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<|im_start|>user Why is the 4th order Runge-Kutta method so commonly used in numeric integrators? Is it somehow optimally balanced between accuracy and efficiency? Or is it just popular because it's the lowest order method that doesn't usually fail on complicated functions?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Whether it's ...
<|im_start|>user What is the meaning of the concept of time at the beginning of the "Big Bang" before cesium existed to measure the length of a second and while the Universe was expanding faster than the speed of light? Currently we measure the length of a second as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiatio...
<|im_start|>user ELIF: Water is transparent but a stream of water has shadow. I was waiting for the bus and I realized that the fountain upwards stream had shadow, but since water is transparent how is this possible?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Mostly, this depends on the shape of the water. When light moves from ...
<|im_start|>user Are borders on maps drawn at high tide, low tide, or somewhere in between?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Mean Sea Level is the usual standard datum for mapping. Because high and low tides can vary in magnitude, as well as having seasonal and weather related variation imprinted on them, mean sea level...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If we can use the rectum for effectively absorbing suppositories, how come we don't get blood poisoning from all the bacteria and waste minerals in our faeces? It doesn't make sense to me.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Our digestive tract has a pretty strong barrier (lots of IgA antibodies that...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are venomous creatures so rare in cold environments? Perhaps it is just coincidence, but why do venomous creatures seem to be almost entirely confined to the southern hemisphere, or at least warm countries. For example, the UK has only one venomous animal I can think of (the adder), as well a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is dental not considered a health matter and not covered under medical insurance when poor dental health can lead to a variety of life threatening conditions? In that same vein, why does it seem that no two dentists can agree on the services a person needs? Is the industry less regulated? Ed...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The urge to mess with cuts, sores, and burns inside my mouth I burnt my mouth today, and I don't understand the urge I have to rub my tongue over the spot over and over again. It doesn't make it hurt any less, but it almost seems involuntary. What gives?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your mout...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek] Why are transporters not used as weapons? As I start my tactical training at the academy I can't help but wonder at the oversight of the tactical utility of transporters. * Methods of transporting even antimatter have been known since the days of Kirk, and lower-grade explosives and weap...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The world seems to host more Islamic extremists than other religious extremists because of poverty. Friends of CMV, challenge my view. I hold the belief that in the 21st and 20th centuries, Islamic extremists are more prevalent and violent because of their life conditions and circumstance. _Ple...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What happens on a global ecological level if the Great Barrier Reef is entirely bleached and dies?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The Great Barrier Reef is a zone which indicates a relative diversity of life on Earth, like Rainforests. The more diverse life is on the planet, the better, as we hu...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do people feel comfortable at different temperatures? For example, I feel most comfortable with the thermostat set to around 80 degrees. I have a friend that will literally start sweating when he comes over if I don't change it. He sets his to 69, which I find unbearably cold. We're both a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does adding adding mayonnaise to certain foods make them a salad (potatoes, chicken, eggs, etc).<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant According to Wikipedia a salad is a dish consisting of small pieces of food, which may be mixed with a sauce or salad dressing. It seems that a salad being things s...
<|im_start|>user Why isn't nuclear physics considered to be chemistry?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Chemistry is primarily concerned with things at the atomic or molecular level. Nuclear physics is concerned with the nucleus itself. There is a whole branch of chemistry called "nuclear chemistry", and what they do is...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can they tell how much oxygen is in my blood by putting a clothespin from Tron on my finger?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They work on the principle of spectrophotometry. Hemoglobin is the protein that carries oxygen through your blood and hemoglobin is a different color when it's bound to...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did Detroit become the undesirable city that it is now? I heard it was like any other large cities back in early history. Why is it the only large city that turned out with the most crimes and negative stereotypes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The city was built and supported by the growin...
<|im_start|>user How to get good student evaluation scores? I am an instructor in a state university and have not been getting good student evaluations. I try my best, am easy with grades and try to be as interactive as possible. Please let me know how I could improve in getting better student evaluation scores.<|im_en...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: From a non-religious standpoint, why do we have religion?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Religion was a way for people to explain phenomenons they could not explain in any other way. By being able to explain these phenomenons gave people a sense of comfort and 'power. Look at it this way. If yo...
<|im_start|>user CMV: trans people prove that men and women are completly different One tenent of feminism is men and women have more gender simularities than differences. If this is the case though, than why do trans people exist? If you read asktransgender or listen to trans people in the news they always talk abo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Household water softeners I recently visited the US midwest where it seems everyone has a water softener in their house. Growing up with hard water, I was really annoyed at how my hands/body felt really soapy and slick after trying to wash off the soap I used. Also, it felt like the extra soapine...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What do we see when we close our eyes? You know, when we close our eyes we see some random dots, lines and forms, what's that?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They’re called phosphenes and researchers believe you are actually seeing light that is originating from your eye itself. Basically our ey...
<|im_start|>user If so many fossils from Morocco were formed before the breakup of Pangea, why don't we see the same quantity and quality of fossils present in New England? Morocco and New England were once part of the same area of Pangea, and from googling it the trilobite fossils found so famously and abundantly in M...
<|im_start|>user Moral relativism isn't very popular among western philosophers today (especially the naive kind), but has it ever been popular among eastern philosophers?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It should probably be noted that moral relativism as commonly understood in modern day stems from specific meta ethi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why isn't vision correction and dental care considered to be health-related in the health insurance industry?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The idea is that these are things that don't come up suddenly, or involve really unexpected costs or tests (the way even a normal check up might). Most p...
<|im_start|>user CMV: There should be more minority characters in movies/TV that are villains. Whenever the topic of minority representation comes up, it primarily talks about protagonists or hero representation. That's all well and good, but eventually we'll have to talk about the flipside of the discussion. Of cours...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 In math, what is a tensor? How is it related to tensorflow from machine learning?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A single number is called a scalar. A set of numbers that belong together is a vector. You arrange them as a 1-Dimensional list. If you add a second dimension by grouping multiple ve...
<|im_start|>user [Stranger Things] Where do all the Hawkins National Lab personnel live? I live near Hawkins, and it just occurred to me that I've never run into one of these Hawkins Lab eggheads in town or at the local tavern or anything. Funny that nobody seems to actually know anyone who works there.<|im_end|> <|im...
<|im_start|>user [DC/ Justice League] people do seem to shit on aquaman a bit more than they should. Do the members of the JLA respect each other equally or do they seem to see each other as a weaker link?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Probably the best answer is that *most* people are treated well, fairly, and respe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Does milk really help you grow taller or is it a myth? Is milk still reasonable to drink just for a healthy growth or its all a myth and your height growth only depends in genetics and your diet (meat/fish, rice, veggies, water etc etc..)?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Not having malnutrition h...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Religious people don't need to let gay people get married in their church. However, they shouldn't be allowed to influence their rights for any form of legal marriage outside of that religion. Religion should not influence politics. Gay people should be allowed to marry if they so choose. But th...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What makes Glass and some types of Plastic clear? Why couldn't we make clear metal or other "clear" Materials?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The structure of the atoms/molecules forms a pattern that lets light through, usually by having “gaps” that are the right “size” for the visible light to ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How many pieces of hardware does my internet traffic pass through? I've been trying to learn more about networking, but can't seem to find any relatively simple answer to my question. Thought it was simple with basically two routers and a server, but then I learned about switches, optical equipme...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: When institutions like the Cancer Society spend money on cancer 'research', what are they actually doing? From someone who has virtually no background in the medical sciences - what does one do when 'researching' cancer? I see calls for donations from organisations such as the Cancer Society all ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution defines a citizen, then states that all citizens have equal rights under the law. This means that all "age" laws are unconstitutional. Here's the actual text of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: &gt; All persons born or naturalized ...
<|im_start|>user The dictionary paradox: Meaning of words in terms of other words? Is there a subtopic in philosophy (of language) that discusses issues like, what I'm calling here, the dictionary paradox. That if you keep looking up the meaning of words in a dictionary, you keep getting a definition consisting of oth...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: How does stretching affect the body? Animals and humans alike seem to enjoy a good stretch when first waking up or after being still for a long time. What affect does stretching have on the body that makes it so instinctual?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Stretching does a few different things. ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: A major goal of the Ministry of Magic is to keep witches and wizards out of trouble... by employing them There are very few fields of employment for witches and wizards once they graduate from Hogwarts. They can be involved in organized Quidditch. A few can work for Gringotts. They can start or wo...
<|im_start|>user If an organism sexually reproduced with itself, would the offspring have greater chances of genetic weakness compared to asexual reproduction or cloning?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The answer really depends on the organism. As you quite rightly point out, several taxa are locked into life strategi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is it when we look over to a blinking object the first blink seems to take a lot longer? When I look over at my blinker in my car it seems like it stays on for a longer period of time than it normally does. Why is that?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This phenomenon is more commonly noticed ...
<|im_start|>user [general fantasy] If two demigods breed, do they have a chance at birthing a full god? Demigods are usually the result of a god having a child with a mortal. The resulting child being half divine and half mortal. If two demigods breed and all the DNA lines up just right, could the child be fully divin...
<|im_start|>user eli5: How did old militaries (such as ancient Rome) manage to keep fed and hydrated thousands soldiers in long military campaigns over long distance and time?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are a number of ways armies fed themselves and they usually used any or all of them as the situation permi...
<|im_start|>user How does the number of chromosomes change upon species differentiation? I would like to know how the change in the number of chromosomes as an species evolves can be explained against the idea of "irreducible complexity", and what evolutionary advantage it brings to justify it being incorporated into t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is it that a certain event can change our brain chemistry, such as giving us anxiety or other ailments. But we cant easily change it back?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are a few major problems with fixing your brain chemistry: 1. It's easier to break something than to fix it. This i...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I think that the federal government in the USA should function more like an economic union and that the states should have much more political power. I think that the only role of the federal government should be to help economic cooperation between states, ensure state laws don't violate people's...
<|im_start|>user Is there a philosophy similar to hedonism, but not as radical? So hedonism sounds a lot like an escape, actively avoid pain, and seek pleasure. I can see it easily leading to addiction, for instance. But I do like the basic idea of hedonism. What is life, if not the pursuit of your desires, instead of ...
<|im_start|>user I don't think religion deserves respect. CMV I think that religions are almost laughable, that everyone that follows them is extremely gullible. I am open to the concept of religion, I just "haven't seen the light".<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you don't respect if for the fact that you don't ha...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do evolution deniers use the laws of thermodynamics to prove their case against evolution?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They take the notion of entropy, and point out that current scientific knowledge points out two things. First, entropy is always rising. Second, complex biological organi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why aren't white people in the United States referred to as "European Americans" like how blacks are referred to as "African Americans?"<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The term "african american" came about as a deliberate attempt to reduce discrimination by making race about ethnicity and not a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why does pure Oxygen kill you?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant First: Oxygen is a very strong oxidant (of course). While it is necessary for our mitochondria (the "energy plants" inside our cells) to work and "burn" glucose to get energy, high doses of it will oxidise and damage lots of molecules ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are we so fixated on finding water on other planets, as a sign of life? Is it not possible that other life forms would function without water as we know it? I just find that we are constantly seeking water when we discover other planets, because it would imply that the planet could sustain li...
<|im_start|>user CMV: All ideas should be open to consideration and examination on university campuses, no matter how dangerous or cherished they are perceived to be. I am a free speech absolutist when it comes to college campuses. In the university system, all ideas should be given the same careful consideration and s...
<|im_start|>user How does the body build tolerance to caffeine? In addition to building tolerance to its mental effects, how does the body become tolerant to its diuretic effects?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant By regulation of the number of receptors sensitive to caffeine on the cell membrane. Caffeine functions by ...
<|im_start|>user Why are the cracks on glass opaque? If the air is see-through, and the glass is too, why are cracks not?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Light moving between different mediums (air, water, glass) gets a little bit bent; this is why drinking straws look bent when put into a glass. When the glass pane is...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Sandi Toksvig earning 40% of what Stephen Fry earned is not inherently bad Sandi Toksvig has replaced Stephen Fry as host of the panel show ‘QI’. She had mentioned that she earns 40% of what Stephen earned for the same role, to the shock of an audience and many on the internet. Here are two reaso...
<|im_start|>user [Fallout] How does a Pip-Boy collect data? Well that sucks, you attacked by ghoul, clawing at your arm. Blasting it back with your shotgun you check your surroundings. You go to your pip boy and see that your arm is showing "78%" How does it know that? How does it do this? How could it have that much ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does an orchestra have many people playing the same instruments? How does it add to the overall performance?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Generally, the main reason is that having more instruments playing the same part creates a richer sound, but there are multiple reasons that vary for di...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do antibiotics kill unwanted bacteria but not the body's own cells? I know about enzymes and such in a basic sense, but the fact that an antibiotic actually *works* still doesn't quite make sense to me. Wouldn't we need a specifically engineered antibiotic for each strain of bacteria? Why doe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:What is the psychology behind motivation?.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Motivation generally is about fulfilling one's needs. Maslow described these needs in terms of a Hierarchy of Needs that once you have satisfied the most basic need you are only motivated by the next until that is satisfie...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are vegetables and fruit so important for your diet?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Both veggies and fruits have a ton of vitamins that humans don't naturally produce. Several vitamins originate in plants, with the amount we get from eating meat being diminished by the animal in question usi...
<|im_start|>user How did scientist come up with and prove carbon dating?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant So, as you may know, the number of protons in an atom determines what kind of element it is. In it's stable form, carbon has 6 protons and 6 neutrons, and is otherwise known as carbon 12. Nitrogen, the next element ...
<|im_start|>user Should I drop a class because of an American-centric professor? On the first day of class for Intro to Political Theory, my professor conveyed that her class would be centered around American affairs, as the two hours, oddly enough, focused on contemporary American issues, which concluded with a blanke...
<|im_start|>user How can I as a non-academic know if a book is widely used and well accepted by scholars? I am referring to the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) area.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant An easy way would be to track citation metrics. Search for the book in google scholar and look closely at the entries...
<|im_start|>user Why aren’t alcoholics all overweight? Asking because I am wondering if alcohol metabolizes faster and thus .... doesn’t stick on to turn to fat? If alcohol is generally high in calories (90 for a shot of vodka!!) why aren’t people who are addicted to alcohol heavier? Is it because of alcohol itself, o...
<|im_start|>user How do you build large structures in violent water? [E.g.](http://i.imgur.com/hCSs3.gif)<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Concrete sets underwater, so from that perspective submarine and terrestrial construction techniques are very similar, provided the seabed is sufficiently stable. Piles can be driven...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How government subsidies for commercial farms work.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is a pretty board topic. Basically the idea is the government gives money to farms to ensure they continue to grow food. Imagine this example, there is a really great year for farming and all the farms grow ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we know that languages like Sanskrit and most the European languages are descended from the same language but languages like Basque we know are completely unrelated to any known language?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant We can compare the words for different things in different languages. ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: It's not racist to try to preserve cultural heritage in certain spots with native ethnic people or who speak the language natively. Classic examples like Venetian gondola rower or City centre markets where you hear the old traditional women speaking in a particular accent and story. No one should ...
<|im_start|>user [ELI5] How does Adderall (amphetamines) calm down those with ADD/ADHD. It seems counter-intuitive that stimulants calm someone. Explain! :D Title says it all. Just doesn't add up. I've been told (and experienced) drinking coffee or anything with caffeine wires me for sound. How does it have a reverse e...
<|im_start|>user CMV: The amount of power that certain words are invested with by our society is extremely unhealthy. This post is prompted by a news story that I've seen posted elsewhere on Reddit: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/nicholas-campbell-impasse-racism-1.6231055?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar I refer to thi...
<|im_start|>user Is the purpose of life to contribute to society? Is the purpose of life to contribute to society? An average life consists of surviving, learning, reproducing, teaching, working. Then you're finished. You're born, you contribute a small bit of your existence to the world then die. Outside of that,...
<|im_start|>user What reason do I put to recommend a reviewer for a journal paper? I'm going to submit my first journal paper this week, and have got to recommend some reviewers. However, what reason do I put for recommending them? I can't leave it blank, so what are they looking for? I want to put something like "expe...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can such a small dose of medication have such a huge impact in the way our bodies work? I take some medications prescribed by my doctor. These medications are all prescribed in milligram doses ... when you take into consideration I’m a male of 190lbs, I just can’t fathom that such small quant...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What does North Korea get out of its continuous empty threats of war?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant By making threats, they can get aid when they agree to rescind the threat. Threaten to kill us in exchange for scheduled annual training with SK. Then agree to not freak out over the training, b...
<|im_start|>user When a child get's an organ/limb transplant, will the transplanted organ/limb grow with the child? If so, will the organ/limb grow according to the donor child's body genetic makeup or the recipient's?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Some organ transplants (such as heart transplants) need to be reasona...
<|im_start|>user [Blade Runner 2049]Is JOI self-aware? Is she Sentient? Is she just extremely clever software reflecting her users desires?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I believe that sentience is fundamentally performative, even for humans; "You" are just a story your brain tells itself to explain its own actions. ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: ELI5: How does a scientist go about quantumly entangling two photons<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are a couple of main ways: * When you put calcium atoms into a specific kind of energized state, it will emit two photons in random directions. When those photons are emitted in opposite di...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why do so many actors end up directing some of the episodes of the tv show they are starring on? e.g. Michael J. Adams directed the winter premier of Suits, like I have seen it very often. Is it something with their contracts?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It is a way to expand professionally. ...
<|im_start|>user If you could render an object invisible using optical camouflage, would it still cast a shadow? I was playing Metal Gear Solid 4 last night and was driving around the MKIII robot with the stealth engaged, when I noticed that the robot was still casting a shadow on the ground. This got me thinking, if y...
<|im_start|>user Is anyone here familiar with process philosophy, more specifically as developed by Alfred North Whitehead? I'm fascinated by the cosmological framework he built, most notably in Process and Reality. It does seem to be to be a viable contender for a metaphysics which can be scaled up and down to incorpo...
<|im_start|>user Why do some organisms age faster than others? What determines how fast an organism ages?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The rate at which an organism ages has all to do with the natural selection of its life strategy. This means: organisms that are at a higher risk of dying early on in life, evolve t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why can we see certain stars in our peripheral vision, but then when we look directly at them we can no longer see them?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You have two different cells in your retina of your eye that can sense light. -cones, that can see color, but only when there is much light -rod...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Do multivitamins and Omega-3 pills actually do anything? or is it more of a placebo-type thing?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant **TL;DR**: *Depends on whether you have a terrible diet or a good (or even average) diet. They only really help if you have a complete absence of some nutrients; you'll ...
<|im_start|>user Sociology says people with friends who are friends among themselves are happier. Is there any science on what's the most effective way to create or enlarge an interconnected group of friends? Christakis and Fowler argue in their book "Connected" that people who have friends who are also friends among t...
<|im_start|>user CMV: American cuisine is so underrated. It’s not all about burgers and hot dogs. People tend to immediately gravitate towards burgers, hot dogs, fries, greasy/fatty foods when they think of American cuisine. I don’t understand that stereotype. Sure we love our burgers and hot dogs, but there’s so much ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does a landfill work? Does it compact and compact or does it just keep piling up until its eventually taller than the buildings around it? Is it ever at risk of bursting or damaging anything around it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Modern sanitary/municipal landfills (at least in most of th...
<|im_start|>user Why isn't it always light? On a clear night, without light pollution, I can follow the path from Cassiopeia to the Andromeda galaxy, which appears as a dim smear of light. I assume that the closer I travel towards Andromeda (as impossible as that is) the brighter and more visible it will be and theref...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Diversity doesn't matter. A job, especially one with certain and specific skill sets, should go to the most qualified person, without bias on gender or race, etc. I want to clarify this does not racism or sexism in any sort of way. I got this thought when I heard something about unnecessary divers...
<|im_start|>user LI5 How Can You Own A House, But Not The Land That It's Built On? And What Exactly Are Property taxes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I can try to help a little. With property tax, you are paying for the space that your 'Property' takes up. Lets say you have a table. This table only has a limi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do we write the letter "A" like an "O" with a tail but type it like an backwards "6"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Easier visible differentiation. The small letter "a" like in this font is much easier to tell apart from an "o" than the "O|" combined shape. Consider the words "ball" and "...
<|im_start|>user [DC (New 52 and Old] How public is Batman's "no killing" stance? Wouldn't fighters on the level of Deathstroke be able to take advantage of that by... say... making moves that would be risky because the enemy could land a lethal blow, but are considerably less so (or not at all) if the enemy is both sk...
<|im_start|>user What is academia's take on proofreading of theses? Hello everyone, I am an "English as a second language" author. I published few papers before. However, they have all been proofread by my supervisor/co-authors, and significantly improved. In all cases of my writing, there were no severe coherence and...
<|im_start|>user What makes good code good? Assume that you've just become part of a team that manages a large code base for an interesting and fulfilling project. What most important aspects of the way the code is written will make the code **good**? What specific things are going to make your journey a **complete bre...
<|im_start|>user Can t-cells turn into cancer? Are they any more or less likely to do so than any other cell?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Any cell in the body can accumulate mutations that eventually allow it to evade destruction by the immune system by neither being recognized as part of you or foreign, replicate ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Does my dog understand that I'm putting cream on her foot to help it heal, or does she just think I'm am asshole for rubbing weird stuff on her open wound?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your dog understands you are the pack leader, you are in charge, and you typically act in her best interests ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do only some displays display HDR? Isn't a display just a series of pixels that display different color values? What makes an HDR display different? To clarify, if my normal LCD display does not display HDR, what makes it different, hardware wise, from an HDR compatible one? I understand the ...
<|im_start|>user CMV:All Professional qualifications should be able to test in. A degree should never be a hard pre-req Title says most of it. My reasoning is that a professional qualification should be a test of specialized knowledge and should be judgeable by testing of that knowledge and not have a dependency on th...
<|im_start|>user What is Spinoza's influence on Hegel? I am beginning to really get into Hegel for the first time and I have heard multiple people say Spinoza had a great influence on Hegel (and Marx). I have not gotten into Spinoza yet. Can someone explain Spinoza's influence on Hegel?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistan...
<|im_start|>user Why are price controls considered bad, specifically? I can understand that it could deteriorate the market with bad products, but can you not just regulate that as well? For example, Have a percentage profit based on the cost to produce the product and have modifiers for the quality/safety of said pr...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is "Catastrophe Theory"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Think about how things change. Something like a plant grows a little tiny bit every day so that you don't notice the change at all. On the other hand, when a building falls over this change is dramatic. Catastrophe Theory deals with...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why would allowing companies to extend their intellectual property rights as long as they were using the property be a bad thing? I've been pondering this for a while and I get the argument for the public domain but with the protections that fan created art and fiction get under fair use laws why...