your program at a lower level and then compile it to machine code . ... |
How come I've never heard anything from Mongolia? | Because Monglia has a population of under 3 million and a tiny economy. It's also landlocked and surrounded by much larger neighbors. It basically has no international profile. |
How do musicians 'make it'? | I love ‘Behind The Music’ type shows, and the common thread is they wanted it more, they were willing to work really hard to get there, and they had some talent. You very rarely see an artist or band that just kind of fell into it. |
Can someone ELI5 how radiometric dating works? | I'm going to talk about Carbon dating which is part of radiometric dating. All living things are made out of something called Carbon. If you burn say a tree for example. The black powder that is left over is Carbon. But Carbon is also used in Skin, Bones, Blood, Bark and almost everything else in living things. There a... |
What is Chemotherapy, How Does it Kill Cancerous Cells and why do people lose body hair from it? | Chemotherapy is when patient is given chemicals that are toxic to the cancerous cells. These chemicals often are toxic to other cells that, like cancers, are dividing rapidly. This includes the cells that cause hair growth. This causes all the hairs to stop growing and fall out at the same time.Hi DivergentVisions, I'm... |
How should I know who I can bargain prices with and who I can't? | If your dealing with an owner they have the authority to negotiate prices. Sometimes people on commission in a retail store also have some wiggle room.Most regular sales people in retail do not have this authority. I have negotiated reduced pricing in several stores over the years. One year I was taking my kids on a sk... |
Why do we need to shower? | So you don't stink. Good hygine will also keep you healthier then you would otherwise be but the main reason you shower every day is so you don't smell bad to yourself and other people.Spraying some stuff will not remove the mix of dead skin cells, sweat, dirt, body oils, and bacteria that build up on your skin over ti... |
Why does putting a slice of bread in a jar of cookies make them soft. | Doesn't really make them soft but keeps them from drying out and going hard. it's all down to the moisture in the bread and the jar being a sort of closed environment, when you put the bread in the jar with the cookies the moisture is drawn out of the bread rather than the cookies", 'Bread in general has more moisture ... |
Why do some currencies have large values and some low? E.g kronor/yen vs pound/dollar | Exchange rates aside, currencies like Yen, Yuan, Dong, etc. have such large values because they don't have fractional currency. There isn't a quarter-Yen coin like the GBP or USD has, the Yen is the smallest currency. It's like if the US priced everything in pennies. |
Why is it looked down upon to wear a band's t-shirt to their show? | As far as I know,It's an old joke from the movie PCU. Gutter is going to a concert and Droz tells him not to be the guy that wears the shirt of the band you are going to see. In theory you are already supporting the band playing by seeing the show. You want to advertise other bands in the scene. When you see someone we... |
Why is the ball a universal toy for all species? | What do you mean by "all species?" There are millions of species, and most don't play with balls.I would guess because it easily rolls, is easy to throw, and easy to hold in your hand or in an animals mouth. I wouldn't say it's universal to all species though. You don't see many fish or insects playing with balls.Not s... |
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