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What prevents someone from getting a credit card, buying a bunch of stuff, and immediately paying it off for a good credit score? | A one time massive debt followed by pay-off doesn't build credit. That's just not how it works. Sustained history of regular use, and paying the bill in full each month will slowly but surely build your credit, and won't cost you a dime. Get yourself a credit card, and set a couple of regular bills to auto-pay from the... |
why do people need attorneys and letters to resign from the LDS church? | /u/bertbob has it right. its not hard, those people were just being anal about getting their records removed from the church. also, my mother got her name removed from the records of the LDS Church, and as a result, she didn't need a lawyer, just to write a letter clearly stating her intentions. It took time, but no la... |
Why do people still run around chaotically on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange every day? Why don't they just do it from computers in the offices? | I believe the information arrives and gets posted and offered on the floor before it is made available on the computers sometimes. Plus, negotiating in person is a lot faster than trying to do it on the phone, or via computers. I'm just guessing.. but it could be..My apologies for not writing ELI5 in the title. I wish ... |
Georgia's "religious liberty" bill and how it doesn't go against the Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage | Religions aren't required to do anything against their religious beliefs. Catholic priests can refuse to marry people who have been divorced. Rabbis can refuse to marry non-Jews, etc. Background: gay marriage opponents argued gay marriage would force pastors to gay-marry people, against their religion. Gay marriage opp... |
Why do a majority of "As Seen on TV" products cost $19.99? | Those types of commercials lend themselves to easy A/B testing, ie. running the same commercials with different prices at different times/different channels/different media markets so at some point it was probably tested, and determined that was the price where it's still an impulse purchase where people react immediat... |
What do seniors with no savings do if they have no family? | Off topic a bit: I've always wondered whats stopping seniors from just bingeing like crazy with credit cards. I don't think their family would inherit their debt or maybe the company would try to seize the house. but if they had no relatives then what's stopping them from living their dream on credit cards? |
How does Amazon remain operating when it supposedly does not make a profit? | Amazon makes obscene amounts of money. They just don't hold onto any of it because they would have to either pay out dividends or pay more taxes. By reinvesting almost everything into the company they can just grow at a cancerous rate and take over the world. |
Why do businesses not accept bills over $___ after ___o'clock? | At some point, a business will take the cash it has made during the day, count it, record it, and either bring it to a bank or lock it in a safe. After that point---even if you leave some cash around---it becomes harder to make change for large bills. As a result, it is easy to simply say you won't be making change for... |
why do spiders tend to build webs in the same places when they get destroyed every day? | It's all about airflow. Spiders build their webs between pressure differentials that cause wind. Your big car sandwiched in between a tree causes a wind tunnel that concentrates the flow of insects. Since you park your car in the same place every day, the wind is always in the same place, so it's a good spot for the sp... |
What does a producer do and why are they so valuable in media? Films/tv/radio. How can some films have so many? | A good percentage of them don't actually do anything but collect a paycheck as well as massive tax credits. source - Myself. I've been in the industry for the past 18 years. |
Why are we so obsessed with washing food, while most animals eat literally from the ground? | All the answers given so far are correct, I think, but to take it one step further, dogs and cats can eat things straight from the ground that would kill us, and would probably have even killed our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Rotting, stinky, parasite-ridden meat, for example. Their digestive systems are simply differen... |
Why do smart phone / laptop batteries still suck after all these years, and when can we expect an improvement? | Battery technology is moving along at an average rate. Part of it is that our demand from batteries is increasing, but the other major part is what most people are comparing technology advancements against. Semiconductor technology is a unique case where the technology itself lends itself well for shrinking. In short, ... |
Since it takes more muscles to frown than smile, why does our face defaults to a frown instead of a smile, as it would use less energy? | Full disclosure: I'm not a doctor or anatomy expert, but this is how it was explained to me as a child. Just because more muscles are involved in creating one expression over another does *not* mean that more energy is expended in the process. The muscles used to create a smile are larger and require more effort to mov... |
If our brain works with electrical pulses, why does an EMP not shut our brain down? | there are no wires in our brain. EMP pulse is destructive to electrical equipment because the pulse generates a high-voltage electrical spike in anything metal, especially long wires. There isn't enough metal in our brain for the magnetic pulse to generate a voltage spike except in the case of the nearby nuclear burst,... |
Why is Chinese food that is made at home terrible in comparison to stuff ordered from a restaurant? | It's because they are using restaurant quality ingredients that taste different than what you are buying in the store. |
How do women know when its time to change a tampon? | We change them before they start leaking. It usually just something we can tell, but because we're not supposed to keep them in for longer than a few hours , a lot of girls just change them every time they go to the bathroom, or if it feels like it's time to change.When my goddamn underwear becomes soaked in blood at a... |
What are those black/white things that people snap before recording a scene to a movie/commercial/tv and what are they used for? | Slate/Clapper. Often information about the scene #, the take, the director and DP are written on the slate so you've got a record of what you're about to see . As others have said, the *snap* sound when the slate closes allows for easy syncing of audio and visual. Side note - even on shoots where audio is built into th... |
redshift, how do we account for our own relative movement? | > If redshift tells us the universe is expanding from a single point Redshift tells us the universe is expanding from *us*. It is established relative to the point of observation: our galaxy. Yes, objects that are not moving relative to us aren't red-shifted and objects that are moving toward us are blue-shifted. |
why do humans brush their teeth even tho no other animal does it. | While a high-sugar diet that everyone else talked about is the main reason, we're also the only animals to shave, wipe our butts, wash our hair and use deodorant. It's kind of just another part of hygiene in human society to have clean teeth and breath that doesn't stink. |
What's so great about a Swiss bank account? | Let's say the owner of such a bank account dies or simply forgets about his deposit. What happens with his money if he never told anyone about his account? |
Why are terrorist still killing the citizens of Iraq, even though American troops are withdrawn? | Before the invasion, Sadam's Sunni Muslims were the ruling party, and they got all the lucrative government postings with lots of enabling of graft, and immunity from legal difficulties. The Shi'ite Muslims were the ones harassed by the police and forced to pay bribes to advance their businesses. Not sure what the diff... |
How Will The Update to the Final Rule of the FLSA Affect My Salary? | Hi /u/newsoulsam. It's hard to know exactly how the change will affect you because your company has some options when deciding how to comply with the ruling. They could simply convert you to hourly at your current rate of pay. They could also increase your rate of pay to the new salary threshold of $47,476. It's unlike... |
What is going on inside the brain of a person with a speech problem? (stutter, stammer, etc) | I had a pretty bad stutter when I was younger, still shows up every now and then today. As far as I can tell, my stutter shows up when I'm thinking faster than my mouth can work. Obviously, that won't apply to everybody, but I'm fairly certain that's what does it for me. I think of something and try to say it before I'... |
What are the negative effects of marijuana? | I expect you're mostly asking about the THC, and I don't have much knowledge about that. But if you're smoking marijuana, you should remember that inhaling things that are on fire is bad for you. Whether it's tobacco or marijuana or wood or gasoline. I know, people usually don't smoke as much weed as cigarettes, for ex... |
Why do mouth ulcers and canker sores swell when cuts anywhere else on the body simply get red and heal up? | That is a great question! The mouth and eyes tend to swell more than other parts of the body likely for a couple of reasons. One the eyes and mouth have many many blood vessels which means there is going more edema and more inflammation . Second, both the areas have very thin skin which means the swelling is more prono... |
Do world leaders bring their own security when they visit other countries? Is this different depending on who is visiting and who is being visited? | Many like to hire local security and just have their own guy in charge. It's way simpler than having a security team that's licensed everywhere. |
Why does it seem like we're driving faster on smaller roads than motorway's, even when going at the same speed? | Run down a hallway and run through a field or when you see a plane flying through the sky. It appears as it's going very slow but it's actually moving extremely fast. It's all about perspective.On a smaller road, you are typically closer to objects on the side of the road. A lampost 5 feet away appears to be going by f... |
how do babies know to drink/eat | My son crawled to and sucked my breast as soon as he was placed on my chest when he was born. It's one of the most miraculous things that I've ever witnessed. |
Why do spiders curl up once they die? | Spiders have muscles to pull their legs in , but no muscles to extend them, and hold them taut. Instead, their body has liquid circulating through them that inflates their legs like balloons! That way, when their muscles are relaxed, their legs will be outstretched, when their muscles are tensed, their legs are pulled ... |
Why did the hivemind just lose it's shit about andrewsmith1986 being POLITE_ALLCAPS_GUY | You know that episode of family guy where Brian finds out that Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh are played by the same actor? That's what this is.Can you link me to the post where this happened?', "Is it bad that I don't know who any of you fucking people are? I never pay attention to peoples names.so why is this andrew... |
Why when I swallow a pill it sometimes feels as if it is stuck in my throat | I once took one of those cheap vitamins that are basically a plastic capsule with powder in it. I had the weird feeling that it was stuck in my throat, thought it wasn't stuck, but in fact it was. A few minutes later a huge burp bubbled up out of my stomach and when I released it a cloud of the powder came billowing ou... |
What is the law on using a brand name product in a movie/show? | This [website and video] give a pretty good explanation but basically there's no law preventing you from using and showing product brands in movies/shows. So why do most cover them up or create fake brands? * If you show a brand, you're give away advertising for free and may have a hard time getting other sponsors to p... |
What happens if a computer has more than 26 drives? | This is only a problem with Windows-based machines, and was designed around the assumption that the average person wouldn't have more than 10. In Linux your drives are counted using numbers, so there's no upper limit. |
How come a movie can cost hundred of millions to make ? | Insurance isn't cheap either. Not only do you have to insure against personal injury but you have to insure the investment money. You have to have policies for some actors guaranteeing a reimbursement if they don't show up or can't do the job. You would be surprised how many people work on a movie. My sister's ex used ... |
Why does a picture get hung but a person gets hanged? | ran" and "runned" . So really, it all comes down to their roots and introduction to the English language. One comes from Anglo-Saxon rules, one comes from French rules, and we just decided that "hung" sounds better than "hanged", but "hanged" is unique and so we gave it a unique usage. |
What is the reason for films not using 'Google', 'Facebook', 'Youtube' etc. | It's not always true. “The Amazing Spider-Man” had scenes where Peter Parker used Bing. It's more about deals and product placement. TV shows and major networks don't always have the money in their budgets to afford widely-known brands and products. |
How did a phone connect to another phone overseas pre-1950's? | The first transatlantic telephone cable, [TAT-1], wasn't built until 1955. Before that, there were transatlantic telegraph cables, but they couldn't really carry a voice call. Before 1956, transatlantic telephone conversations were carried by radio on the HF bands. The HF bands are a chunk of the radio frequency spectr... |
Why does our body need a rigorous oral hygiene? | You don't *need* rigorous oral hygiene. But you do if you want your teeth and gums to be healthy as you get old. A tooth are like a well aligned back. You don't miss it until it's gone. |
Why are large tractor trailer trucks allowed to idle for hours when it makes more sense to shut down the engine to save fuel?S | It's not too terribly bad. Google tells me the idle cost is about 1 gal/hr. As said, it's used keep heat/ac on for sleeping, and run refrigeration, and to keep the engine warm . Some rigs have Auxiliary Power Units- APUs- that are more efficient at generating electricity for this. But, actually, the cost to idle for a ... |
Why is alcohol supposed to be "worse" for you than marijuana. | I'm a nurse that frequently works in ER. This is why I will continue to stand by the idea that alcohol is way worse on our society than pot: I have seen countless people come in from the effects of alcohol. More people come in for alcohol related causes than anything else. Whether it be seizing from Withdrawals, drinki... |
How are clubs and other social gathering places allowed to have "Ladies Night" without people pulling out the discrimination card? | It's important to remember that discrimination is legal, except in some very specific circumstances. In some places, a ladies night at a club isn't legal for precisely that. But in many others, it's legal to discriminate on pricing at a club because nobody ever wrote a law banning it. Remember: in a free society, thing... |
What is a flame made of? | [Here's a video ] about what exactly a flame is. It's targeted to 11-year olds, but I still learned from it even as an adult! To summarize the video: * fuel + oxygen + heat leads to a chemical reaction that gives off blue light.* The products made from that reaction is very hot, leading to heat. * Sometimes, when there... |
How buying a phone in USA works. | I use Virgin Wireless. $35 a month, no contact. Basically you buy a phone from anywhere from a hundred or so bucks up to full price iPhone and activate it. You can even get a used phone for a couple dollars on eBay and use that. The only issue I have is super tiny in that Virgin uses the Sprint network, so coverage isn... |
In the age of HDTV and DSLR Cameras, Why are CCTV footages like 1980's TV resolution? | You have to look at when some of the cameras are installed as well. They may have been put in 20 years ago and were the top technology for that time. Whoever owns them may haven't seen the need to upgrade so long as they do their job. |
Why is it that most of society is clearly eating too much on a daily basis, yet no one seems to be doing anything that's remotely effective at addressing the problem? | Isn't that what Michelle Obama is trying to do, educate parents and children about nutrition and better eating habits? |
On WWII propeller planes, how did the nose guns shoot without damaging the blades? | This was more of an unknown in WW1, actually. The guns were synchronized with the propellers, which aren't in some random location, but in a very predictable position based on position of some shafts. Here's a picture of how it works. _URL_2_ From this article. _URL_2_", 'when you hold the trigger the gun doesnt fire u... |
How do grocery stores make their store brand version of just about every product on their shelves? | My dad used to make plastic bags. The supermarket sold both my dad's brand and their own store brand. They were both made at my dad's factory.Companies like [Ralcorp] and [Treehouse] specialize in private-label foods.Well, first you have to know what kind of market they operate. Supermarkets charge every brand for the ... |
Sailing INTO the wind? | You cant sail directly into the wind you have to go at slight angles called tacking and jibing, not sure if that's spelled right. So you basically make zigzags toward where you are going without ever heading right at it.I found [this video] which explains it in a kid-friendly manner without too much technical jargon.Th... |
About how much bone could I have replaced with surgical steel before the cons start outweighing the fact that I'm becoming a Terminator? | The flesh is weak. The steel, stainless, strengthened and precision milled, limbs manipulating their 'surroundings' like a sickle mowing through corn stalks, futile resistance and still, your vulnerable soft middle is exposed to so many possible/easy ways do destruction that it too should be replaced. Leaving only the ... |
If there is a lot of research concluding that starting school at a later time is more beneficial, why won't schools/governments make it happen? | Because schools are actually public daycares, not learning institutions. It would fuck up the parents' workday. |
Why/how does the US have the authority to "grant permission" for a private company to land on the moon? | Same way your neighbor has authority to allow you to throw rocks into a river from his back yard. He doesn't own the river, he has no authority over the river, but if you hit a fisherman in the head, hes sort of liable for the rock you threw |
Why is the world record for a marathon on a treadmill so much slower than the record for a road-based marathon? | I notice I run slower on a treadmill vs. outside and I only do 3-5mile distances. I'm about 20-30secs slower per mile on a treadmill. The theory I have come up with is that you HAVE to run at the speed of the tread vs. on the road/trail when you naturally can slow down and/or speed up based off the terrain, breathing a... |
Why is it considered rude to have our elbows on the table when we eat? | It has been considered rude since the time of Rome, continued to be rude through the Middle Ages, and is rude even today. Similar to the Jewish tradition of foot washing, it was customary for a guest at a Roman table to wash their hands before partaking in a meal. Washing of hands at that point really meant rinsing one... |
Why is it so difficult to remove salt from saltwater? | It's not difficult - people have been doing for thousands of years. You just heat up the salt water; the water evaporates and the salt is left behind. It is expensive, though. Have you ever made pasta and had to boil water on the stove? It takes a *while* and that's just half a gallon or so. Think about how much gas/el... |
After getting bit by a mosquito, it itches. Is there an evolutionary benefit for humans that the bite itches? | It's actually the bodies immune reaction to a local anasthetic which is injected before the mosquito draws blood so you don't notice it's proboscis . It's beneficial for humans to think to get out of the area since mosquitos spread deadly disease more than any other creature on earth. However not all subspecies spread ... |
Why would a person voluntarily go into debt? | There is such a thing as good debt and bad debt. Bad debt would be if you are living paycheck to paycheck and decide to take out a loan to buy a brand new car because your friends all have new cars. Good debt would be if you have no car, but got a job where you needed to drive daily, you would take out a loan to buy a ... |
When Bill Gates makes those adds saying we're THIS close to wiping out Polio but just need more donations, why doesn't he just donate the rest? | it's important to get people involved. It's not a 1 man army thing. he wants to convince people they can make a difference so we can do far greater things than him doing it by himself. |
How do ATMs (virtually) always dispense the right amount of cash and make almost no mistakes? | I used to work at a bank and I regularly refilled the ATMs. We didn't always put brand new notes in, but we did take care to only put good quality notes in. The machines actually count the notes multiple times and if there is any discrepancy in the counts, the entire bundle is discarded and a fresh lot sent for countin... |
Casual acceptance of unfaithfulness in African-American culture | It's not a black thing, it is a douche bag thing. You'll find the same attitude in party frat houses.I never understood why some people brag about things they should be embarrassed about. |
How can we ever know we're on the "right" side of propaganda? (more detail in post) | My parents live in Russia and I talk to them every week. They are not aware of the propaganda in Russian media and pretty much believe everything they see on TV and read in local newspapers. They have no reason to doubt the information they receive so they make no attempt to check the facts or find a different angle. T... |
How can convicted and sentenced serial killers spend so long on death row, like decades... | Many death row inmates file appeals, arguing that they should get a new trial due to new evidence, how the evidence was collected, etc. The appeal process can be very lengthy because each appeal needs its own trial date. If there is a trial date, they obviously can't execute the person. |
what does the death of Kim Jong-il mean for North Korea/the rest of the world? | Functionally nothing as power had already been transferred and his death was expected. It's mostly important in relation to the cult of personality that existed in NK and how they will respond. I seriously doubt anything is going to change though.Kim Jong-il had a unique combination of shrewdness, ruthlessness, and cra... |
Why can I buy a can of spray paint for $3 but a can of air to clean my computer with costs $8? | > Institution. > Making you think you're crazy is a billion dollar industry. > If they could sell sanity in a bottle, > **They'd be charging for compressed air**, > And marketing healthcare. > They demonize welfare, > Middle class eliminated, > Rich get richer til the poor get educated. |
Can someone explain Entropy like I am five? | The first step is to realize that Entropy is an abstraction created by humans. Now read other people's thoughts that spent more time writing. |
Why are Asians buying real estate all over the world, causing a housing crisis in various cities? | As someone from Vancouver, our provincial government is corrupt as fuck and is doing nothing to stop the foreign investments into real estate, meaning you can own a nice 1br condo in Vancouver for a cool 700k Not to mention a lot of it is dirty money made in ways that wouldn't be legal if it wasn't made in China. A lot... |
Second Amendment: what is well - regulated? | Nobody is sure. That seems like a cop out answer, but we've been arguing about it for roughly 230 years. |
Why is it generally regarded as a bad idea to date within the workplace / date a colleague? | I actually met my wife through work, but we worked in different departments and weren't typically in the same area or even had the same lunchtime. So we rarely saw each other. It was actually great because we could carpool in together, worked the same shift, and could complain to each other about work stuff & understoo... |
Do the drugs people snort remain in their lungs? | Snorting it doesn't go to your lungs, it gets trapped in your nose and absorbed through the mucous membranes. It goes to your bloodsteam through the nose, not the lungs. |
Should adults (not a baby or child) not be drinking milk ? | Humans have evolved to drink milk as adults, mostly. Some of the DNA from the time before this gene mutation still remains so there are people who are lactose intolerant. For details I suggest you go to scishow on youtube Basically, if you're not lactose intolerant, you can drink milk without worries.Cheese is basicall... |
How is video evidence supposed to be taken seriously as technology advances? | If you had a top-tier expert painstakingly manipulating videos, maybe it would get by a subpar defense team. Generally speaking though, there's telltale signs of photo and/or video manipulation that might not be apparent to a casual viewer but if a video's in question, people are going to look closer. |
How do (most) video games still only use 1-2 cores on the CPU and run well? | Increased complexity. You could do 38 * 55 faster by having two people do two separate calculations - yell out the answer and have a third person add the two results together. But now you have to split the multiplication into two parts AND what happens if one person has an easier job? Say you are multiplying 1000 numbe... |
Whats the difference between a car battery and a computer power supply unit? | The car battery is a device that stores energy while the computer power supply converts energy from one form to another. A car battery uses chemical reactions to store electrical energy which it can release at a constant rate using Direct Current or DC. The current flows in one direction which makes it usable by your c... |
Why are there no "unclaimed" territories on earth? | There's an abandoned oil derrick somewhere in the pacific that some guy set up shop on and claims to be his own country. No one bothers him because he's not worth bothering with.These sort of cases are called Terra nullies. There were a couple of terrae nullius the 20 and 21st century. Look it up on Wikipedia! |
Why is it that billions of dollars can be transferred electronically every day but electronic voting systems are still unreliable and unsafe? | In the case of money you have control. You know how much money you had before, the other guy knows how much he is supposed to get If many people keep books then foul play by the software or hardware quickly becomes visible. With a voting machine in order to see foul play you would have to know how everyone else voted. ... |
how are pets that spend all year inside in a temperature controlled house able to synchronize their shedding cycles with the seasons? | A groomer once told me that dogs and cats shed more year round because we keep them inside climate controlled houses. They'll have a big seasonal shed, but also continue to shed more than an outside dog would. |
Why are Liberia and Ethiopia so poor? | So neither were colonised in the traditional sense but colonialism certainly drank their milkshake, to use a there will be blood analogy. Also Liberia arguably was colonised, and still is. African Americans freed slaves largely of Nigerian and Cameroonian ethnic origin colonised it and until recently treated the local ... |
Why would Chechen rebels even be concerned about the U.S.? | You are assuming and/or implying that the motive behind the bombing is related to Chechnyan independence. We do not know the motivation as of yet. It could very well have been carnage for the sake of carnage. Some people just do that. We'll know the motive within a few days, I'm sure. |
Do chefs train their palette for food they do not like? It so, how? | A professional cook has to be objective about what they're tasting. I'm not a big fan of mushrooms but that doesn't mean that I can't taste something made with mushrooms to test if the seasoning is right. I have to put my personal tastes aside in order to do my job well. |
What did Hilary Clinton do to have so many people not like her? | She married Bill Clinton, who was hated by Republicans for being popular. She was outspoken on political issues instead of being a photogenic domestic accessory during Bill's political career. |
Why do we truly taste many things only after we swallowed them? | While the top comment is informative, it doesn't actually answer the question. The reason you need to swallow to fully taste is because your olfactory sense plays a lead role in taste and when food is in your mouth you aren't smelling it very much but as you swallow it passes the throat entrance to the sinuses and waft... |
Why has the USA not put a stop to the atrocious genocide and obvious human rights violations in North Korea? | Because it would involve a bunch of people dying , and would cost a ton of money. And after all of that, there is no guarantee that the result would be any better. The US basically moved into Afghanistan and Iraq, took over for a while, and tried to turn them into effective and stable democracies. It hasn't gone partic... |
Why does no one ever use the push in slots on plastic cups? | Generally they'll only be used on larger orders or catering. There's just no real point on doing it on small orders, but orders where you have 20 different pizzas or 20 different drinks it does.I used to work at McDonalds, and we would often use these if one order had different drinks, especially "same color" drinks |
Why can't you just mount two or more batteries in an electric car to extend its range? | Everyone has already covered the increase weight leads to less efficiency. I want to point out that the current 'Battery' on one of these cars are already hundreds of smaller batteries all packed together to form one large cell. So they are already multiple batteries in a car to extend the range. Why they don't add mor... |
Why isn't Ctrl+Shift+P For Pasting? | If you're using your mouse to highlight or select something it's occupying your right hand. This leaves your left hand for shortcuts. The easiest ones are the common ones in a line at the bottom. Ctrl-Z , Ctrl-X , Ctrl-C , and Ctrl-V . Not only is Ctrl-V easy to do, it's also right next to Ctrl-C, which makes sense. Ot... |
How can white be described as the absence of color? | When people talk about color, they can be referring to two different things. They can be talking about electromagnetic frequencies or they can be talking about pigments. In terms of EM frequencies, black is the absence of color and white is the presence of all colors. That's why white light can be refracted into the sp... |
How do cigarette lighters actually light a cigarette? | There used to be a little plastic and metal thing that you push into the socket. The electrical current heats it up, so that when you pull it out it can be used to light a cigarette. Nobody really uses them to light cigarettes, so they don't actually include them with the car anymore.Car lighters come with a few parts.... |
How have most restaurants maintained high drink prices when McDonalds sells any size of drink for $1? | They charge you what they do because they can. You're not allowed to bring outside food or beverages in to a restaurant. You're going to be thirsty while eating your meal. If you want anything other than water you're going to pay a premium for it because you don't have any other options. |
Why hasn’t Amazon been forced to break up due to anti trust laws like Standard Oil Corp was? | One, because the market is now global. I ordered customized 3.7-volt battery from a tiny manufacturer in China last week and I didn't have to use Amazon. Even in the publishing industry, there are a hundred alternatives to Amazon, including digital options that can be read on a Kindle. Two, conservative lawmakers, judg... |
Why our perspective of constellations doesn't shift | They are shifting, just hugely slowly. Come back in a few billion years, it'll be unrecognizable. |
How does humor work? | From another ELI5: One purpose is as an evolutionary function, to signal that what we got is not what we expected. That is, when man would hunt in the forest, if a group of hunters thought it heard a bear sneaking up on them, but then a rabbit jumps out, instead, they will laugh to indicate that the tension has been br... |
Why are alcohol calories worse than other calories? | Drinking also contributes to poor judgment. You are more likely to eat a big plate of greasy food at 1am when you have been drinking than when you haven't been drinking. |
Why am I wide awake at night after being exhausted all day/evening? | If you mean why do you want to sleep at work but then you stay up all night on reddit, then in simple terms, it is because your brain gets stimulated when you are doing something you enjoy. If you aren't having fun you will be more tired. Try reading a calculus text at night and you should get to sleep. |
what would happen on a flight if the Airplane's emergency exit door was opened? | [According to an airline pilot], it's not possible. The door typically swings inward first, even if it's made to rotate and pop out afterwards. It's being held in place by the higher air pressure inside the cabin. And it adds up: even if the air pressure inside is only about 2 PSI greater than the pressure outside, a s... |
XKCD's Password strength comic today | While it isn't quit LI5 its probably LI12 [_URL_0_] and a really awesome explanation and probably where Randall got the idea. |
Vermont Governor declined to legalize recreational marijuana because there is no way to test a driver for impairment. Why is there no stipulation with other prescription medications that can dramatically alter your ability to drive? | Because it's not about the weed. It's usually never about the weed, but the issues surrounding it. Think of the other interests that the governor serves that conflict with legalizing weed. He has taken money from [pharmaceutical] companies, who are notorious for trying to block legalized marijuana. If something smells ... |
Why does cold water leave us gasping for air? | I found this out the hard way by jumping into the sea with a snorkel in my mouth. Breathing rapidly through a tiny tube isn't easy/fun", 'As a side note, why do we sometimes gasp for air when *drinking* really cold water? |
Why do football players (soccer) need to rest for at least three days between games when hockey players can play four games in a week? | Hockey uses the entire body, but soccer is harder on the legs which easily cramp and will tear. The wear on the body in hockey games is spread across the whole body but equally taxing, it's not an argument of who is tougher, thats for another thread. |
Why is it necessary to pre-heat the oven? | It should be mentioned that pre-heating isn't strictly necessary for many dishes. Dishes that take a relatively long time to cook don't particularly care a whole lot if you pre-heat - you shouldn't be going by how long it's been in the oven as to when it's done anyway. Dishes that cook for short periods of time, or bak... |
Why is a handwritten signature the universally known and accepted way to bind yourself to an agreement and things of the like? | An original ink signature is in fact difficult to forge in a way that would deceive an expert. Combined with a witness and perhaps a notary seal, it's the gold standard, because there are several ways to cross-check it. |
Why do video games crash and stop working, rather than produce an error and move on? | They do both; if they can move on when the error occurs, they will, but you only get to know about the times when they can't move on and are forced to crash.So, as a programmer, my game level might reference an object called "Enemy_45". In the program, I request this object. The code either tells me where that object i... |
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