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<|im_start|>user Why use the mean, when median is available? Apologies if this has been asked before, search function on mobile wasn’t being helpful. From light reading I’ve done, it seems median is useful in describing datasets that may have large outliers. My question is: why do we place so much emphasis on the mean ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Since the Native Americans were here before us, how... did they end up here? Also didn’t the Vikings discover America or am I ignorant?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The native peoples of North America predate the Vikings and subsequent European settlers but also came via land migration. All hu...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: It seems that when devastating disasters happen in North America, less than a hundred are killed, but how come in countries in the Middle East, Asia and the Far East suffer far more casualties for similar disasters? Some examples i've seen are massive earthquakes in the US causing only a hundred ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Difference between Sunni, Shia, Sufi, Ibadi, Ahmadiyya, and other types of Islam? I have always wondered what exactly the differences between the differences between Islam are? Wasn't the Sunni/Shia split because of some sort of leadership split a long time ago? I heard Shia are typically more co...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Who exactly is Elizabeth Warren? I don't mean literally, but politically. I have read up on her a bit from all the /r/politics posts. Correct me if I am wrong, but she is being hailed as what Obama should have been. Going after Wall St. and big corporations. Besides this, what else should I know ...
<|im_start|>user If sociologists do not believe in race how do they define different social and cultural groups in society? Since race is not real how do we define groups? Where does one cultural group start and another end? Also, why is genetics the only thing able to define race?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Rac...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Legally speaking where is our right to privacy explained or hinted at in the constitution?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Founders were not thinking of a "right to privacy" as such. Privacy is a very abstract concept, which can have many different meanings in the public and private sphere. I...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When businesses say they accept all "major" credit cards, what exactly does that mean? Is there such thing as a "minor" credit card? And if so, what are they and how do they work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Major refers to visa/mastercard, and in most cases discover and Amex. As opposed to...
<|im_start|>user Can Banks Literally Create Money and Profit Off of it? So, I recently learned that banks don't need to have the money on hand to lend it. This seemed reasonable to me given that they had reasonable confidence in future payments being able to cover the cost of the new loans, but then I learned that bank...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 the known different human species? I feel like a literal idiot for not knowing there have been different species of humans in the past.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are 6 well established different species that once shared our genus. All were upright walking, likely communicating, tool us...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do frozen, raw chicken products keep getting recalled for salmonella? Wouldn’t the solution be to cook the product properly? All raw chicken could contain salmonella.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two normal issues governing a recall due to salmonella. The first is the actual load...
<|im_start|>user How did the ancients discover the value/concept of Pi? In what ways was it useful to their lives?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One of the earliest calculations was in ancient Egypt. It was used for things like calculating the areas of fields or the volumes of cylindrical granaries. One papyrus says...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do tractor trailer trucks need 18 large wheels, but very large planes only need 6 small ones?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Trucks drive a lot of miles and weigh a whole lot, so their weight needs to be distributed. Otherwise they're causing a lot of wear on the pavement. Virtually all we...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do hearing aids work? Are they just blasting what they hear directly into the ear potentially causing more damage?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hearing aids aren’t just amplifiers - they filter and normalize frequencies to adjust to the weaknesses of the wearer’s ears. They are tuned for i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What makes us legally bound to follow the law, even though we have never formally signed a contract or agreed to it like you would read and agree to the TOS for a game? I understand to drive you are bound to follow the rules of the road as you agree to do so when you get your licence. What is it ...
<|im_start|>user Why do high temperatures damage hardware, specifically cpu's and gpu's? I've searched everywhere and haven't been able to find a straight answer as to why heat will make processors fail. Specifically temperatures &gt;100C. What is actually happening on a microscopic and macroscopic level that is ca...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What's a homeowners association, how is it legal, and why can't you just ignore their rules and live however you want in your own home?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's an agreement between all the homeowners in a particular area to abide by common rules, and sometimes includes maintenance of...
<|im_start|>user [Warhammer 40k] Why is Terminator armour so completely useless against Genestealers? In Space Hulk, the massively armoured marines fall ludicrously easily to Genestealer attacks. As soon as they enter melee combat they are pretty much doomed, they might as well be naked. This always bugged the shit o...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Religion should not be a protected class. Although I do believe that people should have the freedom to practice religion in there own time, at home, and in church/mosques, I do not think it should be a protected class. By protected class I mean that businesses, services, and programs cannot deny/a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What's the difference between the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The World Bank provides funding for development projects (so if a nation wants to provide electricity to a remote, poverty stricken area the World Bank will provide a loan). The IMF provides cen...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is calculus<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Calculus is how you apply math which originally was used for counting sheep into something useful for observing the world, which doesn’t exist in discrete numbers of sheep but is made up of small pieces, small changes in quantities and time down to...
<|im_start|>user How to spend a gap year before graduate school Hi all, I'm about to graduate in the spring with a BA in philosophy, and I am planning on taking a gap year before I apply to a PHD program in philosophy. I'm hoping to spend the better part of the year working, preferable in a job related to philosophy. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is light both a wave and a particle?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Describing light like as a wave and a particle is just an attempt to use familiar objects to help understand what light actually is. In reality, it's neither wave, nor a particle, but it behaves similarly to both. It's kin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Virus vs. Bacteria<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A bacteria is a living cell. They have an extreme range of possible sizes, but most of the ones that infect humans are quite small, often hundreds of times smaller than human cells. A virus is a non-living package of DNA. It doesn't metabolize...
<|im_start|>user If you put a Garden in the ISS, Could you have infinite oxygen? Because it can create oxygen and u can feed it with co2? Edit: Jesus this is most updoots ive ever gotten thanks fam. Also thanks for responses Edit 2: My karma just tripled. thanks homies<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is called b...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why does make and female handwriting look so different almost all the time? Generally speaking, females write neatly with fluffy, bubbly letters. Men on the other hand usually have messy, jagged writing. Male**<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are cultural pressures, however it is partially ...
<|im_start|>user (DC) How detailed are Light Constructs. For example, if Scarecrow were to be given a Sinestro Corps Ring ( Like in Blackest Night ) would he be able to make a working Light Construct of his Fear Toxin?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Light constructs are limited by two things. Your imagination/knowle...
<|im_start|>user Do gendered languages act as a boundary towards sexual equality? Languages apply feminine and masculine associations with words, how does this shape social structures?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Unfortunately this is going to be almost impossible to test, because it's basically impossible to find ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does building muscle work? ELI5: How does building muscle work? How does this differ if your exercise is higher reps at lower weight vs. Tons of weight with a 1 rep max?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your muscles are made of 2 types of fibers: fast twitch and slow twitch. Working out pulls...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The Controversy With the American Economic System, and Why "The Poor Stay Poor"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The question is a bit broad. But broadly speaking there is a view, generally held by liberals, that the American economic system tends toward a concentration of wealth in the hands of...
<|im_start|>user Would it be possible for two people to grow together if they both were to cut off a hand/finger and then hold the wounds together? Assuming blood types and so on are identical.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Ignoring practical issues like being able to brace the wounds together for the weeks it'd take...
<|im_start|>user CMV: There are only two genders, Male and Female I've never understood the argument for the existence of more than two genders. It seems to me that even individuals who identify as transexual or ones who actually experience the mental condition known as body dysphoria aren't somehow in their own speci...
<|im_start|>user What's the strongest refutation to the claim that conciousness doesn't originate from the brain?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant According to Vedānta, consciousness is a function of Brahman, the underlying reality. From consciousness, the material world is manifest out of. Or in other words, the knower...
<|im_start|>user Why do we teach braille to blind people instead of stamped ”normal“ letters?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Stamped (raised) "normal" letters would need to be considerably larger than braille characters in order to be distinguished from one another through tactile sensation. Large enough that the fing...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do planets bend time?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Gravity, as far as we know, is caused by distortions in spacetime caused by mass. Since it's a distortion of spacetime it impacts both: space...which is why things are "pulled" towards planets, and time...clocks run slower near big masses....
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How/Why is Russia so big? I do not understand.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Over centuries, the principality known as Muscovy (Moscow) expanded territorially--to the Baltic, southwest through Ukraine and Crimea, and east and south. Expansion westward and southward more or less met its end when...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do people with poor vision instinctively squint their eyes? Why does this make their vision slightly more clear?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In addition to the points made by bubrahuicize, when you "stop down" (increase the f/# of) a lens (including your eye), you decrease the size of the...
<|im_start|>user Are there evidence based ways to increase empathy for others? What does the literature say on this? Are there evidence based ways to increase empathy for others? What does the literature say on this?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You could rather easily do what most people here are going to do and as...
<|im_start|>user Are there examples of urban gentrification that also increased the standard of living for that city's lower class residents?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Check out "There Goes the Hood" by Lance Freeman - an excellent qualitative study of gentrification in New York City. "This book argues that indi...
<|im_start|>user Why have viruses not evolved to the point of being beneficial to their hosts, rather than usually being harmful? Most viruses when they infect their hosts are going to be attacked and defeated by our immune systems. If a viruses goal is to ultimately replicate, wouldn't they be more successful if they...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is it legal that Hooters wont let men be waiters? Isn't that discrimination?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Basically, discrimination is legal - even in terms of protected classes like sex and race - if the company can show that there is a bona fide purpose for the discrimination. Hooters ha...
<|im_start|>user Why can't decompilers perfectly reconstruct source code? I always thought that there was a one to one translation between machine code and high-level languages, but after looking up decompilers, they don't usually do it perfectly.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Going from high-level language to machin...
<|im_start|>user [Halo] How/Where did the covenant get their super advanced cruisers, carriers, etc. The covenant had an overwhelmingly large advantage in technology. Am I led to believe that the San 'Shyuum came up with this technology on their own? Did they find it somewhere?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Engin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can someone be shot in the brain and not die ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Clinical Neuroscience/Neurosurg MD, PhD Candidate here. Quick rundown: 1) If major arteries or connecting arterioles (Cerebral medial, posterior, anterior, basal or carotid) are hit, there is a high probability o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is physically happening within our bodies that makes performing cardiovascular exercise easier and easier every time we do it consistently?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A number of things. One, as you perform cardiovascular endurance exercise, your heart starts pumping more blood per bea...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: the difference between a college and a university<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the UK, a College normally offers A-levels or equivalent (high school for 16 -18 year olds), whereas a University offers a much wider range of degrees, normally for people who have already completed A-levels and ...
<|im_start|>user 15 questions evolutionists can't answer Through another reddit link, I found the following link. I am a firm believer in evolution and that the fact that some of these question don' have an answer right now isn't because they never will. Are any of them flat out lies that we can't explain the answers? ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: First Nations people are already given enough freebies in society, and should stop asking for further special treatment. As a white Canadian citizen, I have grown up with the idea that the First Nations people had their land unfairly taken away from them by the European settlers through unfair tre...
<|im_start|>user eli5: Why is it that scientists make claims that planets are uninhabitable because there are gasses, temperatures, etc. that wouldn't support human life? This surely shouldn't be one shoe that fits all. Surely, all creatures (alien or human) require different 'things' (water, oxygen, etc for humans) to...
<|im_start|>user cmv:/ Underage voting should not be allowed ***I am from Switzerland so the voting system is different as at the most countries. so if you know to less about the voting-system go look it up real quick. thanks &lt;3*** For context, there is a huge discussion about if voting under 18 (at 18 you're an "a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why are female tits so sexualised ?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They are a secondary sexual characteristic and as such indicate that the woman is past puberty and therefore physically developed and ready for producing offspring. Them being large indicates that she is well fed (not an issue in...
<|im_start|>user What’s the process of hospitals adopting new medical practices as new medical information is discovered? Are there meetings were doctors go over new medical discoveries and choose which ones they trust to implement? Is it purely a cost issue? Are there approval barriers? Thanks!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why do Webpages "Bounce" back up to the top when loading the last few images when I have already scrolled down? I will connect to a webpage that has loaded text but is still trying to load some pages or video. I have scrolled down to read something, and when the images or video finally loads, I am...
<|im_start|>user [MARVEL] Could Mr. Fantastic walk on water by stretching his feet into pancakes, and if so how much surface area would he need to stretch them to?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two approaches he could take, spread his weight so that the surface tension supports him (pancake shaped feet), or...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Are Formula 1 drivers the most skilled drivers in the world, or could some random people be unknowingly better drivers? I mean I'm sure you need to know your racing to be a F1 driver, but are they the best drivers in the world, or could some people in the world unknowingly be better drivers than ...
<|im_start|>user If the materials making up the earth existed before the earth materialized, how can we tell the age of the earth? If all the elements that make up everything on earth existed since the time they exploded out of a star, how can we tell a difference in age in any inorganic material? Shouldn't the ages o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is a slide rule, and why was it’s invention such a big deal?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Multiplying numbers is harder than adding them. You need to do a bunch of smaller multiplications then add them up, and there's plenty of scope for error. Maths has a trick (invented by a Scot call...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If CBS really does have new info/suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case, why are they not required to turn it over to law enforcement?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Journalists are allowed some privilege when it comes to information and disclosing it or testifying about it, and by many avenues. Of...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Horoscopes, tarot cards, numerology, and those magic rocks are similar and all complete b.s. People have been increasingly into those magic rocks that are some type of magic or hold some health and spiritual benefits. These are fake and akin to snake oil. These can be lumped into the same category...
<|im_start|>user What important theories aren't taught to beginners that would've helped you when you started coding?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant That PL theory and category theory are worth learning. A lot of times you learn these data structures across multiple languages, and PL theory and category theory unifies...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is gravity calculated for distant planets and moons? How do we know the gravity for saturn is 107% of earths gravity, or how did we calculate the escape velocity for moon for the Apollo 11 mission.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Gravity is the same everywhere, there's the old Newton formula ...
<|im_start|>user How to deal with an otherwise competent programmer with a belligerently weird style? I work on a 5-person programming team (plus one supervisor). It's not a standard programming language and it's a small enough community that I am not going to name it here for the sake of anonymity. We have a code ...
<|im_start|>user [Star Wars] Why are there only two schools of the Force instead of many like we see with religions in our world?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are many different ways of understanding and harnessing the Force. Only the Jedi and Sith beliefs has spreading their belief on their agenda, though, l...
<|im_start|>user Why are there so many acidic fruits, but few if any alkaline ones?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Fruits are "designed" by natural selection to lure animals to help spread their seeds in exchange for a nutritious snack. Therefore fruits must be apetising to the target animals. Most animals use acids a...
<|im_start|>user After going through a modern embalming, how long does it take a body to decompose once buried? I've always wondered what our bodies look like a week/month/year after being buried... Any thoughts?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As a funeral director, this would depend on the condition of the body prio...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How come after hundreds of millions of years and 5 Extinction Level Events throughout Earth's history, humans are the only species to become "intelligent"? Why is it that humans are the only ones that have created a civilization in the entire history of the earth? Billions of years and 5 mass exti...
<|im_start|>user In a fully automated manufacturing and distribution society, what happens? Let's say we get to the point where factories and robots can do all the jobs of building structures , manufacturing, maintaining and distributing manufactured goods at a cost below that of human subsistence. Furthermore, many ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: Why/how do still images like this one look like they're moving? Optical illusions like: https://imgur.com/gallery/NOg2QCo How do they trick the eyes/brain into thinking its moving?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Well, human brain tries to interpret the image it sees in a way that makes the most...
<|im_start|>user [Doctor Who] Can a TARDIS take any form? So, the Doctor's TARDIS has taken the form of a police telephone box to better blend in with modern society. But, what are the limits of a TARDIS' forms? How often can it change? Could a Time Lord appear in, say, the telephone box form, change its form to a smal...
<|im_start|>user Why is our current understanding of gravity unable to explain the rotational speed of galaxies without adding unseen mass (via dark matter) to the equation? I have read that the the stars moving on the outside of galaxies would fly out of orbit at their speeds. Why is gravity not considered strong enou...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Andrew Yang's plan to give all Americans $1,000 per month would do little more than dramatically increase rent prices and other prices as well. It seems like a universal and equal influx of cash like that without a change in supply will only lead to higher prices. Especially in areas like housing,...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are male Homo sapiens typically stronger than females when the opposite is true for most other spiecies? Emphasis on most. I was watching a documentary and they said that females are typically larger, stronger, and more aggressive then the males. Why isn't this true in humans?<|im_end|> <|i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 How are large sums of money transferred between nations? Say country A sends some billions of dollars to country B in aid or in exchange for some resource. How does the actual transfer take place? How does the wealth of country A decrease and the wealth of country B increase?<|im_end|> <|im_start|...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why are people harder to pick up as "dead weight" as opposed to when they're letting you lift them? they don't really change weight<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They don't change weight, but they do shift and support their weight to make it easier for you to grab and maintain balance. That's ...
<|im_start|>user [EVE Online] Why can't I stuff cargo into the ore hold of my Retriever? Well yes i know it's called an *ore* hold, but it's an entire frikkin' 23500m^3 compared to the 450m^3 of my cargo hold. Why can't I put these 10000 Soil into the ore hold?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Ore is ore. It's stone, ro...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How legit is Judge Judy? (TV personality)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant From a legal point of view, Judge Judy operates as an independent mediator between two parties. The parties are asked to sign an agreement before going on the show, agreeing that whatever Judge Judy decides will be the fina...
<|im_start|>user Is the South Korean economic miracle an example of successful corporatism? If so, why did South Korean corporatism succeed while Italian Corporatism didn't? From the looks of it, it seems like blatant corporatism, Park-Chung Hee wants to industrialize his country, he establishes direct ties with busine...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When a container is sealed we call it 'airtight', is this the same as watertight or do liquids and gasses escape at different rates?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The molecules involved can be different sizes. An airtight object is water tight (assuming it doesn't fail). A watertight object is ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Religious tollerance is pointless, religions are not equal and have no place in modern society Specifically regarding the "big 3" (Christians, Jews, Muslims) but most religions have similar issues. Firstly I'll start by saying I would never persicute a person for their religious beleifs. But, clai...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do some colors shift when looking at things on an LCD screen from different angles? Looking at [this](http://www.clker.com/cliparts/a/1/C/x/k/E/pink-square-md.png) from above makes it seem bright blue, and below dark red. That's just one example of many.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Lcd sc...
<|im_start|>user What is so special about the relationship between circular/spherical objects' dimensions I just completed uni-level calc 1 last semester, and one relationship I noticed right away was between the circumference of a circle and it's area. I noticed that if you take the antiderivative of the circumference...
<|im_start|>user How can astronomers work out the size and mass of exoplanets when they're literally just a few pixels wide in a photograph?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In very simple terms, the size of an exoplanet can be approximated by measuring how much the star's brightness dips as the planet passes between th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is cold water from the sink clear, while very hot water from the sink is cloudy white?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Unlike solids and liquids, gas has an inverse relationship between solubility in water and temperature of the water. This means the warmer the water, the LESS gas it can abso...
<|im_start|>user CMV: 'Degrowth' as a political, economic, and social movement is required to combat Climate Change and ecological degradation, and to minimize their impacts I am confident few here have heard of Degrowth, therefore bear with me while I provide a fundamental grounding of Degrowth. Know that this groundi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are vegetables more consistent than fruits? Everybody's had that awesome clementine that's sweet and juicy, and the one that's dry and a little sour. Or the grapes that aren't as firm as they should be \(even sharing the same cluster as awesome grapes\). Or the flavorless pineapple. But br...
<|im_start|>user Is empathy a prerequisite to being a therapist? Do good therapists exist that have low empathy?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Speaking as a currently practicing mental health therapist, empathy is essential. If you cannot empathize with the position your clients find themselves in, your clients will ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:How come the price of Oil went from 100$ a barrel to 27$ and the Oil price in my country went from 1,5€ per liter to 1,15€ per liter. It makes no sense in my eyes. I know taxes make up for the majority of the price but still its a change of 73%, while the price of oil changed for 35%. If all the p...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does wifi work? It's just like this weird force.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless network connections using the IEEE 802.11x standard protocol. The communication is two way between a computer's wireless adapter...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how does a (formula 1) car wheel spin without much resistance? Currently watching F1 and seeing those wheels spin super fast. I'm really curious how the wheels and axels, which hold all the weight of the car, don't wear that quickly. Same as in regular cars.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Each p...
<|im_start|>user In what way is time a dimension? Why is it called the fourth dimension?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You define something's location with coordinates. On a line, you need one number. This is one dimensional. On a sheet of paper, you need two numbers - two dimensional. In a three dimensional world ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: what is EBITDA and why is it so important to executives?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Ebitda is effectively a term used to demonstrate the earning ability of a company It stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. So what does that mean? Those 4 expenses liste...
<|im_start|>user What is the best book about the feud between Sartre and Camus? The title says it all. I see "The boxer and the goalkeeper" pop up a lot, but read some negative comments about it and was wondering if other books better describe this moment in history.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There aren't particu...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do expensive hotels have private wifi for sale while crappy motels have free wifi?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You have to look at the business model and the potential customers that each is trying to attract. Crappy motels are trying to compete on cheap price and convenience, looking fo...
<|im_start|>user U.S. Media has been largely criticized as inadequate, sensationalist, and celebrity focused. What kind of policy change can be made to change this and what evidence exists in support of this claim? Is there any way to theoretically change the standard in U.S. Media? A large problem is that celebrity n...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how come foam is always white even though shampoos are all different colors?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Things are white when they reflect a lot of light (things are black when they don’t reflect light). The surface of bubbles is shiny, it reflects light. When you make foam, you’re making lo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is dental health so strongly dependent on brushing our teeth and flossing when our ancestors hundreds of years ago did not do the same? Did they have some separate mode of dental upkeep or were they just constantly losing teeth/have just awful mouth conditions?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does brainwashing actually work? People throw around the world ‘brainwashing’ a lot but I still don’t know what it means. Is it a ‘repeated truth’? Is it certain mind tricks? Is it some kind of chemical thing? Disclaimer: not looking to brainwash anyone but there’s a cult in my area that app...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Baptist vs. Methodist vs. Lutheran vs. Presbyterian, etc. I mean besides the general "Baptists tend to be more conservative" thing. What are the actual official differences in beliefs? They seem pretty interchangeable.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Okay, short answer is : Doctrine. There is a ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Differences Between Soft Water and Hard Water &amp;#x200B;<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hard water: lots of minerals (typically calcium and magnesium) dissolved in the water. Soft water: less minerals dissolved in the water. Now, why does it matter? Because minerals dissolved in water can so...
<|im_start|>user [Marvel] How much stronger is Spider-Man when he has the Black Suit? When he can bring himself to wear it at least?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It varies, usually between 2x-10x stronger. Given the other material about how he's always holding back and how he routinely beats symbiote worn by others...