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How do grocery stores prevent thefts when they have a self-checkout option? | I'm not sure if it's the same everywhere, but where I go there is always someone supervising the self checkouts, usually one person for about 8 tills, watching to make sure you don't pocket anything or to help out if the machine has problems. Secondly, the area where you place your shopping as you bag it detects weight... |
Why Bertrand Russell needed such a long formula to prove that 1+1=2 | 2" or "=" - he set out to create it all from scratch. When he finally got to the point where you could prove "1+1=2", pointing it out is sort of a joke. |
The Greek referendum and results | Someone tell me if this is accurate . Greece has a lot of debt that they currently cannot repay. Greece is asking lenders for more money to bail them out. Lenders are willing to lend Greece money only if Greece imposes further austerity measures that will further contract the economy. Lenders believe that these measure... |
Why do some people "run hot" while others "run cold?" | I have often wondered the same thing. My Dad is hot, Mum is cold and my younger sister is cold as well. We always assumed it was hereditary, but never gave it much more thought. Any correlation with month of birth? My Dad and I were both born in winter, my Mum and Sister both born in Spring? That's the only thing that ... |
Why/how are bacteria adapting and becoming resistant to antibiotics? What can be done about it? | Evolution. There will always be some bacteria in any one population that have some mutation that makes them more resistant to a certain antibiotic. If these are the ones to survive a round of antibiotics, the next generation will be more resistant, until they're invulnerable. Solutions are not to take antibiotics unles... |
What is making unisex bathrooms an issue? | A lot people believe that it's cause for rape and other sexual assaults. Since there is no camera in there, they won't be able to know if anything happens and there is private stalls for somebody to be drug into or used. |
How does snapchat make money? | The Snapchat company itself is funded by Venture Capital firms who throw money at startups - which is what Snapchat is still considered to be. A company's valuation is not how much its worth this very second, but is valued purely for potential, and potential alone. The main value attributed to it at the moment is its M... |
What makes nordic countries so rich and healthy? | Scandinavian countries actually aren't particularly wealthy by first-world standards. Other than resource-rich Norway, they all have PPP-adjusted per-capita GDPs that lag about 20% behind the top-tier non-energy economies like the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Switzerland. Crediting socialism for the success of Scandin... |
Why you can call emergency numbers like 911 without a sim? | GSM has a built in 'emergency call' flag - when you make an emergency call it literally just sends an 'Emergency call' code to any/all available GSM towers. That tower is supposed to do everything within it's power to 'answer' that emergency call and route it correctly to emergency services - this includes dropping all... |
How did J.R.R. Tolkien come to create two Elvish languages (Quenya and Sindarin) with such sophistication and consistency that it can be spoken fluently? | the ELI5 reason is that he was a genius. Many people here are right, Sindarin and Quenya are based on welsh and finnish. And Tolkien was one of the most talented linguists of his generation. The anecdote that I've heard about Tolkien sums up on what level he could handle languages. He was raised Catholic so the school ... |
Why is breakfast the only meal where it's socially acceptable to only eat a dessert? (Doughnuts, pancakes, cinnamon rolls, muffins, etc.) | Edit: why is breakfast the only meal in AMERICA where it's socially acceptable to only eat dessert?", 'Goddamnit, I feel American for saying this When the fuck did pancakes become dessert?', "It's not really socially acceptable in England.. well not to people I know. I guess pancakes is okay but I don't think you'd eat... |
Why the people who were responsible for 2008 financial crisis are not behind bars? How did they beat the system? | The short answer is that they didn't beat the system, what they did was completely legal within the system at the time The slightly longer answer is that no individual did anything that wasn't within the law, only the corporations as a whole engaged in activities that were questionable. The problem is that the corporat... |
Why do fizzy or sour drinks sometimes cause a sharp pain in the hinge of your jaw? | Your salivary glands are freaking out to wash the 'dangerous' acid out of your mouth.Wow..I 've been calling this "fruit cheek" my whole life because when I was a kid this would happen when I ate certain fruits and I couldn't explain it any betterI have no idea about fizzy or sour drinks doing this. Is it similar to th... |
If Reddit is such a diverse internet community, how do most controversial opinions get heavily downvoted and completely silenced? | Reddit isn't very diverse. Young white males who are atheist/agnostic and liberal/libertarian are dominant.Youtube pushes controversial posts to the top deliberately. Reddit pushes comments which are upvoted to the top deliberately. None of this has anything to do with diversity, it's just a different algorithm for sor... |
Why does FM radio sound better than AM? | AM sends signal via changing the amplitude of signal.FM sends signal via changing the frequency of signal. Power of a signal decreases with square of distance, but frequency content does not change. Longer the distance, lower the amplitude gets and more comparable with fixed magnitude noise the signal becomes. But you ... |
Why do we find it funny/amusing when people get hurt on TV or the Internet? | > Turing: Do you know why people like violence, Hugh?it's because it feels good. |
Why income tax increases by the amount of money you make. | First, there are different broad categories of taxation, known as progressive, regressive and flat. Progressive means you pay a bigger percentage if you earn more. Regressive means you pay a smaller percentage if you earn more. Flat means everyone pays the same percentage. So, tax doesn't necessarily have to increase b... |
Why is the government quicker to give me 100K for a student loan but not 100K to start a business? | Over 90% of businesses fail within their first 10 years. Basically the government has a 10% chance of getting their money back, because, unless you're stupid, you took out the loan in your companies name. And your company is an LLC. So, consider the fact that there's a 90% chance that the money won't be paid back, and ... |
Why is the word "lose" misspelled "loose" so frequently on the internet. | No, you didn't miss anything, they just don't know how to spell. Since the red spell checker squiggle line doesn't come up, they don't think they spelled anything wrong.Its my #1 misspelling pet peeve. And its common everywhere. Loosers.Combination of a lack of self education and not giving a shit. Also There, Their an... |
How did Felix Baumgartner break the sound barrier? | so he broke the barrier in the vacuum. I suppose there's no sonic boom in a vacuum? |
Why do YouTube videoes uploaded at 1080p and and downgraded to 480p look much better than those shot at a native 480p? | It's not the resolution. The technology for the image-sensors that do the actual capturing has improved greatly since the days of PAL/NTSC. Imaging-sensors these days are faster, more accurate, more power-efficient and less prone to noise. This means that even while the resolution is the same as for the 'native' PAL/NT... |
You have my full name and my social security number, what can you do to me? | If you've been employed in the United states for 10 years and are over 65, sign you up for a doctor's appointment. If I get your schedule, I could even choose a date and time that would be convenient for you. Or perhaps, inconvenient! |
If Nixon abused his office so blantently, why did President Ford pardon him without fear of looking corrupt? | Apparently Ford believed it necessary to maintain tranquility in the nation following the scandals and nearly unprecedented removal of Nixon from office. To really understand that, you have to consider the culture of the times. The office of Presidency had a lot of national pride invested in it, people were generally s... |
The difference between mtDNA vs nuclear DNA | The mitochondria have their own DNA, so no, they don't share any DNA with you. They also have single, circular chromosomes which suggests that at some point in the way distant past they were bacteria that entered a symbiotic relationship with our single-celled ancestors. They mtDNA in your mother and siblings would be ... |
Why don't we have a powerful router which would cover entire neighborhood and provide hundreds of device Internet? What's stopping manufacturers to design it? | If you are referring to wireless routers, they already exist, but manufacturers are balancing performance with cost as always. If you pay the money, you can have a super powered router but remember, your device has to be able to send data back to it too. It's far cheaper and easier to install a number of smaller covera... |
How can a layperson tell whether a police/FBI/government badge or ID is authentic? | You can't. Give me a couple days on eBay and a laser printer, and I'll give you badge that looks authentic enough to fool most people. However, impersonating a law enforcement officer is a very serious crime, and not terribly common. The harm cause by people refusing lawful requests because they don't believe the perso... |
Why was Chernobyl so much worse than other nuclear disasters? | Chernobyl. Reactor had a power excursion which caused a steam explosion. No containment. Core material ejected directly to the atmosphere. Core fire to the atmosphere for days. Fukushima. Had containment. Reactors were shut down for hours to days. Containment a mostly intact. No fire . The containment makes a huge diff... |
Why are heterosexual females more attracted to their own sex than heterosexual males are attracted to theirs? | I'm wondering if Ruby Rose brought this question on ?", 'I 'd say this is more of a societal thing and confirmation bias. You're more likely to accept/hear about girl on girl. I'm gay and go to the gay subreddits often I hear/read stories of guys being incidentally gay like girls are. I read about guys who messed with ... |
Why is 2.71828183 so important it's known as e and not just 2.71828183? | Do you know any calculus? There's a special operation in calculus called *differentiation*. It takes a function of x and turns it into a different, related function of x. e is a special number because the function e^x is its own derivative. When you differentiate it, it doesn't change.There are two separate questions h... |
Does all the money in the world have a physical counterpart (notes and coins)? | here's a video that explains how the bank creates money_URL_2_", 'Bitcoins are an entire currency that has no physical counterpart. |
What is Occupy Wall Street's theory of justice (their philosophy)? | Perhaps John Rawls [A Theory of Justice]? The main theme of OWS is that the system is skewed in favor of the wealthiest sect of society, to the detriment of the less-advantaged members of society. Rawls' theory boils down to two principles: Everyone should have equal freedom, and society should be set up to help the le... |
How did Jordan maintain relative stability during and after the Arab Spring, and how is Jordan still maintaining the relative stability with the state the Middle East is in right now? | They are a US ally w US military hardware and US intelligence services feeding them info. It also helps they don't gas or bomb their own population. |
What would nebula look like put in a glass jar and brought to earth? | Emptiness. The particles in a nebula are insanely far apart - they just look like a single cloud to us because they're soooo huge and we're soooo far away. |
Why does stretching feel so much better right before you go to sleep and right after you wake up? | I've heard that stretching brakes so called fascia wich form between your muscle fibers and cause you to get stiff. That's why old people get stiff if they don't strech and excercise.Stretching feels good because it's important for your health and the body rewards that. |
We produce enough food to feed everyone. Why do ~25,000 people die of hunger each day? | A bunch of places in the world are terrible for political reasons. Places like North Korea and Venezuela have food shortages because the governments there are socialist/communist and they don't respect people's rights. In other places, there are very weak or non-existent governments that can't protect people's rights. ... |
Where did composition notebooks get their classic "splotched" front cover design from? | I feel like this might be an /r/askreddit question more than ELI5.. or some other subreddit, I'm not sure which one though! |
Why aren't all military uniforms/apparel bulletproof? | That would be a world of suck. An IBA with front and back plates for a person my size, 5'11, 185, weighs about 20-25lbs. Those plates cover basically just the lower half of your chest down to the upper half of your stomach and about the same amount of area on your back. So it's a relatively small area. They make side p... |
Why does it seem like race relations in the US have gotten a lot worse over the last 5 years? What has changed? Or am I just getting older and noticing it now? | President Obama has enabled a number of prominent race baiters and continues to promulgate the 'victimization' view of race in US. He's been a good president overall, but on racial issues he has played to his base and caused a lot of problems. Regional issues have become national issues. The media has found that there ... |
This cartoon about location and momentum (_URL_0_) | Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle states that you can't know the location *and* momentum of any given particle at the same time. The more accurate reading you get of its position the fuzzier its momentum becomes. As a side note, there's an entire [website] for explaining xkcd jokes. |
How come bullet shells dont get stuck in the gun barrel after firing? | When you're shooting a revolver the casing never enters the barrel, it stays within the cylinder. To extract the cartridge you have to push the extractor rod into the cylinder which forces the shell out. The shells are kinda stuck, you have to apply some force to get them out. They won't all just fall out if you invert... |
The World Health Organization has classified alcohol as a Group 1 carcinogen. Why is it allowed to be advertised to consumers? | Processed meats and engine exhaust are also on the list. It's pretty worthless and has nothing to do with US law. |
Did Obama just promise a manned mission to Mars? | It is already planned :) Well, not planned. That's misleading. They're currently making the framework for it: human returns to LEO, fully sustainable pods/facilities, studying Mars for climate/soil components, planning a secondary base in Space from which to build interplanetary ships and as an in situ space port, and ... |
What will happen if America never pays off their massive debt? | Economics is very, very complicated and cannot be condensed easily. Even economists will tell you they don't fully understand economics. But the short answer, like everyone said, is nothing will really happen. Them main reason is both simple yet highly complicated: the debt doesn't really exist, not in any way that mat... |
Why is needing to pee such a strong impulse when compared, for example, to hunger, that in your dreams you actually dream of needing to pee and not of being hungry? | I grew up pretty poor and spent many months as a homeless teenager. If you are not having dreams of being hungry, it is because you may not have had a bad enough experience with hunger, but believe me, these dreams do exist. Everyone knows what it is like to hold a pee for too long, a lot of people may not know what it... |
Rome coliseum, what are the walls in the ground made for? | What you see is the basement. There used to be a wooden floor covered with sand that the gladiators fought on that covered it. That's where the various animals were kept until they were raised into the arena via a special elevator. I took the tour last year |
Why does drinking salt water cause dehydration, but when you go to the hospital for dehydration they give you an IV of saline, a solution that contains salt? | In your body, water likes to follow salt until they're are evenly matched . If you drink salt water the water has to come out of your cells to go to where all this new salt is to balance it out. Saline is whats called 'isotonic' so it's the same concentration of salt as the rest of you. Your internal water doesnt have ... |
Why does time perception change as you get older? | I've noticed since my daughter was born that time seemed to go into warp speed because I'm always busy now. |
What's to stop someone from broadcasting a radio frequency that is already taken by a local station? | I assume that's why at night when your station turns into Mexican radio it's because they don't comply with FCC. I don't know why it seems to happen only at night either. Someone needs to ELI5.Physically, nothing. Nothing at all. That said, there are people who will be upset by it, and will track it down and turn it in... |
Why is a virus not considered to be a living thing? | I'll explain as if you're really five. You know how a sock-puppet isn't alive and can't even imitate something that's alive unless you stick your hand in it? Viruses are kind of the same. Your cells are basically very complex little factories and the virus needs them to imitate life the same way that a sock-puppet need... |
How are there not billions of fruit flies all over the grocery store? | Grocery stores employ a lot of pest control measures. Just ones you don't typically notice unless you know what to look for. There are light traps all over the store. These use light and glue traps to catch insects. To the person that doesn't know what they are, it looks like any other light that shines up on a wall. T... |
If speakers make sound by pushing air, how come we can hear that speaker if it's enclosed in a box? | On a side note, solids and liquids are actually *better* at carrying sounds, this is why whales can communicate with each other at distances even up to 15000km. This is also why the two cans and a piece of string childrens toy works, the string is much much better at carrying the sound, so even normal speech can be hea... |
WTF is this "crumple" and "fold" business with toilet paper that everything keeps talking about? | One little square is usually not enough and may tear or soak through. Many people find folding two squares to be more durable. Some barbarians resolve the issue with a messy wad of crumpled paper but I can't see how this as effective. |
Why can there be toys in cereal boxes in the USA, but are Kinder Eggs and Kinder Surprises illegal? | Apparently, from what I hear, some kid had a Kinder Egg and fucking choked on the toy. Apparently, parents are too stupid to look at what can and can't cause their kid to choke. However, my girlfriend has a friend in Canada who comes down every so often, so her and I have a Kinder Cartel. My closet currently had well o... |
Why was the Roman Army so effective/unbeatable? | One thing that people aren't mentioning is that the Roman Army was conditioned to kill through repetition and training. So where you have a barbarian/peasant with a pitchfork that will swing it wildly at your face Roman solders were conditioned to carefully and mechanically parry a strike with their shield and stab the... |
Why do some many workers in factories fear becoming union? | Planning is hard! When they have to pay money to stay in the union, they get mad. Spending money is not fun! They don't realize that the money goes to lawyers and receptionists and negotiators to make sure employees have high paychecks and nice benefits. They think all these things happen on their own. They are dumb. |
If the FDA (US) so strictly vets new drugs for safe use on humans, why then do TV adverts contain so many warnings against side effects? | I could be wrong but I'm of the belief that in the litigious culture of America if you take a medication for a headache and it gives you the runs, if that is not mentioned as a possibility in the side effects, the drug manufacturer is going to get sued for millions. |
How do crematoriums ensure only the one person's ashes are in the urn? | Cremation remains are not ashes. They are pulverized remains of the skeleton, which isn't consumed by the pyre. The more you know. |
Why are the new games coming out unable to be cracked? Ex: just cause and hitman. | The publishers have done a pretty good job of keeping their encryption and file format structures secret. However, now that the games have been published and gamers have copies of the executables and all associated data files for the game; it is only a matter of time until someone is able to reverse engineer the execut... |
Why is there WAY more snow in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere? | Because there's WAY more land in the northern hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere. And that land is WAY further north. |
Explain semicolon usage like I'm a fifth grader. | To add to /u/corpuscle634's explanation, you can also use semicolons when you have a list of things, and those things naturally have commas in them. You would normally use commas to separate items in a list: I ate an apple, a banana, and an orange. But when the items you're listing already have commas, you can use semi... |
Reddit, why does America use the A, B, C grading system? | How would you suggest to implement the needed weighting system without letter grades? Because, back when i was in college, I would've been pissed if my Intro to Communications class and my Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing class were on the same points or percentage scale. I'd have majored in communications a... |
Why is OPEC allowed to engage in price fixing / collusion? | Uhm, who do you think they answer to that would stop them? Your company falls under the laws of the US, whether it's because it's a US company or because it does business in the US. Who's laws govern what the OPEC countries do? I mean I guess the US could invade every OPEC country, but I don't know if that would work o... |
Why the skin on a penis is darker/more tanned than the skin on the rest of the body? | If i had to guess i'd have to say that given the colour difference is only noticable when the penis is flacid and when it is errect the colour is the same as the rest of my body, it seems like over time the skin stretches to accomodate the growth that occurs during an erection and so that ammount of skin has standard p... |
Wikileaks latest leak; TISA | One issue is that they are negotiating in secret. If its good for people, why make it secret? Given that the US is dominated by banks the government deems too big to fail and too big to jail , more buisness for them that is going to make them even bigger and more influential isn't going to be good for any US citizen or... |
Why are rabbits not a preferred source of meat, seeing as they breed so easily, and are so easy to keep? | Why don't we all just eat insects? They are easy and really cost effective to raise and have the highest protein content, relative to size, of anything. \r\rIt's all about what you are raised with.You think that Australia could really benefit from encouraging people to hunt and eat wild rabbitsChicken skin and fat is d... |
If water is so essential to our survival, why have we not evolved a taste for it? | You also have an evolutionary attraction to sugar. This is because sugar is a really nice source of energy, and it's rather uncommon to find it in high amounts in the wild. Think of the savannah - there are not that many sweet foods there. Fruit is an exception to this, but it's a bit hard to find as well. So you proba... |
Why do girls like the smell of my sweat? | Bisexual man here. Personal story time: I feared the post-coital smell before I had my first sexual experience with another man . Immediately after my first time, I couldn't stop smelling him and his sweat. It just smells like *man* and that's a good thing. Edit: also, as a med student, pheromones, just as others have ... |
Why do humans throw up when they see something disgusting? | Obviously you haven't been on the internet long enough if you're still throwing up when you see something disgusting. Would you like a tour? I'll even provide a 30 gallon trash can. |
Instead of battery technology, why do Smartphone companies only upgrade cameras, processors, memory, etc yearly? | The big problem is the safety factors for LiPoly. Imoroving any individual component by an order of magnitude barely pushes the battery capacity because so much of the battery by volume is safety material. Puncture proof wrapping around the cells or what have you. If you really want to improve things you need to change... |
Why does February have 28 days when it could borrow two days from January and March, leaving us with seven 30-day months and five 31-day months? | Explain it like I'm five: February used to have more days but the Romans removed a day and added a day to July which was named after Julius Caesar to make it longer. Julius' nephew and adopted son, Octavius who as emperor was known as Augustus, had August named after him. His month was also added a day at the expense o... |
How do a little run-down motels in off the beaten path cities stay in business | A lot of them effectively rent rooms to long-term guests. I end up at a lot of these places and a lot of people actually live in those hotels/motels. They're super cheap because they're not advertising and keeping them to bare-minimum standards. |
What is dropbox and how to use it? | Work" etc. There is one folder called "Public Folder". If you put something there it also allows you to send a link to anyone. If they right click and save as then they can download the file. I used the public link to send something to my boss recently because it was too big to email and the FTP was down. I just compre... |
Why do seemingly all old people have no filter even if they were polite when they were younger? | I'm not a rude old lady by any means and am polite. However, I meet and see young people behave rudely to old people often. The weren't taught to respect their elders, as in Indian Country and in other cultures. My life's end is on the horizon so I say I can do whatever I want, but always with a smile. |
How are tattoo artists exempt from law? | They aren't exempt from the law. But Disney would need to track down these guys and sue them and they have bigger fish to fry. |
What's happening when we hear or see something, but none of the information "sticks" when we aren't focused? | In short, this is one aspect of what is described as attention. We actually don't have a very good explanation for the processes that underlie our various attentional abilities. However, it seems that there is a network of brain regions that are linked to some of our cognitive abilities ) and this network has a push-pu... |
Why is e^i+pi + 1 = 0 | Can someone explain the significance of the + 1 at the end? Why isn't the question about why e^i = -1? |
Taxes for rich, and what cutting them (like the republicans want) and raising them (like the democrats want) entails? | [The rich already pay the lion's share of income tax]. The top 1% of earners pay 35.1% of income tax revenue. The top 1-5% pay 21.4% of income tax revenue. The bottom half of earners pay 2.89% of total income tax revenue. If you include other taxes like capital gains the situation is even more stark. The reason people ... |
What was/is the point of a middle name? | People, especially men back in the day were often given their mother's maiden name as a middle name. They did this for two reasons: 1, it kept the maiden name in use and let everyone know the connection between the son and his mother's family, and 2, it distinguished them from other relatives with the same name. Back i... |
How come game companies like Blizzard still can't launch an online game with out terrible server issues? | They could account for it, but they would need a massive number of servers, an order of magnitude more bandwidth, etc. The logistical and financial nightmare that they would have to undertake to have a flawless launch day simply isn't worth the cost and effort; after a few days load comes back down within acceptable li... |
Why is it the prosecutor's goal to convict rather than to find the truth? | The idea is that if the prosecutor tries as hard as he can to get a conviction, and the defense lawyer tries as hard as he can to get an acquittal, the winner will be whoever had the stronger case . Whether this is true or not is debatable, but that's the idea.The short answer is, prosecutors get rewarded for getting c... |
the difference between a director and producer, please? | The director's job is creative. He supervises all the departments — camera, lighting, makeup, et cetera — and works directly with the actors. He's basically responsible, directly or indirectly for every single creative choice made during the production of the film. The producer's job is logistical. He's responsible for... |
What's the difference between all the various American intelligence/defense agencies? | Don't forget the Secret Service. Other than protecting current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, and others. They also investigate all types of financial crimes. |
The reason that giveaways/contests have the phrase 'Purchase not required.' and then have an alternative method of entry (usually mailing in a postcard). | If you give people the chance to win something in exchange for money, you're running a lottery. Lotteries are heavily restricted in many jurisdictions, and it's much easier to run competitions with free entry. |
How do game shows have so much money to just give away to contestants or buy expensive prizes? | It's cheaper to buy the prizes then it is to pay actors. Millionaire cost much less to produce than Friends.Also, a lot of the prizes are sponsored by other companies as wellImagine having a tv series where you only have to pay for like 1 actor and the rest you pay a little but here or there in prizes you get discounte... |
What is it about riding in a car that makes babies fall asleep? | The same things that make them fall asleep at home when you're putting them to sleep. 1. Steady background noise2. Music3. Rocking4. No one is directly interacting with it.Because babys are lazy, if i didnt have to do anything for myself, id sleep in all car ridesMild motion sickness can cause drowsiness. The conflicti... |
Hello i'm from Argentina, can someone explain why a black guy eating a watermelon is racist? | Watermelon and fried chicken aren't black people food, they're poor people food. And southern blacks were historically, desperately poor. Source: I'm white and grew up dirt poor in the south. Edit: And I loves me some chicken and watermelon. |
What's the difference between normal gas and diesel? | They're both made up of hydrocarbon chains, but diesel fuel has longer chains than gasoline. As far as properties, you can just think of diesel being thicker than gasoline. It lubricates better, contains more energy, and does not evaporate as easily. These differences are why you can't use diesel in a gasoline engine a... |
Why do we still get dark eye bags after a night of insomnia even though, for the most part, we just lay there motionlessly with our eyes closed? | It's not 'a night of insomnia' its just not being able to sleep. Insomnia is more of a perpetual state of fatigue from not being able to sleep night after night. |
How can Matrox Millenium G550 GPUs still be for sale new, more than 16 years after release? | Because it's not just about speed. Those old Matrox cards feature the LHF 60 connector, which, despite its age, can output resolutions over 9mpix and connect to four separate displays, which is something that has only just been made possible for consumer cards with Display Port 2.0. There's also the benefit as well tha... |
Why do we sometimes forget how to do something when we think about it but then remember when we're not concentrating? | It's simply because when your trying, to remember something hard enough our brains and a method of which the brain trys to block out usless information to try to free up some brain space to remember what ever it was. Unfortunately this method sometimes effectively blocks out the item in which you were trying to rememb... |
When countries like North Korea spend money on war supplies like missiles, nukes, guns, planes etc. who sells it to them? | North Korea sells a lot of its ballistic missile technology to countries like Syria, Libya, Iran, Egypt, etc. It's a self-perpetuating industry when you don't feel the need to reallocate funds . This is a big fear about Pyongyang's nuclear program. The government manufactures and sells opium abroad, it sells missiles o... |
Why is reddit's search feature so bad? Most of the time it says "search failed" and it's always slow. | All these explanations are focusing on the technical aspects which is great, but the truth is Reddit's search is terrible because: There is no monetary incentive for Reddit to provide a better search. If there was an incentive to provide better search, Reddit would hire the people to make it happen . |
Why are you not allowed to use a mechanical pencil on standardized tests even if it's the same #2 lead? | I'm not sure about the validity of the statement, but I once read it is a measure to combat cheating Supposedly it's simple enough to install a transmitter/blinking led receiver to communicate with outside correspondents. So, maybe in electrical engineering it's still outlawed? No test I've ever taken has forbidden mec... |
What does a restaurant do to stop you from Dining n' dashing? | Not really a whole lot from my experience, fear works wonders in deterrence. But you'll never be able to go back to that restaurant again, which if you plan on living in the city for any extended period of time might just be enough of another deterrent. |
Why is gold so valuable to the world? | well we NEED something to have a value out of nothing, otherwise we were limited in our trading historically gold is the ideal material for this: it's rare, easy to process, easy to verify it's real gold and ideal to carry around your neck as a status symbol. |
The chaos theory? If you wouldn't mind, thanks | Yarr, ye forgot yer searchin' duties, for twas asked by those what came before ye!]", '[Jeff Goldblum does a decent job explaining it in this documentary.] |
What caused the shift in the general taste of music from classical in the past to the pop songs of today? | New styles arose and pushed others back. I'd be interested in hearing what style has remained popular the longest |
Why are people so angry when low-status men date or marry attractive foreign women? | For one thing the marriage rate for woman in America is dropping faster than men's marriage [rate.] |
Is it possible to 'put out' a volcano by pouring the necessary amount of water? If so, what would the effects be? | You could of course cool down the top of a volcano, but the problem here isn't heat but pressure. There is a magma bubble with enough pressure to let the volcano become active and it will only go dormant again when the pressure has fallen enough. If you cool down the top of an active volcano you are essentially putting... |
What are the side effects of the Great Barrier Reef disappearing | Coral reefs actually absorb some of the power of giant waves. So you'll often see huge waves behind coral reefs and only small waves reach the shore, thanks to coral. If the coral is gone, some coastal communities could be underwater in the future. Fisheries depend on the coral reefs because they can support huge, biod... |
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