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Why does GM only get a $900 million fine for knowingly having an issue that has killed over 100 people, but VW will get fined multibillions for lying about emmissions? | It's not true that VW *will* get fined multibillions. The maximum fine possible is multibillions, but they'll probably pay much less than the maximum fine possible.VW knowingly programmed the computers to give false readings. GM has shitty made automobiles. VW was intentional, GM not so much.The GM issue was an edge ca... |
What exactly happens when we choose to 'Format' an external hard drive? | There's a part in every filesystem on a hard drive that stores data on where files are in the hard drive, and how many partitions it has, that sort of stuff. It varies from filesystem to filesystem. When you format, you delete the partition table/other cataloging data structures, and write a new blank one. Even though ... |
Why different species have different lifespans | This might be relevant: [the Hayflick limit]. I don't understand it that well, but there is a programmed limit to how many times a cell can divide. Think of DNA like a shoelace: they're mostly fabric/cord made out of woven material, but the ends have those little pieces of plastic to keep the laces from fraying ). Simi... |
China's form of communism, how does it work now (in the last decade or so) using a capitalism economy. | Not an answer but there is a fault in your question. The Chinese state, like the ussr before it, is not communist . It's a system usually referred to as state socialism.Some industries and companies are still state owned. The communism is just an ideology. China wanted to move away from its complete control over the ec... |
Why is there an indented space that is lower than the other buttons between "caps lock" button and the "A" on some keyboards? | That's a left over from typewriters. The indented part was a shift key that you could hit with your pinky. The raised part left of that was the actual caps lock key. When pushed down hard enough it would lock down the indented shift key beside it. When you hit the indented key again and it would unlock caps. The mechan... |
Why is it that a human brain doesn't fully develop until age 25, even though that would have been around (or even past) middle aged for most humans throughout history? | It's true that the brain is technically still developing throughout emerging adulthood , but the vast majority of brain development is complete by age 18 and there are generally very few developmental changes that occur after around age 22. Also keep in mind that many life expectancy estimates from history are heavily ... |
Why was Benton Mackenzie not allowed to talk about his medical condition during his trial? | The sixth amendment reads: > In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause ... |
What are music critics listening for? | I write album reviews on metalcore/post hardcore and a mix of other genres. Generally, lyricism and execution are what I look for. I do get into the technical aspects but what I really want to hear is something that's not super generic and has great overall sound. For example, I gave Attila's new album a bad score beca... |
Why do people choose to have their problems solved on shows like Jerry Springer and Maury? | It's a free trip to a big city, hotel stay included, many of the people appearing are paid, and a chance to tell all your trashy friends you're about to be on tv. Who cares if the show is fake, they're gonna be on tv regardless. |
How did the color green become the sign of go/correct and the color red of stop/wrong? | It's an evolutionary instinct. Blood is red and we want to avoid or stop bleeding and plant life is green which is usually a suitable environment |
Why do employers ask you to resign instead of just firing you? | Companies will do this to avoid paying severence. As a general rule if you have done nothing wrong you should not do it as it could mean you receive no severence pay. Only resign if it is a benefit to you. It should be noted that at least where I live if you are told resign or be fired you are likely still entitled to ... |
Why can I rent a new movie on Redbox for $1.50 but a digital rental still costs $4-5? | Actually, the reason for the cheap Red box is because the movie studios don't have the same control as they do for digital mediums. Red box is legally allowed to buy copies of movies and rent them out without having to go through the movie studios. Whereas with digital rentals, a deal has to be struck or it's a no go.E... |
Why are green screens green? Why not a different color? | You want a color that is relatively uncommon, so you aren't putting holes in your 'image.' Beyond that, because we're very sensitive to green light, our digital technology is designed to be more sensitive to greens to mimic how we see. This means that if you use a green background, you get the least noise. That is to s... |
What is the strategy behind football players always running straight into the pack of opposing players, gaining just 2-3 feet? | I haven't yet seen mention that a run play like you're describing may not be as successful in yards gained but still makes the defence concern themselves with run plays. This concern by the defense can open up the backfield for pass opportunities. |
The mass migration to the credit card chip. Why is the chip considered so superior now to swiping? | With all the push to switch to chip transactions, I have two follow-up questions: why do about half the businesses I visit have the chip readers but tell you not to use them because they don't work, and why hasn't my bank sent me a debit card with a chip on it? |
Can identical twins grow at different rates as children such that one twin could be bigger/more mature than the other for a short time or is growth rate part of twin-ness? | Nah, growth is controlled by a huge number of factors. Genetics is a big one, but there are gazillions of other variables that can affect it: diet, exercise, happiness, differences in fetal development, etc. We can think of a super-extreme, totally unethical example: let's say that when two identical twins are born, I ... |
Why do my hands and fingers feel really weak sometimes for no reason? | If you're asking a medical question like this on reddit you're going to get the wrong answer. Also I never experience this except when I've just woken up for about 2 minutes. Other than that I cannot imagine this is a good thing to happen randomly. |
How does Hollywood cast for roles with a specific physical requirement (e.g. the person is extremely obese/unattractive/weasel faced)? | There actually is a model/casting agency in the UK called, I think, Ugly Models, or something like that. I follow them on instagram. The models aren't hideous or anything though, just interesting looking. Edit for link: _URL_0_ |
What happens if you're not a citizen of any country? | If you're from any of the more developed nations, you probably can't lose your citizenship. Most governments refuse to allow voluntary renunciation or the involuntary removal of citizenship unless the person already has another. As an example, the US State Department will not allow a US citizen to voluntarily renounce ... |
Why are humans most comfortable at room temperature (~22°C) but not at body temperature (37°C)? | I find 22º awfully cold; I wear hoodies outside unless it's at least 30º . As far as I know, I'm healthy, and of normal weight for my height; every time I've visited a doctor or hospital, my body temperature is always right around 37º. What is different about my body that I'm *always* so cold? /ELI5", 'Our bodies are l... |
Why GPS in smartphone reports better accuracy than dedicated GPS navigation. | as said, pure GPS is only accurate to certain amount. your phone does't use pure GPS. it uses AGPS with WAAS. assisted GPS means that it uses more than just the GPS signal. it uses the cellular towers to assist the GPS signal. your phone is always in contact with the cell towers so it always knows to about a 10 square ... |
How does Malala Yousafzal standing up for womens rights to an education in the middle east promote world peace(and get her the Nobel Prize). | The selection committee doesn't necessarily follow the criteria you described. Malala has bravely advanced the cause of her people, of girls around the world, and of children everywhere who desperately need education. She has done this peacefully, in spite of danger, threats, and attempted assassination. For many, she'... |
Why do teachers use clips/documentaries for classes that are 15+ years old in comparison to newer material? | The biggest reason is because most of the material being covered in almost all of your classes hasn't changed much in the last twenty or so years. Schools and school districts have very limited budgets . Sure, they could spend money getting brand new textbooks, reference material, etc. every year, or they could use the... |
Why Do People Get Depressed? | To keep it simple; depression is caused by a wide variety of things. It could be as simple as being hardwired for depression--my brain doesn't absorb serotonin correctly, so I'm naturally depressed. It could also stem from personal hardships, such as losing an important relationship, losing a job, financial troubles, o... |
Why aren't there any more big new rock bands? | Because the musical landscape is always changing. In the early 1900's, Jazz was still on the rise. Soon after that, blues became more dominant, soon to be followed by rock 'n roll, with Elvis becoming the biggest artist in the world. He was soon followed by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and rock music became the ... |
Atchim: Why do I often sneeze a lot just after waking in the morning? | You'll probably find dust settles in your sheets, and when you get out of bed in the morning, it all gets airborne again. maybe? also this seems like an /r/askreddit |
How does NASA still have signal with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2? | Not just what DDE93 said, but there isn't much blocking signals in space so they can travel very far depending on the band you are operating in. Add the fact tha the technology used was so old they built it the satellites to be reliable and didn't use weaker more secure signals. The DSCS satellite , initially had the s... |
Why is ceramic a good material for body armor? | They're surprisingly similar. Here's a thought for you: drop a ceramic anything onto the floor. I bet you the floor won't even be damaged, let alone scratched. That's because all of the energy from that object falling is just getting absorbed into the ceramic. Same concept for body armor. Bullet hits the plate, the pla... |
Why are our fingers curled and not straight when they are relaxed? | Muscles like to be relaxed when you arn't using them, sport. Keeping your fingers straight uses muscles, even when they're on a desk, to an extent. Energy conservation. |
How have human beings evolved over the past 2000 years? | Since evolution is the change in the genetic information of a gene pool over generations we have evolved a lot. Whether it's the change in frequency in which people have different hair colours, taller men generally have more children than shorter men, the % of people who are lactose intolerant would have changed .. Sti... |
why wasn't there more Jewish resistance in the earlier stages of WWII? | Nobody thought something like the Holocaust was going to happen. Sure, a war, people getting rounded up, Jews being treated badly but mass extermination? That wasn't really something most people were worried about until it actually started happening and by then it was mostly too late. |
How is it that you can by cocacola in almost any shop or restaurant in the world but you never see a factory? | Well, the first hit in a Google search turned up a page about [educational visits to Coca Cola in the UK]. Of the 6 centres where they do these visits, 5 of them are in factories, in Edmonton, Wakefield, East Kilbride, Milton Keynes and Sidcup. So there are at least 5 factories in the UK. I'd imagine there are hundreds... |
Why is the population in the United States significantly less west of the Mississippi River? | In general, civilizations thrive near water . When you get west of the Mississippi, there are a few smaller rivers but nothing particularly large enough to support a city the size of, say, NYC. If you can't support a large city of that magnitude, you're going to see more of a community that is more reliant on farming w... |
Why is there a gigantic desert in North-Afrika and Saudi-Arabia but not in India? | India's mistake was made when it moved into mainland Asia, with the impact creating the Himalayas, which attract rain. If India had stayed put as a large island then there might well have been a desert in the north. |
What do companies stand to gain from enter-to-win giveaways? | It is just advertising. If you have $5 and looking for lunch, maybe you go to McDonald's instead of Burger King because you might win something. |
how does universal healthcare work in Australia, Canada and Europe? | Europe doesn't have universal healthcare, specific countries do. The way healthcare works in these many countries differs. I think the Canadian system is both pretty reasonable and would work, at least in theory, for the USA. Basically you're just granted health insurance by your provincial government, and that health ... |
How can Netflix detect if their users are using a VPN and can the detection be circumvented? | A VPN runs a link from your computer to a VPN host. Your traffic then enters the Internet from that VPN host, masking your position in the network. When you're streaming data from a site like Netflix, they have two options for detecting VPNs: 1) VPN hosts make a lot of connections to Netflix for many different accounts... |
Why do we have the white thing on the end of our nails and why do they keep regenerating when we cut them off? | We've got nails because our ancestors had nails. Nails are the primate equivalent of claws. Claws would have been good for climbing up larger tree trunks but less suitable for smaller branches or for manipulating objects. It is unknown whether fingertips are a vestigial side-effect from the loss of claws or are an adap... |
How are film studios able to take old films filmed on a film reel and digitally remaster them to look as crisp as digital video? | Ok. Added to /u/BigPoopcornThing 's explanation, old films DO deteriorate. The digital remastering process is much more complex for older films. This usually involves pulling frames from different film reels and negatives and combining many different prints/negatives to get the best quality possible. They are then clea... |
Why do people hate Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand seems to promote that people are assholes to one another. I don't want others to use me in selfish ways. Also, when Ayn Rand needed welfare in later life, any qualms about using that suddenly disappeared. What an asshole.It is fairly easy to understand why leftists hated her. But what most people don't realize... |
How is lucid dreaming possible and how can it be achieved and mastered in the first place? | Lucid dreaming isn't that great. It's really a pain. Like I am always having to say this isn't real start over. Then I never get to the end of the dream. Or when you know there isn't a monster chasing you but you still have to run, because that's the plot of that dream. Honestly it would be better if I could just sleep... |
How does a mild snowstorm by northern standards totally cripple the south? | You know the first day of snow every year? Where it suddenly seems like everyone has totally forgotten how to drive on snow, and there's a car in every ditch because people are hitting the off-ramps at 50mph? Imagine if everyone *really* had no idea how to drive on snow. Half the drivers would be creeping along at 5 mp... |
Why aren't the letters in keyboards organized alphabetically? | c",and "s" , put vowels in different spots, etc. QWERTY keyboards stuck around since they worked well in preventing jams. Since everybody was used to typing on QWERTY keyboards when computers came out, the layout stuck around even though computers don't jam up like typewriters do. Dvorak was a response to the digitzati... |
why should one 'never start a land war in Asia?' | It's a quote from General Weidemer. I think he was calling for Americans to use naval bombardment, air power, and maybe the Atomic Bomb. I don't think he was calling for surrender. It's often quoted because of Korea and Vietnam. |
What is the difference between manslaughter and murder exactly? | You've pretty much got it. Manslaughter is accidental murder like killing someone in a car crash. Basically, if you are charged with manslaughter, you killed someone, but you didn't mean to do it. Voluntary manslaughter is when you intended harm, but not necessarily death. For example, you got into a fight with someone... |
If the Internet is basically a network of wires and computers, how does data navigate itself from one specific computer to where it needs to be? | It's pretty much like the post Office USPS. You post send a 'packet' out to an address . If it's local it gets delivered by the postman. If not, it sends it to the next distribution centre that it is attached to. The routers have a list of, regularly updated addresses it knows about and where to send it to. So, once th... |
What should I call someone who's ancestors existed in the America's before Columbus? | I've heard of Amerindian, Pre-Colombian native, Native, etc..I was told to Amerindian on my AP History and Human Geo tests, and I didn't see a problem. |
If Adobe Flash is so full of bugs, why does everybody still use it instead of HTML5? | It's expensive to rebuild all that stuff that is already existing in flash. And some things to this date can't be done in the same visual quality with html5. Also html5 isn't there yet completely |
Why do we need IP address to be connected to internet? Don't we have MAC address already? | The MAC address is just an identifier for your computer , but it can't be used to locate it. If I take my computer and fly halfway around the world, I'll still have the same MAC address but I'll be in an entirely different location, so how would packets know where to find me? IP addresses however are dynamic and struct... |
Why do people making less than $100k/y vote Republican? | Your question can be answered more thoroughly by reading V.O Key's book Southern Politics in State and Nation, if you're interested. TL;DR - Turn of the century in the South, the Populist movement was taking off. Poor whites and poor blacks had discovered that their interests lie together, and were starting to challeng... |
why porn is bad for me | Porn itself is not bad for you but it is important to think of it just like other movies. When we watch a movie we know most of the time what the actors/actresses do in a movie does not happen in real life. There were a lot of smart people to help them and made the movie look interesting. In porns, actors may take drug... |
Why were horrific deaths considered entertainment throughout ancient history? Why are we so different now? | we're different? I don't think so. We may have evolved society, but our bodies are pretty much the same hormone driven vehicles they were 10,000 years ago. Ever been to r/watchpeopledie ? Blows that whole theory out of the water. |
With Technology growing and what not, why hasn't there been a phone battery that can last a week rather than a day? | We can totally make a phone battery that can last a week. But what if it weighs a pound? What if it's half an inch thick? The market has spoken - the vast majority of people want to buy sleek, super thin phones, and as long as the battery can last through the day it's acceptable. If you do want those things and don't m... |
Why is it legal for insurance companies to profile by gender and not by race even though certain races have meaningful differences in driving fatalities? | Race isn't well defined. I'm 3/16ths black so would the insurance company have a case to deny a claim because I listed myself as white? It's legal and PR issues everyone would rather do without. |
Can someone please explain the Watergate scandel to me like I'm 5? | The Watergate scandal was basically a scandal where Nixon got some men to break into the Watergate Hotel, where the Democratic National Committee Headquarters was. These men bugged phone lines and stole important documents from the Democrats. To avoid being removed from government, Nixon resigned so that he could still... |
What is the practical difference between open carry and concealed carry | The laws vary from state to state a lot. Some states you need a permit to carry and some you can open carry with no permit. I have a CCW permit and choose to not carry at all as I don't like to carry around 2lbs of steel that odds are overwhelmingly I'll never use. As the other guy pointed out it's really whether you w... |
Why do murderers often find it difficult to dispose of murder weapons? | You are thinking rationally. People committing murders usually aren't the most rational, or in the right state of mind to be thinking of things like this. |
What causes swelling and where does the fluids come from? | Imagine that the entirety of your circulatory system has barriers everywhere to prevent blood from flowing where it shouldn't. Your body removes barriers around the wound and this allows fluids to move into the wound to promote healing. More blood flow = faster healing. It isn't so much extra fluids as it is fluids bei... |
what causes a pedophile to become a pedophile? | Psychological theories have touched on [conditioning] and the abused-abuser theory. But the majority of victims are female and the majority of offenders are male, and overall these theories do not have very much evidence to support them. Plus, a [twin study] showed evidence that genetics may play more of a part than th... |
Why are teachers so stressed about standardized testing in the U.S.? | Here's the thing, say I'm a teacher and I love my craft. My college thesis was on how the Election of 1800 is still affecting the politics of today. I can explain that down to a five year old level and my students love to learn about Jefferson. Then comes in the test. The test asks standardized questions about the War ... |
Why is victim blaming seen as bad? When in my mind there seems to be legitimate circumstances where the victim would be to blame? | People think it empowers the offender, that it means the offender is somehow not in the wrong. Which of course isn't correct. e.g. saying those celebrities that got their pictures hacked should have been more vigilant somehow implies that the hacker wasn't in the wrong.Historically, women were blamed for sexually motiv... |
why kids think its gross to like members of the opposite sex. | our culture is very uptight about sex. children perceive some of the social taboo of being open about sex but don't fully understand it so they misinterpret it and think the taboo is ANY kind of public association with the opposite gender rather than just sex. its easy to imagine why they would be confused by this. why... |
Why would a lawyer ask a judge for permission to "treat the witness as hostile", and what are the benefits for being able to do so? | If I know anything about the law which I don't it means you are free to punch the witness at your discretion. |
Now that it’s back in season, where’s the flu been? | It's always there. It's just like fresher's flu. You get it because suddenly you're surrounded by thousands of people and thus more likely to get the flu and spread it. |
Why are conservatives so against the idea of socialism? | It's all a question of framing since nearly 100% of conservatives have taken advantage of some social program in the US schools and libraries to name a few.My answer is representative of Libertarian ideals and not neoconservative ones. Given that, there are moral and pragmatic reasons for opposing socialist ideas. The ... |
Why wasn't that Kentucky clerk who didn't issue a same sex couple a marriage license arrested for contempt of court? | Bigger question for me is: why hasn't she been FIRED?!", 'Is that court still not allowing same sex couple marriages, or just that one clerk?[In this article, which is on the front page of /r/news] it states that she and her staff have been summoned by the federal court to explain why they should not be held in contemp... |
What's the legal difference between me sharing a movie with a friend vs with a stranger or multiple strangers? | Why would it be illegal? You can legally re-sell movies , you just can't make an illegal copy of them. |
How does the top layer of the Earth's crust become buried? | Fossils don't get buried everywhere! If a plant or animal dies in a river valley or along a shoreline, it can eventually be buried by dirt that gets washed downhill from nearby hills and mountains. The mountains gradually erode away as a result, but new ones are formed over time by volcanic eruption or collisions betwe... |
Why do humans feel "lost and confused" after waking up from slumber? | Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why do some people wake up so confused after an inadequate nap? ]1. [ELI5:What is happening to my brain when I wake up confused? ]1. [ELI5: Why are we confused when first waking up? ]1. [ELI5: Sleep drunkenness? ]", 'Part of it depends on which point... |
How can cars legally drive off dealerships with no license plates, without discrediting the entire license plate law? | You have a grace period where the license and registration _filing_ is sufficient. You receive a flimsy paper version of this. You're required to display this in your windshield and you aren't allowed off the lot without it. |
What is this whole Monsanto thing about? | A company called Monsanto commercialized a genetically modified corn seed which is incredibly resilient and is overall superior to regular corn. However, if they just gave the seed away in its reproducible state, they'd pretty much make no money because the farmers would just be able to keep using it. Furthermore, sinc... |
Why do some businesses choose not to allow credit card/eftpos transactions? | I know 2 businesses that don't allow them on 1) Cost of having equipment installed maintained 2) Having to pay a percentage of each transaction to provider of equipment when margins are already very low. Plus one of them just prefers cash because, well, it's cash.The bank takes a percentage of every transaction, plus a... |
Why is Islam growing so fast? | It's a question of population growth rather than conversion. For instance, after the Columbian exchange, when the potato was introduced to Ireland, you might look at the statistics and think people were converting in DROVES to Catholicism. Of course, that wasn't the case, it was just that the Christian regions of the w... |
Why do most people hate Windows 8's Metro, and want the start menu back so badly? | It's largely due to familiarity. People were very used to using the Start Menu. It's like if all the car makers decided to change the ignition location, the familiar, habitual action would start to feel wrong.Both Windows 8 and 10 are ment to be used with a touch screen but most people are using a keyboard and mouse. R... |
How are commands sent to space probes/rovers such as Curiosity? What's stopping me sending my own commands? | The primary limitation is access to the wireless protocol and encryption/ciphering information. This is something NASA is unlikely to give to you, however if you did gain access to this information one could synthesize the waveforms without too much trouble using something like [GNU Radio]. It's possible one could use ... |
How do ancient buildings end up buried in the ground? Where does all the new dirt come from? | Topsoil is continually manufactured by a variety of process, so the topsoil layer continues to be churned around, enabling the burial of things. There's erosion for one process which generates it. But there's also animal action. In many parts of the world, worms serve to continually lay down new layers of topsoil. In o... |
Why do we get hungry again after eating a big meal regardless of whether we use all of the calories or not? | Evolution has basically trained us to eat as much as we can when we can, because the next meal is no guarantee. It wasn't unusual for our ancestors to wind up in a situation where they couldn't find food for a day or two, so we adapted to store that food energy as fat for later. It then became advantageous to eat as mu... |
why Ebola isn't airborne. | Most viruses are pretty flimsy; they're basically blobs of DNA wrapped in a thin protein shell. Ultraviolet light, heat and lack of moisture all cause a lot of problems for viruses. And adapting to infect over breath is even more troublesome. Airborne transmission is the exception rather than the rule. |
Do stupid people really exist? | There are certainly people with lower IQ's than others. Someone with an IQ of 65 is inherently not going to understand certain concepts no matter how hard they try. |
Why do we have wisdom teeth, and are they bad? | All four of mine grew in without any issues. The dentist constantly tries to get me to let him remove them because he says they get cavities easier because they're harder to brush Fuck that, I like having 4 extra teeth. |
in a keyboard, what are the little bumps in the F and J keys for and why are they on those specific keys? | While everyone has pointed out that they are there primarly for touch typists who don't need to look for the keys to type without issue, there is another reason behind them being there which is an extension on the whole touch typing thing. And that factor is that typing is an accessible format and as such people with p... |
If I purchased a TLD, why can I not issue authoritive SSL certs for that TLD? | Because you are not considered a 'trusted authority' by the powers that be. There are some significant barriers to entry and the market is controlled my a small number of companies. If you can somehow talk Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Opera, etc. into trusting your self signed certs then you're good to go. Otherwise you... |
Why does America continue to support Israel despite everyone in that area hating us for it? | We could and they'd be fine. Look up the 6 day war.Israel takes the brunt of the terrorism, as it embodies Western ideology in its society and practices. Therefore, Muslim extremists have a local target rather than one halfway across the globe to attack. Also, they have been a bastion of democracy in the turbulent hist... |
If everyone else is vaccinated against something and one person is not why does that matter? | This is called herd immunity. It essentially means that unvaccinated individuals are safe from infection because there are enough people surrounding their life that are vaccinated so there are not enough sick people around to infect the unvaccinated people. However, who should decide who gets the vaccine and who doesn'... |
If I'm in a falling elevator and I jump 1' off of the ground right before it hits, what will happen? | When you fall with the elevator you are travelling down at the same velocity as the elevator. Jumping negates only a small amount of that velocity. From your perspective you may be jumping, but were you to look at yourself from outside the elevator it's more like you temporarily slowed down a tiny bit. Imagine falling ... |
Why do men predominantly have shorter hair than women? When did this start to trend? | I have't looked up any sources but I think, at least in the West, it was due to the Romans. They were the first I believe to make everyone in the army have close cropped hair. or maybe something to do with hygiene, short hair was less likely to get lice or something like that.It has to do with the military. In the pre/... |
Why are longer passwords more secure if they are all hashed to a standard length? | I'm not sure I know what you mean by hashed to a standard length, but with each letter the number of possible combinations grows exponentially. |
How do cryptocurrencies become regulated? | You can't regulate a cryptocurrency. You can regulate an exchange however, requiring everyone to show ID and provide documentation to prove income. You can regulate or block an official investment fund into a cryptocurrency too. They can regulate the fiat currency being used to buy crypto. Compare to gold. You can regu... |
When concerts sell out in 10 minutes why doesn't the artist just book a bigger venue so more people can come? | Ignoring the issue of the costs involved of breaking the contract with the venue, transferring tickets from one venue to another, and informing tens of thousands of people of a venue change, there are other issues. Venues are booked FAR before tickets are available to the public. Often times, the venue they get is the ... |
Why do I stutter when I drink? | Two things might be happening. 1.you're getting relaxed, you think much less about what other people think about you. And or You're motor control goes downtown. So expect moderate drinking to ease stuttering, and serve drinking to let you loose motor control. There's no research on this study. Source from, guy who stut... |
Why do weed references in popular songs often get bleeped out, but I can listen to "Cocaine" in its entirely? | 'But she never lost her head, Even when she was giving head' was all over the radio in '72. Lou's walk on the wild side.I remember my Mom singing to it while it played on the radio.Louder than me.No idea.Whether or not something gets censored depends on who the medium is geared towards, kind of like a TV rating, only f... |
Why are different currencies not worth the same? How come a pound is worth more than a dollar? | Basically? Because someone who has dollars who needs to buy pounds is willing to pay more. Like all goods, currency value is a product of supply and demand. If you print a lot of money, then the supply of your money goes up, so the price of your money goes down. There are other ways that governments can change the supp... |
Why doesn’t gravity affect people of different weights differently? | The equation for acceleration due to gravity is a = F / m, and the equation for force due to gravity is F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2. If you substitute in the force equation, the mass of the person cancels out and the acceleration due to gravity is a = G * m2 / r^2, so it only depends on how massive the Earth is and the dista... |
why is baseball seemingly the only sport totally obsessed with spitting, chewing, and doing generally strange things with their mouths? | It's the nature of the game. It's very slow. Imagine an outfielder standing the grass, waiting for the ball to be hit to him, and it never does. Chewing and spitting wouldn't be possible in a sport like basketball or hockey, because you can't have the floor/ice littered with trash. But a couple of sunflower seeds in a ... |
What does it mean when a juice bottle says 10% juice? What does the rest of the 90% consist of and where does it come from? | Usually it's sugar/HFCS and water. Also, it's really common to use apple and/or grape juice to bump that number up and keep the 100% juice rating. So oceanspray cranberry juice is apple and cranberry juice with a splash of cranberry juice. So they sell it as 100% juice cranberry. |
Why do they say people who are drunk are more likely to survive traumatic car accidents than those that aren't? | You are less likely to tense up at impact if you're drunk. I saw a guy fall head over heels down a 2 story flight of stairs. Should have messed himself up pretty good but since he was drunk he didn't get more than a bump on the head. |
Why low rep, heavy weight builds strength and high rep, lighter weight builds endurance? | Also, the different types of muscles use different mitochondria, a type that runs off of sugar, and a type that runs off of fat. When you strength train your body builds more of the kind that run off of sugar, and when you do low weights it builds the kind that run off of fat. It's easier to get sugar to your muscle ce... |
Why does my city have a fully functional city-wide fiber network but it's only available for businesses, not households? | ELI5 Answer- if businesses pay $1000 for 10000 strands of spaghetti, they expect to get 10000 strands at anytime, delivered promptly. The 10000 strands get to stay at a single kitchen. For customers who pay $100, you expect 10000 strands, but most of the time you'll only get 100 strands or so, because there are other c... |
What does a CEO do to earn such enormous money | It's not magic. But a company like McDonald's is worth billions of dollars. Let's say you owned the whole company. Who would you put in charge? How would you find someone to run everything? There are thousands of decisions to make that could drastically affect the profitability of the company. What if you did something... |
How do we know when to wake up when we arrived at our stop when taking public transport? | As someone who used to sleep all the time on public transit when I used to take it regularly, my brain was able to remember the approximate time it would take to get to my destination. I knew that the journey was 40 minutes and that there was an urgency to get off at that point, lest I be taken too far and miss my clas... |
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