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Why does time asleep feel the exact same whether it's four or eight or ten hours?
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I believe it has something to do with the fact that you are not conciscious when asleep, and thus any kind of recollection of elapsed time is beyond what you're brain had been doing while asleep.
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why we can secure banking/investment accts online but we can't secure voting
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The requirements are different. Most importantly, banking information needs to be tied to the person making the transaction. If any inconsistencies come up they need to be able to make sure they have enough identification information to trace the transactions back to the person who made them. This is exactly the opposite in voting. Voting has to be anonymous. Having anonymous voting but still being able to trace the inconsistencies back is a trickier problem. It's not impossible tho. The real big issue is that an election screwing up and a country having a tyrant running it who is willing to fix an election to win is far, far worse than any loss of money a bank might suffer. Electronic elections software has way more riding on it than banking software.
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If Stephen Colbert is so marketable and millions of people watch Jimmy Fallon clips on YouTube, then why don't the networks move their shows to prime time?
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these shows win against nothing. would people tune in every night when its up against football, voice, ncis, ect ect? I think they would struggle to garner as many viewers in primetime.Consider the demographics of the viewership throughout the day. Who is watching at what times, what content they are consuming, and importantly, what advertising they are consuming. Kids may still be awake during prime time so traditionally the content and advertising is relatively family friendly. This is where you want most sitcoms and sporting events to be. Then the kids go to sleep and the adults can have some different content to consume. The late night shows tend to be heavier on suggestion and adult themes. The male enhancement product commercials kick into high gear. The content and advertising follow the demographics throughout the day. Daytime is for gameshows, soaps, and Judge Judy, selling fabric softener to stay at home parents. Afternoon can squeeze in some cartoons or such for the kids getting home from school but before the parents are home from work. Sell them candy and toys. Primetime and latenight as above. Sorry for putting it in terms of a nuclear family. I know that isn't the situation for many of us. Try telling that to the networks.
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How is that the colors we see organize into a repetitive pattern (ROYGBIVROY...) while their physical wavelengths are linear (390-700nm)?
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The issue is wavelength doesn't define color. Photons can be any single wavelength, but our eyes sense the number of red, blue and green photons , so a single wavelength light will be one color, such as red, green or blue, that doesn't cover what you get when you have two different wavelengths at the same time. So Red and Green light added together is yellow, and your eye can't tell the difference between that and single wavelength yellow , this color is not on the EM spectrum and does not correspond to any single wavelength. It is different because your eye can distinguish red+blue+green and red+blue without green. To cover all the colors a human can see you need a [2D plane], they don't map to a line.Our color vision is our body recognizing varying signals from our three different types of cone cells which are sensitive to different frequencies of the visible spectrum. The thing is, our body doesn't know about wavelengths. All it knows is differing signals from those cell types, so a wavelength of "orange/yellow" would stimulate the red receptors and green receptors moderately and be perceived as "orange/yellow". But if our red and blue receptors are stimulated and not the green, our body has no idea that no single wavelength could do such a thing and will interpret that as the color "magenta". There is no magenta wavelength. So our body is interpreting colors as a color wheel even though it is in fact a linear scale.
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Why can we see the xenon atoms in the IBM logo but not the atoms of the surface they're on?
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For the same reason that you can't clearly see objects far behind the subject of a photograph. The background is not in focus. That is a simplified explanation, but basically still true.
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What would happen to the United States if China called the debt to be paid in full within 12 months?
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the debt is in bonds. which have a set maturity schedule. the bond holder doesn't get to dictate the terms. only the bond creator does.1. they can't. it doesn't work like that. my mortgage company can't say "ok pay is everything tomorrow or we're taking your house". China can't do that either with the bonds they 've purchased. 2. They wouldn't. It would utterly destroy the Chinese economy. With one of their largest assets being investment in the u.s. the destruction of the value of the dollar would devastate that asset and they 'd fall into a shit hole that would even harder to get of then the one the U.S. is in.They can't. They own our debt in treasury bonds. We set the payment date not them.
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What exactly happens to your debt when you die. Who is left unpaid?
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All assets are usually frozen. The executor to the estate that is assigned by the state must, by law, pay off all debt before any inheritance is given out. If no money or assets are left in the estate, the unpaid folks are out of luck !In the US, creditors get first dibs at your qualified assets and then what's left is divided up to the beneficiaries. That means that if you still owe money on a car or house, your kids will have to assume the debt and keep paying on it if they want to keep the asset, or sell it to zero the debt. That means that the mortgage and car loan people typically get paid. Credit card companies will try to make a claim against whatever cash assets the estate had, but they do get screwed sometimes if the person left no money behind. You can't repossess groceries. They often *don't* get paid, and that's why they charge higher rates - the debt is "unsecured."
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Why hasn't NSA's "Prism" database been hacked?
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A common feature of secure cross network scenarios is a 'data diode' which literally only allows data to pass on one direction. So even if some hacky malware does manage to get through to the secure system there is absolutely no way for it to send anything back.Systems like this are infiltrated from time to time. However, the Government doesn't announce every time something like this happens. It's called "Keeping it in house." Not everything bad that happens is made public to protect the image of the Government.
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What would happen to the human body if it got exposed to the extreme pressures of the deep ocean?
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rapid compression. if I had to guess and this is a guess, your body would quickly fill less tightly filled spaces within itself. A little backstory on that: If I recall correctly, they put a skeleton and some pig intestines/parts into an old timey diving suit. I believe they worked by pumping air into the suit, making the pressure on the inside of the suit equal to the pressure on the outside, preventing you from being crushed by the weight. They they cut off the air to the suit, forcing the air out. As the air drained, the pressure from the water crushed the weaker suit, forcing all of the goop and stuff into the much stronger helmet. Basically, you'd be compressed, not necessarily *crushed* in the traditional sense. You'd die.
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. How does a knife cut through stuff
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Every material has some amount of stress it can absorb before it gives way. Knives create a lot of stress by taking the force you apply and putting it in a very small surface area.Imagine sticking your hand in a bag with little stones or beads or dried beans etc. Like Amélie Poulain in that famous movie. Your hand pushes some stones to the side without breaking them, to make room for itself. On a micro-microscopic level this happens if you cut something: The force applied by the sharp blade is stronger than the bond between the cut material's molecules, thus overpowers it and separates the molecules from each other. The molecules themselves stay intact.
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Why do parents need to force their children to eat?
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It's not about forcing them to eat. It about forcing them to ready right. Left up to children they will eat only candy and snacks. That's why parents want their kids to eat all their actual food on their plate before letting them go and eating dessert. The fact that some parents over proportion is unrelated.
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why does it sting when I put my contacts in if I haven't slept much /well?
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Eye gunk is kinda floating around our eyes while we sleep. When we first wake up, it takes some time/binking for that to go into the corners of our eyes which we end up wiping away. Putting contacts in shortly after waking up, this stuff gets stuck behind the contacts and irritates the eyes Actually I have no idea why even if this explanation counts for anything its only a bit of the explanation I just hate putting my contacts in after not much sleep. Contacts/eyes suck. TR;DL: This is a useless explanation .why am I typing right now? Source: I wear contactsYour eyes need to naturally restore itself after being exposed for most of the day. If you don't sleep much, your eyes do not have the "shut-eye" time to restore all the membranes back to normal. This can cause the tear-film, the thin coating of tears over your eye that is spread by blinking, to be thinner than usual. Normally, the tear film is thick enough so that there is some space between the contact and eye. When it is thin, the contact surface directly irritates the eye, causing the stinging. You'll get a similar feeling if you try to hold your eyes open without blinking. Your tear film will naturally break up unless you blink to replenish it.Also, non-disposable contacts should be in new, clean solution of a minimum amount of time before they are put back into your eye in order to clean the proteins off of the lenses. I would assume that if you only sleep for four hours, your eyes have not received enough rest, and then you are placing semi-dirty contacts on your eyes which can cause irritation. Souce: I wear contacts and don't sleep enough.
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What does the three-body problem mean?
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It's just an interaction involving three objects. The Earth orbiting the sun is a two-body problem. But if we lived in a binary star system, it would be a three-body problem. Two suns and a planet all orbiting their collective center of mass. The third body adds significant complications to the mathematics involved with calculating the equations of motion for the objects.
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Chapter 11 bankruptcy. How do companies stay in business and recover when they have no money?
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Chapter 11 and chapter 7 are very different. Chapter 7 is game over, sell off everything, pay whatever debts you can from the sale of assets. Chapter 11 might be a temporary crunch. For example, an oil company in Texas has sold 1 billion dollars of oil to Japan. It takes 1 month for the super tanker to go from Houston to Tokyo, payment won't be made until the tanker actually offloads in Tokyo. In the mean time, a bill for 500 million is due. You will have the money in 30 days, just not today. The creditors want payment now. Chapter 11 lets you renegotiate the terms of the payment. Maybe renegotiate the terms of the loans you've taken. Stuff like that. It's common known as a reorganization bankruptcy.Bankruptcy basically means: The company has insufficient funds to pay back any money it has promised. They can then close it and sell off the assets, like computers, machinery etc. They could also be capable of making money, and are bankrupt simply because too debts fall due at the same time. They file for bankruptcy, and are allowed to continue operate to make money to pay back their debts.
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Why does Israel continue to build/expand settlements in Palestinian lands despite international condemnation?
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Cause it does not care. It gets the USA to veto any action against it at the UN. The P5 countries: US/RUSSIA/CHINA/UK/FRANCE can put a magic veto on any action they don't like against a country they support. So the UN has really no power at all, just puppet bullshit and more money wasting. The are also the biggest weapons dealers in the world BTW Pretty much the same way Israel has nuclear weapons, still gets tons of money from the USA AND still tells Iran they can't have nuclear, although they themselves did not sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty AND do not let the UN/International agency inspect their nuclear installations (pretends they don't have any weapons and if you think Israel is doing anything wrong you are a Nazi anti-semite.
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How do wild animals know to not drink salt water?
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it doesn't taste as good as fresh water. that's the same reason you wouldn't drink it if no one taught you.Ever took a big gulp of salt water while swimming. Tastes like crap, you feel like crap. An animal too dumb or not equipped to realize saltwater is bad will go extinct pretty quickly or adapt when exposed to mostly salt water.
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Why do people have a hard time with public speaking?
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Worry too much about how people are judging them and less on the subject matter being delivered. Confidence is just a nice word for giving less of a crap about what other people think about you.
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Why does acne hurt, and what is the actual white puss from?
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The acne hurts from the inflammation. The majority of puss is actually not dirt or dead bacteria. It is your own white blood cells .
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If a women drugs and rapes a man then becomes pregnant, can she be forced to undergo an abortion?
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Of course not. Why would you think this?', "The state cannot force a medical procedure like this. Abortion is only legal because of a woman's right to privacy and control over her own body.No. while she committed a crime and should be punished for that, giving up her bodily autonomy is nog part of that punishment. It would also create a pretty dangerous precedent if allowedYep. And if a baby is born and decides he prefers not being alive, the women can be forced into a time machine and the baby is abortedWhy would you even think that was a possibility?
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What it would take to shut down the internet in the US
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Every country has an equivalent of the UKs peering points provided by "telehouse" and "telecity". This is where Internet providers connect to each other, and to international carriers who in turn connect to other Internet providers. The US will likely have many of these, so in order to stop all Internet traffic from the US you 'd have to take out these peering points. Edit: Grammar
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How does gas compression work? Highschool chemistry taught me that various states of matter are the same thing just molecularly tighter. Why is a compressed gas not just liquid?
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Super compressed gas *does* become a liquid for most gasses . Compressing gasses brings the molecules closer together, but most gasses need to be compressed quite a bit before they actually transition to a liquid phase. Check out "phase diagrams" when you get a chance, they show the combinations of temperature and pressure for a given material where the material is a gas, liquid, or solid and can help you to see where things will switch from one to anotherOnly because it has not been compressed *enough* or is too hot. Keep compressing and cooling it, you get liquidIt does become a liquid if you keep compressing it without changing the temperature externally. You can even do the reverse which is change from liquid to vapor by decreasing pressure. Look at videos of hypobaric chambers activating, there is a sudden mist that accumulates in the room because of pressure change.
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How does the box office work? For example Interstellar cost 165m to make but it only grossed 173m. How in the world does a cast get paid with 8m?
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Also worth noting that the profits from a movie don't end after a month of release. DVD sales, rentals, licensing agreements with streaming services etc all create revenue after the initial release of a movie.Salaries are included in the cost of the movie.8m might not seem like a massive profit. But think of it this way, they made back all the money to movie cost to make, so everything from this point if pure profit. All dvds, bluerays, selling it to tv stations and netflix. Straight in to their pockets. And really it's always a bit of a gamble as you don't know how popular the movie will be. There are many that have doubled and tripled the investment. As long as the movie makes some profit the investors get back their share and can reinvest it in the next movie and hope it will do even better._URL_0_ I presume it's mostly about how the Hollywood keeps book. Usually they try to maximize the amount of "cost" and minimize the amount of "profits".
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If your eyes don't have pain receptors, why does it hurt to look at the sun?
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It is incorrect to suggest eyes don't have pain receptors. Some structures in the eye can be among the most sensitive to pain. The retina itself may not react to damage, but there are cells in it which are not used in vision. Instead, it appears some of these cells function to stimulate the trigeminal nerve, creating the sensation of discomfort. In fact, even in blind people photophobic behavior can be stimulated, such as responses in the iris. This may also be why closing one eye reduces the discomfort, as you are effectively reducing the signal.
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If I drink half of a Five Hour Energy, will I have half the energy for five hours or the "full" amount of energy for 2.5 hours?
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There are multiple active ingredients in the stuff. Each of them has a curve that initially goes up relatively quickly and then fades slowly as your body processes it. If you take half, the strength of those curves cut, but they are not squashed in the time dimension. That said, it takes a lot longer than 5 hours for it to be 100% out of your system. The "effectiveness" ends when the strength falls below a certain threshold. With a lower dose, that would happen sooner. So, it would be weaker at its peak _and_ not last as long.
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how does a thermal explosion cause a human to get knocked back, as often seen in action movies?
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Movies aren't always representative of real life. Action movies even less so. Of course, it's possible for an explosion to knock people back. Because of the rapidity with which explosion take place, they almost always create a shock wave. The problem with being knocked back with the shockwave from a thermal explosion, however, is that the shockwave is likely many thousands of degrees. Of course, only being in contact with it for a short time, you wouldn't necessarily be burnt to death , but it certainly wouldn't be as clean as movies lead us to believe.
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What goes into making a music video? Can JT just ask Scarlett Johansson to make-out with him on camera?
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As SAG actors, they are required to be paid for the production and usage, and as a big celebrity Johansson's agent surely negotiated a huge sum for her performance. The role of the actual musician in making the music video might be pretty minimal. The concept of the actual video primarily comes from the director. In this case, Samuel Bayer and JT worked together to concept the music video. The concept, sometimes down to the specific shots, setpieces, etc. was nearly or entirely finished before Johansson was even brought on board. If she said no, it might be the exact same music video with Emily Ratajkowski or something.Usually a video is a collaboration between the artist and a bunch of other professionals like the director, cinematographer, marketing guys from the label, etc. When you have a big name, a good reputation, and a shitload of money you can hire seriously famous people to be in your music videos.
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How do police and military forces decide which puppies will become members of their team?
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I believe they pick specific breeds from the start and train them all, only to give up the really ineffective ones.
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Why are metals like bronze harder than the metals used to create them.
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It has to do with the different phases that form in alloys. Basically two materials form a matrix that creates a hybrid grain structure that is stronger than the homogeneous materials themselves. It is a bit complex, but think about it like concrete. Concrete is really made up of sand, pebbles, and rocks. Each on their own isn't very structurally sound, but together they all interfere with each other's movements, making the whole much stronger than any one part. Tried to keep it high level, but I can elaborate if anyone likes.
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if we Americans strive to separate church and state, why are so many polling locations in churches?
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Why cant they be? The separation of church and state just means that there can be know government endorsed religion. It does not mean that politicians cant be religious or that government functions couldn't be held in a church etc.
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What is making the prices of houses in the UK so high? Is there any hope of fixing this issue?
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There are a finite number of houses and a finite amount of space. So as population grows and more and more people want houses prices rise. There is no solution save a good plague or a good war. Need to get rid of the bodies or acquire more landAs Lokiorin said there is limited space but you can also talk about the psychology of brits. British people aspire to own a house instead of more efficient homes like flats and are willing to pay a substantial amount to get one. We then put a lot of money into our houses which causes problems for the Government as if the government finds a way to lower houses prices it alienates the middle class who see it as lowering return on their investment. The credit crunch was caused by easily available loans which British people used to buy houses and the demand for houses raises the price which the middle class sees as rising return on investment and so buys more houses and we get into a cycle of increasing prices.
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how does "old faithful" erupt so consistently
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[It doesn't], at least, not anymore. The 1983 Borah Peak earthquake set the schedule off balance, and another in 1998 really changed things up. Geysers are fed by underground rivers that lie above a pool of magma. After an eruption, the water begins to fill back up and the pressure increases. Pressure causes the water to be superheated by the magma and, like a volcano, the turbulent pressure brings it to the surface. When it reaches the surface, the pressure inside drops, which causes the superheated water to become volatile. It vaporizes and shoots out of the geyser like a rocket. [Mythbusters] has an example of superheating that offers a pretty neat visualization.
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why do our eyes/brains struggle to figure out how many numbers/letters are in something when one repeats it self vs when all are different (12333332 vs 60292813)
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This is because it is easier for the human brain to count different numbers since you can know at which number you are looking at .When you have to deal with a repeatitive number, you "have" doubts whether you skipped or count twice a number , so you instictively start take more time to make sure you read the number correct.
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Why do Black Lives Matter protesters only show up for police-involved shootings? Why are black-on-black shootings ignored?
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The protesters aren't there just because people are dying or because they hate "shootings". Black lives matter is about a particular issue - injustice at the hands of the people / systems that are designed to protect us all equally. You might as well be asking why the same people aren't also showing up for events about diabetes and heart disease since these kill a lot of black people. Further, black on black violence has been the subject of many conferences and events. It doesn't receive much coverage in the media.Black-on-Black violence gets a lot of grass-roots community attention but it's not something you can really protest against. People know it's a problem. The solution relies on education and community outreach. For example, many members of the hip-hop community support _URL_0_ Cop-on-Black violence is a problem with *the government* and needs to be addressed through changing police department policies and training. Protesting is a way to bring the government & the general population's attention to the issues. Ultimately, the solution requires other things, like involvement with local government .
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Beer and rate of consumption...
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2 a day would be healthier. When you drink 14 at once, your body is going to struggle to deal with it at once, you're taxing your system a lot more. While a couple a day, your liver can deal with that without a bunch of backlog, you're not going to be sick, not going to be dehydrated etc
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Supreme Court decision on Citizens United
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To understand *Citizens United*, we actually have to go back to some earlier cases to get the context. The first concept to understand here is that the line of cases beginning with *Buckley v. Valeo* and continued in *Citizens United* basically said "the ability to spend money to support a given ideological view is part of ones free speech." In order for me to have the freedom of speech in politics, I need to be able to buy an ad on television which says "legalizing marijuana is good" or "legalizing marijuana is bad." The first important distinction is between "hard money" and "soft money." Soft money is money spent by an independent entity which cannot directly support or oppose any individual candidate. At best, it 'd be advertisements that say "SOPA is bad." In reality, the rules are such that they can say "SOPA is bad, Lamar Smith supported SOPA. Lamar Smith is in the breast pocket of the RIAA. Tell Lamar Smith to protect Americans, not corporations." Under *Buckley* as long as the advertisement does not say "vote for," "elect," "support
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When momentarily walking past fumes (exhaust, tar, etc) is it better to breathe normally or to restrict your breathing for a short period (thus reducing oxygen intake)?
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Hold it. There isn't harm in short periods without breathing, so the down side is nil. The stuff you're breathing probably isn't going to hurt you if it's just a whiff, but there's more potential harm from it than from held breath.
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How is the Universe expanding if gravity pulls things together?
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Wouldn't physicists like to know. But seriously, they dont know. At this point, all we have are some theories. Mainly, dark energy. Basically an unknown, undetectable force that pushes on everything in the universe. Locally, its not strong enough to overcome gravity, which is why stars, planets, orbits, galaxies, etc. still exist; but on a cosmic scale, it is strong enough to push all the clumps of mater , away from each other. It's also worth mentioning that, since dark energy expands space itself, and isn't technically *moving* anything, the expansion of the universe is actually faster than the speed of light. Some galaxies are moving away from each other so quickly, that light from one galaxy would never be able to reach the other, because it cant travel fast enough.
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How does the placebo effect actually work?
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You have substances in your body that are chemically very similar to the drugs that are prescribed by physicians. The reason drugs work is because we have receptors that drugs may biochemically bond with. In the case of placebo, it's believed that the suggestion actually activates the body to create and mobilise the natural substances to bind to the receptors. So, for example, our bodies make natural opioids which are natural analgesics. In the example of pain, a placebo primes the individual to create their own opioids. RadioLab had an excellent programme on this, [podcast is here]
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How do those 90's "Magic Eye" pictures work?
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The proper name is "single-image random dot stereogram" It's tricky, and describing it without drawing diagrams is a little hard, but I'll try: Imagine a 3-D model on a table. There's a piece of glass halfway between your eyes and the model. Paint a random dot of color on the glass near the middle. Look at that dot with your right eye. Paint that same color dot on the model, behind the dot on the glass. Now look at the dot on the model with your left eye and paint the glass with a dot of the same color in front of the one on the model. Now there are two dots on the glass. Now look at that second dot with your right eye, and paint another dot on the model behind it. Keep repeating this process, alternating eyes and painting dots. Eventually, you get a line of dots across the width of the glass, spaced about half the distance between your eyes. Now do it all over again with another random dot on the glass. Keep doing this over and over again until there's no spot on the glass without a dot on it. Take the model away and look at the glass, and if you diverge your eyes the right amount, your brain will lock onto the repeating pattern of dots and reconstruct the stereo view of the model that's not there any more. One final note: the dots don't need to be random; you can take pixels from an image, and it will look like you just have a repeating image on the glass. The result looks like the image was painted onto the surface of the model. [Wikipedia article, with diagrams]
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Why do we find "sweet" things so pleasurable? Even other animals really seem to enjoy sweet things.
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Sweet implies calories, and animals need calories to survive. Animals evolved not knowing where their next meal was coming from, so it benefits them to eat as many calories as possible while they can. By making calories pleasurable, it creates a desire to eat them.
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Why can't electrons have a defined position?
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I suspect you have an image in your mind of electrons moving around in space like physical objects such as ping-pong balls. So you 'd be right in asking "how can't that object have a defined position?". But there are other ways of thinking about electrons. Imagine I yell "I am an electron!" from across the room. Now, where is that sound? Is it where you hear the sound? Is it where I'm shouting? Maybe. But if you move around the room while I'm shouting, you'll discover that the sound is everywhere in the room - and subtly different dependent on where in the room you stand. Another way to think about it would be to imagine electrons not as physical entities at all but rather just a property of atoms. Imagine you're wearing a plaid skirt. You can point to a defined position for the skirt. But what is the defined position of the *plaid*? The question doesn't really make any sense because \'plaid\' is not an object with a location - it's just a property of objects. The plaid is definitely something you can perceive and interact with - it's just not an object you can pinpoint. The question you're asking is the same one physicists asked themselves a century or so ago. The answer they came up with was "electrons aren't ping-pong balls".
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how do multilane highways reduce traffic if they merge to fewer lanes without oppurtunity to turn off?
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They alow the people driving at a faster rate to get ahead of those that are driving at a slower rate and causing the traffic to collect behind them.They don't, at least not at the particular point. The idea is that enough people have already turned off that you don't need so many lanes anymore. It is a question of balancing traffic flow with cost. Roads are expensive to built and maintain, and more lanes mean more expense. At some point you say you are far enough way for downtown the cost of another lane outweighs the benefits. For example, I-90/94 runs over 1000 miles between Minneapolis and Spokane, with no major cities in between. Instead of having 8 lanes the whole way, at some point leaving either city planners decide it was most cost-effective to drop a lane.
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Canned meat not needing refrigeration?
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Part of the canning process is heating the cans after they are sealed. The heat kills any bacteria present in the contents, and the sealed can prevents any new bacteria from getting in. As long as the can isn't compromised most canned goods remain safe almost indefinitely .
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Why is North Korea so secluded?
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Ok. So here's the "non-loaded-rhetoric" version. The isolation in North Korea has two aspects. The ideological aspect, and the "actually useful" aspect. THe ideological aspect deals with the ruling political philosophy of the nation, Juche. Juche is, in simple terms, the idea of self-reliance. And not the "'murican" self-reliance where we trade with everyone and generally hand out in the global market. I mean total self-reliance. As in fuck you all, we'll make our own stuff. By now you should have realized that isn't how things are. The DPRK is entirely reliant on other countries donating food and supplies. You know that, I know that but no one in North Korea knew that. Far as they knew the DPRK was just that good at getting them hardly any food. Oppressive regime 101: Give the people a cause to rally to and they will forget they are starving. The North Korean's are proud of their self-reliance! They are proud of how they stand alone against the threat of the evil western powers and their puppet South Korea! Do note. That this is changing as more North Koreans get access to foreign media.
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Why do the members of the Whitehouse press pool yell out questions to the President after they have been told that no questions will be taken.
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That's what you do as a journalist, ask questions. You wouldn't be doing your job if you kept quiet. It's pretty normal in all settings like this. There's a big difference between "we asked, and he didn't want to answer" and not asking at all. I don't know if it's ever worked in a presidential press conference, but it certainly does happen that someone will decide to answer a poignant question even though he didn't want make any comments.
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Why do we use the "Qwerty" keyboard?
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You can wiki for more. The basic story is that English has a number of common letter pairs. On old typewriters these letter pairs were often so close together that the arms could swing in and jam if the operator was too quick. So the Qwerty board was developed. It breaks up the common letter pairs so that jams happen less frequently.It was designed to ensure that adjacent keys were not pressed in rapid succession because old typewriters would jam if adjacent keys were pressed simultaneously. And as with many things, it stuck around because people didn't want to learn a new layout._URL_0_
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How do companies like EB games and Gamestop make money when the game/console creators sell the game online for the same price?
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Source: I was an assistant manager at Gamestop, and I worked there from 2011-2014. A very large majority of their money comes from used games. We paid $54 for every $60 new game we sold. We only made about $25 off of new consoles. The only thing that keeps them afloat is used games. We would make $35 off a used game that recently just came out which is more than a new console and new game combined.Many people still want cd's for several reasons: • Sell the Game: One problem when downloading is that you cant sell it without selling your whole Account. Most of the CD Games you can easily sell when you dont want them • Slow Internet or limited data: When having slow internet it's easier for you to buy it and just download small patches instead whole game + patches • Several Editions: You can get stuff from Collectors Editions which you cannot get by downloading the Game Edit: Hope you dont mean to buy CD's on the Internet there i cannot give you a answer for :)", 'A big profit source for them is their used games as well. When they "buy" a game from a customer for well under its value then turn around and sell it over value, it's pure profit for themAs a Former manager of both Gamestop and Best Buy. I can tell you that most of Gamestops profit comes from: used market ≈ 80% Accessories ≈ 10% Discount cards & Reservations ≈ 9% lastly new anything ≈ 1% The mark upon new games is about $1. On new systems maybe $10.In the uk the physical copies are often 10 pound cheaper than the digital copies and they have a resale value. I can't understand why anyone would buy a digital copy.
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How do pressure cookers work?
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A pressure cooker is a device that uses a sealed container to capture all the fumes developed during heating liquids. Imagine if you have a pot full of water. If the pot is sealed and you heat it up, steam will develop. Because of this steam, the pressure in the container increases. Thermodynamics predicts that a higher pressure increases the poiling point of liquids, i.e. water would need more than 100 degrees Celsius to boil. Therefore, you can heat up the liquid to a higher temperature than you normally could without the liquid evaporating. Pressure cookers, for example, are useful at higher altitudes, where normally the inverse effect would take place: The lower atmospheric pressure would reduce the boiling point of liquids, so far that eventually food couldn't be cooked. The use of a pressure cooker can counteract this. I don't know abut food tasting better , but i would assume it has to do with the higher cooking speed due to increased temperature of the water. Hope that helps :)
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Why there is such a variance in the human phenotype, as compared to other species?
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the same reason asian people tend to look the same to a white person. they're so different from us that we overlook the subtle differences that are in fact obvious to someone or some animal of the same species. e.g. they do vary, you just don't notice it because you aren't an elephant. the point about human evolution that /u/lithuim brings up below is also a good point to add, humans specialize in recognizing subtlties in other humans, irrespective of the points above.
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How exactly did Edward Snowden get hold of all the documents he leaked?
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From [this article] : "As a system administrator, Snowden was allowed to look at any file he wanted, and his actions were largely unaudited. “At certain levels, you are the audit,” said an intelligence official. " and " a system administrator has the right to copy, to take information from one computer and move it to another." He had the clearance and permissions to look at and copy just about anything he wanted.That was actually part of why this was a big deal - that a regular ol' contractor like Snowden *did* have access to all that data. It was right there for him -- and many, many other contractors -- to look at.
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If poverty is so bad in an area like in ghettos or in Africa. Why do people so readily continue having children only to be born in to hardship?
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You think of them as another mouth to feed because you're a middle class guy in a nation with child labor laws. If you were in the developing world you might think of them as another pair of hands to help with the work or something to exchange for goods in a wedding. Or you might simply be uneducated with no access to contraceptives and no other activity to bring you any joy.
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why aren't there electoral systems that allow negative votes?
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There are several different voting systems that allow you to downvote certain candidates. However it is usually not compulsory. However the most effective way to keep people from voting strategically is to use a ranked voting system where you sort the options from most preferable to least preferable.This would make absolutely no sense in a two party system, and in a system with more than two parties you'll get a better result with a ranked voting system.
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Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder something you're born with, or are there life-triggers that set it off? Can you ever truly be "cured" of it?
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TLDR: We don't know. Since brain science is a young field and not much is well understood yet, psychiatry mostly aims towards addressing mental illnesses pragmatically, rather than trying to achieve a deep understanding of mental illnesses, with a goal of eliminating symptoms. In this way, it is firmly within the realm of medicine and not natural science. There are of course people who study the neurological causes of anxiety, but there is not enough knowledge there to be very helpful in a medical context . Generalized anxiety is a medical definition, not a scientific one. It's based on having a set of symptoms, with the idea that this is helpful because we know a set of treatments that are sometimes effective for eliminating this set of symptoms. Even for medications, which clearly work in a chemical and hence physical way, the mechanisms for how it works is not well understood. For medicine, the most important thing is that treatments be reliable. Understanding underlying physical mechanisms is useful to that end, but it is not an end in itself-- unlike for science.
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Do smarter brains use more energy or do they just use it better? How?
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Some studies have found that when people are not very good at a particular task, they exert more mental effort and use more glucose and that, likewise, the more skilled you are, the more efficient your brain is and the less glucose you need. Complicating matters, at least one study suggests the opposite—that more skillful brains recruit more energy. so the answer lies between yes and no like you can't be sure other factors like stress also come in play
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How does changing electricity companies work when it travels in the same wires?
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See the electricity network as a huge tank . There are some things that need to be done: the tank has to be filled with electricity, the tank has to be maintained and the electricity has to be distributed to the people. These things can be done by different companies! There is usually only one company owning the network and maybe a few filling the tank, but there can be lots of companies distributing your electricity. They can all make a difference to eachother by offering you deals with gas or other services, by making different arrangements with the owner of the tank, That way you get better competition and a fair price for both consumer and producer.
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At what point is a virally infected person no longer considered a "carrier"? How can we become immune to certain things without carrying/spreading the sickness ?
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I'm not sure about the first part but I can answer the second part. The answer is vaccines. Vaccinations contain a weakened variation or something that resembles the disease causing micro organism. By doing this, it teaches our immune system to fight off the pathogen by copying traits of the disease that our bodies have trouble fighting. When our bodies have been exposed to a pathogen it can better prepare for the real version of it, thus providing an immunity or resistance. Vaccinations are similar to how people who have survived a pathogen are unlikely to contract it again . However, it is not permanent as the immune system can "forget" the disease after long periods of time which is why vaccinations usually have time period.I'm interested in this answer also. Some viruses we keep for an awfully long time - how do we know Ebola isn't going to be like HIV or herpes?
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Why do my mom's ashes make a weird sound?
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> What happens to the bones during cremation? If I had to guess, it probably is the hard, remnants of bone hitting the inside. That, or ghostsThey are not ashes like cigarette ashes or ashes from burning wood. most of what makes up human ashes is bone. Cremation of an average adult can result in 2-3kg of ash containing mostly the burned remains of bone ,', "Maybe there's a penny in there. You should empty it out and have a look. Or you could just ratch around in there with your hand", 'There should be an identifaction tag in the ashes. It is usually a little metal disk kind of like a military dog tag.It's chunks of bone. I work at a mortuary and am regularly elbow deep in someone's Gam Gam.
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Why is it so much easier to remember song lyrics without even trying, yet vocabulary words and their definitions take forever to memorize?
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Music therapist here. It's because the information is stored in multiple locations in your brain! Language is primarily stored in the left hemisphere of the brain, while music is stored on both sides of the brain. So when you learn words associated with music there are more parts of your brain being used to store those words. There are very cool implications for this, the first of which most people have benefited from: 1. Mnemonic devices 2. Alzheimer's patients who have lost all speech and memory can still sing and remember lyrics to songs. 3. Stroke patients who have lost all use of the speech center of their brain can still sing words. Some music therapists use this to quite literally transplant the speech center to another part of the brain with music.
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Why do we have fingerprints, why are they located on our fingers/hands?
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"Fingerprints" are actually NOT only on your fingers and hands but over your entire body! If you look closely at your arm you'll notice hundreds of tiny lines across your arm, this is most obvious near your elbow. These are actually the same lines as your fingerprints. [Here's an example of what your skin looks like under the surface]. Notice the waves in the bottom layer? Those exist to increase the surface area between your skin layers and this makes your skin much stronger and keeps it anchored in place. On the surface those look like tiny lines which we call fingerprints. The reason why they're more pronounced on your hands is because the skin in those areas takes the most abuse and has to be the strongest, so the lines are more pronounced.
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) photograph
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Have you ever seen a [long exposure photo]? They look pretty cool. Basically, instead of having the camera shutter open and shut very quickly , you set up the camera so that the shutter stays open for a few seconds or a few minutes or even longer, to let in more light than it normally would. It turns out that you can do more than just make pretty photos with this technique. If you take a very powerful telescope, like Hubble, and point it at a specific spot in the night sky featuring extremely distant objects, you can leave the "shutter", so to speak, open for days or even weeks, letting in a slow but steady trickle of light from those distant objects. The HUDF is an example of the end result of such a very long shot . The galaxies in the HUDF are to have existed just a few hundred millions years after the big bang. Because they're so very, very far away, it's taken the light from those galaxies billions and billions of years to reach us. In a very real way, it's like looking into the past. Cosmologists hope to use this image, and others like it in the future, to further their knowledge of how galaxies form.
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Why don't all companies do what supermarkets do with advertising?
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Because Apple and Samsung don't sell the same products. But companies are allowed to say that they sell a product for less if they actually do.
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How are "generations" measured? Where is the cut off?
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A "generation" is a vague unit of time, so it depends on the context. In genealogical or biological terms, it is strictly the parent/child measurement, so yes, you would be in the same generation as your cousin, since you share the same percentage of genes of your grandparents. In a sociological context, "generations" are defined more vaguely as the group of people who grew up and lived together in similar circumstances. It starts at a relatively arbitrary point, in america it starts with the 1885-1900 generation, "The Lost Generation", The people who went through WWI and then the roaring 20s. Then the kids born in the next 20-25 years or so are the next generation, "greatest generation", then the "lucky few
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What is the purpose of humans having emotions?
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Emotions guide us in the Darwinian process of the survival of the fittest. So love makes us bond with partners and family to help us survive and propagate while hate guides us to strike down competitors etc.
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How does sand become glass?
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Quartz sand *doesn't* become glass. It becomes fused silica, but you 'd need an oxygen jet in your campfire, since silica won't melt until around 3,000F degrees. However, if you first mix sand with other chemicals, borax, lime, or baking soda for example, the quartz sand will dissolve in the melted borax etc. That way you only need glowing-red temperatures to get glass. Typical cheap window-glass is not quartz, it's "soda lime glass." And Pyrex cookware, that's borax-silica glass.
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How can shows such as House Of Cards have differing writers and directors every few episodes, yet still remain consistent in tone and feel?
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On the writing staff, there is someone who serves as what they call the Showrunner. This is the person with ultimate authority over the script. They're in charge of the writing room when coming up with story ideas, they're in charge of handing out writing assignments for each episode. And they often re-write the other writers' scripts once submitted. So it's that person's job to make sure the script fits the tone of the series, that each character's voice is maintained, etc. In TV, the direction and cinematography and editing and production design is basically set by the first episode. Those people will determine the look and feel of the series. Everyone who comes later works to keep things consistent. They still have important work to do, but they have a limited set of choices to make, because they have to stay within the framework set by the first episode.
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how do people graduate/finish school early
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They don't complete 12 years of school, that's how. They do some school, and everyone involved agrees it would be a waste of time to have them sit through the same stuff as everyone else, so they skip them past several grades. 16 isn't really that crazy, I graduated high school at 17, and I went through every grade. Someone who graduates then could have just skipped some elementary school grade, or started 1st grade when they were 4, instead of the more normal 5. People who are younger just skipped more grades, or accomplished the requirements for graduating in less than 4 years, which cuts out a year.
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What's the difference between these two laptop network cards?
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Wifi, or Wireless is what you use you connect to your home network and the internet. It is the same for both of them Ethernet is the way you do it with a wire. The plug looks a bit like a large phone plug. Not many people do this in their homes anymore with laptops but a lot of businesses still do. If you might need to plug in for the network then you need this one. Bluetooth is for connecting to stuff like headsets and mice without wires. There are a lot of things you might want to use at a distance and many of them use Bluetooth. If you want to use those things then it's probably best to get Bluetooth. We don't use Bluetooth for connecting to networks because it responds fast but can't actually move a lot of info very fast. It is also much shorter range than wifi
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how does CPR help someone who has been drowning?
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I'm not a doctor, just a paramedic, but this is my basic understanding of how it works. Not all drowning victim have water in their lungs due to involuntary laryngospasm. But either way, the lack of oxygen to the brain and other organs causes unresponsiveness and cardiac arrest. Once the person has been removed from the water, cpr is performed to reoxygenate the blood and circulate that oxygenated blood through the body and to reperfuse organs. If you're successful, the body will start to cough up and remove the water that's in the lungs. Also, the lungs can absorb small amounts of fluids on their own, getting rid of the last bit of water creating more lung surface area to exchange gases.
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why it takes less time to fly from west to east compared to flying from east to west
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In really high altitudes there is moving air called "Jetstreams. In the northern hemisphere the jetstream generally moves from west to east. The planes can ride this jetstream giving the plane more thrust, vs if the plane travels east to west it has to overcome the drag created going against it. Think of it like a river. It's hard to paddle upstream but not down it.
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Why do most live performers remove their in ear moniters when they perform? If it affects their performance, why do they wear it in the first place?
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> As a professional musician for over a decade, the simple answer is this: In-ear monitors are excellent for keeping a fine tuned ear on what is being played, hearing click tracks, and getting cues. When someone takes out one of their in-ears, it's to either REALLY hear the ambient sounds around them, more accurately hear the crowd, or just as often, simply get a break from the loudness directly in their ear.Actively listening to what's piped into your in-ears is what keeps musicians on key/on tempo. Taking them out gives them a break from the audio assault, and lets them engage with their actual surroundings instead of being in an isolated audio environment. From /u/jayrobhearthrob 's reply. It deserves to be a top level post but he says he doesn't know how to Reddit, so I'm helping.
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How can people not get source code for a game even though they have the exe and files
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The .Exe just contains the compiled code, which is pretty hard to reverse engineer into source code. This compiled code is what the computer actually reads and for the most part is just long strings of numbers and next to impossible for a human to read fluently. The problem with reverse engineering compiled code is that a lot of information is lost during the compiling process. It just becomes setting, moving and copying data from other places in memory. What those numbers actually mean is lost pretty quicklyBecause the code you write gets compiled into a executable, and isn't readable code anymore. Think of it like cooking. You 've got a chef that writes a recipe, then gives that recipe to a cook, who then makes the soup out of it. The soup is then sold. Just because you have the soup doesn't mean you have any idea how to make it. Just like in code, you can reverse engineer the soup a bit to know what's in it, but the exact steps used to make it can't be recovered from the end product. In the code sense, the "recipe" or the source code is given to the "cook" compiler, which makes the soup and prepares it for distribution.Computers don't need to run code that makes sense to humans. Executable code doesn't have function names that infers meaning, variable names that have meaning, object and library names that have meaning. Executable code is also rewritten by the compiler to make it more optimized so it doesn't even need to follow same execution steps as the human typed source code.
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How do forensics assess whether someone was raped before or after being killed?
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Rape tends to damage tissue a lot. If alive when damage is inflicted, the body immediately reacts to the damage in various ways, causing bruises. Plus when there are rips and tears, the man or woman who has been raped will bleed if alive. If dead, there won’t be any bleeding because the heart isn’t pumping, and microscopic changes that occur as the body reacts to injury won’t be present.
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Why do some computer mice cost as much as $120?
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Because money goes into design, research of technology, parts, marketing and ofg course lots of profits. When people spend a lot of time playing games, they want their connection the the computer, of which a mouse is one, to be the best.I use a mouse that has 14 extra buttons, I use various utilities to customize what they do per application and it's super useful - I can do keyboard shortcuts and complex macros without taking my hand off the mouse. The productivity gains outweigh the additional cost by a huge amount for someone using a computer all day.
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How do the mico transactions work in the new Battlefront, and why is everyone freaking out about not being able to play as Darth Vader? Noob here.
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Only a couple of heroes are unlocked by default, the rest have to be bought with in game money. You can earn in game money by playing the game or buying it with real money. many people feel the rate at which you earn in game money is reduced to such a level as to be frustrating to obtain and that this is done intentionally to force people to buy in game money with real money. Darth Vader is the most expensive hero and as one of the most popular character players feel that EA is trying to capitalize on certain heros popularity as another lever to push people to spend more money on the game. All of this is compounded by the fact that this game is a full price game. A number of people have said if this were free to play they may be able to accept this approach but since they're paying full price they expect all unlocks to be reasonably available without any further purchases.
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How did the current state of Israel come into existence?
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Israel was established mostly because of the pity many Western nations had towards the Jews by the end of WWII. Countries like the UK and the US thought the Jews needed their own nation in order to prevent a slaughtering like the slaughtering of the Jews by the Germans during WWII. The choice for the region in which the current nation of Israel is established was quite an obvious one: almost all of the Jews agreed that they wanted to live near the region that was once the kingdom of Judea, conquered by Babylon around 600 B.C. This caused the Jews to be spread across the nearby lands . The Jews wanted to live near the city of Jerusalem again, because that city was sacred in their eyes. But the establishing of Israel didn't go as the Western nations hoped: they hoped the Jews could live in peace with the Arabs who had lived in the area for centuries and called it Palestina. This hope was soon gone, because the Arabs considered the Jews as intruders. This resulted in a series of wars between the Jews and the Palestines, eventually won by the Jews. Hundreds of thousands of Palestines found themselves living in an area ruled by Jews. This took place around 1950. Ever since that moment the Israeli and the Palestines have been arguing about who is to rule which area. This argue was never really solved, and behold: the current conflicts between the Israeli's and the Palestines. Hope this helps!
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Knockouts and concussions, what and why does it happen, and what is the difference?
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I am a high school level soccer coach in Colorado, which means I am required to take a concussion course every year that I am active, which for me is 3 years. I have some input on this. A concussion is your brain twisting or impacting the inside of your skull much like what has already been said. This will result in dizziness, nausea, loss of memory or "foggy" memory, headache and/or confusion. Most concussions are barely noticeable, which is why research has become so much more extensive over the past ten years or so. Many people have had concussions and don't realize it. There really isn't a difference between a concussion and a knockout per se, because all knockouts will result in a concussion, but not all concussions will result in being knocked out. As for why the brain shuts down, I don't have an answer for that.
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What is the joke behind "Runway 37"
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Runway numbers only go from 1-36. They are basically numbered for their magnetic heading divided by 10. _URL_0_', "Found it! Runways are numbered by the compass direction they face, rounded to the nearest ten, with the last digit dropped. So a runway pointing to 311 degrees would be Runway 31. Runway 37 would be pointing 370 degrees, but the compass only goes up to 360. Hey, there's someone knocking on my door They look like pilots WITH GUNS! *static .
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Why do scratched CD's skip while playing in my car but don't skip when playing on my laptop?
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Some players are better than others at ignoring the scratches. It has to do with the quality of the laser and/or sensor reading the disc. BTW, a light application of Mother's Mag Wheel polish does wonders for making scratched CDs easier for most players to read.
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Why did Grenfell Tower not collapse after the fire?
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The tower is a mix of cast in place and precast concrete structure. There are 10 exterior concrete columns supporting the floors and an interior concrete shaft for lateral stability . Interior walls are precast concrete. Concrete structures are very resilient to catastrophic collapse from fire. A fire like that probably wasn't hot enough to really compromise the reinforcement in the concrete. Although the building will be inspected to determine if it needs structural repairs or needs to be demolished.The load bearing core of Grenfell Tower is still in place. Tower blocks are built to hold their weight on their inner columns. It is the opposite to houses which support their weight on their outer walls.
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How does a gun protect me in my home when I'm supposed to lock it in a safe?
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You put the safe near your bed, if it's a wall safe above the reach of a toddler, and you have the muscle memory to enter the code and load your gun quickly. If you're actually concerned with home safety, you probably have a security system. That will wake you up with plenty of time to access the safe, get your gun, and assess the situation. Prior to the incident, you teach your children about gun safety. Ask anyone about the age of 50 where their parents kept their guns. The answer is likely in a drawer next to the bed and a shotgun near the door. Yet, it's only recently that the spike in accidental shootings has arisen. Meaning the variable factor is either gun knowledge, or media portrayal, not the fact a gun was in the house. I grew up around and handled guns all my life. I never once came even vaguely close to accidentally shooting someone or being shot. Because I respected the guns, and was taught to handle them properly.
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How can Valve get away with cutting prices as much as 70% on Steam for mostly games they didn't even make? Are external game companies not getting really pissed off from missed profits?
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Valve has to clear such sales with the publishers who are making the money from those sales. If your wondering how these sales work: Game X costs $10 but only sells 5 copies a week. I cut the price to $2 and now it sells 50 copies a week. I am going to make more money despite the price being lower. Valve knows this works, publishers know this works, and so the Steam Sales are a win win', "They can actually make more money by offering a steep discount due to vastly increased volume. That is, people might not be willing to pay full price for it, but they'll pick it up if they see it for 70% off. Valve published some charts on this about a year ago, showing how the volume increases they see more than make up for the steep discount they offer. It was pretty interesting stuff.
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Why haven't we seen any 90s Nick Game Shows (Double Dare, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Nick Arcade) rereleased? Legality issues?
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You don't normally see *any* game shows rereleased. A big part of their profitability is contributions from sponsors, which don't continue paying out in reruns and syndication.I will never win a huffy bicycle or that pair of hushpuppy shoes i always wanted.I don't understand why this is marked as explained. I don't think we got a real answer at all.I would totally watch a new version of legends of the hidden temple. That show was amazing.I remember listening to a radio interview with Andrew Mercado, who at the time was working with a company called Umbrella Entertainment to bring classic Australian TV series to DVD, and he was asked if there was any chance of seeing those old kids game shows released. He basically said that although a compilation DVD might be a possibility, there wasn't a strong enough market to justify putting these hundreds of episodes of shows that had almost no deviation from ep to ep onto DVDs. No one would really want to watch a whole DVD of A*mazing.There used to be a station called Nick GAS that aired all of these not sure if it is still around though. Definitely got my fill of legendsThere was a site called _URL_1_ they just played all old nick shows unfortunately they were forced to shut down because of a lawsuit :( they were even about to open _URL_0_ shit sucksThere is a website that randomly plays these shows, i cannot remember the name though.
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If you drain ground beef after you brown it for something like spaghetti, what is the difference between using a ground beef with more fat like 80/20 vs 90/10?
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If you are draining off the grease the major difference is that you will have less meat. I do not think it is the full 10% of weight difference but it can be fairly close if you cook it long enough to render out most of the fatSome of the fat is still inside the meat. It also affects how the meat cooks, since the oil boiling off moderates the temperature somewhat and lubricates the pan.
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How does the brain decide what little stupid things to remember, like what someone said or a song you heard once?
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it's mostly based on the situation you're in. even if you just barely notice a balloon in the furthest corner of your view your brain could go like 'you member the time, you had that stupid little baby balloon? i member'
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why do auctioneers talk the way they do?
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It's a traditional style that not all auctions use, but it helps to keep up the energy in the room and encourages potential buyers to make quick decisions. It also gets through lots quickly, which is important when you may be auctioning dozens or hundreds of lots in a day.
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Ir Syrian refugees are displaced by war, homeless and unable to gain access to the basics of modern life, how are they able to travel to the US?
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The UN has many charters on the human rights of refugees, the Syrian refugees fall well into the categories protected by this charter. They are getting to the US in all kinds of ways but mostly on transportation sponsored by private citizens, the UN, and the US government. Its the same with other countries, Canada has a program in place to allow groups of private citizens who raise $30,000 to sponsor a refugee family, the government will pick up the rest of the tabSyrian refugees in America are not like Syrian refugees in Europe. While Syrians in Europe are by and large traveling directly from Syria over land or by sea, most refugees come to the United States in a process called "resettlement." This is a UN-endorsed process whereby those refugees who can neither return home nor stay in their location , a small percentage of all refugees, are transported to a third country for final settlement. The United States takes in the majority of all resettled refugees.
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What causes schizophrenia? Can it be external stimuli or is it purely genetic?
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It has been known to have the ability to be genetically passed, but one can go their entire lifespan without it ever surfacing. Triggers can cause the schizophrenia to surface and symptoms will become much more apparent. For example, smoking marijuana has been known to trigger schizophrenia in some, it doesn't *cause* it, they already had it. It can also be developed with no prior symptoms in your family tree. It is a defect in the brain itself, so it is no external stimuli that brings it about.
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Why are so many rap/hiphop songs still about how good the rapper is?
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Well, don't forget that rap has evolved to something of an art form. The same idea from the early days applies: rapping about dominance IS dominance IF you do it well. It's really just a platform on which you can do cool shit with the rhymes and good wordplay. However, if the rapper can spit something really innovative and smart in an *I'msogood* song, then it gains extra value because **so many rappers have done it before**. If you can make such a song, which is easy to compare with other similar ones, actually sound rad and have really good rhymes, then you are indeed a quality rapper.
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Christians of ELI5: Why has our God stopped talking directly to people as He did in the Bible?
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I grew up in the church and the way it's always been explained to me relies on an understanding of the Trinity; you have God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. With the exception of some small windows of time, one of these three has been "present" on the Earth at all times. God the Father was present before He sent His son. Shortly after Jesus ascended into Heaven, the Holy Spirit was sent to occupy Earth. You'll notice, if I'm not mistaken, that all the instances of God audibly speaking to humans are found in the Old Testament. So, the short explanation is that God doesn't talk directly to His people because the Holy Spirit is here now to interact with us and the Holy Spirit rarely, if ever, audibly speaks to humans.No need to upvote/downvote this comment, but i just wanted to speak on behalf of decent atheists here, and say sorry for the douchebag atheists who only came to bash your faith. I was generally interested in what you would say. While I don't agree with your views, I won't mock you for them. Thanks for answering this question for me as well, as I had been wondering this when I was losing my faith.
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How do companies like Amazon pick their "random winners" when the submissions are made online?
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Well it could vary from system to system but all randomness in computers is actually pseudo-random. The closest you could get to true random in computers would be using something like _URL_0_ which I believe uses weather data to generate random numbers. As for how amazon decided to choose it's winner, there's no way to know for sure but I'd guess they added each submission to a table in a database that uses integers for unique IDs, then choose a random number and query for what user corresponds to that unique ID. Almost like choosing numbers from a hat.My old marketing department numbered every entry, and if there were X entries they picked a random number between 1 and X. If that entry was good, aka filled out correctly, they won. Otherwise, pick another random number. They used the Excel random number function times X to pick their random number.
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How do food franchises choose locations? And how do decide where to expand to?
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most brands expand close to their initial location and then expand to newer markets as finances allow for it or never. this is due to the strength of the brand recognition and taste preferences in the home market. when you expand to a new market with different tastes, you risk failing or having to change your menu, which will incur a lot of overhead as you would need to create new menu items, create different advertising, find different suppliers, etc.
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Why does my jaw hurt when I am going to cry but am trying not to?
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Yes, it is normal. You are tensing the muscles in your jaw, both the muscles that close your jaw and the muscles that open it. This tires out these muscles, producing an effect that your brain senses as pain.
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why does moving an object, that's covered in a liquid, up make the liquid drip faster?
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Think about momentum. Everything with mass, including the liquid, wants to remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. By raising it the liquid wants to remain behind and so drips more. It would be equivalent to gravity getting stronger for a moment.
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What exactly does a cinematographer do?
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Cinematography is the art of using a camera to record images. A cinematographer is a basically a film, lighting and camera expert. He/she understands how to use various lens, types of film, camera devices , lights, and other techniques to get a particular shot that looks a particular way. A director might say, "I really want this shot to start as a close-up of a character's face, then move to pan around the entire room, showing us the way he lives, then end as a long shot of him exiting through the door." He might have some idea of how to accomplish this, but the cinematographer's job is to know EXACTLY what is required: what lens, how to set-up the camera, what sort of lighting to use, and what kind of filmstock to capture the best image possible. He/she then works with the crew to make it happen. Sometimes a director will have a less specific idea, and the cinematographer makes it possible. When somebody is talking about the "look" of a film, they are usually praising the cinematographer because often they were the ones that actually "filmed" it. **tl;dr:** director has a vision, cinematographer makes it happen.
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What is the "Burakumin problem" in Japan?
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In the past, those Japanese whose work involved death were, for religious reasons, the "burakumin" a caste of "untouchables", despised and banned from many aspects of public life. And this discrimination continues even today against their descendants. It is said that one of the major sources of income for private investigators in Japan is discreetly checking for burakumin ancestry in potential employees or romantic partners.
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why do dogs like sticking their heads out the window of a moving car?
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Because no one told them it was unsafe. If you weren't driving and no one told you as a child not to stick you arms and head out, you'd be doing it too. Why? Because it's awesome.
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How haven't sloths died out yet?
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There are quite a lot of leaves for them to eat, plenty around to keep the population up, and they have sharp claws to ward off predators. Sloths can fuck you up if you aren't careful, as can most wild animals. They have slow metabolisms and usually move slow, hence the stereotypes, but they are doing just fine in the wild.Have you seen those claws? If a sloth wants to fuck you up it will, it only moves slowly to conserve energy. And for a vast portion of its life the Sloth lives up in the trees, a niche that actually lacks a pretty large amount of predators.
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The Terminal Velocity of water
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Falling water will break into droplets. You've seen water droplets falling at terminal velocity: it's called rain. The weather influences the droplet size. As you may have experienced, very small droplets fall more slowly. [Details here.]
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Pleading "nolo contendere" in court in America.
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"Nolo contendere" means "I do not wish to contest [the charge]" in Latin, and many states refer to it as a "no contest" plea. It means just that -- you are not formally saying that you are guilty, but you *are* saying that you're not going to challenge the government's allegation that you are guilty or ask for the government to bring you to trial. You are thus consenting to the judge finding you guilty and sentencing you. The main difference between this plea and pleading guilty is in other proceedings related to the same event. For instance, under the Federal Rule of Evidence, a conviction can be used to prove the facts that led to the conviction if the person pled guilty or went to trial, but not if they pled no contest.
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Why does flame make a noise when it is blown on?
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Sound is just the movement of air molecules. When you blow on a flame the sudden change in air temperature creates a small pressure wave that you hear as audible sound. Its like mini-thunder
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