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How does being employed for a startup company work? Are you guaranteed a salary in the traditional sense? Also, what happens if the company does not do what they promised? | Many startups get venture capital. Basically this means someone with money gave them some to run their business for a while in return for ownership in the company. They think the company is going to eventually be successful, so they will help foot the bill now for a bigger payout in the future. This money can then be u... |
How are there more stars in the universe than grains of sands in all the beaches on Earth? | [This is a picture of one thirteen-millionth of the night sky.] Most of the ~10,000 objects pictured are galaxies. Astronomers estimate that there are somewhere between 100 billion and 300 billion stars in the Milky Way, which is admittedly on the large side for a galaxy. Overall, the current estimate is 70 billion tri... |
How does a dark room (for developing photographs) work. | In the dark room there is an enlarger. A negative is put into it. A bright light is shone through the negative onto light sensitive paper. The image is kept in focus. After the light sensitive paper is exposed to the image it is put through a series of trays of chemicals which develop the image and then the development... |
Why has crime in western countries dropped since the late 80's/early 90's? | Many reasons obviously, but it stands to reason to me that one would be the increase of the level of wealth in the society. In almost every category, life is improving for everyone, in western countries or not. this means fewer people are driven to theft by poverty, or drugs and violence by depression and so on.Easy ac... |
What's happening at Deutsche Bank? | I'm not aware of the nitty-gritty of the situation, but what I have read from it is that DB seems to be in a similar slump as Lehman Brothers was back then when it failed , but if DB falls, it's definitely going to take another bank or two with it . With DB shares being lower than they were even during the worst parts ... |
What's with the really uncomfortable pulsating, pressure sensation in my ears when I'm in a moving car and only one window is down? | When you blow over the top of a bottle, you set up a vibration of the air in the bottle, and that comes out as a sound. When you open one window of a car a certain distance at a certain speed, exactly the same thing happens. As the car is much bigger than a bottle the vibration is below the range of human hearing; but ... |
Why does the temperature of a beverage affect our perception of its taste? | The more heat, or energy, in a substance the more excited the molecules that substance is composed of are and more easily detected by your taste buds. One example might be sugar content in water, or maybe iced tea. Sugar likes to crystallize to itself so it takes some energy, like extensive stirring, or just heating it... |
How do nature documentaries get /those/ shots? | This isn't an answer but this probably will interest you. I'm not sure if you have watched it or not but the documentary series Human Planet may interest you! At the end of every episode they have a segment on the camera techniques used on a particular segment. It is **really** interesting to watch! I recommend the res... |
The difference between Java, Javascript, and JSON | Java is a four star hotel. It has most everything you need and there are expectations on your behavior. JavaScript is the motel 6. It's quick and dirty, but it will do the job and you can do whatever. JSON is not going to let you spend the night, but it'll give you directions and info on the hotels. |
Are eye problems caused by old age due to fatigue of the ciliary muscles? | Depends on "eye problems". I believe the most common cause of blindness is macular degeneration, which is mostly caused by the fine blood vessels that provide circulation to the retina clogging up. It's essentially one symptom of the same vascular disease that gives people erectile dysfunction, heart attacks etc. etc. |
What caused the huge jump in audio quality in movies and recorded music between the 80s and the 90s? | I believe this is a result of the switch from analog to digital and I think it became noticeable maybe as early as '83, because if you compare the audio of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, even with only 3 years between them, Jedi has a much richer sound. I think they're decent films to compare, since so man... |
After an orgasm, why do I feel more focused? And why does sex (in general) seem so.. unappetizing afterwards? | > ELI5 > orgasm & #3232; _ & #3232;You are sexually satisfied, therefore, the desire to hump something is gone for a while. This is the most unscientific explanation that a 5 year old can understand !If you continue to have sex post orgasm, you run a higher risk of removing the sperm that was supposed to have been depo... |
What gives humans the ability to "sense" when they are being stared at? | My guess is that a lot of confirmation bias goes on here. Every time you find somebody staring at you you go "aha! I sensed it!" While ignoring all the other times people stare at you and you don't even notice. People who talk about "energy" always fail to clarify what kind of energy the are talking about, the electrom... |
How do electric motors work? | Magnets push on magnets. The electricity flowing through coils creates magnetic fields. The magnetic field from one group of coils pushes against the field from another group of coils. Everything is made so that it can push around in a circle.To understand motors, first you need to understand magnetic fields. Magnetic ... |
What's preventing our e-books from going digitally extinct? | That's the risk you take in investing in anything. There's really nothing to stop Amazon doing whatever they want, if users aren't happy, they move to something else. It's the same situation with any competing platform, Beta/VHS, BluRay/HDDVD, Mac/PC, iPHone/Android, etc, etc. There's no intrinsic insurance at all. How... |
Why do we feel the need to swear when we do things like stubbing our toe? | We are indoctrinated to say these words when bad things happen to us. Something like stubbing your toe causes a flash of pain and it is something we will always try to avoid, a "bad" thing. |
Why does it hurt so much to bite down on tinfoil or other metallic objects if you have a metal filling? | You have a slight voltage in your mouth due to the enzymes in your saliva. When you bite down on something conductive, this creates a current, which you feel in the nerves in your mouth.A small voltage is created when 2 dissimilar metals come in contact with an weak acidic solution . Basically what you are doing is cre... |
Why do fans typically prefer a band's old music to their new music? | Fans like the music that made them fans. Deviating from whatever the *sound* was when one became a fan of a band is often seen as a bad thing: "they 've stopped making the music *I liked*".Time. The band changes and their fans change. Sometimes they don't change together. Take into account that a bands early albums are... |
What is ISIS and how did it start? | In short, it's a jihadist group trying to gain power and control people. But it's not as organized as many people think, and for the most part it's just hateful, violent people with massive amounts of weapons. That's the Eli5 version.The ISIS claim they want to make a modern Caliphate, instead of the secular government... |
Why is “binge drinking” so unhealthy? | Alcohol is effectively a poison that takes a lot to actually kill you. By binge drinking several times a week you can permanently damage your liver that filters out toxins and waste from your body. This will cause these to build up in your system and can cause even more damageDo you play any sports or exercise? Your bo... |
If Apollo 13 astronauts made an effective CO2 filter out of scrap and duct tape, why can't we make filters to reduce excessive CO2 on Earth? | They made an effective CO2 filter out of scrap and duct tape *and a CO2 filter*. The filter they had was just the wrong shape for the hole they wanted to put it in. The duct tape was just holding it in place, not filtering CO2There are natural carbon sinks on the planet already . Its just that we are producing more car... |
Why are the oldest countries not the wealthiest? | Ask yourself why older people don't have much more money than younger people. Or how's that big, old, companies or business, sometimes close due bankruptcy. It's all about managing your assets and income, not about how many time you 've been there. You can earn a billion bucks in a war, or thanks to a discovery, and sp... |
Why is the skin on our palms lighter than the rest of our skin? | Stratum lucidum There is a fifth histological layer for palms and soles of the feet. Literally thicker skin and greater distance to the melanocytes. Less light stimulation gets through less pigmentation. Yada yadaWhy is the skin on a vagina darker than the rest of the body?because like many primates, archaic humans dep... |
What is Information in Physics? | It's a way of thinking of matter in it's coherent form and all of it's attributes like size, shape, charge, inertia, etc. If you convert matter into energy the energy can still be detected so nothing is really lost. However if matter goes into a black hole, it exits the observable universe and is lost forever and any e... |
Why is when someone becomes buff his muscles take the curved shape they do? And how do they do it? | Muscles are bundles of fibers with both ends anchored on the bones. When a person gets buffed, the number of muscle fibers grow. Since the anchor points don't move, the extra muscle fibers get pushed outward, resulting in the curved shape.Your muscles are always that shape, more or less. As your muscles get bigger and ... |
Why does stress effect our ability to plan for the long term so much? | Stress causes us to activate our "fight or flight" response triggered by the release of certain hormones into the blood. Normally, this response is due to a threat in our environment that may harm us so we have to immediately do something to escape it. In survival mode, the blood concentrates in our muscles and we only... |
why is your breath cool when you blow out but warm when you breathe out? | This one has been asked so many times, but the answer is not intuitive. When you breathe out, you get warm air from your lungs. When you blow out, the fast moving air mixes in, or entrains, more air from the surroundings. Mixing in a lot of cool air makes the jet of air cooler. You can test this by blowing air from a v... |
I was taught at school that, under no circumstances, can mass change. Is this correct? (Conflicting evidence provided) | It is not correct. Its something you tell grade school kids so that they pass their tests. Just like how you tell preschoolers not to worry about negative numbers. Energy can be converted into mass and vice versa. Nuclear reactions convert a veeeeeeeeery tiny amount of mass into a crap ton of energy. E = mc^2. They tel... |
why China and USA are unified but Europe is still so many different government. | China and the USA are countries, and Europe is a continent. European countries might want to be in a union together, but they definitely don't want to become one huge country. |
How do we not run out of oxygen with an increasing population and our sources of producing O2 seemingly in decline? | Over 80% of atmospheric oxygen is produced by algae and plankton in the ocean. Another 5% or so is from the natural breakdown of the water molecule separating. That leaves only around 15% from land plants. While wild areas are in decline, we also grow a lot of crops. And for reference Corn fields in the USA produce aro... |
Why do personal bodyguards such as the US Secret Service wear suits on duty? | A) Professionalism B) Attire matching the principal/primary C) Attire to blend with majority of those allowed close to principal/primary D) Well tailored to allow freedom of movement & concealment of duty tools. E) SS will not chase a suspect - they defeat threat, create space and move principal/primary away from scene... |
Can someone explain what trolling is? (ELI5) | I'm just gonna answer assuming you're not trolling as well: Trolling is behaving in a way to get people worked up. It can be done in many ways. Making typos to get people all uppity about correcting you. Pranking people. Any behavior intended to get people upset/worked up is considered trolling.Well, I guess to a 5 yea... |
How does floodwater stay so high for so long above sea level? | In a flood, the extra water has nowhere to go -- it can't go into the ground like on a day of average rain because the ground is already saturated with water, so it just stays on the surface. |
Why does gas always have a tenth of a cent cost such as $2.04 and 9/10. Why not just charge $2.05? | Because it makes the gas look a little cheaper. It's the same reason that everyone uses the 99c thing on prices - $39.99 looks a lot cheaper than $40. So gas stations do the same thing, but another decimal place over. That means that over a few thousand gallons of gas, they make a few extra bucks than if they'd just us... |
Why shouldn't people tap on fish bowl glass? | Fish have an extraordinarily sensitive vibration detection system called lateral lines. Tapping on the bowl is kind of like walking up to a person and clanging cymbals beside their ears. It's very rude. |
What is happening when my dog gets so excited that he starts choking? | I have a boston as well. What you are describing is actually known as a reverse or inverted sneeze .more accurately it is a Inspiratory paroxysmal respiration or pharyngeal gag reflex. Irritation of the soft palette causes a throat spasm. Its harmless and will usually resolve itself. If he wears a snug fitting collar a... |
What was Team Orangered and Team Periwinkle? | > On April Fools Day 2013 everybody was put on a team, Orangered or Periwinkle blue . The entire sites CSS was insane and based on Team Fortress 2's idea of buying hats. You could sabotage other people's comments/have special flair next to yours. The site became completely out of control with people fighting all over t... |
Why are Gambler's Fallacy and Regression to the Mean not directly contradictory? | The gambler's fallacy only describes ONE SINGLE EVENT. i.e. if you flipped a fair coin 100 times and they all came up heads, the probability of flipping a head on the 101st coin flip is still 1/2. The regression to the mean, on the other hand, describes the SUM OF ALL EVENTS. So even though you flipped a fair coin and ... |
If dark colours absorb more light and heat, why do people from warmer climates generally have darker skin? | It's so that their skin, which has evolved to take the brunt of the force, takes the brunt of the force. It takes the biggest hit, protecting the internal organs from damage.Melanin content, which is what gives skin its color, has nothing to do with heat absorption. Melanin protects the skin from UV rays, protecting th... |
How would standard computing code differ from quantum computing code? | We would do operation on qubits instead of bits. But for most programs and programers nothing would change, the wonderful thing about programming languages is that they are an abstraction. How things wiggle around underneath to get the job done doesn't really matter so much. [Quipper] is a functional programming langua... |
How do game developers know what's minimum and recommended specs of PCs? | It's a trial and error process. All computer components can be placed on a giant scale from worst to best. The game developer will try their game on a wide variety of different systems and see which ones live up to their requirements, usually 60fps. As they try a whole bunch of different computers and see which ones wo... |
is there a difference between cat treats and cat food? | Big difference. Treats aren't designed to have any nutritional value, just to taste good. They tend to be fatty. It's like asking if there's a difference between a balanced meal and a bag of M & Ms. If you substitute it for food much, your cat will get fat and unhealthy. Edit: cat, not car. Your car won't get fat, but ... |
How is the Ant able to do this? | Because of surface tension. Water molecules have a slight bond between them and something light enough can literally walk on water by not breaking those bonds. Edit: surface tension not water tension |
How are new drugs synthesized/discovered? | > Like how does a chemist accidentally stumble upon the exact chemical compound to cure/treat an illness? With certain exceptions, modern medicine isn't just random chemicals being tossed together and seeing what happens. Things don't really happen by accident. Here's an extremely ELI5 explanation to how it works: Doct... |
Model-View-Controller (MVC) software architecture. | There are different parts of a computer program . These days, excepting some embedded systems and other time-sensitive applications, it is best to separate these parts so they can be easily maintained. Model-view-controller separates the components of software into three parts: * **Model**: The part of the software tha... |
How are people born "geniuses"? | The actual answer is that we don't know. The origin and nature of human intelligence and creativity is one of the most hotly debated subjects. Much of what has been written about it has been bullshit. You've just asked a question that hasn't been resolved with any kinda of clear explanation. Sorry. Also, Einstein was a... |
How John Nash's theories of economics work | It's called game theory. Prior to Nash, the predominate theory in western economics was some form of capitalism as developed by Adam Smith . Capitalism is based on the presumption that economic efficiency is at a global max when all parties are operating in their own best interest. Nash developed mathematical models th... |
How does a government take money out of a country? | Deflation can be caused simply by not printing money while the population grows. Nothing really needs to be "taken from the people", for deflation to happen. Another way deflation could happen would be instituting a gold standard. But that would just mean the creation of money is limited, which really is just the situa... |
Why don't companies like Nintendo and Sony put their retro games on steam? | Companies like Nintendo and Sony already have their own game distribution platforms and they're generally very wary of using other distribution channels. If they distribute games through Steam, they ultimately would have to give up lots of control over the distribution and pricing of the games. Furthermore, Steam will ... |
How the hell does a calculator gets the square root of pi in no time? | Computers don't have infinite precision, meaning they can only store up to a certain number or decimal points. So for pi, that's something like 15 digits . Calculating the square root of 3.1 is no more difficult than calculating the square root of 3.14159 as far as the computer is concerned .. because inside the comput... |
Why does the NFL care about Walkie Talkie use? | the nfl has someone monitoring the official radios to make sure that no one can talk to the qb or the defensive player with a radio after the play clock hits 15 or after the snap. They don't have that control over the walkie talkie.The NFL has very strict rules about electronic communication that both teams have to fol... |
How come people have more trouble balancing with their eyes closed, even though a common method of balancing involves staring at the same point and not averting one's gaze? | Even if you're concentrating on a single point, you are still receiving visual feedback. In fact, because you're concentrating so deeply on one part of your vision, it becomes easier to discern if you are losing your balance because minute changes to what you are looking at are more apparent when concentrating on one s... |
Why the word "drink" being more associated with drinking alcohol beverages rather than any other drinks? | Probably because consuming non-alcoholic drinks doesn't constitute a whole activity worth talking about. When was he last time you drank orange juice and wanted to talk about just that? One exception to this when you drink water or sports drinks during exercise or in the heat. But there people usually use the word "hyd... |
- before taxi meters, how did they accurately calculate the fare for a journey? | a simple device measured the number of turns of a cart/wagons wheel which when multiplied by the circumference would yield distance traveled. Alternatively the driver would look at the map and measure the distance to the destination and quote the fairBefore meters, it was negotiated. You 'd hop in the cab and say "How ... |
Why is one of the responses the human body has to moderately to heavily vigorous exercise vomiting? | Did you eat before exercise? Your body is generally either in rest and digest, or fight or flight mode. Exercising induces the fight or flight response. Part of Fight or flight is that blood flow is diverted from the stomach . If there's any food in there your body subconsciously tries to get rid of it so it doesn't ha... |
What is jetlag? How is it different to simply being tired? | Your body has an internal clock, which helps you know what time of day it is. It makes you want to sleep at night, and it makes you hungry at the same time of day every day. The clock works on approximately a 24 hour pattern. Actually, your internal clock runs on a cycle that takes closer to 25 hours, but it uses exter... |
What happens and what could happen when you keep your mouth closed when sneezing | Well, the air gets forced somewhere -- out the nose is where it will primarily go, and force more out of there than a regular sneeze. However, there's another place the air will go -- out the tubes that connect to your ears. Your nostrils are too small to let all the air out of the sneeze, so it'll force its way out th... |
Why do giants in movies always seem to move so slowly compared to human sized characters? | By the square-cube law the bigger an animal is the more it has to work to move. The amount of mass to move increases much faster than the number of available muscle fibers. Additionally, can you imagine what it would do if it could? If you've ever picked up a light object after lifting weights for a while you know how ... |
Why do I have to sign for my credit card at sit-in resturants, but not at places like McDonalds? | When you spend over a certain amount, $25?, McDonald's makes you sign. Edit: > It all began back in 2003, the year credit card giants Visa® and MasterCard® began allowing merchants to skip collecting signatures for charges of less than $25 without any liability for chargebacks. The change was welcomed by retailers that... |
Why does dandruff only occur on our head where the hair is dense? | because that's the only place it can build up. It is a collection of dead skin cells, on the rest of your body the dead cells are shed with every step Note" dandruff usually forms thickest around the top of the head. |
Why did a "glass brick" work for Faraday's experiment on magnetic fields affecting light waves? | The glass block is made from materials exhibiting the "Faraday effect". In these, magnetic fields affect the way that charged particles respond to the light waves. As a result, the polarization of the light rotates as the light propagates through the material. The direction of rotation depends on which way the field po... |
Why is the flag of Switzerland square? | The soldiers from all differnt cantons decided on unifing the crosses with a red background. In 1815, swiss batallions created flags with the white cross and the red background. As the sign on the clothings was square they took the square form to the flag. Honoring this, the swiss flag kept being square. |
Why is the budget for a cartoonish CGI movie (toy story 3) higher than a realistic CGI movie (Pacific Rim)? | Think about it like this - in a movie like Pacific Rim if you need a car in a landscape shot you pick a place to shoot, gather your actors and crew, rent a car, and shoot it. In an animated movie you have to build the land, the road, the sky, the clouds, your characters, literally everything - then hire your actors to ... |
Why Does Vanilla Smell So Good, But Taste So Bitter? and why do we put it in Cookies, Cakes, Etc.? | Vanilla is not bitter. Vanilla *extract*, which has a ton of alcohol in it is bitter. Not that vanilla is sweet. But when you mix vanilla with sugar, it adds a lot to the experience. |
ELI 5: Why am I so disgusted with the porn video I am watching after I've "finished"? | Probably because of the refractory period - a period at which the body "rests" after climax. No one knows for sure why such a period exists for men, but a leading theory is that after orgasm, there is an increase in the chemical prolactin. Prolactin inhibits another chemical, dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for arous... |
why is it so much easier to calculate round numbers? | There are lots of different ways to do math, but the way I see this is 30 x 3 requires you to multiply only 3 and 3 together . 27 x 3 requires more steps, either calculating 25 x 3 and then adding 6 , or calculating 30 x 3 and removing 9 When finding a big number like that we typically split then. We know that 3x3 is 9... |
Why when lighting strikes the sea does it not kill all the fish? | For the same reason a bonfire doesn't burn everyone on the planet; the effects are localized, they don't extend over a huge area. It might kill a few fish, but not very many. |
How does gymnastics stunt growth? | Two days ago I believed women had puberty delayed by competitive gymnastics. Then I researched it and found now people are considering whether professional gymnasts may be smaller just because it's an advantage that pushes bigger gymnasts out of the running for the top prizes.Overtraining can cause low estrogen levels ... |
How can a soldier have PTSD but has never been deployed outside the United States? | PTSD isn't reserved for soldiers who see combat. It's not even reserved for soldiers. Anyone who experiences a traumatic event can suffer from PTSD. Watching someone die can be quite traumatizing, so it's very possible this guy does have it. |
if we created a magnet that was say 1 inch in diameter and was a kilometer long, is it possible we can create monopoles on each end (north side doesnt connect to south side) | by definition, no. every north and south side of the magnet will connect. If the magnet is 1 long magnet of uniform orientation, than thats what it will be. If you force opposite poles together, or separate magnets with a non magnet filler, then your just moving the goal posts, but each magnetic segment will pair north... |
How the Canadian government is "muzzling scientists". | Basically, Harper's government has done several things to "muzzle scientists": -Withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocols -Scientists have to apply to the government to be interviewed by the media -Systematically ignoring evidence if it's controversial -Moving funding from the Environmental sciences to other science program... |
is every house key completely unique? How is this done? | A better place to ask this question would be /r/lockpicking . many professional locksmiths browse that sub.No, somewhere there is probably be a lock that will open with your house key but there are 5^8 possible combinations for a 8 pin lock that's 390,625 different possible keys |
Why are names for race horses weird and hardly make any sense? | Race horse names have to be completely unique. You aren't allowed to give your race horse a name that anyone has ever used for another horse in the entire history of horse racing. As a result, most of the "normal" names have been taken, and horse owners have to get increasingly creative to come up with names that haven... |
Why do large companies rebrand their name? | Because their previous name has a lot of baggage. Time Warner Cable and Comcast are both known for terrible service, so they hope using a different name will disassociate them from their past, even if they're still terrible. A few other notable examples: Clear Channel took over broadcast radio during deregulation and m... |
How does a hostile take over of a company work? | A hostile takeover is when a buyer purchases a business without the consent of the board of directors. The easiest way to do this is to buy the majority of the stock from the current shareholders without going through the BoD. |
Why does poverty still exist if we donate billions of dollars to charity organisations? | Over 40 million Americans live in poverty. Every billion dollars donated, even if it went directly to their pockets would only amount to $25 each. $25 does not put a big dent in an individual's poverty. |
Virginity, What is the hymen for? | It is vestigial from vaginal development. If there is a purpose, nobody knows, and our best guess is that it's a vestige. Source: studied biology in college |
Why don't Christians celebrate Jewish holidays if the religion is based upon Judaism? | Because most Christians are descended from gentiles, not Jews. Jews never really expect non-jews to follow their traditions. Their holidays are more cultural than scripturally based. It makes no sense to celebrate Moses liberating the Jews from Egypt, for example, if you're not a Jew. In short, most Christians aren't a... |
What do Doctors do all day besides talk to patients? | Generally if your talking about a general practitioner , they'll talk to patients, then make notes about the patient, than talk to the next one. This consumes most of their day. The might spend some time reviewing test results and talking to specialists. They will also spend some time reading up on the latest research ... |
Why hasn't a car company come up with a new better performing, more efficient air cooled engine? | Ironic username is ironic. I think engineers like water cooling because it helps solve a number of problems. It quiets the engine, provides a reliable source of heat for the HVAC systems and allows the temperature of the engine to be contained to a narrower range, allowing it to run more efficiently. That said, I long ... |
Why is it called a two-way mirror when you can only see through one way? | That type of mirror doesn't reflect just one way - light from both sides are transmitted and reflected. It only works when there is a huge discrepancy in lighting conditions - for example, the interrogation room is brightly lit, while the observation room is dark. The mirror works by reflecting only a percentage of lig... |
How does the number of rotations in a fastball affect the speed of the ball? | Rotations behind a fastball don't really affect the speed of the pitch that much. What the rotations really do is affect the lift. Spinning the ball in different ways imparts lift in different directions that can cause the breaking action you see in other pitches like the slider or the curveball. Specifically, in the c... |
how does carbon dioxide make stuff taste better when it is supposed to be harmful? | Side note first: CO² **is** poisenous.Our body is **ex**haling it as a waste product. We are just tolerating a certain amount of it Main question: CO² is added to conserve a product, since bacteria that use oxygen and dispose CO² are hampered if they live in a CO² rich environment.But CO² is also working as an acid whe... |
What do they mean by "attempt to detect ripples in space-time?" | They are attempting to detect gravitational waves. Scientists have already detected [gravitational waves] actually, using the gravity probe b, and have thus found direct evidence for Einstein's theory of General Relativity |
Why does Vevo exist? | YouTube is not great for ad revenue. Vevo is owned by two of the three multinational major labels , who use it essentially to attract premium advertising for their artists.Youtube/Google was in danger of being sued by Sony Music/UMG music. To prevent a potentially devastating lawsuit, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt made a d... |
Why the Jewish concentration camp victims didn't revolt or fight back | I think it's safe to say that there wasn't total awareness of impending death at the extermination camps. However, there were organized resistance attempts on at least three occasions that we know about . Here are the notable three. I'm sure there plenty of google'able documentation on them. 1. Treblinka, 1943 2. Sobib... |
what does "proof" mean in maths? And what are some examples? | A proof is a list of steps where you show that some principle or equation is true by using other, established principles. From Wikipedia: Consider two even integers x and y. Since they are even, they can be written as x = 2a and y = 2b, respectively, for integers a and b. Then the sum x + y = 2a + 2b = 2. Therefore x+y... |
What sort of work goes into making a piece of commercial software? | Here are the main components: * Market research: This involves identifying a problem that your potential customers are facing and ways to solve that problem for them. After all, there is no point in writing software if nobody is going to use it. * Requirements: This may be a formal document, or it may just be in someon... |
Why do computer operating systems not come with built-in virus protection? | Windows does, and has for years now. Can't comment on others.Lots of good replies already, but there's one reason I feel has been overlooked so far. Viruses work because they exploit bugs/weaknesses in either the OS or a specific target software. Often a combination of both. So as an OS developer, you could build in vi... |
How would programming for quantum computers work? | Short answer is we don't really know. Researchers are still exploring what paradigms and structures work best in quantum computation. Currently we may have at most some basic ideas for a quantum counterpart to assembly, we are nowhere near understanding what a high-level quantum programming language would look like. Wh... |
How did great warriors and leaders in history survive battles all the time? | 1) They became great warriors and leaders because they survived - 2) Leaders don't actually participate in battle, they command the battle from behind the front lines. |
How / why do birth certificates get changed after adoption? (US) | Because, legally, those are the parents. A key reason to change the birth certificate is privacy. The birth parents are entitled to privacy when they give children for adoption. They may not want their birth children to track them down in later years -- something that would be trivial to do if their names and birthdate... |
Why does the brain perceive time differently when we are asleep? | The perception of time is arbitrary, and we apparently have different structures in our brains that create and manage that perception. So-- when those structures are operating differently or even shut off, time perception is adjusted.. arbitrarily _URL_0_ |
How can Bill Cosby's wife be compelled to testify against him? | The problem is that, while she is his wife, she's *also* his business manager. The plaintiffs say they're only asking her to testify in her role as his business manager. |
The science behind limbs "falling asleep" and why pain (sometimes severe) is normally associated with it? | Because you pinch a nerve against a bone, so the limb stops sending signals to your brain. Your brain gets used to it until you unpinch the nerve -- and then all those impulses flooding back in overwhelm your brain to give you those "pins and needles" feelings. Pre-emptive comment: No, a limb falling asleep is not beca... |
Why aren't medical marijuana costs covered under healthcare? | It being federally illegal is certainly going to prevent multi state insurance companies from covering it. It's possible it would change. If the law changed but no guarantee. |
What does an individual have to do to be considered an official "Sir" in the UK? Example: Sir Patrick Stewart, Sir Richard Branson, etc. | They must be [knighted]. Lots of people are named knights these days and the title no longer carries any military responsibility. It is just used when the monarchy wants to highlight a British citizen's achievements and it's one of the many visible ways the monarchy still impacts British society. Edit: I've always hope... |
A question for the budding community to consider... | This begs a more serious question, while stocks are fair game for five year olds , there's a need for serious quality control. A five year old does not ask in-depth questions about tor. Or where to get a download link. Or simple google's that are pure laziness. However, he will ask the same question 3000 times, at leas... |
If there can be a dating site exclusively for, say, African Americans, why can't there be a dating site exclusively for Caucasian Americans? | 5 seconds of google searching results in finding a dating site exclusively for Caucasian Americans/White people. _URL_0_', "i'm gonna take a big chance here and say that everything of this nature is, by default, designed for white people initially. _URL_1_ or whoever will be a majority white already. they might be desi... |
If air is made up of millions of molecules, why can we see through them? | Sight works on light reflecting off of a surface and stimulating receptors in your eye that convert these stimuli into a signal that your brain can understand. These molecules do not reflect enough light for the receptors in your eyes to be stimulatedIf you look at something through enough air, it will become faded and... |
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