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How does water "reset" bed hair? | I'd like to know also. My hair is shorter as a guy and depending on how I sleep it can be sticking out at odd angles. If I simply wet the spot and try and push it down, it doesn't really work. If I full on shower my hair behaves.I was seriously going to post this after work tonight. Good call! Curious to see the answer... |
why does traveling by train cost more than other transport? | In the UK most trains are used by commuters. The sensible ones will pay for their tickets way in advance and save quite a lot of money. As the departure date gets nearer, the demand for the train will increase as more people try and get on, so the price goes up. Planes are exactly the opposite, they are mainly used by ... |
Why does it take so much processing power to run Gamecube/PS2 emulated games | Because consoles are very different beasts than PCs. They have different processors, special unique chips, etc. All the instructions each of these chips recieved need to be translated to something a PC and it's peripherials can understand. Also, since all consoles of a type have the same stuff inside programmers tend t... |
Why are cats attracted to things like strings and cords? | Not an expert but I know a fair bit. Cats likely see the string and cord twitch slightly in the wind or when you're holding it and twitching it, and they see the movement as if it's prey. I think they get happier from capturing/hunting prey even if it isn't real, because that's a good instinct for their survival. |
How do technicians determine the cause of a fire? Eg. to a cigarette stub when everything is burned out. | Sometimes there is evidence, and sometimes they just make shit up and put people in jail for money. There is a whole lot of psuedo science around fire investigation. It's just about all funded by the state or insurance companies that have interest to find evidence. And if you aren't finding the right evidence you will ... |
Why is there so much abuse in the foster system? Shouldn't there be more extensive background checks? | I work in a related field. Honestly, there should be several changes. There aren't enough workers or enough of a budget to do enough. Also, who says that these abusers have done it in the past? A background check wouldn't help there. |
How is war footage taken and who does so? | Something that I can answer! This is what I do at the military although I can't say much for security reasons, but I serve in the IDF as Military Photographer although I haven't been to war I have been to many practices in the past two years. there is a whole unit of us scattered around the military we do get pretty hi... |
What is a Roth IRA? Pros? Cons? | IRAs are tax-advantaged retirement plans. An individual can contribute up to $5500 a year into an IRA . A regular IRA that money comes out pre-tax, so you pay the tax when you retire. Roths go in post-tax, so you're paying the tax upfront and get tax-free distributions. Generally speaking, the advantage for most people... |
Why doesn't the oldest bastard of a king get the throne after his father dies? | The whole point of declaring someone a bastard is so that they can't inherit anything.Illegitimate children are, by the royal law, considered "naturally dead" |
Gasoline is finite, consumable, and its supply is rapidly decreasing. How can its price ever go down? | Petroleum may be finite, but not all of the world's petroleum reserves are currently in use. Companies have to extract the oil, and the rate of that extraction informs the price. The recent advancements in fields like fracking have increased the world's supply of accessible energy resources, resulting in falling energy... |
Is it medically possible for animals, including humans, to switch brains and has that ever been attempted? | It seems to have been tested with dogs and monkeys, though no reputable scientific literature appears to exist because those tests were done under dubious conditions some years ago. An Italian researcher, Dr. Sergio Canavero, has asked for a human volunteer to be the first patient, and a Russian man with a terminal deg... |
If the tower that television signal comes from is miles away, how can moving my TV antenna an inch or two make such a huge difference in the picture quality? | Multi-path interference. TV signals are broadcast in a sphere shape from the top of the tower. So imagine a ball that starts at the top of the tower. Now imagine that ball slowly gets bigger and bigger until it is the same size as the tower. Now imagine that it gets even bigger. The bottom of the ball is going to hit t... |
How do the underground pipes that deliver water for us to bathe and drink stay clean? Is there no buildup or germs inside of them? | Our water is treated in a way that makes it hard for stuff to live in it. There is chlorine, flourine, and a few other chemicals in trace amounts present in our drinking water for this sole purpose. They work very hard to put enough in to keep it clean, but not enough to harm us. There is a surprising amount of deposit... |
Is sleep after a meal good or bad or neither? | Napping: I don't know if it's bad, but Jesus Christ I'm full of energy if I eat a good meal and sleep for 2 hours in the afternoon. Full night's sleep: Everyone keeps saying eating a full meal before going to bed is bad. Late night eating makes you fat, somehow, but I think it's more important to just watch how much yo... |
Why doesn't the water in the toilet bowl rise/increase when one pees? | The toilet water doesn't rise because it gets pushed over that U-bend that the others have mentioned. In the toilet in my apartment, the flush handle is attached to an arm, which has a chain that goes down to the flapper that drains water from the tank into the bowl. Every now and then, when pressing the handle, the ch... |
How much of an advantage (if any) does being overweight give someone in terms of starvation? | > Obviously the fat guy's organs might have suffered from his sedentary lifestyle and whatnot. Let's ignore such things for argument's sake. I just wanted to drop in and speak to this comment in the OP. Generally speaking, in human history institutional starvation and institutional instability go hand in hand. if peopl... |
How do conspiracy theorists believe the government is involved in school shootings like Roseburg and Sandy Hook? | A guy I know thinks the latest school shooting is another 'false flag' operation, just like all the earlier ones were. |
How does Duracell Powercheck work? | There's a thin strip of material that conducts electricity and acts like a resistance. When you press the two points on the battery, electricity from the battery can go through the strip of material and this strip warms up. On top of this strip of material, there's a layer of a substance which changes color depending o... |
Why do homosexual men have/develop accents? | I know a guy who has this huge gay accent. But as far as I know, he's straight. At least, that's what I'm going to think unless he gives me evidence to the contrary.While reading all these comments, the voice in my head changed into a high pitch effeminate voice. Goddamn Reddit.It's a stereotype. Not all gay men have t... |
How do wireless video game controllers work without lag when similar wireless devices have delay? | Afaik, they usually do. The delay is really small and unless you play at a high level/a lot you will barely notice it at all. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong |
why don't health care industries display their prices? | Because they aren't actually required to, and if they did display the price anything, you'd realize how insanely marked up everything is. |
Why is it that we think of mirrors as being silver colored, even though they reflect the exact colors of objects around them? | It's the material we use to create mirrors, the backing is silver. On a side note, mosts mirrors are actually green, you can tell they are green because when you put two mirrors facing each other and get that the tunnel effect if fades to green.Silver is not a true color . Silver is the name we have given to the effect... |
How is this the solution to the Monty Hall Problem? | People tend to think of the situation like a purely statistical problem, when it's not. The doors are not randomly opened. The only truly random thing in the problem is the door you selected at the beginning. That door will always have consistent odds of containing the prize, because it was selected randomly. The doors... |
Does legalization of a illicit drug increase usage? | Hey bubba you should read about Portugal post decriminalization Maybe there's a decrease, maybe not, but Portugal is where we're going to find out the answer |
What is the story behind Hitler's moustache? What made him choose that distinct style? | I thought it had something to do with the gasmasks in WWI, and the fact that normal mustaches would prevent a good seal on the masks. I think I heard it on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, but I'm not 100% sure. |
If lobbying doesn't involve bribery, why does it cost so much? | It costs so much *because* it does't involve bribery. Lobbying is less efficient that bribery, so it takes more money to get the same effect. It isn't difficult to put $50K in a suitcase and slip it to a lawmaker, and if it wasn't highly illegal and easily caught, that would be that. Instead, you have to hire one of th... |
Why can US state governments pass unconstitutional laws? Wouldn't these be illegal and therefore ineffective? | This is exactly why we have three branches of government that have checks and balances on each other. They can go ahead and *try* to pass whatever law they want - sometimes these laws can be knowingly unconstitutional, sometimes unintentionally so. If a law *does* get passed and people think it violates the constitutio... |
Why do YouTube URLs contain a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters if URLs aren't case-sensitive? | The other commenters so far are correct, but I'm going to LI5 it. The _URL_2_ part of a web address is a direction *to* the server you want to access; it's used by a variety of computers to make sure you can connect to the website, so there are rules that say this part of the address can't be case sensitive. However, o... |
If electrons repelling each other means you never really touch something, how do different things feel differently? | So if we really don't touch things this means we're all technically virgins?", 'For your practical thinking you can basically ignore the fact that they aren't "touching" you feel things are different for the exact same reason you 'd think you would if there wasn't a miniscule space in-between. It's not like your skin i... |
Why the government can't print more money? | It can. It's not always *useful* for the government to print more money, but it can if it wants to. |
Earned Income Tax Credit. | I'm not sure of the actual intent, but I seen it as a negative tax rate for low income. Also, with higher tax rates, there are deductions, but with lower incomes, deductions become meaningless. |
I've seen tons of "music videos" that predate the 80s. Where would people watch these videos before MTV? | I recall HBO's Video Jukebox in the late 70's or early 80's before our cable provider picked up MTV. American Bandstand and the Ed Sullivan Show premiered Beatles promo films. If memory serves, The Beatles send promo film to Ed Sullivan when they couldn't make it on the show in person. Of course there were The Monkees,... |
Why do some people grow out their pinky nail really long but keep the rest of their nails trimmed? | In addition to cocaine, many painters grow out a nail on a finger to scrape excess paint conveniently. That's why you'll see Bob Ross, for example, with a single long nail. He was *not* a coke fiend! |
Why do we need the Moon? | The moon is far and away the most influential reason that the oceans of earth have tides. Tides are believed to have been a catalyst for life. _URL_0_ So the moon may be the reason we're here |
How is it there is no police at festivals, where drug use, underage drinking and alcohol abuse is commonplace. | I organize festivals and do security. Either the festival is legal, in which case you are working with the local police but have to hire your own security, and some plain-clothes police will most likely be present, or it's illegal, in which case you have to hire your own security and some plain-clothes police will most... |
Why do some electronics need to "warm up" to work properly when electrical resistance only increases with heat? | First things first, there are materials that have a Negative Temperature Coefficient. That means the electrical resistance decreases with heat, for example semiconductors. But they are still resistors which makes them bad conductors and rarely used. Then there are the Things /u/euThohl3 mentioned. And the booting compu... |
Seriously, what IS the internet? | When you talk to someone, your voice travels through the air in the form of sound waves. In the case of internet, it's a lot of 0s and 1s travelling through cables from a phone or computer to a server, then to another server and after that another computer or phone. When you use wifi, it's pretty much devices 'shouting... |
Why does lightning normally hit the highest possible point? | Electricity always tries to take the path of least resistance to the ground. You know how electrical outlets have a third hole for a ground connection? That's a safety mechanism designed to direct electricity literally straight into the ground to prevent you from getting an electrical shock. It works because electricit... |
Would it kill/hurt me if I only ate cereal for the rest of my life? If so, how and why? | Cereals supply differing amounts of nutrition, but I don't know if any provide *complete* nutrition. So you would likely eventually exhaust your supply of some essential nutrient. Without these, your body will suffer a variety of negative effects up to and including death.When you say "cereal" do you mean mass produced... |
How did accent's change when Europeans moved to the Americas? | Language is always changing. However American English is much closer to 1600's British English than modern British English is to 1600 British English. It's the Brits accent that changes, less so the American accent.Languages and accents in general evolve over time. And the Americas had immigrants from many different co... |
Why does splitting an atom create a huge explosion? | Splitting a single atom doesn't cause a huge explosion. It causes the release of a tiny, tiny amount of energy, but crucially it also releases particles that can cause other atoms to split. So the first atom splits, causing others nearby to split , which in turn causes others to split, and so on. This is called a *chai... |
How is kanye 53 million dollars in debt? | We've all got debt, but we pay it back incrementally. Some of us have debt in the thousands, others have it in the millions. His debt is in the millions, but so is his income. He can't afford the level of credit needed to pull off his grandest plans. |
What's to stop someone from charging up one credit card, paying it off with another, and then repeating the same process every month until you die? | Revolving credit accounts which don't charge interest on fully-paid balances almost always have a transfer fee when using them to pay another revolving credit account. These fees would add up until the sum was greater than the maximum balance in one of the accounts.When you are moving money from one card to other , eve... |
why is it so quiet when it snows? | Snow is soft and airy and absorbs the sound waves better than most other naturally occurring things in life. So less sound reflects, more absorbs, and thus more sound waves are loss over distance than you're used to. |
Why does no one care about the Chinese / North Korean border? | Believe it or not, China and North Korea get along really well. So much so that China will sometimes send back defectors and will even send food to North Korea. That is actually part of the reason the US doesn't want a North/South conflict to occur because it would basically be a full scale US vs. China proxy war. Chin... |
Where does SpaceX get the funding to constantly launch ship after ship? | They did 7 rounds of private funding for a total of $1.25b starting with an initial seed investment of $100m by its founder. During that time they have also been paid to do numerous supply runs to ISS on behalf of various governments. There's a lot of test launches going on, but there are also many paid missions happen... |
Why is it so hard for a tenured professor to get fired? | There are at least 2 reasons: 1) As others have mentioned, the purpose of tenure is that it makes you hard to get fired. Tenured scholars are protected in this way to allow them intellectual and academic freedom. 2) The only easy way to fire someone who has tenure is if they do something criminal. Universities usually ... |
Why are electronic parts like the motherboard and video cards GREEN? | As others have mentioned circuit boards can come in all colours, but I've read that green was the traditional colour because it contrasts well with the copper traces, allowing them to be checked visually so could be checked for defects by eye, modern circuit boards have many hidden layers that you can't see) |
Why do Jews not try to convert people like other Abrahamic religions? (Christianity, Islam) | TIL if any of the religions are right, I want it to be Judaism. That's my best shot into the heaven I don't believe in. |
I just bought a whole cooked chicken at Wal-Mart for $2.50. Does that mean raising a chicken from birth to slaughter costs less than $2.50? | I would encourage you to check out Oxfam's investigation into [poultry plants] . The conditions that workers experience are more than horrific: disfigurements, using the bathroom on themselves, freezing cold, chemicals. And these issues don't include the animal. Also there was a recent article about [turkeys] . Why is ... |
Why is the Canadian Dollar so low and still dropping? | Well, first, low oil prices hurts Canada a bit , as Canada is an oil producer. Low oil prices have impacts on transportation and manufacturing. Second, policies by banks, such as how interest rates are set up and circulation of money, affect currency values in the short term. It's not my idea to judge Canada's fiscal p... |
Why do calories matter when losing weight but the weight of the food doesn't? | the weight of the food matters in the short term. if you weigh yourself, eat a whole watermelon, and weigh yourself again, you'll have gained the weight of the whole watermelon. but on long term trend, most of that weight will go away since it's just water and it's not going to be stored by your body. your body will pr... |
What happens if air is injected into your blood stream? A very small amount? A syringe worth? | Ok so like you are five Air can be squeezed and stretched and liquids can't. So if air desplaces enough blood in your heart it no longer is pumping blood just compressing the air when it contracts. The elasticity in the air prevents the right ventricle from pulling blood from your vena cava this reduces the amount of b... |
Why is mold acceptable in some foods, such as cheese, but not in anything else? | Think of mold as you would mushrooms. Some are safe to eat, others can harm you. Mold types is by no means random, you can't have mold that grows on vegetables be the same that grows on cheese, and so on. As far as why mold has become acceptable in cheese compared to other food products with safe amounts of mold in the... |
Why it's not against the law for people riding a motorcycle to not wear a helmet, yet people in cars must wear a seat belt | The people arguing that it is not safe to wear a helmet don't believe that. You are not SMARTER than these people. They just know they will never win if they take the stance that nobody has the right to tell them what they should do. Because then a larger group will join the opposing side just to prove that one doesn't... |
When I hear a steel jewelry file grinding against a piece of jewelry, or any high pitched sound from metal on metal, why do I instantly get goosebumps all over? | Wear earplugs. I've read that certain noises, sensations and sights hark back to instincts we have left over from earlier times in human development. The visceral reaction we have when we get tickled is left over from when being tickled meant a fucking giant poisonous bug was on us. There's a theory that hanging mobile... |
If computers are not as powerful as the human brain, then how can they solve such complex equations in no time? Why can't we process like a computer? | Well, brains aren't computers, it's not like you can compare them", 'Computers are still quite bad at making [physical calculations]. |
What does the title Executive Producer really do? I see a lot of actors and actresses star in films and they are also executive producers for them. | They finance the film, directly and by selling others on investing. Producers are the ones that handle the business aspects of creating a film. So an actor who's listed as executive producer might get that title by investing some money and may have a part in lining up other investors or talent to join the production. |
Why wolves and coyotes howl at night | We should start by establishing that wolves and coyotes don't only howl at night. They can howl at any time of day, and they can howl for a variety of reasons. The yipping and howling that many predator canids do at night is part of their hunting behavior. They'll surround the prey and yip and howl so as to disorient a... |
What happens inside the brain when we're feeling nostalgic? Also, what causes nostalgia? | Walter White says old paths in your brain getting juiced again and it's like oh I used those before.Here's something fun i recently learned from a James Burke documentary: prior to proper modern medicine, back when doctors were told by patients what to do rather than being observed and diagnosed, "nostalgia" was consid... |
Why do we smile and laugh when being tickled if it's so unpleasant? | Your ticklish spots are your most vulnerable. Your feet are pretty tough but damage to them has severe consequences in a state of nature. Having these spots touched is unpleasant because your body recognizes the danger but it is enjoyable play behavior because it teaches children how to physically protect those areas. ... |
Where do different tastes in music come from? | I think personality has a lot to do with it. It's probably that the both of you aren't exact copies of each other. You both see things differently, feel differently. As a result of that you both look for different things in music. |
Why is there an explosion when something breaks the speed of sound? | What you are getting is ALL the sound waves from a vehicle hitting you at once. lets say you have a sheet of paper, that we are going to say the 'speed of sound' on the paper is 1 inch a second. if you draw a dot every second, then, after you've drawn all of them, make a circle around each dot that is the sound wave fr... |
How does Comcast & other ISPs get away with all the bad stuff they do, and how can I, as a regular citizen, fight against them? | It's not illegal. You can not buy their services, and push to make their shady practices illegal.How they continue to get away with everything without competition popping up is an economic term called "Rent-seeking" or "Rent-seeking behaviour" _URL_0_ > rent-seeking is spending wealth on political lobbying to increase ... |
What is the difference between Organic and Non-Organic produce? | The main distinction is that they don't use synthetic substances to grow the food. That doesn't make it inherently better but some people don't like the idea of their food being treated with synthetic chemicals. |
Why does a person's signature matter so much? | Although a teacher couldn't tell the difference, someone with better equipment and more time could. I completely agree with you that it is easily exploitable though. The alternative now seems to be using digital signatures, which are different for every piece of data you sign |
Why is Pizza round but universally comes in a Square box? | The pizza is round because of tradition and ease of manufacture. Take a glob of dough and spin it, and you get a round pizza crust. A lot faster when you're making it by hand than stretching it out to that perfect square shape. /u/tfordb has the box part covered; square boxes have the least amount of folds and perforat... |
Why is a perfectly polite "Sorry, I was stuck in traffic" never considered as a reasonable response? | Its used as a lame excuse 9 times out of 10. Once upon a time I'm sure it was a valid reason. |
If the speed limit isn't actually a hard upper bound, why don't we just post a target speed instead? | It's very simple : Everyone goes 5 miles over, so when officers need to meet their ticket quotas, they start pulling people over in the 'safe' range. There's no incentive for the departments to change this, because then they'd have a harder time bringing in traffic ticket money.They should just call it a speed average |
Why are the recommend servings written on food so little? | People see a small bag or box and assume it is one serving, but the manufacturer knows that if you saw the total calories/sodium/cholesterol you wouldn't eat it so they make it multiple servings so they can show you only a fraction of the total calories, etc. When you see this practice it is a good sign that you should... |
Why do Doctors/Nurses insist on drawing blood from my arm and not my hand? | Veins in the arm are typically larger, which makes them easier to access and draw significant volumes of blood from. Also, a trained medical professional will typically palpate for a vein, rather than just going by sight. A good vein will feel like a squishy sponge, even if it's too deep to actually see. The top of the... |
Why don't we (adults) use baby wipes anymore in favor of toilet paper? | I think it really depends on the person. I know plenty of people that still use wipes. Maybe it's a certain mentality? I don't really know. |
Why do we get ticketed for not wearing seat belts even though we're not hurting anyone but ourselves? | If you're not wearing a seatbelt and you die in an accident, the other person will have to deal with knowing they were somehow involved in your death. It could be emotionally harmful. |
The difference between credit and debit. | Debit takes it from your chequing or savings account. Credit from a credit card. * Debit uses money you already have in your account.* Credit uses money that you don't have by charging you interest on it. Your mum probably taught you credit because there was a benefit to it. Either no transaction fees, or some kind of ... |
Why is Mexico so poor? | Mexico's GDP is not low, being slightly less than South Korea which is often considered an economic powerhouse. Mexican per capita income is over $10K USD. There are certainly a lot of poor citizens and it would take a more learned person than me to expound on the historical causes for that, but do not count that count... |
If you dropped every existing nuclear weapon on the same spot, at the same time, why or why not would it have an affect on the earth itself? | It would certainly affect the Earth's atmosphere and environment, but as far as the planet is concerned it would do basically nothing. Currently, the total yield of all nuclear weapons in the world is about 6500 megatons. Let's assume that there is no interference from multiple explosions and that total yield is what t... |
From an evolutionary standpoint, why is childbirth painful? | Childbirth is painful for two main reasons. 1.The structure of a women's pelvis is structured differently from other primates. It is thinner and longer to facilitate upright walking, whereas other primates pelvises are wider because they are designed to walk lower, sometimes on all fours, something humans never do. A t... |
How/When did the modern day Santa Claus become the figure we know him as today? | While [St. Nicolas of Myrna] has been associated with Christmas/Winter gift giving since medieval times , and English traditions of Father Christmas date back to the 16th Century ; the synergy of several traditions into the modern Santa Claus essentially begins with Moore's poem, *[A Visit from St. Nicholas]* followed ... |
why does passing a magnet through a coil produce electricity? | Electromagnetics is the best way to think of electricy and magnetism, rather than two separate concepts. They are two manifestations of the same underlying physics: electromagnetic waves are a vibration of the electromagnetic field that exists in all space. With regards to magnetism, firstly there are two 'types' of ma... |
Why, when at a big concert, we feel the bass in our chest, as opposed to other parts of the body? | Every body part, and tissue in your body, will have a property called the resonant frequency. Generally, the larger the object, the lower the resonant frequency. If an object is hit with frequencies that match its resonant frequency, it will vibrate sympathetically more at that frequency . So, one likely reason is that... |
Why do Ukranians celebrate Christmas at a different date than the remainder of the world? | Well, a lot of the remainder of the world don't celebrate christmas because they're not Christian. To answer your question, the main Christian church in Ukraine is the Orthodox Christian Church, and they typically celebrate Christmas on January 6-8. The reason being, they use the Julian Calendar, while most other Chris... |
How do my pets seem to "know" when I am sick? | One of the resulting traits of animal domestication is empathy with humans. Whether this was a selected trait for breeding or just a happy accident I'm not too sure but it is definitely a trait that exists now.I sincerely doubt they understand your situation or the thoughts in your head. Certainly there is no way to pr... |
How come when a song is used in a TV episode, it often has its pitch raised? | probably because the show has to be sped up to meet the air time that is shorter than the actual show. it's like the show are fast forward a bit, thus makes the sound vibrate more frequently and resulting in the music being higher-pitched. * that's my guessing. |
Why did plastic milk bottle lids need to be removed prior to recycling? | The lid is a different plastic and needs to be recycled separately. Leaving the lid on means the leftover milk won't dry out, so the bottle stinks like hell. A bottle with a lid on takes up more room as it harder to crush. |
What would the pros and cons of having your kid learn an additional langauge when they're little in a special program? | Do it. and this whole thing about there being peaks isn't so important. Learning at any age is GOOD. Spanish is a good language to know especially in USA. It will be useful to them. Not to mention that you are basically forcing them to use many of the same types of thinking required for algebra when learning grammar. I... |
Why aren't all automobile fuel caps on the driver side of the car? | There are a couple of practical and sometimes opposing reasons: First, they tend to put the gas cap on the side opposite the side your exhaust pipe runs on. If on a certain model the pipe goes up the middle or up both sides there, they put it on the same side as their other models. If they don't need to worry about tha... |
What's the difference between the decriminalization of a drug and legalizing it? | Decriminalization usually just means you'll get fined if you're caught. But depending on the jurisdiction/state/whatever, there's varying amounts you can get caught with without it being a full on crime. In some places that I've seen, if you're caught with an ounce of pot or less, then you just get a fine of $100-$300,... |
What is the difference between a IPv6 and IPv4 firewall? | I very much suspect you are asking the wrong question, since the simple answer is that an IPv6 firewall can handle IPv6, whereas an IPv4 one cannot. You might be trying to understand the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 in general, in which case it is that IPv6 has a much, much larger address space, whereas IPv4 has al... |
How does masturbation work in space? | Same way it does on Earth. You pull your chubby until you're happy then you go about your day. |
If you were to see a document or video file as binary, and tell someone the 0/1 over the phone. Would they be able to replicate the file? | Yes. But the amount of data involved would be staggering. Similar stuff to that WAS done back in the day - it was used to distribute small executable files in printed magazines. They'd basically give you the source code to a BASIC program that was basically the binary code for the program, with a wrapper that basically... |
- Why do we kiss? Is it cultural or evolutionary and what are the benefits of it? | As far as I understand, there are a few theories but most think it's related to eating and feeding. When we are children we suckle on the breast of our mother. I read from a book that mothers would also chew up food and then pass it into the mouths of their children . We gain pleasure from eating putting things in our ... |
Why do products go up in price (as a percentage) faster than wages? | There are also items that haven't grown in line with inflation food is a smaller percentage of household budgets compared to decades ago. Also, things like TVs, clothing, etc. have benefit from overseas manufacturing, global trade, etc. and seen prices fall relative to wages. Home prices are a unique situation because ... |
why Arizona doesn't acknowledge daylight savings | It's not about acknowledgement, it's just not observed. It serves little purpose, so why bother? Russia also no longer observes. |
Why is mixing alcohol bad? | Mixing alcohol is not bad in itself. The idea comes when you start mixing things that are really tasty without knowing how much you're drinking. You've heard – beer before liquor; never been sicker. Liquor before beer; you're in the clear? This is because once you get a buzz or drunk and then you switch to something mo... |
Why isn't there regenerative keyboarding on our laptop keyboards, in order to prolong battery life? | Okay, so lets ignore the cost issues for a bit. [This site] gives estimates for the amount of force your fingers use and the distance the keys are pushed. Using their best case , each stroke produced .00625 joules in a 100% efficient system, so lets assume the computer gets only half of that. So we have: .003125 joules... |
When Muslims want Sharia, what does that mean? Does it mean that everyone, even non Muslims should abide by those rules as well? | It depends. Sharia is a system of laws Muslims are expected to follow. They're both moral and religious laws. Sort of like the Ten Commandments, to give a Christian analogy, but a bit more in depth, and with a bit more to say about punishments for those who break them. Depending on the denomination, politics, or person... |
Different Types of Bank Accounts | For different types such as business and personal. They vary in terms of interest rates, usage fees and minimum $$ left within the account. For business, we are talking about a family ran business. There's the need to pay suppliers and employees. Money flows in and out of the account, often in large sums. There can be ... |
Why do bands do planned encores at concerts? | Because people expect encores and spontaneous encores don't fly anymore. From what I've been told, the live entertainment industry shifted to a model where you rent the stage and are then responsible for drawing the crowd to make a profit. If you use the stage longer than what you paid for or you make the staff work ov... |
Why is it common for an older person to call a boy ''son'' even when they're not related, but uncommon to call a girl ''daughter''? | Daughter rolls off the tongue a bit awkwardly, doesn't it? Son, sport, etc, are much more convenient. |
Why can't a hash function be reversed? | take 24315354348761351 mod 97 = 42.Finding another value that has 42 as remainder is easy. Just try and add the necessary amount to get to 42. Now, if you add up all digits in your number and add it to 90 to do your modulo: 2+4+3+1+5+3+5+4+3+4+8+7+6+1+3+5+1 = 65 = > 6+5 = 11 = > 1+1 = 2 24315354348761351 mod = 71243153... |
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