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eli5c-0000-h | eli5c-0000 | 4896n4 | train | human | human | 562 | 62 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4896n4/eli5_protein_folding/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0000-a | eli5c-0000 | 4896n4 | train | ai | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 323 | null | null | So a protein starts out as a string of amino acids, like beads on a lace. That chain has no shape at first. It floats in water, jiggling. Then it has to find a three-dimensional form, basically tie itself into a knot, but the right knot. The thing is, there are a bazillion ways those beads could arrange themselves. If ... | floor | eli5c-0000|nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 562 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0001-h | eli5c-0001 | 1gs16v | train | human | human | 585 | 193 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1gs16v/eli5_what_are_farm_subsidies_and_how_do_they_work/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0001-a | eli5c-0001 | 1gs16v | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 545 | null | null | A farm subsidy is government help for farmers, usually money, cheap loans, insurance, or a guaranteed price for certain crops. I think of it as the government taking on part of the financial risk of farming, because a farmer can do everything right and still lose a crop to drought, floods, pests, or a sudden drop in pr... | floor | eli5c-0001|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 585 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0002-h | eli5c-0002 | 1usjz2 | train | human | human | 471 | 19 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1usjz2/eli5_the_animosity_between_macedonia_and_greece/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0002-a | eli5c-0002 | 1usjz2 | train | ai | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 399 | null | null | I think the core problem is that there are two different things both called Macedonia. Ancient Macedon was a Greek-speaking kingdom on the northern edge of the Greek world. Alexander the Great was born in Pella, spoke Greek, worshipped Greek gods, and spread Greek culture on purpose. Some southern Greeks considered ... | floor | eli5c-0002|deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 471 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0003-h | eli5c-0003 | mp5nd | train | human | human | 323 | 159 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/mp5nd/why_do_people_hate_marijuana_so_much_non_smoker/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0003-a | eli5c-0003 | mp5nd | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 326 | null | null | Most of the hatred isn't really about the drug itself. It's about history and who was using it.
In the early 1900s, marijuana was mostly associated with Mexican immigrants and Black jazz musicians. Harry Anslinger, the guy who basically ran federal drug policy for decades, built his entire career on linking weed to ... | floor | eli5c-0003|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 323 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0005-h | eli5c-0005 | 2ozos8 | train | human | human | 293 | 302 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2ozos8/eli5_why_do_i_tense_my_body_and_brace_myself_when/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0005-a | eli5c-0005 | 2ozos8 | train | ai | x-ai/grok-4.6 | 338 | null | null | Your muscles lock up like that because the brain treats a coming bang as possible trouble and fires off the same old startle wiring it uses for anything sudden. Those circuits sit in the brainstem and they do not wait around for you to decide if the noise is actually dangerous. They just slam the big muscle groups ti... | floor | eli5c-0005|x-ai/grok-4.6 | 293 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0006-h | eli5c-0006 | 41yp8d | train | human | human | 513 | 2,670 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/41yp8d/eli5_do_morbidly_obese_people_burn_through_all/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0006-a | eli5c-0006 | 41yp8d | train | ai | z-ai/glm-5.3 | 539 | null | null | Mostly yes, and it's actually happened in documented cases. The famous one is Angus Barbieri, a Scottish guy in 1965 who fasted for over a year under medical supervision, eating basically nothing but vitamins and electrolytes, and went from 456 pounds to 180. He was living almost entirely off his own fat the whole time... | floor | eli5c-0006|z-ai/glm-5.3 | 513 | 8 | {
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eli5c-0007-h | eli5c-0007 | 7358xd | train | human | human | 312 | 20 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7358xd/eli5_what_exactly_is_the_point_of_a_tax_return/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0007-a | eli5c-0007 | 7358xd | train | ai | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 256 | null | null | Because the system is designed to collect what you owe through regular deductions from every paycheck, rather than waiting until the end of the year to bill you all at once. If an employer didn't withhold taxes, you would have to save that money yourself or set aside a portion from each check and send a lump sum to the... | floor | eli5c-0007|nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 312 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0008-h | eli5c-0008 | 1ujv8l | train | human | human | 414 | 56 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1ujv8l/eli5_the_economic_and_social_argument_why/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0008-a | eli5c-0008 | 1ujv8l | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 442 | null | null | Capitalism is preferred mostly because it has done a better job of producing lots of goods and services while allowing people some control over their own economic lives. In the basic version, people and companies can own property, start businesses, choose what to buy, and keep at least some of the reward from successfu... | floor | eli5c-0008|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 414 | 7 | {
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eli5c-0009-h | eli5c-0009 | zriyy | train | human | human | 459 | 84 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/zriyy/other_than_the_killing_of_the_us_ambassador_what/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0009-a | eli5c-0009 | zriyy | train | ai | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 428 | null | null | Libya's been a mess of competing armed groups ever since the revolution in 2011. The country never had a proper national army after Gaddafi fell, just a bunch of local militias, each with its own loyalties, funding, and territory. Some are Islamist, some are tribal, some are just neighborhood gangs who got weapons. The... | floor | eli5c-0009|deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 459 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0010-h | eli5c-0010 | u6ox2 | train | human | human | 279 | 102 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/u6ox2/eli_how_coal_burns_if_its_mostly_carbon_but_ash/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0010-a | eli5c-0010 | u6ox2 | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 293 | null | null | Coal isn't just carbon. It's carbon plus a bunch of mineral junk that got mixed in over millions of years, clay, silica, iron compounds, calcium stuff, all kinds of inorganic material that was part of the original plant matter or got deposited in the swamp where the coal formed. When you burn coal, the carbon reacts wi... | floor | eli5c-0010|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 279 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0011-h | eli5c-0011 | 5364yp | train | human | human | 265 | 3,651 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5364yp/eli5_what_are_the_differences_between_the_c/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0011-a | eli5c-0011 | 5364yp | train | ai | google/gemini-3.7-flash | 299 | null | null | C is the grandfather here. It was made back in the 1970s and it is very bare-bones. When you write C, you are talking almost directly to the computer hardware, meaning you have to manually tell the computer exactly where to store memory and when to throw it away. If you mess up, your program crashes or leaks memory unt... | floor | eli5c-0011|google/gemini-3.7-flash | 265 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0012-h | eli5c-0012 | 9afbx2 | train | human | human | 375 | 520 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/9afbx2/eli5_what_did_former_south_korean_president_park/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0012-a | eli5c-0012 | 9afbx2 | train | ai | x-ai/grok-4.6 | 430 | null | null | I lived through the whole mess in 2016 so I can tell you what actually set people off. Park Geun-hye kept this lifelong friend named *Choi Soon-sil* so close that Choi was rewriting presidential speeches and looking at classified briefs even though she had zero official title. Park would just email the drafts over an... | floor | eli5c-0012|x-ai/grok-4.6 | 375 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0015-h | eli5c-0015 | 196656 | train | human | human | 326 | 13 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/196656/eli5_how_do_you_judge_a_conductors_skill/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0015-a | eli5c-0015 | 196656 | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 383 | null | null | I judge a conductor by what the orchestra sounds like and how efficiently they get it there. The arm-waving is only the visible part.
In rehearsal, I look for:
1. Whether the conductor hears the actual problem. "More energy" is not much use. "The second violins are covering the woodwind entrance in bar 42" is useful.... | floor | eli5c-0015|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 326 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0017-h | eli5c-0017 | 21mp15 | train | human | human | 311 | 14 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/21mp15/eli5if_dealers_sell_a_new_car_below_invoice_price/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0017-a | eli5c-0017 | 21mp15 | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 300 | null | null | I work in this industry so I can tell you the invoice price is basically a fiction. The manufacturer pays the dealer a "holdback" which is usually 2-3% of the invoice or MSRP, and that money comes after the sale is complete. So even if you're $600 below invoice on paper, the dealer might be getting $800 to $1200 back... | floor | eli5c-0017|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 311 | 8 | {
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eli5c-0018-h | eli5c-0018 | r19f8 | train | human | human | 336 | 883 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/r19f8/what_is_the_story_behind_the_kony_2012_debacle/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0018-a | eli5c-0018 | r19f8 | train | ai | google/gemini-3.7-flash | 319 | null | null | I remember when this blew up on Facebook out of nowhere. A group called Invisible Children dropped a half-hour documentary about Joseph Kony, a warlord in Uganda who kidnapped kids and forced them to be child soldiers. The video was really well made, highly emotional, and told everyone that if we just made Kony famous,... | floor | eli5c-0018|google/gemini-3.7-flash | 336 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0020-h | eli5c-0020 | 2h3c8o | train | human | human | 515 | 44 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2h3c8o/eli5_the_united_states_federal_reserve_system/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0020-a | eli5c-0020 | 2h3c8o | train | ai | z-ai/glm-5.3 | 525 | null | null | TL;DR: The Fed is the US central bank. It controls the supply of money and sets interest rates to keep the economy stable, and it's controversial because that's a huge amount of power held by people nobody elected.
The full name tells you most of it: it's the central bank of the United States, and it was created in 1... | floor | eli5c-0020|z-ai/glm-5.3 | 515 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0021-h | eli5c-0021 | 877rfw | train | human | human | 285 | 14 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/877rfw/eli5_what_is_the_difference_between_odds_and/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0021-a | eli5c-0021 | 877rfw | train | ai | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 249 | null | null | Tl;dr: Probability compares the chance of something happening to every possible result, while odds compare the chance of it happening against the chance of it not happening.
When someone says the probability of event A is high, they mean that out of all the ways this could turn out, it's likely to land in the "yes" pi... | floor | eli5c-0021|nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 285 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0022-h | eli5c-0022 | 16tnh4 | train | human | human | 323 | 58 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/16tnh4/eli5_why_wont_most_websites_let_you_use_spaces_in/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0022-a | eli5c-0022 | 16tnh4 | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 295 | null | null | A space is often treated as a separator rather than part of a word. Computers inherited this from command lines and older text formats, where:
`john smith`
Usually means two separate pieces of information, `"john"` and `"smith"`, not one name.
Usernames also get put into places where spaces cause extra work:
1. In ... | floor | eli5c-0022|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 323 | 4 | {
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eli5c-0023-h | eli5c-0023 | 3m6h7b | train | human | human | 322 | 54 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3m6h7b/eli5_can_insects_hear_us_why_does_a_bug_not_get/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0023-a | eli5c-0023 | 3m6h7b | train | ai | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 334 | null | null | Insects don't hear the same way we do. Their sensory hardware is built for a totally different set of problems. When you yell, you're pushing a broad wave of air pressure, mostly between 100 and 3000 Hz. That's right in the sweet spot for our eardrums, but a cricket's 'ear', an exposed membrane on its front leg, is tun... | floor | eli5c-0023|deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 322 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0024-h | eli5c-0024 | 1p0s45 | train | human | human | 329 | 971 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1p0s45/eli5_why_is_todays_announcement_that_apple_is/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0024-a | eli5c-0024 | 1p0s45 | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 346 | null | null | The Microsoft case wasn't really about giving software away for free. It was about using a monopoly you already have in one market to kill competition in a different market. Microsoft had like 95% of desktop operating systems. When they bundled Internet Explorer into Windows and made it impossible to remove, they weren... | floor | eli5c-0024|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 329 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0025-h | eli5c-0025 | ko8mw | train | human | human | 749 | 16 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ko8mw/eli5_why_is_china_seen_as_a_threat_to_the_united/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0025-a | eli5c-0025 | ko8mw | train | ai | google/gemini-3.7-flash | 745 | null | null | The US has been the undisputed top dog in the world since the Soviet Union collapsed about thirty years ago, and China is the first country since then with enough people, money, and factory output to actually challenge that position. When one country runs the show for a long time, it gets used to writing the rules for ... | floor | eli5c-0025|google/gemini-3.7-flash | 749 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0026-h | eli5c-0026 | 5qcr3p | train | human | human | 262 | 8,908 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5qcr3p/eli5_if_sound_travels_better_through_water_why_is/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0026-a | eli5c-0026 | 5qcr3p | train | ai | x-ai/grok-4.6 | 219 | null | null | I get why this comes up but it's kinda dumb because "travels better" just means the wave goes faster and dies off slower over a long stretch, not that it slams into your head louder. Sound in water is a different animal from the air stuff we live in. When you're under, nearly all the noise from people yelling at the po... | floor | eli5c-0026|x-ai/grok-4.6 | 262 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0027-h | eli5c-0027 | 6xvi06 | train | human | human | 324 | 10 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6xvi06/eli5_why_is_it_that_women_are_not_as_competitive/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0027-a | eli5c-0027 | 6xvi06 | train | ai | z-ai/glm-5.3 | 357 | null | null | The main thing is participation numbers, not ability. Motorsport is basically a pipeline problem: if only a tiny fraction of the people entering karting as kids are girls, then statistically almost nobody at the top will be a woman. Karting is where nearly every professional driver comes from, and it's heavily male bec... | floor | eli5c-0027|z-ai/glm-5.3 | 324 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0029-h | eli5c-0029 | 46pqud | train | human | human | 283 | 496 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/46pqud/eli5_how_basic_income_would_work_in_the_context/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0029-a | eli5c-0029 | 46pqud | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 289 | null | null | I'd think of basic income as a regular payment from the government to every adult, whether they have a job or not. Say $1,000 a month, deposited automatically. It wouldn't be payment for doing nothing; it would be a floor below which nobody is allowed to fall.
In an automated economy, machines could do much of the wor... | floor | eli5c-0029|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 283 | 7 | {
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eli5c-0030-h | eli5c-0030 | 1hx1nk | train | human | human | 276 | 10 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1hx1nk/eli5_how_much_oil_is_left/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0030-a | eli5c-0030 | 1hx1nk | train | ai | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 256 | null | null | I remember hearing that 40 years figure when I was a kid, and it's still floating around. The number comes from something called proven reserves, the oil we know about and can extract at today's prices with today's tech. You take that volume and divide by how much gets used in a year. In the 80s it said 30 years, no... | floor | eli5c-0030|deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 276 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0031-h | eli5c-0031 | 9bjjzh | train | human | human | 275 | 32 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/9bjjzh/eli5_platos_theory_of_forms_and_aristotles/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0031-a | eli5c-0031 | 9bjjzh | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 286 | null | null | So Plato looked at the world and noticed that everything is kind of a mess. Every chair you've ever seen is a little different, a little wobbly, a little off. Same with circles, nobody can actually draw a perfect one. So he figured that what really exists isn't these physical things but some kind of perfect, unchanging... | floor | eli5c-0031|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 275 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0032-h | eli5c-0032 | 2n9btc | train | human | human | 502 | 362 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2n9btc/eli5why_does_roman_architecture_endure_for_so/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0032-a | eli5c-0032 | 2n9btc | train | ai | google/gemini-3.7-flash | 514 | null | null | The biggest thing to understand here is survivorship bias. You only see the absolute best, heaviest, most expensive things the Romans built because everything else they made crumbled into dust fifteen hundred years ago. Regular Roman people lived in cheap, multi-story wooden apartment shacks called insulae that constan... | floor | eli5c-0032|google/gemini-3.7-flash | 502 | 8 | {
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eli5c-0033-h | eli5c-0033 | 7zq0y8 | train | human | human | 409 | 129 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7zq0y8/eli5_why_is_being_flatfooted_a_hindrance/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0033-a | eli5c-0033 | 7zq0y8 | train | ai | x-ai/grok-4.6 | 414 | null | null | I always figured the arch in your foot works like a built in spring. When you walk or run the arch flattens a bit then snaps back and that pushes you forward some. Flat feet don't do that so every step you take the shock goes straight up your legs into your knees and hips. That's why they get tired faster and why the m... | floor | eli5c-0033|x-ai/grok-4.6 | 409 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0035-h | eli5c-0035 | 7o1rh0 | train | human | human | 337 | 12,467 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/7o1rh0/eli5_how_do_aged_spirit_brandswhisky_etc_that/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0035-a | eli5c-0035 | 7o1rh0 | train | ai | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 400 | null | null | TL;DR
They use very old base stock, add neutral spirits to fake age, and occasionally use fast-aging tricks.
When a whisky company says it grew fast, the first thing they have is a warehouse full of casks that are already very old. Many brands that seem to appear overnight are actually sitting on decades of stock dis... | floor | eli5c-0035|nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 337 | 4 | {
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eli5c-0038-h | eli5c-0038 | cu3job | train | human | human | 252 | 21 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/cu3job/eli5_what_exactly_is_epistemological_solipsism_or/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0038-a | eli5c-0038 | cu3job | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 260 | null | null | Epistemology is basically the question "how do I know what I know?" Not what you know, but how the whole process of knowing works. Like if you say "I know it's raining outside," epistemology asks what makes that count as knowledge versus just a lucky guess. Did you see it? Hear it? Someone told you? What makes one of t... | floor | eli5c-0038|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 252 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0039-h | eli5c-0039 | 5swmb4 | train | human | human | 284 | 14 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5swmb4/eli5_how_can_the_human_brain_be_considered_more/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0039-a | eli5c-0039 | 5swmb4 | train | ai | google/gemini-3.7-flash | 307 | null | null | It comes down to how brains and computers are built to do completely different jobs. A modern computer has a few processors that do math one step at a time, but they do it billions of times a second. Your brain has about 86 billion neurons, and every single one is connected to thousands of others, all firing at the sam... | floor | eli5c-0039|google/gemini-3.7-flash | 284 | 7 | {
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eli5c-0040-h | eli5c-0040 | 41kvhe | train | human | human | 299 | 32 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/41kvhe/eli5_why_would_somebody_sue_the_gun_manufacturer/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0040-a | eli5c-0040 | 41kvhe | train | ai | x-ai/grok-4.6 | 334 | null | null | They do it because they think they can pin it on a design that makes the damn thing too easy to fire without extra steps, or on ads that supposedly glamorize the hardware for people who shouldn't have it. Product liability law lets you go after a company if you claim the item was unreasonably dangerous in how it was bu... | floor | eli5c-0040|x-ai/grok-4.6 | 299 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0041-h | eli5c-0041 | 4h75bi | train | human | human | 274 | 14 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4h75bi/eli5_the_definitions_of_the_7_base_si_units/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0041-a | eli5c-0041 | 4h75bi | train | ai | z-ai/glm-5.3 | 296 | null | null | The seven base units each pin down one physical thing you can measure, and they're defined by fixing a constant of nature to an exact number, so anyone anywhere can rebuild the unit without needing a physical object.
The second is time. It's defined by the cesium-133 atom: when that atom transitions between two energ... | floor | eli5c-0041|z-ai/glm-5.3 | 274 | 4 | {
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eli5c-0042-h | eli5c-0042 | 2dpmei | train | human | human | 280 | 70 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2dpmei/eli5_why_do_businesses_in_the_us_contest/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0042-a | eli5c-0042 | 2dpmei | train | ai | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 351 | null | null | The way unemployment works in the States ties the cost to who pays into the system, and for most private companies that means them. When someone leaves a job, their former employer's unemployment tax rate can go up or down depending on how many former workers from that company end up filing claims. If a bunch of people... | floor | eli5c-0042|nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 280 | 7 | {
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eli5c-0043-h | eli5c-0043 | 4wx62i | train | human | human | 362 | 14 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4wx62i/eli5if_we_found_intelligent_aliens_living_on/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0043-a | eli5c-0043 | 4wx62i | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 365 | null | null | If both sides are willing and can send messages that the other side can detect, I think we could eventually learn quite a lot of each other's language. It would just be painfully slow.
We could start with things that can be pointed to in a message: pictures or diagrams of a star, a planet, a circle, a set of objects, ... | floor | eli5c-0043|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 362 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0044-h | eli5c-0044 | 9q7km5 | train | human | human | 370 | 11 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/9q7km5/eli5_why_cant_we_create_synthetic_animal_products/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0044-a | eli5c-0044 | 9q7km5 | train | ai | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 376 | null | null | Because knowing what a thing is made of is not the same as knowing how to put it together. That is the entire hangup.
A spider silk protein is a chain of amino acids. We know the sequence, and we can even get bacteria or yeast to make the liquid protein. But the silk you want is not a pile of protein molecules. It is ... | floor | eli5c-0044|deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 370 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0045-h | eli5c-0045 | 1ybb39 | train | human | human | 325 | 81 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1ybb39/eli5_theres_so_much_hustle_and_bustle_about_the/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0045-a | eli5c-0045 | 1ybb39 | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 371 | null | null | It depends entirely on what you mean by "free," and that's actually where most of the argument comes from.
when Americans talk about freedom, they're usually talking about *freedom from* the government doing stuff to you. Freedom of speech means the government can't throw you in jail for saying something. Gun rights... | floor | eli5c-0045|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 325 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0047-h | eli5c-0047 | mk34a | train | human | human | 366 | 11 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/mk34a/eli5_the_turing_test/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0047-a | eli5c-0047 | mk34a | train | ai | x-ai/grok-4.6 | 372 | null | null | TL;DR A judge chats by text with a hidden human and a hidden machine and if they cannot tell them apart the machine has passed.
Alan Turing came up with this in 1950 as a practical way to sidestep endless arguments about whether machines can think. You put a person in a room with a keyboard. They type questions and ge... | floor | eli5c-0047|x-ai/grok-4.6 | 366 | 4 | {
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eli5c-0048-h | eli5c-0048 | kyki2 | train | human | human | 478 | 376 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/kyki2/eli5_the_politics_in_the_star_wars_prequels/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0048-a | eli5c-0048 | kyki2 | train | ai | z-ai/glm-5.3 | 583 | null | null | The setup is that the galaxy is run by the Republic, which is basically a big federal government with a Senate where thousands of member planets send representatives. Think of it like a very loose UN or EU, except it's the actual government. Each planet keeps a lot of local control, and the Republic handles stuff like ... | floor | eli5c-0048|z-ai/glm-5.3 | 478 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0049-h | eli5c-0049 | dvxio8 | train | human | human | 653 | 10 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/dvxio8/eli5_how_do_allergies_work_how_can_a_bit_of/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0049-a | eli5c-0049 | dvxio8 | train | ai | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 906 | null | null | So you wanna know why a sprinkle of peanut dust can stop a heart while poison ivy seems to need a few touches before it bites back huh? your immune system is basically a security detail that's supposed to keep viruses and bacteria out but sometimes it gets a bad case of stage fright and attacks things that are actually... | floor | eli5c-0049|nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 653 | 7 | {
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eli5c-0050-h | eli5c-0050 | 1iaktu | train | human | human | 323 | 10 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1iaktu/eli5_what_is_a_startup_company_and_how_do_they/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0050-a | eli5c-0050 | 1iaktu | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 339 | null | null | A startup is usually a young company trying to find a business that can grow quickly, rather than just a small company that intends to stay small. "Startup" describes the stage and the way the company is being built, not a particular product. A software company, food-delivery service, biotech firm, or clothing brand ca... | floor | eli5c-0050|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 323 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0051-h | eli5c-0051 | 6gcmla | train | human | human | 291 | 48 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6gcmla/eli5_why_does_a_spanish_language_conversation/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0051-a | eli5c-0051 | 6gcmla | train | ai | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 286 | null | null | Bilingual brains don't compartmentalize languages into neat separate drawers. Words exist in a shared pool. When you're fully fluent in two languages, whichever word comes to mind first gets used, especially when you're tired or chatting casually. It's not random at all, it's just the brain doing what's efficient.
Som... | floor | eli5c-0051|deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 291 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0052-h | eli5c-0052 | 9o1xxa | train | human | human | 252 | 60 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/9o1xxa/eli5_what_is_nat_and_why_does_it_make_playing/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0052-a | eli5c-0052 | 9o1xxa | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 245 | null | null | Your router gets one public IP address from your ISP, but you've got multiple devices at home that need internet. Your phone, your console, your laptop. NAT is the trick the router uses to let all of them share that single public address. Each device gets a private local address, and the router keeps a translation tabl... | floor | eli5c-0052|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 252 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0053-h | eli5c-0053 | 9ptl8g | train | human | human | 327 | 18 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/9ptl8g/eli5_price_fixing_vs_price_gouging_vs_profiteering/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0053-a | eli5c-0053 | 9ptl8g | train | ai | google/gemini-3.7-flash | 316 | null | null | I think the easiest way to separate these three is to look at who is doing it and what situation they are taking advantage of.
- Price fixing is when competing businesses secretly shake hands behind closed doors and agree not to undercut each other. If every gas station in your town quietly decides to sell fuel at fiv... | floor | eli5c-0053|google/gemini-3.7-flash | 327 | 7 | {
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eli5c-0055-h | eli5c-0055 | 703n1b | train | human | human | 258 | 20 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/703n1b/eli5_why_do_cryptocurrencies_have_any_value/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0055-a | eli5c-0055 | 703n1b | train | ai | z-ai/glm-5.3 | 262 | null | null | Same reason gold or baseball cards or dollars have value: enough people agree they do, and that agreement is self-sustaining as long as it holds.
A stock is a claim on a company's cash flows. A bond is a promise of repayment. Crypto tokens are generally neither. What you're buying is a scarce entry on a distributed... | floor | eli5c-0055|z-ai/glm-5.3 | 258 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0056-h | eli5c-0056 | 18edb7 | train | human | human | 275 | 14 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/18edb7/what_classifies_something_as_kosher/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0056-a | eli5c-0056 | 18edb7 | train | ai | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 327 | null | null | A piece of meat isn't kosher just because the animal meets basic biological criteria. To qualify, it must come from a creature that both chews its cud and has split hooves. That rules out pigs and rabbits instantly. Then there's the slaughter itself. A trained professional called a shochet performs a single, swift cut ... | floor | eli5c-0056|nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning | 275 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0057-h | eli5c-0057 | 788bda | train | human | human | 254 | 358 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/788bda/eli5_how_did_cheater_boxes_cable_descramblers/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0057-a | eli5c-0057 | 788bda | train | ai | openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 279 | null | null | The cable company sent all the channels down the same coaxial cable. Your normal cable box just decided which ones to pass through to the TV. Premium channels were usually still present, but the picture and/or sound had been altered so an ordinary TV couldn't use them.
1. The old analog systems scrambled the picture b... | floor | eli5c-0057|openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro | 254 | 6 | {
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eli5c-0058-h | eli5c-0058 | 2tgih4 | train | human | human | 358 | 11 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2tgih4/eli5_could_light_be_trapped_in_a_box_made_of/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0058-a | eli5c-0058 | 2tgih4 | train | ai | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 326 | null | null | I actually wondered about this for years, and the short version is: you can't make a box that keeps light bouncing forever, because mirrors always steal a tiny bit of energy each time the light hits them. Even if you had the best mirrors humans can make, reflecting 99.9999% of the light, the box is small enough that t... | floor | eli5c-0058|deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 358 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0059-h | eli5c-0059 | 2mamwq | train | human | human | 301 | 42 | http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2mamwq/eli5_why_are_all_of_the_walmart_employees_going/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0059-a | eli5c-0059 | 2mamwq | train | ai | qwen/qwen3.8-max | 296 | null | null | Think about it from the perspective of someone who has worked at a Walmart in a small town for four years. They've built up seniority, maybe they finally got on the schedule that works with their kid's school hours, and they've got whatever meager benefits come with being full-time. If they quit, they lose all of that.... | floor | eli5c-0059|qwen/qwen3.8-max | 301 | 5 | {
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eli5c-0060-h | eli5c-0060 | 58kn3m | train | human | human | 457 | 10 | https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/58kn3m/eli5_at_what_point_in_history_did_it_become_the/ | null | null | null | null | null | null |
eli5c-0060-a | eli5c-0060 | 58kn3m | train | ai | google/gemini-3.7-flash | 389 | null | null | It basically happened in stages between the 1840s and the 1930s, mostly because people love copying rich people and companies realized they could make a killing selling cheap junk.
The indoor tree thing was mostly a German tradition for a long time. It only went global because of Queen Victoria in 1848. Her German h... | floor | eli5c-0060|google/gemini-3.7-flash | 457 | 5 | {
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