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When you’re hungry and you fall asleep, why do you wake up with no appetite? | Your stomach releases a chemical called ghrelin to your brain at certain intervals signaling hunger. If you wait these out the hunger subsides. In fact, during a fast your stomach's production of ghrelin drops significantly, so that after the first three days or so you feel much less hungry during the ghrelin release periods. _URL_1URL_0_ |
Out of all the planets within our reach, why do we focus research and resources so heavily on Mars versus any other planet? | Part that it is closer - which when it takes freak'n' decades to get places, is kind of a big deal. The second is that we know more about it - much more.And lastly it's unlikely to kill us. |
What happens when a movie takes in less money than it cost to make it? | The only people who don't see the benefit of the film making more than it's budget are those who are getting paid as a percentage of ticket sales and those who have had to finance the costs of the production. But it's really common for films to not actually make back the money put into their budget. This is why studios produce films like Transformers. They know that these films are just going to pander to the lowest common denominator of people with their simple good vs evil storylines and their piles of action. These films are not original, they are not inventive and usually they aren't well acted, they are just there to get lots and lots of sheeple to go to the cinema.Everyone involved has already been paid, that's why it cost $100M to make. At some level, somebody is losing money although not as much as you might think. Let's say it cost $5M to record the sound. That's not a $5M check to a sound company, that's $5M being paid to the sound division of the studio that is making the movie. This sort of "Hollywood Accounting" can result in successful movies that don't look like they made any profit.When a movie is made 90% of people have already been paid unless their contract is based off ticket sales. That's why a movie loses money when they can't recoup the tickets but there is a lot of money to be made off foreign markers, dvd sales, and rentals. Movies have to really bad to not make back their money. |
Why are the ripples in water always circular regardless of what shaped object you drop in? | When you throw an object in water, such as a suitcase, the surface of the water isn't forming onto the object itself. Rather, the water collapses in over the object on a single point, wherever it was thrown in. From this point, a circular ring forms. However, if you were to slowly put an object partially in water, the rings will be in the shape of that object.When you solve the PDE for a vibrating membrane you get Bessel functions in the radial direction. |
The absence of evidence is not evidence for its absence. | This is actually not as complicated as it sounds, it's mostly the way it's worded that confuses people. I'm not much of a fan of this saying, because it's easily abusable by people who have no proof of something. The absence of evidence is when you have absolutely no proof that something is being done, or happening, or even existing. So when you have absolutely no proof of something existing, or that something happened, you'd guess this lack of evidence means that it doesn't, though that's not necessarily the case! See, scientists just recently found out that there's a tenth planet floating around in space somewhere far off the usual paths and way out of reach of our suns light. For a really, really long time most people believed that the solar system contained nine planets. . As there was no evidence whatsoever of another, additional planet, people believed that's all there is. Wrong! Suddenly said evil scientist had a change of heart and redeemed himself by using his special powers to find that irregularities in the outter planets orbits around the sun indicated that there must be another one and now a lot of people are curious about this and want to get a visual on it, somehow, using all the scientific magic they have at their disposal. And this shows that the absence of evidence doesn't mean the evidence of absence. Just because we didn't see the planet, didn't mean it's not there. It is there, we just not yet had figured out the evidence. |
How can my electronics tell % of battery remaining? | Depends on the device. Some of them use voltage readings, some of them will use something in software to measure the amount of time it takes to discharge, and then triggers a battery warning when it reaches a threshold voltage and it will turn the device off before it reaches this to prevent damage, or in cases of devices with storage, storage corruption . The more advanced devices get, its probably a combo of voltage measurements, temp of the device as well as some kind of software averaging that can tell it down to minutes. |
Why would a government want to invest in coal powered power plants as opposed to wind/solar? | Because they're trying to prop up a failing industry to save jobs. Because that's easier than finding real solutions to help the people working in those outdated jobs get retrained to do something else. |
Why do phone batteries appear to run out of charge at an increasing number rate, rather than linearly? | Wirecutter just did a piece on this a couple of days ago. It's a great read. _URL_2_", 'Muchas gracias folks for all the great answers', "Used to work a lot in telecom on the marketing and communications side of thing. Can't really speak to the technological limitations etc of the lithium battery etc, but I can speak to the fact that there's a little bit of purposeful lying from the manufacturers that over-estimate your battery life. Basically, if you think you have full battery, you're going to be using your phone. Which means making calls, sending texts, using the internet. If you think your phone is running out of power, you stop using it. Manufacturers and providers want you to be using your phone, so they'll fudge the battery meter a little to make it look like you've got more power than you do. It's not complete BS, but chances are your phone will basically lie to you a little between 100-80% since if you think you've got plenty of battery, you'll keep using all the services of your phone. |
Why do you have to turn most jeans and some other clothing inside-out when washing them...? | It's best for shirt with writing/printing on it, especially if it's the plasticy type of design; the washer does damage clothes just a smidgen with all the agitation and etc., and turning it inside out makes sure that the inside would get the brunt of it, so any fading to the outside is kept to a minimum. It's mainly to prevent fading/damage to the outside of the garments, which is visible to everyone. You don't have to do it for all garments, I'd only really do it for shirts/pants with lettering/designs. |
- How are people legally allowed to post obvious personal pictures of their own illegal drugs/substances on the internet without any legal repercussions, such as r/trees? | Imgur strips exif data, which helps. Also, unless the poster says what state/country they are in LEAs won't be sure who has jurisdiction. So they won't know who should try to get a court order for the records of Imgur and Reddit. However, if a person posts a picture of illegal sibstances and says where they are it is entirely possible some local DA might try to get a warrant, serve Imgur and then serve the ISP and then go bust down the door. In short. don't post pictures of illegal drugs. If you feel like you *really* have to do it use Tails and don't say where in the world you are.Because it's a hassle to attach a reddit username to someone and file charges all over a few grams of weed. What's crazy to me is the kids in my facebook feed doing bong rips with their face fully visible, admitting it's weed, and posting the video on their shit for everyone to see. Then all of their friends hit "like" and now a fuck ton of people they don't even know have seen it. That's just being careless imo. I would never put anything illegal on something like facebook that has my real name and multiple pictures of me attached to it. Reddit is whatever.Also just think of the pure amount of resources it would take to actually do anything about this. The time and money would be obscene. Sure, posting timestamped images of keys of cocaine worth millions will probably get some attention but Bob from Ireland posting a ounce of weed isn't really worth the attention.While we are in here, why can whiz khalifa, for instance, smoke weed in his music videos without getting problems with the police? It is kind of obvious he is an weed smoker, but still gets no legal troubleProve the picture and "substance" is real. . Don't talk to copsHa ha ha ha ha. Never say never Op! |
We are required to pay taxes on our income, and again on goods we purchase with our taxed income. How is this not double dipping? | In New Hampshire I don't pay a state income tax or a state sales tax. I'm only getting dipped federally. |
What is outside of the universe? and is the nothingness of the vacuum of space really nothing, or is the nothing really something? | Outside the universe is nothing. Not only that, but the outside part doesn't even exist, because everything that exists is inside it. As for the empty spaces inside, those aren't really empty; there are tiny amounts of gas and dust and other tiny stuff. |
Why does it take humans so much more time to use the bathroom (defecate) than animals? | Because animals don't use cell phones! But on a serious note to sit on a toilet for more than 5 minutes and still feel the urge to poop then it's probably constipation. You should be able to sit down push slightly and let everything out within a minute or two. |
Why is chronic dangerous under-eating (Anorexia) considered so serious but chronic dangerous over-eating (Obesity) is just accepted? | First of all, it is not just accepted. There is a lot of furore about the 'obesity epidemic'. Secondly, they are just not comparable in terms of medical danger. Dangerous under-eating leads to starvation which can kill you in a very short period of time. Chronic over-eating is not healthy for you, but the risks and health problems take years, sometimes decades to develop. So, yes, anorexia is far more serious. You only have a small window of time to stop the irreversible effects, whereas with obesity, you have much longer. |
What is a DDoS attack and why can't companies prevent them? | A proper ELI5 answer: There's a room that is the server and a door that people have to pass through to get in. Now the door is pretty big but if thousands of people try to get through at the same time then nobody gets in. There's a huge crowd at the door and more and more people try to cram in but it's just not big enough |
What is wrong with the Democratic Republic of the Congo? How may first-world nations fix it? | The only way for the first-world to fix Africa is to leave it alone until the African people either fix it themselves, or destroy themselves. They don't want to be helped, that's been made apparent by the fact that there's been no progress at all in the years that first-world aid has been sent there. |
Since the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere is December 21, how come it's either January or February the coldest months of the year? | It's like an oven. *Summer* I turn it on. Within a minute, the element is putting out as much energy as it's going to, but it's goint to take about 10 minutes for that to affect the entire 'atmosphere' in there. *Winter* I turn it off, but it takes a while for the heat in there to dissipate. Why does it take as long as it does? really, the only asnswer to this is: because it does. This is how our planet and atmosphere respond to the energy received from the sun. |
Why does blood come out of the mouths of people who have been stabbed/shot in the stomach like in the movies? | This is because when shot or stabbed in the right area, one that causes blood to seep into lungs and respiratory system, the body's autonomic system reacts to remove the blood in order to breathe correctly, similar to coughing flem from influenza. Movies seem to exaggerate how often this can happen because, well .it's a movie. |
How come we haven't seen that ninth planet all this time? | We're looking for a black dot against a black background. This turns out to be really hard. The planets far away that we've spotted, we've spotted because of their gravitational effects on their stars: effects that we can't see on our sun . |
Transgender. I don't get it. | It seems to me, that you are looking for an objective reason to feel uncomfortable. Objectively however, there is no point in making judgements about a person based on gender alone . If you are not a nurse making a blood test, then you should assume that a person looking and behaving like a lady is in fact a lady and should be treated as such. I understand why you feel uncomfortable though and I don't blame that. There is something primal wired in our brain that makes us subconsciously judge people without even knowing them. |
Why a fight with Iran would be different than Afghanistan/Iraq? | Afghanistan had a weak central gov't, so the US was able to exploit warlords who did not cooperate with each other effectively. Iraq had ethnic and religious divides, and all the power was concentrated in a single dictator. Kurds and the Shi'ite minory were not eager to support the gov't, and once Hussein was neutralized, there was no country wide resistance left. Iran, on the other hand has an effective, centralized government and a high degree of stability. They also have a greater degree of cultural and religions homogeneity, with 90% of the population being Shi'ite Muslim. The wild card in all this would be Israel it is hard to imagine a US war with Iran where Israel was not an active participant. While Israel might spearhead the attack and make US losses more palatable, they could also galvanize the Muslim world to support outcast Iran. |
How come people who snore really loudly don't get woken up by their own snoring? | People definitely do wake themselves up when snoring, though it's not usually due to the noise of snoring. Sleep apnea is a condition where the snoring is so intense that the lungs are not able to pull air in due to restriction of the airways. The body wakes itself up when it doesn't receive oxygen.We do. I was snoring so badly during a sleep test that the doctor decided to prescribe me a CPAP machine anyway to help me sleep better. Greatest thing ever. |
Threatening people with guns in movies. | A gun has many parts. For example, there's the ammo-holding part and the bullet tube. When you pull back on the back part, it pushes a bullet from the ammo-holding part into the bullet tube. In real life, you would start with a bullet in the bullet tube. In movies, they do that extra step because it raises the tension and it sounds cool .Pulling that thing back chambers a round from the magazine. Without chambering a round, you cannot fire a shot. |
Why are most poisonous animals brightly coloured? | The evolution of aposematism is actually kind of paradoxical--sure, you let other animals know that you're armed and dangerous, but you also make yourself more conspicuous to them by the same token. Obviously, since these poisonous animals have evolved to be brightly-colored, the reproductive advantage that comes with warning colors outweighs the cost of being more conspicuous. Some of the supported explanations mention dietary conservatism, which is the idea that an organism won't choose to eat a new type of prey because it is new to them. Other supported explanations show that some organisms just innately avoid brightly-colored objects, which suggests that the behavior has evolved over generations.In short: So that predators do not accidently eat the poisonoues animal. If they do not know and think you are just one of the normal kind of food, you are still dead when you get bitten. The colour serves as warning sign: "Here I am, you can see me and I am armed with poison. Eat someone else or die!"', "As far as i know, and that ain't much. Through evolutions both predator and prey benefit from the bright colour. So it's not just luck if they both survive or die. A poisonous animal without bright colour would be eaten the same amount of times as a non poisonous animal without colour. Resulting in 2 deaths. |
Firefighters, if a city surrounded by forests has a wildfire coming straight for it, why not cut down trees in a perimeter around it? | It would take too long to create a fire break of that size. By the time you're done, the fire might already have passed you, or could have been put out by the responding fire services. It makes more sense to make people leave their homes for a few days or weeks just in case, than to spend the effort and money to make a barrier that might not even be needed or effective. |
Why do grocery stores and restaurants throw away so much unsold food instead of just buying less in the first place? | Have you watched people but produce? Something with the slightest imperfection will get passed over until it has say they're long enough that it actually is bad. And some fruit arrives already bruised. And if you do run out, you might not only lose that particular sale, but maybe the customer. |
Why do we find cockroaches so disgusting ? | What your are referring to are West German Cock Roaches. There are many species of roaches some are pests and the majority you would never see in our life. I have kept dubia roaches to feed my spider collection. They don't stink, they can't live in your house if they escape, can't fly, can't climb glass. you would never I kept them unless I showed you them because they don't even have a smell. Some roaches are called litter bugs due to the fact they only eat decaying vegetation and if you saw one, you would think it was a beetle. TL/DR it depends on the species of roach, not all of them are pests. Fun fact. Crickets are more closely related to cockroaches than they are to a grasshopper. I hate crickets. They are gross assholes. |
Why if I eat before I sleep I'm hungrier when I wake up than I would be if I don't eat before my sleep? | I get this too! Particularly noticeable after over-eating. I've wondered if my stomach got used to having so much food and then couldn't deal with not having any overnight? |
if lightning can travel through water, why isn't rain extremely dangerous during thunderstorms? | There is two ways to answer this question. The simple way is that lightning is so powerful that it just doesn't care about the droplets of water, it just wants to get to the ground as quickly as possible. The more technical answer is this. Lightning occurs when there is a significant electrical charge difference between two points. When the bolt of lightning starts, it begins to ionize the air, which is basically giving the air a charge which allows it to flow along the path. This ionized air is a better conductor than all of the little droplets of rain, so it chooses to take that path rather than trying to flow through the little droplets of rain. Once the lightning hits the ground, the charge that was originally formed is not equalized.Lightning is searching for the easiest path to the ground. More often than not a human is not the ~~most direct~~ easiest path since power lines, trees, and houses are taller. In wide open fields people are more susceptible to being struck by lightning since the options of reaching the ground are much fewer and far in between.I'd say that if there is a thunderstorm, being out in the rain is considerably more dangerous than being inside a dry insulated place. Did someone tell you that standing outside in the rain was safer than being inside where it is dry? |
Why do people who are going to be executed not put up a fight when they know they are going to die either way? | Unless you've been captured by a terrorist group/drug cartel, most executions are made quick and painless out of respect. If you put up a big fight, your captor is more likely to make you regret it by torturing you and/or killing you slowly. |
why is it with all the police brutality we still allow them to investigate themselves instead of an impartial 3rd party and what can we do to fix this | I'm going to remove this one. Please read the [rules] in the sidebar. You might be better asking about this one in a sub like /r/changemyview, perhaps. Thanks a lot. > Don't post just to express an opinion or argue a point of view. |
Why, if hemp is such an amazing crop, is it barely grown in the rest of the world where hemp production is legal? | From an anthropology/international relations student's perspective the fact that you can't export it to the largest economy in the world and can't eat it seems to be pretty important. In developing nations, you want to grow things that you can export at high prices or eat, generally. Hemp isn't economically feasible because its processing methods are underdeveloped, its market-value is low , and it isn't particularly tasty. |
I've been reading exposes of puppy mills every few years for decades now--why is it still an issue? | They're still an issue because people will do illegal things if they can make a profit. I mean, drug trade is illegal and we've been exposed to *that* for *centuries*, and yet it's still an issue.They still exist because it continues to be legal and profitable to run one. It remains an issue because people continue to care about them and want them shut down. |
What is the scientific purpose of landing on the comet, and what are it's implications? | As some others have said, a big part of this was just to test our spaceflight abilities. We have ambitious plans for space travel in the coming years, and this was an important milestone. It's no easy feat to land our hunk of metal on a giant frozen piece of rock hurdling through space. However, primary reason we went, I think, was to learn! We had never been to a comet before. Just as we send probes out to learn about the other plants, we also investigate the smaller things going on in the solar system, like comets. With this mission, we will surely learn new things about our solar system, while also gaining a huge amount of complex space travel experience. |
Why does NASA assume that there is no life on planets that has conditions that are not ideal for humans, when the organisms on the planets could have adapted to their respective conditions and thrive? | I want you to find a Xealidifphiacran What is a Xealidifphiacran? I have no idea. What does it look like? What does it smell like? What are the signs that a Xealidifphiacran has been around? No one knows. How likely do you think it is you are going to find one. That's right, not at all. That's why we look for life in 'Earth like' conditions, specifically looking for planets that could have liquid water. We at least have some idea what their most likely byproducts would be . |
Why alcohol seems more acceptable than cannabis or LSD? | It's cultural. The moralists would ban every intoxicant, but Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding party. |
Can humans generate actual random numbers? | The list itself may be unique in that the person hasn't recited it from memory or visual cues. But there is the problem that people often will follow patterns, even in their attempts to avoid forming patterns. |
What is so great about Che Guevara? | He's popular because he looks damn cool on a t-shirt, and he was a socialist revolutionary in Cuba. Those two combined make him a pretty easy counter-culture idol, whether he deserves his pedestal or not. |
Why do people usually hold tobacco cigarettes between their index and middle fingers, but hold marijuana cigarettes using their thumb and index fingers? | You have to be a bit gentler with joints because they aren't usually held together as well as a cigarette. Joints aren't packed as tight so they can be kind of squishy and if you flicked it like a normal cigarette you might end up dropping some pot from the tip. The filters also aren't as big so you end up smoking it closer to the end.Part of it is psychology. If you look at military members smoke, they generally hold it the same way as a joint. The way your mind works is that it is easier to hide it holding it with your thumb and index finger, hiding the lit end with your hand. It is generally more accepted to smoke cigarettes, so there is no need to hide. Those smoking marijuana are subconciously trying to hide it. Military members will smoke cigarettes when they are not supposed to, and in the field where a lit cigarette can give away your position, it becomes habit to try and hide that end.Everyone is answering why they need to hold a joint with the index and thumb. So why not hold cigarettes like that too? I know you don't have to, but why don't you? Why hold it between index and middle? |
why don't HMDI connectors have screws (like DVI or VGA)? | Just so you are aware you can get [HDMI with locking capability.] But as others have said, unless you're using it for something commercially, it's not really necessary on a HDMI connector as they tend not to get pulled/fall out by accident |
In the US, with 19 years old, you can't buy beer but you can buy a gun? | An age limit on guns would be very complicated and hard to enforce, considering in rural communities many kids go hunting in their teens, boy scouts learn to shoot typically at 13 and most importantly, most first term enlisted military, which comprises the majority of the front line grunts, are between 18-21. It would be pretty messed up to say you could fight in the military but not own a gun.Because they want to be able to recruit naive,testosterone-rich, angsty 18 year olds for the army, where they can be used as cannon fodder. Well, guess what? That means they have to allow 18 year olds to carry guns. |
How do GPS satellites not get over-tasked from being constantly pinged by multiple users? | They aren't pinged, they constantly transmit like radio stations. Receivers either get enough signal from the satellites to figure out where you are, or they don't. |
Why do so many say that socialized (Canada and such) health care is better than what we have here in the US? | If you think about from a completely personal level, because it doesn't cost you anything to go to the doctor, stay in the hospital, etc.Getting hurt or sick isn't a financial liability, and you don't have to worry about dealing with insurance companies, etc.It's "better" because everyone gets covered regardless of their ability to pay. Of course, depending on your perspective, that's what makes it worse, too, because better can be subjective.The top comments explain it well but I'd also like to chime in that it is less stressful to get medical care when your not paying through the nose for each thing. I just couldn't imagine what things I would just try to deal with than go and see a dr if I could become bankrupt for it |
Why are there so many homeless veterans? | A substantial portion of homeless veterans, and more than half of homeless men in general, suffered a head trauma before they became homeless. The symptoms of a brain injury are sometimes confused with PTSD, but more often are labeled as mental illness. A single head injury can change who you are. I got hit by a bike, and went from being a six-figure software engineer to being unemployed, and unemployable. I literally have nothing left. As a veteran, I am entitled to care from the VA. If my income is low, I don't have to pay, but if my income goes up, and I continue to use the VA, I have to pay for it just like regular health care. As to why there are so many homeless veterans, it comes down to the VA not having enough resources. My VA hospital, while professional and effective, is woefully understaffed. Mental Health professionals there are working two to a cubicle, and many don't last more than few months. |
Why does gold have value? | Gold has value because we believe it has value. For as abundant as gold is in the universe, it's difficult to find on Earth and it takes a lot of resources to mine the gold from the Earth. With the advent of new technologies that rely on the properties of gold as a great conductor, a lot of gold is in use in electronics, which creates more of a demand for it. |
Why does It feel like time runs quicker the older you get? | As a semi-elderly person the explanation I've heard that makes the most sense is because you aren't experiencing anything for the first time anymore.So time passes without anything really making an impact of your consciousness anymore. I think it's the reverse of time standing still when something horrible happens. |
How does gravity make time slow down? | So this is already mostly answered. But I thought it may be important to mention that gravity itself does not slow down time. Gravity is an effect of curving spacetime, it's as if you're lying in a streaming river while holding on to a branch on the riverbank. Space slips past you so you feel a force . This curving of spacetime is what gives different experiences of time. If you're in a high gravity environment, space 'slip' past you way faster than in an almost flat neighbourhood of spacetime, where you only experience a couple of seconds going by, as opposed to the possibly years having gone by in high G environment. Gravity is a very strange phenomenon and is far from being understood. Yet viewing it as a by product of curving spacetime solves a lot of weird problems! |
Why were disposable cameras so prolific during the turn of the last century? | It was a way to give a kid a cheap camera for a trip, and it didn't matter if they broke it. Also, you could buy absurdly cheap underwater disposables that were good for the beach / snorkeling. These were way cheaper than a real underwater camera |
What's the difference between AM and FM radio? And if one is better than the other why do we have both? | Radio waves work like any other wave- they have crests/high points and valleys/ low point. FM radio waves are higher frequency meaning have shorter distances between crests and valleys. Higher frequency means more energy needed to maintain the fidelity of the transmission. The farther the FM radio wave travels, the more likely this wave will hit some obstruction like a mountain, which will interrupt the signal. Think of an ocean wave crashing on a rock. Without any obstruction, the signal will eventually lose power the longer it travels. Liken it to dropping a pebble in a pond; the ripples are more robust the closer to the source. In contrast, AM radios have lower frequency. Their crests and valleys have longer distances between them. These kinds of waves travel through obstructions much more easily, and require more space to lose their robustness. Though the sound quality isn't as good as FM, they carry over larger distances. That's why music stations stay on FM and news stations stay on AM. |
As a male, why is it that I can not defecate without urinating first? | Well you're a tube, filled with a series of tubes full of tubes, and one of those tubes has a balloon, and it helps if that balloon deflates before moving things on through. Also, stimulating certain tubes gets other tubes stimulated as they are connected in such a way that they give us consciousness: best if everything works together! |
When suicidal, how can we be determined to kill ourselves, but our body does everything it can to stop us? | Because the human brain is not a single processor, it is a collection of processors. Many of which, or rather, the majority of which are subconscious calculators. A conscious decision that is at odds with the subconscious isn't unnatural, in fact, by the nature of our design, it's the norm.The brain works independently of the rest of the bodyI'm not posting an actual answer to your question, but just to add to the discussion, it's kinda sad how people try to find several ways to commit "irreversible" suicide so that their brain doesn't try to save them. For example, walking off the top story of a building, or hanging themselves. It's heart breakingThere are worse things than death. Much *much* worse things. Our body goes for the option that feels best. Hence other things like blacking out on extreme injury. That’s all. |
Why is the "shh" sound an international symbol for "Please, be quiet" ? | Once i read it's similar to the sound on the inside of s mother's womb, so it is use to make babies feel safe to make them calm down, it might be bullsh*t tho", 'its called white noise. it is meant to soothe the person. we respond that way because it is the sound we hear inside the womb. |
Fencer Shin A Lam and the timing error at the Olympic Games. | My biggest question .Where was Germany's integrity? Why didn't she refuse advancement upon finding out what the problem was? Germany is as much to blame as the IOC . |
What happens to an uninsured patient with catastrophic injuries in the U.S.? | Couldn't tell you. I recently got in an accident, shattered my arm, needed surgery, and now 15k+ in debt. So yeah, I guess I kinda got off lucky because it could have been way worse for me. But still. /sigh |
Does laying down to rest grant any benefits that are similar to the benefits gained from sleeping? | So a lot of people think that REM sleep is the be all end all for sleep and recovery. It isn't. It is actually the opposite. The greater the ratio of REM sleep to deeper stages of sleep, the less restful the sleep. This is why when you decide to sleep for 12 hours you are still tired when you wake up and why it is best to sleep between 8-9 hours at a stretch. That said REM is a good indicator that other restful sleep levels are reached, the ratio is what is important. Lying down you can enter into early stages of sleep that have rejuvenating effects, you also decrease your cortisol levels, a 'come down'. Next time if you are tired after a test do something athletic for 45 - 90 minutes then rest for an hour, then back to work. You may find this is more efficient for you. |
How is it legal that millions of taxpayer dollars are used to fund private industry infrastructure owned by billionaires? I'm talking, of course, about football teams. | what's even better is when a whole city uses eminent domain to kick a whole community out of its way and build a stadium on the mere rumor that they might get a football team. See: Alamodome TIL: if you build it..they might not come |
While my hand is curled into a fist, why is it so hard to raise my ring finger compared to other fingers? | It is has to do with the number and distribution of the muscles responsible for extending your fingers. Here's a drawing *of the back of your hand to help._URL_2_All of your fingers have multiple extensor muscles except for the ring finger, it has to share an extensor muscle that also extends all the fingers. So to just extend your ring finger requires activation of only part of that muscle. This is also why your ring finger is the weakest finger in your hand.*edit clarified diagram orientation. |
Why do some people type normally, And Why Do Some People Type Like This? | of", . Maybe People Who Spend a Lot of Time on the Internet See Many Headlines and Adapt This Style? 3. People are just weird and think they're somehow cool/hip/interesting when they do annoying things. I ALSO Hate people who ACCIDENTally hit the cAPS LOCK BUTTON Each time they reACH FOR THE a key |
Why does the US have such a major hatred for drugs? | Lol, the US is not the worst country for drug laws. I'd say Singapore has the worst drug laws for a developed country.One of the reasons is Len Bias. He was a basketball star that overdosed on cocaine right after being drafted into the NBA. His death came as a shock to many people and is one of the reasons we now have minimum sentences for drug crimes. Now to many people rely on the "war on drugs" for their lively hood. Politicians don't want to seen a weak on drugs and they don't want to be seen as responsible for thousands of people losing their jobs. |
Why are Asian and black people in America called "Asian Americans" and "African Americans," respectively, but white people are not called "European Americans?" | I see a lot of forms and documents that use White/Caucasian/European. It's not used commonly in conversation because it's not considered offensive to simply say white. |
Why aren't small countries without large militaries, like San Marino, Iceland, or Andorra, invaded by larger countries? | There needs to be a good reason to invade a country to justify the expense. Yes, a country may have a larger military and could overwhelm a smaller force, but then there's a small task of running the country afterwards.> why do other countries agree to the alliance Would you rather support Tiny Country A by being their ally, or have Evil County X take them over and become bigger? |
Why does my (android) phone care if i use the original charger? | Think about using a garden hose to fill a bucket of water. Even though the water flowing through the tap can fill the bucket in 20 seconds, the nozzle on the hose slows down the flow and it takes 40 seconds. Similarly the charging cable is the limiting factor, although the convenient nozzle can be bought in different sizes instead of being changed by us directly. If you have a good understanding of how electricity works, someone else would be better able to explain to you what's technically happening. |
Why does it seem like men are generally a lot funnier than women? | I think the issue is that what affects men doesn't normally affect women, so men don't find women funny because the issues they face are different . Women either try to appeal to the male audience by becoming 'unfeminine' as you said, or they just don't joke at all. Additionally, in society it's not really encouraged for women to be 'funny,' whereas men are encouraged towards it. Humor is associated with masculinity, and gender roles are fairly engrained. I think Tina Fey is hilarious though, for the record. Her and Amy Poehler.This video may help to answer your question: _URL_0_The late Hitchens has an opinion on the matter you inquire about. _URL_1_ its a 5 minutes clip from an interview about the need to be funny.I often tell people that my wife had her sense of humour shot off in the war, but she doesn't find it all that amusing. |
How does a stethoscope work in amplifying soft noises like a heartbeat without requiring electricity? | It works like a drum. Have you ever goofed around with a base drum or some timpani? The softest tap on a large drum gets amplified a lot, except instead of a barrel or a kettle on the bottom there's hollow tubes that run directly to your ears. |
The mentality of people who own mostly/all designer clothing. | The majority of people into fashion are not about the label. In fact, it is the opposite. I don't wear clothing that has a logo. You would never know that I'm wearing a $280 sweatshirt. It's about the fit, fabric and construction. I believe it is really a purely subjective thing and I've found, having encountered high-end fabrics in person, that I'm more than willing to pay for the really expensive ones because in my opinion they're worth it. For example, look at this sweatshirt. _URL_0_ TBH, to your average person, all this shit about loopwheeling and heavyweight long staple cotton picked by virgins or some shit is really just a bunch of unnecessary bullshit, but to me, it's something I'm rather interested in. What it will always amount to, when you're discussing expensive items, is that the value of an item is what you put it into it. If you don't think that sweatshirt is worth $280, then for you, it's not worth $280. For me, I think it is worth $280 tho. What's important is to keep everything in perspective and not let yourself think that someone else's valuation of an item is wrong or bad. Just as i wouldn't look down on you for buying a Target sweatshirt instead of the Real McCoys, you shouldn't look down on me for buying the Real McCoys instead of Target. |
Why do obese people starve to death before they are super skinny? Why the body doesn't use that fat energy? | Your fat is nothing but an energy reserve. It's calories to sustain you for short periods of time, when you don't get enough calories to support your activity levels. How far will your car get, with a full tank of gas, but no battery, spark plus, or air in the tires? Your body needs more than just energy to survive.The body also needs new nutrients that will pass through the body in the form of excretion like sweat, with Essentials like salt and water, and feces with others. These need regular replenishment and a person can not live long without them, certaintly not long enough to get a fat person skinny[If the body receives it's necessary vitamins/nutrients in addition to enough water, it's possible to basically "starve" for prolonged periods of time.] Therefore, if an obese person dies while fasting before they are super skinny, it is not due to starvation.I've never heard of an obese person starving to death, is this an actual thing?", 'Like any machine, the cells in the body will eventually stop working, unless repair work is done on them. This repair work needs raw materials as well as energy. If you do not eat any protein, your body will start cannibalising less important parts to keep the more important organs going. This process can only go on so long before you run out of usable protein, and you will die of organ failure. If you are fat enough, but not particularly muscular, this can happen before your energy reserves are used upThey have the energy reserves, by they are missing the other components to survive. Thus they starve their body of essential nutrients and die because of itYour body needs more than energy. You need water, vitamins, minerals, and protein. You have enough energy to survive from all the fat, but fat people still need other things to rebuild body tissue and for their body parts to function. |
Why don't they make contact lenses that act as sun glasses? Is it possible? | I was watching the special features on one of the DVDs and Johnny Depp wore tinted contacts during filming Pirates of the Caribbean so that he wasn't squinting every shot so they make them. |
What's the reason for "Try again in two minutes" (etc) for phone passwords? | It prevents someone from brute forcing your passcode. If you could try immediately and infinitely, it wouldn't take nearly as much time / effort to just try every possible combination. |
How do our brains know when to wake up? What keeps us from just staying asleep forever until something disturbs us? | Under normal circumstances your need to sleep builds up over the course of your waking day, and sleeping fulfills that need over the course of your sleep cycle. Compare it to how your body filling your bladder with waste fluids builds your need to urinate. Urinating empties your bladder and relieves the need. You won't just keep peeing forever until something disturbs you; eventually your bladder will be as empty as it's going to get and you will stop urinating and go about your life, until the next time you need to come back and pee again.The brain has many "clocks" that can control diurnal function at specific points. These "local clocks" are affected by changes in hormones like cortisol and by genes linked to diurnal function called "clock genes." However, there is one "master clock" in the brain located in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus which signals to the "local clocks" to control diurnal rhythms. The Suprachiasmatic nucleus is triggered by photosensitive cells in the retina being exposed to light-or the lack of light, such as at morning and nightBasically "body clock". Your brain remembers roughly what time you go to sleep, and roughly what time you wake up, and adjusts chemical levels accordingly to make you sleepy or wake you up. All the time I'm waking up 15-30 minutes before my alarm. |
Why do we have only one system of time? | [This] radio documentary possibly doesn't answer your question directly but it does go into how and why we measure time in the way we now do. It's been a little while since i listened but remember finding it pretty interesting. |
In movies if you use a companies product you need their permission or blur it out. Why is it not a problem for music? | > eating kraft mac and cheese to get more energy to bang on more fools. That's gold right there |
How/can you feel when people are staring at you? | It's a combination of your peripheral vision and confirmation bias.You are have a great angle of vision, you might not see them directly, but your brain can process everything from your eyes, thus, he sees someone and alerts you about themI'm not sure of any scientific evidence behind this but is based off of what I 've observed and heard about. Some military people may have heard this before too. When setting up an ambush you're not suppose to look directly at the intended target, only say its feet or something past it. This may have something to do with predators vs prey. Predators have eyes facing forward, IE: cats, dogs, humans etc. While prey have eyes facing out, IE: fish, deer, vermin, etc. There is a thought that predators have a sort of sixth sense about being watched, and will react on it. This may just be confirmation bias but I 've noticed this while driving a lot. I'll be driving and as I pull up near another vehicle the driver may not be paying attention but as soon as I look at him/her, they tend to look back almost instinctively. I could just be rambling but I do believe there is such a "feeling." So take that for what its worth. TL;DR- We may just have a sixth sense type of nature to know when we're being observed.Isn't there some evolutionary possibility that the people who were better at noticing they were being watched got eaten by tigers less frequently? |
Could a star orbit a planet? | If a star were to orbit a planet, the planet would have to be substantially more massive than the star, so it would probably undergo it's own sustained nuclear fusion and become a star itself |
Why does scratching my back relieve an itch but having someone else scratch it make it damn near orgasmic? | No dude I'm the same way. My mom's been doing that for me since I was a small dude. It feels SO damn good. Ha |
If hair are dead cells then how does shampoos and/or conditioners 'repair' it? | They don't at all. Just coats your hair in stuff that feels nice. 'Straightening' stuff coats it in stuff that slams the cuticle shut, 'volume' just fills in between the cuticles, if you continue using the product it'll make your hair feel better but obv if you stop using the product it'll just wash out.I studied this stuff and it was extremely educational yet disappointing to learn ;p", 'Hair is covered in a waxy coating, this coating starts to break down with wear and tear and exposure. Shampoo and conditioner will apply a new wax coating and sometimes strip the natural coating first. It's also why hair straightening / curling works the heat softens the coating and shapes it before letting it set again by cooling off. It's also why hair "melts" when burned. Just think of a string covered in wax and hair makes more sense. |
Why did computer cases and monitors change from being beige/white to being black? | For one, a black bezel is much better for video watching that a white bezel. Secondly, because almost all tech is black, because it's sleek. Game consoles are black, most remotes are black, most cable boxes are black, most speakers are black, etc.My guess is because white/beige plastic often oxidizes, leaving a yellow, dirty looking finish after some time. Black, not so much.It was really the early iMac G3 that finally got people interested in attractive desktop computers. Desktop PC's became noticeably more colorful/interesting around 1999. |
why is it not discrimination to ask to see a Doctor of a particular gender but it is for other things? | This is a loaded question so it's been removed. Discriminating means differentiating. So you are discriminating when you do that as well. |
Why are cancer patients (regardless of the type of cancer) always advised not to expose themselves to the sun? | Many of the agents used in chemo increase sensitivity to light. In addition, chemo can reduce the body's ability to heal. As such, many cancer patients are at increased risk of sun damage & their bodies are less prepared to fight off infection, so avoiding the sun is advisable. |
Why aren't we hungry anymore if we get anxious about something? | Why aren't we hungry when focusing on something? I am focused usually on work or gaming or a movie etc Could that also be fight or flight? |
What is the difference between Cable TV and Cable Internet? Why doesn't TV ever need to stop and load like streaming services? | It's because the internet is server-based and it takes more to get things done. When you try to connect to a website or service, your request first has to find it's way to the proper location. Once it's reached the appropriate server, the server has to process the request and send you back what you're supposed to get, based on what you asked for, and the return package has to find it's way back to your computer. On cable, you tune into a channel, and you just get whatever is coming through that channel. The only work to be done is connecting you to the proper channel. This is the same reason you don't have to buffer radio. Your antenna vibrates at a specific frequency, and you get whatever is on that frequency, whether you want it or not.A metaphor would be calling a takeout Chinese place and ordering, they make the food and you come, pay and leave, versus eating whatever your mom cooked for dinner. One of them involves a lot more communication. |
If Congress refuses to allow a new Supreme Court Justice to be appointed, can the Supreme Court still function? Could anything be done to force them to accept someone? | It's not shut down. There are normally 9 justices. In order to overrule a decision from the lower courts you need 5 justices to agree. If you are down to 8 justices you still need 5 justices to agree. The catch is there is more of a chance that you'll get to that 5th judge if you only have 8 justices. Additionally, you may have a 4-4 split which also happens when justices recuse themselves from voting. |
Why do I.V. bags have that little drip thing instead of connecting directly from bag to tube to patient? | Fun fact, when I was in the hospital a few years ago, the nurse made an error on my IV bag. She set it to 120 or something high and I had to pee an entire bladder out every hour and 30 minutes. We're talking almost 2 minutes of straight peeing at a pretty respectable force. While peeing like that felt awesome, it also kept me from sleeping until they fixed it.That is called a gravity bag or Dial-a-flow. It uses gravity to feed drug into a patient and you can adjust the amount by changing the pinching on the tube. There are many other types of feeds but this one is probably simple and cheap to set up and may have a better "tv" drama appeal which is why you see it so much.Because the drops have a consistent volume, it is used to calculate the amount of drugs going through the I.V. If you have not this small plastic chamber, you can't calculate the flow and it can cause serious problem of overdose .The drip chamber is there exclusively to provide a visual indicator if the IV is running and at what speed, when the drip chamber becomes full of fluid there is no way to quickly tell if the IV is running or notBefore automated pumps, you could adjust the rate by adjusting the frequency of the drips ', "Is one of it's uses to also stop back flow? |
How is it possible that data doesn't weigh anything? | You aren't adding anything or taking anything away when you delete things. All a computer does is change the current state of something, almost like millions of little switches that are either on or off. if it is flipped off, it doesn't magically start weighing less.I stole this: "higher information content correlates with a more energetic configuration and this is true regardless of the particular type of storage Now, as per Einstein's most famous formula, energy is equivalent to mass." It's a miniscule difference, you would need a very high precision scale to accurately tell the difference. An electric charge carries with it mass. Those electric charges are recorded for long term on magnetic cylinders. Ram is volatile memory, which means it loses its charge and whatever values in memory when it loses power. That type of memory will always be the same mass or weight when power is not running through itSometimes "data" does weigh something! [A charged capacitor weighs more than a discharged one]. So if data is stored in volatile memory, it does have a little bit of weigh, although not very much. In the case of a hard drive, or a solid state drive the data is not stored as a charge. Imagine the drive has being billions of very small switches. The data is stored by flipping the switch. No matter how you flip the switch, it weighs the same! |
Why do athletes get drug tested for recreational/non-performance enhancing drugs (weed, etc.)? | Because even though sports league's do not have police departments and a system of courts they are held to outrageously high standards in the court of public opinion when an athlete breaks the law in their private life. Look at the Ray Rice situation. He was let go by a police department working in consultation with the local DA and no one is on the internet screaming about how the DA's office has a problem. The NFL on the other hand is being held publicly accountable for something that happened in the offseason in a city that doesn't have an NFL team. Because of this reality sports league's punish athletes for doing things that aren't popularly accepted .Cannabis is great for endurance training, you can zone out and run forever. Psychedlics are even better. Athletes push their mental limits as much as physical, anything mind altering will change thise limits.ELI5: Why wouldn't we want to watch 2 teams of equally enhanced super athletes having at it |
Why do humans have to wipe after they poop when practically every other animal does not need to? | We don't HAVE to. We just really prefer to.Being subscribed to /r/shittyaskscience and /r/eli5, this post confused me.In addition to the squatting thing, it's the fact that animals other than primates don't have butt cheeks. |
What are the tiny little dots in your vision that you see when you stare at a solid colour? | There are little motes that naturally float around in human eyes; they're especially easy to see when you stare at white walls. They're harmless and I do not know where they come from. |
Why do images of computer screens show weird patterns when you zoom them in and out? | In addition to the Moire pattern, as mentioned in another comment, the refresh rate of the screen can also distort images and produce effects similar to your picture. Basically, the screen constantly refreshes all of its pixels at a rate faster than is detectable by the human eye. However, if your camera's shutter speed is different from the refresh rate, it will catch the screen mid-refresh, so you see the darker areas. The pattern of those darker areas depends on the type of screen - they can differ in how they refresh the pixels. |
How do we get diarrhea, and why is all liquidy?? | Best answer that I've ever seen to this subject was given by u/jiggity_gee in a similar question _URL_0_", 'There are some reasons why we get diarrhea, but they all get down to having too much water in your feces. In the small intestine your poo is like a liquid, and most of the nutrients are being absorbed. When it comes to the large intestine the large intestine starts to absorb the excess water until you have more firm poo. One reason for getting diarrhea is the body not absorbing the water, that is the usual reason for diarrhea. It is usualy a response-mechanism to your body not liking something and trying to cure it by flushing it out. Same for stress but it is more a fright/flight response that shuts down the resorbtion. The other reason is that the body excretes water in the large intestine, for example in cholera.If we get bacteria or viruses that affect our stomachs or intestines we might get diarrhea. For example food poisioning. The reason why your poop gets all liquid is becaudse your body intestines can't absorb the water from the processed food coming from your stomach. This also means that you can't absorb nutrients or water properly thus you get dehydrated and weak. Prolonged diarrhea can be very dangerous and even fatal if not treated. A lot of soldiers died from dysentri during ww1, which basically is nonstop diarrhea for a long period of time. |
Is there any signs for another major economic recession in the next couple of years? | We might be looking at an educational bubble in US pretty soon. We have a lot of people who took huge loans to get higher education, thinking they will graduate and make $60k a year right away. Instead, a lot of people do not finish school or can't find a job after graduation, therefore defaulting on their loans |
Why do we forget the moment we fall asleep? | There's a process that your brain has to do to transfer short term memory to long term memory. Once you're asleep the part that does that has shut down for the night, and thus the memory of falling asleep never makes it out of short term. |
How do radio stations know how many people listen to them? | Nielsen, one of the largest media research companies out there, determines a stations ratings through the use of it's Portable People Meter, or PPM. The PPM is worn by people who are paid by Nielsen to do so and it detects hidden audio tones in a station or network's audio stream and then logs each time it detects such a signal. From the sample size of all people with PPMs in a given market, Nielsen can extrapolate what portion of the total population was listening. So really, radio stations don't know how many people listen to them, they know what portion of people with PPMs listened to them but the advertising industry has accepted this as an acceptable form of measurement. For the curious _URL_0_", 'About two years ago, I was paid two crisp dollar bills each time I filled out a paper log/diary recording the radio stations I listened to and when. Seriously, I would receive the log for the previous week in the mail, fill it out, send it in, and a few days later waaahlaaahhh! Two brand new dollar bills would be in an envelope in my mailbox. It was so little money but I loved how NEW the bills wereits simple actually. they poll people and ask them "do you listen to this radio station? if so, how much? when? what shows?" with randomly selected samples you can generalize even from a pretty modest sample size to the entire population and get a reasonably accurate statistical result. |
Why don't wireless signals, like text messages, hit in midair and mess each other up? | To understand what's going on, you need to have some background on what radio is. Radio waves are a specific type of 'electromagnetic radiation' - which is the same thing as light, or xrays, or gamma rays, or infrared light, or ultraviolet light, or microwaves, among others. All of these things are all photons, they are all traveling at the speed of light, and photons are really neat because they don't interact with each other . If you take a flash light, and you shine it in one direction, and take another flash light and cross the two beams of light, they don't do anything - they just pass right through. Now even though that is the case - imagine you are trying to communicate to someone with a flash light. They turn the light on and off and use Morse code - three short flashes is an 'S', or whatever. So long as it's just the one guy with a flash light turning it on and off, you're fine, but if someone else comes along and shines the flash light at you - those two signals will overlap each other and you won't be able to figure out what your friend's message is. There are a variety of ways that we can allow multiple people to send out signals at the same time. One is by varying the frequency of the light. For example we give your friend a blue light, and the other guy a red light, and then we can tell them apart. Another is by enforcing rules that says who can 'talk' at a given time, so that only one person is ever talking at once, but we switch back and forth fast enough that we can't really tell. |
Why does insulation work? | > Why is it not cheaper in the long run to buy lots of good insulation in the hopes of saving on fuel required to restore the temperature to the desired level? It *is* cheaper in the long run to have a properly thermally insulated house. In Germany, all newly built houses are required by law to have double-glass windows and good, modern thermal isolation built into the walls. The other answers here explain how/why insulation works. Btw, if you'd completely turn off the heating in your house, eventually the inside *would* become just as cold as the outside, when we ignore small heating effects from the inhabitants, or things like solar heating through glass windows. |
Whats wrong with the statement "you shouldn't mind if you've got nothing to hide" (in terms of internet privacy?) | There's a difference between having something to hide and wanting to be private. You wouldn't other people to read your emails or texts to your partner, for example, and that's a question of privacy rather than having something to hide. |
How do parrots form words without lips? | A speaker doesn't have lips but is able to emulate speech pretty well. They're not really saying a word, they're replicating the sound. |
If I were to travel back in time to with a standard modern day laptop and they dissected it, how accurately could they recreate the technology, if at all? | _URL_0_ _URL_1_ They'd have an idea of what it was, depending on who you showed it to. The first silicon transistor was made in 1954; PCBs were used in WWII for proximity fuses for shells. |
How are the olympics still going forward with all the issues they're facing? Is an almost certain outbreak of Zika not enough to put a halt to them? | There's too much money at stake for the event to be cancelled or even delayed. You have people who have bought tickets in advanced and already set up travel plans which are not easy to change if at all. You have nation wide event plans which are date specific which were drawn up probably well over a year ago. You also have Brazil who spent a good deal of money to host the Olympics in the first place. Not to mention the potential hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes. At this point the men and women in control are not willing to prioritize the lives of people over the financial chaos that would erupt if they chose to even hold off the event. |
If we do not need our appendix, why do we not have it removed early on in our lives to prevent the possibility of appendicitis? | There's a difference between unnecessary and not useful. You don't need your legs to live but you'd hardly say they're useless. There is scientific evidence that the apendix is extremely useful in the 'gut' or digestive 'micro-biome' |
Why is suicide considered sinful in most religions? | I'm an atheist who worked as an archaeologist and was anthropologically educated. I would say that ALL religions the world has known and will know are important and should be viewed both casually and critically. An easy example of critical examination of religion is a common one that Americans might be familiar with: The New England Quakers. Quakers during their hay day in America believed that, and I'm paraphrasing here, working was the best thing a god fearing family could do. They would have lots of kids, educate their kids in craftsmanship, and only through good, honest hard work would they find their place in heaven. Quakers worked 6 days a week, long hours, and believed their craftsmanship was their key to salvation, and that being greedy was sinful. So, taking a step back, who does this benefit? Well. Anyone employing Quakers or buying Quaker goods, honestly. It's pretty well accepted in academia that religions like this were encouraged by ruling classes to keep the masses relatively dumb, fertile, and productive-which encouraged future generations of productivity for the ruling class to profit from. If you accept that religion benefits one class in society more than others, which there are numerous examples of, especially religions that preach productivity it becomes pretty clear why the religion would encourage its people to not prematurely end their lives. Now, MOST world religions don't OVERTLY preach productivity, but these religions typically do have older roots that may have encouraged these ideals. Christianity did. Historically and archaeologically religion has been a tool for regulation and control of the masses, it's where our rules, mores, taboos and laws typically come from. It's where morality was found in the first place This is a complicated question that can be answered in a lot of ways, but a valid answer is often found outside of religion as well as inside. |
How does this investment chart make sense? Arthur constantly adds money to his, while Ben added for like eight years. | You've missed the point worrying about the specifics here. :) By starting eight years earlier and *only* putting in 16k total, Ben ends up with more money than Arthur who puts in 78,000 and starts only eight years later than Ben. FWIW, that chart assumes an interest rate of 12%, **really** optimisic - But the bigger point still holds - Time matters far, far more than how much you put in. Most of us can never save enough to actually retire on; we *can*, however, save enough such that the power of compounded growth will turn it into a fortune. We need to start as early as possible for that to work, though! Edit: 12%, not 11%. Oops. |
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