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Where do creationists say the flood water drained to?
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"It's in the atmosphere now. Prior to the flood it had never rained. Edit: I inferred this from the Bible. It is my interpretation."
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"I don't know if it has been scientifically proven, but several other cultures have stories referring to a great flood that happened at around the same time period as Noah's."
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How can investigators find incriminating e-mails?
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"E-mails are sent through servers that can retain copies of e-mails. Also when you delete any file, they're not gone they're just overwritten by new data and can be recovered unless you took measures to really erase them (low level format of your HD or using a special app)."
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"There are a couple ways. - Have a history of reliable reporting and a lack of lies - not all sources will require or even desire confidentiality. - Work with other reporters who can corroborate your story. - Physical evidence (photographs, for instance) obtained from sources can be used, and tested, without revealing those sources. - Certain items of information can also be used to confirm sources (i.e. only a person in a certain position could know this particular thing) but not necessarily identify them."
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Why do planes disappear in the Bermuda Triangle?
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"The area actually has no special power to make planes disappear. However, it is prone to storms, and there are wide stretches with no place to land, so from time to time a small plane is lost with no witnesses."
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"The Bermuda Triangle has gained a reputation as being dangerous but a lot of independent sources argue [that the amount of crashes/wrecks/disappearances in it aren't any higher than you'd expect for the area, or any other stretch of ocean. Especially when you consider that the Bermuda Triangle area frequently experienced tropical storms during hurricane season.](_URL_0_) In any case, I don't think there has been a veritable \"Bermuda Triangle\" incident for decades. Source: I've flown and sailed through the Bermuda Triangle several times :)"
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What would happen if you filled up a tire with a liquid, say water, instead of air but to the same psi?
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"It would be much bumpier ride as water doesn't compress like air does. It might also cause the tire to explode if you hit a bump for the same reason. Edit: It would also make your car quite a bit heavier. So you would have slower acceleration and longer stopping distance."
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"The helium in your tank is compressed. If it weren't, you couldn't use it to blow up balloons: if the pressure on both sides is the same, there isn't any flow. A side effect of this is that you can get more mass in the same volume. And as a result, your helium tank will be heavier than the tank's volume of helium at standard pressure and temperature."
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What do babies dream about?
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"I have a 12-month-old baby who can say about 10 identifiable words now - meaning they might not sound like the word to someone else, but she says them consistently so I know what she means when she says them. Anyway, I turned on the TV and there was a picture of the ocean, which she had never seen before. It had rolling white waves crashing on a beach. She lit up and said, \"Milk!\" So yeah. I think she dreams of oceans of milk."
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"How do you know that you don't sneeze in your sleep?"
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how do water and sun benefit flowers after they've already been cut from where they grew?
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"Cut plants don't die immediately -- they're not like animals that need circulating blood to transfer oxygen around constantly. One main purpose of roots is to carry water from the earth up to the leaves -- there's no heart pumping, the water moves through capillary action, which can happen at any point along the plant's veins -- so if you cut off a stem and put it in water, it will still draw water up to the leaves and petals as if it were roots at the bottom end. As long as the leaves are still getting water through the stem and can [respire](_URL_0_) they can still perform photosynthesis, so sitting in the sun still helps the plant live. Being cut off, though, means that not all plant biology keeps acting normally, which is why cut flowers eventually die off. Some plants, like a pothos, can grow new root systems from a cut stem, which is a way the plant reproduces. Growing from cuttings is pretty common; it's because it's part of the plant's survival mechanism that they can grow that way."
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"It's how it feeds. Plants take CO2 from air and water from the soil and turn them into sugar through photosithesis. I never heard about giving sugar to a Christmas tree but it's a common thing to do for cut flowers, the sugar dissolved in the water keeps the flowers fed for a while."
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How can sulfur hexafluoride stay in someone’s lungs, but co2 doesn’t even though they are both more dense than air?
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"I hope another commenter corrects if I'm mistaken, but I would think that Sulfur hexafluoride CAN stay in your lungs, but doesn't automatically stay there like it's stuck. It takes more effort to get it out because it's very heavy, but I've seen videos of people inhaling it so clearly they're able to get it out too, maybe with some extra effort. It's also way heavier than CO2. Sulphur hexafluoride is gonna be Sulphur and six Flourines. I'm too lazy to look up the weight of that but it is a hell of a lot heavier than a carbon and two oxygens."
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"You have an air-tight mask that fits tightly over somebodies head, and there is a very fine air filter , which is that cylindrical part, that you breathe through, and the air in the atmosphere can flow through but larger gas particles can't fit through. Air you breathe is mostly carbon dioxide, oxygen, and nitrogen, and most harmful gasses like chlorine or tear gas, are much larger particles and can't fit through these filters. This cleans the air and makes it safe to breath, and the air you exhale is blown back out."
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Why do we sometimes blank out and stare off into space?
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"Because you are focusing your mental resources on whatever you are thinking about and not actively processing your surroundings."
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"Because it's creepy when they just stare blankly at the ceiling. With closed eyes they look like they're sleeping at least."
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What exactly is a watershed and how does it work? For instance, we live in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed area. I have attempted to read on the subject, and consider myself a smart gal, but this just confuses me all day.
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"Pick a spot on the ground. Imagine that a raindrop falls on that spot. Imagine that it doesn't soak in, but it runs downhill. Which way will it go? Trace its path. Eventually, it will flow into a stream. That stream will flow into a bigger stream, which will flow into a river, which may flow into a bigger river, and so on, which will eventually reach the sea. The last river will have a name; let's say it's the Mississippi. That means your original spot was part of the Mississippi watershed. Sometimes large watersheds are divided into smaller watersheds named after the various rivers that flow into it; for example, the Mississippi watershed may be divided into the Ohio watershed, the Missouri watershed, and so on."
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"Because we have the Hoover Dam. It provides 80% of water and electricity to Nevada and about 25% to Arizona. Without it, Nevada would dry up and Arizona would struggle for a few days. This is just basic information I know, because of my green technologies class. I can get some sources if asked. Also I'm from Arizona so it's wise for me know the very things that keep Arizona running."
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Why does the order in which you mix things together matter?
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"as a person who cooks for living, in your case you just hasnt mixed things enough in first case. Adding dry to wet makes mixing easier and faster as opposed way creates dry clumps, that require extra mixing. thats why dry to wet is preferred cause it makes things easier and faster."
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"There is no reason for it to be in the order it is. There is even less reason to change its order."
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How do shows like DragonBall Z Abridged and Yugioh Abridged stay on Youtube without being copyright claimed?
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"They're works of parody. As such, if the creators were sued and fought back, they'd probably win under 'fair use,' which allows limited use of copyrighted material for things like commentary, criticism, reviewing, and parody."
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"Youtube doesn't monitor every upload. The \"Takedown Request\" service is reactionary - so it needs someone to actually report it as infringing a copyright. Plus with the way the current ContentID system works, you need to claim it as *yours* to get it taken down. So many end up staying up until, whoever owns it requests that it's removed. And no, they usually aren't making money off the content they (illegally) upload."
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what kind of applications won't benefit from increased multi-thread performance?
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"One reason is if the application is primarily I/O bound. Adding more threads won't make your hard drive any faster."
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"For most programs its really not that big of a deal, a 32-bit program only had access to 2gb of ram which is more than enough for most programs but more ram(avalible in a 64-bit application) could be helpful on more intense programs like video editing and heavy gaming. howtogeek has a good article on the topic."
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What is going on with Apple and the price fixing trial with the DoJ?
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"Here you go, this guy did a great job explaining it: _URL_0_"
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"Technically possible. Cost effective? Not according to the bean counters at MSFT & Sony."
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How does a Medical Examiner determine the Cause of Death?
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"Mostly by autopsy. Cutting the body open, looking for anything that looks wrong. Looking at the heart for signs of a clot, lungs for blockage etc. Blood tests are also taken to test for anything unusual like heart attack signs ( enzyme) or drink/ drugs. Everybody dies for the same reason, the heart stops, medical examiners job is to find out why it stops. Some trauma is easy to see, (loss of leg caused blood loss enough to stop heart) all to the tiny details as tiny bit of water in lungs or small damage to heart. If a person has a existing medical condition this will be explored and either ruled out or ruled in as the cause. (Hope that was 5 enough) Edit, missing word"
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"Can someone explain the difference between Dementia and Alzheimer's, please?"
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Why Do we tend to panic more when running from a scary situation than walking from it?
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"I think you may have your causality backward. You run because when you can't control your panic, and you walk when you can. If the walking increase your panic, you would already be running."
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"Your evolutionary ancestor is calling for help, frightening the enemy, and moving you a bit away from the danger while your brain can catch up and decide what to do next."
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Why are bugs so good at getting in the house, but so bad at getting out?
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"If there are a lot of bugs outside only one has to find its way inside for you to notice. If there is one bug inside that bug specifically has to find its way outside for you to notice."
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"The little creatures in your blood poke the inside of your arm with tiny forks because they are mad at you for sitting in the same position for too long."
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If I fell through a cloud would I come out soaked or 'misted'?
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"Neither, when a cloud is on the ground it's fog. When you walk in the fog you don't get that wet. If you fall into a rain cloud you get wet, or a snow cloud you get snow on you, but a non-precipitating cloud won't get you that wet."
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"So our souls don't fly out of our mouths from fright."
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California is getting very significant rain for the next days. Where I live(southern California), most of it goes to canals and straight into the pacific ocean, With that amount of water basically being wasted; why hasn't there been a system put in place to catch all of this run off??
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"There is. Scattered throughout the hills are a series of dams that turn the rivers -- nature's own water gathering system -- into man-made lakes. Nearer the shore, the water is so spread out -- and the terrain so lacking in natural basins -- that it's just not cost-effective to build artificial lakes to gather and store it. (If water were worth as much as gold, that calculation would change.)"
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"Absolutely nothing. The only thing that this would do is accelerate the water cycle by a tiny almost un-measurable amount. The dumped water would return to the water table or run-off to the nearest river etc, presumeably from where it was drawn (by your water supply) initially. Your local water supply might temporarily lose some water pressure if everyone in your town was filling their bucket at the same time. Also, not recommended if you live in California at the moment."
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what is it about the structure of vegetables that makes them so nutritious yet contain relatively few calories?
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"We cannot digest cellulose. That is the physical structural component of plants. Because we cannot digest it we cannot get nutritional value from it. We call it dietary fiber and it passes through our bodies mostly intact. We are able to digest other components of plants and so get many vitamins and such from them, but the sugars that make up their cellulose are locked away from us. This is perhaps the greatest proof that we are omnivores and not herbivores."
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"Meat contains far more protein than most vegetables, and more calories per bite than many vegetables, and often more fat too. These are satisfying nutrients."
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If there is lead in solder are solder joints dangerous to touch?
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"No, it is not toxic to touch solid lead. Lead poisoning results from **ingestion**, **inhalation** or **dermal contact** (e.g. if you were working with organic lead compounds that were easily absorbed through the skin)."
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"It flows through the most conductive parts (the aluminum outsides) and then down to the ground. Lightning protection is a mandatory part of the design of aircraft, so nothing bad should happen. It might leave a scorch mark, but maintenance can clean that off."
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How do cops detain and handcuff somebody with one arm?
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"They either: * cuff their hand to their belt * get a belly chain * if they appear to be of little threat, let them go uncuffed"
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"Technically, you are required to obey all lawful commands from a law enforcement officer. The officer is empowered to arrest you, using physical contact if necessary to do so, if you refuse. all the idiot cop who tasted that guy had to do was call for backup, and with some help, sack the dude and cuff him. He got impatient and tazed the shit out of that poor guy instead. And now he's rightfully unemployed."
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With all the breakthroughts we've seen in cell phone and car batteries why hasn't the household batteries like AA, AAA, D's life been extended as well?
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"They use different chemistries. Your standard batteries are alkaline cells. They aren't that dangerous in the sense that they don't explode but because of that they are less energy dense. Most modern phones and electric cars use lithium ion cells. These are way more energy dense but have the tendency to become very hot or even explode when over discharged, punctured or short circuited. This isn't a problem because the devices they are used in have circuitry that closely monitors the battery and shuts off the device when something goes wrong. Lithium ion batteries are also more expensive than standard lithium batteries. Standard gas cars use a lead acid battery to start the motor and keep the lights on. While lead acid batteries are powerful they are also very heavy and big. TL:DR different batteries have different trade offs"
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"Battery technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last 20 years. You just think it hasn't encase the physical size is still same in cell phones. That's due to increased demand by the electrical components. The capacity of those same size batteries are worlds appart. Every year the same size battery gains the capacity to store more and more electricity. Cell phone manufacturers don't shrink the size of their batteries because the CPUs are demanding more and more electricity and battery life of a device is one of consumers primary concerns."
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Why are people Shy or not shy?
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"It's just a difference if how you approach situations. I've often been called shy when I'm first introduced to someone, but the thing most people fail to realize is that the reason I'm not more...\"out there\" is because I don't really speak unless I have something to say. Unless I'm continuing a conversation previous to the introduction, I will wait until more convenient time to join in the new conversation. I'm not shy; I just don't want to be in your face. It annoys me when people do it to me, so why would I do it to you?"
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"Question 1: Am I a celebrity? * Yes: Move onto question 2 * No: Who gives a shit about you? Question 2: Do I like to look terrific in photographs? * Yes: Move onto question 3 * No: Use your iPhone for nude selfies Question 3: Do I mind being raped? * Yes: Call Annie Leibovitz * No: Terry's your man!"
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How does the "neutral" wire work in cars?
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"In the car, you're dealing with DC, in the house it's AC. The wavy voltage you get in AC is the difference between the \"live\" and \"neutral\" lines, but importantly, neutral is not ground. It's usually relatively close, though. The earth line is the emergency exit for power when it's all gone wrong, and is very handy when you're dealing with quite a lot of power - the sort that gives shocks and causes damage to people if it's all going wrong. The power in your house can do that, and the power in your car doesn't. There's 2 exceptions - the starter motor and HID headlights, but for accessories - the radio and the radar detector, you're safe. It's only 12 volts and not a lot of current. So, the power comes in from the red wire, the one you put the fuse on, and it goes out via the black wire, to the body of the car. The car body is connected to the negative terminal on the battery, so any bare metal on a car will work for the negative wire to make your circuit."
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"That is Earth Ground.. to prevent shock/death. Depending on the appliance being plugged in, it may or may not need it. If it has a motor of any kind..needs a ground post on the plug!"
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Since energy can never be created nor destroyed, but only be transfered - then where did it come from in the first place?
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"Answer: Absolutely, Positively no one knows, or even has the foggiest idea, if you did you would win every science prize till the end of time. we are pretty confidant the big bang created OUR universe, but that's a very small piece of the _URL_0_ would be like if you fed a goldfish and the gold fish wondered where the food came from."
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"Write down everything you think causes gravity. add it all up. See how much gravity there actually is. Whatever is left is caused by dark matter. It is called matter because we think of matter as causing gravity and it is called dark because we have not seen (directly detected) it. Write down everything you think causes the Universe to expand. Add it all up. See how much the Universe is really expanding. Whatever extra expansion there is is caused by dark energy. It is called energy because we think of energy as stuff that causes something to happen, it is called dark because we have no idea what it is. Edit: Spelling"
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what's the difference in the technology between a pair of beats ear buds and a pair from gas station?
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"BeatsByDre spends millions on advertisement, that is about it. Beats is much more about image and a fashion statement than sound quality. I'm not saying Beats are terrible, just that you will get much better sound for your money with other brands."
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"They arent. Your speakers are just cheap and of poorer quality detail than your headphones."
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What is the deal with reddit and Wonderwall?
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"Today is going to be the day that someone'll spell it out for you Right now you probably realize that I'm not gonna be that dude"
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"Reddit, why do people put Reddit in the title, Reddit?"
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What happens to an unborn baby that is going to have a nut allergy (or any other type of allergy) when the mother consumes nuts?
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"It doesn't hurt the child because the mother is processing the food for the child. You mostly want to avoid things that get into the blood or can be passed through the placenta to the baby and have a harmful impact (such as alcohol). Studies have actually shown that mothers who eat nuts during pregnancy have children who are less likely to be allergic to nuts."
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"Lactose intolerance used to be the default condition for humans. That is an inability to digest the sugar in milk, though, not an immune reaction to the proteins in it, but many people confuse milk allergies and lactose intolerance. At the moment, we don't know. Some people have hypothesized that parents keeping their childrens' environments too clean can cause allergies. Others hypothesize that what the mother eats during pregnancy can have an effect on what the baby is allergic to. It's probably a number of factors, if it isn't just confirmation bias or increased visibility."
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What would it take to bring back the automobile industry in the United States? As in, the ending of outsourcing jobs overseas for vehicles.
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"US workers would have to be cost competitive with machines and foreign workers. That's really the long and short of it."
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"Opponents of NAFTA argue that it made it easier for jobs to be outsourced, as it removed many of the taxes and tariffs associated with international trade. So things that used to be manufactured in the US were made cheaper to manufacture in Mexico for example."
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How does a computer ACTUALLY work? Like, how does it transfer, read, and display data and things.
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"Ok, you're five. So, the light switch on the wall is kind of a very simple computer with extremely limited capabilities. You have one input device, the switch, with two options of off or on (0 or 1). A lamp controlled by the switch would be your display. Depending on the input provided you get a dark lamp (off = 0) or it lights up (on = 1). Now through this simple set up you could actually start to convey a message. If the light is off I'm not home, for example. Now add several billion switches and light bulbs together, shrink it all way down, and you can make a real computer kid."
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"There is no internet. Its a word we use to describe the connections between computers on a global scale. You connect to these computers, called servers, through their address. The data is transferred as quickly as the computer can process them. 0s and 1s symbolize electricity flowing through a wire, or not. This happens *VERY* and I mean *VERY* fucking quickly. Like several million times a second. The computer decodes this and decides what to do with it, be it display a website, connect you to a multiplayer game, or install a virus onto your computer."
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Why do doctors and dentists seem want to get patients out of the recovery room and home so quickly after a surgery?
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"Hospitals are not a place where you want to stay but need to stay. You're surrounded by sick people and the bacteria there are much more dangerous and immune than outside of hospitals. You want to get out of there as soon as possible. Sure it sucks to puke at home, but doing so at a hospital is of no advantage to you, since it's nothing a doctor can or needs to help you with. An unnecessarily long stay also causes extra financial and time costs and takes up space that people in actual need could use."
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"The mouth is a wet place filled with bacteria. If you did not clot fast you would be very likely to get an infection and die. The Anus also clots very quickly for similar reasons. Generally speaking people on blood thinners inform their dentist of the medications they take, and if necessary they will stop taking them ahead of the surgery and for a set period after it."
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what are the meanings behind the " & co.", "unlimited", "limited" "incorporated" etc. additions to different company names?
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"Further to this, (In the UK) A PLC is a Public Limited Company, these have different requirements for setup. A Private company can be set up without major restrictions to the number of shares,shareholders or start up capital required. However, a Public Company requires more than 2 shareholders, a registered company secretary and at least £50,000 in start-up capital."
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"I have a related question. WHy do some companies use these marks liberally (for example, [microsoft adds ® next to every instacne of their company name, windows logo, or the word windows](_URL_3_)) whereas other companies dont use them much at all, despite having equally important brands. If you've registered the trademark, and your protection exists with or without the bug, then why add it? all it does is get in the way of the visual design."
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Why are Late Night Talk Shows so popular in America?
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"It's actually quite diminished and low in its popularity compared to the past. Big time down. In an effort to get more viewers though their marketing teams heavily utilize stuff like YouTube and the digital space to blast out content and stuff to attempt to get people to tune in. If your online a lot you see this, so it seems far more \"popular\" than it really is. The good, people are watching this digital best of content. The bad, they seriously still aren't tuneing in... because why watch live when you can just see the best of it the next morning easier? Tl;dr. Ratings are way down, their marketing teams fool you into thinking otherwise."
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"Why is election on weekdays instead of weekends?"
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Can't remember what it's called
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"This is [the bandwagon fallacy](_URL_0_) in which someone holds an idea to be true/valid because a majority(sometimes perceived majority)of people feel the same way. Also, the idea that global warming *causes* tornadoes and other natural disasters is [the false cause fallacy](_URL_1_) in which one claims there is a *causal link* between variable A -- > B."
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Why does the law never go after rappers who constantly talk about the illegal drugs they do in their songs?
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"> I am the Walrus -John Lennon. Not proof that John Lennon is actually a Walrus."
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"You are not imagining it, but there is also a lot of rap that is not like this at all. It depends largely on the artist. Listen to guys like Nas, Talib Kweli, Common, even Kendrick to name a few. They talk more about their life experiences/where they came from as opposed to money, clothes, and cars. Part of the problem is that a lot of people listening to rap are doing so just for the beat and/or catchy hook, and don't want to be bothered with dissecting lyrics and listening to an artist's message."
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Why do the fastest runners tend to be black?
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"A couple of speculative answers, in addition to /u/MrAloha808's point. \"Black\" and \"White\" aren't really groups, as there's as much variation between as there is within. Nonetheless people with black skin outnumber people with white skin, so their best runners are recruited from a larger population. Also, if you're using international athletics as a measure of running prowess, it's worth mentioning that many black athletes are from countries with higher extremes of poverty, meaning less access to other sports, such as sailing, polo and counter strike."
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"I heard it explained like this on NPR: Since the genetic diversity is so great in Africa the 5 fastest AND the five slowest runners in the world are probably in Africa. It's just that no one is looking for the 5 slowest runners."
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Hostels. How they work and how they differ from hotels. Also why they are so popular in Europe?
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"They are very cheap hotels, usually with multiple beds in the same room. The are popular in Europe, because combined with Europe's well developed mass transit system, it makes for a cheap and flexible way to travel. Hostels typically exist in city centers where regular rooms are very expensive. In the US, without the same sort of mass transit, this sort of travel requires a car. With a car, you can sleep in it, stay at a campground, or simply drive to a cheaper hotel outside of the city, making hostels less useful."
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"They're definitely not the same around the world. A hostel in Bolivia can run as low as $5, while a hostel in Asia may run even cheaper. Africa has reasonable rates while Europe has much higher prices."
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why do snakes slither instead of inching like a worm?
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"Because their physiology (body make-up) is completely different. Worms are invertebrates, meaning they don't possess a single bone in their body. Snakes are reptiles (belonging to the vertebrates). That means there are numerous evolutionary steps between them. IIRC, snakes do stretch their bodies a little but because of their spine, they have limitations on how much they can expand or shrink."
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"That all depends on evolution. There's many way to get around besides walking and hopping. They could slither, roll, crawl, or slime their way around like a snail or any number of things we haven't imagined."
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For the theologians, how is the good and mercy of God visible in major disasters like the typhoon that kills thousands?
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"Preface, here are my prejudices: I live in Oklahoma City (site to some of the worst tornadoes in history) and I am a senior Religion/Philosophy major who will be going on to get a masters and phd in theology. I don't see God in disasters in and of themselves. Instead, I see God's mercy in the response of people, all people. I subscribe to a type of theology labeled process theology. Process theology states that God \"doesn't bend bullets\" (God doesn't directly intervene in world happenings). The good and mercy of God is visible in the way people respond and answer to God's individual call on their individual lives."
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"Jesus on the cross is dying for our sins, to absolve and protect all the rest of us. He protects us from our own \"demons,\" that is, our sinful nature. Remember, being crucified didn't destroy Jesus. He was resurrected shortly thereafter. It was merely an ordeal he went through on our behalf. I think I've got this right. Perhaps a better theologian can correct me on the nuances."
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Why do male testicles sometimes retract up into the abdomen?
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"Testicles need to be kept at *exactly* the right temperature to make healthy sperm. Unfortunately, that temperature is colder than your body's natural temperature and is too specific to regulate normally. Thus, the balls moved out of your body to keep away from your heat, but they can be moved closer or further away depending on their needs. As for the \"Men were once women\" thing, in the womb, boys develop ovaries first before they are converted into testacles and moved down. There's actually a genetic mutation which delays that transformation until *puberty,* meaning for about the first 12 years of your life, you look like a prepubescent girl in every way."
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"They're checking for an inguinal hernia. There's essentially a weak spot below the abdomen called the inguinal canal that separates sections of the body. If you do have an inguinal hernia, the doctor will feel that something normally not in the scrotum has either moved inside or is causing the canal to bulge."
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I see flies and moths in my house all the time. Why don't I see a whole lot of dead insect bodies everywhere?
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"Spiders. The house spiders that you share your space with are eating them, and the left over bits are broken down reasonably quickly by bacteria or chemical reactions and they turn to dust."
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"They hide away in the corners, in little nooks and crannies out of sight. You'll see spiders coming out most often during mating season. Around this time of year, you see a lot more spiders in your house than you do the rest of the year. They're out looking for sex and not afraid to die for it, just like in Romeo and Juliet."
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Why intervention is Libya considered a failure despite successfully saving human lives and toppling a brutal dictatorship?
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"Critics point to the emergence of a largely lawless Libya which is in the control of various militias. This had led to the state becoming a prime breeding ground for radical groups to base themselves out of as well as create a hub for the international trafficking of weapons."
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"1. Oil: Iraq has some of the largest oil reserves on the planet. Oil is the most traded commodity on earth and economies are dependent on it. 2. A regime the US did not like: there was mutual enmity between the US and Iraq since the 1991 Persian Gulf War 3. The Iraqi regime was weak: over a decade of harsh US-led sanctions had crippled the Iraqi economy/military, starved a million Iraqis to death, and turned it into a non-state 4. Iraqi exiles convinced Americans that the invasion/occupation of Iraq would be easy: characters, like Ahmad Chalabi, insisted that US troops would be welcomed with trails of rose petals and jubilant cheers 5. 9/11: the US was in a hysterical climate from the WTC attacks and could be convinced of just about anything. The government falsely implicated Iraq in the attacks as a justification for war"
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Why do I get motion sickness when I read in a car?
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"Your body tells your brain that you're moving. (Because of bumps, turns an such) But your brain tells you're still and reading a book. That makes you feel bad."
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"I want to know that too. Maybe i can add a question to that ELI5 topic: Why do i see lightning like things when closing my eyes and pushing/rolling them with my finger?"
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If shadows are the absence of light, why do you get different coloured shadows with different light sources?
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"It would be absolutely black as you lack a light source. If you had a light the room would look like a series of tunnels fading off into green and then black as the reflection grew dimmer. Most mirrors are somewhat tinted green due to imperfections in their production."
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Being sued for money when you have none
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"Unless they have insurance, my understanding is that you get what they have, they go bankrupt and that's that."
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how can small cellphone carriers (metropcs, criket, etc...) charge less for the "same" service?
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"It's because they rent the towers they use from the majors and do not have contractual subsidies for phone contracts that drive up costs. They also are not accountable for maintenance of the hardware and towers which keeps the costs lower."
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"The two biggest reasons are lower risk and no subsidized phones. Risk - They don't maintain towers, just purchase bandwidth from from the big guys. Don't have to worry about building towers, don't have any actual assets (with the exception of some tech support and a billing department). Subsidized phones - for whatever reason, in the american market consumers don't like to front the ~$600 cost of a phone up front (like pretty much the rest of the world does). So retailers decided to just cut off about 400 of that cost and tack on another 20/month to your plan, and force you into a two year contract (also notice that 20*24 /= 400). My wife and I switched from verizon (probably around 150+ a month) to net10 (85 a month). Net10 runs on At & t and Tmobile, so it's not quite as good of service, but it's nearly half the cost. And I can use a nexus 5."
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What's happening when I make that thunder noise inside my head?
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"Slightly offtopic, but why do my eyes leak when I yawn?"
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How does a U.S. Destroyer, a vessel equiped with advanced technological systems, that is supposed to engage in tactical naval warfare, collide with a cargo ship?
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"Massive and systemic watch-keeping failure on the part of the Naval Vessel's crew. Heads are going to roll here. Court-martials, possibly criminal-negligence charges. There is no excuse for this. None. Navy Ships have multiple people in the pilot house, lookouts all over the ship, people in CIC monitoring surface contacts. State of the art computer processors crunching enough data to take down 10's of targets at mach speeds. Able to scan the environment with different radar systems. The Cargo ship had the right of way : > *Collision Regulations Rule 15: When two power-driven vessels are crossing, the vessel which has the other on the starboard side must give way and avoid crossing ahead of her.* Navy ships also are required to have other vessels standoff outside their respective exclusion zones, to avoid [shit like this](_URL_0_) happening. It's a complete breakdown of every single navigational procedure."
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"First problem is that there aren't that many subs compared to surface vessels. Second problem is that they aren't equally effective in all waters. Third is that anti submarine warfare is a serious concern for modern navies, and a lot of subs are more or less dedicated to such ASW. Fourth is that subs tend to give away their positions by firing, so they have to be careful. Fire off a torpedo or missile and you're in very big trouble if the other side has a sub or helicopter available in the area. Fifth is that only nuclear subs are really fast or long ranged enough to go after surface task forces aggressively, and few countries have those. They are very valuable platforms, certainly. But not magic :)"
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Why sometimes when I sleep, in my dreams I try to get out of bed but my body refuse move, and gets harder to breathe but felt so real?
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"All correct. People also tend to hallucinate that there is something terrible/ominous in the room with them as well and it can be quite terrifying, but instances such as yours happen a lot too where you are aware you have come out of sleep, but you can't move and can't yet consciously control your breathing. These feelings aren't usually dreams but can feel like it as you've just woken up. You are in fact paralyzed because your brain has cut itself off due to reasons explained above. Interestingly some people have a sleep pathology where they do not inhibit movement during REM sleep (REM behavior disorder) which causes them to physically act out their dreams. The patient isn't the one complaining, it's usually the SO getting punched in the face while their partner acts out beating Usain Bolt in the 100m dash. Source: MD who deals with this kind of shiz"
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"I can sometimes tell that I am dreaming.. Like when something is just way out there. I start realizing it's a dream then eventually wake up."
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Why do we clap our hands as an act of cheering?
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"There's no real reason really. We could have chosen any gesture to represent cheering such as snapping fingers or stomping feet. However, clapping makes a lot of noise, doesn't require another surface nearby, and takes barely any technique to be effective. Some people just started doing it, and it caught on because there wasn't a need for something different."
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"Actually, in Germany (particularly in academic settings) people sometimes knock on surfaces with the knuckles as a form of applause. Scares the hell out of visiting speakers sometimes if nobody warns them in advance!"
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why does the human body need O2 in oder to get rid of Carbon? Why cant it just release the carbon as a gas or something?
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"The body doesn't just take an O2 and stick a carbon onto it. The body has a very complicated set of chemical reactions, called the [Krebs cycle](_URL_0_), that it uses for energy. The Krebs cycle is how your cells turn your food into usable energy to do stuff and stay alive. It takes your food nutrients, like carbs and protein, and breaks them down to recharge a chemical called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is a little messenger molecule that carries energy from place to place inside your cells. When it runs out of energy it has to be recharged by another run through the Krebs cycle. One of the steps in the Krebs cycle requires oxygen. This is why you need to breathe in oxygen to live. And in addition to ATP, there are two byproducts of the cycle: carbon dioxide, and water. You get rid of the CO2 by exhaling it."
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"Simply, you breath it out! Fat is essentially a hydrocarbon. It mainly consists of Hydrogen and Carbon atoms, with a few Oxygen molecules as well. When you burn fat, there is a chemical reaction with the oxygen you breath in, the Hydrogen breaks away from the carbon and mixes with the oxygen making water (H2O) and the carbon also mixes with the oxygen making carbon dioxide (CO2). The CO2 is mostly exhaled, as is some of the H2O. The rest is absorbed by the body or leaves as waste. You can't actually turn muscle to fat, usually you are replacing the fat with muscle through a different process."
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Why do different foods of the same mass have different amounts of calories?
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"Your body isn't converting all the mass of a burger into energy lol. Only some of the energy bound up in food is utilized by your body, and **none** of it comes from converting mass into energy. Your body takes chemical potential energy from bonds between atoms in your food and (after generally storing that energy in different chemical bonds) utilizes it to drive all the processes that keep you alive. Much of the actual mass of the food is used as raw material to make structures your body needs like new cells etc. Some of that material is used wholesale because your body can't produce it on its own (like vitamins). Any mass your body can't use generally leaves the body with other waste. Some food has more, and more energetic, bonds that your body is capable of converting into energy than others."
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"We can measure calories (Calor = Heat) by burning the food and measuring how the temperature of water raises. A calorie is the energy it takes to raise the temperature of a litre of water by 1c. You would do chemical analysis to get the nutrients. For proteins you would probably try to measure the chemicals in Amino acids."
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How did the word 'radio' get mixed up in so maybe nuclear-related terms, "radioisotope", "radioactive", "radiologist". Does this imply some direct connection between electromagnetic waves and alpha/beta/gamma rays?
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"It is the other way around. Radiation or radio comes from the energy going radially out from the source. We use \"radio\" as a shorthand for electromagnetic radiation under 300GHz but there are lots of different radiation in addition to electromagnetic radiation. Gamma radiation is by the way also electromagnetic but in the 100EHz range. So there is a direct connection between radios and gamma rays and other forms of radiation."
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"Type of radiation is determined by the material that emits it. Gamma radiation is electomagnetic radiation, like radio waves, microwave, x-rays, gamma rays... they are typically formed when a charge (electron) is accelerated or decelerated or moved in a circular path (which is an acceleration btw). It can also be formed when an electron jumps between shells in an atom (different energy states). Alpha radiation is essentially helium atom cores. They typically form as a result of a radioactive decay. Similar thing for beta except they are electrons."
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Why is your throat so much more sore in the morning than any other time when you have a cold?
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"Because you've been lying down and not swallowing, the extra thick mucus your nose is producing during your cold has been dripping down your throat all night and irritating the crap out of it. During the day you swallow, drink, and eat which helps clear the mucus out. You're probably also blowing your nose instead of just letting it drip down your throat."
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"I recently battled a cold and I think I know what you mean. All of a sudden, the inside of your nostrils will hurt for a good 30 seconds. I believe it is because they are dry. Maybe someone with more knowledge in the medical field can help us out?"
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How does alcohol by volume work?
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"Depends on the volume. Two 5.2% abv beers at 12 fl oz a piece. Would equal one 10.4% ABV 12 fl oz beer. The volume is very important."
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"Hard drinks have alcohol, soft drinks don't. To be considered a soft drink the alcohol content must be less than half of a percent of the volume."
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How do companies discover that they've been hacked?
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"If a good hacker didn't leave a footprint then the company wouldn't know about the leak, and you would never hear about the company having a leak. The Sony hack wasn't noticed by Sony. It was the hacker group that publicly exposed the hack."
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"If I can ask a follow-up: How did these companies respond to being targeted?"
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How come not everybody sees the same colours when looking at Benhams Disk? [Repost]
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"You can't look at Benham's disk on a monitor and know what color you \"would\" see on the real thing, ironically enough for almost the exact same reason we see color there in the first place. With a real-world disk, we see colors because some of our eye's receptors fire faster or linger longer than others - So a rapid white/black transition favors whatever receptors send the strongest signal back to the brain. Think of it like a poll - \"Hey red, what do you see?\" \"Umm, something, I guess...\" \"Blue? What about you?\" \"Yeah, something bluish\" \"Green?\" \"YES, oh wow, yes, dude, you have to see this, so greenly awesome, hey can we stop at Taco Bell later?\". Going back to monitors, you can't (necessarily) see the right color because it will depend less on your eye and more on which color of subpixels in your monitor has the longest retain time - Frequently red, for LCDs."
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"The sun is also white. It just appears yellow. Next!"
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What exactly does the UK mean by "killing encryption"?
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"All information transmitted over the Internet could be decrypted at government request. Things like private Facebook groups, stored email, online transactions, that C4 you bought from a Tor store, you know, stuff terrorists might do. It's government trying to harm everyone, not just the very unfortunate very few that happen to be injured in terrorist attacks."
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"Because Canada does not benefit from that. Why do you think Canada *should* have the same size military as the US?"
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how does quartz work in watches/clocks?
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"The quartz itself is sliced into a very thin tuning fork shape, and is then connected to an oscillator circuit, which takes power from the battery, and starts (and keeps) the quartz vibrating. The miniature quartz tuning fork vibrates at exactly 32,768 times per second (32,768 Hertz). Because of the nature of quartz, these vibration emit their own weak, but just as exact, electric pulses. These electric pulses are then used as the basis of the timing of the watch. 32,768 may seem like a strange number to work with. However, computers (often used in these watches) work more easily with powers of 2, and [2^(15) is 32,768](_URL_0_)!"
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"Because when you're paying 1000 for a watch, you're really paying for a piece of jewelry that happens to also function as a timepiece."
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Why do metals at room temperature feel colder to the touch than other materials?
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"Your body isn't feeling temperature it is feeling the amount of heat leaving your body. There is a subtle distinction here. You have 3 variables, the amount of heat the metal can pull away from your body (heat capacity). The amount of heat the metal can store (heat capacity * density, keep in mind metals are heavy). The speed at which the metal can pull away this heat. (thermal conductivity). A material which does not conduct heat well will feel warm, because your hand heats up the surface and the heat stays at the surface. This is why plastics feel warmer then metal. Metal has a lot of density, a lot of capacity to store heat, and a very good conductivity meaning it can pull the heat out of your body and into the metal very well and it can store a lot of heat. This is also why different metals feel different temperatures at room temperature. Not explaining the science: Metal pulls heat out of your body faster then plastic."
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"To understand that, you need to know that there is more than temperature of an item that determines how hot/cold it feels. It is mostly about how quickly heat enters or leaves your body, which is dependent on a property called thermal conduction. Something very conductive, like metal or stone, will feel much colder on a cool morning than something that is more of an insulator, like carpet, even though they are exactly the same temperature when you walk across them in the morning. So, to answer your question, the way to make something feel cooler would be to make it out of more thermally conductive materials, spread your heat over a bigger area, which will more efficiently transfer your body heat out f your body to the room making you feel cooler."
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Why do non-English speaking countries have so much English on their packaging and marketing?
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"English-speaking countries are so economically powerful, mainly through influence of the United States, that most countries include English on their products so that tourists or international customers can read them. Interestingly the dominance of English in international business is so great that if someone is going to learn a second language in order to do business overseas it will almost certainly be English. The result is that English is an expected common skill which only reinforces its dominance. For example someone from Germany doing business with someone from France will likely result in them speaking to each other in English, as the German probably doesn't know French and the Frenchman probably doesn't know German, but both likely understand English to some extent. So when a company is considering what to put on their package to make it accessible to non-native speakers it will almost always be English."
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"The same reason they you don't see them use google when searching for things but always use some generic search engine. There are strict laws regarding product placement in movies and TV shows. In France it's against the law to even mention facebook or twitter on TV."
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If it's harder to hear as altitude increases (Example: On a plane), does playing music through headphones louder than you normally would so you can hear it better damage your ears as much as playing music that loud when you can hear fine?
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"if your thinking specifically on a plane, it is pressurised to 1800 - 2400 metres which although Alpine sort of levels I would think it wouldn't be enough to change noticeably. I know what you mean though about playing loud, I have always attributed it to the constant plane noise which you get used to but is surprisingly loud along with all the other distractions. For example this weekend I had a hard time following a movie on a plane, which is perhaps due to the small screen size, poorer quality and background stimuli? I think it would be reasonable to assume that playing your iPod very loud in your ears will be enough to damage them the same as on the ground as the same dBs go through your ears although i doubt in flight entertainment systems go that high because of this? On the top of Everest though I wouldn't even guess"
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"I'm no scientist, but I think it's just because we adapt depending on how loud our surroundings are. If you're in a crowded public place, everything around you is already loud, so it isn't as jarring as if you were in an empty room and it started playing at the same volume. Our ears aren't designed to have headphones put in and get sound pumped directly into our ears, so it's easier for our ears and brains to understand and adapt to more natural background noise."
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Why do most porn sites not use HTTPS?
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"If you were to submit your credit card information on the internet, the information needs to go from your computer to the server. What hackers can do is to \"sniff\" the traffic, and decode the information that is sent, consequently getting your credit card information. What HTTPS does is encrypt the information on the computer, send it, and then decrypt it on the server. So even if hackers get a hold of the traffic, they have no way of decrypting it. This is awesome, but requires a little bit of extra cost (development and encryption certificate). Note that this does nothing in protecting your identity. Your IP address is still sent as is. Most porn sites are simply view-only, so users are not actually submitting any private information, therefore, no need to implement HTTPS (SSL). However, most paid sites where you have to pay for membership, I would imagine do have HTTPS protocol installed."
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"You can, as long as your browser and the sending server support it. There is no technical reason why this shouldn't be possible."
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If various species naturally went extinct even without human influence in the past, why is it still important that species are going extinct? Is it not just nature taking its course?
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"Regions in which humans have developed habitats saw a massive increase in the rate at which megafauna (i.e. large animals) started going extinct. This is WAY higher than what ecologists refer to as the background rate of extinction (the rate at which species went extinct before human influence, with a few special exceptions). Mass extinctions that don't open up very many new niches (fancy word for \"somewhere new species can evolve\"), such as the ones that we are causing, only hurt biodiversity, and imbalance ecosystems. And whether you realize it or not, we rely very heavily on the things mother nature does for us in order to get by."
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"Well evolution is about species changing over a long time based on their environment. We're certainly a part of their environment and so they adapt to fit us just as we have adapted to fit them. Viruses (like the flu) evolve just fine within their environment and manages to prosper extremely well by infecting and spreading among humans. Is this \"interference\"? I don't know. Cows on the other hand have gotten lazier, and less capable of defending themselves because we've forced the ones that are more delicious or could produce more dairy to breed. Is this \"interference\"? I don't know. It's all a matter of perspective though. If humans are considered something completely outside of \"nature\" then the natural process of evolution is interfered with when we interact with it. If we're part of nature then we must be part of it's natural process of evolution as well."
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Why do some seniors have a hard time learning basic computer skills even though it seems very intuitive to most people?
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"Take a field you're inexperienced in. Let's say baseball. A professional baseball player says, \"Swing the bat like this.\" And he shows you how. So you do the same. But then you mess up on the next swing. You forgot all his talking points/mechanical error/missed something he said. So in the end you couldn't swing the bat very well. Then you ask, \"Why swing the bat in the first place? I don't even like baseball.\" So you put the bat down. This is what it is like for seniors. It doesn't matter as much to them, and they didn't grow up into computers and iPhones and such."
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"It's a school's job to educate you, not to give you every single life skill you'll ever need. The education system primarily focuses on preparing you for employment. It's your parents or guardians job to teach you pretty much everything else. Learning basic personal finance is not hard and realistically, for the average person, I'm not even sure that there would be enough content for a whole class. Grocery shopping? Really? If you want to be a mechanic, they absolutely have classes and entire schools for that. If you just want to learn the basics like changing a tire or jumping a dead battery, that can be learned extremely quickly and easily. I don't see how there's enough content there for a whole class either."
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Why is there a little wall in the gas container of a lighter?
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"A longer, thinner cylinder is stronger than a shorter, fatter one. Alas, the short, fat shape is more desirable in a lighter. The result is that a long, thin cylinder is folded in half to get the desired strength in the desired shape."
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"How about through that opening on the side of your head?"
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How inheritances work and why people covet them so much?
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"How they work: Relatives leave you money in their will and when they die you inherit that money Why they're coveted: Free money"
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"Why does it cost money to get divorced? Because it's worth it!"
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Why do guitars have 6 strings? Wouldn't it be better if they had 5 because we have 5 fingers?
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"It has nothing to do with number of Fingers, you can use different methods of strumming and picking that are way more efficient than assigning one string to each finger. Its more a matter of Sound, the more strings you have, the higher the amount of notes when you play a chord. Or since you thought about picking it seemed: the more strings on a Guitar the broader the range of notes you can use in a Melody"
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"This is a very general gloss of keyboard and guitar ergonomics. First of all, the majority of people are right handed, and historically speaking, in what's known as the common practice period i.e Classical Music, you would want your most skillful hand to be able to play and add decorations to the melody of whatever you were playing. Since the melody is always going to be higher than the bass, it makes sense to have the low notes to the left, and the right hand covering the higher pitched notes to the right. With guitars, your fingers are much more dexterous than your thumb. So you want the higher pitched melody notes where your fingers can get at them, leaving the thumb up at the top to cope with the bass lines. There's no reason, per se, why they they couldn't be reversed. But since the majority of people ARE right handed, this is by far the most comfortable arrangement of notes for the majority of players."
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How do collision prevention systems on cars work?
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"Usually, there is an IR range finder, which attempts to find how far from the nearest forward object you are. The car takes this distance, runs a calculation based on the current velocity (and maybe more variables, like road wetness, if you can be bothered) to determine the minimum stopping distance. The system will do this kind of math quite frequently (probably several dozen times a second), in order to determine if the object in front of you is actually getting closer (eg: not the bumper of the car in front of you, who is safely ahead of you and travelling at a matched pace, or relatively close velocity). Should it be determined that the distance between you and the object is falling fast enough (eg: it is a stationary wall, or someone slamming their brakes), if the minimum stopping distance at your current conditions is within X% of the distance of the object, then your car will attempt to stop automatically."
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"I BELIEVE: Usually, there are sensors in the road under the pavement that sense the weight of the vehicle, and then that info goes to the stop light. At least that's how it is where I'm from."
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Why is American Express widely not accepted at many retail stores?
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"Merchants have to pay more to accept American Express. While they may only pay 2%-3% for that Visa purchase you made, it would be closer to 5% for Amex."
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"It is pretty much Coke and Pepsi. Both provide a network that allows a vendor to get money from the bank that is backing a credit or debit card. Their services are almost identical. While they are almost universally co-accepted in the US, this can vary internationally. My personal experience is I have seen more MasterCard only places than Visa only when I travel abroad, but the reverse also happens."
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Why is breathing in faster than breathing out?
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"I'd like to point out how awesome it is that complete strangers can come together and develop the best explanations for such a complex topic, and in a way that most anyone can understand. Lots of good posts in here. Collaboration makes us better at problem solving and decision making. Kudos. EDIT I'd like to remind the peanut gallery that Rule#1 is be nice. Also unsticked, that was an accident. Imperfect mod is imperfect. Cheers"
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"That aching feeling in your lungs when you hold your breath? That is a build up of poisonous CO2. When you breathe out, you are lowering the concentration of CO2 in your lungs. In fact that is the only reason it hurts to hold your breath. Hence why Nitrogen Asphyxiation has been proposed for the death penalty."
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What's up with sloths?
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"They just chill up in trees away from most predators that would otherwise be able to hunt them. By being super lazy, they don't use as much energy, so they don't have to process as much food. They only need to leave their tree every week or so to poop. As long as they have a readily available food source that they don't have to chase after, being lazily slow isn't really a disadvantage given their mode of avoiding predators."
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"Never even once. What the hell is this?"
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Why are batteries (Such as AA, AAA, D, ect.) so expensive?
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"Because people need them and will pay the prices charged. The price has stabilized at the highest point people will accept."
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"Actually, yes. There are, or at least were, A and B batteries. However they didn't get much use as most of the products have been designed for AA, AAA, C, or D batteries. Edit: Here's a short article on B size batteries: _URL_0_ The story for other types is probably similar."
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How come people are not experiencing discomfort during highspeed train rides?
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"Once you're at full speed, there's no acceleration. And you can accelerate to full speed as slowly as you like. The speed of the train says nothing about its acceleration."
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"How does a drivered car? Humans regularly get into car accidents every single time there is snow."
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How to detox from alcohol
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"Long term alcoholics can suffer delirium tremens (known as the 'DTs' or the 'shakes') if they withdraw suddenly from alcohol and this can be serious enough to lead to death if not treated properly. However, roughly half of alcoholics who stop alcohol intake will not have any negative physical effects and only a tiny proportion will suffer severe delirium tremens. So the best way to detox is to stop completely, then seek medical attention if you start having severe withdrawal symptoms. Otherwise, follow a schema similar to the detox from drugs like Paxil, where people drop their dose by 10% of their original intake, every month (so if you drink ten beers a day, drop to 9 beers a day for the next month, then 8 beers a day the month after that, etc)."
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"It's called dehydration. Your liver needs water to process the alcohol or something like that"
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Why does my head hurt when I get a headache?
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"It depends on what is causing your headache. Stress headaches, for example, can be caused by excessive tension in the muscles around the head. Many headaches are generally thought to be the result of the blood vessels surrounding your brain either opening up (dilating) or clamping down (constricting). These actions can cause pain receptors above your brain to be triggered. Newer theories suggest that chemicals in your brain (neurotransmitters) are a more significant part of the pain of a headache. Basically, there is no real \"pain\" being caused in your brain, it's just the result of areas in your brain being triggered that normally acknowledge pain occurring -- kinda like a sensor that is malfunctioning. In reality, it's probably some combination of the two."
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"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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How do blisters form? And what is the purpose of the liquid inside of the blister?
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"If you were 5, I'd explain: \"Blisters are nature's band aid.\" They form to protect the underlying layers of skin from an irritant. The reason people will tell you to never pop a blister is because the fluid within it is sterile. Not only that, but our outer layer of skin is our \"first line of defense\" against pathogens. When you pop the blister, you break that line of defense and release the protective sterile fluid - leaving the underlying layers susceptible to infection."
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"Cold sores are the herpes virus ‘erupting’ from nerve endings. Unlike a cut that forms a scab, a cold sore blister is quite deep as it comes from deep in the layer of the skin. This is why it takes a while to heal."
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Why does the US have so many mattress stores?
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"That's like asking why there are so many brands of toilet paper. Given the sheer number of people who use them, multiplied by how often you replace them, there is definitely room for profit. Also mattresses have a very high profit margin. They are essentially cloth, padding, and a small amount of metal and wood, sold for hundreds if not thousands of dollars."
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"Why do some parts of the world call gasoline petrol?"
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How 'deep' are tattoos?
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"Well, Lets say it like this. I have a full sleeve, with full color, and very little \"exposed\" skin. I had someone slice my arm up with a garden rake, to the point I needed 3 stitches, and you can't even tell I had gotten hit. Granted, it depends on how heavy handed the artist is, and how good he is at his craft, but you should be able to get a pretty decent scrape, and not have the tattoo be screwed up."
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"What do you mean by the 'earliest breeds'?"
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Why do computers need to restart after updating?
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"Some times updates need to modify system files that are currently in use by the OS. In those cases, the system will reboot, thus \"unlocking\" those files, and apply the changes during the boot sequence, before they get used again."
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"The TL;DR is that messing with your phone happens on a lower level than messing with your computer. For context, imagine if you suddenly had to start flashing a custom bios because the manufacturer made it so it could only run their flavor of Windows 10."
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Why do I feel like I haven't really slept if I have vivid dreams during the night?
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"It's not that the vivid dreams make you tired, it's the fact that you are waking up during a dream - waking out of REM sleep tends to leave you a bit groggy. Most of the dreams during the night you don't remember, which explains why this happens only when you remember the dream."
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"So you wouldn't confuse reality with dreams. Since I've been on antidepressants, I've been remembering a lot of my dreams. Sometimes, I recall what happened in dreams as believing it had actually happened. For example, I dream that I had a conversation with a colleague. When I reference that conversation to my colleague, they look at me weird."
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Explain the argument that the color pink doesn't really exist.
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"A color is a certain wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. The \"color\" pink does not appear on the electromagnetic spectrum. Instead, it is how we perceive a certain combination of wavelengths, and therefore itself not a cookie. Of course, this is all just arguing semantics. As far as anyone in the real world is concerned, pink is a color"
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"Natural aversion to sexual contact with our family for genetic reasons, taken one step further. Post audio or it didn't happen."
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The right to abolish government
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"You're right, it isn't. The Declaration holds no rights for Americans; those are found in the Constitution."
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"incentive for continued periodic creation of good original material"
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Why is it that when people in very prestigious positions lose their jobs, they have to tender a resignation, but in everyday jobs, you just get fired?
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"Most jobs in the USA are at-will; this means that either side can terminate the relationship at any time. You can quit whenever, and you can be fired whenever, for nearly any reason or no reason. Most upper management positions, however, are on contract. This means that the employee and the company sign an agreement that the person can only be fired for certain reasons. If there's disagreement over those reasons, a firing might lead to a lawsuit. So instead, the organization and the employee negotiate an end to the contract. If they agree, the employee resigns and agrees not to sue for termination of the contract."
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"Giving a notice for lay offs is generally considered professional courtesy. Unless you do something bad enough to warrant an immediate firing. But at the end of the day you benefit far more from quitting more amicably and getting a good reference than the company usually does from you being a good reference."
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How do computer companies such as HP and Dell load all that bloatware onto their new computers as a large scale operation?
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"They make OEM versions of operating systems, meaning they're baked right into the install media"
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"Microsoft was requiring Internet Explorer to be included with copies of Windows being licensed to third party hardware manufacturers like Dell, HP and Gateway. If these companies didn't want Internet Explorer on the machines they shipped, then Microsoft wouldn't agree to sell them copies of Windows. Another part of the lawsuit involved Microsoft requiring a copy of Windows to be purchased for every computer sold - even if the customer wanted it OS free or with Linux. Apple makes both their own hardware and software, so there is no licensee being forced to bundle something they don't want to."
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Why can't you put a cast on a horse's leg instead of killing it if it breaks it's leg?
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"Horse limbs are quite complicated anatomically. They also do not tolerate casts in the manner a person can. Broken legs in horses would also require a body sling to reduce the weight on the injured limb. This requires very intense care as well as cost."
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"I'm not certain that it hurts any worse than any other injury, per se; instead, you are just more likely to stub your toe badly than you are to do a lot of other painful things. You need a hammer to hit your finger with a hammer. You can stub your toe at any time, if you don't have closed toed shoes on. Does stubbing your toe really hurt worse than hitting your head really hard on a door frame? That's subjective."
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why is alcohol accepted in many places where Cannabis is not?
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"Man... I want to know this one too! As far as I understand, it’s all about marketing. There’s a great episode of Stuff You Should Know that touches on this topic... I think it’s called ‘How marijuana works’."
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"Smoking weed isn't against the law. Possessing and/or selling weed is against the law. It's all ridiculous bullshit."
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How does having sickle cell protect against malaria?
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"We don't know exactly, but it has something do do with the fact that the Malaria parasite lives in the red blood cells for part of their development. There are different theories, but they basically come down to one of two things: * Either the red blood cells of people with sickle-cell disease are just more difficult for the parasites to live in. * Or the red blood cells are more sensitive so that the parasites damage them and the body recognizes them as defective and recycles them before the parasites can complete their development."
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"Yes! A concrete example of this: There are large areas of Africa, Southern Europe and surrounds where the population has quite a high proportion of people that suffer from sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia sufferers can't transport oxygen around their body as well as people with normal blood cells. This is obviously a disadvantage. So why are there lots of people in these areas with sickle cell anemia? These areas have a lot of mosquitoes, which pass on malaria. However, sufferers of sickle cell anemia have a natural immunity to malaria. The people with sickle cell anemia tend to survive longer in these areas, and pass on their genes. This is natural selection in process. It is better to have sickle cell anemia than malaria!"
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Why didn't countries simply adopt Nazi Germany's weapons after the war
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"Weapons technology is constantly advancing. To adopt even an existing weapon for yourself requires redesigning your factories, storage, distribution, etc. so it's not something to be undertaken lightly. Accordingly, it made much more for sense for the Allies to study German weapons and introduce advanced weapons, rather than take a modestly decreased amount of effort to introduce weapons that would soon be out of date. Keep in mind that the part of German factories not destroyed in the war were deliberately dismantled or sabotaged by the Allies soon after."
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"Could the rebuilding of Japan after WWII be considered a partial colonization by the United States?"
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How is Morgan Freeman's voice so 'compelling' and 'powerful'? And what can one do to learn to have an authoritative voice?
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"He has a deep (low) voice, which is relatively difficult to develop. Far easier to develop is his manner of speaking, which is slow and distinct. He pronounces each word in sequence rather than slurring them together and pauses for emphasis where needed. The impression such speech gives is that your words are considered - that your thoughts are complete before the sentence begins rather than running along apace with it. In a sense, it's *silence* that gives the sense of authority. The boss isn't the one who does the talking - they're the one who talks *last*. Once they've talked, there's nothing left to say."
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"- People with pleasant voices or voice training are more likely to become the kind of people who would record podcasts (presenters, radio hosts, celebrities). - Voices are put though filters to increase clarity of the voice, and may be touched up to make listeners feel like.. well, listening."
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Why does the House "always win" in gambling?
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"The odds of winning any gambling are set out so the house always has an advantage. This is usually just a few points of a percentage (0.verylittle) but over tens of millions of dollars pouring through a casino, this leads to millions in profit. You basically have like a 49% chance of winning, so over thousands of plays, the casino ALWAYS ends up ahead. Even professional gamblers, who earn their living my playing poker or blackjack, games they can manipulate, only manage to get to 51% or 52% win rate, however they make their money by betting high when they know they a higher than average chance of winning"
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"How would you define \"winning\" a presidential debate?"
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Why is glass so inert to acids?
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"Dat silicon dioxide. Acids react by having a weakly held hydrogen that the other part of the molecule doesn't care for much, and would really rather have a metal in its place, as metals are much more likely to give off outer electrons to a non-metal than hydrogen is. Silicon dioxide, however, is already in a really good place with its electrons, so the acid doesn't have the necessary pull to substitute either the Silicon or oxygen for its hydrogen."
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"Salt water is a conductor. Rusting of metal is an electrochemical reaction. Fresh water is a conductor but less than salt water. Distilled water is not a conductor and metals don't rust in it."
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Why can we use computers to simulate humans visually, but not auditorily? I don't get why we can create amazing animated characters, but still need meatbags to do the voices, even though video is more complex than audio.
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"Well, that's more or less what Vocaloid is. I don't know japanese so I can't speak to how real it sounds, but given that vocaloid is huge in japan and there are actually concerts that thousands of people will go to that just have a holographic avatar on stage I'd imagine it sounds real enough: _URL_1_ and _URL_0_"
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"It does occasionally happen. You vastly underestimate how hard it is to get real software to *look* like it's doing the exact thing you want it to do *and* be realistic looking, both visually and with how characters interact with a computer. Not to mention editing. Plus then you watch the show a year later and it looks ridiculous anyway. Most of the time you're watching a fake video that actors are reacting to. Sometimes, when it needs to actually look like they're interacting, the video can be semi-interactive and just respond to any keypresses. And on top of all that, licensing issues."
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Why do you get veinier when you work out?
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"When ya run around or workout, your cells need more energy to keep going at the heightened rate. That means your heart has to start pumping faster, and 'cos your body's doing more work, you get hot. When you get hot, your body has a few ways of cooling you down, like sweating, or hairs standing up. One of these ways is to raise the veins slightly in your skin so they're closer to the air, and can get rid of the heat easier. As the nice man below said, \"vasodilation\" or widening of the veins, also occurs, to help let the blood flow faster and easier, which helps add to the illusion of them being about to burst out. Correct any mistakes, I'm basing this on GCSE biology, and it's not recent either."
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"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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What are the benefits of having private internet access (for personal use) and why are people obsessed over it?
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"Specifically, PrivateInternetAccess, if you are referring to that brand/company, is a provider of an anonymous VPN. Their VPN allows one to mask where their traffic is originating from by sending it through a third party. In addition, they accept forms of payment which reduce the paper trail behind their identity. In addition, VPNs may be useful for avoiding blocked/censored websites/services, and they encrypt all traffic between the computer and VPN."
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"In short, no. Usually you are only tracked for data purposes, and for ads. And even then, your data is protected, companies take precautions when storing the data. For me, it is a sense of safety that companies do not track me online. Sometimes for other people, they want to be anonymous because they are researching sensitive topics like wikileaks or something of that sort, and do not want to be tracked or have any trouble with the government and/or companies. For others, it is because they often do illegal things online, whether it be piracy, or inappropriate pictures of children. Even if you have nothing to hide you should still have the right to be anonymous, and many people do that using VPN, TOR, or a proxy. There are many different reasons people don't want to be tracked online! Only submit data you are willing to show your neighbor or even the whole internet! Source: I read the \"Privacy\" parts in almost all TOS agreements, reading topics surrounding this, experiance."
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Can someone please explain to me what is so bad about Tesla's intended direct-to-customer sales models and not going through dealers?
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"Cars came around in an era where there were significant concerns about \"vertical integration.\" The concern is that an automaker can undercut another retailer that sells their product and drive them out of business. So some states passed laws against them doing just that. Those laws are specifically tied to cars though, and the dealers have large financial incentives to fight to keep them in place. Since then, there has been far less of a concern about it, which is why manufacturers like Apple can open their own retail locations."
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The economics of a chinese buffet. (how do they make enough money?)
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"I could think of some reasons why but they may not be the whole truth: * You don't need as much staff because you aren't serving people at their tables * You have a set menu so you can make things in bulk and have less chefs required for cooking * You can order food in bulk since you will have a pretty good idea of your most popular items * Because the cost to eat is less expensive, you can get a lot of people to come in. The $ add up"
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"Finally one I can answer. My brother cooks chickens at Costco and he told me they are actually sold at a loss and I'm sure that goes for most markets. The reason behind this is because when people go to buy their normal groceries and smell the chicken, they are more likely to buy more groceries because the smell makes them hungry. So in essence, they sell at a loss to increase sales directly to other food products. Tl;Dr - smell chicken, buy more groceries. Edit: Called loss leader for the technical. Edit 2: A cheap prepared main dish provides opportunity for the market to sell more side dishes at an inflated price."
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Once a President is in office and installs his government, how does the federal government (continue to)investigate him?
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"The Congress does the investigations, just like they did with Bill Clinton for over six years. This is the check on Executive power."
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"How would such an agency, operating from outside the government, a) exert any power over the government or b) make money?"
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Why do we say "I'm getting on the bus/train/plane?" Yet say "I'm getting in the car?"
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"Why do you park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?"
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"You're a junior lawyer making $300k a year - \"hey, I'm going to be a little late so I can stop and vote today\" - \"No problem, see you later\" You work a shift job at McDonalds for minimum wage and take the bus to work - \"hey boss, can I clock in late so I can stop and vote this morning?\" - \"if you're late you're fired\""
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Why do we see "child geniuses" who get into colleges at very young ages and know complex math or science from a young age, but don't ever actually see their achievements in these fields when they enter adulthood?
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"uh, Mozart? Most of the top chess players? (Go players too apparently). [Most of them live pretty good lives as professionals. ](_URL_0_) You know, other than Ted Kaczynski... But a lot of this is just perception. Who would you say are the top 5 mathematical genius's today? Can you name even one? Society doesn't really celebrate these guys. They celebrate sportsball, business, and politics. Which, well, you don't have to be a genius for. It helps, sometimes, but it's not a prerequisite."
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"People are born with genius IQ. Genius is a very ambiguous term. Are people born a genius in any specific field? No. Genius IQ just means you have a very easy ability to learn and a huge advantage over your peers. However, it is more important that you can work hard and have true grit. There is certainly a level of education and theory that only genius people can obtain, but that is very very high. Almost anyone can get a PhD with hard work and the resources available. But to make breakthroughs in quantum physics and huge advancements in technology you definitely need a little bit of extra intelligence. That being said, a person with an iq of 110 who works hard, gets a PhD and a little bit of inspiration or aha moment will lead them to invent teleportation, its just that geniuses typically have more aha moments."
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