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<|im_start|>user How does a photon move?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A photon is an excitation of the electromagnetic field which is described by a wave propagating through space - **always** with speed c = speed of light. So a photon simply always moves - it can't be at rest. The reason for this is that the photon...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: how can laptops fit over 1tb of storage and 16gb of ram in a tiny chill while PCs need massive ram sticks and often large SSDs? Why isn’t PC ram as small?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The main reasons why PCs are larger are ease of access and cooling. Cooling is very important to improve perfo...
<|im_start|>user Why does choked flow happen and why it is related to the speed of sound ? I'm diving into the venturi effect (example: rocket nozzles and chocked flow happening in the admission valve of a ICE) and it seems that when the gas approaches the speed of sound, the flow starts to choke. Why does this happen ...
<|im_start|>user As an applicant, what would be some good questions to ask during a PhD interview? I have a PhD interview coming up and I can't seem to think of an impactful question that I may ask at the end of the interview. As an applicant, I think that I would need to ask something that may showcase my readiness an...
<|im_start|>user Why do I sometimes lose weight on days when I eat much more than I should have? I've been trying hard to lose weight - and succeeding. I've lost more than forty pounds over the past five months, since I started running and eating right. Yesterday I ate waaaay too many calories, and it wasn't a workout...
<|im_start|>user How did species survive in the days just after the K-Pg Extinction event? The K-Pg Extinction event (aka the Chicxulub impact, widely known as being the impact that killed the dinosaurs) "devastated the global environment, mainly through a lingering impact winter which halted photosynthesis in plants ...
<|im_start|>user If the minimum wage becomes $15 an hour, what about workers making more than that? If the minimum wage becomes $15 an hour for someone working in fast food with no higher education, what about some one who is already making $15/hr with a college degrees taking on an entry level job in their field that ...
<|im_start|>user eli5: What is rent seeking and most specifically defensive rent seeking?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Rent seeking is behavior that increases someone's income without increasing wealth. In economics, most transactions are done because both people are better off, when a baker sells a loaf of bread i...
<|im_start|>user CMV:The farming industry has only itself to blame for the lack of young people who aspire to become a farmer. Please note I am not talking about hobby farms. We read all the time about the average age of farmers getting older and older and very few young people aspire to be farmers. The farming indus...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why insects are attracted to lights<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Insects navigate by using a reference point of light. Normally this would be the sun or the moon. They are far enough away that insects can put the sun/moon at a certain degree in their vision, and they know they will be travelin...
<|im_start|>user How does Captain America's shield always come back? Most of the time Captain throws his shield into mid air, hits 3 guys and it somehow just ends up just coming back to his hand. Is there some kind of explanation for this or is it just something that just ''happens''?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: interval workouts are often recommended. Why is a 20 minute interval run peaking at say 80% better than running at 70-80% intensity for the full 20 minutes, which will probably result in a greater distance covered? What is the benefit of the short breaks?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant HIIT (Hig...
<|im_start|>user Do all trees have a common 'tree' ancestor? Or did multiple plant species evolve separately toward what we know as trees?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Forestry student here. There are two main groups that of plants which have trees: the gymnosperms ("naked seeds" mostly conifers) and the angiosperms...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why do our noses run when it’s cold?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's your body putting out fluids to keep the air you're breathing at a safe level of humidity and moisture for your lungs. If the air is too dry, your lungs can get damaged and prone to infection. When it's cold, the air gets d...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How does a seed "know" which way is down or up to grow? Edit: I know it has to do with gravity. I'm asking the biological proccess that makes a seed know which way to go.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Plants can sense gravity due to special containers (organelles) that store starch in a plant c...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why is a rape on a college campus handled as an administrative problem by the school, rather than as a criminal matter, handled by the police? *edit Thanks for all of the comments and discussion. It seems to be a pretty even split between Title IX. The universities have their own police and a...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are so many old websites hosted at universities like MIT? I Googled for the lyrics to "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and up came [this ancient HTML document from the days of Web 2.0](https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/meanGrinch.html). I've noticed that Google will o...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What’s the difference between a therapist, psychologist, and psychiatrist?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A therapist is a generic term for someone who provides counseling services. Pretty much anyone can be a therapist (although laws vary). A psychologist is a slightly more specific term refer...
<|im_start|>user Is quantum mechanics truly random or merely unpredictable? because theres a huge difference Edit: What im asking is whether we actually KNOW if the universe is not deterministic or whether it might be but we just cant tell. What brought this idea to mind was thinking about the idea of parallel univers...
<|im_start|>user How does a broken bone connect again once the two healing pieces reach eachother?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on various principles, including where the bone is and how they connect to each other. If anatomic reduction is achieved and the segments are compressed, then you get primary bon...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:What exactly happens in your body when you drink water? I get solid food, but what specifically happens when water enters the stomach and then afterwards.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your body balances the water in the blood, the cells, and the spaces in between. A small amount stays in the in...
<|im_start|>user Would electronics last longer if left on all the time, or switched on/off as needed? I've heard it both ways: Some claim that as long as all components are well below thermal limits, electronics left on 24/7 will last longer because they're not subject to the stresses caused by the components expandin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why does running cold water sound different from running hot water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The differences in density and viscosity are the causes. Cold water will have a higher pitch due to the stronger surface tension and hot water will have a lower pitch due to the weaker surface te...
<|im_start|>user Why aren't there more eye colors?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Your eye color derives from the same biochemical pigment compound that gives you your skin color: melanin. Melanin is *vaguely* yellow-brown-ish when light scatters off it, which is why skin comes in colors in the yellow-brown range. Ey...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why does squinting help when trying to read something small or far away?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Squinting works because it decreases the effective size of the iris. The small opening, like a smaller f stop on a camera, although it decreases the amount of light entering the retina, i...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Stores should mark the full price of goods on the shelf. This was something that really annoyed me when i visited America being charged a difference price to what was on the shelf for goods. I think that stores should include tax on the shelf price for items they sell, it's ridiculous that stores ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What prevents our eyeballs from being able to look left and right at the same time? Edit: not talking about cross eyed. Talking about left looking left, and right looking right<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Eye movement is one of the most complicated aspects of the nervous system. There are 6 m...
<|im_start|>user CMV: while white racism upholds power structures, saying only white people can be racist absolves other races from accountability For context: I’m South Asian, and I have lived in Europe for more than three years. I recently read Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book ‘why I no longer talk (to white people) about ra...
<|im_start|>user My colleague just destroyed the writing of my latest paper I'm 34 and I've got 8 first author papers out (out of the others with my name of it there are at least another 5 where I contributed also to writing quite a bit). Therefore I hoped that I learned to write decently enough. However, I know I'm no...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are most images from space B&amp;W when we have so many tiny, light, color, high resolution cameras on the market?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Many images you see of space are not captured with visible light (for various technical reasons, it not always easy or possible to capture certain...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do electromagnetic waves (like wifi, Bluetooth, etc) travel through solid objects, like walls?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant So, when a ray of light hits something, it can basically do one of three things: It can go right through, with a slight angle that reverses when it comes out the oth...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: The Mandlebrot Set and fractals in general. I can recognize the Mandlebrot Set by looking at it, and, thanks to Jonathan Coulton, I even know the formula, but I still just don't get it.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The mathematical rule that creates the Mandelbrot set is relatively simple (at ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why are our ears shaped the way they are with all their weird ridges? Why aren't they more simply shaped like a funnel?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Part of the shape is to allow the ear to efficiently collect sound waves. However, part of it is also to disrupt the collection - allowing the an...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 If HDMI has a really high Gb bandwidth and is readily available on most computers, how come its not used for data/file transfer?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Think of a computer network like the road network - You can make turns, merge, drive onto highways and bumble along country roads, all pa...
<|im_start|>user Explain to me the Strong and Weak Nuclear force. I understand the way gravity interacts with the universe as well as the force of electromagnetism, but I'm confused as to how the strong and weak nuclear force is propagated and what effect it has on anything.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The weak int...
<|im_start|>user [DC] When does Batman ask for help? Batman is known for his intellect, detective skills and technological prowess when it comes to fighting crime, but when does he throw in the towel and ask for help?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As early and often as possible. Batman would simply not be able to fun...
<|im_start|>user ELI5:Why do so many medicines (pain pills, muscle relaxers, antihistamines,etc.) have a side effect of sleepiness?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant All of the types of medicines you described work by basically stopping your body from doing something it would normally be doing, often by interfering with ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 how does the same hormone exert different effects in different target cells? Sorry if this is a repost. I couldn't any similar questions.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Think of a hormone as a key that turns that flips switches and turns on chemical pathways of cells. The switches they turn on ar...
<|im_start|>user CMV: There is no reason why religious beliefs and practices should get more respect than other beliefs and practices What I mean is when people are given a free pass for something because it is 'part of their religion,' when somebody else with the same beliefs and practices would get more criticism. F...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What do scientists mean when they say that light is an electro magnetic wave? I've seen one multiple educational videos that draw light as two orthogonal waves traversing through space. What is that trying to represent?What exactly is going up and down? Furthermore, why do people often make the ...
<|im_start|>user Is spin a bulk property? Does it make sense to talk about the spin of a macro object by adding up spins of individual particles, the same way that we can talk about its charge by adding up the individual charges?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Yes. You can define a single spin of a collection of large...
<|im_start|>user A chicken egg is 40% calcium. How do chickens source enough calcium to make 1-2 eggs per day? edit- There are differing answers down below, so be careful what info you walk away with. One user down there in tangle pointed out that, for whatever reason, there is massive amounts of misinformation floatin...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Marriage doesn't make much sense in the modern world (modern western standards) and I don't see the need to get married. People don't need legal paperwork to enforce a union anymore, now marriage is (or should ideally according to modern western standards) based on a mutual decision to stay togeth...
<|im_start|>user When an airlock is breached in outer space, what happens to the air that gets sucked into the vacuum? Let's say that a spaceship has a compromised airlock. The air is sucked out through the breach, and everyone onboard dies. What happens to the air that gets sucked out of the spaceship and into the vac...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why was Cesium-133 atom chosen for defining "1 second" under Standard International? I remember years ago in high school my physics teacher explained to us that Standard International defines 1 second as "the time needed for Cesium-133 to vibrate 9.192.631.770 times". Is there any particular reas...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Photography terms - Aperture, Exposure, etc I'm a photography beginner and I just can't process (terrible pun) the terminology. Whenever I think I have a grasp of the terms, I go and play with the various settings and end up taking terrible pictures. So, photography related terms like Aperture, ...
<|im_start|>user Why can't your immune get rid of bacterial STDs like syphilis etc?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It varies depending on the pathogen. When it comes to syphilis in particular, the outer cell membrane has unusually few of its own antigens (proteins) in it, which makes it harder for the immune system to...
<|im_start|>user Why didn't the Vikings unleash apocalyptic plagues in the new world centuries before Columbus? So it's pretty generally accepted that the arrival of Columbus and subsequent European expeditions at the Caribbean fringes of North America in the late 15th and early 16th centuries brought smallpox and othe...
<|im_start|>user Why does a higher level of overall education in a society correspond with a lesser incidence of social problems? It has been shown to generally correspond, but why? Is it that educated people make better decisions about whatever social problem we happen to be talking about (safe sex, domestic abuse, e...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How can children learn two or more languages without mixing them while growing up? Simply: I have a little sister, she's 3 years old. Since I'm always watching some american/british series and tv shows (like Steven Universe), she's growing up watching those with me (we are brazilians, so she's g...
<|im_start|>user What are the long term consequences of forcing our rivers to stay on the same path?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The effects vary wildly depending on the location and river and it is a very complicated topic, but here are some basic impacts. Ecological impacts are almost always involved. Often man-...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Especially in the winter when there's snow on the ground, why does everything have a blue hue to it just before sunrise and sunset?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Light diffuses (understand deviated) when propagating in the air. How much it diffuses depends on the wavelength (its color). The su...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What does 'remastered' mean in terms of music recording? Especially with older artists and bands, the word 'remastered' seems to come up a lot. Since I find this term to be a bit vague, could someone explain what this means? What is changed in a remastered recording, and how is it done?<|im_end|>...
<|im_start|>user [Economics] After the IPO, how does having publicly traded stock benefit a corporation? Are there any benefits to a corporation being traded publicly beyond initially raising funds? Catering to shareholders just seems to be a headache after that, especially for an established company which has been pub...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How and why in some places is it illegal to collect rain water? I've always been curious about this.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In some States local authorities have deemed rain water to be collective public property. It refills the local water supplies and so collecting it, or collecting a ...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we know the different layers of the earth? (Mantle &amp; Core) Their composition and general temperature range?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant If you post this in askscience you will get a better answer. But in ELI5 you get dummies like me. They developed sonar and seismic meters. Bu...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 What exactly are home water filters filtering out of your drinking water?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It depends on where you live and your water source, but some of the more common things: * Chlorine (more common) or chloramine (less common) are added to municipal water to disinfect it, but ...
<|im_start|>user The Human Genome Project cost $2.7 billion. 20 years later, it costs &lt;$1000 to sequence the genome. Was the cost of the project fundamentally necessary for subsequent progress, or could we have "waited" for the technology to become cheaper? I'm very much a clueless layman, but I'm learning about gen...
<|im_start|>user Why, after Hurricane Katrina, were large masses of trees planted near the mouth of the Mississippi River? I've heard bits and pieces of a story that, after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the southern states of the US, thousands of acres of trees and/or shrubs were planted near the mouth of the Mi...
<|im_start|>user [General] Vampires and religious symbols I'm worried about defending myself against vampires and need to know if only crosses work, or should I also carry around other symbols, like a star of david, or a star and crescent.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Different rules for different universes. The pos...
<|im_start|>user How is it that Hawkings Radiation can escape the clutches of a black hole when light cannot?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Well first of all, hawking radiation is light. Second of all, the radiation originates due to quantum mechanical effects from a point near, yet nevertheless outside, the event h...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we get other pictures of far away galaxies that we can not see?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Long exposures with cameras using powerful telescopes. Many galaxies and other celestial objects are too faint to see with the eye, or with a regular camera. But if you let a camera have a lon...
<|im_start|>user Are all soaps (salt of fatty acid) capable of disrupting the lipid bilayer? If yes, then are soaps considered disinfectants? (Not asking about anti-bacterial soaps.) I know that soaps can simply wash away bacteria and viruses. But I have also heard that soaps can disrupt the lipid bilayer of bacteria a...
<|im_start|>user CMV: A presidential cabinet consisting solely of white males would be just as effective as one with women and minorities. Like his predecessor, President Trump has come under fire for not appointing enough women and minorities to his various cabinet posts. The notion that female or minority department ...
<|im_start|>user How to address people that look down on anything related to philosophy Where I'm from, philosophy is a derogatory term. When someone is talking too much, people will say to him "stop philosophizing". If you're studying any philosophy-related college, you're labeled as a bum. There's a myriad of running...
<|im_start|>user Your IQ value is artificial, meaningless and does not matter, to anyone, whatsoever. This includes yourself. CMV I believe IQ values are pointless and empty. With all the different potential fields and mental skills and capabilities, trying to combine them into one statistic is impossible, and thus any...
<|im_start|>user Is a book from 2015 too old to learn from? Hello all. I have in my possession a book on JavaScript coding, but it's from 2015. Could I learn from this book, or should I seek something more up to date? Thanks for any help.<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant IMO - you can definitely learn the basics from it...
<|im_start|>user Why do we care about the heavy elements like 119 and 120 that decay in like .00002 seconds? What could we possibly use it for? why do we care tho? to prove we can?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Producing and studying them allows us to constrain theoretical models of nuclear structure, and possibly at...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How do we know plastic takes hundreds of years to decompose if it's been around significantly less time than that?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Lets say that you take 100 lbs of a certain type of plastic and place it in certain conditions of temperature, humidity, etc. for a period of a year. ...
<|im_start|>user Why do some poisons tell you NOT to induce vomiting? Why are you suggested to induce vomiting for some poisons and not others? EDIT: Wow this took off overnight. Thank you so much for the very in depth answers. The question came about after reading the warning on a bottle of bleach. I assumed that b...
<|im_start|>user ELI5 How do calculators get the square root of random numbers? Like do they go through trial and error or like have a table of all square roost or is there a specific formula to getting square roots<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant It's a combination of tables with a few entries and clever algorithms. ...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: why is Spanish often considered "easier" than German for native English speakers to learn, despite English being a Germanic language?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Spanish has no noun case system while German has four noun cases. Spanish has two noun genders while German has three. Overall the ...
<|im_start|>user [General Sci-Fi] Plausible stories for evolution of sapient aquatic species to space-faring status Many Sci-Fi series throw in an occasional aquatic space-faring species. However I've never come across any stories on how such a species achieved such a route, e.g. through tool use? metallurgy? how did t...
<|im_start|>user [Dwarf Fortress] I’m a simple craftdwarf, I’m trying to make a toy for child but everything I make menaces with spikes. How do I make it stop?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant First, understand that you do not create, you simply express. You are a conduit for Armok, all creation flows through him, you a...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Standardized tests and credit requirements for high school graduation should be the same nationwide. #EDIT: View changed by /u/garnteller. A high school diploma is vital for many paths of life. However, diplomas between states or even between districts don't reflect the same level of education. C...
<|im_start|>user [Alien] How do the facehuggers known when someone is near the egg and have the accuracy to land perfectly on the victims face?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The eggs themselves likely have various sensory cells and receptors on the surface that detect movement, scent, light, and other signs of life. ...
<|im_start|>user What is the logic behind getting the determinant of a matrix by hand? Really, who said (and when) "Let's duplicate n-1 columns of a matrix, multiply down-right, up-left, add and subtract, and voila!" ? Makes me think it was a vision, dream, or something. It's one of the things in Math I don't underst...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Millions of data signals are transmitted over the same cables simultaneously. How are they separated and "sorted" so they go to the right place?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The act of sending multiple messages on the same medium is called multiplexing. There are three distinct ways of doing i...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: why are they flying people infected with Ebola all over the world to hospitals? What is the reasoning behind relocating infected Ebola people around the world to hospitals rather than keeping them quarantined in the area where the infected already are? I understand wanting to move your citizens ...
<|im_start|>user Would Darwin be a moral naturalist? His following qoute is often recycled, that goes something like, 'had we been reared under the conditions of hive bees.. we would think it moral to do x' The point is, it seems to me, that something about our inherited nature constrains or determines what is moral f...
<|im_start|>user Eli5: Why are some fermentations considered healthy (kimchi, kombucha etc) and others are not?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Firstly, why is fermented food healthy. Food is fermented by tiny creatures (bacteria, fungi and yeast). These creatures need vitamins and nutrients to be healthy like us. Some...
<|im_start|>user Why is forest height on mountain ranges so uniform? Trees, even the same kind, can vary so wildly in size, yet on mountains the foliage forms a lumpy blanket instead of a patchy beard. What's up with that?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Generally forests are trees of about the same age. Fire or loggin...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: Why did car design go from curvy (up to 1960s) to blocky (70s-90s) to sleek (modern)? What causes this change? Do we just get tired of it?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant As everything in Design, Car-Design goes hand-in-hand with its environment. One thing are production-methods, establishing new...
<|im_start|>user CMV: Gender differences in interests and feelings DO have biological cause Firstly, **I'm not denying that they also have environment and societal causes.** My view is that the psychological genders differences have **both** biological and societal causes, and that the biological causes are not neglige...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: There are never more than 4 World Cup games on a day. Why do they need 12 venues?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant I think the healthiness of the grass is one of the major factors. If a pitch is played on constantly the grass would be destroyed. They probably wait a few days to get some good water...
<|im_start|>user [Terminator] Who didn't the pentagon put a kill switch on Skynet in case something bad happens?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant This is an actual question in ongoing AI research. The crux of the problem is this: if the AI knows about the kill switch, it will do anything and everything it can to prevent...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: If the universe is expanding, aren't new stars being born all the time? And I guess they would be even if it wasn't, so why is it said that the universe will be completely dead one day?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The idea is that, while the universe is expanding in size, the amount of matter...
<|im_start|>user CMV: It’s absolutely ridiculous that religion is still challenging science in this day and age. Now don’t get me wrong, I still think that science should be challenged; that’s what science is all about, challenging theories with other concrete ideas to form another theory or possibly a fact. But religi...
<|im_start|>user Can some ELI5 what happens when a computer, or even just an application, freezes?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant So during the course of normal operation, a typical application is constantly doing two things: responding to system messages, and painting (updating) the screen. System messages are things...
<|im_start|>user Does the idea of having to "Earn a living" automatically imply that by default, people don't deserve to live? if a constitution have a "right of life" in it, does it automatically imply it's the responsibility of the state to not let people starve irrespective of whether they work or not? If the altern...
<|im_start|>user If the universe only contained two hydrogen atoms 13 billion light years apart, would they exert a gravitational force on each other?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The force between two objects is given by F = G(m1 * m2)/r^2 Where G (6.67×10^-11 N m^2 / kg^2) is the universal gravitational constant, ...
<|im_start|>user Were superconductors theorised first or discovered? The title say it all really. Were they mathematically predicted first or just discovered by accident or similar?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant In the early 1900s, there were competing theories about what would happen if a sufficiently pure metal we...
<|im_start|>user CMV: A marriage can be successful and longlasting without any initial romantic spark Definitions first. Successful: Able to get along with each other, able to support each other in their endevours, communicate, compromise, raise well-balanced children. I feel that as long as the two people in the ma...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: How have beauty standards changed so much throughout the years? Wouldn't what humans find attractive be genetically ingrained into our heads and not really allow standards to change over time?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant A lot of the things we find attractive are not physical attributes but d...
<|im_start|>user In which courses do computer science majors learn type theory?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant The basics would usually be covered in courses with names like "programming languages", "types and programming languages" or "programming language theory". Possibly something mentioning lambda calculus. It wo...
<|im_start|>user ELI5: What is the purpose of a Swiss Bank Account? Why are they so special? Never understood why Swiss bank accounts held such a prestige in my head. Explain!<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant There are two main reasons why rich people like to put their money in Swiss bank accounts. The first is that Swi...
<|im_start|>user What Do I need to know to make a backend for an app? Hi, I was wondering what it says in the title. What I need to know to make a backend? Which language is the best? In my work we use Java with Spring, but I didn't see much backend code because I'm mainly front, but besides a database, what else do I ...
<|im_start|>user What are some critisms of Stoicism? My friend is a Stoic, while I'm more of an Existentialist. We enjoy talking about philosophy over some breakfast. What are some good critisms I can bring up to him about Stoicism?<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant One potential criticism of the idea of being "a Stoic" ...
<|im_start|>user CMV: I think that redefining 'racism' as 'prejudice plus power' is damaging to society So recently I've seen bloggers and activists use the argument that racism is prejudice+power in order to dismiss accusations of racism against whites, since under such definition one cannot be racist against white pe...
<|im_start|>user [Warhammer Fantasy] So I have recently joined a Slaanesh cult in the city of Altdorf. What does my future hold? I'm really excited! :D<|im_end|> <|im_start|>assistant Should breasts start growing in unusual place like your shoulder or hip remember to go to our tailor to have your clothes adjusted, and ...