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How can one prove that the world outside one's consciousness is not non-existent and that other beings with similar consciousness levels exist? | Folks commenting so far are close and it is true that you can't really get to a proof, but your options are fewer than they are making it out to be. If everyone else is a simulation or if everyone else is a zombie .or even if everyone else is just in your mind..etc there must still exist a separate consciousness to mak... |
When a new word evolves (eg iPhone, google, autotune) how are its properties in other languages decided? | faxear".Japanese is a phonetic language. They have 2 alphabets . The alphabets are identical except drawn differently. One alphabet is mainly for foreign words. Foreign words usually become a phonetic version in the Japanese alphabet and then used as such. It's also very common to just see the english named word too fo... |
How is it that we create dreams in our sleep of bizarre or extraordinary imagination, however conscious thought hardly achieves such imagination? | When we are asleep our brains no longer having to deal with all our sensory information as much as when we are away. This frees up a lot of 'processing power' in our brains. Our dreams are in fact reproduction of thousands of experiences and memories, things we've seen in films, places we've been and even things we've ... |
How do skyscrapers get demolished? | You take it apart in the opposite way it was built essentially. In places where using explosives to bring down a building is not permitted such as Toronto, this is how it's done. Though it is a very expensive way to demolish a large building. A lot of the times the building is gutted and refurbished / renovated to suit... |
Why is there so much hate between feminism and men's rights activists if they both claim they want equality? | They disagree on which gender is the victim of gender inequality, and which gender benefits from and/or is to blame for that inequality. Here are two ways of thinking about this. 1. Let's say I'm doing something that I think is within my rights to do. But you perceive my doing that as an infringement on your rights. So... |
How did the Democratic Party transition from the slavery party to the left-wing, liberal party of today? | The big flip occurrd in the 1960s, and ushered in the sixth party system in the history of the U.S. There were a few factors involved, among them the [Civil Rights Act] in 1964, strategies employed by Richard Nixon's campaign in 1968. In particular, the Civil Rights Act was _hated_ by a lot of Southern Democrats; almos... |
What is hair, how does it grow and how can shampoo "repair" it? | This website by L'Oreal [gives a great 'tutorial' about hair science], it explains about the structure, the composition and the 'life' of hair, and looks like it has really good diagrams and explanations. |
I will either die or not die in the next moment but i dont have a 50% chance of dying. | Hand her a deck of cards. tell her to pick a card. clearly under her logic, there is a 50% chance of her picking a king of hearts the next time she draws a card. Make her draw several cards, each time re-inserting the drawn card into the deck. count how often a king of hearts appears in reality. point out how it did no... |
Why does wetting paper permanently disfigure it? | Actually, it doesn't. If you re-wet the paper you can use a steam iron to re-flatten and dry it. |
Why is the air at night more 'fresh' than in the day? | I love going out at night because of the freshness. To answer your question, just from my own experiences I'd say:- It's colder at night cause the sun isn't out- There are less people out at night, so there are less cars on the road contributing to air pollution, less people out smoking, less restaurants cooking up foo... |
what are moles on our skin and why do we have to be careful about not damaging them and risking cancer? | To the best of my knowledge I believe it's sun damage that can cause cancer on moles but I would still like to know why moles are such a risk when involving damage |
if we breath in oxygen and out CO2, how does mouth to mouth breathing work? | The air we breathe in is not all oxygen . The atmosphere is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and other gasses. Oxygen makes up roughly 21% of that mixture in the air we breathe. When we inhale, our body consumes some but not all of that, so when we exhale, the oxygen concentration is down to about 16% whic... |
It's 2017, Why hasn't aeronautics advanced to the point of extremely quick travel on a commercial level already? | _URL_0_ Basic answer is speed costs fuel and therefore money. Not enough people were willing to pay the price premium to travel that fast. A 777 already cruises at mach 0.8, that remaining 0.2 isn't worth the expense. Teleconferences/video conference and such have replaced the need for high speed travel for business tr... |
Why does some technology (laptops, phones, etc.) run slower over time? | Some things still have moving parts. Hard Drives are still rotating disks and like any machinery it'll wear down from use. Solid State Drives aren't moving parts and work like a flash drive.The biggest hardware issue I can think of on a PC which would slow down a system is gradual hard disk failure. Sectors on a hard d... |
Why Europeans like F1 and Americans Nascar? | NASCAR has cultural roots in America, particularly in the south. It started with bootleggers modifying stock cars to be able to outrun law enforcement during Prohibition. They would occasionally get together and have competitions to see who had the fastest car. Even when Prohibition ended, this car culture continued. A... |
Why did we bomb a country that was just attacked by their own president with chemical warfare? | Well the specific target in the country was the Shayrat airbase in Syria. The Syrian Air Force, which is thought to be the perpetrators use this airbase to fly it's missions.Donnie Moscow needed a win after two smackdown by the courts on his silly immigration orders and his failure to repeal Obamacare after 8 years of ... |
How does government agencies eavesdrop on internet traffic when there are so many safeguards against man-in-the-middle attacks? | You mention HSTS, SSL, TLS, etc - All these can be subverted if you have the correct manner of decoding SSL. Just because nobody knows of any weaknesses in the current versions of SSL/TLS, doesn't mean the government don't have the ability to decrypt them.. ;-) |
How many years could a nuclear winter plausibly last for? | Be weary of input on this topic. There's a lot of hysteria and pseudo-science being pushed. If people aren't talking about the likelihood of counterforce vs countervalue strategies, groundburst vs airburst, current building codes vs 1945 Hiroshima, current stockpiles vs in the 1980s, etc, don't listen to them. The answ... |
Who is Ann Coulter and why is everyone so cautions about her AMA? | I'd never heard of her until today so decided to youtube her and came to her [Paxman interview]. While her beliefs are completely disgusting and twisted that woman can argue effectively |
Why has the Church of Scientology decided to use L. Ron Hubbard's WW2 record as the focus of their new advertisement campaign when that has specifically been called out as fraudulent? | Ex-members say Scientology advertising campaigns are mainly for show for current members. Scientologists give ass loads of money to the church, spending money on an ad campaign gives the church a talking point on how hard they're trying. Because it's geared toward current members, they can say all the crazy shit they w... |
How can I run multiple programs simultaneously if I only have a single core processor? | It doesn't - it just switches between operations as best as it can. If you pull up your task manager/process list on your computer you'll notice dozens and dozens of different processes running - far more than you have cores. |
Why are women's clothing sizes all over the place while men and children's are pretty much standard? | If you tell someone you wear a 32 pants, that sounds fatter than telling them you wear a 5. And, if you buy a size 5 at 10 different stores, you'll probably have 10 different sizes. |
What bathroom is a transgender person supposed to use? | How did the father know that the person was a transgender? I ask because my brother-in-law is transgender and I would never have had any idea if my wife hadn't told me. As far as the legality of the issue the courts have so far ruled that a person should use the restroom that best identifies with their chosen gender id... |
Why did the weather radar show a flash of extreme weather over Phoenix, Ariz., and then nothing five minutes later? | I managed to get a clip of OP's radar hiccup. _URL_0_ That is weird! Considering the massive area hiccup that looks much larger than bugs or birds. |
Why do so many people NOT vote? | Imagine you are in a group of 5 people, and you want to decide where to have dinner. The problem is, you really hate mexican food, but you know that some of the people in your group really like it. In this scenario, you would vote against mexican food because with such a small group of people, the chance that your vote... |
How will driverless cars be protected against cyber attacks? What will be stopping a terrorist or hacker from gaining control of multiple driverless vehicles and turning them into remote controlled weapons of mass destruction? | They aren't on a network so they cant be hacked from the outside. You'd physically have to catch a driverless car and break in. Also there are bound to be hard wired safety features. Things like proximity sensors that will slow or halt the vehicle regardless of weather the main os is compromised.They could be, but the ... |
How Basic Income would work. In the context of an ever automated world. | Basic income is taking some tax on automation and redistributing it to everyone. Everyone gets the same amount. If it is replacing other social safety nets, then it should be at least the amount those beneficiaries would have received. If it isn't, then it is just an even split of whatever earmarked taxes are collected... |
Why can Anime Shows like Naruto go on for seemingly forever but a show like Legend of Korra had to be cancelled? | It's all based on viewer ratings. Korra is not as entertaining to viewers, on average, compared to The Last Airbender. The producing studio was not making enough money out of it, so it go cancelled. Naruto has a consistently good story and lots of viewers, both in Japan and internationally. Lots of viewers = lots of mo... |
If hand sanitizer kills 99.9% of germs, why don't we use it instead of soap? | hand sanitizer kills living things , but it doesn't get rid of all the dirt, viruses and now-dead bacteria on your hands. Washing them physically removes them and flushes them down the drain.Alcoholic Based Hand sanitizers only kill germs, they do not perform the elimination of the wastes that will still accumulate on ... |
What's the deal with wisdom teeth? | What if you don't get them removed? What have humans done in the time before modern dentistry?", 'It has to do with us eating more meat. Think about how useful it would be as an early human who would likely loose molars during their middle years to have some teeth pop in just about the time they fall out. |
Why does the sun make your skin darker but it makes your hair lighter? | I would image that the sun is bleaching your hair but your body's reaction to the sun is to try and protect itself a become darker. Your hair is already dead and needs no protection. |
How can it be okey to write a news article that states "X% in the world has Y" when they probably only did the test on a smaller group? | The article about green eyes is not news it's an advertisement for contact lenses disguised as a news article. The % listed don't add up you only get about 70%. At the end of the article it lists a company selling contact lenses that can change your eyes. Als9 it's ok as there isn't a whole lot of regulation on what th... |
what the big deal about Ron Paul is | Remember how years ago you wished your parents wouldn't tell you what not to do? Ron Paul was the same kind of kid, except he grew up and his opinions haven't changed. Mom and Dad shouldn't be able to tell you what not to do, as long as what you do doesn't interfere with anybody else. |
How are iPhones just as quick as other flagship phones when other phones have quad cores, more GHz, and more ram? | The main reason behind this is the diffence in programming.iOS apps are native apps, which means their code is being compiled to specific code that runs on apples processors. This includes optimizations by LLVM for their chips, which might offer specific intructions.On the other hand, most of the Android apps are writt... |
What is chromcast and is it a viable option to replace tv? | Our Chromecast is great but it interacts very strangely with our sound system. We have a Pioneer SC-61 elite receiver and plug the Chromecast into the USB port. It works great but for whatever reason, TV and music played using the Chromecast don't engage the subwoofer. If we use Netflix , we get a very different sound ... |
I have heard the GOP can pull their nominee down before the election and replace him with someone else. Can someone explain this? | The delegates are bound to vote for a specific candidate at the convention as a result of how the primaries or caucuses went in their state. Since Trump has a majority of those bound delegates, he's the presumptive nominee. So, how could it change? Because it's the party rules that bind them. Who can change the rules? ... |
Who wrote the bible? | I'm sorry I don't know enough to write up a good explanation but wikipedia does have a good article on bible authorship here: _URL_0_ I tried checking simple wiki since this is ELI5 but it didn't seem to have such a good article focusing on how the bible was put together/written. |
Why do we say someone was "in" a movie, but "on" a TV show? | on this radio station" Use "in" if referring to a something specific. ex: "in this episode |
Why are horses put down if they break a leg during a race instead of rehabilitating the injured animal? | Like everyone else has said, it's very difficult and very expensive to keep a horse's weight off of the injured leg. It basically involves keeping the horse in a stall in a sling so that they can not move or bare any weight on the break. Then, to keep other joints healthy, one would need to manually move them multiple ... |
How does weed killer 'know' to kill weeds and leave everything else alone? | Because in order to kill anything with chemicals, it has to bind with the right molecule. In this case, only the weed has it while the desirable plant remains unaffected. Simply because there isn't a molecule the weed killer can bind to |
Why does the American government not use the anti-trust laws as often as they did in the 19th centuries? | Changes in technology happen fast enough that monopolies are hard to sustain. For example consider that Microsoft was attacked by the US Government for allegedly misusing a monopoly position, but now they don't seem to be running the computer world nearly as much.In large part because anti-trust was viewed as a politic... |
Why can't we explore the oceans' floors? What technological advance must be made to make it possible? | I believe it's mostly attributed to pressure. Let me break down some numbers for you to try and give you an idea of how much pressure is actually involved At sea level, the air is putting 1 Bar of pressure on your body. You don't feel the air pressing on you because the fluids in your body are causing an outward pressu... |
How is KFC getting away with not revealing their secret herbs and spices? What if someone is deadly allergic to something they don't want to reveal? | I used to be a manager at a store in Australia, and can confirm that if your a customer asking for information for allergies sake we can either provide you with an allergens fact sheet which are available at the front counter or give you a number to contact a hotline that tells you whether that particular ingredient is... |
Why are there many conditions that prevent one from being able to see or hear but none really that affects someones sense of smell? | Due to significant untreated sinusitis in my teen years, I had no sense of smell in my 20s and mid 30s. I finally had surgery to repair it. I had significant polyps on both sides, a deviated septum and each of the openings to my sinus cavities were almost completely scarred over with excess tissue. It's been about 5 ye... |
Why does the sun hurt your eyes if you look directly at it, but not if you see it in your peripheral vision? | Your eyes are lenses so if you look at something, the light gets focused onto your retina. If you look directly at the sun, the light hits your most used area of your retina and it's focused more strongly. If it's in your peripheral vision it's likely still burning your retina, but more to the side and it's blurrier so... |
Why do children cry when they experience physical pain but adults rarely do. | How much pain you feel is relative. The very first time you got injured, it hurts more than anything you have ever experienced so you start crying As you experience more of life, you'll end up with even more painful experiences so when you scrape your knee again, it doesn't feel as bad. There's also a factor of conditi... |
Can We Melt Diamonds? | In 2006 Scientists at Sandia National Labs melted the first diamond into an actual liquid puddle of diamond. It took the labs Z-Machine, which is the world's largest x-ray generator which created pressure 10 million times greater than the deepest floor of the ocean. The end result was a puddle of liquid diamond. Yes .y... |
If multivitamins "don't work", then why do foods fortified with vitamins/other like milk and vitamin D or salt and iodine actually work to decrease deficiencies? | In addition to what's been said, there's also the matter of bioavailability. Many multivitamins use the cheapest and least bioavailable type of each vitamin or mineral . And form matters too--taking a fat-soluble vitamin in a tablet form without eating any fat is a waste, it won't be well absorbed . Edit: a word |
Why can't or aren't humans being cloned? | What would be the possible benefit of cloning humans? We can make humans just fine *without* cloning, and we have no need of cloning them. That won't happen until there's a need for it to happen--whether scientific, environmental, business, etc--and until then, it won't. |
why do new airplanes or newly update airlines still have cigarette ashtrays in on the planes when smoking has been outlawed for a long time now | Aircraft parts certification process. The seats get certified as they were originally designed. It sounds stupid, and it is, but by taking out the ashtray the seat would no longer be in conformity to its certification. So they just get tacked shut and it's good.The reason they are still there is because if they change ... |
Why do actors get so much money? | Lately reddit has just been people bitching about how there are others who make more money than them and how the rich don't deserve to be rich. |
Why does time-travel not work? | The problem is that we have no understanding of it. We only have theories which aren't absolute. Until we find a form of it like an outside force that introduces it to us we have no way of achieving it. |
What is Kratom, and why is the DEA so interested in banning it? | As a side note, it acts on opioid receptors while not being an opioid/opiate itself. As a result, it stimulates some of the same effects as opiates without the negative side effects. On top of that, it's been said that it acts as a coupler that increases the potency of other drugs, like weed, cocaine, mushrooms and etc... |
Why does America use the most impractical measuring systems? | There's no benefit to switching them for most people. Conversions are harder than metric conversions, but they're not that much harder. Even if they were supernaturally difficult, it doesn't matter because just about everyone has a way to do instantaneous conversions via their phone. Hell, even if *that* wasn't possibl... |
What is a Polestar, how can I spot it in the night sky and how is it significant/used? | A Pole Star is a star that happens to line up with the axis of the Earth's rotation, and as a result it serves as a pretty objective measure of which way North/South is . Furthermore, based on the star's angle of elevation , you can figure out how far North/South you are, as the higher the star is, the closer you are t... |
Mortgage repayment - why can't you take out a longer mortgage then just repay it quicker to save money? | As far as I'm aware, you can do exactly this. You agree to a minimum payment for a loan, but never a maxium; if you want to pay twice your mortgage every month to get it paid off faster, you are more than welcome to do so. |
Why do people hate Nickelback so much? | In my opinion as a Canadian, we don't have many Canadian bands who are known internationally. Nickelback isn't the worst band ever, but neither is it the best, and we hate to see Nickelback representing Canadian music on the world stage while our favourite bands never seem to be in the spotlight. |
Why do so many teachers demonize Wikipedia? | I'm a teacher and I'm actually fine with wiki. As a place to get an overview, as a place to find links to primary or peer reviewed sources, as a great explanation of many topics in language my students can digest. I just don't want it referenced Ina bibliography- anything worth referencing on wiki came from somewhere e... |
If an ambulance is responding to a call and on their way they see a hit and run/car accident what is the EMT's priority? | It's a triage situation. If they're already responding on a time sensitive issue , they're going to blow past it and call dispatch for another ambulance. If they're responding to something lower priority, and see a high priority incident, they'll defer and call dispatch for another ambulance for their original call.Res... |
Why a trip to Mars is more feasible than Venus, and what a trip to Venus would entail. | I'm not completely knowledgeable on the subject, but I believe the Earth's momentum as it orbits the sun greatly assists in sending objects to outer planets while making it much harder to visit the inner ones. Hopefully someone can come along and expand. |
- Why are the rings of Saturn, which are presumably just floating Rocks, perfectly lined up in a huge ring instead of crashing into the planet due to gravity? | Think of it this way: There used to be way, way, way more rocks going in every which direction and speed. Almost all of them, just like you would expect, crashed into the planet, flew off into space, or crashed into other rocks. But some of them just happened to be going at *exactly* the right speed and they were going... |
How do animals perceive man-made objects? | In the wild, you are in danger of being eaten-alive at literally any second. Just try and imagine what that's like! Now, imagine something big and scary-looking coming right for you. You can assume it's benign and take the risk of getting eaten alive, or you can assume it's a predator and run. Now, which option is more... |
When animals are fighting, why do they sometimes pause in the middle of the fight and stare into empty space? | It's going to be hard to get an objective answer to this question since none of us can ask an animal but most fights are prefaced with a lot of posturing and displays of strength. When opponents are unevenly matched a fight is more likely to be avoided which benefits both animals since they risk injury if they actually... |
Why are men's clothes sold with clear measurements in inches or centimetres, but women's clothes have arbitrary numbers for sizes that can be totally different between shops and labels? | If a mans a 36 waist he's a 36 waist. He doesn't care, and if he does, he fixes it. With women they try to make the sizes sound appealing to get them to buy impulsively. That's why women's sizes are different. If a woman is a mans size 36 they aren't going to call it 36. There is no size in men's clothes called double ... |
What makes some wines better than others? Why can some bottles be 10 bucks while others over 100? | Wine is just a variety of food.The more you drink different types and qualities of wine, the more you will appreciate the difference. Honestly, people posting on here that there's no difference between a good wine and a bad have no idea. It's like saying that there's no difference between a Big Mac and a chef cooked me... |
Why haven't there been any manned missions to Mars yet? | The logistics and fuel for planning a manned trip to Mars is extraordinary. We don't even know if a person can spend 1 year alone in a spacecraft. Planning is taking place but this itself would take years to do.1) The flight to the Mars would take months. Any normal person would go insane in such a tiny spaceship for s... |
Why isn't the state liable for the rapes/assault that occur in prison? Can inmates sue if they are not adequately protected? | I worked for an attorney who had a client in prison . Prisoner A had been raped multiple times by Prisoner B, who was friends with one of the guards. Prisoner B had obtained A's SSN and the home address of A's family, which B used as a threat for A not to report the rapes. The friend guard once saw A after B had forcef... |
How could Caitlyn Ricci successfully sue her parents into paying for her college education? Is it a legal requirement for reasonably wealthy parents to pay for their children's college tuition? | The news articles I read suggest that the decision was based on a New Jersey case called Newburgh v. Arrigo. Here's more about the Newburgh case: _URL_0_ |
How did Tony Hawk become a household name while all other skateboards are mostly unknown? | Because he was marketable and started marketing himself from a very young age in the 1980s. The very few other pro skateboarders willing to do the same in the 80s and 90s just didn't do it as well as he did", '"..his mother says that he was "so hard on himself and expected himself to do so many things."[4] One time, Ha... |
Why is an adult male's attraction to adolescent girls considered socially taboo in Western societies despite the fact that these girls are at their height in terms of attractiveness and fertility? | It's a societal norm. But it's not based on nothing. The brain of adolescents has not developed fully, so they are not capable of the same kind of decision making as adults. An adult can easily take advantage of that.Most important reason is that teenagers are not emotionally or mentally mature. While they are able to ... |
Why can't we save the North Korean people? | Even if we did, it's 20 million or so half brainwashed, unskilled and malnourished refugees no one wants on their hands. It's sad, really. |
Why did America violently revolt, while the other British colonies didn't? | Quebec was largely French Catholic and had a lot of French speakers. The British cut them a pretty good deal in the Quebec Act of 1774, so they didn't have a lot of reason to side with rebellious Protestant Anglos who were anti-Catholic. Washington really thought Nova Scotia would join the revolution. The British had e... |
Why isn't minimum wage in the US tied to the dollar inflation rate? | My problem with the idea is primarily, but not solely, statistical. Part of the problem is that inflation isn't a single thing that you can easily look up from a table, and your estimate shouldn't be constant over large regions of space or time. It's extremely complicated and you'll fall headlong into monstrous politic... |
Why are we unable to make gold artificially? | 'Twas oft asked here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [ELI5: Why can't we make gold in a lab? ]1. [ELI5: How is gold naturally formed? Why can't we make it in a lab? ]1. [ELI5: Why can't scientists create Gold? ] |
Why do they make you remove your laptop from the case or carrying bag when going though the security check-in? | When I traveled out of the country a year ago, they had a sign saying that if your laptop would not power on, it would be confiscated. Why is that? Why is it a big deal if it doesn't power on? The battery may just need charged. I mean obviously I could have just plugged it in with the charger and everything would have ... |
why does a pimple, when not quite ready to pop, hurt SO bad when you squeeze it? | If you think of the pore like a volcano, and you squeezed the top of the volcano, the lava would move to the place of least resistance. So either deeper into the ground or just sit in the middle and create pressure So if you squeeze the top of your pore, the puss from the inflammation is going to go deeper into your sk... |
How does current and voltage get "stepped down" from a wall socket? | So I'm an audio engineer with a little knowledge of electrics so my knowledge my be off base. If so someone please correct me. But as I understand it amps is more like a capacity. Think of your outlet as a cup with 10 amps in it. You plug in a thing that takes up 1 amp. Now the cup has 9 amps in it and so on.Plug in so... |
How do life insurance companies make so much money when the commercials say people can get plans for $23 a month and get them $500,000 if something happened to them? | Profit = $ - $ * $ - $ Turns out the chance you'll die for any given month is really low. You could argue that their entire job is to calculate the chance that anyone in the group will die each month and charge you slightly more that your share of that risk. If you have big enough numbers, the individual risk chances a... |
Why can't the U.S. hold their market hostage for companies that outsource a lot (through tarriffs, etc) to solve its economic problems? | This might open the door for a lot of corruption. Our government is made up of human beings that are nothing i0f not corruptible. When regulating international commerce like this, you're allowing politicians to make decisions that affect how a ton of money moves around the globe. This seems like a recipe for disaster t... |
Why is it so common for people, while speaking on the telephone, to arbitrarily wander from room to room and about the house? | It is a product of the sudden reorientation of certain aspects of our evolutionary development. For thousands of years it was uncommon for us to interact with people that were not of close proximity. Therefore when you are talking on the phone, your brain begins to panic. Your unconscious mind sends signals to your bod... |
propulsion in the vacuum of space | It may make it easier to think of it the other way around. THe propellant ejected at high speed does not push against the vacuum, it is pushing against the rocket. That's where the action/reaction connection is . Think of it as glueing a firecracker to a ping pong ball. The ball will be launched, not because the expand... |
If somebody gets SWATted, can they then be charged with another crime (like possession) resulting from the police just barging in? | I know it happened to the popular YouTuber Whitebou7thst, he got swatted and the police found his pot who subsequently arrested him and his girlfriend for possession. In my opinion, it's pretty ridiculous that we still grant law enforcement the right to arrest us for weed. Edit: repost but I'm keeping it up. |
CDN subdomains (like on Facebook, memegenerator, etc.) | The subdomains are used because browsers used to only make 2 connections at a time to each host, and subdomains are counted as separate hosts. Modern browsers make more connections at once, but a CDN is still important because it spreads out commonly accessed data over more machines, and also geographically. So if you'... |
When converting Black and White to color, how does someone know what colors to use to match the real colors? | Former graphic design major here. Maybe someone else can give a better explanation. You don't know really. If possible the designer will try and find out what the colors were through other references, but most of the time its just what looks best. |
Why are Jews treated more like a race than other religions? | Jews are a nation, like the Greeks or the Romans, more than they are a religion. If you were born a Greek, you'll always be a Greek. If you are born a Jew, you'll always be a Jew. * Even if you stop practicing Judaism.* Even if you becoming a devout Athiest / Christian / Muslim* Even if you do things which are against ... |
spilled boiling water on my finger, it hurts a lot but there doesn't seem to be any damage on the surface so what exactly was damaged? | > what exactly is damaged The trust the nerves in your finger and brain, had that you wouldn't do something dangerous with hot stuff.In reaction, they're giving you incentive to not reiterate.FYI- use lavender oil to eliminate burn pain. Miracle worker. |
How clothing retailers can get away with such astronomical markup. | Imagine you have a really cool toy that you found for $5. It's so neat that you decided to buy 10 of them so you could sell them to your friends. Now, since you're really nice, you might be happy to sell them for $7 . So you sell the first one to a good friend for $7, and he goes to school and everyone wants one. But t... |
The difference between lifting free weights and lifting on the machine. | A lot of people in the gym have it twisted, machines are for advanced lifters that want to target and isolate aspects of their body they find lacking - not only are free-weights more effective, they're also required for safety. Starting with machines is basically a recipe for musculoskeletal disorders because your musc... |
How ISIS can hold a military parade, have massive amounts of military hardware without US intelligence knowing where to locate such military gear and then attacking... | Here is the short of it all: Coordinating a manned or unmanned strike package for logistics degradation is dependent on analysis of data from intel timeliness is critical, else it's a waste of effort . Coordinating a manned or unmanned strike package for degradation of leadership is usually based on immediate intel tha... |
Why are talking animals so ubiquitous in children's media? | Because animals are easier to draw poorly. This is an uncanny valley thing- the closer that something is to looking human without being 100% right, the more unnatural it starts to seem, and this makes people uncomfortable. By using animal traits or outright animals, you avoid looking human altogether, so if things aren... |
The structure of middle eastern music | I'm not an expert on the topic, but one system I can tell you about a rhythm method called Konokol. In Western music we have measures of a set number of beats but the idea of Konokol is that you have groupings of notes set around a constant pulse. So turn on your metronome and subdivide by groups of 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. If... |
In the US how does construction scams like "no shows" work and how does it tie in with unions? | A no-show job means that the construction company employs 10 guys to do a job, but actually only has 9 people show up. The guy who doesn't show up has a no-show job . The job gets done, but the buyer ultimately pays for the extra guy but it's not obvious to the buyer that they're paying. It can either be a way for a mo... |
What is the point of 4-way Stop sign intersections? | I'd argue that I miss 4way stops. There's something extremely alert inducing about them, and it enforces a behaviour of 'waiting your turn.' Strangely though I know that the British could not cope with this. Traffic lights are literally everywhere, many times completely unrequited, just because we wouldn't be able to w... |
How does free webpages make money? | Most don't. The ones that do make ad revenue and sell your IRL information when you click on to them. |
How did the officials connect the two brothers to the Boston bombings? | The guy that lost both legs that was being helped by the guy in the cowboy hat , ID'd the suspect when he awoke in the hospital. [Source]", 'I like how everyone has abandoned "like I'm 5" and we're now using this as "AskReddit except less full of foolish people."They viewed numerous photos before and after the bomb. Th... |
Why is flashing headlights to warn others on the road about a speed trap illegal? | Depends on local law and the DGAS factor. In our Department, traffic safety is considered a city priority. So every work week we get assigned an hour of traffic detail, typically speed enforcement. Whenever someone does the ol' high beam flash, it just keeps me out of traffic court. In other words, the DGAS factor is h... |
Why is it that in the eyes of some people the white part is yellow? | My mother has this. It isn't a liver issue though, her sister stabbed her in the eye with a yellow felt tip pen. |
- What exactly is nuclear waste? Why can't it be broken down and why is it so dangerous? | Nuclear power works by splitting atoms to release energy. The left over, split atoms are the nuclear waste. These are radioactive because after they split, they have too many neutrons. You can put it into a special type of reactor to change it to stuff that's dangerous for only a couple hundred years. But that's the be... |
If the games aren’t “rigged” how do gambling casinos make massive profits? If house and player odds are the same, wouldn’t they just break even in the end? | Because house and player odds are not the same. Every game is at least slightly in the house's favor. The house plays every game so their chances of winning will meet the expected chance of them winning and over time they will make a profit |
Why you shouldn't put sharp knives in the dishwasher. | I believe it's more to do with the fact that in a dishwasher the knife can be pushed around by the water jets and shoved into shelves and other cutlery, possibly dulling it or damaging it.My knives came with this badass warning: "These knives will not be hurt by washing them in your dishwasher, but they are so sharp th... |
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