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24,891,684 | What is the location of the Terai region? | Terai region of UP..once less population and more jungles ., This is area (in map) below shivalic or hymayan hills and avobe ganga yamuna plains/ maidans, Better to say area adjoining Nepal (UP and Bihar)., Once kashipure was most difficult area ..persons comming from punjab(*pakistan)make it developed prosper and exce... |
3,939,953 | Why do you think it is important to know the location of the instantaneous center? | I don't. That doesn't sound like a meaningful or useful thing to know. |
7,455,568 | What type of property is ductility? | Ductility is the property of metals which states that metals can be drawn into thin wires . Gold is the most ductile metal. |
3,766,301 | When will a person get happiness at its peak in his lifetime? | NOW…, Having said that. It's a matter of choice. To chose to be happy or not., B- . Death.. D- . Life is a journey from . Birth to , Or, B- . D-. Begining to . Destination, In between the . B & D. . C- Choice.. You have , NOW…:). Chose to be happy |
3,034,739 | When will Game of Thrones come back? | No. This is the final season., No matter how much fans will complain., And, yes, I am a huge fan. |
11,924,079 | What are the good ways to create a pdf of an e-magazine? | Most digital magazines are built using html5. So it’s basically a website. If you’re reading it on a laptop or desktop and the viewer provides a print option, just click it or click file > print > save to PDF (Mac) or print to PDF using an open source PDF Creator software like PDFCreator by PDFforge.org. |
759,646 | How do I add a signature in Gmail using Android? | An email signature comprises a few lines of text placed at the bottom of every outgoing email for those who don’t know. It not only gives a professional touch to your emails; it also helps the recipient know a few details about your website, business name, contact details, and address., Open the Gmail app on your Andr... |
943,719 | How do I pronounce Fritz Leiber's name? | ber, just as the name is pronounced in German.. LYE-. The name “Leiber” is pronounced , I heard Leiber explain this a few times. He may have mentioned it in his autobiographical essay., I assume the querent knows how to pronounce “Fritz.” |
82,226,080 | How many audio books on Amazon would someone realistically have to sell to justify the cost of hiring a narrator or voice over artist? | There is considerable cost associated with hiring a narrator or voice-over artist. But you have to figure in a few factors. If you do it yourself, you need the proper equipment which could easily amount to the same cost for hiring someone., So are you willing to purchase that kind of equipment and do you know how to us... |
17,621,798 | What was your favourite course in high school? Did a connection with a teacher help? | I spent my last two years of high school at Robert E. Lee High School in Huntsville, Alabama. At that time, Huntsville was the South's principal high-tech locale, because this was where the US Army brought Werner von Braun and other German rocket scientists, so as to form the beginnings of the American space program., ... |
13,713,558 | How can I compute the sum of all integers that are multiples of 5, from 1 to 100 with JavaScript? | var sum=0;, for(var i=1;i<=100;i++) if(i%5==0) sum+=i;, Or, var sum=0;, for(var i=0;i<=100;i+=5) sum+=i; |
17,550,919 | Can you write shayari starting with the word "Teri Aankhen" here? | Sorry for any mistakes because I just opened your question, made this poetry in 5 mins and wrote it here. So here it is:, Teri aankhen hain ya khwaab hai koi, chehra hai ya mahtaab hai koi, kuch gile shikwe abhi bhi baaki hain’, kuch sawaal hai aur jawaab hain koi, honth tere hain koi haseen ghazal, aankhen khuli kitaa... |
19,878,451 | Was Tom Bombadil supposed to be Odin? | Definitely not. He was a stuffed toy that his children owned. Tolkien decided to include him in the book for fun., Manwë is very like Odin. He’s the king of the gods, and birds watch the world for him and report back to him. Odin has two ravens named Hugin and Munin. Manwë has the Great Eagles. |
7,122,855 | Someone hacked my Instagram with 4500 pictures and videos of my 3 children going all the way back to 2013. They changed my email. They also made these pictures and videos public for everyone to see. Can you help me get it back? | Your imaginary children from your imaginary relationship with your imaginary partner in your imaginary life? |
21,760,876 | How did you get an internship at CSIR? | A2A., I am assuming that this question is about CSIR-4PI, Bangalore., You can apply through a student research programme called SPARK., SPARK offers two options: a internship or a project work (With project report/thesis submission)., You can identify the project and the professor you want to work with from the given l... |
1,663 | What are the best interview questions to evaluate a systems programmer? | write a function that counts the number of nodes in a binary tree (using C.). One question that I've found to be pretty effective to lead off with is just asking the candidate to , Good candidates can come up with pretty much the perfect answer in < 2 minutes. Most bad candidates do silly things like fail to handle th... |
198,548 | Can gold be coated in stainless steel? | I think it may be technically possible with something along these lines if you were really determined: http://www.inventables.com/technologies/stainless-steel-coating, As for the remelt issue, I think that it's possible that a refinery could melt down and separate the metals, but you wouldn't be getting back the raw me... |
60,660,371 | Have you ever purposely violated the FERPA law? Why? | Jane,, This won’t be of much use to you but no, my company has never violated FERPA either intentionally or unintentionally. In truth that is a hollow claim because we could not violate FERPA because we are not an educational institution so we did not fall under the reach of FERPA., What we did do was to provide a serv... |
4,267,848 | How can I survive and live in a snowy forest all by myself? How do I build a lodge or get a lodge and be able to get food and resources and things like that? | The honest truth? You don’t., People who live in in the wild in wintry environments spend all summer cutting and stockpiling wood. Then they let it dry for a year. More commonly, in modern times, they buy enough dry firewood for the whole winter from someone that cuts wood for a living., You cannot collect what you nee... |
19,515,398 | What does HTML do? | Question is interesting…. I will try to make this answer interesting too., So, If you are on internet and you are using browser(chrome, firefox, Internet explorer, safari etc. ) and you are able to see anything after hitting URL ( for this page url is https://www.quora.com/For-what-purpose-HTML-is-used).. Now, Interest... |
66,278,645 | What if I lose a passport while I am in the states, do I need to go the nearest police station to register a complaint or directly go to the embassy? | Wherever you happen to be, in case of loss of a passport while on travel, you need to lodge a police complaint and submit is copy to the Indian Mission for their information and further necessary action. |
25,429,870 | In the film Donnie Darko, what was the origin of the tangent universe? How was it made? | ) are created by a bug or bugs in the code. My guess is that the bug is tolerated by the simulators (or by God; it’s the same thing) because it provides an especially powerful test of free will.. The Philosophy of Time Travel. The Director’s cut strongly indicates that the story is taking place within a simulation, by ... |
76,067,839 | When a young, seemingly simple company (Snapchat for example) gets large amounts of money from investors, where does that money go? | Depends a bit on the type of company, but mostly hiring people and direct costs for product development, marketing, sales, and operating expenses such as server capacity, storage, etc. For example, with Snap, they had to hire a ton of engineers to develop both the customer facing features of the product as well as the ... |
892,499 | What are the most popular BI tools for e-commerce companies in terms of managing inventory, pricing strategy, and campaigns? | A data warehouse is a place used by many e-commerce companies to store data for the purpose of analysis. Here are a few of these data warehouse capabilities a data warehouse offers for optimizing your e-commerce business:, Providing a single source of data for entire companies. So you need not worry about app integrati... |
3,766,733 | Why did Cristiano Ronaldo leave the stadium 3 minutes before the final whistle? | He had a stomach infection., , No need of media hype. It is just 3 minutes, does it really matter? |
19,611,603 | Do you really believe that you are all of those negative things that someone has said about you? | Yes, but I am not just that. I am that and more., Everyone has faults. Everyone. I think it's a blessing to learn yours. I'd like to be told nicely, but that doesn't usually happen so I take what I can get and try to grow from it., We rarely are in position to see such things ourselves. It's takes someone else to enlig... |
17,412,004 | What do home inspectors check in Ontario? | How thick your wallet is and your checking account balance.. |
3,603,760 | Did New Zealand defeat Australia in the T20 World Cup? | Yes we did and it was an absolute fantastic result and moment, very satisfying to all NZ cricket fans who have had to watch NZ get pummeled by the Aussies in the past 11 years which is how long it has been since we beat them in Aussie., A few of the highlights for me were Finn Allen's 42 off 16 balls as well as Devon C... |
65,491,897 | Do people still play arcade games? | Absolutely! In fact, there are whole communities of arcade game enthusiasts out there. |
24,537,379 | What are the key challenges in medical simulation training? | The use of simulation in health education expands learning room, contributing in a pointed way to the precluding of trespasses during professional exertion. Not with standing, there are several challenges to achieving potent simulated training, including the need to shape the knowledge produced in different surrounding... |
8,479,913 | How was this year's UPSC Mathematics optional question paper? | hi… i attempted this year`s maths optional.., believe me maths was never so tough.. it has been bashed mercilessly.. conventional questions were dropped and unexploited area which students take for granted were promoted.. overall it was difficult.. i was expecting 400 correct atleast before attempting but now i have on... |
6,129,253 | Can you explain Newton's laws without using calculus or vectors? | Explain yes. Use? Not so much. |
7,572,314 | What is the bike with the big front wheel called? How does it differ from a regular two-wheeler? | Adding to what Jeff wrote: Notice that the pedals and crank of the penny farthing are attached directly to the front wheel. This is why the front wheel had to be so large: It did not have gearing translate the rate of pedaling to a faster rate of wheel turning. Gearing (or more precisely, a chain drive system with ... |
1,475,262 | If you're not a technical founder, should you start a tech company that will require a lot of innovate technical experience and thinking? I understand the theory, but I don't have the experience in building the idea. | You have no idea how many times I’m working with a client, we’ve spent weeks on accounting technology working with the Controller and I go into the CFO’s office thinking he’ll really appreciate this breakthrough - and the CFO says, “I don’t do accounting, I have people that handle that.”, Often, highly technical engine... |
68,954,602 | What have you used Zoom for besides work? | No actually. My use of zoom is limited to my organizational meetings. For rest all we have ample options available. |
3,042,659 | Which computer languages should I learn now and will help me in the future? Should I learn languages or courses like web development, etc like that? | Stay away from Web Development. It has been and will still be for quite a while an immense clusterf*. Learn some real programming languages like C++, languages that teach you how to manually use hardware resources. Then you can progress from there to Rust, Go, C#, Java … whatever., But the idea is to actually learn pro... |
18,068,843 | Which book is the best reference book for data structure and algorithms for GATE preparation? | Since you are preparing for GATE , you need to understand what are the important topics . I am listing below :, Very easy to score. (8- 14 marks). Programing and Data Structure , (2–3 question every year). Programming (debug the code and find output) , (1 question two year). Stacks , Queue . (1 question two year), (1 ... |
11,825,653 | How can I know if I will be accepted into Harvard Extension master program? I have passed all the three gateway courses and have a complete application? Can I confidently believe I will get admitted? | I graduated from the Harvard Extension School in ’91 so I feel hesitant to state anything definitively. However, as long as you passed The Master Class with the required grade, which I believe is a B or Bplus, I think you should be good. I wish you luck in the program. My work getting a Master’s Degree at the Extension... |
61,991,125 | Why are many senior employees rude to new employees? | Because they’re petty. You already know when they greet everyone but you. I am on my 1st day on the floor and ask a season worker a “yes” or “no” question (this in attempt to help her because I had just clocked in) and she looks at me and says “I’m not here to train you”, then she goes “you don’t know this?”. Obviously... |
26,536,922 | What is the worst thing you have said about someone behind their back? | When I entered foster care I had a very sad point of view of males., After a rough weekend, I was angry at my foster father and decided to write down my pain onto paper. I don’t remember exactly what I wrote but it went like this -, …I hate you (insert name). You are a f**king waste of space and I think that you are a ... |
80,798,983 | What are the top premium smartphones of 2020? | Well.., Hello Shane.., Top premium smartphone of 2020 are.., Motorola razor 2 smartphone.., Samsung s20 ultra.., Iphone 12 Max pro.., Huawei mate 70 pro.., And many.., Like OnePlus 8 series.., Thankyou, I hope you would be satisfied with content.., This, Is, Utkarsh Kumar Pal |
5,210,287 | Is MacGregor M65t a good set of golf clubs? | Tiger Woods has a good set of Golf Clubs. But even though I play off a Handicap of 1 I would struggle to hit them., So the Mac Gregor M65t's are what is commonly referred to as a 'Player Improvement Club.' That means that are Off-Set undercut cavity backed. Almost every major manufacturer produces something similar. , ... |
10,091,155 | Your company expects an employee to pay in advance for work related travel expenses & get reimbursed. If someone you supervise has to travel to a conference on your behalf, but can’t afford to pay in advance, should you pay for it? | I was being sent to Japan for 3 weeks. At that time I have no idea how they expected me to pay for the trip myself, but it wasn’t going to happen. I made them give me $10,000 in money as travelers checks. They said no at first, and I told them that I couldn’t go., They authorized it that same day! Flying to and from Ja... |
70,406,606 | Is PPF is the best investment option despite interest rate cuts? | Hello guys☺, Interest rates on Public Provident Fund, or PPF, have been declining over the last couple of years in line with a fall in interest rates across the economy and other debt investment avenues including fixed deposits and government securities., At one time, the instrument earned 12% per annum. At the turn of... |
13,290,538 | What are the ways to play in Indian cricket at the age of 24? | Yes, you can but before that be sure of your decision., Assumption. : That the person asked this question had not played any professional cricket., Coming to the answer you have to join any reputed cricket academy (choose wisely since it's reputation can be added advantage) and then get your fundamentals right.if you t... |
22,026,320 | Should Windows 10 optimize an SSD card? | ”. “. Should Windows 10 optimize an SSD card?, Providing the card is correctly recognised as an SSD and not a hard disk drive, then optimisation involves trimming all the currently unused parts of the storage array., should. Basically, the operating system looks through its view of the SSD and identifies those addresse... |
16,221,847 | What is the probability of a specified member of the population of N member is selected in the chosen sample without replacement? | A sample without replacement can be selected by different methods - It can be a simple random sample, systematic sample, cluster sample, stratified sample, multistage sampling with or without stratification., It is not necessary that the probability of selection of every unit be same in all types of sampling. For examp... |
22,092,843 | What are Seychelles’ summer activities? | Sunshine, clear beaches, deep sea diving and fishing are the most popular activities in the Seychelles. However much inland you go, you are always a maximum of 30 minutes drive to the nearest beach. Water sports are therefore the most popular summer activities., For some variety, you can go trekking and bird watching i... |
88,844,732 | How durable is MCU Hela? | without injuring her arm. no-sold its destruction. . and . weakened. .. stopped Mjolnir. , Hela . While , , , She could . endure Awakened Thor’s most powerful lightning blast. ., , And later . that . tanked another attack. .. shattered the rainbow bridge, , that would have . channel the energy of the Bifrost. .. de... |
15,093,303 | How much rank will need in JEE main to enter the IIEST's mining engineering or electrical engineering? | For admission in iiests in electrical branch you need above 21000 rank, But as the trend it is decreasing every years so please study well so that you can get admission in iiests shibpur |
11,869,680 | What is the Eligibility criteria for an MSc in Chemistry? What are all the combinations in BSc with which a person becomes eligible for an MSc in Chemistry? | Normally preference is for M Sc -Chemistry is for B Sc Chemistry Main ( Physics or Biolgy as subsidiary ) |
1,348,062 | How build smart chess in Java? | Presumably hundreds of thousands of man hours have gone into making the best chess engines., But you can settle for an open source chess engine, to see how they did it., Understand that this is not a simple topic. But generally speaking, what you do, is to assign a score to each board position. The score is probably an... |
23,659,557 | Can you see your past life by meditating? | You can see all your countless lifetimes, even those you have died to a moment ago. Ah! that is right… it is not what you meant, that is very uninteresting. You would like to meet your relatives from before your clinical birth., We don’t and can’t even recognise the loved ones in this our own lifetime, seriously…. star... |
16,151,189 | Which famous actor from the 1990s is totally unrecognizable today? | My vote? Haley Joel Osment. I remember him as the son of Forrest Gump and “seeing dead people”., , Now? Not so much., |
11,822,277 | What is the relationship between psychology & computer science? | Since the ultimate goal of computing is to create systems that aid, enhance, or make up for the weaknesses of humans, there are numerous branches of computer science that increasingly rely on psychology. Five areas of computer science I have done research in (at least have subfields that) rely heavily on human behavior... |
2,018,384 | What is the best way to privately share pictures? | SendBig .com. where you can select and upload Unlimited photos and share them privately via email or by sharing the generated link as you wish.. The best way is to use , With SendBig, you can send files up to 30GB for Free and it has a lot of useful features. |
64,247,601 | What is the IVF treatment procedure? | . Then the fertilized egg (embryo) or eggs (embryos) are transferred to a uterus. One full cycle of IVF takes about three weeks. Sometimes these steps are split into different parts and the process can take longer. Learn more. mature eggs are collected (retrieved) from ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a lab. Accordin... |
1,123,434 | If you have no access to real weights, can you use large rocks and branches to build muscle? | , If you lift enough heavy objects like rock and branches regularly, you will build muscle. Simply look at those whose jobs require them to lift objects all day (for example movers). They do get muscular.. Yes., This is however not the most effective way to build muscle. Rocks and branches are just not as convenient a... |
86,993,700 | What are the ways to color your lips naturally without lipstick? | The internet is full of recipes and sources for natural, homemade cosmetics, and I've included two here:, How to Make Naturally Tinted Lip Gloss [ https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/natural-tinted-lip-gloss-recipe ], How to Make Naturally Tinted Lip Balm | Frugally Sustainable [ https://frugallysustainable.com/how-to-m... |
16,278,248 | Are your parents aware of you being on Quora? | Yes., More than I’d obviously like., I mean, as usual, my dad doesn’t care. Ever since I came out as bi (which, if you’ve read some of my other answers, you know I regret for various reasons), and maybe even earlier, it just seems like he’s not invested in my life. Sure, he’s teaching me to drive, and he says he’s prou... |
24,775,423 | What is the best way of learning Digital Marketing with no marketing background? | , I think this question is a great helping hand for beginners. Now I describe some tips., Learning is a thing that can come from any type of resource. It doesn’t matter you are from a well-known background or not. then How you will learn it totally depends on you. Also, there is a major fact that how you will utilize y... |
17,740,513 | Which top companies are the most unethical ones? | Philip Morris International Inc. . Probably. their entire business is to sell an addictive drug that will very likely shorten your life. They’ve proven over decades to be nearly incapable of telling the truth. There’s no upside to their business. |
2,267,365 | Why was Richard Feynman the coolest physicist? | RPF was & is the coolest physicist, according to many., - yes, he knew some stuff like everyone did, some like very few people did, and some like none did.. 1. He knew stuff , no wonder why Feynman lectures is in the shelves of every aspiring physicist/scientist.
In Einstein's own words, " If you can't explain it simp... |
7,507,997 | Since we already recycle aluminum cans, why don't we recycle tin cans as well? | So called tin cans are actually steel. I recycle mine. |
25,526,116 | Does anyone out there have Sjogren’s syndrome? If so, has it affected your eyes in any way? | Yes. My eyes are very dry and uncomfortable. I cannot use Restasis or Xiidra to help increase tear production due to an allergy., I opted to have bilateral lower lid punctal plugs inserted to help my scant tears that I do produce to stay in my eyes a bit longer before they drain away., I must use preservative-free arti... |
3,555,514 | Why isn't Yuan Shu listed as a ruler of China even though he declared himself emperor? | Simply because no one cared about Yuan Shu., Yuan Shu was a governor of a small territory. When he declared himself emperor, his territory and manpower were eclipsed by his stepbrother Yuan Shao and Cao Cao., Yuan Shu’s reign was also extremely short. He never managed to convince his people that he was an emperor. Ever... |
25,527,962 | Is Schengen visa enough for Svalbard Norway? | Article 3 in the Svalbard Treaty states that citizens and companies from all treaty nations enjoy the same right of access to and residence in Svalbard. As a consequence the Norwegian Immigration Act does not apply and Svalbard is held outside the Schengen area., So, everyone may, in principle, travel to Svalbard, and ... |
10,119,196 | I turned 21 this year. What are some things I should definitely keep on my to-do list so that I don't regret it later? | Have a reason for everything you do |
11,224,334 | How do I teach myself to play a guitar without feeling like I'm doing it wrong? | Don’t teach yourself. Get lessons, either in-person or via Zoom or Skype. That way, you’ll be reasonably confident that you’re learning to do things correctly., If you do choose to go the self-taught route, do so knowing from the start that you probably . will . develop some unconventional habits and spend a lot of tim... |
702,580 | What would be a good city in Napa or Sonoma County for an older couple to retire in? | Sonoma Valley! IMO (i am super biased!) it is the best of the wine country all wrapped up in to one. Approximately 45 minutes from downtown Sonoma to the Marina District. The best public square in California. Great community. Amazing for walking, biking, or driving. The restaurants and wines are incredible. If y... |
15,699,267 | Is developing IQ or EQ more helpful for wealth building? | EQ is far easier to improve and can provide many times better return., , Unlike IQ, which does not change significantly over a lifetime, our EQ can evolve and increase with our desire to learn and grow. Perhaps no aspect of EQ is more important than our ability to effectively manage our own negative emotions, so they d... |
80,953,464 | Which share is the best to invest in now, RIL or IRCTC? | If you are looking for next 2–3 years both can do well but if one is to be selected then it is reliance as I say it’s next to gold that you should buy as the market share it enjoys is hardly seen and it’s well placed to outperform from these levels as well. You may follow me on my Channel Ideology trader for more infor... |
21,525,891 | Is brie a strong cheese? | Brie is never really strong. It’s true that it gets stronger as it ages, and can get an ammonia odor as other answers have stated. But your question reminds me…, We were driving around France, and wanted to have some food in the car. I went into a shop to buy some brie but didn’t pay attention to the label. It was summ... |
865,339 | What are the positive and negative impacts of globalisation in India? | Globalization has been one of the major drivers of India’s growth story since the early 90s. The way we live has definitely changed owing to it. But as they say, each coin has two sides: positive and negative., :. First, let me mention a few . positives, Increased Growth, More choice available to consumers, More awaren... |
11,178,802 | Why don’t you believe in Islam? | My family is Muslim, and I am not. I left the faith a few years ago., Muslims. from attacking them (with the sole intention to kill).. The fact that I have to go anonymous about this is a good reason why I don’t believe in Islam. Apostates get beaten, imprisoned, or killed. People may think that that can’t happen in t... |
8,241,409 | Which are the best classes of aptitude test in pune? | I'm not from the field, where aptitude test is required., However I have some of my friends who are pursuing the classes for aptitude test at “Pankaj Gandhi” classes in earandwane., You can go and enquire over there and that might help you as well. |
28,334,295 | I made payment for a PAN Card application but want to make some correction in the application before sending the application by post. What should I do? | You mean you have applied on line and are sending the hard copy. I think you should send two hard copies - one as you applied and the second corrected version. Please add a forwarding letter explaining the second copy. |
62,164,198 | What was the most awkward question a kid has asked you? | Goodness gracious. I've been waiting to see this question. The most awkward question a kid has asked me was;, Why do big people have beards down there?, I was at my aunts house for the holidays some time ago, she has three daughters. Aged five, three and one. I have a five year old brother, he absolutely loves spending... |
23,556,347 | What is your opinion of several actors playing multiple roles in Hamilton? | It’s called ‘doubling’, and it’s been done in theatre for centuries. . Hamilton. is just another example. I can think of loads., , the further constraint is that it’s a musical which involves singing, rapping and dancing, so if you’re going to double Lafayette and Jefferson, that’s a really juicy double opportunity fo... |
19,577,985 | Do coding skills fade with age? | I’ve found more that they become irrelevant., It’s not so much that somehow I can no longer code. It’s more that I lack real experience in the new thing, whatever it is., One current small project is a bit like this., The Java Service is no problem, despite some wrong turns we’ve made resulting in some changes being bi... |
4,765,733 | Does Deutoronomy 28 prove the ideology of the Black Hebrew Israelites? | But the world is incapable of discerning spiritual things of God. Notice you will likely never see white Christians challenge Israelites to a Bible-based debate. The Bible says the “SPIRIT” of God is upon HIS repented children in the times they must give a testimony to man.. Yes., verbally crush their opponents with t... |
25,628,956 | How do you cure a newborn with constipations? | ESPECIALLY for infants and children… NEVER ask on a social media site for health remedies. Ask ONLY your pediatrician or doctor; they KNOW your child and they KNOW medicine. |
27,648,924 | Why are whites the only race with hair colour variations (not just black hair)? | For starters, ‘white’ people are not the only race/group of people with hair (and eye) colour variation - other races can too, it’s perhaps more rare but it is a possibility. I’ll start by explaining the hair colour variation in white people., To begin with, the human species started in Africa. To protect them from the... |
4,278,825 | Are "results" and "result" always interchangeable? Do they mean exactly the same thing? Is one considered more acceptable or standard than the other? | No, they don’t mean exactly the same., 'Result', being singular, refers to one specific outcome., "He ate six cream cakes and the result was terrible.", "You tried to bake a cake without using eggs? What was the result like?", "The result of his rudeness to his sister was that she hit him.", 'Results' is plural and ref... |
22,210,659 | What is the Kotlin equivalent of instance of? | val str: Any = "Hello", if (str is String) println(str[0]) //Prints:H, //smart casted automatically to String as we check, The is operator is used to check the type of an object, and unlike java we don’t need to cast it to string after we check its type, in kotlin we have smart casts which casts object to the type we c... |
247,801 | How long will it take for the rain to become radioactive as a result of the nuclear waste in the Pacific ocean from the damage at the Fukushima plant? | I almost spit out my coffee when I read the question., The amount of radioactive material added to the ocean due to Fukushima is less than 0.0005% of the radioactivity in the ocean. It will have no effect on the rain. |
25,147,973 | When you delete your browser history, is it REALLY deleted? | Ok… let's do it, Step 1: . I clear all my browser history… it is about 1 yesr of history chilling in my browser., , Now all the history of my browser has been cleared an nothing is left now ( Yeah…😄), , Step 2: . Now let us visite on my Google history, , 😑All the history I've cleared from my browser is still chilling... |
2,924,913 | Why do we still use daylight saving time? | Switching back and forth is absurd, but most people prefer having more daylight in the evening which daylight saving provides. Most people complain in the fall when daylight savings ENDS. It's standard time they hate., If you live up north days are so short it doesn't matter. But if you live in a moderate climate close... |
17,631,544 | What was the first time you realized that your parents cannot always be right? | When I was about eight years old, my two brothers and I were sent by my mother upstairs to our bedrooms when my father was yelling at our mother. It was a financial argument over whether she should have bought two of us shoes due to our shoes having holes in the soles. My father worked about 1.5 hours away from the hou... |
7,322,410 | How do you get Windows 10 to forget an external display? | Right click on the desktop. Display settings. Select the monitor you want to forget. I am assuming that you have multiple displays, yes, and that you are upgrading a monitor? Under Multiple Displays on this page, select Disconnect this display. Easy. |
6,920,626 | Why do presidential candidates keep claiming they will do things which are not within the authority of the President? | Because most people do not realize how limited the president’s authority is supposed to be and they just believe what the snake oil salesmen are selling. It is an uninformed electorate that chooses the president, and ironically it is also these people who scream the loudest that voting is a duty |
6,593,780 | I found out my ex is with the girl he told me to never worry about. I can't stop crying. How can I cope with this betrayal? | He lied. Thank God he's your ex. , If I've learned anything in life it's that it's not worth a second of your time crying over someone who lied to you. , Think about it, what reason do you have for being hurt? Look at it as a relief, you could have stayed with this guy, married him and had him cheat on you after t... |
16,423,479 | Is String Theory untestable and will it always be? How could we practically test it? | No, it’s not untestable. It is commonly said that string theory hasn’t yet made any predictions for what we should observe in any experiment that we can currently carry out, and this is true, but the reality of the situation is far worse than this. It is more accurate to say that string theory currently can’t describe ... |
3,403,827 | If a space shuttle had used liquid-fuel boosters instead of solid-fuel boosters, would there have been four boosters like what Buran/Energia used? | I originally answered this about 18 months from the time I am writing this now. I am not very happy with my original edit, and I’d like a redo, with my original answer in italics at the end. It wasn’t so much wrong as it contained a lot of major and minor mistakes in the meandering I did around the question., If a spac... |
15,738,837 | What do people use their email lists for? I always see that I need to build a list, but never how to use it effectively except for selling to people on it (which I don't want to do because I don't want it done to me). | Well, it's the most effective way to sell online, period. That doesn't mean you have to be all salesy and ram your business down their throats (I understand if this was an assumption of yours)., It can be used to build a relationship with your subscribers - they’re the ones most interested in you, after all., Let them ... |
11,902,006 | After Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, whose statue is next? | Hi, I think two statues are enough.This treand should not be encouraged further.Rather this much large fund should be invested on saving the wildlife and natural environment. |
8,813,451 | How can I add places and roads on Google Maps? | Hi.., Adding places and roads on Google Maps is really simple., To add a missing road to the map through your android phone you just follow these steps, Make sure you have the latest version of the Google Maps App, Open Google Maps App. Go to the location where the missing road should appear, Send feedback. Tap the men... |
7,479,056 | Is there any notable socialist economists? | Questions like this will always hinge on what exactly you mean by “notable” and “socialist”., Amartya Sen . has done great work on distributive justice. Listening to some American conservatives, that'd make him a socialist. I find that absurd, but there you go. Either way, he's an economist of the very first rank.. If ... |
8,764,647 | How many individual calculations can a calculator (a pocket calculator) compute? | It can perform as many calculations as its user is willing to input. There are many levels of sophistocation of hand held calculators and those levels are increasing. The skill of the user comes into play in a major way as is true with most tools. Of course, a calculator can break or wear out. Fortunately most are fair... |
24,016,297 | How much difference would a payroll tax cut as proposed by President Trump make? | . Trump promised to lower the deficit when he became president. So far, he’s increased it by 68%., Trump vowed not to cut Social Security and/or Medicare. Then he proposed doing just that.. , Trump promises to keep pre-existing conditions in our healthcare. Yet he wants to get rid of every bit of Obamacare, which wou... |
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