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<|im_start|>user If mankind were to become roaming galactic nomads forced to live aboard giant spaceships, as Hawking believes, how would the structure of civilisation change?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on the scope of the universe. If there is enough competition for resources, certain vessels may even ...
<|im_start|>user [The Culture or other post-scarcity utopias] How are raw materials secured and how is growth managed to prevent such a post-scarcity civilization from overrunning the universe in search of said raw materials?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the Culture specifically, they have solved all of their ene...
<|im_start|>user how to know if a career in research is right for you? I'm currently an undergrad studying biomedical science. I have the choice at the moment to either continue biomedical science at a different university in Sweden which is a lot better in the field and so go into research I presume, or to try and get...
<|im_start|>user What does Heidegger mean by Dasein having a "Vorontologischer Begriff des Seins?" Heidegger frequently argues that dasein has a pre-ontological or pre-phenomenological understanding of being, but what does this mean? Does Dasein already operate with an understanding of das Sein selbst? But how is this ...
<|im_start|>user Why doesn't intel increase the size of the processor to make it faster? We're trying techniques to make transistors smaller, but would a 1 square meter processor outperform what we have now at the same transistor size? Edit: I'm learning something new with every answer, great sub, thanks a lot.<|im_end...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is dietary advice constantly changing and contradictory? Fat was once the enemy now it apparently isn't, sugar is the demon, eat lot's of carbs/cut out carbs, X is the new wonderfood, never eat Y, eat red meat/go vegan... With so much advance in our understanding of the human body surely ther...
<|im_start|>user Eli5. How its possible for the light to travel constantly with out stop slowing down from the most old galaxies?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Light is special because it has no mass and always travels at, well, the speed of light. This is one of its fundamental properties due to the laws of physics....
<|im_start|>user ELI5- how do scientists know that a particular species' (panda, turtle, sharks, tigers) population is getting extinct?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They do studies to see how many of that animal there are in certain areas, and try to extrapolate outward from there. For example, if you know pandas ca...
<|im_start|>user How much energy does it take a bird to flap its wings during flight? Is it equivalent to humans walking/running? Oh wow. Thanks for all the amazing answers and follow up questions. For science!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It varies by the type of flight and the species of bird. Most flight is ener...
<|im_start|>user Philosophy, what is it and why do people study it? ELI4<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant **What is philosphy?** If you were to take a course an Intro to Philosophy course in college, you would learn about major schools of thought regarding human purpose, ethics, and rationality. The foundation of most o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:The difference between a Federation and Confederation<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Both a Federation and Confederation distinguish between the sovereignty of the individual members (e.g. states) and the the sovereignty of the whole (e.g. the nation or "Federal" government). Typically a Federati...
<|im_start|>user Relationship in the lives of academicians It takes time for someone who went for a PhD to get settled down with a permanent job which is pretty obvious. By that time, a person is near 30 or around 32 or more if we consider postdoc. How does uncertainty of which city/state/country(?) one may get a job r...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If food gives us energy why do we get tired after a big meal? Edit: Thanks for the answers!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Different definitions of "energy". Food provides chemicals that your body needs to support its metabolism. Feeling tired has no relation to whether or not your body has wh...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How is the breakthrough of the IBM 7nm chip is going to change technology and why it is important.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Computers calculate by turning a series of switches on and off in various patterns. If a computer has more switches, it can perform more calculations. But the bigge...
<|im_start|>user Was there a cultural reason for why Postmodernism developed primarily in France? and among French intellectuals as opposed to German and Anglo/Anglo-American philosophers?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the context of philosophy, usually what people mean by "postmodernism" is what is more strictly...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 why are today's webcams so bad when compared to phone cameras? I made a short attempt in streaming to Twitch during lockdowns and the pandemic. One thing I noted quickly was that the video quality differed immensely when I used an old android phone as a webcam compared to my then newly bought Logi...
<|im_start|>user CMV:US Citizens should not have to justify being in any public location with legal accessories including guns So many people have argued that the Rittenhouse verdict was correct but not just, or that it was incorrect on the basis of "He had no reason to be there" or "he couldn't justify why he was ther...
<|im_start|>user Shouldn't time dilation prevent the creation of a black hole? Because of relativity, the effects of time should almost stop at the event horizon. Doesn't that mean that a black hole takes an infinite amount of time to create?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The time dilation that goes to infinity at th...
<|im_start|>user Marxist commentaries on Hegel I'm looking for some secondary readings on Hegel written from a Marxist perspective. I plan to read The Phenomenology of Spirit, mainly because I'm interested in Hegel's relevance to Marxism. So, I would like to supplement my reading with some evaluations by Marxists.<|im_...
<|im_start|>user Eli5 How does inducing a coma help save a life but if someone is dying you sometimes try to keep them awake?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Different methods for different situations. For instance, you want to keep someone focused and awake on you if you're trying to prevent them from going into shock...
<|im_start|>user Where to start on big project? So I had an idea for a project that is quite expansive, a lot of parts all working together. I've figured out most of how everything should work and what I need to do to implement different functionalities, the problem I'm having is because it's such a huge project I have...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What the hell is going on regarding Planned Parenthood Trying to be objective about the situation. I'd like to hear from both sides what is really happening, why, and if it really is as bad as some people and the media are currently saying it is.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant They donate tissue...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Timed essays like the SAT don't properly measure one's writing skills, nor their critical thinking skills. Timed essays, especially with as little time as the SAT gives, force test takers to come up with a BS answer without really thinking about it. As a result, they are either forced to justify a...
<|im_start|>user [BTTF 3] Why did Doc waste his time building the model of what they were going to do when it was just pushing the car with a train? Is Marty "special"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It often helps to go over the details with actual models in order to foresee potential problems that aren't readily app...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is it that gives a material the ability to be polished? I've always wondered what it is that allows you to polish metals to a mirror finish, but not wood or plastic, for example? I assume its something to do with light scattering and reflection from the internal structures of the material?<|...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does the propensity for motion sickness increase as you get older; e.g., riding roller coasters or other rides at amusement parks?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Balance is controlled by a group of small organs in the ears, called the vestibular system. These organs detect two different kind...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I think it is ridiculous for one ethnic group to be indebted to another based on the actions of people who've been dead for hundreds of years. ~~For example - government funded benefits to people with even small traces of Native American genetic makeup. Is this really justifiable? Are the taxpayer...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Affirmative action is wrong. Edit: I'm mainly talking here about quota style affirmative action. Of course, racism is very real in modern society, but I feel that Affirmative action is the wrong solution. First off, it's fighting racism with racism. It creates a system in which someone who ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Classical music is still relevant es ever. Nevertheless how come there are no longer super star composers like in earlier times and how do you actually transcend undying music of genius composers to be relevant today? Yes, I am aware of world star performers like David Garret, Lang Lang but they s...
<|im_start|>user HOW do sunflowers face the sun? I'm not asking why, I'm asking how. It has puzzled me because they are the only flowers that do this behaviors. No other plants do this, so I'm wondering how it works.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Firstly, a correction; *many* plants display phototropism (movement in ...
<|im_start|>user Why does the ISS maintain a radial-in attitude? In almost every photo of the International Space Station, you can clearly see that the cupola module is always pointing towards the earth. That means that the ISS maintains a constant attitude relative to Earth and that it's spinning at 1 rotation/orbit (...
<|im_start|>user [Mathematics] What number refers to the number of possible orderings of natural numbers? The number of unique orderings of a set of length n is n! and as such it seems logical to me that the number of unique orderings of the natural numbers is Aleph null factorial, but what does it mean to take the fac...
<|im_start|>user Why do so many drugs end in HCl (hydrochloride)?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Hydrochloride salts of drugs are often easier to work with. The native form of the drug is often an oily liquid at room temperature, while the hydrochloride salt is a powder which can be shaped into a pill for easy adminis...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did they get, and keep, the footage of the atomic bomb tests? You've seen the footage: those orange-red tinged shots of the car and bus being blasted across the desert, the shockwave hitting the trees and making a "forest" shimmy, and the house blistering into ashes. So with all these thermo...
<|im_start|>user [Harry Potter HBP] Is Snape a good defence against the dark arts teacher? The narrator presents Snape as a terrible teacher, presumably because he really wants the Defence against the dark arts (dada) job. Yet most his students seem to do well in Potions, taking O.W.Ls and gaining skills like polyjuice...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do cameras, or their lenses, auto-focus? At first I thought that maybe the concept was a little similar to our eyes in that it tries to get as much of the incoming light on one point, the middle of the sensor, and so adjusts the focus ring until it finds a position with the largest amount of ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do hot glass shatter when cooled down with cold water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Glass expands when hot and contracts when it's cold. It doesn't conduct heat very well so when the hot glass comes in contact with cold water some of the glass shrinks faster then other parts which causes t...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do men go bald solely on top of the head as opposed to on the sides or on the back?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are different levels of "why". There is something different about the hairs in that zone that makes them more sensitive to a particular hormone called DHT. There is a who...
<|im_start|>user If refraction is caused by the absorption and reemission of photons, why don't materials only refract certain wavelengths of light? It's my understanding that light seems to slow when entering a more optically dense medium because the photons are being reabsorbed and re-emitted by the atoms of the medi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do thermometers work and how do they calculate what "it feels like." Checking my phone for the temperature, I see that its currently 91 degrees but it feels like 99. Got me wondering how thermometers work/how they came to be and how they calculate "what it feels like."<|im_end|> <|im_start|>a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How did the cameras that were used during the moon landing work? How were they able to broadcast relatively clear picture and sound from space, using 1960s technology? I ask this because there is a group of people who think the moon landing *itself* is real but the tv broadcast was staged. I pers...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What are wavelengths and how does it relate to color? What exactly are wavelengths, and how do colors have wavelengths? What exactly is a color?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant &gt;What exactly are wavelength? The distance between two crest of a wave. Imagine an ocean with waves. There are high ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How/why is space between the sun and the earth so cold, when we can feel heat coming from the sun?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You need to distinguish between heat and temperature to understand this. The sun radiates energy, but it doesn't contribute to an increase in temperature until it hi...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do some light bulbs need to warm up, while others don't?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are a few different types of artificial light in common use, and they all behave differently. - The good old-fashioned light bulbs are called "incandescent." They work by making running electricit...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 Why do our personal tastes differ? Like, why does one person like chocolate but the other vanilla? Why does one person like pink and another blue? I understand genetics and how you are conditioned as a child play roles, but can one say more?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Our preferences and tast...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does a company like Tesla or Uber have such high valuation (over 50 Bn) despite have low sales or losing money yearly?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Valuation is not simply a product of sales/revenue/net. It also has a growth component to it. The hope is that these companies will grow into ...
<|im_start|>user What actually kills a person when their body temperature is too low? What is the first fatal effect of lowering a person's body temperature? I bet a lot of bodily functions cease to function at too low temperature on different scales. Is there a big one? Maybe one that occurs way before the rest. Thank...
<|im_start|>user Never thought about Grad School before but now I'm interested in something pretty specific and think it might be worth a PhD... I really just need to pitch this thought off some people in-the-know who can set the record straight. I'm really interested in a topic that seems like it'd be worth it to pur...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is happening when the shower water pressure drops and the water gets hotter?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If someone flushes a toilet or turns on the cold water it reduces the pressure in the cold water feed lines, and thus the total flow for any one open tap. Since the water coming from ...
<|im_start|>user According to this chart, "Retirement Wealth" increased for white households during the recession. Why might that be? I'm looking at data related to the racial wealth gap, and I'm wondering about why [retirement wealth for white households increased?](https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/RaceCharts5.pn...
<|im_start|>user If salt raises the boiling temp of water, is there additive that will let water freeze at a higher temp also?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Adding salt depresses the freezing point of water - that’s why municipalities salt the roads in the winter where it is snowy and icy. Both the boiling point ele...
<|im_start|>user How were sufficiently coherent light sources generated for optics experiments before lasers? All the optics and photonics lab work I did as an undergrad a decade ago used a laser as the source due to its coherence. I still don’t understand how the famous optics experiments (thin slit interferences, ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is emulsification and how does it work?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant An emulsion is when two liquids that don’t mix or dissolve in each other (immiscible) are put together and then mechanically mixed so that even though they remain separate at a small level, they’re still pretty well mixe...
<|im_start|>user Are professors in Europe hired mostly behind the curtains? I asked a friend who did a PhD and a postdoc in Europe why I see so few professor jobs for my field in websites like Euraxess. He told me that based on his experience, it seemed that European professors are initially informally offered a positi...
<|im_start|>user Could there exist a planet made completely out of water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant *Liquid* water? No. To keep water a liquid requires a few constraints: 1. The pressure has to be high enough to keep it from all evaporating. This generally requires an atmosphere to keep pressures at least abov...
<|im_start|>user [DC] What could Superman discover about the planet that we don't currently know? There isn't much of the Earth left unexplored but the places humans can't go pose no problem to Superman. He could find out what is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench and what the core of the planet is really like. What...
<|im_start|>user [Star Trek/The Culture] The Federation has a proven track record of hating AIs. How would the Culture deal with this if they encountered them? I've written at length about this, but I'll just quote [my most recent comment here](https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/6rxq94/starships_and_em...
<|im_start|>user [Emperor's New Groove] What does Yzma normally use her llama transformation potion for? Are there a lot of practical uses for turning people into llamas?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Animals are excellent for intelligence gathering. Who pays attention to a bird, or a squirrel, or a beetle hanging o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does "turning it off and back on again" fix such an array of different problems?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Programs work by following really long lists of instructions. When something goes wrong it's often because programs get stuck in little loops, or several programs conflict, or some...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Is any one race easier to distinguish using facial recognition software? There are many stereotypes of "white people all looking the same" or "Asians all look the same", but when it comes to facial recognition, are they all the same?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant No. While it may not be perfec...
<|im_start|>user How do you handle financial stress as a grad student? I just posted in /r/personalfinance, but maybe this sub is more appropriate. I'm nearing the end of a master's program in evolutionary biology (August). I've been monitoring my finances throughout the program (no loans, paying out of savings with s...
<|im_start|>user [WH40k] Is there anyone with enough fincnaial wealth and personal elan to gain access to the Golden Throne?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Short version: No, the Custodes wouldn't let you in no matter how rich or impressive you are. Longer version: Yes, but not directly. Basically, if you're rich an...
<|im_start|>user What impact does it have on my chances of getting a PhD if something I'm working on gets published first? I've spent the last 6 months combining a novel neural network architecture with computer vision as part of my computer vision PhD project. (I have no CS background a lot of this time has been spent...
<|im_start|>user Why is there only one species of human?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are a variety of reasons, but here are two: 1: Due to our technology and general intellect, humans around the world have been able to live in far more similar conditions than another, equally distributed species. 2: We are...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does the hair on our head keep growing, while eyelashes and eyebrows, etc, stop?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This has been asked a lot so try searching for more explanations. The short answer is all hair follows the same cycle. It grows to a certain length, then falls out as a new hair s...
<|im_start|>user Why do we continue to give high-stakes tests, especially when they are counter-productive to both students and professors? While this may seem like a cringingly naive question to ask this, however, the consequences of colleges that continue to unquestioningly to give hair-pulling exams aren't. It becom...
<|im_start|>user If energy can't be created or destroyed, does that mean it has always existed? This question seems to have one of two possibilities, either energy can be created and was in the big bang or the universe/existence is infinite, reality has always existed in some way and always will?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>...
<|im_start|>user How to obtain energy gain or loss of chemical reactions? Chemical reactions either take or release energy. So this "energy" must be on either the reactant or at the product side. What specific chemistry concept is this? I assume that I need specific computations for getting the energy of all reactan...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How come the human genetic code can fit roughly in ~1.5GB of data yet we turn out such complex organisms? Furthermore, the code that separates us from other mammals can fit on o floppy disk.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A few key differences between the genetic sequence and a computer sequence...
<|im_start|>user CMV translating place names is pointless and causes unnecessary confusion It is common practice to translate names of places, cities and countries instead of using the original names or the names the country chose for them. It is harmless most of the times like Berlin/berlijn or London/Londres (but thi...
<|im_start|>user I think humanity should genetically engineer itself, once it is able to do so effectively. CMV Not thinking that much about designer babys and more about things which can be objectively improved, mainly: physical condition and cognitive abilities. I don't know how far away we are from being able to do ...
<|im_start|>user How long after the big bang did the heavier elements necessary for life form? Just musing in relation to the Fermi "where is everybody?" paradox: My understanding is that it takes several generations of supernovae to generate the various heavier elements that are necessary for life as we know it, and...
<|im_start|>user Is Aristotle begging the question? So I (just) started reading Aristotles politika, and really haven't got far. For me, it seems like he makes the following claims on why humans group in a state or polis: Humans nature is being in a community, or a polis. Polis forms because humans communicate ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why does sugar help a burn? My friend burnt her finger and her son said to "put in in the sugar." She did and felt immediate relief. We looked online and found that sugar is indeed used to help burns, but nothing about why it helps.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's a couple ways it's benef...
<|im_start|>user Since light takes time to travel how many stars in our night sky don't actually exist anymore?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The stars you can see in the night sky are all pretty close -- tens or hundreds or, in a few cases, thousands of light years. Stars have lifetimes of millions to billions of y...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why were some very toxic substances formerly thought of as medicinal? This question was inspired by [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/3g7689/deadliest_rocks_in_the_world/) post, which included information on the rock [stibnite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stibnite) which...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the purpose of having baby teeth that fall out after a few years? Why don't we just keep the same teeth for our whole life? And also, why do we only grow two teeth in our life? Why not more like sharks and other animals?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There's several ideas why. A child'...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do all animals have natural animal instincts that allow them to nurture a child but humans need parenting classes and support when raising a child?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In traditional village (or nomadic) living conditions, children frequently see nearby parents raising other child...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does contrast increase/decrease when looking at a monitor from an angle?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant LCD work by shining a bright white light (actually a combination of every color, ever see a prism?) from behind the display, then controlling how much of each color can pass through each p...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why was there so much hatred towards Armenians in the late 1800's/early 1900's? They were victims in two notable massacres/genocides resulting in the deaths of roughly 1.8 million Armenians.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Sort of like the Jews, they were the trader and merchant class in the Otto...
<|im_start|>user I believe that if you know exactly what you want to study in college, then gen. eds should not be a requirement. CMV This is a bit of a rant since I am just very up set with having to take gen. eds that have no relation to my major at all, but here it goes. There's also a TL;DR at the bottom for those ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we know water is made of two hydrogen atoms and not just one? How do we know that, for example, H2O, is infact H2O and not just one hydrogen? Further more, how do we know that anything is made of specifically these elements and not something else? And what makes molecules stay together (li...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: as someone from the UK, I have no idea why obamacare has been getting so much hate. explain. I really just have not clue.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Obamacare mandates that you buy healthcare insurance, or apply for free coverage from the government if you're poor enough or old enough to qua...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does everyone hate flash and why are they happy that it's "going away"?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant You know how the Olympics have two official languages, English and French, right? This standardization allows everyone (athletes, judges, organizers, and watchers) to have one of two langua...
<|im_start|>user [Pokemon] How are gym leaders and elite four decided?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Gym leaders simply develop enough of a reputation that people start traveling the world just to challenge them, and they eventually take on followers and build a gym for those people to hang out and build their skills...
<|im_start|>user Is it possible for meteoroids carrying microorganisms from Earth to travel to another planet, such as Mars, and seed life onto them? And if possible, how likely is a situation like this to occur successfully?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant What you're asking is basically the panspermia theory, that sa...
<|im_start|>user CMV: It is hypocritical to advocate for cancel culture and a rehabilitative justice system at the same time. I believe there are mainly two types of cancel culture that we see today. The first type is just cancelling someone from the platform where they committed egregious behavior on. If you act like ...
<|im_start|>user Why are we colder when wet?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Our sensation of being cold (or hot) is strongly affected by the rate at which we exchange heat with the environment. When we're wet, the water is almost always colder than the 37 C of our body. That means that heat flows from our body into th...
<|im_start|>user If my speed is relative, not absolute, and the speed of light always appears the same no matter my reference frame, how is a statement like "I am travelling at 99% of the speed of light" meaningful?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's true, this statement should be always be followed by "with respect ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How differently does the body process sugar alcohols vs regular sugars? I've been trying to reduce my overall sugar intake in recent months, and I've notice one option is foods that substitute sugar with sugar alcohol. I have a baseline understanding of chemistry, and from what I can gather sug...
<|im_start|>user Should I put an anarchist/anticapitalist organization on my resumé when applying for research internships? I've been part of Food Not Bombs at various locations since last June. It's become a large part of my life, and I feel that it's contributed significantly to my personal and political growth. And ...
<|im_start|>user [Dune] The Sandworms are said to have caused the desertification of Arrakis turning what once was a lively green planet into a barren sandy wasteland. How did the Sandworms manage to prompt such significant ecological change?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two main causes. 1) They thresh E...
<|im_start|>user [MCU] How did both Red Skull and Shield use the Space stone to make so much energy? Both Hydra in the 40's and Shield on modern times managed to use the tesseract/Space Stone to create energy to power their inventions. How is that possible from whats basically a giant teleportation machine?<|im_end|> <...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the difference between the best, high-pay lawyer and an average or so-so lawyer? You always hear phrases such as "We'll get you the best lawyer in this country". What makes a great lawyer compared to a good or average one?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It helps to think of it like a ca...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Work from Home is a benefit in almost everyway for everyone! I really feel work from home should be a culture everywhere in the world and that's how people should actually work! Let me tell you why I say this. * Work from Home actually makes people more productive because when someone actually ha...
<|im_start|>user [X2]How did Magneto switching metal plates in the recreation of Cerebro change its search function from mutant to human?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Cerebro works as a mental energy resonator, enabling the professor to amplify his power to a world-reaching scale. The plates look plain on the outsid...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does the emotion of fear lead to the emotion of anger?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Emotions are like shortcuts to certain behaviors that are meant to help you deal with the situations that trigger them. Fear helps keep you safe in potentially dangerous situations by encouraging behavior...
<|im_start|>user [DC] While Batman is high tech, the DCU is so much further ahead that he should be far more advanced. Why isn't he using reverse engineered alien tech or at least not using Wayne Enterprises to research as much of it as possible to adapt for humanity and himself?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Based o...
<|im_start|>user By what method do humans generate random numbers? I mean attempt to generate random numbers, since what they generate isn't very random.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant With numbers in general (not necessarily random numbers), we remember numbers based on availability. If you're around a certain number...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does a multinational company pay it's taxes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Things obviously get a bit more complicated than this, but at the basic level, they usually have separate subsidiaries operating each country (though we may consider the EU a single country for this purpose). Each su...