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<|im_start|>user Why does jerking a table cloth quickly from a table not disturb the plates but if you do it slow they all come off? Shouldn't there be the same amount of friction whether you pull it fast or slow?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If we look at Newtons second law: F=ma, we can clearly see that force is p...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are pills usually the same size for different sized people? I’m eating pollen medicine. They are small pills and I should eat one per day. I realized that I, as a big dude has the same dose as a small tiny woman would have. One pill per day. Even if I have three times the mass. Why is it this...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: evidence for other dimensions (beyond 3)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant At the simplest level, a dimension is a number you need to describe something fully. For instance, in our 3d space, you need 3 numbers to describe where something is...up/down, left/right, forwards/backwards (or any one of a...
<|im_start|>user How much of a person's voice is based on their larynx's physical properties, and how much is based on their brain's insructions to said larynx? Say my friend and I had our larynges swapped, how much would we sound like ourselves, and how much would we sound like each other? Additionally, how large of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did prohibition ever gain enough popular support to become law? Given the massive popularity of alcohol, including among lawmakers, how did the temperance movement ever manage to get it banned?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant 1) Because of the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840) and the Third ...
<|im_start|>user Can someone please answer an evolution question? I heard from a Christian teacher at my school that evolution is impossible because mutations can only result in a loss of complexity in an organism. They told me that new genetic information cannot be introduced, that only old information can be manipula...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What am I feeling when someone puts a finger close to my forehead, over my "third eye"? Edit: I am referring to the feeling you get when someone hovers a finger over your nose and more or less between the eyes when they're closed (where some people claim our third eye would be). It is as if you c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Why did contact with the Vikings not have the same effect on Native American population that contact with Europeans at a later date did? After contact with Columbus and Europeans in the 14-1600's Native Americans lost massive amounts of people due to exposure to diseases they had no natural resist...
<|im_start|>user How did Copernicus arrive at the conclusion that not the Earth but the Sun was the center of our solar system? Considering he made this discovery over 500 years ago, even before telescopes had been invented, how did he know that? What were the reasons for him to start to doubt the then almighty image o...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Any interaction that increases an intellectual property's value is not a cultural interaction it is a commercial interaction ie Video Game culture is not a self-actualized culture but a consumption culture driven for profit I do want to preface this subject with the fact that I am not a philospher...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Imperial Measurements are completely useless Hello, so I came up on a YouTube video, which practically explains everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk I would like to know if there's any usage of imperial that is more practical than the metrics. So far I think that they are comp...
<|im_start|>user How is a clean room, such as a room that prepares semiconductor chips, made clean?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant * Air filters similar to the HEPA filters for home use * carefully designed air flow both in the room and between the room and the outside * carefully designed furniture both in shape and ...
<|im_start|>user What would happen if everyone invested their disposable income? What would happen if everyone *wisely invested their disposable income, rather than consuming unproductive stuff? *Investing in companies not related to consumables Obviously, major consumable industries would go out of business. Ignori...
<|im_start|>user [General] What valid reasons would post-scarcity civilizations have conflict? EDIT: I think my base question is: "Do you think conflicts between post-scarcity civs is realistic or simply drama for the sake of good fiction, and why?" Post-scarcity: have fusion energy or something better, have matter re...
<|im_start|>user Why don't spiders get stuck in their webs?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Their webs use many different types of silk. Some are elastic, some are strong, and some are sticky. They can also mix these properties as necessary. They know which will lines are sticky a d simply avoid stepping on them. Some ...
<|im_start|>user How does single server with single app deployed handle multiple requests? i was just searching about this on Google. didn't find much relevant information about this question. Every article on Google mentions that it's with the help of TCP sockets handling the request by containing the information abo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How and why do shows like "Rick and Morty" use a different director for every episode while maintaining stylistic consistency? Why would they want a different person directing each episode? Wouldn't that cause some amount of inconsistency and discontinuity between episodes? What's the point?<|im_...
<|im_start|>user Why did we decide to use asbestos and lead in the manufacturing of numerous items?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Both of these were used because they have beneficial properties, and the extent of their negative properties were not yet known or were not yet fully appreciated. Asbestos is an incredibl...
<|im_start|>user CMV: People should not be encouraged to go to university or college simply to "find themselves" By "find themselves", I'm referring to the idea that the primary reason for attending college is to develop or experiment with your identity more, and become more mature. I'm not saying that college does not...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can different parts of the human body withstand different amounts of pain?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Some parts are more important and exposed (ie: eyes, hands, feet, groin) and so they need to be protected more, and the easiest way to do that is to make it feel bad when something damag...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: In statistics, why can't you sample a group larger than 10% of the whole? I've been told that taking a sample larger than 10% of the population will be less accurate than say, taking a sample of 50% of the population. How does this work? To me it seems that, the more people you sample, the more a...
<|im_start|>user If ocean water had a higher viscosity, would wave size be affected?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Yes because the viscosity changes the amount of energy needed to make the substance move, in this case you are asking about wave size so you are going to need more force to make the wave grow at least t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Do other languages have as many accents as English? Why or why not? There are wildly different English accents across the globe, but does this happen with other languages? I feel like it would, but I've never heard/seen anything about it.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Everyone is giving example...
<|im_start|>user [the culture] are drones human conscience in robotic bodies or are they sentient machines ? And what's this 1:1 intelligence, is it a rating system for how smart a thing is ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They're sentient machines created and raised in such a way that they can interact with humans in...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Japanese soldiers in WW2 movies are usually portrayed as stupid and tactless, fanatically charging towards heavily defended positions and only using bayonets, is this actually true or a media falsehood? Well?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Japanese army focused on close quarters tactics whic...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What's the catch of "free rewards cards" (at like Ingles or WalGreens) I really can't believe they'd give cheaper items for nothing. What's the catch? All I can find are ads online.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They get better data on your purchasing habits. This means that they can aggregate ...
<|im_start|>user Why Walter Benjamin concluded that the "aestheticization of politics" would lead/has led to war?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The problem with mass reproducible media is that it formally creates communal, utopian experience (e.g. via everybody adopting the perspective of the film lens) without neces...
<|im_start|>user Authorship Negotiation I’m a full time research employee (not a student) who was desperately asked to join a STEM research project that needed to be revived so it wouldn’t fail. I accepted and have been working on it for nearly a year. I updated an intervention and coordinated expert panel review of it...
<|im_start|>user CMV: STEM is more important than art in society I believe that science and technology are more important than art, music, and similar fields. Without STEM, we would have never developed antibiotics, cured smallpox, invented the automobile, and made thousands of other extremely important developments o...
<|im_start|>user If telomers get shorter with every split of a cell, doesn't this mean we can pretty accurately calculate when someone will die of old age?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The concept behind the question is an interesting one and the idea of predicting the lifespan of an individual based on biological i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can't we use the ocean to dump onto fires?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Saltwater changes the pH of soil and can really hinder the regrowth of plant communities. If you consider an area that seldom receives rain then you have a very long time before enough freshwater (rain) has fallen to...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does phone voice quality still suck, while Skype and FaceTime sounds like the person is right next to me?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Telephone systems were deployed many decades ago and it was important that different systems were able to communicate with each other. Regulators defined s...
<|im_start|>user Does capitalism tends to create monopolies? Yesterday, I had a discussion with my brother who is a libertarian. And he would argue that the government is the principal cause of monopolies with their regulations. I can understand that regulation tends to create oligopolies. For example in sectors that...
<|im_start|>user What keeps Jupiter, a gas giant, from collapsing under its own gravity and becoming a dense solid?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hydrostatic equilibrium is what you want to look into. It's what keeps big round things round, from planets to stars. In Jupiter's case, the gas at the center is hot from ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Owning the property rights to a fictional work does not make a company the sole authority on how that fictional work should be imagined. Considering some installments in a series "non-canon" is a perfectly valid audience response. In recent years a lot of old fictional franchises have had new inst...
<|im_start|>user What's the difference between Marxism and Communism?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Marxism is a collection of philosophical, political and socioeconomic schools of thought, commonly employing Marx's analysis tools of historical materialism, his critique of capitalism, and Marxian theories of economic...
<|im_start|>user Why are rockets/ spacecraft corrosion resistant, if there is no oxygen in space? I was reading about the different types of alloys used in rockets, and many of them are labeled as 'corrosion resistant'; does this actually matter or is it just a useless byproduct of the alloys that rockets use? (btw, so...
<|im_start|>user Why are we so far from a scientific consensus about the best diet? I understand that human needs are complex are human bodies are adaptable, so we shouldn't expect a consensus list of The Best Things for Everyone to Eat. However, it seems to me that **some** options should be off the table. Some eatin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: what does the spleen do with old/unviable red blood cells after it has filtered them from the bloodstream?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Healthy red blood cells simply pass through the spleen by virtue of their shape and ‘youthful’ flexibility making it possible to pass through a series of smal...
<|im_start|>user I think that education is the single most important factor in the development of a country. CMV. Education is the most important weapon against poverty but also other problems in 3rd world nations. 1. Children will have a chance to get a better job in the future. If you can read in those kind of coun...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do radio waves pass through walls while light waves don't?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Waves tend to interact with things that have a similar scale to their wavelength. A solid, opaque object like a wall has microstructures that are of a similar size to the wavelength of light (i.e. very,...
<|im_start|>user ELi5: Why is matter referred to as 'information' when related to black holes? Whenever I read an article about black holes or other enormous gravity wells, I always see something like "...and since information can't escape the event horizon...". A good article will go on to say something about matter b...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we usually see meteors fall to Earth at an angle, but rarely straight down? EDIT: So no definitive answer, and some conjecture going on. Wheels up boys and girls, we're going to r/askscience<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Because everything in space (with mass) has a relative orbit and g...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] How can it be that every Holo-room can create more emotionally convincing personalities than Data ever was?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Those personalities were driven by conversational algorithms, tailored to present convincing facades within scripted scenarios. They were not inherentl...
<|im_start|>user Is there a limit to the number of planets that can plausibly form around star systems of two or more stars?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on how closely the stars orbit each other. There are three types of possible orbits for planets in a binary star system: 1. Planet orbits around Sta...
<|im_start|>user Writing letter of recommendation for professor Hello, One of my former professors just asked me to write him a letter of support for his promotion/review. I agreed without hesitation because he has supported me greatly through my years as a student at my former college. Now, I've never written a recom...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did humans in Asia evolve to have narrower eyes, why did Africans skin stay black while Arabic and European peoples became lighter? No offense meant, just phrasing the question as best I can as to how some humans evolved with certain traits and how the process occurred.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do photographs sell for millions of dollars when the photographer could just release a duplicate at any time? For example, Cindy Sherman's [Untitled #96 ](http://i.imgur.com/X3ZAkpz.jpg) sold for $3.9 million. Is there anything preventing photographers from producing multiple copies?<|im_end...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are we certain that the laws of physics are true for the WHOLE universe and not just our Earth/solar-system? The ways in which we observe the rest of the universe (by telescopes, hadron colliders, etc.) are all done here on Earth, so how are we so sure these laws are so accurate for the entir...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do motion sensors work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The general function behind most, whether it uses infrared, ultrasound, or even a webcam, is a game of "spot the difference." When calibrated in a still room, the sensor knows that the general "image" it is "seeing" is a scene without an...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Feminism is the wrong approach to gender equality Hello! Let me preface by saying I don't believe there is a better sex. Your genitalia is not indicative of your role in society, your actions and decisions are. That being said, feminism is a movement for women, not equality for all sexes. I believ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Who wrote the bible and how can we trust the things that are in it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The bible is a collection of stories written over a long period of time. Some of the chapters are contemporary others are written long after the fact. Some are possibly reflective of what happened...
<|im_start|>user Are 'pure', 'a priori' and 'transcendental' interchangeable in Kant's use? For example when Kant talks about **pure concepts of the understanding** it is clear to me that this can als be said as **a priori concepts of the understanding** but could I also use **transcendental concepts of the understandi...
<|im_start|>user How graduate school works. How do people get in and what do they do there? What makes it different from being an undergraduate?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Graduate school is so diverse that it doesn't really make any sense to lump it all into one category. As a general term, graduate school is ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can't people with dementia draw clocks correctly?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are several aspects of the clock-drawing test. You have to plan ahead, and maintain a symmetric position for the numbers. Then you have to add hands, pointed at the time the doctor asks you to use, which...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why did NASA keep us waiting before they revealed what they found on Mars? It's not like they're a company coming out with a new product and they want to build up hype. They're a part of the government that works for the people. Why would they intentionally withhold information from the public fo...
<|im_start|>user How would an anarchic society, which is based on cooperation between individuals and a lack of hierarchy, deal with the 'bad' people? There will always be individuals that have a psychological need to do harm to others in various ways. They can be labelled as 'bad' by the society as a whole just from a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does "Auto focus" works on cameras? Like, how can the camera decide that the object is in focus? How is the distance measured by using just light (I assume so since it's normally very difficult for the camera to focus in low light environment)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant To add to the oth...
<|im_start|>user What was the region of the brain that allows us to read used for in cultures without a written language? And for that matter, how do we already have an *entire brain region* dedicated to the use of a specific tool that's still a recent innovation, evolutionarily speaking?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistan...
<|im_start|>user Is it possible for a species to have an evolutionary trait that wasn't a result of survival of the fittest? Essentially just a trait that tagged along for the ride as the generations went on?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Survival of the fittest is a loose term. All traits are the result of evolutio...
<|im_start|>user Overpopulation and resources: criticisms against Malthusianism? Hey everyone, I had a discussion with a friend who is a Malthusianist. And while I had never heard of his exact theories about overpopulation before, I am familiar with similar ideas related to demographics. Now, one of the first things ...
<|im_start|>user Should physicians spend more or less time in research? I've noticed an increased push for physicians to work on research. Why is this happening? I would have assumed physicians would want less research demands, so they can focus on treating patients.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I’m research facul...
<|im_start|>user Carnap, Quine, and the return of metaphysics I've been trying to understand why metaphysics made a comeback in the second half of the 20th century, and have a couple questions in relation to that. My basic understanding is that Quine made the case that we could make a principled decision between ways o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why did it take 1 year to construct the Empire State Building in 1930 but 7 years to construct One World Trade Center in modern times? Shouldn't modern technology speed up the construction process?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Modern technology and construction processes are more complex which...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: how does DNA code editing work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I assume you mean how we genetically modify organisms? Step one is obviously to figure out which gene you either want to insert or remove. That's just long, tedious work sequencing the genome and then doing experiments to figure ou...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do researchers who do tests on mice have to comply with strict ethical regulations, and yet it is legal for me to use mousetraps and very painful poisons to remove them from my house?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Research is just highly regulated in that any research animal must be treated...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are banks allowed to use money in way they cannot give people their own money back?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Consider a small village with one bank and no outside help. An individual wants to build a factory. So he takes out a loan. In future this factory happens to be very successful...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How are cigarettes still legal? If they were a medicine for a disease the FDA would have them banned for their lethal side effects<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It is probably because our laws are often determined by the prevailing culture and social norms, and not based on logical or scientifi...
<|im_start|>user How much can boiling a pot of water raise the humidity in a building? My question is because at my cabin that is heated by a wood stove it gets very dry and we always put a pale of water on the stove to counter act the fire. With out the water every time you walk around and you touch something you get ...
<|im_start|>user Are the most popular searched terms on Google on Wikipedia a good measure of public interest, or public curiosity, in a subject?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant An indicator is exactly that: an indication of X. Often times we can't measure X directly because it's unobservable or unfeasible. Campbell ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Gender Dysphoria (Being transgender) is a biological, mental disorder, and should be treated like OCD or Depression. Gender Dysphoria, also called Gender Identity Disorder, refers to feelings of not belonging to the gender one is assigned at birth. People who have these feelings are referred to as...
<|im_start|>user Why does it take several minutes for our eyes to adjust to the dark, when our pupils shrink so quickly?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's not just the pupil that helps us adjust to bright &amp; dark situations. There is a chemical called Rhodopsin that detects when photons (light) hits it. The lig...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Difference between Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are 7 postulates in Euclidean geometry - baseline rules that underpin the entire logical system. Non-Euclidean geometries involve changing the 5th postulate - also called the parallel postulate - to so...
<|im_start|>user [Final Fantasy 6] Where did Kefka get the power to single-handedly kill 20 espers in one blow?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Kefka had two main advantages: 1. Immediately before that happens, Kefka and the Emperor had *just* figured out that the full power of Espers can be transferred by using Magic...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Children should not be punished for bad grades. With the holiday season coming up, I have seen several tweets spark joking about kids/teens knowing they’re no longer going to get anything on their Christmas wishlist due to bad grades. When I was younger, I also got grounded for bad grades, sometim...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do plants circulate water and nutrients throughout their system without a heart? As far as I know, plants don't have any kind of moving parts that help move water and nutrients from their roots to their crowns. So how do they do it? How do plants work against gravity? It would make more sen...
<|im_start|>user [Stellaris] Why is slavery so popular in the galaxy? Why not just build insentient automated factories?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Low initial materiel requirements. You need machinery to produce machinery; to produce more slave labour all you need is two slaves and judicious application of alcoho...
<|im_start|>user [Equilibrium] If art is illegal. Why do new buildings have artistic elements to them? Such as [this](http://3oneseven.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/equilibrium.jpg) and [this](http://d2oah9q9xdinv5.cloudfront.net/images/members/1/422/421599/20110721164338.jpg).<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Citizen,...
<|im_start|>user [Marvel 616] Can the Venom symbiote bond with Rogue? What would happen in a physical contact scenario? Also, since it can steal genetic attributes from hosts, could it steal a whole bunch of mutant powers?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The symbiote needs to bond with the host for a significant amoun...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What gives the federal government the right to ban marijuana? And why can states violate that? [Serious] I keep hearing about how the federal gov't bans all pot. But states still legalize medical marijuana, and in the case of Colorado, even recreational pot. So why can states violate the federal ...
<|im_start|>user [Man of Steel]How did Clark's parents hide his powers in his youth Throughout childhood, you have to get several check ups done, especially in your school years. In high school, you have to get multiple jabs done. One was for tetanus IIRC. Obviously any needle would break on Clark's skin. There are al...
<|im_start|>user Is it true that there are as many numbers between zero and one as there are between zero and infinity? A math teacher made this claim and I'm wondering how it could be proven.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You do this by showing there is a one-to-one mapping between these two sets. First, we pair ev...
<|im_start|>user How respected is Dennett as a philosopher? He's a leading figure in the "new atheism" movement, the "brights" movement, and also said he has "come out of the closet as a verificationist," implying verificationism is a taboo of some sorts. (logical positivism I believe).<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why doesn't the United States have similar population issues as India and China?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Being rich, and womens' rights. Poor people have more kids, this is a well known fact. People working on farms in rural India don't have tractors, they need as many people as possibl...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 in economics, how does inflation work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The money supply represents all the available 'working value' in an economy. By increasing the money supply, you can't change the 'real' value of the work, but now that you have more tokens representing the same economy, each t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is exactly meant when someone says they are a "consultant"? I often meet people my age (mid/late twenties) who work in "consulting"...usually a male who majored in something like business or finance in college, likes to wear suits out to the bar, we all know someone like this. Whenever I a...
<|im_start|>user [MCU Infinity War] How did Thanos turn the Aether (Reality Stone), a liquid, into a stone?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant On its own, it flows into different shapes and states, altering reality because that's what it does. Sometimes it's a liquid, sometimes solid, sometimes particle cloud, etc. Once...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 why are tennis courts different materials? Pro basketball always on wood. Pro football (US) mostly on grass. Why do tennis surfaces vary so much? Or is it just green clay sometimes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It comes down to what is easily available and, more importantly, what is easier and...
<|im_start|>user Do plants have immune systems? Whether it's bacteria, fungus, or insects, do plants have a way to fight off deadly organisms? Obviously trees and other plants don't have white blood cells or immune systems like animals, so I was wondering if they had a way to fight off diseases and parasites.<|im_end|>...
<|im_start|>user How does listening to music while studying affect the human brain? Is it beneficial or harmful to the studying?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Music can often interfere with studying because of the scope of your working memory. Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that is resp...
<|im_start|>user [DC] How do the different Green Lanterns compare to each other? I've heard they have different styles of contructs, but what does this mean? Are the styles more or less suitable to different tasks? What about the Lanterns themselves? How do they differ from each other or from other colour Lanterns?<|im...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: in baseball, why does the catcher call out pitches to the pitcher? What does the catcher know that the pitcher does not<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The pitcher and the catcher both need to know the pitch. One of them has to call it out. The batter is looking directly at the pitcher, so it mak...
<|im_start|>user Benefits of Zotero/Other citation managers vs BibTeX? Hello, I am having a hard time understanding the benefits of using Zotero or other reference managers outside of just a BibTeX file. All the papers I write are in LaTeX because of my field, pretty much all conferences and journals require this. Rig...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Transgender definitions of a woman (or man) use circular reasoning so don’t make sense as a definition I know trans posts are overdone here, but I think part of it is because the idea just doesn’t make sense to a lot of people on a fairly fundamental level and people are trying to square that. I...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why do our muscles require constant training to be strengthened instead of strengthening them once and having strong muscles forever?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Our bodies strive to be as efficient as possible in order to increase our likelihood of continued survival. Muscles, while being u...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Student assignments in introductory programming courses should always be full programs in normal languages, not "fill in the blank" snippets in toy languages. I work as a computer science tutor and sometimes have students needing help with "fill in the blank" questions. The format is a website whe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it that when my computer is doing something, the "time remaining" estimate fluctuates so much and is rarely accurate?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Determining accurately how long the task would take would take a while in itself, so the programmers estimate the length of the task using m...
<|im_start|>user How did our ancestors with insufficient vision survive? This is a question I have bounced around in my head from time to time. I was born with poor vision (-3.75 in my left, -3.25 in my right), and recently underwent LASIK eye surgery. It went perfectly and I now have 20/20 vision. Eyesight seems to b...
<|im_start|>user What will globalisation look like when wages are too high and comparative advantage is lost? Comparative advantage in today's global economy is basically one countries wages are lower so stuff is built there and sold to countries with high waged worker what will happen when everyone is making a wage su...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How much DNA do I actually share with other humans? I know chimps and us share 98.5% of our DNA. However, what I don't get is how much DNA I'd share with any other odd human being on the planet. Like what's the scale? How many human-human DNA differences would it take to compare to a human-chimp ...