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Why is Russia not so rich?
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How? Resources. They provide the power and raw materials to fuel those larger economies. They have been buying up mineral rights all over. . As to why look at the population prior to the world wars and that they were an industrial power house. Germany in WW1 and 2 rightly knew that russia military could not be ignored and that given time could and would overwhelm them. That's why they tried to deal a deathblow as quickly as possible. Now fast forward to after WW2 with the horrific losses they incurred coupled with the government purges and mismangement of their economy. Their government and industry collapsed after the soviet union broke apart and are now recovering but economic sanctions and low population growth are hindering that.
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What would happen to a dead body floating in space?
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If the dead body is in a fully functioning spacesuit, the microorganisms on and in our body will probably find themselves in a life supporting environment for some time and proceed to digest the organic matter of the corpse somewhat similarly than on Earth, given that there is air in the suit and the body is 'fresh', e.g. full of water. This might work for some time and reach a point where the body has been turned into goo with a rich bacterial ecosystem, but it'll fade out at some point and the bacteria will hibernate . More likely though the spacesuit will tear rather quickly and the body will be shock-frozen, burned, heavily irradiated by ionidizing radiation and turned into smithereens by cosmic dust quite quickly.If the body doesn't have any sort of protection to begin with, violent destruction applies immediately.
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With technology generally moving pretty fast, why aren't [rechargable] batteries improving accordingly? Or are they and we're still pushing their limits?
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In addition to the other responses here specifically regarding batteries, with improvements in storage, processors , developers have lost some incentive to really streamline their code. 20 years ago, it was important that programs took up very little space and were as efficient as possible because computing power was expensive. Nowadays though, a 1T hard drive isn't all that expensive and most modern CPUs can easily handle what the average person needs to accomplish so there's not much push to try and eek out those last drops of efficiency . I work for a software company, and even within our own code there's *boatloads* of stuff that should be culled out. Why haven't we? Well, we've got an ever growing list of to-dos and quite frankly, it works as is and would take our entire dev team at least a few months or more to refactor everything as efficiently as possible. It's just easier to tell people it'll take up a little more space on their hard drive, and they may have to wait a few more seconds to get data.
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Why Does it seem like every single country sells arms to Saudi Arabia, and why does Saudi Arabia need so many in the first place?
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Saudi Arabia distributes those weapons, both officially and unofficially. They're roll is to destabilize the region. Assad, Gaddafi, and most of the political leaders we've been opposing were working on fixing the regional instabilities. That's not to say everything would be peaceful without US intervention. Just things wouldn't go the way the US wants if it left the region.Not sure about Saudi Arabia specifically. However, we subsidize and sometimes outright pay for foreign arms purchases to pump up our GDP using tax and debt dollars. Sometimes we claim this is to arm our allies more effectively, but it's this. BTW remember it is not "The US" selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. It's Lockheed, General Dynamics etc. with the US Government not forbidding it. _URL_3_Its got nothing to do with actually wanting more armaments. Rather, it’s about the value of having powerful allies in powerful countries. For instance, if KSA is browsing to buy a weapons system that’ll earn the seller 100’s of $millions and employ thousands, you can bet that the selling country is going to be inclined to give KSA a free pass.
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how does a gif or a jpeg lose pixels as it gets shared more and more? When you copy it doesn’t it copy the whole file?
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If you just copy the file to someone else or a different storage location, then no, it doesn't lose anything. However if you do something like opening in an image editor and resaving it then it goes through another cycle of encoding, possibly losing image information depending on the compression factor applied.
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Could the wildfires in California have been prevented by raking?
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No. It's impractical to clear entire forests of ground debris by hand. Raking could help homeowners who use it to clear brush and ground debris from around their properties. The combination of regular or controlled burns is what regenerates forests and clears out the undergrowth. It also has the benefits of making the fire less devastating, i.e. more fuel makes for hotter, more damaging wildfires. The old-school process of actively suppressing all fires leads to larger fuel supplies in forests, which has the side-effect of increasing the chances of large, damaging wildfires. When working a wildfire, it is common to cut 'fire breaks' to halt the advance or attempt to channel the direction of a fire. Fire breaks can be created with machinery , or more commonly, in hard to reach areas, by hand using [fire rakes] and hoes to clear a space of ground fuel. Fire breaks are not effective in high-wind conditions since the wind can easily blow embers over the break on the ground. *Source: I have worked wildfires and hand-cut fire breaks with a rake. I'm also a certified emergency management professional.*", 'Removing the underbrush is effective at stopping fires. The small bushes, leaves and sticks on the ground catches fire much more easily then the big trees. It is not uncommon to see most of the trees in a forest survive the forest fire. It is also a very common way forest fires are being fought, even in California. Fire fighters use big machinery to remove the vegetation of a strip of land in front of the fire in hopes to stop it. & #x200B; However the cost of removing the underbrush of a forest is far to great. And it will likely kill the forest in just a few years. The forest is dependent on the underbrush so removing it will be an ecological disaster. In addition to killing all the trees in the forest this would also create droughts and landslides which would be more devastating then the fires would have been.
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How does liquid turn into ice instantly?
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It's called super cooled liquid. Normally it happens with very pure bottled water. Take it outta the freezer as liquid, knock it and it turns to ice instantly. Look on YouTube for super cooled water", 'Crystals usually need a nucleus to start growing on. If you cool particle free liquid you can get to a "supercooled" state. Below it's freezing point but still liquid because crystals can't form. Disturb it and they grow rapidly. If it's cold enough the whole thing will solidify. Less cold and the "excess" cold will be used up freezing some, leaving the remainder liquid at it's usual freezing point.
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What’s actually happening to your throat when you lose your voice? How does this happen?
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Another similar question I've had is, why is our voice deeper when wake up? And why doesn't that always happen?", 'What about when you shouted too much during the previous evening?
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How big are electric car batteries?
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The batteries are huge, and take up either the whole tunnel and back seat area, or, as in Tesla's system, the whole floor between wheel wells. Replacing them takes time, due to their size and weight. What you suggest about robots has been considered, by Tesla of all companies . Long story short, it's technically feasible, but low priority.
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Why do guns recoil upward rather than downward?
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As already mentioned it's because the barrel of a handgun is above your wrist. Handgun recoil back, and then, since the force isn't in line with your wrist it causes rotation. There is one handgun I know of that is designed more in line with your wrist. Chiappa Rhino. _URL_0_
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How do scientists know what dinosaurs sound like?
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We don't. We can only hypothesize based on the current information known to us. Saying that, I'm sure a complete set of dinosaur bones with intact ossicles can be used to digitize how sound moves through an organism. Birds are modern dinosaurs so maybe there's an evolutionary correlation in the structures used to produce sound. I haven't come across any articles but this a great question that needs more investigating.
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Why does the US have such a small amount of train routes compared to Europe?
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Large parts of the US didn't reach population densities high enough for widespread passenger rail to be economical until after the invention of the automobile. On the East coast, especially in the Northeast, the density of train routes is much more comparable to Europe.Major American cities are much further spread out, other than the NE corridor from Washington to Boston. And more people own cars, so they’d rather drive and have their car in the city they are visiting if they aren’t going to shorten the trip by flyingBecause the population base is spread out over a MUCH larger area which would make a train network far more difficult to construct and maintain.As other comments have said, the density is similar, but primarily used for freight. Also, in many American cities, you'll need a car to get around once you get there, so you might as well just drive there in many cases.
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Why do trials for new drugs need placebo patients?
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They want to know how much the drug helps vs how much a person's brain thinks it's going to help. The placebo effect means that there is almost always some improvement because the human brain is weird. The placebo group just gives them a baseline, a control, to compare the real results with.
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How do deep ocean creatures survive under so much atmospheric pressure?
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Our bodies are designed for the pressure of our environment. Evolutionary forces create life forms that are prepared for different parts of the world. Just like some critters live in only hot and some live in only cold and some need water constantly and some need water only every once and a while. When astronauts spend too long in space they start to hurt their bones. We actually need the amount of pressure we have on us all the time. This is commonly called 1 atmosphere because We usually live in this pressure. But deep sea creatures are actually designed for greater pressure. Their bodies don't work down there in spite of it, they grew into bodies in that environment. It's as natural to them as this is to us.
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What gives paint its color? And what is happening when two differently colored paints are mixed together to get a new color altogether?
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They're often mixed with different things. If they're oil based, they can be taken from related plants and sometimes flowers. If you want a more specific answer, there are elements that show certain colors. Iron is often red as seen in rubies and rust. Copper is often green like the statue of liberty. Cobalt is blue, sulfur is yellow, and so on. As for what happens when they mix, there's an artist explanation and a scientific explanation. Scientific explanation is easier to show than tell I think. Have you ever seen something translucent and colored? Color absorbs energy of other light and lets light of the same type reflect and go through. If you think of autumn leaves, that pigment is there so the plants can absorb green light because chlorophyll can absorb light except for green. When you mix the colors, you have an overlap in the kinds of light that can pass. Think of a blue filter that lets all blue through, from the sky to the ocean to shades of indigo. When you apply a green filter on it, the green absorbs most of the blue that was being reflected before, and so now the only light that escapes is a color that both filters would normally let pass. They are sieves. Without using numbers, another example could be by shape. This sees play often in biology, but for simplicity, let's use simple shapes. Imagine we have a board with a bunch of circles punched out in it. When we put a pile of blocks on it, it lets small objects through and round objects of similar size through the circle holes. Then we can try another board with triangles. When we run the blocks again, some off the same blocks pass through and some that didn't before. Of the blocks that didn't go through either, we can probably find a square block.
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what exactly are stem cells and why are they so important and controversial?
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Stem cells are non-specialised cells which can be induced to turn into any kind of cells . They can be used to heal difficult to heal injuries or diseases. But adults have limited type/quantity of these cells. It's controversial cos one of the best ways of obtaining stem cells are from fetuses. And the problem is, is it ethical to kill fetuses to get stem cells?
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Why does water make things slippery, but licking my finger helps me pull out a cigarette or turn a page?
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You know how when you sweat or go for a swim, your clothes are hard to take off? But when you get water on your wood or tile floor, it's slippery? It's because the water reacts differently with the substance. Water clings to your skin to a certain extent, and water also soaks through your paper and sticks to it too now. Thusly the page is easily turned. However, when there's a pool of water on the floor, the water doesn't just seep into the tile, does it? This means that the water just sticks to you and you go sliding along. It's about absorbency.
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If you cut something on the atomic level will it cause a nuclear explosion?
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This is my own opinion but hasn't the atom already been split by Rutherford like waaaaay back in the 1900's ? They're now smashing atoms together . I think that would be more dangerous
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What makes waterboarding so terrible?
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It tricks your brain into thinking it's dying. Your brain doesn't like to think that it's dying, so it panics. Death-induced panic over a long period of time not only weakens you physically, but it is seriously damaging to your mind.
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If 95% of the ocean hasn’t been explored, how do we know where the deepest point is ?
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Sonar and Deep Radar for the most part. We don't know what's down there, but we know to within a few millimeters where down there is. The Ocean floor is quite comprehensively mapped, although soft features would be ignored by a deep radar scan, solid rock sure is not.
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Why does the USA have a passenger rail system of a third world country?
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Alot of our infrastructure is based around highways and roads, not rail. It's the other way around in Europe, many of the large cities and hubs are built around the railway system. This makes it far more convenient to use rail for transportation rather than car. The fact that the countries are smaller helps as well. It doesn't help that a lot of our passenger rail infrastructure between states is shared with and rented out by freight rail companies like BNSF and Suffolk north. This means that they share the rail with freight trains, and freight makes more money than passenger trains and get priority as a result. Plane and train tickets cost the same, it's a few hours to Portland by plane where I am. Its 2.5 DAYS by train for coach. It is not worth it.
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How come we can`t consciously control adrenaline?
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Because the response adrenaline elicits depends on the situation, it can't wait for you to consciously release adrenaline, that might take too long. Also adrenaline is only really good in short bursts, the effect of adrenaline over a long period of time is bad for your body.
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Why aren’t babies born immune to every illness their mother is immune to?
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Basically just because that's not how it works. Everyone else so far has given good answers about the science of how we actually do develop our immune system, but the answer to your actual title is that we as a species just never mutated to have that trait", 'I guess a more general answer is that the immune system is not build into the DNA. The mothers immune system is sort of trained and not copied to DNA which gets to the baby.
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How can a half built, completely open plywood house frame be fine after sitting open during terrible weather?
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Well, if you're talking about rain with strong winds, then a large part is simply surface area. The way I understand it is that the walls are not yet there, correct? If there are walls, the wind would have a lot more area to push against. If it's just the frame though, there is very little surface area to push against.You could close it up and turn on some dehumidifiers or the AC before insulation and Sheetrock is installed.
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Why is AIDS almost impossible to cure?
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Cause it's not the actual thing that kills you. HIV is the virus that you contract. AIDS is the state your body is in when your immune system is depleted. Your body can't fight off new illnesses. This leads to pnumonia, flu, really any highly contagious desiese to hit you hard.On top of what others have already said, HIV inserts its DNA into the DNA of your immune cells. This makes it extremely hard/impossible for your immune cells to detect the virus. Also. Everytime an infected cell replicate, it also replicates the virus DNA', "AIDS is caused by HIV, a virus. We generally we can't really cure most viruses. AIDS is far from the only viral infection that we don't really have a cure for. We can vaccinate against getting them by training the immune system with a weakened version of the virus and we can alleviate symptoms to help the immune system fight the virus once the patient has caught it. The problem with those two approaches is that they both rely on the human immune system and that is just exactly what the virus attacks in the first place. It is like an arsonist setting the fire station on fire. That being said we now have the tools to allow someone who if HIV+ a relatively long life with a reasonable quality of life instead of the death penalty the diagnosis was back when it was new. We can't cure it but if you we have medicine that can allow you to live with it for quite some time. It has gone from being on the level of metastasised cancer to being more like diabetes. Not a cure, but an improvement.
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Where does the wax in candles go? I understand that it melts, but as a candle works down does the wax just turn into gas and evaporate?
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Other people are more correct than this is going to be. I'll try to make an actual LY5 answer. We'll see how that goes. Paraffin wax, which is what most candles are made out of, is basically a solid, meltable flammable oil. Made from coal or oil products. So they work exactly the same as a lantern with a wick in some oil, except you don't need a container. When you light the wick, a little bit of the wax melts into liquid oil, which travels up the wick and burns, which melts a little bit more of the wax and so on.The wax is the flammable fuel of the candle. It is vaporized and burned by the flame on the wick. The heat released by the fire allows more wax to melt and continue the process.
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I’m ADHD, why do energy drinks and coffee calm me down as opposed to hype me up?
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Same thing happens to me I think it has something to do with having a really fast metabolism whenever I feel like I need energy I drink a monster or what have you and I feel full and calm it's strange and I was born in '95 labeled positive lol", 'I’m ADD so other than feeling more awake I don’t get much of a rush anymore from energy drinks. It could be that you built up a tolerance to the ingredients that should hype you upDoesn’t having caffeine even out your energy levels..? Someone explain this to me tooThe way things were explained to me along time ago is that ADHD is a chemical in balance in the brain, so maybe it’s just an off chemical reaction. Because I have the same issue too. Kinda odd really, it more makes me sleepy, but in a low enough dosage it works as intended
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What is happening differently in the mind of someone with schizophrenia when they hear a real noise v.s an auditory hallucination?
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The brain clears itself up, but it clears itself up too much, and loses some important stuff , causing schizophrenia. This means that it sometimes can't tell if it's thinking to itself, or hearing something else, so you have the hallucinations.I’ve had auditory hallucinations induced by sleep deprivation many a time . It’s like there’s a tv or radio on in the next room, but I cant make out the words. The more severe ones have been like I’m listening to an episode of one of my favorite shows, except the episode doesn’t exist. My brain is just making up a script and I hear the characters’ voices acting it outAs an ex-Psych Nurse, I’ve seen some terrific answers on this post and some experiences which I wish I’d known about when I was in practice. I went to work in Intensive Care after that and saw cases of ICU psychosis we thought were caused by the almost continuous auditory stimulus from alarms and the general noise in an ICU. The drugs and patient conditions contributed to it also. I would sometimes hear alarms going off during hypnagogic or hypnopompic periods when I was resting after a strenuous 3 or 4 night shifts. Sounded so real I would jump up to “check the monitors.” Took about 18 months to get rid of it when I went to a different position. I think it was also a touch of PTSD from some of the patient experiences I had.
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can anyone help me understand this article a little better? [Dads, Too, Can Pass on Mitochondrial]
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I'm not sure what you're asking exactly and I'm no expert but my sister works in genetics, Basically, at one time, it was believed that the mitochondrial DNA was only passed to the child through the mother. Now this article states it is also passed from the father. See, the DNA is passed down from mom to both son's and daughters. Daughters can pass the DNA to their children but until now they thought son's could not. Idk if this article is true but if it is then Mitochondrial DNA is not exclusively inherited from the egg
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Why do space craft landers need parachutes if there's no atmosphere?
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There's no atmosphere in space but there is around planets Parachutes aren't helpful on the moon but they're kinda helpful on Mars and really helpful for places with thick atmospheres like Titan For Mars, parachutes can only slow you down so much as the atmosphere is thin but it can bring a spacecraft from a thousand kph to tens of kph before something else deals with the final stage of the landing", 'Mars has an atmosphere and the Insight’s supersonic chute was deployed upon its descent.
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Why was Stalin's USSR not considered Fascist?
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action for action's sake" and "disagreement as treason" - all truth has been exposed by religion/tradition, therefore no new learning is possible, only further interpretations of the given truth, and it's refinement. All rationalism and advancements achieved post-Enlightenment is a gross depravity . Action is meritorious in itself, and need not be backed by intellectual clarity, or rather does not require intellectual clarity - which often devolves into outright contempt and rejection of academia, intellectuals, and any forms of philosophy. Disagreements with the state would only hinder action, and should therefore be discouraged. It is important to note that each of these traits are interconnected to a certain degree in a Fascist state. The USSR was notorious for it's gulags - where the dissidents were sent to, as punishment for opposing the state. The key differences here are that the State's call to action was not rooted in a \'glorious\' mythical past, which could be recaptured by collectively re-establishing a "traditional" way of life , but an unapologetic embrace of Modernism and rational, pragmatic advancement of society. The rejection/suppression of intellectualism was limited to that which was thought of as \'bourgeois\' sciences, which apparently had no practical uses for an underdeveloped state. 2. "Fear of differences
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Is wearing sunglasses in professional poker illegal/against the rules? If so, why do players in televised poker sometimes wear them? [Sports]
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First off, despite how movies and tv like to depict it, most reading is not about looking for some facial tic or obvious tell. It is about using your knowledge about that player and their betting style to inform decisions. For instance, let's say your opponent raises pre-flop, you call with 10-10, and the flop is 8, 10, Q. Your opponent raises. Let's say you know for a fact that your opponent is a tight aggressive player who will only raise pre-flop with a strong hand. You can rule out a J-9 and assume they probably are holding A-Q and are looking to push you off the straight draw. Even if they have something like A-J you're definitely ahead on the flop; you're only screwed if they have Q-Q. You're probably good to call on the flop and raise on the turn. Whereas if they have been playing loose aggressive and have been raising with J-X all night, you need to be a lot more cautious with this hand. Depending on your read you might have to give them credit for the straight or at least a straight draw, and be very wary how much you sink into the hand before you fold. You might want to consider raising on the flop instead and see if your opponent commits to the hand or folds out. Of course, seasoned players will periodically switch between looser and more aggressive styles of play to make this harder to read. When it comes to reading faces, sunglasses, hoods, etc. are meant to create a blank, expressionless, less human robot vibe. This works well for those players who want to create a badass, stoic, blank slate image. On the other hand, you have players who are constantly talking, making facial expressions, and otherwise trying to distract you to throw you off your game; they generally *don't* wear sunglasses, as they want you to look at them as much as possible.
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Germany currently contribute the most in European Union budget, giving directly more money than they receive. How is it profitable for them?
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Because Germany is a country that manufactures things and sells it to other European countries. So while they might pay more in dues, they gain access to many customers for German businesses. Those businesses sell things and make money and pay employees who then pay taxes in Germany. Basically, there's benefit to being in the EU more than just simple money transferred to or from your country. Access to the common market, the common currency and common regulatory framework are all incredibly valuable for an exporting country like Germany.
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If the Earth's average temperature is rising, why has winter gotten colder in some places?
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What we do know is that the polar vortex has been weakening of late. This typically keeps the polar cold contained. What's hypothesised is that climate change is destabilising it, making it go wonky. This has caused the severe winters some places in the nothern hemisphere have seen over the last few years; as the polar weather gets let loose further south than before.Four options: 1) Observer bias. You tell us "everyone agrees" rather than linking to the actual temperature statistics that no doubt exist somewhere on the internet. 2) Changes in ocean currents. This factor may well result in a full blown ice age in northern Europe if global warming stops at exactly the wrong time. 3) Other more complex climate effects. 4) Random variations creating an apparent pattern which does not actually exist. Weather and climate are different thingsOk folks, I know that "climate change" doesn't necessarily mean "global warming in all places". I'm pretty sure that was apparent in the explanation of the question. I'm really more curious about the mechanics; what makes winter cold in Maine, and what's changed that's made it get colder?Climate change isn’t just higher temperatures. It also involves more extreme lows and natural disasters with heightened intensity and frequency
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Why do people who usually wear glasses look very different without them even though you can see through their glasses?
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Frames. You can't see through the frame. And your face will look different if you were to wear the frame with no optics. Then it's like in optical illusions. Adding lines over a shape can make the brain interpret the shape differently.
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Why does the world seem so quiet when it’s snowing outside?
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Others have raised good points. Also note that snow has very high surface area per flake, which means a lot of points of contact for sound vibrations to hit first and thus be dampened before reaching your ear. Sound, to you, is just vibrational waves hitting things like air molecules or the ground, which continue like dominoes until they hit your body and make the tiny little bones in your ear vibrate. Snow acts as insulation which causes this travelling of vibrations to become inefficient, so the sounds are dampened. It's kind of like having a messy room full of clothes on the floor. If you clean it up, the sound in your room will be much louder and will resonate more. With lots of clutter, everything is less loud because the waves of sound have more obstacles to break onto, before reaching your ears.a few things. 1) cold air does not carry sound as far as warm air.2) the air is less humid, less humid air does not carry sound as far3) the air is full of falling snow which absorbs, blocks, or deflects sound waves 4) there is usually snow on the ground which absorbs sound waves really well. all this together means that in winter, during a snowfall, it is really quietSnow is pretty large and relatively stiff so when it lands and stacks on top of more snow it creates large pockets of air, sound is just vibrations moving through air so the snow absorbs a lot of the soundAnd rain helps to carry sound. Moisture from fog especially helps. I can hear a train from my house that is miles and miles away when it’s sprinkling/foggy out.I'd imagine it's also cos people wouldn't be outside making noise much like when it's raining, but snow doesn't make noise like rain does.
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What is "Mansplaining" and how do you identify it?
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It's a man explaining a subject to a woman when that subject is something the woman is an expert on and the man is not. The term has broaden over time and can now generally be used whenever a man simply assumes a woman doesn't know something and explains it to her. Usually in a condescending manner and/or without the woman asking for an explanation.Listen here little lady, Mansplaining is this, Man, as in men, so were talking about men here. Explain things, hence "splaining" to women so they can actually understand things. So you got it? Man explaining something to women in a condescending way. man+explain=mansplaining, there you go little lady don't trouble your pretty little head about the details.Think of it like this: when a man interrupts a woman to explain something that really only women could possibly explain. Like: menstrual cramps. Or the fear of walking alone in the dark at night in a parking garage. Or giving birth. Or obtaining birth control. Men have a lot of information and can champion women's rights, but they fundamentally can't tell me how cramps feel.
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why does eating too much sugar cause diabetes? How does this happen?
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The first symptom of Type II Diabetes is the body's cells become less responsive to insulin. If a cell already has more than enough sugar or fat stored inside of it, it will reject available sugar in the blood so that other, more energy demanding cells have a chance to absorb the sugar. This isn't a problem unless there is a high percentage of cells that are rejecting sugar and there is a constant, unrelenting inflow of sugar into the bloodstream. This causes sugar to build up in the blood and forces the kidneys to process it, which they are not designed to do for extended periods. Type II Diabetes is usually reversible by drastically reducing the amount of fat and sugar in one's diet. This will begin to deplete the cells' energy storage and they will once again respond to insulin because they need energy to survive.
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Why can't we explain what water tastes like?
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Because it's flavorless, what you taste it's electrolytes, minerals, sediments and particles that you find locally in your area.
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The Lymph System kills dangerous cells, so why doesn´t it kill cancer cells?
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The lymphatic system identifies, attacks and kills foreign hostile organisms. The problem is because cancer is rogue over active human cells the lymphatic system doesn't identify it as a foreign hostile organism so doesn't attempt to attack it in the normal way. - _URL_1_
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Why does water feel colder than air if they're the same temperature?
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When you feel cold, it's because your body is losing heat to the surrounding air as each molecule in the air bumps into you and steals some of your heat. Air is a gas, so the molecules are spread out and there are fewer of them bumping into you. Water is a liquid, so the molecules are much closer, meaning more of them are bumping into you at any given time. That causes you to lose heat faster in water than in air , even if that water is the same temperature as the air.The temperature you feel isnt necessarily the temperature of the thing youre touching. What you feel is the *rate of energy transfer* to the thing youre touching. A colder thing is colder so the temperature difference is larger, so energy transfers faster so it feels colder until they reach equilibrium. Now to answer your question, water is more dense, so there are more molecules of water touching you than air would. So more energy is being transferred at a faster rate, so it feels colder', "When you feel heat or cold you're not actually feeling temperature, you're feeling the transfer of heat in or out of your body. Air is actually a pretty good insulator, so you lose more heat to the water than you do to the air, making it feel colder. This is also why metal feels much colder than other substances that are the same temperature. Metal is a good conductor so you lose heat to it more rapidly.
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The riddle on the image I'm leaving in the comments.
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It's a logic puzzle which uses the process of elimination and the concept of ambiguity to determine the correct box. The trick is, when an elf says they don't know which box it is, you can eliminate the unambiguous boxes . Eg. If Holly knows the colour of the box, but she can't tell which box it is, you know that the box colour is not unique, so eliminate the ones that are unique. Likewise for Candy with the ribbon. When an elf says they know which box it is, it's the same thing in reverse - from the remaining possibilities, you eliminate the ambiguous boxes, since the elf must know which colour it is. When the elves talk to each other about what they/the other elf does or doesn't know, they're actually giving clues as to which boxes to eliminate based on ambiguity or unambiguity.I was doing this from mobile, and it was hard to work with. The image is in the description of the post.
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How does saved data not weigh anything?
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It *does * get heavier, or at least change weight, but the amount is so infinitesimal that it's going to be remarkably difficult to detect the weight difference. As calculated in [_URL_0_], the weight of a single bit is: mf ≈ 3.4 x 10^ kg So for a 1TB drive that's 3.7 x 10^ g, which is about the same as just 40 atoms of iron.It does have weight. Punchcards are written on by making holes so it loses weight when you write to it. Magnetic media will stay the same since nothimg is added or removed and optical media too. RAM will get a tiny amount of mass because of gaining electrons and SSD:s will lose a tiny bit of mass due to losing electronsI believe this video answers your question. Vsauce- How much does the internet weigh? _URL_1_ But the just of it is that it does weigh more but only very slightly.You aren't actually putting anything physical on the drives. You are just rearranging things to show a pattern. That pattern represents the actual data.
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What keeps movies unreleased? What stops any movie studio employee from just downloading a movie that hasn’t come out and leaking it to the internet?
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As mentioned most people don't want to throw away their careers and personal finances to give away a free movie. But beyond that it simply isn't available to very many people. If a graphic artist is working on a shot they only have access to those files, they can't just download the whole movie because there is no reason they would need to be able to do that. There are only a handful of people with full access to the entire movie and those are thoroughly vetted to be trustworthy. They are also quite highly paid.
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How is Russia able to do all the naughty things they do without much international intervention?
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> Of course nobody wants full-on war, This is basically the reason. Really, the most countries can do is stuff like sanctions, which are limited if Russia *really* wants to do something. They'll take the economic hit. , and nukes. > meddling with US elections There has been some confirmation that they did meddle . But this one is a bit of a special case. The fact that the current administration has zero interest in actually punishing Russia, when the U.S. is the main party that would normally do it also extremely hobbles any potential response.The US and Russia are both permanent members of the UN World Security Council. Unfortunately they need a full agreement to punish a countryBecause it’s dangerous and would cost many lives to get into a war/conflict with larger countries like Russia. Despite having older technology, they wouldn’t be a pushoverRussia have many big nuke bombs. Nobody want to try fighting Russia. The countries that also have big nuke bombs know that a fight with Russia will involve big nuke bombs. So instead of dropping bombs on each other we spy each other instead.> frowned upon by the rest of the world, i.e. annexation of Ukrainian land, Not just frowned upon, it actually breaking international law and some post Soviet treaties guaranteeing the sovereignty of Ukraine The West does apply sanctions on Russia but that doesn't seem to be working very well.
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How does traffic on the freeway happen if we are all going the same speed?
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You'd think that if everyone was travelling at the same speed, they would all move at the same speed, evenly. But, of course, they do not travel at the same speed. Sooner or later, someone will slow down. Maybe someone changed lanes in front of them and they had to give them room. If the people behind them are close, then they too will have to slow down - perhaps more than the car in front of them. You end up with a few cars travelling slower - then the cars have to speed back up again - and here is where traffic snarls start. If cars arrive at this slowdown faster than ones at the front can speed up again, this blockage will just grow. It creates what is sort of a 'pressure wave' in the traffic. Here's where any driver can help. If a driver keeps a reasonable gap between them and the cars in front of him, then they won't have to slow down as much, or as quickly. The forming snarl just melts away. It doesn't take many drivers keeping a larger distance, and traffic jams just wouldn't happen.Reaction times. 1 person slows then speeds back up for a reason, but does so instantly. You take a 10th if a second to react before doing the same, the person behind you reacts a 10th of a second after you reacted a 10th of a second to the first driver, and it daisy chains along thousands of drivers. Before long, one person slowing for a second can be a 3 hour traffic jam later that day.There's always a bottleneck. Unless the drive is completely trivial, there will always be places where traffic gets concentrated. This might be structural: a merge or an intersection or something temporary like construction or a collision. Why does that slow traffic down? The simple way is to look at it is capacity: If 1500 cars/hour can drive *to* the bottleneck and 1000 cars/hour can drive *through* it, people are going to have to wait their turn.
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How does electricity pass through a metal heating element without discharging into the water?
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Some heating elements are insulated. The ones that aren't insulated do leak current into the water. They are supposed to have a ground screen on the outlet. They are also for use on water which is not too conductive. [Video teardown and explanation of a dangerous one.]
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Why do neighboring states “look” and “feel” different from each other?
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There are changes in vegetation, predominant crops, the types of trees, etc. There are also changes in architecture; it's possible to actually differentiate the major cities by their skylines, and smaller towns/villages may have houses with predominantly different architectural styles. And there are differences in weather and geography too: smell of ocean in the air, mountains, hills, etc. And you've come to know all of these.
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how do atoms bond, what are valence electrons, and can atoms bond when their valence shell is full?
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The atoms become more stable when they have certain numbers of electrons associated with them. Hydrogen is more stable with 2 electrons than 1. Not unlike you carrying a grocery bag in each hand, rather than 1 in one hand. There are other stable numbers of electrons and those numbers are the reason for the shape of the periodic table. Atoms bond to share electrons, so they can get to these stable numbers. They have to share to maintain their neutral charge. Valence electrons are the ones on the edge of an atom, available to other atoms to react with. Atoms are unlikely to bond if their shells are full. Atoms like this are called noble gasses. Helium is a noble gas. Because it is stable, it doesn't react without a lot of input energy.
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Why do drug stores have tons of reading glasses in varying intensities (for farsighted people), but no pre-made glasses for nearsighted people?
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A pair of bad reading glasses don't have the kind of serious implications that a pair of shitty all-day glasses would, So we leave it to people who are educated in the matter.Because the ocular correction industry is on a quest to let natural selection take its course against nearsighted people.Those glasses at drug stores aren't for fixing your vision for farsighted people. They're just magnifiers.
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Why men pee after ejaculation often ?
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🤷🏻\u200d♂️, I'm no doctor but I think it's to get any leftover semen out so it doesn't cause pain or infection.
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Why are electric cars more eco-friendly if electricity is still fossil-fuel powered?
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Bigger generators are more efficient than little generators. Coal burned in a big power plant is about the only fuel that has worse emissions per kWh than gasoline burned in a small engine. Your car engine has an efficiency of ~35%, the absolute best coal plant using the perfect coal can hit 43% but still has all the icky stuff from coal exhaust Compare this to combined cycle natural gas which can pull off 60% efficiency and you can see that if you get your power from a natural gas plant you'll avoid a lot of emissions, and in the long run power gotten from Wind and Solar are effectively zero emissions. As the US is currently in the process of retiring coal plants or swapping them over to gas, odds are your electric car will just be more and more environmentally friendly over its lifespan.Generally, electric cars use energy more efficiently than petrol cars. Also, coal and natural gas power plants usually implement expensive processes that clean up the by-products of burning fossil fuels before releasing the exhaust into the air. Petrol cars would be far too expensive if similar measures were implemented in every car so they tend to pollute heavilyThat is why we should start moving away from power plants that pollute. Wind, solar and nuclear powerplants have zero emissions when operating with the exception of used fuel rods from the nuclear plant. But when those are properly stored things are fineThe method of producing torque with a motor, and and re-capturing energy in an electric car is simply more efficient. The kind of electric motors in cars like Tesla are able to use regenerative braking. Once that lousy carbon/nuclear energy source is converted to electricity we can use it very efficiently since electricity is very good at energy transfer. IC engines can't "recharge" in the same way. There is no way to make gas as you go down a hill in order to regain a portion of your potential kinetic energy. Electric motors also do not require gears which introduce a lot of frictionNot to mention the damage caused mining the lithium in the batteries of electric cars. We need a new, better battery option.
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Is water never produced, only recycled?
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lots of things make water. every campfire, charcoal grill, candle, car engine, diesel generator, coal/natural gas powerplant makes water molecules by combining a hydrocarbon with atmospheric oxygen to make H2O. when people talk about water being recycled, it means the water cycle from rain to river to lake to ocean, and evaporating back to rain. also when you talk big numbers, losing a few tons of water here and there isn't the main conversation", 'Water enters the earth in comets. Water can also boil out of the atmosphere and off into space.
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Why do car batteries drain so easily if you leave a light on but can be recharged easily after a jump?
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The primary purpose of the battery in a car is to power the starter motor which takes a lot of power for a very short time. It's not designed to store large amounts of energy so it can power things for a long time, once up and running the alternator powers everything so the battery doesn't need to", 'Lights use power and eventually drain the battery. A jump essentially uses the other cars battery to start the car. The alternator in your car recharges the dead battery while you drive.
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how do self checkout machines ensure that customers aren't stealing items or taking things by mistake when scanned incorrectly?
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A bunch of ways. First, the bagging area is actually a scale so if the weight doesn't match what was entered/scanned, it will not let you continue. In the UK, scammers worked around this by [buying avocados but entering the code for carrots]. Presumably the used traditional monitoring and enforcement methods to determine who was scamming and to build a case against them.
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Why do space travel vehicles usually get launched from static vertical positions? Would it be more energy efficient to take off like an airplane then accelerate while gaining altitude?
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There are concepts for small payloads where a small rocket is launched from a plane, giving it a head start in terms of altitude and speed. But for launches with several tons to get to orbit, you'd need a highly sophisticated engine and the problems get more and more the longer you think about it. Skylon researches an engine that can switch between taking oxygen from the air and taking it from a tank, because if you need more engines, the weight nullifies any advantages. Verical launches are the most reliable option we have so far.
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Why is the core of the earth hot and why does it not cool down?
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Decay of radioactive elements is the main ongoing heat source. The core is cooling down, but the crust and mantle act as EXCELLENT insulation, so very little heat is lost. Additionally the core is around the same size as Mars, so there's an awful lot of heat and radioactive fuel to keep it going. Estimates are that the core of the earth will still be molten in 5 billion years when the sun dies.
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How is it possible, with almost all cars having keyless entry, we don't occasionally unlock someone else's car?
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Each car has a different RFID fingerprint in the key, so you can't unlock a different car with the same key
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Why is it that YouTube never struggles to stream an ad whether it be 5 seconds or 3 minutes when there is bad connection, yet my videos struggle to stream.
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I'm OK with them advertising, what I hate is how the volume all of the sudden gets cranked during an ad. No I don't want to dl your meditation app when you just made me jump from the sudden explosion from my speakers!", 'I finally installed an adblocker when I got one of those "skip in five seconds" ads and it froze when there was one second left.Because of CDNs . Content providers use CDNs to intelligently store data at network edge nodes to reduce overall internet backbone traffic. Not everyone that uses your CDN edge node has watched the content you're trying to view, but I guarantee someone at some point has already watched the ad video before it, thus it remains cached on your local CDN node and easily accessible. The more popular a piece of content is, the more likely it is to be cached on a CDN edge node, thus the more likely it is that it will load quickly for you.
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In America on tv they are uslng shoes indoors, is this true? And if its true how cant the floors be dirty all the time?
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I take my shoes off at home and at both of my in laws homes, I keep my socks on but I don't like shoes so I only wear them wheb I have to, my wife is the same way, but I have known people that would look at you weird if you took your shoes off before bed.. I have rarely been asked to take my shoes off as I entered someone home.In the south virtually no one I know takes off there shoes when inside. In the north it more season dependent. You generally take off shoes if they have snow or salt on themMy mother yells at everyone that wears their shoes on the carpet. Now I do the same. Carpets are hard to clean.
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How do we know what names mean? E.g. Hercules wife was called deinara, which means husband destroyer. In ancient greece was this woman literally called husband-destroyer?
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It sounds more like an epithet/nickname than an actual name, like The Rock or He Who Must Not Be Named or The Ring-Bearer. Not their real name, but another way to refer to them based on a unique characteristic or a thing they're known for.Most Greek names are still like this today. Nicholas means victory of/over the people. George meaning farmer, Alexander protector of men showing the same prefix as Alexander haha! )in german, names are often derived from what someone used to do. for example, "bauer", which is a very common german familyname, literally means "farmer". if you're last name today is bauer, you most likely had ancestors that were farmers.I'm Nigerian. All names have meanings for us and for most countries in sub-saharan Africa. They are usually common words in the native languages and no deep interpretation is needed to get their meaning.
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How do we know there aren't more planets in the solar system with orbits that keep them on the opposite side of the sun from us at all times?
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Fyi, there actually is a theory that there is another planet in our solar system, but it's very distant right now. I think the theory goes that it is in an elliptical orbit and actually gets closer to the solar system at times,while at other times being quite far away. We think this because there are strange movements of some of our planets that we can't explain. _URL_0_ I have not looked into this too much lately, so I'm not sure what the current theories are, I'm not sure if anyone still believes that there is a ghost planet or if it's been mostly debunked.
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What is the difference between Bandwidth vs Latency?
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Think of it like bees and them getting nectar. The bandwidth is how many bees there are out there going to get the nectar. The latency is how close those flowers are. So, you could have 5000 bees but yet the flowers are 5 km away, that's high bandwidth, high latency. Similarly, you can have 5 bees and flowers 10 meters away, that's low bandwidth, high latency.Think of it like a delivery company. You computer makes a request for something : High bandwidth means they can deliver big packages. If the package is too big they will have to send it in pieces which takes longer.Low latency means they show up soon after you place an orderCars are kind of bad for an analogy, think of a water pipe: You open the valve and the amount of water is the bandwidth, but it doesn’t reach the end of the tube instantly, that is latency, it does somewhat depend on the speed, but mostly on the length of the pipe', "You've pretty much got it! 1. Bandwidth is like having more lanes.2. Latency is a combination of speed limit and traffic. Both can influence speed and number of cars on the highway.
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Why are the front and back cameras on smartphones not the same to begin with? Why do they need to differ in quality?
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The bette the camera the more it costs to make. So the phone markers chooses cameras that are just good enough for what they are used for. The back page camera is often used for big scenes with many details and need more data. The front camera is often used for selfies or similar, where details are not as needed or necessarily good thing . Historically the front camera was for video chat, which was limited by bandwidth and data, makings low resolution good enough. Edit: Switched back/front. D'uh!
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How do we know the centre core of the earth is hot, filled with lava? Wouldn't it make more sense that things get colder the deeper towards the centre you go?
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If you're cold and wrap yourself up in a blanket, it heats you up because there's a solid layer trapping your body heat inside. The more layers and the thicker they are, the more heat you can trap. The center of the planet is effectively wrapped up in the biggest, rockiest blanket imaginable.
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Everyone is up in arms about the Republicans in Wisconsin limiting the incoming Democrats power. But can’t they just reverse what the Republicans did once they are in office?
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I read the Republicans will still control the state legislature there, and are trying to limit the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general's powers. If they enact these laws, those laws probably will stick unless the Wisconsin voters change the makeup of the state legislature in a future election and the laws are repealed.
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Why are emotions tied to certain facial expressions? Like, why do people smile when they're happy?
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Cross cultural research show that some basic emotions are expressed in the same way in very different parts of the world, suggesting they're genetically programmed.Those emotions are happiness, sadness, disgust, and anger. See the works of Eckman in the 70's.
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how does polymorphic code work?
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add the contents of register *a* to register *b* and store the result in register *c*
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How does water get from the stomach to the kidneys?
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Water is absorbed by osmosis in the small intestine - if there's more water in the intestine than in the cells lining the intestine, it will move through the cell membrane into the cell. Then it gets absorbed into your bloodstream along with nutrients. Once your body has absorbed all the nutrients it needs, and transferred waste products into the blood, the blood flows through the kidneys. Your kidneys have lots of blood vessels, where the water and waste products are filtered out of the blood and the liquid flows to the urethra, and from there into the bladder.It doesn’t get absorbed by the stomach. Most of the water goes into your body in your large intestines through channels in the lining that are able to take it back up after it helps the slushy digestion goo make its way through your gut.
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Why do diesel locomotives use their Diesel engines to produce electric to drive electric motors rather than just use the power from the diesel engine to move the train?
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The engines don't have the same ability to make things move with the same 'power'/torque. As others mentioned for mechanical engines this requires large transmission , electrical engines do not need a transmission at all . & #x200B; So the electrical engine usually has slightly above two or three moving parts while the mechanical engine has several hundreds moving parts. In terms of maintenance and upkeep cost the difference is extreme. That issue will also affect many jobs and industries that revolve around producing those moving parts for mechanical engines. For most applications mechanical engines are an obsolete technology . Their repair, upkeep and production as well as fueling them is a completely insane waste of resources and logistics. So once they're being replaced on a grand scale, hundreds thousands of people if not several dozen million might be out of jobs . At least there are many comparable economic situations we can draw conclusions from in recent history.
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Why does applying lotion to very dry skin hurt?
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You could just try putting straight coconut oil on your skin. It's a really thin oil so it absorbs well", 'On really dry skin you would want a fatty lotion, not a moisturizing one. ', "I had chronic eczema and I was covered in bloody scabs that my parents would bathe in Cetaphil. Then they would cover my entire legs, arms, and neck with bandages every night so I wouldn't scratch in my sleep. & #x200B; It felt like my skin was on fire when the lotion was applied.
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With how many satellites we have in space with different orbits, how do they avoid crashing into each other while in orbit?
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A part of it is that many satellites are *geostationary*. That means, in short, that they are supposed to stay in one place relative to the earth. Rotate with us so that they seem to be in the same place all the time. For those, it's only a matter of placing them reasonably far from each other, so that they don't risk bumping into each other when correcting their position using the small rockets they have equipped for that purpose. The problem is the satellites that have a rotational orbit. That move around all the time. Because those can totally crash into each other. And have in the past done so too. For convenience you can follow almost all of the orbiting satellites using NOAA's satellite tracker. They issue a database that you can, literally, use to calculate where every single satellite is right now. If you discover that a satellite is about to crash into another, there is just one thing you can do. Use the rockets to pick a new orbit. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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How are firefighters able to identify the cause of a fire after its end?
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Not all fires burn the same. Some fire burns hotter and faster than normal. This leaves physical evidence behind and can be proof of arson. This, plus, patterns of fire spread is what arson investigators look for when they're examining the ruins of a fire.
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It seems like we’ve had telephones for decades, but the sound quality of phone calls has remained the same. Why is this?
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Phone call quality depends heavily on frequency bandwidth. Human hearing goes up to about 16-20kHz, but phone calls are typically allotted only 3kHz. This cuts off any frequency higher than about 3.5kHz and lower than 500 Hz and makes the audio quality terrible. Frequency bandwidth is increasingly very limited in cellular networks and there's no economical way to give calls 20k of bandwidth without seriously limiting the number of calls that can fit on the network. If you've ever used google hangouts or something similar to place a call you'll notice the audio quality is usually much better because they can afford a wider bandwidth over wifi.All the other people have great explanation but the simplest one is ‘if it isn’t broke don’t fix it’', "I think the sound quality of phone calls today is much worse than during the '90s. It seemed to take a drastic drop in quality when we changed from analog lines to digital compression. Anyone remember 20+ years ago Sprint advertising you could hear a pin drop? No carrier would ever try to make that claim today.
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How do people believe in ghosts?
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Why don't you believe in ghosts? You haven't seen one. Why do some people believe in ghosts? They believe they have or can.
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Why are humans generally afraid of smaller creatures (mice, for example), even though we know that they are afraid of us, too?
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I think it has to do with the possibility that something small will crawl onto us in a way that we cannot stop it. Like, if that spider just fell onto my bed, where did it go!?!? Mice are usually just startling because we don't expect to find them, or see them skitter across our kitchen counter.
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I found this post and I have absolutely no idea what it says. Can someone please explain?
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It's the quantum immortality hypothesis. Basically, since you can't observe yourself being dead, you are immortal from your own perspective. Anything that causes you to die will only happen in parallel universes.
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Why aren't caves hotter in temperature?
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Beyond what the other two have said, near the Earth's surface the only difference between the cave and outside is that the outside world is warmed by the sun and the cave is not.
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Why can't we feel the earth's rotation?
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The same thing when you're inside moving car/train/bus/etc. You only feel the movement when the car starts to move , after that, you didn't notice it. Say, you're inside a moving airplane. And then you gave a birth. That baby didn't knew he/she was inside a moving object!
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Why isn't the whole night sky brightly lit?
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The universe isn't infinite, it's unbounded. Different There is a finite number of stars in the universe, this means that most sight lines don't lead to a star but instead lead off into the abyss. Henrich Olber contemplated the same thing back around 1800. If there were infinite stars then every sight line leads to a star, since there are lines that lead to darkness there must be a finite number of stars in the sky
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Why do humans and other creatures need sleep and not just rest?
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organize" everything that happened in your day. We have constant input and during sleep our brain gets a "break" where it can process everything that happened today. Its also thought its a key to long term memory which is why sleep during exam time is as important as studying. Sleep is also incredibly important to brain development which is why younger people need more sleep than older people.
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Why are cars created that can go 200 mph+, when the maximum they’ll ever face is maybe 80 mph?
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Cars which can achieve 200 mph+ perform quite well at lower speeds. If a car could only go to 80 mph and no more it would be incredibly weak and take forever to reach that top speed. Engines also don't last long being redlined at absolute peak output so you wouldn't be able to drive for hours at such highway speeds. But, provided a car **can** reach such high speeds it makes sense to have an indicator of what speed is actually being traveled.
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If each atom has its own center-of-gravity, why would an object have one center-of-gravity instead of spread out gravity for each atom?
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You're technically correct, but in most cases it's just an average. For most day to day things, you can just treat it as a weighted average ie, in a simple case, if you have an atom at x=2, and another identical one at x=6, the center of mass would be x=4. There are exceptions -this approximation is good for rigid bodies and if you're really really close, like atomic length scales small close.
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How do people end up with tens of thousands of dollars worth of credit card debt?
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The biggest thing that causes credit debt is spending more money than you have. With dredit cards, it's really easy to just swipe your card and not think about how much money you're really spending. You don't really see the cash, just some numbers, and they're easy to ignore. It's also not insanely hard to get a lot of credit cards. With a lot of credit cards that are have low limits it can add up to a very high limit. If you're constantly maxing out all of your cards and can't afford to pay them back, you'll end up pretty deep in debt pretty quickly. Another thing is interest and late fees. If you're only paying the minimum fees on all your cards and paying late because you can't afford it, you're going to accumulate a lot of late fees and interest and that adds up quick. My advice for staying out of this sort of debt is to never spend money than you have and always pay off your card. Don't just pay the minimum payment. That way you'll never have to pay interest or late fees. Essentially the idea is to use your credit card like a debit card. Of course this can be difficult for some people, especially if you live paycheck to paycheck. You might need something very important now but might be expecting to get the money later. That's completely a bad thing, but be mindful of how much interest you will have to pay, and don't let it build up too much.
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Where did the political terms “The Left” and “The Right” originate?
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Is there any association to the fact that democrats sit together on the left side of the House and Senate buildings, while those other guys congregate on the right? Of course it depends on where you're looking from, but I'm talking about from the back, looking toward the podium.In the French Revolution, they held a big meeting to determine the future of the country. The liberals sat on the left while the conservatives sat on the right. The newspapers reported on "the left" and "the right." And we still use itThe French Revolutionary era was where the terms ***Left-wing politics*** and ***Right-wing politics*** first originated. The reason for the terms to become used at all was the seating of the ancien régime of France at that time. The aristocrats sat on the right, and the commoners sat on the left. So these terms evolved to mean so that right-wing politics refer to politics for aristocratic and royal interests, while left-wing politics refer to republicanism, socialism, and civil liberties.
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why do pills need to be taken with water?
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They don't need to be, but it's far easier to. Especially when the pill is on the larger side. And some people just struggling to take pills in general, big or small. You could take it with anything that will help you get it down, honestly. That's why a lot of hospitals and nursing homes use things like apple sauce to help the patient get it down when water is the best or the option available. The water makes it easier to get down because instead of the pill being solid and large when it goes down your throat , you can't really notice the pill because it's floating in the water. Trying to get anything that's solid down will likely trigger your gag reflex, pill or not. But gulping a lot of water down doesn't trigger it.When you eat, you chew things, it gets mixed with saliva which helps it slide down the esophagus. When you take a pill, typically you swallow it without chewing. Water is just the lubricant. If you chew your tongue to make enough saliva you can swallow the pill as well.Ease of consumption , as well as some pills like Ibuprofen can etch at the lining of your esophagus and stomach if they're taken solo- dissolving them in something, especially with food, allows it to be absorbed without it damaging the tissues.In general just to go down easier. & #x200B; In some cases, the medication can cause dehydration, so it is important to drink to combat this. Medication can also damage Kidneys so needs to be diluted by fluid taken at the same time.
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Why can’t hockey teams just use a morbidly obese person— someone whose body blocks most of the net— as goalie?
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So, if one sumo wrestler couldn't cover the net by just sitting there, could 2 sumo wrestlers side by side in a trenchcoat work to block the goal?
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what does shutting down the government achieve?
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Actually, exactly for issues like the wall issue we have now. In the past, if congress didn't sign a budget in time, they wouldn't shut down, instead people would keep doing what they do. The problem is that sometimes the president would do something congress didn't like. An example would be the President would spend $5billion to just go ahead and build their border wall, and then hand the bill to Congress. Well congress didn't exactly like it when the President went around their back and spent money without going through congress. So in [1884, they passed the Antideficiency Act] which basically says if Congress didn't OK spending money on something, then it's illegal. With this law in place, it became illegal for a President to do something like start construction of a boarder wall prior to securing approval from Congress. So now the law is that Congress must write a law that say what the President can spend money on. The obvious side effect is if Congress fails to agree what the President can spend money on, then the answer is nothing, so the government must shut down. Now of course congress can still write bills with various exceptions, which is how we get things like the government is shutdown, but the Military can still do their job, they frequently call out specifically the military as an exception and authorize them past any impeding shutdown.
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Why do car windshields not shatter like regular glass?
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Side windows and rear windows are tempered so if it breaks you don't get stabbed by large pieces, and the most you will get is sratches or cuts. The windshield is laminated because any rock or other debris that could break it would other wise cause the glass be flown into the cabin, if the vehicle is moving fast when it breaks. And it is assumed that the seat belt and air bags will keep you from flying through it.they are specifically designed not to, by effectively being a double layer laminated glass with a clear rubber/vinyl underfill in between to hold them together this is by design to prevent a shattered windshield from injuring the occupants and/or ot prevent any objecit that managed ot break it to get thru it easily and inot the cabin
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What is 'gaslighting' and some examples?
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I was once gaslighted by a coworker, I didn't realize until it was too late. I delivered pizza and me and my coworker Patrick were both trying to get on the schedule for the morning shift when all the catering deliveries were. At first we were both working the AM shift but I kept failing to get to my deliveries on time due to things like lost check books and other things like plates and silverware I had to bring to my clients, turns out Patrick had been hiding things from me in an effort to discredit me and take over the AM shifts, it worked and one day I just snapped. However that allowed me to begin my freelance videography career, jokes on you Patrick ya old ass crook.
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Why can humans throw objects with certain accuracy without having to know about physics nor mathematics?
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One of the ways we do learn is by feedback. The first thing we ever threw was probably not terribly accurate. We didn't wind up, or we released too late, or we didn't keep move the hand fast enough. When we make an action, we are constantly being fed back information. Whether it's taking a step, sipping a drink or throwing a ball. That information is used the next time the action is taken. Likewise, you could program a throwing machine to hit a target without using arc geometry or air resistance calculations. Throwing at a constant speed, if the first attempt hit a sensor above the target, it would adjust the angle down one notch, you'd have sensors on either side and below as well. Eventually, the throwing machine would be hitting dead on every time without math.
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Why do things bend easily, but have difficulty unbending them?
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When it's in one form and you change it you alter its atomic structure. Pretty much impossible to put it back once you've changed it.
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Why are pillows considered good for sleeping when they bend your neck so that it's not parallel to your spine?
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Your spine isn't a straight line when viewed from the side, it has [natural curves]. The pillow is there to support your neck's natural curve forwards so it doesn't have to support the weigth of the head.
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Why does brown not appear in a rainbow (or on a color wheel)?
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Top comment by u/jollyrogerninja has it explained, but I figure I'd give you an artist's tip on how to make brown when mixing paints. Given the three primaries - red, blue, yellow - you can mix these to also get purple, green, and orange. Color wheel complete. To make brown, mix 3 parts red, 2 parts yellow, and 1 part blue. So, sort of a greenish-orange, with a red tint. As others have mentioned, you can adjust these ratios to really get the exact color you want.It does. It is called yellow. Just a lighter version. Because rainbows are made of light. Yellow light can be made up by adding red light and green light. Brown paint can be made by adding red paint and green paint. But when you add pigments it gets darker. Adding light to more light makes things lighter My skin is brown . am I not real?
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When doing surgery, how are surgeons able to see what they are doing? How is there not bleeding obstructing their view? I.e. surgery to remove a fibromatosis from a finger.
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I'm not a surgeon, but an anatomist . I don't have to deal with blood obscuring my vision, but we learn to have really good mental images of where everything is supposed to be, and I know what different types of organs/skin/vessels/nerves/etc. feel like, so I can usually feel my way around if need be. For example, that fibromatosis you mentioned would feel pretty leathery, tough, round, and bouncy, as opposed to the softer and more stringy skin and fat around it.
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Why do bands play songs at a higher tempo when performing live?
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Most rock musicians seem to enjoy active audience, listeners that show their love by moving, waving hands, banging heads, dancing, getting crazy. It's a visible sign of appreciation and a way to exchange emotions between the artist and the audience. Playing songs faster makes them more energetic and suitable to move to. So I'd say that at least some bands do it on purpose.
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Why do PC and monitors/TV still have a VGA port?
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Newer ones are starting to drop it. My 1080 Ti doesn't have a VGA port, nor does the DVI port support analog in order to convert it to VGA. My latest TV also doesn't have a VGA port, nor does it have any other analog inputs like composite or component.
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What is the point of "laugh tracks" on sitcoms?
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I think also it's a legacy from theater where shows were performed before a live audience. You even hear one of the actors say that during the intro or closing credits of old sitcoms. Now the subtext to the question is that this is lame and unartistic. But actually not all laugh tracks are the same. Sure there are the corny canned laughs which most people find annoying. But for some shows, say Frasier or Happy Days or The Jeffersons or Mama's Family, they actually enhance the humor. When done right with sharp writing and good acting, the laugh tracks can create a unique rhythm to the show that makes it enjoyable. Like the rhythm of a really funny Broadway musical or play. The current style of single-camera shows don't have this rhythm, so it just feels different. But one is not necessarily better than the other.
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Why do humans find the sound of rain calming/relaxing?
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The other answers are close. Rain signifies danger . When you're at home under your blanket hearing the danger outside but knowing you're completely safe, it helps you feel peaceful. It's just an instinct thing.
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What causes sudden random brief pains in healthy people?
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This is the source of my hypochondria. Oh I have a random pain in my chest and my legs are warm! I must have DVT that's broken off and caused a pulmonary embolism. But in all seriousness there are many triggers for random pain. Pulled muscles and muscle recovery, gas buildup, and even anxiety can cause random bouts of pain. You may have underlying non-problematic medical issues as well. For example I have minor scoliosis that sometimes causes me chest and back pain out of nowhere.I have a thing in my neck that shoots a jab of pain up the side of my face and cheek for no reason occasionally
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