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How do mental disabilities/disorders improve one's senses? | I've never heard of any direct connection between autism and good eyesight. If an autistic person has properly developed eyes, they'll have good eyesight-if not, they won't. 20-20 vision has to do with the physical shape of the eyeball more than anything. |
Why are the Americans that have the most pride about their country also the ones who trust the government the least? | death panels", and my fav courtesy of junior Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" |
Why do we find characters such as the Joker and other psychopathic villains so interesting, given that psychopathic traits are usually horrifying? | A hero is only as good as his villain. No one wants to watch a one sided affair. There has to be struggle, thought ultimately the hero will win, duh! Batman and Joker are so captivating, because after you strip away the ridiculous gadgets? They're human! Not aliens with magic powers. We sympathize with their vulnerabil... |
How does evolution account for human exceptional intellect and language? | The difficult thing to explain is why we are the only species with this high intellect while the intellect of monkeys, two steps below us, is rivaled by many other mammals and birds. Humans are the odd species out. We are built to outrun any other creature over long distance. That way we could hunt large animals by run... |
Why must we turn off all electronics while on a flight? | > What would a seatbelt do at that speed? Something I can answer! They will, in no particular order: compress your body to cause severe internal injuries you won't recover from, act as razor blades, break every bone in your body, suffocate you, *or prevent you from flying around the cabin killing other people while a p... |
If I was thrown into the future, how far would I go before I could't understand "Future English"? | We can't know. Never before have we had recording technology. Never before have people of this time been able to hear people of the previous times speak. So the way we talk is being affected by hearing people of 50 years ago talk - and we hear this regularly, as we watch classic movies and historical records. Exactly h... |
If slaves in America were so expensive, why were they beaten and killed? | Slavery is based on fear, if your slaves don't fear you, they won't work. Brutally beating a rebellious slave might cost you one slave, **not** beating a rebellious slave will cost you all of your slaves. |
Why are many important historical artefacts locked away and rarely displayed even though they are very well protected (climate control boxes etc)? | The space to safely display important artifacts is much smaller than would be required to display all the archived artifacts. It's just too expensive to put everything on display and take care of it. |
What is happening in Ferguson, MO? | The grand jury is getting close to releasing their finding, and from things that have been leaked, as well as new information that's been released, it looks like the grand jury won't indite the officer. The governor of Missouri is afraid that there will be violent rioting if the officer isn't indicted. |
why bankruptcy is legal. | Because otherwise, once you run up a large debt, you're screwed for literally the rest of your life. That's not good for anyone; you'd prefer to be able to get your life back together, and the people you owe money to would prefer to get a little bit of payment rather than none. |
Why is it rude to ask someone their salary? | I wish people didn't find it so personal. It really benefits employers way more than workers for you not to know what others are paid.I generally ask what the salary range is for the type of work being done. People get funny when it comes to talking about money. |
Why did studios switch from blue to green screens? | In my film class I was taught that green screens are for filming in the day and blue screens are for the night it also depends on what the actors are wearing. Edit: I don't think I got the question right.. |
How is digital information stored (in computers, memory sticks etc.) without a power source? | It all depends on the medium of storage and how information is stored on it. Media like CDs and hard drives can store information without power, while RAM can't. RAM uses circuitry to store the 0s and 1s. A 0 means there is no current passing through the circuit, and a 1 means there is. Since the circuit requires elect... |
How do so many people who post obviously copyrighted video on YouTube have YouTube partnerships (and therefore ads on their videos)? | Because their content counts as transformative work under fair use. They don't just show the content, they review it our otherwise work with it. |
if antibiotics will eventually stop being effective, will antibacterial products like bleach also stop working? | Antibiotics are poisons, while bleach is like a bullet. You can't gain immunity from getting shot because you were shot before. Antibiotics often inhibits cellular functions through either occupies an important enzyme, or denature them. But bleach would physically destroy the bacteria through irreversible chemical reac... |
All popes from 1523 till 1978 were Italian and then there were three non-Italian popes in a row. Why? | Since the middle ages, the power structure of the Church which the pope heads has been concentrated in Rome. That meant, first of all, that the working language of the Vatican was Italian, which immediately disqualified many people from working in Church administration; and secondly, that many of the churchmen availabl... |
How can fast food companies (McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's etc.) make a profit on a $0.99 cheeseburger? | Having the store open, lights on, kitchen running & staff is a fixed cost. If they can even sell it at a break-even price, they're getting you in the store & hopefully selling you a high-margin product like french fries or potatoes. They're also getting you in the habit of shopping there, building goodwill & making the... |
Is there any hard evidence that GMO foods are harmful? | Well, one of the most common modifications to crops is related to dealing with competition from other plants. Crop plants have been bred to give us their energy, not to compete efficiently with other plants. GMOs deal with this issue by making crops immune to the herbicide Round Up, allowing them to thrive when sprayed... |
Why are there so many atheists on Reddit? | Reddit is hivemind, and also a lot of younger people. People often come to different conclusions based on stuff but it's it feels good to be in a group host makes more fun of others especially if it's less popular to the masses but popular within your secret club. People saying anything regarding intelligence are being... |
[Meta] I think people are forgetting what /r/explainlikeimfive is for. | I'm confused as to how you can decide whether a question is complex enough to need explanation? You said in your post and in the sidebar > A friendly place to ask questions and get elementary school-level answers, without fear of judgement. Appropriate for questions about current events, history, politics, culture and ... |
How come there are millions of users on reddit, but relatively "successful" posts only get around 4 figure upvotes? | These answers are all making me chuckle so I'm gonna throw out the true answer that was on eli5 a while ago: The reddit upvote system is one of exponential decrease. As the amount of upvotes goes up, the weight of each vote goes down. So when you see a post with 2,000 karma, it likely has around 8,000 actual upvotes. S... |
how is the green monster legal in baseball rules? | If that wall wasn't there, there'd be a million home runs over the left field fence. The distance to left is extremely short due to how the stadium is crammed into a city block. [Here's a picture] It's not there to make it harder for opposing teams. It makes it harder for everyone so the game isn't ridiculous. |
How did _URL_0_ cost $634,000,000? That seems a bit much. | A rundown of the salient points already made: * it didn't: [as per *Glen Beck's* site], or else [the GAO ].. so $100M - $400M* private sites grow organically both in term of goals/functionality and user base; this had to be complete and handle everyone on day 1, something unheard of in the private sector* the costs tha... |
Why do people pace around the room when they make phone calls? | I freaking do this every time. It's like I can't control myself. I also usually talk in some odd way that makes me out of breath. |
Why does uninstalling something take seconds while installing something can take hours | Think of your computer's hard drive as a bunch of really big checkerboards. Each space on each board has a checker with two sides on it that you can flip over, and each checkerboard has a special checker that says whether or not that board is being used. When you install something, you take a bunch of your checkerboard... |
Why wouldn't a flat tax work for the United States? | The issue is that a 9% tax on someone who makes $25,000 a year is significantly more damaging than the same 9% tax on someone who makes $100,000 a year. People in the lower income brackets typically need every penny to cover living expenses and simply can't afford any income tax at all.It would work but it will increas... |
If animals can distinguish us from our smells, how do they not get confused by the smells of our soaps/colognes/deodorants/etc? | You kind of answered your own question here. They can smell really well, so they're able to distinguish the difference between you and the Cologne/whatever.A dog's dominant sense is smell. In contrast, a humans dominant sense is sight. When I was at USARPAC Basic Sentry Dog School, they told us that when a dog thinks o... |
Why are the symptoms of a cold worse when a person is about to sleep? | You're lying down. That's the key difference. Most of that contested feeling you get is due to the flesh in your sinuses swelling, not snot. When you're lying down more blood goes into your face meats than when you're standing, causing them to swell more making you feel more congested and more convinced that death is c... |
Would a newborn baby from the stone ages, if brought to the modern day, grow up like any other child? | Yes and no. You wouldn't notice much of a difference because the genetic composition of humans hasn't changed much in the last thousands of years. Yet we're studying a new concept called epigenetics, which refers to changing of the expression of genes without an alteration to the genes themselves. That could mean a lot... |
How does Alzheimer's kill a person? | No one has really touched on the facts of what Alzheimer's really does to a person on a physical level. Alzheimer's makes your body, or at least your brain, unable to break down a certain protein that is naturally formed. Most people are capable of breaking them down, but there are some people that have a certain mutat... |
Why do Freemasons honor Egyptian Gods like "Osiris", "Isis", and "Ra"? | Masons don't honor Egyptian gods to my knowledge. I was a Rainbow Girl for a number of years and so I knew many masons. |
Why the Speaker in the U.K. House of Commons isn't the Acting Monarch/other Royalty? | It's a constitutional monarchy. While a lot of stuff is done in the monarch's name, they're not meant to personally have a direct role in the law making process. That includes presiding over meetings of parliament. |
Tax returns are the return of excess wages that the government in a sense loaned from us. Why aren't we entitled to interest on the excess tax? | Tax returns are a form you fill out and file with the government. You're thinking of a tax *refund*. As for the question, like someone else said, it's because there's no law saying we are. However, I'd be leery about asking for one. If the government paid people interest on excess tax then there would be a precedent fo... |
Why does sound need a medium to exist? | Sound is, by definition, a compression wave propagating through a medium. If you take away the medium, there's nothing for the wave to exist in. Or to put it slightly differently: Sound can't move through a non-existent medium for the same reason you can't swim through an empty swimming pool. |
What stops humans from sleeping for days at a time? | If you ignore hibernation and simply focus on sleeping days at a time: we just don't get tired enough. Humans are easily capable of sleeping 40 hours or more, provided they stay awake for 2-3 days in a row. But, as this isn't really enjoyable, we stick to a +- 24-hour clock. |
How did coating a weapon like a dagger in poison work? wouldn't the poison fall off if the weapon is too fast, like an arrow? | Since you seem to be focused on the physics of it, just think about how dirty cars get - and stay - even though they regularly reach high speeds. Dirt, mud, bugs, bird poop, and even exhaust particles get on there and require specific conditions to be removed. Even driving quickly through rain doesn't do much to clean ... |
Why Windows 64bit is x64 but 32bit is also known as x84 and not x32? | They're x86-32 and x86-64, technically. For a long time though, x86-32 was the only one used, so people just called it x86 since there was no ambiguity. Later on 64-bit became popular, but x86 was already an established term. |
what happens to the flooded cars after a major flood? | They are a complete loss in most cases, cleaning and reselling them usually gives pretty big title flaws. If people don't check, some unscrupulous dealer might sell a few of them, but most people check. |
Why are DJ's treated like artists, with a stage name and everything, and their own 'shows' people get tickets to, when they just play other people's copyrighted music? | The DJs you're probably referring to are the big ones at EDC, Ultra, etc. Those guys produce a lot of the music they play or they remix those sings. They do play other peoples music as well, but they are also putting their own spin on it. |
[NSFW] Why censor a woman's chest? | I cannot think of a culture that does not have some standard for what is decent versus what is indecent. For women, because you are talking about a woman's chest, there have been rules about a woman ankles, legs, hair, face, chest, genitals, butt, damn near everything. Not every culture will emphasize the same thing du... |
Why are movie stars able to be frequently recast in many roles, but the careers of the stars of popular TV shows often seem to fizzle out when the shows end or are cancelled? | A lot of it has to do with how the business of TV works. Every year, several dozen potential shows are greenlit for pilots, at which point actors are cast and a sample episode is filmed and showed to TV executives. Of those, only a fraction ever get picked up to series and make it to air. Of those, only a fraction ever... |
Why is it that some people resort to self-harm as a way to deal with their depression? | Sometimes it's a cry for attention. Marks on your body are very noticeable to anyone.\r\rAlso, feeling pain covers negative emotions. This is similar to when you might dig your nails into your skin or pull your hair when you're angry. It is a way to get rid of the adrenaline that comes from the fight or flight instinct... |
How the Obama talk, which has 159,313 upvotes, is not higher all-time than "Test Post Please Ignore" with 26,753 upvotes. | IIRC, the score is determined by log. I can't remember if it's log base 2 or base 10 |
Who uploads all the torrents and do they get anything out of it? | Since you're a 5 year old, you need to learn how to share your stuff with other people. If everybody can share with everybody, then we can all get enjoyment out of all the entertainment there is. |
How did Romans tell the difference between iron pyrite and real gold? | They had dark stones called touchstones they could rub the sample they were testing across. If it was a soft metal, the sample drew a line on the stone. Pyrite wouldn't. They could tell the metal of the sample by the color of the line, and they kept touchstones with lines drawn by samples of known purity around for com... |
Why does it cost more for higher internet speeds to the IP if it uses the same cable for all different speeds. | Because they're in business to make money. They can make the best return on their investment by selling a low tier service for one price and a higher tier for another. The actual cost of providing one individual customer isn't particularly relevant, what matters is how much you can squeeze out of the entire market. |
I think they're called 'for profit' colleges, but I'm not sure. Places like ITT Tech and University of Phoenix: why are they bad? | There is also a documentary on netflix instant stream that goes pretty in depth and has some good interviews if you're still interested. |
Why are home games so important in sports, and why do analysts make a big deal when a team loses at home? | Sports teams are well oiled machines. The competitive advantages between winning and losing come down to a very small set of circumstances. A few extra hours of rest, preparation time, and not having to travel can give that team an advantage over the one that does. Also factor in sleeping in your own bed, the comforts ... |
Why do we have the strength to lift our partner but not enough to carry a gas cylinder or anything similar weight or less | They are helping with grip and putting the center of _URL_0_ close to where it needs to be as possible. You're sometimes dealing with not only the forces from their weight, but also the moment around the center of gravity |
What is it called when you learn a new word and then suddenly it seems like you hear the word very often soon after learning it. | The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is also the reason you should write down your goals and review them everyday. If your goal is to get a job or meet someone new, make that the first thing you think about in the morning, and throughout the day you'll take notice of potential job openings and attractive friendly people. |
Why I'm always incredibly tired in class, but the moment I leave I'm rejuvenated? | My money is on psychological. You don't enjoy class and are very excited to leave it. You might even get excited in the moments leading up to it, which would be an easy thing to look at to check. |
Why is there no "% daily value" for sugar on the Nutrition Facts label? | Along with what everyone else has said so far, you technically don't need sugar in order to survive. This is how diets such as the ketogenic diet are able to completely cut out carbohydrates. Your body takes the building blocks of fats and proteins and turns them into a usable form called ketones. Glucose is a quicker ... |
Why are older Cubans so set against opening up of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba? | They're hoping that if the Castro regime falls, somehow they'll get back the property they lost when Castro took over. |
Where do deleted files go when you delete them? | Usually they don't actually go anywhere - your computer just marks that space as available to be written over by other programs. They're only truly gone once something else writes over that disk space.It goes into the recycle bin on the corner of your desktop. |
why is it not possible for an overweight person to stop eating for a while and just live off their bodyfat for a while? | A man in the 1960's fasted for 382 days with doctor supervision. Went from 456lbs to 180lbs. After 5 years, his weight went up to just 195lbs. [Blog post on fasting]", 'Because you generally need more than just fat to fuel your body. Nutrients and all that jazz.Well they'd still get hungry and that triggers the instinc... |
Why do Asian people wear face masks when in Western countries? | In addition to not spreading illness, some women do it when they don't feel like/have time to put on makeup ", 'It is a combination of mild paranoia of getting sick, and respect for others by covering you mouth when you are sick. |
- Why if I own stock in a company and am literally a partial owner of that company I don't have a right to access all financial information of that company. | If you own stock of a public company, you have the right to get financial statements and quarterly and annual reports. Any public company is required to put out that information, and also to report other significant corporate events, good or bad. That information is all publicly available on the SEC's website - go to _... |
Why do expensive hotels have private wifi for sale while crappy motels have free wifi? | I work for a business hotel. Most of our guests are here for business or traveling for work. Since they're here on business, odds are they're not footing the bill for the room or wifi, so $15 a night doesn't mean anything to them and they are willing to pay, or more so have their employer pay. |
Why aren't cars made of steel or something stronger than aluminum so that the entire car, including the front, keeps its shape during crashes? | Cars used to be built that way. They injured people way more than today's cars. Cars now are designed to not only absorb the impact, but also divert the energy around and away from the passenger |
Obamacare to someone from the UK | In simple terms, It's a law that mandates people have a healthcare plan that covers certain things. I know it can be explained much better than this, and I left some out, but that's the nutshell.This is a very short description, but should avoid most biased & politicized views: Its a semi-reconstruction of the insuranc... |
Why do Xbox One/PS4 games need to be installed to the hard drive, but every console before this generation you could just put in a game and play. | My suspicion is that some future versions of the consoles may not come with a bluray disk drive and become download only, thus they are requiring game developers to not need a bluray drive to play the game . I definitely agree that loading from hard drive is faster and gains the game more performance, but it doesn't ex... |
Why in open world games does the terrain around me look massive but it then only takes minutes to traverse what looks like it should take hours? | I don't have an answer, but I have a suggestion for maybe finding one: look for a video of someone noclipping and explore the actual dimensions of a mountain or other piece of terrain. You may find that they fooled you with perspective, or perhaps they used invisible walls and warping, so that the mountain you climb is... |
Why do doctors try to stop the swelling of an injury if the body's healing-reaction is to create swelling? What do we know that our bodies don't? | Can't speak for all cases but maybe I can clear your mind on some aspects of this. Usually when a doctor performs a surgery, he sews up whatever incisions he made, our bodies don't know this, and just know that there was a big incision and react accordingly, which is way more swelling than necessary. Therefore we take ... |
Why is the sex humans have so different from other species? | Most animals don't want to get eaten, so telling the whole jungle about being in a somewhat vulnerable position isn't the greatest idea for survival. Bonobos have the art of using sex as a social/bonding experience down better than humans do. Even more sex just for fun, a good deal of it homosexual. Not terribly noisy ... |
Why are dentists, optometrists, etc. not part of the "standard" medical community? In other words, why doesn't all insurance cover vision/dental? | I think it has more to do with the definition of insurance. Insurance is a form of risk management used to hedge against an uncertain loss. You get health insurance because you don't know when you're going to get sick or injured. The 'uncertain loss' in this case is an unforeseeable health condition. Insurance companie... |
How did the British empire handle its colonies more efficiently than the US handles Iraq/Afghanistan? | By not having 24 hour news channels. And racism, lots of racism. When the locals got out of line, they'd bring out the army and start shooting. Back home, no one really knew about it or cared about brown people getting killing.Colonial Brits had a significant technological advantage over the natives at the time. Guns, ... |
Why is it still so expensive to call internationally, when i can download free apps and do it for free? | The real reason: because they can. It's why right now data is expensive, 10 years ago texts were expensive, 20 years ago calls were expensive. Each time there is an explanation why you're not being robbed, then prices magically drop when the next big thing hits. The telecomms always find some way to squeeze you |
How is "Paying off the National debt" possible if the national debt is sold as bonds? | Historically, the US has rarely run a budget surplus. Government debt is generally measured as a fraction of GDP and contrary to popular belief, govenments generally don't reduce national debt by paying off the principle. Instead, most western countries have managed their debt by running a deficit percentage smaller th... |
Why IS the underside of the pillow always cooler? | There are two sides to the pillow. One of them hasn't had your face heating it for a while, and the other has. |
how do architects or engineers account for the weight of everything that people may bring in apartments/offices, so that the building doesn't fall apart from the accumulated weight? | There are standards for various uses - car parks, retail, residential, concert venues, etc that differ from country to country and take into account a number of factors. You would need to take a serious amount of extremely heavy furniture to even start making the structure stress. I once worked on the design of a shopp... |
Why is your brain so bad at using your non-dominant hand? | It's not that you're bad at using your non-dominant hand, it's that you're really good at using the dominant hand. When you were five years old and just learning to write, you were terrible. But over the years you've written a lot and gotten more and more practiced. You've built up the muscle memory for how to draw all... |
why would OPEC reduce oil production to "support" the low/falling oil price? | It might roughly cancel out today, but they have a fixed and limited amount of oil to sell. Reducing production now means that they'll have more oil left to sell at a higher price later, increasing revenue in the long term. |
Why does it take a year to produce a 2-hour-long movie when it takes the same amount of time to produce a 12-hour-long season of a T.V. show? | TV series seasons are shot a bit like a really, really long movie. You only need to find the crew and do the planning, casting, find locations, create sets, props, wardrobe and do various other things once. These kind of one-off things form a very big portion of the budget and time that goes into a production. It doesn... |
How did Unidan (and other people) get caught manipulating votes? | Whenever you access a website, you IP address gets logged on the website's server. Reddit's admins can see those logs, so they can tell which user used which IP address to connect to the website. So when two users have the same IP address, there's a chance that they're the same person . So I guess reddit admins saw tha... |
How does colour work? | blue", and "red" in quotes is because the second part of color is based in how it's perceived. Human can perceive wavelengths of light from ~450 nanometers blue to ~700 nm red. So wavelengths in this range are often called "visible" light. However, other animals, see a different range of wavelengths. Honey bees, for ex... |
If an average human can hold their breath for around 2 minutes, why do MMA fighters tap out after like 5 seconds when they get in a choke hold. | Well, two things to think about. One, MMA is exhausting. By the time you're in the chokehold, you're already out of breath, and also being choked is incredibly uncomfortable. Also, you may have seen guys who pass out pretty much immediately, that's more often the result of the blood supply being cut off. |
Why don't we like Comcast? | Because they are allowed to have de facto monopolies on local television and internet markets. In the total absence of competition they are free to ignore consumer complaints and wishes and charge a non-competitive price for their service. Comcast does not allow single-channel subscription that most people would prefer... |
Why is menstruation historically unclean/impure in many religions | The thing I'd like to see is how menstruation is treated in a woman empowered/matriarchal religion, anyone got any info? I'm betting the attitude is quite different. The dominant world religions and most religions currently extant do not fall into that category. For the inevitable comments below about smell, I'm sure e... |
Why are western nations criticised if they don't take in refugees, but others aren't? | I can think of two obvious reasons: 1. we are practically right next door to where the refugees are coming from. The refugees are trying to get to Europe and we have to deal with that. They're not trying to get to Japan.2. People criticize their own countries first and foremost. As a citizen of a European country, I ha... |
Why do all of the east Asian ethnicities seem to hate each other? | Japan invaded and occupied huge swaths of east and southeast Asia before and during WWII, and, as others have noted, viciously brutalized enemy combatants and civilians alike. People who lived through these events are now quite elderly, but certainly most Koreans over 40 grew up with parents or grandparents who suffere... |
Why did Reddit shut down r/TheFappening but leaves some truly disgusting subs up? | Enough people complained about *the fappening*. It probably falls under the remit of Revenge Porn legislation too. As for the various other repulsive subreddits, not entirely sure why they're tolerated. |
Why do Storm Troopers have masks and armour when they're obviously useless? | Maybe the armor isn't useless; maybe all the stormtroopers that got shot while wearing that armor aren't dead but really badly injured; they WOULD'VE been dead had they not been wearing it; we just don't know this because the original trilogy never had any scenes showing Darth Vader visiting the troops in hospital and ... |
Why do people "bounce" or "shake" their legs when sitting down? | To circulate blood that pooled down there, due to inactivity, back up using the leg's pump mechanism that works when the leg is active. |
Why are places like Japan experiencing extreme heatwaves of 40-45 degrees celcius while equatorial areas such as Malaysia and Indonesia are not experiencing such high temperatures even though they are closer to the equator? | Its a heat bubble, the Midwestern United States had a bad one 5-7 years ago with averages of 35-40°C in some places for over a week. It's a possible outcome when high pressure systems meet. One will pass over the other, pushing it down to the surface. You end up with a stagnant localized heat wave that takes forever to... |
Why can't we just eat pills for all the necessary nutrients daily and bare minimum carbs? Will we survive if we do just that? | Some of the necessary nutrients would be macronutrients to provide energy, like carbohydrate, protein and fat. You'd need such a large volume of pills to provide these that it would start to feel like you're just eating food. You could eat rice and beans, those are both kind of pill shaped sources of carbohydrate and p... |
How exactly does radioactivity cause damage to the human body, and how do the symptoms result? | I think the simplest explanation is that it causes cell destruction and death. A sunburn is radiation damage. But it's not deadly usually , because it is limited to the surface of the skin, and the cells can repair themselves. When it comes to fatal radiation exposure the damage is just so overwhelming that the body ca... |
Why is is that many people are pushing to get mankind to colonize other planets, when are own uninhabited oceans are such a huge percentage of our own planet and so accessible | 'Twas oft asked here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [Will we ever colonize our solar system? ]1. [ELI5: Why are we trying to colonize Mars? ]1. [ELI5: Why colonize Mars? Wouldn't it be more efficient to fix things on planet Earth? ]1. [ELI5: Why are there people talking about colonizing Mars when we haven't even built a singl... |
How come there are no ad blockers for non-rooted mobile devices? | Companies make money off of you seeing ads. They don't want you to be able to block them. Rooting gives you full access to the device so you can remove the protection that they put on.With iOS 9, users of Apple mobile devices can install ad blockers from the App Store without using unofficial hacks. |
Why do secret service wear suits and ties when if they need to run, move quickly, or do anything else that seems like the most restrictive attire? | As someone who has stood embassy duty and worked a suit detail you have the suit tailored much differently, you're going to have a larger jacket and pleated pants to allow for more movement and easier concealment of weapons, you're also going to wear rubber soled shoes and clip on ties for running and fights. Also as m... |
Does the president even have the power to gag employees of federal agencies and the agencies themselves? Don't we pay for their research, expertise, and information? | The research is owned by taxpayers. How those results are distributed and publicized is also controlled by the taxpayers through the executive branch. For an easy to understand example, consider DARPA. They are making secret weapons technologies every day. There are great computing and navigation innovations made under... |
Why won't China let Tibet be an independent country? | Why won't the US let iraq//syria/libya/iran/pakistan/afghanistan/some of the indian tribes with land claims be independent countries? Powerful people project their interests into the affairs of weaker peoples. You would do it too if you had the power. |
Why is it more acceptable to reject someone because of their height than it is to reject because of weight? | It might be relevant to point out that height is controlled more by genetics than weight is. If you are significantly obese and choose to live a destructive and unhealthy lifestyle it's no surprise that you're often seen less attractively. |
Why is that some electrical devices like computers need big "blocks" in their power cords, while other devices like a my lamp has a straight cord? | I'm not sure if you mean the power transformers others are talking about or the round slugs near the end you plug into your computer. The round slugs are ferrite filters and reduce voltage spikes on the DC. I'm not sure if they help even-out DC ripple. It's been a while since school. Lamps and other AC appliances all u... |
Is learning English by a chinese person as hard as an english person learning Chinese language? | I'd say for daily use learning , living language, Chinese is probably a little easier. That's almost exclusively because their grammar and pronounciation is easier than English. In Chinese, you pronounce a word precisely as it's written with no exceptions. Trying to learn English is a nightmare for a foreigner because ... |
How does a can of diet Coca Cola have zero calories compared to a regular can of Coca Cola, which has 150 calories? | The artificial sweetener in diet sodas isn't a carbohydrate like sugar, but rather a sweet-tasting chemical. A typical stick of gum has sugar or sugar alcohol in a very small quantity. |
Why is the media so biased against Ron Paul? | I reject the premise of your question is that the media is biased. They don't write him off as a racist, theocratic, fascist loon. They actually give him attention and write about him. So actually I guess they are biased - in his favor.While he is participating in the Republican primaries, he is a Libertarian with sign... |
How do mass evacuations work logistically? | I am currently in West Palm Beach, Florida. Everything south of us has been ordered to evacuate, but as the above redditors have suggested, it's not as easy as that. The news has whipped people into a frenzy so badly that 90% of gas stations in south Florida have run out of gas. Mix that in with people trying to drive ... |
Why do Americans not trust their police? | Reddit is representative of younger redditors, who base their perceptions of the world from what they are shown on news and social media. Older redditors tend to base their perceptions on their environment and personal experiences. If you polled reddit right now, you'd probably get like 50% trust police in general, 25%... |
Why does viruses and bacterias kill their host if they need it to survive? | An interesting way to look at this question is to ask why do humans destroy their environment if they need it to survive? Bacteria and viruses don't consciously weaken the host organism. They just find themselves in an environment suitable for sustaining life and reproducing and mindlessly consume resources until eithe... |
Why did so many stand up to SOPA and PIPA but recent Net Neutrality concerns seem to be ignored on Reddit? | Desensitization. They'll keep pushing until we're so used to seeing it that we don't pay any attention or make a fuss any more. Typical politics.Burnout, there is only so many times we can get fucked over and continue to get outraged about it.I'm surprised no one has mentioned internet fatigue yet. I think that is the ... |
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