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Why are we discouraged to talk openly about salaries when money is the essence of why we work? | Just my own personal opinion but I don't really need a dollar amount on what my friends make. It doesn't matter to me. If your bills are paid, let's party |
why our bodies can recover from common cold and then forget how to next year? | The word 'cold' is an umbrella term for a bunch of different viruses, and these viruses are always mutating, so new ones are 'created' every day. You become immune to each one you get, but there will always be more. |
does a baby smell like s mix of its parents or a new smell to an animal with a more sensitive ability to detect odor? | I'll answer this directly for you since no one else seems to want to. Babies have their own unique smell. They produce tons of pheromones and that is why a lot of times pets will become very protective of the child. For example, my dog, although he wanted nothing to do with my son when it was just us in the house, when we had company he would always try position himself next to my son directly in between him and said guest. Especially people my dog was unfamiliar with. We brought this up with both the doctor and the vet and we were told that the smell of the pheromones was triggering an instinctual reaction to protect my son from harm and potential predators. Now that my son is a little older , him and my dog are inseparable. Although he doesn't smell quite as nice. That boy can clear a room with a fart in 5 seconds flat", 'Seems like it would be almost impossible for a baby to NOT smell like its parents since they come into so much daily and repeated skin to skin contact with the child. Is it inborn? Prob not but they most likely smell like the parent from repeated close contact. Who has a baby they dont touch 100X per day?', "Babies smell like baby poop, and not the bad baby poop smell, just the ambient baby poop smell. Anyone else? No? Okay I guess I'll leave. |
Why do some people involuntarily bounce their leg(s) when they're nervous, bored, or for no reason at all? | apparently people do it to cope with adhd or anxiety, but personally if I make my leg stand on its toes it starts doing it, as far as I know I don't have adhd, anxiety, etc. I just like doing it |
How was salt used as a preservative before refrigerators? | Bacteria and other bugs that make food go bad like moisture. Salt removes the moisture from the food and makes it so that the germs don't have a good environment to thrive in. So the food stays preserved for longer. Most people would soak the food in water before eating to both re-hydrate it and remove some of the salt.Salt would draw water from food, and kill many of the microbes that inhabited it. Salted meat was often rehydrated, like as a part of a stew, with would dilute much of its saltinessSalting food removes water from the food, thus reducing the ability of that food to spoil due to fungus or bacteria. |
How can entrepreneurs buy old drug patent / manufacturing lines when the drugs should be eligible for generic? | They're trying to leverage the market until another manufacturer introduces a generic. There's a few ways they can do this - they can pay off generic manufacturers to stay away, they can raise the price to get consumers to switch to a drug that *does* have a patent, or they can raise the price to make a profit and drop down when the generic emerges. If the average price was $10 and is jacked up to $700 for, say, five years, that's $3450 in profit - aka, 345 years worth of money. |
Why isn't the public allowed to read the details of the TTP trade deal? | Treaties are often negotiated in secret because their provisions are all up for grabs. By that I mean, if I'm negotiating a treaty with Mexico, and I insert a clause saying that every Mexican must have a picture of me in their house, this obviously wouldn't be acceptable and public outrage might cancel the treaty process. But by keeping it in secret, the Mexican secretary of state can inform me privately that I'm ugly and nobody wants to see me, so we can remove that addition, meaning the treaty process can continue. The big problem with this treaty is that it got leaked and doesn't look good at all. People want it revealed so it can be shot down, and they're probably right. It's political gamesmanship, but that's not a bad thing if it's in everybody's best interest. Any treaty should be up for public review before it's approved, though, and the US presidential cabinet, among other entities, have already signaled their desire to fast track it and not give the public enough time to consider it. That's also political gamesmanship, but maybe not in everybody's best interest.Our government is no longer "Of the people, for the people, by the people". One of the founding tenets of our country. Oligarchy took over decades ago.*TPP / TTIP* Most probably because people can't complain about things they don't know about. |
Why does only one side of my nose get stuffy when I'm sick? | I don't remember where I got this information from but supposedly because some smells take longer to register with your brain than others, you breathe in rapidly through one and slowly through the other. The faster one would get a rush of quick info and the slow one a slow stream of . Well, slow info. -_-. I'm clearly not educated in this, but this should help jog the memory somewhat of someone who knows better. It's always like this, but stuffy noses just make it more apparent. |
Why do people still think the earth is flat? | Some people are just conspiracy theory nuts who want to believe that there's some massive cover-up of something. Or they're just plain nuts. And some think that there are things in the Bible that require the Earth to be flat. In other words, they are religious nuts. **TL;DR** - They're nuts. |
Why does it feel good to be clean? | Speculation here, but it could also be the body's positive feedback response to making yourself less susceptible to disease, getting rid of germs, etc. |
How hardrives hold information, even when they are powered off | Hard drives aren't electronic RAM, like your computer's memory, which only store data when the power is on. Hard drives have [a platter inside coated in a magnetic material], which can be read from and written to just like a floppy disk -- it's just far more detailed and position sensitive than a floppy, so it can store a lot more data and read/write much faster. And, like a floppy disk, it stores its data even when there's no power on. |
What does the 'end task' command do differently than normally exiting out of a program? | Programs usually have various operations to do before they shutdown. If a program is frozen, it is unable to perform/finish these operations, and does not shutdown. 'End Task' closes it regardless.One of the main parts of a desktop application is called the "message loop." It is code that continually runs, checking for new messages from the operating system or other programs. Messages include things like user input as well as other notifications that an application is supposed to respond to. One of the messages that you can receive is the Quit message. This is how the operating system tells an application that it should shut down. The application should respond to this message by trying to exit in as graceful a manner as possible - for example, giving the user a chance to save any unsaved work. This is generally the same flow as normally exiting out of the application. Selecting "End Task" from the Task Manager in Windows sends a quit message to the application and then relies on the application shutting itself down. Because it's up to the application to handle this, there is a valid response which is "No." For example, if you have an unsaved document the application might ask for confirmation if you want to quit and you could click no. So the OS does not actually enforce that the quit message results in the application terminating. However, if the application is in a bad state this message might not ever be received, or the application could still fail to shut itself down. In that case, the operating system can terminate the program by simply not running its code any more and unloading all of its code and data from memory, as well as cleaning up any shared resources it was using such as files or network ports. This means any saved work will be lost so it is the method of last resort. The OS will generally ask you if you want to terminate a process in this way if the message loop stops running for an extended period of time. |
Explain to me like I'm a precocious five year old the Vatican's view on condoms, the Pill, sex, and marriage. | As an important caveat to what a lot of other posters have said Catholics don't exactly give a fuck about any of these rules and interpret what the Vatican says loosely to say the least. |
While it is easy to get the chemical formula for things like water, how is it that we know the exact chemical formula for a humongous protein like Titin? | A protein isn't just a random bunch of atoms. They are made out of small building blocks, called animo acids. They are simpler molecules, with a dozen or so atoms. Once you know the order of amino acids, you can know the composition of a large protein. Also, there isn't always one exact composition. Some animo acids give the protein specific chemical properties, others just take up space. Though less important amino acids can varies without changing what the protein does. |
When two guys are pointing guns at each other close range, like in movies, why doesn't one of them just shoot the other? | It's a calculated risk, in some movies one guy will shoot first and miss! leaving a chance for the other guy to get a good two rounds off in the blur. So its better to try and out wait each other in cinema, not only for suspense and a few choice lines, but to ensure the hero has a chance to double blast the bad guy.Not to mention the shock from being shot might tighten the already tight grip on the gun resulting in getting yourself shot. I would rather take my time and not rush things with a gun in my faceIf your finger is already on the trigger, you will probably have time to return fire unless it is a headshot .In the movies, it's for suspenseIn real life, it doesn't happen. And if it does, they think they're in a movie. |
Why does the discovery of Kepler-452b is such a big news even though it is so far that we won`t ever reach it ? | > won't ever Yeah and we won't ever fly, leave our atmosphere, or cure any disease so why even bother?", 'Nobody seems to have mentioned *why* it is so far away. The first searches for planets looked in the "easiest" places to look - they were just trying to find *a* planet. That works but it doesn't answer the question of "how many earth like planets are there?" For that you need a big sample without any easy/hard bias. Kepler stared at the same patch of sky for six years and carefully looked at how bright the stars were every 30m. It was watching for *transits* where a planet passes in front of the star, needing at least three transits to confirm. Kepler *wasn't looking* for nearby planets, it was looking for planets orbiting stars in one small patch of sky in solar systems aligned such that we are looking at them edge on. It's kind of like counting the number of critters in one jar of water and extrapolating to the whole lake. That Kepler found one good earth analogue and several close matches in that patch of sky using a method that only finds them when we look at their solar system end on allows scientists to make predictions about how common such planets are and how close the closest ones are likely to be ', "The Universe is impossibly gigantic. The fact that a puny civilization on Earth with pathetic technology can look at an infinitely small sample size of celestial bodies and still find Earth-like planets among its galactic neighbors . shows the huge mathematical probability that we're not alone.Its not that we will never reach it, its that now we have a point to aim at instead of just flinging shit into space and saying " I hope this finds something"', "Because there's a race of Amazonian women there and it's only a matter of time until they build wooden spaceships to come visit us for some snu-snu. |
Why do babies laugh when someone gets hurt? | Do you make a funny exaggerated face or make odd noises when you get hurt? That's probably what is being reacted to, not your pain.Same reason we do I would imagine. How many TV shows feature people falling down? |
Why can't we just plant the Gros Michel banana again? | Because the banana plants aren't derived from seeds but bulbs of the banana plant. There are still plantations that grows that type of banana but not on a large scale. |
If Curiosity, the Mars Rover, is Nuclear power, why can't the ISS be Nuclear Powered? Its more reliable and A LOT less heavy? | Curiosity uses an RTG which relies on radioactive material, but is not at all like a nuclear power plant you'd see on Earth. RTGs produce relatively small amounts of power, the upside is they're very durable and require basically no care after construction. The ISS has far higher power requirements, and since there's humans about it can afford to be a solution that takes more upkeep. |
Legit question: How are the US troops "protecting our freedom"? | The Cold War was a contest between the USSR and the USA to see how far they can spread their culture and ideologies. It's long over but the US wants to continue because, at the end years of the Cold War, they tripled their military budget. They don't want to waste or reduce it, so they find excuses to use it. This military budget goes into research, technology, weapons production, payment for soldiers and officers, and other things. This money goes back into the economy and circulates around because the military gives that to contractors in exchange for things it needs like aircraft, weapons, vehicles, munitions, food, clothing, armour, etc. They want to increase this funding so they find a small threat and sensationalize it to increase support for the military. |
What's going on in Brooklyn, NY? | I'm interested in the comparison of what's happening in Flatbush, Brooklyn to the London Riots. Can anyone share details or observations about other environmental factors that lead to the London Riots and that are present in Flatbush, Brooklyn?", 'Just curious, is there concealed carry in NY? |
what's the difference between the 3 degrees of murder? | 1st - malice and forethought 2nd - malice but no forethought 3rd - no malice, no forethought I'm not a lawyer.The distinctions between types of criminal homicide are based upon what was in the killer’s head and what the killer actually did. Intending to kill after deliberation is worse than intending to kill in the heat of the moment after some triggering event which is worse than killing due to reckless behavior which is worse than killing due to negligent behaviorI think the other responses are correct, and I will add two other thoughts. 1. I believe the killing of a police officer, whether intentional or not, is automatically first degree. I also believe that if you accidentally kill someone during the commission of another crime is also elevated to first degree. For example, if one is robbing a bank and they shoot someone, this may not necessarily have been planned and premeditated, but will also be considered first degree1st degree is usually premeditated. 2nd degree usually is a heat of the moment. Manslaughter involves negligence. However, this is also dependant on if there are aggravating circumstances. If in the US, your state laws will determine how each are defined. |
Why do you count 15, 30, 40 in tennis? | I read somewhere that it was to do with the face of a clock. 15, 30, 45, 60 . Eventually the 45 got shortened to 40 because it was hard to say in France . Then again, it wasn't a fully reliable source. |
How can a new I5 4 core 2.5 GHz cpu out perform 6 core 3.2 GHz processor just because its older? | Clock speed it's only one factor that determines how well a processor performs what's more important is the design of the processor what's generally referred to as it's architecture. That's where the big difference is. There have been big advancements in architecture design that allow newer processors to be much more efficient per cycle meaning that they get more work done with less cycles. So you can't just look at clock speed and core count to compare cpus. |
How did they take the lead bullets out of hunted game and how do we make sure we've got all of them? | Simple answer is they didn't. More complicated answer: if it was a shotgun style weapon the pellets really don't penetrate too far, so they would try to feel them out and would get most of them that way. If it was a rifle/musket the projectile is much easier to find and remove. |
How Facebook can suggest that I know someone with no mutual friends...and is right | sometimes its based off who's phone number you have saved as a contact on your phone", 'that person searched for you but did not try and friend youEvent attendance could be another pretty big giveaway. |
Why are/were governments still going after 90 year old Nazis when current government heads around the world have committed some of the same crimes or worse? | Some countries including the US I think haven't ratified the ICJ or ICC or both of the treaties. So citizens from their countries can't be tried right? |
What Happens if I Declare Bankruptcy, Especially to My Student Loans/Car/Personal Possessions/Credit? | Talk to a credit counselor. You're stuck with student loans until you die. Any loans your parents cosigned on will fall on them. |
Why can't I fully picture people's faces in my imagination? | I can hear my brothers voice in my head perfectly, but I cant accurately remember what anyone else's voice sounds like. similar i guess", 'This is a supposition here, but there is a portion of your brain, the fusiform gyrus, which is responsible for recognising and remembering faces. Face blindness is called [prosopagnosia]. I would imagine that during certain sleep phases this part of your brain is not accessed and as such you lack the cognitive tools to recall and construct faces.Is it weird I can picture people's faces in my head perfectly? |
Why is discussing pay from work a bad thing? | Also etiquette. I wouldn't want people knowing what I spend my money on and what my bank balance is so why should I need to know others? |
Why do F1 cars have slick tires for grip when it's dry, but when my tires are bald I have no traction? | Different rubber compounds for different purposes. Their tires are way stickier than yours but they won't hold up for anywhere near as many miles as yours will. |
Why New Yorkers hate New Jersey | ELYCalifornian: They don't really hate it. I think there's a similar pseudo-love-hate-just-because-they're-there relationship between SF and Oakland. If you don't have enough money to live in SF, you live in Oakland, right? Except imagine if Oakland was technically another state. And SF was about 10 times bigger, both in landmass and population, and everyone desperately wants to live there, and there's a hundred people who would love to take your place if you don't make it there and end up moving back to the farm. |
why does Israel collect Palestine's taxes? | palestine is not a country and not a state, it isnt reconized by other world countrys as one, its becouse of old aggreement form 1990's that Israel will collect taxes and send them, thats why they send 50m$+ |
why do people react differently to anti-depressants, and differently to different kinds of anti-depressants? | The thing we call depression isn't one single biological condition. It's a loose collection of symptoms that might happen for a wide variety of reasons. |
how on earth do we know where we are in the universe? | We found a mirror really far away and we're taking selfies. No kidding that's really interesting I'm saving and upvoting, I want to know. |
why is it hard to diffuse a bomb? | There's always the chance there is more to the bomb than you may see based on the wires. Batteries and capacitors hold charges and detectors could be in place to blow when the wires are cut. |
Why are the meat of animals killed by lightning/electrocution not edible? | I went to a slaughterhouse in 7th grade and they show us the electric brush clamp they put behind a pig's head to kill it. So obviously it's not inherently bad for the meat", 'They are fully edible. But because they were not killed in a controlled manner and were not immediately prepared for shipment and stored in a refrigerator or freezer they are not fit to sell to people for food. They have had time to sit in the warm and that promotes bacterial growth and that means that the meat can be spoiled already, or will spoil soon. The chances of food poisoning is too high for the government to allow you to sell the meat, but if the rancher wanted to eat it himself it would probably be safe if he acted quickly. |
What exactly is so bad about Windows 10 that people refuse to update? | General rule of thumb, if it ain't broke, don't touch/fix it. That goes for a lot of things. Why do I have to update when it's perfectly fine?", 'It'll break current programs in business. It might break some of your games. It collects information about you to be sold. Facebook does this, but facebook is "free". You 've actually paid to use an operating system. You cannot turn updates off. Windows have a horrid history with updates, with some completely destroying your machine. The downright back handed way it's being pushed onto users. It's expecting people to just click "ok" mindlessly. This is what spyware companies do, and they have the same goal. Collect your data. The UI. You'll have people tell you that they like the new UI but, to myself, it's absolutely horrid. It takes 8 and makes it worse. No real reason to upgrade. Everything works now. Win7 is still being supported. Everything already works on Win7. There's no real good feature that makes Win10 a must have. I think I 've covered all the main reasons I can think off without going into too much depth.People hate change. It took forever to move people from Windows XP to Windows 7 and get them comfortable on it. Inbetween was the turd that was vista. Well, 7 to 10 had 8 in between , so it's the same cycle again.I'm using XP. It does what I want. Who cares if it is "unsupported", in 15 years I have never needed their help. Everything works. I'm happy. |
Millions of years ago when the Earth was inhabited by dinosaurs and species of animals that do not exist today, why is it that none of the larger species of animals survived? | As the continents drifted apart the amount of oxygen also decreased. Back then there was way more oxygen availabls that allowed larger creatures to exist. Now that there's less, the size animals can grow was affected simply because there isn't enough oxygen to support the larger size |
How Can loans be bought and sold? and what is the benefit of this to the party selling? | You, with your student loan, owe the government money, let's say £1000 . But the government is worried that you might never pay it off. Considering that possibility, they figure that they would rather just have £700 right now for sure, rather than the uncertain £1000 in the future. So they sell the loan to someone for £700 and collect that £700. That person still believes that you will pay it off. And when you do, he will get £1000, and make a £300 profit. That's why he bought it.Also, companies can actually buy debt for more than the principal. So for a mortgage, say 30yr with 250k, it might be purchased for 260k or something. The selling company makes back its money with a bit of profit. The buying company is planning on making the 30yrs worth of interest If anyone buy your loan they will pay your debt to the bank in full and then they will get to keep the banks end of your loan contract. Nothing will change on your end except maybe you have to deal with another party. The terms are exactly the sameThe owner of a debt can sell it like any other piece of property they own. Companies will pay pennies on the dollar for bad debt. The original debt holder gets something back, and the company then harasses people till they get something back and most of the time they come out ahead. |
Why are Al Jazeera and the likes of BBC held in such high regards? | There are NO 100% unbiased news sources. However, some are *much* better than others. Al Jazeera is entirely *unreliable* when it come to news about Qatar or Saudi Arabia. However, their coverage of the rest of the world is really quite good. The BBC is also a world-class journalism source. Both have much less bias than many other sources one could name. Both of them try to dig for and analyze what's beneath the sound bites, and neither reports on silly crap like Tweets as if it was real news. Bona fides: former professional journalist. |
Why do you feel drowsy if you lie in bed during the day, but you don't get that same feeling at night? | Your body has rhythms according to a 25 hour cycle. This describes not only a sleep-wake cycle, but also the periodic rise and fall of hormone levels. Cortisol is one of the most important hormones during this cycle. It is released by the adrenal glands and typically spikes in the early morning around or slightly before waking. Cortisol increases the ability of nearly all cells to use energy to function, as well encouraging the immune system. This is why when you are sick you might feel really lousy when you wake up but after getting up and walking around you start to feel better: the cortisol is kicking in. Sleeping and resting at night is more congruent with this system of cellular activation compared to doing the opposite: sleeping in, taking long extended daytime naps, delaying the onset of sleep, waking during sleep, etc. It feels better to work with your body's natural rhythms. This is also why it's easier to delay sleep than go to bed early or the same time--25 hour rhythm. |
LI5: Super Condensed History of the Universe | lim: ΔS = ∞; T = 0 K. Wait, five year olds don't know thermodynamics? Shit, nevermind. |
How can Coca-Cola be used as a rust remover but still be safe to drink? | I'm sure it'd dissolve your teeth if you just let it sit in your mouth. Fortunately, we swallow it, and our protective linings keep it moving, then break it down and digest it for us.Coca-Cola is not safe for us to consume. Who told you that it was?in my personal research beer is usually a safer and healthier drink than coke. |
Why does the letter d change direction when it is capitalized? Why is it the only letter that does this? | Direction is relative, man. I mean, what is direction anyways? We're all just floating in space, spinning around some star. There's no such thing as direction. Nothing is real.french here.g to G = gauche d to D = droite only for those two letters. Too much vine tonight, sorryI consider it interesting that we can assign a "direction" to an arbitrary symbol. And say that ah "d" goes left but "c" goes rightd b p & q are all the same letter like e & a, I had trouble learning the difference growing upOf course the easiest answer might be the correct one d looks like it does because b was already taken.Why does a guys D get bigger when its hard? Just one of life's mysteries I guess .. |
How do 1 in 4 African-Americans get by not having valid photo IDs? | I am white and grew up in a big east coast city.My mom did not have a photo ID until she was 50, and she got a passport. She never drove, and never flew. Any store she went to would take her check because they knew her by name. She had a credit card.I did not think this was weird, and still don't. This was more than 25 years ago, though . But I believe that lots of adults, white, black and otherwise, who do not drive do not have photo IDs.Peop |
Why does shaving against the grain cause so much more irritation than shaving with the grain? | It's mostly a problem with people of ethnic background, because our hair tends to be more curly. That's the biggest source of the problem. When you shave with the grain, you slice the hair in such a way that the end is relatively flat. Think of an unsharpened brand new pencil. When you shave against the grain, you slice an angle into the hair and make it sharp. Now, if your hair tends to be thin and straight, this isn't much of a problem. The area will inflame a bit immediately after shaving, but the hair still grows straight out of the follicle. If your hair naturally curls, though, we have an issue. There's a chance that your spear-shaped hair will get caught in the inflamed skin. If that happens, it's easy for the hair to loop around or otherwise stop growing out of the follicle. Congratulations! You've irritated your skin to produce a razor bump or graduated past that to an ingrown hair! The best method I've found, which works for all humans regardless of ethnicity, is to use a safety razor and shaving cream. Shave very lightly in the direction of the grain only. This cuts the hair off flat and flush with the skin. Immediately follow with shave balm or after shave and lotion. Hope this answers your question thoroughly. Edit: [figure to illustrate] |
Why are rescue victims wrapped in what seems like aluminium foil? | It's made of metalized mylar. The mylar is plastic, so it is a good insulator against conduction, it's a solid sheet to prevent convection, and the shiny metal film reflects your heat back into you for radiation insulation.You can buy these at camping stores or places that have emergency supplies. They fold up really tiny about the size of a pack of cigarettes.Followup: since mylar is so cheap and lightweight and such a good insulator, why don't we use it as insulation in vehicles or construction? |
What is about dawn that causes roosters the world over to collectively lose their minds and start screaming at the sky? | Lots of birds sing at dawn, for various reasons such as marking territory and mating . Not sure what the accepted motivation is for chickens, but both sexes can do it , and although they start when they wake up, they can also do it throughout the day. How much they do it depends on the breed and personality of the bird. |
Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on [my website]... WTF does that mean? And what's a robot.txt? | I received that very Email today. But, it ended up in the spam folder. Apart from the content inside, I'm slightly concerned about the legitimacy of the Email. How do we fix it, only if it's not spam but real warning from Google? Edit - It's real. And not spam. |
Why don't Americans have that accent and tone of voice that they did in the 20's-50's anymore, like the father in to Kill A Mockingbird? | I'd contribute some part to movement. There's a different speech pattern in every state. I'm from the Florida and we had a bit of a southern twang, I moved up to Illinois when I was 14 and have lost the accent. |
Who are the Freemasons and what do they do | Ask Them. Just go into a lodge and ask them. They will be more than happy to show you around and tell you about what they do. They won't tell you details of their rituals of course, but they are pretty open and friendly and will tell you a lot.So this might be a stupid question because the word "mason" is in the name, but do Freemasons need to/usually know a trade? Between hearing about their community service and the special groups within the Freemasons, it seems like they 'd all have one trade or another. I have a friend who's a Mason and a cop. But I know he works on his boat a lot, so I'm assuming he 'd have some trade-worthy ability.I'm not sure who said it, and i'm not sure if the quote is exact so i won't use quotation marks. Some people believe that the free masons rule the world. others believe were old men who play dress up. the truth is somewhere in the middle. |
Why is it inappropriate to go to a job interview with a beard even if it's well kept? | I haven't gone to a job interview without a beard for more than 15 years now. I've gotten a few jobs, and I haven't gotten a few, but I don't think any of that is because of the facial hair. Maybe it depends on the job or the company or something, but my feeling is that there's no requirement to shave for an interview. |
Why don't car manufacturers make front or side windshields with "heat strips" to melt snow or ice like in the rear windows? | Hey something I actually sorta know about. I actually put in windshields for a living, a lot of cars actually have heated windshields, BMW, Cadillac, Land Rover, Toyota highlanders, sienna mini vans. They're becoming a lot more popular. As for door glasses I have never seen one heated, nor heard of one. |
How instincts biologically work? | I don't know much about it myself, but [this] gives a high-level intuition of an idea in this area", 'Don't we all have an inside perspective on how instincts work? We are all operating on the same kind of "hardware" so to speak. I 've always looked at it in the way that emotions and instinct are more or less the same thing. So for example, when you feel angry, that is your aggressive instinct kicking in.One of my teachers taught us something like the higher the brain function of a species, the fewer instinctual behaviors they are born with. It's why humans are worthless survivors as babies. |
Why do airlines still hand out peanuts on flights, when peanuts are known to be a common, potentially fatal, allergy? | Most people with peanut allergies aren't so severe that being in a room with peanuts will hurt them. My daughter is allergic. She can test them or touch then, but other than that she's fumble and dandy |
Why is a 'swiss bank account' such a bigger thing than other countries bank accounts? | Swiss economy is very stable. So it is very safe to keep money in Swiss Bank, especially for the rich. They securely store billions of dollars in Swiss bank. As they are a stable economy, there is no chance that there will be a bankruptcy or something like recession affecting Swiss Bank.The privacy is also very high. You can't just withdraw your cash. You need to show your passport and other documents to prove that 'you are you'. This lets the rich to hide their money and evade tax in their native countries.The Swiss have NO ETHICS whatsoever. Swiss banks gladly accepted the illegal seizings of the Third Reich the property of millions of Jews, including the gold from their melted-down teeth fillings. The Swiss basically covered their eyes and ears and said "bring us your Nazi gold we'll keep is safe for you and won't ask any pesky questions about where any of it came from! Wink wink!"', "It's not. In case you hadn't heard, the Swiss have *negative* interest rates. That's right, the bank charges you to keep your money there. |
If there are nutritional labels on all of the food we buy, including water, why is there not a nutrition label on liquor? | Because food is regulated by the FDA and liquor is regulated by the ATF. It's not food, it's alcohol. |
Why do I sometimes spray saliva when I'm yawning like a snake shooting venom at an attacker? | Another one for you guys to try if you haven't already: Close your eyes, open your mouth and stick your tongue out. Now tilt your head back and pretend your shaking a salt shaker onto your tongue. You should be able to taste the salt.All these amateurs, gleeking on their paperwork. I just gleek in to a special sock I keep hidden under my bedI remember two of my friends got in a gleek competition, and gleeked all over one another, it was so nastyA guy I went to highschool with was on the Jay Leno late show segement "stupid human tricks" for this "talent"What the actual fuck? Three children, one grown, and I have NEVER seen this done? How did I miss this?', "I thought I was the only one who did this - so glad I'm not!", 'You are a snake shooting venom at an attacker. Embrace your rootsGleekingYou squeeze some glands when you yawn and it shoots salivaGleeking!! I knew a guy who was like a squirt gunInstructions unclear. Mouth full of spit, too grossed out to swallow. |
why should you always close the commode seat after your done? | I close it so I don't accidentally drop stuff in there. Pretty much anything that lands in toilet water is taking a one way trip. |
When I am starting to fall asleep, why does my body sometimes jump or jolt me awake? | When you're just about to fall asleep, your heart rating decreases, your whole body is completely still, and actually resembles the state of slowly dying. So to prevent that, your brain sends shocks through your nerves, to make sure you're not dying.This would happen to me constantly when I use to fall asleep in high school. |
Why are most of us right handed? | I'm no scientist, but perhaps the right handed gene is more dominant than the left."Evolutionary advantage" occurs when individuals possessing a particular trait directly compete for resources with individuals possessing a different trait, or have different survival odds. Think of the things you would do to fight, hide, eat, hunt, romance the opposite sex. You use two hands, yes? Now, think of an ambidextrous person. They would still use two hands, yes? What real *difference* is there in the *outcome* of what you do. Remember, for there to be an evolutionary pressure, the ambidextrous person has to be able to do their task in a way that affects their ability to survive better than you. As humans generally live in groups, and generally use one hand at a time , there isn't really a selection pressure that will affect a person's ability to reach sexual maturity. As a result, while the ambi ability will be passed along to the next generation, it doesn't necessarily mean it gives them a better opportunity to live/get laid. Of course, the above is assuming there is a strictly genetic requirement to ambidexterity. While it is likely that there is some, a lot will be environmental as well. TL;DR - No selection pressure = no evolution of that traitThere's the [Vanishing Twin hypothesis]: "non-right-handed and non-left-handed individuals may be the survivors of "mirror image" identical twinning."I know that in cultures and religions like Islam, it is encouraged and tought to children to use the right hand for all the daily uses and handshakes. And use the left hand for all the dirty work like in the loo. |
How do rules in war work, and what happens if a country breaks the rules? | The victor can't break any rules . The rules of war are only to legitimise the victor and demonize the loser |
Seriously, assuming trickle down economics really trickles anything down, why then does the income inequality gap keep on getting wider? | First, on 'trickle down economics', the short answer is 'no, it doesn't work'. To the extent that corporations have tax breaks to 'save jobs', to the extent that regulations are used to protect corporations from competition, to the extent that industries 'write their own regulations' to escape liability, these things only increase inequality. However, this is more likely to happen when taxes are *generally* and *universally* lowered. This fosters investment that is more likely to lead to universal economic activity, increased competition. Even with increasing inequality, although income doesn't necessarily 'trickle down', there are big benefits to the 99% of people through lifestyle improvements. Extreme poverty across the world has been 'cut in half in the last 30 years'. In the United States, the lifestyle of every social class has improved - working hours are lower, and the wages by higher quality products. Stuff like air conditioning, mobile phones, and thousands of other products have gotten more and more cheap over the years. So in that respect, things have gotten better. Putting this all together: 'trickle down' theory doesn't work. Cutting taxes would probably work better, though that is theoretical. Despite that, life for the 99% keeps getting better, even though inequality may worsen. |
Why is every US Air Force pilot required to be an officer? | You aren't, it just depends on what you are flying. Source: I was a 6 year Active duty E-4 that formally piloted a Phoenix UAV. AFSC was a Computer Programmer. |
If cooking kills bacteria, why does it matter how long we leave meat out, or how often we thaw and refreeze it? | Bacteria are just like you and me and houseflies. Food goes in, shit comes out. Some bacteria shit can be really bad for you. Since someone's asking for examples: * E Coli: Makes aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid . * Staph: Enterotoxins. * Clostridium botulinum: Botulism toxin. * Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis: Tetrodotoxin. |
Why is it bad to reuse water bottles when unopened bottles can sit on the shelf indefinitely? | Cancer Research UK have an article on it claiming it's bull [here] Still though, a quick google will show that the exposure to BPA chemicals can reduce testosterone in men. You can get a much nicer and more durable BPA free bottle that's not made of cheap plastic like disposable bottles and not have to worry about it. Not the best scientific answer I know but it's just my opinion.I feel stupid now because I 've never heard of this, so I have a serious question. I have a gallon milk jug that I fill with water every night and I put it in the refrigerator and then I take it with me to work the next day and drink the whole gallon throughout the day. I 've been doing this for about a month now and I haven't actually "cleaned" it out, I just fill it half way up with water and shake it around and pour it out before I refill it. So am I in danger or should I not be doing this?', "Thats just not true. Bottles may be re-used, once you don't alter the contents; paint stripper in a water bottle, bleach in the old 7up flask etc. Because we don't want little timmy reaching for a coke only to wash back a load of caustic soda |
If the human voice moves a very tiny amount to air be heard, why is a light wind which moves much more air not incredibly loud? | No one is mentioning the vocal cords. The air you're forcing out of your lungs are causing your vocal cords to vibrate, which makes the sound. The wind isn't in an enclosed space being forced past something that is meant to make sound. Think about if you blow into a clarinet, it's going to be much louder than if you just blow that same amount of air out of your mouth with no instrument. |
Why is there such a push to get more women into coding? What is so important about it? | Social conventions can, subtly and not-so-subtly, deter someone from pursuing an activity they could be really good at and enjoy because of their gender. We want to challenge these social conventions so that everyone has full freedom of choice to find things that they love and are good at. In my mind, it's not so much about 'women bring something good to programming' as 'right now not everyone has equal access to try something that could be good for them'. We don't want anyone to miss out on a great activity just because it's harder for them to get into it or less likely that they'll get an opportunity to try it. Programming is an area where social attitudes lead to men being the majority of participants. Childcare is an area where social attitudes lead to women being the majority of participants. We want to remove the pressures that make it more difficult/less likely for a woman to get into programming or a man into childcare, or indeed any profession or hobby.It is important to women, because technology jobs are some of the best, highest paying, most satisfying jobs out there, and they should get a piece of that. It is important for the industry, because not everyone can do the job, and since they are good jobs, most of the men who can, are. That leaves a tremendous untapped resource of women who can, but for whatever reason, do not pursue these jobsAn additional reason is that when you teach women to program, they are then able to understand, analyze, and then program for issues that uniquely affect women. The same is true for any other minority. |
Why do white people have so many different hair colors (blonde, red, brown, black) while all other races all have black hair? | Not all hair found I'm other races is black. It's dark yes and many different shades and strengths of brown/black etc.Malcolm X and Genghis Khan were ginge. Not every non-white group solely has black hair.Genetic superiority. No, no, I can't even say that with a straight face. Just kidding."All other races" have black hair? Since when?', "I can't really explain how this is because it isn't true. I really don't know how you came to that conclusion. You'll find many people of other races with natural red and brown hair . Blonde however is rarer among other races.Note that there are Melanesian blondes, people in New Guinea and other islands. The gene responsible for their blonde hair is different than the gene in blondes of European ancestryThere exist several native tribes in the [Solomon Islands] which have naturally blonde hair. It seems to be, as most have said, closely related to genetics. |
Why do people worship Google? It doesn't seem any different than Bing or yahoo to me? | Being slightly older and around when all this came about Google was the lesser enemy and the most progressive. Yahoo was just pants and Bing didn't even exist then, Ask Jeeves just wasn't up to scratch and we had tools like copernicus to scan them all as that was how you searched in the early days for the best results. Fast forward a few years later and still Google was best, Bing came along just to support IE and Yahoo was just Yahoo - still there but apart from a few default engines not a contender. The big thing was the name Google - people now 'google' for things. It has become synonymous with searching for something People don't Yahoo or Bing - they Google - and that is it all really. Do you go to Yahoo or Bing when someone tells you to Google something? Of course not. And thats pretty much how the internet is nowadays |
plot summary of all the halo games(just the ones with master chief) | > Who are the forerunners? A species that dominated the Galaxy 100,000 years before the game. Really advanced tech, bit of a arrogant species. > Where did the flood come from? Flood started as a Powder that arrived in Human territory 110,000 years ago due to a precursor plan. After hundreds of years of using the powder with a pet species called the pheru, the first combat forms appeared and quickly started to take over people, and became a grave threat to the Human Empire. > What are the most significant events in each game so far? Halo 1: We know a military planet named reach was attacked, the pillar of autumn found the halo, the flood were unleashed, halo almost activated, then the halo is destroyed. Halo 2: The commander of the covenant during Halo 1 is stripped of his rank and eventually becomes the arbiter, the Earth is attacked by a prophet's fleets, a second halo is found, Regret is killed, a Gravemind is found, Mercy is killed, high charity overran with flood, cortana and MC split, brutes betray the elites, humans and elites ally. Halo 3: MC returns to earth and learns of alliance with elites, Covenant burning a hole in the ground to the portal, flood land in africa, MC finds cortana recording, portal opens and covenant go through, Half of africa burned to stop flood, humans and elites go through portal, ark found, high charity lands on ark, MC finds cortana, kills Truth, blows up rebuilt halo and ark. |
How can someone be over qualified for a job? | I was told I was overqualified for a position. I was willing to get in on the ground floor and work my way up in the organization. However, this was actually his complaint. He said with a college degree that I would probably be pulled off the labor floor within a few weeks into a more managerial position. So why should he spend the money and energy training me if I'm going to be whisked out of his division before the end of the month. Of course, why they didn't just hire me for that position directly is the question I never got an answer to. |
ELI3: Trying to explain gravity to my three year old niece. I'm failing to explain it to her. Can you help? | This is from a Cracked article I think.Gravity is a force caused by the FSM placing his noodly appendages upon us in order to hold us firm to the ground, less we float off to heaven before our time and harsh his mellow. This also accounts for the increase in global average height of the last few centuries. The higher our population, the less noodly appendages to go 'round.Your niece I believe is a very smart girl for asking that question. Sometimes the smartest people are not the ones with answers but those who asked the right questions. And if you believe the Newton story asking why does food fall down is probably the smartest thing to doi 'd think at 3 she's too young to understand the concept of gravity. it seems like the explanation could be "it must have rolled off the table when we weren't looking like this!" then put a marble on an angled surface and turn around before if falls to the groundGravity is one of the four fundamental forces. Every object with mass experts a gravitational force on other objects with mass. While minute at a smaller scale, when dealing with massive celestial bodies, it becomes a force of attraction that pulls other objects to the mass"Everything is attached to Everything else" but most times we are stronger than Gravity unless the object is very Big. |
How Turing machines work, what they're for, and how they relate to the Busy Beaver game. | A Turing Machine is a mathematical object, an abstract object, like an integer. It's not a machine in the sense that you think. They're used for establishing the basis of computation and therefore figuring out what's computable or not. I'm not familiar with the Busy Beaver game so somebody else will have to answer that for you. |
When paper money became the new standard, how was in distributed? What was the process for people to exchange their old currency for the new currency? | [gonna highjack with a side-question of my own here if thats ok] And how hard would it be to do that again now, and replace it with plastic money like Australia has?? Genuine question. I'm in the UK at the moment and quickly learning that paper money fuckin sucks *so* hard. E: phrasing. |
How products like Coke are able to keep their recipe a secret and still have their ingredients listed | In the same way I can tell you that a cupcake is eggs, butter, self-raising flour, caster sugar and milk, or that thermite is iron oxide and aluminium, that information alone isn't going to be enough for you to actually make them. Even canned soup - cook it too long and you're going to burn it. It's about knowing how to mix and prepare the ingredients, and they're able to keep that secret. Any trial and error anyone goes through is going to yield different results.The ingredients for bread are grains, water, yeast and salt. The ingredients for beer are grains, water, yeast and hops. The trick is in the proportion and the process. |
Can I have armed, deadly traps on my property? What if someone trespasses and dies by getting caught on one of the traps? | People are allowed to make legitimate mistakes without facing the death penalty. Some kid who wanders onto your lawn to get back their ball or is chasing their pet does not deserve to be murdered. Neither does the public servant who may need to visit your home for whatever reason. One can only use deadly force when their life or another's is at risk of being taken by the person that the force is being used against. |
why does Ecuador seem to be the go to place for political dissenters like Snowden or Assange | You ask why is Ecuador seemingly able to refuse the demands of the US government? This seems hard to explain because we are a small, weak country, military and financially. US could destroy us if they tried. And many people here is really afraid of what the US can do to us because of this. The only thing that we have that protects us, believe it or not, is decency. Because we don't protect Assange for any other reason that because it is the right thing to do. Maybe it sounds to naive to you, I know it does, but believe me, there is nothing else to back us up. Our President is the real deal. |
Why do cops use fatal guns instead of tranquilizer guns just like used in animals? | Tranquilizer guns do not behave like they do in movies. The drugs used in tranquilizers are adminitered based on weight. Too much, you risk an overdose. Too little, you risk the drug not having the desired effect. The drugs also do not act instantly, so whatever you end up hitting with a tranquilizer may still end up coming after you. Tasers have been successful, but they have a limited range. They are also not 100% guaranteed to do the job, especially if you are up against someone hopped up on PCP. Tasers also tend to be less effective if your target is wearing heavier clothing, especially leather. And they do still have the potential to cause a lot of harm. Firearms offer a little bit more standoff in extreme cases. And in the case where it is life and death, a firearm will do a much better job at neutralizing a threat than a taser or tranquilizer. Police are also restricted to when they are allowed to use deadly force, and it is usually restricted to an absolute last resort when all other options have been exhausted. The reason why you see police going into houses with their guns up is because 1) they have no idea what's going on in there and 2) people are more likely to not do anything stupid when they have a gun pointed at them. In pretty much any case, a police officer has to be able to justify removing their weapon from their holster.Tranquilizers have to be measured out on a case by case basis or your going to still end up with deaths, brain damage, and worse. Tranqs are also not instant, and take time to work giving people the chance to kill the officer or anyone around them. |
How do woods / forests spread or start ? | Geologically, the earth has a lot of change over a very long period of time. Some of the earliest were tree ferns, and then about 310 million years ago, trees began to form through evolution. As an idea of the changes, the Appalachian mountains were as big as the Himalayas at that time. It was mainly conifers and gingko trees at the time. Flowering trees didn't show up until about 65 million years ago. But throughout that time, the normal way of spreading would be animals eating or otherwise moving the seeds and water moving the seeds from high to low places. in modern times, we can see, after a volcanic eruption, how things return. Mount St Helens is a good example. A lot of trees haven't come back at all. But it's only been 30 years. Give it 300 years, or 3000. And they'll all be back. But the eruption cleared out the old trees that did fine in thick forests and now the areas are dominated by smaller plants that can take full exposure to the elements. The forest advances slowly. |
It seems like WWII is more prevalent in pop culture than WWI. For example, why are there way more movies about WWII than WWI? | All this long winded nonsense! It's because Nazi's are ready made Villains. The literal best bad guys and most fun to hate on. I mean they used skulls on their uniforms for the love of God. 🤗 |
If the stock market crashes, what does that truly mean for our economy? | Basically it's all down to confidence If stock brokers lose confidence because of a few bad trades and think they will lose more money, stock levels drop and because of this they sell more creating excess demand. The excess demand lowers stock levels further, and lower confidence. This low confidence can filter to banks who will stop lending so much cash out/investing for fear of losing it. This in turn means small/medium businesses and potential homeowners have applications rejected causing slower growth of housing markets and construction also. This repeats in a downward spiral, until some stimulus, namely governments,step in and help kick start the economy which tries to restore confidence. So really people are gambling and when the big boys start to lose everyone has to pay! In the UK several banks had to be backed up by the government and the public footed the bill.As I see it The stock market is essentially how people value companies. Lots of people thinking "I would like to own a little bit of this company or that company", and are willing to pay slightly more than the current owners for the privilege of owning a little bit of that company. Many people's pension funds are invested in lots and lots of companies, because over the long term its more valuable than having the pension in a savings account. When the stock market crashes, people suddenly don't want to own little bits of companies, and neither does anyone else, so the value of those companies falls. This also means that people's pension funds fall in value. So if they retire, they get a lot less money back than they had been expecting or planning for. So lots of pensioners have a lot less money to spend on rent, food, bills, etc. |
Why does gasoline smell so good? | You can't just explain why something smells good. Smells are subjective. I personally like the smell also, but there are also plenty of people who find it sickening and unbearable. |
Why is a federal deficit a good thing? | A federal deficit is not a bad thing and comparing it to a household budget is a false analogy. However the problem we do have is a federal trade deficit. But that is a a whole other problem that people don't like to talk about. It is a real problem but since both parties are a part of it we don't hear too much about it. |
Why are pretty much all tires still filled with air? | old cars use to have solid rubber tires. before tube tires and after wooden ones. Every single little bump is felt. Wouldn't be good for today at all. |
Why is reverse engineering sometimes impossible? | The US actually has an agreement with Russia where they could manufacture those engines themselves, but the cost to set up the production process would be exorbitant. As for reverse engineering, rocket engines rely on a great number of technologies from how to make just the right alloys to how to forge and join components and so on. Each process often requires large custom machines to perform. It's possible those machines only exist in a single factory in Russia, where they were made back in the 1980s. It's not as easy as it sounds. |
I bought generic sleeping pills at Wal-Mart yesterday. Today, my YouTube is inundated with ZzzQuil ads. How does this happen? | **tl;dr** Google has a ton of data on you, and they are constantly gathering more. Do you own an Android based smart phone that you carry around with you? The amount of information Google can gather about you is astounding. For starters, the phone knows where you go, how you get there, and even who you are with if they also have a device with them. It can hear everything you say and pick out important words to target advertising. Even without this, Google still knows an awful lot about you by your browsing habits, search queries, and even what times you are browsing the net. The key to running a successful company is having a deep understanding of the product you are selling. In Google's case, you are that product. Google knows me better than any living person, including myself. They know what type of food I like to eat, where and when I work, what my hobbies are, and even my favorite types of porn. Google can quite accurately deduce what I'm searching for within a handful of keystrokes. It is borderline frightening how much information we freely hand over in exchange for access to their services. This stuff is only going to get more sophisticated and accurate as time progresses. It is a side effect of the digital era we are living in. It's also possible that it was just a coincidence. Those things are sure to happen from time to time.Do you have a membership with that store. A lot of time what happens is that stores themselves sell your information on what you buy to various other companies for things like advertisements or other stores so they know how to stock their stores. It can sometimes be very hamfisted such as your situations with the ad directly telling you to buy more of what you just bought', "I didn't buy sleeping pills and I'm seeing a lot of zquil ads. It's nothing to do with your purchase. |
Why do whales die on land? They breathe air and do not have gills. So what is causing their death? | In order for them to be able to breathe, their ribcage would have to expand , but with it, it would have to lift their bodyweight. Their muscles in the ribcage are not made for this. In the water, this wouldn't be a problem, because the bodyweight isn't pushing down on their lungs anymore. |
Why do humans not have a "mating season"? | It's evolutionarily beneficial for the female to hide her ovulation cycle in order to hide who the father of the offspring is. This is thought to reduce the likelihood of infanticide from unrelated males. Additionally our ancestors never needed a meeting season as that is only beneficial when food is sparse during certain seasons. We were tropical and has calories dense food available year round. Most species with mating seasons had to have babies when food was available in their climate. |
How is it that amazon can deliver packages the same day it's ordered? | Most people live in or near a major city. If you set up warehouses around all of those cities, you'll have storage space that's near most of your customers. It's ambitious as hell, with a lot of logistical challenges around storing and routing items that quickly but from a bird's eye view it's as simple as getting a lot of warehouses and delivery teams in all the right places.Amazon has warehouses near major markets and has their own fleet of vans/drivers so basically the same way your pizza gets to you in under an hour. |
What makes open source software more secure? Doesn't make sense because the hackers know how the system works, right? | You see there are plenty of different types of hackers out there. I'm going to list two. Black Hat - A hacker that would use this open source software to his advantage and maliciously infect or affect other users. White Hat - A hacker that would also use this to his advantage, but a positive one. Most likely the developer of the software or the company that owns it, would hire someone to go through and find the bugs and vulnerable pieces, and tell them how to fix it. The advantage for this would be getting paid for it.Hackers can exploit *poorly written* open source code. But, since it is open source, exploits get fixed relatively soon because a lot of people can collaborate on the project. |
Why do we not treat soft drink companies like we treat tobacco companies? | Because drinking a soda isn't bad for you. Over consuming calories is. You can be just as unhealthy by eating tons of pasta etc. It's not sodas fault people are fat. It's not addictive. They aren't tricking you into thinking it's healthy etc. You can't really persuade people into eating healthy the same way you can by saying not to smoke. If you got rid of soda entirely people wouldn't magically be healthier. The people who consume too much soda probably also consume too much junk food etc.It is much easier to maintain only drinking soda sparingly. I could drink only a couple of sodas a week, but doing that with cigarettes would be impossibleI think New York tried to ban large soft drinks a few years ago |
Why we refer to certain figures with their middle name/initial | Well, for assassins and serial killers, we do it so all the John Booths, Lee Oswalds, and John Gacys who *didn't* murder presidents or little boys don't get lumped in with the bad apples who did. |
why are explosives acceptable in war, while chemical agents aren’t? | It's more based on effects and the extent of damage done. Chemicals are sometimes super slow and agonizing death VS more 'humain' relatively quick death from explosion. While a lot of explosions might not kill but will maim, chems will only kill and as previously stated its ugly and super slow 90% of the time |
Why is Bill Nye considered an 'authority' on science when he only has a bachelor's degree (in science)? | He is a *science communicator*, not a scientist. Not that there's anything wrong with that.My thought, based on zero knowledge of his academic credentials or life time of professional employment, would be that he is a well known presenter with whom many people will associate with the man that may have introduced them to science on TV.Bill Nye is not an authority in any scientific field. However, he is a communicator of science. Explaining science in the most simplest terms with experiments that catch the interest of the general public is not easy task. I know a lot of professors that teach complex topics and struggle to ELI5 to their doomed students. He won't get a Nobel prize or become a distinguished professor, but his work and charisma make science accessible to people, specially kids, since the 90's. This work is often much more important than publishing 100 papers in a highly specialized field, because in the future it will provide with hundreds of scientists with hunger of knowledge and the pleasure to figure out things thanks to this engineer. Long live Bill Nye. |
Why is a flight to London more expensive than a flight to Edinburgh, Scotland when I have to connect in London? | Why didn't you just buy the tickets to Edinburgh, get off in London and skip the connecting flight? You could have had your first choice, $800 cheaper. I feel like there's a TIFU in here somewhere. |
Why don't video game companies use USB drives instead of CDs to install games? | I want to add to this question. Why not have games on USBs or SDs for game consoles. DS and Vita ages are on cards, cards are faster, smaller and do not have a scratch risk like a disk. Cards are pretty durable. I know DVDs cost feck all. But if a game company bought in bulk a load of USB sticks or cards then they wouldn't been too expensive. I gain buy a 4GB USB for £1 with free delivery. I dunno, just my 2 pence |
Why Apple stock is dropping after Jobs' resignation | Investors don't like uncertainty. Tim Cook has had some experience as CEO of the company whilst Steve Jobs was on medical leave, but is he really up to the job full time? Will Apple continue to innovate and move stock without Steve Jobs? Are these questions too hard to answer? What's your personal view on the matter? The market seems to think that in one year's time, Apple will be worse off than it is today thanks to Steve Jobs leaving. |
Why do the "Big 3" US auto manufacturers like Ford always appear to be in peril despite massive sales? | In a word: Unions. If they did what they were intended to do, Unions are a good thing. But they have since been corrupted and became a horrible thing. Makes it impossible to fire bad employees and inflates necessary wages to do the job needed. Therefore, prices are through the roof to cover the union contracts. A standard cab Silverado at my local dealer is $44k. That's insanely rediculous and at least $20k more than what it should cost. New Suburbans can get over $70k. My question is how the heck are sales going up with those prices? |
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