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What are the actual requirements for the Police to make an lawful arrest and detentions?
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If they observe a law being broken they are allowed to make an arrest. If they have a warrant for someone's arrest they can make an arrest. They can temporarily detain someone with probable cause to assess the situation and determine whether a law has been broken, or civil infraction has occured.Probable cause: a set of facts or circumstances that would lead a reasonably prudent person to believe a crime is being committed, has been committed, or is about to be committed.
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Is is Possible for a Moon (Satellite) to Have its own Moon?
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Yep. It's completely possible. From a physics standpoint there's really no different between the Moon orbiting the Earth and the Moon orbiting the Earth which is orbiting the Sun. The reason you don't see many natural satellite around planets\' moon is because, on a long enough timeline and given the relatively small distance between planets and moons, the planet's gravity is going to "win" and the moon will lose the satellite. But there are still bodies orbiting moons which orbit planets, they're put there by us. There are satellites around the Moon. Same dynamic.Yes, in theory, though I don't know if any have been found yet. The region of space around an object where a satellite can exist is called the Hill sphere. Outside the Hill sphere, a satellite would be lost from its orbit about the object. An easy example is the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Earth is a satellite of the sun and the moon is a sub-satellite orbiting Earth. The Earth's Hill sphere has a radius of 1.5 million km and the moon orbits the Earth at 370,000 km from Earth, well inside it. Loosely speaking, the Hill sphere defines the space where the Earth's gravity is more important than the sun's gravity on another object. If the moon was outside the Earth's Hill sphere, the moon would orbit the Sun instead of the Earth just like all the other planets, asteroids, and comets. For comparison, Jupiter's Hill sphere has a radius of about 52,360,000 km which is much much larger than the Earth's Hill sphere. This is because of 2 reasons: 1. Jupiter is more massive than the Earth and has a stronger gravitational pull, but more importantly 2. it is further from the Sun than Earth so the Sun's gravity is weaker at Jupiter than at Earth.I think this video will probably answer your question: _URL_0_ .
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Why do elderly people get shorter as they age?
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It's most likely to do with posture and strength of the intervertebral discs within your spine. In your spine, between each vertebrae are discs full of fluid . As you age, you lose this fluid, which leads to those discs becoming compressed. This can somewhat shorten your spine. Also, as you age, your muscles aren't as strong as they were before and you lose your upright posture. & nbsp; EDIT: I should also mention osteoporosis. Bones lose some of their density due to a loss of calcium within the bone. This makes bones more susceptible to compression.
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How do Americans afford/pay for their extortionate healthcare fees and why is the government so unwilling to help?
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I'm from the U.K., live in the US now. I'm a healthy 23 year old and my health insurance is about $150 a month. My deductible is $6k. The problem, or at least how I see it is, the health care industry here is a massive, multi-billion dollar industry that makes a lot of people very rich. For Christs sake, there's hospitals here with huge fuck-off fountains in the lobby. Marbled floors, etc. Pharmaceutical companies advertise their medications on TV and tell people to ask their doctors about them. Meanwhile, others lose their homes getting treatment for an ambulance ride, cancer, a car accident, etc. The government, at this point, can't/won't turn around and establish an NHS-style health system because 1. Money. 2. There's a lot of 'socialist' propaganda that people who live in countries with taxpayer funded free healthcare die waiting in the ER for treatment because everything is free so there's always a huge wait. 3. Healthcare industry lobbyists make sure that shit wouldn't pass. 4. People don't want to pay for other people's health care. 5. Money, again.
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How can generic supermarket brands like Great Value and Kirkland produce such a variety of different products and and still maintain good quality and value?
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They don't pay for advertising. Their products are usually made by the exact same manufacturers as the "brand name" products you would otherwise buy. However, those other products spend a significant amount of money on advertising. You know all that "free" stuff you get everywhere? Like free radio? Free reddit? Free youtube? Free broadcast TV? Well, it's not really free. You pay for it by inflated prices when you buy name-brand goods.they don't produce the goods, they get them from contract manufacturers like many other food companies.This was my job for years. Generic products are nearly always made of much, *much* lower quality raw ingredients than name brands; in fact they're usually made from raw ingredients the name brands have rejected. That's why generics are made "by the exact same manufacturers" - if one load of tomatoes arrives at the plant underripe, misshapen, and watery they'll simply assign that load to the generic label rather than risk giving the name brand label a bad reputation. Don't fall for the stupid bullshit logical fallacy that "exact same manufacturer" means "exact same *product*". With a very few exceptions * it does not. Using the same machinery for high-quality and low-quality produce does not magically raise the quality of the latter. * Products that are strictly regulated are usually excepted, as are products so simple or so inexpensive to produce that there's no reason to try to cut corners. Corn starch and canola oil are the gold standard for the latter, raw poultry the former. Edit to add: they don't need advertising, of course; they just need gullible "frugal" shoppers who get an ego boost out of smugly embracing false economy. A $1.50 can of tomatoes isn't a better buy than a $1.80 can if it has less actual tomato in it.
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why do so many different Rx and OTC drugs, with wildly different purposes, all cause drowsiness?
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A lot of different compounds in your brain and blood control sleep. Big percentage of drugs affecting your body will also affect these compounds, which will end in drowsiness or hyperactivity, mood changes etc. For example Dayquil contains DXM, a chemical that suppresses cough by sigma-1 receptor wizardry but also is a reuptake agent to dopamine and serotonin which are neurotransmitters making you drowsy and giving you hallucinations etc with higher doses.
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Why are abs shaped like little squares instead of being one large muscle?
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It's actually two muscles, one long one on each side . What creates the indents is connective tissue. The muscles are called the rectus abdonimus and the connecting tissue is called linea alba.
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Why are aliens portrayed as stronger and superior?
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The general thought I see it as: If an alien race has the technology to come to our planet, they are technologically advanced/superior to our own. But, this isn't always 100% accurate: See War of the Worlds, where they are stopped not by humans, but by disease that we are immune to .
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How did the first STD's originate?
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The fact people are born virgins doesn't matter, it's what happens after they have sex. Probably the first STD was transmitted by some other means AND could be transferred sexually. If there were 1000 strains of a virus and one could be transmitted two ways instead of one, that strain would have an advantage. Even if it started off as being relatively hard way to get transmitted, eventually at least one strain of at least one disease would mutate to get better at getting transmitted sexually. The thing to remember about evolution is the huge numbers involved. Of the thousands of diseases, only a few evolve to be sexually transmitted. Of the thousands of strains of STDs, only a few evolve to be really effective STDs. But with each generation the "best" strain gets improved upon. That modern AIDS virus, for instance, is truly standing on the shoulders of giants.Evolution. It's how any disease starts. A virus will mutate to be more effectively when transmitted sexually or while in the genital area or something like that.
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Why do only some Amazon prices show the price per volume? | example: $15.00 ($3.75/ounce)
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I don't know for sure, but I'd assume it has to do with what the sellers input on the item is. I know that's the same way with items that are sold in bulk quantities, they'll list the individual price rather than the price per lot, so you can buy them for 10¢ each, if you buy 200. That said I'm not an Amazon expert.Some things are sold by how much the customer needs, so you can easily get the amount needed. Others however are like actual stores with specific containers and seer amounts.
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If I light a candle in my dark bathroom and put it in front of a mirror does that double the amount of light in the room or does it stay the same?
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I know this is marked as Explained, but I just want to expand on this. The amount of light in the room doesn't necessarily double. It depends on what you had before where the mirror is now. Say you had a wall painted black before. The black wall would absorb a good portion of the light, and the room would still be fairly dark. Place a mirror there, and the light is reflected back into the room instead of absorbed. In this case, a mirror would significantly brighten the room. Comparing a pure white wall to the mirror: they reflect about the same amount of light, relatively. The mirror just reflects the light directly back, in the same pattern as the light entered the mirror, while a white wall spreads out the light and reflects it differently. The difference between the light in your bathroom if you had white walls, or if you had mirrors, is minimal, and depends on the type of mirror, paint, and surface of the wall.The amount of light is the same, just the way it spreads out changes', "Nice question. I'm thinking that the net light would stay the same, but because light would not be absorbed into the space where the mirror is, it would appear that there was more light. Kind of like a headlight seeming brighter than it would if it weren't encased in a parabolic mirror.
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How can reddit have such severe and constant server issues over a long period of time when all content hosted on the site is text-based?
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A metric assload of traffic that surges every now and then. A metric assload of people upvoting and downvoting and commenting, resulting in constantly changing pages that makes caching comment pages pretty much impossible. Every user not only seeing the default subreddits has a customized front page. The site gets billions of page views a month. It's a lot to keep up with.
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Why do many people tend to die in Quarry Waters/Lakes. What makes them more dangerous than a regular lake or body of water
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Two of my brothers friends were killed doing just this. Separate incidences but both jumped from 85ft in to Preston Hill quarry and if you want an idea of what is under there watch this: _URL_0_', "I would think it's the secretive nature of quarries. people seem more apt to do careless or reckless things when hidden from view whether it be to consume too much alcohol or to attempt a triple lindy", 'Someone once told me that quarry lakes have lots of trapped air bubbles that can lead to shifts in rock causing down current that can pull you under also lots of mining equipment and wires.
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At what minimum time is it more efficient to idle than turn your car off then back on?
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For gas consumption 30 seconds. But it wears your engine bearings every time you start the engine.You probably put more wear and tear on your engine by turning it off and on again everytime you stop for more than 30 seconds rather than leaving it on. Your engine's bearings aren't like regular ball bearings, the crankshaft and connecting rods (the biggest moving pieces in your engine rely on oil pressure from an oil pump to provide a thin layer of oil these parts ride on. When your engine is idling there is enough oil pressure to prevent metal-on-metal contact, but when you're starting the engine the starter does not spin the motor fast enough to provide sufficient oil pressure to prevent this from happening
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What's the Difference Between the Shia and Sunni aspects of Islam? As both groups are following the Koran, whats the major differences?
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I was born shia. There are at least three sub-sects in Shia and many more in Sunni so it is very hard to pinpoint a concrete difference. To explain the difference, it might help to explain their history and how they came to be. I happened after Muhammad's death. According to Shias, he had appointed Ali as his successor or Caliph . Sunni, however, hold that Muhammad did not make any such appointment and the caliphate must then go to Abu Bakr . This one event led to the initial fork in the religion. Shias claim that Muhammads family was sidelined and Islam was politicized after this while Sunnis claim it was the right decision as the majority of Muslims at the time had voted. The divide would widen eventually reaching a critical point at the time of Hussain who was killed by the ruling caliph of the time. Since then, they both developed independently of each other with the same basic tenants of Islam but slightly different interpretations. For instance, most Sunni's pray with their arms closed while Shias keep it open. Shias have slightly different form of Zakat . Shias can 'combine' two prayers at a time while Sunnis cannot. The only differences I can think of are merely superficial. The only major difference I can think of is that the Shias claim that there will be one final Caliph to lead the Muslim world who will resurrect at an unspecified time. Sunnis do not believe anything similar to that. In recent times, this superficial divide has grown even deeper due to geo-political reasons. The two major players in the middle-east drive this. Iran is considered Shia and Saudi Arabia is considered Sunni. More often than not, it fits the narrative to simply claim a fight as Shia vs Sunni while trying to explain the actual mechanics, which are far far more complicated. Try these links:[Succession to Muhammad ] [After the Prophet by Lesley Hazelton] [List of Differences] EDIT: Changed '9th Imam' to '12th Imam'. Please don't tell my mom she will beat me. Thanks u/irtizzza16 from [here]
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Why there doesn't seem to be any defense against a DDOS.
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So a DDoS would be like me having 1,000 people an hour call your cell phone, constantly, so that you couldn't make any calls and people trying to call you couldn't get through. Though in the computer world it's more like 100,000 or 1,000,000 an hour. The point of the attack is to prevent legitimate web traffic from reaching a site. In that sense, it's fairly easy to do. All you need is enough people to ping a site, either voluntarily or via a botnet . The solution for your phone would be to have another phone number that people knew to call in the event your main number was messed up, but that kind of coordination can be costly and confusing to people. Some websites and companies can reduce the impact of a DDoS by rerouting traffic, but it's not something that's easy to accomplish, especially for commerce based sites.
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Why don't modern compilers such as gcc cut out the middle man (assembly) and compile directly to machine code?
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Assembly is just machine code written in slightly more readable form. There's no reason to cut it out.
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What's stopping us from harnessing the energy in lightning?
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Energy storage We simply have no way of storing the concentrated power but short duration involved in a lightning strike. People have imagined capacitor storage banks, heating piles etc. but as yet we have not created a technology that can store that energy quickly enough Any other method of storing energy in present usage i.e. batteries, hydrogen, hydro etc. are *incredibly* slow in comparison. There are a great many other considerations like unpredictability, distribution etc. but essentially . . storage', "It turns out we use a lot more power than lightning strikes. A lightning strike would power an average US home for about 10 days. Which sounds great, until you figure out that the US has 300 million people, and 30 million lightning strikes a year. So even if we could figure out a way to safely use that energy, and captured every single strike in the country, blanketing it in an obscene amount of lightning rods and wires and batteries and things, we'd be able to save about 1 day a year's worth of power, or less than half a percent.In theory, could lightning serve as an energy source to kick start nuclear fusion in future reactors?
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The Koch brothers and their influence on politics.
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The government was worried about people donating lots of money to candidates allowing them to buy more commercials, and pay more people to help them get elected. They were worried that If people could do that the politicians would do lots of things to help out their friends who helped them get elected. So the government passed a laws that said you couldn't give a politician more than $2500 for an election. Some people didn't like this law, they thought that money was the same thing as speech, so they asked the supreme court to look at the laws the government had made. The supreme court agreed with them, and said that you could spend all the money you want on a politician's election as long as you don't give it to the politician. Now people with a lot of money like the Koch brothers can go and find candidates they like and buy all the ads they want telling people to vote for their candidates, and no one can do anything about it.
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Why do I feel awkward seeing nudity/sexuality when I am with my parents? Its just the human nature after all.
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Normally we do not see our parents as sexual creatures. Since we do not look at our parents in a way befitting that type of intimacy, it feels wrong . That was more "ELI18" but it's the best I could doOh well the explanation is simple. As a child grows up comforted and loved by his mother and raised properly by his father, something begins to build inside him. An ever growing love and admiration for ones parents. But as you pass through puberty and discover your sexuality, you begin to realize what sex is. It is knowing how sex is gratifying and how it expresses love that makes you wonder What if my parents want to have sex with me. This is perfectly normal, every child wonders about the day his/her parents will finally make that move, giving that child the bond everyone has and wants with their parents Problems happen when parents don't initiate sex. The child begins to feel unloved and not desirable, as if he/her will never make his/her parents proud at all. This is never discussed or shared, but when parents love their kids you'll know. Try being provocative around your parents, feeling your dads muscles, or showing your mom that hole in your boxers that "Accidentally" ripped with a little bit of your penis hanging out of it, asking how to fix it for you. Any loving parent will understand that its now time to show their child how much they love them.
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What would happen to a human body in space?
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* Water on your tongue and eyeballs would begin to boil off. * Your eyeballs would bulge, and there would be pain in your sinuses and inner ears. * You would pass out in ~15 seconds due to lack of oxygen. * Over time, your body would dessicateIn addition to what the others have said, [this page] is usually linked when the question is asked here.
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Why does cold metal feel wet?
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The feeling of "wetness" isn't actually a sense, but more of a combination of senses. If you 've ever touches water through gloves, your hand feels like it's wet, but you're not actually getting any water on you. This is because, even though you have gloves on, it's a combined triggering of your cold thermoreceptors and various mechanoreceptors that contribute to the perception of wetness, and these can be felt through the gloves. The same is true for the metal.
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Why is BB King a "legend" and not just a long lived and long active musician?
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There were a handful of artists who came out of the south and brought their distinctive style of blues to a wider audience in the 1940s. Until that time that kind of music had essentially no audience beyond the people who heard them play live in small bars and clubs in the south . The convergence of mass-produced recordings, an increase in interest in folk music, and the fact that from thousands of small clubs and the bands that played in them only a few individuals were talented enough to make it into the public eye transformed those people into legends. Their records were the foundation for rock & roll. Kids across the US and in the UK heard their albums and figured out how to play guitar like them just by listening and experimentation. The crucible of segregation and racism created the conditions for the fusion of "white" music like country & western with "black" music like blues to create rock & roll. The pantheon is very small. Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Lead Belly, Howlin\' Wolf, etc.
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Why do we feel so thirsty after eating sweets (ex: Ice Cream, Chocolate, etc)?
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When you eat sugar, it is absorbed relatively quickly into your blood. Now your blood has more molecules floating in it than usual. Your body tries very hard to keep your blood the way it likes it . Now there's extra sugar in your blood, so your body wants to add more water to dilute your blood back to normal. So your body sends thirsty signals so you'll drink water. This can also happen after very salty food.
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Why/how to people get knocked unconscious?
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As far as benefits go, I don’t think humans “evolved” to go unconscious with a blow to the head. This would be like saying we evolved to go into cardiac arrest; doesn’t make much sense. You could of course always speculate a scenario where going unconscious is advantageous, say if it kept our ancestors alive during combat with a dangerous predator, while those who stayed conscious and tried to run or fight were simply killed off. Again it’s just speculation. I think others were on the right track behind the mechanism of going unconscious. Edit: You could argue recovery is the large reason behind going unconscious after suffering head trauma as exemplified by the unconsciousness of sleep.
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How does red dot sights work?
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The dot in a red or green dot sight is not actually a coloured point that's hovering in a fix spot in the air like an iron sight does. Instead, the red dot you see is a reflection of a little red lamp that falls onto a spherical mirror which filters out only the red spectrum. This mirror is installed in a way that no matter what angle *you* look on it, the Red dot will always point towards the spot the bullet will hit. EDIT: That way the Red dot itself is virtual and basically only exists in your eyes, two people looking through the same sight at the same time from different angles would see the spots in different 3-dimensional places, but still pointed towards the target.
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How does a (bitcoin) currency exchange work?
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It looks like the left side represents the amount of transactions happening. The bottom line represents time. The right side represents the amount of $ that it sold for. The actual bar shows what the highest amount was and the lowest amount was at that given time paid for those transactions.
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Why is it that sometimes we humans can sense when another human is looking at us?
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Confirmation bias. There's a ton of times when you look over and nobody is watching you, but you only remember the times when they are.
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Bid-Ask spread and how Brokers make money off it.
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If someone comes up to you and says "i want to buy a cake for $1" and you're a cake broker, you would then go out to all the cake sellers and if one of them said "i'm selling cakes for 0.98" then you 'd make .02 and selling it to your captive buyer for $1. like that. no actual cake involvedThey buy at the low price and sell at the high price . Buying 100 shares of a certain stock for £740 and selling them at £745 means they made £5 on that trade. Repeating that a few thousand times a day means they made a pretty significant amount of money in the day .
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How can they tell how much oxygen is in my blood just by shining a little light at my finger?
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The colour of your blood changes when it's oxygen rich compared to when it's oxgygen depleted. Your finger is a good place to get a reading on that because it's quite thin but gets reasonable blood flow, your earlobe would also be a good but less common place. [Here] is a picture of two blood samples - the one on the left is after the subject held their breath for 7 minutes, the one on the right is fresh.
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Why Does the Tetanus Booster Vaccine Hurt so Much?
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The tetanus vaccine is a toxoid, meaning that what they inject is not living attenuated bacteria, but rather the toxin that Clostridium tetani produces. This toxin is neurotoxic in that it causes intense muscle spasms . This is what kills people who get tetanus . The toxoid in the vaccine causes these muscle spasms and pain, but since there is no new production of toxin, your body recognizes, fights off, and then builds immunity to the disease. The same process happens without the vaccine, but unfortunately the body is usually not strong enough to not die in the process. Hope this answers your question.
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Why does the moon always look so small and terrible when I try to take a picture of it with my cell phone?
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First off, there is no galaxy s5 . And secondly, the reason is because the moon is small compared to the field of view. We tend to exaggerate in our brains the size of things in the sky because there is nothing beside them to compare to. Cloud pictures are the same way: almost always a disappointment. If you want the moon to look bigger, try using a decent camera's zoom. Taking a picture of the moon while it is not far above the trees also sometimes can make a big difference.
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Why can't Iran have nuclear weapons
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The existing nuclear powers and the majority of non-nuclear countries attempt to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. This desire is universal but considered even more important when a country deemed irresponsible, unstable, or having ties to terrorist organizations is concerned. Very few governments want Iran to possess nuclear weapons. This concern is amplified with regard to Iran for the following stated reasons; * Iran is considered a significant state sponsor of terrorism. * Iran is considered irresponsible and more likely to use or threaten to use a weapon. * Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon would lead other nations to acquire nuclear weapons including Saudi Arabia and Egypt. * Apocalyptic or fatalistic quotes from Iranian political and military leaders. * Iran has few friends and has alienated many world powers. The goal is stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, rather than Israel or Pakistan have the right to nuclear weapons and Iran does not. Governments were very concerned about Pakistan becoming a nuclear power and remain very concerned about Pakistani nuclear weaponsFrom a treaty standpoint, Iran signed the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty that states that countries without nuclear weapons will not develop them. From a practical standpoint, Iran has been very openly hostile to the US and its allies, with former presidents of Iran stating that they will "wipe Israel off the map". They also are well know for supplying weapons and money to palestinian groups like Hamas which regularly target israeli civilians and exist for the sole purpose of destroying the Jewish statePakistan is probably going to be as big a problem as Iran would be. Not because of their values, or open hostility but because the instability there makes it scarily possible that someone, say, non-governmental, might get hold of one and actually use it. This was a big concern after the Soviet collapse, that fringe groups might suddenly become nuclear powers.Because they can't be trusted with them. Kind of like why we are concerned with North Korea having them as well.
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Why was September 22 the equinox, yet it wasn't until today (September 25) that there were exactly 12 hours of daylight (sunrise 7:07 a.m. EDT, sunset 7:07 p.m. EDT)?
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Your daylight hours depend on your latitude, so different locations experience different daylight hours at all timesThe daylight hours are dependent on your location on the North-South axis. It used to be that the Equinox was when there was equal day and night. The problem with this is that it was not the same date everywhere. That day in Spain would be different than that day in Norway. But the modern definition is that it is when the Earth's Equator is horizontal in relation to our orbit around the Sun meaning the Earth is completely "straight".This is because the sun isn't a single point. Sunrise is the moment any part of the sun is over the horizon, and sunset when it crosses completely below the horizon. It can take several minutes for the sun to cross over the horizon, and it takes longer the higher your latitude is. The result is at least part of the sun will be over the horizon, even on the equinox.
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What would happen if all the debt in the world was forgiven tomorrow?
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It wouldn't be possible. Too much of our money supply is the result of fractional reserve banking Debt is the foundation of economic growth and to simply wipe it clear would be catastrophic. Realistically, the IMF only 'forgives' those debts which it has no expectation of ever being paid back as a means to forestall pointless economic suffering.The banks would fail, we would all be out of work, the elderly would lose their savings and become an instant economic burden on anyone that managed to keep their jobs. We would lose all investment, and thus, economic collapse.
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why when moving a file on a PC does it take so long? Is the computer actually physically moving the location of the data on the disk, if so why?
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It depends on whether you're moving between logical disks or between locations on the same logical disk. The latter is usually much quicker, since the OS doesn't move the data, just the pointers to the data. Between logical disks, however, the data must be moved .
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Is there actually a Solution to 'This Statement is False'? (Liar's Paradox)
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The solution is pretty simple, but unsatisfying. "The assumption you can create a logical system where all propositions are either true or false is incorrect."', "> Surely things can either be true or not true Why must they be? It's no earth-shattering event if we add a third category: things that have no defined truth value, because they are paradoxical. That does not affect the things you already determined to be either true or false.
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If the size of a Vagina is only 3 to 5 inches long, why does size matter?
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The vagina can stretch. In a neutral state it is 3-5 inches but can stretch to accommodate larger thingsWell, it doesn't matter *per se*. If you don't have a micropenis, which is not an insult but a medical term, you are big enough to fill a vagina. Girth is where you can make a case of "bigger is better", because it can cause more stretching of tissue and pressure on the clitoris . To be very clear here, this don't mean that a bigger girth is "what matters". It means that there is an actual phisiological reason, while in the "lenght" department this seems to be much less based on actual anatomy. **BUT** psicological reasons and personal preferences play a BIG role. We live in a society where a big/long penis is a "myth", as big boobs are, so it is normal that a woman can find "arousing" a well endowed man, as you can find arousing big boobs. In both cases it's all in your mind, big boobs don't enanche a sexual experience *phisically*. Everytime a research has been done, the results were always the same: very few women said that "size matters" in a relevant way. As I said, it's the same as with big boobs with men: we may be impressed by the dimension, but usually almost everyone is not going to really care about it. p.s. There is the argument that some women say that they like the sensation of being "full", but you could achieve the same thing with girth, I guess.Darn right! All of you women out there complaining about my teeny-peeny should all be ashamed of yourselves! I'm delivering all you need.
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I feel a cold coming on. Home remedies aside what should I ACTUALLY be doing to avoid/weaken it?
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Stay hydrated, get plenty of sleep, eat decently. But you should be doing those already :P
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How does a liposuction work without ripping your guts out?
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The type of fat that people are trying to remove by liposuction is the visible fat that lies between the skin and the muscle. Lipo literally vacuums the fat from under the skin and never actually penetrates into the abdominal cavity.
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why do we feel less tired and feel less need to sleep when we can engage often in activities that makes us feel good?
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Dont let me talk out of my ass too much but basically your body releases endorphins when you do something you enjoy. Endorphins provide a sense of euphoria which stops you from feeling tired. Another reason may be that your body is releasing andrenaline when you play video games which also gives you more energy. Do not mistake this 3-4 hours of sleep as being a healthy habit. There is alot of pseudoscience in certain sleep studies that will tell you whatever you want to hear. I am not an expert by any means but try to stick to a sleep schedule for optimum effects. If you do not have time in your day to get 8 hours then at least get fewer hours on a consistant basis.
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How come the international community supports Israel so much?
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Israel is a valuable military and political ally in the region for the US/Europe. Especially the US - we basically ensured their survival with our constant support. China and Russia don't really support Israel and in the past have worked against it. They both just don't have so much of an obligation like the West does to Israel as an ally. And Hamas is a controversial, some would say, terrorist, organization. They don't want to be seen supporting that. They support a peaceful solution, to put it in a nutshell, but don't want to get involved since they don't have strong ties to Israel.
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Why does your "tolerance" increase when you drink alcohol more frequent?
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Because when you drink more your liver adapts to become more efficient at metabolizing alcohol. Further, there's a vein that connects your stomach to your liver, allowing your more efficient liver a first pass at the alcohol before it reaches your bloodstream and thus your brain, which is where you feel the effects. This is why butt chugging and inhalation of alcohol exist and are more dangerous . They allow a smaller amount of alcohol to result in higher blood alcohol concentration than by drinking it.Your liver gets better at processing the alcohol. This can also happen with medication - the first time I take my ADHD meds after the summer, my entire body is buzzing. But the next day, I will be perfectly fine and the medication is working as it should. My doctor explained it to me as my liver "forgetting" how to process the medication over the summer, and then getting back into the habit after the first day. The same thing can happen with alcohol - the more you drink, the more efficiently your liver processes the alcohol. Stop for a long while, and it gets less efficient. All of this *does* wear out your liver though, so be careful!', "'Twas oft asked here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [ELI5: How does alcohol tolerance work ]1. [ELI5: Why people have different alcohol tolerance? ]1. [ELI5: Alcohol tolerance ]1. [ELI5: Why does drinking alcohol more often raise your tolerance? ]1. [ELI5: Alcohol tolerance ]1. [ELI5: Alcohol tolerance ]
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what would happen if Russia started focusing more on Asia instead of the EU?
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Actually funny you should ask but I watched a story on the news here in AUS and it was saying that Russia is in fact looking to Asia more, and by some certain date like 2020 I think , that it would be supplying most of its oil to Asia, followed by Europe. But toDo that they first had to expand Vladivostok and make a bigger ports because they already have the demand from Asia.
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Why do burgers have this little white piece at the bottom of the bun?
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That comes from an imperfection in the baking process. When you bake a burger bun, you typically place it flat on a metal pan. Oftentimes a little moisture will escape the dough during baking and get stuck between the bun and the pan. As the oven heats up, the moisture turns to steam and gets trapped as small steam bubble, which prevents the part of the bun it's trapped under from touching the pan and getting evenly browned. The white spot is the result.
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What is the little sound you hear sometimes right before you get a call or a text message?
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The ringtone? You're gonna have to be a little more descriptive. The only thing i can think of would be interference with other devices. My parents computer speakers used to buzz right before the phone rang.I'm going to presume you mean the "duh dah dah" sound that comes through on poorly shielded speakers. What you're hearing is the sound caused by the various speakers in the room receiving your cell phone as it talks with the tower. You get a call, your cell phone sends lots of little bits of data in close groups. The speakers receive these bits of data, and make a click for each of these little bits of data. on GSM's pulsed signals.) This all happens fast enough that the clicks make a buzzing sound, and you get to hear each time your cell phone says it's part of the conversation with the tower. This only happens on phones that use GSM signals. If you have a friend who uses a CDMA phone their phone won't make that sound. EDIT: I had linked to someone I thought was going to be sane about fixing the issue, but it turns out they're not. In any case, to get rid of the sound, the easiest approach is to buy a clip on ferrite bead and add that to the speakers.
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If the moon can eclipse the sun why can we see stars every night?
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The moon can block out the sun because it's massively closer than any planets. Sometimes that one really bright star you might see in the night sky is actually Venus. It's just a tiny point of light and it's the closest planet to the earth. Other planets in our own solar system will be even less visible than that. Planets outside of our own solar system are entirely invisible to the naked eye.
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What's wrong with having a firewalled internet
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The simple answer is to ask another question: what would you allow through this firewall and what would you block? A firewall isn't automatic and it isn't magic. You can't get a firewall which blocks "bad stuff". It works on rules. You tell it what to block and what to let through. China has made one which blocks traffic to and from a vast range of non-Chinese websites. The one on your home router blocks incoming connections, so that you are allowed to connect to an outside server, and if you do they can respond, but they can't initiate a connection to *you*. What rules should the American Firewall use? Should it block non-American websites, for example? Should it prevent non-American users from connecting to American websites? And how would this firewall affect hosting providers? I live in Europe, but what if I pay an American hosting provider to host my website? I can put whatever I like on that website, and suddenly all my evil code is on the inside of your firewall!', "That would just be another way for the people in charge to censor anything they don't want you to see. See:North Korea.
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How come it isn't freezing cold during/eight minutes after a total solar eclipse?
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Solar eclipse is about like nighttime -- if night only lasted half an hour or so. So it's going to be less cold that a boring ordinary night.
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Why are there multiple gas stations at one crossroad? How do they compete with each other?
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A lot of similar stores open up near each other, it is part of game theory. They do what is best for themselves, instead of what is best for the consumer. The best example I have is 2 ice cream sellers on a beach. They could place themselves 1/4 of the way from each end so no person has to travel more than 1/4 of the way . However, nothing stops one of them from moving a bit closer to the other to gain more customers, 1 could move a foot over, making the further people have to travel 26 feet to them, but they'll still go to him over having to travel 75 to the other guy, and now he can serve people from 0 - 51 feet, instead of 0 -50 the other person matches this, it goes on an on etc, until the compromise is being right next to each other, and someone takes feet 0 -50, and the other takes 50 -100.
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Aside from signing executive orders, what power does the president actually have to force Mexico to pay for a border wall?
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Theoretically you can threaten tarrifs on their goods if they don't pay and offer them trade deals if they do. That's about the only real power short of war. If they don't pay either we build it and pay for it or we don't build it.
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Could anyone onboard MH17 have survived the missile impact, and dropped 10km to their death?
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Unlikely that anyone would survive for to long. It was about 600mph and dropped like a stone . This tells us that there was explosive decompression. This would rip the clothes righ off you. Since they were at altitude and during the day many of them wouldn't have had seatbelts on. They would have been slammed against all the ragged edges of the plane as it was breaking up. At that altitude the temp is about -50c. That together with explosive decompression makes the first 5 or 10 seconds almost unsurvivable. Sure, someone could have survived all that & died on ground impact but that's a scenario that's highly unlikely but also better not to think about
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Why do kids usually learn the R sound last? What makes it so hard?
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I have two boys, 6 and 4, who both struggle with it - the 6 year old in particular. It's funny, but when you try to explain how to do it it's actually hard to describe. Go through the alphabet and you'll see that all of the other consonant sounds are easy to describe, except R. You have to bunch up your tongue in the back but also raise it up near the back of the roof of your mouth. It's kind of weird. It's also a sound that I believe few if any other languages have because it's a fairly unnatural contortion for the mouth to make.It requires a very odd combination of movements. In 300-level linguistics, my professor told us the human mouth isn't even developed enough to make the sound properly until 20 years old; before that, we just make a good enough approximation. Even us professionals call it a "liquid" or "approximate" sound, as opposed to specific things like "voiceless alveolar sibilant," which explains every important aspect of how to make the S sound. Although I think the linguistic field is getting better at explaining itI can also imagine it being dependant on your native language. For example: the first language I learned was serbian, in which you roll the "R". So when I went to school and learned german, where it is pronounced differently , it was a very unnatural tounge movement for me. Same with english and probably some other types of languages. I guess sometimes it is just a more natural motion of the toungeComing from a French speaking background, I had no problem learning the sound R, but my kids only speak English and are learning elementary French at school now and teaching them the R sound is a disaster. I guess it depends what is your birth language.
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All the madness that you always see on the Wall Street trading floor, what is going on here? Why is everybody yelling?
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So first of all, this doesn't really happen anymore. Now computers do most of the trading. What you see on TV is planted to make it look busy. The floor is usually pretty empty. Next, when people were on the floor, you can think of it like organized chaos. There were hundreds of people crammed into the space and they are all buying and selling stocks based off of what the stock market is doing at that moment. It was so hectic because the stock can change faster than you can blink.Great documentary on Netflix called, "The Pit" which goes into some explanation on what is actually happening. [_URL_0_]
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Why do I get a cold (sore throat, stuffy nose, etc) when I fall asleep with a fan blowing on me?
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The dry air can promote a response from your body, similar to cold winter airDorment viruses. Bacteria and viruses need to be at their ideal temperature in order to multiply. The high temp of the body keeps alots of things dormant, but Breathing in cold air can drop the surface temp along synus passages, where you start to feel a cold the most. Wearing a scarf keeps vulnerable areas like the neck and chest warm. They also keep the air your breathing warm. Aparently a school was designed with an exposed walkway intead of a n indoor one. The quick walk outside between buildings, and the blast of cold air, drastically lowered the amount of sick days taken that winter.It's most likely that you are allergic to dust. The fan blows dust into your mouth and nose as you sleep, and you have mild allergic reactions .
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How can a member of the Commonwealth be considered independent but still have a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state?
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You are thinking about this all the wrong way. She is not the “queen of the Commonwealth”. She is the queen of the United Kingdom. But she’s also the queen of Canada, which is a completely separate job. Then, she’s also the queen of Australia, which is a completely separate job from the first 2. So, each country that she’s the head of state of is independent. Their queens just happen to be the same person.
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How can unemployment drop to 5.6% when we have a record number of people not working?
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You have to meet two criteria in order to be counted as "unemployed": 1. You have to not have a job . 2. You have to be actively **looking** for a job. So all the 16, 17, 18-year old highschoolers who aren't trying to get jobs are not in the workforce, but they're *also* not unemployed. Counting the number of people who don't have jobs isn't really accurate, because there are always people who either cannot work or aren't interested in working. That's why "unemployment" has the criterion that you have to be looking for a job. As an aside it would also be possible that large population growth causes the apparent disparity. If there were 100 people and 10 people not working, then there 'd be 10% unemployment. If the population grew to 150 with 13 unemployed, you 'd have a drop in percentage of unemployment while a new record high of 13 people unemployedBecause "unemployed" and "not working" have different definitions. Unemployed is generally a person that does not have a job, but is actively seeking one. Someone that is just "not working" may not be actively seeking a job and therefore is not "unemployed"5.6% of 316.1M people is still almost 18M people. A smaller proportion of a larger number can still be a record number.
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What are hiccups and how are they caused?
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The diaphragm is a domed muscle at the bottom of your chest that helps you breathe. When you inhale, it pulls down to open up your chest and allow air into your lungs. When you exhale, it relaxes to let the air out of your lungs. Occasionally, the diaphragm will get irritated and start to contract and move in a jerky manner. This can be caused by eating too quickly, feeling nervous/excited, or even from a stomachache. When your diaphragm starts to jerk around, this causes you to inhale air quickly, and when that happens, you end up with a hiccup.
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what's stopping me from naming random people as my heirs, in my will, when i pass and leaving my debts to them?
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Debts do not get passed on like that. When you die, your estate are responsible for your debts. Any debt that cannot be paid by your estate is forgiven.I can't speak for other states, but in TX, secured debt attaches to the property regardless of who you will it to. A will can state that the asset is subject to the debt . Or a will can state the the residuary money pays off the debt and then the asset is given to the person. Unsecured debt is usually arranged in a priority system. In Texas it's according to TX estates code 355.102. Up to $15k for expenses of funeral and last sickness. Then expenses of administering the estate. Then secured creditors. Then child support. Then taxes. And so on. Then unsecured. However TX also allows a spousal allowance and allowance in lieu of exempt property that can pas money in front of some creditors. But, a will can never force a non-signer of the debt to pay it.To add to this, one perpetual obligation is a time share property. This typically have annual dues, and are worthless in the secondary market. One can will this "asset" to an heir, but this is one asset, but like any other asset, the heir can refuse to take ownership. In this situation, the time share company doesn't get to drain the estate's assets. The obligation thus ends when the last surviving owner on the title dies.
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How does paypal credit work?
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You want a toy that costs $5, but you don't have $5. Mommy gives you the five dollars to buy the toy, and you pay her back over the next few months using your allowance. That's credit. Now, since mommy loaned you $5 and she's charging interest you give her a dollar a month for six months, paying back the $5 she loaned you, plus a dollar in interest.
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How come you can use different programming languages to create the same website?
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There are server-side pieces of software that run on the server and send HTML/JavaScript to the browser. Then there's code that runs on the browser. The standard for that in JavaScript, and that's pretty much what you can expect the browser to support . On the server side, you can implement a given site in whatever language you want, if you control the server. For client-side development, there are programming languages that compile into JavaScript, which will then run on the browser, but ultimately what you need to deliver to the browser is JavaScript, no matter how you produce it.The browser itself understands HTML - hypertext markup language - and displays the page from the html file content it receives from a server. On the server, the HTML can be static or generated using a program . The "different programming languages" would be used on the server to write the program, but those programs would generate the same HTML for the browser to displayThe different programming languages are used for the *server-side* code. The browser never sees this code - it only sees the client-side code. The server-side code is executed by the server. It creates an HTML page which is then sent to the browser to display. No matter what language the server-side code is written in, the eventual result is always in HTML.
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Why are people worried about using growth hormones on animals to be eaten?
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It is not known if animal hormones effect humans or not. These things are difficult to test. Currently the FDA says they are safe, so many companies use them. Some consumers are afraid of chemicals and sensationalist articles can make anyone afraid of anything, and it has created the idea that consumers should "worry" about additives, and this makes it profitable to market hormone-free products even without any proof the hormones are negative. I can't honestly say if the growth hormones are safe or not; I can say the FDA says they are, but the FDA has been wrong before. The issue is far from final, and more research needs to be done.
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Why do animals smell things in many short, quick bursts as opposed to long drawn out sniffs like a human would?
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Actually, if you want to smell something really good, the best technique is to have a couple of small sniffs instead of one long sniff. This creates turbulences in your nasal cavities, mixing up scents and air really good.
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How are noodles made industrially?
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Here's a video. _URL_0_ "How It's Made" tends to cover high end products, which might be slightly different from similar mass market productsThere's a purpose-built industrial machine. It mixes semolina flour and hot water into a dough, then extrudes, rolls, and cuts the dough into thin, ~1" strips. After that, there's a machine section that pinches the "knot" and cuts the dough at the ends, and the pieces go on to the drying process.
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Why does the leaves on the linked tree stay there even when it doesn't receive enough sunlight to make chlorophyll?
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Plants can perform photosynthesis from artificial light. Sunlight is better, but the streetlight is sufficient and would basically give the tree endless lightPlants sense when to lose their leaves based on length of day. Since the light is on, the length of day for those leaves is 24 hours.Plants don't need sunlight to perform photosynthesis. The streetlight can give light to it, meaning it basically has a 24 hour light cycle.
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Years ago lead was used prevalently in paint, water pipes, and fuel. Why didn't everyone who was exposed get poisoned?
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A lot of people did. Google "mass lead poisoning" and there are a lot of pretty gross examples. There is also a strong correlation between use of leaded gasoline and violent crime in the US . You also have to recognize, though, that lead poisoning is on a spectrum to some degree , and lots of other things caused or were believed to cause madness as well. So while you can certainly test for lead poisoning, many people likely wouldn't bother or even think to. There are likely many cases of deaths that were spurred on by lead poisoning but blamed on alcohol or madness or whatever was popular at the time.They did, that's why kids of the current generation seem so much smarter than the ones of generations past. Lead poisoning is subtle in many situations.
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Why are artificial sweeteners unhealthy?
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Per se not actually bad for you like most things are bad. Studies show that it may mess with how your brain processes sweet signals without calories versus regular sugar and it messing with that in a negative way. They have shown to cause cancer, but in those studies the doses tended to be very high, on the order of a barrel full for a human in the case of saccharin. I have personally not read any credible articles that have shown truly detrimental health effects caused by artificial sweeteners. Edit: I would be more worried about the other additives to said products with sweeteners.My understanding is that there isn't really conclusive research to suggest they are either totally safe or bad for you. Lots about nutrition is a mystery, and research in nutrition is hard to do properly and is easy to take out of context. I would love to read the research your wife has mentioned, though, in case I'm out of date.
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What exactly the Seroquel and Lamotrogine is doing to my brain?
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This is a question you really need to ask your doctor. Given that you are on schizophrenia/bipolar disorder medication at 26 I think you need to take some interest in the specifics of maintaining your mental health.
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If the USA was to switch to the metric system...
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That has been done by Congress. The US officially switched in the 1970s. It did not stick. Those industries like the Sciences where it is much more useful switched, but general society where there is virtually no difference in the usages as we do not need to be that accurate in things there is not enough of a benefit to overcome the inertia of learned behavior and the cost of changing the infrastructure. To switch we would have to replace every piece of equipment in every home and building from the screws and nails used to build things, to the pipes in your walls, to the car that you drive. You would have to replace every single road sign in the nation. Etc. It would cost trillions of dollars. Most nations that switched did so before there was a lot of infrastructure or standardization of how things were made or built. Those that switched later like the UK are in a kind of half transition because of those same inertia issues. The UK still uses miles, and still uses Stones and pounds for weight.
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Why do Chinese "Lions" not look anything like actual lions?
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Mostly because lions are not native to China. Imagine this: one person saw it, and tries to describe it in text, and the artisans tries to create something from the text, pretty much what Chinese lions looks now is what we get. Then newer generations simply copy and add their own interpretations, similar to Burrito is kinda of American food instead of Mexican food. This compares to how tigers, which is native to China, are accurately depictedHere's what I remember from my art history days In Chinese art there is a "right" way to do pretty much everything from holding the brush to applying ink to paper. This is easily controlled because artists were all from guilds and the artists that made the most well known lions were all part of the royal artists guild. This leads to highly uniform stylized art. That's why all "foo dogs" look the same. They are all emulating the work of an agreed upon master. Also many sculptures are not made by one person so having standards made it a lot easier. The Chinese are by no means unique in this respecti believe you’re talking about sculptures of lions usually seen outside temples and such. i was taught that they weren’t meant to be representations of the animal, but rather as guardians of the location. they are more “stylized” in order to frighten demons or evil spiritsFrom my understanding, and feel free to correct me, is that they kinda based them of Tibetan Mastiffs. Which were kinda bred to like lions
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Why do some people get paralysed by fear?
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It's the third option in the "fight or flight" response. When people freeze, their brain decides being perfectly still so the attacker can't see you is the best response. This is rooted in the fact that some of man's early predators reacted to motion. So being the one that didn't move meant you were the one that didn't get eatenThere is a lot of data programmed into us from before we became "civilized" that still has a grip on us. Holding still is often a way to fool a predator, particularly predators who rely on MOTION to detect prey.
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How much does it cost me to charge my power bank?
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First you need to convert 12000mAh to Wh To do this, use this formula *)/1000. */). This will get you 44.4 Wh. Convert 44.4 Wh to kWh which is .0444kWh. Now, take the cost of kWh and multiply it by the kWh used. .12/kWh * .0444kWh = $.00528/charge. Most lithium ion batteries start to loose 30% of their capacity around 1,000 cycles. After 1,000 cycles its reccomended to get a new battery. Your total cost would be $5.28 for charging in a span ~3 years. Hope this helps. Also, don't give into people bitching because you use their electricity to charge your stuff.
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The difference between Unison and Harmony.
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When two instruments are playing the same notes, this is unison. When two instruments are playing different notes, then this is harmony.
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The sun's rays and why there's not a "circular ray"
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What you call sun rays is actually light that is bouncing of atmospheric particles. The reason the rays appear to emanate from the centre is a a simple perspective effect. It's the same effect that makes it seem like the rails of a railway track appear to converge each other a point in the distance. You know, however, that in reality they are always parallel and never actually meet at any point._URL_0_ Now, depending on the angle you are viewing, relative to the atmospheric particles and position of the sun, you can see sun rays as you describe that seem to emerge from the sun. These are called crepuscular rays. You can also see them sometimes meet a point that is NOT the sun. These are called anti-crepuscular rays. Here's an image._URL_1_ And sometimes, you do see them circular. In which case, we call them halos.Here is an image:_URL_2_
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how come all animals have adapted to not brushing their teeth except humans?
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember learning that it's because we generally outlive our teeth when we use them the way we like to, especially with the amount of sugar we eat, contrary to our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago. Many parts of the human body don't last as long as we actually live, now that our longevity has increased so much, and evolutionarily speaking, we only need our teeth for so long to be reproductively successful. Older animals often lose teeth or have so much wear that it can be hard for them to eat as well.
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Why do songs pitches apparently change when one yawns?
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Inside your ear you have a membrane called the tympanic membrane, or ear drum. It's connected mechanically to the cochlea where the pressure waves are translated into nerve impulses perceived as sound. On the other side of the tympanic membrane from the auditory canal is the eustachian tubes, which run down behind the nasal cavity, but above the back of the mouth. These equalize the pressure between the inside and outside of the ear so that the ear works consistently regardless of what the current atmospheric pressure is. Normally they are closed, only letting a small mount of air exchange, but when you yawn, you open the tube. The resistance of the tympanic membrane to the vibrations coming down the auditory canal is based on an equilibrium pressure, with some of the long waves transmitting through the pressure gap. A push on the membrane increases the eustachian tube pressure, while a pull drops it slightly. With the eustachian tubes open, there is no pressure change in the eustachian tube since it can quickly equalize to the changing pressure, reducing the volume of certain tones and changing how the music sounds.
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What does the 1m rise in the ocean from the melting region of Antarctica mean for everyone in relatable terms?
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Most of the world's large and important cities are on the coast. A 1m rise in sea level would mean those cities would become much more vulnerable to storms, parts would flood, sea walls might need to be built around them, etc. Some cities might need to be abandoned or protected by seawalls. Large areas of coast would be lost, including large parts of Florida and Louisiana. Countries with large river deltas like Bangladesh, Burma, Vietnam, Egypt, would lose portions of their most heavily populated areas and best farmland. Some, like the island nations in the Pacific might need to be resettled entirely, since they're only 3m above sea level anyway at most.
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Why can some species newborns run immediately, while human newborns can't even hold up their own heads?
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This happens because of two of the most uniquely human features: * **Big brains relative to our body size** which helped with tool usage, running "what if" scenarios, etc.* **Bipedal locomotion**: which uses much less energy than walking on all fours When our bodies adapted to being bipeds, our pelvis shrunk. But since our brains were also growing, natural selection favored delivering our fetuses earlier in development. Really, small infants are sort of an external fetus. Even at the current gestational period of 9 months, it's really a horrifyingly tight fit through the birth canal. Unlike other primates\' pelvises, which have plenty of room, womens\' pelvises get narrower at the end, and in fact the baby's head has to turn 90 degrees as it's exiting in order to fit. EDIT: ~~we're~~ were', "Evolutionary trade-off. Humans have very large brains - so large in fact there's no way to birth a fully-grown human. The choice, then, is to have humans born mature but less capable, or make it some work to deal with a maturation period. Plenty of other species have made a similar trade off. Humans have made so much trading that it takes a great deal of our life to become fully matured.
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How does ordering someone out of their car not constitute a seizure of the person under 4th amendment?
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The 4th amendment does not say seizure is disallowed, it says "unreasonable" seizure is disallowed. Officers are allowed to make lawful demands during a traffic stop, such as requring people get out of their cars. That's been considered reasonable.
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Why is non-resident college tuition so much higher than resident college tuition in the US?
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You pay taxes in a state and the colleges and residents of that state benefit directly and indirectly from those taxes. Going to school out of state means that you're benefiting from others' tax money. The only way to compensate for that or keep it from being abused is to charge more for out-of-state students. Edit: Incomplete thought.
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How is dust able to collect on the edge of a ceiling fan that's used every day?
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Well if I am imagining it correctly, it is constantly being pushed into dust. Also, is it used all the time?
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the idea of intelligent design and how it determines the existence of a creator.
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The idea is that our universe was intentionally created by some unnamed intelligence with massive or even infinite power. For evidence they point to things like the distance from the Earth to the Sun being good for life, the fact that the moon perfectly covers the sun during an eclipse, the fact that cells work, and many other things. To them, these observations are only explainable by this higher power. They often make statements such as "It takes a clock maker to make a clock". It's not difficult to see the flaws in their logic, but that doesn't really matter to them. Most of the people who put forth these views are also people for whom faith is important. You don't need evidence for something that you have already decided must be true.The idea, essentially, is that the universe was designed by a higher power. In the contexts you're hearing it, it's essentially a stand-in for Protestant Christianity-but-totally-not-saying-that-you-guys for the purposes of getting around prohibitions against religious instruction in public schools.
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Moon's gravitational forces versus water in our bodies
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Tidal forces aren't causes by the strength of gravity. They are caused by **differences** in the strength of gravity. Depending on position, one side of the Pacific Ocean might be several thousand miles closer to the moon than the other side. That means the moon is pulling one side about 5% harder than the other, and that difference warps the ocean and causes tides. The distance between one side of your body and the other just isn't big enough to make that same kind of difference.
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Why is iron important in the human body
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It binds to haemoglobin and makes it work, haemoglobins' job is to carry oxygen around your body, so if you have no iron, you have no oxygen carrying stuff which means you have no oxygen which means dead.
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How do musicians/producers/music studios choose which of their songs will be hits?
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They can choose which songs to promote, and those may become hits, but ultimately, the consumers decide if they like it enough to buy it.
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Why are many highways winding and not straight?
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They have to go around hills and valleys without going up and down to much. Therefore, they gently curve around to keep the road relatively level.Winding roads make you more alert than straight roads. It's safer. Edit - Don't know why I'm getting downvoted. Google highway hypnosis, it's a thing. There have been studies and everything.In addition to needing to navigate the terrain, much of the land that highways are built on was privately owned before the highways were built. There is a concept known as "right-of-way" ) that allows a government to take possession of or force an owner to allow them to rent land in order to build the highway. However, not every property owner is equally willing to give up their land for a highway to be built. So the exact course of a highway is often a balance between how much it will cost to build, and how much it will cost to convince the land owner to let it be built. If it's cheaper to build the highway around a piece of land than to take the land owner to court, the highway gets a curve in it.Lol drive through New Mexico or Arizona or Texas and you'll be begging for a Curve", 'It depends on what is in the way of where you are building a road. Much easier to go around a large hill than up one side and down another, let alone a tunnel through it or to remove the hill all together. There are also rivers to cross and elevation to think about. You also need to go around property that is privately owned.
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Music Equalization (as it pertains to Mixing)- what's the deal?
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Boosting = making a certain range of sound frequencies louder Cutting = making a certain range of sound frequencies quieter I'll post sample pictures in a bit. EDIT: Here is an [example]. So for me, I make hip-hop beats. When I'm making beats from sampling + chopping, I always cut the low / bass frequencies off of my samples for two reasons 1. I use other samples for bass, in which I boost the low / bass frequencies and cut out every other frequency2. Like you said, without EQing while having multiple sources of sounds, it will sound cluttered. In my experience, when two or three of your sound sources have low frequencies which are too loud, it gives a crappy sound. When I use synth leads, I commonly cut / lower some of the higher frequencies to make it blend better. But I pretty much cut the bass out of every track / synth / sample except for one track, which I used exclusively for bass. Of course, with EQing, just experiment what works best for you. That's how I've learned and developed my own methods of blending different samples and basses.
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What function does isopropyl serve in isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol)?
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It is disinfectant as alcohols tend to be, but because of it's structure it has desirable properties such as how easily it evaporates and the fact that it is a liquid. Isopropanol is simple enough, and very easy to manufacture, but doesn't have the same regulations as common ethanol. This makes it a perfect candidate. Lots of other things work similarly, but this one happens to be the best for its purpose.Isopropyl is the name for the kind of alcohol, not something that is added to the alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol is also called isopropanol. The kind of alcohol that you can drink is ethyl alcohol, also known as ethanol. There are other kinds of alcohol, too: methyl alcohol , propyl alcohol , butyl alcohol , isobutyl alcohol and many others. Each of these different kinds of alcohol has a different chemical structure.
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what's the difference between a green and blue screen, and why does it seem like everyone only uses green these days?
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The basic principle is the same--in your video editing software, you select everything that's just the right color, and then apply edits to that. It stops you from having to manually select an area in each frame, which would be incredibly impractical for most purposes. Green screens are favored for digital filming because digital cameras are normally more sensitive to green, and a cleaner image means cleaner editing as well. Blue screens were especially useful for editing film strips directly, because there was high-contrast film that was sensitive to blue. You'd use a filter to expose the non-blue part of the image separately from the blue part, allowing you to imprint two different images. But you can use a blue screen for digital editing as well, if you want; it's just not quite as advantageous--the typical use is when you need to shoot a bright green object.
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why do malnourished people get bloated bellies?
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What is happening is that for those people they might get enough calories but have too little protein. That lack of protein leads to a lack of fluid regulation and buildup of fluids within the abdomen. The big belly is water weight to the extreme.As u/phage0070 said, it's caused by protein deficiency and [edema] rather than general malnutrition. The technical term is [*kwashiorkor*].
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Why, when quoting a Sanskrit text in English, did Oppenheimer say "I am become death"? Why would you translate something into a target language using poor grammar?
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"Joy to the world, the Lord **is come**." "Christ **is risen**. Christ will come again." "I **am come** in the name of the father." It isn't poor grammar, it's an archaic use of to be as an auxiliary verb. Modern English uses the verb 'to have\' instead: the Lord has come; Christ has risen, etc. The King James Bible frequently uses this verb form, and since so many people have read it and quoted it over the centuries, the form now sounds "archaic" and biblical and faintly badass to modern English speakersIt's not incorrect, it's just an extremely old-fashioned way of phrasing it. A similar style is used in a lot of Biblical translations, too. I'm guessing he chose to phrase it that way either because the translation he 'd read used it, or because he wanted the dramatic effect. It sounds more ancient, cryptic, and powerful when you use the "odd" phrasingFrom wikiquote: Oppenheimer is quoting from the 1944 Vivekananda - Isherwood translation of the Gita"I am become" is biblical language and it sounds more epic
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What exactly is a spinoff company?
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You make beer, that is your company's main line of business. In the process of becoming a leader in beer, you got really good at making beer cans so good, you get a lot of business that has nothing to do with your beer. This has muddled your business direction a little, because you have to make decisions that might be good for one division, but bad for another. So you decided to spin off the can operation into a new company. I'm a shareholder, with 100 shares. One day I get a letter, telling me I now own 80 shares of the beer company, and 20 shares of the can company.
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Why do bank transfers take so long?
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Because banks don't like to share information, with strict handover policies. Some things take 4 days still! Like Cheque's! One day in transit from where the cheque was paid in, one day at the swap cheque place, one day in transit to the issuing bank, then the funds are sent on day 4. Then there are large transfers which get stopped for security and fact checking. Making sure the recipient has *exactly* the right name to receive the funds etc. Is that the sort of answer you were looking for? :)
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Do new born babies dream? Do they dream while they're still in there moms stomach?
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They probably dream about being safe in their mother's womb. Are we talking babies in the womb or their first sleep after being born? Since there is probably no way to know exactly what they dream, they could be dreaming about world domination for all we know.
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How does currency conversion work?
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This one is actually really cool, and works without anyone knowing the 'exact' amount of currency in the world. When one country wants to purchase something in another country - for example the Bangladeshi's ship the sweatshop clothing or the sum of all the Americans purchasing canadian coinage to cross the border for a fun trip - there is created a demand for the coinage of the foreign nation. At the same time, the other country is purchasing in our country. The trade balance between the two countries exactly equals, subject to a slight delay, the currency exchange. Now, if one country devalued it's currency by flooding the market with currency, it would be 'easier to get'. So when the comparison gets made between the amount we bought of your stuff, and the stuff you bought of our stuff, the one with the 'cheap currency' would suddenly be worth only a little of the other guys. This happened in Mexico when hyper-inflation caused the Peso to radically devalue - there's actually old bills that say 10,000 pesos, they devalued them by 1000 so they suddenly equaled 10 pesos again - across the board, because they had experienced a period of hyper inflation when people across the border could get currency way, way too easily, making it worthless. So basically it doesn't matter if people _know_ that there's more bills or not - the actual presence of the bills in the system makes them too easy to get, which is reflected in the currency exchange rates. And when five american dollars equals six canadian dollars, it means that Canadians bought six dollars of american products for every five dollars we spent in canada/on canadian goods. Minus a little fee every time for the transaction, which is why government-set exchange rates sort of suck compared to getting the guy at the hotel to exchange your bills on the downlow.
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Abstraction in a Philosophical sense.
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Abstraction is the breaking down of properties and use of those properties for the purpose of extending them to something else so the something else can inherit the properties and change these properties as the abstraction requires. When ideas and concepts become sufficiently complex it is often helpful to break them down into parts or symbols. These symbols are more simplified and have new distinct meanings in the context of the abstraction. The abstracted symbolic meanings can only be understood in context of connected ideas, the ideas they are extending and how they have been changed, and who has changed them. In post-modern thought all symbols are available for abstraction and interpretation, meaning nothing means anything unless one gives it meaning. When you read the works of a philosopher you have to understand the definitions, the philosophical climate they were working in both historically as a whole and within the history of philosophy itself. To say Marx and Hegel are misunderstood because their ideas are abstracted is to say there was a lack of understanding with the definitions of their ideas, and how they used those ideas. In philosophy this is called metaphysics. In computer science and philosophy abstractions fail when they violate the extension of their symbol definitions, their metaphysics. Some ideas are difficult to abstract because of the mass and gravity of their bases, so misinterpretation and kludge are frequentCould you please say more about your question? Are you just asking for a definition of the word, or what?
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the difference between Teen Titans and the members of the Young Justice League.
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It's a different group from a different comic strip While still members from the same universe. Like the avengers and x men
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How does the audio know how to split into 2 different left and right signals in earbuds?
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The audio file is stereo . Look closely at that one jack and you'll see it is divided by a pair of black lines into sections. These sections are hard-wired so that one will carry a signal to the left bud and one to the right. If you opened up the jack casing you would see two separate wires soldered to the jack. Likewise, if you cut open the headphone cable you would discover two separate wires inside. Note, the source signal is physically separated into two signals at the point at which the digital audio file has been converted into an analogue signal. So, if you're playing music from your phone then the socket that your earbud's Jack is plugged into is also hard wired to maintain two signals . The Jack is merely a continuation of a dual-signal that begins at the analogue-to-digital converter in the source device. Hope that makes sense.Also, in digital files the data for each channel are tagged as such so the software can send it to the appropriate memory location that the hardware then reads from.
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how lyft is almost as big uber but only uber is suffering with regulations, fines, arrests and stings?
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It's not. Lyft's last valuation put it at $2.5B _URL_3_ Uber's last valuation put it at $41B. It has raised more money than Lyft is worth._URL_2_ Left currently serves 1 country_URL_0_ Uber serves 57 countries_URL_1_", 'I can tell you that in Albuquerque Lyft was forced out due to all of the regulations and fines. So they are not immune to it, but they just get less publicity than Uber.
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What is so special about Ebola
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Previous outbreaks were easily contained and did not spread beyond a small region. It also occurred only sporadically. Every few years it would show up, kill a few hundred people at max and then disappear again. The best management strategy was to isolate outbreaks and let the virus burn itself out. This is no longer possible as it seems.The difference is that it is highly infectious and very deadly. To make matters worse, it's spreading very fast now beyond standard means to contain it to a specific region. We're working on solutions, but the recent outbreak has had exploded in relatively little time for us to create an effective solution.
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