query stringlengths 8 249 | answer stringlengths 45 7.8k |
|---|---|
When a customer gives you more money than necessary to get back exact change. | What is your question exactly? It's hard to answer this when you aren't really asking anything. |
Why is it almost consider a rule of thumb in most culture for a Woman to marry a man older than her? Does it carry any evolutionary advantage? | Historically, women became eligible for marriage in their teens. It's rather difficult for a sixteen year old guy to compete with an older guy, one likely to be physically stronger, established in a job, and able to support a family. There's a lot of correlation with other animals where a young male may be sexually mat... |
What happens to the cars/money Ellen gives away on her show? Is it truly *free*? | It can depend on how Ellen reports them. Gifts are not taxable as the taxes have already been paid for by the gifter. Prizes don't work like that as they are seen as another form of income. What happens then is the giver of the prize writes it off on their taxes, and the winner pays for the prize in taxes. I don't know... |
Why has there been, seemingly all of a sudden, a big push to block pornography on the internet? | The world governments feels threatened by wide-spread challenges on its authority in the areas of: pandering to the super-wealthy, using global military force to acquire geo-political power, and spying on citizens. An attack on porn will gain enough attention to whip the masses into a short lived fury, then we'll all g... |
What is a limited slip differential, or differential in general? And in what cases are certain types of differentials preferred/more beneficial over the others? | Ok so you've got what differentials are, here's the difference a limited slip diff makes: If one of your wheels is on a slippery patch then a normal differential will just make that wheel spin really fast without turning the other wheel as it's much easier to turn the free wheel and there's no limit to the difference i... |
How do they get medicine to target certain parts of the body | They don't. Medicine goes to every part of the body. It may only affect certain types of cells, or have effects that are noticeable in certain organs, but they go everywhere. |
What is Windows Azure? | Hey there masterCAKE I work at Microsoft, and I just wanted to break it down a little bit what most of our users on Azure use it for currently. The Azure platform is very much a cloud based platform, but the primary use of it at the moment is that people are migrating away from having on-premise servers and allowing su... |
Why do all elderly people wake up so early? | Sleep patterns change as people age. There's no reason to stay in bed if you're no longer tired. |
does computer/laptop grow old? Or they just can't keep up with current software? | Both, but the biggest issue is the software. You've got software that gets updated and updated while the hardware remains the same. Yes electronics degrade, but not nearly at the same rate that software advances. This is why it's stupid to say there's a conspiracy that companies like Apple have switches where they flip... |
Given a spacecraft with a rotating section, how do you know which part of the spacecraft is actually rotating and which part is stationary? | According to the theory of relativity there are is absolute *inertial* frame of reference. However a rotating frame is an accelerated frame, not an inertial frame. In order for a mass to move in a circle you must constantly apply force to that mass. For a mass moving in a circle that force is applied at a right angle t... |
Why gender is such a huge part of romance languages and why it never developed in English | She", and "It" are part of grammatical gender as are words that change depending on which gender is being talked about, such as "Actor" and "Actress" even though "Actress" is losing favour and "Actor" is now used for both genders.It WAS in English at one point. It was just dropped as English developed. Also note that E... |
How are soda cans a sanitary method of packaging/drinking beverages? | You're supposed to wipe it off. Besides, sanitation is not the concern of packaging. You could go home and wash it with soap, or you just just sucker on to it if you're fine with it. The packaging only keeps the drink in good shape, everything else is up to the consumer. Bottles have the feature or being resealable. Cl... |
If dentists never recommend using medium and hard-bristled toothbrushes, then why do they even exist at all? | If stiffer bristles do a better job, you don't have to go to a dentist as much. Just don't scrub til you get blood and floss regularly is what the last dentist told me.Our patients with dentures find that the hard bristled toothbrushes work better to clean them. |
Why is there a mass movement away from flash, and is this a 'good' thing? | Other answers have established that Flash is slow, and buggy but stepping one level back: **why is flash slow and buggy?** Flash is copyrighted by one company, Adobe. Only Adobe can maintain flash and fix it's many bugs. Flash has mostly been replaced by html5. Html5 is an open source standard which any company can imp... |
Why card counting is bad. | Because the casino is banking on everyone coming in playing poorly. By counting cards, you are increasing your odds of winning, so you're cutting into the casino's profits. Therefore, the casino doesn't like it. |
What psychological tricks do advertisements use to get us to buy their product and why are we, as consumers, seemingly not used to these tricks? | [This] Washington Post article contains an interview with an NYU Professor, who has written a book on how Soda companies have had us drinking way more cola than we want. They seem to tie it with emotional events that have little to do with soda. I remember one ad in India, it was about poor kids playing cricket with ma... |
why is the Queen of England's husband the Duke of Edinburg and not the King of England? | Officially, a King ranks higher than a Queen. So, if Philip was King Philip, he would outrank Queen Elizabeth. However, since the monarchy goes through Elizabeth's bloodline, not Philip's, she is the rightful ruler, and thus Philip cannot be King and outrank her. If the rightful monarch is a man, then his wife is title... |
Why do so many people on reddit have depression, yet it real life I never seem to meet anyway? | People get very good at hiding their mental illness. I would think that many of them go out of their way to 'put on a happy face' because that's is what they think that society expects of them or maybe it's just a way of getting though the day. Just look at Robin Williams, he looked to be the happiest guy in the world,... |
Why can't people just sweat it out in hot rooms to burn calories? | You will burn more calories freezing it out it the arctic. When your body burns calories, it does it so that it can use the energy to either move muscles or create heat. Sense you are already so hot, your body doesn't want to burn calories to make more heat. You are probably falling for the misconception that heat=burn... |
Why the discussion of salary is taboo? | ELI5 version.. just like we don't judge book by their covers, no one wants to be judged by the money they make |
If English is considered as one of the hardest languages to learn, how come? | This is actually a really good article on the subject: _URL_0_ There are letters in places that aren't needed/are silent, letter combinations can make 3 or more different pronunciations, words spelled the same with different meanings, words sounding the same with different meanings/spellings, there are letters than mak... |
Why do sailboats sail against the wind rather than with it? | The way it was explained to me is this, if you go with the wind, you can only go as fast as the wind. If you go sideways, the sail acts similar to an airplane wing and you can actually go faster. Notice that even when the sail is tight, it has a nice curved shape. The boat also has a centerboard that helps the boat go ... |
Can some ELI5 what happens when a computer, or even just an application, freezes? | A computer is like your little brother who is 3 years old and doesn't really understand anything EXCEPT that whatever he does he can do it really fast. Kinda like Bizarro from the Superman comics. If you tell Bizarro to bake a cake and give him a good recipe, he can make it in a split-second. This is what computers are... |
How does a new president get brought up to speed on the information that a president should know? | The President Elect starts appointing people to cabinet positions and other key administration positions fairly quickly after the election is finalized. These incoming cabinet and staff positions will start to shadow their outgoing counterparts almost immediately. That gives them a couple months to get up to speed. Eve... |
If omega 3 fish oils are so good for you why don't we just fry everything in that? | It's not just about costs, it's also about the keeping the quality of the oil intact. Heating oil breaks it down at a certain point. Fish oil would not retain the benefits if you heated it too much. |
Why do people always close their eyes when they kiss? | Its a reflex, when your face comes closer to something else. Also it's awkward af if you open both eyes.People in general are uncomfortable with eye contact. Close up eye contact for an extended period would be horrible. If kissing a cheek etc. Open eyes is acceptable.For the same reason people close their eyes when ta... |
why at swimming pools everyone is asked to get out of the pool for 15 minutes every hour or two. Is it just tradition? | Really? I've never been in a pool where everyone was been asked to get out", 'Most pools only have the children under 16 get out every hour to give them a chance to rest and warm up This also gives the adults time to swim without the annoying children. Some large pools clear the entire pool so that everyone can rest an... |
Why do states like California have strict gun laws, while states like Alabama have very loose laws? | Because the government there has different ideas as to how much control they should exert vs controlling weapons. There's no real correlation between the strictness of gun laws vs crime so it's just a matter of pandering to the dominate philsophy. Vermont has no carry laws. I don't mean they don't allow them, there is ... |
Why is it so much easier to bend. A flat opbject than to pull it apart? | The cracker obviously has some structural strength because it doesn't fall apart when you blow on it. Matzah is brittle which means it shatters when you overcome it's ability to stay together. Let's think about a more elastic thing: a sheet of paper. If you have a friend pull on the other side of a sheet of paper, one ... |
Why does water/milk/juice, when poured slowly, fall in a double helix/spiral pattern? | I would say we need video evidence, but this sounds like a video artifact You aren't a cyborg, by chance? |
Why do we want hug people sometimes? | For someone like me, a widow, though very happy to be single now, there are times where the need for a hug, that fierceness that comes with a truly genuine one, deeply felt, is simply overwhelming. I wrecked my car yesterday, my beloved corolla, and it is a total loss. The need for a hug, that knowing that just for a m... |
How is electricity produced from spinning magnets? | Electrical fields and magnetic fields are, at a fundamental physical level, different manifestations of the same thing. In fact, it's more accurate to refer to them just as the electromagnetic field. You can't change one without causing changes in the other. When you spin a magnet, you're messing with the magnetic fiel... |
How can colleges legally publish their own versions of textbooks, require their use, then reprint a new edition, making the previous worthless? | Why would there be a law against it? Your professor or dean decides the subject matter they want to cover in a given course, and if none of the existing textbooks adequately cover the topic, or not in the way they like, then they may publish their own material for use. Nothing too sinister about that. Secondly, if they... |
Why people dislike america. | Because the USA seems to act superior to all other countries, they appear disinterested in all maters that don't directly affect them. Their social issues lags behind most of the western world. And because your country tends to start conflicts and like to act as the world police when they have no right to. And the fact... |
How are FM/AM radio stations still around and profiting when we have satellite, pandora, spotify etc? | First, they exist because they are wildly popular, meaning that they can profit from providing a good. If you want to know why people like them then it's some combination of the following and probably more: * Once you buy a radio then you don't have to spend money for anything else in order to tune in so long as your r... |
Why can servers perform with ridiculous uptimes but desktops/laptops struggle sometimes if you leave them on too long? | It can be some of both. But a lot will be hardware. Servers are designed so that many things can be replaced without having to take the entire server down. Hard drives and power supplies are a common example. Many servers have redundant power supplies that will let you replace one of them without taking the server down... |
How exactly are the size differences done in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit? | LotR used forced perspective. Hobbit used digital compositing because the 3D cameras wouldn't let forced perspective work. |
What do Jewelers look for when looking at a diamond through their monocle piece? | A diamond, properly cut, reflects light in a way that sparkles differently from cut glass or cubic zirconia . A good diamond doesn't just reflect white light, it produces an almost rainbow-like sparkle. Generally, a diamond is judged by four factors: * Cut: Is the diamond cut at the correct angles to produce a pleasing... |
Where does all the matter sucked into a black hole go? | Black holes are less like vacuum cleaners and more like space version of sarlacc. When something is unfortunate enough to touch one, it'll simply never come back. When black hole eats something, it becomes a bigger black hole. What exactly is beyond the event horizon is kind of confusing and as far as I know, there is ... |
Why is Snowden being so vocal about not using Google Allo rather than other messaging apps? | Mostly because Allo's encryption is turned off by default while it should be enforced. WhatsApp, on the other hand, is end-to-end encrypted by default. |
What is [currently] the most widely accepted scientific explanation for why we dream? | > It's a DMT trip man!!!!! & mdash; Every psychedelic enthusiast ever, after 10 minutes of internet research |
Why do people get sentenced to extremely long sentences, such as 150+ years, instead of simply getting a life sentence? | A life sentence is only 25. In the USA, for example, if I rob a bank, kill a 100 people and download a file illegally. I might get 30 years for the bank, I might get 70 years for the file and 50 years for the murder. That's a total of 150 years, because in the US the years pile up. FYI: In Canada the years don't pile u... |
What exactly does 'Government Shutdown' mean? | Every year, there needs to be legislation passed to fund the operation of the federal government. So, the House, the Senate, and the President all need to agree on a budget. If they can't agree on a budget in time, then a large part of the government has to shut down. Federal workers go home, offices are closed, and a ... |
Why do heavy elements, such as gold, appear to be concentrated in particular parts of the Earth's crust and not distributed evenly throughout? | A rocky planet doesn't coalesce from space dust, it takes a very long time but asteroids and planetoids keep colliding and jostling until a body with enough gravity to make it spherical forms. Because of all this colliding, asteroids with different elemental makeups end up depositing different elements into different p... |
how hard is it to go to the moon? | It's about 1 000 000 000$ hard, and training to resist gravity and all that stuff, unless you got a personal small spaceship and ofc you're trained since birth to resist gravity |
If you park a stick shift car correctly (leaving it in gear with parking break on) and get towed by the rear of the car, what happens to your gearbox? | I've had a friend put a Ferrari through garage door because he thought the correct thing to do was to leave it in gear . Leaving it in gear is up to you. I don't. I don't need surprises that ended up once putting a Ferrari through a garage door, when either parking, or starting a car. If the parking brake is left on an... |
When and why did Egypt switch from hieroglyphics to Arabic script? | _URL_0_ > Arabic became the language of Egypt's political administration soon after the Arab conquest in the seventh century AD, and gradually replaced Coptic as the language spoken by the populace. Today, Coptic survives as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. |
What makes windows take so long to check if I typed the correct password? | > Is there some psychological reason behind it? If someone wants to try a bunch of different passwords because they don't actually know the right one, why make it easier by checking them as fast as possible? After the first few if it waits for a bit between attempts it makes brute forcing your way in much harder. |
Those nonsense names for prescription medications. | I think that it's best to make the generic name very hard and the trade name easy. This way in ten years when the patent is off. Ppl will remember the trade name and perscribe your medicine rather than the competition or the generic jeuwkamiwmab. Edit : In many cases the drug's name does help identify things about it.F... |
Why do women (in the U.S.) want equal rights but aren't part of the draft | Actual woman here. I think the draft is wrong for both men and women, but short of abolishing the draft, I would have no problem with myself and other women being drafted equally alongside men. I'm not sure where you've gotten the idea that all women are against the idea of the draft applying to all genders. |
What is going on in the brain when someone says the wrong word? | Words are stored in your brain, and they are stored in a network called the 'semantic network' or 'semantic lexicon'.In this network you can view words as dots, and the lines between the dots connect them with their meaning and/or their sound.This means that the word 'bird' is connected with the words 'feather' and 'be... |
As a Filipino, I don't see why divorce is necessarily better than annulment, which is what we have. Why is divorce better than annulment? | I feel like the fact that it has more procedures is your answer. I'm also not sure how it can have less mistakes |
Why can there be no length shorter than the planck length? | To measure something you need to hit it with a photon, or some other particle that you can detect. Particles have wavelengths and the shorter the wavelength the more energy they contain. You can only detect things that are larger than the wavelength of the photon you're using. A photon with a wavelength less than the p... |
Why can't they make carrots taste like burgers, or make burgers have the nutrients of carrots? | Why can't sitting on a couch be like exercising for 3 hours a day? Follow ups to r/nostupidquestions |
What does a music producer do? What does a DJ do? What exactly is the difference? | A DJ is the person at a party who is playing the music, and the producer is the one who made the music. That's about as simple as I can describe it. Hope it helps! |
why did Costco just fill my tires with nitrogen? | Because it's a fad, and some people have convinced themselves that it actually does something significant. Unless you're driving some souped-up car in professional racing, regular old air--which, oh yeah by the way, is *already* 80% nitrogen--is just fine in your tires. |
Why in The Walking Dead don't they just clear out an island and live on it? | Because the shows progression would be OMG how are we going to eat. My Walking thought was always why don't they have a wall then surround the wall with buses and other vehicles. |
What is going on when you zone out and your eyes freeze up? What is going on in the brain that causes this? | It's an energy saving measure buy the body. Basically the eyes stop 'looking' at things and start to only look for motion. This means you don't have to process a constant stream of info, just the changes to the environment.Hope that helps. |
Why do I hear about all these advances in technology, and "coming soon", but I never actually see them implemented in society? | Because there are a few disconnects. 1. Journalism. Most journalists aren't scientists; otherwise, they'd be making more money as a scientist. As such, they basically have to report on something they don't fully understand, and--let's be honest--most scientists don't have the ability to convey highly technical informat... |
Why are sour varieties of fruits generally better to bake with than sweeter varieties? | Cooking sour fruits tends to do two things, both based on the fact that heat breaks things down. First, heat breaks down compounds that generate sour flavors and various structures. Cooking sour fruits makes them less sour. Second, heat breaks down cell walls and releases sugars that were present in the cell but wouldn... |
How is broadcasted TV still amping up commercial volumes after laws have made it outlawed? | I've heard commercials at both higher and lower volumes than the show to which they're attached. The reason is likely poor mixing as opposed to intentionally making the commercials louder. |
When the entire world is driving electric cars, is the risk of batteries exploding greater due to larger capacity? | Not necessarily. Any well engineered battery should be perfectly safe within the parameters the manufacturer intended for its use. The size of the battery doesn't make much of a difference. |
Why is it so necessary for the scientific community to have the climate change deniers agree that human intervention is the main cause behind the rapid climate change over the last couple of centuries? | There's two parts > Why can't we prepare for climate change as we do for other disasters? We can kind of do this. But if there isn't agreement, maybe the levee ends up being smaller than it should be, because not everyone is contributing. The other problem is that it's not a natural disaster. It's not about just say, b... |
What is so profound in Lockheed's new fusion discovery? | Holy shit. Don't ever come to ELI5 about fusion reactors as they have no idea what they are talking about? |
Can someone please explain fluoride (or flourine?) and teeth? Is it good or bad, googling both gives both results. | the CDC considers fluoridation to be one of the top 10 Public Health achievements of the 20th century _URL_0_ so if you consider the CDC an authority on anything, it's good", 'Fluoride bonds with your tooth enamel replacing calcium with fluorine, and in doing so makes the teeth less reactive to acids. By reacting less ... |
If every action has an equal and opposite reaction (Newton's 3rd Law of Motion), then why isn't everything in equilibrium? | Think of Newton's law in terms of energy.Energy is always conserved. But it can be transformed.The equilibrium is in the energy, not in the movement . I push on the table: I apply a force F to the table.That force pushes on the table's feet. If there are enough friction, a tiny amount of the energy is converted to heat... |
Why does grass look lighter when you cut it one way than the other? | Cutting isn't enough; for stripes to form, the mower has to have a roller. That flattens the grass in one way or the other, leaning it over. [This image] shows how much the perceived lightness of grass varies by the angle it's at. [This image] is shot just close enough that you can see that on the lighter stripes, the ... |
Why do people who have depression sleep a lot? | It feels better not to be conscious. It's also physically exhausting to be depressed. People forget that depression has physical symptoms, not just psychological symptoms. |
Why do people think so highly of Elon Musk? | Elon Musk spends a lot of money on his image. A marketing firm was caught astroturing /r/technology for Tesla to hype up their vehicles while hiding anything about the top selling electric car in the world, the Nissan Leaf. On top of that he is from a lot of countries. He was born in South Africa, developed technologie... |
How Does Your Body Magically Decide To Stop Losing Weight? | Yes, in general terms, over longer time periods, calories in < calories out will lose weight. Always. Day to day, it's a little less clear cut. Water weight can have a big impact. One gallon of water weighs eight pounds, so if you're retaining water, that can increase your weight/delay seeing the loss. Also, as you los... |
How do bands set their tour dates? | Lots of different info to consider here. The dates are usually done by a booking agent. They'll have the contact info with different venues in different cities. Availability, size of the band's following , travel time, etc are all taken into consideration. Pay is also a factor. For smaller bands this might include a se... |
Why is identity theft more prevalent in America as opposed to the rest of the world? | A lot of folks are only talking about the ID system. I would also like to add that we are still using magnetic stripe credit cards.. its slowly going away but that's part of the problem. Easily skimmed, and I think the USA is 60% of all credit card transactions. |
How do TV shows make money, how do ratings work and do stations receive payment for them? | One way stations make money is by charging cable and satellite companies to rebroadcast their feeds in what is known as retransmission consent. Like cable networks, they charge cable companies per subscriber, and they are also prone to contract and carriage disputes. If you've ever lost a major network affiliate from c... |
How is the cold virus created/born? | Like any other virus, its many many strains have been passing from human to human for a very long time, evolving randomly at each step. The viruses use your cells to reproduce, and potentially hop from you to the next person. At any given time, you are covered and filled with viruses, its only when they get somewhere t... |
Why is it not illegal to present objectively false information as truth in the news, videos, etc? | The first amendment's protection of freedom of speech and the press make it difficult for lawsuits against news media to proceed. Of course, libel and defamation can be the basis for lawsuits, but general prohibition of false information is largely not allowed because of the first amendment. > Congress shall make no la... |
What they mean by "the republican party is falling" | The GOP has been shrinking for a long time. It all started when the extremists on one hand began to take over the party from the establishment, while the corporatists began to dominate the party establishment. Resulting in a growing number of the middle of the road Republicans like me leaving the party to become Indepe... |
Why do men have no legal say in whether a woman can have a child or not yet a woman gets to decide if a man pays child support for the rest of their life? | Well, she can't really. Ultimately the guy always has the option to walk away. The law enforcement varies between countries, but is shoddy in most, and at the extreme, a guy can leave the country or employ any one of several other tricks to avoid paying child support. It's actually extremely difficult to force somebody... |
Do second world countries exist? | semi-peripheral", and "peripheral". Core basically refers to first-world and peripheral refers to third-world countries. They're supposed to be more politically correct than the terms "first-world" and "third-world". I suppose semi-peripheral countries would be second-world countriesTechnically not anymore but in commo... |
How is investing in the stock market different from gambling? | The biggest difference is that you're buying something, a share of a company. You're doing it because you expect that share to appreciate, and you may win or lose money, but buying something with value is different from saying I will give x amount of money if this event occurs and receive y amount of money if it doesn'... |
How would one go about forming a country? | Pretty much impossible these days You need land, and the ability to defend it from your neighbors. About forty years ago yhere was a short-lived attempt at taking over some worthless coral atolls by some Libertarians [The Republic of Minerva]. Fell apart when neighboring Tonga came in and kicked them all out. Without t... |
Why do most advertisements leave out the name of the "competing brand"? | Most companies don't want to be accused of Libel or slander. If you can lay claims against other companies that are not entirely true, but leave out just enough information about them, that company can not sue over the commercial, as there is plausible deniability that the commercial refers to them. |
The difference between Liberal and Libertarian? | Liberals believe that government should use it's power to promote social good & equality. Libertarians believe that government should do as little as possible. Liberals are pro-abortion because they believe in a woman's right to choose. Libertarians are pro-abortion because they don't think government should be against... |
How can European airlines fly across ISIS territories without being shot? | Are you sure they are actually flying *over* these territories, and not *around* them? I just checked the NOTices to AirMen ) that pilots check before every flight, and this is the notice from the UK authorities about Syria: > \tQ) EGXX/QROXX/IV/NBO/W000/999/5218N01451W999 > HAZARDOUS SITUATION IN SYRIA. POTENTIAL RISK... |
If computer files can be compressed to be a smaller file size (e.g. zipping a file up), how come the file is not originally created to be a smaller file size? | It takes CPU power to compress and decompress a file. Therefore, opening, editing, or saving a compressed file will consume more CPU power than dealing with an uncompressed file. That makes the computer feel sluggish and responsive, which isn't a good thing.Some files are. Take a Microsoft .docx or .xlsx etc. and chang... |
On an atomic level, what am I actually doing when cutting/tearing apart something? | The scissor isn't cutting atoms, but rather the atomic bonds. Atoms are bonded with electrons, and if a large protein get stretched apart with a concentrated force , the bonds can get ripped apart. This generally makes the atoms electrically unstable, and they will form new bonds with compatible surrounding atoms in th... |
How fast would I have to drive, starting from the East Coast to the West Coast, to continually drive in the daylight? | There are a couple variables. Do you start out on the east coast just after sunrise, or just before sunset? If it's just before sunset, you have about 3 hours and 27 minutes to get from, say, Washington DC to San Diego. At 2655 miles , you'd have to drive about 770 miles per hour. |
why does the US have a 3 school system (elementary, middle, high)? | You don't really want adults to have to share a school with 5 year olds. By separating the age groups, they have less interaction with the young kids, who would just be disruptive. . Also, they have different playground requirements. Kindergartners really don't need 10 foot tall basketball hoops. High schoolers don't p... |
In a recent Nerdist interview, Josh Brolin blames the failure "Jonax Hex" in part on revenge trading. What is revenge trading? | Revenge trading in finance is like doubling down after losing a bet. You took a loss and then you make a riskier move to try to make up for it. I don't know what that means for Josh though."Throwing good money after bad" might be a better way of putting it. You double down on your position after a loss because of emoti... |
Why don't fast food workers and Wal-mart workers in the US organize into unions like teachers and auto workers in order to negotiate pay and benefits? | Walmart employees have unionized in the past, but then Walmart shut down those stores, effectively preventing unionization. Unfortunately, if you work at Walmart and are concerned with unionization, it's likely that you rely on that job and can't afford to risk losing it because you want to be treated like a human bein... |
Why does anyone allow their property to go into foreclosure? If you're no longer able to afford the mortgage why not just sell for whatever you can get? | Selling a property can take MONTHS. Also, if you purchase a property, and only make a few payments on it, even selling it for what you bought it for will leave you very much in debt. A mortgage payment consists of three things: principle, insurance, and interest. For the first half of the mortgage's lifespan, most of y... |
Why are V8 Engines so sought after and quintessential? Are they better in some ways than V10s, etc or is it just popular culture? | I came here to talk about how JavaScript's V8 engine is great an translating JavaScript to machine code, allowing node.js to be both scalable and blah, blah, blah. Then I realized that this was something else. I will leave now. |
Why is Germany key? What will happen if Euro fails? What does this mean for Americans? | I'm probably over-simplfying this, but Think of it this way Euro-zone = The United States, Germany = California . While Euro-zone nations are still independent, the Euro binds them economically - not as tightly as American States, but still, point stands - there is a semi-shared fate economically. Ok, so imagine Califo... |
why do these rocks split so perfectly down the middle? Im located in Alaska if it matters. | Thanks for the answers, my coworkers and I couldn't decide on a good answer because there are so many of them and a huge majority f them are split almost like a laser cut them perfectly. I thought maybe moisture but the split is so clean I thought maybe there was some other answer. |
If the speeds of google fiber are possible then why doesn't all ISPs have that speed? | Because they require companies to spend a lot of money on setting up the networks, and right now there's no motivation for American ISPs to do that. |
when I am read my rights and they ask if I understand my rights what happens when I say no or say nothing | in theory, they'll explain until you do understand or just throw you in a cell and proceed without questioning you. in practice, prepare to be abused. miranda is about questioning, not arrest. |
Why do most power plants convert heat into electricity by heating water into steam and then using it to spin a turbine? Is there not a more efficient way to do it? | [This page] contains an excellent summary of the efficiency levels of different power plant types. A modern coal+steam plant turns 38% to 42% of the coal's heat energy into electricity. This is considered quite efficient, and better designs have not been created that work at large scale. You'll notice on the same page ... |
what is happening with your muscles when you get a cramp while doing nothing (such as sleeping)? | Not many people have given an adequate answer, so I'll give you my opinion here. I've done alot of research on the human body in general and speaking from a postural perspective the spasms when waking up could be because the muscle is never allowed to truly relax due to muscles being overly tight and/or weak so the nat... |
Why does walking, dancing, etc. temporarily relieve the need to urinate? | I'm not really sure, but I think this can be explained by thinking about how we evolved.If you just had to move / run from a predator's attack, the urge to pee would disappear, otherwise the predator could track you down following your pee's smell.People who didn't feel the urge to pee after moving had a small advantag... |
how countries like Egypt and Jordan can seek and destroy ISIS within days/hours after their countrymens' executions, and yet the US and other more powerful enemies of ISIS seem to have trouble locating them? | The United States knows where major ISIS locations are but limit the air power campaign to areas where there won't be any civilian casualties. |
EL5: Where does the mass of a tree come from? Why isn't there a vaguely tree-shaped hole or depression in the ground beneath? | Thanks for posting this question. It's interesting, and something I've never actually wondered about before. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.