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why my pee always smells like Honey Smacks cereal?
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I noticed this exact same phenomenon a couple years ago. I literally commented to my friends that it smelled like Honey-smacks. I ignored it, haven't noticed it for a while, and don't have diabetes.
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Why can animals eat all sorts of crazy things (grass, rotting flesh, their own shit) but we have to eat things that are cleaner/healthier/cooked?
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Each example has a different reason, but OP seems to be focused on dogs diets. So, first of all, Dogs are basically retarded, inbred wolves, that don't have a diet anywhere near that of a wild animal, so they are a bad representation of the animal kingdom. Grass: Plenty of animals eat grass, cellulose is a common food additive. It won't make you sick, but you'r body can't digest it. Rotting flesh: Usually edible for humans if it hasn't been contaminated with fecal matter. Most meat is better/more tender after some decomposition. Think dry aging. Tribes in the Amazon regularly consume rancid meat after hunting trips that has been transported for days in equatorial heat. Eating shit: Can be sign of illness or vitamin deficiency. Dogs also have a very strong digestive systems compared to, say an herbivore. There aren't many animals that eat shit. Finally, Humans have evolved to eat cooked foods. Our gut flora is based on what we eat throughout our lives and can probably handle more dirty food than we eat. If you've ever traveled to a country with poor sanitation, you may notice a marked change in your digestive system, while people who live there are fine. We can probably handle far more dirty food than we eat.
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When an individual loses a multi-million dollar lawsuit against them and they don't actually have that amount of money, what happens?
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After reading through most of the thread, and of course having read and heard the news over the last decade+.. fundamentally civil law needs a cheaper, more direct method to hold someone personally responsible for their decisions in a business environment. Frankly it's bullshit that corporate or bank executives, school directors, or police officers can commit blatantly obvious crimes and their employers or the taxpayer end up footing the fine while they walk away with a golden parachute, or paid vacation.If the defendant owns a house or land, it cannot be sold because it's title is "encumbered" by that multi-million dollar judgement. When the defendant dies the house or land will be auctioned by the probate court and the proceeds of the sale given to the plaintiff or the plaintiff's legal heirKind of on topic, but if you own a business, say an LLC and you are sued personally, can they take your business. I know an LLC is meant to protect your personally from a business related lawsuit, but does it also work the other way round?
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How can insects survive such high falls relative to their size?
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Ever heard the idiom, 'The bigger they are, the harder they fall'? Ants are much lighter - they have much less mass than humans. That means much less momentum that their bodies have to absorb when they hit the ground. Insects also tend to be very sturdy for their size - they can shrug off forces that would destroy a human's bones.
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We now have terabyte SSD hard drives on laptops. That's amazing. Why is memory still limited to 4-8 frustrating little GB on most computers?
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The two types of memory are different in design and manufacture with different methods and tolerances in manufacture. System RAM is constantly changing and needs to operate reliably with many changes. Non-volatile RAM in an SSD has to preserve it's state when there's no power applied, so the physical design is different - and an unfortunate part of the bargain is that the locations in memory can only be written to a certain number of times before they wear out. If the RAM used in SSDs was used for system RAM, not only would it be much slower, but it would wear out quickly. The cost of the RAM chips is dependent not just on the capacity of the chips, but also the materials and manufacturing tolerances that have to be applied to them in order to yield a product suitable for the purposes for which they are designed. The cost per gigabyte of manufacturing high performance DRAM, and SRAM is much higher than that of Flash memory.
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Why should corporations pay taxes?
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Honestly, part of the reason why may be the pragmatic effect on societies. I don't think that unless you're an absolute believer in the power of the free market that most people would want corporations or companies to be totally unlimited, due to the effect is has on the people: see instances like foxconn in china where the workers are more or less indentured servants due to their economic circumstances. Corporation taxes benefit workers. Taxes are a good way of checking the power of individuals and empowering the government. While that may seem like a bad thing, where unchecked power could be harmful it is probably better to do so. Also, societies benefit from taxes, in the way of social programmes which go back to the people. All in all, I think there's a greater social good springing from corporation taxes than the 'evil' of tax which is imposed.
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Wouldn't Venus be an easier planet to terraform than Mars?
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It's not only the problem of the atmosphere. Venus is covered with a metric fuck ton of volcanoes. It has been estimated that 65% of the land area of Venus is [Lava plains]. This will make surface colonies insanely difficult for multiple reasons.
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Do non-human animals that mate for life actually fall in love, or is it just instinct that they stay together?
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Bonding chemical called oxytocin which causes animals to be monogamous and invest in couples rearing of young. They would not hold our definition of 'love' with the flowers and the dating and awful jokes. The oxytocin tells them that it's probably safer and more genetically responsible to stay together.
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What my intellectually insecure High School classmate is trying to get across in this Facebook comment
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He is also wrong that public scientific literacy is declining. Whereas in years past we had a significant proportion of the population that didn't go to school, thus didn't count. Now we count everybody. The same problem exist when we are compared to certain other countries. Even if it has declined somewhat in the short term we still have a much larger number of people who are highly literate in science than any time in history. Science has always been something of interest primarily to the minority and always will be.I think he's trying to say that once we no longer had to worry about anything eating us.. being on top of the food chain.. trying to find out why this works.. why that works.. Will that kill us? etc People became complacent. They let "the scientists" worry about it. They don't care to learn anything because someone will tell them what to think. but that's my opinion of it.He's just being a pretentious twat waddle. He thinks his belief in science makes him superior to the ignorant masses. because HS science classes are *really* advanced.
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Why is athletic wear made of polyester when people advise never to wear polyester when traveling in hot and humid countries?
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I wasn't aware that was advice. Maybe tighter knit polyester, like a dress shirt? Polyester and merino wool are really the standards in warmer climates. Blends of the two work the best. Polyester definitely traps odor more, though. Maybe that's the issue they're concerned with? Cotton is terrible in any excessively warm or cold climate, though. It doesn't wick moisture, but it doesn't keep its loft when wet either. This means that in warm climates your clothes will be soaked with sweat and won't be cooling you off as well as they could be, while in cold climates your clothes will retain moisture. You'll sweat while you're active, and as soon as your activity level drops your wet clothes will just be leeching body heat away from you. Wool and polyester are the most versatile fabrics, though. Definitely don't pack cotton for a long trip in a hot place. Source: The Army sends me to both extremely hot and extremely cold places.The polyester in athletic wear is very thin and is designed to wick moisture away from your body, doing a better job at this than cotton. Ordinary polyester fabric is thick and traps the moisture next to your body.I don't know where you are travelling to but I know that people travelling in cold climates use wool because wool maintains its insulating property even when wet.
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If swelling is the body's natural reaction to an injury to help heal it, why do try to stop the process with ice and anti-inflammatory drugs?
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the anti-inflammatory drugs effect is minimal really. If you only take those medicines when the pain is overwhelming, which is how youre supposed to take it, there's little negative effect. Whats way worse is the stress caused by being in pain and worrying abut being in pain. Thats far worse for your body than the anti-inflammatory medicines. In other cases, the injury might have such a relatively long healing time that the amount anti-inflammatory drugs suppress is basically meaningless.
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Why are rubber ducks such a staple in our culture?
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I think it's from like last century or whatever, I'm thinking during WWII or the 50's or something and it's just become a trope since.
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How do martial artists break concrete with their bare hands?
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It's a trick. Anyone can break boards or concrete with a little practice. The concrete is just the right thickness and set up to maximize leverage. Once you know the concrete will give, you can hit it as hard as you want and not have to worry about breaking your hand.
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What is it about Scandinavia that caused it's particular development of social-democracy?
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I'm Scandinavian myself and I have no idea what the answer to this question might be.I put it down to education, more than anything else. And the general agreement that “the state is me”. Education is free for all. There are no private schools to speak off so the population gets the same education, at the same schools, not matter what your background is. In recent years there are indicators that 2nd generation immigrants, are getting left behind, dropping our of school. To battle this there has been some effort to make it mandatory to pass a language test to get citizenshipI found [this] school essay about the subject. Seems like workers got good at organizing themselves and creating unions. They later got inspired by Marx and went forward to the Socialims we have today. The bad conditions during this time period and the feeling of being stuck in them meant that the workers developed a strong communityYou add the ELI5 tag by typing it when you create the post & #3232; _ & #3232;
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Official ELI5 Margaret Thatcher Thread
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Can someone explain the significance of the milk in schools? I've grown up in Australia and have never encountered this concept so I'm assuming the context is to do with the time Thatcher was in office?", 'She was also in power when the incredibly homophobic Section 2A was added to Section 28 of the Local Government Act which stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". This amendment lasted 15 yearsShe was a strong center-right figure in British politics. She angered a lot of people on the left due to her sweeping economic reforms . Imagine how the Tea Party reacted to Obamacare in the US and just switch the sides to get a good picture of how the British Left views Thatcher.Not a lot of people know this but Thatcher and her husband Denis were able to allow the export of nerve gas starters to Iran and Iraq,ostensibly for the manufacture of insecticides, they were actually used to make Sarin.So, the hunt for so called WMD's, which they never found, were used as the excuse for the us/uk warmongering which followed.She should have stuck to making Mr Whippy icecream,she was good at that.Mod get it right please UK Prime Minister Not "English"Anybody care to comment on 80's politics in general? I see a lot of Thatcher comments also mentioning Reagan, Mandela, and Castro. I'm a science geek, and as a result, growing up in the 70's and 80's I knew even less than most kids my age about politics in general. I 've since read a lot more about Reagan , but seem to be missing the "big picture". Thanks!', "As an 18 year old, I have no understanding of her actions and therefore no opinion. Ultimately, were her actions beneficial for the country's progression? What are the possible outcomes if that decision was not made, to de-industrialize the country.
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How do those 'We'll buy your house with cash today' companies work?
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Some are flipping houses, some just buy them to turn around and relist. Basically they offer to buy your house, knowing that they'll resell it to someone that may not be able to get traditional financing. They'll almost never give you your full asking price unless they have someone ready to go. Sometimes it's an agreement to let someone assume your mortgage. You get full asking price if your full asking price was getting out of the house and letting someone take over your house payment so you don't suffer a foreclosure.
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Where does all of the food coloring go after I eat it?
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Some food coloring chemicals/natural food colors are broken down by digestive enzymes, some are not. Example: beets and blue corn chips = respective red and blue shades of poo . Others, like the ones you find in your skittles, get the ole' enzymatic karate chop.Have you ever looked at your shit after you ate beets?your poop doesn't really work like a white canvas does it? try adding little bits or color to chocolate pudding and you'll get the point. Anyhow, not all food coloring/color in food are made of the same group of chemicals, a pigment is simply something that can color a food, think berry juice, carrot juice, etc. They have anthocyanidins and carotene and they are absorbed into the body. so no not all "food coloring" makes it into your poop! But too many carrots can dye your skin yellow. _URL_0_
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Why does the U.S. still maintain an embargo on Cuba?
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What is ignored In the over-simplified panty-waist answers is that Castro confiscated all American owned land in Cuba. Private homes, sugar plantations, tobacco farms. All taken with no remuneration. Since Castro wouldn't negotiate at all, naked up by his Soviet allies, the US then instituted the embargo so Castro wouldn't profit from America on the things he stole from our citizens. The embargo on Cuba doesnt hurt the US at all. The fact that a brutal dictator won't negotiate for the betterment of his own people is an indictment of the Castro regime, not of the US.
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How and why do people create viruses?
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There are essentially two motivations: - Showing off one's skills. To oneself, or making one's pseudonym big, or to leave off an effect of one's doing on the IT collective mind. - Money. Viruses can do a bunch of things that can be monetized. Access private information that will enable to sell people's identities or credit cards, or silently hosting profitable but illegal services on random people's machines. Also plain old simple forced advertising or scamwares.How else: making a malicious scriptAnd to show they can, or gain some value from it.
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Why you shouldn't fill up your gas tank while the tanker truck is filling up the gasoline storage tanks?
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I worked in a chain convenience store and we were supposed to not let anyone fill up while the truck was pumping in fuel and for a little while afterward, but every other gas station does it so we didn't prevent anyone from doing it. It wasn't my decision, and I doubt it was the manager's decision either.
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How can Animal Keepers get really close to animals like Tigers or Lions and not be killed?
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Animal keeper here. When I first worked with lions, for example, the females were quite fine and docile but the male was incredibly aggressive, attacking the fence and growling . After a while, he mellowed out with me once he got to know me. The females would even purr and face rub their face against the fence, however we were very hands off and didn't get so close as maybe 2 metres away.
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What is common core and is it helping our education system?
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Jury is still out. You'll get different answers depending on what subject a person teaches if you ask teachers. Before I decided against going into teaching most English teachers bemoaned the idea of having to teach a more technical writing style that took focus away from literature and creative writing. No idea whether that has ended up happening with the adoption of Common Core, but if so it's a major drawback.
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Why diesel engine cannot run on petrol?
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Diesel engines use the heat from compression to ignite the fuel. The problem with gasoline vs. diesel in this scenario is gasoline is far, far more volatile, and it burns too quickly. The charge would ignite before the piston reached top dead center, and burn completely. That means the engine is still compressing a cylinder full of hot, expanding gasses. The engine wasn't designed for this, the pressure is supposed to be relieved by being in a position where the piston can be depressed. With nowhere else to go, the pressure would blow past the piston rings and into the crankcase. In a gasoline engine, the diesel fuel is basically a thin oil. It'll burn, probably, but it would be sooty, slow, smoky, and clog up the valves and injectors, and foul the spark plug. Since you're dumping still-burning fuel down the exhaust port, it'll burn off the exhaust valve and cause damage to the manifold and your emissions systems.As obevo - but petrol on a diesel would cause knock and damage the internals because the compression ratio in a diesel is MUCH higher. In older diesels, it would work in newers too, all the taxi drivers did around 5-10% petrol in their diesels for better fuel economy and cleaner combustion.The diesel particle filter hasnt had to be burned free as often , tooActually neither of them burn liquid fuel as you would with a camping stove or whatever, they explode fuel vapor. Because getting it to explode at the right time is critical the engine construction only works right with the fuel it is designed for. Putting in the wrong fuel will cause it to not explode or explode too early and potentially damage the engine.
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Why do some people's second toe extend further out than their big toe?
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did anyone else notice that this occurs way more for women than men? I've seen some gorgeous women, then look down and see their second toe just reeeeaching out of their flip flops like its trying to go for a walk by itself
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What would it mean to Canada if Quebec seceded?
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I wouldn't have to flip the box over and over looking for English every time I need to find cooking instructions.Would the rest of Canada go back to officially monolingual?
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why can't you just hook up an alternator to the drive shaft or something of an electric car and charge it while you're driving?
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Same reason why perpetual motion machines don't work. Cars already do this. We would drain more energy than we charge because energy is lost to the environment in the form of heat and work .
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Why is the House GOP suing the president? What are realistic ramifications of this lawsuit?
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So that they can use the suit to help them fundraise. It won't go anywhere", 'From a legal standpoint, the suit will go exactly nowhere. Republicans believe that the suit will help them politically. They can show their base that they're doing something to fight Obama and the Democrats, and use the suit as a prop to argue to moderates that Obama is overstepping his authority. Democrats hope that moderates will instead see the suit as time-wasting political theater, and that their own base will see the suit as a political "dirty trick" and rally in support of the party. "The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully."
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What the hell does "child bearing hips" actually mean?
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It's saying that a woman has wide hips that will make child birth easier. But more than that it's an old fashioned term meant to imply someone is suitable breeding stock, it's usually said in a tongue and cheek manner because it has sexist conataitons.Wider hips that make the birth canal easily passable by the newborn. Women with narrow hips tend to have issues birthing children naturally, where women with wider “child bearing” hips tend to have less complications.
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Why are injured horses put down instead of looked after and healed?
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The costs aren't worth it. Often times when a horse breaks a leg, it can be healed, the problem is that it takes a long time, the horse will be bed ridden for much of that time, and there will be lots of physio therapy in order to get the horse running again. And even then, that leg is always going to be at risk for another break, it rarely heals perfectly, this often leaves a limp or lame horse, and the cost of the healing process is just too high. In the end it's easier to put the horse down and send it to the butcher. That being said, there are farms that specialize in injured horses and often use them for therapy with people. These often include troubled children, the developmentally challenged, etc who relate to these horses and find a hobby and possibly a way to a trade.
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Why aren't guitar frets evenly spaced?
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The notes in western equal temperament scales can be thought of as fractions. If 1 is the whole string then 1/2 of 1 is the same note but at twice the frequency. This is the 12th fret. IE You hit the E string and it's E. Fret the 12th fret on E string and it's also E but an octave higher because the 12th fret cleanly divided the E string in half, making it vibrate exactly twice as fast. As you work your way down the guitar neck towards the bottom of the strings, the distances involved get smaller and smaller, there for the intervals get smaller and smaller as well. In other words take a 2 foot long string and divide it into 12 notes and those divisions will be farther apart than trying to do the same to a 1 foot string. If the fret board kept going all the way to the bottom of the guitar, eventually the frets would be so close together that your fingers would be too large to fret properly.
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why am I such a deep sleeper?
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I heard once that infants raised around constant noise turn into heavy sleepers and the type that can sleep on airplanes and buses and stuff, whereas those raised in fairly quiet environments get used to it and can only sleep lightly. This may be amazingly useful truth, or it may be someone's wild-ass-guess that's just getting passed around.
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why does a bottled water cost more than a 16 ounce beer if beer contains tap water (which is what most bottled water is) and more ingredients than water.
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Where is this? I've never seen it. At my local stores, the most costly I've seen water is for a dollar per bottle. Unless of course it is distilled or reverse osmosis, which means that most of the impurities have been removed.
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what would happen to a person being turned upside down indefinitely? What is happening inside the body?
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NASA was pretty sure they knew, but they had to do some long term experiments to check their ideas. The blood goes to your head and upper abdomen, and less of it is in your legs. if a person were upside down, the blood would pool at the lowest point, their head. Perhaps not in the brain, but in the face, lips, nose, definitely. The blood in the legs would have to overcome gravity on the high pressure side of the artery instead of the low pressure side of the vein. I would imagine that this would lead to serious circulation problems. Veins have little one way valves in them that lets the blood flow in one direction. It's one of the reasons why blood in your feet can be pumped back up to your heart without much work. The heart only has to move a small amount of it up per beat, and the one way valves close and keep it from draining back into your feet. Without these valves, the blood would move up with each pulse, but fall back down in between beats. This causes edema or swelling in the tissue. Perhaps a vascular surgeon could tell us more about the arterial side of it because I don't know that arteries have one way valves the way veins do. If you're right side up the blood can easily travel down your leg without much help, and then when it's coming back up fighting gravity, the veins help keep the blood from going backwards. But if you're upside down, the hard part would be getting the blood to go up your legs, and then coming back to the heart would be easy because of gravity.All your blood will gather in your head.After about 8-10hours you will be so sleepy that you never wake up. You might get sleepy much earlier.I don't have the answer per say, but fun fact: After a while your brain might flip your vision so you see right side up. _URL_0_
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What would happen if I ate one of those "do not eat" packets found in certain food packages?
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Are you talking about Silica Gel packets? If so, nothing really would happen. They aren't toxic, they just aren't food hence the 'do no eat.' It would pass through your digestive tract. If you're talking about some other kind of packet, that would depend on what was in that packet.
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How do movies that turn out extremely terrible get a massive budget, without them realizing it's going to be a bad movie and a huge loss?
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Because a lot of bad movies make massive profits, and a lot of good movies don't. The Transformers franchise, which I think everyone agrees are just shitty movies, have to date earned about 3.7B on a 1B budget. Or take the recent King Arthur film - good director, good cast, sword-and-sorcery theme that should appeal to GoT fans - has been both a critical and box-office bomb. And there are lots of films that bombed at the box office that then turned out to have long, profitable 2nd lives via rental/cable/streaming.
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How can guitar players still have the finger dexterity to play well when they are drunk? MIC
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Guitarist here. I've been playing for 8 years and it's all muscle memory. I can play a song I've know for years perfectly fine under the influence, but in comparison if I had learned a piece earlier in the day, it would be near impossible because I'd be more focused on trying to remember it than knowing it absolutely.
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Why is Stephen hawking so important?
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Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people saying he's only famous because he's cripple ? ELI5: Why do people think Stephen Hawking didn't deserve his fame?
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Why do governments bail out their banks instead of just letting them go under?
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How did that work the last time we tried it? Pretty sure it didn't work at all. Bailing them out isn't ideal, but it's better than the alternative.Always wondered this as well. Seemed like it goes against everything capitalism stands for. But I also learned today I should start a bank
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Why does beer taste better when it's cold?
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As beer warms up, you can taste more of the individual ingredients more clearly. A lot of popular, mainstream beers are designed to be as bland and mass-appealing as possible, and as such are advertised as something you should drink cold so you can't really taste them well. It's why complex, hobbyist-style real ales and the like tend to be drunk warmer as a lot of time and effort goes into crafting a real taste, instead of relying on the cold to mask a lack of taste.
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Are there likely to be any long-term effects from repeatedly having just four to five hours sleep each night?
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Sleep is very important for several reasons: maintaining homeostasis, hormonal regulation, growth and recovery, immune system function, memory consolidation, and axonal sprouting in the brain . Also, when sleeping your heart rate decreases and stays at a lower rate than when awake and active, which gives it a bit of a break. Over time the additional stress on your heart can lead to increase chance of stroke and heart attack from simply overworking your heart over time. This is one specific example of giving a particular system of your body rest, but research is begining to show it holds true for other bodily systems as well. I used to work in a lab that does research on sleep and neuroplasticity. It's not to hard to find good evidence about this benefits of sleep, but here's a little something to dismiss the people saying if you feel fine after 5hrs of sleep you're good to go _URL_3URL_0URL_2URL_1_
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Why is there such an emphasis for higher education?
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I don't know, I think there should be more of a push to either go to get a degree in engineering or medicine or just to straight up not go.
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Why is having a steak well done generally frowned upon?
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I'm a waitress and anytime someone orders a steak well done, I know they will probably tip bad :( it tends to go hand-in-hand. And when they ask for ketchup with their steak, I officially know it's over.A well done steak when compared to a rare or medium-rare is much less tender, less moist, and has far less flavor.I'll change my steak eating ways from now on then guys, cheers", 'It destroys the texture and flavor of the meat.
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How are knockoff brand of cereal and Oreos legal when they clearly rip off a specific brand
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Oreo would have to go to court to enforce it. Considering the knock offs probably don't cost them a fuckload in lost sales, where as court is expensive, it isn't worth it.
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Why does food that tasted awesome as a kid (sugary cereal, Chef Boyardee) taste awful as an adult?
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I don't know about specific taste differences between children and adults , but I can tell you a bit about taste in general. We all have a couple hundred genes for taste receptors. Only a number of them are active at the same time, and we sort of rotate them around. As a result, our taste changes and something that was delicious last year might not be so enjoyable anymore today. Or you might start craving for something you haven't eaten in years. As you gain more experience with different flavours and ingredients, you start to remember and recognize them. You might start to appreciate more subtle flavours that were wasted on you as a child. Simply put, your taste has changed over the years, and will continue to do so. Maybe one day, you will be binging on chef boyardee again. Who knows.
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- Exit numbers and mile markers
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Highway exits used to be sequential instead of by mile marker. Near where I live, there's an exit at mile 1, mile 5, mile 8, mile 11, mile 15, and mile 18. Those exits used to be called Exit 1, Exit 2, Exit 3, Exit 4, Exit 5, and Exit 6. Which made sense. But who knew how many miles it was between exits? Now they're called Exit 1, Exit 5, Exit 8 and you know how far apart they are. And they don't go by fractions or decimals, so if there's an exit between mile 2 and mile 3, you have to make a decision, which number do we give it. Etc.
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If our bodies slowly begin to ignore constant external stimuli (Nueral Adaptation), then why does tinnitus exist?
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I'm curious about this too. I have heard that people take their lives if they're cursed with it. I would figure you would just learn to account for it or live with it. I had a friend who had it for a few days and he was going nuts.
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Why is there alot more hype and excitement for Star Wars Episode VII than there was for Episode I?
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There was a lot of hype for Episode I, but it didn't have the Disney Machine behind it. Disney is squeezing every last penny out of this thing right now. There were always advertisements and cross-promotions, but not to this degree. There's also a much greater sense of hope for redemption, after the last trilogy ", 'Episode I hype was an order of magnitude greater than this. > Employment consultant firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimated that 2.2 million full-time employees missed work to attend the film, resulting in a US$293 million loss of productivity. According to The Wall Street Journal, many workers announced plans to view the premiere that many companies closed on the opening day. Queue areas formed outside cinema theaters over a month before ticket sales began. _URL_0_
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The TV seasons in the US
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The new TV season usually starts in the fall after kids return to school. Summer is a time for family vacations and outdoor activities - not sitting indoors watching TV, so most shows don't air new episodes then. Weeks get skipped for all sorts of reasons. Weeks often get skipped for major sporting events or holidays. Shows that start mid-season are frequently replacements for ones that got cancelled for doing poorly. Other times, you have networks like AMC that just don't give a shit about the 'regular' network schedule & put things out whenever they feel like.
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Car breathalyzers. Why not inflate a balloon before drinking and then use that to start the car?
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Having served a period of time with an interlock device, this exact example is in one of their instructional videos that you have to watch at the court-mandated class. And no, it would never work. You have to sustain a pretty strong exhale for a few seconds until you hear a 'click' inside the device which means it received the correct amount of air.Would not work. No pressure to move that air through the device. You must be an alcoholic haha.
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What does it mean to an everyday person that we found water on Mars?
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I'm only surprised it such a small amount. Most if not all the water on earth is supposed to have been th result of meteor impact that originated from a blet of meteors that lies between Mars and Saturn. You would think that Mars should have more water on it than we do on earth. I think they have really only scratched the surface of a very dirty snowball.i told it to my friend. He was like: "Oh really? cool "
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Why can't we dump our garbage in a volcano to reduce landfil?
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Well, ignoring the fact that tossing all of that trash into a volcano would be essentially the same as burning it , there isn't that much need to deal with landfills at the moment. Modern landfills are well designed and don't have major effects on the surrounding ecosystem or ground water. The biggest issue is space - according to this we could put all of our trash in landfill and it would be about [1,000 acres of land] which seems like a lot until you realize that is only about 1.5 square miles. Virtually nothing at all.It will still create waste. Specifically I would be concerned then by what you were burning and what it released into the air - we use a lot of plastics and rubbers that you do not want to be burning, especially on a mass scaleMy answer for alot of things growing up was volcanoes. Like my professor asked everyone my sophomore year what would be your perfect murder. I said throw them in a volcano
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Why do colors disappear when you zoom in with a microscope?
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When things are really small they are smaller than the wavelengths of light. We can see them by bouncing electrons off of them but we don't know what color they are or if they even have color.
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How do American blind people tell the difference between different bank notes when they are all the same size?
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I delivered pizzas to a hotel one time, and there was some sort of blind persons' convention going on. One of the gentlemen had used a needle to punch holes in the bills, essentially creating his own braille. He didn't have the bills folded in any particular way, or keep the bills separated, but he knew exactly how much he handed me. I got back to the car, wondering how he knew how much he had handed me, and that's when I noticed the patterns punched into the bills. I thought it was pretty brilliant
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how are DVDs mass produced.
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They will make a glass master too, which involves making a glass version of the master disc as it will retain it's form much longer, so you can press more CDs. It helps when you imagine a CD as a series of pits bumps. Almost like 1's and 0's.. Very loosely. The laser on your cd/DVD player will read these pits and their depth as the reflective layer bounces back the laser which creates the bitstream. I did a Music Tech degree and covered all this stuff. I'm a little on the rusty side but if you have any questions about this please ask me and I'll do my best!
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Why did human toddlers evolve the need to put everything they can in their mouths? Wouldn't this risky and deadly trait be weeded out through evolution?
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One theory is that it helps expose the child's to many different types of bacteria so that the baby's immune system can adapt and grow stronger. it's the babies way if innoculating itself.
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why is human vision limited to 400 - 700 nm wavelengths?
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The atmosphere does not let all wavelengths of light through equally. Generally, the atmosphere is opaque to sunlight, except for [some windows of wavelengths]. The three major windows are: * [the optical window]* [the infrared window]* [the radio window] The infrared window is not a good candidate for human vision because how much of infrared light passes through the atmosphere depends greatly on local conditions The Sun produces more light in the optical window. Also, optical wavelengths are small enough to resolve smaller objects. This is why we use the optical spectrum. It doesn't really have to do with plants being green. It is also no coincidence we use radiowaves for omnidirectional communication. It's because the air is transparent to radiowaves, so we can just blast them out and not have to worry too much about the signal being lost.[It is the peak of the spectrum that is emitted by the sun.] We simply evolved to percieve the sunlight reflecting from our surroundings . We now use infrared cameras to see the low-frequency light other objects emit themselves. You could argue that it would be an advantage if we could percieve that with our eyes as well. However, the frequency difference between the sun and everyday objects is immense. Heat radiation also scales with the 4th power of temperature, so our eyes would need to be extremely sensitive, blinding us in normal daylight.
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If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into / what was there before it was created ?
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I was watching Cosmos and it was explained as if the planets are expanding outwards from a central point much like an elastic band does. What's scary is, they had a theory that if the elastic band theory was true, the planets would eventually reach a threshold and then begin to come crashing into the centre.
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Why did people in the revolutionary war just stand in lines and shoot each other?
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Actually i have a question on the tactics of that type of warfare. Wouldn't an army of archers be more effective than that?
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How do you perform CPR and give compressions to a person who has fractured his chest bones?
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They're gonna break anyways .I'm sure if the person was to survive which thank to Hollywood it's actually success is a hell if a lot lower than believed, they would probably rather wake up with a sore chest than not at all
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Why do asylum seekers spend all their savings, risking their lives to board a dangerous sea vessel to flee the country instead of just travelling by a conventional means?
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Asylum seekers have typically managed to piss off somebody very, very powerful. They may not have the required paperwork to leave their country or enter any other, and even if they do, travel personnel would have to take their life in their hands letting them leave the country - they want beef with these powerful people about as much as the asylum seekers do. So, like a woman looking for an abortion in rural Nebraska, they take what they can get - sometimes its on a smuggler's prop jet, other times its on a leaking raft in the middle of the ocean. It's not ideal but it beats ending up a political prisoner.
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What is going on with my body while I stand near a working microwave and why do I feel weird?
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Maybe you are sexually attracted to your microwave? I feel the same way around lamp posts. Ooh I'm getting hot just thinking about it!
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Why do bilingual people switch languages in the middle of a conversation with another bilingual person?
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Some words do not translate well or at all from one language to another. If I'm upset or am in a hurry, I do not translate well from my primary language, so a few words slip in here and there.Depending on who is around, there might be things that the speakers don't want their audience to understand. That doesn't always mean they are badmouthing those around them, but it could just be personal subjects, like "girl-talk" or the like
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What is happening to the body/brain of a person who has taken a dose of LSD? How does LSD cause hallucinations?
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I took acid with my girlfriend before, it was around my 3rd time of doing it she had never done it before. Anyway i was laid on my bed and she went to the toilet, and I noticed that a shadow on my wall looked and FELT like a fucking angel was there gazing down at me. It blew me the fuck away, I was sat there gobsmacked and she came back from the toilet like wtf is wrong with you, I explained and she laid next to me and saw EXACTLY what I was on about, we both sat there blown away for about half an hour by this fucking angel thing on the wall, the mad thing about it was it wasn't just looking like an angel it literally filled the room with a powerful energy it was really quite something. I am a complete atheist but this is the closest thing I have ever come to a religious experience
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Why are things such as Black History Month, the NAACP and Bet Awards, or any other minority specific groups/events exist, but ones exclusively for whites are considered racist?
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Because any of them that actually *have* been formed actually *were* racist? I can't say that's 100% true, but I'm gonna say it proooooobably is. Now the whole idea just has bad vibes, man.
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Why do treads on a tire increase traction? Without treads, isn't the same around of pressure applied by the vehicle to the road?
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Everyone in here is mentioning how tread helps with wet roads, but tread also helps deal with debris on dry roads. Roads are often littered with dirt, sand, gravel, leaves, etc. For this reason, as well as rain and snow, you need tread on your car's tires. Race tracks are swept clean which allows the race cars to have reliable contact wth the track, allowing effective use of treadles tires.On dry roads treads decrease traction, more rubber in contact with the road means more friction. You will see a lot of race cars with slick tyres for this reason. On wet roads however slick tyres are unable to shift the water and the result is that a car aquaplanes when a layer of water builds up between the tyre and the road. In this case tread increases tractionFrom my understanding, treads decrease overall traction on flat, road surfaces. Tread is good for rain and snow as the treads give the rain/snow/mud room to move to and the treads will dig through to the road to get traction. This is why race car tires have 0 treads for maximum road grip. ', "Treads reduce traction, which is why race cars have perfectly smooth tires. However treads let water leave the tire's path, which is why normal cars can drive on a rainy day while race cars can't. Treads trade off a bit of traction for a ton of safety, which is a lot more important than going quickly.Sure, but not at the same angle. And what about water or sand? Treads give that somewhere to go without pushing the tire off the road surface.
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why the two presidential term limit for americans?
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The simple short version is, FDR broke a precedent of Presidents not sitting for more than two terms and scared the shit out of congress, so congress established presidential term limits.
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why does the grading system skip the letter E?
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In practice the only real grades are A through D, if your grade is below a D then it's considered a failure . In theory you could add an E and compress the marking scheme but this would be messy in many marking schemes.
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Why can't turtles move quickly?
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Turtle story:My family grew up with a turtle, Sam. Well our house has a balcony overseeing the mainlevel. So my dad went to clean Sam's tank, as he did every couple weeks. Thinking that Sam is a turtle, so he isn't going to go anywhere fast, left in to roam the big loft area. My dad came back maybe 5 minutes later, and Sam was missing. Of course our whole family went searching for this blasted turtle. We found him on the main level, on the other side of the house..The turtle LITERALLY must have jumped off the balcony to get to the main floor, and we found him happily hiding behind a wine cellar. TLDR: Turtles are not slow, they are fast", 'They are designed mainly to swim in the water and don't usually spend much time on land. In general though they are as fast as they need to be. Evolution is about being "good enough" to pass your genes on effectively to the next generation and turtles have been able to do that over the past few million years so they are "fast enough"If you really think turtles are slow, go fuck around with a 200# Mississippi River snapping turtle. Then count your fingers. No, just count your hands.
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How come National Football League stadiums are considered private property when a majority of the funding is provided by the tax payers?
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If you offer to buy me a beer and I accept, that is my beer, and I will drink it. It doesn't matter that you paid for it in whole. You may not have a sip, you may not have the beer back. That is my beer.There is no single model for stadiums and sports teams and their agreements can be complicated. That said, the ELI5 version is to think of the stadium as a giant apartment. The true owner is the landlord. The sports team is the tenant. The tenant holds most of the rights in the property during the lease. Often the tenant will pay rent to the owner to maintain these rights . Tenants or the landlord depending on the lease agreement may also sub-lease and rent out the space temporarily for things like events and concerts.
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What is it that is so hard to duplicate about salt, that we haven't found a healthy substitute for it yet?
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uh . Salt is healthy? It's a cleanser, and sodium is needed for the body, without salt you'd die if someone's telling you unhealthy, they may become a ghoul in the near future.Very basic ELI5: Your tongue knows tastes based on the shape of the molecules. Sugar [has this shape]. It's a really big molecule and isn't toxic. Some artificial sweeteners look like [this]. The similar shape gives it the same taste but the different atoms prevent your body from absorbing it. Salt, on the other hand, looks like [this]. Its a very small "molecule" and can't easily be changed to give the same taste while keeping it non-toxic.If you have a specific health condition, you might need to reduce salt intake. If you are otherwise healthy, salt intake is not generally tied to hypertension or heart disease. HEALTH - Scientific American:It's Time to End the War on SaltThe zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science_URL_4_
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Why do we still have to watch commercials when we pay for the cable service?
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People who don't like commercials are all people. TV networks get relatively little from cable companies. The monthly fee is mostly for the cable company itself, to make up for the huge investment in infrastructure they made to wire your home as well as 150 million others.Money from you-pays for the signal to get to you Money from advertisments-pays for the production of the show> I'm also curious how much the price would need to be to compensate for a lack of ads. You 'd need a business case around that entire and very complex overall television world in order to get an accurate number for that. There's networks, individual shows, advertising revenues, subscription densities it all has to factor in. That's pretty far past normal ELI5 "explain a concept" stuff and more into a specific question.That's like the BBC in the UK. We pay about £140 a year for a TV licence and get all BBC channels and radio stations with no ads.
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Why are some sodas almost always caffeine free, e.g. lemon-lime, root beer, orange, and some almost exclusively sold caffeinated (coke, dr pepper, etc)?
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Traditionally the caffeine in must sodas came from adding Kola Nut . Kola Nut has an unique taste that you probably wouldn't like if only combined with a single flavor like Lemon or Orange. Once companies came up with a good recipe decades ago they have mostly stuck to them. Now it is possible to just add straight caffeine to stuff and things are changing. There has been an explosion of things like red bull and monster energy drinks that are caffeinated fruit flavors.I know for decades in Canada there was regulation against caffeine in clear/non-dark liquids. [Thankfully that changed in 2010] So many of those drinks continue that traditionally marketed caffeine/non caffeine content.Soda isn't inherently caffeinated. It usually has to do with the flavoring ingredients. Colas use something called a cola nut and cola nuts have caffeine and people used to chew them for a quick burst of energy. Soda pop was invented in Waco Texas, Dr Pepper being the first, and it was originally sold as a medical tonic to help people with low energy, stomach problems, or digestion problems. For instance coca cola was dispensed in pharmacies and advertised as an energy tonic. Pepsi was sold as helping to settle upset stomachs and takes it's name from the word peptic as in stomach. Since so many sodas were the Victorian equivallent of a red bull energy drink, many contained caffeine and other stimulants. Lemon, lime, and orange sodas were originally made by mixing soda water with lemon, lime, or orange juice and since none of those ingredients are caffeinated, neither was the soda. San Pellogrino still makes soda this way, with sparkling spring water and actual fruit juice instead of flavorings and corn syrup. Root beer's main flavoring ingredient similarly has no caffeine in it.
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"Live within your means" as the saying goes. But why is austerity not a good thing when you are a debt stricken country in a deep recession?
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Lack of investment in Greece is why the country has over 25% unemployment. With that level of unemployment the wealthy don't want to invest there because they have so few customers. Austerity removes the ability of the government to invest, and other provisions in the Memorandum prevent the government compelling the private sector to invest and taxing profits .Because the best way to earn money is to spend money, wisely, on good investments. By investing, the government can create work places and provide economical stability to people, this increases spending which in turn increases government income. The problem is when the government has to loan the money to invest, they have to find a creditor willing to run the risk of lending them money.
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Why does road construction take so long to complete? Why do they not have crews working 24/7 since this is important infrastructure?
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It takes a while to complete since they're trying not to stop traffic entirely. If you merely slow traffic, people can still get from point to point. If you stop it entirely, then they need to find alternate routes. Even if those alternate routes exist, it's likely they can't bear the sort of traffic you're sending that way. In terms of working 24/7, road construction is crew-limited more than its time-limited. It makes no sense to complete all your construction in 2 months and then have your crews sitting around do nothing for the next 4 months because you worked them 24/7. You might as well just work the entire 6 months in 8-hour shifts that either save you crew expense or optimize traffic flow. They tear up long stretches of road because the vehicles they use to tear up those long stretches of road cost money to operate. Instead of bringing your specialized vehicles out every day to do a tiny bit more of the road, you just bring them out once to prepare a long stretch and then leave them in the garage. In terms of traffic flow, what interprets traffic flow is reducing the number of lanes. If you've got a 10-mile stretch of highway, reducing one lane for the entire stretch isn't significantly different from reducing one lane for 10 feet in terms of traffic flow - both are going to cause a backup at the point where the lanes narrow.There are some phases of construction where time is required. Once you put the road bed down, you need to wait a few days for it to settle. You pour concrete, you need to wait a few days for it to harden, and so on.
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What causes the "8 bit" style sound that old video games had.
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In old systems, most sounds were stored in a format that resembled sheet music for a 'band' that was hard-coded into each system. [This video shows what the NES's 'band' was made up of]. And anything made up of those sounds will sound like a NES. The limitations of this format also lead to particular habits that became indicative of chiptune 'style'. For instance, since these chips tended to have instruments that could only play one note at a time but could play ridiculously fast it was common to use [arpeggios] where any 'normal' composer would have used chords. Many '8 bit' consoles had a 'sample' channel, which could play anything sort of. These samples were *heavily* compressed, though -- and they still took up a ton of storage space. If you tried to just record a song live, and put it onto the NES through the sample channel, it'd sound terrible, and there'd be no room left for a game. So the use of the sample channels was mostly limited to short percussion elements and sound effects. Nowadays, the approach of recording a song, then playing it back as a 'sample', is used in 99% of games, because we have the hard-drive space, and processing capability to do so. This frees us to make a game sound pretty much however we can imagine.
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Why does the government give tax incentives to married people and those with kids, but no incentives for single and childless people?
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There aren't tax incentive for married people. If there is a wide range in income between the two, or if one is a stay-at-home parent, then the tax bracket would be different for married couple and they might save. So if you had a husband who made $100k while the wife stayed home, then he'd see lower taxes on his income filing as married than before. But if they each made $50k before getting married, they'd see no difference in taxes filing jointly. As for kids, there are deductions for each member of the household because presumably it costs more to feed, clothe, house more people so the same person supporting 4 people on $100k pays less in taxes than the single person earning $100k.
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Why are Health Workers coming from Ebola Stricken countries not immediately held in quarantine?
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It comes down to the almighty dollar. Just think of how expensive it would be to house close to 100 people in an airport for 21 days. That's not taking into account how many other flights there are that day, week etc. It's called Risk Management. If or when things get serious and thousands start getting sick then you'll see some serious money spending or changes being made.
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If the Wacraft Movie cost 160M and its boxoffice is 430M, why is it still considered a loss?
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The studio doesn't get that 430 million. They generally get half of that. Overseas they get less then half. Also China's sales are a tad bit questionable right now. Had it done the bulk in the US, then it would have been far more profitable.430 Million is how much money was paid at cinemas, operating costs of the cinemas, profits etc. need to go into that. In addition the film company has to pay the marketing costs of the film which can be substantial.
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Why do people think Anne Coulter is a satirist?
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It's best summed up as Poe's law. From Wikipedia: > Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. Poe's original statement, from which it was derived, was > Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.I had mentioned this in another post here on the new page, but I feel like she's an act . To me, the tell is her relationship with Bill Maher. While I don't think she's a left wing person in disguise, she has a lot of Andy Kaufmann in her. She made a statement yesterday that Americans interest in World Cup soccer is a sign of moral decay. It's INSANE to think that, and also kind of hilarious. She said it to get into the news. If she had said "meh, I don't like soccer." no one pays attention. I don't know if satire is the right term , but it's definitely a form of "political professional wrestling."', "She is the Right Wing equivalent of the haggling merchant who names a price higher than he actually expects to get for the item so that when he's haggled down, the ending price will still give him a healthy profit. She creates a far-right-wacko point to the diaspora of Right-wing and Right-wing vs Left-wing such that when calmer, more rational people try to find the center , she skews that point more towards right and wacko than it actually is. As such, she doesn't actually need to be respected by the Right , just accepted as a part of the big tent.
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How can rich people maintain their lifestyle after bankruptcy ?
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It really depends on the type of bankruptcy. Probably all of the above: -In some states, certain assets are untouchable in bankruptcy. Think of them as student loans in reverse. -Even if you lose all the money you have, you still have your resume, your network of friends and colleagues, your education, and maybe even your job. There is a reason that some have said if all the world's wealth were redistributed tomorrow, eventually a lot of it would flow back to the same people. -If you own lots of assets, there is a very good chance that they are grouped into different 'companies.' Although Donald Trump the man has never declared bankruptcy, a lot of his individual assets are structured as individual companies and if even one of those companies is insolvent that company can file bankruptcy irrespective of Trump the person's net worth: _URL_0_
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Why not tax imports on goods to spur manufacturing in America.
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It's a two way street. We jack up our tarriffs, they raise theirs. Also realize that a lot of the products made in America require parts that cannot be/are not made in America. It would cause unnecessary headaches. Worse, people will STILL find loopholes. For instance, the dreaded Chicken tax meant that you couldn't import pickup trucks from other countries due to some complicated story I don't remember off the top of my head. So Subaru in the '70s stuck two seats to the back of their BRAT truck and called it a car. Same thing with Ford and their Transit Connect van imported from Turkey. Sticking some seats and windows means that the utility vehicle is a car, and BAM! No tarriff.
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How am I genetically related to my grandmother? (Image inside)
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You're missing that you get *half* your genetic material from each parent, just as they got half from each of *their* parents, etc, etc. You don't *just* get an X or Y chromosome - you get 23 chromosomes from each.
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how it's possible that I can hear if a sound is coming from in front of or behind me.
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If you're interested in reading more, try Daniel Levitin's book *Your Brain on Music*.Light, sound, and almost every other form of energy travel in waves. Waves do a variety of things when traveling from one point to another or from one material into another. Also, it is helpful to know Huygen's Principle, which is that every point on a wavefront acts as a source of new wavelets. Now apply Huygen's Principle to a sound waves moving past you, and you'll find your answer.The answer is called "Defraction" Simply put, it is how a wave "bends" around obstacles in its path. It is how you can hear a sound from around a corner. It also explains how light from one room still manages to make it into another room. And if you are a visual learner, imagine this: Take a square shaped pool and drop a pebble in it. The ripples are your wavefronts. Now think about what will happen when the ripples reach the 90 degree angles at the corners of the pool. They'll bend in all sorts of directions. That bending is diffractionIt's very difficult to do accurately. We are assisted in the task by the idiosyncratic structures of our ears. This is part of the reason the ear is so weirdly shaped and not just a hole on the side of the head. Sounds from the front of your head are amplified because of the big "scoop" that your ear makes pointing forward. Similarly, sounds from behind you are slightly muffled . The minute differences in the time for the sound to reach your ears permits your brain to distinguish the direction of the sound.
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With all the cameras everywhere, how come unsolved murders in big cities are still a thing?
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The other posters have a point, but I'd also like to add that cameras and technologies are not the gold standard for solving and preventing crimes. You can install cameras on every street corner, but people will work around them, especially knowing that they are being watched. Cell phone gives away your location? Leave it at home. Camera sees you? Wear a mask. Selling drugs? Lace a cigarette with you favorite street drug and the cameras will never know. The times cameras catch people on TV are often times when people forget they are being watched and fail to work around the cameras.
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Why is the fluff in my bellybutton always a blue/grey colour, no matter what colour shirt I am wearing?
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I watched a program on it once, I think that it's something to do with the colour of your pants and the fluff works its way up your hair
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Why do people prefer to watch Horror movies or play Survival/Horror video games in the dark?
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Personally it's because they're not scary enough in the daytime or with the lights on. I like the thrill.
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Given the historical close ties between the three nations, why did Australia embrace traditional British sports like Rugby, Football and Cricket but Canada did not?
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I think part of the reason football and rugby lost popularity here in Canada was the weather. Hockey was able to be played outside in winter time and the oldest parts of Canada have long winters. It's this same logic that made hockey popular in other cold countries.
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What is Unionizing and why is it such a big deal to US corporations?
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I think the problem is in the thinking. Precious poster wrote employees organized against corporation. I am a member of the IBEW, electrical, and I see organizing as symbiotic. Trees union workers have Better pay and benefits but also have a higher skill set, efficiency and work per day percentage. I've worked union and non union. Good and bad on both sides, I've found a greater amount of transparency with union contractors over the non. People and corporations see this relationship as combative but at the end of the day companies grow quicker and better when they step ahead with employees. Look at Wal-Mart the anti Worker, anti us, cheap product mentality has produced an area where their own economics have been so detrimental to the us economy that they have Made dollar stores one of the fastest growing businesses in the US and as a result have undermined the system which they have worked shoo hats to craft. Thus massive layoffs and the shutting down of stores across the country.
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Why can't I see clearly underwater (chlorinated or not) without goggles?
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I have another question on this topic: why do my eyes always get very red when I don't use goggles? Is it bad for my eyes not to use goggles?
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Why haven't any other countries landed astronauts on the moon?
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It's incredibly expensive to put people on the moon, the space race cost the United States government 100 billion dollars. Click [here] for proof. At the time of the moon landings, the only countries that could afford to spend that much financially or politically were the Soviet Union and the United States. While some Europeans countries could have afforded it financially, they were likely to face opposition politically because of damages that still needed fixing after World War II. Now, we're over the moon phase. The new ''moon'' is Mars and there are races to get there currently happening right now. While not on the scale of Soviet vs USA, the Indians , Chinese, Russians, European Union and the United States all want to eventually get on Mars but we're still years away from any of the countries getting on it.
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What is "bridge mode" on a router, and when it is useful?
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Bridge mode is simply a way to turn a wifi signal into a hard wired port on your network. Let's say you wanted to connect your smart TV to the internet, but there is no wifi functionality and there's only an Ethernet port. But the TV is on the opposite side of the house as the router, an on a different floor as well. You could run a cable several hundred feet, through walls and through the ceiling and connect it that way. Or you could take a 2nd router and create a wifi bridge. The 2nd router acts more like a wifi receiver, connecting to the existing network as a new wireless device rather than creating a new wifi network. The ports on the router then act as a local switch, and in some cases multiple devices can be connected. So now the internet signal travels from the modem to the wifi router, then to the bridge, along the cable and into the television. And vise versa. Bridge mode let's you create a wireless connection between wired devices. A bridge.
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India has a privately owned city. If the elite business class in the US wants a free market system where are the privately owned cities in the US?
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[Lake Buena Vista, Flordia] is the closet you'll come here. It's owned by Walt Disney World. While the city can make it's own rules within reason, it's still subject to Florida and US law.
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This whole Ke$ha ordeal?
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Because contracts are binding. If I sign a contract saying I'll build a house to completion for $x an hour then ending that contract would mean I lose money right? But what about the home owner? He/she doesn't have to pay me but they will have a half finished house that they now need to get finished by another builder, and I might be the only guy in town with free time. Its a massive inconvenience to them so in the contract they might add a line saying that any work I don't do I must organize for someone else to do instead. They don't get inconvenienced, I have a way out, it's perfect. Now the Ke$ha case is difficult because one of the ways out of her contract would be if the other side did something illegal. If the producer acted inappropriately then she would have a way out. AFAIK We don't have conclusive proof that he did anything wrong, meaning if Ke$ha was to get out of her contract with this case then it would open the door for possibly thousands of other contracts to be dismissed bases on little or no evidence. Anyone could claim criminal action has taken place and get out of a contract unscathed.Any money made after breaking the contract could be vulnerable to lawsuit so few would work with her if there is a chance they could lose some/all the money they would make.
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Why does the US have to go to war if Israel attacks another country?
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The US considers Israel an extremely important strategic ally. If Israel is fighting someone then the US feels obligated to fight someone. It's like if your friend gets in a fight, you might look out for him and make sure he ends up okay.
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What is it about water that makes it crucial to our survival?
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The crucial point is that water is a *polar* solvent. The hydrogens have a partial positive charge and the oxygen has a partial negative charge . Consequently, it dissolves other polar compounds, such as salts obviously, and tends to exclude non-polar compounds like fats. This allows molecules to orientate themselves to expose and hide their polar and non-polar parts respectively. This is the driving force behind protein folding and cell membrane formation. At a more basic level, water is a liquid at the right temperature for life and is freely available - life began in water so it's no surprise we're dependent on it.
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Why we haven't built a water pipeline to Texas yet?
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There's actually been some talk in the environmental-political world about building a water pipeline from the Great Lakes to the desert Southwest. Though this is more about providing water to this area once the Colorado river can no longer provide enough than it is about putting out wildfires. There are two main obstacles to this. One is the prohibitive cost associated with building a pipeline that can carry that much water, crossing it though largely populated areas and going uphill almost the entire way . Second is that the Great Lakes states aren't going to be very willing to just surrender this water; they're going to want to be paid for it in some way or another. Factor this in to the prohibitive cost of actually building the pipeline and you can see why no one considers this feasible as of yet. Now, who is to say what will happen in 25-50 years as populations grow, climate change worsens and the water infrastructure in the Southwest becomes even more taxed. Then people may actually consider this pipeline. But, as of now, I would compare the people I have seen talking about it to scientists who talk about building space ladders - more of a fantasy than a reality, for now.
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Why are some criminals handed numerous life imprisonment charges during their trial?
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Its just a math. These aren't real numbers but it goes like this. * 1 homicide = 1 life sentence* 1 rape = 50 years* 10 homicides = 10 life sentences. * 10 rapes = 500 years* 10 rapes and 10 homicides = 10 life sentences and 500 years
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What advantages do desktops offer over laptops?
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A laptop is usually limited to only being able to upgrade the ram and hard drive, some lower end models may even have the ram soldered to the motherboard and restrict upgrading. With a desktop, everything is interchangeable. In addition, parts designed for desktops are often more powerful, and cheaper, because they aren't restricted to small form factors and specialized cooling systems.
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Why does Japan have so many cool flavours in their snacks?
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After living in Japan it was amazing seeing the different flavored Kit Kats like soy sauce , fish, cherry blossoms, etc And they even have can coffee made from people like Coca Cola and such. I had a Japanese friend who did marketing for a food brand and I asked him why such cool things aren't in Japan. I mean Nestle could easily send new flavors everywhere. He told me that in the American market when you introduce new flavors and such people believe go crazy thinking in the the end of the world and that is a bad thing. Like look when they changed the formula for Coke people were going crazy as if they devoted thier life to it and we're now saying that it was ruined and such even though barely anything changed. Whereas in the Japanese market they release it and they are more than happy to try new things and use it as a survey. TDLR: American's don't like change
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How does a seemingly unknown director get chosen for a huge hollywood film? (ex: Dan Trachtenberg for 10 Cloverfield Lane
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The problem with this example is that 10 Cloverfield Lane was not originally a Cloverfield film with JJ Abrams attached. It was originally a script called The Cellar, with a super low budget, and then it became Valencia, and Dan Trachtenberg was attached to direct that film. However, it was during filmmaking/production that they thought, this film has some sort of similarity to Cloverfield, now that we're making it, let's change it a little to make it a 'sequel' of sorts. So, Dan Trachtenberg, first-time director, was attached to make a small, low-budget film, not the big one it is now. I think a better example of what you're trying to describe is someone like Josh Trank or Colin Trevorrow. Trank directed Chronicle, a low budget film, with no big names, that opened big and got a lot of critical praise. Then, based on that, he was hired to direct Fantastic Four and Star Wars . Trevorrow was hired to do Jurassic World on the basis of his film Safety Not Guaranteed, an indie film. Based on his success with JW, he's now doing Star Wars.
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