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Why are there so many programming languages, what do they do, and is there a 'best' language? | There are so many programming languages because there are so many different types of things to program. Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses that make it ideal for a certain type of application. Programming languages are high-level ways to communicate with a computer's processor. They allow us to tell a computer what to do in a way that's easy for us, as people, to express. The compiler then translates that on down the line into machine code, the binary patterns that direct the operations of the individual processor chip. In some cases, we can directly use machine code to accomplish the same tasks, but it's much more difficult to do, since there are only a select few commands the processor can understand. So the programming language basically provides an efficient way to combine those commands into more complex processes, in an easy-to-follow way. There is a best programming language for a very specific job. As I said before, each language has its own advantages and disadvantages. Its own nuances that make it the most efficient way to do particular tasks. And they can also be used in conjunction with one another. This is another way to say that there's not really a best language.People created programing languages too many things easier. So basically like inventing a proper tool for a job, different designs are bound to be different because they are invented by different people. Also, the meaning of variety is that you can always find the best one for a specific circumstance. Generally speaking there is no such thing as a best overall language for everything.Simple Eli5 answer: Look at it like medical drugs. If you have a headache you won't get the same medicine as when you have got heart problems. Everyone of them has their purpose and is best for one thing, while useless for another. |
Why does ingesting grapefruit and grapefruit juice interfere with my anti-anxiety medication? | I'm surprised I have not heard of people abusing grape fruits with their meds to increase their high somehow.Side note: I believe the goal is less than a quart a day of grapefruit juice |
Why is liquid water considered such an important factor in the search for alien life? | I would assume that water on other planets gives us the most optimism that life exists there simply because of what we know about life here on earth, and the conditions for it.It isn't necessarily a condition for alien life, it's just a great base for us to narrow down the search. |
What prevents a company from simply stating "We are not liable for anything." and it being true? | Any claim that's made like that, only has validity in as much as it agrees with existing laws. It doesn't supersede them. If the firework is faulty - they are liable. If someone used the firework in a way that is clearly inappropriate and contrary to clear instructions given, they probably arent.I ran two computer/electronic repair shops, and we had a waiver every customer had to sign releasing us from liability for anything from theft to technician mistakes. We were never successfully sued for anything, even after recycling someones computer that had left it there for a year ', "Disclaimers are like legal armor. They provide some protection in court, but its no where near an impenetrable defense. Judges can and do throw them out all the time. What a disclaimer does very well, like armor, is discourage people from suing you. If people think you aren't liable, they won't try to sue you. |
Why do terrorist groups like ISIS publicly announce when one of their leaders has died? | When a leader is killed by the enemy, there are three basic options * try to keep it secret, to keep the enemy guessing* be unable to keep it secret, and let the enemy announce it and take credit for it* assume it won't be secret, and get ahead of it, announcing it with your own spin, to reduce the PR spin the enemy gets |
Process of buying a home--start to finish. | I bought my first home last year.. 1- get pre-approved for a mortgage 2- get a realtor 3- choose a house 4- put an offer on the house 5- go back & forth until both parties agree on price 6-both parties will sign a contract the seller will likely have a couple as well . You will also formally apply for your mortgage at this point. 8- the mortgage company will do their own inspections . You will get in contact with the lawyer that will be inchare of closing at this time. He will set up all of the paperwork & make sure all of the required forms are present. 9- set up your homeowners insurance 10- attend the closing.. the buyer, seller, agents, and lawyer will be here. You will spend a few hours signing a giant stack of documents about everything.. all parties will exchange predetermined payments & the seller will give you the keys. The process is officially complete. Some other tips: A- your realtor will guide you through all of the steps, but will be particularly helpful/necessary in steps 3-7. B- Once step 6 is complete, you will have a short window to do everything in steps 7,8, & 9 .. Don't procrastinate on anything.. All of my inspections had a 2-3 week wait.. Put priority on formally applying for the mortgage as this step is the most time consuming . C- once you get pre-approved, keep your credit as stable as possible.. don't make any large purchases, dont apply for credit, pay your debts as you normally would. Do this until you get the keys to your house. D- I'd highly recommend setting up an appointment with a mortgage councilor. The mortgage councilor was a great resource for me through the entire process. He guided me through the process & told me what to expect, he explained even the most complicated aspects of the process in a very easy to understandable way, he went over all of my pre-closing documentation with me to make sure it all checked out, and he even introduced me to a local first time home buyer grant program! |
How reliable actually is Wikipedia? | People like to correct incorrect information, so it is fairly reliable. On the other hand, vandalism is fun. A good way to figure out if a piece of information on Wikipedia is valid is to look at the source of the information. If no source is cited, proceed with caution. If the information is sourced from a peer reviewed journal, textbook or reputable news outlet, it's more likely to be correct. The little ^superscripts will direct you to information in the reference section. You can just cite the same source that Wikipedia cites instead of directly citing Wikipedia. |
Why do men and women (typically) have very different and distinct penmanship? | I remember reading in a book about handwriting back in the 90s that, among adults of similar education, contrary to popular belief, there were no consistent handwriting differences correlated to the person's sex. Apparently when people actually tried to identify the sex of a writer without knowing it in advance, they were no more successful than chance. This was a long time ago, though, and things might be different now. Back then, kids were taught handwriting more seriously, because there was no expectation that anyone would be typing except for office secretaries, so handwriting was given higher priority than it is now. EDIT: Also, this was for adults - so, after the fine motor skills developmental schedules of boys caught up with those of girls. That, and you see fewer i's dotted with hearts or little circles as a tip-off. |
How can causation be distinguished from correlation? | If A is correlated with B, you have three possibilities: * A causes B* B causes A* some unknown factor, C, causes both Much of the effort of proving causality is searching for all possible C's and ruling them out. Once you have done that, it is usually easier to determine which way the causality flows, either by chronology or plausibility. |
Why do we "space out" randomly? | I don't know actually, but I found an article on NBC that mentioned a study that suggests it has something to do with recall. _URL_0_ |
How you can make an SOS call without phone service? | Another point that I don't see being mentioned is that for 911 calls the transmit power of your phone is set to maximum. This will drain the battery faster, but there is a much better chance of connecting to a tower at that point whether it's on your own carrier or not. Additionally, the tower may also boost it's transmit power. If nothing else it could help triangulate your cell phone by pinging it even if there's not enough bandwidth for a call.No service means that your carrier is not available at that location or has network issues or something. If you then make an emergency call, the phone will connect to the first carrier it manages to establish a connection to. Also emergency calls work without sim cards because well in case there is an emergency. I am not sure but I think that emergency calls also have priority over other calls in case the network is full. |
Does your DNA change after a full blood transfusion? | Wow, thanks guys for all the responses. I was never aware that chemo and radiation were sometimes used to eliminate your original bone marrow. This is a question I've wondered for a while and I've never been able to get a solid answer! |
- Why do public restrooms have automatic soap dispensers if you will wash your hands directly after applying the soap? | Hygiene - 95% of people do not wash their hands correctly. To touch a soap dispenser or faucet or door handle is like touching the genitals of 95% of everyone who have used it. If I can't wash, dry, and exit without touching a surface in a public restroom, I don't wash at all. |
How have we not noticed a planet in our solar system 10 times the size if earth? | The only way we will be able to detect it definitively is by actually seeing it. We can do this in one of two ways, either this planet is large enough and hot enough that it emits it's own infrared light, and we use a detector to find that, or we see sunlight reflecting off of it and shining back to us. It's unlikely it's hot enough to emit infrared like Jupiter, so our best chance is seeing the light reflecting off it. Being so far away, it would be exceedingly dim, and the further out you get, the more area you need to canvas to find it. There is an astounding amount of space we need to cover. It's exceedingly difficult to see something so dim and so small . The intensity of light that leaves the sun drops with the square of the distance, and so the light that reflects off this planet is twice that, having to make a return trip to our telescopes. It's amazing we've seen distant objects like Pluto back when we did in 1930! And it's only been in the last 20 years we've had the technology and the sensitivity to discover the other planetoids that even led us to the deduction this new planet is out there in the first place. That this object is so far out there, it's gravity has an insignificant influence on the inner and what we commonly think of outer solar system. This object is beyond the Kuiper belt, projected to be 400 Astronomical Units out there; the Voyager probes are the furthest man made objects from Earth, and we consider them to be entering the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space, and it's a mere 135 AU from Earth. at 17 km/s, it'll take 74 years for Voyager 1 to match that distance. And consider the gravitational well of our sun extends even further, so who knows what else might be trapped in orbit about our sun that we would have never expected to be there, which we don't yet know and might not yet think to even wonder. |
Why does it take humans in some cases over 12 months to walk when animals like deer can walk within a few hours of birth. | I've read that it is because we have such a narrow birth canal, meaning our offspring have to be born much less developed. |
Often in movies there are lines of dialogue (subtitles) that aren't possible to hear. | A lot of people are confusing closed captioning with subtitles. Subtitles only mean the lines of text on the movies for reading, and when used alone, generally only for spoken sentences. Closed captioning includes all noise related things essential to watching the movie, including explosions sounds and whatnot. Now to answer OPs questions, subtitles most often have official subtitles, and other unofficial ones may be just ported from these, perhaps translated or copied from released movie script. You're probably thinking of srt files that come with video downloads, but remember, movie theatres also have access to subtitles that they can display. One instance I can think of was Thor dark world, where the dark elves talk. It's in a completely made up language so no one should know what it's talking about, but official subtitles show that they actually are saying something, and when I watched it in the theatres it was displayed. I only realized it wasn't embedded to the movie when I tried watching it a week ago without subtitles.Scrips are written that way. The playwright gets to use all of his craft. Just as emotion and tension are communicated by the music, which most of the time should not be there, the volume of the conversation is adjusted by the playwright and the director. Plays are like that too. Although before microphones, amplifiers and speakers actors had to learn to project their voices, there are scenes in plays where dialog is not going to be clearly understood. There is a scene in Brigadoon where the chorus is singing this. The words are actually being sung that you are not going to hear them.In the game Halo Reach, during the ending cutscene for the level New Alexandria, you can read the subtitles for civilians panicking but it's impossible to hear. |
Does killing cockroaches lead to the future roaches being smarter? | Don't actively kill them, put out roach baits. Then they all get a nice last meal. I also really doubt that rocahes are smart enough to notice the reasons other roaches get killed, that is way above their brain level. |
Why is it impossible to exhale into a bottle? | It might be because of pressure.Within the bottle you have the same air pressure as outside of it. As the bottle is closed and you try to exhale the air can't go anywhere and therefore you have to compress the air inside for which your lungs are not strong enough. |
Does Microsoft make profit from giving Windows 10 away for free? | Microsoft is only giving away Windows 10 to people who already purchased a copy of Windows 7 or 8. It still costs money to put Windows 10 on a new computer, and enterprises still have to sign expensive agreements with Microsoft to get all the features and support they need. Upgrades were never more than a tiny portion of Microsoft's revenues, and the lost money will probably be made up for with revenue from people using the app store and from some up-sell features they can push more in the new version, like upgraded OneDrive storage. Not to mention that they won't have to spend as much money and effort supporting older versions of Windows if they can get everyone to upgrade to the latest version. |
If light slows down in water, how does it speed back up again when it comes out? | The Feynnman lectures have a good example.of this. Don't have time to search for a link but it's on the refractive index or permittivity stuff. It comes down to the light wave cause atoms in the new medium to oscillate at the same frequency as the incoming wave. They oscillate out of phase however. It turns out the addition of the original wave and the induced waves sum up through super posistion to be a new wave with a lower wave speed in the medium. |
How did people in the days before daily showers and teeth brushing not have terrible acne, rotting teeth, infections, etc? | Acne isn't caused by hygienic reasons, it's more genetic. Teeth rotting only occurs with modern processed food consumption check out some modern tribal pictures and see they have perfect teeth. Infections? Yeah, they had plenty of those. |
So... what happened to the Malaysian flight? | I dunno, but this season Lost sucks. Like, we haven't even seen the monster yet. |
Why do NFL teams claim they cannot survive without a brand new state of the art stadium? | Because the owner really wants a new stadium. Older stadiums typically don't have large amounts of luxury suites that they can charge insane amounts of money for. The 49ers for example, were able to collect 400 million from Personal Seat Licenses just for their luxury suites. Keep in mind those aren't tickets to the games, and it doesn't count the 60,000 plus regular seats in the stadium. Those Seat Licenses just allow you the right to purchase tickets going forward.The luxury suites are not subject to revenue sharing. So teams want new facilities with more luxury suitesI wish all teams were run like the Packers. Publicly owned and they have been in the same stadium for 60 yearsBecause if they claim that, they can convince gullible politicians to buy something they should have to pay for themselves.For a couple reasons. The first is the most practical. Sometimes stadiums either fail entirely , or the stadiums are so old that it needs upgrades that cost so much is makes it pointless to keep the existing stadium. For example, would it be smarter to buy a $4000 car and spend $16000 in upgrades/parts, or buy a new $20000 car that doesn't need any work? The more common reason, however, is money. Every new stadium gets to charge more for tickets because it's a newer stadium. Also, in the NFL, every new stadium typically gets to host a Super Bowl within a few years of opening. So not only do the owners get to earn ticket revenue from regular season games, they get to cash in on the championship game the NFL hosts each year. This also benefits hotels and other businesses in the immediate area as well. |
Where do wild animals go when they die? | It's not like dead wild animals leave carcasses that persist for lengthy periods of time. The flesh is quickly consumed by scavengers, and what isn't eaten rots fairly quickly.Mostly because they disappear very quickly. In cities, humans clear them away; in the country, various scavengers make short work of the carcass. |
What gives certain materials a cooler ambient temperature than others? Why is metal cool to the touch even if a room is warm? | It's not the one is cooler than the other. Metal and plastic sitting in a room will both be at room temperature. However, metal is a better conductor of heat, meaning the transfer of heat from your hand to the metal is more efficient. Because your hand is hotter than room temperature, touching the metal will cool your hand quicker than plastic, making the object feel cooler. Alternatively, touching metal that is above your body temperature will feel hotter than plastic, at the same temperature, as the heat is transferred to your hand more efficient. |
why don’t cars have brakes when the ignition is off—Why shouldn’t we be able to use the brakes? | Most cars nowadays have power assisted brakes. Can't use power assisted brakes with engine off. Same goes with the steering wheel |
How is Tesla worth more than Ford? | People buy Tesla's stock anticipating great returns in the future. They think Tesla will become the dominant car brand, with electric cars taking over the streets. With all of these people buying Tesla's stock, the stock price rises, and thus Tesla's overall value also rises. Personally, I'm more skeptical about Tesla. I'm waiting for them to actually be able to produce cars consistently. Also, I'm not convinced that electric cars will take over in the future. |
When suffering with depression, what is the physical feeling you get in your chest? Sort of like an actual sinking feeling. | When you're stressed and/or anxious your body has a physical response. This is called the fight or flight response. It is a way for the body to prepare itself for a treat, which we call stress. The muscles in our body tighten up, which also happens in the chest area. Normally your body recovers easily from this response. But when this response is frequent, the body has not enough time to recover, which results in a tightened chest. This can cause pain or can have effect on your breathing, which maybe explains the feeling you've described. Note: I'm not a doctor, just a Biomedical Sciences student trying to help someone out. Please contact your doctor for any medical, mental or physical help! |
Why does the brain feel the need to correct inverted sight? Would it make a difference if humans grew up with only inverted vision? | It makes more sense to me to think of it as having evolved along with eyesight itself. The inversion correction is really just one aspect of perception. All of our perception is a consequence of evolution. Perception does not represent reality. Perception is only what provided survival benefits to our ancestors. We must be born with some framework of perception, then the mind can put sensory input into that framework. That framework must be considered only in the context of what was necessary to bring us to this point. The initial image in the eye is inverted, so that inverted image becomes perceived reality. The mind can easily correct images that are rotated, example: watching TV while laying on the couch. In that case, the mind has the sensory input of the semi-circular canals in the ears to know the angle.In the case of wearing inverted glasses, the mind must be confused at first. This leads to you question, why is the mind able to invert it again?It could be the initial power of perception as a child required the mind to put sensory inputs into that framework of perception. That ability must carry on throughout life. There would be no reason for it to stop. It's really just an aspect of the mind. The corrected image was not a one time thing to correct the inversion created by the eye. There is no reason the separate the image correction from perception. It's not the image correction that is a consequence of evolution, it is perception that is the consequence. Image correction is merely one aspect of perception. It looks like some people here were not aware that the image is inverted by the eye to begin with. |
Is there a scientific explantion yet for why we're sentient? | It's an illusion. Your body and mind are nothing more than an extremely complex, deterministic machine. |
is my phone eavesdropping on my conversations? | I read somewhere that WhatsApp tracks conversations and uses it to target ads. So if you've been chatting about it that may be the reason. I'm sure there's a way to switch it off too in the settings. |
Why is it near impossible to watch Bluray films on PC, whereas there is no problem with DVD's? | The complexity and security around the copy protection was stepped up a few notches with BluRays to combat piracy, consequently it's difficult for application developers get access to the decryption keys necessary to play encrypted discs as the organisations involved don't want it to be easy for application developers to come along and start decrypting the discs. As a result there's a very limited selection of Bluray player software available for computers . |
WWE, how is it so popular ? | I'll list a few things that are attractive about pro wrestling. *its a never ending saga. No season breaks. No finales. Just a new show every single week. *a cast of characters close to 80 or 90 deep *real athleticism and talent required *incredible spectacle. Lights. Music. Pyrotechnics. Costumes. Tons of drama. *history is very important. Wrestlers of yesteryear are greatly respected. Seniority counts big time. *a great pro wrestler has to have a wide skill set which includes proper execution of holds, ability to tell a great nonverbal story in a match using good ring psychology, confidence to speak on the mic, charisma to get people invested in them , a good look, and something to set them apart from the rest. Very few have all of these mastered. *the more you learn about how wrestling works, how stories are made and guys are given the spotlight and have it taken away from them, the more invested you get into each week's show *its fun. Keep an open mind and it's easy to get hooked.You are misusing the word "how". The word you are looking for is "why" Its lowest common denominator fiction entertainment. The good guys win, there is a lot of dramatic action, and the girls are hot. Its basically a Hollywood movie in the fleshThis has been deleted because you are asking for opinions. Please try /r/askreddit instead for this type of question. Thanks. |
why is the two dollar bill so rare? | Some people have believed that they're bad luck, and some others considered them evidence that a person had been gambling at the horse races, since $2 was a traditional minimum bet. But they also aren't sufficiently different from the other denominations. Say you buy something with a $5 bill in the price range from $0 to $5, in 40% of the range you will *not* get any two's in change, and in another 20% any two you might get will have to be accompanied by a single. Hardly worth the effort in stocking change drawers. OTOH, back in the days when military enlisted men were paid in cash , a common PR stunt at Army bases was to issue one month's payroll in $2 bills -- just to show the business community how much money the base was injecting into the local economy. |
Is "tolerance" psychological, or is there a physical basis for it (alcohol,pain,etc)? | I have a chronic pain disorder that most people get when they are older if they get it but I started having symptoms when I was 14 and it kicked in fully by 17-18. I'm able to handle the pain a lot better than most others with the same illness and that is probably because they spent a large portion of their life without pain where as I didn't have much of one before hand. Of course I went through depression periods and I still do but on the whole I basically had to except that life is painful but that doesn't mean I have to be sad too. The pain isn't getting better but I'm able to not let it affect my mood most of the time. I've found things that let me not think too much about the pain and that's the biggest thing that's helped. Its pretty cool that even if you're in a lot of pain if you find something that really interests you and makes you concentrate the pain doesn't seem like its there until I stop doing that thing. For me it was videogames, books, and art those are my best pain killers. |
How did Donald Trump end up with so much money? | I heard he protects the Trump name and owns another company named something else. If something he does is successful, its Trump enterprises all the way. When something starts failing, he 'sells' it to the other business, and the flawless Trump record remains 'successful'. That, and he started with daddies 200 million. |
How to cook chicken in a way that isn't bland or dry | Chicken is mostly water. The hotter the chicken gets, the more water is going to get out and dry out the chicken, so you need to make sure the chicken doesn't get too hot. You can do this by cooking for not very long on a high heat, which keeps the inside juicy but the outside browned. This method is good for boneless cuts such as breast and thigh, you can cut it open in the pan to see if it's white in the middle. If it is, then it's ready. If it's meat on the bone or a whole chicken, you need to cook it low and slow in an oven. Chicken is ready to eat when it's 60 degrees celsius or 140 degrees farenheit, so get a meat thermometer to stick into the chicken when you think it should be done. The time and temperatures vary depending on if you care more about taste or how quickly it will be ready. You'll need to cook a whole chicken at at least 140 for at least 1 hour 30 minutes, so just keep checking the temperature of the bird with a thermometer. Also, if you want a crispier skin when oven baking, then allow the chicken to come to room temperature and sprinkle with salt before cooking. |
Why does eating fried or oily foods give you a sore throat? | Very likely to be acid reflux from the stomach. It's common enough to be occasionally harmless, long-term it can cause permanent damage and may be a sign of something more serious.Not me. Do you notice a difference from specific oils? |
How my neighbor's radon exhaust pipe is not a health concern for me. | I agree with you that your neighbours having a Radon exhaust pipe is absolutely a cause for concern. However, the concern is not that their exhaust may harm you, it is that they have one and you, right next door, do not. It's a sign your local geology means you should be watching out for it building up in your basement. |
. How does the United Kingdom benefit from leaving the European Union? | One of the risks of leaving the EU, is that no one knows what is going to happen because what it means is that since the UK will no longer be part of the union they no longer abide by the EU's rules, and they will need to renegotiate contracts on every interaction with the EU. Trading and Immigration are the big ones. At the moment trading is export tax free between all the countries within the union and the citizens can move freely between all the borders. However, a certain amount of money is paid to the EU to be part of this. UK citizens believe that by leaving the EU they will have more control of their money, and more control of their immigration. However, they might find that their re-negotiated contracts with countries within the EU may be worse than what they have now, and there may even be clauses to continue to allow the free movement of citizens between borders. If the borders close, this means that while EU citizens can't just cross into the UK and work willy nilly, nor can UK citizens cross to the EU countries willy nilly. As soon as the UK makes it official to the EU, then they have 2 years to renegotiate contracts.what are the reasons behind the UK wanting to leave the EU? |
How come when it's 100 degrees outside it feels really hot to us even though our body temperature is almost 100 degrees at all times? | To add to the other answers, your body has a base metabolism of around 100W - that's energy that's constantly being burned and most of it ends up as waste heat. This'll rise if you're exerting yourself. The result is that your body needs to get rid off this heat or it will cook itself. That's done primarily through radiation, but also through conduction/convection and perspiration. |
The concept of wells/underground water. Is there just water everywhere beneath our feet that we can access as long as we dig/drill far enough down? | Wells work by accessing aquifers. Aquifers are not underground lakes, pockets of water, or underground streams. None of those actually exist. Instead, aquifers are usually made of loose or consolidated sand or gravel. There are small spaces between the grains, like in a box filled with marbles, and water fills these gaps. The pores are connected, which allows the water to flow to areas of lower pressure. Wells are basically holes in the ground, so water flows into them to fill that hole. How deep you have to drill a well varies by aquifer. To give an idea of how much they can vary, u/Juanfartez said that the wells in San Antonio were about 640 feet deep, but in the town where I am in western Minnesota, the wells are usually about 80 feet, and the aquifer itself starts at about 20 feet below the surface. Not all places will have aquifers, because not all types of rock store water and allow it to flow. Clay, for example, stores water pretty well, but it doesn't allow it to flow. You can see this by squeezing a handful of wet clay. Igneous and metamorphic rocks like granite or marble only allow water to flow through fractures in the rock. So while they can be aquifers, they generally aren't very good because they can't hold much. |
How do skateboarders not take serious injury when doing an ollie from a height that would injury you otherwise? | Basically, they try to fall on the center of their gravity. For example if they fell from 15 feet they try land in a way that doesn't cause extreme stress on other parts of the body. |
Why in winter, on sunny days its really cold, and cloudy days its warm? | Explain like I'm 5. I'm seeing things on here that 5 year olds wouldn't understand. I'll take a crack at this. Clouds act like a blanket. So the days are warmer when there are clouds. Without clouds the warm air escapes and it gets really cold. That's an ELI5! |
What does it mean to be a carbon based life form? | We are mostly water and stuff like that, but most of the chemistry that happens in our cells that actually does much of anything is all based on structures based on the fact carbon can make super complex molecules. A few other types of atoms can make complex molecules too, and people can imagine life that used them, but we have never seen any and don't know if they really could exist.About 18% of you is carbon. But the reason why we call ourselves carbon based is because the chemistry that makes up life is all based around carbon bonds. There might be more water in your body than carbon. But the water is just there, what makes up the cells, dna and everything that is you is carbon based molecules. |
Why do I still need glasses when looking in a mirror? | Because a mirror just reflects the rays of light coming from the object you're trying to focus on, so it's still like looking at it without a mirror. sorry about the shitty explanation |
. Why do communists seem to insist their subjects practice atheism, I thought communism was an economic policy. (Don't get China. ) | To follow up on the other explanations in this thread, China and Russia aren't/weren't communist, they were Marxist. They hoped to achieve communism eventually through other means, right now China is moving away from a socialist style economy to a more capitalist-leaning mixed market, but their justification is capitalism is a step on the marxist cycle and it will guide them towards communism someday. |
How does missile "lock-on" work? | A simpler way of looking at radar 'lock' is that normally the radar 'beam' is sweeping back and forth, and maybe up and down, over a very wide area looking for targets. From the point of view a target, the radar sweeps over it slowly, perhaps once per second or two. The target is like _'Yeah, I see you peeping me, I ain't even mad'._ The 'lock' is when the radar is no longer sweeping the sky, but focusing a narrow beam on the target, and sending more pulses, faster, to keep an accurate track of the target. Then the target is all OH NO YOU Di'INT OH SH*T OH SH*T IT IS SO ON LIKE THE BREAK OF DAWN!!. And it will be on, if he lives. |
why are prices for video games sold by services like Steam so much higher in Australia compared to the United States? | Part of it is history, prices were high so they're still high because people will pay it. Part of it is the added costs of doing special versions of games for the australian market. Part of it is a currency issue - the AUD has shot up in value a LOT in 4 years and other consumer prices haven't fallen to match the USD rate . That means of course that the retail environment is still expensive, and retailers won't carry your game if it's consistently lower priced on digital services.Do you have some examples? For instance, I have heard that games in Australia are sold around 90aud and I know that minimum wage where I am at is around 9 usd. So an American in my area would have to work for roughly six and a half hours+ to get a game but if that 90 aud figure is true then a min wage employee would have to work around five and a half hours+ to get the same game |
What causes people to fall in love? | Similarity in the major histocompatibility complex. If you both stop using scented soap and deodorant and she doesn't take contraceptive pills and you still get the hots for each other, it's game on!", 'Sounds like you where friend-zone slammed hard and are now getting set up for a friend-zone piledriver. |
How a company finds out who is torrenting | In most instances, the methodology for finding who is torrenting copyrighted material is in the form of an anti piracy company - usually a law firm - joining torrent swarms as a 'fake' client, collecting data on which peers are in that swarm. From this, they can aquire the IP address of the torrent client. The next step of the process is usually a mass subpoena of the ISPs records to reveal the owner of the IP address involved in the copyright infringement. Once they have the identity of the person associated with that IP, the law firm can elect to send out a legal notice of intending to sue. This is where many mistake an offer for settlement for a fine. The law firm does not actually have the power to fine you, what they are doing is giving you an opportunity to settle out of court. If you pay the amount they ask for, they forfeit their lawsuit. Note, however, that the burden of proof goes deeper than having an IP address where torrenting of copyrighted material happened from. They must prove /who/ actually performed the infringement, which is why very few torrent downloaders actually end up with a court date. Refusing to pay will most often result in silence from the law firm, as the cost of litigation far exceeds what they can expect to claim in damages - for most casual downladers, that is. |
why haven't nuclear weapons been used in war again after the USA used two in WWII? | Well, there weren't any world wars since then, for one. And, shortly after WWII, more than one country had nuclear weapons, and therefore there was deterrent to using them. That's really the main reason - we basically had a Cold War with a lot of proxy wars, where both sides had nukes so they didn't want to fight directly. You'd hope that seeing the kind of destruction those things do would also have been an incentive against using them. But seeing as we can do the same damage anyway That all said, we came *terrifyingly* close on several occasions.If one side fires the other one will fire more to counteract this keeps going on until the world ends. |
If people complain so much about Facebook (layout, privacy issues, etc.), why hasn't anyone created a better alternative? | Google Plus is a much better site. The problem is that everyone is so comfortable with Facebook. Another Redditor said this was like when a new bar opens up, the new bar is awesome but everyone wants to stay at the crappy old bar because it's their crappy old bar. If I can find the comment I'll link it. |
Why do we see such distinct pictures of things when we look at clouds? | What you're referring to is called *Pareidolia* - it's a psychological phenomenon that happens when the brain perceives an object/sound to have familiar patterns that do not actually exist. It's thought to be the result of natural selection and the subsequent evolution of our species: the faster you can identify an object/sound, the quicker you can assess its threat level, the more time you have to react. |
Why is it pleasurable to stay in bed an extra five minutes? Is there any physical benefit to this? | If you enjoy waking up slowly, you should try a wake-up light. I got one a few years ago and it's the best thing ever. It works like this: you set an alarm and 30 minutes before that it slowly turns on the light. You can program a longer or shorter period for that. It really helps to wake up slowly. I Was very skeptical before I got it but it really does work. I'm always awake before the alarm sounds and it's very gradual.If there is one thing im truly addicted to its the snooze button. It certainly doesnt help me in any way. Not joking i will hit 10 minute snooze button for up to and over 2 hours. Doormates in college wanted to kill me because id set it 2 hours early just so i could hit snoose for a good hour and a half. As a 41 year old with no real job and stable money i do 2 hours a day easily. Not really affecting me negativly because i flip houses and have rental properties, but its the best feeling in the world to me.And this is why the only thing I enjoy about depression is heavy sleep. But being healthy on top of it. I spring out of bed when my alarm goes off, no snooze. Read on here somewhere 'if you can get the first hour of the day right, the rest will follow.' Wish I could find the post |
How are there enough variations for keys that every key in the world can only unlock it's specific lock? | As /u/Hexadecimal_String says, there *are* duplicates. They're just rare. [This article] talks about car keys: > Bob at Bill's Keys in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bob said how many different keys are possible depends on the automaker. I could hear him tapping on a calculator in the background before he came up with the figure 1,480,576 key combinations for GM vehicles and about 65,000 for Chryslers. He was adding/multiplying the different number of tumblers, depths and positions possible in those locks. Each lock/key has a code to set the key cutting machine. |
The stuff about relative time in the movie Interstellar. | It's a weird relativity thing. Things aren't separated by space or time, there are events separated by spacetime. And gravity acts on this spacetime, compressing it. Events near large masses take place closer together. Each second on the planet near the black hole takes place closer to one another than each second further away. The ship in Interstellar wasn't orbiting the planet, they were orbiting the blackhole a little ways out. The time dilation effect is only substantial close to the black hole, as you get further away, it quickly diminishes so you don't have to be too far away for time to pass at a familiar rate. |
The New Youtube Rules About AdSense that has tubers leaving | I believe it has something to do with copyright management . I know one major source of tension between content producers and Youtube is the way ad revenue is split. |
How would a civilization that does not use money (like in Star Trek) work? | The Incan civilization had no money. _URL_1_ Command economies don't need money, because people interact without free trade. Economies can work without money. The natural economy of human beings is the gift economy, in which people work to compete with eachother as to who can give the best gifts. _URL_0_ Whenever people give with no thought of what they can receive in return, there is no need for money. Indeed, money has never made *a* people richer- it only makes *some* people rich, and the rest poorer. People only consent to use money when there is some risk that if they don't, they will be left homeless and starving. Therefore, a civilization can function without money whenever people are willing to share their bounty with others. |
I know this is ELI5, but can people stop moaning about answers having high-school vocabulary words and just use their head a bit? | We'll, at least it doesn't take the name as seriously as [/r/explainlikeImfour]. It could always be worse. I agree with the vocabulary, simply google Define:Whatever, to get a fast simple definition of almost any word, or use the search results when google is unable. |
Hey ELI5, you were in the media! | Wow, that's brilliant, thank you very much for the link, KK! It surprised me to see this, I'll admit, but it shouldn't have. It's now been a day, roughly, and thirty thousand people have subscribed! That's something worth toasting!", 'Like the dot-coms and the housing market, this subreddit is just a bubble and will burst. Put all your karma in /r/spacedicks -- it has nowhere to go but up!', "22,000 subscribers in 13 hours?? That's a basically a new subscriber every 5 seconds, for 13 hours straight.it feels nice knowing this actually was a great idea and people are taking recognition of itHoly shit, the first example one they posted [was my question!] SWEET! :DYou know you have a successful subreddit when, within one day, it already has its own [parody subreddit.] Congrats, everyone!Who went into the comments and said this site gives viruses? Fuck this isnt youtube |
Why does an image get pixelated when I enlarge it. Yet the same image can be put on a huge billboard with no loss of quality? | The image on the billboard may be the same image but at a much higher resolution. You can't enlarge a 125x100 pixel image to much bigger than a few inches without seeing the pixelation, but if the same image was originally at a resolution of 1000s of pixels, you could enlarge it a great deal more. |
Can someone please explain the situation at the Gaza strip? | I can't really explain it like your 5, but besides all that is said below, about the Jewish people coming to what is now known as Israel and basically kicking out everyone else, there is a much larger historical context. So, let's go back to WWI. England, amongst others, was fighting the Germans and their allies. Amongst these allies were the Turks. To help them fight the Turkish army, England went over to their colonies in the Middle-East and asked them to help them. In return, the Arabs would be left alone by the English and the French. However, after WWI ended, some new trouble started. The Jewish people had felt mistreated for some time and a call for their own, Jewish country started growing: Zionism. To make matters worse, a certain man in Germany called Adolf Hitler gained power with certain ideals we're all familiar with. So, a lot of Jewish people started looking at England for help, and after a lot of talking, the English decided to give the Jewish people their own bit of land in the Middle-East. This, however, was a complete violation of what the English had promised the Arabs. So, when the Jewish people arrived, for them it felt like returning to their native land. For the Arabs, it felt like, well, a whole lot of Jewish people taking the land they had been living on. Too make matters worse, the Jewish people started introducing new forms of land ownership. It used to be: he who farms here owns this piece of land. The Jewish people, using a bussiness instinct that has become stereotypical, decided that they could sell this land to others. So suddenly the Arabs were chased away by people who claimed to own their land, because they paid for it. Now, what also didn't help was the Jewish paranoia, being surrounded by people not wanting them there. And what really hasn't helped is the fact Israel, currently, is quite a bit [bigger] than it was originally supposed to be. |
Why do erasers fail to fully remove pencil marks? | Paper isn't perfectly smooth it has very small bumps and dips called the tooth. If you press too hard while writing or drawing you flatten out that tooth making your pencil marks into deep valleys that the rubber is too large to get into. Try to practise not pressing so hard when you use the pencil and you will find it easier to erase later. |
Why are there restrictions on liquid containers for planes? I know an attempted terror attack caused it, but how does it make sense? | It does not make sense. It's only in the US, where TSA is a bunch of old guys on a power trip. |
With such a small window of observation, how do we know how stars evolve and age? | I'll add that we've been recording observations about the stars and planets for thousands of years. That's still a short time on a stellar scale but it's not as small as you may have been thinking. |
Why don't cable providers offer 'pay per channel' packages for like $0.80 a channel? | In order to do that they would need to increase the cost of valued channels and decrease the cost of less valued channels and it would be far more than $0.80 per channel. Channels that people really want to watch would be $10-20 a month while others that are less popular would only be a couple dollars. In the end it would likely not save you much because the channels you're dropping are likely the ones only worth a dollar or two and your valued channels would likely increase as a result of everyone dropping channels that they previously had to subscribe to. You could end up paying more if you went with all top tier channels.The simple answer is that most cable channels will not let the cable providers sell them individually, or in a manner they are opt-out. That is so they can make some money regardless. As for advertising, it is not one way or the other, there can be a blend of advertising and subscription. Most printed media is, or was that way. In other words, they get more revenue , so can put that to better content.No commercials are how the producer of that content pay for it. NBC pays for its programs by offering commercial time. This is separate from you paying for the cable/satellite company to get that stuff to you. They get money by you paying them to get the channels to your house. They don't offer smaller packages because the would make less if you could ala cart your channels. |
Why are there so many LGBT users on Tumblr? | Wow, we've got some over-explaining here. The answer is really simple. Lesbian, gay, bi and transgender people are small minorities. 1% of women are lesbian and 1.5% are bi, 1.8% of men are gay and 0.4% are bi, 0.1% of men are trans and the number for women is yet lower. If you have a high school class of 500-1000 people, you're going to have an easier time organizing a game of Dungeons and Dragons than getting together a group of ten lesbians. So they flee to the internet, where all tiny minorities can find like-minded friends to commune with. A high school class of 500 people might have 2.5 lesbians, but the United States has 1,600,000 lesbians, and they all want to repost each other's complaints about how hard it is to find another lesbian in real life. |
Why do we begin to pick up accents after only being somewhere new for a short period of time | I've always wondered this. Whenever I watch Welcome to Myrtle Manor, I'm stuck with a slightly southern accent for the next hour or so. Maybe I just want to be like them.. |
Why is it that, when you are congested, one nostril is a mucky swamp and one is dry as a bone but then they pull at fast one on you and switch?? | I have been sick with the flu since Thursday and I'm just now coming out of the worst of it. Now feeling like I have a terrible sinus and chest congestion/infection and I came to ELI5 to search for this exact question and you were on the front page before I could search! Thanks! |
Why are soccer player so notorious for faking injuries | We're just in the midst of a phase in football, that's all. As soon as camera assisted decisions become commonplace , it just won't make sense for the players to keep playing these dumb time consuming games. The only thing holding it back is politics And we've seen the positive change that goal line cameras have had. Both fans and players wouldn't mind frequent short stops to the game if it means getting better calls. What you'll probably see is a huge drop in fake falls and the game would just keep going. |
How do companies like Burt's bees produce bee venom products without killing millions of bees to harvest the venom? | A) [Burt's Bees doesn't make anything with venom in it]. B) While it was once fatal, [we now have nonfatal ways to collect bee venom]. |
Why is the US Oil Industry subsidized by the Government? | First things first, a tax break is not a subsidy. Secondly: It is politically popular and get's you lobbying dollars. No reason for politicians not to. |
Why it's difficult to remember dreams after waking up. | It's an unconfirmed subject, but I'll explain with my knowledge: Your long term memory is basically turned off while you dream. Although you may collect 'samples' or tidbits of your dream, it's most likely very distorted to what actually occurred. Additionally, Your dream is very illogical as it builds off of your mental impulses, so it could be raining dogs but you would comprehend it as rain upon recollection. What you believe to remember could be entirely different than what you dreamed |
Why are we not able to make artificial human blood for medical use, or why is it not feasible if we are? | While 'blood substitutes' certainly exist, they're not safe for regular use; haemoglobin *loves* to bond with oxygen, which means that there's almost nothing left to oxygenate the tissues. Free-cell haemoglobin also damages the kidneys, and acts as a vasoconstrictor when it consumes nitric oxide. Researchers have experimented with using stem cells to create 'artificial blood' for many years now, but human trials only started in 2013, and so far, 'pharmed' blood is expected to be limited to military use for a number of years.Blood is not a "thing", it's **alive**. It's zillions of tiny, living, human cells in a liquid. We 've got lots of artificial replacements for the liquid, but you still need the human cells to stay alive. The thing that makes human cells best is, you guessed it, humans. Gracious donors such as yourself are essential to provide living, healthy blood cells to treat other people. You're unlikely to be replaced any time soon. |
If people enjoy playing video games, but find studying boring, why aren't educators reformatting classes into videogame format? | You've never seen an educational game? Most subjects aren't easily condensed into such a medium, though. Even if they were from an educational standpoint, making games requires programmers, artists, musicians, etc - and schools are barely paying teachers as it is.There is a science called gamification and it is being applied to education among other things.[They do try]. I remember the math games I played when I was a child were kind of shitty, boring games, because they were made to teach math instead of to be fun. I think the challenge is that video games have to be good to be enjoyable to most people, and focusing too much on making them education can result in a very un-fun game. Keep in mind that it would take a monumental effort to make a video game comprehensive and absorbing enough for it to replace classes and teachers entirely. School systems also may be resistant to change, such as the US's school system. |
Why Isn't It A Crime To Simply Be A Member Of An Organization With Known Criminal/Terrorist Activities? For Example: Bloods, Crips, Skinheads, KKK, etc. | The government is obligated to honor freedom of assembly, even with groups such as these. There is a divide between these groups and more actively militant groups, which the government will take action against. If this doesn't make sense, please tell me and I will do my best to clarify. Hope this helps. :)", 'Well, even though certain organizations are known for its members committing violent acts, most organizations will make it very clear that the group does not condone those actions, thereby relieving themselves of the repercussions when a member does something stupid. |
When trying to carbon date an ancient man-made object, how do you differentiate between when the object was created and the age of material that was used to create the object? | You can't carbon date iron :) You carbon date carbon. So imagine that you have a kind of carbon which can only be created in a living thing, and that once that living thing dies, this carbon slowly goes away and can't be replaced. Carbon dating measures this left over isotope of Carbon and because we know how long it takes for it to decay, we know how long it's been since it was alive. In the case of carbon dating a sword, you'd need to find some pollen or wood chips, insects, trash, seeds, etc that are buried in the same layer of soil as the sword was. If you can date the soil the sword was found in, then you can date the sword. Also many swords had leather wrappings and other weapons had wood handles etc. |
If vegetables are healthy for us, why don't many people like them? Shouldn't our body crave the nutrients? | What about societal terms? We see - or at least used to - it often on televion, especially on disney shows geared to kids, the characters getting grossed by vegetables and like. If they never did that, and ate vegetables as if it was totally normal like mashed potatoes, I think our children wouldn't be so resistant. |
why do we have finger and toe nails? | You have fingernails so you can pick your nose. You have toenails so you can pick your friend's nose.Wait, when did we start cutting our nails? Did they just wear down at the same rate they grew before that or did the romans have super long nails?To provide a backing to your finger tips to help you grip better. Also everything everyone else mentioned. |
What's the deal with Chemtrails? | It's basically just fog/condensation from the exhaust of airline jets. The air high up is cold and dense, where the heat from the airline jets is hot and sparse, creating a trail of essentially fog that appears as a cloud. Kind of like breathing in cold air just on a bigger scale |
Is there an actual not racist reason basketball is largely made up of people who are black? | Ugh, this question encapsulates what is wrong with this overly PC movement going on in the U.S. It is not racist to point out the fact that there are differences between races. African Americans are better athletes in general due to genetics. Not racist. Fact. Also, it's a huge sport in their communities in general. I'm sure if Hockey were as popular in the black community as it is in Canada, there would be a huge percentage of black professional hockey players. Use some logic people, critical thinking is important. |
why are there no plus-sized male models? | Maybe, and I'm just throwing this out there, not a lot of people want to stare at a ~~fat~~ *plus-sized* male model? |
What exactly do Pluto and Charon orbit? | Every planet and it's moon, as well as every planet-moon system and the sun orbit orbit around a point like this. Let me explain. Pluto and charon are relatively close in mass . That means that not only does pluto have a significant gravitational pull on charon, but charon has a significant pull on pluto as well. The reason the point isn't inside of pluto is because when charon orbits pluto it tugs pluto off to the side too much. The only difference between this and how the earth-moon works is that the point for the earth-moon is within the surface of the earth. It's **not** at the center of the earth though. The term to refer to that point is a [barycenter], and the gallery has a lot of fun examples including the one you posted. One way of thinking of this is to imagine you spinning a yo-yo around your head, it doesn't seem to impact you much, but if you have something heavier ) you have to lean backwards to compensate for the pull they have on you. Pluto charon is like you spinning around a big kid . The earth moon is more like spinning a yo-yo. |
Why is bottled water so expensive when it's something we can get free from our taps? | because they can, if you can get someone to pay 4 bucks for something that costs you a couple pennies you'd be a fool not to |
What can a hacker get from exploiting my laptop's camera? | It's exceptionally unlikely they would gain any useful information against you. Furthermore, they don't care about you. It's a different kettle of fish when you talk about celebrities like Mark Zuckerberg. People would love to spy on his comings and goings. And business webcams could be a source of leaked corporate intelligence. But no one is going to bother to monitor your bedroom webcam for clues as to when you personally might be in the room, choking the chicken.How do you know if your camera is being hacked? any ideas?', "Honestly if you don't use the camera function I would suggest putting a small bit of duct tape or masking tape over it.If someone has gotten onto your computer and has access to your camera, then your whole computer and everything you do on it is comprised. In fact probably everything on your network is too. What they would see on my camera would be my least concern.Reality: If they have a trojan/etc. functional to the point where they can remote access and stream your webcam from within your network, they also have access to virtually everything else on the machine/network, including local files. If you discover your 'webcam is hacked' somehow, its safe to assume the whole system has been crawled and is compromised. |
How do Methamphetamine manufacturers routinely blow themselves up? | Many of the chemicals used to make meth are highly flammable. And most of the typical 'urban' manufacturers are making the meth in poorly ventilated locations. Combine this with open sources of heat such as a stove or maybe a water heater and you get your explosion. |
Why do police body cams have such bad quality when camera's like gopro's are so cheap? | Everyone has been discussing technical limitations however the likely answer is actually much worse. There are plenty of cameras with much better video quality available. When a municipality or county needs to buy something over a set dollar amount usually a couple thousand they have to go to competitive bid. Here they lost out exactly what they want and the specs they are looking for. In this case a police body camera capable of recording and storing video for say 12 hours. This gets published and then every seller of whatever you sent out for bid gets to send you a proposal of what they can offer and for how much. The trick is when you get all these proposals back there's usually a pretty big price difference between the cheapest and most expensive. Obviously the organization ordering in this case the police want the nicest which usually is the most expensive. The town council or county commissioners however usually pressure you towards the cheapest. More times than not you end up with something towards the cheap end that while it works isn't the best option on the market.They are crap in low light situations and need external batteries for longer than a few hours. Cameras record better in low light when they have a larger sensor and night vision capabilities. GoPros have very small sensors and while they record beautifully in the day, not all altercations take place at 2 pm outside on a sunny day. The larger the sensor, the more expensive the camera gets. Add night vision and it gets more expensive. Now add the external battery packs needed to power the extra features and your cost continues to increase. |
Why do most American college and universities require SAT and or ACT scores? | They are called standardized tests. Meaning it is to show how everyone is ranked in a different sense. They do it because different schools can have different difficulties. Someone earning a 3.0 at one school might of had a harder time than someone that got a 3.4 at a different school. Because teachers/schools look better on paper the more A's they give out. But these tests are written to weed out the BS, and get to how much the students actually know. Now I'm sure someone could debate whether these tests are the best predictors or not for college students, but that's for another topic. |
Why are there different power companies but only one power grid? | > I live in Texas where there is a statewide electric grid that covers Texas and only Texas. However there are several different electricity companies such as Relient and Texas-New Mexico Power Company and others. What exactly do these companies do? If they all provide the exact same electricity then why do there rates vary? I work at a power plant, and live in Texas I have 8+ years experience as an operator at Texas power plants Most companies own the power lines But some lease the lines from someone else Some companies have generation, transmission , and others have distribution only substations are where transmission lines become distribution lines Some have all three, some have 2 or one It just depends on what they are willing to take are of Depending on what they own and how much they own and operate with changes their over head All the power is the same, my power plant is in south Texas and it feeds into the grid, it may get used in Amarillo for all I know, although Houston is a huge draw I hope I answered your question, it's difficult to explain while trying to not use technical terms P.S. And no no other state has it's own state grid There is an eastern grid, and a western grid, and then there is Texas's grid We stand apart!!! God bless Texas The rest of the country could lose power and Texas would still be burning bright |
How do scientists delete or manipulate genes? | Don't know if there's a LY5 answer. Researchers essentially trick the replication machinery into not making the part they don't want. Or tricks it into making stuff that wasn't there before. |
Why does meth make users skin so ugly and old-looking? | It has less to do with what Meth itself does and more to do with what a user of meth does while abusing it.Abusing meth, a stimulant, tends to make the user less apt to take proper care of themselves. Heavy meth users go days without food for example. Usually, because the user is more concerned about finding their next hit of meth. This means selling most possessions when in grips of addiction to save money. Meth also causes dehydration and dry mouth which is terrible for your gums, and since they sold or can't afford toothbrush/paste .well your teeth turn terrible quick. |
Is there a reason why some people with Tourettes have swear words specifically as their tick? Of all words that could be their tick, why is it almost always profanity? | It isn't almost always profanity. Actually it almost always isn't. You just remember people yelling swear words for obvious reasons. The most common manifestation of Tourettes would probably be jumping in place or obsessive blinking |
The point of using Marijuana. (Aside from medical reasons) | I use it exclusively when I play live music. It has several benefits for me, and these are not necessarily true for other musicians: it lowers inhibitions - being tense or self conscious when performing just kills things for me. It starts a spiral of nervousness and shame that makes me perform considerably worse, because I tend to focus too much on mistakes. Pot helps me gloss over them and focus on the larger picture. It heightens senses - no doubt about it, pot tweaks your pleasure centers, and makes music sound more 'present'. When I play music, I hear it in a different space and react to it in a different way It dials me in to other musicians - somewhat related to the previous, but this is more about interpersonal communication. I'm not the first or last musician who will say they feel more connected and tuned in to what other band members are doing. It's almost as if I can deconstruct, analyze and react better under the influence. Now, none of this is to say that pot makes me necessarily more creative, or even a better musician, it really just puts me in a more conducive state of mind to ALLOW myself to be more creative and play music in a different way. Finally, I play a lot of improvisational/jam type music. If you play the kind of music that requires attention to detail, lots of memorization, sight reading, transposition, etc., then pot is a non starter. |
How did the world operate before alarm clocks? | Another way was that Native Americans would drink a good amount of water so they'd wake up earlier than they would have more naturally", 'Before electric lighting, most people would go to bed with the sunset and wake with the sunrise. |
If the "reddit hug of death" exists, how come it doesn't happen to reddit itself? | this is actually a pretty big problem for *any* website with a ton of users. At some point a server will just fail. So generally these websites mirror themselves onto many servers and rotate the IP's in the dns tables so that there isn't a single IP serving the entire internet. A small website wouldn't do this because of the cost is too high, also crappy websites send to have crappy service plans that have artificial bottlebecks on them. |
I read that around 11% of the world is left-handed. Why is that number so low? | oh boy the answers here are atrocious! it has to do with the part of our brain that [processes language.] it's most commonly located in the left side of the brain. think back to when ancient man first started developing language. handedness at that time was probably about 50-50. as the language center of the brain began to grow and become more complex, people who were better skilled at writing and understanding language had an advantage. since the left side of the brain controls the right side, language adept people were naturally right-handed. most other species of animals have a pretty even split when it comes to handedness, which further credits this explanation. granted there are exceptions, which is why we have left-handed people. factor in the religious stigma of left-handed people being evil, and you can pretty much figure out the rest. hope that answers your question! |
Why don't (most) (US) ATM machines dispense bills larger than $20. | Many retail outlets won't take $50s or $100s. Dispensing $20s ensures that everyone can use the cash they've withdrawn and makes stocking the ATM simpler . |
Why can blood only be donated? Why can't we manufacture it (in a lab)? | The short answer is that blood is extremely complex, and it's difficult to make something that can do what it does. Similar to why we can only make poor substitutes of everything else in a person right now. For a longer answer, they actually are trying to make artificial blood. The most promising right now is not to take care of all of its functions, but just the basic most essential one - transporting oxygen to keep the body alive. This would at least be useful in cases of injury until someone can get to a proper facility. But even this singular function is extremely difficult. Blood transports oxygen through the use of hemoglobin, but hemoglobin is pretty toxic on its own, which is why it's in red blood cells. They're working around that right now. |
Why is a TV show like Big Bang Theory filmed by Warner Bros and aired by CBS? | Time Warner's TV networks do not have as much distribution as CBS. Time Warner controls The CW network, as well as networks operated by Turner Broadcasting and HBO . None of those networks drive the same ratings as CBS. Since CBS drives more ratings, it can pay more money for a show like The Big Bang Theory. You'll notice that once the show hit syndication, it landed on TBS, which is a Time Warner network. |
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