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When someone has their identity stolen, why is their responsibility to fix it and not those of the banks/organizations who allowed the thief to do so?
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> as far as taking out a mortgage or opening a new bank account, why aren't these institutions held responsible for not verifying one's identity? In such situations the bank *did* verify the person's identity. The identity thief had all of the necessary documents and information to prove that they were you. That is, they provided the same documentation that you yourself would have been asked to give. Sure, you could ask that the bank do a more thorough job, but that comes at a cost. Do you want to have to show a birth certificate and passport just to be able to open a savings account? Some risk is necessary to make the product they're offering convenient enough to be used at all. And if an identity thief manages to get a fake driver's license and social security card, knows the answers to all your security questions, etc. then the bank is just as much of a victim as you are.quick tip, when i trash anything that contains my info, and i dont have a shredder, i just put like 5 liters of water in to the bag, if you want to steal my info, better be prepared to deal with bunch of wet ripped paper in a bag. good luck. if it dries before you get to it, all the better.
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How does a database handle 1 billion users?
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Recognize that 1 billion users is really just a Google and Facebook problem and maybe a handful of others. The basic pieces of relational databases, if used properly, ensure that most of the time you don't actually need to store whole records. You store the bits that are unique and then just keep links to the bits. Then you make sure that you never ask questions that require you to scan the entire database. Think about a library. You don't have to look at every single book to find something specific. You look up the book in the catalogue, get the books call number and then go right to the specific shelf you need. Databases work this way too. The library catalogue is a database index. For those rare cases when you do want to browse in a library, you don't pick random shelves, you arrange the shelves in sections that have books of the same type. So you can browse, but not the whole library. For databases this is partitioning or sharding. Lastly, modern databases can do some special things with indexes when you're not looking for individual records but you want to count things. Most analytics queries aren't actually for individual records but for aggregates. You can define views and indices on particular types of aggregates so that asking those kinds of questions is more like going to one specific shelf in a library instead of scanning all the books one by one. You need good database design, good database admin, and in very rare circumstances brand new tech.
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How do those multi-image 'shiny' cards work?
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There are a bunch of tiny, triangle shaped ridges on the surface. One image is print on one side of each ridge and another on the other. Depending on the angle, you can see the image on one side or the other. The shininess probably comes from the material used to make them, the way they work doesn't require them to be shiny.
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If Dr. Who is a time-lord, fully capable of time travel, then why does he not simply travel back in time once trouble starts to avoid it/fix it before it even happened?
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They actually explain it on the show, just watch Father's Day . I won't say any more [because, you know]
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At what point do architects and engineers have to factor for the curvature of the earth ?
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Keep in mind that gravity is going to flex whatever physical structure you put in place. Nuclear reactors have a crank shaft , that is this huge, long, metal, pole that is spun by the reactor to create electrical power. It isn't very long in the grand scheme of things , but it is still so long that when you do a maintenance shutdown you have to keep a backup motor running to slowly turn it so that it doesn't start to sag. We don't think of steel, or cement, or whatever flexing, but it does to a degree far greater than the curvature of the earth.
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Why children watch the same movie hundreds of time?
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This hasn't been said and might not be true, but I think they do it because it is something they know. It is easier to watch something they know they like instead of trying something new.the same reason most people answer to these "what's 1+1, share and comment if you know" posts on facebook. they know the answer and it makes them feel smart and good.the same reason people go apeshit if they get a "hidden joke" or "homage" in movies, or recognize people in them. natures reward for a positive response. kids will know what happen, be right about it and recognize things. they will feel good!', "I am 24 and I tend to play my favourite youtube clips over and over again. It's a ritualistic thing !
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How much of the bluster we hear from North Korea actually comes from Kim Jong Un? Does he really "rule" or is he a figurehead?
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Personally, I found it interesting that shortly after his coming to power the attitude towards the West relaxed. There were talks about co-operation, trade, dialogue. Then not too long after that, the tide changed. The rhetoric re-emerged, and so did the frosty tension. Now it's gone further into that realm with the re-establishment of the nuclear program. I'm wondering whether Kim Jong Un, with his Western education and experience, wanted an end to the conflict and then the establishment or his senior officials twisted his arm to the contrary. It's difficult to figure out just how much of what NK now says is from him or from the other seniors who have long been part of the West-hating, but I found it an interesting observation when he came to power.> I wonder how such aggressive talk can come from someone who's so young and so, well, inexperienced That's the point. When his dead was young and inexperienced, he made the same kind of threats. It's their way of showing that they have power. Eventually they "prove" how powerful they are and become more moderate. And yes, he does really rule NK. He has advisers but he makes the actual decisions.His father and his grand father also stirred up the 'peace' when they came to power. He's new to the playing field and needs to be noticed. I think The Great Fearless Majestic Leader wants to show the world he isn't just an adorable child. He may also have a dark side and could possibly be a force to be reckoned with.
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Why is tobacco the default smoking herb?
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It's easy to grow quick and dirty en masse, doesn't impair your senses so you can pretty much smoke anytime, and properly dosed nicotine is very relaxing.
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Why do some people believe vitamins/supplements don't do anything-- wouldn't that be easy to test?
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I'm not sure if many people believes that vitamins/supplements don't do anything at all. Just they know/feel that some supplements are pure snake oil and are essentially worthless, and that taking vitamins in excess of what your body needs and are already getting from your regular diet is unnecessary as your body will just expel them as waste.
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What's the relation of video resolution to screen resolution?
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Think of it like an older digital camera. When you take a picture of a landscape or whatever on an old camera , you have a representation of the lanscape that doesn't match the original quality. It is blurrier than the landscape itself while still showing an image of the landscape.
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How and why do we talk in our sleep?
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Ha! I don't talk in my sleep; at least I've never been told I have because I sleep alone. God I'm lonely.
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Why most Americans drive automatic transmissions when every other country drives manual gear shifts?
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The automatics are supposedly getting better gas mileage now. I used to get about 44 mph with my Honda civic with a manual transmission. My Toyota doesn't get that but it gets brtter has mileage when compared to cars built at the same time. When I was trying to buy a manual transmission, I could only find 2 used cars. When my mom tried to buy a manual new car, she gave up because the dealership was taking too long to get it in.
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Why doesn't the U.S. hire an agent/spy, give him extensive plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Dennis Rodman, send him to North Korea and take care of business?
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If we wanted to take him out we could without having to make a fake Dennis Rodman. We don't want to take him out because that would create a much worse situation than we have now.
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why don't cars have a dedicated battery just for starting?
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Two reasons: weight and cost. If you have two batteries you'll have to maintain and eventually replace two batteries. It will also add weigh to the cars which means higher fuel consumption. It's just not justified for a civilian vehicle especially small or mid size car to have it. However, many commercial and industrial vehicles have two or more batteries, because of their needs, cost and reliability.The battery is actually there *purely* to start the car. Once running, your lights, radio, etc, are operating off of the alternator which turns the rotation of the engine into electricThere are actually some interesting projects on youtube where you can use cheap capacitors in place of a cranking battery and use a deep cycle battery in place of all the room created by removing the cranking battery. I saw a kick starter project with this design. I dont have the links ..sorry.I didn't see it posted, so just as an aside, several models from Mercedes Benz have a separate battery isolated just for the starter.
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what is Déjà vu,and why does it happen? also, does it play any known role in mental illness?
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Deja vu is the feeling that you have experienced something before. Because there is no reliable way to cause it, there is no reliable way to test it and so it is not known for sure how it happens. Some theories include that your brain tries to recognise things to make sense of them and sometimes you see something that your brain tries to relate to a past memory and that causes deja vu. Also your brain is in two halves and these halves swap information so it is though that sometimes there might be a fraction of a second delay in the signal so one half of your brain experiences something 'live' then a minute fraction of a second later gets the signal from the other half of your brain and experiences it 'again' almost immediately. There are drugs known to increase the chance of deja vu and there is plenty of evidence that it is linked to types of epilepsy so that some people experiencing deja vu are actually warned of an impending attack.
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Why is it impossible to achieve immortality according to science?
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There's a component in our DNA called a telomere which becomes shorter as we get older. I don't know all the science behind it, but it's supposed to prevent your chromosomes from sticking together. When Dolly the sheep was cloned, the yus she was cloned from were middle-aged, and so the telomeres in her DNA were half the length of a typical lamb. So, her lifespan was half of a normal sheep's.
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Why did Edward Snowden take asylum in Russia?
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The State Department revoked his passport while he was in transit from China to Russia , and so he was effectively stranded in Russia. Russia also turns out to be one of the few countries that doesn't bow easily to diplomatic pressure from the US, so it's an ideal destination for people that want to avoid extradition to the US .
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the controversy surrounding Betsy DeVos' nomination as Education Secretary
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In addition to everything here: I believe parents who put their kids into charter schools or private schools are upset that they are still paying taxes that go to public schools. In their mind, we aren't using it so why should be pay for it? The voucher system not only incentives the move of kids from public schools to charter/private/christian schools, it also lowers the funding provided to public schools. The kids whose parents can't afford to move them to charter schools will have even less resources than they have now.
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Why do some people think it's bad to drink bottled water after it has been opened and sitting out for a few hours?
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There was a myth that plastic bottles, when left in the sun/heated, would release cancer things into the water. While this is completely not true, the myth has persisted and probably is the source of what you've experienced. Bottled water is totally safe, even after being opened/sitting out. I wouldn't microwave it, though.
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Why can we not see our eyes move in mirrors?
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It is because your mind blocks your visual processing while moving your eyes. What's weirder is that your brain also prevents you from noticing it. It's called saccadic masking.Your eyes move in a mechanism called saccades, as a way of image resolution enhancement. Blanking is what allows the eye to reposition to the next fixation.
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Why do people buy insurance, instead of just saving in a bank account?
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Because it's more affordable for the average person. Let's say Bob earns 700 a week. In that week, Bob has to spend money on food, rent/mortgage, petrol, recreation and it leaves Bob with 100 for a rainy day. If Bob gets insurance for say 200 a month, then it cost's Bob 50 a week for full coverage incase he gets into an accident. If Bob decided to instead just save up , then it would take Bob x100 weeks just to have 50k saved just by putting in 50 a week. So Bob can't drive for two years 'just incase' he hits an expensive car. > At least, in a bank account, an accident doesn't need to occur to be able to access your invested money, right? Technically you can, but then you can't get into an accident until you replace that money. Can you be 100% sure you won't cause an accident?! Also, if you hit a Lamboghini . Be prepared to sell your house. -edit-x1000 weeks.
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Why is it that you can get chicken pocks once and never get it again, but other sicknesses keep coming back?
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There's only one chicken pox. Last year, you might have come down with Cold #284 and #118, and Flu #172. As a child, you have less exposure to the different viruses, but as you check them off, one by one, you get sick less as a teenager and young adult. Every region has their own common viruses, so when you go to college, you have the opportunity to share with others from different places, so you are vulnerable again!
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Why does asthma still exist when before medication asthmatics should have died out of the gene pool?
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Asthma is caused by both genetic means as well as environmental means, so asthmatics wouldn't 'die out' of the gene pool any more than someone who got skin cancer from sun exposure would, considering that cancer itself can be caused genetically and environmentally. Make sense? Hope so! Peace!
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Passenger jet thrust reversers. If the air coming in is equal to the air being pushed out, wouldn't they both cancel eachother out?
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Jet thrust reversers are simply mechanical deflector devices which divert the direction of the engines' thrust so that it is no longer to the rear but toward the front. The normal operation of the engine itself does not change in any way, except when the throttle is advanced to increase the thrust to slow the plane down more quickly. _URL_0_", 'In a jet, the air is drawn, compressed, mixed with fuel, and ignited in one smooth motion also the intake is much larger than the exhaust. So the "air" coming out is much much faster than the air going in. Reversers simply redirect the airflow back towards the intake.
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Why would viruses and bacteria ever try to harm their host?
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You seem to think that bacteria are capable of rationality or in control of their evolutionary process. Bacteria don't think, they don't do cost/benefit analysis, they don't understand humans as macro organisms. They just do, they infest and damage and kill and they do so without thought or mercy.The harm that they cause makes you do things like cough, sneeze, have diarrhoea, etc, all of which help spread the infectious agent to a new host so it can further spread.
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How did Jurrasic Park have such good cgi in 1993?
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Jurassic Park pretty much falls under the scope of 'less is more'. It works so well cause most of it is animatronics and real and they used CGI for select scenes but they put everything in their CGI for that reason.
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Why can I not delete unnecessary things from my brain?
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The brain has no delete function because it has not evolved to have one. Because of the way the brain is constructed -- everything connected up -- deleting information, without damaging other nearby information, turns out to be super difficult. People with major injuries to certain parts of the brain can end up with some information deleted, but it's a whole bunch of things at once, including ones they'd rather remember.
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What's a "hipster"?
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Hipsters say they aren't mainstream by not doing anything mainstream. Most can't see the irony in pretending not to be defined as mainstream but depending on mainstream culture to define themselves at all.I use the word "hipster" instead of saying the words, "pretentious ass." _URL_1_A hipster is something that everyone thinks everyone else is. i.e. it is a stupid term that only promotes prejudice and we should probably stop labeling people as suchI feel like the people who say the word hipster does not have a meaning anymore are people who are hipsters and are insulted by said word.
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Regarding protests around the world, why do the police or military take orders from a dictatorial regime that's bent on curbing freedoms, including their own?
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Just read Lord of The Flies, it's human nature. There is a social structure and hierarchy, ethics and values are a sliding scale. People settle in and inherit the circumstances of whatever community/group provides them security and necessity, even luxury. They do what they need to do to protect their well being or get what they want, even if that means initiatives that hurt others.
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Why do some children's disappearances spark nationwide news coverage while some only get talked about locally?
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Some kids are white. Right after the massive story about the Danielle kidnap/murder in San Diego a little black boy went missing. I haven't heard a word about him in at least half a decade.
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During a supernova, at what point does the implosion of a star change to an explosion, and what causes this shift?
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When the star collapse, the gravity is so strong that the particle forming the star are collapsing near the speed of light. But there is a force called electron degeneracy, which stop the collapse. It's like a car crashing on a wall so you have a release of kinetic energy, which is equal to m*1/2*v². The mass is the mass of each particle and the V is near the speed of light, so the collapsing particle stopping suddenly by electron degeneracy release massive amount of energy. If the mass of the star collapsing is too high, even the electron degeneracy won't be enough to stop it and so nothing will stop the collapse of the star, which create a black hole.
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Why are our teachers forced to teach to a standardized test instead of truly teaching? And how can we fix this?
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A normal class will have a bell curve of scores. Some students will be really good at academics, some will be really poor, but most will be right around average. It's silly to expect most of the students to be in the top of their class, and it's silly to evaluate teachers based on this system. It's also ridiculous to evaluate teachers based on things they have no control over. A teacher has no control over whether a student that is behind in math, is spending time at home studying to catch up or playing Call of Duty instead.Another thing to consider is what is appropriate to teach. There are schools who would refuse to teach sex ed or insist god be taught or bring many other unwanted types of personal beliefs to a classroom. Standards are necessary.I don't think they are. In my experience the standardized tests were of higher quality than the non-standard ones. For example a teacher will have a multiple choice test, and during each term they introduce a few new questions. Then they can look at data and see how students perform on them. If students are doing poorly on a question then the teacher can notice that the question is poorly worded, or somehow subjective, and they can make it better for next time. Tests have a combination of good questions and pilot questions. If you are looking at tests that are standardized across regions, if those are used, then that's probably just the best way they have thought of to measure the variance between student performance in that region. If you can find a better way to do that then suggest it and maybe they will use that instead of standardized testing. We also have to keep in mind that this new method shouldn't be too much more expensive than standardized tests.
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Why do humans bare their teeth (smile) to show positive emotions when baring teeth is an almost universal signal of aggression or fear among other mammals?
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People still can use smiles as a sign of agression. When I get really mad, I get this nut house smile like I'm going to do something people aren't going to like. It has never been mistaken as a happy smile..
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Why do people tap their foot or move their leg while they are otherwise sitting still?
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If it's too quiet I do this to make a beat almost like my mind can't take the silence so it makes a song up.
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No matter how fast I shake my hips back and forth, my penis always seems to waggle at the same frequency. Why?
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As you increase the speed of your gyrations your cock increases in length due to natural elasticity resulting in a constant whip speed . This length will reach max at the same time as your body's max gyration frequency . Gmax coincides with Gcrit which is the point of structural failure of the cock or back. The only way to increase whip speed is to keep the cock length constant. To achieve this you need it to harden it using imaginary or manual power. There is a formula in here somewhere.The angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat everyone knows thatI was shadow boxing buck neked in front of the mirror yesterday and had a similar thought.With or without underwear? Boxers or briefs? Does it make a difference? Sorry, I don't have one and I'm trying to picture it so I need more details.Have you tried making big, circular loops with your hips?
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How do those infomercials/commercials selling products know when you "call within the next 10 minutes" for whatever they addon for free?
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Generally, they don't. It's a marketing gimmick to instill urgency in the purchase decision. The more time you have to think about it, the more time you have to decide you don't really need to buy it.
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Why haven't the rest of the world gone into North Korea and put a stop to what is quite obviously a brutal dictatorship?
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Kim my precious leader if you're reading this, please forgive these fools. They have not seen your true light nor have they learned how to bask in your glory.
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Why do magnets repel water?
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Magnets don't repel water, but magnets apply force electric currents. If you have a stream of water and you run an electric current through it then you can use a magnet to bend the stream. It's probably a video designed to seem like more than it really is.I imagine you could simulate it by connecting a voltage between the tap and a metal sink so a current flowed through the water stream. Then the flow would divert just like any other conductor in a magnetic field. Which direction did the flow move in relation to the poles of the magnet?
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What are unions and why are they hated by virtually all employers?
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Unions at their most basic are a group of employees organizing to negotiate for things as a group from their employer ultimately through the implicit or explicit threat of a strike . Employers don't like them because it shifts the balance of power from employers to employees.
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In an area of gas for $2.09+, why doesn't/can't one gas station just destroy the competition by selling gas for $1.99 and advertising it heavily?
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because while yes $1.99 might sell more, why sell gas 10¢ less when the consumer will buy it no matter what at $2.09 ? this concept is called 'market price', i.e. the price the consumer will pay for it no matter what. If you sell 10 gallons at $1.99 and i sell 10 gallons at $2.09, you just lost money.
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Does the government indirectly fund abortions by funding Planned Parenthood?
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It's an argument of semantics by that point. You can argue all you want that none of the money that Planned Parenthood uses in abortion-related services come from government funding, but if your opponents considering that government money being used to keep the electricity running or pay the secretary at the front counts as funding abortion then you may as well give up. They are not going to change their mind because they've moved the field posts to something you cannot achieve. Instead, I would suggest tossing the response of 'so what?'. Because, quite frankly, so what if government money goes to abortion directly or indirectly? Government money has gone to a lot of things that people will disagree with - private prisons, abstinence-only education, supporting Middle East totalitarian regimes, launching guided missiles at a wedding party in Yemen, overthrowing democratically-elected governments, massive tax breaks for oil companies, buying hundreds of battle tanks that the military itself says it doesn't want or need. The list goes on and on. Frankly, the money spent going towards Planned Parenthood is barely a drop in the bucket. You could also remind them that Planned Parenthood provides a great number of vital services for both men and women including STD testing and cancer screening. And removing PP would do absolutely nothing to decrease the number of abortions if anything it'll increase it. In fact, the most effective way to reduce abortions is to make contraceptives and sex education readily available to the public, which PP does, but I somehow doubt facts will get you very far
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Why are there so many tire shops in poorer neighborhoods?
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Tire shops are noisy and need space to store a large number of size/brands/types of tires. Tires typically aren't something you buy frequently , so having to go into a worse part of town isn't the same inconvenience it would be with more frequent purchase.I think its convienience. I personally know 5 adult mechanics. All the tire shops also do small repairs. Selling tires gets people in the door and hopefully will make them into reoccurring customers. Why do we need so many salons? So many pizza shops? So many liquor stores? Going with /u/Annihilating_Tomato, there must be a sell what people can afford variable in there.The rent is more affordable and those neighborhoods are less likely to have zoning restrictions and NIMBYs insisting that they're ruining the ambiance of their community
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Why is looking at stars like looking back in time?
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its largely because of distance. light takes time to travel but it is extremely fast , so everything you see is in the past. something a meter away, or even several kilometers away would be in current time as far as you know because the light can travel that distance nearly instantly. however because space is so so so SO SO massive in size the light takes a long time to reach us from the distant stars. and what you see is not all from the same time either, a closer star's light could reach us centuries before a further star's does even if they appear to be right next to each other from where you stand since you cant judge the distance between two dots of light.Stars are very far away, even so that light takes time to reach us from then. That can take years. By the time light reaches our eyes, we are seeing something that happened years ago. For all we know that star could be gone.
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Why do instructors scream so much in the army?
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[Here's an article by a former drill instructor on some of the thinking/psychology behind military basic training.] TL;DR: Train people to work under stress
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Why is go considered a more complex game than chess?
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Consider the fact that chess' objectives are very specific; Eliminate the king's legal moves to win and steal a piece's place on the board to capture that piece. In go, each capture is like a checkmate; You have to eliminate an enemy piece's/group of pieces' legal moves to capture them. Even then, your overall score is usually calculated by empty spaces completely bordered by your pieces with captured pieces typically being worth less or nothing. This means the complex process of capturing enemy pieces is usually a means to clearing up captured spaces. So, generally speaking, in go there are more spaces on the game grid, more moves to make each turn , and eliminating opposing game pieces is as complicated as the climactic objective of chess.Every turn on chess there is a pretty finite number of turns you can make. There is only 16 pieces you have and each one on any one turn has maybe ten choices of squares it could move to. Go has 361 squares and for a lot of the game you can move to a majority of themThat "Go is more complex than Chess" thing comes from the fact that go can support more different possible situations than chess, in fact the number of possible situations in go is greater than the number of atoms in the universe. [Source]
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If fevers are part of our body's natural process to fighting off infection / viruses, why do we often take medication to take away the fever?
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We aren't supposed to unless it gets too high. If it gets so high that it's heating our internal organs, it can cause hearing loss, kidney problems, etc. That's why they say not to take medication for a fever unless it's over a certain degree. The medicine we take is usually meant more for the discomfort/pain. Medicine to control a fever is only in extreme cases or when it involves a child.Can I ask something relating towards this as well, we feel physically cold and I remember needing like 2 blankets to warm myself, even though my temperature is actually already high. Is this instinct or is my body trying to kill me faster?
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Why sports leagues in the USA (e.g. the MLS and NBA) do not have relegation
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We do have a multi tiered system, especially in baseball. But the difference is that the teams don't move up or down between leagues, but the players do. NFL and NBA, not so much, but they have college sports to act as minor leagues.
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Why do we try to save species that are going extinct?
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There is a certain sense that it is unfair to future generations of people to deprive them of the species which we now have, even if the only use they may ever have for some particular species might be to look at it in a zoo. The world does not in any sense actually *need* the white rhinoceros, which is nearing extinction, but we do have the opportunity to look at a white rhinoceros, and in all likelihood future generations won't. Of course, one might argue that the white rhinoceros is not that different from the more abundant black rhinoceros. But both varieties could be extinct soon, and the world will lose something. Maybe not something essential, but still something. There is currently some interesting scientific research about how to recreate an extinct species, but it is not an easy thing to do, and we cannot count on it. Species that become extinct are likely to be extinct forever. They will never be seen again.
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Why do companies have their head offices in places like London when they could go further north and get the same size building for a fraction of the cost?
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It's called clustering. Businesses effectively set up together so that they can share employees, distributors, etc. It might be cheaper to move north of London but you'll have a significantly smaller pool of qualified workers to draw from, less distributors, etc.Currently work for a large international company. Their "main" offices are in London and New York, but the majority of their staff, including myself, are dispersed around the world. They are constantly looking for new departments to move to cheaper areas. Office space is roughly 10 times as much in their NY office as it is where I live. I'm in IT so it's conference calls and screen sharing for meetings. I have maybe 1 or 2 local meetings a week.Before IT made it a lot easier to be Decentralized, some times it just helps everyone being in the same big city. Throw in easy access to the Square mile and it's almost a no brainier back in the 70's 80's", 'Along with the other answers another reason is purely for status. My mate has a company which is registered in London using a company set up just to register other companies. His office is 30 miles from London.When you're in a big city, you can hire the best workers and have access to other companies to do business with. Business partners also think that big city offices make you look more credible.
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Why do all curly fries have that similar seasoning?
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I think that I am in the minority in that I prefer my fries without that curly fry seasoning technique. It's too .greasy maybe. That doesn't sound like the right words but there is definitely a different texture that I don't appreciate as much. I'll still eat them though.Growing up in a Hispanic household my mom used to always put Adobo and cumin on fries. Tastes somewhat the same as the seasoning on chain restaurant curly fries.
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When the banks were bailed out, why weren't loans from those banks forgiven?
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TARP was about giving loans to the banks to prevent a credit freeze. Without lines of credit many businesses wouldn't even be able to make payroll. Not giving banks those emergency loans would have caused a domino effect. Contrary to popular belief the government actually made money from the TARP loans.
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Why do I feel most productive right before I go to bed?
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I read once that [this] is the reason why we work best when tired. At least, as a programmer, this seems to hold true for me. The gist of it is that because we're tired, it takes ALL of our attention and focus to even maintain focus on one thing. So instead of our divided attention, the task at hand will use your undivided attention and instead of alt-tabbing to reddit or sleeping, you're trying too hard to focus on something else to even consider it.You sir, are what we call a "[Night Owl]". According to this source, your brain and spinal cord are at their worst during the morning and they get more active throughout the day, reaching a high point at night. I hope this helped!', "[I have the perfect saved article for this.] LY5: It's quieter, less distractions. The slight sleep deprivation is just enough to limit your mind to a few tasks without taking away much cognitive ability.
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How do we know what we're seeing is in its natural form?
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We don't know, but what is the other option? Our senses are the only thing concrete we have, our only tools to interact with the world. We should always doubt if what we're experiencing is real, but in the end of the day we have no other option than trusting our senses.
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If cats only meow to communicate with humans, how do they communicate with each other?
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Speaking as someone in cat rescue the answer is something like this. I need to include the disclaimer that the more I know about cats the less I know about cats but here it goes. Cats as a rule are non verbal communicators. Cats communicate to each other using postures, ears, tails, eye contact and other things modern science is still figuring it out because cat communication can be subtle. If you work with rescue cats it's good to know these signs. Verbal communication is mostly used for communication with humans. Cats that have never lived with humans are usually quiet. I notice this when dealing with cats that have been rescued from outdoor living. Feral kittens are usually quiet because their feral mother never teaches them verbal communication with humans. A lot of rescue cats after living with a human for a while will pick up verbal communication. Situations where cats do use noise is usually for defensive agression and to establish boundaries. This takes the form of hissing and sometimes growling. Queens in heat will use vocalizations to attract the attention of males so they can get pregnant. When kittens play they will bite each other. The problem is they sometimes bite too hard so when they do the kitten getting bitten will squeal and the other kitten instinctively releases. It's how kittens learn to regulate their bites. If you have ever watched kittens play and wonder what the squeal is. Now you know.
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How did the Native Americans deal with the insects?
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Mud works. Sage works . In Canada, First Nations is almost universal among FN persons. Indigenous or Other are Non-FN terms. Tolerance is certainly an issue where mosquitos and flies are concerned, but what nobody has mentioned are the effects of a modern diet and the chemicals released through sweat and skin. Malaria has been documented for close to 2,000 years; FN and Native Americans weren't immune entirely, but certainly location was a factor. Documented studies have shown that the Osceola Tribe in Florida has more resistance to Malaria and other mosquito-borne illnesses than the Cherokee Tribe members. In addition, mosquitoes are attracted to CO2, moisture, the amount of iron in the blood, and some studies have shown that mosquitoes are attracted to certain blood types more than others. A person with A-Negative blood is less of a target than someone with O-Positive, for example. And while O-Pos is the most common blood type in the world, it is relatively rare among NA/FN populations. So, a NA tribe that lived primarily along a coastline or a waterway and ate a diet heavy on fish and less venison would be relatively unpalatable to most mosquitoes, whereas a Tribe like the Cherokee who at mostly warm blooded mammals like deer, rabbit, and squirrel, would be larger targets. Moving along to flies, as previously mentioned, Native Americans tended to not be in one spot for long periods of time. And the agrarian tribes like the Cherokee who basically only had winter/summer locations used every last bit of meat, sinew, intestine, organ, and bone resulting in less breeding ground for flies. There were some, but not nearly as many and, also as previously mentioned, there were no major population centers.Sage leaves can be rubbed on the skin to leave an odor that keeps insects like mosquitos away. So does urine, if you’re into that. But mostly they probably just ignored them.
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If S. Korea has twice as many people as N. Korea, and has vastly superior technology and economic power - why are they threatened to the point of needing US assistance?
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When we first intervened at South Korea's request they are losing the war due to the North getting support from the USSR and China. The current situation is the US maintaining an ally that is at risk of being attacked with a nuclear bomb. While North Korea cannot get their missiles to hit most of their enemy targets, they can strike at South Korea.
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When I'm sick, why does masturbating temporally decongest my sinuses?
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One of the hormones that's involved in congestion - histamine - is also involved in the sex response.Because we are made to reproduce, and sexual redproduction takes priority. So the body makes you feel better so you can accomplish it, then when you stop it lets you feel shitty again. I know its not technical, but idk what chemicals are actually involved.When I am sick I don't feel much like masturbating. Maybe I am doing 'sick' wrong?", 'does anyone else find themselves just like cupping their junk more when their sick? ive been sick with headache/fever/coughs for the past week and noticed i was doing it more, :lSame goes for stomach ache and many more ailments. Why?
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What causes the angles of the 'cross' shapes from bright objects in photos (see attached image) and why are they all at that particular angle?
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Although sometimes they're incidental to the optics in the telescope or camera, they're also desirable aesthetically to the point you can buy diffraction gratings to put on your camera to create them artificially . If you see really exaggerated points of light from say a cityscape at night it's probably a crossstar filter.
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Why do banks require a credit score before issuing a mortgage?
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There are lots of people with lots of assets and a high salary who spend way too much. Just the same there are people who don't own much and make very little but who are really responsible and would never miss a payment. A credit score tells the bank how good you are at paying off debt, which is what the bank wants to know. Other numbers tell the bank something else that might not be related. If the person really is responsible then they should be able to handle a credit card without it hurting them. There are credit cards that don't cost you anything unless you don't pay the whole balance at the end of the month.
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Why do companies still make the pressable buttons on the lid for fountain drinks if they aren't used?
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They still get used if there is a big party or group ordering different drinks. If there are two colas, a Dr. Pepper, a Root Beer, and a Diet cola, they all look the same. The server would press the button to indicate which is which. If you're just getting one drink, there is not much point in pressing the button -- you know what you ordered.
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Is it possible to blind yourself permanently by just staring at the sun? If so how long would it take?
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When I was a child, I stared at my first solar eclipse. I have a crescent moon style blind spot in the middle of my vision. I really don't notice it unless I need to focus on something. Over time it has gradually become less severe .
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How do sellers on Etsy and elsewhere get away with selling art based on trademarked characters?
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Probably nothing happens beyond maybe a cease-and-desist letter because: 1. It would cost way more to actually sue than they could make back from the average etsy seller 2. If it got out to the press, it's pretty bad PR. Copyright theft or no, some people would see it as the company attacking a dedicated fan who's just trying to help other fans enjoy the IP. If the company offers a similar official product, that's another story, but if they don't so you're selling something fans *can't* get officially, it's not going to be a great PR move for them to sue. But cease and desist letters are fast and cheap, so probably you end up with one of those sooner or later.
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What is the benefit of running Linux on a Chromebook?
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> What's so great about Linux and can this be useful to your average, semi-computer-literate Chromebook owner? Nothing, really. Linux is a great operating system for developers and hobbyists, people who want low level control over a devices so they can make it do new things. It doesn't provide much for the casual user.
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if dogs and cats are carnivores, why do we advertise putting vegetables in their food?
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While cats are primarily carnivores and dogs are often considered omnivores, both require some fiber in their diet to help food move through their digestive system. It is widely believed that cats get this in the wild by ingesting herbivores and while doing so they ingest small bits of plant matter that remains in the digestive tract of their prey. The best diets for home feeding of domestic dogs and cats tend to be the grain free high protein diets found in foods like Merrick dog and cat foods. Here's a link to their site talking about their foods: _URL_1_ There are other brands that are just as good, but the very best tend to have at least 70% meat or protein.dog food is sold to the owner, not the dog.
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Why is Julian Assange still in the Ecuadorian embassy?
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His criminal proceedings are still in action, although somewhat discredited and out of the public eye. The UK Government has suggested that if he leaves the Embassy to travel he will be snatched, and once again imprisoned indefinitely for a trial that may never come. He's stuck.
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What actually happens when I get a shiver down my spine?
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Am I the only one who can do this voluntarily, any time I want? It's my only super power.When your mind gets scared, it releases a small dose of dopamine to try and calm the body down.It's when Bono walks over your future grave. Not just anyone, specifically Bono.
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Male porn actors make much less than female porn actors, yet why does the former not advocate for "equal pay?"
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I kind of disagree with /u/deep_sea2 because I think the male actors ARE almost as important as the women in porn . That said, the requirements for females are much greater than those for males. The female needs to be able to do anal, needs to have a great body form head to toe , needs to be as young as possible. A guy just needs to be able to get maintain wood & maybe have an above-average endowment. That said, the work is also asymmetrical, not just in terms of difficulty, but in terms of risk. Having penetrative sex, , is much riskier for the receiving end than the giving end. Thus, it makes sense for women to be paid more. But the fact of the matter is, it's simply supply and demand, and you can't claim that two different actors should get the same pay.
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Why do people dislike Gypsies?
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Back in the early 90's , a Swedish talk show had a feature about gypsies. The very politically correct point of view of the show was that gypsies were very discriminated against, and were actually not very different from the rest of the Swedes. They had invited some representatives of the gypsy community to the show for the debate. During the show, the TV crew notices that someone had been stealing the silverware. They caught some of the gypsies in the act, so there was no question about who did it. So behind the scenes during the show, the producers discuss if they were going to mention it on the air, but they eventually chicken out. It was eventually brought to public knowledge when the talk show host mentioned it during a radio interview, and regretted not mentioning it to the audience. So, if the representatives of the gypsy community can't stop stealing during a TV show which is trying to disprove that they are thieves, they must be a pretty hopeless case. Nowadays, the biggest gypsy problem in Sweden is that we are swamped by Romanian gypsies who are EVERYWHERE in the cities, begging. In central Stockholm, you literally can't walk 100 meters without seeing several gypsies sitting on the corners and beg. They set up camp somewhere, and turn the place into a sanitary hazard zone until they are evicted, and then start over somewhere else.
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how do traffic lights really work?
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The first is definitely true - you can see at crossroads with lights that there is a loop or figure 8 cut into the asphalt. That's where the magnetic sensor is. The magnetic sensor is really just a circuit with a coil in it - it turns out that if you run a current through such a circuit and put metal nearby the metal increases the impedence of the circuit so the voltage drops. In other cases, the traffic lights change purely on a timer.
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Why aren't ovens and microwaves a standardized so they are all the same?
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They are standard to a degree. But house hold equipment isn't held to the standards of industrial or scientific equipment. Also, each manufacturer has their own patents and materials to work with. Oh and capitalism as a whole for providing a range of items to suit needs of different incomes and cooking needs.
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Self-immolation as a form of protest
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Setting yourself on fire is virtually guaranteed to draw a lot of media attention, and when the media show up they will generally ask your friends why you set yourself on fire, then talk about that reason on the news. In other words, it's generally done to draw attention to a cause that the, er, self-immolater believes is really important, and it usually achieves that goal.A monk who has realized that their individual lives are best served helping others might make an outrageous protest out of their suicide to possibly help their brothers and sistersThe reason why its a shock to us is because of the difference between western individuality and eastern collectivism. At least that is how I see it.
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Why do anthropologist say race is not a thing.
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How do blood tests tell the background of someone's race? i.e. 14% african ancestry, etc.
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Why do computers run into problems the longer they are on, and why does turning them off and on again usually fix the issue?
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This is not true for all computers. Unix/linux systems have been known to run for years without rebooting. Usually this problem arises in Windows type systems that 'leak' resources, that is, don't properly free up or reclaim resources when they are no longer needed. It should be remembered that Windows was originally a hobbyist system that no one expected to be terribly robust and the use of the 'three finger salute' has declined over time. Power cycling forces the operating system to rebuild its maps of available resources and therefore resets the system to a clean slate.it puts the computer back into a known state. also it clears the RAM
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what would cause me to fail an HIV test for blood donation... twice?
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According to Wikipedia, there's about a 1.5% false positive rate for HIV testing. That's a bit over one in five thousand people who'd get two false positives in a row. It's improbable that it would happen to any particular person, but it's bound to happen to *someone*. I wouldn't worry overly.Probably a better question for /r/askscience or /r/health. I hope you find your answer.
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Why after hundred years of flying airplanes, when communicating with towers the level of audio distortion and compressing still sucks to this day?
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Aircraft radios sound terrible because they use AM modulation. Despite FM's greater audio dynamic range and better transmission efficiency, aircraft radios still operate on AM modulation for a number of reasons, mostly economic. When aircraft radios were first standardized, AM ruled the day. Its simple circuitry permitted aircraft to communicate effectively with cheap radios. As more aircraft were produced, and the air traffic control network grew, AM remained the standard. Even as FM technology gradually overtook AM in most areas of communications, including broadcasting and two way radios, AM remained the foundation of ATC simply because the cost of converting ALL aircraft and land-based infrastructure would have been cost-prohibitive. AM is good enough. Given modern ATC architecture, it made little sense to convert everything to FM. Every aircraft and ground installation would have to convert simultaneously to keep everyone safe. And no one wants to go through that headache. So AM will reign supreme for the foreseeable future.
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- What are some real repercussions that the UK could have if Scotland leaves?
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If I understand correctly, most of the UK's nuclear arsenal is based in Scotland that would be a bad thing.
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How is Unemployment Rate around 5% yet it feels 10x harder to land a good job than a decade ago?
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Because you are looking at the U3 unemployment number, which only measures people looking for work. You want the statistic of how long people are unemployed for. _URL_1_ It's still going down, just not at pre-recession levels.Because the jobs that are being created are not "good" jobs. They are part-time minimum-wage jobs from a handful of major retail and restaurant companies. The economic philosophy that drove the past few decades was predicated on a belief that investment would be given to domestic prospects . Instead, the investments were made in developing countries with no environmental standards, minimum wages, or entitlement programs. In the U.S. it costs something like $45 an hour to employ a factory worker; in India it costs just $2. We would have more jobs at home if developing countries weren't so savage about their labor and economic practices. It isn't greed on the part of American companies either, as many anti-rich, 99%\'er hipsters would argue: our corporations are simply making a good business decision. It is the greed of leaders of frankly crappy developing countries in Asia and Latin AmericaCost of living has gone up a lot. Average wage has stayed exactly the same. Therefore, what once were good jobs are slowly eroding into shitty ones.
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Why does music conservatories/academia put so much emphasis on Jazz and Classical music?
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I don't know much about music but a friend once explained to me that jazz is very heavily based in scales and music theory, thus jazz is very challenging and interesting to play anybody wanna add to that?", 'Like others have said - jazz & classical are advanced and complex enough to warrant studying at such institutions to get truly good at. Rock and pop etc, not so much. That said, learning classical is often what allows rock musicians to truly stand out. They can take the complex stuff from classic and subtly infuse it into rock to make something that truly stands out. Take [Yngwie Malmsteen] for instance. Generally regarded as one of the best guitarists out there. He had a fascination with classic and practiced it immensely before eventually applying it to the rock genre.a fairly simple explanation - Pop, rock,country, punk, Funk, R & B, metal, etc. have one thing in common and that is is designed to have a primarily emotional appeal. It isn't a hard and fast rule, but a generalization. I play jazz and have a formal education in jazz, but initially I came up playing in club bands, self taught. A factor that is overlooked in this discussion is the quality of music from the 30's to the late 50's - Gershwin, Porter, Loesser, Nestico, etc. - guys who brought great melodies and progressions to popular music via broadway, big bands, and sheet music. Open the Real Book and see how much of the material there is from that era and styles. Not jazz, but wonderful songs written by musical geniuses.
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Why is population growth considered a good thing? Isn't a large population bad for employment rates, wages, and resource use?
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People don't just use up resources, that's a negative view of humanity. They also create them. A growing population can be a good thing.
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why is everything funnier when you are really tired?
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A main element of humor is that you didn't see it coming. When you're tired you aren't thinking and you're less likely to see it coming
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Why every time I look at my bathroom mirror I think I look pretty good but every time I take a picture I think that I look horrible?
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Focus point, try to take a photo from twice the distance of you and the mirror and see that it's almost the same.
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What exactly is the Dow, and when should I start really worrying about it dropping?
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It's a stock index that, in theory, measures the overall performance of the stock market. In reality most economists and investors consider the Dow to be an antiquated index that doesn't do a good job of representing the overall market. But still, a huge drop in one day is significant. If you have any money invested in the market it impacts you. Even if you don't invest, large drops in the market often have ripple effects throughout the economy.
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Why is it that people often report feeling safer when sleeping under a sheet or blanket?
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Because the monsters and serial killers can not find you of course! Seriously no clue! Even if it's hot I can not sleep without at least a sheet covering me
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Why does the change in season seem to make everyone sick?
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If you live in a country where the change in season is accompanied by snow melt , then [snow mold] is a very clear reason why people get sick. Snow covers the mold, and when it melts, many who are allergic get sick to the sudden exposure. Luckily it becomes dormant during summer months, so it's only during the spring it's an issue.
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Why do airlines lose luggage so often?
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Do they? [According to this article] and to the report referenced within, in the last ten years, misplaced luggage has been cut by more than 50%. And that while passenger numbers continue to climb. Don't mistake you hearing more about it as an actual increase. It is much easier nowadays for complaints to go global and for people to come into contact with stories that would before only have been shared in person .
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When a slightly overweight person loses weight how does their skin get tighter?
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Someone tell me if I'm wrong or right. I was told or read that your skin given enough time will naturally start to reduce. But past the age of 28 its much harder for the body to do.
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Why is the republican party so opposed to "Obama" compared to previous democratic presidents?
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I think part of it is how the Republicans had quite a run following LBJ. Clinton was the first two term Democrat since FDR. For many of the GOP, the presidency deserves to be theirs. And since Clinton, they've been increasingly less willing to compromise. A lot of it too, has to do with a changing voter demographics nationwide and the GOP's slow movement to adapt.
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If Bud/Miller/Coors are disliked by many, why are they the main beer located everywhere?
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You also have to consider that many people DO like those brands. You just hear about the people who don't love it.
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Why do some establishments and government departments not upgrade their computer's OS?
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there's a number of reasons why they wouldn't, firstly its too expensive for the business, secondly their scanners/printers/what have you wont work with the os that they want to upgrade to and for businesses such as labs you wont have the budget to buy another $500k spectrometer, thirdly they just haven't thought of it,the thinking is if nothing bad has happened so far why would I pay to upgrade.
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What causes a human to want to pick at their scabs?
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No answer for you, but I pick at my skin on my fingers until it makes a scab. It was an anxiety thing and now it's a habit. I think there's some self harm rooted in there, too.Scabs itch and / or irritate your skin. Scabs also feel "foreign" to you, so you will subconsciously touch the scab.For me its cleaning my wound. When I have left the scab on, my injury wouldn't heal. I would pick the scab off and clean the wound and it would heal nicely. It also feels nice.The wound heals faster. The scab prevents infection but removing it causes the skin around the wound to regrow. I noticed the speedy after testing on my self as a kid', "It's actually a mental health issue for some people. _URL_1_
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How was that Buddhist Monk able to self immolate without showing/feeling pain?
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There are people, most notably Czechs, who were not monks experienced in meditation that immolated themselves as a protest. Maybe the meditation helps, but I very strongly suspect it only helps supress any sense of panic and is is not necessary to supress the pain. While minor burns hurt like hell, major burns quickly overwhelm your system and don't feel them until much later. I've been in fire, it didn't hurt. I wasn't burned badly, but I had 1st degree over the whole left side of my face and 2nd degree on my nose. I never felt it at all. It was nothing like the horrible pain of a fingertip burn or other small area burn.Did the monks medicate themselves in any way before immolation?just to put in a bit of a side-question, how can they suppress reflexes? If I touch a hot pot on my stove, my hand flies away from it before I can consciously register the pot as hotWhile your body has different nerve endings for different things, pain and heat use the same ones, meaning you can only feel pain or heat, not both. Our brain chooses heat first to get us out of danger, it later changes to pain to tell us we are injured. This is the reason heating pads work, but only for a limited time. Heat will overtake the pain, but only for a while then it will change back to pain. Check it out next time you get burned. You will notice at first you only feel heat. And after you start feeling pain, you will feel heat as pain instead of heat.
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What does 'return' in JavaScript really do?
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I'm not on Code Academy, so I'm not sure at what scenario you are looking at, but console.log and return have quite different meanings. Could you provide an example on some site like [GitHub's Gists] or [plunkr] ? In short, though: - console.log tells the console to log some message. Assuming your average web browser, there is a console object that writes out that message in.. well, in that area we refer to as console. - return is meant to stop execution of the current flow and return to the calling context. This is typically done in functions.. eg: I have a function that adds two given numbers.. .. I want to return the result to whomever called me. ) HTH, as a starting point", 'Console.log is used for debugging, when you want to check the value of a variable, or the result of a function call. Return on the other hand, does not output anything to the console and only returns the value that you specify internally. Take this example: function sayHello { return \'hello\'; } sayHello; // outputs nothing to the console console.log); // outputs the return value of sayHello; You can then store the value returned from the function and use it later on in the script. If you replaced "return \'hello\'" with console.log, the function would no longer return a value and you could not use it later on in the script
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What is Facebook's rationale for having my friend's comments on strangers pages show up on my feed?
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Number one goal of Facebook is giving you reasons to look at Facebook for longer durations and in greater frequency. They either have numbers that suggest showing this stuff increases engagement in some way more than not showing it. Why it increases usage is a separate question. And while interesting, Facebook doesn't necessarily need to know why. They just need to know that it does.
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How do those circus cannons, that launch the performer into a safety net a good distance away, work?
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As many people stated it doesn't use gun powder or other explosive material to propel the stunt person. I interpreted your question to mean something slightly different, which is to say, how does it work without killing the performer? The answer is a function of acceleration over time. There's a cylinder or platform inside the cannon's barrel that slides upwards. It moves slowly at first but then moves faster quickly. Then the cylinder stops at end of the barrel which flings the occupant skyward.
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Why do so many viruses have similar symptoms?
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It's because most of the typicald cold symptoms are not caused by the virus, but are caused by your body instead.The virus attacks your cells on a molecular level and reprograms them to give up their job and instead create more viruses. This is not something you can notice, but if it went unchecked you would obviously die very fast.Instead your body goes into defense mode and fires up the cold symptoms to help you deal with the infection.The symptoms are actually signs of your body trying to reject a foreign body. Since the rejection process remains the same, the symptoms remain the same
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How does the nuclear missle defence work?
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Nuclear missiles have a lot of safety mechanisms built into them . Nukes only detonate when you hit critical mass of a radioactive material, and there's usually a complex mechanism for combining these pieces into a critical mass. If you destroy the missile, you will disrupt the ability of the warhead to arm and therefore detonate. Sure, you'd likely get pieces of it scattered across the countryside, but you won't be getting that big mushroom cloud that's going to kill a lot of people
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How does RAM on computers work
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RAM stands for Random Access Memory, meaning that any individual chunk in memory could be accessed at any time. So that 4 GB could be located within those 16 GB, and it doesn't have to be in a continuous chunk. However, since RAM Chips are slower then the memory caches and registers built directly into your CPU, larger continuous chunks of memory are copied into caches, then smaller chunks are copied into registers. After a certain amount of time, the modified chunks of data are copied back into the caches then back into RAM. This process is fairly slow, and if the computer needs to refer to a piece of data located outside the cache, it will have to copy all the data it has modified back to RAM, then reload the cache. Fast operating systems will do their best to make sure that data used by specific programs are generally located fairly close together, so that it will reduce the number of cache misses. So your RAM will generally be fairly spread out with fairly dense clusters of continuous memory being used by a single program.
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Why most of the magic tricks are still well kept secret? (Specially considering the internet and all the media channels)
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Once a trick's secret is exposed to the public, performers can't use it any more. Magic performers don't want to actively reduce their repertoire of tricks.
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Why do people upload torrents and what benefit do they get from it?
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In some private trackers you do it for the ratio so that way you don't get in upload only status/blacklisted/banned. Another reason you'd upload for private trackers is to fill out the collection they have. Generally a seedbox will pick it up and everyone can have what they want. As for the public trackers it's probably closer to my second point, they know that whatever they put out there will be rehosted over and over again so really they only have to stick around for the first 100 or so people which won't take too long.
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How do bedbugs know you’re asleep and then come out to bite you?
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To my knowledge, most bloodsucking insects/arachnids are drawn to carbon dioxide. You also produce more co2 when asleep, which is why they eat you while sleeping.Also, unlike other pests, bedbugs feed directly on blood. This eliminates the need for dirty living quarters for an infestation to happen. They don't eat rotten food, fecal matter, etc.
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