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If the odds of winning a $600 million mega jackpot are say 200 million to 1, why wouldn't a billionaire buy 200 million tickets, win the jackpot and profit $400 million? | IIRC some millionaires actually did this once in the 90's. They each put in a certain amount when the jackpot was really high and bought EVERY POSSIBLE COMBINATION and then split the winnings for a profit. [There was a TIL about it, apparently] |
Why we blink when we hear a loud noise? | Your eyes are relatively both fragile and important. Your eyelids allow at least some degree of protection against an unknown threat, where other responses could not necessarily be fast enough, and isn't very costly for your body to do. |
Why do you fall asleep much easier on the couch watching TV (or anywhere other than your normal sleeping place) than in your normally used bed? | This may sound odd, but honestly I think all of this is bullshit. At one point I had a couch and a bed in my room, Eventually got rid of the bed entirely, Sleeping on a couch alway for around 3 years, finally got a bed for a change of pace, and of course I can barely sleep on it. I just feel that beds are poorly design... |
Why is about 10% of my hard drive unusable? | **The Hard Drive Labeling is correct, the OS is wrong.** The hard drive labeling uses the the SI standard for labeling how much bytes there are, such as Giga is the prefix for billion. The issue is that before this, people who renovated computing used those prefix incorrectly, preferring the base 2 method, with a kilob... |
In dreams, why do I run so slowly and throw punches as if my arms weigh 300kg each? | I'm assuming it's the same reason something goes wrong in a dream when you expect them to go wrong. I don't exactly know if this is why it happens, but in dreams, your insecurities and fears, as well as confidence and self-worth is exaggerated greatly. If you're a neurotic person, you tend to get dreams to reflect that... |
Why colonize the moon or Mars instead of inhospitable Earth locations? | Colonization isn't really a matter of space - we have plenty of space. If we were really running out of room, I wouldn't be driving past big, undeveloped, unused fields on the way to work. The entire human race could fit into a pretty small area if we all lived as densely as they do in cities like New York or Tokyo. Co... |
How do search dogs track scents? | Long nose, more scent receptors. Plain and simple. Also, their noses are closer to the ground. That's why you don't see Chihuahua's as tracking dogs, but blood hounds are experts! You do leave a scent trail on things that you touch or brush up against. |
how insurance companies can claim an incident is an "act of God." | If you're interested in a funny movie about this exact idea, watch The Man Who Sued God! It is funny for an insurance company to get away with that reasoning since if another person/entity commits a wrong/damage, they can be sued for the amount in damages. Insurance ~~is~~ should be for unpredictable yet foreseeable ci... |
Why do ISPs want to throttle Netflix? | It's not ao much that they want to throttle netflix as they want netflix to pay them not to. For that to happen they need to show they have the right to do it. Cable companies overcharge us for service that we don't generally get the full measure. When you engage is business in that fashion you quickly find a wall stop... |
how can people be allergic to synthetic substances? | There's no reason one couldn't. Allergy is just an unnecessarily extreme reaction to something harmless. Doesn't matter if it's a medicine or an animal. |
Hypothetically, how would the UK financially support a free University Education System and a free NHS? | That's how it used to work. Tuition fees were only introduced in 90s, and they have since been abolished in Scotland . So it's not that crazy an idea. However university attendance is much higher now. So either reduce the number of people getting degrees , increase taxes, cut university budgets and accept it will lower... |
How does the human mind develop what is attractive to them and what is not? | Well a lot of what you find attractive is because of genetics. Things we find attractive today are there because our ancestors found them to be good indicators of fertility, and those ancestors were succesfull in spreading their genetics to further generations. It's one of the reasons fertility goddesses from ancient t... |
Would a car work on Mars? | No, you need oxygen for the combustion. You would have to have an air supply connected to the air intake, and that would have to be sealed, since Mars's surface has only .6% of the average Earth air pressure . This would also affect the exhaust pressure - I'm not sure how you would best compensate for that. |
Why can't multiplayer games such as Overwatch be cracked? | Because they are run by a company who's priority is to profit as much as possible, in this case blizzard. Blizzard can check if you have purchased the game or not when you are connecting online and since this is a multiplayer online game, to experience it, you need to be online.I'm sure you could crack it, but you woul... |
Why does it take Amazon several days to "prepare" items for shipment? | In some cases you may just be in a low priority. In others, they may be moving it from one warehouse to another closer to you so that they don't have to pay for UPS to ship it across the country. It's cheaper to package a whole bunch of things together and ship it as freight than to ship a bunch of individual boxes. |
Why is my 2004 Desktop Faster then my 2013 laptop? | is it actually slower or are you just looking at the processor speeds, seeing that your desktop is 3.4ghz which is greater than your laptop's 2.2ghz, and claiming it's faster? Because you can't do that, clock speed only matters for comparing within an architecture. For example, my old original DROID phone from 3 years ... |
Why its bad to eat too much microwaved food. | Are you referring to the process of microwaving all foods, or foods that are sold for use in microwave use only? Either way, microwaving food isn't unhealthy, it's the type of food that you're microwaving that will determine whether it's healthy or not. |
Why are the psychological symptoms of autistics so heavily reinforced through accomodation when many other psychological disorders are dealt with by trying to normalise the sufferer, such as vehimently contradicting schizophrenic delusions? | Actually, a lot of upcoming psychological treatments for schizophrenia involved metacognition--thinking about thinking with the goal of identifying delusional thoughts and thoughts grounded in reality. But fundamentally, delusions are not a permanent state for someone with schizophrenia or any other psychotic disorder.... |
Why do we get the motivation to change our lives around late at night, but it's gone the next morning? | I kinda feel like its the opposite.. We don't necessarily feel the need to make changes changes in the morning because we're off to a fresh start. After spending all day smoking weed and watching King of the Hill re-runs, late at night, when you're reflecting on the day's events, realizing of course that it was a compl... |
Why are some features of humans, like hands and skulls, so innately hard to draw? | Due to the depth and variety of each finger, and the complex curves and angles, hands are relatively difficult to master. It's tricky ensuring everything is totally proportionate. Similarly, heads/faces require attention to detail and proportion, as I'm sure no one wants their drawings' faces to look like a cow with do... |
Please explain "negative entropy" (negentropy) | You need to distinguish between *aesthetic* order and order in *physics*. A crystal may appear beautiful. However, when we start with metallic sodium and chlorine and mix them, liberating a great deal of heat energy and yielding a low-energy salt crystal, that's actually a *loss* of order. Two substances with a lot of ... |
What is the meaning of "1.4" in "1.4 Petrol Engine"? | Nowadays, it's mostly marketing, but their meaning used to show engine displacement to bottom dead centre ), specified in liters. So 1.4 means the volume of the piston chamber that is where the explosion happens as the pistons move down is a total of 1400 cubic centimetres. However, these figures are usually rounded up... |
How does cooking pizza longer make the crust softer? | You're talking about frozen pizza, right? Read the directions completely. Go back & look at the box. I'll wait. Notice that one set of directions has you cook it directly on the oven rack while the other has you bake it on a pan? The pan is the key detail here. It forces you to cook the whole thing longer because it bl... |
When applying for a job, why do companies make you manually write in all your work experience instead of just looking at your resume? | As far as filling out this information online, it's so they can more easily scan through it for certain keywords that they use to evaluate your worth. Their system cross-references what you enter with a database of good and bad terms/companies and only allows the top percentage of applicants to be sent to HR for human ... |
Why do USA cereal commercials always say "part of a complete and balanced breakfast" for kids sugary types? | Basically, to fight off backlash about serving a unhealthy product, they're saying that you shouldn't be eating cereal by itself. It should be alongside nutritional food and a truckload of vitamins.Because a lot of those cereals are basically pure sugar, so they can't really make any health claims about them. But they ... |
What are holograms made out of up close? Do they have something equivalent to pixels or photographic grains? | Holograms aren't real; so regardless of looking at them up close or far away, they don't exist. Realistically, it would depend on the medium that receives the light. |
Why do we feel relief from confessions? | Because you immediately remove the source of constant worry - worry about being found out. Say you slept with your best friend's boyfriend last year. For a year, you've been worrying continuously that she will find out. You confess. Maybe she forgives you - great. Maybe she never speaks to you again. Too bad. The worst... |
Why is it that cellphones seem to "go bad" after a few years? | The main factor is software. Your phone is designed with a fixed hardware that you generally can't change. The OS and the apps is designed for the hardware that is most common typically. When you first buy the phone, your phone is better than most phones, but as time goes on, it becomes average and eventually worse whi... |
why is the stock market necessary? | This question is hilarious. Google what the stock market is. Also it's the basis of all retirement programs and drives the economy as a whole. |
During takeoff on an airplane, why do you have to keep your carry on bag under the seat in front of you when at cruising altitude you can keep it in your leg room? | Survivable accidents happen at a much higher rate during take-off and landing. If something does happen and you need to evacuate quickly, you don't want your bag underfoot. |
What is the evolutionary advantage of having a tail? How would humans benefit from having one? | Most 4 legged animals have a tail either for balance, cleanliness , or emotion. Many animals require tails to properly run, as they move it around when they're balancing . Or watch monkeys do stuff in a tree. Large animals like horses, cows, elephants, ect have either hair or very thin tails they use to swat flys and o... |
How does Alzheimer's kill? | AD is a progressive degeneration of the gray matter of the brain, which controls thinking, memory, movement and sensation. The white matter of the brain is also damaged in AD. While people with AD may die of other unrelated conditions, such as a heart attack, death from AD typically results from complications related t... |
How do interpreters hear the next line while interpreting what was just said? | When I interpret, I get in a zone and don't even think about what I am saying, I just speak. Usually, people slow down and pause. Those that don't are jerks. |
What's so great about Slaughterhouse5? | It's an anti-war novel that fully appreciates the fact that there can never truly be an anti-war novel because all war is glamorous. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, survives the bombing of Dresden who has become unstuck in time and is kidnapped by Tralfamorians who see time differently than humans. There he learns t... |
What is the sun made of, and why is the matter this way? | The sun is powered by nuclear fusion deep inside the sun as hydrogen fuses into helium . The large amounts of energy that are released this way don't cause the sun to explode because of the very intense gravity, which is of course a result of its very very large mass. The solar prominences that are thrown off are not a... |
I have long dreams when im asleep. I wake up and I can barely remember and recollect any of it. Why? | Imagine your mind as an email inbox. When you're sleeping, your mind goes through your memories and resorts them, removing some memories to the junk mail folder. When you're dreaming, you are conscious of some of the memories moving around. However, once you are awake, the memories in the junk mail folder are marked fo... |
in the early days of the Internet what exactly was that sound when you were connecting? | It was you computer and the computer on the other and of the phone line trying to figure out how to best talk to one another. You see computer talking to one another over phone lines started out looking something [like this.] A machine one end of the phone line transformed the data it was trying to send into sound and ... |
Why have humans evolved so quickly compared to other species? | There are many that have evolved quicker than we have. A few that come to mind are some species of lizards or something that got stranded a few hundred years ago on an island, were forced to drastically change their diet to survive. As for species that have not changed for millions of years, it is because that form is ... |
What bad things are actually in Mcdonalds now? Is it really that bad? | this is just ignorant conjecture but, in my opinion, the worst part of a mcdonalds meal is the giant bucket of soda that comes with it french fries aren't much better. I say eat your sandwich and get a smaller drink or drink water, ditch the fries no fucks needed for giving |
How do animals know what to camouflage themselves into? | They don't, and usually just camouflage into whatever their surroundings look like. This is a survival instinct filtered out over millions of years of evolution.Animals that have poor camouflage are more likely to suffer predation, if prey, or fail a hunt if predator. So they are potentially less successful than an ani... |
How can the same flaps create lift for takeoff and destroy lift for landing? | Flaps don't generate lift per se, they change lower the speed at which a certain amount of lift is generated. When you take off you want the max lift as possible. Usually 100% thrust is on, but by using flaps, you'll be generating more lift at slower speeds. You technically might not need flaps to lift off, but you'd b... |
Why is the Flint Water Crisis so hard to fix? | Flint has a bunch of lead pipes. Over time they built up a layer of oxide on the interior so that lead didn't really leech into the water. Bad infrastructure became ok. However the government pumped slightly more acidic water than usual into the pipes and it stripped off the protective oxide coating. The lead from the ... |
How come it's okay to kill invertebrates but not most vertebrates? | Vertebrates have more complex nervous systems, usually with well developed brains, and so it is thought that they have the ability to suffer.Invertebrates, in comparison, tend to have less complex nervous systems so their ability to suffer is a matter of debate for many people. Invertebrates are also smaller, more nume... |
what Wolfram Alpha is suppose to do? | Like Google for calculations you don't want to do. It's a calculator for all sorts of things. Try it out, and see what questions it answers for you. [example] [example] [example] [example] [example] |
Why does a full moon look gigantic sometimes? | When the moon is close to the horizon, you have a lot of things to give it a sense of scale that aren't there at other times. Full moon directly up in the sky? All you see is the moon and a whole lot of nothing around it. Try holding up a penny to the moon next time and see what it's relative size looks like next to a ... |
Why do schools teach us irrelevant stuff in such excruciating detail? | The philosophy of most western primary schools is to teach you *how* to think and problem solve, and to give you an appreciation of your nation's history . University becomes the place for specialized / personal education. I don't know much about Croatia I'm in the US. Here we have a relatively equal balance of physics... |
If the universe is full of stars giving off tremendous amounts of heat, why is space so cold? Wouldn't it warm up eventually? | Space isn't full of stars. It is full of nothing. Space is very, very big - you don't understand how big, because no one does. Pick a point in space at random, and there won't be a star anywhere near it. There is so little of anything in space that any light from any star is going to pass straight by anywhere we choose... |
Can pack animals, domesticated or wild, perceive a human to be the "alpha male" or is it only limited to their species? | It's less restricted by species than you think. They pay less attention to that. They rather pay more attention to how they are introduced to that individual. Pack animals always designate a leader, no matter what. If there's a group, there's a leader. If they are alone, they're the leader. Say, if one wolf fights anot... |
When I tell a website to "save username and password" where is it stored? Is it safe to do so? | It's being saved on your computer. It's not the website that's saving your password, it's your internet browser. It's pretty safe to do, but obviously if you leave your computer unlocked and somebody uses it, they can log into your accounts. I know Firefox lets you put a master password on your saved passwords, so that... |
Why don't smartphones have FM-AM radio/ over-the-air television tuners? | I know my Galaxy 2 has a built-in FM tuner, but AT & T disables it. My guess is so that you'll use more data.My WP has one in the Zune app that comes preloaded on the phone.In the UK we have to play a license fee to watch live television. It would therefore render it impossible to enforce who was watching TV and who wa... |
Why aren't physicists concerned about catastrophic explosions created by particle accelerators? Whenever I read about a more powerful accelerator smashing particles at higher energies than ever before, I get nervous. | You're talking about *per-particle* energies similar to the newborn universe. Each of these collisions involves only two particles; individual atoms or subatomic particles are so small that no attainable *per-particle* energy will be at all significant on a macroscopic scale. The LHCs energy of 14 TeV is *enormous* if ... |
Why do even numbers feel safer and more pleasing than odd numbers? | I have a weird affinity for numbers divisible by 3. I think it's because I think it's cool that the sum of their digits is also divisible by 3. This doesn't directly answer your question except to point out that I think it's different for all people.A professor in art school years back told me his personal theory about... |
What trainable skills will be most valuable in 20 years' time? | Firstly, all skills are trainable. Neuroscience. The optimization and utilization of the human brain is the future of all technology. We'll either do things entirely outside of our brains or we'll radically improve our ability to use our brains . |
Why are SpaceX testing out vertical landing rockets by trying to land them on floating barges? Wouldn't it be easier to figure out how to land on solid ground first? | It's about versatility, as it's much easier to find a spot to land a rocket on the ocean rather than a very specific spot on dry land. Developing landing procedures on land wound entail many more costs than jumping straight into the unmanned platform on the ocean. |
Why do snow banks take ridiculously long to melt away? | [Relevant XKCD] > Melting a gram of snow takes about 335 joules of energy. To put that another way, a 60-watt lightbulb is capable of melting about a pound of snow an hour. > A foot of snow contains roughly the same amount of water as an inch of rain, give or take. Let's assume you've had a decent snowstorm of about a ... |
How do driverless cars adapt to severe weather? | Self-driving cars gather information from their environment from several sources. They may use visible light cameras, which would have the same difficulties that your eyes do, but they can also use IR cameras that can see well in the dark, plus Lidar which gives 3D information about where obstacles are in the environme... |
Why isn't all telecommunication simply done over the Internet using standard protocols? | A single point of failure is not a good idea. Outside of considerations for people just being obstinate that's the most important point. |
why does cooking jalapeno poppers in a fryer at 350 for 3 minutes cook them the same as baking them at 450 degrees for 10 minutes? | When baking, the heat comes from the air surrounding the food, and air is an extremely poor conductor of heat compared with oil, so it takes longer to heat things up. This can be easily seen by how you can hold your hand inside a hot oven relatively comfortably for a few seconds, but dipping your hand into a fryer woul... |
Why is Mongolia one of the most primitive nations in the world, but the Mongolian Empire was one of the most advanced? | Why isn't Egypt, Greece, or Italy the main technological powerhouse? Nations rise and fall my friend, and Mongolia fell.What's wrong with nomads? "Primitive" is kind of a silly term when you consider that hunter gatherers worked much less than 8 hours a day.Things have substantially changed since the thirteenth century... |
How did the American accent come about if the colonists came from either England or non-English speaking countries? | Colonial accents tend to take after the accent of the European country at the time of colonization. As mentioned elsewhere, American English, in particular New Englander's accents, are closer to 16th century Elizabethan accents of England. I've heard the Appalachian accents are even closer to the English accents at the... |
Since the moon and mars are both uninhabitable without great technological burden, why would we send people to live on Mars when the moon is SO MUCH closer? | Everyone else had good answers, but I wanted to add in the fuel aspect: Currently SpaceX's mars plan involves creating methane fuel from water and the atmosphere on Mars. Get hydrogen from frozen water in the soil, add carbon from carbon dioxide in the Martian air, add in energy, you have methane fuel with leftover oxy... |
What would be the evolutionary advantage for dinosaurs to develop wings without being able to fly? | i heard that velociraptors probably used their proto-wings to help stabilize themselves during attacks. since they primarily attack with their feet, they could use their wings to help keep themselves oriented safely during the attack so they don't topple over or fall while their prey tries to buck them off. |
Why can babies spend weeks head down in the womb, but it becomes dangerous to hold them upside-down for longer than a few moments once they are born? | First, remember a baby's heart functions differently inside the womb versus outside. Inside there are only two chambers at work, since the baby's lungs are not actually what provides oxygen. The placenta is what provides oxygen and discards carbon dioxide. See _URL_0_ for more on this. Second, the reason blood doesn't ... |
Why cars don't come with a manual kickstarter, like they do on motorcycle? | Turning an engine compresses air. while a small engine can be easily turned, a larger engine is much more difficult. The original cars were hand started, you could suffer a broken arm if it didn't go well. Engines are often much larger now than then. |
How does the Euro work? | The bills are the same across the entire Eurozone. The coins have one side the same and the other side different from country to country. All Euro are valid everywhere and you can for example pay with a French Euro coin in Germany. I just checked the change I have on me right now and there are coins from four different... |
Why does your body feel physically ill after experiencing emotional trauma? | I went through a 6 month divorce and went from being a 6'5 Army deploying machine to a 200 pound skin and bones. Stress can kill you. Broken heart can kill you. You have to eat. I still am not doing well. So take my word for it. Your mind can kill you. |
Why does every Muslim country hate Israel? | There's no simple answer to this, I'm afraid, and some of the answers you're getting refer to *very* recent events . This conflict between Muslims and Jews is ancient, dating back hundreds or even *thousands* of years. It *lead* to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict but in no way is that the cause. |
How can I go to one McDonald's and connect to their wifi, then go to a different McDonald's and be automatically connected? | The different McDonald's WiFi settings are purposefully made identical, so the phone or tablet recognizes them as the same connection. They do this because they want people to use the Wi-Fi network, hoping that when they need food or drink, you'll pick it up there. |
Does wearing prescription glasses improve or damage your eyesight over time? | For years I would get my eyes checked ~every 2 years. Each time my prescription would be slightly higher, the new glasses would feel just a touch on the buggy side . Everything would be nice and sharp though. This would always fade within a few months and then seem to stabilize. So I stopped getting my eyes checked, it... |
"Pound jumps as Bank of England hints at rate rise" | It's actually way simpler than you're thinking. Investors compare the interest rates available in different countries the same way you might compare the rates at different banks. It's not the only factor they look at, but it's an important one, especially for low-risk investments like government bonds. When the Bank of... |
Why do all or most mammals have leathery/rubbery noses, but not humans? | I was told once that wet dog noses help to dissolve the smellable particles from the air, which makes them easier to sense. Also that a dry nose isn't a good thing. |
Why does every human look and act different from each other, while almost every other species of animals look and act the same? | You, as a human, are very finely tuned to the differences between human's faces, and the differences between human's behaviour. If you were to get familiar with animals of another species, you'd see that their appearances and behaviour do vary widely. |
how does magneto fly? | I mean, I guess you could look into flux pinning. A superconductor above a magnet cannot be penetrated by a magnetic field, so the field goes around the superconductor and the superconductor floats. _URL_0_ Magneto's powers rely on magnetic field lines, so it wouldn't be a long stretch to say that this causes it. |
Why do rockets and thrusters work in space? | It's the standard action and equal opposite reaction. Rocket fuel is ignited and hot gas is expelled out of the thruster, the resultant reaction pushes the rocket forward. |
Why is Turkey so upset over labelling of the Armenian genocide? It was so so long ago. | It was less than 100 years ago - you're talking about a part of the world that has cities that pre-date things like WHEAT. In terms of the historical memory of that part of the world, 100 years ago was yesterday. |
What happens on an atomic/molecular level when you cut something? | Nothing, on an atomic level. You're not going to change a watermelon into a grape by cutting it. It will still be a watermelon. When you cut it, you're merely separating the cells of the fruit from one another. Sometimes cutting through them, which releases the liquid juice onto the plate. So on an atomic level, nothin... |
Why are knuckleballs in baseball so unpredictable and why do they "dance" | As the other commentors have said, the lack of spin results in a dance. Furthermore, the ball is prone to breaking unpredictably due to outside forces. If you want a comparison of a ball that spins versus one that doesn't as much, look up comparisons between the world cup model soccer balls between 2014 and 2010. The 2... |
How does my xbox know I speak French? | Your Xbox might also be logged in to the Microsoft account you use on your phone - because of the way cookies track you, they'll be picked up by whatever accounts you're using. If you're getting ads on one network, tracking cookies for other networks will add whatever they observe from competitors. This is true for com... |
How did we figure out that fingerprints are 100% unique? | Fingerprints are not unique, just uncommon. Say you find a guy dead, and a knife with a single fingerprint on it. If you run that print against a magic database of all living humans you will get 1000 matches, spread all over the planet. 999 of these people have no idea why they are being questioned about a murder. Howe... |
If an astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and the Sun, how is Earth 0.984 astronomical unit away from the Sun (according to Wolfram Alpha)? | The earth's orbit isn't perfectly round. 1 AU=roughly 92 million miles, which is the average distance from the Earth to the sun, but it gets further and closer. Wolfram Alpha either is using a more specific distance, a distance that's more specific to this particular moment, or has just rounded differently. |
How, why, and when did Vegas marriage chapels become a thing? Do THAT many drunk people and/or elopers really get married by some random pastor in Las Vegas? | drive thru wedding", and a zillion arguably tasteless marketing schemes.The idea that drunk people get married in Vegas is a Hollywood myth. To be married in Vegas, you have to get a form from the county clerk's office during regular business hours before you can get married. You can't just walk into a chapel and get i... |
How do we not run out of telephone numbers? | How did you get that figure? Did you do 10 factorial or something? Isn't it as simple as 10^10? Edit: you did do 10!, that's for a combination of things that exclude what's already been used and can't be used again. So a line of x amount of people has x! Combinations, you can use it that way because there can't be 2 ti... |
Both of my Parents are type O blood type. I am AB+ how is that possible? | One parent with O blood makes AB impossible, much less two. You have to get A from one parent and B from the other. While it is not unheard of for one mutation to occur, it is very rare. For two freak mutations to happen at the same time would probably be never before in history improbable. So, here are the other possi... |
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" | You can tell a horse's age by the length of its teeth, thereby determining its relative value. It would be rude to do that in front of the person who gave you the horse. Basically, if someone gives you a gift, don't check to see how much it cost. That's rude. |
Can someone ELI5 how Tesla opening up their patents is going to help new auto company startups? | It's like teaching someone how to play chess before playing them. You give em the blueprint and teach em the rules and then may the best man win. Without the blueprint, the newb chess player doesn't stand a chance. |
How the Syrian group taking over a news outlet's twitter, and posting the President was injured mad the Dow drop 100 points? | The Dow is an index of many different industrial companies so that 100 point drop is aggregated over many different companies. When there are major national tragedies these industrial companies ship slightly fewer units simply because people are distracted. Imagine the guy who was going to place an order for a million ... |
Why are everyone in '50s & '60s photos so thin? | Well adults in the 50's lived through the great depression, WWI and WWII. Food wasn't exactly over-abundant during these times. Also fast food wasn't very big yet. Finally women still weren't working much at the time, so if you were married or living with your parents you had someone at home preparing meals, not just s... |
Hi ELI5, what is your stance of me taking questions and answers from here and posting it on my own website(details inside/no Ads). | This is from the Reddit [user agreement]: > You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching, or otherwise, of material obtained through the Website, including without limitation the Assets or Website Content, except as permitted by th... |
How do cops know exactly where to go when they get a call? | some cruisers do have onboard GPS. but mostly it's about knowing your neighborhood. if your dispatch tells you to go somewhere you don't know.. you either get a map, pull it up on your phone, or ask dispatch where to go. not all cops work in city blocks. county sheriffs work a huge area. they don't know every little st... |
where did Philly sports fans get the reputation for being so aggressive? | Well, the Phillies fans did throw batteries at the Phillies only black player at the time, Eagles fans cheered when Michael Ervin layed injured and motionless on the field, and they boo'd Santa Claus and tossed snow balls at him. There's other incidents involving fan on fan violence and assault as well.Look at what Phi... |
What's in it for the federal government to have marijuana criminalized? | The way I understand it is that the criminal justice system profits immensely from the criminalization of pot. What organizations give money to anti-marijuana legislation? Cops. Why? Jobs. So I believe you have enormous lobbies courting elected officials in order to keep their clients' gravy train rolling. Keep in mind... |
If an individual loses a civil suit and is forced to pay an exorbitant amount (in relation to their personal wealth / income), how exactly are they expected to pay that? | They can't be forced to pay more than they have; the process basically involves someone identifying an asset, then seizing it. |
how did clocks stay in sync back in the 1800s? | The nearest train station was the best place to set your watch because there was a telegraph system that connected and synched clocks between stations. If I remember correctly they were accurate to within 2-3 minutes. How accurate a watch stayed is anyone's guess and dependent on the quality of the watch. Chances are g... |
why do your gums and teeth feel weird when you don't get enough sleep? | Sometimes a sleepy brain makes you hallucinate or feel strange. I get an itching/twitchy/cramping sensation in the gums behind my two bottom front teeth sometimes. It's weird. |
Why do temps like the high 70s (F) feel so mild during the day but SO HOT when I'm trying to fall asleep at night? | There are many factors that causes this annoying problem. I haven't researched on it so don't quote me, but from personal experience this is what I have thought of. -When outside during the day, there is more air circulation and depending on humidity, overcast, and buildings/shadows, temperatures could feel different. ... |
Why did China become a world power when the Soviet Union collapsed? | China is more of a capitalist economy with a one party state than a full on communist state. They are basically communists only in name these days, a weird limbo between Socialism and Communism. The USSR tried it's best to keep its roots, but it was doomed to fail the day Gorbachev introduced the wonders of blue jeans ... |
Can you really say, "You can't fire me, I quit!"? and legitimately resign before you're fired. | At my work, any high dollar incident causes them to automatically drug test EVERYONE that was working that shift . So following most accidents, there's a stack of resignations on the supervisor's desk because if you quit, you can reapply in 6 months; if you test positive for pot, you are permanently banned from rehirin... |
Why did we think gold and silver was precious in the ancient times? | Because they were. The only available sources were the most superficial ones, and they hadn't a good quantity compare to the ore veins we find today with heavy machinery. Also it is shiny. |
what the liter means for cars? Like a car with a V6 4.0L | It's the total volume of the cylinders, with the pistons at the bottom of the stroke. It's another way to describe how powerful the engine is. More volume means more fuel/air mixture the car can burn per cycle. |
Why does the taste of tap water always change when I move from place to place? | Because your country puts fluoride in your water so it can calcify your brain so you can't think for yourself and it's a way the government can control the people of America. Fluoride is found in toothpaste and is used to harden the enamel of the teeth.It also depends on the treatment facility, and what they use to fil... |
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