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Why can't web services simply scale up by buying more servers? | A lot of this relies on code. Code that's inefficient doesn't scale great - serving 100 people at once on a single low end server doesn't mean 1000 people at once will work great on 10 low end servers. This becomes even worse when new features and processes are layered on top of existing code without resolving underlyi... |
Why do we rely on donations from the public for disaster relief? Isn't this the government's responsibility? | Yeah that's true, but private charities require donations to survive. Thus when a disaster hits charities go for donation drives and ask for money, part which will go towards disaster relief and part of which will go towards administrative costs that keep the charity afloat. People want to help others during hard times... |
Why are much-wanted TV shows like Firefly and Arrested Development (well, previously) so hard to get back on the air despite a rabid fan base? | When a show is canceled, it is extremely difficult to put all the pieces back together again. You'd have to get Nathan Fillion back from *Castle*, Adam Baldwin back from *Chuck*, Gina Torres back from *Suits*, Morena Baccarin back from *Homeland*, Summer Glau and Jewel Staite back from whatever they've got going on, et... |
Why do cars have blind spots (dead angle)? Can't we design side mirrors that would help eliminate this problem? | Vans have a strip on the end of the mirror that create another mirror effect, because obviously you can't check your blind spot in a van. |
how did humans clean their teeth before toothpaste? | As above. Was going to say that tooth brushing wasn't as necessary prior to the introduction of sugar into diet more recently |
Why is Shakespeare Still so popular? | What hasn't been mentioned yet is that his characters seem so alive. They aren't just automatons doing things to keep the story going; they have motivations, doubts and histories that explain why they do and say what they do. |
Why does a person feel more sleepy when day drinking and then stopping, than when compared to drinking from the evening onwards? | Alcoholic vet here. From my own experiences even without alcohol i have a much easier time falling asleep mid day when i'm not doing anything. When i drink at night, I usually preoccupied with some activity. Clubbing. Concerts. Poker party. When im day drinking, i'm just sitting around playing a game or watching movies... |
What made Einstein so regarded as a genius? | General Relativity is really the big one. He started with special relativity, which in itself is an utter master achievement of science, but many other people were coming up with similiar ideas, and it was gonna happen pretty soon anyways. General relativity, which he worked on for almost 20 years afterwards, was so fa... |
Why people thought tablets would replace laptops/pc | Many people in our enterprise have switched to the MS Surface tablet instead of being issued a laptop. I still carry my iPad2 with me nearly everywhere, I have email access, can manipulate files on the server, and worst case use the remote desktop application to connect to my work PC for the heavy lifting. So while I'l... |
Why is it that we have no sense of smell in dreams? | I've been woken up by smells before. I was once dreaming that I was driving by a field of sunflowers and suddenly, they started dying and turning brown. My dog had poo'd in my room and the smell woke me up and killed my dream |
how come we're perfectly fine with impossibilities in dreams? | You can train yourself to recognize those moments and figure out that you're dreaming. It's called lucid dreaming and you can have all kinds of fun. See /r/luciddreaming. |
How do knots in your back form? and how does digging into them with someone's elbow get rid of them? | A tennis ball is the greatest invention ever made for getting knots out of one's back. Lying on the floor put the ball where your knot is and the pressure will truly work it out. It's not always comfortable but trust me you'll know it's working. If you have someone to work it out for you that's bonus and totally true a... |
How could someone possibly believe that the Holocaust did not happen? | Because they want to believe it. Simple as that. As with other conspiracies somebody told them something that sounded true, or is partially true, and then either because of prexisting bias or the desire to be in on the secrety, they cling to it. Any evidence is just part of the conspiracy, therefore those no way to dis... |
If it's so easy for Americans/Canadians/Europeans to go fight for ISIS why doesn't the FBI/CIA/NSA just send over tons of spies? | Many who served in Saddam Hussein's security & intelligence apparatus went on to join the Islamic State after his regime fell to the Americans. ISIS has been able to use their skills to develop a professional counter-intelligence operation. The only people who are provided with information on plans in the group are tru... |
If an ATM machine breaks and gives you too much money or no money at all, what happens next? | As a former bank teller who has balanced an ATM I can say that it should be easy for the bank to tell if the machine has shorted a customer. It's been a while, but balancing an ATM basically is running a report of how much money the computer inside the ATM says has been withdrawn, subtracting it from the amount of mone... |
Why don't they fill my drinks up all the way at drive-throughs? | 3 things- speed, safety, and cost. 1-takes time for carbonation to subside2- don't wanna spill everywhere when handing from window to car3- It does add up, money wise, though not a primary reason. |
When you get hit hard, why does the pain take a few seconds to be felt? | Your body releases pain killers into. Basically it's good to have a clear head in life or death situations. |
Why aren't the crazy cult pastors, who claim they've talked to god or are some sort of messias, placed in mental hospitals? | Hey, I'm actually at work in the ED of a hospital where I do psych evals and make the decisions with the doctors who needs to be a psych admit. As someone else mentioned a large reason they aren't hospitalized is they aren't a harm to themselves or others in many cases. But something else to add/consider is the DSM and... |
For a country that's emphasized education for so long, why is the majority of India still mired in poverty? | Education is immensely important for sure, but it takes place over generations. Boosting education doesn't affect the working masses that already graduated; not directly at least. |
why do animals poop so fast, but some humans take forever? | Because animals don't contemplate life on the shitter.> im a fast pooper. but i still need about 2-5min. Umm, no. If you are spending 2 minutes in the bathroom you are not a fast pooperImagine you walk around all day butt naked and when you need to do your business you dont have to go to the toilet, you can do it where... |
What is Nest and why did Google buy it? | People will give their theories on why they would buy Nest and they could be right. I'm sure Google has a specific reason, but I want to offer another. Google is very smart. They have been buying companies of real value for a long time now. If Bing all the sudden became the new hot search engine , Google would still be... |
Does climate change lead to an increase in extreme cold weather as well as extreme warm weather? If so, why is the average yearly temperature continuing to get warmer? | Extreme cold in the cold season, extreme heat in the hot season, so average is a rise but the extremes are more extreme than before. Global warming is not a misnomer because almost every place on earth will get warmer on average in the process. We're retaining more of the sun's input as heat and a net higher retention ... |
Why do some restaurants charge a service fee for larger groups? | > One would think it's easier for the restaurant to serve one table with 8 people than 4 tables with 2 people each!? I take it you've never been a server. It is absolutely easier to take two tables of 4 than a single table of 8 simply because two tables will be at different stages of their meal and you can space out th... |
What differences are there between male and female brains? Of those which (so far) have been tested to always been the case and which vary depending on the subjects? | Probably almost nothing, but it's really, really hard to tell. Male brains on average tend to be slightly larger, but it's by a tiny amount. At birth, it's nearly impossible to distinguish. The thing about brains is that they're incredibly plastic--they change in response to how they're used. So if you compare the brai... |
Why is it harder and harder to get a full night sleep the older you get? | When you get older, you have more things to do. Having more things to do means that you have less time to do those things and other things including sleeping. Also, more things to worry about. When you worry about things they can prevent you from being able to fall asleep.SOURCE: I'm an unemployed 23 year old with a co... |
What actually caused the Great Depression? | In short, a small downturn of the economy spiraled into a chain of bank failures and loss of money for a lot of people. The economy of the 20s was fueled by lending money so that consumers could by products and speculation that the market would continue to grow forever. But what happens when people stop buying goods? B... |
Why do people try to time pictures instead of taking a video and capturing the parts they want? | Everyone has touched on the image quality aspect itself and isn't it easier to just share a photo rather than load up a video, select a particular frame and then export it elsewhere as a photo? I'm talking in terms of resources needed in your phone/PC I suppose. |
Why are places such as dentists' offices and banks only open when most of their customers are at work? | I'm more curious about why government services have such limited hours. Licences, plates, permits, cards, passports All require getting time off work.You should try living in Ireland. Many banks open at 10:00 am, close at 12:00 for lunch, open again at 2:00 and close for the day at 4:00. That's right, they are open to ... |
When someone sues the government and wins, do tax payer dollars go towards the settlement? Do we pay for the actions of idiotic federal employees? | Yes, taxpayers foot the bill for the actions of idiotic federal employees. If there is insurance, the path is indirect: the insurance company pays for a specific idiotic act, but could also raise future premiums based on a increased projected level of idiocy. It occurs to me that this market is, in essence, an 'idiocy ... |
How do we know Dinosaurs weren't purple with yellow polka dots? | What would be the evolutionary advantage to being purple with yellow polka dots? Or in other words wouldn't being purple with yellow polka dots be an evolutionary disadvantage? |
How fast does new fat form after you've eaten a big meal? | I would agree with most of the post previously but after watching 'Sugar: The Bitter Truth' it changed my views drastically. One point in particular where I know I have eaten an excessive amount over my DRI in calories, yet, have no apparent gain weight. Anyone else realize that you need to run almost 5 KM's to burn of... |
How does charging a phone for too long make the battery life significantly shorter? | As others already pointed out, it doesn't. I'd just like to add that most, if not all, phones now use Lithium-Ion batteries. Li-Ion need their charging to be VERY well monitored and controlled, because they are sort of temperamental. There's a problem called thermal runaway , where Li-Ion batteries end up catching fire... |
If Flash Storage is so useful, why do we still use Hard Drives? | Price-- hard drives are still more cost-effective than solid state. Engineering-- it takes time to polish these technologies and implement them reliably and effectively into a design; just because Apple was ahead of the curve doesn't mean that other companies have caught up. It's a relatively new technology, and it's c... |
What really happens when people die of "old age" or "natural causes" ? | In California, old age or natural causes is not an accepted cause for the death certificate, which leads to doctors getting creative with death causes to get the certificate to pass through public health. Public health proofreads and approves all causes of death in the state. I can't speak for other states or countries... |
Why why when Russia invade a country all the people from america stand up shouting for violation of right of Sovereignty and why when the US do the same American people show a lot of support ? | Propaganda and nationalism. The US was founded on annexing other people's territory. It's hypocritical for us or the EU to whine about russia annexing crimea. After all the russians have a far better claim to crimea than we do to texas. But we still annexed the fuck out of texas and deported the mexicans. |
Why does the back button on the browser work and other times does not? | I had heard in the past that some sites maliciously disabled the back button to keep you on their site longer. Somewhat like what some sites did with right clicking an image to save it, it wouldn't let you. |
How have we come so far with visual technology like 4k and 8k screens but a phone call still sounds like am radio? | Have ~~no~~ you not had an HD Voice call? Most all carriers support it now, ~~by~~ but it's only if both parties have the same carrier and supported devices. T-Mobile even has a more advanced audio quality feature for a handful of phones. As for why normal calls are low quality, because that's what is decent enough to ... |
Why doesnt Harry destroy the third deathly hallow, the invisibility cloak? | He put the Elder Wand back in Dumbledore's grave and intended to die as its master, thus fulfilling Dumbledore' final wish for the wand's fate. It was too powerful and too dangerous to allow its unchecked use. Harry preferred his own wand anyway, and he used the Elder Wand to repair his before he returned it to Dumbled... |
The difference between hospice death and doctor assisted suicide | I soooo wish my mom would have had the wonderful care that many of you are speaking of. My mom was in hospice for 9 days. No food, no water. I thought it was inhumane and cruel. The staff couldn't be bothered with her so my daughter and I stayed with her until the end. To get more pain meds for her I had to stand aroun... |
Why do americans love pickup trucks so much ? | I'm a farmer in Canada and I drive a pickup for two reasons. 1: I frequently have stuff to load in the back. Bags of feed, lumber, hay, tools, tractor tires. 2: Trucks are higher off the ground and come in four wheel drive which is very necessary for getting from the road to the house in the winter. My lane is 400m lon... |
Both entropy and inertia (in physics). | Inertia is the property of massive objects to resist acceleration. In another words, it's how difficult it is to start or stop moving something. Entropy is a statistical measure of how many equivalent configurations a system can take. Take rolling two dice for example - there is only one way the two dice can add up to ... |
Why can little kids squat on their haunches, but most adults cant? | They're little, so their weight distribution is totally different. Ever heard the old saying that one pound off your waist is four pounds off your knees? Well now imagine that you only weighed forty pounds. |
When boiling a pot of water for cooking, why should you start with cold water instead of hot? | Cold water does not boil faster than hot water Many people start with cold water for cooking [] because cold water contains more dissolved oxygen, so when you've boiled both cold water and hot water to the same temperature, the one that was originally cold has more dissolved oxygen The amount of dissolved oxygen in the... |
Why do things take "4-6 weeks" to ship? | Im in the US. We stock mostly everything on our website. Some of our products come from Italy. As a small company, I can only afford so much capital to be tied up in overseas orders. Some of our items take 4-6 weeks to get to us, and even when they are in stock sometimes we'll get clusters of orders for the same thing ... |
how does bail work with bailbondsmen and why does this exist? | you get arrested you go to court they read the charges against you a judge determines whether or not you stay in jail waiting for a trial, go home and wait, or can go home on bail based on the seriousness of your crime if you can go home on bail then someone will pay the bail for you, you promise to go to court on a ce... |
When someone sues another person who's not financially well-off for a huge sum of money, how do they get paid? | It says right in the article that she's legally entitled to the $3.4 but that it can come from any combination of people that were found to have her pictures so depending on how many people are out there she might be able to recover it. Actually the end of the article alludes to the defendant being rich which is likely... |
How do people on drugs, such as meth, supposedly get superhuman strength, taking multiple people to subdue them etc? | essentially the same as 'retard strength' the drugs stop the brain for realising it is risking damaging your body, so it continues to apply force when normally you would have pains etc. |
If fusion reactors fuse hydrogen into helium, wouldn't we run out of hydrogen at some point? | Hydrogen is the single most abundant material in the universe. So no, we won't run out of hydrogen by using it in this context. |
What is the significance of a full metal jacket in small arms ammo? | I know my uncle prefers them for hunting. It makes the bullet more likely to pass right through, and if it doesn't its easier to get out of the meat |
Why the tallest skyscrapers are built only in Asia or North America but not in Europe? | Many European cities have regulations about how tall a building can be so that they don't crowd out the historic buildings. Same thing in DC.Most major cities do not allow that because of all the historical buildings', "European cites often have archtectural guidelines and review boards that are pretty strict and ultim... |
Why does it seem like most funerals in the US are open-casket? | It depends on people. Most of the time before the funeral people will go and pay respects to the dead and that's when the casket is open and afterwords they close the casket and proceed to the funeral |
Why do people naturally put on a different voice when they're on the phone or serving someone? | Interesting you should ask. I'm guessing you're under 20 or around that? My company had been having trouble finding suitable apprentices for IT support positions, and a large part of the work involves talking to people on the phone. Some of the potential recruits have *never talked on the phone before*. They have zero ... |
Why is the hiring practice so much more difficult for minimum wage jobs than skilled labor? | Unfortunately, at least in the United States, a high school diploma is not a proof of competence. It is not a verification that you can do simple mathematics, that you can read instructions, follow instructions, or write clearly. Without even graduating from college, an acceptance to a quality 4-year university with so... |
How do fuel cells in the Voyager 1 & 2 last for 80+ years, yet the fuel in my car won't last a week? | A lot of good answers on the space side of things, so I'll just add that nuclear powered cars have been thought up , but public opinion of Atomic energy has never exactly been high. People don't want a mini Chernobyl every time there's a fender bender, and the costs and maintenance of a small power plant like that woul... |
why is consumption of meat bad for our climate/environment? | In many cases we'll feed cows or pigs corn or other plant matter that we could have fed to humans. Some of that energy goes into the animal flesh that we ultimately eat but much more of it goes into the animals metabolism and giving it the energy to move around and live a whole animal life. Thus we take enough food for... |
Has Hacking Proven Password Encryption A Failure? | > If passwords are stored encrypted using one way hash algorithms such as PBKDF2 and Bcrypt Very often, they are not. Why do you assume they always are? > why are db hacks such a problem Let's say they get my bcrypt work factor 13 password. But they also get my social security number, my email address, the first name o... |
Why can't I remember being a baby? | Human long-term memory works by forming events into a narrative so they can be recalled in context. Like the guy with the mostawesomeusername said, humans aren't fully developed in-utero. Your brain doesn't have the capacity to form the connections between individual moments in time. This doesn't develop until 2-4 year... |
Where did the myth that police have to tell you they're police if you ask them come from? | It's from movies and tv shows in the 80s-90s. Completely fictional as there would be no undercover anything if that law was real. Definitely not from Breaking Bad, and could actually be older than the 80s. |
Once and for all, is The Pirate Bay legal, and if it isn't how does it remain online? | It's illegal in most places. It's been taken down a dozen times, and the creators arrested. But it's built to be able to pop up with a different domain name by basically anybody. It's hosted in foreign countries that don't enforce copyright laws. |
What is the difference between an irrational number and a transcendental number? | A rational number is a fraction of integers, such as 42 or -2/5. An irrational number cannot be expressed as a fraction of integers. In modern times, we take for granted that there are such numbers, but this was not always obvious. The typical example of their necessity is solving polynomials — the equation x^2 + 2 = 0... |
How can someone wake up from a brain injury and suddenly be able to speak a foreign language? | He did study French at school but didn't go very far. However, he did study it. This isn't some spooky phenomenon, it's simply that his subconscious brain learned a lot more than his conscious brain. Tabloid sensationalism aside, it's pretty amazing. |
Why do people want Obama impeached over the Benghazi attack? | There have been arguments in favor of impeaching Obama since shortly after he took office. The reason changes over and over again, and sometimes there is no reason given. A portion of these excuses - claims that he is a socialist, communist, fascist, Arab, Muslim, and/or Kenyan - not only have no proof behind them, but... |
Why can you only use a #2 pencil on a scantron sheet? | History. The first technology used conductivity. Wire feelers could detect when conductive graphite was on the page. So pencils worked pens didn't. The second technology shone blue light through the paper. When the light was blocked a response was recorded.Graphite blocked the light and some shades of blue pen, but red... |
how do people die in their sleep in a fire? Wouldn't uncontrolable coughing wake you up first? | Your red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to your cells, but carbon monoxide can bind to chemicals in your red blood cells and prevent them carrying oxygen. Carbon monoxide is odourless, colourless, and worst of all it doesn't make your feel like you're suffocating like carbon dioxide does. Your body doesn't re... |
How does wind 'suck' a door shut? | I'm not sure how your house is set up, but Airplane Wing. The faster that a fluid moves, the less pressure it pushes around it. The wind is likely moving fast enough that it sucks air out of the garage, with sucks air out of the house, which hits the door at the top of the stairs shutting it. An airplane wing is curved... |
Why is pork belly not being sold more commonly in the US? | It's often available, it's just less popular than bacon. They're very similar foods but bacon is pre-sliced and features more prominently in traditionally American food, so people tend to get that. |
If everyone uses a form of AD Block Plus how will, Twitcher/Youtuber/Web sites make money? | Ad-block is a problem for some content creators. It gives less ads viewed which in turn drives the CPM down. While one solution would be to explain the ad-block users that they're hurting their favorite content creators, I think the problem here is that people just aren't wiling to waste their time on ads. I'd personal... |
What do the sanctions against Kim Jong Un mean? How can you sanction a physical person/country leader? | They'd mean he can't trade or work with many people legally. Also wouldn't be able to fire missiles and such as he's been sanctioned for before. Of course, he still breaks these sanctions. So, they don't really mean anything worthwhile. |
why is it comfortable to sleep under a warm blanket in a cool room but uncomfortable to sleep without a blanket in a warm room? | I heard that the reason for this is the order in which our senses develop. Obviously we have quite a few more senses than the traditional 5 people speak about. Besides taste, smell etc., we have the ability to sense pressure, temperature, pain, balance and others. I've been told to squeeze my toe if I stub it on someth... |
How does hair grow AFTER shaving? | The idea that hair is thicker after shaving is part misunderstanding, part optical illusion. When hair grows naturally the tip of the hair has a long taper and is very, *very*, fine. When a hair is shaved, the blade slices through the thickest part of the hair and then the hair keeps growing, pushing that freshly slice... |
The difference between feminism and equality? | Feminism started because women wanted equal treatment under the law, like voting rights. Today's feminism is a bit different, feminists are like Anonymous, not one giant homogenous group with a single aim, but loads of different individuals and smaller groups, fighting under roughly the same banner. Feminism has very l... |
Why is desalination not yet a cost effective solution for the world's clean water demands? | There is another element that connects some of the other items together. If you take an amount of salt, and mix it with water, it ends up in a lower entropy state. To convert it back to separate salt and water there's a minimum amount of energy you have to have the two separated. There's no way around it. There's all s... |
Why does cable T.V. show advertisements, but Netflix, which is way cheaper, doesn't? | Netflix pays a lot less for the content that they show than does a regular cable provider, so Netflix can afford to not have ads. Netflix also requires an internet subscription, while cable does not, so Netflix isn't paying for any physical hardware to get into your hone. Without production companies and cable networks... |
Why does AT & T giving customers unlimited streaming mean a "war on an open internet" ? | The unlimited data plan isn't even unlimited They throttle it at 22g. I have a 25g plan that is way cheaper & is *also* throttled at 22g. |
Why do countries still loan us money if we already owe trillions upon trillions dollars? | 1) Most of the US debt is owed to itself, or more specifically to various institutions within the US. 2) Despite all its foreign-owned debt, the US owns far more of other country's debts than it owes others. 3) The US is still one of the largest economies in the world. Letting their economy collapse would only damage y... |
How did artists like Van Gogh paint self-portraits without the painting being mirrored? | By using their imagination. Some paintings represent real things, like a landscape or the person posing for the artist. Others only exist in the mind of the artist. And even with the ones that were representational, a lot of the work was done without the subject present and stemmed from the artist's creativity. In the ... |
What are the limitations that prevent us from making super-fast vehicles (e.g. 1,000mph cars) | Well, if you check out the traffic on I-10, you'll find we already have 500-mph cars, so just be patient. |
why does rice have more genes than humans do? | The cells of plants have more genes so they can consistently produce a similar product. IE, you don't see much variation in strawberries because they have 8 copies of each gene. This, the dominant trait of red has 8 chances to be included.Can someone eli5 to me why we humans have such a broad range of possible active g... |
Why do people who plea guilty in court get time knocked off of their sentence when they still committed the same crime? | If they were going to be subject to the same penalty as if they went to trial, they usually wouldn't agree to plead guilty. Guilty pleas are generally an agreement where each side gets something they want. The prosecutor gets a guaranteed conviction, which is good for them because it's a lot cheaper than a trial and be... |
Why does it take so long to download something but such a short amount of time to delete it? | When downloading a file your computer has to receive the file from the internet/location its receiving it from. This can take a while as its limited by two things. The speed that the internet can bring it to your PC and the speed at which your PC can write that to the hard drive. When deleting the file all it does is r... |
Why do we need to write "ELI5" in front of every post when obviously that's the topic if it's in this subreddit? | It's to differentiate ELI5 posts on the front page and /r/all so that people know what kind of question it is and what kind of response is expected. |
Why isn’t the temperature of a vacuum absolute zero if there is nothing to store the heat energy? | You can get close to, but can't reach absolute zero . So, theoretically, if you removed all the matter, and prevented any radiation from passing through your vacuum, it would be absolute zero. But that is not possible. |
Is it just me, or does the volume actually increase during television commercials? | Yes, kinda. When sending audio out of the TV station, we have a meter that we use. A bouncing bar that has numbers on the side. These numbers start in the Negatives, and go to 0, then the very top is +10. When we set our audio levels, we measure the **peak** sound. Which is the loudest sound of the program. So, as some... |
What is Pokemon Go? | Think of a standard Pokemon game. Now, instead of simply moving your character around with a d-pad, *you* are the one moving around in the physical space, and you can track and see Pokemon through [augmented reality]. You can battle any other person who also has the app installed. I'm pretty sure there are 'gym' battle... |
Why can't we generate fake voices as well as we can generate realistic looking CGI? | Something that no one else mentioned yet: Vin Diesel voiced The Iron Giant which was a critically acclaimed film popular in nerd circles. I would bet money that whoever casted him was a fan of that movie and wanted to see him play a similar role. Equally likely is that Vin Diesel may be a GotG or Marvel fan and have so... |
What did de Blasio do, that is making NYC cops turn on him? | Have family and family friends who are NYPD, and I had to hear ALL about this over the holidays, despite my best efforts to stay out of the whole thing. Some are more enlightened than others, but this is a major gripe that I haven't heard apart from NYPD members, and seems to be unanimous. While it may seem petty, it i... |
Why are JPEG files still used today when internet speeds have increased which would allow for less compression to be needed? | Typically as internet bandwidth increases, you download more stuff in the same time, rather than download the same amount faster. If you compare a website of today with one from 2007, you'll see more images and larger images. If you download 10x as much because the site is 10x faster, you can still benefit from compres... |
Why does diarrhea come so quickly when food takes hours for the stomach to digest and days to pass through the intestines? | Actually, if I remember correctly, your body realizes it's going to need to give your dinner more attention in the stomach, so it decides it's done with whatever was processing through your intestines. |
How is /r/gonewild legal? | There is a list somewhere of subreddits that have been deleted/banned, along with reasons for it/appeals against it. A lot of them get deleted simply because they don't have mods that can keep up with the submissions. Every sub, no matter what rules it has, has to have a mod if only to make sure nothing illegal ever ge... |
Why does dictatorship come with poverty | It's kind of a chicken and egg situation. On the one hand, dictatorships are often the result of unstable governments, which are often the default in poorer countries. So if your country is poor, you're more likely to have a weak national government which can be easily dominated by a charismatic leader who uses their c... |
Why were most presidents attorneys before taking office? What is it about the legal profession that creates so many leaders? | Actually, it tends to be that those with an interest in politics often study law - because politics is about two things. 1. Democracy/Domestic Legislation/Running the country 2. Diplomacy/International Relations. Legal professionals intersect with politics on a regular basis, because they're the ones interpreting the l... |
Sometimes when I close one eye at a time, I notice that each eye sees slightly different colors. Why does this happen and how does the brain resolve putting those two different images together? | I noticed this too. Mostly when I'm laying down on my side. My guess is that because of gravity the eyes have different pressure and amount of blood in them. Thinking of it now i don't see how it would have affect the perceived color saturation, but I was happy with this explanation until now. |
With 1:175M odds, and the jackpot being $500M, why wouldn't you buy one of each possible lottery ticket? | Because there's a good chance someone else will buy a winning ticket too, meaning you'll split the jackpot. Also, the cash value is only $360 million. Also, each ticket costs $2 now . so not such a good idea |
How can pro gamers stream music while playing without getting in trouble? | They do get in trouble, just not much. Not sure if twitch still does it but they started to mute blocks of the twitch recording when it picked up a copy written song. What the streamers do is technically illegal but I haven't seen any lawsuits yet over it - probably not enough money for the amount of effort required mi... |
How do reality tv contestants afford to be on a show and still pay bills at home? | Some shows that are more competition style where you go home when you're eliminated, Pay on a per deim or daily basis based on how long you're there. Other shows where you're sequestered for a set amount of time, whether you're eliminated or win it all, pay a set amount for the entirety of your sequester. |
Aside from ethical reasons, why don't citizens physically take over a corrupt government and start a new one with new legislation? | > Not too long ago, citizens in Ukraine took over government buildings and formed their own legislation with only some spare weapons and shields. And many died. We tend to forget that sacrificing people means families, and friends, and coworkers. LIVES lost because you didn't like the way that your Government buttered ... |
why do humans perceive numbers in a logarithmic way instead of a linear way? | It's not just numbers. We perceive pretty much everything in a logarithmic/relative/percentage way --- distance for example even sound energy. Why? Because we evolved that way. Why? Either because these types of relative differences are easier to distinguish for our neural and sensory apparatus or because relative erro... |
Why do our teeth fall out at such a young age and grow back? Wouldn't it be more beneficial for this process to happen at like age 50? | Check out this image of a skull of what appears to be an 18 month old child. _URL_0_ Teeth don't grow back in humans, they simply start to 'fall' into place once the 'baby' teeth fall out. We don't need our strong teeth when we are young because we tend to eat easier to digest food so our bodies can absorb the nutrient... |
if insects do not have lungs, how do they drown? | They don't have lungs or even a circulatory system per se, but they have specially adapted mechanisms to breathe. |
Why do we heal quicker over a night's sleep than awake? | Your body has two major modes and the latter is where most of your healing take places as hormones are sent around the body that allow those healing processes to take place. If you're up and about, your body is sending fight or flight hormones to keep you alert and prepared for any danger that might appear. |
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