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Why do us companies have to comply with eu internet laws? | To be fair, yes some internet companies ignore EU laws without any consequences. But they're nearly always small companies. They have no formal ties to the EU. This is a different story for larger companies which will certainly have ties to the EU in a way. Their bank accounts could be frozen, their assets be seized, t... |
The fall of the British Empire | Essentially having a British Empire is like having a British car. It's real shiny at first, and it helps you look cool and win people over, but after a while the maintenance costs get too high. |
If a Muslim was on the exact opposite side of the earth from Mecca, where would they turn to pray? | There's actually an app that will point you towards Mecca . I wonder what it would do? ", 'I'm not a muslim but I have a lot of muslim friends because I live in Indonesia. They turn to north west when they pray and very strict about it, unless when they're subconsciously forget the direction or don't know where they ar... |
What went down in the OWS subreddit? | [Here's] a link to r/subredditdrama explaining the situation Hope this helps :) Edit: [And Here's] a thread from [/r/worstof] discussing what happened |
Why is it that the body expels excess fluid by urination instead of storing it for future use like food? | Because that's the only way to get rid of water soluble waste that we absolutely need to get out of our bodies. Plus there's nowhere to store it because we didn't evolve that way. There was never any evolutionary pressure for us to adapt to that because water is abundant. |
Why aren't 200mg tablets two hundred times bigger than 1mg tablets? | Because they are both filled with other ingredients which make the tablets easier to swallow/handle. Even 200mg of the active ingredient is such a tiny proportion of the overall tablet, you won't notice it when it's reduced significantly.The 200mg and 1mg on the tablets does not refer to the tablet itself, but rather t... |
How do "king", "queen" and "prince" titles really work? | In British nobility, a wife automatically gets the title at the same rank as the husband. So the wife of a King is called Queen, the wife of a Duke is called Duchess, and so on. But if a woman inherits or is given a title, her husband doesn't share it. Prince Phillip was separately given the style His Royal Highness by... |
Why is it whenever you see a video of a politician speaking in congress (or parliamant) the majority of seats in the room are empty? Where are all the politicians? | Except when actually voting or performing other legislative functions, public legislative chambers have become places to grand-stand and be recorded for the public to see you taking a position on a topic. Actual discussions about legislation happen in private. There isn't really much purpose for legislators to spend mu... |
How can Israel annex Palestine land and only get a condemnation statement and not sanctions? Is it because Israel is a U.S Puppet? | Well, since isreal is doing something on their own, its not a puppet, is it? The issue is really one of what is worth fighting for? The US wasn't interested in fighting over Crimea, either |
Would a 425°f oven make food safe? | While much of the bacteria may be killed by being cooked at 425 degrees, you'd still be cooking unsafe and potentially spoiled foods. Food has two hours to be placed in a refrigerator ≤40 degrees to be considered safe, and a week is insane. It'll cost less to replace the food than to pay off the lawsuits and fines if a... |
How does porn industry make money if it's free online and there is much of it? | How does Star Wars make money when there is a whole bunch of free sci fi online? Porn has fans, not just people looking for a quick wank. Fans of performers, fans of series, fans of improbably specific genres. They don't just want porn, they want *their* porn, they want new porn, and they want it now. I've had friends ... |
What the FUCK is happening in Boston | Lets see here. Boston Marathon bombings, Shooting at MIT, and Explosions and car chases in Watertown. It's been a fucked up couple days here in Boston. [Bostonn Marathon Bombing] [MIT Shooting] [Watertown Explosion] Edited for links and formatting |
The decline of the heavyweight boxer. | Certain sports were much more popular in the no mass media and then radio era - horse racing and boxing are perhaps the two most prominent. But there is just a lot more options - NBA, NHL, NFL - the big team sports that more people play are more popular. We don't ride horses as much. And we don't box a lot now. Plus th... |
Why isn't a car hitting a wall at 120MPH the same as two cars colliding at 60MPH? | Here's a simpler way of looking at it: * take the kinetic energy of a car travelling at 60 mph and call it 1. If that car collides with a wall, the energy dissipated in the collision will also be 1. * two cars travelling at 60 mph each have an energy of 1, so if they collide, the energy dissipated in the collision will... |
The conflict between Northern Ireland, ROI, and England, the IRA, the Troubles, etc. | I'd be more than happy to give you an explanation over Skype. It might take 10 min for me to condense it all and answer any questions you might have. The conflict in NI has stemmed from events dating back to the 1660s. The IRA has fractioned off so many times. Nationalists, Unionists, Loyalists, Republicans, Protestant... |
Why the USA is so concerned about israel and the well being of the state of israel. | They are a very big geopolitical ally, who are in constant conflicts. [Wiki page] about US-Israel relations. I'd be able to give a little more of a specific answer if I knew where you were from.Only stable allied democracy in the Middle East |
If there's a no knock raid on your house by police and you kill the raiders would you be innocent in court? | You killed a cop, you are screwed, unless you're very very very rich. There's a big difference between our idealized concept of law and order with what happens in reality.Probably only if the basis of the raid was somehow faulty. Remember, the government has given itself the right to deprive you of life, liberty, and p... |
How do car keys (not the physical key but the electronic beep boop) each open one car and not all nearby cars? | As far as I know it works similarly to how wifi works. One wifi hub has a code that can access it known as a password . Many wifis can exist but only a person with the right password can communicate with it. There are millions of possible wifi keys. The minimum number of characters for most wifi keys is 8 so the number... |
Project Veritas and the Roy Moore allegations? | project veritas is a conservative organization that is set out to demonstrate a liberal bias in main stream media. They intended to do this by setting up a honey pot for the washington post, presumably intending them to run a story about the accusation without fully vetting it , and then somehow reveal that the claim w... |
Why do anti-depressants take so long (up to 12 weeks) to start working fully? | I'm no doctor But it's because it takes that long for your brain chemistry to fully adapt to the new balance of chemicals, and also enough of it has to build up in your system for there to be enough to work with. |
What's the advantage of having multiple separate investigations into the President, instead of just one comprehensive investigation? What happens if they come to different conclusions? | Just like with regular common criminals; You apply all the charges for all the separate crimes individually; and investigate them separately. That way if one piece of evidence or one charge gets thrown out whether legitimately or on a technicality, you have the rest of the charges still intact, instead of putting all o... |
In the northern hemisphere, the shortest day of the year is in December. Why are January and February traditionally colder? | Important thing to remember, the sun doesn't heat the air, it heats the earth. So the earth absorb the suns energy and begin to warm, and then start to radiate that warmth into the air. Then the lack of sunlight doesn't cause a direct cooling of the air, it takes the consistent lack of sunlight to deplete the stored wa... |
Why the hell does Yankee Doodle call his hat "Macaroni" after he sticks a feather in it? | Also side cool fact, after the British bombardment on Fort McHenry, the successful American defenders of the fort played Yankee Doodle in celebration. This was the bombardment that Francis Scott Key witnessed from a British prison ship and penned The Star-Spangled Banner based on what he saw. Source: I own a food truck... |
Why do I feel so weird for ages after a bad dream? | I have a related question if there are any sleep experts out there. What is going on when in a dream, you have a memory of something that never happened. I'm not talking about a memory of something that happened in a dream, but a memory of something that never happened ever, not even in a dream, but you recall it in a ... |
Why does gum contain calories in the nutritional information if you don't actually consume it? | Some gums contain carbohydrates like fructose, dextrose, maltodextrin, sucrose, starch etc. These are sweeteners and fillers/ help produce the right texture, and ensure proper mixing,, etc. There are various reasons to use ingredients like this. They may also use a small amount vegetable oil or lecithin to keep the gum... |
Why does metal feel cold at room temperature when everything else feels about room temperature. | If you get your fingers REALLY warm, almost to the point of burning them, touch your ear lobe and you will feel the heat transfer. The same thing is happening with the metal and your fingers. Just think of the metal as sponge for heat instead of water. So when you touch the metal it sucks the heat from your fingers and... |
why are there still so many limb amputations? | This is a confirmation bias. You see lots of pictures of amputations or amputees because it's not really much to talk about if doctors save your arm and you go home in one piece. There are many reasons to have to amputate, and also a lot of things that can be done to try and save a limb. But if they have to they have t... |
How do sex offenders deal with halloween? | Louis Theroux has a documentary about people who are registered sex offenders, I can't remember the name of it but shouldn't be too hard to find. In it there is a bit around Halloween where the registered sex offenders had to be inside their homes could have no decorations up and were checked on during the night by cop... |
ELI5: What information do apps gather about your device and how far can they go? | So for iOS at least, the MAC address is my available to apps, neither is serial number . What devs generally will collect is the Identifier for Advertisers . This is like a semi-persistent serial number used for ad tracking. It's used for tracking by matching the IDFA of an advertising click event in another app , to t... |
Is there ANY good reason today to open a Swiss bank account? | I believe there aren't many good reasons to hide your money there anymore. A lot of rich people put money into small caribbean islands now. |
The debate over farming subsidies in the US | Growing one crop over and over again on the same soil is bad for the soil. It drains the nutrients forcing farmers to use more and more fertilizer. However, as long as certain crops are subsidized and protected, corn specifically, farmers make more money sticking with it. That's just one reason. SynthD's point on the b... |
How do you pay bills in prison? (For long sentences, multiple years) | > Do you still have access to your bank accounts? You do. > What about bills that can't be cancelled and must be repaid like student loan payments? You are encouraged to liquidate all of your assets and put the money into an account to be used to pay any expenses you can't cancel. > What if you have no savings, do you ... |
Why are androids apparently better for treating autism than fellow human beings? | Other answers are correct. One more reason though. People with autism need consistency. It's more than just doing the same thing for a few days, it can mean months or longer. Behavior Therapists have a really tough job, and it's often not their only job . Between juggling personal schedules, client schedules, sick days... |
What is happening in Syria with regards to the USA and Russia? | To give some more background here: The Assad regime primarily belongs to a minority sect of Islam called the Alawites. The majority of the country, on the other hand, is Sunni. So we basically have a Shi'ite minority ruling over a Sunni majority. With me so far? This whole mess started in 2011 with a series of pro-demo... |
What is the difference between Gender identity disorder and being Transgender? | Gender identity disorder is an outdated term if you're using the DSM . It was the same thing as being transgender, which was - at the time - considered disordered *per se*. Modern usage uses the term 'gender dysphoria', which refers to the discomfort a trans person feels with their assigned sex. A transitioned trans pe... |
How did the feeling of homesickness benefit prehistoric humans and why did we develop it? | I am in no way an expert and this is just guesswork. Homesickness probably helped some earlier humans survive by stopping them from exploring. If you think about it, it makes sense; their home has to be pretty safe, otherwise they would die or would be traumatized and wouldn't long for it. By leaving that safe home to ... |
If I tuned a guitar on Earth then went to Jupiter to play "Raining Blood" by Slayer, what would it sound like? | Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly hydrogen with about 10% helium, then trace amounts of ammonia, sulfur, methane and water It varies greatly in different regions of the atmosphere in pressure, composition, and temperature, so if you tried to move sound waves through one region of the atmosphere at the same temperature and... |
Why is it so much cheaper to buy 100% juice than to just buy the fruit and make the juice yourself? | My guess is because the best fruit gets sent to market, whereas fruit that may have been bruised or otherwise deemed unacceptable will just get juiced. I'm really curious on the correct answer myself. |
Why do talk radio shows typically start at 7 minutes past the hour? | Radio stations have to run X amount of ads in a programming hour. So instead of doing one ad every ten minutes they do 3 ads at the bottom and top of each hour , then they have less interruptions during discussions and can keep on topic better. In non talk radio they are able to play more back to back songs. Why top an... |
In a network breach (like the one in the news lately), how does the network security team know there's been a breach? | Any halfway competent company is going to essentially wiretap their own Internet connection, so they can see what traffic is going back and forth between their computers and the outside world. If they see something suspicious, like data that's not supposed to be public going out over that connection or tons of data goi... |
Why do my Bluetooth headphones cut out when the microwave is turned on? Samsung U headphone 1200W microwave. | Bluetooth, like wifi, uses radio signals around 2.4GHz, which are also known as microwaves. A microwave oven uses waves of similar frequencies, at much higher power, to cook food. If the shielding isn't perfect and some of the microwaves leak out, they can interfere with Bluetooth and wifi. |
Astrology and effects of planetary waves/
motion on humans/ living organisms | When you make a claim, you need something to support it with. Claiming SCIENCE! and throwing bunch of terms is meaningless. Questions that you could ask to test their claim: oh radiowaves! What kind of frequency are they on? Can you tell which frequency influences what exactly? Because we have perfected radiowaves tech... |
How we develop morning breath while we sleep. | Bacteria in your mouth are the common cause of bad breath. During the day time, eating and drinking regularly flush lots of this bacteria out. However, at night, you don't have that, so the bacteria have a few solid hours of uninterrupted growth, resulting in the smell.The explanations here seem to make a lot of sense ... |
Are fire departments/rescue teams allowed to break through walls etc without permission? | In the US damn straight if there is a risk to life or property we will go through a wall. If we need to vent a fire we will smash out a window or cut a hole in the roof and we won't ask you first. We won't do it should it be necessary but at the same time we will take no risks. Lets put it this way. Your house is on fi... |
Why do some people have no sense of rhythm whatsoever? | My husband has this. Latest research suggests that it's a neurological difference in the left auditory cortex part of the brain. Nobody really knows the exact issue or why some people have it and others don't. |
Why is it ok for the wooden frame of an unfinished building to be exposed to rain? | Lumber used for framing buildings is chemically treated to be resistant to water, mold, and pests. It's perfectly fine to leave it in the rain for a reasonable period of time. |
Why are the "basic" colors for pixels etc red, blue and green when you can mix yellow and blue and get green? Shouldn't yellow replace green? | Because the photoreceptors in your eyes detect light based off of red green and blue, making the primary colors for what we can see those. Not actually sure why it's different in paint. Fun fact, you have way fewer blue than red or green so that's why blue store signs and blue digital clocks are harder to read. Essenti... |
What's all this talk about "September 2015" and how something bad (i.e. doomsday, an economical crash) is going to happen? | These things are repetitive and, as already mentioned, the people pushing the various theories are probably trying to make money somehow, hoping to be the new Alex Jones. People new to conspiracy theories sometimes get hooked in, but they come to realize that it's a repeating meme. For example, I was new to this kind o... |
What Needs to Happen For a City to Receive Google Fiber? | I live in Kansas City, Missouri and have happily had Google Fiber in my home for over a year now. KCMO and KCK were chosen because not only are both cities set for some major economic growth in the near future, but also, the government infrastructures were GGG. Meaning, Google Fiber would have easy access to public uti... |
Why do people look "cool" smoking cigarettes? | You see someone you think is cool smoking a cigarette. You then see someone else you don't know smoking a cigarette and acting/looking cool. You now associate smoking with cool people. After enough reinforcement and cognitive bias you eventually think of smoking as cool. |
If we keep raising the minimum wage then won't it just decrease the value of a dollar and cause to prices to rise because of inflation? | You have it backwards. Increasing minimum wage will do two inflationary things: 1) Cost-push inflation. Employers have to pay more, so costs go up. Low wage employees generally make up a fairly small part of costs for most companies, so this effect is pretty small . 2) Demand-pull inflation. Because people have more mo... |
Why can't we harness lighting as a form of renewable energy? | We can't predict where and when it will strike, so it would be *very* hard to reliably setup a collection system.The only widespread collector of lightning strikes is a wire above power lines which conducts the lightning strike to the ground. Old science fiction stories described using the voltage difference between hi... |
How does rhyming differ among languages? | Can't be certain if it is present in all languages everywhere, but it is definitely present in all germanic languages. English, Dutch, German, etc etc. And yes, it is the same end of the words has to rhyme. Source: too much time spent as a kid trying to write Sinterklaas rhymes. |
If lighter colors reflect more light, why is light skin better at producing Vitamin D than darker skin? | I think the other answers overlook the mechanism. The important hing is that only inside living cells are chemicals converted into Vitamin D. Under the dead layers of skin. More and more melanin is like putting more and more paint over a solar power panel. Use enough and the panel doesn't work. As far as skin lightness... |
What's going on psychologically when you have a favorite color (or enjoy/like certain colors over others) | I'm red-green colorblind and I'm curious about this quest too, as my favorite color is green. I can see the basic green, but that's it. I don't know..Maybe it won't be my favorite after I try those glasses on to see what color it actually is? I guess I like what I don't know. |
Do paleontologists have educated guesses as to what's hiding under Antarctica's ice? | Palaeontologists can certainly infer a few things about what lies beneath the ice, although they are specifically looking at fossils to reconstruct past life and past environments. The fossils found in Antarctica indicate that it was once home to lush green forests before ~50million years ago, and even had dinosaurs th... |
Why do diabetes victims have to amputate their feet? | Here's how diabetes works - glucose molecules in your blood stream are pretty big, as far as molecules go. Your blood stream branches and branches until, at the surface of your skin, tips of your fingers and toes etc. it's not one big blood vessel like an artery but thousands of tiny, narrow capillaries instead. So whe... |
What does the Canine tooth do in humans? | It's great for biting things, like biting a piece of meat so it doesn't move while the incisors cut it away. This gives you a chunk small enough to grind up and swallow. |
What happens to your digital accounts (reddit, facebook, email, etc.) after you die? | Depends on how you die. If you die in a gun battle with the police it is entirely possible that the FBI and other governmental agencies may go over all of your accounts with a fine tooth comb. Facebook is known to provide the family access if they produce proof of death and can convert the page to a memorial. Gaining a... |
If somebody commits a crime before they're 18, but the crime is only uncovered after they turn 18, would they be tried as an adult, or a minor? | He would be charged as a minor, because that was his age at the time the crime was committed. However, the State could request a waiver hearing that, if successful, could move the charge from juvenile court to general sessions . Waiving a case up to general sessions can get trickey, and is rarely used but it would be t... |
Why do so many baby boomers have Hep C? | Before AIDS there was this thing called the sexual revolution and the Vietnam War. Lots of funky gettin' it on goin' on and not much that couldn't be taken care of to worry about, lots of blood being spilled, lots of needles getting passed around. You're hearing a lot about it now because there are some new treatments ... |
Why do some medicines say "take with food"? | They either can upset your stomach when its empty, or they will be better absorbed when combined with the body's digestion/absorption of food", 'Some drugs are fat soluble and require fat to bind to in order to be absorbed into your body. Others require water and a meal typically takes care of both of them. This is the... |
Why do animals get hurt in a forest fire? Couldn't they just walk away from the fire? | They can't always get away. Forest Fire's move fast and are pretty dangerous. Its possible to get cut off from escape or make a bad choice and end up dead. |
Why in this day and age are suppositories still prescribed? Why would anyone choose a suppository over taking it orally? | I would hazard a guess that the stomach acts as a delay , so there might be some medicines that need immediate and rapid absorption, which the rectum is excellent at. Tweak the pill coating so it comes apart easier, and you're good to go.\r\rAnecdotally, I fucking *hate* swallowing pills. Alternatively I enjoy a little... |
Adderall is amphetamine, but how is it safer than meth? | I have taken Adderal, Dexies, Ritalin- prescribed- they ar absolutely nothing compared to snorting a line crank, coke, meth, etc If I did the latter three today I think I would have a heart attack. I take ritalin or Dextroamphetamine for A.D.D. I don't take very much- 2 5mg doses a day. When I was 15-19 I did some meth... |
What causes some videos that start with audio that is in sync to eventually lose syncopation by the end? | Sometimes when a video is being encoded, it may accidentally drop some frames here and there. I can't speak for every instance where audio loses sync, but it has happened to me like that. I've had to manually correct Webcam footage because it lost sync at a couple random points. That was just a matter of finding the sk... |
Why are the only elected people in public office from just two political parties in the United States? Why don't any other parties gain any traction? | There are independents elected. Bernie Sanders from Vermont is a senator. Joseph Lieberman the same from Connecticut. Lincoln Chaffee is an independent governor, also from Connecticut. It's possible but tough. The two major political parties are big and they have a lot of money to support their candidates. Independent ... |
Why do energy companies like Con Edison give you tips on how to use less energy? | This sort of behavior is similar to peak load pricing. The problem arises when you think about *when* people use power the most. At 5:30 PM in the summer, everyone's just come home from work and turns their AC on. The electrical grid needs to be able to put out enough power to run everybody's AC at one time, but that's... |
How come if you get feces in a cut it will become infected, but if you wipe too hard and get blood on the toilet paper, you don't get an infection down there? | > How come if you get feces in a cut it will become infected, It most likely won't. At least not if they are your own feces. You should probably not rub a stranger's feces into your cuts. > but if you wipe too hard and get blood on the toilet paper, you don't get an infection down there? You sometimes do get an infecti... |
College and University in the USA. | A university is a large institution where the different departments function somewhat independently, and call themselves colleges. You usually have to apply and be accepted to a specific college within a university to major in that subject. At a college, there's more of a sense of diversifying your education, and anyon... |
How does one create a website/webpage? | To make a website you need three things: * A computer * A connection to the internet, so others can access your page* A web server, which is a piece of software that will receive connections from users and respond with web pages.* Some content to serve. This will usually consist of HTML pages, CSS stylesheets, JS scrip... |
How do Golf players see where the ball lands? | Over time, you develop a feel for your swing that helps you know where the ball is likely headed before you even look up to spot it. Having played for almost 15 years, I'd wager I could guess where the ball is headed without looking more times than not. It also helps when you know what club you're using. For example, I... |
What happens if the price of Facebook's stock (or any stock) reaches zero? | If a stock falls below a dollar than the stock exchanges will threaten to and ultimately delist the stock from the exchange. If it is removed from the NASDAQ then it becomes very difficult for shareholders to sell those shares. That loss of liquidity would make the stock worth even less. At the point that a stock is wo... |
How do we know exactly that the bee population around the world is decreasing? How do we calculate the number of bees to begin with? | I worked for a tv show where we did a an episode about saving the bees and it was my job to research everythig, speak to the experts, and consult with commercial beekeeper. The short answer is that we measure the decline based off of a very quantifiable decrease in the millions of commercial bee colonies across the glo... |
how (in baseball) is a strike called by the first base umpire? | If the batter is right handed, then the first base umpire has the second-best view of the pitch, the batter, and the strike zone, after the home plate umpire. The same is true for left-handed batters and the third base umpire. Generally, the base umpires are only called on for a checked swing on a ball - meaning the ba... |
If the Earth were a cube instead of a sphere would it keep its gravitational properties? | Gravity would still point towards the center of mass, so it'd be more like colossal mountains. Such a planet would collapse into a sphere though, rock isn't sturdy enough to hold up that shape. |
Why American healthcare is so expensive. | One because it's private enterprise. Two because the people who do pay have to cover for the people who dont pay. |
Why are women not as strong as men (physically) while this does not seem to reflect in the animal kingdom. For instance tigresses hunt for prey and nurture cubs. | It does reflect, tigresses are weaker, smaller and lighter than male tigers, they're still strong enough to hunt because tigers would die out otherwise. |
Why some people (including myself) are so grumpy in the morning? | Im usually grumpy when my blood sugar is low and i haven't eaten in a while. You might be in a bad mood when you wake up because you haven't eaten in 8 or more hours.This [has been asked several times here and never properly answered.] Good luck this time! |
Why do wasps build nests in hexagons if they do not store honey? | They don't actually build the honeycomb as hexagons; they build circles which deform into hexagons, because a hexagonal grid has the smallest ratio of perimeter to area of any space filling tesselation. For a more engaging explanation, [I suggest this YouTube video]. |
Why won't companies hire people who are "over-qualified"? | Because most people *aren't* willing to work for the pay and stay in the job. They're going to leave in a few months when they finally find a higher paying job that they're properly qualified for. Hiring people is a pain in the ass. It takes a lot of time & takes business owners/managers away from doing productive work... |
How do Chinese companies get away with cloning cars, and consumer electronics from other companies? | Your design patents are only as good when the countrys legal system that enforces them. Without patent treaties, your American patent means nothing in Canada. Chinas legal and political system is biased towards propping up the assets of Chinese people, not protecting other country's assets. It's an Us vs Foreigners men... |
How can websites immediately know that your credit card is invalid just by the number? | The number isn't random or sequential, there's a formula for each card type that it can be checked against. _URL_0_ |
Why is radiation bad for you? | Radiation is light. Cell phones use colour of light that passes through walls. Blobs of light energy are very lazy, not energetic and will pass through you almost in a straight line, so they won't really have a chance to disturb any important atoms. Microwave uses a type of light that heats water very good, . It's a bi... |
Why Korea have such a long working hours per week than the rest of the world ? | Very similar situation here in Japan. Mostly it's about appearances. By coming in before others and staying longer, you are demonstrating commitment to your job. Your commitment will be noticed and may help you earn a promotion. Note that this is easier in some ways to actually doing work of consequence It's not all th... |
How do some posts skyrocket to the front page, while other seemingly similar posts fade into obscurity? | In my experience, it really depends on the first few crucial upvotes. I decided to test this out on /r/pcmasterrace and made a decent post. Upon posting it the 1st time, the first person who saw it must have downvoted immediately as I noticed it went to 0 points under a minute of posting. I deleted the post, waited 10 ... |
I weight myself at night I'm 180.5lb and then I go to sleep. I weight myself in the morning and now I'm 179.9. Where did the weight go? | Hey, I made a [video] to answer your question! Summed up incase you don't want to watch the video: - we sweat each night which accounts for up to roughly 150g - we breath out a lot of C02 which accounts for about 100g if we breath in and out on average 7680 times. - We don't eat/drink therefor no calorie intake Hope yo... |
Why are wedding dresses so expensive? | [Basically], expensive materials, and lots of labor but also a high willingness to pay and some luxury good behavior . That they're usually sold by wedding dress boutiques, adds to the markup . |
How do satellites orbiting the Earth get their orbits assigned to them, and how do they not hit into each other? | Much like how planets in our solar system orbit faster around the Sun when they are closer to the sun, satellites differ in orbit speed when placed at different attitudes from Earth. If satellites are orbiting at different speeds only if they are at different altitudes. Since they are at different altitudes, they won't... |
Why is it acceptable to make fun of baldness but not other physical appearance conditions? | Because most bald dudes don't care. There are plenty of women that dig bald dudes. I lost a good deal of hair in my mid twenties and it did suck for a bit until I got over it. There are hair cuts that minimize the effect without going full shaved. |
How do the pre-made brownies you get from a store stay soft and moist but my homemade brownies get hard in 10 minutes? | Maybe you need a better recipe. [Here's the one I've stuck with for 7 years]. 3 tips: use real butter, bake 17 minutes, and cover once cooled for longer storage. |
Does anyone or any nation own Antarctica? | The [Antarctic Treaty System ] regulates international activity on Antarctica, limiting it to mostly scientific research and tourism, and banning military activity of any kind. A number of countries do also have territorial claims in the region , but they aren't highly contested, nor are they fought over in any form. |
Why don't new games run well on my 3 year old PC but run fine on a 6 year old Xbox 360? | First of all you can optimize your code easier on a device that don't change it's components every year or so. Another thing is that best graphics on a console are nowhere near the best graphics a PC can do. |
Why do "luxury" car makes have confusing names? Like CTS, MKZ, IS, etc... | The other answers here, while valid, are overlooking the main reason, which is branding--specifically, to reinforce the automaker's brand. When a car is branded by two names--that of the car company and that of the model--the consumer tends to drop one of the names from their consciousness in order to keep things simpl... |
How do people get to weigh over 500 lbs? | They over eat every meal. Even just a snack, which should be a small thing of yogurt or a peice of fruit but instead they eat an entire bag of chips. Plus they don't exercise. |
How can a country like Japan have a bad economy when it's citizens are so highly educated and hard working? | Where did you hear that it has a bad economy? Japan is doing pretty well right now: _URL_1_ The only bad thing on the horizon is that Japan's population is very old. Many workers are about to retire, and there are very few young people to replace them. Currently, adult diapers are outselling baby diapers. Japan is pret... |
Why do we prefer to sleep in the dark? | It's melatonin, bro. The hormone that induces sleep. It secrets to an external stimuli, during the absence of light. That's the reason it is advised to draw the curtains if you are trying to sleep during day. |
why should I care about the national debt? | You shouldn't, it's not that big a deal, everyone who is screaming that it's a bad thing is just uninformed, most countries run a debt, it's actually part of the defense system, if anyone tried to take America over you bet your ass China will step up to keep us alive rather than lose out on that debt repayment. |
Why do Banks need such large buildings? | Those large skyscapers you are referring to aren't occupied entirely by banks. The banks build/invest in the real estate and move some offices there, but the bulk of the office space in those buildings are leased out to other businesses. _URL_0_ |
Why are shorts not considered acceptable business attire, even on "casual days?" | Clothing standards are driven by tradition and culture. Not just society's culture, but business and even specific company's culture. One of the books about IBM's history, published back in the 80s or 90s, told the story that when new hires would report their first day for company training, the men would be asked to li... |
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