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What's the drawback of accepting every credit card offer you receive that has a signing bonus? | Applying for credit hurts your credit score. While cancelling credit cards doesn't directly affect your credit score, if you carry debt it can lower your score by increasing your debt vs. credit limit. |
Why does China control Tibet and why don't they let the Tibetan people have autonomy? | This isn't the entire reason, but the Tibetan Plateau is a huge source of freshwater. The two major rivers in China originate from that area. |
Why are social security cards printed on regular paper? | The social security card isn't used like a drivers licence, where you need it on you at all times. Also, the argument could be made that if this is required for all people to have, then it cannot be expensive, so why not paper? |
Why is it "healthier" to drink room temperature water than cold water? | As far as I know, it isn't healthier. Drinking cold water is speculated to increase metabolism as your body has to work to lower the temperature of the water or your body. Similar to the idea that being cold is better for metabolism in general. |
Were people smarter back in Shakespeare's day? | Plenty of modern works have similar depth. It's harder with Shakespeare because he's essentially making pop culture references that are centuries old. It's like someone in 2350 trying to get a joke about Donald Trump. |
EIL5: Why shouldn't someone use Internet Explorer? | The Social Stigma of not using Internet Explorer, came about during a long period of time during which IE6 was the target of a large amount of spyware, adware, and viruses. This is no longer the case with the newer versions of IE, I believe we're up to 9 now, with 10 coming for Windows 8. The stigma stuck, as most peop... |
What are the benefits of Linux? | For me the biggest benefit is that you know what it's doing, and it does what you tell it to. With windows, who knows what the fuck it is doing behind the scenes. The only reason I use Windows is to play games and other apps that only work properly in Windows.Linux as a server is great because you can only have the "mo... |
How do placebos work? | From what I understand the placebo effect is basically a form of sampling bias where the bias is therapeutic. Suppose I was testing a drink I thought would make people more alert. I would want to do a double bound trial where the participants didn't know which drink was the real stuff or an inert control. This is becau... |
Why before I go to bed, do I think about stupid moments or events in my life that I regret? | I don't have anything scientific to say, but the happier that I am with where I am, the less I have intrusive thoughts like this. |
How do humans seem to possess the innate ability to maintain a steady rhythm? | You've not been to many concerts where the audience tries to clap with the music, have you? |
What factors positioned America to become a world power? | In fact i strongly suggest you to read this book _URL_0_ but as you are five ad I'm not sure you can already read I will do a small brief. America has been created upon inclusive social institutions. The settlers here had to work since the beggining of their arrival to secure their survival. This did not allow the crea... |
Why do some people hate the idea of marriage? | Because its just not practical in this year we live in. Its more cohabitation than marriage Its usually cheaper and less complicated and come on, we all know most marriages don't last very long. I think since we've expanded with knowledge and tech, we have more trust issues and all that. It isn't 1800s anymore. |
Why can't America ban guns? | Because you can't account for those in circulation. The constitution would have to be stripped of multiple amendments, and that's never going to occur.Because we have laws thar guarantee that right. Take them away, then speech, religion, press and all of our other guaranteed rights are no longer guaranteed. Basically, ... |
Why don't TV channels repeat old cartoons that were good and fit any generation? | Once you take off your nostalgia glasses, you'll realize that it's all about money that audiences change. It's typically not profitable to buy the rights to TV shows to broadcast to an audience that would rather stream on-demand at the convenience factor rather than quality factor. |
How come Celebs don't pepperspray paparazzi? | You can't just go and pepper spray people who annoy you, what sort of world would that be to live in? You pepper spray the guy gives you a parking ticket? You pepper spray someone walking too slow in front of you. You pepper spray the guy who steps out in front of your car. |
Why is being afraid of black people after you are robbed by a black person considered racist, whereas a woman being afraid of men after she is raped by a man is considered acceptable? | There's three major differences. 1) Numbers. People learn that black people are thieves from society: the portrayal of black people, pervasive stereotypes, and so on. In most cases, they've no actual experience of black people stealing things. Most people develop an expectation that black people are thieves, whereas ve... |
Where the idea that women were inferior first came to be? | My armchair theory: We have very ancient descriptions of the victors in battle taking the women of conquered tribe as wives or slaves. Examples: the [rape of the Sabine women], every other chapter in the Old Testament . There is no reason to think this practice is not as old as the human race itself. Males kill other m... |
How does sound get different textures? | Most real world sounds aren't composed of single pure frequencies. You have dozens of frequencies at different amplitudes all coming off it at the same time, generating a complex sound. |
Why does a fly risk death seemingly just to bother me ? | Because getting swatted doesn't happen often enough to have any measurable effect on the survival of their species. Humans are more likely to die by lightning strike than flies are to die from a human swatting them, yet humans haven't evolved resistance to lightning.This was answered in a similar post not too long ago,... |
Why is older wine considered "better"? | I had a good friend at one point who was a bonafide oenophile. He had spent tens of thousands on his wine collection. I asked him the same question once and he said that after a certain period it wasn't a matter of taste but experience. He showed me a bottle of port from 1912, that was some 90 years old at the time and... |
How does one get into preforming magic if magicians dont share their secrets? | A magician won't share their secrets to just anyone, you have to work at it to be able to know the in-depth secrets to doing illusions. It's still a rather tight nit operation, even with a lot of the basics out in public knowledge the tricks still work, because people don't know how these tricks scale up.I started lear... |
Where did Hitler and the nazi party's antisemitism stem from? | When Hitler was in the hospital during the Great War he noticed alot of apathy among soldiers there. Particulary the Jewish. When he was homeless he noticed similar things. When he became politically active Germany was under the thumb of Jewish bankers. It could have been anyone really. If you switched the group in que... |
How the US can't call out on China or other countries when they hack into our networks and get classified info or weapon designs? | It's not *proveably* due to the actions of the government of China. And the US government almost certainly does the same thing anyway, and is commonly understood to be second to none in regards to their hacking abilities. |
Why do the States in the US need "Sexual Orientation Hate Crime Laws" when there are Crime laws on the books? | Consider these two offenders: * Abner - beats up people who spill drinks on him in bars* Baxter - beats up people he suspects are gay Who is a greater danger to society? The answer is, whomever is most willing to commit a crime. Abner is the least dangerous. He is only provoked by a specific set of circumstances, and i... |
Why can't the president be seen eating on camera? | Looks 'grubby'. People get endless bad angles they can choose from- look at the furore in British politics over the last leader of the opposition eating a bacon sandwich . Same reason the Queen doesn't carry money, the visual of her poking in a purse looking for change would just have too much that could go wrong for h... |
Why are beds so expensive? | Spend a week sleeping on a hard, lumpy mattress and you'll understand. People generally buy mattresses and expect to use them for years. That's years of plopping down on them every night for 8 hours or so at a stretch. That's years of having to bounce back and stay comfortable. That's years of not getting deformed and ... |
What's the best way to adjust computer volume, on the hardware or the software? | well i prefer hardware, the main benefit is that if the computer freezes with the volume on high, you don't burt your ear drums waiting for it to unfuck itself. As for quality, afaik its better to have the sound card on around 80%, then control the speakers as per normal. That way the best sound is being produced. |
Why do most of the TV series that use Apple (or something else) as their primary technology change the OS or make it look fake? | They usually fake up the screen so it will behave exactly the way the script says it should and will be easy to reset between takes. They don't want to deal with the issues of loading an actual app where even something as simple as the timing can be variable and throw off the flow of a scene. The important priority is ... |
Why are fights bench-clearing in baseball and seeming more violent in nature than in contact sports? | In sports like football, you're releasing physical aggression on nearly every play. In baseball, there's no way to release that frustration other than the occasional fight. These are highly competitive athletes fighting for money and attention and championships. In baseball, especially at the highest level, fights, ben... |
What's the meaning of a serving size? Does this mean I only consume 1 serving per meal? | It means the nutritional information on the back is based on that serving size. If a frozen pizza is 500 calories, but has a serving size of 2, that means if you eat the whole thing, that's 1000 calories. Companies will sometimes tweak serving size up or down to make the nutritional information look better. A smaller s... |
How is being gay biologically possible? | Lots of animals have same-sex 'pair' bonding. For example, females in some bird species will both mate with one male, then all three adults will look after two broods of young. That means that between three adults, they get to raise twice as many young as two adults. Same-sex sexual activity is also common, mainly just... |
The Dalai Lama and why China has a problem with him? | The Dalai Lama is tibeten. Tibet is controlled by China and their freedom and sovereignty is a very pressing political question for Tibetens and for the Dalai Lama. More importantly the Dalai Lama is a very important religious and human rights leader who has met with pretty much every world leader and many other import... |
What is Islamic State's endgame? | Theyve gone from this small time group to an organization that is hitting countries on a national scale.Russia, France, Lebanon all hit within a scale of a week. They only see themselves getting stronger and obviously at this point they aren't even scared of the world superpowers liks usa/russia/china. They believe tha... |
why do people say that race doesn't exist? | What separates a Pitbull from a Chihuaua? They're both dogs, genetically different, yet compatible. You can get hybrids with both. If we were to ban Pitbulls, where would the Chia-Pit fall? What if a particular dog is only 5% Pit? Still banned? Really hope you've got genetic purity records going far enough back. Laws l... |
Why Aren't CPU Clock Speeds All That Important? | Let's say you're walking with a small child. You're taking 3 steps per second. They, with much smaller legs, are also taking 3 steps per second and get left way behind you. Processor speeds are important, but only in the context of how much you can do per processor cycle. It doesn't make much difference to compare them... |
How do most companies monitor their employee's internet activity? | Generally they use software to ensure all browser traffic is sent via a special computer which inspects your request before fetching the page from the internet and sending the data to your computer, this way it can apply rules to allow or disallow the request, or log it or even alert someone. They then also block direc... |
How did Perez win the DNC chair? Who voted him? | He was voted for by the [Democratic National Committee], which consists of the chair and vice-chair of each individual state's Democratic Committee, as well as over 200 other elected members. A total of 435 members cast ballots to elect a new chair, and Perez won by a margin of 235 to 200. |
Are there climate equivelents in the southern hemisphere to northern hemisphere locations? | San Francisco's climate is similar to the central Chilean coast, which includes the 37th southern parallel, but this has more to do with the topography and surrounding ocean temps than it does the specific parallel. _URL_0_ > The sharp topography and maritime surroundings of San Francisco combine with the unique Califo... |
Why the thought of our parents or loved ones fornicating is so repulsive? | It is likely due to an instinct developed to help prevent us from inbreeding. If you see a sibling, for example, in a sexual light, you may likely mate with them and potentially create genetically weak children. But if you feel repulsed when you think of a family member in any sexual way, you are obviously far less lik... |
Huckabee's "Fair Tax" model | The Fair Tax isn't Huckabees plan, its been around for a while. It calls for eliminating the IRS and income taxes, and replacing that with a ~20℅ sales tax on all first time purchases, with the possible exception of food. It's called a consumption tax because you pay it when you consume goods. The advantage is that you... |
why do all online games seemingly have issues on launch day? Even when they have been extensively beta/stressed tested. | > Even when they have been extensively beta/stressed teste They haven't. Few companies can accurately predict the needs OR even be able to meet them at ultra-peak times such as launch. It's better to have a shitty launch, then to invest in tremendous resources that will only be relevant for a few hours of a games lifet... |
What's taking so long for Google fiber to become available in more areas? | It's a giant infrastructure project. Rolling out fiber in a single city is a multi-year project. That's a *giant* investment of time and money before they ever start seeing a dime in return on it. Even though Google is huge & rich, there's a limit to how much they have in the way of resources. On top of that, there's t... |
How to properly choose Affect vs Effect? | The changes won't affect me, the effects are too small.Affect is almost always a verb. Effect is almost always a noun. Affect as a noun has an entirely different meaning, as does effect as a verb. Affect as a noun is like a display of a particular emotion. Effect as a verb means to bring about. Short answer: Affect ver... |
Why doesn't astronauts have bodysuits with resistance in them to avoid muscle degradation? | The biggest problem by far, nowadays, isn't muscle but bone. Because bones don't need to support your weight 24/7 they become more porrous, which is the main reason long term space exposure is troublesome. Through rigorous testing and evaluation we have developed an exercise program which can sustain muscles *fairly* w... |
Why is it that we cant remember dreams when we wake up in the morning? | just because it hasnt been mentioned before, you can train yourself quite successfully at remembering dreams. the key is to focus on them. make your brain think they're important. the best way to go about that at first is, whenever you wake up, especially unexpectedly, have a pen and paper next to your bed. write down ... |
We are breathing O2 and exhaling CO2. But where does this additional carbon atom actually come from? | When we digest food , the cell slowly breaks up the sugar. Strips off hydrogen and CO2. Breathe out the CO2. Eventually the H+ gets attached the the oxygen O2 we breathe in, making water, H2O. So we breathe out a little of our food, and the oxygen we take in becomes water in our bodies. If you haven't eaten for weeks, ... |
Why was Windows ME so horrible? | I think it's been mostly covered. ME was bulky, slow, and incredibly unstable. It was in every way a step down from 98SE. I used ME for a while, as the only copy I had of 98 was a hardware specific OEM disk. I am not exaggerating when I say that I blue-screened at least once a day, usually more.Windows ME was just a pa... |
Why almost no 7-footers are good at shooting free-throws? | I think it's mostly a matter of bothering to practice their free-throw-shooting motion, because there are/have been plenty of 7-footers who are good or at least decent at free throws. But there's commonality with hand size too - large-handed players like Shaq and Rajon Rondo seem to struggle with shooting in general. |
How could scientists confirm life exists on another planet "very soon"? | If the planet is not in our solar system, the only way would be through electromagnetic signals, such as light or radio waves. Light reflecting off the planet can be studied in great detail for the exact mix of wavelengths, which shows what chemicals reflected it. Certain chemicals are associated with life -- but would... |
how do pharmaceutical companies decide how much to charge for each mg or ml or a medication? | If it takes X millions of dollars to develop a drug, they can sell Y doses per year & their costs are $Z per dose, figuring out how to make a profit in 5 years is simple arithmetic. Don't forget to add in the R & D costs of all the drugs they tried to develop that never made it to market. They need to make up for their... |
Why is the community in league of legends so toxic and hostile 89% of the time? | It's part and parcel with any game with a large enough fan base. A prime example is Call of Duty. Most people play that game on Xbox and Playstation, so therefore you are much more likely to encounter an asshole there, than on say a game like path of exile, which has a smaller fan base on PC. In the case of LoL, thousa... |
What makes the Samsung Galaxy S3 better than the iPhone 5? | There's a lot of reasons to love Android over iOS. If I were to pick one knock out feature for any android phone over an iPhone in the same class I'd go with the price tag. edit: This was posted elsewhere today; you should check it out. _URL_0_ |
Why is glow-in-the-dark paint not used for things like fire hydrants or road striping? | Because unless it's powered by a [radioactive element], it won't glow for very long after it gets dark. They'd only glow strongly enough to be worth it for a very short period of time. |
Why is the hip hop culture associated with martial arts and vice versa? | A lot of black youth in the '70s and '80s liked watching Kung Fu movies. Also, these movies are often based around themes of developing and refining skills, challenging your rival to a duel, protecting your honour, etc.--the same themes that street rappers deal with in developing their craft. If you want to know more a... |
Why is there so often a folder called _MACOSX in software downloads, even when there is a separate Mac download? | Most likely because the folder originated on a mac. If you zip a folder there, you'll get a MACOSX folder inside every folder. It describes information about the files that only OSX uses. |
How weight of meal < amount of weight gained after consumption | Fat is stored energy aka calories. One pound of fat is roughly 3500 calories. Doesn't matter what type of calories either, from fat carbs or protein. When you consume calories your body stores them for later use and if you don't burn those excess calories through exercise, you'll get fat. |
What is Scientology and why is it so ridiculous? | Its not just that it's beliefs are silly, its that the cult preys on people who are in difficult situations and exploits them and potentially harms them. There are several suspicious deaths associated with scientology I'm actually loathe to bring up the stuff they've done because I'm at work and can't pull up the artic... |
Why do muscle cells die out when they aren't being used? | Muscular atrophy is caused by a fundamental theory of biochemistry. Your body is always looking to maintain a balance between what you must have to live and what you must have to continue what you're doing. Once you stop doing something -- like regular exercise -- the body will reroute the materials it was going to use... |
Why is piracy and copyright law such a derisive issue on the internet? Shouldn't artists be entitled to distribute how they want and charge what they feel is appropriate? | Artists can and do distribute how ever they want. Unless they have a contract with a big studio such as Sony, whose sole purpose is to squeeze every last cent out of them. There's a lot of royalty free music out there, it's just not the way to earn money and do business with. |
Why does Spanish use inverted punctuation marks at the start of words? | Others have shown well how useful the question-marker is, but from a developmental perspective, Latin used a particle -ne, usually attached to the first word of a question sentence that didn't use a specific interrogative word, to mark the same thing. The move from a voiced particle to punctuation is a function of incr... |
Why do certain ethnicities seem to have a distinct smell? | As others have mentioned, food has a lot to do with it. I'm white, but I like to experiment with different foods and spices from time to time, and I've definitely noticed that when I spend a lot of time over the stove cooking something spicy, the smell will get into my hair and clothes. Also the use of incense, which i... |
Is it not crazy that there is 38 million people living in California and only 4 million (~10%) just decided the Californian primary? Why is this system regarded as fair? | Because firstly it's expressly forbidden in the Constitution to make voting mandatory. Secondly, it's assumed that those who bother to go and vote at least sort of know what they're voting for. Mandatory voting would lead to a lot of people not caring who they vote for but just voting to get the obligation out of the w... |
Why hot dogs come in packages of ten, bratwurst sausages come in packages of twelve, and buns come in packages of eight? | Depends on where you buy it, I have seen hotdogs being sold in 8 and buns in 8. Some stores just only carry buns in 6. I don't think there's a conspiracy unless buns were sold by the same company |
why do chickens make eggs even when they haven't mated? | In the wild, junglefowl mate as soon as they're able to. A mechanism for waiting until fertilization to lay an eggs was never necessary, because a female was almost always fertilized right away. |
What's stopping me from buying pure ethanol and mixing it with regular soda? | As others have noted, there are additives in industrial alcohol that make it inedible. The closest thing to what you're wanting to do would be to buy really cheap vodka, run it through activated charcoal to smooth out the flavor, and mix to your heart's content.This is actually how many high end vodka brands source the... |
Why are people still moving to San Francisco? | San Francisco is an amazing city filled with many cultural opportunities and lots and lots of jobs. It's just crazy expensive so far as housing goes. |
Why do movies keep using the Wilhelm Scream? | It's very hard for an actor to scream convincingly on-cue, so they have to use stock screams like the Wilhelm Scream. It's been used in a lot of famous movies, so other movies probably use it as a little shout-out or homage. |
How do opposites (people) balance each other out? | We fit. She's short, I'm not. She's Asian, I'm not, She's a taker, I'm a giver, She's a laugher, I'm a joker, We don't bang into each other because we move at different speeds. |
Pets that wake you up at the same time every day | I read that cats time-share territory; so one might lay claim to the area half the day, the other cat the other half. I know that our neighbours cat walks down our driveway within a couple of minutes of 1am every night he's outside Perhaps they do similar things in the wild, and as such evolved a keen sense of time and... |
How do chameleons change color | Imagine that you had painted a sheet of paper with squares of different colors like red, green, blue, in a grid. Then you took post it notes and covered all of the squares. You could then uncover certain colors and it would make the paper appear to be one color. You could then change which colors are covered and make i... |
Why do pharmacists tell us to take 2 or 3 of a pill? Can't they give us one big one instead? | I'd just want to add one point to these good answers. Making different dose sizes costs more money. There is no cost increase in having some patient take 2 tablets/caps rather than making a whole new line of product aimed at the few that take a bigger dose. |
Why can Irish Citizens vote in the UK General Election? | I believe what that refers to is an Irishman living in the UK, and he can vote in the constituency he/she lives in. Whereas an EU immigrant who doesn't have British citizenship can't vote. |
When I unfocus my eyes, I can see small particles moving around. ELI5: what are they? | It's called floaters, they're like little dust particles floating around the top part of your eye.Is this anything to do with the fact that when you press, for example, lightly on the bottom left of your left eyeball, you see a dark ring with an orange outline around it appear in the top right of your vision?', "Does a... |
After a bad car crash, should you drag your family out of the wreckage? | Subjective. If they are in immediate danger, ie the car is burning, then pull them to safety, first priority is making sure they are in a safe place to try and treat their injuries. If they aren't in danger, ie the car is resting safely in a ditch, leave them be as moving them could aggravate or cause damage. |
Why do major civilian airliners fly over war zones? | Because it was thought to be safe. The rebels in the region use MANPADs, which are shoulder-mounted rocket launchers. They have no ability to hit a target at 32,000 ft. In addition, the rebels have no aircraft needed to engage any other target. It also wasn't known that the rebels had managed to acquire a BUK missile s... |
How and why does CPR work when a patients heart stops? | CPR instructor here! First off, let me clear a few misconceptions. CPR alone will not bring a person's heart back to a normal rhythm . The purpose of CPR is to make the heart pump blood containing oxygen throughout the body so it is able to reach vital organs. Also, the use of an AED alone will not bring back a person ... |
As someone who currently makes $15/hr what benefit does raising the minimum wage to $15/hr have for me? | There is a theory that increasing the minimum wage will increase local economic activity . If that increased activity translates into an increase in economic value, it may create more jobs and spur a virtuous cycle that expands the economy, which could translate to an across-the-board improvement in everyone's lives. .... |
Why is the old fashioned way of occupying a country and ruling it not accepted anymore? | To expand on the very good points made previously * At the turn of the 20th century, communications and easier travel brought the plight of the developing world to the mainstream. Belgium's occupation of Congo was especially brutal but what made it different was that it was widely documented and reported on. The violen... |
why does our body sometimes twitch uncontrollably when we try to fall asleep? | Are hypnic jerks related to sleep paralysis? It seems like sleep paralysis is the brain and body being slightly mismatched and that a hypnic jerk is a mismatch in the other direction |
Very few jobs pay any kind of retirement or benefits these days. Most Americans have no savings. What happens when generation X becomes too old to earn a living? | For me it has also been a concern even though I'm in a different boat. I make a decent salary and have always piled money into retirement. I'm in my early 40s and my wife and I have enough in our 401ks that we theoretically could stop and be ok. But we are going to keep at it. Some of my coworkers spend money like it i... |
why are there leap years? | What a year is is how much time it takes the Earth to orbit around the sun. A year on the calendar is 365 days, but the amount of time it actually takes the earth to get around the sun to the exact same place is actually about 365.25 days. This means that on January 1, 2016 it's about a quarter of a day behind reaching... |
Why is it that when we fall four or five times our height, we can get seriously injured, but bugs can fall seemingly a hundred times their height and be ok? | One important word: exoskeleton. Like wearing a suit of armor. That and their small size protects them when they land. On their size, think about a small pebble and a baseball. You are lying on the floor and must pick one to be dropped on you from 5 feet above you. Which do you choose? The small pebble because it won't... |
How is that we can't reach other galaxies but know they're there and how they are? | Forget galaxies, we can't even get to the nearest star in our lifetimes. But that doesn't prevent us from seeing it. I think the confusion might be because you can't see far away destininations on earth. The reason you can't see far away destinations on earth is because the curve of the earth is in the way. Let's prete... |
What is an analemma, and how does it help us understand more about astronomy? | [Here's an excellent website to demonstrate the motion of the Sun]. You can change the time of year and time of day or your latitude and it'll tell you where the Sun would be. If you leave the time of day at some specific value, like noon, and then just drag the arrow on the calendar, you'll see the Sun move up and dow... |
How can I sleep for 6 hours and feel refreshed, but sleep for 10 and still feel tired? | It has to do with sleep cycles. Waking up after 10 hours of sleep wakes you up during heavy sleep and that's why you feel super lethargic. |
Why is the Mississippi River used as the dividing line for "best of" or "worst of" i.e. "Best BBQ East of the Mississippi "? | Well, the Mississippi used to be the dividing line between civilized and untamed wilderness. In fact, if you look at a satellite image of the USA at nighttime, you can clearly see how East of that river is more developed, save for the West Coast. Also, it's pretty much the only river that bisects most of the country an... |
If the whole Pirate Bay is just 90mb. Can I just download the whole site and feast with all the magnet links? | That may be possible actually, but of course it won't be updated and if they change you'll be sol. Also you won't have there filters to help you. Depending on how it's structured the links might be pot luck in that form. |
The California High Speed Rail Debate | I don't want to have to repurpose wide swaths of land / spend a fuckton of taxpayer money. vs. Holy shit, I can go from San Francisco to L.A. in a *half hour*. |
Why cant public figures give a straight answer? | Two reasons I see: 1) The answer is extremely complicated and they cannot explain it effectively. This could also mean they don't actually know the correct answer. 2) The question is digging at something they don't want to answer. This could be because it is personally bad for them or because its top secret or the answ... |
Why do (did) we have fingernails and what purpose do they serve in day-to-day life now? | Fingernails used to be claws in our evolutionary history. In the relatively recent history they were very useful for picking at things; opening a banana is just one example of how useful having something hard and relatively sharp on the ends of our fingers is useful. These days we use them for picking at things, or eve... |
How can an advertisement on YouTube load itself effortlessly in fill quality on my phone, but then have trouble loading a five second video? | Follow up question: I can play YouTube videos at highest quality, no problem. But sometimes there are YouTube ads lag and buffer no matter where and when you are watching them. The same advert will have the same artifacts on the screen at the same time as last time. The time bar will stop moving too so I know this phen... |
Why offline attacks are much harder than online attacks? | Don't read too much into this article, its light on the technical aspects, it is really just an article about demographics not about passwords. I know this doesn't answer your question though, so sorry. |
Why doesn't America increase the minimum wage? | The real reason is raising the minimum wage doesn't just increase willy nilly is because it a huge ramifications on the US and world economy's as a whole. It isn't as simple as raise the minimum and everyone has more money. Increasing the minimum wage increases the costs of business across the board therefor making eve... |
Why are Microsoft computers more prone to viruses compared to Apple computers? Also why does Microsoft have so many more operating system updates compared to Apple? | well first of all, microsoft is CONSTANTLY tweaking windows, adding features and changing/updating parts of the OS to stay ahead of the latest and most cleaver ways to hack into it. This is a good thing. But, Windows is also the most bloated operating system there is. Part of this is because of the backwards compatibil... |
Why have we struggled so much over the centuries creating devices that keep accurate time over long periods? | because seconds are arbitrary. _URL_0_ and even if you *do* literally have a clock that counts the cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom, the mechanism of that clock will slowly decay and you will eventually end up with time differences. this is all neglecting rela... |
is microwaving food for 2 minutes the same as microwaving food for 1 second, 120 times? | You can test this by holding a lighter under your hand one second at a time and then leaving it there for 2 minutes how does it feel? A microwave is just a fine tuned radio wave generator that spits out a frequency that really really really excites WATER. When the water molecules get excited, they move around a lot, wh... |
How do you find a passion? | Perhaps your passion is change, and all this time that you've been searching for a passion it's really been right in front of you. Change is awesome. Live life on the edge. Mind: Blown. |
why don't homeless people commit a crime that will get them sent to prison where they have food and a place to sleep? | And now for the big shocker, not all or even most homeless people want a home. They see what they're doing as a legitimate lifestyle choice and want to be independent. But at the same time how they are achieving their independence may seem a bit silly. Canada has a lot of low income and temporary housing programs acros... |
Sooooo... is a tumor edible? Is it meat? Will it kill you if you eat it? (sorry for grossness) | Jesus, I never wanted to know this. But now that you've brought it up, I'm actually curious. Dammmmnnn youuuu! :) |
How do marines in Iraq wear their heavy gear in the out doors with out passing out from heat exhaustion? | It all comes down to training your body for the physical stress of war. You do deployment training before hand. Also, you have Camelbacks which carry your water so ample amounts of water to stay hydrated. Physical activity everyday along with being hydrated and being strong mentally. . Yes it's hot as fuck, but as long... |
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