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How does fast charging (like on the new Galaxys) work and why did it only just come out? | Fast charging isn't something explicitly new. Most phones can get something comparable. For example, the newest iPhones support 12V charging and can get over 60% in 30 minutes. The Nexus can also do something similar. What Samsung does is probably cut down on the stuff the phone does whole charging, so it will charge faster. Also, the 12 hours is probably a number you will only get with light/power-saving use. |
Why are most jetliners painted white? | My dad homebuilt a plane, and one thing he told me is that a lot of planes are white because when a plane's in the air, the sun is more intense and that dark paint can make parts of the aircraft get too hot. Granted, this was a single engine thing made of fiberglass, I don't know if the same applies to jetliners. |
Why isn't volume on electronics universally measured? | There is a standard scale for measuring volume, which is decibels. It's not usually used on consumer electronics, though, because a major factor in how loud something sounds is the acoustics of the room the device is in. You and I could have identical tvs in our different living rooms, set them both to a volume of 12, and experience totally different volumes. So it wouldn't really make sense to compare one tv to another. |
Why is it when I have a really good stretch, sometimes my leg will shake? | Agh dude, sometimes I'll stretch and it will feel like my own little high for a few seconds. Best thing ever. I just had to say that. |
How did the guy on America's Got Talent swallow sugar and then water after that and regurgitate the sugar still dry with no water? | I'm not so sure he is actually swallowing them. If you go to 2:42 of [this link] you can see the lightbulb never went down. [pic]", 'Was anyone else immediately suspicious of the large microphone he was holding? When he went to "swallow" something, he put the microphone really close to his mouth , and again just as he "regurgitated" something. My theory is the microphone is hollow, and he was using it to store the objects. He could have quickly spat the object into the top of the hollow microphone, and there could be a switch or something that causes the microphone to "launch" the object back out and into his mouthWhat if there are two quantities of sugar? The first one get dissolved and swallowed. The second, in an appropriate packet, is slipped into his mouth while he's distracting us with the "hold the plate so I can spit up into it" bit. He then opens the packet with his tongue and the sugar pours from his mouth to the plate. |
Why is it that the United States can afford to keep giving financial assistance to countries when the United States itself is in $17 trillion dollars in debt? | Just because you borrow money doesn't mean you don't have any. In fact, by borrowing money you have more. |
Why do cereal and juice boxes all have "color swatches" under the tabs? | They are used by the packaging company to control their printing process. It doesn't consume much ink, but offers a constant data point of how correct the color reproduction and printing alignment is.When these packages are printed through an Offset Printer, each color is printed independently. So, these **swatches** are basically a **tool** to check the colours when printed. With them, you can see if the cyan is darker than it should, or if the magenta is more reddish than it should. A **cool fact** is that you can know *how many* colours the printer used when printing the package. , and two *special colours*: **red** and **blue**) |
Why are people afraid? Why are some people
fearless? | We are born with two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noises. All other fears are learned. People become afraid of certain things because they have learnt to associate them with a bad event. For example, if a baby hears a dog barking loudly it will trigger the fear in loud noises and will make that person scared of dogs, as they associate loud noises with dogs. Fearless people have either learnt to overcome their fears or weren't introduced to anything that would make those fears develop.Survival, natural selection. Have you ever noticed that you're able to remember fearful situations far easier than non-fearful situations? Your brain is designed that way to allow you to avoid dangerous situations. Google "amygdala" if you want to know more about the neuroanatomy. Sociopaths tend to have very small regions, and research has shown that damaging the amygdala in lab animals leads to an inability to form memories about fearful stimuli.We're all scared. It's the human condition. Why do you thinks I put on this tough guy façade? |
Why is virtualising servers efficient? | There are huge advantages as far as server *management* goes. You're right that there's some overhead from the host's operating system, but this is more than made up for by the many, many advantages of virtualization, including prototyping and testing, the ability to implement virtual networks and devices on one machine, sandboxing and increased security from virtual networks, failover clustering, server cloning, and much more. Processing power is relatively cheap compared to person-hours of labor, and virtualization can save a LOT of labor. |
How does the US providing weapons and military training to "forces" in the Middle East benefit the US? | We provide weapons to either those that support us,. Or at least oppose those who we hate. In the 60's we gave weapons to the Muslim fighters because while we didnt really like the muslims, we liked that they were opposed to the Russians that were invading. Then later, the Russians dissipated and the Muslim fighters kept the guns and turned them back on us because they didn't like the US hovering over their turf either. |
Why do MMA fighters peak at an older age than sports like American Football, Baseball, and Hockey? | You should rethink your comparison first. Why compare average pro age to champions age? Compare average mlb /nhl/NFL/nba age to average ufc fighter age. Not positive as I don't follow ufc but I think your original comparison is flawed. Maybe compare MVP's of those leagues to the UFC champs. Barry bonds won MLB MVP at the age of 40. |
- Courtroom sketches - why are these a thing? | Because a sketch is similar to a photograph. And people want to see what's happening inside the courtroom. I don't get how you can be baffled by this. |
How come when your body does natural things like get a fever, swell after injury etc. we try to reverse that? | We have better ways of fighting infections than our bodies have developed naturally, and generally your body overreacts to things. In the case of a particularly bad fever, it's like burning your house down to fight a roach infestation. Yes, you killed the roaches, but now you don't have a house. Antibiotics and other medical treatments are more like fumigating your house, you specifically target the roaches without compromising the structure of the house. |
Why do most public servants (ie Police and Firefighters) vote republican? | They have to deal with a segment of society every day that you and I never encounter. It's not the best segment of society. Everyone they meet all day long breaks the rules and takes advantage of the system in place to help the those in need. From their prospective liberal social policies are obviously misguided.It's an authoritarian thing. But don't be fooled, democrats have an equal share of authoritarian principles. They're more similar than I think people would admit. People live off of the "us versus them" narrativeI think this question simplifies matters somewhat. Where I live, the police are union, and they are die-hard Democrats, but I still consider them rightwingers, because they act like it in many waysDo you have any proof that they do?', "because they have to deal with society's lowest people and grow tired and bitter |
Why do we ignore obviously mentally ill homeless people when they should be in some type of treatment? | Because of a Supreme Court case in 1975 , the mentally ill cannot be held involuntarily unless they have been determined to be a danger to themselves or others. Unfortunately the nature of severe mental illness is that people do not know or believe that there is anything wrong with them, and therefore many mentally ill people are not interested in voluntary treatment. Treatment can be forced on them by court order if dangerousness is apparent, but the process is time-consuming and the orders are short lived . Also, this population is not a high priority in the US, and the public mental-health clinics are already overwhelmed, so the severely mentally ill are often left to wander the streets untreated if they don't attract too much attention to themselves or become actively aggressive. |
Why aren't fines associated with traffic tickets and municipal violations income-based? | I believe that there are European countries that do this, but can't remember if it was one of the Nordic countries, Switzerland, or Liechtenstein. Just remember the story of some real rich guy who got fined several thousand for going 5-10mph over the limit based on his income. |
Why is it that if you lick or spit on something, your saliva smells pretty bad, but it doesn't necessarily taste bad to kiss someone? | You're confusing taste and smell. Dentists say that the best way to know if your breath smells bad is to lick the back of your hand and then smell it. The smell of the inside of our mouth is a result of the numerous bacteria and dead food particles on our tongue and between our teeth. The worse the hygiene, the worse the breath. Even if you brush your teeth, if you're not flossing you're missing out on a very important source of the breath, and the foul smelling saliva. If your spit smells bad, I bet your breath smells bad. If that is the case, then who ever kisses you may catch a whiff. Also, smells travel better and are easier to appreciate in humid or wet environments. Have you ever farted in the shower? That explanation though is for another question ", 'One of my favorite quotes."It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I 've somehow been infected by it."', "lpt: going to kiss someone who has been eating something strongly flavored and you don't want that to get in the way of your enjoyment? Eat the same thing. You won't notice it. Garlic sticks for everyone! |
why are a vast majority of vinyl records on black vinyl, when coloured vinyl is possible and looks really good? | Part of this could be the time spent arranging the pellets for a special colored record. If you have to make a black record, you take the vinyl pellets and make sure you aren't using too many or too few per record because it's all one color. Making a solid colored record would also probably be just as simple since only one color pellet is being used. Now, if you have to make a specially designed color you need to put in several different colored pellets in a certain manner for to achieve the desired look. Another example would be tri colored records like the ones commonly associated with Third Man Records. Say you need to make a black, white and yellow record with each color taking up a third of the record. The manufacturer needs to place the three different colored pellets in even amounts onto the record manufacturing machine. These little steps can add seconds per record, which can then lead to several minutes to hours of extra time dedicated to that order. Basically, using colored pellets for patterns can add minutes to hours of extra time to the manufacturing process, making them more expensive to produce. |
What makes marijuana smoke safer than cigarette smoke? | While it has carcinogens, marijuana apparently has fewer then tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke also paralyzes the cilia that move mucus up out of the lungs, while marijuana actually stimulates them acting as an expectorant. On top of this, the resin that accumulates from marijuana smoke is NOT like the tar that accumulates from tobacco smoke. The lungs rather easily clean themselves of marijuana resin and particulates, while tar sticks around for a long time and actually irradiates your lung tissue. Also, vaped marijuana does not harm the lungs in any way and is the second safest way to inhale the drug, with the safest being vaped Butane Hash Oil. EDIT: Forgot to add that additives in cigarettes are really fucking bad, especially when you burn them. AND That marijuana does not cause narrowing of the bronchi, unlike tobacco. Marijuana actually acts as a bronchodilator.Cigarettes have a shit ton of extra nasty additives. I have no problem smoking an occasional pipe tobacco, cigar, or shisha, but all of the extra chemicals in cigarettes makes me nervousTHC is a bronchodilator and nicotine is a bronchoconstrictor', "Pot has less tar in it, and pot acts as an expectorant where as tobacco will just sit in your lungs and gum stuff up. edit: I'm just wrong here . |
When and why did the US military change their camouflage to the more "pixelated" design that soldiers currently wear? | To follow up on the posts here, the Army did away with ACU's a few years ago and now uses Multicam. The ACU's sucked, ripped easily, didn't blend into anything at all, and were pretty much hated. They are using multicam until they can find something better. The Marines still use DCU's and they are great. Comfortable, well designed, and actually provide some measure of camoflauge. Source : former Marine. |
Is there real scientific evidence that marijuana has significant medicinal properties or is unreliable information being promoted in the interest of legalization? | There isn't much evidence. There is anecdotal evidence that it helps things like seizures, but there's about as much as there is supporting homeopathy and acupuncture. That's the biggest reason why there have been next to no doctors advocating in favor of medical marijuana. Ultimately, the most physicians can say is that there should be more studies. _URL_5_ _URL_4_ _URL_6_ Edit: I realize that this is an unpopular opinion on Reddit, but the OP asked for evidence. Science, Nature, Jama, and the New England Journal of Medicine are high quality peer reviewed journals. Just because they don't give you what you want doesn't make them wrong. |
What is programming in non-English languages like? | I'm American but spent most of my life in Poland. In high school I had computer science classes with Java programming. The syntax is absolutely the same. There is no translation that I know of for Java into Polish, so we still write System.out.println instead of System.wyjście.druklinii However, when the native language of the coders is non-English, the comments and variable names will be in the language.Each time you write "colour", you get errors until you give in and type "color".Since I am german I can only speak for german programming, obviously. If I had to summarize in one word: weird. On one hand there are the german based porgramming languages, which are quite often used to teach kids the ways of thinking like a programmer and to introduce them to the concept. While it can be a nice idea to make it easier to learn because they already know all the words used, for most people it doesn't really work. German is a pretty complex language which doesn't make it a good fit for hte simple nature of a porgramming language, you'll have to make compromises: either you end up with unnecessaryly complex code or your code looks just wrong. And since most widely-used programming languages are based on english anyway, there's no point in making it based on german in the long term.On the other Hand there's people who use english programming languages, but make all their function names etc in german, which to me is just bad style. |
Why do two negative numbers yield a positive number when multiplied together? | This may be more than a 5 year old could handle, but I scrolled through quickly and didn't find a proof. I will give a simple one. I'm assuming you're comfortable with variables? Nothing more than high school algebra here! Let x and y be numbers. Let's look at this expression: - Now, remember the distributive property of multiplication? = a*b + a*c for any 3 numbers a, b, c. This property is an axiom, which means there is no proof for it. We assume it to be true because it is very fundamental.) Well, now let's use it in reverse with : - = + y) Now, + y = 0. So: - = *0. So the right hand side is 0 since any number times 0 is 0. Therefore - = 0. If you add to both sides you see that = . Since we assumed that x and y were any numbers, this proves the claim. Does that make sense? Let me know if I need to clarify something! |
My tax return is only $450, while non-working families get a huge return from claiming children. | Didn't work, but get a tax return? You get a tax return by paying too much in taxes. So what taxes were they paying if they didn't work? |
How can you be diagnosed with autism at the age of 2? | Children tend to follow typical developmental milestones. Some children will have a few delays. Some will have global delays. Children with Autism typically show specific delays in specific areas. At age 2, the things you would look for include: *Functional use of language. Not just repetition or singing, but language to achieve a personal goal . Their vocabulary may be huge, but how it is used matters. *Following instruction. A typical two year old can follow simple instructions. *Shared attention. If you point at something, will they look with you? Similarly, will they point or otherwise try to draw your attention to something that interests them? *Seeking help. If something goes wrong do they look for someone to help, or do they melt down/give up/keep trying on their own? Other things that might come up: *Self stimulation. Arm flapping, toe walking, jumping on beds for hours, etc. We all do this kind of thing when we're bored or anxious but some of those on the spectrum need to do it a LOT. *Organising play. Most 2-year-olds will engage in some imaginative play. A lot of those on the spectrum will prefer to stick with lining things up in very specific patterns of their choosing. All of these things are put into standardised tests. The tests are typically administered by an experienced child psychologist, who can usually give you a very specific and hard-cast diagnosis based on how the child performs compared to the norms for that age group. |
Why does a car steer with its front wheels, while an aeroplane steer with its tail rudder? | From what I know , the front wheels of small planes, like Cessnas, are connected with rudder pedals, that's why when they're turning, the rudder is turning too, but they're steering with the front wheels.Don't know how it is with bigger planes. |
Why do so many people hate Apple products? | My personal hate for them is that nothing uses the universal standard. You can't plug an HDMI cable into it, or VGA, even Ethernet cable .instead you have to buy a fucking converter for the thing to be able to use it properly. That, and their fanboys. Edit: and their DRM. Re-edit: their fans suck too . |
What makes CRISPR a *synthetic* biology innovation? | Although we've been able to assemble and modify DNA that we added to cells for years, it has always been a challenge to modify the DNA already in cells . With CRISPR technology, we now have a robust, programmable, and simple to use set of tools to introduce genetic changes to cell genomes. Such changes include knockout of genes, insertion/deletion/substitution of DNA within genes, and even means to cause over/under expression of genes without modifying the DNA at all. Synthetic biology is all about being able to introduce changes at the DNA level that causes useful phenotypic results - with CRISPR-Cas9 we can now do that more efficiently and easier. |
why are almost all newborn creatures so "cute" to us? | Carl Jung would say you see the [child archetype](_URL_0_ within yourself projected on them. Basically, we have memories of being children in our subconscious and when we encounter children in the world, we see our memories of our childhood in them. It's also why people who hate/dislike children have a strong tendency of having a background with a rough childhood. When they see children, it brings up bad memories of when they were children, so often they will deny the existence of the child within themselves. |
If the human body is around 70% water, how come we don't have pure H2O in our bodies? | Our cells are essentially little bags of water with various solutes dissolved in them. That's pretty much how we function: chemical reactions in solution in little bags of water contained by phospholipid membranes. There is a whole lot more to it than that of course, by for eli5 purposes it's a decent description. |
Why was it so easy to find employment in the late 20th century? | Which period of the late 20th Century in which country, 1980's for instance in many countries it was very difficult. |
How did Coral, which cannot tolerate a temperature change of 1 degree Celsius, manage to survive Earths changing climatic history? | Because that is a false statement. Coral is remarkably hardy and can live in certain conditions that were previously thought imposssible. A newer discovered coral reef along the Amazon river delta is changing our previous assumptions about coral too. Its polluted, murky and generally not the place anyone expected to find anything like coral, yet it's there, having a good time. |
How does a bird swallow a fish whole/live without it flopping around in its stomach? | If you've ever seen a bird shake it a few times first, you've seen it either knock out or kill something before swallowing it. Chicken beaks are sharp enough to injure an animal. Eagle talons are super sharp and fill the little critter with holes. Those are some ways. Idk how fish like bass or catfish pull it off, but as many not living things I've seen inside them, they do something or other. |
[META]: Hey guys! "Read-it"'s ELI5 Subreddit just made it on CNN! | With the proportion of CNN's interest stories taken from reddit, you'd think they'd know how to say it. |
Keyless entry; what's stopping someone from hitting unlock on the door as I walk away but am still in range of the car? | Lack of range. Mine won't work if the key fob is more than about 2 feet from a door. |
Why do some playgrounds use woodchips for flooring? Aren't they kind of dangerous? | I am actually curious about the rules and regulations behind playground flooring and build in general. Seems like it is a bureaucratic shitshow. During elementary they playgrounds went from sand to bark/woodchips. Then a newer playground had these rubber matts. And now years later I see that the oldest playground also has rubber matts. Must have been some dude that figured out sand wasn't okay, promptly banned it and then found out woochips where bad too a few years later. They would also tear down and rebuild a lot of the playgrounds. Not just the flooring. I guess they can't be quite as tall anymore and need to be more accident proof.Instead of getting sand in your eye, you can now enjoy getting giant splinters in your eye.They're also called engineered wood fiber. Don't know how it's done but they're made in a way that gets rid of splinters on the wood. With enough depth they do provide really good fall protection, more so then rubber mats or pee gravel. |
Why does putting your car remote against your head increase the range in which you can unlock a car? | I've done a bit of testing, and as far as I can tell it's just that you're holding the car keys up higher that gives a longer range. Holding keys at head height vs having the tip of the key against your head has no difference.i like the explanation with the loop antenna, and the fact, that when you point it like a tv remote, the signal is actually less eficient, but when you point it TOWARDS your head the loop antenna gets a better angle to your car', "_URL_1_ Sixty symbols have a real good scientific explanation for this one, it's more about water, but a do belive that redirect wave is also a factor", 'Simply put, your fob generates a signal in a 360 degree sphere when you hit that button. Putting it under your chin or next to your head etc narrows and reflects some of that signal back to the to vehicle and away from your head. Cut the base out of a pringles tube and use that as a cover for your remote, it will act as a concentrator and give you some impressive results. |
How do millionaires and billionaires make sure their accountants, lawyers and doctors don't charge them unreasonably high rates? | Many rich people are ripped off by their help. Think of all the articles you've seen of embezzlement. . |
Why are wounded soldiers always thirsty? | Well, he did fight a lot in the desert. And when you are fighting you don't carry that much water on you. Most of that stuff is held at your base camp. Since fighting is hard work and lots of those people were bleeding, I could see why they were so thirsty. |
CyanogenMod for Android, What is it and why do so many people like it? | I think the main reason CM got really big is with the release of CM7 for Gingerbread. It made a huge load of older devices able to run Gingerbread, without any lag-inducing bloat. I remember being shocked with the speed my DHD could offer when it wasn't running Sense. It still remains pure, although it's now more customisable than ever. |
Why does even the shittiest Porn site have a better player than Youtube? | In the past, I have found that sometimes, ISP provided DNS handles youtube in funny ways. For better results, consider using google's dns as your dns settings. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4_URL_1_ |
Is it possible for ghosts to exist? | It's pretty much impossible for ghosts to exist, or at the very least there are many, many questions that need to be answered. The most important question that needs to be answered is what are these ghosts made of? If they're made of atoms, what elements are they made of, and why are they invisible? And how do these atoms manage to organize themselves so that they can manipulate objects and have thoughts? And where do these atoms come from? You can't just create matter out of thin air. If they're not made of atoms, then they're made of something not currently known, which would mean a huge revelolution in basically all of science. Once you figure that out, you have to wonder how humans go from being alive to being dead and ghosts. By what mechanism does this happen? Ghosts generally have their body plus clothes, but their clothes aren't real clothes they're ghost clothes. How do these ghost clothes come about? What is it about dying that makes a person's clothes become ghost material? If they died with a phone would they have a ghost phone? Would that ghost phone have service? I could go on for days. On the surface the idea of ghosts seems pretty simple, but when you dig into it the whole ghost process would have to be pretty complicated and operate in a way that our current knowledge says is impossible. So what's more likely, that all these people misinterpreted some noises and other things and exagerated a little bit when telling the story, or that there is a vast complex natural phenomenon that, when understood, would completely revolutionize our understanding of the world?", 'so many smart people on reddit! thanks guys and girls |
Why do OTC medicines go by age instead of pounds? | Many medications function independent of a person's weight . You also have to consider that a drug company releasing ibuprofen for instance does not know basic information like medication history, tolerance to medication and health status, and therefore has to use a relatively safe baseline dose that's demonstrated to provide the desired effect while minimizing the chances for overdosing/complications/unwanted side effects.They do this under the assumption that at least some people will make calculation errors if they tried to administer something based on mgs per lb/kg. It’s safer for OTC meds to have a generic dosage based on age instead. Most prescription and IV meds administered are based on weight though, but nurses/doctors/etc. are trained on it and there are usually redundant checks to prevent errorsI will speak to the cough medication because that was the exaple the OP used. As clinical pharmacist, I would agree there is strong evidence to support the age based dosing. The American Academy of pediatrics, noted that dosage guidelines for cold and cough mixtures are extrapolated from adult data and clinical experiences and thus are imprecise for children . One study looking dextromethorphan acknowledged that this age based dosing resulted in substantial variability in the amount of drug adminstered. Children who got manufacturer recommended doing received a large range of .35mg/kg to .94mg/kg. However, there was no significant differences in symptom relief with increasing doses. Note, the American academy of pediatrics recommends against antitussive because there are no well controlled studies. Tl;dr: you are correct. No evidence for age dosing. But, major pediatric organizations do not recommend cough medications anywayBecause OTC medications have to be easy to dose. They tend to be very safe, and have a very wide range of acceptable doses. This allows for very simple rules for dosing - like age 2-4, 1 tsp; age 4-6, 2 tsp, etc. Once you start dosing by weight, then things start getting complicated. You need to know the weight. You need to be able to multiply and calculate the correct dose. You need to have some way of checking if the dose is sensible. That is usually too difficult for OTC medications. |
How to gaming companies miss big bugs and glitches even after test runs? | I'll respond from the point of view of a programmer: Programming code can get very complicated very quick, especially when multiple programmers are working on the same program. While good coding standards and practices sometimes help alleviate issues like spaghetti code and such, human errors can still be introduced in the code which can lead to what we know as bugs. Now, consider that most modern games, especially high-budget AAA titles are very complicated programs, which consist of hundreds of thousands lines of code, written mostly by error-prone, caffeine-deprived humans. It's inevitable that someone will make a mistake. Most of them will be caught by the compiler, but some of them will scurry undetected, waiting to be found. The tricky thing with bugs, is that oftentimes they need VERY specific sets of circumstances for them to trigger. More often than not, if you don't encounter a bug, it is hard to know it's there to begin with. During QA, play testers try to find bugs by trying different actions , that a player might try when they're playing the game. However, bugs often get past QA and are often found by players when they meet a certain criteria. This is why during beta testing developers ask you to be very specific when reporting a bug: by knowing exactly what actions led to the bug, they can have a better idea where to find it in the code and fix it. |
Why speakers on stage (Floor Monitors) face the performer and not the audience | So they can hear themselves. Especially helpful for the singer to ensure pitch. There are plenty of amps facing outward but they are usually to the side of the stage. The bigger an amp is the more directional it can be, so being to the side you can't hear as clear.So they can hear themselves. Otherwise, the sound bounces off the back wall and the slight delay is confusing as fuck to the musician. |
What is the actual threat of the Yellowstone super volcano? | Vast, but remote. Vast in the sense that it will do almost incalculable damage to at least the northern hemisphere, and probably most of the world. Remote in the sense that though it could happen almost at any time, that encompasses a lot of time - so the actual chances of it happening while you're alive are slim. Why what we could do about it is another question - probably not a lot. Other risks - well, [an earthquake in the Canary Islands] could cause a lot of problems if it happens one of the ways it might. EDIT - tyop. |
Do electrons really travel through a wire? | The electrons are moving, but this happens relatively slowly. Energy gets passed from electron to electron and this happens at near the speed of light, the electrons don't have to move much for this to happen. With the people on train analogy, it's like the person at the back pushing everyone forwards. The person at the front moves forwards, you've transferred energy down the train, but the person at the back is still a long way from the front. |
Why is the USA not a signatory to the International Criminal Court treaty? How is the rest of the world okay with this? | I'll put it in very simple terms:What is the rest of the world going to do about it?Right. |
Why does everyone want to move to Canada when their country falls on hard times? | I moved to Canada from a shit hole country. The reason why we chose Canada was basically, as far as we knew, *people didn't hate us for moving there.* I mean yes, a country with public health care, tax breaks and subsidies for home buyers and parents, and a general improvement of QOL that basically means anyone could live a comfortable life were all definitely big bonuses to look for, but all of that would mean jack shit if the people of Canada were racist or xenophobic. Is there racism in Canada? Yes. But people here are generally socially liberal. It's made us feel welcome here. Anyone who runs on a Trump-like platform is treated as a joke by the general population, UKIP won't fly here. Other points - Canada speaks English AND French. Lots of former French-speakers move to Quebec, and German-speakers can find friends in BC or in the larger cities. Also, Asians. You can find Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese people in most cities. |
Why don't developers in California, and other drought-stricken areas of the U.S., have to include solar panels and drought-resistant landscaping, as well as water-efficient appliances, in all new buildings? | Because the current way is cheaper. Not everyone can afford solar or to convert a yard that way. I'd agree with the landscaping, but solar like you said costs more which will likely price those houses out of their target market. Developers don't develop to be ecologically sound. They develop to turn a profit and keep their shareholders satisfied. Such requirements would just be passed on to the initial purchaser, and 20k could easily keep someone from being able to close the deal. |
Why do many economists view basic income as a solution? Wouldn't it simply increase the price of most goods based on simple economics? | Inflation happens when an increase in demand causes producers to raise prices. But if you are a producer, and are suddenly getting more orders, you might not reflexively raise prices. You will likely only do it if you are at full capacity and don't have much competition. This is happening in college and healthcare markets. But basic need products have a lot of competition and suppliers . Also there are still a significant number of unemployed people to work retail. So its likely that markets will meet much of the demands without just immediately responding by raising prices. |
Why are so many Americans in favor of illegal immigration? | As a Mwxican I don't care if USA wants to tighten their borders, it's their right to do it, but I care about being called a rapist and a criminal, for no reason, most people jumping the border are parents who want to give their kids a better future. I'm single I can live with a job that pays $10/day, people with kids probably won't, and sometimes, those people are paid $4/day .Im not "for" illegal immigration. But i think legal immigration should be easier, and i think people who are already here should not be deported if they havent comitted a serious crime. And becsuse of those thoughts, spending 10s of billions of dollars on a border wall is an absolute waste of money.The issue is less that they came over illegally, the issue is that supporters don't think the people who are already here should be sent home. Nobody's denying they broke the law, it's that they're already here, the vast majority who can work do so , and that if we send them back to Mexico they'll just come back because their lives, families and resources to make money are here. Kicking them out would screw up the US's economy, especially around food and produce prices.It was applauded when Bill Clinton said it. Its who said it that appears to make the difference ', "I just think it's a bad investment. The cost of stamping it out would be enormous and the benefit of stamping it out is almost certainly nonexistent and quite likely would negatively impact the economy. |
Why does the water in the toilet bowl go frothy when I pee? | Proteins from shed epithelial cells in your urethra, trace bacteria and potentially your blood cells increase the surface tension of the mixture of water and urine, allowing it to froth when it is combined in the bowl. If it's extremely frothy, that is a symptom of illness, as is turbidity. |
If wars are so good for industry in the US, why does the stock market tank when we're about to start one? | Forget about the notion that the stock market goes down the economy is bad and the stock market is up the economy is good. While stocks are based off of the economy, the important thing to remember is that stocks are generally traded by people with feelings and emotions. The reason stocks go up or down is directly affected by people's feelings and perceptions of the economy and industry etc. When people get really scared, they sell and intelligent people buy their stock at a discount. Once their fears are squashed out and they realize the world isn't going to end, they start buying but the people who bought when it dropped are the ones making the money. |
how (in) effective is the "pull out" method as a form of birth control? | The Pearl-index is precisely what you're looking for. The pull out method has a Pearl-index of 4-18, which means that if 100 women were to use this method for the entirety of one year, 4-18 of them would become pregnant. A lot more and detailed information is easily available on the web. Don't they teach you these things in school?", 'Failure rate is higher than 4 % per year, typically around 22% []. This means if you use that method for one year, you have a 1/5 chance to become a parentThis is the only method that the wife and I have used for 15+ years including high school. The only children we have are the three we were trying forIf you correctly it is something like 95% effective, however it is rarely used perfectly[He is a short video on the subject, which I assume is accurate.]It works well if done correctly especially since pre-ejaculate has little to no sperm in it. Of course this is assuming first time sex for that day after using the bathroom which flushes out the tubing if you know what i mean. The problem is that doing it correctly part first you really need to be knowledgeable about these things which most who are trying it aren't. The second part second is having that mental and physical control which most people don't. Its human male nature to not want to pull out and the main reason your having sex in the first place is because it feels good. This leads to the "just a few more thrusts" or wait to the last possible second mentality that makes it an awful choice. That combined with the fact that people also often have sex while under the influence which further lowers your control over your body and you're absolutely playing with a loaded gun.For what it's worth, it worked for my girlfriend and me for about 7 years, although I've never been tested for my own fertility. She now has children with another man and my current wife is unable to bear children. |
What is the source code of a game? Why was the golden disk so valuable? | Your grandma has a special index card that has the recipe for her famous apple pie that has all the specifics written down on it: what ingredients, how much, how long to bake, etc. The thing is, she has only ever shown this recipe to those close to her, such as your mom who helps her make it whenever your family goes to visit. Now let's say your grandma also sells her famous apple pies to people around the neighborhood and frequently sells more than the local bakery sells their apple pies. One day as your mom is walking to the store with the recipe card in her purse to buy ingredients for your grandma, she drops it. If someone were to get ahold of that, every person would be able to make your grandma's famous apple pie which means that not only does your grandma risk losing the recipe forever if she so happens to forget certain ingredients or steps, but she also risks someone else or even the local bakery finding the card and using it for their own personal gain. Let's say the index card disappears, but your grandma and mom do not recall all of the specifics - you can *try* to replicate making the apple pie, but it may not ever turn out the same way again. As far as the last question goes -- think of source code as a completely freshly baked apple pie. Yes, all the ingredients and steps that went into the pie are there, but since it was baked behind the scenes, you can't completely pinpoint all the ingredients, all the steps, or how long it was baked for. You could probably figure it out, but the time it would take and the difficulty in doing so wouldn't be nearly worth the effort or even at all possible in some regards. This isn't 100% accurate, but hopefully it gives you an idea of why that source code was so important. Edit: for those more informed, feel free to correct or fix anything I may have gotten or plain got wrong. |
Why are water mains buried beneath streets? | It it were above the ground you'd trip over it :)", 'Cuz they would be hard to drive over if they were above ground.Water lines are typically buried beneath the frost line so they don't freeze. |
When we're having a nightmare, why do we wake up just as we're about to die? | Not really a nightmare, but last night I dreamt that I took a big hit off of a crack pipe and got really fucking high off crack. I don't know what being high on crack is supposed to feel like, but I was **really** fucking high off this dream crack. Like a combination of being really drunk and high off weed, without the spins. It was so vivid, and I spent the rest of the dream exploring an unfamiliar city that vaguely resembled Toronto. Eventually it got late, and I walked through an old university building where a bunch of goths were having a goth Harry Potter cosplay meetup, but it got crashed by the police and I was freaking out because I was still really ripped off dream crack but luckily some friends were there to take me away in a taxi. Then they made fun of me for being off my balls on dream crack, and they let me out in front of an apartment building on the lakeshore. In front of the apartment were a bunch of ducks, but the male ducks had huge beefy necks and heads. One of them quacked at me and that's when I woke up. First time I dreamt of being on drugs and it was quite an experience. 7/10 would probably smoke dream crack again if I had the chance. |
If a photon is massless, why is there (supposedly) a limit to its velocity? | You live in a 4 dimensional universe. Three dimensions are distance and one is time . The speed of light is the ratio of the distance in the temporal one, the one we call time, to the distance in the spacial ones, which we call distance. Every object exists as a unit velocity segment in this 4-space. Since a 4-space is hard to think about, let's simplify by considering the spacial dimensions in terms of our motion. Now we only have one spacial dimension, the direction we are moving. Turning doesn't count. Next we graph our 2-space universe, with time on the vertical and distance on the horizontal. Every object is one unit from the origin on this graph, a quarter-circle. If a segment is aligned with the time direction , the object's spacial dimensions must be 0, this gives 0 speed in space and 1 second per second in time. If the velocity segment is oriented along the spacial dimension the object is moving at C, and since all segments are one unit long, it must be 0 in the temporal dimension. Thus photons move at the speed of light but do not experience changes in time. Gravity and other forces use energy to change the orientation of an object's velocity segment, accelerating it in space and shortening the time element or decelerating it in space and lengthening the time segment. Mass isn't an issue. |
Monopolies are illegal, but I only have one choice for cable internet | Same here, I live in Hull, East Yorkshire and we only have one phone company who provide land lines and all internet. I wouldn't mind but they overcharge compared to the rest of the U.K and the service sucks. |
If fast food workers are fighting for $15/hour, doesn't this basically crush any benefit entry level graduates or professionals with a few years experience making 17-25 receive? | As someone who's experienced both the lows of restaurant work and the lowest end of the totem pole professionally , if wages are equal, I would rather do the professional work. Restaurant work is very stressful and physically tiring, and workers are generally treated like grunts by management. Restaurant workers deserve more than what they currently get paid, especially cooks and other back end, non-tipped employees. |
What is the advantage to society in funding NASA? | Investment in NASA is investment in scientific research. There have been so many modern inventions that spun off from NASA research it's hard to even imagine. I did some googling and decided it'd be silly to try to just copy a list here, when I could just give you a [link to a list]. Additionally, research in space tech is our future, period. As a species, human kind is too important to allow our future survival to rest in just one planet. That's too fragile. We need to move on from this world one day.NASA, and efforts to enable NASA programs, have developed a broad range of [practical applications] on earth in and of themselves that we use every day. These benefits are present even if one were to discount the value of their research, whether it be pure science or practical research, such as increasing our understanding of climate change in order to prepare for its potential outcomes. |
Why couldn't space rockets land like Space-X? What is the significance of this new technology? | > Why couldn't other space rockets land like this? [This] is how the Space-X Falcon works. Simply put, it's extremely difficult to implement this: lots of moving parts, lots of complexity. Prior to this, the Space Shuttle was the functional model for a reusable space launch vehicle > What is the significance? The significance is that the booster is reusable, and since it's much more expensive than rocket fuel, it's a big step toward making space launches much more affordable.This requires that the bottom half of the rocket that is ejected upon leaving the atmosphere can operate without the top half, fly well enough to make a clean landing, and not burn up on the way down. This new system has the equipment to let the bottom half land and maneuver itself on the way down with little Wright added. It also has the new barge which greatly increases the area in which the rocket half can land. |
Why does it require a bill to be passed in order for 9/11 victims to be allowed to sue Saudi Arabia? How does the process of suing a country work? | I still don't understand how the government of Saudi Arabia should be at all held responsible for 9/11. Were the terrorists acting under orders or funding from the Saudi Arabian government directly? |
In a Democracy, if nobody knows which candidate anyone else voted for, how do we know we can trust the results of an election? | We spread the responsibility for accurate vote counting out among many thousands of ordinary people, and have numerous security measures in place to make sure that votes aren't tampered with. We also know that the political risk of committing organized vote fraud is great enough that political parties rarely bother with it. If caught, the guilty face serious prison sentences and the party is severely weakened by the scandal. We also have exit polling, which gives us a good idea of what an election is going to turn out like before it's actually over. It's very accurate, and would make it difficult to get away with vote fraud undetected.One can increase their confidence in the electoral system by volunteering. Positions are available for manning voting locations, ushering, setting up, and counting ballots. |
Is it better to pop a zit or let it go away itself? | I don't have a technical explanation for you, but I tend to subscribe to the idea that the human body knows what its doing. If it wants to generate a bunch of ugly looking puss, then so be it. I'm not going to be sticking my figures in and interfering. Same reason I don't pick scabs. |
If you are slowly dunked into lava feet first when do you die? | I'm pretty sure the gas would kill you first, first breath must be like inhaling pure acid, there is no reasonable capacity to get oxygen left, your brain shuts down. src: _URL_1_ |
Why does Vimeo have higher quality videos, Youtube has medium quality, and Liveleak has low quality? | I think the difference lies in the business model. At least between the Vimeo and YouTube. Vimeo makes money from the creators themselves, who pay to have their content on the site. This raises the entry bar and makes it so that only videos that are above standard quality are worth uploading. YouTube makes money through advertisement , and allows the creators to upload freely, lowering the entry barrier. That means that almost all kind of videos go there, without much control or filtering. I'm not really familiar with liveleak, but I feel that they are much more liberal in the content they allow on the site, so that's where all the questionable videos go to.Can anyone ELI5 wtf happened to youtube over the past 10 years? I remember when I used to go there, with even slower internet, and stream videos one after another, no problem at all. I rarely even use youtube anymore because of how slow things workVimeo also has a ton of PORN. You just have to find it I have a friend, who uh.. told me about it. |
This is not askreddit or science or askscience...if you don't know what the answer is, ask them, if you do but you're still confused, come here... | Sounds like you're judging people who don't know the answer to their question but still want an elementary school level explanation/answer. Such a mentality seems to be against the description of the subreddit over to the right. There doesn't seem to be anything in the rules that states you already have to have a grown-up answer given to you but don't understand before you come to ask here. I'm assuming this is mainly due to the fact that this would be nigh impossible to police. |
Why is it so much harder for women to achieve orgasm (vs men)? [NSFW] | Could it be that female primates mate with many males in succession and if she climaxed with the first male then ~~then~~ there won't be an incentive to mate thereafter, limiting her chance of getting the best genes? This line of thought is loosely based on the shape of the penis' head which is meant to remove competitors' sperm. |
The Brony Phenomenon (Brony- young adult males that watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | TIL that guys watch 'My Little Pony'. My mind is blown.because it is /) ^ ε ^ ( |
Why is it legal for schools to make third party learning tools that have to also be paid for, mandatory. | If you're talking about college, why would it be illegal? I take it you're okay with them requiring you to pay tuition , or requiring you to buy textbooks. |
in the early centuries people died at around 30 but did they look like they were 30 today. | I get what you're asking about the physical appearance why would a 30yr old from 100 years ago look much older than a modern 30yr old? Several reasons including nutrition, sunscreen, dentistry, hygiene, etc. |
If a bot on reddit can read text on a meme, why can't they read captcha codes? | Text on a captcha code is designed specifically to be unreadable for automated text recognition systems. That's why it is slanted, curvy, laid over a grid, whatever it takes to turn the text into a squiggle that is unrecognisable to a computer, but a person can just make out.Fun fact: If you want to have a bot to break captchas, AND you have a popular site, you can set the bot to get the captcha from the other site and show it to the human visitor, then forward the answer.Also, aren't the bots that are reading the meme images work by grabbing the text from the meme website link? For instance, using a meme generator website to generate and host an image from a URL - the bot goes to the URL and is able to look at the actual text of the image because the text is also stored alongside the image.And why do I have to do a captcha twice? Every time on reddit when I try to post something, I have to do the captcha twice even if I get it right the first time.They can, it's really just a deterrent. You've probably noticed that some sites use stupidly hard captcha that even humans take several attempts to solve while others are really simple. The harder they are the better your bot has to be. This is one of the reasons that Google has produced the new recaptcha system. |
What is the link between Alcohol & Petroleum? | so first off, Alcohol and petroleum are two different chemicals. You can get Alcohol from petroleum if you have a microorganism that can eat petroleum and convert it to alcohol. Just as we have microorganisms that convert sugar to alcohol. Secondly, Alcohol and gasoline both burn. Problem is, alcohol and gasoline burn differently. You would need to specifically design engines around alcohol fueled engines, just like Gasoline engines and Diesel engines are designed differently. As a side note, you can make engines that run off [wood gas], but they're ugly as hell, not very powerful and pretty bad for the environment. |
How is the "golden ratio" or "Fibonacci's Sequence" used in music? | The Golden Ratio is derived from the Fibonacci Sequence. Here's an [interesting song] Thanks for the correction guys, and thanks to /u/over-sight for making the youtube video I linked. It's a great video, shame my mistake made this post less visible than it ought to have been.I heard that Debussy's "La Mer" is based on the golden ratio. There were even a few bars that didn't fit and were found to be errors when compared to the manuscriptApparently the timing of the drums in the Amen break lines up with the golden ratio. I doubt the drummer intended it to be a mathematical sequence, there is just something inherently satisfying about playing/hearing it. Perhaps its no coincidence that it is the most sampled drum beat of all time[this] is a cool video that helps explain some golden ratios in music. I remember watching it in high school algebra |
National Debt and the financial state of a country | If you're trying to educate yourself, add these to the pot and stir it: * The **deficit** is this year's budget shortfall. Congress authorizes the spending of money on this project or that, but doesn't actually have the money to spend, so it must be borrowed. * The **debt** is the sum of the deficits -- the total amount of borrowed money that has to be paid back. Governments borrow money by selling bonds. When they come due, we borrow new money to pay off the old debts. Fortunately, this is not difficult, because governments can usually borrow money at really low interest rates. |
How do high liquors makers (like scotch) forecast demand 6/8/12 years in the future? Is scotch really aged for that long or is it some magic marketing math? | To answer the supplemental question, remember that booze is very, very old, historically speaking. As a species, we were getting drunk almost before we were making bread. So once we figured out distillation we were pretty much gonna use it to get wasted. So liquor would originally have been consumed fairly shortly after it was distilled - but over the course of many, many years people came to realize that laying it down for a period of time made it taste better. Now, we're not talking about a business here - we're talking a village making a bunch of hooch and laying a barrel or two out in a barn while they got shitfaced off the rest. But over time they would store it longer and longer, and some people would get better and better at making it, and at some point along the line people started trading between villages, and paying money for it. Hundreds of years later, we're still doing the same thing, just on a much bigger scale. |
How do we biologically "lose" energy as we age? | Cells are like tiny little earths in your body, they are lovely little peaceful worlds, but need to be taken care of with strict policing. Because of this fact, oxygen is jealous and wants to infiltrate the cell to find a home of it's own, but oxygen is a muslim and doesn't integrate well. All these god damn oxygens ever want to do is come in for a free ride, but they never help out, they are always just destructive to the cell community. The human cell voted trump and decided it had had enough and it was time to act for the security of the cell. The human cells are alerted that oxygen is approaching and sends out troops to the cell border in a defensive front line. The cell government builds a wall to keep out the oxygen. A horribly violent battle at the cell border ensues with a high number of casualties on both sides. Many cell troops lay dead, and many oxygen terrorists are also deceased. The wall has been knocked down and some oxygen managed to infiltrate the cell. The cell government sends builders to remake the wall for the next push, but the cell has already lost some of it's best men. It is unclear how many more front line assaults the cell can handle before it is oxidized. Surely, at this rate, there will not be enough troops or builders to stop the cell from destruction within say 100 years. |
Why can't they make showers that have temperature settings separate from the off/on valve since I need the same temperature water pretty much every day? | That's the way mine is. Love it. Delta Linden Monitor 17. I put that model in all three bathrooms. |
How does the human body metabolize stored fat? What can you do to help it metabolize at maximum efficiency (i.e. burn fat at greatest rate possible)? | Kinesiology student here Because of how fat is stored and how it has to be broken down into smaller metabolizable units, it takes longer to metabolize fat than carbohydrates, which are stored in the muscle and are more easily broken down into easily metabolizable units. This means that if you're metabolizing fat, your body has to go slower due to the increased metabolization time. This also means, that if you're moving slowly, you can metabolize fat successfully. However, some carbohydrates MUST be metabolized first in order to start up the reactions in order to metabolize fat. If you have a lot of fat and want to lose it, long duration, low intensity exercise . As per diet, stay balanced but at a caloric deficit . TL;DR: Fat takes a long time to metabolize as compared to carbs. In order to metabolize fat, carbs are required. If you want to burn fat, go slow. Keep a balanced diet, but eat less. |
Why do auctioneers need to speak the way they do? It seems like 99% incomprehensible gibberish with some numbers in between. | There is a whole documentary about the world of auctioneering, there are people that take it really seriously and there are legends of auctioneering blew my mind and I actually got stuck watching it haha, can't remember what it was called though! |
Why do modern gamers expect backwards compatibility from their new gaming systems when it's never traditionally been a thing for consoles to have? | Backwards compatibility for games is expected because just because something was fun many years ago, it doesn't need to be no longer fun now . Backwards compatibility in general is simply a good idea - it's inherently wasteful having to reinvent the wheel every time the underlying system has changed again. Old Windows software no longer working on newer versions of Windows, including games, or for example new versions of Office not being able to open documents from older versions, is by no means a technical necessity. It's a business decision, in this case by Microsoft.Because the xbox 360 and the ps3 had backward compatibility which gave the users the ability to upgrade completely and still play their favorite games. It was a great reason to move on to the next generation now that the new consoles dont have it it feels like Sony and microsoft are turning their back on the old generation and the old generation gamers.Well it would bee a nice thing to have so you don't have to re-buy all the games you have. But yes, there isn't much chance of it happening since consoles are actually sold under production-value and need the game sales to turn a profit. |
What happens if an pornographic actress stops consenting mid-shoot? Do they have to sign a contract where they say that they consent to a full "session"? | A contract doesn't matter as far as forcing her to finish. You can't compel specific performance on a personal service contract, sexual or otherwise. The fact that it's for a sex act doesn't matter, it would be the same for a magician's assistant getting sawed in half or a stage actor suspended in the air on a harness or anything else. Even if you could, that would be for a court to order and not for the director or other actor or whomever to physically force. If she doesn't want to continue, they can't force her.You can leave, it's a free country. Imagine if you worked at mcdonalds, and you had enough so you yell out "I quit" and walk out. Can they physically imprison you and force you to complete your shift? Of course not. What would happen is a breach of contract and they could sue you for damages in a court, maybe win maybe not. But no, no human on the planet can force you to perform a job for them. .Rape. No, seriously. _URL_1_ just got into a lot of trouble in San Diego for basically forcing girls into sex under threat of legal action and violence. Despite what the neckbeards and pornhub shills of reddit would have you believe, porn is not an empowering feminist business. It's super fucked up and run by sociopaths who prey on some of the weakest members of our society. And because I know some of you will cry foul, here's the link to the sdreader article detailing the abuse: _URL_0_ |
Why do we have nightmares? Do they serve any purpose? | Nightmares are simply a section of our overall dreaming, which is , the brain carrying on whilst the body sleeps. The fact some of them are bad is simply an inconvenience that we've had no reason to evolve away from. |
Why aren't news stations (local, national, international) required to cite sources? | Because asking for sources and punishing s newspaper if they are absent is a pathway for censorship. Who defines if it's enough of a source? The government? |
- Why are black boxes even a thing on modern airplanes? Why isn't all information that's traditionally found on a black box just continuously transmitted wirelessly? | Because until very recently that would require extremely expensive and complicated telemetry tools, and so none of the aircraft in existence were designed with those things in mind. It was easier to store it all locally on the aircraft and just protect the hell out of it. It's getting to the point now where it's possible and cost-effective to start manufacturing aircraft with wireless black-box telemetry, though.Satellite communications are not cheap and that would be the only way to do it. Airlines supposedly do not make much money as it is |
Why is it that i can have a clearly-formed sentence in a foreign language or accent in my head, but then have difficulty actually producing it? | In your head you can make any sound you want because you're not limited by your actual body. Try having a conversation in your head between Morgan Freeman and Lois Griffin. Now try it with your actual voice. |
Why do some stores (e.g. Gamestop) have multiple stores located in close proximity to each other? | Sometimes a store is kept just to keep a competitor out of a prime location. If there is a busy mall, busy shopping center, and busy downtown all in close proximity, it's better to operate three stores when the third store keeps a start up from capturing a prime location. |
What would happen if you tried to hug a wild Panda? | There are no domesticated pandas so .they're all wild. I hugged and picked up a baby one. Still alive to tell the tale. |
How did Newton invent physics and calculus? How does one simply "invent" a mathematic tool? | Mathematics is really a human language. Its our way of writing and explaining how adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, etc works. Think of it like Music. The sounds you hear exist naturally in the world, but musical theory and notation is our human invention or language that we use to describe it. It doesn't change the physical sound in any way, it just allows us to Quantify those sounds in a way we all can understand and repeat. Someone had to invent that language, just like how Newton had to invent a language to allow us to understand how the advanced principles of mathematics exist and work universally. Now that the language of Mathematics has been invented and accepted, we can teach and explain it to others in a common form. |
How much do musicians ACTUALLY earn from streaming services? | There was an article about this: _URL_1_ Adjusting for those numbers Post would've made $1.52 Million. Of course there's a bit more complexity in terms of how the payout are calculated Paying customer stream vs add supported streams, demographics of listeners etc.CGP grey does a pretty god job of breaking down some of this complexity. _URL_0_ |
What is going on with Aliens: Colonial Marines | It took around 5 years to come out. People who like the Alien franchise were excited and it wasn't a very good game. I don't hate it, other people do. It has bad AI, it doesn't look very good, and mulitplayer isn't that great either. Alien controls are clunky and if the host quits, the game ends. |
Why did ships in the age of sail not employ more bow/stern "chaser" guns? | It seems like it'd be more difficult to hit a ship that was directly in line as well. The size of the target would be very small if chasing / fleeing compared to shooting from the side.I was under the impression that this role could be partially filled using swivel guns. |
Why are cuban cigars such a big deal? Why are they illegal? | To add: Cuba was and is famous for making cigars, so the fact that they're illegal adds to their rare luxury status |
Why can negative emotions such as depression linger for years or a lifetimes but positive emotions (such as the honeymoon phase) seem to fade? | Depression isn't an emotion, it's a mental illness caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. It doesn't go away because it's not caused by you surroundings but by what's inside you. |
Why USB 3.1 Gen 2 SSDs (Like the new T5) Only Transfer at 540MB/s? | 1. It could be the max read/write speed of the SSD itself is 540Mb/s causing the bottleneck. 2. The external drive could just use a plain ol' SATA3 Drive to save on costs - easier and cheaper to build 2 million drives and throw 1 million of them in external enclosures than 1 million drives specifically for external use and 1 million drives for internal. 3. Very unlikely, but there could be a bottleneck on the chipset limiting actual throughput on the USB3.1 interface due to other devices consuming bandwidth, likely a dedicated graphics card.One possible reason is that the external drive uses an adapter emulating a SATA 3 interface, which has a maximum potential data transfer rate in the neighborhood of 550mbps. Going this route would enable the use of a off-the-shelf consumer SSD, which could save costs over a faster interface. |
Why is there no cure for cancer when we are raising/spending so much money on it? | What do you mean there's no cure for cancer? We can cure loads of different types of cancer, the problem is that there are many times more still. Asking for a cure for cancer is like asking for a cure for viruses.Cancer isn't only one kind of disease. It's hundrets and tousands variants of self replicating cells that have different causes in the different parts of bodies with different consequences. Try to ask yourself "why do we dont get rid of disease when we spent so much money on it". |
How much is Obama to blame for this latest domestic spying scandal. | Obama is the executive, and has control over all aspects of the NSA's program. He bears responsibility. Now I doubt at all that things would have been different with McCain or Romney, and that's what sucks about our 2 party system.I thought that all this spying was deemed legal under the Patriot Act that was signed in 2001. Am I completely wrong here? |
This Bitcoin mining thing again. | Now, lots of people are talking about the 21mil hard limit on BTC. Now, I wonder how it would work out if people misplace their wallets. Or if they drop dead with an encrypted wallet with a fortune. Wouldn't all that BTC be taken out of circulation? What happens over multiple generations? Unlike normal currency which would be inherited by the heir, BTC would be under personal lock & key.So basically i can make money just by leaving my PC working 24/7 ?', "Better question: what's a Bitcoin? Hahaha, just kidding. |
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