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Why do your fingerprints get pruney when submerged in water for too long. | One thing that's not been addressed, however, is why your fingers wrinkle when they get wet. This happens because the outermost layer of your skin absorbs more water than the layer just below it. The places where the two layers join most tightly don't wrinkle, while the rest of the skin swells outward. |
Historically, why have Jews been so mistreated, blamed, and oppressed? | Kosher laws played their part by separating the Jews from the peoples they lived among. Food has so many layers of significance and meaning. It's harder to trust someone who refuses your hospitality and won't eat with you. |
why taking antibiotics long term does not lead to antibiotic resistance, but taking them for too short of a time (ie not finishing the prescription) does? | If you take antibiotics for the prescribed period, it ensures you kill off ALL of the bacteria that causes the illness , and dead bacteria can't evolve. This prevents these mildly resistant bacteria from living and having a change to evolve more powerful antibiotic resistance. |
What will change in case of discovery of water on mars? | Mars mission = more likely because of the extraction of water for astronauts. It also means they'd stay there for longer happily. Also, life. Water is the key for life to exist and if it's literally on our neighbouring planet it'd be an extreme discovery. Imagine we investigated that organism[s] and discovered how it l... |
How serious is the China situation in the Scarborough shoal? Should I be worried my wife has family in the Philippines? | Not worried at all. China is just posturing, they aren't about to start throwing nukes and if they did they aren't going to aim at the Philippines. And if they did there isn't anywhere on Earth you would be safe from the shitstorm which would ensue. China is extremely unlikely to invade and is just trying to throw thei... |
Why do most languages share the same numerical system (1,2,3 etc) but there are so many different written languages? | Historically the Arabic numeral system made certain types of calculations much easier than other number systems. Beyond that the number system spread through trading networks, even if traders didn't speak the same language fluently they could still do business if they understood each others maths.Sharing 1, 2, 3 is lik... |
if I'm not attracted to old women now why will I be attracted to them when I'm an old man? | In general I think men are physically attracted to the same things their whole lives. When they're 12 they'll probably be attracted to the older mature 20 year old young women instead of their underdeveloped flat-chested 12 year old female peers. When they're 20 they'll probably like girls their own age. When they're 4... |
Where does the extra mass go when people lose weight? | Fat has a lot of carbon and a lot of hydrogen with a few other things. The carbon is largely breathed out, bound to O2 to form CO2, while the hydrogen is largely peed out, bound to O2 to form H2O . The other things find their way out through other methods, largely through urine. Some of the water leaves in other ways b... |
Why is the bodies response to getting a cold, starting a bunch of processes that make you way more likely to spread disease? | You're thinking about it backwards. It's more that diseases which cause your body to spread them are more likely to spread.. So any disease which makes you cough and sneeze will spread and any disease that doesn't isn't likely to spread. That's the simple explanation.In addition to what others have said, diseases have ... |
Why are there so many homeless people in the United States, particularly big cities like New York, DC, etc? | Couple reasons. Firstly, finding a job isn't very easy, especially without easy access to a shower/clean clothes. Second, even if they do find a job, and it pays minimum wage, chances are that they take home significantly less than minimum wage. Even assuming they find a job where they are actually payed minimum wage, ... |
Why is the Catalan separatist movement not a bigger news story? | News media is as much a political arm as anything else. If the media were to report a lot on separatists then people would think that the separatist is more valid. Think if it like being gay: conservatives believe that the more straight people hear about gays that some will become gay. Ridiculous of course, but if peop... |
When using Virtual Reality devices like the Vive or Rift, how do our eyes focus on 'distant' objects when they are really only centimetres away? | Your eyes don't actually know how far the light they're receiving has come. They figure that out by comparing the image from each eye. The difference between each eye's picture tells the brain what the angle between the eyes and the object is. That tells it how far away the object is. VR uses two pictures to make it se... |
Why do Videogame frame rates go up in multiples of 30? | > CRT refresh rates have historically been an important factor in electronic game programming. Traditionally, one of the principles of video/computer game programming is to avoid altering the computer's video buffer except during the vertical retrace. This is necessary to prevent flickery graphics or screen tearing. So... |
Why do we sometimes forget words in the middle of a sentence? | You actually talk a bit faster than you think. I'm not an expert on the field or anything, but from what I understand, literally every spoken language has some kind of word for 'uh' as in 'I need to think about what word is coming next.' It isn't so much that you have forgotten the word as you just haven't thought far ... |
How does IRS know if you lied on how much you make? | Your W2, along with any other relevant tax documents, will be submitted from where you work directly to the IRS by your employer. They have original documents, so if you fudge the math somehow they have documentation to argue otherwise. Also, the IRS is fucking scary, I'd recommend always being upfront with them, they ... |
Why is vinyl considered superior to digital recordings? | I've lived in both eras, I prefer digital. Vinyl is analog so superior in that aspect, but vinyl is very fragile and over time sounds worse than digital. However I'm sure that's not what you are looking for. Converting a sound to digital produces a wave that isn't as smooth as analog. You do it by taking snapshots at a... |
Could somebody explain how IRC chat clients work? What is freenode? and how do I search for unlisted channel topics that I'm interested in? | What operating system are you running? Something graphical will be much more intuitive if you're just starting out. For windows: _URL_4_Linux: _URL_4_ Mac: _URL_4_ or Textual If you google a bit you should find good guides but basically. 1. Open your IRC client2. Locate server settings.3. Enter the IP/Server address - ... |
. Why can't we fill our coal mining pits with our rubbish? We are taking out one pollutant and replacing it with another. | Yes, the water thing. But you're not replacing one pollutant with another. Coal itself is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide, sulfur, etc is the pollutant that's in the smoke of coal when burned.On top of the good answer provided by /u/OrbitalPete, much of our rubbish comprises organic materials, such as waste food. Over ... |
When you boil water you don't use the warm tap water to boil, you always use cold water...why? | The going wisdom from various cookbooks, etc that I've read is that hot water carries more dissolved minerals from your pipes, and depending on what kind of piping and how many decades of hard water deposits you have, it can be enough to make your food taste rather off.The hot water from my water heater tastes funny. I... |
How do graveyards continue to make money when they're filled up? | Some have crematoriums that contribute to income. Also, some of the local funeral homes in my town actually own the land the cemetaries are on. Other than that, I have no idea, this is actually a good question. Can't wait to find out answer. |
What would happen if we erased all the student loan debt in the US? | The people who own student debt and the government's budget . > Would it be very many people? I'm not really sure on who owns student debt, but at $1.2 trillion it's probably very widely spread. > What would the consequences be? A lot of people wouldn't get money they're owed. For some perspective, it would be like if ... |
Why does the U.S. House of Representatives edit Wikipedia entries so often? | What you have to remember about the House is that a lot of the work---more than you can imagine, even if you can imagine quite a bit---is done by college kids and people immediately out of college. Interns, legislative assistants, and the like are all young people with interests in this kind of stuff and, often a lot o... |
If sweating is a required process to regulate internal body temperature, why don't antiperspirants and deodorants cause health issues? | Because you don't sweat from only your armpits. The back of your knees do more than enough to pick up the slack, same with swamp-ass.You apply them to specific areas, under arms, where the sweating will promote bacterial growth much sooner resulting a a noticeable smell much sooner than other areas.Deodorants wont do a... |
Are strains of the flu weaker than it used to be? | Mostly what has changed is that we've gotten better at hygiene , and we're overall in better health than, say, 100 years ago . |
Why does it take so much less time to get fast food from a drive through than to get it from inside? | For one drive thru lines are timed, the workers have x number of seconds from the time the car pulls up to the menu to the time they pull away with food. I've known people to work at several of the fast food chains and this is confirmed to be an essential metric. To the point that staff from management down can be comp... |
why are manual cars still used when automatics seem easier to drive? | They're fun to drive just in general. I've also heard of parents getting their kids manuals so the kids can't text and drive. Speaking as someone that drives a manual, that's probably pretty effective. The biggest downside is that it's a little harder to consume delicious food while driving in the city. Oh, and sitting... |
Why do people bite down onto things when pain is induced? | I believe when you experience pain it is natural reflex to clench your jaw aka bite down. So you're actually just preventing yourself from biting your tongue on accident. That's how it was explained to me. As far as relieving pain, I do not think so, but it's been a while since I've had to undergo such an experience. |
Why objects that are interacted with in cartoons colored a slightly different color/shade than other objects in the scene. | Backgrounds have all static features of a scene in them, so they only need one image to be produced by a background artist. Because they only produce one, they can easily add extra details, such as shading and highlights to make the background more believable. These used to be water colored or acrylic paint, but nowada... |
Why is consensual incest considered illegal and is socially unacceptable? | Incest is a taboo universally across cultures. While there are many popular instances of this taboo being broken those subsets are very small historically. It's been this way culturally going as far we have record, and we also see this in the animal kingdom. Searching and working towards genetic diversity appears to be... |
If someone's tone deaf, when they think about a song, or sing a song in their head, would it still be out of tune? | I am tone-deaf, can't sing for shit. However, I am a sound engineer and I can tell when someone else is off key. I hear music in my head fine, but I have never been, nor ever will be a musician. |
Why do companies like Lockheed-Martin and the military industrial complex exist | > Why doesn't the military have its own research think tanks for developing weapons? The military does have, but in it's own way. DARPA, for example. The real thing is that the US government is not supposed to compete with commercial industry. The government is supposed to manage these and control these types of projec... |
How Does Surfing Work? | The surfer is moving down hill on an advancing slope. Simple experiment: Put a ball on a carpet. Create a wave by moving a broom handle under the carpet, pushing the ball in front of it. It's the same principle. |
Would it take an extremely overweight person longer to starve to death than a regular weight person? | Yes, their bodies have more fat to feed off of and therefore they can technically starve longer than people of lower weights. However, they aren't guaranteed to survive longer. They could face other problems without food that are related to their obesity such as low blood sugar, low vitamins/minerals, etc. which could ... |
Why are Americans so against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or universal healthcare in general? | In some cases, people believe it isn't the government's business, or represents an intrusion of government into private affairs. Some people believe it represents an addition to an already unsustainably expensive budget. Some people believe the government can't do it well or will be self-serving rather than look out fo... |
What is Non-Euclidean geometry? What has it ever been used for and what are it's applications today? | Imagine living in a 2-dimension plane. Most of our well known geometrical would apply, a triangle's angles would add up to 180^, and parallel lines would never meet. But a plane isn't the only thing that has 2 dimensions, so does the surface of a sphere. But if you lived on one of those, the rules would change. Angles ... |
What are "office politics"? | People are social beings. Even if we would like them to have strictly work relationships based on their job descriptions, they tend to develop friendships or hates or other sorts of interpersonal relationships between each other as they work together and that makes interacting in the office a bit more tricky. Imagine t... |
How can the CO2 from a car's exhaust weigh more than the petrol used in combustion? | I was surprised by your math as well, but did it myself and came up with the same 5:1 ratio from the first sources I came across. I then just looked it up and saw a few sources saying it was 3:1, so I guess it's somewhere in there depending on the cars tested. /u/TheOboeMan is generally correct - most of the added mass... |
Please tell me what things I should look for in a political candidate, no matter the level they're on. | You need to look for people who understand economics. If someone tells you that printing money and giving it to rich people will help the economy, don't vote for them . Similarly, at any level of government, the same problem exists when a politician promises to take money away from one person and give it to another; it... |
What does a blind person see? | A blind person doesn't see anything if they're born blind because they were never able to see the world in the first place. They don't have an understanding of being able to see. If a seeing person goes blind then they will see black. They will see black because they were used to seeing in light. Once they go blind, th... |
How was the USA successful in integrating such a wide variety of Immigrants during its short history? even around 2 world wars. | I'm not sure that I agree with the premise of the question. The US hasn't done a a noticably better or worse job than comparible countries such as Canada, New Zealand and Australia. All of the countries mentioned have higher foreign born percentages as well. |
What is "processed food", and why is it bad for you? | You can think of processed food as anything that your great-great- grandparents wouldn't have eaten. * It can decrease nutritional density * It often has more preservatives * It often has excess sugar, salt and fat. |
why are heart shots instant kills? | You're in the shower, someone shoots your water pump, how quick does your shower stop? Almost instantly. Your body, all of your organs, need pressure to operate. When you blow the pump the pressure drops instantly and you go unconscious and then dead 💀. |
What happens when a new Prime Minister is elected in the UK, e.g. who tells him how to use the country's nuclear weapons? | I'm pretty sure the Prime Minister doesn't actually operate the military hardware. I imagine when a new PM is elected, he will be briefed by the defence forces chiefs to go over protocol.This. From the peerless "Yes, Prime Minsiter"_URL_0_Many people in government at the time used to comment on accuracy of this satire. |
How fast do airplanes fly? And why doesn't it seem like we are going that fast? | If an airplane was flying ten feet of the ground, you'd have a much better impression of its speed . There are no reference points at 30-40,000 feet, so it really seems like it is just coasting through the air.Take off certainly feels impressive. That said i mean if you blindfold yourself and you are in a car and you p... |
How and why does the US military have 5 branches that work independently and together at the same time? | There's already a good explanation for the branches but I'd like to add a little detail for the two branches that most folks don't understand; the Marines and the Army. The Marine corps is the ready response expeditionary force, the spear head, the shock troops. Then the army occupies it |
Counterfeiting top brand items (more in description) | > made in the same factory as the real thing, using the same material as the real thing. the only difference is that instead of giving it to the company that it belongs to, they sell them in local shops That sounds more like theft, the difference being that they weren't recorded as produced by that company.It ia xounte... |
Why is EA a worse corporate entity than Bank of America, Chase or Wal-Mart? | Nerd rage There are companies that manufacture landmines and sell them to warlords, but maimed Africans don't get to vote in online polls. |
- how is dry ice an industrially effective cooling method? | They don't just refrigerate it until solid, most of the work is done by depressurizing it. Kinda like when you pull the trigger on a CO2 fire extinguisher, it throws out dry ice snow. _URL_0_ Dry ice is very portable, leaves no residue and you don't need highly compressed liquid all over the place. Also if you use a dr... |
On the internet, particularly forum sites like Reddit and YouTube (comments being the forum) why are so many people so extremely quick to anger and argue? | Two reasons off the top of my head: One is the desire to be heard. In a comment section people have a tendency to post the most extreme ends of their views so as to stand out from everyone else. Secondly, you can't look people in the eyes. I've noticed that if I stop before I post to imagine I was talking to a person o... |
What's this "anti-feminist" crusade currently going on in the Atheist community? | If feminists are suppose to be fighting for equality, then why do they support just one side of the fight? There are bad stereotypes for men too, you know. Like the world expecting us to do something ridiculous such as cut off a part of our genitalia. If your fighting for equality then be fucking equal, fight for every... |
why do batteries seem to last longer at 1% than any other charge percentage? | > Typing this out on a 1% phone as I speak. Your phone is measuring the voltage of the battery and then trying to convert that into a percentage that is meaningful for you. It's sort of a tricky thing to do though. Consider the following Let's say the battery is at 10 volts when fully charged, and at 9 volts when the p... |
Do severe burn survivors dehydrate faster than unburned people? | I volunteer in EMS. This is absolutely the case. If we have a patient who has burns of any significance, we start an IV and giving fluids immediately. There's even a standard formula for it, the [Parkland burn formula], though there's some ongoing debate about the specifics. |
Why do people say that not paying off a credit card in full is better? | Definitely not true. Credit cards charge huge interest rates. Doing your day-to-day spending with a credit card *and then paying it off right away* is a good way to build a credit record, but you definitely don't want to carry a balance unless it's an emergency expense .There are several different metrics for creating ... |
How do countries get rid of nuclear warheads when they decide they no longer want/need them? | This doesn't specifically answer your question about nuclear weapons, but on a related note, at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, they're almost done completing the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant. This facility is going to dismantle all of the chemical weapons the US has stored there over the la... |
What lucid dreaming is and how to achieve it. | Imagine someone's plugged you into a virtual reality game where you can move around and do anything you like - flying, using magic or exploring a different planet. Lucid dreaming utilises your ability to virtually create a 'dream scene' but instead of being a passive observer to it - you're in complete control as much ... |
What happens when a pregnant woman gets sentenced to prison? Is she just expected to have the baby while in prison? | I had my son on the way to the hospital. We were escorted in by 3 cop cars so the staff thought we were coming from the prison. They were asking about what restraints I needed. Whhaaa??? Luckily the misunderstanding was sorted out before I was cuffed to any beds. I had already given birth alone and with no meds, I real... |
How does knowing my IP address benefit a "hacker" ? | Unless you turn off the security features of your cable modem/gateway or have a device in the DMZ all they can really do is DDoS. Your computer is not on the internet. The device provided by your ISP is. This is your weak spot. Nothing comes in without something going out first. So as long as there isn't some zeroday w... |
If the United States is producing more oil than what it imports, how are gas prices so high? | Just because you're doing it at home doesn't make oil derricks, refineries and other infrastructure required cheaper. |
Why hasn't anyone created cigarettes without all the toxic chemicals in it? | Do E-Cigarettes/Vaping not come close? - Most of the time the only chemical they retain from a standard cigarette is the active ingredient nicotine, which is the main source of the addiction. Nicotine is not entirely safe on its own, but without tar and CO, vaping is considered *better* for you than traditional cigaret... |
How do video games calculate the quickest possible route? | In ELI5 form: Imagine the world is a checkerboard. The computer has an algorithm that simulates pouring sand in a pile at your start point. The imaginary sand pile grows higher and higher, pouring around barriers that can't be traversed. The first grain of sand that reaches the destination will have taken the shortest ... |
9 billion dollar witness JPMorgan paid off. I tried reading articles but i just couldn't understand what happened. | It looks like JPMorgan bought and sold loans that should not have been, made money off of them, and didn't tell anyone that the loans were unsafe for banks. People lost a bunch of money and that's about the time the American economy dropped out. The witness referenced is a woman who saw that the loans were bad, reporte... |
What would happen if a queen was carrying a King's son, but the King died. | This is known as posthumous birth. And as of yet in the majority of monarchies, the Blood Heir beats out a sibling. Meaning that the sibling cannot take the throne, or may take the throne and reign until the child is old enough to take the throne themself, at which point the child would become Monarch. So, let's fast f... |
If I'm paying a computer technician to speed up my computer, what do they actually do? | Probably just running a virus scan, registry cleaner, and maybe one or two other tools that dump the accumulated clutter and bloatware from your PC. Nothing you can't do yourself. |
If evolution is random then how do do people evolve to do things like eat more in the winter season | mutation is random, evolution is a result of beneficial mutations leading to more successful organisms. people evolved to eat more in winter because some random mutation made some people eat more, eating more made them survive more, them surviving more made them more likely to have offspring and those offspring would i... |
Why my phone battery doesn't drain at a constant rate | If your screen and GPS were active, there is no way the power consumption on your device fell to 10%. I would have to disagree with the other posters on that. One possible source of this depending on what device you have is how the battery amount is calibrated. Generally, as a battery discharges, the voltage will drop ... |
Why do chicken, cow and pig parts count as meat but fish doesn't? | As a vegetarian it's really annoying. When I specify I require a vegetarian meal quite a bit of the time I'm served seafood, which absolutely baffles me that they wouldn't ask if appropriate first. I have learned to specify that it isn't. |
Why don't credit cards just use 19 digits instead of 16 digits plus 3 digit "security code"? | As a few peole have already pointed out, it keeps numbers in different places on the card so a person can't take a quick look or picture and get all the info needed for many transactions, but I also wanted to add that it's not embossed into the card so if a store has to imprint it it's not imprinted along with the card... |
How is it that we never forget how to ride a bike? | I've forgotten how to ride a bike. When I moved from a flat area in Minnesota to a hilly area in Georgia, I didn't ride my bike for a while in Georgia. Later my dad had to put my training wheels back on and help me get the hang of it again.Its my time to shine! I learned about this in anatomy anf physiology. Its a spec... |
How is the cost of medicine/pills determined? | In America it's basically what they think they can get away with charging. Contributing factors include scarcity of ingredients, amount of time and cost of development, and whether they have or foresee any competition. |
Why is it so difficult to run in dreams when we're in danger? | As others have said, your body and brain release two chemicals that inhibit movement during REM sleep which stops the body 'acting out' the dream. Thats why in the dream you often feel an inability to run. Its easy to find online research showing the results when the chemicals aren't released. |
How exactly will obamacare lower the cost that that hospitals charge the insurance companies for an ER visit? | Reading through the replies I'm realizing the entire system is flawed. especially for people like me, I can not afford health care. I looked into the market place, the cheapest plan would literally take every dollar I have that isn't already going for bills. Leaving me with healthcare but no food, gas or any way to pay... |
So... what's so bad about Walmart? | I'll do this in a broad stroke: Wal-Mart has more resources than nearly every other business in the world, so they can offer goods at fairly low prices. They use this advantage by setting up shop in small towns and rural areas, where other business enterprises tend to be small-scale and thus have to charge higher price... |
Does Gravity act like it's portrayed in movies? | IIRC that scene takes place in space, right? The environment itself was likely moving, meaning they were in fact in motion when gravity was deactivated, which in turn led to them moving. I've not been in outer space, but you can expect that what you see in the movies is pretty close. |
How do hash checksums work? | If you are to transmit information over a wire, how would you do so robustly, if the transmission is vulnerable to corruption and noise? The simplest thing is to send it twice. A hash function generalizes on this idea. Instead of transmitting X , you transmit {X, h}. Upon receipt, the receiver checks that h maps the fi... |
What is the purpose of the UN ? | To prevent World War 3. The UN came about after WW2 in an attempt to fix the issues with the failed League of Nations that was created after WW1 It's supposed to give countries a way to talk about issues with other countries to get compromises or support so problems can be resolved before they escalate into war |
How did torpedo bombers in WW2 get their distances to the targets right? | Practice and training and then hoping you were right. Plus there were a lot of things to consider. They had to fly at certain speeds, at certain heights. If they were too high, or too fast, it wouldn't work. |
Why do snipers need a 'spotter'? | Partly because while one man has his eye glued to a scope he is vulnerable to everything that isn't a fair way infront of him. So it helps to have a second there to provide more peripheral awareness. Secondly in some situations certain calculations need to be done to achieve an accurate shot. What's the wind like? What... |
Why does ice work so well to remove blood stains? | Related question, is there any way to get blood stains from shirts after they've been there for a while ? I got some really cool shirts but they're pretty much ruined just because it turns out that I had a bleeding zit on my back. |
What happens to cars that are recalled due to safety issues? | Most automobile recalls are for minor issues that can be easily fixed with a visit to the shop. New tires, replace a chip, change a bracket, etc. They might toss the owner a coupon for some free oil changes our something like that too make up for the inconvenience. Cars are really well tested these days. You won't see ... |
How does Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and other shows like them get away with using other people's copyrighted characters in sketches without being sued? | In short, as has been answered elsewhere in this thread: Fair Use. American copyright law, allows for use of copyrighted material for the purpose of critcism and parody. That is to say, Any use commenting on or making fun the original work, characters and what have you. Satire is a bit more of a grey area, and can in s... |
What exactly does a "karat" measure? | Karat is a unit of measurement for the purity of gold alloys. Karat purity is measured as 24 times the pure mass divided by the total mass. So 24 Karat is the most pure at ~99.9% gold, 18k gold is 18 parts gold, 6 parts another metal Yes you could have a chunk of 24 karat gold that weighs several kilos, it's not a meas... |
Why is it easier for me to talk on the phone while i'm walking? | You're a guy right?It's the way we are wired. Moving, fidgeting, drawing doodles help us to voice our thoughts. It's one of the reasons why golf is so popular for business meetings. Also when looking to have a meaningful conversation with another guy, find something to repair or build. Helps a lot. |
Why is all tap water "chemically the same" when Los Angeles water clearly tastes different than Iowa water? | Different places will have different amounts of dissolved stuff in the water, such as water from underground stone aquifers have different kinds of minerals in the water than water from rivers or lakes. different municipalities will also treat their water differently with more less less chemicals. In some cases water w... |
why is the Boston bombing an "act of terrorism" while the Aurora movie theater shooting is a "mass shooting" | Its almost memetic. Because IEDs get associated with what Americans think of as a terrorist, and shootings get wrapped up in gun control laws . Any crime with a gun will be a shooting, anything with a bomb will be terrorism because that's the easiest way for us to digest it. |
Why do we have to use raw eggs when we bake? | One function of eggs in the dough is to keep the thing together as it's pretty sticky and that would certainly not work with a boiled egg. Sometimes you can also use oil instead of eggs but it doesn't work quite as well. It's easier to get that mushy and yet firm texture and full moist taste with eggs than oil or other... |
Why does Samsung release a less powerful version of it's phone in the USA then the rest of the world? | Some provider in USA use CDMA. Maybe that's why they use Qualcomm chips or whatever it was.First, let’s clear something up. In direct comparison, the Snapdragon outperformed the Exynos in the S8: _URL_0_ While it was true for previous generations, it is no longer the case that the Snapdragon is slower. The primary reas... |
How does a citizens arrest work? | **In Canada**, you may only make a citizen's arrest if you find someone who is/has escaping from police committed an indictable offence or having committed any crime against your property, property you are in possession of, or property in which the owner has given you the authority to protect . From the _URL_0_ site: I... |
Why aren't there 3L 4 cylinder engines or 2L V6/8 | _URL_1_ _URL_0_ I could go on. They're quite common in Europe. 3 litre straight fours less so, but then there aren't many 3 litre cars in Europe. No shortage of 2.5L fours, but that's because there's a taxation break there. |
How do video cameras work? | [Take a look at this scene in the matrix.] How did they capture something like that? [Here is a picture of what the cameras for that scene looked like.] Now each of those cameras is a still camera, it only gives you a picture. All of those cameras don't take a picture at once, the pictures are taken one after another. ... |
What exactly is IQ and how do we measure it? | It's an attempt to objectively measure intelligence. It's not terribly accurate, so don't put too much stock in it. At best it's a rough approximation. And the test is done by essentially a series of questions designed to test intelligence and problem-solving rather than knowledge. |
Why is some restaurant silverware magnetic? | Ferromagnetic metals can become magnetized if moved through a magnetic field. It's entirely possible that they're kept in a drawer with a magnet on it or are stored somewhere near a magnet of some sort. It could also be the process the manufacturer uses to create them. It's likely just incidental.Some restaurants have ... |
Why do echo feedback loops increase in pitch and turn into one horrible screeching sound? | So the pitch is caused by a standing wave who's form is defined by the distance between the mic and the speaker. It gets louder because the amplification is getting compounded onto itself. So the pitch is the stable frequency between the mic and the speaker. if you move the mic closer it gets higher, you move it away i... |
Why do people self-harm sometimes when they are depressed? | A couple of reasons. You have a feeling that you're a bad person and deserve to be punished. The endorphin rush is pleasurable and quenches both physical and emotional pain. You can't really understand and express feelings inside, but you can see why your arm hurts |
How are buildings taken apart or destroyed to make way for new ones in crowded cities like NYC, Hong Kong, or Shanghai? | For big ones, they can be carefully engineered to implode on themselves. Imploding means to collapse inward on itself, kind of the reverse of an explosion. This can be done very carefully in crowded areas so that the building won't topple onto its neighbors or have a huge cloud of debris/dust. Usually before imploding ... |
Why can Pearl Jam and other performers refuse to play music for people they disagree with, but when bakers refuse to make cakes for people they disagree with they get in trouble? | Canceling a performance is like closing shop for a day. Refusing to bake a cake because you don't like a customer's sexuality would be like Pearl Jam refusing to sell tickets to their show to Republicans. |
How is it possible that almost every country in the world is in debt? Wouldn't that just mean that there is not enough money in the world? | Most of these answers are wrong. The simplest answer is that most sovereign debt is owned to people or businesses not to other countries. For example if you are saving money for retirement you likely have part of your savings in US Treasury Bills. That means that you are lending money to the United States government. Y... |
if you're doing time for something no longer illegal | It actually depends on how the law was changed. If changed by legislation the issue of people already convicted will likely be addressed in the legislation. If the legislation is silent the black letter is that you were convicted and are serving your time BUT there could well be a constitutional challenge of that depen... |
Why does inflation not seem to take into account access to new or improved technologies? | When the cost of all the cars increase by about the same percentage, it ends up not mattering that they're all better. It still costs more to acquire the ability to move around. |
How do we know that company sales numbers are true? Could the company make them up? | This is what audits are for. Accounting scandals do happen, but not *that* often, at least not with publicly-traded companies. Now with privately-held companies, it happens all the time. Two incentives. One, cook the books to screw with minority shareholders. Two, cook the books to screw the IRS. You'll get found out e... |
Why don't College Football programs use a Pro Style offense if that's what is deemed as necessary to succeed in the NFL? | The two major distinctions are running speed and risk. At the college level, you'll normally see offensive players being faster than defensive players - and, for most of the games, the disparity between teams means that they'll be a *lot* faster. So tactics like rushing the quarterback or simply relying on a pure speed... |
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