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Why can´t I(we) stop arguing with strangers over the internet | Arguing with others is a great way to strengthen your own views and learn what you really believe. If you can't explain it and defend it you don't really believe it. |
Why do rich people working for companies (eg Steve Jobs) request to be paid low amounts like $1 instead of just working for free? | Payroll income and investment income have different rates. When you are paid $1 annually, you're living expenses are made up for by what are called dividends. Basically, when you own stock in a company which is doing well, the company pays you a percentage of the company's profit in proportion to how much stock you own... |
Why does everyone seem to hate the sound of their own voice? | I don't. My voice is nice and deep. If you want to hear your own voice like others do, hold your hands in front of your ears, hard to explain. Not covering them, just straighten your hands and hold them in front of you, looking at your palms, and then place them in front of your ears like it's a wall. |
How was it that in the United States, most people were able to afford mortgages, car payments, health insurance, food, etc. without a college education before? | A lot of laws were passed in earlier years that are only now having that full effect. The middle class that did a lot of the work important to the country itself is shrinking because of such laws, as well as a stagnant minimum wage and rising costs of post-secondary education. There's a lot more to it, but that's what ... |
what happens if you or your child are uninsured and you get diagnosed with something really bad like aggressive cancer? | If you're in the US, you're pretty much fucked by insurance companies. If you're in Europe or Australia, you're probably covered by government-provided health insurance. |
Why can't homeless people get on government assistance like food stamps and section 8 housing, aren't they the people that REALLY need those programs? | Applying for aid programs requires resources. For example, section 8 is an application process, and you need to be able to understand and fill out the paper work, receive mail notifications, etc. There are also criteria such as abstinence from drugs that bar many homeless from housing assistance programs. I also think ... |
What does each part in a PC do? | Motherboard: Gives all the components in a pc the ability to work with together Processor- Does all the mathematical formulas for the computer to run Ram- Store's temporary data for the computer to access at any time with extreme speed HDD -Stores files permanently until deleted or modified such as programs, music, pic... |
Why do college/university professors feel the need to "dumb down" the information? (X-post from r/askreddit) | What exactly are you asking? In general, the higher level courses shouldn't dumb anything down, but lower level survey courses may seem dumbed down by their nature as survey courses. There's also the fact that as someone who has worked in higher education a depressing number of high school graduates are still pretty du... |
Can a child be conditioned to think insects are the cutest thing ever and be instinctively afraid of kittens? | Purely anecdotal, but since birth I have always treated bugs as adorable and snuggly little things in front of my daughter. We have the periodic Box Elder around the house, a completely inoffensive and harmless critter. I poke them on the butt, and toss them outside. Now at age three, my daughters fear of these innocuo... |
I send a text to a phone that's off. Where does my text "go" until the phone turns back on? | What about when you block a number from your iPhone? I had blocked a guy's number for months, then unblocked him and got pushed a text that he had sent from months ago. |
What would happen if a US State tried to secede today? | There's no real way to answer this question in the abstract: it would depend entirely on what state wanted to secede, why they wanted to, and how people in that state and the rest of the country felt about it. The outcomes could range from anything between an amicable dissolution to a second civil war. |
Why can't we land on the moon again? | Well, the Apollo plans weren't necessarily up to snuff. 1) They were a product of the 60s and most everything is obsolete by now. 2) We were playing on the raggedy edge to make good on Kennedy's promise to put a moon before the end of the 60s. We took a lot more risks than would be kosher today.NASA just announced plan... |
How are countries with very small populations like Iceland and Greenland able to function? | I live in a small country with 300,000 people and a gdp ppp of about USD20k per capita. It's not always easy. You do miss out on economies of scale all the time. Businesses that would be feasible in larger countries simply aren't viable here, or are very small and amateurish. We have high import duties. Websites won't ... |
How come Sam's Club can sell gift cards for less than what they are worth? | It's a marketing tool more than anything, really, and there are three possible outcomes: - people use the exact amount of the card in which case they lose a little profit . - people buy more than the card, in which case they make a bit of extra cash and entice buyers into big ticket sales . - people don't use the card,... |
If we extract oil from underground "reservoirs", why don't we dump toxic waste in them after they've been emptied? | They do this. Injection wells are what they are called. There aren't very many of them active any more. It's really only used for the spent fracking fluid in my experience anyways. _URL_0_ |
How did no one see the collapse of the housing market in 2008? This is a reference to the movie: The Big Short. | My colleagues explained very well the situation. I'd add what made this worse was property values had been rising in the US overall for awhile which led to an idea; this guy wants to buy a house worth 100k. In the past we would care if he could make monthly payments on the mortgage we gave him to buy the house . But si... |
why do we tend to chose whole numbers instead of fractions when we build something ? | Shops can't have wood for every length available, so choose to get some whole numbered pieces and let people cut it down for their own needs. As shops sell whole numbered stuff, people will build with that and don't wanna cut it down sometimes, thus using available numbers.In electronics, weird numbers like 47 ohm for ... |
Why is it considered immature to celebrate your birthday as an adult? | Honestly, there is nothing wrong with celebrating your birthday if it makes you happy. As long as you are fulfilling you obligations, like working if your boss needs you to work, you're fine. The post that you linked to just sounds like a bitter person that doesn't want to be reminded that they are getting older too. |
Why are people so unwilling to believe politicians can change their viewpoints on things over time? | People who are unable or unwilling to change their own viewpoint on a subject are also unable or unwilling to accept that someone else can do it since they can't. |
Why do toilets at home have a seat that is completed, but Comercial toilets usually are horseshoe shaped? | > The original purpose for the U-shaped seat, according to Lynne Simnick, senior director of code development at IAPMO—the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials—was to aid women. Simnick explains that the open seat was designed to allow women “to wipe the perineal area after using the water clo... |
Why is it so hard to duplicate the taste or resteraunt food? | Good restaurants hire people who have actually studied how to perfect food, it's their job to make things as delicious as they can, most people at home don't have these same qualities. Their tools and such also help, having a fully stocked professional kitchen with all the awesome ovens and such will definitely make a ... |
What is a muscle knot and what does it look like under the skin? | As it was explained to me: Our muscles are made up of bundles of cells. They are long and skinny like the hairs on your head. Wrapped around each muscle cell is an organelle called a sarcoplasmic recticulum. One of the things the sarcoplasmic recticulum does is to control calcium flow within the cell. So when there is ... |
Why were prehistoric dinosaurs mean and scary looking but animals today are cute and cuddly? | I suspect that this is as simple as 'mammals look less alien and somewhat less threatening to other mammals'. Were we descended from reptiles, it might well be the puppies that look mean and terrifying. |
Why do hands have lines on them? | The lines also help with grip! Whether it's holding a slippery object, or walking on a slippery surface. |
Why don't planes (mostly airliners) ever fly in a straight line? The flight path is always an arc be it East/West or North/South | It's called 'great circle' navigation. A circle that has the center of the earth at its center is the shortest path between two points on the surface. Imagine 'tilting' the equator to join, say, London and New York. It's the shortest path, but the middle of the path goes further north than either London or New York.Two... |
what exactly is "Identity Politics" and how is it a bad thing for American Government? | While others have done a good job of ELI5, I would add that what is referred to as identity politics also always has a scapegoat group. The scapegoat is the cause of all the problems of the identity group in question; if it wasn't for the [insert scapegoat], then we [identity group] would live in the most perfectest ut... |
How is Linux more "stable" than other OS's? | Open source advocates would say it's because: 1. Being open source means that anyone can look at the programming and suggest fixes or new features. This means that many more people can work on Linux than would be possible with only Microsoft or Apple employees working on Windows or OSX. With more people it's more likel... |
What happens when someone gets their neck snapped action movie style? Do they die or are they just paralyzed? | Most of the time they die, because that's what the story calls for. Sometimes it just paralyzes them setting up a sequel. |
If two objects travelling in opposite directions at 3/4 the speed of light, wouldn't they appear to be FTL relative to each other? | No, nothing travels at speed faster than speed of light, even relatively, and this is why. In reality the formula of the speed between moving objects is not what we learned in elementary school. That formula is good enough with small speeds, however it's incomplete. The formula we know: [speed_between] = [speed1] + [sp... |
Why does everyone dislike Piers Morgan? | He uses a lot of bullying tactics in his [interviews]. Here's Ben Shapiro calling him out on it. |
How were old game developers able to playtest their games if the games were far beyond current technological capabilities? | Game devs have high-end, cutting edge hardware - sometimes even pre-release stuff. I was doing some database programming for a small game company **back in 2010** and my desktop had 24GB of RAM, a top-of-the-line i7 and some top of the line graphics card. Some of the devs had even *beefier* machines and this *was not* ... |
Why does CPR sometimes revive a dead person, and sometimes does nothing? what is the deciding factor in it working? | Nurse here, CPR is only effective roughly 20% of the time and that's if you decide to go into arrest with someone standing at the bedside in a hospital. For reference the average I was taught for the person found in arrest on the floor was 4%. So it's not the life saving miracle TV portrays it to be. The realistic idea... |
What is the reason for our bodies going into shock after a traumatic event? | And if you're asking about the function of shock as an adaptive response, if your mind were to immediately completely take in all of the pain of a traumatic event it would be functionally paralyzing. Going into shock for a short time allows you to have control of your mental faculties to get out of what could potential... |
What is optimal typing technique people use for 130++ WPM? | Learning how to type faster isn't going to make you a better programmer. Hell, it might even make you worse, since you'll be inserting more errors than someone typing at a more pedestrian 90 WPM. This is going a little off topic, but concentrate on the ideas and theory behind coding, rather than how fast you can type. ... |
Why do people Riot and what do they hope to achieve? | Quoting Heinlein: > Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms. Rioting is a precursor to forcibly removing a person from p... |
Why do non-rechargable/single use batteries last longer than rechargable ones? | Rechargeables are a bad fit for a TV remote. Most rechargeable batteries self-discharge in a few months. TV remotes are made in such a way that they use zero power unless a button is pressed, so a non-rechargeable battery can easily last years in them. There are low self-discharge NiMH batteries, but IMO they're a bit ... |
When Pro Athletes admit to using PED's (such as Ryan Braun today), why aren't they arrested for using illegal drugs? | Many performance enhancing drugs are banned by the sports but aren't illicit narcotics monitored by the police, nor do they carry the kind of criminal weight that say cocaine or crack. For instance, Lance Armstrong admitted to blog doping. That means he was getting blood removed from his body, getting replenished with ... |
If the moon is moving at a speed of roughly 3600 km/h how can we just land on it | While there are lots of challenging things about landing on the moon, with regards to its 'high speed', it depends on your [frame of reference]. You have experienced frame of reference before, when you have travelled on the highway. Relative to the earth and trees around you, you're moving pretty fast. However, because... |
How does Satellite television work? | How do the dishes work? Direct TV has STATIONARY dishes affixed to the houses of it's subscribers. Where are those satellite dishes pointing? How many satellites does DTV have floating in the sky that theres always one in the air aligned directly with every dish on every house across the world? How come we don't lose c... |
How do we know ‘original’ artefacts/paintings in famous museums are in fact the originals? | Which question are you asking? How do we know the museums aren't lying, or how do the museums know they don't have fakes?", 'They also use what's called "provenance". Which is basically proof that this object came from person a, who got it from person b, who inherited it from person c and so on, back to the original ar... |
how did the whole "brony" community come to be? | My roommate calls herself a pegasister. If you want an in-depth answer, [here's a decent place to start.]", 'Amid Amidi claims he helped start it somehow. [Here] |
How is it possible that the particle accelerator at CERN can resist 2 billion celsius? | Temperature is not the same thing as heat. A small group of atoms are heated to that temperature, but it doesn't have the heat capacity to really do anything to the accelerator.Think of like boiling water. To boil a lot of water takes some time and quite a little of energy. But to boil a minuscule amount of water takes... |
If the United States is experiencing a national health crisis, why don't we subsidize gyms? | Some places do. My county runs multiple rec centers. They are heavily used around here, every time I've been to the ones in our big cities the parking lots are always packed. There is a use fee, but it's lower than private gyms, and they don't have high pressure sales tactics. So you can go in and buy a day pass, month... |
Do planes make a shadow, and if they do, where on the ground is it? | If you're looking down from the plane, sometimes you can see a cool optical effect called a glory. It's a rainbow around the planes shadow, but atmospheric conditions have to be right.The higher the plane is the air, the farther it is from the surface from where it cast its shadow. It technically cast shadows but its t... |
Can you win a lawsuit without fighting it? | If a prosecutor is involved it's a criminal case, not a lawsuit, and you have to show up. If your don't, the judge will issue a bench warrant for your failure to appear. Then, once the police find you, you're arrested and brought to court to stand trial. The prosecutor must have enough evidence to show beyond a reasona... |
Why haven't human populations who have lived in areas without clean water evolved to be able to drink it safely, while other animals have? | This is why they say don't drink the water when you go to mexico. Locals are used to it but we aren't. Sounds like it might be related? |
How is TV static from the big bang? | It's residual energy that is still dissipating. In the grand scheme of the universe our lives are a mere split second, there are things at work that are bigger and take longer then we can comprehend. |
How did AutoCAD become the industry standard for drafting when it is horrendously buggy and prone to crashing? | AutoCAD is the worst drafting tool in the world. Except for all the others. This is actually a very common problem with niche software, medical software has similar issues. They might be the industry standard, but they are never going to sell to millions of new users like Microsoft does, nor are they going to lock user... |
Why don't gas stations just raise the price of gas 1/10th of a cent to make it an even number? | Because they've already raised it 9/10 of a cent. One more tenth of a cent crosses a psychological boundary where the gains of overcharging don't outpace the loss of people trying to save a penny.A lot of other people have explained it here, but I thought I would give it another shot. What your looking at is the psycho... |
How to play music on many devices simultaneously? | Speakers like the Bose Pill come with this ability built-in. Using something like AirPlay is your best bet; or, some crazy aux splitter setup. EDIT: /u/scr0dumb's alarm suggestion is far easier. |
India's 'caste system', is it a factor in modern India? And Indians overseas? | I live in Canada. There are still many families that will try not to allow their children to marry lower castes. It is ridiculous and I have seen many families break due to this. It's mostly upper class Indian or old Indian household. The new generations don't even care about ethnicity let alone castes. Many people are... |
How do flat-earthers explain seasons? | Explanation isn't always needed. When you're indoctrinated at an early age, the world can easily be twisted beyond belief. These children are often taught to not question anything either. They most likely develop a negative stimuli when consulting their inner curiosity during this time as well. Living under a rock also... |
How does Sweden get things done if they have 6 hour work days, 25 vacation days per year, etc? | It comes down to efficiency, if you overwork your workers productivity goes down. Having the most time doesn't always mean being most productive. Giving them less work hours allows them to rest and keeps them motivated. |
how come UPS and FedEx can operate nationwide with huge profits, but USPS hasnt profited in years? | Possibly conspiratorial. But I truly believe that they wanted the USPS to fail. It's the only place where you can mail something and is illegal to search without a warrant. Or am I mistaken with my facts? |
Why is menthol "cold"? | It's the same as capsaicin being hot just cold. It triggers a nervous system response that makes you feel cold when it's not the case", 'Easier ELI5: Everything is an illusion. Your brain only senses reality through the nerves. Like a pain killer, menthol binds to your temperature sensors to send information to your br... |
Why is DMT so life changing compared to other "drugs"? alternative question in comments | > Are we making contact with a different universe? All signs point to 'no'. From what Wikipedia tells me about the compound it's so much more 'real' because it seems to influence all of the user's senses completely. Shutting off normal sensory imput and replacing it with the hallucination. You get kind of a 'matrix' ef... |
In html, what is the difference between a div id and a class | professor". Obviously you can have multiple persons that are students, but only one person should have a specific social security numberBasically, IDs are unique and classes are not. Only one element can have a specific ID, and an element can have only one ID. Many elements can have the same class and any element can h... |
Why can the US not just create a system in which everyone gets their vote heard, and the we skip the delegate part? | The simple reason is that it would take power away from the less populated states. The system is setup to reduce the power of the larger states and increase the power of the smaller states. It's debatable whether or not this is appropriate anymore. Regardless, the smaller state politicians will never relinquish their s... |
how do they film the multi-camera scenes in Planet Earth without disrupting or alarming the animals? | I heard David Attenborough say something along the lines of: the cameras are placed where they know at some point that species will be and they turn on and start recording the moment they detect movement. Don't take it as fact and I'm sure there's more to it. |
How can we not feel any of our inner organs? Or better why do we only feel pain and no other feeling with them? | Because from an evolutionary standpoint, being able to feel your organs doesn't provide an advantage or increase in survivability, and in all likelihood it would be a disadvantage. Imagine a human living 200,000 years ago with pancreatic cancer who, by genetic mutation, can feel his organs. Because of the extreme pain ... |
Why is there an instinct to preserve the species when it often forces creatures to completely ignore the instinct for survival? | The Pacific octopus will die eventually anyways, regardless of having guarded it's brood or not. By guarding the brood it's doing its best to protect its offspring and the survival of its genes. As for how that strategy evolved, we can speculate but that's beyond the scope of this sub. |
How can a U.S. President be elected if they would not ordinarily qualify for a security clearance? | Security clearance wasn't made a requirement of election process. And the president will qualify for that clearance by virtue of being the president. |
Why we cringe when we see recorded footage of ourselves? | I'm going to hijack this question and ask why the same thing happens when we *hear* a recording of ourselves. Why don't I recognize the person talking on home videos who turns out to be me? Why does my brain tell me that I have a good singing voice until I hear a recording of me singing? |
Why does the 'www' before reddit keep changing to other prefixes? | en-us" then it will show you reddit in the language. It is the same as going into the preferences and changing the language there.* If the subdomain is a subreddit name, then it will redirect you to that subreddit. For example http://explainlikeimfive._URL_0_/ redirect you to this sub.* If the subdomain is two letter w... |
I'm about debate my data cap with my cable co. after they called regarding my fcc complaint. Can you explain congestion and if it's a valid excuse for them? | Go on the highway at 5pm and sit in congestion. Go on the highway at 5am and blaze on through. Now I decide you can only drive 250 miles a month. What does that do for congestion at 5 am? Nothing because it doesn't exist. So you see the monthly limit is arbitrary and a cash grab. Now if they said hey if you use more th... |
Why are people so hateful on social media outlets and online video games? | It really comes down in my opinion that theres no true consequences. No one too puch there face helps. Typically they just don't understand the true power of there words. But mostly not getting hit. There cowards that wont do it to your face but the minute they jump on log in whenever you kids are doing now in days the... |
Why do police in big cities still use horses and in what situations require them? | In my tiny city they are pretty much just a tradition. They trot through the streets and chat with residents. I'm sure they are monitoring and what not, but that's all I ever see them doing. It would be pretty terrifying to be chased down by a police horse though. |
Why do hospitals have visiting hours? | A little advice. Make plans with family and friends before you visit so you don't go everyone at the same time. It sucks to have everyone visiting one day and nobody the rest of the time. . |
How do insects, that look exactly like leaves, adapt to camouflage that way? How can their DNA know what their environment looks like? | The DNA doesn't. Let's pretend it might be more advantageous to have white skin, a black person's DNA isn't going to change their skin and hair color, they're born a certain way, and that's the way it is. Same with insects. The genetic changes happen over centuries if not millennia. Maybe one lucky bug is green, it get... |
How can televised "prank shows" such as Just for Laughs impersonate police officers and stop motorists without being charged for impersonating an officer? | To those calling it fake, my dad was pranked and I've seen two of my teachers on TV. Maybe some of the skits are fake but the majority are real. |
How does the observable universe have a diameter of 93 billion light years if it is only 13.8 billion years old? | If I remember correctly, the universe was already a couple billion years old when the first stars started to form. Which means that their hasn't been enough time ever since those first stars came into existence for their light to have reach us. Edit: thought it said 9.3, not 93. I am not 100% sure on this, but I still ... |
The FAA says passengers can now use electronic devices on airplanes. Why were they banned in the first place? | Mainly beacuse the FAA had no idea what would happen if people used electronic devices while the plane was flying. Then they realized they didn't do anything while the plane is flying, so it was ok to use them after the plane reached cruising altitude. This is what happens what the regulators have no idea the products ... |
If pot isn't addictive, then why are so many people obsessed with it to the point where it's part of their user name? | It is psychologically addictive with few withdrawal symptoms and negative side-effects. Life is a series of addictions to one substance or another. You could even argue, albeit loosely, that you are addicted to the gaseous compounds you inhale while breathing. You definitely have a physical dependency on them. Some peo... |
Why are "virtual machines" generally regarded as impenetrable/safe? | Ha! They aren't. Academically, theoretically, sure, a perfect virtual machine is indistinguishable from a real machine. Practically, it's trivial to determine if you are in a virtual environment. Lots of the big trojans out there, the ones you hear in the news, have VM detection, and, unless that's their target, they'l... |
What the ruling on DOMA means for gay rights | What does it mean for immigration? Say I'm a US citizen and I marry someone who is not in a state where same sex marriage is legal. Does my new spouse have the right to stay in the US because we're married?", 'For another great discussion, that is going on between lawyers, go over to [this thread on /r/legaladvice]. Lo... |
Why were old movies like "Gone With The Wind" and "Wizard Of Oz" in color when movies were still in black in white until the late 50s/early 60s | Technicolor was a royal pain in the ass in the early days and only really expensive movies could do it. It's kind of like how Jurassic Park was able to do really good CGI Dinosaurs 1993, but it was quite a while after that until it became more common place.Because songs like "follow the yellow brick road"\' would have ... |
Why important structures like levees and dams aren't made out of the same material as an airplane's "black box" | Most things can be made stronger but it becomes a cost vs strength issue. Who's going to pay for it and will it actually pay off/ be worth it/ save any lives. |
Why don't Microsoft and Sony release upgraded versions of their consoles with each new iteration within a generation? | They do. The PS3's RSX chip has had upgrades in process technology. It was released on a 90nm process, and subsequently upgraded down to 40nm. The guts do get upgraded, but it's more for power consumption, efficiency, bug fixes, etc. As for why they don't make it faster, etc - I'm not quite sure, but it's probably beca... |
How does the President of the US get enough sleep to run the country by managing issues that literally manifest every second? | He doesn't do everything himself. He had tons of staff that handle basically all of the real work. They do the research and bring him all the information. He makes a decision and then they go and do the work for that. Shows like The West Wing, Madam Secretary etc might be wrong in the details but they have the basic id... |
How did ancient people discover which plants were safe to eat and which weren't? | A lot of stuff that's poisonous in larger doses can be tolerated in minute quantities. People just ate less of unknown foods and when they had to explore would test tiny quantities first. If it was safe, they would know soon enough. Also many poisonous things come with obvious signs that they are poisonous as being poi... |
Why we're able to easily sleep 12+ hours as teenagers, but as we get older we struggle to sleep in for more than 9-10 hours even if we try? | I'm almost 30 and I have no problem sleeping for 12+ hours. Sometimes when I finally wake up and get to work I get written up : is producedas a teenager i never slept more then 9 hours, and now i never sleep more then 7-7.5 hours When i was around 6-8 i never slept more then 10 hours, my parents usually put me to bed a... |
Why are plesiosaurs and mosasaurs considered reptiles and not dinosaurs? | They strongly resemble modern reptiles, for one, although they may have been warm blooded in the manner of dinosaurs. They were built differently, with the legs oriented outward, like a turtle. Dinosaurs on land tended to be oriented up and down, like a cow say. Also plesiosaur lacks 'antorbital fenestrae' - holes in b... |
What exactly are the folks over at r/nofap trying to accomplish? | Besides not fapping? I don't know. They are either religious and feel guilty about doing it or are addicted to porn and/or sex. |
There are many alternative sweeteners out there with almost zero calories in them, why have they not been adopted more widely? Couldn't they be a huge help in combating obesity? | According to the Daily Mail article [*Are people who eat low calorie sweeteners really more prone to being fat, type 2 diabetes and stroke?*] > 'Consuming artificial sweeteners not only adds to weight gain but, over time, is generally responsible for an increase in bad health outcomes,' says the professor, who is based... |
How did Einstein come up with E=MC^2? What evidence or data did he have to support this? | maxwell equations". What the hell am I reading?', "From the Maxwell equations one can infer the speed of electromagnetic waves . The surprising thing about the nature that speed was that it appeared to be the same in all frames of reference . To the physicists of the day that seemed rather strange, since in our ordinar... |
Are you a criminal if you deliberately choose not to prevent someone from committing suicide? | In California: No there is no duty to report somebody who is suicidal *unless* you are a mandated reporter and you discover it in the line of duty. Practically this means you probably won't need to report your grandpa unless you were a health professional and he was in your official care. |
Does anyone else have this where if you look out of one eye its cool colours and the other is warm colours? | I had a couple of instances of [central serous retinopathy] and this effect has been very distracting at times. What's worse is when the images in each eye aren't the same size |
can wikipedia actually go bankrupt? | Yes Absolutely especially since they are pretty much a free service that doesn't even monetize using ad's and whatnot it's completely dependent on donations for it's year to year operations. A large amount of people use wikipedia for free like it's a government service paid for with taxes or something but it isn't. |
Why are humans scared of the dark? | Since we rely so much on our senses, if we are stripped from these abilities, in this case sight, our brain triggers off stress, discomfort and fear. It's not the actual darkness we're scared of. It's the lack of sense which makes us scared. |
How did last names like Smith, Jones, Johnson, Williams, etc become so much more popular than other last names? | Well smith is a name that started out as an occupation. If your name was David and you were a smith then you would be David smith. Johnson is son of John, and due to biblical significance John it's self was popular |
Why can't everything mix with water? | When something dissolves, the molecules of the thing being dissolved spread apart and each one is completely surrounded by the thing it is being dissolved in . For these molecules to spread apart, the interactions between the solvent and solvate molecules need to be strong enough that the interactions between solvent m... |
Why did humans evolve to eat cooked meat? | They didn't evolve it, it was discovered. You'll notice that other animals can eat cooked food just fine. In any case, having food cooked was very important to humanity. It allowed you to not have to eat food right when you killed it, and also there are a lot of foods where cooking it allows our body to digest more of ... |
Why does bitcoin fluctuate so heavily? | The most important thing to consider is that the price is based entirely on what people are currently buying or selling it for . The majority of people involved aren't actually actively buying or selling currency, but there's a decent amount of people with large amounts of capital who look at the fluctuations and trade... |
How do they determine the expiration dates for new products? Do they just let it sit somewhere till it goes bad? | There's some good information here but there's one point to clarify: expiration, best by, and sell by date are all different things. Expiration date: don't consume after this date. It can be harmful to your health. Best by: you *can* eat it after this date but it probably won't taste good. Sell by: it's probably going ... |
Whats the difference between cults and major religions? | Nothing, a cult is a particular system of religious worship, specifically in relation to traditions, ceremonies or rites. Where it becomes a 'cult' is when it delves into the other definitions. Such as a group bound together by veneration for a specific thing/person. A group sharing a sacred ideology and sharing a set ... |
Why are ancient buildings still standing to this day but modern building fall apart after a couple decades? | follow up question: Does anyone know roughly what survival rate modern buildings would have if they were abandoned? I'm sure some of our structures would last for millennia without human interference.. |
if everybody is slowly getting richer, where is all the extra money coming from? | More overall money is just a representation of specialization and better technology. If it used to take 30 hours to build a chair, and technology allows us to make 30 chairs an hour, that extra value is in the cost reduction. As technologies improve, there's more excess to go around. This tends to effect necessary good... |
Why are we afraid to do something when the result can only be better than doing nothing? | Other people have mentioned the first point I'd make, but there is another point. Waiting until the last minute to take action, or take no action at all, allow someone to blame the delayed action or the inaction as the cause for failure. Taking action with adequate time may, correctly or incorrectly, places the blame o... |
when you take pain meds like aspirin or ibuprofen, does it go treat the pain at the location or is it a general dulling of pain in your whole body? | Yes, they do go straight to the site of injury but not by their own design. When a cell is in distress it produces prostaglandin, which long story short, induces the sensation of pain. Aspirin binds one of the pre coursers of prostaglandin and prevents it from sending the pain signal. Fun fact: one of the chemicals inv... |
Why does my iPad detect the touch of my fingers, but not my knuckles? | Everything seems to work for me. Fingertips, knuckles, elbows, nose, knees, toes, heel, ball of foot, literally all skin I try works . The one thing it rejects is a large contact point, like when I rest my palm on it. I think your knuckles are simply dry. Capacitive touchscreens rely on skin being moist-ish. Another po... |
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