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If Spotify pays so little, why do artists still let them use their music?
Spotify doesn't actually pay that little per listen. Think about it. When a song is played on the radio, thousands of people listen to the song. When it is played on Spotify, 1 person listens to it.
What's with America and guns? Are gun statistics exaggerated/twisted? Is it as bad as what foreigners think?
honestly, it's pretty simple: i got my first bb gun when i was about ten or eleven. maybe a year or so afterwards i graduated to my great-grandfather's bolt-action single shot cock-to-fire .22 rifle. he paid five dollars for it when he was a kid. after i'd been shooting the .22 for a while i graduated to a .30 m1 carbine, then various shotguns, revolvers, and my dad's .40 glock 27. during these many hours of plinking, i was hanging out with my dad getting advice and praise based on how well i was shooting. plus i got to blow shit up. what's not to love? tl;dr: male bonding oh, and i've heard several arguments about population size vs gun death and how if you look at the ratios we are not that far off from other western countries like the U.K. or France. personally, i'm pretty conflicted about gun control. i don't think civilians need ARs and i think that most gun lobbyists like the NRA are pretty nuts, but at the same time i refuse to give up my second amendment rights. i hope one day i can raise a son or daughter and teach them how to handle and shoot a gun safely. it's a wonderful experience.There's a strong gun culture because our second amendment basically says, "You get guns." The reason why they put it there is if another nation tries to attack us, or if our own government tries to take over the public. For the gun deaths/ownership thing, most of the people who were shot by guns, the shooter probably got the gun illegally.Southern-U.S. citizen here. It's really not as bad as it sounds. People who legally own guns generally don't use them outside of recreation. People who use them for bad things will obtain them, legally or otherwise. I plan to buy a gun for protection._URL_1_ USA is #10 with 10.2 deaths per 100,000 in 2009. El Salvador tops the list with 50.36 deaths that same yearSam Harris had a very good post examining this the other day:[Here]
All pandas belong to China.
I'd like to point out to people that pandas don't just eat bamboo and that a diet of only bamboo isn't actually good for pandas.
If you're enlisted in a military service, can you just walk out of boot camp? If not, what are the consequences?
I did actually have a change of heart after joining the army when I was a teenager and left without consequence. However, this was just prior to actually shipping to basic training. From what I read/heard from people I asked once you go to basic training you actually do sign a final contract, at which point the penalties for going AWOL become more severe. Edit: It looks like shortly after starting training you can usually get out as well. [Source]. After you've completed training it's different, though. Basic training actually costs a lot for each recruit, and once the army has invested time and money in training you they will be more reluctant to let you go.
How do I do my taxes? (Canadian resident)
The easiest way is to file it online if you don't know what you're doing. Since you don't, you should really go to a tax specialist like H & R Block. As for what you're entitled to as a return, that depends. You start off with how much money you make and how much tax you're supposed to pay for that amount. Then you take off things called deductions for certain things . For example, if you put money in an RRSP you can deduct that from what you have to pay tax on. Really simple example. Say you make 40k a year and pay 30% tax. So you would have paid 12k. But you saved 5k in an RRSP. So the government counts it as if you only made 35k. Since you paid tax on 40k but only needed to pay tax on 35k, you get the tax you paid on the difference back.If you use uFile and earn less than 25k, the service is free. I have used them to do my own taxes for about 5 years now. No problems.
Why is it that so many people hate memes and image macros?
Deradius covered one mode of thinking, but here's another: I get annoyed by them at times because it's a joke that gets beat to death. Usually [cracked] has something to say about the issue that i agree with. I picked an article at random, but usually the author spends time shitting on memetic humor . Just because I get annoyed some times doesn't mean I hate them all the time. Another derivative of this is when people apply popular memes to everything. Like I said, they're annoying because they get beat to death, I don't need to know where and when they apply to things that were just fine without them. But all in all, I think people get worked up about a lot of things a lot more than they need too. It's stupid humor, just ignore it and move on, you'll save a lot of time.
How does time dilation work? Why should you age slower if you're moving faster?
I've always thought of it as the speed of light is constant and can never change but all of us are moving at the speed of light through the 4 dimensions of our universe Since we can't break the speed of light, the faster we move through the 3 dimensions of space, the slower we move through the 4th dimension, time. That's why it's called space/time and is all related to that. Also, they've found that particles of light don't age at all and haven't aged since they've been created because of this constant movement at the speed of light. Gravity itself is just a bending of space/time through by a massive body Basically, imagine a sheet suspended in the air by its four corners. You introduce a bowling ball to that sheet, it will warp the sheet due to its mass which is what planets do to space/time. This is also something that Einstein discovered through relativity.
Why do we have open enrollment for insurance in the US? Why are we not able to change medical insurance coverage like we change any other kind of insurance?
They aren't allowed to exclude coverage for pre-existing conditions anymore. So, they need a way to make sure there's enough people with insurance who aren't going to cost them money. I was able to see the doctor list and prescription drug list for my plan before I signed up.Imho it is another layer if bs to shroud true costs and stifle competition in the health care market. It is all smoke and mirrorsYou can if you are not part of a group. However, you are also then subject to more thorough underwriting than with a group plan.
Why does most of Europe hate handguns?
It's very easy to hide a handgun, so whilst a shotgun or rifle may be more 'powerful', a handgun is more dangerous.
Why do celebrities who are known to smoke weed never get in trouble with the law
I would say that because with certain drugs, it's not the use that's illegal, it's the possession. In most cases you can't be arrested just for being high. Admitting you've done illegal drugs in the past isn't illegal. Talking about doing drugs isn't illegal. Certainly there are exceptions to these, but people get in trouble for possessing a controlled substance.
what is the white stuff in a pimple and why is it good/bad to pop them?
I'm fucking 50 years old and you just caused me to break out in a sweat and have high school flashbacks you bastard!
Why does one shoot to kill instead of shoot to maim?
Warned or maimed people can shoot back. Look, if shit gets so bad you have to go to your last, lethal resort, you better make it count. You've done everything prior to dissuade or deescalate the issue, and failed. Now your life, another's life, or your property is in danger from someone who won't be told otherwise. If they were to stop from a warning shot, they would have stopped before the warning shot. They had their chance. Really, when they say last resort, they really mean it. If you pull a gun out, you better fucking mean it. I cannot stress enough the gravity of this decision. Also, liability. You shoot a guy, even if they broke into your home and you're defending your family and property, you're just asking for a lawsuit.
Why don't gas pumps themselves accept cash?
About fifteen years ago I saw some that did. They were there for a couple of years and then the bill acceptors were taken out. I asked the gas station owner, he said it was because very few people used it, and with the number of times they had to go out to clear jams, it was more trouble than it was worth. I also suspect that they didn't like the idea of having to empty the cash box out in the open. Anyway, if that station's experience was typical, it's likely because there are not enough cash customers to make it worthwhile. Most gas stations I see will issue regular customers a card that will preauthorize the pump for cash purchases.
Why are accents not regarded as mispronunciations or errors?
You simply can't reject accents as mistakes or ignorance. For many, the way you learn a language is the way you relate to it. Additionally, especially for those surrounded constantly by a second language, it's not that they don't know they're fucking it up, its because by the time they started speaking English their brains had decided they knew how to make all the sounds it needed, which can make pronouncing syllables not found in ones native tongue damn near impossible. As for regional accents, fuck off! You think the way you pronounce English is so great? Come back to me when you explain to me how February has a silent r. I thought reddit had already decided English is the dumbest fucking thing imaginable.Of course it's also important to remember that *everybody* has an accent. So who gets to decide what's the "correct" accent?
why do I have to poop after drinking coffee?
*I am by no means qualified to answer this, but I've asked the same question and received the following response.* There's oils in coffee which act as laxatives. Often times heavy coffee drinkers will become dependent on the natural laxatives; as is common with over the counter laxatives. As a result when people stop drinking coffee cold turkey they often experience constipation. The cure for which is either to use another laxative, or drink decaffeinated coffee since the oils are not related to caffeine.
Why english shows like the Office, Skins and Being Human are remade for the US.
I suspect that A) there might be a licensing issue B) there is probably some concern about how well the humor would play with American audiences, and C) there might be union issues.
Why haven't holograms, similar in design to that of the tupac one, been used in more everyday scenarios such as advertising or display cases etc?
Money. That hologram was estimated to cost somewhere between $100 000 and $400 000. Also known as most products' entire advertising budget, and your average billboard doesn't have several technicians being paid $1000 a day to make sure they keep working.
Why referring a pakistani 'paki' is a racial abuse?
I wasn't aware it was, my Pakistani friend refers to her friends as Paki often.Because perfectly fine words devolve into slurs by their usage. It is quite common when it comes to various mental handicaps as well. You will likely find a politically correct race going on in order to find a new, fancy, non-offensive word for people with a mental handicap, but people fail to realize that even if we start calling people "Reality-perceptionally gifted", it will take the average fifth grader about a week to manage to make the term sound offensiveIt is all about usage. For example, "moron" used to be valid scientific term, referring to people with IQ's in the 50-70 range. Once it became a popularly used insult, the terminology shifted to "retarded", which itself is being phased out for the same reason.The N word developed from 'black' in romance languages . Knowing this and/or explaining this doesn't make it ok to use. Ask yourself why and you'll have your answer.It's not in Australia. Bizarre, but true. However, it is in the UK. The "come on Aussie, come on, come on" World Series Cricket ads used the word "Pakis" and no-one thought anything strange about it, least of all the pakisI went to an CL tie between english and turkish clubs. The fans were singing "I rather be a paki than a turk" in unison. That made it pretty clear to me both were used to degrade them.
Why doesn't Snowden release all of his spied documents at once?
Per Glenn Greenwald, he is releasing large batches of info to news sources, who then have to carefully review and edit it for sensitive information, verify its accuracy, and then actually write a story about it. He's not simply dumping a gazillion documents into the public realm.Because there are two rules to success Rule 1: Never reveal everything you knowBecause we have the attention span of a five year old.Let's say you're studying for a history exam. You could study it all at once, but would you really understand everything? Or would it be confusing and leave you only with a vague picture? Regardless, In a matter of weeks you would have forgotten it all. Now lets say you study every Friday for a year. Well then you learn everything and it sticks with you. Snowden wants a revolution. By releasing information overtime, he stays top of mind with the people and isn't lost to memory. **Speculation**: I think Snowden is saving something big for later, like the grand finale of a fireworks show. AND I think the government knows it. As he releases more and more the government will become desperate to stop him. They may turn to extra-judicial measures, which will cause an extreme public reaction. Either way, it's a win-win for his ultimate goal.
why do adults perceive time being faster than children do?
My best guess would be adults have A LOT of stuff they have to handle up on.As for kids they don't have many responsibilities. Idk I'm high as a kite mayne.Novel experiences become less and less common as you grow older. As a child everything is shiny and new, your brain is constantly taking in new information and stimulus. As you grow older you begin to stick to patterns that limit new experiences so things get lost in the blur of repetition. So search out new experience and never stop seeking knowledge so life will keep a fuller, slower, richer time.
If theirs a burglar in you're home and you're forced to hide in closet, why can't you text 911 for help?
911 texting isn't widespread right now. My advice, as a police officer:Call 911, and whisper into the phone. GIVE YOUR ADDRESS. Pinging cell phones is not always accurate. We can't kick down every door on the block looking for you.
What actually kills you when exposed to the vacuum of space (and is it total rubbish when some movies show people 'holding their breath' to survive short periods)?
[This] is a pretty good discussion. The main issues are: You have no oxygen. And if you try to hold your breath the air pressure will damage your lungs . You blood won't boil. It is true that water will boil above ~19,000m [the Armstrong limit], but the skin and blood pressure provides enough pressure to stop that from happening. There will be swelling, loss of circulation and pain. You won't really be cold or hot. Vacuum doesn't conduct heat, and radiation is fairly slow. Death by radiation would take days, at least anywhere near Earth, even on a very bad day with lost of solar flares. In short, you'd pass out from lack of air in ~15s, and then die from lack of oxygen after a few minutes.
Why have we (humans) advanced so much in the last 150 years or so compared to the thousands of years before?
I cannot recommend this enough, [Connections] by James Burke. He's a technology historian and a brilliant narrator, trying to answer exactly your question; and there's many answers! In short, more people are in connection with more people than ever before, like a global neural net that's getting faster every day. Each of us is a neuron, and globalization means that the Earth's brain is now in complete communication.
How does splitting an atom result in such a massive explosion?
This is said to be an Explain like I'm Five video ordinarily i wouldn't link, but the Symphony Of Science: _URL_0_ ought to give you the gist of it if you still don't get it!! I could just paraphrase it, but u/Gnonthgol already did in more detail, so this is for any TL/DR", 'Imagine two negative magnets. You push them together but the harder you push and closer they get, the more they try to push away from each other. Its the same with atoms except that they will push and push until they touch, then they stick together. If you split them apart again, they have all that energy buildup pushing away from each other, so creat an explosion, that separates other sets of atomsImagine having a bunch of positive magnets held in place by a massive rope. Now cut the rope, and all the magnets go flying apart. The more magnets you have, the more of an "explosion" you will get.
Why are universities such as Harvard and Oxford so prestigious, yet most Asian countries value education far higher than most western countries? Shouldn't the Asian Universities be more prestigious?
In Japan a degree from Tokyo University gets you further than one from Harvard. So it's far from Universal. Keep in mind you are looking at lists put together by English speaking westerners.
What's the deal with the "student loan bubble" and what exactly will happen when it pops?
It may or may not be a bubble, and it may or may not pop; that's all quite speculative . So the rest of this comment will just assume that it's a real bubble and that it will pop . Problem: huge numbers of people owe huge amounts of money and are getting jobs that don't pay huge amounts of money, so they have to stop paying the money they owe, so banks get less income and lend less, if banks lend less the whole economy slows down because usually when anybody wants to start a business or buy a car, they need to take out a loan, but if the banks are panicking about losing money, the banks don't want to lend more money, so they'll make loans unattractive by raising interest rates, but this just makes everything more expensive so those broke college grads end up being able to pay even less - the situation snowballs and just gets worse and worse until the economy is just dragged into the dirt and everybody has some time to save some money and dig themselves out of debt.
How is E-ZPass not considered a monopoly?
Because it isn't a private company it is an Interagency Group created and run 38 member agencies in operation within 16 states. The agencies in question aren't private entities by rather governmental agencies like the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Unless your talking about the transponders themselves which are made by Kapsch TrafficCom AG.
how do courier services make profit
They don't take just your package. It isn't some shipping company employee taking your particular package under their arm and driving it individually straight to your house. Consider a truck full of packages. You might have thousands in a big semitrailer, or hundreds in a smaller truck. Now your 5-7 pounds is tens of thousands of pounds per load in aggregate. That can certainly pay for the gas and labor to drive a truck around.
Why is searching and decrypting someone's phone after having a search warrant different from searching someone's house?
Imagine no one knew how to break into houses. Doors were fuckin' impenetrable. Unless you leave your door open, or the door is installed wrong, your house is pretty much safe. *then* imagine the FBI ask a judge for permission to raid Explode-y Joe's house for bomb making evidence - and in order to do this, they get permission to force Doors Incorporated to invent the world's first ever crow-bar. Up until now, no one was able to make a crow bar effectively. However, this crowbar is really easy to copy if you get a look at it - it's a crowbar after all. So, Doors Incorporated say > Welp - we've got no problem with your raiding Explod-y Joe. He seems like a bad guy. However, if we give the FBI a 'crowbar' - we have no guarantee that someone else won't see the crowbar and copy it .then they'll sell the plans and suddenly burglary will become a huge issue the world over. Once the plans get out we can never get them back again. It's wrong for us to risk the safety of the entire world's homes. That is outside the scope of this warrant, so the warrant should be challenged. And the FBI respond: > It's cool man. You can trust us. We're cool . and so this is the position we find ourselves in.
How is "a strong smell of marijuana" a valid excuse to search a vehicle?
Same reason when you smell burning plastic you assume plastic is burning. 9 times out of 10 it's burning plastic not fucked up incense.First, the cop has to have a reason to pull you over. Once the officer pulls you over for say a traffic infraction, he may search your vehicle only if there is probable cause to believe that you have drugs and/or contraband in the vehicle. The smell of burnt marijuana is usually enough to give the officer probable cause to search your car. That being said, even If the officer had probable cause to search your vehicle, any evidence seized could be suppressed if there was no underlying basis for the stop. Bottom line, if the cop has a legit reason to stop you, your shit better not smell like MJ, otherwise you and your car are likely to be searched.
Why are gun scopes always on the top of the weapon? Doesn't this make it so the bullets are going lower than where you're aiming? Or does recoil make up for this?
That's why you adjust the scope. It's not possible for the scope to be the same place as the barrel Or is it?", 'Out of curiosity towards the ops question, where would you think of putting the scope? Or was that not thought of lol.I think that mounting on the top is the only option. The bottom and sides wouldn't work for countless reasons.Here is a great explanation: [How to Zero Your AR-15]They are zeroes in at a certain distance i.e. 100ftI really cant believe this question was asked.
Why can a meal that takes 30 minutes to cook in oven be cooked in 4 minutes in a microwave?
The heat involved in cooking something, let's say an oven, is provided by an outside source . On the other hand, the heat provided by a microwave is provided by the hydrogen particles moving around throughout the food, rather than just on the outer shell of the food . This is why chefs use a microwave after the oven/barbeque to cook the center of the meat if a customer wants the tender texture of a rare steak, but the color of a medium steak.
If most of the Marvel Characters reside in New York City, how come they never fight other hero's villains on a regular basis?
A lot of them don't really have overlap. The Fantastic Four are cosmic adventurers, they don't really handle bank robbers and whatnot. Spider-Man isn't going to take on an Avengers-level threat without the rest of them being there. They do have a certain amount of villain sharing- it's not exactly unheard of for a villain to fight Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Punisher at one point or another.They do sometimes. Kingpin and Mysterio had massive fights with both Spiderman and Daredevil at different times. Its usually that the other superheroes might be busy with a different threat at the time. I'm sure they 've each other on a group chat or something where they can say "Oh look, Galactus is arriving in New York - Fantastic 4, you guys got this one?"In the comics it happens fairly frequently. Usually with humorous results as either the villain or the hero is hilariously outmatchedBecause the events of most of the movies take place at around the same time. So everyone has their own villains to deal with.
Why do I sleep easier with a noise in the background?
its been asked before. its very simple. you've been conditioned to be as such. very basic psychological premise. the mind is highly adaptive to its environment all of it is predicated on the idea of neuroplasticity
Can you live with just a head and heart?
Interesting theory, but blood needs to be oxygenated by lungs, and filtered by kidneys, bone marrow is needed to replace the blood, and you would need a way to get nutrition to the brain. Their might be more, but that's all I can think of right now. So with just a heart and brain you wouldn't make it, you could replace some of these organs with medical devices like a kidney dialysis machine, and IV fluids, but to much is needed that medicine can't artificially support without everything else the body does.your dna keeps replicating itself to replace old cells but it is not perfect. over time, the replication becomes less and less like the original. this is what growing old is. even if you used artificial organs, the brain is still organic matter and all organic matter deteriorates eventually. unless they figure out how to move your consciousness into a digital state, all things will die. tl;dr your brain will eventually rot.1. you'd have no oxygen without the lungs.2. your blood would lack nutrients with your digestive system.3. the waster products would build up without your kidneys and your liver.
When it is said that Humans share 98% of their DNA with chimps, 70% with slugs, and 50% with bananas, what does this actually mean?
DNA is a lot like lego sets. There's only a limited number of pieces, but putting them together in certain orders and with certain pieces creates a very wide variety of sets in the case of bricks, or lifeforms in the case of DNA.Highly recommend The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins. Fascinating journey through our DNA going back to each major common ancestor with other animal, plants, etcMinute Earth, a fantastic Youtube channel has an episode that addresses this perfectly. Well worth the next 3 minutes of your life._URL_3_First thing that came to my mind reading the title._URL_4_A nice video with easy language and graphics explaining it: _URL_5_
how do calculators do math?
I'm going to refer you to:_URL_9_ And then say, it uses circuitry to convert your the button you push into binary, store it in a memory register, and then push it through the appropriate arithmetic circuitry when you hit equals. Then it uses the binary output to convert the number back in to decimal on your screen.
How can liquid coffee creamer be left at room temperature without going bad?
One word. Salt. I used to work at a Tim Hortons, the creamer is like a milky salt cocktail. I've seen year old bags of creamer get used. Worst part is it appeared to be fine. I personally protest creamer, shit fucks my stomach up.
How are lighthouses like this built? (Pic in comments)
They built it during low tide and calm weather. But those conditions aren't often met in this part of France which is known for its very high currents. So the construction usually lasted many years. I don't know about La Jument but I can tell you about ArMen, also located in France not far from La Jument actually. It took them 14 years to built it. During the first years, they only managed to work for about 50h on it. Pic : _URL_1_ I think all of the isolated lighthouses in France have been automated since 1990. And with the GPS they aren't that useful anymore. Considering the lack of maintenance and the storms they endure every winter it's only a matter of time before they collapse : The image is an [art piece] and I can't easily find the actual location.
Why does reading in a car make me feel sick?
First lets define dizziness. Essentially it's a discontinuity between the balance that you are feeling and what you are seeing. If you spin around quickly and suddenly stop the liquids in your inner ear are still sloshing around making you feel off balance while your eyesight says that you should be standing perfectly still and thus you feel dizzy due to that discontinuity. When reading or using a device in a car you feel the movement of the car and think you should be moving but by only looking at the stationary book you see that you should be standing still creating that discontinuity between sight and balance. Looking out of a window or shutting your eyes should help fix this and prevent carsickness.
How does soap work? What does it do that water doesn't when getting my hands and body clean? (Ignoring anti-bacterial)
Soaps tend to be bi polar. One end attracts to charged particles and the other interacts normally with water, turning things that water can't wash away into things that water can.
What is the acid attack phenomenon in developing countries? When and how did it start? Why has it come to be such a popular method of attack?
Everyone's finished discussing why it's so popular, so I thought I'd take a stab at its origin. [I recall that about 5 or 6 years ago, there was a whole string of acid attacks in Hong Kong.] The Wikipedia page on [Acid throwing] has more.
If Islam requires you to give to the poor, how is there so much inequality in Muslim countries?
They require you to give 2.5% of your income to the poor. That's not enough to actually solve any problems.
why do so many tables have uneven legs?
Often there is some sort of rubber tip on school furniture, so dragging them doesn't leave marks in the floor, maybe these tips are missing?
Why do we fire space shuttles straight up?
We do. Well it's dependant on a lot of variables but essentially a rocket goes up and begins to turn with gravity until it's going horizontal. [This is the ascent profile] for Apollo 8.We do it like you say, but it pays to get passed some air first. But they always do a small turn immediately because they want anything to fall to fall away from the launch site. FYI you would love kerbal space program. a rocket design simulator. You learn things like this through trial and error, explosions, and the r/kerbalspaceprogram community', "This is not my original thought, and I wish I could source OP on this: Imagine you're playing Mario Kart and you're driving in the mud. But the farther you get from the track, the thicker the mud gets and the slower you're able to drive. If you're really far from the road, it makes sense to take a direct path straight to the road until the mud thins enough to start angling back toward the direction you want to travel on the track. This is why modern rockets take off vertically but turn toward the rotation of the earth. But in this case mud=the atmosphere.
why do people feel their rights are being taken away because of the Hobby Lobby decision?
Because this is pretty clear. If my piece of shit cheap ass boss decides that a policy that doesn't cover things is cheaper, he'll hide behind religion. And, this is once again the Supreme Court deciding on caselaw from the fucking bible. Fuck the bible and fuck Justice Long Dong Silver, that fucking hack should be in jail.
How does a cell phone work?
Hey, phone, this is tower, where are you?" and "Incoming call! Better ring now!" There's a lot more. What did you specifically want to know about?
Black Friday in USA to an Australian
Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. It's one of the few holidays in the US that nearly everyone gets off. Most of the middle class gets the following Friday off as well, since businesses don't want to bother with all the half-assed work people would do, giving us a 4-day weekend. Somewhere along the line, stores decided that this would be a great day to have big sales, since nobody has to work.
Why is it that the worst type of murder is "first degree" whereas the worst type of burn is "third degree"?
Different things entirely, but there is a common element when you think about it. 1st degree in both cases refers to the top level offense. In the case of murder, the top level is the worst and it can't get any worse. In the case of burns, a top level burn is just the top of the skin and you can't get any more superficial a burn than a 1st degree burn.
I want to design a video game.
I think the first step would be deciding what type of game you want to make, and based on that, what programming language you should learn. Depending on how much money you want to put into the project, you could probably hire just about everyone you need to realize the concept programmer, artist, designer, director etc etc. you could totally use your 7-8 hours to learn basic programming, and while you'll put a lot more time into it, you'll be able to make it exactly to your concept.
Do different types of alcohol have different effects on people like tv shows and movies suggest?
My girlfriend is a type 1 diabetic and says different types of alcohol make her blood glucose level go up and some make it go down. So that's an additional level to what else is being said.
why do people's face on this picture look weird when seen in your peripheral vision?
I would add that most of the pictures shown are very non-symmetrical. A lot of non-direct pictures and interesting facial and mouth expressions. The brain appreciates facial symmetry, so I'm guessing that the lack of it in these pictures doesn't help.It has nothing to do with peripheral vision. You can cover one of the images up and look directly at the other and it'll still happen. In fact, if you download that image, keep one face up for a bit and then flip to the next, it'll still look weird for a bit, until your brain adjusts. Your brain "holds on" to facial features, and since it's very, very irregular for a face to just *completely* change like that, it takes your brain a while to catch up with your eyes. These guys are flipping too fast for your brain to adjust.Now I ain't no neuro-shmuro doctor either, but I did poke my nose real hard once. Anyway, notice that the eye placement of all the pictures is at the exact same spot.Apparently, we haven't yet figured out why that phenomenon occurs: [Wikipedia page on the "Flashed Face Distortion Effectalso most of the pictures are somewhat distorted anyway, the side vision is exaggerating the existing distortions
Why do multiplayer video games have problem with NAT restrictions? Gaming seems like a harmless activity
Some multiplayer games have the server open a connection back to the player's computer. NAT prevents that, at least with out a specific proxy or port forwarding.
Why can't I form a tight fist with my hands straight after waking up?
Could have something to do with Carpal Tunnel. My hands are painful and useless for 20 minutes after waking up - can't open a doorknob or tie my shoes. Maybe you've got a less severe case?
Why can't we use heaters/radiators to cool our homes in the summer by running cold instead of hot water through them?
As well as condensation, consider this: Heating is done by water up to around 80°C, which is too hot to touch but doesn't injure after brief contact, and that's 60° warmer than room temp., whereas cooling with water that's near freezing would be a temp. diff. of only 20°, so it would only have 1/3 the effectiveness. Brine would work better but increases rusting etc. In addition, radiators distribute heat via 2 methods, convection and infra red radiation. Cooling would only have one of these to work with, convection. So, even less efficient. Also, radiators are usually white or silver, to increase the amount of radiating. But heat-absorption would work best with matte black units, so even less efficient. Aaaaaaaaand radiators are placed at floor level so that the heat can rise to the ceiling and then the cooler air takes its place to be heated in turn. But that means you'd want heat *absorbers* to be at ceiling level. Even less efficient.
Why do the launches of space shuttles look like they're traveling so slow?
When they're close to the ground, they're still accelerating, so they're not that fast. By the time they've accelerated to very high speeds, they're far away, so they don't seem to move that quickly.
Why are the big internet providers reluctant to increase broadband speeds?
Most people in the US don't have a meaningful choice of ISP, thanks to local/state/federal government-granted pseudomonopolies. There's no competition, so no reason for ISPs to put forth the effort. This is why US prices are so high and speeds so low. And don't buy into ISP argument that there is a huge cost involved. ISPs are sitting on ungodly amounts of fiberoptics that they haven't bothered to activate. The actual cost of providing your connection and managing your traffic is a few cents per dollar that you are being charged. Bandwidth caps are a pure money grab or a way to circumvent the appearance of pulling people away from streaming video services and toward the ISP's own offerings.
How does watching tv or playing video games "rot" your brain?
Generally speaking it's not entirely true. It's about content. If your watching mindless tv and videos and playing games off muscle memory and not taking real thought then your not exercising your brain. But if you watch interesting and thought provoking tv movies and videos it can stimulate and exercise the mind. Basically it's a use it or it's useless", 'There has to be a balance with socialism and flat out gaming. Locking yourself away for to long would have a bad effect simply as humans we need to interact face to face occasionally.
Can you damage the inside of your body if you constantly eat hot food and drink hot beverages?
The reason why I am asking this is because it hurts in my stomach after I've eaten something, usually comes within 5-6 minutes after the food has been digested. My friend told me it's not good to constantly drink hot beverages but he never said why.
Why is it so hard to transfer money in the US? Why are checks still a normal thing? Why can't you just send money to each others bank accounts?
You can send money to another account. What keeps checks around is the people who are not adapters. These people want a check in their hand that they can physically hold and take to the bank themselves. I am constantly trying to get people to switch to automatic deposit because at this point a physical check is more work in several ways than processing automatic deposits .but there's the people who need that check for some reason even though it's slower, takes more time to get to your account etc.
How are doctors allowed to charge so much for even the smallest appointments? Why aren't there laws to limit how much they can charge?
There are two main reasons: Supply & Demand, and the Third-Party-Payer system. **Supply & Demand**: This should be fairly obvious. Doctors are in high demand, but there is a very limited supply. First of all, not everyone *can* be a doctor, it's a fairly rare skill-set. Second, not everyone who *can* be a doctor, wants to be a doctor. & nbsp; **Third-Party-Payer**: In medicine, in most cases, the person consuming the service isn't the one *paying* for it, which causes prices to go up. If you look at the areas of medicine where insurance usually doesn't cover anything , not only do prices regularly fall, but the service and patient satisfaction is much higher.
How can a judge order a man to pay child support for a child that is demonstrably not the man's own (and with whom there has never even been a nominal custodial relationship)?
Didn't he sign his name on the birth certificate and that's why he is being forced to pay child support? That's what I heard.Not all states / countries require you to be the biological father of a child in order for the mother to collect child support . Some only require you to have been in a relationship with the mother where you provided the financial support, or for the child to consider you to be his/her father figure. So maybe the law doesn't say what you think it says. "Can it be legally upheld?" Well if it was, then yes.
Why do we need separate file compression software?
> Shouldn't the application make the smallest file possible? Not really. In most applications storage space is dirt cheap compared to things like CPU and RAM. So if making the file smaller means that it's going to take significantly more time to access or make it impossible to randomly access parts of the file then the benefit of the smaller file can easily outweigh the cost.
Why do fire trucks accompany ambulances to a medical emergency when there's no threat of fire?
Firefighters are trained EMTs. There are more fire stations than ambulance dispatch centers, and more firefighters than Paramedics. So firefighters usually beat the Paramedics because they can be dispatched quicker and there's usually a fire station closer. I'm a police officer, and Fire usually beats me to the scene when we're both called.
What just happened with Reddit?
Five barely-populated subreddits filled with the absolute worst people brazenly violating the sites rules were banned, and people think it's a huge violation of free speech. Frankly, when people on other sites can't believe I'm a proud redditor, I struggle to explain to them that reddit is filled with intelligent, insightful, creative, hilarious people, because of this small section of the population that is basically just disgusting. Pick your battles. These are not the people you want to be defending.
Why is college so expensive for students today compared to 10 years ago, and how can we fix it?
One reason is the intriguing [Baumol's Cost Disease]. Certain industries can't be automated, sped up or made more productive, and teaching is one of them. > In a range of businesses, such as the car manufacturing sector and the retail sector, workers are continually becoming more productive due to technological innovations to their tools and equipment. In contrast, in some labor-intensive sectors that rely heavily on human interaction or activities, such as nursing, education, or the performing arts there is little or no growth in productivity over time. As with the string quartet example, it takes nurses the same amount of time to change a bandage, or college professors the same amount of time to mark an essay, in 2006 as it did in 1966. This is because those types of activities rely on the movements of the human body, which cannot be engineered to perform more quickly, accurately or efficiently in the same way that a machine, such as a computer, can.
Why does opening the oven door while a cake is baking ruins the cake?
Hmm. I remember watching some cooking show where the host said that was a myth provided you don't leave it open.. I would love clarification on this
Why does the last minute on the washing machine always take several minutes?
If it's like my washer, it's because the times are only estimates, and the rounding errors accumulate on the last minute for each stage. Instead it's probably actually driven by sensors in the machine. For example, the spin cycle in ours runs until the amount of water coming out drops to a certain level. The actual duration is driven by the types of clothes inside, a big fluffy comforter seems to be more porous, so it drains faster than my dense load of socks & T-shirts.
what is the purpose of super computers in the oil industry ?
As well as manipulating seismic data as /u/London_Connection mentioned, supercomputers are also used in basin modelling. Simply understanding the geology of your play isn't enough - computational modelling is used to infer the thermal and mechanical history of the basin and fluid migration pathways to work out which areas are likely to contain petroleum and which areas are not. This all involves lots of high-resolution solid body and fluid mechanics, so is computationally very expensive, hence the need for supercomputers.
How come I can fall asleep nearly instantly in a school lecture when I'm trying to pay attention, but toss and turn when in a comfy bed and trying to sleep?
Anxiety. You have trouble trying to go to sleep for the night because your mind is busy with thoughts about the day to come, but in class you easily fall asleep because your mind is not busy thinking about other things and you're completely relaxed.
What does it feel like to become addicted to cigarettes?
It's like feeling hungry, except the craving is for a cigarette.i realized it was a problem and not just a social thing when i felt myself getting pissed if i didnt have one, mad at people who wouldnt just give me one.. hey you give me your stuff lol, like really .. i think i associated smoking with various things and the smoke took credit for other cool stuff just cause it was there too.. like taking a break is nice, but its nicer without the smoke.. post sex cuddling is nicer without a smoke, sitting back and digesting a meal over a chat is better without smoke wrecking the lingering flavors i would remember smoke curing my anxiety and forget that the anxiety it cured was my desire for a smoke.. itd still get credit even though it was the stepping away from my desk that cleared my head. also theres the cough, smoking is a cough suppressant, so it fills your lungs with junk then makes you not cough, when youre addicted you are just pleased to have a break from the coughing without thought that the smoke is what causes the cough. it takes a full three weeks before the coughing stops after you break the cycle, most people dont make it that long.. its like being addicted to cough syrup in a way. i think i was depressed when i smoked and that each cigarette was a micro suicide attempt, inviting dead over for a minute at a time. itd feel so punk, so nihilist, so rebel, like flipping off god nature society responsibility and life itself. .. i hadnt yet realized there are cooler ways to be cool, and how awesome the world is. the big smelly imperfect marvelous life', "I think Alan Carr, author of Easy Way to Stop Smoking, describes the addiction best - it's like wearing a tight pair of shoes and the relief that comes when you take them off for a few minutes. As a smoker you are in constant discomfort and smoking provides a few minutes of relief.
The message of Les Miserables
To me it's about values. It's about drawing a distinction between good and lawful, between love and fear. It's about showing a way of being where you save yourself from the harsh cruelties of the world by giving yourself to making the world better. Valjean is beaten down by life and gives himself to helping others, and so gains redemption. Javert lacks compassion, and dies alone.
What happens to air that enters the body cavity during surgery?
So say you are left with a permanent body cavity like from a brain tissue lobotomy, what happens in the void left behind under the patient's skull?", 'I feel like everyone in this thread forgot they were posting in explainlikeimfive.The body has ways of pushing it out, if it's a legitimate surgery.
- how does antibiotic resistance work?
Your right because it's a random mutation a bacterium could become resistant to an antibiotic even if it never encounters it. But the important question is whether this bacterium will multiply and continue multiplying fast than its dieing. For example if a bacterium becomes resistant to a antibiotic but also become less effective at gathering food as a trade off in an environment where there is non of that antibiotic then that bacteria will likely die off because being resistant to that antibiotic doesn't benefit it in any way and those bacteria that can gather food better than it will reproduce fast taking up more food till there isn't any food left for the antibiotic resistance bacteria. But if it was in an environment where there was that antibiotic then it wouldn't matter that is was worse at gathering food because all the other bacteria would be killed off so they don't have to compete for the food.
How do people, or companies, with large sums of money, win court cases they "shouldn't"?
Why is the court system so fucked that it can be played around and people who are right are forced to give up because of money issues. Isn't the court for justice? Why not just settle the case.
If we are so much happier when we are doing tasks (ex: exercising, reading, etc.) why is our brain programmed for us to be lazy?
Are brains are programmed to do 3 things: pleasure seeking, energy conserving and can't remember the third. Regardless, these drivers were evolved in a time where food was very scarce. If you used too much energy, you wouldn't be able to replace it with food and would eventually die. These are the same reasons as to why people enjoy the taste of greasy and fatty foods more than healthier foods. They have a higher energy content and eating them would allow you to exert more for less consumption.
What happens to the brain during a hallucination?
Like you're actually five years old: you remember when you have dreams at night? Remember seeing Santa Clause in the North Pole with his big fluffy white beard, jolly laughter, and all of his reindeer? And then you woke up and realized it was all a dream? Well, when you hallucinate, it's kinda like that, except it all happens while you're wide awake. It's like dreaming while you're awake. Now, go eat your spaghetti-o's.Imagine your brain/mind as a glass of water. Now drop a drop of food coloring in - many unseen properties now are visible.If you're interested in the inner workings of the brain and it sounds like your are, there's a new [book] out.The dreaming brain has no problem creating a completely convincing world that is 100% hallucination. The brain interacting with the outside world is actually projecting onto the world that we perceive a great deal more than it appears. I suspect, but have no research evidence, that hallucinatory drugs allow the brain to slip more of the projection--the stuff of dreams--into the externally perceived world. This is as simple as I can make it. Understanding this is beyond the capacity of a five-year-old brain.
Why are we not yet using fingerprints instead of signatures for contracts?
Finger prints are easily forged. AND YOU LEAVE THEM EVERYWHERE YOU GO. Unless you're some kind of graffiti artist that just tags every wall she passes by or one of those people that use their signature on emails , then you will leave your fingerprints on far more places that are easily accessible for anyone wanting to cause you harm than your signature. Finger prints are - just like signatures - not used because they're secure, but because they're convenient.
Why can I draw a straight line if I carelessly stroke my pen across paper, but not when I slowly and carefully draw one?
It's for the same reason that it easier to carry a glass of water by *not* paying too much attention to it. The more corrections you try to make, the more jittery you'll become. Your muscles are surprisingly poor at making fine movements - they need to work against something, and when you're drawing something the muscles are mostly working against each other. So you go a little this way, correct , go a little that way, correct When you make a careless line, you stop working your muscles against each other and start working on a common goal - making a gross movement with your entire hand or arm.
How do transistors differ from eachother.
In addition to what /u/corpuscle634 said, they also function slightly differently depending on whether it's a BJT, a FET, etc.
If the age of the universe is about 14 billion years old how come the diameter of the universe is 93 billion light years?
Here's food for thought: If our world was flat like a stick figure drawing, we could only move up/down/left/right. Wrap that same flat drawing all the way around a sphere and a stick figure man could walk far enough and end up back where he started. Stick figure guy can't comprehend the sphere he's walking around, and he's only still moving in one 2D direction, but he'll end up where he started none the less. ~~I think~~ This is all to say that there is a theory that the universe is a hypersphere. We have three dimensions to move around in within 'space', but there is a 4th dimensional 'horizon' to the shape of the universe that we cannot see past. If we went far enough, we might end up back at Earth. This idea is, more or less, the same as in the book Flatland. Edited for the pedantic.
How do small businesses which rarely seem to get patrons provide their owners a living wage?
Well, something like a barber shop or holistic healing shop have very little overhead and startup costs. All you need is a pair of scissors and a razor to open a barbershop assuming he charges $15 a haircut, and rent on the building is $700/mo plus his mortgage and food costs come out to $700/mo as well, he needs to make $1400/mo to stay afloat. 1400/30 = $46.66 a day. So he only needs 3 customers a day to survive. If he can't get that he could charge $20/$25 a haircut and only need two. When a business provides a service, and has no employees, it's possible to have a large profit margin. Either that or the shops are a front for money laundering.
Why does Adobe Flash Player use all my CPU resources?
HTML5 would fix this quality-wise, but isn't compatible with enough Websites/Content-providers yet, correct? When do we expect a competitor to overtake Flash? 2 years, 4 years, 10 years, never?
What do people mean when they talk about "America's crumbling infrastructure"?
_URL_1_ Here's a detailed overview of what is falling apart. Problems are widespread, and while they're not critical yet, cost is increasing.
How can America that's only been a nation for under 250 years be more advanced than nearly every single country?
> With great forces like England and France that have been nations for much longer than the United States has But that's in part why this nation is a giant force. We were a blank canvas; During the great depression, we had a huge underutilized and unallocated labor force and resources. When the war broke out, we were able to allocate them quickly - the process took to modernization quite well, as we had nothing there to begin with. On the contrary, established nations had an established economy; they had to retrain people, retool industry, and collapse parts of their economies they depended on for revenue in order to reistablish themselves. They were already invested and couldn't move or change quickly.Having lived in many countries around the world and now the US I honestly think that US is not the most developed country in any area other than cash generation. The us is however certainly in the top 10 of almost every conceivable metric of development however, but not more so than say Europe, France, Australia, Germany, Japan etc etc.I wouldn't consider America more advanced. We have the biggest military, but I think that's about it. We're behind in technology . We still have lots of social issues. Gay marriage isn't completely legal yet, no guaranteed vacations or maternal leave, etc.
Why does the military want a multi-caliber rifle for snipers
The largest caliber isn't necessarily the best caliber to use when engaging targets. A common misconception is that the .50 caliber bullet is used a widely used anti-personnel round, but it's actually used more commonly as an anti-material round. It's used to penetrate armor on light vehicles, disable engine blocks, and destroy static armor. The bullet is massive and travels very fast, and would be overkill in most engagements, which are under 600 yards. Now, i'm not an expert, or claim to be in the military, but, as a shooter, there are other rounds capable for hitting things under 1000 yards that are cheaper, easier to carry, and don't need such a heavy gun to fire from. Carrying a large caliber rifle, such as the M107 or something like that would be pretty difficult for snipers to take in and out of the area of operation. Now, there will probably be some instances where a large caliber rifle like that will be necessary for them to carry, but for the majority of snipers, a rifle chambered in .338 or .308 would be appropriate to engage their targets with.
This Math Homework for my first grader
What's missing: Math, logic, any sort of relevance to the addition problem I think they're trying to visualize. My recommendation is to ignore everything but the numbers and the arrow. For the example problem, I'd write 13+4=17
why do we have to take pills by swallowing the thint whole, why can't we chew them or something more comfortable.
Some pills contain things that are harsh on your stomach. So, they have a coating on them that doesn't dissolve until after it gets past your stomach. Chewing the pill would negate that.
Can we "observe" the doppler effect on light?
Yes, we can observe the doppler effect. That is even how we can figure out if a star has any planets, since the planets would be too small to see with a regular microscope, we look for the doppler effect that would be caused by another object's gravity pulling on it. If there is a planet orbiting the star, then it would go through periods of red shift when the planet is between us and the star, and it would be shift when the star is between us and the planet.
Why were Vietnam War Veterans hated by the American public?
I would say with tv bringing the war into people's living rooms for the first time and only usually showing the u s side of the fighting made the american soldiers look bad, many protesters saw things like the village massacre and wrongly hated vets for the atrocities committed by a few.I believe it was Gerald Nicosia who wrote a book after interviewing Vietnam Veterans and found the only incident was of some WWII and Koreans Veterans that treated the Vietnam Veterans badly. Anecdotal obviously but he did interview around 600 Veterans.Basically it was the first televised war. People got a full grasp of how brutal it was. That and the general consensus was we shouldn't be there losing lives.
Why do we find cold water more appealing than warm water, as far as drinking goes?
I'm an American and I, for one, cannot stand ice-cold water. I like mine room temperature.From what I know, the water we drink is not 100% pure H20; it contains dissolved gases and organic matter. When we heat the water, the dissolved gases escape and the organic matter denatures. This may be the reason why taste of water changes when heating', "Total speculation here but I have always assumed that we get more thirsty when we're hot because we need to perspire water in order to lower our body temperature, and that cold water would be better for this purpose than warm water.
What is the difference between Christianity, Islam, and Judisim
IIRC. Reading an Islamic brochure while waiting for class at UNI a few years back I remember them specifically point out that Jesus was not the son of god but a prophet. That god is not man or woman so would not have had a child. That's all I got.
Why helicopters keep their engines on and the rotors at a high speed when they're on the ground even when they haven't just landed, or aren't about to take off?
The blades are heavy as shit and don't have brakes. Starting them up takes time and energy, lots of both. If you're gonna sit for 15 minutes or less best to just keep them going because to stop them and then get them back up to speed it'll take longer and use more fuel.
What is that horrible sensation on your tongue after eating too many sour sweets?
The chemical that makes the candy sour is citric acid. If you eat a lot of sour candy , you'll feel the acid burning your tongue.
Why haven't there been any composers as "good" as Beethoven/Mozart/Bach?
Movie music is one of the few places most people today are going to hear orchestral music, and I'd say that John Williams and Hans Zimmer are on par with Beethoven/Mozart/Bach. One reason you are so familiar with those names is that they've been synonymous with classical/orchestral music for a *really* long time. Give us another century or two and I'd be willing to bet that Williams will be listed along with those three. A possible reason that they haven't been replaced as the go to names for this particular genre is due to how we learn of them. Most popular bands/performers today are heard either on the radio or on MTV. Everyone knows about them because they are in the news constantly and their music is everywhere. Beethoven/Mozart/Back are names that we learned in school, where the curriculum isn't that fluid. People have been teaching about these guys for their entire teaching careers, and they'll be damned if they're going to change their lesson plans now. And if nobody is demanding text book authors update their publications to include more recent composers, they sure as hell aren't going to do it for shits and giggles.Well, it is all relative. In their time period they were geniuses, and they used the medium of the times, which happened to be what we call "classical" music. If they were born today they would be the guy behind the scenes writing all of the number one hits, or composing for TV/Movies. Or they would be the people who pioneered dubstep. Also, in the world today we focus much more on a broad education. So while there might be a genius at music, maybe he is also a genius at math. Back then it is highly likely he would not be exposed to high level math, but music was everywhere, and it paid the bills, so music it was. Today they might be the guy who invented the artificial heart.I thought this is explain like I'm five! All I'm reading is baroque, requiem, fugue and romantic era! What are these concepts?
Why do thousands of Muslims March against cartoons of Muhammad but not against the violence of ISIS and Al-Qaeda?
Why are you assuming it's a good idea to march against ISIS? Do you think ISIS gives a damn about marches? What is a march supposed to accomplish?
What does Batman have against Superman?
In the comics, they're brothers. In the trailer, Batman is suspicious of a previously unknown alien who was called out over global media by other aliens, to die, or have the planet killed. Said alien defended himself, and the world from a threat no-one had heard of before his arrival, and his fight caused trillions in property damage, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of deaths. Soon after this, some people considered him to be a god. Batman thinks many moves ahead, and could conceivably consider the aforementioned fight to simply be the opening gambit to attain god status amongst mortals. He had to check him out for himself. The trailer doesn't actually show a conversation, just out of context quotes from the movie, so you can't really tell what he thinks of him.
Why are airlines struggling?
From what I can gather: 1. Airplanes need a lot of resources in order to not crash. Airplane mechanics are some of the best in the business of repairing things, as they have to go over every inch of the plane to make sure nothing is broken. Presumably, money from airline tickets covers their salary, as well as other workers in the industry. The United States' economy has not been easy to airlines, as people are not traveling en masse as they were 10, 20, or 30 years ago. As a result, less tickets = less money to pay workers = layoffs all around. 2. The rising cost of fossil fuels has also been a contributing factor, and terrorist scares have also caused a dive in the amount of customers.
How come an individual's appearance seems to "change" depending on your feelings towards the said individual?
The halo is effect is when you perceive others as having good traits from observing a few, like how a more good-looking person will seem to be more charming, likeable, funny, and so on than another person who is exactly the same aside from looks. The halo effect is not just for looks; if someone's funnier or likeable they can seem prettier and more charming, which seems to be what you're experiencing.
Why can't we make a dinosaur like in Jurassic Park?
To answer OP's question: There simply isn't enough DNA from one species of dinosaur to compile into the creation of a clone.Very good answers so far. I will add that if we were to somehow bring dinosaurs back, they would likely die pretty quick, do to their immune systems not be able to fight off the bacteria of today[there is someone already doing something like this]. The problem is that the blood in mosquitoes on amber doesn't contain useful DNA. This other approach tries to "bring back" the sleeping parts of the DNA of the living descendants of dinosaurs: the birds.In the movie, they found DNA of dinosaurs with missing sections. They filled in the missing sections with frog DNA. You won't get a dinosaur with part dinosaur DNA and part frog DNA.