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What is the pocket in women's panties intended for?
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I seriously doubt it's meant as any sort of storage. Lol I believe it's just meant as an extra layer of fabric to help keep any stains from reaching outer clothing.What are you talking about? I 've never had a pair of panties with a "pocket" in themSome pockets are for the remote controlled vibrators that fit in them. Like the sexy undies
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Why are instant noodles bad for my health ?
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Sodium. Also, say, hypothetically, that you wanted to see how long you'll live on ramen alone. You eat 3 packs of ramen a day. By the end of the first week, you'll develop a protein deficiency. You'll feel sluggish and miserable. A few weeks after that, you'll notice an increasingly bad pain in your muscles and joints and your wounds will not heal -- that's scurvy, caused by a Vit C deficiency. At that time you'll also get cramps, nausea, and changes in heart rhythm, all due to a lack of potassium. But don't worry, you'll be dead in a maximum of two months anyway because of that protein deficiency, lol! The lesson here is: When you can barely afford food, eat either 1) rice and beans or 2) potatoes and butter .
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Why is it that when I wiggle my finger in my belly button, I feel it in my penis?
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It's because the bellybuttons function is to keep the penis attached, much like a knot at the end of a rope to stop it from slipping through a hole, so that you can hang something heavy on it.So, I 've never experienced this, but I can give a reason from Anatomy and Embryology. During development as a fetus, the testes originate right around the level of the abdomen near the belly button. Here, they develop nerves that run to the spinal cord at this level . During development, the testes move downward, travel through the inguinal canal , and descend into the testes. They remain connected to the spinal cord via the same nerves, the nerves just get longer. In the spinal cord, there's a network of nerves that integrate signals coming from the organs and the overlying skin at that area. Those signals, 'sensation from the testes\' vs 'sensation from the belly button\' remain mostly separate, but there are a few overlapping connections. Because we're not really used to feeling things from our internal organs, often times our brain interprets signals coming from them as coming from the same level as that sensation. In the case of the testes, this sensation is referred to the belly button area, so often pain from the testes occurs in the belly button area . I suppose it's also possible that the reverse could happen as well, that sensation from the skin can be referred to the internal organsI thought I was the only person that experiences this!', "As anyone who's ever had kidney problems can tell you, the nerves below your waist are unreliable when it comes to location. Basically, there's a lot of information to transmit, and not enough space for the wires.
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Why does your nose alternate which side/hole takes in oxygen when breathing?
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Just a bit beyond why, there's some fun facts in how: there are little masses of erectile tissue on each side, right where the nasal cavity joins the throat. These are controlled by the same physiological signals that control other erectile tissues further south. Viagra? Stuffy nose? Nose boner.Sci-Show has made a video on this that explains it fairly well: _URL_0_ Basic explanation: Both sides take in oxygen while breathing. However, one nostril is inflamed at any given time. They trade this off every 15 minutes or so. They do this because some smells take longer to bond to receptors in your nose, so air needs to move slower. Some require more energy to bond, so the energy needs to move faster. Because one nostril fits both of those categories at any time, you can **always** smell a wide variety of smells.
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How did the democratic party change from being the party that supported slavery and segregation to being the party that champions minorities and their rights?
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Champions minorities? Take a look at every ghetto in America and looks who's in charge and have been for 60 years. They are still holding minorities down. They have just been lying better.
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How do mugshot removal services work?
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I have a friend who was involved in a class action lawsuit against one of the websites that posts your mugshot. They won! Not a lot, but at least the legal precedent was set. [Here's a link to the attorneys website describing the case]
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What causes the American South and Midwest to have so many tornadoes, and why are they so relatively rare everywhere else in the world?
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Tornadoes don't just form on a whim, there are certain conditions that need to be present in order for one to occur. The most deadly tornadoes spawn from supercell thunderstorms, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well defined radar circulation, called a mesocyclone. Some areas are more prone to tornadoes because the conditions are conducive to the storms that produce them. In Tornado Alley, for example, the plains get very hot, creating updrafts. When unstable hot air near the ground rises in these updrafts.These collide with the cold, polar air up in the clouds, generating convective precipitation along the collision boundaries. In addition, air in the mid-latitudes often flows at different speeds and directions at varying levels of the troposphere, which causes rotation within the storm cell. So, simply because the large number of convective storms and the favorable conditions, the odds are increased that some of these storms will produce tornadoes. A good percentage do.
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What is a Saudi prince? Why are they always rich? Why are there so many of them?
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The Saudi royal family is *huge* by any standard. The main family line are the descendants of King Abdulaziz Al Saud who had 35 sons, but at least three other branches exist who would be considered by western standards as distant cousins. It's estimated that there are around 15,000 members of the Saudi royal family. Their main source of wealth are the ultra generous stipends each of them receive from the government. The amount of that stipend varies by how *senior* the prince is. According to leaked US cables from 1996, it starts from $800/month for the lowliest prince up to $270,000/month for the sons of the founder. The princes supplement that income by owning businesses that have the privilege of being above the law in many cases. Forced partnerships with successful businesses owned by *commoners* and land grabs are not unheard of. Also, they don't have to pay their electricity or phone bills and they can fly for free in the national airline. King Abdullah started some reforms which included cutting back on some of those perks , but for the most part life is pretty good for your typical Saudi prince.
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How do surgeons control bleeding once they cut a person open?
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A lot of the time there is a lot less blood than you thinking. There is a commonly used tool they have, not sure what's it's called but it cauterizes as it cuts to prevent bleeding. You can also clamp vessels and what not.My dad had aortic dissection surgery a few months ago, and to stop his bleeding in they aorta they drained his blood and cooled his body so his organs stayed okay.
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Why is "playing dead" so rarely used tactic in war?
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Anything that moves is VC. Anything that doesn't move is a highly disciplined VC. Discipline my friend ..discipline.
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What is the purpose of mosquitos?
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[They're food for other things.] Also, one might argue that a certain amount of death and disease transmission by them is good for animal populations.The purpose of Mosquitos is to make more Mosquitos. The purpose of any living thing is to reproduce. If they are good at it they will survive as a speciesWhat is the purpose of anything? Mosquitos occupy a niche, where they thrive quite well.
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What is the reason most states mandate that big lottery winners cannot remain anonymous?
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One of the biggest things a lottery needs is a sense of legitimacy. That if you play, you have an honest chance to win. If completely anonymous, people don't know if people are really winning or who is winning. Also, if anonymous, it's easier for those who may have some control over the lottery to pull shenanigans with friends and family, rigging it somehow in their favor. By having the winners public, it raises the chances of someone noticing and making the connection. So basically, having these lays helps to keep trust in the lottery and thus people playing.
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How is it that Apple can market their new iPad Pro without any sort of copyright/trademark/patent infringement given that it appears nearly identical to the Microsoft Surface?
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All I see in this comment section are a bunch Apple hating morons that are clearly oblivious about intellectual property at its basic level. So I'll explain like you're five: Apple didn't release a product called the Microsoft Surface, did they? No. Apple's device doesn't look like a Microsoft surface, does it? And by look like it, I mean, doesn't look so similar that someone would think the Apple product IS a surface because the exterior casing or wtv is identical. Once more, the answer is no Let's assume that patents for the electronic components are all in order as well. Now, did Apple engineer the majority, if not the entirety, of these products themselves? Yes. So we can assume that Apple didn't steal any classified surface plans to create this device because Apple has their own engineers and designers that come up with their own shit. And the software on the device is from Apple and not Microsoft, right? Right! So Apple has broken no laws. Not even close. There is nothing that prevents a company from making a product that happens to have a keyboard cover and a stylus To the OP I ask this: why didn't you get mad at Samsung for releasing a galaxy tablet after Apple introduced the iPad? I mean, they look the same and do the same things, right? That's what I thought
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Why don't those charities that make wigs for cancer patients simply shave the heads of people about to go through chemo and make them a wig of their own hair instead?
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That's actually what they did for my mom when she got breast cancer.Because people helping people makes the world go round.
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How does a pilot manage cruising altitude when local geography/elevation changes?
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35,000 ft is referred to as FL35 and may not actually be 35,000 ft. Elevation is based on measurements taken by a barometer calibrated 1013 millibars. Depending on weather, if it's a high or low pressure, FL35 might be above or below 35,000 ft. It's more important every aircraft has it's equipment calibrated the same so they don't hit each other, then flying at a particular exact altitude. There are different flight levels for aircraft going in different directions. _URL_0_", 'Probably already answered, but in addition to the great info below, the cruising altitude is relative to *sea level*, not relative to the terrain below them .
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If all drugs were legal wouldn't criminal organizations still have an advantage since they don't have to pay min-wage, taxes, and can sell at a cheaper price?
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There would be a lot of drug dealers looking for a new line of work in all honesty. The reason they make so much profit is because they can charge whatever they deem is worth the risk of getting caught. If things are made legal they'd suddenly be making a lot less
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Technocracy and why the USA isn't one.
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A technocracy would require a major shift away from democracy and fundamental changes to the Constitution to permit it. It's unlikely that the States would agree to hold a Constitutional Convention about this, and even more unlikely that they would vote for a technocracy in such a Convention. The USA as you know it would effectively cease to exist.
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what is escrow and how does it work?
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If I remember correctly, escrow is when you agree on a payment for something but want a guarantee that you'll get the money. The buyer gives the money to a third party , who will then verify the funds to you. You give the buyer the thing. The money comes out of escrow and into your dirty little hands.
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What do bees and wasps do when they come back to find their nest destroyed?
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I'm a beekeeper, so somewhat qualified talking about bees, but I have no idea how wasps react to that situation. That said, if you take the hive away, one of two things will happen. *If there is another hive nearby and not a lot of bees from their own hive around they will try to get invited in the other hive and become a member of that populace. They kind of beg their way in. *Else they are going to sit on the spot where the hive was and wait for some time. After a while they will try to create a new hive. Because a queen is missing, one of the workers will try to be a queen. She will not be able to create new workers from her eggs, only useless males. After a very short period, all bees are dead.
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Why is India unable to control its population growth as effectively as China? Are there reasons other than their different styles of government?
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India and China are simply at different stages. Most countries experience a massive population increase following industrialization. China's is pretty much over and their population is going to peak and then decline a little bit. India's is still rising but the growth is already slowing. The average Indian woman has 2-3 children, which is much lower than many other developing countries where the average woman has 5, 6 and even 7 children in her lifetime. And remember, once you reach the point of 2 children per woman, that means your population has leveled off and is not growing anymore . India's population is still growing a bit, but they'll level off soon, just as China has.
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What's causing the very high pitched engine noise and bangs usually Rally cars produce?
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No sound deadening, long travel heavy duty suspension, and rough terrain all add up to lots of noises you won't hear from circuit racing cars. Also all the components are much more sturdy to handle the punishment of rallying, which leads to a much more heavy handed driving style.
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Why is it so near impossible to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth simultaneously?
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Well, because some flaps of tissue are normally supposed to move into place to prevent that from happening. Circular breathing gets around this by storing some exhaled air in the cheeks and continuing to exhale that while simultaneously breathing into the lungs through the nose. It's very, very hard to do and it takes the musicians that do it a lot of practice to get down.
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Is it just luck or some other reason why germs that spread easily aren't nearly as deadly as harder to contract germs (Like AID's or rabies or the like).
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You're comparing different things. Virus, germs, bacteria etc are all different things. Aids is a virus that is spread in a specific manner. Do those things and it is terrible easy to get. Rabies is also a virus that again behaves in a specific manner. The manner of transfer is important also. The above mentioned diseases spread differently than the cold or flu. Both the cold and flu are airborn, which is one of the easiest ways to catch a disease. You can't catch aids from breathing the same air as an aids victim. SARS, seine flu, and bird flu are all airborn spread and deadly which is why there were panics when they happened.
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If I dug a hole from north to south pole and jumped right into it, what would happen?
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Lets say you won't burn from the heat and lets ignore the air resistance. Then after around 84 minutes you will reach the south pole. By that time your speed will be 0. Then you can grab onto something, or fall back and return to the north pole 84 minutes later. EDIT: It's actually 42 minutes, see other replies. 84 minutes is the time of the round trip.You would fall all the way through, passin the core, but would fall short of dramatically popping out of the other side. You might get close though', "i dont think we can dig thru magma at the earth's core yet
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What is the deep web and how do you access it?
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It's kind of like the hidden internet. LOTS of scams! But basically you can buy/find anything if you look hard enough. Hitmen, drugs, probably a wife. Easiest way to view it is to download TOR. You can also look up the hidden wiki to get you started on discovering. I would recommend at least using a VPN when browsing. DO NOT click on a link unless you are 99% sure of what it is. that's my basic understanding of it at least. I'm sure more people are able to go more in depth or correct me Edit: _URL_3_
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Why wouldn't prop planes require counter torque when helicopters do? Does it have to do with the plane's mass?
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An airplane has control surfaces that can move it in directions. If there's any torque from your engine affecting flight, you just adjust some flaps and you're good to go. A helicopter, OTOH, doesn't have anything controlling its rotation. To compensate for torque, or even do maneuvering in that axis, you need a secondary rotor.
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What stops Private Military Companies from just one day going "OK, it's revolution time."?
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Because despite what was presented in COD, with SPacey and ATLAS Corporation. Most PMC's are not huge affairs, and the bigger ones dont have huge numbers of top tier operators, because for one those guys dont come cheap, two many arent interested in dangerous professions as a second career after their first one was dangerous, three there just arent all that many guys to begin with. So that means the majority of the guys overseas for PMC's are anything from Tech Support, to drivers, to your equivalent of traffic cops or gate attendants. And then even more tech support. Not really the sort of infrastructure and footprint you need to take over any modestly organized country with a hostile population.Money. Money is why they fight, and why take over a nation with over a billion dollars in debt, when you can just paid by them?', "Hmm, don't know, maybe because of certain death?", 'The sheer logistical and human cost is unfeasible, aside from the bad PR from trying to take over a sovereign nation ruining any future business.
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Why doesn't water help with dry skin?
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Simple response. Washing your hands/having your hands exposed to water a lot will strip the oils off your skin, exposing it to the dry air and causing it to try out and occasionally crack. As someone with perennial issues with dry hands in winter, if you wash you hands, follow up with some lotion to protect your hands afterward.
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Why do we "zone out", or stare into space?
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Word of caution since we're on the subject.This can be a sign of epilepsy in young children if it's occurring regularly. In our case the 'stare in space' was most noticeable after physical exertion. This was really the only symptom of what was later described as a chemical imbalance of the brain. Fortunately, since it was discovered early on medication was able to correct the issue.
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If modern stealth aircraft have a radar cross-section of a bird, why doesn't enemy radar simply track the 800 mph small bird signals?
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Speaking of stealth aircraft, I have this idea written on my iPad, you guys seem to know what you're talking about, feedback? Why don't they coat military aircrafts with mirrors to make laser guided missiles useless? Right now, the military paints stealth aircraft black so that as little light bounces back to the sensor on the missile as possible. But if we were to cover it with mirrors, the light would just bounce away in some other direction, away from the missiles' sensor. Obviously, mirrors are a bit to delicate to coat military fighter jets with, so they would have to use something similar, like chrome steel. The military has done some research in using lasers to shoot down missiles, but I doubt this will ever catch on because you can just coat it in mirrors and make it laser proof!
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Why are their braille dots on the drive up ATMs?
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I'd guess that the fundamental reason is that the ADA requires it", 'Because blind people who are using a taxi or getting a ride need to be able to get their cash without having to tell the taxi driver their PINA. Like the other person said, you can walk up to it. B. They manufacture ATMs and parts for a lot of different models; why bother making a special keypad just for drive-up ones?
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If fish "breathe" dissolved oxygen in the water, why do they die once they exit the water?
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Some fish can come onto the land and have different organs adapted to breath air. Betta fish and Goldfish both breath air from the surface because they have a Labyrinth organ. Their gills need water to carry the dissolved oxygen to them though, it's not the same as mammals breathing air. Mostly fish dry up on land and that kills them for sure.
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Why are even numbered houses on one side of the road and odd on the other?
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It's the french's fault But basically it's done that way just because it's done that way - it was originally done for the benefit of the postal service. I can't remember which side is which but it was originally based on which side was closest to the centre of town so it was always possible to orient yourself.
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Why is it not appropriate to wear a suit to all interviews? I thought the advice was to always wear one because you can't go wrong with it.
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In a factory you do not wear a tie; it is a safety issue. At a tech start up, you don't want to look like Microsoft executive. In a McDonalds kitchen, a spill could ruin your clothes. Etc. At least pretend to know the industry you are applying in.
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Why do some people have the inability to float in water?
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It's a matter of bone density , muscle mass , and fat content . People that exercise a lot tend to have denser bones, more muscle, and less fat - so they are denser than water and will sink. Since there's a number of factors there, you can't automatically blame someone being good at floating on their fat content .
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How do unlimited vacation days at tech companies work?
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I work for a big tech company that does this and it's 100% dependent on your direct manager. I'm lucky to have one who encourages everyone to take more vacation more often, but it's not like that everywhere. In some groups, taking vacation is seen as lack of dedication or that you don't have enough to do or some other bullshit like that. So, could you take a sabbatical and tour the world? No, probably not. Could you take 3 weeks off for a summer vacation and not worry about having time left over for Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc? Yes, probably, if your manager is good and you're generally getting things done. The hard part for people is the entitlement issue. When you have 10 vacation days a year, those are your days and you feel completely righteous taking them at any point. When you have unlimited days, do you feel just as entitled to those 10 days off? You should, but realistically not everyone does.
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Why it matters if a species like the tiger goes extinct
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I answered [the same question for pandas a while ago]:Biodiversity is good. Having a lot of different types of plant and animals ensures that nature, and thus humanity, has options. What if something happens to kill all the cows and pigs, but makes pandas breed like crazy. Well then we'd use pandas for food and be glad they didn't go extinct back in the 21st century.That is a selfish human reason. Nature needs biodiverstity to allow for extinction. Some plant seeds can only germinate when eaten by an animal and passing through their digestive system. So, if you lose the animals that eat the seeds you need some other animal to move in and take up the role. If none exist, the trees all eventually die. Then the bugs that eat the leaves die. The animals that eat the bugs die. Without backups for food supply and for population control you end up with total ecosystem collapse. This is also why everyone is afraid of the loss of honey bee colonies. They are the sole pollinator of large scale agricultural crops. No pollination means no fruits and vegetables, which means no food.
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If our bodies are products of evolution, how could our bodies have evolved the ability to release amounts of DMT upon impending death?
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Not everything has an advantage. As long as it doesn't hinder survival of the species it can stick around.Our unevolved brains may have reacted differently to DMT, e.g. it could have been a life saving event to get flushed with it. At one time we had tails, and we kept the tail bones. Today we are sensitive to DMT, but the reason why remains a mystery However, DMT is a neurotransmitter, our bodies have used it in a productive manner for millions of years. ', "It's not hard to imagine an advantage. You don't want other members of your species to be near you when you die, because a weak and dying organism will attract predators and scavengers.
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Open source vs Free Software? And why does Stallman not like Open Source?
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Free Software ensures that open source projects have an advantage over closed-source projects. With licenses like MIT or BSD, closed source software can still use open source libraries. Imagine two parks, separated by just one road, are fighting to get the most children playing on them. If the first park creates a big, open parking lot and allow the other park's visitors to visit it, then it is investing time and money towards something that also benefits its competitors. In contrast, if the park only allows its own visitors to park in that parking lot, then its time and money benefit only itself, and not its competitors. Here's another example: Imagine little Suzy and fatass Fabio are competing to get the most friends. Fabio brings Capri Suns to school. Now, Fabio can share those Capri Suns with everyone, and everyone will be happy, or Fabio can keep his Capri Suns to himself and his friends. In doing so, Fabio and his Friends will have an advantage - they've worked hard to get those Capri Suns, and stupid Suzy isn't going to get any of them.
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How come there are no noise cancelling apps out there? Cell phones have the necessary inputs and outputs. I would think someone would have done it a while ago.
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Noise cancelation isn't nearly as godlike as you seem to think it is. Noise cancelation is accomplished by sending out sound waves that interfere with ambient noise such that the result is no sound. However, this only works in a small, controlled space. You can't use a set of speakers to cancel noise in any arbitrary room. You can do it in the few square inches of a pair of headphones, though, because it is a known space of a regular and constant size.
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What do doctors infer from using Stethoscopes? How can they identify what's wrong with us by just hearing us breathe?
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A stethoscope only tells you about problems with the heart and lungs. It can also help to identify bowel obstruction. For other parts of the body, other examination techniques are used. If any problems are identified with the stethoscope, further investigations will usually be done, otherwise, a stethoscope probably wasn't really needed, e.g. for a simple respiratory tract infection. It's just a tool to help identify which areas of the body have problems, and other signs will be evident anyway. If you hear any murmurs on the heart you will always do an ECG and an echocardiogram ", 'It is a quick way to check if there is something obviously wrong. If there is an obstruction you can hear air rushing past it. Fluid in the lungs? Idem. You can test this yourself by taking a straw or another piece of tubing and blowing through it or sucking on it and pinching it a bit or having some fluid in it. If you listen well you can hear differences. A true doctor or med student can probably give a more thorough explanation of what you can hear, what you can check etc.Lung sounds can determine if your breaths sounds normal, sound like congestive heart failure, asthma or pneumonia. Also if it's absent as in a collapsed lung. And are the sounds in one area or throughout. The heart sounds have their own distinct diagnoses and clues. And a stethoscope can also listen to bowel sounds for hypo/hyperactivity, normal sounds, gurgling or absence.
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why different languages have different onomatopoeia. Why do things sound different in different languages?
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woof" - well, these are examples of different interpretations *in the same language*. English probably didn't say "bark" all the time - then consider Middle English and Old English and how not everything then was written down. c) With regards to other languages - I speak Russian and Norwegian. "Jeg kjenner" is one way of saying "I know" in Norwegian, and the kj is pronounced like a "sh", but with the middle part of your tongue on the roof of your mouth. It's probably a sound you can't imagine right now or wouldn't be able to replicate immediate. Russian has щ, which is explained as "shch". English doesn't have the equivalent, but English does have the letter w, which Russian doesn't, which is what a German r can sound like if the native German speaker has trouble. Which is always cute as hell. So really, these things we take for granted in our own languages are worlds apart in others.It's not that they sound different in other languages, but that other cultures have come to develop patterns of speech independently of other regions and thus they've come to represent the sounds they're hearing with onomatopoeia differently.So this comes down to the sound structure of any given language, That is, different languages utilize different sets of sounds to make words which others may use less or not at all. This causes speakers of a given language's ear to be "tuned" to the sounds more common of /more comfortable in their language. Though they are hearing the exact same sound input. It's Similar to how certain words are pronounced different in two languages even though it is they are essentially the same word. like the word "baker" is pronounced something like "b-ay-kur" in English but "bea-kur in German. English "likes" a slightly different a-sound than German Source- just received my bachelor's degree in linguisticsI found [this] video not too long ago that answers your question exactly in a very ELI5 way.
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How are things becoming so expensive if our wages are stagnant and we are making less today relative to inflation?
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When you account for inflation, American workers have not had a raise since about the 70s. Minimum wage has actually fallen. Meanwhile executive pay at top companies , which is normally given as a ratio of worker:executive compensation--which makes it independent of inflation--has gone from about 1:30 in the 1960s to around 1:390 today. Where does all that extra money come from? At least some comes from the money that used to go to worker's wages. In short, wages are low because the ultra-rich are stealing a bigger and bigger percentage of the overall pie. Wealth inequality is at a record high in the US, higher than in the Gilded Age of the robber barons, and still climbing.Interesting to see how salaries compare in relative worth. _URL_2_
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Why are most animated characters portrayed wearing only one outfit 99% of the time?
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Something not mentioned yet is animation recycling. It was common back in the beginning of animation when cartoons were very expensive to produce. Episodes like the Flintstones or Spider-man would reuse the same cells, just on front of a different background. Think of spider-man swinging in the city then swinging in the jungle. The next episode had Spider-man swinging in the city again so they would just reuse last shows footage. It's much less common now but it's still done, usually when there is a time crunch or a budget short fall but if the characters are wearing the same thing, hardly anyone is going to notice.takes a lot of time to change it completely and then draw all the poses with the clothing.* it make it cheaper to produces and makes it easier to recycle footage they used the same technique live action shows, as well, like *Bonanza* and *Gilligan's Island** cartoon characters are often highly simplified representation of people open they eyes, hair, and bodies all look the same, so clothes give you clues to help tell them apart
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If a Hermaphrodite had full working sexual systems from both sides, would they be able to get themselfs pregnant? If so would it be classed as Cloning? If not. Why?
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Simplified: Humans have two versions of each chromosome. Every sperm or egg only has one of the two each, selected randomly from the parent's pairs. So if a hermaphrodite had a child with theirself, some of the child's chromosome pairs would have both variants the parent has, but others would only have one of the variants but double. In theory it is possible that by chance all chromosome pairs get both different variants, you could consider it a clone then. But that's extremely unlikely to happen. In most cases, the child would be a more incestuous version of their parent, not an identical clone.
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Why are carbon nanotubes necessary to build space elevators?
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Basically all a space elevator is is a really, really long cable that reaches out into space with a counterweight at the end. Climbing up a long cable is a much cheaper way to get to space than using a rocket. The material the cable is made out of would need to be the correct combination of incredibly strong and incredibly light, far lighter and stronger than materials we currently use to make support cables, to avoid snapping. A material with properties such as carbon nano-tubes would have the strength/weight ratio necessary to handle the stress. To the best of my knowledge there aren't really any alternatives that have been proposed.
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Why do meth users have messed up faces?
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Meth users teeth at least become very unhealthy in a condition known as meth mouth which results from dry mouth that is a side effect of amphetamines and grinding teeth. Dry mouth means the body is not producing enough saliva which leads to enamel decay and gum disease. As a result of tension caused in the users body by the drug makes them grind teeth and wear down the enamel faster. Also, I have heard that paranoia makes them scratch off parts of their skin but I don't know if that is common.There are some direct effects that meth has, particularly with regards to tooth damage. But mostly it is the sort of lifestyle that meth promotes. When you spend money on meth instead of food, shelter, or health care and when you are willing to do *anything* to get that next fix, that is a hard way to liveMeth is basic and when users smoke it, it gets stuck to their teeth and eats away at them. This combined with them being up for days on end, not brushing their teeth etc can lead to meth mouth or ANUG .And IV drug use can lead to a bunch of other diseases - HIV/AIDS, Hep C, Kaposi's Sarcoma, CMV, etc are all associated with IV drug use.And overall bad hygiene, not eating, not sleepingAlso the weight loss can worsen this problem.
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Why do people throw up when doing drugs that are not ingested orally?
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When you snort something it drips down the back of your throat and into your stomach eventually. So although it wasn't eaten it still can end up there.Short simple answer, your body knows it has been poisoned. So it goes into defense mode. Trying to get the poison out.
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Why do I get a bump in my arm pit whenever I switch deordorants?
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If you're using deodorants with antipersperants in them try getting one that doesn't. Most sports deodorants do, and they literally put metal in there to block your pores. I know a lot of people who use those types of deodorant all the time, when the truth is you don't need it unless you are working out and have bad BO. It's always a bad idea to try and forcibly stop your bodies natural processes.This is a very common problem. It happens when the pores of your skin clog because of the deodorant. That part of skin infects itself and a bump forms. The best way to get rid of it is to use less deodorant and wash the armpits daily.
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the "Men's Right's Movement"
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> I really wanted to dismiss this as a bunch of guys who are bitter at women for not having sex with them Saying this is the same as saying women only complain about not having rights because they are ugly.. Men and women both have hardships. One group expressing it's hardships doesn't equal to that group claiming it has more hardships than another. Men have no real reproduction rights, men are often the ones that lose their children in custody cases, male rape is still seen as a joke to most people, young boys are commonly labeled as dumb and possible rapist just because they are born male, when men are abused it isn't taken seriously, and in most media men are seen as idiots that are helpless without the assistance of a woman. Women has a lot of issues that they need to fight against but so do men. This shouldn't be seen as men against women but instead people fighting for their rights.
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If there are so many law school graduates who can't find a lawyer job, then why is hiring a lawyer still so expensive?
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I work in the field of legal financing for clients who need to hire lawyers. These guys might meet with 10 people to find 3 that can pay them. That's half the week to find a few clients. That's also why my company is booming. I can finance a $4,000 case for $120 a month with 0% down and 6 months 0% interest. Attorneys are looking for a way to say yes to any client who can pay them. Many have huge overhead debt and they can only bill about 35 hours a week, even working 55-60 hours. It's no picnic!", 'Despite what internet lawyers think, being an actual lawyer is highly specialized work. You can pay $90 on a Wills planning kit from Walmart, and virtually guarantee it will be voided, or spend a few hundred dollars getting one drafted properly. Source: real lawyerThat's like saying "there are so many basketball players on earth, why do NBA owners pay their players so much?" It's because they have to pay top dollar for their high quality services.In addition to what's been mentioned, remember that many attorneys are paid by the billed hour, not by the task. If you have a fresh out of school baby lawyer that charges $100/hr, he might take two to three times as long to accomplish a task as a $300/hr veteran. A lot of attorney tasks can be repetitive, and like all fields people get efficient at it. Just to name an example, if you work in criminal defense then you will be filing a lot of motions to exclude evidence found in a car. A veteran attorney often has done that legal research so they can simply adapt a successful motion to the facts of the new case and then quickly search to confirm that it is good law. A new lawyer has to do all that from scratch.
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If my oven only reaches 450ºF, How can a pizza stone inside it reach higher temperatures?
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I'll take a stab at it: it doesn't The air in your oven is 450 degrees. The pizza stone is also 450 degrees. The different is that the transfer of heat from the air to the pizza is much less efficient than the transfer of heat from the pizza stone into the pizza. If you have one of those infrared thermometers, try it and see. If you don't have one, Amazon sells them cheap and they can be fun toys.
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How can we eat rare steaks yet not get any parasites? Wouldn't a parasite survive in a rare steak?
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My stomach is actually kind of weak, I can't really have a steak unless it's at least medium rare.
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If police do the most vehicle chasing, why don't they have the fastest cars?
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Having the fastest car gets outweighed by other concerns. Police officers may end up sitting in their car for more than eight hours at a time, while wearing protective gear, a gunbelt, and all the equipment that goes on their gunbelt. They also need to be able to transport prisoners, possibly a partner, radio equipment, potentially computer equipment, first aid kits, possibly shotguns or rifles, drug testing equipment, and whatever else they may need for their shift. They also need a car that's going to be able to do things like force other cars off the road. A car that can do all that is going to be a pretty big and heavy car. At the same time, it's not necessarily that important that a police car be able to keep up with the fastest cars on the road, but the police edition Crown Vics had their speed cutout set for 140 mph, which is enough to keep up with most cars. You can always radio ahead for the faster ones.
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Would businesses be violating the disabilities act by firing people who are positive to using medical marijuana when it's legal in thier state?
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Nope, not at all. If the drug affects the person's work, or there's cause to believe that it would affect it, then they have the right to fire that person. It would be the same as if I had to take Vicodin for chronic back pain, but I drive a truck for a living, then they have the right to fire me. For recreational drugs, there are jobs that can fire you for having nicotine in your blood. Not too long ago the hospitals around me had enacted that policy, there was a big uproar about it but then it just disappeared, so I don't know if it is still in effect.
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Why are download speeds usually faster than upload speeds?
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It's about differentiated services. The service providers needed a way to keep the cheaper consumer services from eroding their higher end business services. By lowering the upload speed, it creates a service that is generally useful to a home user but is technically inferior to higher margin business type circuits . They hope that the business user with look at the consumer offering and decide it's not good enough and continue to buy the higher end package..
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Why are hover boards so impossible to make?
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Well, cost for one thing. For another, normal magnets on a hoverboard will just want to flip the whole thing over and then the hoverboard would stick to the magnetic floor so hard you'd never be able to pry it up again. Superconducting magnets exhibit a phenomenon called quantum locking that avoids that, and they can -truly- hover over a track of strong magnets. But we're nowhere near being able to make a hoverboard with superconducting magnets. Edit: Quantum Levitation demonstration: _URL_0_
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how does one become witty? Why are some people more witty than others? Does it come down to training? Can it be trained by socialising a lot and reading books?
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It's definitely a trained trait, it's exactly what improvisation theaters do! Mostly it comes down to knowing your audience, and the confidence to speak freely.
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What is Communism? And why are so many Americans afraid of Communism and Socialism?
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Basically most Americans who accuse others of being Commies have no idea what communism is. So that's why they accuse someone who supports a higher tax on the rich a commie. Despite the fact that in a communist society there supposedly wouldn't be any rich people to tax. Most of these people are ultra conservatives. So thats an explanation in itself", 'The short answer is that they have been constantly told to, for a century or more, by the kind of people who, coincidentally, profit from a wasteful society. Ironically, it yields a kind of proto-Socialism of its own, in that the national interest is put to the forefront , even as people champion their own freedom of choice.
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- Why do medicines in Europe come in blister packaging and in America in small jars?
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What others have said is probably true but also that, in the UK at least, we have a lot more controls over the amount of medication you can buy in one go so we're less likely to see bulk prescription pots. For instance, there's a certain amount of paracetamol you can buy without a prescription > the largest pack size of paracetamol that shops without a pharmacist working in them can sell is 16 tablets, but pharmacies can sell packs of 32 tablets _URL_0_
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What really happens when a game console freezes?
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I have limited knowledge of the inner workings of computers but I think I know basically why. Imagine your computer or game console is doing hundreds of tiny jobs per second. When one of these jobs doesn't perform correctly the computer attempts to do it again, and again, and again. It gets frozen in an infinite loop and usually you have to restart the system. That's my very basic explanation. Maybe someone else wants to elaborate further.
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Why do hangovers get markedly worse as we get older?
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As I get older I find the hangovers went away when I stopped drinking so effin' much. Its the social interaction that's fun, not the booze that makes you stoopid.I chase shots with water. Big ass glass of cold water. Keeps me hydrated and minimal hangovers. They are 10 times worse when i chase with beer.Hangovers are due to a byproduct the liver puts out processing alcohol. Its thought that as you age you have less of the enzyme the body needs to process alcohol plus dehydration, low blood sugar and the immune system play their own part. Fun fact; some people are impervious to hangovers but it's not because of some magical superpower but rather that they've never drunk enough for their liver to not be able to process the alcohol due to livers of steel.
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Why is Queen Elizabeth's II husband not the King?
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A woman getting married to a man raises the woman to the man's level, so if the man was a Lord, the woman becomes a Lady. However, it doesn't work the other way. A man with no title marrying a Lady doesn't get a level bump up to Lord, or in this case, Prince Philip marrying the Queen doesn't become the King. tl;dr: because sexism.FYI: The Line of Succession _URL_0_ ', "I believe it is because a King outranks a Queen. If a man inherits the throne then he becomes King and his wife will become Queen. If a woman inherits the throne then she must outrank her husband so he recieves a lower title that still outranks everyone else. Disclaimer: I have no idea if what I said is completely true, royalty is very old and has lots of rules and I only have a passing knowledge in it. However this is the explanation I was given when I was a kid and I've heard it repeated elsewhere and nobody has ever disagreed with it :s
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What is so great about the seemingly obvious Newton's first law of motion?
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in the 1700 century, life experience might tell you objects don't move on their own, but an object in motion doesn't stay in motion. Due to friction it will always come to a stop. It was a intuitive leap to realize that was not really how it works.
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The use of pointers in programming when we have enough RAM
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This is far from a legit ELI5 topic, but I'll to try to simply answer your question - A pointer to a very large object is 4 bytes . So you can point to the object and modify or access it using a single register, without a pointer you'd need the entire thing . Also, pointers can simplify all sorts of things. Say you want to create a list of things . So you start with 4 of them, but you want to add a few and maybe later you want to remove a few. Well, an easy way to do this is a linked list - that is, each object also has a pointer to the next object, so the size of each thing is only 4 more bytes, but you can extend and shrink the list easily. That is a REALLY basic example, there are TONS of reasons why pointers are useful. It is not a question of RAM, but a question of how to access stored memory, and the simplification of processes by being able to store the address of variables, and not just their value. A pointer to anything is just a variable that stores the address of the variable. For arrays of X, you can easily traverse with a pointer by adding the sizeof. This isn't even touching on the full power that pointers give you. You can have a pointer to a pointer. This lends the ability to make abstract arrays of arrays, or even crazier things. It allows you to pass the address of an array to a function, that you can then modify. All in all, to understand the awesomeness that pointers empower you with, you have to understand that a pointer a memory address, and with the address of a variable you have nearly limitless possibilities with what you can do compared to only having direct access to single variables.
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How does the Westboro Baptist Church get away with hate crimes?
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> If i were to go up to a homosexual male and call him a fag, I may be arrested for a hate crime. I'm pretty sure you've just got your facts wrong. Such a charge, if ever attempted, would never survive a court review. That's a textbook first amendment case.
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How can somebody be allergic to water?
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It's not the water, but likely some sort of skin secretion that gets dissolved and soaks back into the skin, causing the reaction. [More info!]
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Why is it legal in the U.S. to disseminate anti-democratic and/or fundamental rights infringing propaganda?
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There are limits to speech when it violates the rights of others, but whose rights are violated by seeing a confederate flag? You're free to express your views, however distasteful they are."I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall', "Have you checked out the Constitution of the US? Have you actually read it, or even read the Wikipedia pages of it, or watched some YouTube videos of it? The general rule is that the government can't stop me from saying something like > All black people are terrible! It's a shitty idea, but the idea is that it's better to let people figure out what ideas are worth considering rather than having the government declare. I'm also totally free to say > I think that all non-white people should not be allowed to vote! Again, a shitty idea. But I'm allowed to express. It's better that the populace figure out for themselves what is or isn't worthwhile rather than have some government censor step in. Neither of those things violate anyone's rights. One doesn't have the right to not be told that they're terrible, or not be told that someone thinks that they shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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What is the Paris Climate Agreement and why should I care?
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So is the Paris Agreement an actual global financial commitment or is it more like everyone agreeing to cut down on greenhouse gases based on some loose terms? Couldn't the US still lower their emissions even without being part of the agreement? I've heard California and New York saying they still plan to uphold the agreement. Any chance the fact that Trump may back out will have no/little effect and states/cities will just enact changes at a more local level?
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Why do Wheel Of Fortune contestants buy vowels when they know the puzzle?
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I'm currently watching Wheel of Fortune and I rewound to see if we're watching the same episode. Yep.
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Why can people walk many miles without discomfort, but when they stand for more than 15 minutes or so, they get uncomfortable?
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Surgeon here. It all has to do with physiologic load. We are not anatomically designed to accommodate static loads for an extended period of time. None of our load-bearing tissues have rigid viscoelastic properties sufficient to withstand static stress . Walking,or even shifting weight while standing, will redistribute our body's load on the weight bearing tissues in our legs and allows those tissues to 'recover' during the phase when the body position changes.
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Why are cab-over trucks virtually non-existent in the US, but used almost exclusively in other countries?
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When I google '[cab-over trucks]' I almost exclusively get American style trucks.. what am I missing?
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Risk or non-risk of an interest-based currency/bank system.
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A central bank is not an economic black hole that money flows into but doesn't flow back out of. The money they make on these loans doesn't just sit in their vaults; it's used to pay their employees, to meet certain other obligations, or it's refunded to the government.
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why we cant domesticate wolves or tigers and etc. Even if we raise them from birth?
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Canine domestication was a long process. WE took dogs who were more tame than other dogs and bred them. And then we repeated this process. All this selecting for tame animals led to more tame animals down the line. Wolves are still wild animals. They haven't been selected for tameness. You will have a tame animals, but that animal will have lots of wild instincts like playing or hunting. A bite from a wolf is a tad different than a lick from a playful dog.
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Why is it so hard to judge one's own attractiveness?
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Because the viewer's emotions about the subject play into the subject's attractiveness, according to the viewer. A 6 looks like an 8 or 9 when the viewer really loves them. Because our emotions toward ourselves are so complex, we're all over the road about ourselves.
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Why do computers inevitably become slow and glitchy overtime?
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Typically, over time, more and more software gets installed on your computer . This is a big contributor. Hardware can also play an issue. For example, a computer clogged with dust will overheat much quicker, which makes computers less efficient.
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Will we ever be able to tell if the reality we perceive is actually real ?
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I was literally reading up on Plato's Allegory of the Cave an hour ago and have been mulling this over right up until I saw this thread. Crazy.
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What happens if the President of the USA wants to quit because people are too mean or the job is too hard?
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> Does it really just go to the Vice President that easy? Yes. A president can voluntarily resign at any point. The VP becomes President and a new VP is nominated. That said I don't think this will happen. Pence is insurance. See all the things people are afraid of about Trump, Pence has more of. Trump may end up being a great leader, Pence is a fucking basket case. But if you remove Trump, you get Pence. Insurance.
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Why don't North Koreans revolt?
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In North Korea, it's not like the regime took over 10 years ago and people remember the 'good old days'. It happened decades ago, and the regime is surprisingly good at brainwashing, particularly children. If you've been taught, literally since birth that the west is evil and North Korea is the best, and have literally never heard any dissenting or remotely critical opinions, you don't even know that you should revolt.
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How can we know that E=MC² when the units we measure E, M and C in are arbitrary?
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I think people are missing the point of the question. The units we use are not arbitrary, they're all based around eachother . Energy is measured in Joules, and Joules it's the exact same measurement as Kg m^2 s^-2. Which is exactly what the other side is equal to.The units are arbitrary, the dimensions are not.you could rewrite it as c is in lengths/time m = masses and energy is always masses * lengths^2 / Times^2', "This doesn't change anything. Units are corresponding to each other. You can use any units you can imagine and it still be true.
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Why would the CIA torture if torture "doesn't work"? Wouldn't they want the most effective tool to gather intelligence?
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Torture is relative. You can put 10,000 volts through someone every 5 minutes until they confess to being the zodiac killer that is not going to be very effective.There are other forms of extracting information that could be considered torture. Prolonged exposure to complete darkness or loud and unpleasant sounds can alter a person's mental state to the point where they don't understand that they are supposed to keep certain things secret.Intimidation would not be a reason to torture. In 20th century war, there were clear enemies and the war was won by the side with the most military resources. Today there are no sides, in an every man for himself kind of situation, enemies are not intimidated, their cause is only kept alive by being fearless.
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Why DogeCoin is such a big deal
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So basically Dogecoin got popular due to it's community. Bitcoin and Litcoin were primarily traded by serious vendors whereas Dogecoin was for masses, people joking about and tipping each other 20-30 dogecoins for help. Hence it had a faster adoption rate. the fact that dogcoin community helped send an athlete to Olympics and is now buliding a NASCAR car also helped.It was meant to be a joke and it stuck. Its really not such a big deal its basically a rather useless currency but to say you have dogecoin is prety cool apparently
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Why does the United States need enough nukes to destroy the Earth 5 times over? Wouldn't having enough to destroy the planet only once make more sense?
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Information is Beautiful actually did a really great breakdown of this. Essentially, we don't have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out civilization largely because the complete destruction radius of a nuke is extremely small. According to this, we'd need 1.2M heavy duty nukes and we only have around 10k. _URL_3_
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Cricket. Seriously, like I'm 5 years old.
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Pitcher throws a ball at 5 sticks. Guy uses a flat bat to stop you from knocking them down. Guy hits the ball and runs back and forth between 2 bases to score points until you get the ball back to the pitcher. Knock down all 5 sticks, you swap. Repeat till the end of the game. Most points wins. There are other rules, but that's all a 5 year old needs to know.
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How come there aren't half human/half apes caught in the middle of evolution?
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We are all in the middle of evolution. We didn't evolve from present day apes, we evolved from proto-hominids. Way back, the precursor species from both apes and humans split, leading to two similar species. Those species diverged down the ages, leading to what we are today. Apes and humans are two concurrent species, one didn't come from the other.We evolved from the same ancestors, not from the apes you see today. Evolution is a result of change by need or exposure, the apes you see today fit their current environment.
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How did Nokia manage to have a voice recognition system before 2000?
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Didn't think Nokia being special in any way, as, for example, IBM's OS/2 Warp operating system had a very well working speech recognition in around 1995.
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How is shorting companies not gambling?
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Your question relies on the premise that people say that shorting companies is not gambling. It's not gambling in the legal sense but that's only because it's a recognized and legal way of trading that is regulated as such. It is gambling in the sense you described.
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Why are you legally responsible for hospital costs accrued while you are unconscious?
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In your situation, the insurance would still pay. I know of no insurance company that pays for ER service at one hospital, and not another. ER service is ER service. Even if the insurance company has a contract on one Hospital, there is no fault. The Emergency responders don't check your insurance when your unconscious. They check your breathing, blood flow, heart rate..are you alive basically. Their job is to get you help ASAP. Your insurance will cover ER service regardless of where you go. Now, if this is a non-life threating injury, say..a broken leg, where you are still conscious, but need treatment, you can tell the Ambulance which hospital is better for you. If they refuse for some reason, you take that information to your Insurance, and they deal with it. Source: My wife is an Underwriter, and works in Insurance.
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Are all those XXX sites using copyrighted images of popular cartoon or figures legal to operate? [Explanation In Text]
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In most cases, it's fair use because of parody. For a much longer explanation you can read it all [here]
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Why are HOAs legally allowed to have so much power over your property?
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Homeowners associations are becoming more and more common, but they're still not common enough that you can reasonably claim you *must* move to a home with a HOA. Thus, the government doesn't really see a need to start regulating them.
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Why don't flies (and other bugs) hurt themselves when they repeatedly fly into solid things like widows?
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It's all about that [square-cube law], baby. You'd be surprised how much of life is determined by this very simple relation.
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Why don't computers with faster processors run games at ridiculous speeds, or at least faster than other computers?
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It may be that the program limits its speed with reference to the computer's clock. So when you press Space to jump, even though all the calculations for the jump are completed in a nanosecond, the game still limits the display of the jump to a set speed based on the computer clock.
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If a vision impaired person were to practice shooting targets without wearing glasses and got good, would they become exponentially better with the glasses on?
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I think it can really vary person to person. Just how severe is the impairment will all depend and what type of shooting.. If this is long range rifle shooting with iron sights they might do just fine since you're sight picture of the target will be blurry anyway while your sights will be what you're focussing on.
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Why in 24 years of my life I have never had allergies but this year they are ruining my life.
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First year I've ever had allergies, as well is there a high pollen count in North America this year?
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why have cats evolved to pur, and if you stroked a lion would it pur?
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Attempted to prove this. He ate my arm. OK, I'm lion. I didn't really try it.
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What purpose does ethanol serve in gasoline?
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Ethanol is fuel. It burns, like gasoline, and a mixture of mostly gasoline and some ethanol is about as good as gasoline for powering your car. The benefit of ethanol is that you can grow it. There's only so much crude oil out there, and even though we keep finding more oil and better ways to extract it, as long as we're using it faster than it's naturally formed, our supply is inherently limited. Plus, we're buying an awful lot of it from people to whom we probably shouldn't be giving money if we can avoid it. Of course, from a political standpoint, it also helps that Iowa grows a lot of corn and votes first in the primaries.
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Why do some people use their throat to roll their Rs while others use their tongues.
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sh", and "gara*ge*". Sorry for not using IPA, I'm not at my computer, and I think this is more understandable anyway. As for /y/, it's a vowel we don't have in English. We describe vowels by where the tongue is in the mouth, and whether the lips are rounded or not. We have the unrounded version of the same vowel in English. In IPA it's /i/, and it's pronounced like the vowel in "beat" and "feet". If you make that sound, and round your lips, you get /y/. It sounds weird to us, but it's super common in continental European languages. A retroflex consonant is just one where the tongue is bent back on itself. This is what makes Indian accents so iconic. And a lateral is basically an "l". If you make an "l" shape and instead of voicing it, you just blow air through your mouth, you get a lateral fricative, which is super common in North America.
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How does Social Security ACTUALLY work? (In the US)
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your retirement payments are not funded by the money you put in. your retirement payments are funded by the people that are actively paying social security tax. if there's 100 worker bees and 10 retiree bees, it's easy to justify. however if there are 10 worker bees and 100 retiree bees, then it becomes a problem. thing is 50 years ago, there were 100 worker bees but they had 1000 kids. those 1000 kids grew up and now are retiring. but they themselves didn't have that many kids. so now 100 worker bees are looking at supporting 1000 retiree bees.
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Why do some vehicles (certain busses, semi trucks, etc) have completely flat front ends? Isn't this the last aerodynamic shape possible without getting concave?
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It's mostly about maximizing usable space. For buses, an engine in the back takes up less space than in the front and you don't have to run the drive shaft as far to power the rear wheels. So for city buses this allows you to have low floors, which improves handicap accessibility and for long-distance buses it allows more cargo space underneath. Semi-trucks like this are more common in Europe because Europe has regulations governing the total length of trucks, so a shorter cab allows a longer trailer. Limits in the US are generally only based on the trailer length.Very large vehicles have a lot of inertia, so air drag does not have as much of a practical effect at street speeds as it would on normal automobiles. City buses in particular spend so much time slowing down, stopping, and speeding up again that their average speed is low and thus air drag is not much of a factor. Only at much higher speeds - such as those achieved by a maglev train - would a very massive vehicle with a lot of inertia need to be designed aerodynamically. This is why the relatively slow trains in the US look like this: _URL_2_ While the Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan look like this: _URL_2_ Aerodynamic needs change with both mass and speed. Lower mass or higher speed = you have to take air drag more into account.Flat cabs or cab over engine busses also increase visibility in the front. When you have a long nose of the vehicle sticking out in front on nearly the same plane as the windshield there are lots of blind spots. People get on and off the bus and cross the street in front of the bus, thus creating a high likelihood of getting run over if they are in a blind spot. That's why slot of school busses have the arm that extends out the front so people walk out in front far enough to be visible.Truck driver here. Flat front because the radiator is just inside that grill. It needs the direct air to cool it. The flat front maximizes the surface area letting air pass directly onto it.
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If plane crashes are so rare, how is it that so many famous people have managed to die in plane crashes?
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1. Not that many famous people have died in plane crashes 2. Many of the ones who do weren't flying commercial with trained pilots. They were flying their own planes 3. Famous people fly more often 4. There are a TON of flights every day.Confirmation bias. Way more normal people have died on plane crashes than famous people. But famous people travel a lot and spend a lot of time in planes. Many famous people like to fly planes themselves , and many famous people and their friends do a shit ton of drugs, and that leads to quite a few plane crashes. And also, when one dies in a plane crash, you generally hear about it for weeks but normal people crash planes too but unless they hit a building or something you will probably never care.crashes aren't rare. commercial crashes are. _URL_0_ people usually have private planes/single engines that can cause a simple failure to be more drastic
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