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- Please explain to me why it's such a terrible thing for the UN to recognize a Palestinian state?
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That's a fairly complex issue to explain to a 5 year old, but I'll have a crack. If the countries of the world agree that Palestinian is a state or country, it will make it more difficult for their neighbour, Israel, to do as it pleases without getting in trouble, like stealing peoples homes and land and using unarmed people as bullet shields, which is as mean as it sounds :(. Some people in countries like the US and Australia are Jewish, and *some* of those people *really, really,* don't want anyone to stop Israel from doing those things, so they spend time and money convincing the governments in the countries they live in to side with Israel. This is why the US will vote against and countries like Australia and maybe the UK will abstain from voting on Palestinian statehood, even though most of the people who make up those countries think it is a good idea.
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Why was I not allowed to take a picture in a Sunglass Hut?
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Step 1: Pretend you're taking pictures of sunglasses Step 2: Actually take pictures of store/lock layout Step 3: Steal all the glasses", 'You would have to ask the employee. I know that when I worked retail, all of my jobs put me through training that specifically forbid me from letting people take pictures in the store without managerial permissionJust say"fuck you" and take the picture. What are they gonna do, call the cops?
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Why do people hate DLC so much?
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There was a time when you got a whole game . Younger people might not remember that. And nowadays you buy the game and there will be at least 4 big story dlcs if you do not buy them you miss part of the story. What DLCs mostly do is double the price of a game. That's why i stopped buying anything but game of the year editions.One reason is because I like to know what I'm going to get; and what I have to pay; before I make the decision to purchase or not. If I don't know there will be DLC at the time when I purchase the game, then I'm not able to account for the DLC cost is my decision to purchase. So I'm unhappy when the cost appears later. As to the game content of the DLC, I don't consider this extra content because I don't know what the main game includes before I play. So when I purchase a game I think: "okay I'm getting whatever the whole experience is, for single price $xyz". But then DLC comes along and I feel like I now have paid $xyz + $abc, and only received the whole game I thought I was already getting for $xyzPeople love DLC. People have problems with paid DLC existing closely after release or at release. It is seen as a greedy marketing ploy, or a companies inability to complete a gameHow you feel if you ordered a pepperoni pizza, and you were missing a slice and pepperoni?
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Why do you need a prescription for drugs that are not addictive and mostly helpful (antibiotiocs, viagra, etc)
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Both antibiotics and Viagra can kill you, for what it's worth. You don't even need to overdose all that heavily on either, just misuse them stupidly.
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What process causes the human body to generate heat?
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The primary way your body heats itself is through spending energy to create muscle contractions. That's why when you are cold, you start shivering. Shivering is your brain telling your muscles to start doing extra contractions in order to generate more heat. [This] source says 70% of all body heat is produced this way.
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What is the legal difference between a pyramid scheme and multilevel marketing?
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The product being involved means they can call it MLM instead of a pyramid scheme, so it's not illegal or tainted with the bad reputation. It's a loophole, basically, based on the existence of a product.
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How exactly do you explain Diabetes?
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I assume you are referring to type 2 diabetes? There is really no way of know if you will have diabetes, however it is know that there is a very strong genetic link to type 2 diabetes. If you don't take care of your health , you could potentially avoid diabetes. However, very commonly, the trend to become overweight also runs in families, and this leads to diabetes. This is a very active area of research, and it is not fully understood why type 2 diabetes has such a strong genetic influence, but this genetic influence is strongly supported by research. I assume you know what diabetes is already, but in case not, it is a disease in which your body either does not produce the hormone insulin or does not respond to it . This causes an inability for your body to lower your blood sugar , and can lead to all sorts of problems .
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Why is jerrymandering tolerated?
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It's tolerated because it's pretty much impossible to prevent. Jerrymandering at its heart is basically bias while drawing electoral boundaries. Have you thought about how difficult it is to do express something without bias, e.g. writing articles? The choice of words, the amount of coverage, what areas you choose to cover or compare are all biases, whether you are aware of it or not. Similarly, electoral boundaries need to be chosen with population densities and demographics in mind, which already lends itself to a whole load of bias that is hard to resolve. You could argue for an algorithm, but what that algorithm comprises off and which party it benefits will be a form of inherent bias. The only way to fix it is perhaps to remove electoral boundaries altogether for national elections. Some countries already do this - they still divide boundaries for ease of vote counting, but the number of votes is declared and added rather than having a result for each district. tl;dr Not possible to eliminate, difficult to reduce.
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Generally speaking, why are conservatives so opposed to the concept of climate change?
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This may not exactly answer your question, but I have some conservative friends that were strongly against the Paris Climate Agreement. This had nothing to do with whether or not they believed in man-made climate change. They do. These guys are smart engineers, scientists even! It had more to do with what they felt the role of the Federal Government should be. They site the Kyoto Protocol - which was the predecessor to Paris Climate Agreement. The US never signed it, yet was able to meet/exceed all the goals of reducing greenhouse emissions based on market forces and *local governments* regulations. The nations that didn't meet the goals were fined by the UN. The involved nations still had to help finance the lesser developed nations get their shit in order. US came out on top. And that's kind of what Paris is in their minds. We'll get our shit done anyways based on state laws and regulations and market forces, so why do we have to pay for.. Bangladesh to modernize their energy systems? From that perspective, I sort of get it. However, I argue the deal makes sense. See, we're *all* fucked if climate goals fall flat - so we risk a little financing as an insurance. Playing 'chicken' with the fate of the planet is terrifyingly retarded.Most of the proposed solutions to climate change involve heavy regulation to limit carbon emissions and move away from fossil fuels to cleaner energy. Conservatives oppose regulation and government interference in corporate business.Its all about economics. A lot of industries that are negatively impacted by climate deals hire a lot of people. That said, conservative parties will win over those votes by opposing climate change. It's not that being conservative makes you opposed to climate change its that conservative parties have supported industries that are negatively effected by governments responding to it. Does that make them right? No, but many of these climate deniers are/have friends who work in these industries. Look at West Virginia as an example.
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Why do some lamps click 4 times?
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ELI5: What is OP referring to? I don't recognize this as a Swede.Because your lamp is a tri light which has three brightness settings. Low, normal, bright and off. You need to use the correct bulb to use this featureDo they make 3-way LED bulbs or are these lamps now just artifacts of the incandescent era?', "That means it's a 3-switch lamp. However, because of what you described you don't have the correct lightbulbs in the lamp. They make special multi-filament bulbs for those types of lamps.
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Sometimes you have the urge to eat sweet or salty stuff. Is it because you lack a certain nutrient common in that food? (e.g. salt, sugar..)
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I may be misinformed but I believe it's because of the bacteria in your gut. They live and thrive off of what you eat. If you feed them processed sugars and other things of the sort some will begin to multiply and depend on those sugars, while others will thrive off the healthier foods you eat. Some aerobic some anaerobic. The difference being some can survive without oxygen and the others depend on it. So in short, these bacteria in your gut cause you to crave these after you haven't had some for such a long time.Your body craves salt if it’s deficient in sodium. Sugar cravings are a whole other story. Everyone who eats products with glucose gets their blood sugar levels elevated and after a couple of hours the glucose levels plummet so you could say you’re experiencing “sugar withdrawals” and start craving sugar just like drugs. Oh! And your body doesn’t need glucose to survive, it can survive just on protein and fats.It may be because you are under stress and experiencing emotional/stress eating. From - _URL_1_ > 'Stress – Ever notice how stress makes you hungry? It’s not just in your mind. When stress is chronic, your body produces as it so often is in our chaotic, fast-paced world, it leads to high levels of the stress hormone, cortisol. Cortisol triggers cravings for salty, sweet, and fried foods—foods that give you a burst of energy and pleasure. The more uncontrolled stress in your life, the more likely you are to turn to food for emotional relief.'
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why didn't native american or new world diseases devastate the "old world" how come it was so unilateral?
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In the book 1491 by Charles Mann, the author points out that people indigenous to the Americas have a higher resistance to parasites, whereas those indigenous to Europe have a higher resistance to pathogens. However, parasites are harder to get and easier to beat, so they didn't devastate the Europeans like the airborne pathogens devastated the Native Americans.I suspect that rdavidson24 is right, but also that the much greater population density of Europe contributed to it being a breeding ground for diseaseEuropeans tended to live in crowded, filthy conditions. This is what breeds virulent disease and those who could live with this were pretty hardy and a hard kill for American bugs. The native people lived cleaner, more scattered lives and their immune systems were weak sistersEurope was a better incubator for disease for multiple reasons. Cities and domestication were probably the big reasons. Old-worlders would have developed more genetic resistance to disease that the natives would have lacked.
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When you show your favorite shows to your friend, why does it feel like it's not awesome enough at that particular time?
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It's just the intro"', "There is a theory called the Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory, another one of those things that explains intuition. Basically it states that, a given expectation , will be met by a given reality/experience . If you put a number value to how much you expected them to like it, and how much they actually liked it, then you can figure out if your expectations were satisfied or not . Yep, totally get that a five year old wouldn't understand this.
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What is happening in Detroit? How did it get that way?
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Detroit might be a bit of a wasteland, but there is still a good sized population living in the suburbs like Ann Arbor. The city approves things like stadiums because it, while an up-front investment, brings dollars and jobs into the city. I doubt Detroit's art collection is a 'treasure' . Whatever is there, it clearly isn't visited enough to warrant the cost of keeping it on display. The city's pension plans were poorly drained and a pure loss on the city. Kinda goes without saying that they'd try to void them.
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Why do some people look unattractive in photos, but look attractive when in person?
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In my experience it's because people act like they're being attacked by bees when they see a camera pointed at them.
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What Calculus is, and what it's used for.
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Say we know the mathematical rule* which tells us the velocity of a car at any given time. Then we can use calculus to do two things. Firstly, we can work out the car's acceleration at any time. This is called differentiation. Secondly, if we know where the car started, we can use another process called integration to work out the car's position at any given time. *If you've done GCSE maths, I can go slightly further and say that this rule is a function. If our car is moving along a straight line, we can call our speed v and the time t, and then have a formula like v = t^2, from which we can work out the speed at any given time.
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If water ice forming in cells can damage or destroy them, how come frozen meat from my freezer is fine when thawed?
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Check out vitrification. A process of freezing tissue so as not to damage the cells with ice crystal formation. It's touted as a way to crionically preserve humans.Commercial meat freezing is usually done with blast freezers that reduce the temperature to -18 degrees Celsius within 4 hours and reduce the chances of large ice crystals forming. Speed of freezing controls the formation of ice crystals and faster is better for limiting damage. For frozen ready meals a nitrogen freezing tunnel is often used because it drops the temperature even more quickly and can be built into a preparation line with reasonable ease.It's not fine. Notice that puddle of red or clear liquid that leeches out and pools around what you're defrosting? That's liquid that was in the meat but has now escaped through ruptured cells. Defrosted meat is never as good as fresh.As opposed to catfish who can wake up after a week in the freezer upon being thawed in the sink. Swimming in my kitchen sink. Felt bad for freezing them alive.
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Why aren't car windshields covered with hydrophobic coatings in 2015?
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Durability basically. Any hydrophobic coating that doesn't cost as much as the car itself is going to wear off quickly on the severe environments a car sees. Cars can easily hit 140f in the direct sunlight, -30 in northern winters, impacted by 70 mph road grime and sandsand, etc.Automotive Engineer here. Hydrophobic glass is more common in Europe and nearly nonexistent in the US. I am guessing this is driven by the climate difference. I am not aware of any glass suppliers who have hydrophobic coating facilities in the US. When we reviewed consumer surveys the demand for hydrophobic glass is near the bottom of the list. When we looked at adding this to our glass it doubled the price. So we opted out. From what the suppliers told me , the coating lasts the life of the glass. edit: spellingThere was a great demo of the technology on [TED talks]', "The windshield coatings I know of will all wear off over time. There are aftermarket products available, but you'll need to re-apply them every few months.
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The Crusades, touching on the point of the Knights Templar and there importance?
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Excellent. Thanks guys. Iv've been on history kick recently and I just wanted a synopsis before I start reading a lot.
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Why can solids float on liquids, but liquids not float on gas?
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they actually can, you just need really exotic material in bizarre conditions. the answer, in practical conditions, is that there's no way to hide pockets inside a liquid. most solids that float are filled with air. wood has microscopic ones, while a steel hulled ship has an enormous cavity inside for all the ship's contents.
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Why cant double quote be used in naming files but two single can be?
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Windows Subsystem for Linux" in different windows system that is unix compable that can use " in file but is seldom usedA single quotation is called an apostrophe and is typically used in spelling, whereas the double is an actual quotation mark, and is often used to signify someone speaking, or I think in some cases to define specific parameters in different things.It's purely arbitrary. The programmers added single but not double to the supported characters for a filename. If they wanted to, they could add double quotes too. The history of it is that windows and the filename conventions stem back to DOS from the 80s. DOS didn't support long and extended character filenames. Windows didn't until 98 I think. It was an add-on feature, not originally part of the system. Someone correct me here but I believe the windows 10 bootloader is still a descent of the original DOS.It's a holdover from DOS, when quotation marks had special meaning in the shell. Microsoft took the route of forbidding shell-special characters, instead of adding an "escape character" that would make the shell ignore their special meanings. Other systems have different restrictions, notably the Unix family which forbid only the forward slash and the null character.
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How does a court transcriptionist get every single word of a court case down so fast?
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Court reporter chiming in here! As other commenters have mentioned, we are writing by syllable and sound rather than letters. We use a lot of short forms that can be whole words or phrases. Take the word hello, for instance. On a regular keyboard you would make 5 different key strokes . On a stenographic keyboard you'd break that down by syllable, which would look like HEL / LO. You go from 5 keystrokes to 2. Any other questions, feel free to ask!", '[Here] is a video that does a great job explaining it. Not to take away from the other respondersStenos are largely becoming extinct as they are replaced with audio and audio/video recording systems. Programs like For the Record and JAVS are much cheaper to run than paying a stenographer a yearly salary.To add on to this stenography is not only how the court transcript is produced, it's also how live television is captioned. Or if you've been at a live event and saw that there were open captions , that's how that's done.Source: am captioner
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What is happening when I turn my head too quickly and get that sharp POP in my neck, followed by a painful warm tingle?
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I have actually seen some specialists on this matter, since I've had this happen to me since I was a kid. In my case at least, what was happening is that I was pinching nerves in the spinal column. Now, I also have a bulging disk in that location, and some minor back problems, but it stands to reason that even without those extra conditions, if you turn your neck too fast in the exact wrong way, you could also be pinching nerves. I would encourage you to see a specialist if this happens to you a lot. I did physical therapy for a while, along with some continual exercises, and they've really helped both cut down the pinching and my back issues in general.OMG, I get this too, but I get a massive headache for a couple moments that gradually goes away on the back and lower part of my head where the pop occurred. Always wondered what that was all about.
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Why do so many people believe the fake stories shared on facebook?
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People simply don't check the sources. They only care about the appearance of the story and whether it's interesting or not.
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Train Simulator 2014 and similar games, why do people play these?
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'Fun' is subjective. Some people just want to play something that offers a different perspective or allows them to experience things they haven't experienced before without having to go through the trouble of actually doing it. I don't know if you've ever played a flight simulator, but it's actually really breath-taking when you can fly through countries you've never been before. You just level the controls, turn auto-pilot on, and enjoy the view. Yeah, you could actually go there and I would recommend doing so, but not everyone can afford to blow $1000+ on a world adventure. Train Simulator 2014 is ground-based, but the concept is the same. You spend most of the game looking out the window enjoying the view, and only some of the time adjusting controls; it doesn't actually prevent you from ignoring the speed limits, it just penalizes your score, which can be meaningless if that's not what you're playing for .
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If there's no oxygen in space and oxygen is required for combustion, how exactly is the sun a "flaming" ball of gases?
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That's not regular fire. That's *plasma*, which is basically a superheated gas. Plasma happens from *nuclear fusion*, when two or more atoms collide at high speeds and with extraordinary force. This produces a lot of heat, and before we knew what it actually is we called it fire.The Sun is our nearest star. It is, as all stars are, a hot ball of gas made up mostly of Hydrogen. The Sun is so hot that most of the gas is actually plasma, the fourth state of matter. Not fire , but similar
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What use are coaches of top tier athletes like Federer or Tiger Woods?
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I was recently listening to Mirinda Carfrae on a podcast and she touched on coaching. It seems like Mirinda's coach is just important for the mental aspects of competing as she is from the training aspect. Mirinda mostly spoke about how her coach is able to motivate her and keep up her level of excitement for the sport. She spoke less about what her coach was able to offer from a physical perspective.Some of the best coaches were mediocre athletes. Some of the best athletes have been terrible coaches. Coaching is often about planning and motivating, not about athleticism or individual skillCoaches are an objective opinion on what could be improved. I know I frequently fall victim to the whole "I'm good at this I don't need advice." I can only imagine that gets a lot worse with world champions. But coaches are there to nit pick, to find the really minor ways to improveYou ever go to the gym alone vs with a friend? Ever use a personal trainer? External motivation is pretty strong and a coach helps keep you consistent, gives you a person to "let down", is able to provide a second opinion on what you could do differently.For quite some time, during that stretch he was just crushing grand slams, Federer didn't have a coach. First and only time I'd heard of an elite athlete not having a coach, but it seemed to be working out for him.
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EIL5: How do gas powered motors, such as a car, work?
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I am literally explaining this in the most general way I can, so for simplicity's sake I won't go in to detail about the parts *inside* a cylinder. In a nutshell, the gasoline is delivered to an engine where the electric charge from turning over the key makes a controlled explosion, the energy from this explosion is used to power most of what goes on in the car. More cylinders = more explosions = more power delivered from the engine to the vehicle. This is why V8 is more powerful than a V6 . The air intake also crams air in to the cylinders before the explosion takes place. The RPM's in your car indirectly tell you how many explosions are going on. The higher the RPM's, the more power is delivered. This in turn requires faster delivery of air to the engine and more gasoline is used up in less time. Some cars have turbo chargers that help push more air in to the cylinder so that there are more rotations . That's why having a big engine and a super/turbo charger make your car zip.
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How does paying off a loan early save money?
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Except that you have one piece wrong! *You don't pay for interest once you pay off the principal.* How much you owe in interest is built from the amount you owe times your monthly interest rate. So if you have an interest rate of 10% and you pay off half the principal in once shot your interest payment gets cut in half too! So you wouldn't be paying $8.33 a month in interest if you paid off $600 the first month, you'd be paying $4.16 a month.
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How do passenger trains in the U.S. still exist despite advancement of airline industry over the decades?
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Just because the train line spans that distance doesn't mean everyone is taking it that far. Most people use Amtrak for medium length trips where a plane isn't worth the hassle. For example, I use Amtrak when I go to Kansas City to visit my sister. The line stretches all the way from Chicago to LA, quite a journey by train, but many people get on or off at intermediate stops. When I get off at Kansas City there are always lots of other people getting on. Occasionally I meet people going all the way from start to finish, but it's uncommon. Everyone has different reasons, but for me the reasons I prefer Amtrak to flying: * It's far more comfortable. I have long legs, so unless I spend money to upgrade airline seats tend to be a miserable experience for me. Amtrak, on the other hand, has a tremendous amount of leg room. * You can walk around. There's not much space to wander on a plane, but Amtrak trains have observation cars and cafes. * No need for airplane mode. Sure, much of the journey is through rural land that lacks signal, but I can still spend plenty of time using my phone or tablet while traveling. * Train stations are far less hassle than airports. I'd take Union Station over O'Hare any day. * Luggage. The overhead luggage racks on trains are far more spacious than those on airplanes, so I can have a lot more carry on luggage than I could if I was flying.Had to go from Eugene OR to Seattle WA and flight companies wanted like $400 for a round trip ticket. Amtrak only wanted $100. So yeah, I am ok with a 4 hour train ride, against a 1.5 hour flight, it saves me $300. Also, I have more space to relax, can eat something and grab a beer and can see the view too. Trains are cool.
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How does Pluto, which is a fraction the size of Earth, have 5 moons orbiting around it meanwhile Earth only has one moon orbiting around it?
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Because size doesn't matter . Venus is nearly identical in size and mass to Earth, with no moons. What matters is the orbital neighbourhood when planets are forming. Pluto has a very cluttered orbital neighbourhood, that's actually why it's not a planet anymore. In fact, Pluto's original moon, Charon, may not even be considered a moon anymore, because the centre of gravity lies inbetween the two bodies (for example the centre of gravity between the Moon and Earth falls inside the Earth. Pluto had a cluttered neighbourhood, and some of the neighbourhood settled into orbits around each other. Earth's moon was a smaller planet that collided with Earth, it then coalesced again, leaving not much behind, we have other natural satellites, they're just not very well known, and contain unorthodox orbits. Truth is, we just don't really have a definition for moon. We could class them as multiple planet systems. But eventually moon will be defined like planet was in 2006.
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The English Premier League's cups, derbies, and general season structure
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Quick answer to the FA Cup question; the FA cup has about 4 million teams enter^1 and as a result there are **6** qualifying rounds before the 1st proper round happens. The bigger teams don't enter from the start, the Premier League teams enter into the 3rd round. Obviously all the other rounds take a while to get out of they way, so the FA cup appears to only properly start int he middle of the season because that is when the interesting teams play! The final is the 8th round overall and usually the last match of the season. 1. Okay 737 teams entered this year .
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What is the "quantum" in quantum physics, quantum computers and so on?
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Pretty sure its an outgrowth of the discovery that energy changes on the atomic level by discrete, indivisible amounts. I think the term 'quantum of energy' was used to describe this and the name stuck.
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Why don't cable companies want us to have faster internet?
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It's not that they don't want you to. It's that they don't want to pay for the network upgrades that would be needed to give it to you.
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Why do I sometimes hear my name being called when it isn't?
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sometime i hear a male voice tell me I'm a punk ass bitch when i go to take a pee, he sounds black.
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Why the British resent Margaret Thatcher.
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She was far from perfect and some of her stances on things like SA, pinnochet, NI etc are ever so slightly deplorable. However, a commonly overlooked fact is that her economics policies were by and large dictated to her by the IMF and the free market consequences of IMF intervention in 1976. When you borrow from the IMF they chop left right and centre. That's the. bottom line. The way the country was before her was unsustainable Nd the unions are just as responsible for the consequences of Thatcherism as maggot herself. Basically, I find that this country is ruled by a bunch of hypocritical, and contradictory bunch of conts on both sides of the spectrum", '> she did something to take away serving milk in schools so people called her "Milk Snatcher Thatcher." We Brits only use the death sentence for the most horrible crimes. This was THE most horrible crime. We shall never forgive thee, oh Iron Lady.Through her policies the country shifted from a 'make the entire company profitable' to a 'let's make the higher ups richer and let the lower downs get by.' Contributed greatly to the current economic problems and to an extent affected all of Europe.
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when someone asks a question on reddit, why do they get tons of replies of the same answer?
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They probably all posted about the same time so didn't realise other people had already said the same thing. also taking someone else's answer and making it slightly more reddit friendly/augmented is a much easier way to whore for karma.
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Why don't China and Taiwan get along?
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doesn't really answer your question, but I can tell you this is a very deeply seated issue for the Chinese. I worked closely with three Chinese colleagues and I once asked them the basis for this. I was pretty innocent to the entire thing, I don't have a strong opinion and just wanted their point of view. Even asking the question brought up such a contentious attitude, from people that I consider friends, that I never brought it up again. It's not that they were angry at me, more that they were angry at the attitudes and ignorance of the issue in the West. They became very animated about it. FWIW, all three of them, well-educated, one with three kids, from three different regions and backgrounds, said they would take up arms and fight rather than allow Taiwan to gain independence.
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What do governments gain by spying on their citizens?
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Very little, or quite a lot depending on the scenario. The Government knowing what kind of porn you wack it too is super not relevant to their business. On the other hand, knowing that you sure are looking up how to make a bomb a lot and downloading maps of Washington DC and did you just rent a car and buy a plane ticket to DC?! Well maybe we should take a closer look at what you're up to Mr Terrorist Bomber in the making.
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Why do T.V. shows have
many differecnt directors rather than sticking to one?
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Unlike movies, the producers, not the directors, typically exercise creative control of a series. A director is more of a craftsmen, who takes the existing characters and sets and story lines, adds in the new writing, and turns it into television. In addition, a movie can take months, sometimes more than a year to make, and that's the director's full time job. TV episodes get cranked out in a week or two, and a director can never be sure when a show will be cancelled or when extra episodes will be ordered. So TV directors move around a lot, and the same guy isn't always going to be available.
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Why is audio usually the part of a file that makes it so big?
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Text is a minute amount of data compared to the audio of that text spoken. As others have noted, textures get reused a lot. Models aren't actually that big, all things considered. Rendering and moving them is a bigger concern than storage. The above, with the exception of text, is used for every language. With audio, you can reuse music and SFX, but every piece of human speech needs a new copy for every supported language. Additionally, a two minute song can be looped and played a lot more than two minutes of speech; you'll remember people making jokes of repeated speech in Skyrim a lot more than they got annoyed at the music. This means that you need a lot of speech tracks. This happened with titanfall and it's 60GB of uncompressed audio. Another concern is compression. It could be that audio simply tends to not compress as well, but that's speculation.
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Why must we fight for net neutrality EVERY year?
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There is an vested interest by several groups who think that tighter control of the internet will be good for profitability. As long as this is true, the fight will continue. Its not enough to simply call a senator for a single bill. Either we need to legislate a good clean net neutrality law, or make it not profitable to control a portion of the internet. But the first option keeps stalling, and the second option is VERY hard to do on short sighted businesses. Its funny in a way, because long term any business theoretically could make WAY more money investing in a high supply innovation. That can only reasonably happen if the barrier to entry is low, which can only happen again if the internet doesn't play favorites.
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- Why does China own so much of the American national debt?
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The US borrows money by selling bonds there are many kinds of bonds, but basically if you buy a bond, you are giving the US money now, and they will give you more back later. The US sells bonds on a open market any person, company or country can buy them. So the US isn't choosing to borrow money from China, they are selling bonds, and China just happens to be buying a lot of them.Of the most annoying things in the world, I find this to be up in the top 10. China does NOT own SO MUCH American Debt.Let's say you want to buy some new videogame, and it costs $50. Unfortunately, you don't have the $50 necessary to buy that videogame. But wait, I have $50 just lying around doing nothing. So we make a deal -- I give you $50 for you to buy your game now, and some time later that we agree upon you will pay me back $60. It is a mutually beneficial relationship. * You get the money you need for your game right now* I get my original $50 back plus $10 interest . Basically, even with the recent debt limit hooplah, the United States' Treasury Bonds are by far still the safest investment in the world. China has bought up a lot of debt because it presents the easiest and sure-fire no-fail means to increase their own USD monetary reserves.
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Why are Human babies so helpless?
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It's a compromise between two big advantages that don't go together. Big, intelligent brains = big heads. Narrow, energy-efficient hips = tiny birth canals. Between babies with smaller brains or moms with wider hips, evolution favored secret option #3 - preemies. Being born early in our development meant we could keep both. The advantage of being smart AND energy efficient simply outweighed the disadvantage of being relatively helpless as a newborn. Detailed takes are [here] or [here]
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Why does water taste so awful if you leave it on your nightstand, and you drink it in the morning?
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TIL I'm an idiot for always assuming it collected a thin layer skin cells over night. It wasn't that stupid right? Dust is skin it's everywhere .Guys? .
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Why isn't Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the internet) world renowned to a similar, if not greater, degree than Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates etc.?
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What do you mean? He is world renowned. And he didn't invent the internet, the internet was invented by the ministry of defense of the USA through various programs. What he invented was the WWW, an application run on the internet. E-mail is also an application run on the internet, just for reference.He didn't invent the Internet, he just created the web. Technically, the web wasn't that remarkable of an invention. HTTP was a braindead protocol. HTML was just a minor modification of an existing markup language. Hypertext systems existed beforehand. The web browser just happened to get invented at the right time to catch people's attention. Berners-Lee isn't really known for inventing much else. Edison & Franklin are known for a long string of inventions. Gates he's just a businessman. The general public just likes to pretend he's some sort of "ubernerd".
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Why Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE but apple doesn't for bundling Safari
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That lawsuit was related to forcing third party computer builders, OEM's, to include windows on ALL of their products, if they wanted to include it in ANY of their products. Apple can do whatever they want with their own computers, as can microsoft.
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why does hay fever leave you alone while you sleep, but attack like a bitch the second you open your eyes?
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Uh It doesn't? My symptoms are far worse overnight than during the day.I have seasonal allergies. One observation that I have made is : sometimes when I am mowing the lawn or doing some other focused physical work, my allergy symptoms will subside, when I am finished with the task the symptoms come raging back. It is like my body can choose when it wants to manifest sneeze attacks. OTC drugs work just fine for my allergies, but sometimes I forget to take them or run out, which is when I notice this. I’m just puzzled, like why does my body choose to be nice, with the same allergen exposure, then choose to incapacitate me with symptoms.?Thanks Body! Maybe could you be less of a drama queen. ? Edit: it must be hormonal, or some chemical that causes relief. Exertion related bio chemicals Your hay fever leaves you alone at night?', "You know what is crazy? I recently learnt that you can be allergic to exercise. I always get a really runny nose when I walk fast or am running around at work. I'd always assumed that this happened to everyone and mentioned how annoying it was to my husband, he looked at me like I was a weirdo. Apparently it is not normal so I googled it and yep, you can get this reaction from having an allergy to exercise.Pollen levels change, pollen is produced in the morning then rise into the atmosphere with the suns heat, the pollen then falls as the temperature drops at night, this is why you get sniffly around 7/8pm. Pollens levels are low at night.I'm not sure if that's totally true. My son who has year round allergy induced asthma, scratches his throat in his sleep. Yea symptoms aren't as bad as during the day,but my house isn't open to the elements either.. shower after coming in etc.
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How is Helium, which doesn't undergo any reaction when used, a limited resource?
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In addition to the other comments on where helium goes, we mine helium from natural gas. When uranium and thorium decay, the alpha particles they emit are Helium 4 nuclei. When natural gas is found underground, it's about 7% helium because of that! So as long as we have natural gas supplies to mine, we'll have helium around.
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Why the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem has not been solved yet.
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The Navier-Stokes equations are what are known as differential equations. We don't know how to exactly solve the vast majority of differential equations; in fact, we know for a fact that most of them *can't* be solved exactly. What we normally do is approximate.
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Why do front-facing cameras (e.g. selfie cameras) on phones take mirror image pics?
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One of the biggest priorities in Software Development is Intuitive User Interface. We want to make sure that users need an *absolute minimum* amount of instruction to use the software. It's the reason why the exit button for every program is in the upper-right corner, you hit the Escape Key to bring up the menu, and so on and so forth. Front-Facing Cameras mirror the image because *most* people already know how to use an ordinary mirror, and it only takes a few keystrokes to mirror the image once it's taken. You know how to position yourself with an ordinary mirror, so you don't need to learn anything new to use your iPhone's Selfie Cam. If the designers didn't mirror the image, you'd have to learn how to position yourself in a non-mirrored image and that's harder to wrap your head around than you'd think.You are used to looking at yourself in a mirror. Using a mirror image makes taking selfies infinitely easier to plan. Try imagining everything happening in reverse when you are framing a shot with a front facing camera. It would be prohibitively disorienting.
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Why are Italian and Latin different languages?
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Aside from the other reasons you're getting, it has to do with nationalism. Latin was the language of the Roman Empire while Italian is the language of Italy. Italians wanted a culture and language to call their own. On a technical level, there's nothing to stop you thinking of Italian as the dialect of Latin spoken in modern-day Italy. There has never been a change in the actual Latin language that made it cross a line and turn into Italian. We treat Italian and Latin as different languages due to culture and convention, not linguisics.
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How do people die from a drug overdose by using drugs you ingest? Wouldn’t your body just throw it up?
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The mechanism depends on the drug. Vomiting doesn't always help because some substances, while unhealthy, don't cause the body to throw up. And even if someone does vomit, that doesn't remove as much of the substance as you'd think. suggests that inducing vomiting gets rid of only 28% of the substance if done immediately.) Additionally, as time passes, the substance moves from the digestive system into the bloodstream, making it unaffected by vomiting. For some substances, throwing up exposes the throat to the substance, causing more damage.
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Why can't car doors open underwater?
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The water outside the car is pushing on the door much harder than the air inside the car. Just some back-of-the-napkin calculations here: 10 feet of water causes a pressure of 4.34 lb / in^. Let's model the car door as a square that is 4 feet to a side. That's 576 in^. So the door would feel like it weighed 2500 lbs if you tried to open it.The pressure inside of the car is way lower than the pressure the water exerts on the doors. They can open, it just would take a huge amount of forceThe pressure of the water pushing in the car is greater than the amount you can push back to open itITT: dozens of people saying the exact same thing instead of reading the first response', "A car door is very difficult to open under water because of the water pressure pushing the door in, because of this breaking the window would be the easiest way to create an exit. So if you can't break the window then you should roll the window down and take a deep breath just as the car is filling up. Once the water pressure is the same inside and outside the door you can open it fairly easily.
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Why don't females carry their original surname after marriage
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Traditionally, a woman would leave the house of her own family and join her husband's family when she got married. Back then, a surname wasn't just a second name either. It was often linked to an extended family, tribe, or homeland. For example, a Smith, Baker, or Miller would have actually had those occupations in the family for generations. So it would make sense that anyone joining the family, including a woman marrying in, would change her name. The same would go if she was moving to a different town or joining a tribe who the family had the name of.
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Why are Republicans pushing to defund Planned Parenthood when taxpayer money can't be used for abortions?
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A follow - on question on this topic: Why is the decision being made to attack one of the providers of abortions, yet there is no attempt being made to challenge the legality of abortions? Because blocking PP from performing abortions just means that women are going to be forced to use less safe & professional providers.Because, in spite of the fact that most of the country subscribes to the notion that the separation of church and state is a good thing, the right-wing Conservatives believe that it is not only their right but their mission to legislate their religious beliefs and enforce them on the rest of the country.Everyone who opposes abortion should have to foot the bill to pay for the kids they are responsible for being born. They wouldn't oppose it much longer if they had to deal with the consequences of their actions.
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Why can't computers read a CAPTCHA?
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Current computer technology is a *lot* worse than a human brain at pattern recognition. It's only recently that computers have been able to read *non*-distorted text from images; once you start deliberately making it hard, most computers don't have a chance.
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If a plank, standing upright, was 1m high and 1m wide but only about an atom thick, would it still be visible?
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You have a couple factors you're missing. 1) What angle am I looking at it2) Angle and light output of light source3) Ambient conditions4) Material of the wall. I mean if a light souce from behind me that I couldn't see hit a gold wall, even 1 atom thick, in a dark room with nothing else and the source was bright ebough then yes. A very small portion of the light would reflect back due to the 1 atom thickness lettong most light through. So what ever object you are looking at would have to be a highly reflective metal, like gold or steal. It would be very difficult to create the conditions that would allow this to happen though becuase of enough light from the source itself becones visible to you then it will wash out the reflection from the wall.
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How do doctors and nurses take care of sick people without getting sick themselves? Or do doctors and nurses get common colds and bacterial infections all the time?
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Basic cleanliness goes a long way in a hospital setting. Masks and gloves will prevent a lot of stuff. I don't imagine it always works though, so they probably do get sick more often than most people, but I wouldn't say all the time.
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How did "Special Head" on America's Got Talent do his levitation act?
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The 'carpet' actually has a strong base, and the 'cane' is probably strengthened inside. The cane connects securely to a specific point on the carpet so that weight/force applied to the cane can be transferred to the carpet base, keeping the cane from falling over. Inside the magician's left sleeve is a metal attachment , this attachment is connected to a seat-like contraption inside the magician's robe .
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what exactly is it that Windows can do that my Mac (OSX) can't?
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It's mostly that there are more games and programs written for Windows only so you can't use those. Windows and Mac use different file types so a dev would have to write in both for you to use it with both Operating systems
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Why does every other animal of the same species look the same, but humans don’t?
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Every other animal species don't look the same-- a dalmation clearly isn't the same as a poodle, for example. Also, we're just bad at distinguishing between different animal species. Human brains are hardwired to recognize other humans. The Fusiform Face Area is an area in your brain that plays a key role in recognizing biman faces. Damage to the FFA results in a condition called prosopagnosia, or face blindness. These individuals cannot distinguish faces-- everyone looks the same to them. In fact, one individual was a farmer with prosopagnosia. He could recognize his sheep's faces better than people.
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why do doctors and nurses work 24+ hour shifts when that level of sleep deprivation is scientifically shown to reduce cognitive and motor performance?
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Turnover of information is key. I work in a field that's also staffed 24/7/365 but not medical, and we generally work 8 hour shifts. The amount of information that failed to make it from one shift to the next is astonishing, and routinely causes otherwise preventable issues. If healthcare did this, more patients would die. But, having the same nurses and doctors there for longer means that you have fewer chances of them not mentioning some vital piece of information that could affect your care.
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API for someone with a non-technical background
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Let's say your TV didn't come with a remote control, but it came with a list of instructions on how to make every function work . Now, you're free to use any remote you want. You don't have to use the remote it came with, you can use a remote that goes with your cable box, DVR, Blu Ray, and all that stuff. The instruction set that I mentioned above would be the API.
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Why is Fox News considered not credible?
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Because basically it's not news, it's entertainment. _URL_7_", 'Fox News produced too many news that are obviously wrong. Simple analysis can show how lots of their news are intensively influenced by conservative thinking"Don't worry kids, Santa Klaus IS White." -fox news', "It's simpler. They're #1. Fox News gets the entire conservative audience. The democrat audience is split between CNN, MSNBC, BCC, NPR, and probably half a dozen other even smaller networks. Conservatives have to spent time attacking multiple networks for poor coverage. If CNN gets something wrong, MSNBC probably got it right. In total, the democrat networks probably make the same number of 'mistakes', accidental and deliberate, as Fox. However, democrats can concentrate on one network. Fox gets blamed for *all* conservative mistakes because they're the only conservative network. That focus gives the false impression that Fox is somehow significantly worse than everyone else.One could probably produce several examples a day of why they are not credible, but here's just a popular recent one: On Sunday, a Faux News "terrorism expert" told viewers, "there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in." This is not even approximately close to reality, and the British PM publicly called the guy "a complete idiot." The guy later apologized, but AFAIK, *NOT* on the air on Fox. _URL_8_ It's worth noting that Fox viewers are constantly ranked in polls as the most un-informed people in the USFox News argued that Santa claus was white. I believe that is what they call news.Because they don't check their sources and occasionally seem to just make stuff up.
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Is it possible for people to see the same color differently?
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While I doubt that there are many cases of people seeing blue as yellow there are apparently a small number of people that have [Tetrachromacy]. Which, from the one article I read , it is possible that they see more shades of a color. So, *hypothetically* let's say that their are 100 shades of red the theory is that people with Tetrachromacy may be able to see 110 shades of red. The article said it's hard to tell though, since sight is on a personal level [meaning that I can't see through your eyes, and vice versa].
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Why is gas so cheap in the US right now?
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After reading an article for 5 minutes, I am now considered an expert. For sake of simplicity, let's say Oil=GasOil producers in the Middle-East are slashing prices, and they flood the market with cheap oil. Combine this with the normally low demand of oil in the fall and you have low-as-hell prices. In addition, investors are scared about a weakening economy .
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Before satellites how were maps made accurately?
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The answer depends on how far back before satalites your talking. Back 100 years ago, or 200 years ago is a big difference. Others gave great answers as to the how, but no one points out just how often they got it wrong. On some old maps, California is an island! Or phantom islands that get copied form map to map that never existed at all. Some maps were intentionally made wrong so that the cartographer was the only one who could read it accurately if he knew what was false on it. Despite this, they were 'good-enough' for the most part. And that's what matters.
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why do we lose our sense of time when anaesthatized but not when sleeping?
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I hate to say it, but the answer is that we don't know. We know that general anesthesia works and have some basic understanding if the mechanism, but we really do not understand why it makes you lose consciousness or lose sense of time. It's weird. Part of the problem is that we are not sure what consciousness is - or how that relates to our sense of time. Some believe that consciousness is a purely physical phenomenon and some believe it it is only partially or not at all a physical phenomenon .
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Why do employers pay little attention to what your college GPA was?
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GPA means a lot more when you're freshly out of school. But this is only because there is little else you can use to weed candidates out. Once someone has some time working in the industry, their experience and accomplishments mean a lot more. Your degree's value diminishes each and every year which is why it is important to continue to learn on the job and continue to improve yourself. Anyone who thinks their education ends when they graduate from school will not be successful.As a college student with finals coming up that will destroy my GPA, this is a reassuring thread.Experience is much more valuable than book knowlege. When I got my first engineering job GPA was the most important thing on my resume, now it's about what certs and licenses I have. At this point nobody would care if my college wasn't even accredited.
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Why is the past tense of hang "hung" when talking about an object but "hanged" when talking about a person?
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Traditionally, the words can be used interchangeably; as has already been mentioned, but it is highly discouraged to use hung when talking about the person or hanged with regard to a tapestry. Languages are constantly evolving and this is just one recent change that although seems quite arbitrary, so is language in it's entirety.The words hanged and hung can be used interchangeably as the past tense and past participle of the verb to hang. So, the bottom line is that you cannot make a mistake by using one of these words instead of the other. In regards to an execution, hanged is preferred, but not requiredIf you start talking about how hung someone is, people are going to get confused.
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If "The Cult of Mac" is so concerned about the working condtions at Foxconn, Why don't they renounce their precious gadgets in protest?
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Such a bullshit question. You're not even trying and you're just looking for new ways of being passive-aggressive about your dislike of apple.Almost all gadgets are made in China. To work in modern society, you need modern technology, so you can't avoid all gadgets. The "Cult of Mac" want their factories to be the nicest though, so they publicize poor conditions. Because the "Cult of Mac" cares so much, [conditions at Foxconn are better than they are at most other factories in China.] Since things are much better with just protests, and they would hurt themselves by not having gadgets, "The Cult of Mac" would not benefit or help things with a boycott. That would only make the factory workers lose their jobs. Since they're smart enough to know that, and selfless enough to donate time to awareness, they do what they think will help everybody the mostQuestion for you, OP: why not ask the Cult of Mac themselves? * _URL_4_ * _URL_4_ * _URL_4_ * _URL_4_ Or would that cramp your self-righteousness and passive aggression?', "For the same reason very few people will actually reduce their standard of living in order to help those in less developed countries- in general, people don't care.Because the gadgets are just too pretty. Picture Frodo trying to throw the one ring in the volcano.this its how a fanboy would feel about renouncing their iPadWhat is this, a guised political post? You may as well post, "ELI5: Why are Republican so stupid lol????"Rhetorical stupid question. You already know the answer.
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How a knife thrower always hit's the target with the pointy end.
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Ah yes, sorry about the apostrophe on the 'hit'. It was a typo.I kept thinking about this while watching the Hunger Games. I later checked to see if the knife throwing was done professionally and apparently they taught the actress how to do it: > **Learning how to throw knives — what was that like?**It was very interesting. I don’t have that strong of an arm, so it was starting with throwing a tennis ball at a target [with] the right form. And then move to a baseball. And then move to plastic knives. And then move to duct-tape-and-cardboard knives. And then move to the actual knives. A lot of it was physics, and knowing how much force to put on the knife. The knife goes three knife-lengths every rotation — a lot times I’d throw it, and it’d end up with the butt end in, and the blade would be sticking out. Which is not what you want to do. [soure]Here are the collected video links posted in response to this post : |Source|Video Link||:-------|:-------||/u/samort7 | [Chinese shovel-who needs swiss army knife]||/u/Diclonyuus | [Welcome to League of Draven]||/u/Kardlonoc | [How to Throw a Knife With No Spin or Thorn-Style: Combat Knife Throwing with Ralph Thorn]||/u/LanceCoolie | [You must never hesitate]||/u/piratedicecream | [Kung fu hustle knife scene]| * [VideoLinkBot FAQ]* [Feedback]', "I threw a few knives while hanging out with a friend a few months back. I knew it wasn't going to be as flawless as it looked in my head but it was way harder than I would have figured. It only stuck once or twice. Definitely takes practice.
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World's wealth is growing at 2.5% rate. How is this possible? Where does "new" money come from if "everybody" is wealthier now?
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If I find some rocks and sticks, and then glue them together, I've got something to sell. Voila, new wealth. If I create a new song. Voila, new wealth. People have imaginations, and hands. We dream shit up, and then actually make it.Seems like OP is asking about physical money and the answer to that sadly is that they just print more!
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How does printing more money put more into circulation? i.e. How does it get into consumer's hands?
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The first money made just gets changed each time. So when a note becomes too degraded, it gets burnt an exchanged with new notes. Now if you're also speaking about quantitative easing then this is basically the central bank buying bonds from businesses, which provides the business with more 'money' in effect. There is no actual printing of money involved anymore, an this is where people get confused. This increase in money is then able to be circulated by the businesses in the circular flow of income. The government hopes that a trickle down effect will occur and the money will MULTIPLY, causing a bigger increase in money than the initial input. It's a bit difficult to do ELIA5 on Q.E, but youtube is great for simpler videos than my explanation.
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American politicians always talk about millionaires and billionaires paying less in taxes than everyone else (or even not paying taxes). How is this possible?
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A lot of people have mentioned preferential rates for capital gains, interest, and dividends, and that capital losses can offset capital gains. Another way in which high net worth individuals diversify their portfolio and reduce their effective tax rate is through tax-exempt income streams. It doesn't even have to be that complicated. For example, high net worth individuals often invest in their state's tax-exempt municipal bonds, that provide safe income streams that are exempt from Federal and their state's income taxes. Without even considering the preferential rates of capital gains, dividends and interest, if they have sufficient alternative minimum tax offsets, high net worth individuals can often have large amounts of completely tax-free income.
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Why are LED light bulbs so expensive while LED diodes are so cheap?
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High efficacy 100lm/w LED that is comparable to HID is still very expensive to manufacture. Heat dissipation, lumen output, light distribution, drivers. Cheap LED's around 10w don't perform consistently. Variations in colour temp, rendering, lumen output. These tend to come from the lower end of the binning process.because the dime a dozen leds are 0.25w or lower. to be an effective bulb, you need round 5-10w. the problem with packing that much power from leds in a small space is that while they are much more efficient than incandescent bulbs, and produce less heat, they are far less able to handle heat. this means that they need to be cooled, which can be problematic', "They aren't so expensive anymore. They are 5-8 dollars at home Depot now for the Cree brand. My whole room is lit up with them.
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If vinegar is just over-ripe alcohol, why is it so much cheaper than booze?
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Alcohol also gets you drunk, so they charge more. There's also a steep markup on top notch or luxury booze. Most famously, Grey Goose vodka became a premium vodka with a bottle redesign and a higher price.
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Why every garbage dumpster smells the same?
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Lactobacillus creates the sour smell. Clostridium makes a fecal odor. They're pretty much the most common bacterias", 'Ever followed a garbage truck down the street on its route? YummyAlternatively, why does every school lunchbox smell the same?
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Babies and toddlers have smaller lungs and vocal chords than grown ups. How are they able to cry and scream so much louder than adults?
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Volume is controlled by how fast the air is moving over your vocal chords, which isn't really affected by the size of your lungs or your vocal cords .
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Why dont game companies just remake popular games for next gen consoles?
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A lot of it has to do with licensing disputes. Game companies don't want to pay up so the game doesn't get made.
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In the footage of today’s Florida shooting, students were escorted with their hands up, why?
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Standard crowd control procedure. You don't know if there is another assailant in the group. You have them do something visual, so if someone becomes noncompliant/violent it's really easy to see. In a high stress situation like that your brain might miss something that might be pretty obvious when you're able to go back and review footage. So the more visually obvious any non-compliance is, the better able the response team will be to stop it.
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What is the difference between memory used in RAM and memory used in a hard drive; and why is 32Gb of RAM so much more expensive than a 32Gb hard drive?
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I don't think these replys precisely, but in ELI5 terms, describe why it is cheaper. OP, imagine you have 1,000 marbles. You have two extreme options on how to store them. One option is to buy a large bin, and throw them all in there. Super effective and efficient, until you need to get get certain marbles at certain times. It takes a little bit of effort to find the right marble. This is like and HDD. Now imagine constructing a huge plane, in which each marble has a specific number assigned to it. This object will allow you to punch in the marble you want, and it will dispense this marble to you very quickly. If you have a marble to store, you assign it a number, put it on a tray, it it is quickly wished away to storage. You can spam this machine like crazy you could get all 1,000 marbles in the order you desire in just seconds. You could then put all those marbles back in order in a short time. That is like RAM. Ram is specific, engineered precisely, and takes more precise production processes to produce. Imagine in the huge, fast marble machine that you had cheap labor to build it, and instead of clean chutes, they use rusted, dirty chutes. This would slow down the marbles, and could cause problems if you wanted a lot of marbles all at once. Instead, you pay for the highest quality labor and components, such that the machine can operate quickly. Producing chips is hard work. It isn't easy to construct machines that are nanometers large. The more precise the production process is, it takes more time, resources, and money.
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Why can our bodies develop resistance to harsh viruses such as the flu, but Poison Ivy still plagues many of us each year?
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Poison Ivy is harsh ironically because of the immune system's reaction, it actually is not harmful, the irritant in poison ivy is called Urushiol, an oil that acts as an allergen, it is basically safe, the body simply overreacts . On the other hand, a virus is a somewhat living thing that reproduces using bodily resources and in the this process, it kills cells. You can die from a virus, while it is almost impossible to die from urushiol . As pesky as urushiol is, selective pressures have not found it harmful enough to remove the body's allergic reaction to it.Actually, the rash from poison ivy is an allergic reaction. In other words, the very immune system that should be protecting you is panicking about nothing. You cannot become immune because that attempt is what causes the problem in the first place.
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What exactly is an alloy? I know it’s not a chemical compound but is there any chemical bonding happening? Is it just a mixture?
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Metals don't form molecules with normal bondings, they share their electrons more freely and not only between the same metal but any metal. So you can really mix metal atoms in any proportion you want and they will mix just fine. As for separating, it is possible, maybe not with a 100% efficiency, but your metals will be of different density, in liquid form they should separate with time, you may need to repeat the procedure before you get enough purity. You can also exploit their chemical properties, you can for example use an acid that is only able to dissolve one of the metals, that'll leave you with one metal untouched and the other dissolved in the acid .
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Why does returning to Point A from Point B during a car ride seem faster than going to Point B from Point A?
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Novel experiences capture more of your attention, so you're more engaged on the way there. You zone out on the way back because you've seen it already.
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How exactly did Bill Gates become so rich?
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Shrewd business, stealing ideas, and threatening competition. It's only as of lately he's tried to look like a nice guy, giving away his money and what not.His company made software that practically everyone in the world needs to buy at some point.
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Why does it matter if our government spies on us, so long as they don't release the information to the public?
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Oh /u/derp245 I see you visited /r/GoneWild quite a few times. You are *obviously* a pervert. I happen to be an ultra-right wing government employee. I think you are one sick individual. I mean, I never get to see girls naked and you do it all the time. I think you need a little freedom. I'll pass your information over to the IRS. Maybe if you get audited next year, you'll be so busy that you won't have time to look at naked girls. And God help you if you were looking at naked *guys*!
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Why does the US keep arming rebels when years later history shows those same rebels kill us with those weapons?
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Two major drivers are responsible: 1) The US arms industry is the largest in the world and is constantly seeking customers. 2) US foreign policy tends to be dominated by various interventionist factions who claim the US is obligated to behave in certain ways. Basically, we've got the guns and the people running the show are happy to hand them out whenever they believe it serves their interests.
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Why don't we just dump our garbage into a magma pit?
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Even if it magma pits were conveniently located throughout our garbage disposal network, it's no better than just burning the garbage. It's cheap to burn garbage. The expensive part of incinerator plants are the infrastructure to move the garbage and to filter out the toxic emissions, neither of which is solved by adding magma.
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why don't we have more roundabouts since they minimize traffic?
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Down in Canberra Australia, there is an apparent absence of traffic lights, replaced with roundabouts. They're around every second corner, if not first hahah. Canberrans complain about them very frequently. I personally do not, as i understand the useful difference.
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Why songs are generally 3~5 minutes long.
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Well, as [Billy put it: ] > You've heard my latest record,It's been on the radio.Ah, it took me years to write it,They were the best years of my life.It was a beautiful song.But it ran too long.If you're gonna have a hit,You gotta make it fit--So they cut it down to 3:05. This was a reference to his song [Piano Man], which originally ran 5:38 but was cut down to 3:05 to fit in a radio play slot.
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Why is that, all of a sudden, we have teachers getting arrested for having sex with minors?
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Social media makes is more tempting and compared to the 90s high school teenagers have become much more sexualized. Also fashion has contributed ad well. Yoga pants and skinny jeans weren't always around and now they are part of a teenagers everyday wardrobe.
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How do massive schools of fish swim around without just bashing into each other
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I did a project in college modeling schools of fish. 1.) If an individual fish is too close to any fish, then it will turn to swim away from that fish. 2.) If there are no fish too close, then an individual fish will attempt to travel in the same direction as fish that are a middle distance away. 3.) If there are fish that are far away, then an individual fish will attempt to turn towards fish that are far away. The fish will prioritize rule 1 over 2 and 3. For the other 2 rules, they will use a combination. There's a 4th rule that supercedes all other rules, which is to swim away from any predator. _URL_1_ That's basically what those 4 rules look like when simulated. If there had been more green arrows, the arrows would have reformed into one group instead of broken up into multiple smaller groups.
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How the Imperial system works.
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A lot of it is simply a result of legacy measurements. Say, a foot was originally calibrated by the actual foot of the King of England. This was later slightly harmonized, but naturally, makes much less sense than the SI/Metric system, and leads to several subvarieties of each unit . It is therefore impossible to rationalize. The Fahrenheit scale is calibrated so that 100 degrees corresponds to the temperature of the human body, > The lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the temperature of a solution of brine made from equal parts of ice and salt. So, yeah, you shouldn't even *try* wrapping your head around it.
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How come VCs & Angel investors don't just hire people to copy an idea rather than invest in it?
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First and foremost, they are usually legally prevented from doing so. Potential investors evaluating the company typically sign NDAs and other agreements to prevent exactly what you describe from happening. Also, it usually isn't cheaper for an investor to try to do it themselves. They and anyone they hire is going to lack the specific expertise and would have to from square one. Also, without the prospect of becoming a successful entrepreneur, a hired hand is just going to put in their 40 hours a week and go home, the will not be busting their ass to be successful at all costs like a owner would.Copyright, patent and workload amongst other things. A VC doesn't necessarily want the extra workload of having to hire people when they can just throw money at it and let someone else work out the details. Patents and copyrights on existing ideas and products make it really difficult to "copy" stuff, unless you're in China When you invest, you are not taking on all the risk. If you copied the idea, you face all responsibility in losing start up costs.
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Before the advances in dental surgery, how did people deal with wisdom teeth?
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Isn't there also a growing school of thought among dentists that we have been overdoing the wisdom tooth removal thing, i.e., that it is an unnecessary extraction for a significant percentage of the population? Yeah, [here's one link.] Can't attest to the reliability of it but there were lots to choose from.I listened to a podcast on anthropology and dentistry on star talk radio a few weeks ago. They explained that prior to cooking, we had to chew our food much more in order to extract enough nutrition. As a result, our jaws were wider because the act of chewing stimulates bone remodelling to make chewing more efficient. When our ancestors started cooking food, we no longer had to chew quite as much and our jaws started to become narrower over time. While our jaws narrowed, we still grow the same number of teeth because we are genetically programmed to do so, and this results in crowding. Since our wisdom teeth are the last ones to come in, they are more likely to have issues erupting and can lead to them becoming impacted and subsequently infected. Interestingly, european populations were one of the first to really cook a lot of their foods, and this is reflected in their facial structure and tendency to have crowded teeth. Edit: punctuation and a word.Some people don't have issues with their wisdom teeth, I only took out one which was slanted, the rest only bothers my dentist
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Why do so many news agencies cite Reuters stories for their information? What's so special about Reuters?
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As a fellow journalist who trusts Reuters and AP I think I can answer in ELI5 mode: When someone does something the right way for a long time you trust them. Reuters is news agency which proved itself in time for doing proper journalistic work so that's why everyone is trusting them. And continuing in ELI10: Trust is very important when you are working with information. Journalism is not some production in which you can just buy the best part for your assembly, it is very delicate field where you work with rumours, information which not always is true. And Reuters and AP have true information because they gained trustworthy relations with people who have first-hand access to very delicate information.
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What is the Trans-pacific Partnership TPP?
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[Great article on TPP] TL;DR is that it's a gigantic trade agreement covering U.S., Canada, and 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It's controvesial because it threatens to force other countries in the agreement to behave like the USA; increase crackdown on copyright protection, make it harder to make generic drugs, end state-owned enterprises, protect tobacco companies from taxation/ban on advertisements basically all kinds of stuff that favour the rich and screw up the poor. It's done in secret and has a high potential to exacerbate economic inequality. And also threatens to increase the ability of private companies to sue governments. Essentially it allows people in other countries to be screwed hard by the rich in the US. So it has little chances of being passed and I won't spend too much effort caring about it if I am you.
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Why does water expire?
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Its not the water. Its the container. Also maybe they are hoping you are foolish enough to throw it out and buy fresh water. Don't be foolish. They put an expiration label on it because people expect one.
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