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explainlikeimfive/cvi1o5n | 3mtwma | Why are the majority of homeless people I encounter downtown white adult men? | Because the majority of people are white, the majority of homeless people are white. But vulnerable people, especially women learn fast not to look 'homeless', and to avoid places where they are gonna get into drama, like a 'downtown' area. With homeless women (especially younger ones, and young homeless people in gene... | 3 |
AskReddit/c3ih70r | omy5t | What is your craziest online dating experience? | Back in the ICQ days I wound up chatting with a local. I became interested in more than just an online experience, so I invited him over. Not at all what I expected. Not even close. And he was still a virgin. I couldn't bring myself to de-flower this naive little boy, so I gave him a pity hand job and sent him on his w... | 4 |
Ask_Politics/d36kg2f | 4jgm4t | Which industries fight against government regulation the most? | > vehemently oppose regulation is still vague. If a company/lobbying group gets involved with the legislative process before something becomes law then they won't need to oppose it. For instance health insurance companies were brought into the ACA process and ended up being less resistant to the new law because they ha... | 5 |
AskReddit/dod0xyx | 76cz99 | What activity or hobby is so filled with hateful people that it puts you off trying it? | Political debates/speaker events. I used to try to go to these to listen to people I may not agree with personally so I could hear their side or argument. I try to keep myself open to different opinions but most of the time their events are full of people that go there thinking they're some hero that constantly cuts th... | 486 |
AskReddit/ebxc2ww | a6quo1 | Why won’t you EVER eat at that restaurant again? | A local takeaway restaurant i have eaten in many, many times and always loved. Last time I ate there, I ordered a chicken fillet burger, it was really packed out so I decided to cut it in half before tackling it. Thank goodness I did, it was completely raw inside. I feel bad for avoiding the place due to one bad experi... | 670 |
explainlikeimfive/cjq7y1w | 2dk4j3 | Why does coffee not hydrate you, even though it's main component is water? | It does hydrate you, though less than non-caffeinated beverages. There is some diuretic (makes you pee) effect from the caffeine, but if anything the water component of the coffee and the impact of the caffeine balance each other out. | 4 |
askscience/eifkggm | azvs11 | What happens to the molecules we breathe in after we smell them? | Smelling is a very unique sense in that it doesn't use nerves to carry the information. Rather, the olfactury bulb of your brain extends receptors down directly to the back of your nose (a space called the nasopharynx). These receptors bind specific molecules, which are associated with different smells. When you breath... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cipl1ez | 29xyti | Why is there such an obvious variety of dogs but almost all cats look the same to me? | Dogs were bred very specifically over many thousands of years in order to create very specific breeds that are good at specific jobs. Cats just hung around humans and bred with other cats that were comfortable around humans until you got to domesticated cats. Basically dogs are a very long term human breeding project w... | 2 |
AskReddit/ecqtmgv | aacphe | What is something you wish you would have started doing sooner? | I wish that I had started using a computer mouse with my left hand from the very beginning because it allows you to use your right hand for the keyboard, keypad, or other things and it also helps to increase the dexterity of your left hand as well as reduce the strain on your right hand and arm. | 2 |
AskReddit/cv6lgnk | 3lih4l | Who was your first kiss? | Ah. My first kiss was when I was 5. I was getting married to my best friend, because his parents were explaining earlier that day to me that his family had to move back to Austria since their work visas or whatever expired. My dad had joked that the only way my friend would be able to stay was if I married him. So, wit... | 4 |
askscience/ci797fk | 2826u9 | How do theories about the formation of Phobos and Deimos explain their almost perfectly equatorial and circular orbits? | We don't known for sure. Atmospheric drag will circularize an elliptical orbit because it decelerates the object while at apsis, the fastest part of its orbit. Tidal forces are less effective at circularizing an orbit, at least for a small, low-mass object like Deimos. Another possibility is that they were interacting ... | 2 |
AskReddit/e3ea7hw | 93m2cg | Why or why wouldn’t you raise your children in a gender-neutral way? | I would raise them how they wanted to be raised. If I had a son and he wanted to be a pink princess, he can be a pink princess. If they followed the stereotypes I would let them follow the stereotypes. It's a parents place to guide, not to control, and as long as any children I have grow up to become good people, I wou... | 10 |
AskReddit/dcl653k | 5oq7j2 | What would be great advice now, but horrible advice twenty years ago? | My first thought was that it would be bad advice to encourage a closeted homosexual to come out 20 years ago. Then I remembered 20 years ago was 1997. Haha, I'm old. | 2 |
AskReddit/czdv2os | 42xshk | If you could change the smell of your sweat to anything else, what would it be? | I'd say weed, but that already happens so I'm pretty happy. I've been searched by police before because I'm that potent. Pro-tip: Smoke enough, and the THC stays in your sweat glands. Making you smell like you're wearing a cannabis aftershave when you sweat. | 2 |
AskReddit/erfrl5l | c1v3f4 | Does someone know what LOVE is? | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/crq0q0b | 37v19a | Why isn't insurance considered gambling? | >You are betting that something bad will happen and that it will be cheaper to pay small amounts upfront so you agent screwed with a larger sum down the line. Sort of? I understand that way of modelling it but nobody is really buying insurance saying: "Oh yeah, I can't wait for my house to burn down, I'll get so much!"... | 2 |
AskReddit/edpbch9 | aei06w | What is the foulest smell you've ever experienced? | My own farts after I've eaten a jar of pickled onions. It's so hard trying to keep a straight face in public's as I look around like I'm trying to figure out who released the toxic gas. | 2 |
askscience/c7wj0f8 | 16iu8c | If photons of light have no mass, how does a black hole stop it from escaping? | Gravity affects energy, not just mass. Photons have no mass, but they do have energy equal to hv where h is Planck's constant and v is the frequency. A black hole stops photons from escaping the same way it stops massive particles - by taking their energy. With mass, this energy is in the form of kinetic energy, so the... | 3 |
AskReddit/ele3ift | bfhsri | What are some dark secrets about grocery stores? | I worked at a "heath food grocery" in Florida when I was in college. About 90% of the money the store made was from supplements, not food. The food was to get people to come in and do all of their shopping at one place. Also, we had a semi-secret, cash only product kept in the back office that was a drink to help you p... | 13,068 |
AskReddit/dgjtcuj | 66n7xb | Should rapists every be forgiven, and why? | As a rape survivor, I can say for a fact that even trying to think about forgiving my rapist is the hardest thing to do. I have closure now with the event but I don't think I could consider him forgiven. If I did forgive him it would not be to "do the right thing" or "put it behind me" I think it would just give me mor... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d4iaqg8 | 4p616c | Why are swimming pools color light blue? | One of two reasons. First, water naturally reflects as blue as seen in the shallow waters of the ocean. It's simply a property of water. Thus even if lined with white plaster, a pool will have a light-blue color. Second, the lining of the pool may purposefully be colored blue to help stand out against algae growth whic... | 13 |
AskReddit/ctzaobz | 3glxlh | What Fruit/Vegetables do you hate and why ? | I've been thinking about my "vegetable rankings" for a while now. Broccoli, asparagus, and tomatoes: The big three, the trifecta, the most superior vegetables; they taste great and have good nutrition. Carrots and corn, and beans: With these, the taste really depends on how you cook them, and they also have decent nutr... | 2 |
askscience/ermftvz | c2d8vx | When fighter jets break the sound barrier, is it loud in the cockpit? | The thing is the jet never breaks through anything. Aircraft engines are pretty loud. So you create sound that spreads from the plane in all directions. If the aircraft is slower than the sound waves, they fly ahead of the aircraft unhindered. But if the aircraft moves faster than the sound it produces, it pushes the s... | 6 |
AskReddit/dgzc306 | 68ldex | What's your scariest sleep paralysis experience and how often does it happen to you? | It's happened to me twice. Both in the same month, never before and never again. Both were terrifying but the first one even more so. What made the first one particularly awful was the 'night hag' that accompanied the paralysis. I woke up unable to move but I could see my room clearly, my bathroom light was on, there w... | 2 |
AskReddit/cktcevw | 2hjn7c | What "glitch in the system" went unnoticed, so you keep exploiting it? | An actual game exploit. Early on in LOTRO (about May/June of 2007), there were these spiders east of Weathertop. They would consistently (every single kill) drop a rare crafting item, that, when sold to the vendor as trash, yielded far more cash than any other vendor trash you could find. I would make a circuit of goin... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1y778o | htco8 | What's the biggest movie you've never seen? | I have never watched a single movie in the LOTR trilogy. I've been staring at it for the past few years, but the whole franchise seems like such a complex and Byzantine edifice that I fear it would be too difficult to really get into it within a short period of time. | 8 |
Ask_Politics/ccxznnf | 1p26td | What would happen if the US abolished all political parties? | There are two sides of "political parties": -- all the various perks and legal standings given to the party corporations by various laws and regulations -- people associating with each other to achieve a common goal (formation of factions) The first can be abolished; the second cannot. You could abolish non-profit char... | 11 |
AskReddit/ecd1x4w | a8rfj6 | What are some good hobbies for someone with chronic hand pain? | instead of using fingers to peck at your electronic device, you could get a voice to text program or application. There are portable stands that can be used to hold a book, while reading. When hands hurt, it is time to use them less for common things, so one can use hands for more important and creative hobbies. Avoid ... | 2 |
AskReddit/efucw56 | anlxip | How does one fight the urge to quit their job before finding something else? | I sympathise with you 100%, 'cos I am in the exact same position. I have to tell myself constantly that I like having a house to live in and food on the table, and that it would be monumentally unfair to make my SO to carry that burden on his own. I hope you find a new job soon. Heck, I hope we both find new jobs soon. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ebjwamx | a54rqx | How do game / software developers decide what to call each version update? | Everyone is different but the general practice is this: major.minor.patch This is called "semantic versioning" and it's been raining more traction recently. Major releases happen more rarely (annually, maybe shorter, most likely longer depending on the industry). Major releases contain what are called "breaking" change... | 6 |
AskReddit/c1fynqa | fhexv | How important is sleep to you in order to function cognitively? | it's very important to cognition; it's very important for a lot of things. they're now saying adolescents should get about 10 hours a night. it's also said we need less sleep as we age but a good rule of thumb for an adult is 8 hours. Roughly two complete sleep cycles. i work overnights and my sleep gets screwed up. se... | 2 |
AskReddit/cfihr6p | 1y8sfo | Have you ever had one of those ideas that kept you up at night but seemed stupid in the morning? | Two and a half years ago, right before falling asleep my brain piped up and said, "hey, you should stay up all night making a Pokemon drinking game." My first reaction was to ignore the impulse and go to sleep. But the impulsion was strong. so I spent the next eight hours making my first board game, and several years l... | 2 |
AskReddit/dnv13aq | 742sub | What are your tips for paying off student loans smart and early? | The only tip to paying it earlier is paying more than the minimum payment so you can lower your balance faster and less interest will accumulate. This means you gotta plan your budget and try to see where you can lower your expenses so you can divert the savings to paying off your loan instead. You can also choose the ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c4bkmoi | s6xan | Why is suicide so "bad"? | I never feel like suicide is bad. I just think that if youre going to make that choice, you should first explore EVERY other option before you do it, several different times. And eta, doctors cant help because its then murder. | 5 |
AskReddit/ev8cxjw | cipi42 | What was the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? | I've eaten some weird things in my life, but the weirdest was probably cheeseburger pancakes. Take a pancake, right? Only now, there's ground beef and cheddar cheese mixed into the batter. Strangely enough, it wasn't actually bad. I don't know that I'd eat it again (especially because NOBODY else liked them), but maybe... | 2 |
AskReddit/d5otdpi | 4udjer | What could we do to make your job easier? | To make a physician's job easier: Do not assault any healthcare providers. Sometimes, it is not the surgeon's / physician's fault that certain diseases or injuries cannot be cured, or if you had to wait 30 minutes for your medications, or the treatment doesn't work for you. Sometimes the damage is too severe, and somet... | 2 |
AskReddit/c59aftw | w0za1 | In honor of Independence Day, what do you think the world would be like 16 years after a failed alien invasion? | Assuming that we're talking about 16 years after the "Independence Day" invasion: Most major cities were destroyed in the invasion. Some get rebuilt (mostly places where there's a strong geographical reason for a city to be there), in other places, survivors pack up and leave. Boom towns with a Wild West feel spring up... | 8 |
AskReddit/eg5r92t | ap4u8t | What's a non superhero comic or graphic novel you want to see made into a movie? | I've got three I want to see made. Black Lagoon and Gunsmith Cats are two manga that are and can be as pasty as any rich old white guy wants them to be. Well, except for Rally. I'd love to see Netflix pick up Transmetropolitan. That's a series that can be as weird a trilogy as anyone wants. | 3 |
AskReddit/dmwbvym | 6zmekc | What tips/advice would you give to a person sliding into the adult life? | Learn to cook. Learn to budget and manage a household. Learn basic motor mechanics. Try new things. Say yes to the world, but not at the expense of your sanity or health. For women, be as assertive as possible in the face of sexism. (Also for men, challenge the sexism that you are faced with). No-one has the right to t... | 3 |
AskReddit/cjnruqw | 2dav9h | What is the difference of your childhood with those of today's kids? | My childhood was in the 2000's so it's not big of a differences between today's kids. However today's kids are even more reliant and addicted to technology than kids with my childhood. Sure we grew up with technology as well but we still played outside a lot. | 2 |
AskReddit/daxs8qc | 5h5qcl | What is the creepiest thing Obama could whisper to Trump before he goes into the white house? | Obama whispers in Trumps ear: "I wanna be your pinky ring!" Trump looks at him shocked and appaled, while Obama blushes and makes a silent giggle exposing his upper teeth biting his lower lip. | 4 |
AskReddit/c4p4rhw | tro6p | If Earth was eventually represented on an intergalactic stage, what should our national anthem be? | I'm sure it would be something boring and predictable like Beethoven's Fifth or Ninth, or something particularly offensive to my sensibilities like Bach. Nitpick: would this really be a "national" anthem? Note: I'm not calling Beethoven's music boring and predictable, just the choice of a well-known bit of classical as... | 2 |
AskReddit/coab80b | 2uovr9 | What is something right-handed people always use their left hand for and vice-versa? | Left hand and arm used to support my rifle, right hand used to pull the trigger. I always get vaccinations in my left arm so if there is a problem my right hand isn't affected. | 3 |
AskReddit/emsbj0i | blxxr9 | What's something about your job or employer that people probably don't know about? | I’m a Home Health Care Aide but I mostly work with Hospice patients. People always give credit to Hospice nurses but the reality is that Hospice aides are the ones who are doing the most work. We essentially live with your loved one since some patients opt to pass in the comfort of their own homes. Family may come and ... | 2 |
askscience/e1b2cp7 | 8to6bf | Why do whistles and horns amplify sound? | Standing waves are created within a horn. This allows a much higher amplitude to be created as energy is put in. The resonant frequency is given by the dimensions of the horn. That is why horns will "lock in" at a particular pitch. Not so sure about whstles, though I believe it is the same process just a lot smaller, s... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/czx6x7r | 45e4jk | Isn't cheap oil a good thing ? | Cheap oil is a good thing for the consumer, and it is a great thing for the shipping industry. It is a bad thing for the oil industry. Countries that are highly dependent on the oil industry like the OPEC nation, Canada, and Russia are having issues due to prices. The US which has a much smaller percentage of its GDP d... | 3 |
AskReddit/cs04jmp | 393urk | How does antibacterial hand soap kill bacteria on your hands? | Most of the sanitization comes from foaming, honestly. The mechanical act of washing and generating bubbles with soap and water disrupts their membranes. Most antibacterial soaps are not really necessary day to day. There isn't enough contact time between the antibacterial agents and the bacteria to kill them, you woul... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cbsbblu | 1kslla | What would life have been like for a wealthy black man in the decades prior to the Civil Rights Movement? | I can recommend one more title - The Other Brahmins - Boston's Black Upper Class from 1750 to 1950 by Dr. Adelaide Cromwell (edit - still alive, 90+, and some excellent interviews are floating around on CSPAN or the internets). Brahmins is essentially the author's doctoral dissertation, written in the 1940s, then rewor... | 6 |
AskReddit/dbe56jl | 5j8cub | What novel or film would you like to see become a TV series? | I think that The Matrix could make a compelling TV series. Personally I'd say set it in the first Matrix. The one where they "lacked the programming language to describe a perfect reality" and that "entire crops were lost". | 5 |
AskReddit/ed9p81l | acp90d | What’s the thing that NEVER happens in movies that always happens in real life? | Good guys missing in gun battles People wiping after a particularly messy/liquid poo S.O saying no to the idea of 3-somes People going to movies | 2 |
AskReddit/evbiraq | cj6w59 | What is more helpful when trying to lose weight, seeing you much progress you've made, or seeing how much you have left to do? | Psychologically, you should always thing of the positive, in this case, be proud of the progress you’ve made, and try not to focus on how much is left. “Ive lost (amount of weight)” Instead of “Only (amount of weight) to go” The problem with the “only so much to go” is our brains don’t process it as finished, but that ... | 3 |
AskHistorians/c97sbbw | 1bjkzb | How have major religions died out in history? | The Ancient Egyptian religion was incredibly strong for many hundreds of years. The rituals, gods, and temples remained open and popular from as far back as 3150 BCE. As the Greeks and then Romans invaded and conquered Egypt, the gods were either syncretized (Serapis) or simply adopted (Isis by the Romans). However, wi... | 4 |
AskReddit/cdad3e9 | 1q881l | What is the most incorrect common saying you hear people say? | More importantly, I'm annoyed by the people who don't realize that language is constantly evolving. Complying with how a word is already used is not "correct." The use naturally shifting has existed since the beginning of time. Thinking it cannot is something that came from dictionaries being common. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cnwowio | 2t8c7s | What causes a word to seem to lose all meaning when you read / say it over and over? | Simplest metaphor I can think of to explain it is as follows. Say you are standing between two shoulder level shelves on either side of you. There is a cup of water on the one on the right and nothing on the left. You pick up the cup with your hand (when you actually speak a word for this metaphor) and move it and plac... | 4 |
AskReddit/c9nlnrb | 1d7bvb | What moves or TV episodes have affected you deeply or caused you to rethink parts of your life? | An episode of Invader Zim really affected me once. It was one where Dib threw a muffin at Zim. Beginning the next day, Dib lived out his life to the fullest. Eventually defeating and imprisoning Zim and conquering the Tallest's empire, only to have it snatched away at the end by finding out that Zim made him live out h... | 3 |
AskReddit/dm7mmih | 6wf0pm | How do you tell if someone is tolerating you or actually enjoys your presence? | Do they engage you in conversation in a positive manner? Do they seem to want to hang out longer than the bare minimum amount of time? Are they attentive listeners that respond in a manner that seems like they listened and are on topic? If they switch topics those topics or are in their phone and never respond you like... | 5 |
AskReddit/d5kkqqw | 4tv8pp | What is the worst kind of pain? | Excluding extreme things like torture - I find Physical pain affecting my life far more than emotional pain. Physical pain is intense, and terrible when it happens. But over a relatively short time span if you're healthy and it wasn't some kind of life altering accident, you'll be done with it in more or less a month a... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c9kam0m | 1cup5n | Were there ever any efforts by the Chinese or Japanese to explore and/or colonize? | It would be more helpful if you specified the time period you are interested in. The Japanese in the 19th through mid-20th century had a well-known expansive empire of colonies South East Asia: the famous "Empire of Japan" that was involved in World War II. But the history of the country is quite long; there have been ... | 3 |
AskReddit/cqu5aau | 34fjmw | What's the most ridiculous thing your parents/grandparents told you they did when they were kids? | My grandma was an Sicilian immigrant who grew up during the great depression. I was asking her about it and she told me she used to make tomato soup using ketchup and water. She was too poor to buy bubble gum so her and her friends would take some fresh street tar and chew on it instead. When my dad was in 3th grade li... | 2 |
AskReddit/danlsam | 5fwleg | What is your hobby/profession's "Anyway, here's Wonderwall"? | Hobby: 3D modeling/animation Wonderwall: "Here's my metallic/glass sphere floating in space." Hobby: Photography Wonderwall: "Here's a black and white photo with the eyes selectively colored." | 6,031 |
askscience/ckm38kc | 2gsfqh | If matter cannot reach the speed of light, can it reach the speed of 0? | > the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time Not exactly. This is oversimplified to the point of being misleading. Space and time are not separate entities. There is just one spacetime. No matter your speed, you are always traveling through spacetime. An object at rest is still traveling th... | 16 |
AskReddit/etgx189 | cbnwhj | What language is the 'inner voice' of someone deaf from birth? | I think it's almost like machine language, a language they themselves understand, but can be translated in some way into a spoken language. It's a binary form of language, if's and then's which use memetic imagery or logic. The same, yet highly advanced, form of logic that babies use to for instance request milk. "If I... | 3 |
AskReddit/d6y33b8 | 4zr11i | Why isn't discussing race/ethnicity as a determining factor for success in athletics seen as racist, while at the same time, discussing race/ethnicity being a factor for intelligence/behavior seen as racist? | Because physical performance and attributes are easy to measure. Intelligence/behavior is not easily measured. It is also hugely influenced by someones upbringing. There is also historical precedence where bad science led to some races being seen as less intelligent without merit. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/djlaa7t | 6kdrz9 | Why are manual cars typically more fuel efficient if you're constantly taking your foot on and off the gas pedal? | Gas mileage isn’t based off how much your foot is on and off the gas. To oversimplify, gas mileage is based on how much speed you get per RPM. Manual cars used to be more efficient than automatic cars because a person would know when they could change to a higher gear when an automatic might not, so the automatic would... | 2 |
AskReddit/efuvzch | anoje4 | How much of knowledge learned from your college education do you use or has helped at your current job? | I'm a mathematical engineer. For my job in only using whatever is taught in the elementary courses. I'm hardly using anything from more advanced courses, as they only slightly touch the topics I'm working with. I get most knowledge from scanning papers and talking with peers. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cezckav | 1w76kl | Why can't spiders climb up the side of the bath tub? | They climb using the hairs and little microscopic hooks. Think of it like rock climbing. If there weren't any type of way to hold on to something with your hands and feet you wouldn't be able to climb a nearly vertical wall. Same is true for the spider. The tub is a smooth and relatively vertical surface for them to cl... | 59 |
AskReddit/exsu3gz | cubinv | Should you work hard or work smart and why? | Work hard when you’re young, especially under the guidance of more experienced people, then smarter as you get older. Working hard gets you experience and when you’re young you have more stamina you can work harder for longer. As you gain experience you will find ways to work smarter and you can slowly incorporate thos... | 2 |
AskReddit/cdpkbbr | 1rpfyf | What is the most 'sexy' word that isn't normally dirty? | Slick Saying it slow in a hushed tone sounds so sexy for some reason. Starts off with a whisper and ends sharp like a literary spank. (Edit: missed a word) | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/dx0ixve | 8apt6z | What is that little grey bar that moves ahead of the progress bar on a YouTube video? | The grey bar is supposed to indicate how much of the video has loaded already. So the red line represents the point of the video you are watching, but the grey bar represents the point till where you could watch without any connection rn. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cajye9r | 1ggar4 | Would bread go stale in space? | Are you talking about in a vacuum or on board a space ship of space station? In both cases the awnser is, yes. Bread, and other pastries go stale because moisture in the bread evaporates. So in a spaceship, the water is going to evaporate just as easily as on earth. But what in the cold hard vacuum of space? Surely the... | 28 |
AskReddit/dk0qfcj | 6mddtt | What is the best band you have seen live? | The Black Keys. They're one of the few bands who I actually prefered seeing live over listening to their album. I was blown away by the quality of their music with just the two on stage, and I was basically in the very back row of the arena. | 2 |
askscience/cbtq2um | 1kxxc7 | How exactly do we suck liquid through straws? | No.YOU are correct. The fluid is not, technically, being "sucked" up. You create a vacuum within the straw by removing the air. The air pressure outside the straw is pushing down on the liquid in the glass. Because of the difference in pressure between the straw and the liquid, the liquid is actually being "pushed" up ... | 10 |
AskReddit/d4l9kz6 | 4piren | Is a PlayStation 4 equivalent in power to the best super computer from the year 2000? | Playstation 4 floating point performance: 1.84 TeraFLOPS IBM ASCI White (fastest supercomputer as of 2000) floating point performance: 7.226 TeraFLOPS I believe the GTX Titan Z (released 2014) was the first single consumer processor to beat the fastest super computer in 2000. Playstation doesn't come close. | 11 |
AskReddit/dtt8g86 | 7vlb7o | What was your first job? | Not counting the part time grocery store job while in school, my first real job was as a computer operator in the space shuttle launch control center. Other than sitting there and watching for computer problems that never happened, my big contribution to the launch effort was to refill the printer paper at all the cons... | 2 |
AskReddit/c1j5lx5 | fwn3w | What is a legitimate reason to love programming? | Legitimate reasons are up to you, not us, to decide. People love programming for tons of reasons; some might love the logical aspect of it, some might love the expression of creativity in a technical way, some might love the practicality, and some might simply love the functionality of it. Who knows? If you like it, I'... | 7 |
AskReddit/eq45ebk | bx825c | If all humans could live 300 years, what would be different? | I feel like people would care more about not smoking/not drinking excessively. If everyone around you is living 300 years and you could die at 50 from cancer, people might be more willing to care about the long-term. | 4 |
AskReddit/cs3dgx4 | 39heg6 | Is there such a thing as "love at first sight"? | Yea, I think it's attraction at first sight. I've always said, you fall in love with someone when you begin to love their faults. When the things that kind of bothered you before become what you love. I think everyone that has fallen in love with someone, can pin point the exact moment in time you fell for them. I'm re... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cssd0a1 | 3c5bet | How does a company fire or let go of a CEO? | The Board of Directors. The CEO runs the company, but it is the Board of Directors that hold large stakes in the company (and decide its ultimate course of action). If they are unhappy with the CEO they can move to fire them. | 4 |
AskReddit/epnrsag | bvbw2i | Why don't we interfere with Russian media as much as they do ours? | If you mean pushing some agenda, mostly because Russian media is either directly or indirectly run by the state, in which case it's a bit hard to do (they are doing it, so they expect it) and could backfire if it was done anyway, or doesn't really need any interference as it already largely says what we (you?) would. I... | 5 |
AskReddit/c1fhqk7 | ffauu | Do you love what you do for work? | I work for Boeing as a "Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer". I design test hardware and oversee its installation on flight test aircraft. I am assigned to ZA004, the 4th 787 test airplane. I love my job. I work different shifts (now I am working 21:30 - 0600) and I often work weekends, but where else do you get to go... | 10 |
AskReddit/dr11n2h | 7irx12 | What is the worst decision you ever made? | Dropped out of a program at an Ivy League school to move closer to my friends at home across the country. I honestly think I set myself back socially by years by not putting myself out there and making friends at the first school. I'm doing great for myself now and I've made great friends, but there will always be that... | 2 |
AskReddit/ebinf0y | a4zd45 | What is the worst gift that a person could bring to a white elephant gift exchange? | Christmas decorations as a gift. We all put effort in to pick out something nice that the receiver can use all year, but someone in my group always brings a cheap Christmas decoration. Whoever opens that gift is immediately out of the game because no one wants it. | 6 |
AskHistorians/cfu03wi | 1zh4qb | Why did Russia and Ukraine support Transnitria in its war with Moldova? | It's the 20 year rule, but luckily 1992 is outside it, so you're safe. I don't use it here, but PMR refers to Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and is often used in the rhetoric about this. Russia backed Trasnitria due to it having a high Slavic population, and the original reason that the 14th army (stationed in Mold... | 4 |
AskReddit/e0175f2 | 8o750q | What are some of the best scenes from movies/shows that are just amazing in terms of music, action, angle, dialogue, or all of them? | every single moment of Pinapple Express is amazing or chasing amy for dialogue. was the only thing that made me not jealous about my gf at the time having a promiscuous past | 2 |
AskReddit/cu6z83h | 3hfszq | What things are necessary to make a relationship work, besides love? | Realistic expectations of each other. You're not going to get the laundry list of "ideal qualifications" that you made before meeting him/her. But, if you genuinely love each other, you come to love them anyways and either find the things you didn't want to be wonderful or just something you can live with and compromis... | 560 |
explainlikeimfive/dfam881 | 60zqo3 | Why is it that everyone always tells you to avoid looking directly into light, yet when you go for an eye test, they do nothing but shine light into your eyes for the whole half hour? | It's kind of like the difference between standing next to the melted reactor core of Chernobyl and getting an Xray. Your eyes are constantly exposed to bright, damaging light, especially UV light from the sun. A few minutes of bright light at the optometrist isn't going to contribute significantly, especially because t... | 17 |
AskReddit/c8u33hb | 1a4tun | What things do you do in public to make people think that you are a more socially-acceptable person than you actually are? | I often don't wash my hands after taking a quick leak at the urinal, but sometimes I run the water to make it seem like I have done so if there are other people in the bathroom. I figured this was just a personal quirk until I heard Dap from Das Racist mention the same practice in an interview. | 2 |
AskReddit/d1ewn4v | 4c468e | What celebrity is desperately trying to remain relevant? | Kanye West he keeps doing desperate things to try to stay relevant, interrupting award shows, marrying Kim K, saying out landish things about fellow "musicians", making appeals to people richer than him to give him money because he's 59m in debt, yadayadayada. The guy takes himself so seriously that he only ever shows ... | 22 |
AskReddit/dftczpw | 63e6ud | What would you do if you became infinitely richer in the next five minutes? | Use the money to become infinitely wealthier. Chris Rock said it best: “Shaquille O’Neal is rich. The white man that signs his check is wealthy. […] I ain’t talking ’bout Oprah, I’m talking ’bout Bill Gates, OK? If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah’s money he’d jump out a f*cking window. “ | 2 |
AskReddit/d21bm02 | 4em8r3 | What's a song that you used to enjoy but now despise due to it being an alarm, people over playing it, or some other reason? | I don't remember the name of it, but it's some cello piece that I thought was really neat. My alarm was stressing me out because it was so.well.alarming, so I set it to this cello piece because I thought it would be a nicer way to wake up. Now I just hate that song. | 2 |
AskReddit/ehiuz5k | avz5ti | What's a situation where you realized you were at the wrong place at the wrong time? | When I was in 4th or 5th grade my mom dropped me off for a birthday party. I was with my older brother, and it turned out we were in the wrong place after she left. We called and she came back, and dropped us off at the right place. We go in, ask about the birthday party, and it turns out we were making the whole effor... | 3 |
askscience/c63n4pb | zdli3 | What happens to the polarity with a battery stored backwards? | That depends entirely on what you're storing them in. You may be inadvertently overloading a circuit with the reversed polarity and damage the device they are in, alternately it may have no effect and work just fine in something simple like a flashlight. Depending on how the battery holder is layed out, you may also in... | 2 |
askscience/c2fdnm7 | jv2hw | What would some of the long term affects be from taking Adderall every weekday for 14 years? | If I could turn off my tag for this one post, I would. This is entirely out of my field. I'm extremely concerned by the last line of your question. Aside from being unintentionally offensive to the cognitively impaired, you sound like you're afraid to ask your doctor a question about your own health. THIS IS INCREDIBLY... | 28 |
AskReddit/cjp3y0w | 2dfxr3 | What would the younger you make fun or the current you for? | Being "girly", when I was younger I was a die hard tomboy, dresses and skirts were stupid, makeup was stupid, fashion was stupid, and so on. Now I love clothes shopping and trying new makeup styles. I just wish I could tell 10 year old me what she would grow up to be. | 2 |
AskReddit/dw9f8q4 | 871d6e | What's the best way to win over a scared cat? | Lay on the floor, on your back. My scared cat saw this behavior as me wanting to play, and came over to investigate and play. Getting down to eye-level really helped mine. | 2 |
AskHistorians/d18c7u1 | 4bcueh | Did the Industrial Revolution leave a string of depressed agricultural/mercantilist towns, similar to the rust belts of deindustrialization in the late twentieth century? | It's not quite the same, but there are some parallels. Most of older Medieval or Early Modern trading centers in Britain didn't actually lose population, but certainly stagnated at a time when some other urban centers like London and Manchester were growing very rapidly. Manchester especially grew from around 18,000 pe... | 12 |
AskReddit/ehls1x9 | awdegu | How did you fall in love? | Well she’s an extremely popular girl whose won multiple titles, including tons of beauty pageants and tons of screening awards, and she’s Hispanic and super attractive, basically anyone’s dream. However, it was when I got to know her I fell hard. She has major problems in her life and I absolutely love getting to know ... | 2 |
AskReddit/d0ru7ty | 49gxuc | What phase did you go through when you were younger that, at the time, you were convinced would be part of your identity for life? | Being religious to, what I would consider to be, a fault. I spent so many years believing everything I did was a sin. When cleaning my genitals in the shower I would pray to God, promising I wasn't doing anything inappropriate. I had a constant, overwhelming guilt for most of my life. I slowly left the bad parts behind... | 3 |
AskReddit/crg1ckw | 36oofb | Why are you slightly cranky right now? | My SO and I don't have very great conversations now that we're apart for the summer, mainly because he started his full time internship and I still have a week and a half left to start mine. And I can't even be mad about it because it's a great opportunity for him and I should be happy, and also I agreed to these terms... | 3 |
AskReddit/c2v2d6y | lror6 | Can anyone offer advice to a Highschool Senior on college admissions? | Don't get too down on yourself. Yes, you may not have the best GPA or SAT scores. I wouldn't worry much about it. My SAT score was basically the same as yours and I just graduated with a degree in bioengineering. Here are my little tidbits of advice: Try and go talk to some of the people in the department you're intere... | 2 |
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