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How can Netflix detect if their users are using a VPN and can the detection be circumvented?
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There are probably several ways. First, if there are too many accounts using a given IP address as the source, then that IP address is probably associated with a VPN. Netflix notes both the VPN IP address and the accounts that have used that IP address to attempt to stop the behavior that way. Second, since IP addresses are already associated with a given nation, if a Netflix subscriber's IP changes from one country to another, then Netflix can be reasonably certain that one of those addresses was a VPN. Third, if too many Netflix accounts, over time, connect from a given IP address, then Netflix can probably assume that the IP is benig used for VPN, even if the count at any given time is low. Most high-speed Internet users don't change IP addresses very often, so there shouldn't be too many different Netflix customers over time. Lastly, if the nation for the billing address and the nation for the IP address do not coincide then it's pretty likely that a VPN is in use.
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How does a mild snowstorm by northern standards totally cripple the south?
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1. The infrastructure isn't prepared for it. Municipal governments don't own plows, salt trucks, etc. The roads might not have shoulders. 2. People aren't prepared for it. People might not even own snow tires, ice scrapers, snow shovels, etc. If people don't know how to drive in snowy/icy conditions, they are going to drive slooooooowly.
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What should I call someone who's ancestors existed in the America's before Columbus?
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As an Indian, I prefer Indian. I'm not easily offended and it keeps it simple. But you know some who get butthurt, I guess its all individuality and that's why I hate political correctness. I'm not any more native American than you, we were both born here. They aren't African American, they've never seen Africa . Get my drift.
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If Adobe Flash is so full of bugs, why does everybody still use it instead of HTML5?
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I don't know anyone who uses it. Some old websites, too cheap to update? Spammers? Low-rent porn sites?", '> but Adobe even stopped updating the version for Linux Not exactly right. Adobe stopped updating the NPAPI version, which Firefox and a few other browsers use. The PPAPI version which Chrome uses is updated in step with Windows and OS X.
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Why do we need IP address to be connected to internet? Don't we have MAC address already?
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MAC addresses aren't used for every networking protocol. In particular, PPP doesn't use MAC addresses or, in general, any other identifier for nodes. The Internet is explicitly designed to be a bridge between different kinds of networks and technologies, so it can't rely on the details of any lower-level networking protocol.
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Why do people making less than $100k/y vote Republican?
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Because their political opinions align most closely with candidates who caucus with the Republicans? I'm not sure what answer you're looking for here. Can you please rephrase the question?
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Why were horrific deaths considered entertainment throughout ancient history? Why are we so different now?
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People still watch horrific deaths. We've just transitioned to watching fake ones on TV and in movies instead of watching them in real life.
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With Technology growing and what not, why hasn't there been a phone battery that can last a week rather than a day?
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It is widely discussed that the rate of miniaturization/capacity and speed of charge have lagged what would be ideal to spawn a true technological revolution. Notably, it resists the exponential improvements we've seen in processor speed, memory capacity. In some ways we've become addicted to this sort of pace of improvements and expect it everywhere just ain't happening here. To be clear though, it is _not_ for a lack of trying. Battery research is a both huge in academia, huge in govt funding and huge in commercial research. It's just a _really tough problem_.
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What do stores do with returned merchandise?
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Depending on the wholesaler, these products are shipped off to auctions sometimes. Example: Costco! Everything that is non-perishable ends up here, damaged items, returned items, things that are no longer in season, etc. Usually what they are selling at the auction is just fine, but it's buyer beware, you should inspect stuff before buying.
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what causes a pedophile to become a pedophile?
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Just wanted to throw in trying to understand why people are sexually attracted to children is like trying to understand why you are sexually attracted to men/women. You can't tell why, you just are. There have been cases of people being chemically castrated to lose their desire to have sexual relations with children, and it's worked. It also begs to question why when someone goes to counseling for this desire the counselor is required to report it to the authorities, which doesn't incentivize anyone seeking help.
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why kids think its gross to like members of the opposite sex.
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Am I the only person who *didn't* experience this? I don't recall ever *not* being attracted to women.
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Now that it’s back in season, where’s the flu been?
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Some people have given great answers, but I wanted to add that the flu strains are not the only ones showing the same kind of seasonality. RSV, hMPV and PIV strains 1 and 2 are also similarly more active in the winter, and are also respiratory illnesses. PIV strain 3 is more likely to be seen in the Spring in the East Coast, for some reason I can't remember. But w/r/t the flu vaccine, part of how we determine which strains to prepare for we look at what's relevant in other parts of the world months before they get to us. So for this year we got immunized to the flu strain running around Australia earlier this year, and they got one from California and one from Phuket. There are also some illnesses that are more likely to occur in the summer, like Lyme disease, as kids are outside and more likely to get bit by mites.
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What is this whole Monsanto thing about?
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Nobody mentioned this part yet so I'll give it a go. Monstanto made a variety of corn that is resistant to herbicides and pesticides . So what farmers do is plant this corn and pour a large amount of herbicide and pesticide on the corn. This kills every plant and bug in the area around the corn except for the actual corn themselves. This has huge ecological repercussions, like creating herbicide resistant weeds and pesticide resistant bugs. Not to mention this stuff gets washed into water sources. This gives folks like you and me stuff like cancer, Alzheimer's disease and probably many others. Because, believe it or not, poison for plants and bugs is also is poison for humans, it just takes a bit more to hurt us. [There is a reason why farmers have a higher rate of Alzheimer than regular people, the studies are citing pesticides as the cause.] But you might say to yourself: people were using pesticides and herbicides before Monstanto, why the big fuss now? Well before if you put enough poison on an area even the crop that you were trying to grow would die. Now with the resistant forms of the crops being used you can basically dump as much poison as you want on the plant. So the amount of chemicals actually put on the plants has skyrocketed, which means the repercussions have skyrocketed as well.
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Why do most people hate Windows 8's Metro, and want the start menu back so badly?
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People feel that it's a much less efficient method of accessing that data when using a mouse and keyboard . Windows 10 aims to find the sweet spot between. Classic and metro designs ideologies.
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Why do some people buy branded drugs if there is an equivalent generic drug available?
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Sometimes, there are other chemicals or colorants in the generic brands that I can't or don't want. E.g. I can't have aspartame or yellow 5,some generic drugs have them when brand names don't.I was taking a friend to get pain meds after she broke her nose. Since she was destitute and her mother worked at Walmart, she wanted to ask her mother to buy the pain meds. Well there we were, looking at the 80 cent generics when her mother said something like, "don't get any of that shit, it doesn't work. You need the name brand stuff." Do then she proceeded to spend about 6 dollars on name brand stuff. As far as i can tell, some people actually have no idea how the world works, and they just think you truly do get what you pay for. This is why people overpay fire gods and services. The question is now ethics. If people really want to overpay, and the measured effect of overpaying is due to the placebo effect, are you a jerk for overcharging?', "Because they are marketed better and more aggressively, and people in general are very susceptible to making decisions based on impressions rather than on facts - even in cases where they have the facts to hand which is not always. This, combined with the placebo effect, confirmation bias and a person's own subjective perception of how they are feeling after taking a drug, can lead to people believing or even *really* feeling better when they take the branded version. But it all starts because the *perception* has been planted that the branded one is better.
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How do ancient buildings end up buried in the ground? Where does all the new dirt come from?
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Sometimes erosion. Walls tend to stop air-blow particles and debris like leaves, so it builds up around structures. Often times, they are literally filled in, as new construction goes over older ones. Roofs collapse, walls fall in, are recycled or get demolished, and up goes a new building. Or old sites are used as garbage dumps. It's also possible structures would be abandoned *because* they were full, before modern garbage trucks.
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Why do we have wisdom teeth, and are they bad?
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It is believed that wisdom teeth were used for our early ancestors rough diet of leaves, nuts, roots, etc. We still have them, because evolution doesn't work that fast. No, they are not bad, but people get them removed because when they start to come in they hurt like hell. Like the other comment, they are bad if they can obstruct or screw up other teeth. I only have two , my mom has always had none, and my dad had all four. *Edit:a sentence*
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in a keyboard, what are the little bumps in the F and J keys for and why are they on those specific keys?
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When you rest your fingers on the home row of the keyboard, your index fingers should rest on the F and J keys. The little bumps are just there to help your fingers easily find their spot even if you're not looking at the keyboard.They are there for people who type without looking at the keyboard. You "feel" where to rest your fingers.
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If I'm in a falling elevator and I jump 1' off of the ground right before it hits, what will happen?
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You will likely be just as injured/dead as if you hadn't jumped. To be safe, you would have to counter the velocity of the falling elevator. In addition, the car will buckle, causing the top of the elevator car to slam into your head in the impossible event that you could manage the superhuman jump.
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How do cryptocurrencies become regulated?
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The gov says what any business can and cannot do. The risk of doing something that gov says you can't is at best a fine. You can go to jail or worse. If China says you can't trade cryptos, then you risk fine, jail or worse for doing it. Business owners won't risk it. Private people might until someone gets caught and it ends up in papers .or don't end up in papers and you never hear from them again. China gov much less affected by local population vote pressure. If gov says marijuana possession with intent to sell is death sentence, no amount of public outcry changes it.
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Why doesn’t gravity affect people of different weights differently?
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What makes you think it doesn't? Gravity is the reason obese people have joint troubles, because their knees have to carry more weight - because of gravity.
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Why does having general anesthesia feel like you blink and you're in the recovery room when normal sleep feels like time passed?
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The drugs given for anesthesia are to change your conscious state, but they are also dissociative. They put you out and don't allow your sensory perception to match your cognitive perception. Additionally they totally block short term memory while under their influence. The other thing they do is totally paralyze you. You aren't awake, you don't know what's going on, you can't remember anything, and you can't move.
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What's the difference between a psychologist, psychiatrist, and counselor?
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Some things I might add to this, based on my experience in the field of clinical psychology : Psychiatrists rarely seem to treat their clients through psychotherapy. From my experience, they diagnose and prescribe medicine and typically leave it at that. Clinical psychologists also treat individuals who have sub-levels of clinical symptoms. Simply because an individual doesn't fully meet criteria for a clinical diagnosis, does not mean a clinical psychologist will not provide psychotherapy. A much more subtle distinction between clinical psychologists and counselors is the ways in which they approach psychotherapy. Having experience in both of these fields, I've found that, in general, counseling psychologists will take a much more client-centered approach to psychotherapy while clinical psychologists will be much more directive. This can vary depending on the therapists, however. I haven't seen anyone mention a Doctorate of Psychology degree. This degree is the same level as a Ph.D without the research requirement. It's typically reserved for those individuals who want to spend their careers practicing psychology rather than conducting research at a university.
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What does it mean when a juice bottle says 10% juice? What does the rest of the 90% consist of and where does it come from?
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Literally anything other than juice directly from a fruit or vegetable . It says in the ingredients what everything else is. Chances are it's almost entirely water and sugar.
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Why can't you smile in your passport photo?
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I worked as a photo tech and took passport photos every day for six months. You technically CAN smile in your photo. You just have to make sure you keep your eyes from squinting. If they squint naturally when you smile it'll be rejected; But no one looks 'normal' smiling with their eyes forcibly widened. It makes people look like serial killers. That's why a neutral-content face is the best option. I mean a little smile wouldn't hurt, just don't crunch up your face to cause smile-wrinkles or alter your eye size/shape. For most people this is impossible and unfair if other people pull this off but they can't. That's why I would always recommend not smiling. It just made things a lot easier. It's all up to the customer's preference though.
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Why do mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression occur in humans? Are they considered mutations or are they genetically wired in our brains that will emerge when a significant event occurs?
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There's a lot of bullshit in this thread. Here are the real answers: 1. We don't know. 2. We think it's a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental triggers.
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Why Terror groups take responsibility for things
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Increases notoriety. If you're doing an act to draw attention for a cause, then you want people to know you're behind it so that it brings attention to you/your fight. These people are often quite known, so regardless of whether or not the admit to the job, it doesn't change their position.Publicity. The more publicity you get, the more your cause gains attention and "merit". Merit leads to legitimacy. And if you have a legitimate beef, you can get funding to do some real damage.
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Why are Java, Python, C++ the most common languages jobs look for?
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Because they're all very powerful, very versatile languages. Between Java and C++, you can do almost anything. I'm not as familiar with python, but I hear it's great for data mining and the like.Java works on almost all computers, smartphones, controllers. You can do almost anything in JAVA, the main problem is that is slow and uses a lot of resources. In C++ you can do almost anything. The main problem is that it may not work in all machines and, in most cases, requires tuning to work the same way in different machines. I dont like Python xD but I heard from programmer friends that like it that it is like Java with error-tolerances. . I would like to add. From my experience, that Java is becoming more like a basic skill and almost all programmers are polyglots For C++ and Python, they are popular because they are popular. Jobs hire for them because they have legacy code that uses them, and new hires are likely to know them. They write new software in those languages for the same reasons. Students learn them because jobs hire for them. They are very old languages and they do what they do well. Java is more recent. When it came out it was the only language that did what it did, and it was very popular. Applets were all the rage. It has become less popular over timeBecause they are the most used ones and that again has to do with how flexible they are, you can use either of these for a lot of totally different things. C++ for example is often used in game development and that is a multi-billion industry as you might knowThis has not been my experience. In my city there is much more .Net jobs, or the LAMP stack. Not too many c++ shops around here, some Java, and Python might be listed under "nice to have" but not really explicit Python jobs
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What would happen if the earth lost its magnetic field right now
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There's this great documentary called [The Core] that explains this idea extensively. I highly recommend it.
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Why are websites that ask for and receive location services on browsers still forcing us to fill in our zip code to find our local store/branch?
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The GPS location services object might also just provide a bounded box of latitude and longitude for your position. Either way, it's probably not consistent enough to reliably convert a zip value from those different set of values especially if it is a bounded box. That array could straddle two or more zip codes. Better to have a user take two seconds to supply an accurate value then try to derive it from incomplete data.
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What part of the mammalian reproductive system is responsible for the perfect 50:50 chance of the fetus becoming either sex?
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None of the answers so far are actually saying or even attempting to explain the seemingly random chromosomes supplied by the sperm cell and biologically why each sperm cell has so close to a 50:50 chance of holding either one. I know it's ELI5, but I'm fairly sure that the actual question hasn't been properly addressed yet.
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Why does time pass so swiftly while we are sleep?
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You know the expression time flies when you're having fun? When you focus on an activity be it work or just having fun you stop paying attention to how much time is passing during that time so you look up and suddenly its 3 am and you should have been in bed hours ago. When you're bored and you focus on the time time it seems to drag forever, eg microwave minute. So when you're sleeping you're not aware of time passing because you're not conscious.
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Why do people typically have exclusively one hair colour while other animals like cats can have patterns of varying colours?
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This actually makes me consider another thing: why does it seem like Eurasian peoples have such a wide variety of hair, eye, and skin types and colors, while Native Americans and Africans not so much? I know from what I've read that Africans are actually more genetically diverse than any other group in the world but it doesn't seem to show on the outside. Not from what I've seen anyways. I'm not trying to be obnoxious but genuinely seemed like a good place to ask.The answer to your question doesn't really exist because it is based off of a false premise. People, particularly women, don't have a single hair color. It might look solid from far away, but if you look closely different hairs have different colors. When looked at farther away, it takes on the appearance of a single color. The reason this happens is because of incomplete dominance in the genes that code for hair color and texture, as another commented already posted. I say that it is more common for women to have more variance in hair color due to having two X chromosomes. During gene expression, only one X chromosome copy is expressed at one time for each hair follicle while the other becomes "deactivated." This deactivated X chromosome us known as a Barr body. This phenomenon of X chromosomes being expressed in different hair follicles is also what creates coat patterns on calico cats.I've not seen anyone say anything about it here yet, so I'm just going to mention that Siamese cats in particular and some close relatives are a special case and the genes that encode melanin are inactive at above 38-39 degrees Celsius, which means the cats are naturally albino. If the temperature falls below that , then the affected area starts producing melanin again and becomes black. Technically, you could make a pattern on some cold metal and press it to a Siamese kitten and it should grow with that pattern. I don't think the cat's going to be pleased with it though.
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how come humans and other animals can balance on 2 feet but other objects can not balance on 2 "feet"
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An object with no moving parts can't counterbalance itself the ways needed to make 2 footed balance work. I mean, it might be possible but probably to the point of making the original use of the object pointless. What us is a 2 legged chair if you can't sit in it? Our system of 2 feet with no tail is pretty weird in the animal world for locomotion, but even then we still use our arms for counterbalance, as well as other small things I'm sure that impact that. I remember this problem annoying me as a child because I wanted to build things with two legs out of legos but they always fell over. I know why now it didn't work out but as a child I just knew that the only way to work was to put wheels on it which was kinda cheating, since it made more points and defeated the purpose.
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Why modern PC games fit on one CD where older ones required many more.
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Because COD:MW arrives on a DVD, which can contain about 6 cd's often.A CD holds 700MB. Now we have double layer dual sided DVDs, which hold 4.7GB x 4 . We also have BluRay which holds 25GB to 50GB. 700MB = 0.7 GB. Think of it as 700 million vs. 4 billion 700 million.
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The difference between 1080i and 1080p. Which is better for gaming?
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There are some good answers here. As other posts have said the 'i' stands for interlaced and the 'p' stands for progressive.The 1080 means that there are 1080 horizontal lines on the screen. With an interlaced picture for every frame there is a new line drawn on every second line 1,3,5,7 etc then on the next frame lines 2,4,6,8 etc are drawn. With a progressive picture for every frame every line is drawn. As for the second part of your question. 1080p will give you a clearer picture than 1080i but it can require more powerful hardware.
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In ancient times what would people do if they didn't have glasses but needed them?
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In communal societies labor tends to be divided up by talent, so nearsighted people probably just tended to end up in the camp doing stuff that didn't involve spotting game at distance. A lot of the disorders we have today are a result of our environment-- bright artificial light, reading books up close, etc. Also as /u/Axacu pointed out, life expectancy has gone way up. Infant and child mortality has gone way down.
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why we only feel like we've gotten better from viruses after sleeping?
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Even if you don't undergo a disproportionate amount of healing during sleep , you'd still feel much better after being unconscious for a few hours of your convalescence. It is like you fast-forwarded through eight hours of lessening sickness.
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Why does there seem to be so few homeless women?
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For OP's consideration: Under [Demographics]: > Most studies show that single homeless adults are more likely to be male than female. In 2007, a survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that of the population surveyed 35% of the homeless people who are members of households with children are male while 65% of these people are females. However, 67.5% of the single homeless population is male, and it is this single population that makes up 76% of the homeless populations surveyed . It doesn't just seem that way, it *is* that way. 67.5% of homeless are male.I was homeless when I was younger and what I noticed from going to the church feeds, hanging around the gospel mission, library, and other public places is this: there are church groups and other organizations that will let WOMEN ONLY spend the night for either free or a low fee. A lot of them are for battered, abused, runaways, women with kids, or drug addled women, and will let you stay as long as you fit into one of those categories .Mostly though, in some of the shadier areas, women usually have a place to spend the night because they are willing to use their body in exchange for a place to stay. I remember one woman who lived in a van that she would move around everynight to avoid getting caught She earned money on her back in the van until the cops were called and she would just pick up and drive away. Have no idea what happened to her. After I got my shit together I volunteered for awhile at the place I used to eat. Felt good man.I live in NYC and so far it's been 50/50 with the homeless population that I've seen. This is speculation, but I think it could be that there are more programs helping women and women with children than there are for single men.
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Why Do Men Grow Bald And Women Don't?
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Woman do go bald, it's just much more likely in men. The reason being is baldness is a recesive genetic trait found on the X chromosome. Men only have 1 where as woman have 2. Because of this if a woman has 1 x chromosome with the recesive bald gene but one with the dominant not bald gene she won't be bald. But her son will inherent one of the mothers x chromosomes so he has a 50 50 shot of either getting the recesive bald or dominant not bald.A byproduct of testosterone is linked to male pattern baldness. Women go bald as well but not as much and it could be other issues causing it for them.
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Why is it a legal requirement that you wear a seat belt, yet people are allowed to drive motorcycles?
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Because it makes people in cars safer. If you're trying to find a logical explanation for why every law exists and why there isn't a law for everything else, you're gonna have a bad time.Because adding a seat belt to a motorcycle would be extraordinarily dangerous to the rider in the event of an accident. An example might be if the rider is bumped or is caused to go off course. It would be much safer for the rider to jump/roll off of the motorcycle and roll/slide along the ground than to be attached to a 700 lb+ chunk of fast moving metal with no way to remove yourself from it.In a car, you are surrounded by thousands of pounds of steel designed to keep you from being crushed by whatever the car hits. A seat belt helps keep you in the right place inside this big metal cage, and keeps you from being thrown around inside the big metal cage. A motorcycle doesn't have a roll cage, so it's safer for the rider to be ejected than strapped to a 500+ lb piece of metal that is sliding and tumbling down the road.
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Why can I eat raw fish but not raw chicken or pork?
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These kinds of meat are often contaminated with disease such as salmonella and worms. It is possible to eat raw pork or chicken from a clean farm so long as it's really fresh. Mainly it has to do with taste and texture though. Raw chicken doesn't taste that good and has a weird texture.
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Why didn't evolution give us the ability to regenerate limbs?
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Evolution does not make choices. Evolution is a 100% random process and those who have the trite are then more, less or equally likely to reproduce and have their offspring reproduce. The reality is that up until VERY recently losing a lim was lethal, even if it eventual grew back, what did it matter if you were dead from bloodless anyway. Imagine evolution is like walking into a restruant. There is no menu to pick from, you are just served something. It may or may not be food , it may or may not be nutritious and it may or may not be poison . If you get through it all and manage to have a kid, they go through the same process.
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Why do I look so much better in the mirror than I do in pictures?
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To explain like you're five, the face you see in the mirror is actually a reversed image of your face since it's a reflection, whereas a photo is you from the outside looking in. You're more used to the mirror image of your face because you've seen it more. So when you see a photo it looks off to you since the sides of your face are switched.
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Why does some antivirus protection software (Norton, McAfee, etc.) make your computer run worse than it did before?
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OP is asking why *some* antivirus software makes your computer run worse . He even mentions a few notorious brands. He isn't asking how an antivirus works, or the general performance impact. He is asking about the difference between average and bad.Technically each active background process would make your computer a little slower. Antiviruses do a lot of things on the background. For starters, they scan each file, local or remote, touched by your system. Scanning by itself is a complex procedure, as modern viruses employ encryption and other stealth methods to avoid detection. Also, most antiviruses also monitor the data flowing through your network interfaces which is even more taxing. External devices are yet another vector of viruses and also demand heavy monitoring. The antivirus itself might also be a target of tampering, so it has to counter against that tooAntivirus is difficult. It requires a lot of resources and access to attempt to secure your computer. This resource consumption can have severe performance impacts on how well the computer runs.Here's John McAfee answering some questions about his software. _URL_0_", 'I like the mailroom analogy but to answer the actually question of the post, I'll put it like this. Bad antivirus software have the mail room 5 buildings down and up 30 flights of stairs. Mail delivery is inefficient and time consuming. "Good" antivirus solutions have the mail room directly next door. It's more efficient and isn't bogging down the mail delivery process with inefficiencies
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How do banks actually make money from mortgages if they usually aren't paid off for 15 or 30 years?
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One mortgage makes a payment once per month . Now if you somehow loaned your friend a significant amount of money and waited 15 years for him to pay you back, well that'd be stupid. You'd probably need a loan to float his, even if, at the end, you made some money.But, as a bank who's been loaning money for decades, you've got thousands of mortgages on the books. That's thousands of monthly payments. Those payments float any new loans and the bank still receives more in loan payments than it losses loaning money.Also, re: interest
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Why america are so angry at their government, but don't seem to do much about it other than complain online.
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[Duverger's Law] has a lot to do with it. Note that you guys are the main exception to the rule. Our political system is entrenched. Dissent carries an element of risk, although most of us like to pretend that it doesn't. The only Americans with the resources and clout to effect large-scale change are the ones who benefit most directly from the status quo. They direct the conversation such that we're bickering about the only three things our major parties disagree on; this keeps the nation polarized, and gives the illusion of a much more drastic difference between the parties than actually exists. Money is everything in our political system. Individual politicians who would effect change are drowned out by a massive number of politicians who either like things how they are, or who are otherwise dependent on donors or an electorate which likes things how they are. In short, most of us feel powerless to do anything about anything.
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Why do so many jobs just require a degree. Without specifying which one?
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These days there are way more applicants than jobs. Requiring a degree is a way for employers to weed out some applicants because they'll get more than they need anyway.Demonstrates you are capable of learning in a more demandingenvironment than high school.For a lot of jobs, it's simply a marker to them that you're able to commit to something for three years, or however long it takes, and be self-driven enough to come out the other side with a qualification. At school you're hand-held; if you don't perform you get detention, and various other sanctions to try and *make* you perform. At college/university, nobody drives you other than yourself. If you don't want to do the work, they don't give a toss; they've been paid after all. You just don't get the qualification. TL;DR it's a simple way of measuring your drive and commitment.
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How is math used in programming?
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Well, for gaming it's what moves your character sling the x, y, and z axii. Old games generally used hard coded speeds , whereas new games use physics and more variables .. or some random stuff that also involves velocities that the character is already subjected to). I don't delve too deep when I program, but I love using polynomial equations for things like curves, XP, damage, etc. For instance, let's say I have a max of 999,999xp, which gives me 50 levels. I want my max health to start from 100 and end perfectly at 9999 at level 50. Do I increase by x every level, or maybe use a curve to make the higher levels that much more powerful?
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Why do American college/university campuses appear to be leaning politically left?
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That's not only in the US. Why do you think every repressive government ends up beating up students?
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How can we have the technology to complete safe assisted suicides but lack the technology for 'safe' lethal injections?
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> In what way is killing by lethal injection medically different from killing by assisted suicide? It's *legally* different, and the legality affects what methods can be used, and may not be based on the most advantageous methods.The guillotine was invented ages ago. Humane. Instant. Messy is all.
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I live in a big city, use public transportation and public spaces all the time. Should I be concerned about Ebola?
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Unless you're in Liberia or something, you're more likely to die from using public transportation than you are to die from ebola. Avoid people who are bleeding from their orifices and you'll be fine.This is why the news is doing more harm than good.
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Can you explain the reasons why this would not work? Post from imgur "End to Poverty".
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So to summarize: money has no value except what we give it. It must be backed by real and useful things like food or medicine. Inflation would simply adjust for the bigger numbers. And here's my contribution: So let's assume in a society where the only thing bought is bread, and the only currency is beads. Bread cost 5 beads a loaf, each person require one loaf a day and they make 5 beads a day at work. If people suddenly received 5 more beads a day raise, the price of bread would rise to something like 8-9 beads. So the 100% raise did little good. Because even though people have a larger sum of currency, production stayed the same. If 100% of products = 100% of currency in circulation! then it's moot putting more currency into circulation. Wild card being people who live thriftily and save. The basic income may even discourage labor. Without going to the extreme of playing games and wack off all day, let's say since 50% of my income now comes freely, I decide to work 50% less; then my 50 closest friends do the same, so do their friends. In this case the system now has more money and less production. Only way to make this work is enforced labor. Then it starts to look like one of two things: 1) standardized income. Everyone receive $33k / yr for their work. This is communism. 2) income varies according to labor, then that is close to what we have today, except labor is mandated by a desire to live comfortably.
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How do we have "...94 million Americans out of the labor force"?
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The unemployment rate is not equal to the workforce participation rate. The percentage of the population actually working is 62.9%. Unemployment rate excludes people who don't want to work, can't work, or stopped looking for work. The stay-at-home parent who does so on purpose is not included in the unemployment rate, for example.Unemployment rate numbers are the people documented as looking for work. It does not count the retired, disabled, students not looking for work, children, or people who have just given up looking for work.
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Why do dogs get so scared or fireworks, no matter how quiet/far away it is?
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What we can hear at 20', a dog can hear @ 80'. That explosion we`re hearing may very well be 4X to a dog. Many vets will give out dog-tranquilizers this time of year. May wanna save them alotta stress next yr & get a perscrip.dogs have a heightened senses they can hear more than us , the sound that might be quiet for us would be loud for them .
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Why does remote starting your car for 5-10 minutes waste so much gas?
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Simply, because the engine hasn't come up to operating temperature yet so it wont run as efficiently as when its warmed. The computer adjusts the MPG readout according to RPM. on cold startup, engines may choke the engine to get it started easier, and then has to run at ~1500rpm+ so that the extra fuel being added doesnt bog down and kill the engine.Hi /u/glenninator, your post is far too personal or specific to yourself in nature; ELI5 is not for personal problems or questions. Please consider resubmitting the question with a more general or conceptual wording instead. Thanks for understanding.
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How come I haven't been caught for piracy? Am I more likely to be caught pirating a movie or software rather than a song?
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Countless millions of users are torrenting, and it is as futile as drug control. They are sending thousands of notices a day but they just can't keep up. So they focus on the big fish, the uploaders and seeders. They have more to charge them with. Essentially they can just download an illegal torrent, look at every peer that shared a chunk with them, and send notices. But to send the notices requires that they contact the ISP of the IP, and the ISP is compliant with their request to reveal the person's info, and is American Typically a scary warning letter is enough because to carry out a full suit each time is more time confusing than it's worth.
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why can't Buffalo, NY just dump the 32tons of removed snow BACK into Lake Erie?
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It's wayyyyyyyyyyyy easier to just plow it to the side of the road then load it into dump trucks for hauling.
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Why are we scared of the dark?
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I'd think because in the dark, we can't rely on the sense we rely on most?
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Why does Habitat for Humanity build houses when there are so many empty, foreclosed houses already?
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A lot of the building materials are donated. They also run a home depot like store filled with donated materials. It's called the Restore.
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-18: why maths is worth learning
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You don't need to know the formulas or do the grunt work, but you need to system of numeric reasoning. You may not have to calculate how ~~tall~~ big a triangle is, but you'll need to know ~~length~~ area = 1/2 base times height.
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Why do we get a "someone's watching me" feeling when someone is watching us, despite not knowing for sure that we're being watched?
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Stand in a crowded area. Feel like someone is watching you. Turn your head around to look behind you. Attract the attention of some stranger that was not paying attention to you at all until you decided to turn your head around and look behind you. Make eye contact. Ignore all of the other people that weren't distracted by your head turn. Ignore all of the other people who did see you head turn but you didn't notice them noticing you. Feel creeped out. Believe that you have magic abilities.
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Why do people throw up from high intensity exercises?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's a way of the body making itself stop using calories on digestion and divert as many calories to muscles. A secondary thought that I have is that it's the body's way of lightening its self to reduce stress on muscles in use.
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The phrase "Liquor before beer, you're in the clear. Beer before liqour, never been sicker".
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It's advice to help monitor intake and avoid over drinking when getting hammered as fast as possible. Honestly it was probably made up by people who don't know how to drink properly. It takes making some assumptions to work, it's probably only suited advice for a night of heavy drinking, if anything. In reality though, and in moderation, the order doesn't totally matter. Beer requires drinking a lot, and essentially filling up on to get drunk. It's also full of other ingredients, and it can make you bloated. As well, getting drunk on beer can be a steady process, chances are you can better feel yourself steadily become drunk, so mindlessly over drinking is more difficult to do. Getting drunk on liquor can only take a small amount sometimes, and can take no time at all. Because of this it can be hard to manage-- especially if you're already drunk. Sometimes it can be impossible to tell where the tipping point is, and assuming you've filled up on beer and are feeling somewhat drunk already, chances are you won't know when you've hit the tipping point until you're not feeling so good. **I think the main idea is**: when getting shitfaced, drinking liquor first and keeping the buzz going with beer is faster and can be more easily manageable than trying to get drunk on beer first, and then keep the buzz going with liquor.
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What is the difference between a bad headache and a migraine?
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The other poster here is totally right. The noticeable practical difference between a normal headache and a migraine is intensity. It's akin to comparing a sore wrist to a broken wrist. The pain is absolutely flooring. My brother and I have unanimously decided that it feels like your skull is being pried apart at the tiny bone boundaries. They're real nasty", 'Diagnosed chronic migraine-er here. Basically from personal experience a bad headache will inconvenience you but you can still go on with your day. A migraine will basically take you out. Extreme pain compared to mild manageable pain. Mine use to be really bad, throwing up, seeing spots etc. I have now gotten used to the pain, excedrine and caffeine help a lot.
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Given the vastness of the US borders, how do they keep it in any way secure?
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Most of the Canada-US border is not patrolled. There's a border crossing station in northern Minnesota that's just a telephone, and you have to call the Canadian border patrol and tell them you're entering the country.
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If The Hubble Telescope's optics can focus on distant galaxies, AND can focus on a local body like Jupiter, why can't it see Pluto clearly?
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Pluto is about 0.11 arc-seconds wide and Hubble's resolution is about 0.04 arc-seconds per pixel. You can only get 3 Hubble camera pixels across the face of Pluto when it is closest to earth. This is not enough for a decent picture. Hubble's resolution is limited by the size of its primary mirror and a phenomena called diffraction. Diffraction is caused by the wave-nature of light propagation and it limits the achievable resolution of even optically perfect telescopes._URL_0_ Jupiter is VERY big and MUCH closer than pluto.[Here's] a picture of Pluto taken by Hubble. I'll admit it's digitally enhanced but we can take normal photos of Pluto. The amount of light something emits isn't a limiting factor as many are saying . What really matters is the resolution of the Hubble cameras. The highest resolution Hubble photo of Jupiter is about 3000 by 3000 pixels. Pluto takes up 300 times less space in the sky. So Pluto takes up an estimated 10 by 10 pixels on the camera. So we'll only get 10 by 10 pixel images. We can then use computers to enhance it but we still have 10 by 10 pixel pictures overall. If something is too dim then Hubble can just take longer exposures or take a lot of short exposures and superimpose them.
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How/Why does the moon suddenly appear twice as big as it usually does on some nights?
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Optical illusion. It looks larger when closer to the horizon, for instance. If you actually measure the number of degrees it takes up in the sky, it doesn't vary by much more than about 10% though, depending on current distance .
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Why is it not blinding to look directly at the sun early in a sun rise or late into a sun set?
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As light bends, it separates by wavelength. The sky looks red because you're only getting a fraction of the original light that was bent. It's less bright and less intense.
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If bananas don't naturally reproduce and are all the result of cloning by humans, how are there different types of bananas?
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I haven't seen an good answer yet, so I will give it another try. The wild bananas do have seeds, so they can reproduce normally. This also means that over time, new types will form. These wild bananas do contain very little pulp. So we do not farm wild bananas on a large scale, there is simply no demand.But due to specific toxicants, a plant lost the possibility to create seeds. In nature, this plant would simply not reproduce. But a banana plant that didn't have seeds is interesting for us. It does contain more pulp and no irritating seeds. Since we do have the technology the clone plants for a long time, we cloned that plant. So to answer your question: the one we eat can't naturally reproduce, but the other, wild types do. This also brings a few problems, using only one type across the entire world makes it an easy target for fungus and other diseases. This is what happened with the variety Gros Michel, around 20 years ago. Scientists searched for a alternative that was more resistent to that fungus. When they found a candidate, they used the same toxicant to prevent to it from making seeds. We do know this type by the name Cavendish.
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What exactly happens to Gandolf during the time he progresses from Gandolf the Grey to Gandolf the White?
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It's been several years since I've read all the books, but if you get a chance to read the Simarillion, it will illuminate many unanswered questions about the Tolkien world and mythology. It's the accumulated writings of Tolkiens characters backgrounds, histories, lineages, origins of creatures and races and even weapons and treasures. It's a really neat read for anyone who's a big Tolkien fan, but be warned, it's a very dense read.
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How is the pirate bay still up when websites like megaupload were taken down.
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They've been raided a few times. They just move to a new country and keep on running. Looks like they are trying to bring a server up in Saint Martin tonight, but not having much luck
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Why does time seemingly pass so fast when I'm lying in bed and can't sleep?
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I wish time went fast on a sleepless night. It feels like time goes on forever. All I want to do is sleep, but my mind won't let me.
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Why is it that, when drinking alcohol while sitting down, you may feel more drunk when you stand up?
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Not a doctor, but my thinking has always been that, upon standing, you're increasing movement, which increases blood flow. The increased blood flow also increases the feeling of drunkenness.In a word, gravity. Standing up allows your blood to move down into your legs effectively lowering the blood pressure in your upper body which leads to a feeling of light headedness. If already dizzy from inebriation, it will just become more pronounced when you standup.
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Why are there so many mattress stores? How do they stay in business? Is there really that high of a demand for mattresses?
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People have to sleep. People also have to eat, so there are lots of grocery stores. People need to drive, so there are also gas stations and car stores. Do you but a new car every 10 or so years? Isn't that about the life of a mattress after you have fucked on it a bunch of times? How about all the grime and crap that gets all over your mattress? I bet there are 10x the amount of car dealerships in your area than mattress stores. You are probably over due for a nice new bed, you gross sleeping in garbage weirdo.
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Why are peanuts and treenuts often banned in schools due to allergy concerns but almost never in workplaces?
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I can only speak to the medical answer specifically, but with children you have a window of as small as seconds if it's serious. With adults, they'd have to go well into severe allergies before it becomes a matter of seconds between life and death. Adults, typically, are also aware they have a serious allergy, where some children may not be. Adults, typically, are also aware of the increasing severity based on previous responses, where kids may not be. And lastly, ideally, the adult is prepared to potentially encounter those things in the world, where as a child isn't. As a side note that I'm not particularly versed in, I'd assume there's a mountain of legal garbage that the schools want to avoid that the companies are less worried about.
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How do I tell if a diamond is real?
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If you go to a jewelry store a gemologist can tell you if it's a diamond usually just by looking. My dad owns a jewelry store and he's GIA certified, and he tends to be able to do this. He also looks with a loupe and usually if there aren't any flaws it's a cubic zirconia . He also uses a diamond-scratcher made out of corundum, which has a hardness of 9, so it will scratch a CZ but glide over the surface of a diamond. If you get one and feel any bite when you test, it's a CZ. The simplest test, but I've found it only really works on larger stones, is to breathe on the stone. If it fogs up with your breath, it's not a diamond.
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Why are airline tickets so expensive? Is jet fuel really that costly?
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[The price of airfare has never been lower] and quite frankly cheap airfare is one of the great success stories of the 1980s deregulation. So, my question to you is, why do you think airfare is expensive, when it's substantially cheaper now than it ever has been in the past thirty years?
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Why is slope rise over run?
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The same distance horizontally has a higher slope when the vertical distance is higher. If we did it the other way we would be saying that something less 'steep' has a higher slope. The highest slope would be a flat horizontal line. Mathematically I believe it would be fine to define it that way, but the way we do it also matches our interpretation of the world - we don't consider Kansas to have the steepest roads in the world, for example.Its the measure of the change of the independent variable over the change of dependent variable. We happen to graph the dependent variable on the bottom, maybe because we read landscape
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Why do we recognize that mirrors are "silver" when they appear to be the exact same color as what they are reflecting?
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Mirrors actually tend to have a slightly green tinge to them. It's not noticeable if you're just looking in one but if you have two mirrors facing each other and look into the infinite reflections it gradually tunes more and more green.Edit: I realise it's the glass in the mirror that causes this and it doesn't really answer the question, I just thought it was quite interesting.
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Why was Nixon impeached for wiretapping, but the NSA revelations have not led to serious impeachment calls for Obama and everyone else complicit in this?
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Because the NSA was formed in 1952. It was given more power and strength under the USA PATRIOT Act, signed in 2001. So if you're asking for everyone complicit, then maybe you should ask why there weren't calls for impeachment against Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Jr. & Sr., and Clinton as well. In fact, with our next inauguration, let's just have a simultaneous impeachment proceeding just to save money. If people are really upset about the NSA and its inappropriate practices, they should start calling for investigation into the NSA and disempowerment. Using it as a political tool to question whoever's currently in power is kind of silly and pointless.
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What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning but continued about its orbit?
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I don't know if this specifically answers your question, but I found this documentary pretty interesting. _URL_3_
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Why do people cover their mouths with their hands when surprised, shy etc?
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One of the things that TV studio sound techs know is Don't put a lapel mike on older women as when surprised or embarrassed they tend to clutch their throat/neck, causing a bump noise on the mike. This is where the expression clutching at her pearls comes from. Jim B.
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Why is having “good” posture so uncomfortable?
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Medical massage therapist here. It's because your antagonist or opposite muscles are tight and pulling you forward. If you have your muscles opened /released/relaxed it will be amazingly easy to stand up straight. These muscles are: pectoral minor, scalenes, sternocleidomastoid teres minor, anterior deltoid, pectoral major. Then do exercises that strengthen your rhomboids and mid trapezius- LAST . If you don't relax the tight ones pulling you forward you'll just be doing a tug of war that's relatively ineffective.
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So we always worry about a big asteroid slamming into the Earth, but what would happen if a big asteroid smashed into the moon?
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Thundar The Barbarian? Seriously though, its very likely that blowoff would impact the Earth causing widespread destruction. Maybe not life-ending, maybe more so. It just depends on how big the blowoff chunks are and the direction/speed they are ejected. We just don't know how well the moon will handle a large impact which would cause nuclear Winter on Earth.people keep answering as if it *has* to be sort of instant extinction scenario how big would an asteroid have to be to set he moon off course? how much would that greatly affect earth? how long would a messed up orbit take to affect humans?', "Here's a few thoughts about the impact on earth if the moon was destroyed. 1) many animals that use the moon as a timer or navigational guide would have major issues. 2) tides would be largely gone . This would be a problem for many smaller ports and harbours that can only operate at higher tides. Many ports and harbours would have problems from silting up as there would be less scouring out of shipping channels. 3) the night sky in many places would be more visible since there would be no 'light pollution' from the moon. Great for astronomers and aroura watchers. 4) the rotation of the earth will stop slowing down at the pace it is. This may have issues for calibrating scientific instruments involved with space fields.
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Why is the new King of Saudi Arabia the half-brother of the old one and not one of his sons?
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Because in many non-European societies they don't have the rule of [primogeniture], so it's not always the eldest son.
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Wouldn't NSA help investigate crimes/track criminals more efficiently?
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Warrantless searches are unconstitutional. What they're doing is illegal and could very easily be abused if the wrong people got elected. They have never produced any evidence to suggest their programs have stopped any acts of terrorism.
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Why are roof shingles so small?
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Installed correctly, shingles provide very good protection to the structure so the current size is not an issue in this area. As already mentioned, the weight can be an issue when you are roofing so a larger size would be much harder to work with. The current size is plenty large and can be put up very quickly. My guess would be you have never shingled a house and have had to work with a bundle of shingles. If they were much larger they would tend to break when you move them around. Currently in cold weather you have to be careful when you pick up a single shingle because it can break if you bend it on a corner due to it's own weight - if they were larger this would happen much easier.
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Why are people hating on XBOX One and PS4?
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Imagine that you bought a house, and bought a lot of stuff for that house. You own the house and all of the stuff in it. You can do whatever you want with the house and with your stuff. Every 5-8 years, an upgrade comes out where you can re-model your house in 10 minutes with all sorts of new features and technology. Now one year, the new upgrade comes out. The company that makes the upgrades says that in order to use it, you have to re-buy all of your stuff that you own because your old stuff won't work in the upgraded house. In addition to that, all the new stuff you have to buy for your house isn't actually yours. The company lets you use it as long as you pass all of their security checks to make sure you aren't stealing your new stuff from bad places. In addition, Your house can now drive you to work, so you don't need your car. It's not really something that you want or need, but OK. Your house needs to be connected to the internet so the company can check if you're stealing. If the company can't connect to your house, they shut it down. You can't use any of the stuff inside of it, and the only thing it can do until the company can connect to your house is drive you to work, which you don't even use because you already have a car. Now, you might think, 'Oh, well why don't I just not get the upgrade?' That will work for maybe a year or two after the upgrade is released. After that, the various companies that make stuff for your house will stop making stuff that works with your old version and only make stuff for the new version. The house is your Xbox 360the upgrade is your Xbox Onethe stuff is your gamesthe company is Microsoftthe car is your TV cable box/bluray player You can't tell me that this doesn't bother you.
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During the 20 year patent period, does the pharmaceutical companies determine the price of the drug or is it regulated somehow?
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Unfortunately this basically comes down to free market economics. Ultimately it comes down to what the market will bear. That's why you keep seeing reports of anesthetics costing thousands of dollars from a hospital, hundreds of dollars if purchased privately, and the equivalent of tens of dollars in a market with unionised/nationalized health care.
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Is time passing in dreams contiguous with the actual time passing in reality?
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As a person with narcolepsy, I always dream lucid. I experimented with this by having someone sit next to me and giving me certain triggers . I can tell you two things; - Time in dreams is even more relative than Einstein's theory would make 'real' time.- As said by someone else, your brain skips a ton of stuff. When you're completely lucid and you count to ten, it could still very much mean that a few minutes have passed in real time or the other way around. When not lucid it is an accepted belief that time passes quicker in dreams e.g. you can dream a few years in just a night. So dreaming 20-30 minutes will generally not take up 20-30 minutes of your sleep time. It will not take a few seconds, it will still usually be a few minutes, but it's not in an absolute 1:1 ratio.
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Why do we spend so much more money exploring space than our oceans?
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You need to understand the objectives of space exploration vs deep ocean. Astrophysics provides insights on how the forces of the universe work leading to new materials, manufacturing methods, etc. Things we use today vs a misguided notion of extra-terrestial colonies . Experiments in zero gravity have yield a vast amount of new tech and medicine that have improved lives. Satellite have expanded globalization, understanding of climate and environment. Deep ocean exploration is designed to understand how life evolves in different environments, and that can't be done in space. There's significant breakthroughs in understanding of life forms and evolution with deep sea exploration. But while worth to be explored, deep sea imposes serious physical barriers. The pressure alone is a major deterrent. It's easy to pressurize a space station but the human body can't live for long periods under sea pressure as the higher density of air will cause pulmonary toxicity. Even life under 40ft would cause devastating long term damage to the body. Underwater habitats would not be practical considering waves, currents and storms. The danger of physical harm outweighs any desire to pursue further, specially since there are terrestrial alternatives still being explored.
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Why does the date Jesus was born never change but the date Jesus dies changes every year?
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The Easter date is determined based on the approximate date of the March equinox. According to [this website], Jesus' death and resurrection occurred somewhere around the first full moon of the vernal equinox, but since the date of this equinox, and by extension the date of this first full moon, are different each year, the date of the Easter celebrations changes as well. As far as Christmas is concerned, that's a bit more complicated. No one actually knows when Jesus is thought to have been born, and the Bible is even less specific on that point than it is on when he died. Some Biblical scholars think he was probably born in June or July IIRC, but he almost certainly was not born in December. The December date was chosen to coincide with pagan holiday celebrations, in an effort to bring converts into the church. Many of the most beloved Christmas traditions are modern indicators of pagan rituals. The reason December 25th is so specific, and doesn't change each year, is probably because that was the specific date of the Roman celebration *Saturnalia*.
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Why do most predatory animals choose not to eat humans?
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Many animal attacks are territorial, not hunting. Animals know that attacking any animal is dangerous, both from the target and from other animals that might stop by to see what's happening in the now bloody smelling area. Once the goal is met or if it looks like the costs are too high, they disengage. Attacking humans is very dangerous. We have a lot of weapons, move in herds, and have a history of hunting almost every species. Sharks in particular do think we taste bad. We have neither the nice blubber of our aquatic mammalian cousins or the oils of fish. They can't tell however until they get a taste. Our splashing while swimming actually sounds a lot like a school of small fish.
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How do copper surfaces kill bacteria?
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[Oligiodynamic effect]. To put simply, metals aren't really static, they leach stuff all the time, some more than others. Copper especially is considering fairly reactive, that's why copper cookware you're not supposed to cook acidic foods in or in too high of heat . Metal ions go into microbes and basically fuck shit up.
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How can babies sleep in awkward and uncomfortable positions, without showing any symptoms of pain, such as a stiff neck or back that adults would normally show?
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Ironaxcly I know a 4 year old who just woke up with a stiff neck, probably from sleeping wrong. Anyways yeah babies and young children are naturally flexible and heal well, plus they weigh much less. Let's say all your weight is on your shoulder, for a baby that isn't much , and proportionally let's stressful. I used to sleep in the oddest, cringe worthy way when I was growing up. When I explained how I sleeper to a medical professional, they just cringed and said I was going to dislocate my shoulder if inkept doing that. Never did, but my body was unable to keep up without pain when i got older.Got to try this so called "baby toss" when I get home. Do 10 months old count?
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Can something go "below" absolute 0?
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You can't go below absolute 0. Basically, temperature is a measure of how fast molecules are moving about. Absolute zero is the temperature where nothing is moving. To go below absolute 0, the molecules would have to be moving slower than not moving at all, which obviously makes no sense.
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Why do cars from the 70's and earlier all have distinctive looks and are easily identifiable while modern cars all mostly look the same?
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I have a slightly different take on this. Modern cars designed using computers with specific computer programs have a distinct smooth/sharp fade design language. Certain fades or angles are given to cars to make them look aggressive, sleek, smaller, bigger, whatever the client may want, but because they are usually made with the same 3D program and usually fall under similar manufacturing constraints, they all have that 'post-computer age' look to them. I studied industrial design in Asia, so that's my two cents.I recall a report that pointed out that the similarity in car body designs was actually being caused by the software program that was being used in wind tunnel testing. There are only a handful of wind tunnels for automobile testing, and they are all running the same software for testing drag and resistance on the body shape. Since the ideal aerodynamic shape was shared across all of the wind tunnel applications, the modeling of drag improvements on the bodies of the cars all moved in the same direction. As the models got closer and closer to an "ideal" aerodynamic shape, they inherently became more and more similar looking.This is like saying 'why was all music from the 70s great and unique and all of today's music is boring.' You're only thinking of the cool cars that survived this long because they were the best of that era. I'm sure there are tons of old shitboxes that you'd never be able to recognize, because they weren't around long enough to stand out. Go find whatever was the economy car of 1971 or something and i bet it's pretty boring to look at.
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How do prank shows get away with impersonating police officers in public?
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Sooooooo you're saying that being forced to get a hot chocolate enema is NOT something the police can make you do? Well, lesson learned!
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Why do most animals know how to swim instinctively, but Humans do not?
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Baby animals can do a lot of things right from the start that humans can't. Swimming comes instinctual as well as walking, communication, foraging, and many other skills. Evolutionary wise the advantage of human offspring being born with little instinctual knowledge and staying in the infant/adolescent stage for a longer period of time means that the brain stays in a state where knowledge is retained easiest for a longer period of time. Basically a baby being born with very little instincts and skills allows it to progress further in the long run. Unless we're talking about your mother in which case, yes, she was in fact an instinctual whore
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