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how do you identify a hipster and why do people dislike them? | Hipsters are just the new counter-culture, soon they'll become a mainstream group and everyone will forget about them and a new counter-culture will crop up. This is the circle, it will always exist. People don't like them because the stereotype is that they're snooty.I like TenTonApe's answer, but think there is also ... |
How does bullet sizing work? | The size is the diameter of the widest part of the bullet itself . A 9mm bullet is 9mm across, a .50 bullet is half an inch across etc. The size of the bullet usually determines how much damage it does to a person, but not necessarily range. For example a 5.56mm round from an assault rifle can be accurate up to around ... |
Why do cats jump into your lap for pets purring, then out of no where hiss and try to bite you (while still purring)? | [Cats have a unique response to petting] Basically cats experience petting as an intense form of stimulation, and if they happen to be energized or agitated prior to being pet, they'll react with aggression. This is usually because they're being pet after showing signs that they don't want to be pet anymore or pet diff... |
how do websites such as google, youtube, reddit, facebook,etc generate profit? | loans", and "mortgage"get those super high prices. See here:_URL_0_ Youtube , and Facebook make their money the same way. tl;dr: If you hate a company and want them to pay, just click on their ads whenever you get a chance. |
Why aren't quad rotor copters used in full size, people-carrying applications? | They're currently being developed, I think the latest iteration is called the E-Volo", 'They are. Look up VOLO on YouTube Uses more than 4 rotors. But is also electric driven, not regular avuation fuel Edit with updated linke-volo VC200 18 rotor 2 person electric helicopter - first flight .._URL_3_', "I've been seeing ... |
why the fractional banking system doesn't collapse as soon as people realize their deposits are backed by nothing | Would it be any better if it was backed by gold? Gold isn't magic. Things only have value because we want them. We want to keep the whole game going, so it keeps going. Simple as that. |
Possible solutions to Xeno's Paradox | Zeno's paradox relies on the implicit assumption that it takes an infinite amount of time to cross an infinite number of points, but this clearly isn't true - the time taken is proportional to the distance, and when you divide up the distance in the manner proposed you are *also* dividing up the time, so that the total... |
How would less regulations on banks be 'good' for them? | Regulation management is expensive and time consuming. The more regulations the more compliance staff you must retain. Short answer, more regulation more money wasted on staff to regulate internally. Would people be hesitant to buy? No, less regulation would lead to banks throwing out better rates and more enticing off... |
Why does GTA5 use P2P servers for their Online suite when it's the reason hackers are so abundant? What are the benefits of not using dedicated servers? | The advantages are : - Very low cost compared to Dedicated servers - People in areas that wouldn't get good ping due to location would get matched with other people from that area, so some people would get better ping A good explanation of the three most common network models can be found at 10:45 of this [video] by Ba... |
What is a Zero-Hour Contract job? | It basically means you have an agreement to work at a certain place, but the boss doesn't have to provide any minimum amount of hours , but on the flip side, as an employee you are also do not have many obligations. Naturally, if you have accepted a certain schedule, you are expected to show up, but if your boss calls ... |
Why Kickstarter doesn't give any money to projects if they don't raise past a certain point | If you pay £10 to a project you like the sound of with the promise of a book or game for your kindness, but no-one else does and the project comes to a halt, the game/book is cancelled or put on hold - then you are left with less money and no product. If you kept giving money to projects which didn't get enough support... |
If time is infinite, then the past is infinite too. There either is an end to all, or there was no beginning...right? | no. there are an infinite number of positive integers but there's still a lowest positive integer that we can specifically identify. infinite doesn't have to go forever in every direction. |
Why do some types of alcohol (namely Whiskey and Tequila) seem to make some people so violent when they get drunk? | Different types of drunk happen because people believe different types of alcohol get them different types of drunk, even though that's not actually a thing. Self-fulfilling prophecy or placebo effect kinda thing. |
How Germany recovered so quickly from WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles. | German territory wasn't damaged from WW1. Hitler stopped paying reparations, and no one forced Germany to keep paying them. Then, the government spent a lot of money stimulating the economy by building infrastructure and building back up the military, which brought the country out of a depression. |
What is the purpose of terrorist attacks, if they only give the group a bad name? | Depends on the group but it's usually punishment for something the person/country did. Some groups are wrongly classified as terrorists as they have an actual military objective, are run like a military and use guerrilla warfare. The PIRA would come to mind. |
Why should I buy insurance? Wouldn't companies not offer insurance if it was mathematically in my best interest? | Its often required as you said. But if you don't buy it, I'd suggest taking the cost of the premium and putting it into some kind of account that you cannot touch. Because someday you're either going to need the insurance, or need to pay for something out of your own pocket yourself because you don't have it. Insurance... |
why do australians have a british accent, while canadians don't? | Australians have an Australian accent. Also, the American accent is closer to the British accent of the 1700's than the current British accent. Accents evolve over time when populations become separated. |
Why do you puke when you see/smell something disgusting? | It depends on the person and surroundings. My wife grew up in the country and nothing at all bothers her, rotting corpses, gutting animals, like literally nothing. Everyone chalks it up to evolution, but behavior can be modified so easily that evolution shouldn't be the go to answer. If you grew up near smells or in po... |
Why is the name "John Smith" so common? | John Fletcher" , "John Worth" and so on. A smith was one of the most common jobs throughout many different time periods, so the last name is popular. John is a popular first name, as well. John was a popular name for Popes , though the name descends through two Biblical figures: John the Baptist and John the Evangelist... |
Why did they named it "Burn" instead of record in CD-Rom? (Computer) | I'm pretty sure its because the laser 'burns' the information onto the disc much like a laser printer burns letters onto paper. Edit: _URL_0_ |
Why do I feel tired ("food coma") at 2:30PM in the afternoon? | lol that's BS, meal timing is irrelevant. What causes your lethargy is that the body is diverting all of its energy to process food as opposed to other motor functions .that and/or you ingested alot of carbs |
If Christianity is not as strong of a social force in Europe as it is in the US, why are Christian political parties so much more successful in Europe? | 50 years ago christianity was a strong force in Europe . Most christian political parties got their name in that time or before. Over time the parties changed but their names didn't. Compared to christian parties in the US they are complete heretics.The US has a political system most conducive to exactly two parties. A... |
Why is it okay to eat sushi at a sushi restaurant, but it's bad to go to the store and get raw fish to eat? | Sushi-grade=has been flash frozen to kill any parasites You absolutely can buy fish at the store and eat it straight raw. I do all the time. Just ensure it's been frozen well at some point. You really don't want to catch raw ocean fish parasites. Imagine coughing up worms |
Why do you only see with one eye when one is closed, why can’t we see the black from the closed eye | Your brain deletes the useless information in order to construct the most useful visual image it can. Same reason you don't see your nose most of the time. Same reason you don't see the room jumping around when your eye makes hundreds of tiny motions. |
Why does milk turn into butter, but when you heat up butter it turns into oil? | Milk is separated into cream and milk. The milk is drained off. The cream is shaken until the fat particles glob together and form butter and butter milk. When you melt butter, you're melting only a fraction of the original milk. Butter is milk fat, water and some milk solids, perhaps some salt. This video on how butte... |
How do extremely large businesses like Disney World make sure no one is inside when they close down? | I would imagine the manager/s from each department would oversee via clock records or from a collective effort. Each part of the park would be split into however many sections and each manager would know that everyone's left. Not really too sure but I imagine that's how it would work", 'They check all the spots you wou... |
How do we calculate the value of fiat money? | I'd tell you, but first I want to know how much you're willing to pay for that info.*The London Interbank Offered Rate is the average interest rate estimated by leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks* _URL_1_ *The Libor is an average interest rate calculated through submissions... |
what exactly is Short Selling? How does it work? | Let's say there's a market for pencils at school. They're currently selling for $1 each, but I think the price is going to go down. Sally has a bunch of pencils she's keeping for the long term, because she wants to use them for her final exam. I make a deal with Sally. I'll give Sally five cents to borrow 10 of her pen... |
Why would obviously wealthy people spend millions of their own fortune for political campaigns? Is it really a good ROI? | Difference between wealth and power you can be the CEO of a midsized company until you die but until you're a Senator in Washington or a Governor of a state you don't really have generalized power.In certain situations donating money will lower the amount of money you have to pay in taxes. This probably is more applica... |
Why don't animals such as deer/dogs run away when a giant car is coming towards them? Isn't that supposed to be a survival instinct? | From what I understand, especially in the case of deer, is that their instinct is to freeze and wait. They think the car is a predator, and that it will ignore them if they stand still. I know a few people who have hit deer though and it's more because they will suddenly change direction. |
why do we need to cook food while other animals don't? | We don't need to, exactly. Food, meats especially, are safer when cooked. Less parasites, less active bacteria, all good things when we don't want food making us sick. Aside from that another benefit is that the cooking process chemically alters some foods to make them edible in the first place. Potatoes and kidney bea... |
Why is water so scarce in the universe when hydrogen and oxygen are so common? | It's not. Water is all over the place. We've found water in space. We've found water on Mars, on Mercury, we think there's vast oceans possible on Enceladus and Europa, it might be on Ganymeade as well, comets can contain vast quantities of it. Water's common. What is more rare are the conditions for liquid water to ex... |
If "standards-based" education, standardized testing, and a lot of the latest "standards-aligned" curriculum are so terrible, how come they not only exist, but are so widely used? | One reason is that, without them, there's a big temptation to give parents/administrators the numbers they want to hear, without actually having some objective way to measure results. I agree with you that it can gotten carried away, but I don't expect any massive demands to change it. As the parent of college students... |
The national do not call list | Numbers don't get removed from the list. That said note that the list only prohibits them from using automated dialers to call you . There is nothing illegal about them having a person call you if they punch in the numbers manually. Mostly though companies just didn't get the message, and if you mention that you are on... |
What prevents different platforms like XBOX, PS4 and PC from reading other game discs? If they can all read multimedia discs, how are game discs different? | They can read the data, they just don't understand it.The games run on the operating system of the console. They use many of the features of that OS. Accessing storage, network or video/audio output. This is very different on each OS. The same reason you can't run iPhone games on android.Porting a game form ps to xbox ... |
what is a terraflop? What advantages does this bring to me? How does this correlate the new Xbox one x? | Mega-" means "1000 times Kilo-", and "Kilo-" means "1000 of something". So: 1 Teraflops = 1000 Gigaflops = 1,000,000 Megaflops = 1,000,000,000 Kiloflops = **1,000,000,000,000 flops**. So a 1 Teraflop processor can calculate 1 trillion operations per second. For comparison, there exist supercomputers that run upwards of... |
Why do brand logos need to be blurred out in TV? Isn't it free advertising? | It has nothing to do with with copyrights or trademarks. A TV show is allowed to show whatever brands they like, so long as they don't give the impression the brand is endorsing the TV show. TV shows obscure brands so they can maintain the value of their advertising. If they prominently display Coke, Pepsi isn't going ... |
Why are promotional videos from music festivals targeted at males? | > why are the videos 99% hot women jumping in slow motion? For men, the video shows hot women jumping in slow motion. This implies there will be lots of hot women there, which attracts single males. For women the video shows women having fun and jumping to the music. Men tend to choose activities with the women vetoing... |
Why do we tend to worry more about things right before we go to sleep and right after we wake up? | I would say it's because as we wind down for bed or first wind-up in the morning, that our brain is free of other information given to us through-out the day, and for people with high anxiety it frees the distractions and barriers that can keep anxiety thoughts from breaking through during the day. |
Why very large things collapsing/falling/exploding look like they're in slow motion when smaller things appear much faster. | If you scale something up, it has further to fall, but gravity makes everything accelerate the same so it doesn't actually fall any faster. It takes one second to fall five meters and two seconds to fall twenty meters. So even if you're scaling the object up, it will take twice as long to fall twice as far. If you buil... |
How on earth do TV stations subtitle a live-to-air show? | There is a person sitting down typing it all out just like a court stenographer. Sometimes there is a bit of extra room because there is a delay on the 'live' broadcast, but the typist is given an actual live feed, but that isn't always available. |
political bias aside What type of government are we technically and in real life? | We're a constitutionally constrained republic. The people however choose their representatives through a democratic process. They can both exist at the same time.The US is a Democratic Republic. A republic because it has elected representatives , and a democracy because they are elected by the people. The US could easi... |
Why do people still protest in full force in Chicago if the shooter was already convicted and undergoing punishment? | Because it keeps happening. Something has to change, and that is how law enforcement works in the US. But how do you reform the police? Government won't do it, there is no political will. The people have to take to the streets and demand change and that's what they're doing in Chicago.The shooter was never convicted an... |
What is the difference between mental illness and psychological disorders? | One implies a chemical imbalance in the brain. Eg; the gland that produces dopamine simply isn't for whatever reason, so you will be chronically depressed. No matter of therapy can fix it, because the mood shift is chemically not going to happen. The other implies some form of mental training that presents in a dysfunc... |
My country uses a different solar calendar but weekdays are still the same as Gregorian calendars | You'll have to elaborate. What do you mean weekdays are still the same? If the Jalali calendar is just the same as the Gregorian offset by 21 days, why would the weekdays be different? |
Why did the Paris/Brussels attacks get such high exposure, but today's bombing that has left at least 78 dead in Syria receive little media coverage? | It's not a normal thing to happen in Paris and Brussels and they are first world countries unlike Syria.No one really cares about Syria because they aren't in the greatest state right now..it's a 3rd world country and it's not abnormal, it's been happening for a while |
Why does America get everything first and other countries get it later? | There's plenty of technology related products that début in countries like Japan, way before they show up in the US or Europe.It does not. In the 80s and 90s, Japan had the very best arcade video games. As for TV shows, we invented the industry and have more infrastructure/demand/ad dollars to create new shows. The res... |
Exactly what does a conductor do in an orchestra? Why is he so important? | A LOT of what they do is in rehearsals, getting everyone to play and feel the music the same way, and they way he wants to. It's bloody hard to get 50 odd people to do the exact same thing. There's also a lot of fine tuning that goes in later rehearsals, where a note might be a little too loud, or slightly flat, w/e he... |
Why can’t humans with excess weight survive off of stored fat? | Mostly you can, but there's issues around the nutritional value. Because fat is a high energy storage medium, it's great at holding energy you need to run But not so awesome at storing other things like vitamin C, for instance. So you won't necessarily starve, but malnutrition is a factor. |
Why do rental car companies give 2 keys that are permanently bound together? | Npr did a whole thing on this as recently as last week and I can't find the link!!! Maybe someone else can . |
Why is weed generally illegal? | I didn't read through all the comments, just way to many to sort through the nonsense. My understanding though is that hemp, and subsequently cannabis, is illegal in a large part because of the DuPonte family. They invented a type of fiber called Nylon, who's main competitor would have been hemp seeing as that is what ... |
Why do movie companies build sets rather than film on scene? | I think it actually has to do with what you don't see Audio. My wife does production sound and it's easily half of the experience of any video project . Getting a controlled and quiet place to work really cuts costs on that end.moving equipment costs moneymoving people costs moneyisolating audio costs money also the ci... |
How to get rid of dandruff | Dandruff includes several disorders from mild dermatitis to severe psoriasis. The skin cells on your scalp multiply too rapidly due to locally increased metabolic activity, which means they don't differentiate properly and create a nice smooth layer of skin. Sometimes the immune system gets involved creating inflammati... |
When a new game comes out and Nvidia and AMD release updated drivers, what do they actually contain specific to the game? | I don't believe anybody's posted this article yet, so _URL_0_", 'For the new Tomb Raider game I heard Nvidia released new drivers, did you have to manually install them?Developers release a poorly optimized game and nivida and AMD hack the drivers to work around the mistakes the developers made |
Why is it street lights/stop lights have light bulbs that last years , but the ones in my house don't last 6 months? | Your bulbs don't last 6 months? That's kinda short, I've got bulbs I haven't changed since I moved in to my place a few years ago. Maybe you're using too high a wattage or something? |
This image of the Atlantic Ocean meeting the Indian Ocean. | [This site, which has additional photos, says it's the Gulf of Alaska and that the difference occurs because of the difference in salinity of the two bodies of water which keeps them from mixing.] |
how do watchmakers ensure that the second hand moves at the correct speed of exactly one second per tick? | This is for new watches, but they use a tiny crystal made of quartz that resonates at a very precise frequency when a voltage is applied across it. These crystals are very stable to heat and vibration, and they are typically made with accuracies such that they'd only lose one second per ~year or so. Then they attach an... |
Why does the US still have a trade embargo with Cuba so 50+ years later? | We put a trade embargo in place because Cuba was communist. They're still communist.Political pressure from Cuban Americans who are swing votes in Florida - arguably the most important electoral state in Presidential elections. |
Why Did So Many People Hate Windows Vista? | It would be foolish to overlook the purely psychological reasons behind people's dislike of Vista. The computer on its own isn't much more than a bunch of pieces of hardware, but the operating system is what we interact with all day every day. Operating Systems are built around all sorts of visual and spatial metaphors... |
Why do banks give you money when you do a "note-passing" robbery? | Because the teller can't be positive that the robber is unarmed. The money in the bank is FDIC insured, so they don't really lose anything when they're robbed. If a teller or a customer gets injured or killed trying to stop a robbery, though, that's a lot of liability on them. |
Why we don't know what the federal government will do in response to the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado | The reason that nobody at a high level has said anything yet is because there isn't just one person that this would come down to. The head of the DEA could say something, but Obama could direct them to do otherwise. Other government officials involved in this could comment on what they think will happen or what they wi... |
Is fracking as bad as it is being portrayed on the media? | As an Environmental Studues minor in college I've learned a bit about fracking, but I'm by no means an expert. From what I understand the biggest environmental concerns stems from the gases that escape and the fluid used for fracking. A major gas that often escapes is methane which us both highly flammable and a major ... |
Why do silent letters exist? | y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch |
Why Do Humans Enjoy Being Scared? | I don't. In fact the other day I went to a lame haunted house and ending up running out of the first exit. The anticipation of knowing you are going to be scared stresses me out. If I'm going to get scared I rather be scared for a legitimate reason. |
If we have many forms of clean energy ready to use, why don't we use it instead of complaining about how unclean our energy is? | because random solar panels aren't efficient, the problem with clean energies is that you need to get that power to go into the grid things like solar roadways and solar windows sound nice but just aren't feasible |
Does the insurance industry hate or love Obamacare? | I'd say based on the way their stock prices responded to its passage that they love it. The law is setup to be a financial windfall for them, provided of course that enough of us don't tell them to fuck off and just pay the fine. |
Why are Koreans so much better at eSports than other regions, especially western? | People mentioned most of the other reasons, so I'll also mention another important reason is that all of their esports are highly concentrated. Everything happens in Seoul, which makes it much easier to organize leagues/events. Whereas in the U.S/E.U. you have a lot of sprawl, and it's not affordable to be flying peopl... |
Why are some animals able to generate body heat but not all? | All animals generate some heat by being alive. It's an unavoidable side-effect of the basic chemistry of life. Warm-blooded animals are just able to burn *extra* fuel to keep their bodies at the ideal temperatures rather than relying on external factors to keep their bodies operating at ideal temperatures. Being warm-b... |
Why is it impossible to properly type on my phone when even the smallest droplet of water is on it ? | Touchscreens are basically tiny electrical currents that work by translating when they're disturbed, the screen is being touched. As you probably know, water is very conductive, and so is human skin. The phone assumes that the droplet of water is your finger holding down on the screen at that spot and it gets confused ... |
The process in which THC is broken down in your system. | So .if thc is alcohol soluble, i.e. green dragon, if you smoke and drink with the thc attach to the ethyl alcohol molecules and leave your body faster? Basically I'm asking if you smoke and drink, does the drinking aid in lowering your cannabanoids for the purpose of a drug test? I've smoked weed and passed a drug test... |
How they know how many people watch a given TV show | They use a sampling method. There are surveys that ask parts of the population what they think about certain things , but they can't afford to survey the entire population. So they pick a smaller sample of the population that is weighted to minimize the chance of bias or error . They even weight against the fact that c... |
Why can HD programming come in over coaxial cable, but I need an HDMI cable from my cable box, to my TV for optimal results? Why cant I use another coaxial cable? | TL;DR: * HDMI - 10+ Gbps* Coaxial ~100Mbps* What comes through the coax is generally a compressed mess of video. The cable box decodes the signal and provides actual non-compressed video out through the HDMI. If your TV has a tuner in it, you can most certainly just run the coax to it. If it's a question of video quali... |
Is there a correlation between poor penmanship and any other traits of a person? | There's a whole science about one's writing called graphology. Its main premise is that every aspect of your writing is a reflection of some aspect your personality. |
Why do libraries let you renew items? | Imagine wanting to read a book for longer than the time you initially rented it for. As for collecting fines as incomes, that's something they do but don't encourage. It's a deterrent for people stealing or hogging books not designed to make money for the library. It's a library, they aren't trying to scam you to make ... |
- What tends to happen to a person if he/she was bullied throughout childhood? | Getting bullied during childhood will cause you to stop bothering to ever open your mouth around those your age again, since every time you used to open your mouth you'd get teased, made fun of, ridiculed, etc. this can happen before you're fully formed socially and so you end up with fucked up social skills, an introv... |
What people are proud about when they announce that they are gay? | Meh.. straight or gay, it should make no difference to anyone else. I don't need to know what your preference is and I think it's a bit weird when people seem to feel the need to proclaim it like it's the only defining feature of their life. |
why do some people claim that vaccines cause autism? | It started with Andrew Wakefield. _URL_1_ > A 2004 investigation by Sunday Times reporter Brian Deer identified **undisclosed financial conflicts of interest on Wakefield's part**,[8] and most of his co-authors then withdrew their support for the study's interpretations. |
Why aren't calories related to food weight? 1lb of broccoli is 154 calories, while 1 lb of ground beef is 798 calories. | Vegetables are composed mostly of water and cellulose by weight. Water contains no calories, and your digestive system can't get much of anything out of cellulose. |
How do medical examiners know when things were done to a person's body before being killed or after? | Additionally, death by drowning or by smoke inhalation can be determined by the presence or absence of water or smoke damage, respectively, in the lungs. If a body is dumped in the water after death the lungs won't fill with water as if the person were alive and inhaled the water. Smoke damage works the same way. If a ... |
If it's 65 degrees outside and I jump into a pool of 65 degree water, why does it feel colder in the water? | Body heat is lost through water faster than it is through the air. It's the whole reason why we sweat. Water has a huge capacity to absorb heat, it's why it takes so long to boil.In physics, this is because the specific heat of water is 4x greater than in air and the density of water is 1000x greater than air. Specific... |
why does Netflix choose to release original content all in one go rather than weekly episodes? | I know for House of Cards the producers of the show wanted the whole series released at once, and Netflix was the only place they could do that. I'm guessing that others followed suit after seen House of Cards' success.I remember they were doing some rotating availability for shows a couple years ago. Only two episodes... |
It is a common movie trope for shipwrecked survivors to wake up on an island and regain consciousness. Can a person who passes out in the water theoretically survive? | The human body is a bag of skin with a lot of air inside. Ocean water is heavily saline, literally salt water. Because of chemistry and physics and density this means that the human body would typically float in the ocean. Even if it doesn't float much, the head would still be sticking out so long as the person's able ... |
Why does 3 degrees Celsius feel colder at night then during the day? | Temperature is measured in the shade. When the sun is out, you have that base temperature AND energy from the sun warming you. At night, it's all shade. |
What is the benefit of a water-cooled PC? | I imagine that you've put your hand in an oven at 400 degrees or higher before to remove a pizza, lasagna, etc. You can leave your hand in the air in the oven for a few seconds before it starts to feel uncomfortable. Now try putting your hand in a liquid at 400 degrees. It's going to burn your skin within milliseconds,... |
Why do most people become more aggressive on the internet? | Because you don't need to be anything to type - you don't need to be tough; pretty or whatever is cool. It takes the emotive aspect of slagging someone off - you can't see them so you can just keystroke that sassy remark that can make or break someone's day. It's the harsh reality of the world we live in where so much ... |
what are the requirements for time travel? | 1: Be on time. It's totally unacceptable to be late for time travel. 2: Have ID and passport ready. 3: Wear comfortable clothing. note* No tank tops. 4: Expect delays. Time travel is complicated, you may or may not find yourself traveling during the busiest season of the year. 5: Lost luggage: Usually not a problem. In... |
Where exactly is the internet, why do I have to pay some company to access it, and why can't I just access it the way they do? | Basically your ISP either is, or connects to a higher tier provider. The tier 1 providers are the only ones who don't pay anything for the internet. That is they don't pay each other - it is an open peer arrangement. To be a tier 1 provider, essentially beholden to no one but yourself, all you need to do is own or buil... |
Why is Cuba still under an embargo when China isn't? | China makes shit we want. Cuba makes nothing we can't get elsewhere. Also their government has been far less friendly to us though that has been slowly changing. |
How does asking for more qualifications than they could possibly expect from a candidate really help an employer? | Shoot for the stars and you'll land on the moon type deal. They want to most qualified, gather all the applications and take the best. Often they can scare away people though, so some companies try to stop doing that. |
If I pop an eye out, rotate it 45 degrees and pop it back in, what do I see? | If you pop your eye out, there's a good chance you'll sever your optic nerve and cause permanent blindness.They 've done experiments, where they give people these glasses that turn your vision upside down; it is *extremely* disorienting for a few days . But then, after a few days , your brain adjusts, and your brain st... |
why do things frozen with liquid nitrogen become so brittle and easily broken? | Temperature is just the measurement of how much the molecules in a material are moving. More heat=more energy=molecules move more. Liquid nitrogen is so cold that molecules in objects that cold slow down much more than usual. When they slow down, they settle much closer together and take up less space. Now normally, th... |
Why does the DMV collect organ donor information and not family practitioners? | When someone is in a fatal accident, the odds of them having a driver's license or state ID on them are far higher than the odds of them having the name and number of their doctor. |
How are babies prescribed glasses? | They have a number of tools and options for this. A commonly used method is to hold so-called [Teller Acuity Cards] in front of the child. The response of the child is measured. Additionally, a doctor may examine the child's eyes, to determine how well they can focus. |
why is it that we can see a light even if we stand beyond the range of light it casts | Lights cast light around them an infinite distance, but as it moves away from the light source, it spreads out and becomes dimmer. The light you see from the candle directly went in a straight live from the candle to you, with little to stop it. The light you perceive around the candle had to bounce off of the objects ... |
Why can a game i start be stuck in the loading screen forever first time i start it, but startup normally second time i do so? | For a lot of games a cache is built when you first start the game. Think of this as 'laying shorcuts' for the future. The extra preparation you suffer the first time helps to speed up every other launch. |
Why does cold water make razor blades last longer? | First of all, are we *sure* that this isn't just an urban legend? That said, I can think of an idea: hot tap water contains more minerals, which can either deposit crud on the blade, or corrode it. |
Why don't famous and recognizable people get in trouble for posting videos of them clearly using illegal drugs? | I know in a lot of places using drugs isn't illegal. It's the possession of drugs that will get you done. Not sure about the US but you can pop a couple of pills in front of cops and if they don't get em before you swallow them, you can't be charged. Was hillarious at one festival entrance watching a cop desperately tr... |
"original streets" and underground cities | In seattle, it was because the entire city was built on mud. This cause a lot of problems, as it wasn't good foundation. Sink holes everywhere! They decided to blast water at a mountain to cause a landslide to help harden the ground. A lot of people didn't want to rebuild, so they refused to move. Seattle as we know it... |
What is the point of XML? | XML allows you to define complex data sets, including metadata and relationships, in a plain text format without the need for a database. Now adays JSON tends to be the road more traveled because it's easier to interpret and traverse in a program, but XML still has its place, if for no other reason then it would take a... |
What would happen if I were to eat a pack of Mentos, and then immediately down a liter of Diet Coke? | Well i was feeling, ill one NYE and i'd had some Bicarb t settle my stomach, anbout 5 minutes later I felt well enough to have a drink so I picked up my Lucozade and immediately realised the poor decision i'd made, frothy orangeyness spewed forth and i ended up feeling worse than before. |
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