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6vload | What regulates air traffic over long distances? What's to keep two planes flying over the Atlantic from crashing midflight? | Also, when do direction of the plane switch over from one airport to the next? Thanks you Reddit aces! | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6vmpf4 | How are wooden barrels made to not leak? | For hundreds of years, wooden barrels were used to ship and store a multitude of goods. Including liquids, how was this possible? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6vnn2y | Why are AM towers so dangerous? | Touching a live AM tower results in instant smiting. Why is it so dangerous? The whole thing is an antenna or something? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6vnqb3 | What does a nanometer mean when talking about processor dies? | Does it refer to each transistor measuring 14 (or say) nanometers or a bunch of them? Also, i see a lot of websites which say things like "true" 14nm and otherwise. Isn't it universal? For example, is Intel's 14nm different from say, Samsung's or Global Foundry's? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6vri6v | what about the chips in credit/debit cards makes it safer than the magnetic strip | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6vwhc7 | How can merely opening an email be dangerous, if you don't download the attachments? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6vxz3t | How does Velcro work, and why does it get dull after use? | I've always wondered how the pads stick together and how come after some time it gets unsticky? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6vz4nh | How do download managers throttle download speed? | Some download managers (like IDM for example) or torrent applications have an option to limit your download (or upload) speed. So my question is, how do they do that? What's the tech behind it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w1nwi | How do oil rigs work? | Especially the ones you see in empty fields, moving up and down | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w27e8 | Smart Lightbulbs | How Can a Smart Lightbulb allow electricity to move and power the lightbulb when you are not manually turning on a switch? Sorry if its a stupid question, I probably dont have an fundamental understanding of electricity/lightbulbs but some features smart lightbulbs advertise is the ability to use your smart phone to tu... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w37c0 | Why is it bad to have two anti-virus softwares installed? | I've heard that having multiple anti-virus/malware programs installed can create a lot of problems. Is this true? Why or why not? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w3o7f | How does the news get shots of reporters in hurricanes? | With high-speed winds and rain, how do camera crews get that shot of a reporter standing in the storm? What does that setup look like? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w3sks | How much control does Google have on the internet? | I remember a couple of years ago, Google servers stopped working for a very obscure amount of time, during which a large amount of the internet traffic worldwide ceased to exist. So I just wanted to know how much control and influence they have over the internet? And why can't they employ such power to hurt the busines... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w4czv | How did alarm clocks set the time for the alarm to go off before they were electronically controlled? | Back when alarm clocks were still gear powered, how did turning a dial in the back let the clock know when to ring the alarm? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w4mv1 | Why is 60fps held as the gold standard when making video games? | Why not 40fps or 70fps? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w4tr4 | Why isn't Windows Based on UNIX | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6w66ke | Why do browsers get stuck loading, but after a refresh the page loads fine? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wb0ak | Why do downloads often stop at 99% before finishing? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wbc3k | How does the technology that sees if tennis balls are in or out work, and how come it hasn't completely replaced linesmen? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wbdzb | What's the difference between DVI-I and DVI-D? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wbpfw | How do live YouTube streams of TV shows get away with it? | I've spent all day binge watching live YouTube streams of South Park, Family Guy and American Dad on my TV and it's been great But I've been wondering how these streams survive considering that when full episodes of TV shows are uploaded to YouTube they are always quickly removed due to copyright. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wc6gt | Has handgun technology apparently stopped advancing? | So, maybe this is all based on a misconception, but it *seems* like gun technology has been at almost a standstill. For example, the M1911 pistol, more than a *hundred years old,* is still considered a valid and respectable combat weapon. How is this the case? If you tried to go into battle with an airplane from 1911, ... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wc6tr | Why cameras and screens go crazy when recording/displaying lots of thin stripes? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wc78m | What does a CPU actually do? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6weive | Why are 100%cotton button-down shirts made out of a different fabric than 100% cotton t-shirts? | T-shirts are stretchy. However, button-down shirts only recently started incorporating elastane/etc. for the "stretch" effect. Why not just make button-downs with the same stretchy 100% cotton that t-shirts are made out of? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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"Woven fabric vs. knit fabric is why button downs don't have the stretch that t-shirts do. Here's a blown up photo of [woven fabric]( URL_0 ), which has a grid look to it. And here's [knit fabric]( URL_1 ), which is interlocking loops. While these aren't c... | [
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6wfok0 | What would happen if you didn't turn on airplane mode during a flight? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wg6no | Why does Computer Science have one of the highest unemployment rate of all majors when the field has so many job openings? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wj5nv | How does a computer OS work? Why are there so many files? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wkbks | How do floods like Houston flooding happen with all the modern technology and drainage systems we have? How do they even happen? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wm98m | When a new company make a phone why do they make a skin? | Wouldnt it be cheaper to use stock android? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wn1u7 | Why cant we artifically metabolize food to use as a renewable energy resource? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wo4ro | How did cartoons like Tom and Jerry look so detailed, and most of them were made in the 1940s?. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wp6s8 | Intel's Core processor differences and what is Skylake and Kaby Lake | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wq2en | In firearms, how do fire selector mechanisms work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wrmib | Coffee and cocoa beans are awful raw, and both require significant processing to provide their eventual awesomeness. How did this get cultivated? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wso4x | Why exactly is cross site scripting so terrible? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wtlru | . Why can't email services provide an unsend option (at least until the recipient opens it) | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wu2qm | Why do so many actors end up producing their own movies? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wuino | online quiz/test websites that require facebook login. why do they require that, what information do they get and what do they do with it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wv8dw | Do missiles detonate when they are fired at the ocean? How do [the agencies firing the missile] know that there aren't boats in those areas at the time of impact? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wvyo2 | Who is the mobile provider for the US Government? What mobile devices do they use? I would assume it's not a private carrier like Verizon. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wwbt5 | How did early man come across advanced food recipes, like for example bread, when it seems too complicated to guess or figure out on your own? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wwncf | Why did Apple get rid of "Swipe to Unlock" in place of Touch ID? | On iOS 10 it is technologically insufferable that Apple does not provide another option to unlock your phone outside of Touch ID. I know that the Passcode screen will show after a few attempts, but there is no way to go directly to the Passcode screen without a Touch ID attempt... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wwnzt | Why do some high-end digital cameras have much lower megapixel counts than some budget models? | A Canon 1DX is a professional grade camera with an 18.1 megapixel sensor but you can get budget models with 20.1 megapixel sensors. Does it not make that much of a difference? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wwrqx | Do we posses technology to detect and stop a nuclear missile?? If yes how does it work? If no is there hypothetical solution that could be developed in the near future? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wy2i7 | How does turning an old black & white picture into color actually work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6wy7i7 | How do "taps" work in Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs)? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6x1033 | How can TV's be turned on automatically during an emergency situation? Who has the control over when that would be needed? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6x24mz | How are digital currencies made and how do you convince people to use them? | I don't mean the mining process, but the currency itself, who makes it and why would people use it after it is released when they can trade it to very few individuals | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6x2k2k | In layman's terms, what does P=NP mean? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6x5528 | How did voyager spacecraft sent images of Uranus and Neptune? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6x60m5 | Why does new battery in older cellphone gets discharged at the same speed as the old battery? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6x9iga | What effects to game developers use to make massive, open world games (such as GTA V or Skyrim) seem so huge while still feeling so proportional? | For example; Trevor tells Michael in GTA V that he is a few hours up the road from LS. And while it looks and feels like a long distance, it only takes me a few minutes of real time. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xbt0y | What is "compliance" in IT? | I don't understand this phrase at all. When sites like AWS say "Dedicated Instances are useful if you’re concerned with **compliance** and security and yet have a use case for the elasticity of the Cloud." what is **compliance** supposed to refer to here? I see it all over in other IT discussions and it seems to be ref... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xcq38 | How do modern cinemas show films? Is it still reel to reel or are all of our movies on usb? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xgawf | If I unplug my headphone jack partially, I'll only hear the beat of the song. How does that work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xhm3c | are the times announced in commercials edited for different time zones in the country (US)? | I live in the central time zone and in all of the commercials it says..."watch this at 8 / 7 central." They always say the 8 which is the eastern time zone and then say the time in the central time zone. So are the commercials edited for the west coast? Does it say 8 / 5 pacific? Why do they include the Eastern time zo... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xjdsi | People to mention that white bread is "bleached" rather than whole grain wheat. What is actually happening here and why do we have white bread? | EDIT: Sorry for the typo, typed it before bed. Thanks! | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xogy4 | Why do spreadsheet programs like excel and google sheets have the default text wrapping set to 'overflow'? It seems like everyone switches it to "wrap". | Is there some use for excel that's extremely common that I don't know about that uses overflow frequently? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xolrh | How do those old-school western movie dynamite detonators work and what is their actual name? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xpk1r | With blockchains whats the difference between proof of stake vs. proof of work protocols? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xqfhu | How can phone screens tell whether your finger is pressing the screen or some inanimate object, such as an eraser? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xsalx | Why can't source code be reverse engineered from executable code? | I've heard about games and other software having their source code lost and I was just wondering why the executable code can't be reverse engineered first into an assembly dump and from there into whatever language you want? edit: I understand that variables and functions could end up with nonsensical names | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xshag | Who invented the internet and how is it owned by nobody? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xt96j | How do astronauts travel between the Earth and the ISS? | Is a new space capsule made and used every time astronauts leave Earth or leave the ISS? When astronauts have to leave for Earth, does a new capsule first reach the ISS to carry them? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xth7n | How is machine learning and artificial intelligence different from each other? | AFAIK, both involve a machine to learn certain tasks and evolve over time and get better at it. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xu07q | Why do we instinctively seem to hit machines / devices that aren't functioning properly? Where did this come from? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xu95i | How come cash can make it through a cycle of laundry but paper (such as post-it notes) deteriorate? | Paper seems to be stronger than cash in regards to tearing and what not when dry so I'm very confused | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xugmf | Why do laptop screen colors change at different viewing angles, but phone colors remain the same no matter what angle, and what causes this effect? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xx7s6 | Why are Tv's and Monitors rectangles instead of squares? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xxfp0 | Why does mustard make little circles? | Kinda dumb question but [this]( URL_0 ) is an example of what I mean. How come it doesn't come out in a straight line? I mean.. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xy4bg | what does it mean when a key cannot be copied? | Specifically safety deposit box keys and certain car keys (not electronic ones). Isn't it just a piece of metal shaped a certain way? Thanks | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xzmfc | How is digital information stored (in computers, memory sticks etc.) without a power source? | To my basic, high school level of knowledge all digital information is stored in millions of byte, small "switches" known as transistors, that have two settings: 1 or on, when there is current flowing through the transistor, and 0 or off, when there isn't any current through the transistor. That is fine and well as lon... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6xzmn9 | Why is cgi so expensive ? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y0vlv | Why does Seran wrap seem to not be as clingy as it used to? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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"The CEO had them change the formula because the chemical that gave it that extra stickiness and odor control was bad for the environment. He did that knowing it would hurt sales.",
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6y23rh | How did civilisations deal with human waste before the invention of sewage systems? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y2ywv | Why are coins historically round? Seems like square coins would be more efficient/easier to cut from a sheet of metal. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y4637 | How come we still can't make suits that can be washed normally? | I feel like with how advanced we are technologically, making clothes that look like a suit but don't get messed up in a washer/dryer machine shouldn't be difficult. What's the hiccup? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y47g5 | How do completely autonomous vehicles navigate parking lots? | Seems to me like parking lots have some of the most unpredictable driving conditions. How does an autonomous vehicle decide which spot to take? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y4dl8 | Why does wifi not cause cancer? | Why does wifi not cause cancer? NOTE: this is for my mother as she thinks that it does | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y6wz2 | Why do some objects create a 'whooshing' sound when you drive close enough past them? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y8hsb | How do motion detecting cameras work? | Title says it all | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y95ug | Why did TVs skip 2560x1440 and went straight for 4k? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6y9t3u | Why can't Facebook, Twitter and Instagram just shut down bot accounts? | There is a lot of news lately about bot accounts on social media and I want to know what the process would be to shut down the accounts automatically? How hard is it to design/implement that process? Or is it a fairly simple process to design and implement but perhaps there are other reasons why they can't do it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6ya7z8 | Isn't Google killing other websites by displaying most of the content in search results? Why do these websites allow this? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6yaoye | Why Digital Movie Rentals Cost So Much Money. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6ycgo6 | How do in-ear headphones break so easily? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6yeq9u | How come some keys on a keyboard can't be used together with the ^ symbol? | For example î works, but ^ + r doesn't. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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"The circumflex ( ^ ) doesn't exist on all the latin letters. Only on a select few, mostly vovels. It's the same with diaresis (¨ - the germans often call it umlaut, and that's what it's called in HTML too) it only exists on latin vovels. I'm Swedish. We u... | [
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6yfsex | Why does Reddit show me the same couple of topics on each page when searching "Hot" | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6ygjev | How do you "switch" to renewable energy? | When someone says they switched to green electricity, what does that mean? The power in their outlet is the same, coming from whatever sources that are producing electricity. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6ygjkw | When somebody mutes a computer, does the computer play the sounds at zero volume, or does it not play the sounds at all? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6yh04x | What do audio engineers look for and what changes are made to 'remastered' recordings? And why do some prefer the original? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6ylcyv | How 100,000 hour technology tests are actually conducted? | The new LED lighting in my office are said to be tested for 100,000 hours, surely they have not been left on for this long? Same goes for the microwave in the canteen, 600 hours testing. How do they conduct these tests? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6ymd12 | How do FBI track down anonymous posters on 4chan? | Reading the wikpedia page for [4chan]( URL_0 ), I hear about cases where the FBI identified the users who downloaded child pornography or posted death threats. How are the FBI able to find these people if everything is anonymous. And does that mean that technically, nothing on 4chan is really truly "anonymous"? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6yqhba | When freezing vegetables, the cells explode because of the water in it expanding, and they get mushy. So ho does cryogenics work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6yrpny | People say that Apollo 11 could have been done with a normal calculator, so why is space flight nowadays still so hard? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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6yrwzb | Why can two companies, for example Apple and Samsung, specifically target each other in their commercials? Isn't this considered defamation of a brand? | I've seen both companies talk doo-doo about each other in multiple commercials. Isn't this defamation of another brand? Why and how can they do this? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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