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How is college football so much different than the NFL and why is it so hard to transition?
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There is a large talent disparity between the NCAA and NFL. There are 250 or so Division I-A football teams in the united states, and each team has approximately 110 players. That means that you're looking at a pool of about 27,000 players. The disparity between the best of the players and worst is going to be enormous . That means that when you're in college, your competition isn't likely to be very good . except for the occasional player who is great. The NFL concentrates that pool of players ever year. Only the top 300 or so player get into the pros. Those who are good enough to play in the NFL keep playing, and those who aren't well, they get cut. So the every NFL team is like an NCAA All-Star team, except they have had time to practice together and get better. They don't have to waste time in classes, either. They are fully dedicated to their profession. So, a QB like Tim Tebow looks great when he's playing a bunch of part-time athletes. He can run faster than most of the DEs, he's bigger than most of the LBs, and the DBs aren't good enough to tight coverage on all his receivers. However, in the NFL, Linemen are *a lot* fast, linebackers a *much* bigger, and CBs coverage is *very* tight.
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What does is feel like to have a seizure?
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If you want to know what it feels like you can simulate it. First tense every muscle in your body. Be sure you flex your arms and legs, tighten your stomach, concentrate on making sure the muscles in your back are flexed, clench your jaw. When you're satisfied that every muscle in flexed, relax. Repeat this. Each time concentrate on flexing more and more muscles. Start holding the flex for fifteen seconds, then release. Try to do it for five minutes. It gets kinda close to how a seizure feels after its over. I feel wiped out.
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why is it so hard to get the rich to pay more taxes?
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They didn't get rich by giving money away. In the end, you're baking on the fact that someone's altruism and belief in social equality trumps their desire to not have what they own taken away from them. I can completely understand this. I don't want to pay taxes now, why would I want to pay taxes if they were even higher? And I'm not even rich!
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how big is a cubic mile? Can you give me a sense of scale of how many whatever's would fit inside one?
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Look at your foot. Most people's feet are around 12 inches. 12 inches is 1 ft. Now a mile is 5280 ft. So 5280 feet long. 5280 ft wide and 5280 ft tall.
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why conservatives are not happy with Obama appointing a new Supreme Court Justice.
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Supreme Court justices have become a highly politicized thing. Which means the president will appoint a justice whom identifies with his party's ideals. So essentially Obama will be appointing a liberal/democrat judge. Obviously if you're not a liberal, you don't want this, since your party just lost a seat. All issues revolve around that. A Supreme Court justice is a very important position that lasts a long time, and vacancies are unpredictable. Losing any seat on the court to the other side is a major blow, as you never know when or if you can ever recover it.The ideological balance of the Supreme Court had been 4 "conservatives"---Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas 4 "liberals"---Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan and Justice Kennedy as the "swing" vote Now, Justice Scalia's death throws the balance of the Supreme Court in flux. If Obama is able to confirm another moderate-left Justice, he has swung the balance to the "liberals" for potentially another generation. Partisan politics aside, the death of a SC justice is always monumental because of the precarious balance of ideologies.Seems like it all boils down to the same bipartisan bullshit that's slowly tearing this country apart.
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what did folks do before corrective eye glasses were invented?
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Make lots and lots of visual mistakes resulting in ghosts? magic? shapeshifting? I dunno, I'm really grasping at ideas here.Do less hunting and more gathering. Make snares instead of spears. Not practice your archery around small children.
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If we all agree climate change exist, what are some currently inhabited places that are most likely to become unbearable to live in the next 100 years or so?
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Impoverished, low-lying, rural areas are I think at greatest threat. Anything that raises the sea or lowers the land will increase the risk of flooding and in severe cases will put the land routinely or permanently underwater. The spread out population and lack of money mean that defences are not affordable. Island countries where the whole thing is only a few metres above sea level at the highest get the most press, but the largest affected population might be Bangladesh. Over 100 million people live and farm in the Ganges Delta and worsening flooding could force 5-10 million or more away. The other major candidates are already hot areas such as the Arabian Peninsula. They're already so hot that it doesn't take much more heat, especially if accompanied by increased humidity, to push them over the edge as it were. The rich parts can deal with it by air conditioning, but not all the area is wealthy - Yemen in particular is impoverished and war-torn.anywhere on a low lying coast, so large numbers of islands and the most populated places in the world. The change in climate will also impact the interiors of continents however - The breadbasket/ranchland in the interior of America, for instance, will become far less productive overall due to the impact of temperature and seasonal changes. On the flipside, the changed climate will also make other areas more habitable than they were. overall, there will be a net negative impact from climate change, because the most populated areas in the world are going to flood while most of the most productive areas in the world are going to be struck by drought and a warmer climate overall.
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If we know jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams then how is 9/11 explained?
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Jet fuel can melt steel beams the guy who made the original theory even said he was talking through his ass. It was a small project ment to fuck with people. It wasn't ment to be taken as fact this widely.
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How are "pay to stay" prisons not clear cut cases of double jeopardy in the USA?
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It's worth noting that based on your numbers this is only $10,000 per inmate. That's not an absurd amount of money and typically in line with the the fines that accompany any major conviction.
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When people shoot guns in the air, why don't the bullets injure people on the way back down?
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What? Are you serious? They do. They absolutely do. People are killed by them sometimes. It doesn't happen all of the time because there's a lot more square footage of ground/cover than there is square footage of people, but it definitely happens. People don't worry because they're shortsighted idiots that don't think about the obvious and deadly repercussions of their actions.Follow up question: Someone explain terminal velocity, I have tried learning it on my own but failed to grasp the main idea. Thanks.They do. People don't worry because they live in the moment and don't think of the consequences. ", 'They do, after you take into account wind, tumble, and how far off from straight they are shot into the air they usually land very far away and usually just hit nothing. Put 50 guys in an acre field, drop a bullet from a plane, the likely hood you will hit one of them is virtually nothing which is why it happens so rarely.Reminded me of [this article] I read New Year's morning when I woke up. I think Mythbusters covered this, too, though I can't remember for sure
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Why was/is there such an incredible fear of Communism?
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An example from childhood: Your teacher assigns a project and you have groups of 4. How often do you actually get all 4 people to make a contribution? Usually it's the motivated kids pulling extra weight to get 4 people's work done. By removing the personal consequences of failure and rewards of success, communism breeds apathy.
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Why does the US use "dry walls" to build its houses?
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The US has a very large supply of lumber. As a result, lumber and drywall housing is much cheaper to make. Let me put it this way. If something lasts twice as long but costs three times as much to build, then it's not a great investment.
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Why is it socially acceptable to shame things like drug abuse and smoking but it's not socially acceptable to shame people for being obese/morbidly obese?
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I don't necessarily think people should be shamed for their choice to smoke or do drugs, either. If someone's life choices are starting to vastly affect others, then I think its reasonable to say something. The people who bitch, moan, and complain about these types of people are just looking for a reason to do it. People who engage in high risk behavior tend to die sooner and actually have less medical costs in the long run; old people on average cost exorbitant amounts of money to keep healthy. I also don't like when people are disingenuous about their choices though. Don't try to justify something by lying and saying its good for you. I think people should be aware that being overweight is unhealthy, or that smoking is unhealthy. The type of people who say that there are no real health risks with being overweight are posing a danger with their misinformation.
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if we have to use soap to kill the bacteria on our hands, then why is just using water to clean fruit/vegetables enough?
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The point of soap isn't to kill bacteria. The purpose of soap is to remove oil based dirt from your skin . The problem is that oil and water don't mix well, so washing with water alone doesn't solve the problem as the oil doesn't dissolve into the water. Soap is a surfactant, which means it lowers the surface tension of water and makes makes it possible for oil particles to be dissolved into the water. This isn't necessary for fruits and vegetables since the goal there to remove dirt rather than oil/grease .
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Why can’t the offspring of two separate species reproduce?
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The physical/biological reasons are well covered already, so I'll just add the terminological answer. ) 'Capable of interbreeding' is part of the definition of 'species', so, if they were capable of reproducing they wouldn't be considered separate species.
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Considering most transactions are done electronically, what's preventing an individual/organization programming more money into their accounts without authorities noticing? What's the 'anti-counterfeit' of virtual currencies?
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Agreed with the others. A business can not pull this off. They can make a fake deposit, but it will bounce in a few days and get somebody fired. Of course ponzi schemes do exist, and they can last a short while, but an audit should catch them, or eventually they won't have money to pay out their debts. If you want to make money out of thin air open a bank. Here is the not so secret truth Most of the money that exists it not from actually currency the government printed, but from money that a bank loaned out that didn't previously exist. The system is known as fractional reserve banking. If I open a bank, I can deposit 20k with the central reserve. From there, I can create a loan for 200k. I offer them a loan, open an account, and on my computer type in 'this person has 200k'. This is perfectly legal and happens every day. There are strict rules to be followed, and audits to try to prevent abuse, but banks do create money that did not previously exist. This is wear most of our money comes from.
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What is Bayesian logic/reasoning, and what are its uses?
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To answer your second question: many mail servers and email clients use bayesian filters to detect spam; Spamassassin and Thunderbird are two big examples. You mark emails as spam or not-spam and over time they learn what you consider to be spam. I don't understand why I'm downvoted. He asked for how it's used and I gave a specific example of that.
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What is the difference between the "GMO" foods of today, and the selective breeding/cross breeding of crops farmers have done for centuries?
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Mostly it took the farmers a bit longer to do through selective breeding, and the results were less predictable. We can also do a few things they couldn't, like add a gene for vitamin A to rice . To my knowledge, that's more of an exception.This thread question is posted daily. [Why not read what other people have wrote the last 200+ times this has already been posted first?]GMO usually means that some genetic material has been spliced into a plant that came from an organism that can't breed with that plant. For example, Bt corn contains a gene that came from the Bt bacterium ; "Roundup-Ready" crops contain genes from, I think, petunias and supporting genetic material from a couple of bacteria and viruses ; "Golden Rice" contains genes from daffodils and yet another soil bacterium. These aren't traits you could really have introduced by selective breeding. Outside of agriculture, there are some proteins from jellyfish that are useful biological markers which get spliced into everything from plants to animals to fungi; human genes for insulin have been spliced into yeast to make insulin for diabetics; etccross breeding is things like breeding two different strands of corn to bring about an effect, say a hardier corn with a high yield type to make the high yield type more drought tolerant. GMO would be like taking DNA from a cactus and mixing it with the DNA of a corn kernel so the corn is drought tolerant. GMO allows you to implement hybrids that are either impossible or would have taken selective breeding and cross breeding hundreds of years to achieve the same effect.Believe it or not GMO is the natural evolution of the cross breeding plants. Cross breed is more dangerous because you almost randomly breed plants until they display properties you want. But then it will be probably entirely new species of plant. Which brings their own problems. Like medical issues, or not being completely safe to eat, etc.. GMO is skipping the random part, and plays with the gene's you want. Making crops little better, without the negative side.
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The logic of suing gun manufacturers after a shooting
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There isn't really any logic. Realistically, unless those people want to campaign that we should have zero guns for any purpose at all, , it doesn't make any sense to attack the gun manufacturer. The more appropriate place to take that anger is lawmakers: those who are in charge of who can own a gun, how easy it is to get one, and how they must be stored once someone has them. There very well may be a fault, but the manufacturers are not where that fault lies.At some point if enough camrys plowed through enough parades I bet people would start sueing. There is only so many kids your products can kill before it's worth bringing to court to ask "is this the product's fault?" even if the answer ends up being no.
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Why do Apple consumers stay devoted to Apple products and have a hard time switching to anything else?
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There's a lot to be said about a homogenous environment. I do app development for both iOS and android and iOS is so much easier to develop for. There's so much hardware variation to take into account on Android.
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Why do professional athletes get a 'pass' when it comes to their job security after committing a crime?
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There are plenty of jobs where you can get charged with all kinds of stuff and not have to worry as long as you don't have to miss too many days. Football players are grunts that know how to play a game well. They fall into that category. There's also the issue that the owners pay a shitload of money for them and they aren't exactly replaceable at the drop of a hat. If a lead QB gets taken out mid season because he hit his wife it screws a couple hundred people and the tax income of a major city.
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I'm a straight man, but why does it put me off if the man in a porn video is ugly?
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Just because you're straight doesn't mean you can't appreciate the male aesthetic . Having an ugly dude in the skin flick basically takes away from the chick, because while the chick is the focus, the dude is still in the shot. Tl;dr - a negative cancels out a positive and that's why the male talent matters just as much as the female talent in a skin flick.
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When did WASD become the standard for movement control in games and how did it become so widespread across all games?
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People usually grab the mouse with the right hand and the keys with the left one. However, the keyboard is situated in the center in front of you and that doesn't help the left hand very much. So, you compromise with the most left combination of keys, which happen to be the wasd.
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The whole mentality of "A captain goes down with his ship"
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The captain of a ship had absolute authority. With this came absolute responsibility. There was no leeway for 'accident' or 'Act of God' or anything else -- if something went wrong, it was on the captain's head because he should have predicted/prevented *everything* that might endanger the ship. It was also an era when most sailors couldn't swim and there were no lifeboats. At most, a ship might have a dinghy. A few of the crew might get away, but most would go down with the ship. For the captain to abandon his crew when the sinking was his fault was blatant cowardice. The shame of a captain who lost his ship was tangible. Not only would he never be able to get another job on a ship , he wouldn't even be allowed to live in many port cities. It was, in essence, the European form of harakiri, a preference to die rather than face shame.Contrary to popular belief very few wooden old style ship of the line style warships were almost never sunk due to enemy action they were more often captured/boarded etc. That being said if a warship did sink during time of war but from navigational incompetence, not enemy action and the captain survived. Then unless there were extraordinary circumstances that captain would almost certainly executed. Other people have already mentioned cowardice under fire so I will not, other than to say if a ship was lost and if he was the only officer to wander back into port they had no way of knowing. There was no sea crash investigation department for British. French or Spanish navies. It has endured into the modern day as already mentioned that the captain should be the last man off the boat. Unlike the Costa Concordia Captain who abandoned his boat while there were still passengers on board and is now facing jail time!
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How come planes can fly all over the world but it takes a massive amount of energy to exit our atmosphere to enter space?
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It actually doesn't take a ton of energy to exit the atmosphere and enter space. We've done it with experimental jets, and it is even possible to get close with advanced model rocketry. [Staying there, on the other hand ] Basically, the problem is that you need to get up to ~ 8000 m/s as well as getting high enough to be above the atmosphere if you want to stay in space.
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What causes yellow armpit stains
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It might not be the only factor but your deodorant could definitely be a reason. I used to get faint stains in my pits but since I changed to a deodorant that says on the bottle that it doesn't stain clothes I haven't had that problem.
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How can America be considered one of the richest countries in the world while also having trillions in debt?
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Simply put we owe a lot of money but we make a lot of money so it kinda balances out because we always pay our debts this is why defaulting is such a big deal. As long as were good for the money it isn't a big problem kids when we aren't that things change.You may find [these many previous threads] informative.
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Why are HIV and AIDS classified as different diseases?
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I'll make this an analogy. Plasmodium is to malaria as HIV is to AIDS. You can have Plasmodium and not have malaria , and you can have HIV and not have AIDS . Plasmodium and HIV are the infecting agents, while malaria and AIDS are the diseases.
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Now that the Supreme Court has granted Hobby Lobby religious exemption, what's to stop employers from converting to Christian Science to avoid paying for employees' medical coverage?
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Nothing, if they're a closely held company, to keep it short and sweet. But it'll result in another case.
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Why hollywood releases movie that are so similar in plot and so close in time intervals.Examples are This is the End and The Worlds End; Oblivion and After Earth, etc...
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I would suggest it is just a matter of [dueling movies]. What I had read a while ago, but can't find the link, is that someone will be shopping a script around and some of the people who turned it down decide to make their own version of it. Either that or one movie house hears about another making a movie about a particular topic and another decides to beat them to the punch, but with only some of the background. The Abyss, Deep Star Six and Leviathan are great examples of this.
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What would happen if you put a baby in a home surrounded by people who have different accents? What accent would it inhabit?
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Your question depends on a couple of things. Babies start hearing while still in the womb and will start listen to the mother's primary language and develop a preference towards that. If the mother and father are around the baby is going to develop that accent and language strongly. They get the most influence. Second thing is that as the baby gets older it's going to depend on other sources of meaningful input. Unless throughout the day the baby gets equal input and time for each accent it's going to develop a preference to the one it hears the most and finds most effective. So whatever the accent of the neighborhood is is going to play the second most important factor. The development of pronunciation doesn't stop when your a baby either. There isn't complete agreement but at the latest the start of puberty. There's always a couple kids that have to go to speech therapy in elementary school.
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Software patents and why they are "evil"
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The patent system worked well for the past few decades, now companies such as Microsoft and Apple are using their vaguely worded patents to stifle innovation and guarantee that other companies can't produce competing devices due to a small similarity. Check out this [link]: Apple more or less patented a rectangle with a button on it and has stopped samsung from selling devices in Germany, temporarily.
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If I was born in Yugoslavia. Before it was split into Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia. What nationality would I be after the split?
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I think it depends on where you were born. My boyfriend was born in Sarajevo, which became the capital of Bosnia. From what I understand, the towns all stayed the same, but the borders changed. Although I have seen people claim Yugoslavian heritage if they emigrated from Yugoslavia before the split my boyfriend's family fled the Bosnian war in the 90's so he identifies as Bosnian.
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If the world is being crippled by debt, why can't we just all agree an international debt write-off and enjoy our lives?
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Since a lot of the debt is in the form of Government bonds, a lot of retirement funds would lose a good amount of value. Banks and investment companies would also go out of business which means that people won't be able to get loans anymore and no one will be able to buy a house or start a business unless they are very rich.It sounds like you're asking "What would happen if everyone who owed anyone money suddenly doesn't owe anything". Money lending companies would immediately tank as their lifeline is cut. Exchanges rates would go crazy. National economies would crash and burn. I'm not an economist, but even I know the effects would be huge and disastrous. And people would just start borrowing money again anyway.
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Why do we use tires full of air instead of solid rubber tires or another type of tire?
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Part of the reason is a solid piece of rubber would weigh significantly more than a tire filled with air. More weight means more fuel, more energy to slow down, more stress on supporting parts, etc. There's no reason for a tire to be solid rubber.1). Air helps absorb shock 2). Air helps the tire deform better for less-than-favorable conditions. . 3). Air massively reduces the material cost/weight. 4). Air is available everywhere except the ocean and space.Your lumbar vertebrae would not be amused by that. Ever rode in a car with wooden wheels, or a horse carriage? Those don't go more than a few MPH under normal circumstances, and aren't exactly a Benz.Or what about how newer cars have the option to fill the tires with Nitrogen instead of air, what does that do for them?', "We used to, but the tires were more expensive, and they didn't absorb shock nearly as well.Full rubber would be more expensive, heavier, acceleration would suffer, and gas mileage would suffer.
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fraternities, sororities, Greek life. What does it involve, what is the impact of being or not being in a fraternity as a student and after graduating?
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Greek life works to help you network in the future, sorta. During college it is a social organization for you to meet people, and other things, but afterwards while it people's you network it has about the same success as just joining a specific college club in a field of study, or by socializing in general. Once you graduate people will not search you out because you were Greek, nor will you really have that many more job opportunities because of it.
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why taking antibiotics long term does not lead to antibiotic resistance, but taking them for too short of a time (ie not finishing the prescription) does?
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In response to your edit question, not all antibiotics are created equal. Some are much more potent and if taken too long can obliterate your friendly bacteria populations and even harm your own cells.Continuing with the garden weed analogy, say you're just merrily splashing weedkiller all over the place - sure you're not going to have weeds left but you're not going to have grass left either. Likewise the length of antibiotic course also depends on the type of infection you're trying to clear . Some bacteria are hardy little buggers - TB for example - and can take years of treatment to kill, whilst other bacteria can be carried off after a fortnight. tl;dr: antibiotics aren't one size fits all
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Why was there so much hate for jews in WW2? (and before and after, I suppose)
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There are three 'mosaic' religions, ie: religions that sprang out of the history/lineage of Moses. In historical order they are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They all dislike each other as a general rule. They all have groups of 'fundamentalist' that actively HATE the other two. Those fundamentalists have all been responsible for killing the other two groups at some point or another. ALL THREE. Sometimes in history the fundamentalists become the core of the group and mass slaughter usually occurs. Sometimes bad things happen and any one group will use that as an excuse to 'purge' the other two. As to why the hatred of jews in particular there are lots of reasons. The holocaust is certainly a touching stone that shines a huge light on them. But keep in mind that during that same period one of our Allies was responsible for MORE deaths than Hitler. Many more. And one of HIS allies responsible for even more.Historical roots of antisemitism in Europe _URL_3_ _URL_5_ _URL_1_ _URL_2_ Nazi antisemitism specifically _URL_4_ _URL_7_ _URL_0_ _URL_6_Hundreds of years of Catholic and Lutheran religious teachings: both very strong in Germany.
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What will change in case of discovery of water on mars?
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[Hasn't water already been discovered on Mars?] It has polar ice-caps and there is water vapour in the atmosphere. It doesn't currently have running or surface liquid water, but we know it did. It very likely had oceans and lakes . The only substantial discovery would be if they found liquid water deep underground, like in an aquifer, because that might harbour some vestigial microbial life.Also, water can be broken apart into hydrogen and oxygen which can then be used to make rocket fuel possibly drastically increasing our viable range of space travel with our current technology.
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Why are there so many homeless people in the United States, particularly big cities like New York, DC, etc?
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There are shelters and non-profits and churches and everything. But in these cities there are thousands of homeless, and nowhere near enough shelters. So the shelters kick them out at like 6am. There's also no storage to keep your stuff, and even though it looks like trash to you it's all they own in the world, and to stay overnight at a shelter they generally have to leave it somewhere else. These people may in fact be searching for jobs. But when you have no address and stink and can't shave it's pretty tough to find a job. Also many of them have mental issues and drug dependency that makes it very difficult.
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Why is the Catalan separatist movement not a bigger news story?
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Because it's unlikely to escalate. It's certainly newsworthy but it's not as though Spain is on the brink of civil war or anything. Whatever the poll result is, Spain won't allow Catalonia to become independent and the Catalans will continue to complain about the situation - status quo continues for the time being.As a tourist currently in Barcelona, I can confirm. There was a huge rally two days ago. People were out on the street banging pots and pans. But they behave in an orderly fashion. I feel completely safe and continue to enjoy Barcelona.
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How can sharks "smell" blood in water when they're a vast distance away?
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With one drop of blood in a swimming pool, they don't mean they smell the drop on the other side. A shark can still smell the blood if it is fully diluted. He can smell what touches his nose, but not a bucket full if it doesn't touch
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When you go on a roller coaster or drive fast down a hill, why do you get that stomach drop feeling? What is actually happening inside your body that causes the feeling?
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It makes my willy feel funny. I can't go on rollercoasters because of this. Any explaination as to why?
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Why is vinyl considered superior to digital recordings?
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Pretty much all controlled, double-blind testing has shown that it's not possible to consistently distinguish quality digital files from analogue provided that the digital audio is properly mastered with modern equipment. The perception of problems with digital audio is largely due to the limitations of early digital converters. There is also some snob appeal. A more detailed explanation can be found here: _URL_1_
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What would happen if we erased all the student loan debt in the US?
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So to answer this question, we need to separate out the two types of student debt: Government owned student debt, and privately owned student debt. For Government owned debt, cancelling all of it would essentially amount to a one time expenditure of that debt amount by the government. Taxpayers would be on the hook for the expenditure. Consequences for the future are everything that comes with higher government debt. It'll also probably raise interest rates on everything else slightly due to changed expectations, but not nearly as big of a raise as the next scenario. For privately owned debts, if the government forced banks to cancel all of their student loan debts, a few things would happen: First, the banks which owned the student debt would take a big hit. Not 2008 bad, but pretty bad. Second, interest rates for everything are going to spike. Big time. The government is now in the business of arbitrarily cancelling private debts, and that needs to be priced in. So home mortgages, credit cards, car loans, business loans, anything you might pay interest on is now going to cost more. Significantly more. Third, private student loans are going to stop existing. The government cancelled all of the student loans once, what's to stop them from doing it again? So if i'm a bank, i'm just not going to offer private student loans.People who made sacrifices, worked while going to school part time, chose their school based on cost, and did other things to avoid having to worry about debt would be justifiably pissed.
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If sweating is a required process to regulate internal body temperature, why don't antiperspirants and deodorants cause health issues?
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Antiperspirarents somewhat limit sweat, but they don't block it altogether. Unless you're in a critical situation where you need all the possible sweat you could make to cool off, you'll probably be fine with the amount of sweating left.
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Are strains of the flu weaker than it used to be?
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Important to acknowledge is that it's usually a bacterial coinfection following the influenza virus that is dangerous, not the initial flu. What the flu does is lower the immune system making the body vulnerable to an ambush by bacteria potentially resulting in pneumonia.
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Why objects that are interacted with in cartoons colored a slightly different color/shade than other objects in the scene.
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One factor that I have not seen mentioned yet but was often brought up in commentaries from early Simpsons episodes: when filming animation using multiple layers of cells, the thickness of the cell material can build up and start to cast a shadow around certain parts as well. But most of these issues should disappear from modern animation as it doesn't rely on physical, painted cells.
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Why is consensual incest considered illegal and is socially unacceptable?
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Simple explanation, the same reason homosexuality used to be considered illegal and socially unacceptable. People think it's icky. You can talk about birth defects all you want, but the fact is that people feel the same way even if they aren't aware of the health risks to potential children.
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Why do companies like Lockheed-Martin and the military industrial complex exist
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The Great Depression happened. Supply was much greater than demand because companies were paying everyone crazy low wages, so they couldn't afford to buy all of the goods they were producing, and capitalism basically failed. Then World War II happened. The government needed lots of weapons. American companies made those weapons, and tanks, and boats, and airplanes. This created a lot of jobs. Around the same time, Roosevelt began the federal minimum wage which ended wage slave labor. These two factors together, higher wages and more jobs, created the necessary demand and pulled us out of the Great Depression. This coincided with the theories of a man named John Maynard Keynes, who said that when demand < supply, if the government steps in and starts buying things, it will create jobs and increase demand. This theory not only worked, but worked very well. We soon realized that military spending was fueling innovation and technology. Government technology was leaking into the private sector and being made available to the public. This created even more jobs and more demand. Technology began to expand very quickly and so did the economy. This relationship is what is now known as the military-industrial complex and is the reason we've been in perpetual wars since WWII. Our economy is arguably now entirely dependent on this system and has been for quite some time. TL;DR Our economy failed, military spending saved it and is still keeping it afloat.
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Why are carbon monoxide alarms so unreliable?
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My instinct in this situation would tell me you have post combustion leak somewhere and your alarms aren't faulty. My guess is that by opening your windows, you vented the gas to levels that the technician couldn't detect. Or perhaps his equipment is faulty. Etc , etc. Call them back or better yet call someone else. Make sure they inspect not only the seal, but the vent pipe and vent junction as well.The same situation happened to me. When the firemen arrived and found no air quality issues, they said the detectors are prone to dust collecting in them that causes false positives. Due to this, they are only good for a few years. Humph Feels like I need a second opinion of this.The machines have a lifetime of 2 years. After that point they aren't reliable. It might have been telling you it needed replacing. They have a use by date on them normally.No. Two failures in a month is bad but not statistically significant given the extremely low sample size here.
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Would it take an extremely overweight person longer to starve to death than a regular weight person?
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Read an article not too long ago about a severely obese man who went a year without eating under a doctor's care. I'm too lazy to look it up. Edit: So I looked it up: _URL_2_ Edit 2:$hit. I posted the wrong article. Here's the right one:_URL_2_
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Why are Americans so against the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or universal healthcare in general?
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I am for universal healthcare but NOT for the ACA, because the ACA has nothing to do with universal health care. It doesn't address the real health care crisis in the US, which is greed. The ACA does not stop pharmaceutical companies or medical device manufacturers from charging astronomically marked up prices for their products.The ACA really isn't "universal healthcare". It made insurance a mandate, introduced a lot of unnecessary bureaucracy to further burden healthcare, and did nothing to reduce the insurance premiums as promised. This doesn't even begin to touch on functional problems of trying to get and keep the insurance alone finding the network that suits your needs The "Affordable" care act actually priced me out of having insurance. Once upon a time I was able to pay about $130 a month for a basic policy that covered preventative care and emergency care. This had a reasonable deductible of $2500. Along comes the ACA and my policy is canceled My subsidy is $1.00, thats right, one buck. That brings my new silver policy to $230 with a 5k deductible. This policy actually provides me with WORSE coverage than I had at nearly double to cost. Fuck them, I get a cash discount at the urgent care / neighborhood clinic for the rare time I need service. If I break a leg or get appendicitis Im fucked, but at least I can feed myself.I can't say that I have heard people personally express exasperation or exaltation with it. Certainly not with the frequency that it comes up in the media for or against. Have you recently seen a poll or some such study that suggests most Americans are against it?
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What are "office politics"?
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It's the requirements that isn't talked about or written on the job description, which basically states that you have to make your higher ups look good. It isn't about working harder than everyone else, but knowing who's backing who up. If you make your supervisor look good, then he or she will keep you around and provide oppertunities for you as oppose to someone who buckles down and out performs the super and as a result making them look stupid. The supervisor has to do the same with the manager, and so forth along the chain.
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How can the CO2 from a car's exhaust weigh more than the petrol used in combustion?
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A normal sedan might use about 7L/100km, but it won't emit 255 g/km of CO2. Her boss's car will use more like 10.5L/km, or about 77g of petrol per kilometre. That makes the CO2 about 3.3 times the amount of fuel, which is roughly what we expected.
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Please tell me what things I should look for in a political candidate, no matter the level they're on.
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First off, and this should probably go without saying, you need somebody who stands for your beliefs. Now, unless you are literally a dyed-n-the-wool Republican or Democrat, you probably won't find a candidate that 100% represents YOU, so you need to prioritize what issues are important to you. Passionate about gay rights? Then make that your litmus test. Second, you want to check a politician's track record concerning the issues are important to you. Many politicians talk one way and vote another. There are tons of government sites where you can check the history of bills and laws and see who voted what way. Finally, WRITE your politician. Sure, you may not get a response or you may get a standard form letter back, especially if it's campaign season. But if you keep writing, you probably will get a response eventually and you'll have a unique opportunity for an honest, frank dialogue with your candidate.
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What is "processed food", and why is it bad for you?
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Processed foods refer to foods that have been altered from their natural state. The common misconception is that *ALL* processed foods are bad for you, which is untrue. The fact is that *MOST* processed foods aren't healthy and should be avoided, but there are some healthier processed foods out there. Frozen vegetables are technically processed food because they are frozen to increase their shelf life, but they are just as healthy as they were when they were harvested.
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why are heart shots instant kills?
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Because as the heart pumps, it can no longer pump the blood throughout the animals body as it is supposed to. The blood gets pumped out through the bullet hole, meaning that fresh oxygen-laiden blood cells do not reach it's brain, and it will then either die due to blood loss or lack of oxygen to the brain, though almost every time it will be the former.That’s the central place of blood transferring. If that’s gone, you can’t pump blood. That means we lose conscious. We don’t actually immediately die the second the heart is gone, we live for like 30 seconds afterward tl;dr : we don’t
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Why is EA a worse corporate entity than Bank of America, Chase or Wal-Mart?
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Consumerist readers care more about video games than banking or immigrant labour. Sure, banks are evil, but if they don't affect you personally, you're not going to care as much as you do about the company that killed Bullfrog, Westwood, Maxis and Bioware.
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If the United States is producing more oil than what it imports, how are gas prices so high?
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it is because it's due to demand. The oil companies know that no matter how high they set the prices, people will still pay for it. People will bitch and moan, but they'll still pay for it.
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If I'm paying a computer technician to speed up my computer, what do they actually do?
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Defrag HDD, clean all temp files, remove unnecessary programs, change start up behaviour, windows updates, program updates, update drivers. Remove malware / viruses.Fix any issues you have Nothing you can't do yourself. Like most things in life If you want actual noticeable performance increase - it'd be a harddrive wipe, reinstall OS, copy data off and back on, install programs again. This takes time though, you'd be paying for my time. More would be an SSD and other hardware improvements and the above.
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If evolution is random then how do do people evolve to do things like eat more in the winter season
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Somewhere in history, one of your ancestors had a random mutation that made him crave more meat in the winter season. He was more successful than his peers that did not do this, so he lived longer and bred more than his friends. Some of his children inherited that mutation, and they too were more successful than their friends and siblings. Several more generation of those with an advantageous mutation out-competing those without it, and you get evolution. Basically, while the initial mutation is random, whether or not it's passed on isn't.
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Why my phone battery doesn't drain at a constant rate
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It could be when your phone goes to 'critically low battery' mode it shuts down a lot of unnecessary apps. Did your screen darken when it gave the notification?
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Why do chicken, cow and pig parts count as meat but fish doesn't?
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They can also eat beaver and otter which are furry animals that live in/around water. It's because Catholics just make crap up to make adhering to their religion easier. Like how the last day of the week, the Sabbath, is Saturday but they celebrate Mass on Sunday now because it's more convenient.
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Why don't credit cards just use 19 digits instead of 16 digits plus 3 digit "security code"?
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It helps cut down on the fradulent use of credit cards by hackers. The security code is often not kept or used in face-to-face transactions If the supermarket's records were hacked, the hackers would not get your security code and therefore could not use it in card-not-present transactions
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Why is it so difficult to run in dreams when we're in danger?
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Those dreams are the worst. It's like you have cinderblocks for shoes and the ground beneath you is quick sand.
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Why do snipers need a 'spotter'?
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So you don't get shiv'd in the back, or a poison needle jabbed into you. And to spot the losers with noob tubes,while you spawn camp them bitches.
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What exactly does a "karat" measure?
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The carat is is unit of weight, used when measuring precious stones. The purity of a gold alloy is expressed in karats, or parts in 24, by weight, that the allow contains in gold. Yes, it's confusing.
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Why is it easier for me to talk on the phone while i'm walking?
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I have no idea why we do this, but I can at least tell you that you're not alone. I always wander around my house when I'm on the phone. Sometimes just when I'm thinking about things myself, too; maybe the act of walking helps stimulate something in your brain?
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Why do people self-harm sometimes when they are depressed?
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A very common reason is that people feel the need to punish themselves. They have a very low self-esteem and when people tell them negative things about themselves they begin to believe it. This person may begin to believe that he/she is worthless and want to punish themselves for that reason. This person may have had people telling him or her that he/she is useless, an idiot, fat, ugly, a waste of life and many more and much worse things. This can cause self-hate leading the individual to wish to last out at him or her self, the same way one would want to lash out at someone else that they hate. The only difference when they are lashing out at themselves is that they can get away with it. Another reason that people do this is to gain control over some aspect of their life . They can choose how much they cut, how deep they go and when they do it. In a world where they have no say or are being controlled this provides them a method to take charge. Pent up frustration is also another cause for self harm. This, added with the reasons stated above, will cause someone to lash out. Because these people are generally good people, they do not want to hurt others or destroy anything so they choose to hurt themselves. To them, it is a relatively harmless action because they are the only ones being hurt. Think of how some people will punch a wall or hit someone when they are upset, some people choose to self harm instead. This pain also may be used as a distraction from what is going on in their lives. This was written on my phone so it may be a little disorganized. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Source: I'm a studying child and youth worker who has helped multiple friends who self-harm.
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Why can Pearl Jam and other performers refuse to play music for people they disagree with, but when bakers refuse to make cakes for people they disagree with they get in trouble?
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Baker: I refuse to make a cake for you because you are gay.Landlord: I refuse to rent to you because you are an unmarried woman.Boss: I won't employ you because you are a Jew.Movies: You can't sit there because you are black.State: You can't vote because you are poor.Pearl Jam: We won't play music in a state that has decided to make it ok for bigots to hide behind religion to deny services to people they hate. Yeah, it's all pretty much equal .
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Why don't College Football programs use a Pro Style offense if that's what is deemed as necessary to succeed in the NFL?
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Pro-style offenses are more complex and require a better balance of players across all positions. Part of the reason it's rare at the college level is because of the complexity, and part of it is that there just aren't enough players available to fill every team with people that can be that flexible, especially in a short period of time.
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why do some flashlights have a “fast flash” mode?
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The solid beam is for when you need to see. The strobe is for when you need to be seen. The strobe function as a self defense tool is a complete joke. Please don't leave this thread thinking it isn't.I was coming home late one night and came around the corner to a stalled car situation. One of the people was using the strobe to alert oncoming drivers to notice that something out of the ordinary was happening and slow down. It worked.I've used on my left hand, out of the window while driving a van running to the hospital with an injured passenger to signal other cars to let me through, it worked wonders. Might also be illegal on any specific jurisdiction.Another reason is as a bike light. My pocket flashlight is also my backup bicycle light. The flashing makes it more visible and saves a bit of battery life.Self/Home defense. 1000 lumen strobe to the unprotected eyes of someone acclimatized to the dark will fuck them up long enough to escape or engage. In countries that don't allow guns for protection and you get in trouble for 'excessive force' in protecting yourself, your home and family this is a good option. Strobbing an intruder lets you engage without engaging physically and gives you a chance to move on them or move on out Plus, most tactical torches are solid enough to do some melee damage if needed. And you can get a strike bezel attachment to the front end of the torch which acts as a window and face breaker.A strobe light is considered a distress signal on a marine vessel. Every boat should have a few flashlights with the strobe option.Door staff in nightclubs use it as a signal to other bouncers sometimes, especially if radios aren't available
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ELI: Why is rubbing alcohol harmful to ingest but okay to put on an open wound (and thus introduce into your bloodstream)
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So, to understand it in ELI5 format we need to understand a couple things; Booze is one type of alcohol, Rubbing alcohol is another. Think of them like two friends you're wingmanning for -- Boozie and Rubbie. Now, Boozie is cool to chill with, in moderation. You get Boozie with you, and you change him, subtly. You and him together make you both even cooler. Better, faster, stronger, funnier, and more charming. In small amounts, he's able to get along with you juuuuuust fine. Rubbie, on the other hand? What a dipstick. You hang with him, and you actually make him *worse* off than he was at the beginning. Seeing him on a superficial level is cool, but anything other than that is just plain bad news, man. You suck for him, and he really, truly sucks for you.
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Why won't companies ship to P.O Boxes?
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UPS will deliver to a PO Box. The post office signs for it, UPS lists it as delivered. Then you get a notification thru your PO Box like a yellow card. Source: I have had things shipped several times this way even tho I don't prefer this method.
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Why do products with double the amount/content don't nearly cost double the price?
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If you build a factory to just make one bag of chips then that is gonna be an expensive bag of chips. But if you make thousands of bags of chips then the cost per bag goes down. Even then, if you actually just give people more chips and less bag that can help keep costs down even more. So it probably doesn't cost twice as much to make twice as many chips. Beyond that, price isn't only determined by the cost to produce something but also what consumers are willing to pay. Sell big chip bags at twice the price and people might balk and only buy the small bags. But if you discount the bigger bags then you get more people to buy the big bags.Actually making content once you have set up the production pipeline is not very expensive. Setting up a production pipeline is very expensive.
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How do paralyzed people not become overweight?
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The same way other people don't become overweight. They don't consume more calories than they use.
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Why are sounds less annoying for those making them?
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Are they? I'm not convinced. I'm guessing a person is very annoyed but wants others to be annoyed so that motivation to continue is enough. Decades ago in my high school there were fundraiser attempts by various class-rooms to try to compete with each other. The winner: the guy went room to room making annoying noise with a tambourine but also yelled PAY ME MONEY TO GO AWAY and had a monkey mask. Winning tactic I have to say.
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Why haven't we done anything about North Korea's labor camps and human experimentation?
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That would be the most brutal war in American history. Nukes, chemical weapons, brutal close combat inside massive tunnel complexes. Like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan rolled up into one, with modern weaponry. It would be really expensive and really bloody, and there's just no way.
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Why have arcade fighting games have been removed from every possible public venue?
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I don't know where you live, and don't want to ever go there. In just the past few months I've been in multiple states, and while the arcade industry has been dying quite rapidly, I've yet to find a single arcade that didn't have fighting games ,and have yet to find a single version of one of these mobile games as an arcade version.
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How can space be infinite?
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Joseph Silk :We don't know. The expanding Universe theory says that the Universe could expand forever [that corresponds to a 'flat' Universe]. And that is probably the model of the Universe that we feel closest to now. But it could also be finite, because it could be that the Universe has a very large volume now, but finite, and that that volume will increase, so only in the infinite future will it actually be infinite.
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In a manual car, what would happen if you went into 5th gear as you were driving very slowly (e.g. 3mph)?
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unless it's a very torquey engine - like, say a big diesel - you'd stall the engine because the rpms would be well below its idle rpm . no big deal, just restart.Nothing catastrophic, just a stall if that was the angle of your question. Source: One of the 100 people in North America with a MT.
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How does ear wax build up? And why?
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A doctor told me you shouldn't put anything smaller than an elbow in your ear canal, don't ask me why he used this wording. So no q-tips, use a water syringe. You can get one specifically made for this from the pharmacy, they're fairly inexpensive.This seems like a follow-up to _URL_1_ and /u/BUTT_PLUGS_FOR_PUGS gave a really good explanation on there: > Wax comes from the keratin cells that make up the outer 1/3rd of the cell sandwich that makes up the main part of your ear drum. These keratin cells migrate, like your nails or your hair keratin so that any holes can be healed by a new sheet of cells growing out to the edge and replacing them. Kinda like a little conveyor belt. > When the sheet of cells comes to the hairy outer section of the ear they peel off, mix with natural oils in the skin and become brown/orange waxy substance called cerumen So, if you wear a hearing aid it seems to get more abundant. Is that good or bad?
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Why does nobody pee themselves when they're under General Anesthesia during long surgeries?
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I woke up after surgery with a catheter in and, based on the sounds the guy sharing the room with me was making while they were putting his back in after his surgery, I was super glad they waited till I was out before putting mine in and didn't rush into rush into taking mine out while I still needed it. Ouch.
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Why humans cry when they're really happy.
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Psychology grad here. Emotions as we experience them have a distant basis in basic ape survival, but we've learned to use them to communicate with others and with ourselves. The message doesn't have to be very clear if it is urgent, think of a warning klaxon, more noise than information. With very intense stimuli: a memory of someone you used to love, the sudden relief when you know you don't really have cancer, the grief of finally processing that you will never, ever kiss her again, and so on, some of the distinctions between discrete emotional states break down. Think of it as an overflow. Overwhelming joy feels nothing like sobbing grief, but that part of your nervous system is working overtime to process those signals, and some bleed-through will happen. It's a glitchy system, is what I'm saying, and intense states bring out the glitches in a way that a nice summer afternoon or a sappy movie won't.
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Why does drinking a glass of water help with a dry throat or coughing? The water goes down the esophagus while the problems it seems to fix are in the trachea.
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Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't. At least not for me. I just drink the whatever slowly while still suffering as a foreign substance enters my esophagus.
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Why can companies use other brand names in advertising in a negative sense and avoid copy right laws?
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I would assume the same reason why people can review products. You don't need permission to review. I would imagine though that they would have to be able to back up their claim that their product is better.Trademarks are just signs or symbols that represent a company or product. A copyright is just something that gives exclusives rights of a specific product or idea to a person or entity. Just mentioning a product or name brand on a public platform does not break any of the rights protected by copyrights and trademarks.
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Is it possible to improve your eyesight without surgeries?
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They have these contact lens you wear while you're sleeping and they change the shape of your eyes so you have better vision during the day. I don't know how well they work, never tried them.
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why deserts get freezing cold at night
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Because there's no clouds and it's so dry. Clouds keep in a lot of heat, so in the desert all the heat comes from the sun. When the sun goes away there's no heat anymore so it gets cold. It's not just the desert where this happens. If you wake up and there's dew on the ground, you'll notice the sky is clear.
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How come some people have never had a cavity but have yellow teeth, while other people have had lots of cavities but have white teeth?
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Certain antibiotics can darken the dentine of your teeth while young, which allows it to show through the enamel slightly. That can be a cause of yellow teeth that has nothing to do with cavities or other dental hygiene. I seem to remember reading that flourides can do it too when you're young.
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If the slightest smack/tap on your balls hurts so much, how come it doesn't hurt when they're hitting someone during sex or when someone sucks on them? NSFW
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I've always found it does hurt during these things. It doesn't leave a lasting pain but when you're pounding away or a girl goes to play down there it hurts the balls like hell.
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why do people with sleep parlaysis only dream nightmares?
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Every healthy, non-sleepwalker / talker etc. goes through sleep paralysis. It stops us acting out our dreams. If the body were able to move during dreams, we'd do all sorts of stupid stuff in our dreams and could end up in some sort of danger. I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but assuming you mean the thing where you are awake and become paralysed, you become scared because you can't move around and it's uncomfortable and unnerving. Since your dreams are a reflections of your thoughts and feelings, your dream becomes scary too.
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What evolutionary purpose does laughter hold-- why does it happen when I'm tickled?
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Laughter it's about social bonding, to make humans connect with each other. It's the similar thing to what monkeys do when picking lice of each others bodies. _URL_2_
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How long after I eat something does it turn into fat?
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As soon as we eat anything The body's mechanism for long term storage is converting energy into storable components namely sugar and fats. The fat burning is also continuous too. The fat cells are like bank accounts. We deposit energy during the day and check it out when we need it. You may ask why some of the fat cells stick around for a long time.That is a little more complicated. Scientists believe that sometimes body's request for deposit or withdrawals.
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Am I just being paranoid to believe that ad trackers are listening to everything I say?
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You say there is NO WAY that this is a coincidence, then you mention seeing an ad from one of the most popular snacks on the planet. It's a coincidence. If you're worried, and you want to test it out, think of something totally random but not really all that common and start talking about it out loud in your next chat. Game the system if you will. Start talking about something that's not even close to you, like a regional fast food chain. In and Out if you're on the east coast, Waffle House if you're up north, whatever. Bring up things that are totally unrelated to your age, talk about denture cream or mobility scooters. Hell, depending on how well versed you are, start talking in another language and see if you start getting ads in that different language. If none of this changes the nature of the ads you're getting, you're safe.
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Why are the Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars trilogy not clones anymore?
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Using only the films for references, and a few assumptions: The clones are totally obedient, which can be a flaw just as much as it is a benefit. It wouldn't necessarily be hard for, say, Vader, to create Order 67: assassinate Palpatine. On top of that, we don't know if the facility on Kamino is still creating clones, or if it's even able to. Think about it: the only real reason that it had to be a clone army was so that Palpatine could sneak in his execution plan and so that the Republic wasn't unnecessarily weakened by losing millions of soldiers. Now that there's an Empire, there's no execution plan, and there's no war to be fought. In Ep IV, Luke mentions going to the Academy to serve the Empire, and Biggs has already gone. It's a reasonable assumption that this is some kind of Imperial Military Academy, which trains pilots, officers, and maybe even your basic Stormies. There are likely still plenty of clones in uniform, side-by-side with millions of conscripts.
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Does every car in existence have a different key and how do manufacturers make sure keys are not duplicated ?
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No, they are not completely unique, there are just a great many varieties. Yo ho ho! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [Do all cars have different keys? ] ^1. [How many unique keys are there in the world? ] ^1. [If locks are supposed to have a unique key for each one, how do master keys work for multiple locks? ] ^1. [ELI5: How do padlock companies make so many locks, yet ensure that your key only opens your lock? ] ^1. [ELI5: if every lock is unique and requires a different key to open in, how does a skeleton key open any lock? ] ^1. [ELI5: Why can't my car key open other cars of the same make/model? What's different about my key. ] ^1. [How are all keys different? ] ^1. [ELI5: is every house key completely unique? How is this done? ] ^1. [ELI5: How are locks/keys made so that no other key works in any other lock? ] ^
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When you're cooking, does touching raw meat with your spatula matter in terms of food safety if you continue using the same utensil until the meat is cooked?
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Yes, it matters. No, it probably doesn't matter much. It wouldn't hurt to give it a quick rinse.
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How does currency like "$0.0375" work? It's only 3 cents?
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When you see the x.999 price at gas stations that's for a single gallon, but the average gas station customer is going to buy several gallons, so a few of those 9/10ths of a cent will add up to more cents. It might still seem like a trivial difference in that case, but now imagine a company buying items from another company by the million. Fractions of pennies eventually add up.
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What is it with auto companies naming the model year a year in advance?
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The production/model year of a vehicle rarely coincides completely with what year it is. A car that is a 2017 model year car will be available all through 2017, but it will also be available the last quarter of 2016, because automotive companies begin production in the second half of 2016. . It's known as the *sales model year*, because that's when it begins for sale as a new model. In addition to this, in the US, legally, a 2017 model can be sold as early as January of 2016, which is why you often see new model year cars introduced during the Superbowl, even when that model isn't technically available for anything but pre-orders until later in the year. source: ex worked for GM. At GM, new model production begins in July of the current year so 2017 models will start coming off the production line in July of this year.As a technicality, anything made after June is labeled as a next year model. It causes some confusion when you transcend body styles. EX- a 7/99 celica is labeled as a 2000, but starting in 2000 *everything* changed about them. Source-am auto tech and have dealt with this for over a decade
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