query stringlengths 19 300 | pos list | neg list | task stringclasses 1
value | instruction dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Why grills' marks makes food taste so good? | [
"Grilling food involves cooking it at high temperatures which can result in caramelization of sugars & mallard browning. These things actually make food taste better and give you more depth of flavor. The grill marks themselves, however, are just for looks. The only effect that fake grill marks have would be psycho... | [
"Because you and I have a genetic difference than other people that makes it taste so awful. Been trying to like it for years, no such luck."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the text:",
"neg": "Represent the text:"
} |
There are warnings on my microwave that say not to run it while empty. Does anyone now why or how this damages the microwave? | [
"The walls of the oven are designed to reflect the microwaves, intending for them to eventually be absorbed by food. But with no food, they will just keep bouncing around, eventually being reflected back at the magnetron, heating it up. The excess heat can damage it. Best case is that it blows a fuse, rendering the... | [
"The glass in the microwave might have small strands built in for a second layer Faraday cage. It is hard to say if it is still safe to use. It is better to be on the safe side. If you are worried you might try with a wet towel placed on the outside of the door and around the edges. It it gets hot in some areas the... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
Why do a lot of name combinations like Tom and Jerry, Rick and Morty, Ben and Jerrys sound so wrong and horrible to hear when said the other way round? | [
"Maybe the 1/2 syllable combo rolls off easier than 2/1 ?"
] | [
"Remember the first time you heard someone with the last name of Butt? It's initial funny is overwhelming. Well thats happening all the time for babies because everything is new."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document about Psychology:"
} |
why Japanese trains have such a bad problem with molesters and perverts. | [
"I can't give a clear cut answer, but the more I get to know a few Japanese friends the more I realise Japanese culture is actually very different to other western cultures. The whole perspective on life seems to be different."
] | [
"Where is the percentage of people that don't give a single flying fuck about fashion and just wear clothes so we don't get arrested for indecent exposure."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How Does Internet Speeds Work? | [
"Your speed is in megabits, as opposed to megabytes. It’s a marketing tactic and is misleading."
] | [
"Being Black Does Actually Have (Relatively Minor) Health Consequences, It's Just That They're Obviated By Modern Life. There's An Energy Cost To Have Extra Melanin, Even A Small One, So If You Don't Need It It Won't Be Selected For. Melanin Reduces Vitamin-D Uptake From The Sun If Sunlight Is Lower Than You're Ada... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why do Presidential candidates "suspend" their campaign? Does this mean they could suddenly return at some future point? | [
"It has more to do with fundraising. A suspended campaign can still fundraise (usually from the remaining candidates, in exchange for endorsements or logistical support) in order to pay down incurred debt (typically losing candidates owe staffers a significant amount). A terminated campaign can no longer collect mo... | [
"Well, because the Democrats have an incumbent, it wouldn't be smart to run someone else, because it would give voters the image that the incumbent isn't that good (if his party supports someone other than him or her.) The Republicans, who lack an incumbent, need to chose one candidate who the party thinks is fit t... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the answer:",
"neg": "Represent the answer:"
} |
Why is Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner not a violation of anti-trust laws? | [
"We don't know yet whether or not it will be. We won't know until the FCC and FTC make a ruling, but likely the announcement means that Comcast believes they can get past this issue. Herdnerfer and Mad_Gouki are generally correct though."
] | [
"You're probably thinking they're buying Time Warner Cable. Time Warner was a different company than Time Warner Cable, despite the name similarity. TWC doesn't exist anymore, having been bought by Charter Communications. Time Warner mainly owns media properties (things like HBO, CNN, and Warner Bros). AT & T isn't... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the argument:",
"neg": "Represent the argument:"
} |
Why does facebook think I know people whom I share no friends with? | [
"Maybe it creates you the perfect opportunity for you to make some friends since you only have 149"
] | [
"If you go like a certain page, like a bands page, or a harry potter page, and then you stop using your account for however long... But you're still listed as 'liking' said band then when something about them comes up, like maybe there in town so they put up Facebook ads or whatever, it will show your friends that ... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the text:",
"neg": "Represent the text:"
} |
Why is waterboarding so tortuous that the Navy Seals removed it from training because even none of them could handle it? | [
"There are various methods for doing it. It basically involves tilting someone back and pouring water in their nose and mouth to fill their larynx and sinuses. This induces a gag reflex, which forces you to cough and suck water in to your lungs. If you are tilted back, you won't actually fill your lungs, so you won... | [
"There was some guy doing an interview a couple of weeks ago claiming to have escaped I.S.I.L. imprisonment. A similar question was asked of him and his response was this. They were tortured both mentally and physically for days at a time. faced fake firing lines, or put in the position that they thought that they ... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit text:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit text about Current events:"
} |
Why can I rent a 1200 sq.ft. office with all utilities included for $650/month, but a 650 sq.ft. apartment with no utilities included cost $1200/month? | [
"When you rent an apartment, the landlord has to fix anything that breaks, and they have to go through a long and complicated process to evict you. When you rent an office, the landlord doesn't have to fix anything (unless they agreed to), and they can evict you much more easily."
] | [
"Low commercial rent doesn't attract retail / storefronts nearly as much as low residential rent attracts tenants. What business would want to save $1000/month on rent but move from an upscale shopping plaza to a run-down strip mall a mile away? They could easily lose more than $1000/month in business."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why can you recycle plastic bottles, but not plastic bags and garbage bags? | [
"Plastic bags are so light and fluffy that they can get blown around within the recycling center. They can get jammed up in the machines and even be responsible for breaking the machines, so often places do not accept them. Some communities have facilities designed to process material like plastic bags, but they'r... | [
"It goes to a landfill where it gets compacted and buried. Eventually when the landfill is full it gets capped with dirt and rock and just left. There are a lot of ways to manage trash that result in less harm to the environment and less overall waste. They are all more expensive than landfilling though. The bigges... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
How are downloads and storage mediums so accurate, such as keeping billions of bytes without a shred of noticeable corruption? | [
"There are two aspects to this question - how do we verify the integrity of a set of data, and how do we correct the data if we find corrupted bits? Data integrity is attacked by random corruption all the time, both on transmission and in storage (cosmic ray bit flips, random internet packet shenanigans), but integ... | [
"They have exactly what is promoted. The thing is that almost every modern operating system needs to keep a ledger of which files are on the drive, where they start and stop, when they were created, when they were last accessed, where the next part of the file is if the file had to be split into more than one chunk... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question about Technology:",
"pos": "Represent the argument about Technology:",
"neg": "Represent the argument:"
} |
Why aquarium fish die from overfeeding instead of just getting fat. | [
"Pretty sure it's not overeating that kills them, it's the fact that they *won't* overeat if you put too much food in, and the excess food rots and poisons the water."
] | [
"It thinks it has been poisoned, and is trying to prevent the ingestion of more poison. In general, not being poisoned is more important than being a little hungry and thirsty."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the sentence:",
"neg": "Represent the sentence about Health and Wellness:"
} |
Why are sparkly things so hypnotizing? | [
"There is a theory that humans evolved their fascination with shiny objects because it helped us spot and drink from running water. Running water is generally safer to drink from than still/stagnant water, and is pretty sparkly in sunlight."
] | [
"Answer me this: why is pizza so delicious?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit passage:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit passage:"
} |
Why do some comedy shows have canned laughter, or live audience laughter but most comedy movies don't? And why have the laughter anyway? | [
"Lots of studies have shown that people tend to laugh more when other people are laughing. There's something very social about it. That isn't to say they will think the material is any funnier. So using laugh tracks works for television. It isn't used in movies because movies were designed to be viewed in theaters ... | [
"It's the Japanese equivalent of the laugh track or other audience reaction recordings on an American or other Western show. Just like how a western sitcom will have a laugh track to let the audience now 'That was funny, you are supposed to laugh', a Japanese show will have a person reacting. As I understand, it ca... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
What would happen if you tried to breath in space? | [
"You would be able to survive for a while by holding your breath and forcing your mouth shut with a lot of strength. What happens in vacuum is that all the air inside your body wants to come out to try to equalize the pressure. By keeping all your hole as tightly shut as you can, you may be able to prevent that for... | [
"For the exact same reason you don't fly off into space -- gravity."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why is it that if I put my finger directly over my flashlight, I cannot see my bone through it? | [
"For a similar reason to why shortsighted people can't read words at a long range. The resolution is too poor to allow you to distinguish the bones, and it's very likely that the focal point is actually still inside your skin. Visible light doesn't penetrate well through flesh - it's very readily scattered by the m... | [
"Because when at 90 degrees you are unable to see the screen due to it being perpendicular to your line of sight. The only thing you'll be seeing is the side of the monitor."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit text:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit text:"
} |
According to the IMF, the world's debt has reached 225% of the world's GDP. How is this possible? | [
"Because there is no specific limit to how much money you can borrow, as it relates to your annual productivity. My parents borrowed money for a house that cost much more than 225% of their annual income."
] | [
"The global economy is valued at $77.6trillion. That means he destroyed .000002557% of the worlds wealth. There is no noticeable effect of that action."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the sentence:",
"neg": "Represent the sentence:"
} |
What makes me want to itch my skin? | [
"First, you don't \"itch\" your skin, you *scratch* your skin to relieve itching. An itch is the sensation that makes you want to scratch. Itching comes from our pain receptors. It's just a mild reaction to being touched or irritated by something, but not enough to cause real immediate pain. Your brain still recogn... | [
"And why do I have the urge to cough when using them?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How can spammers leave comments on my blog without visiting it? | [
"Commenting on a web page is a different process from viewing it. In technical terms, commenting is done through a \"POST\" request, while viewing is done through a \"GET\" request. If the spammer knows your blog's URL, he can just send a POST request, sending the spam contents, without first viewing the comment pa... | [
"You used your account to post this, didn't you? Who told you you have to make a new one? Or are you banned from a particular subreddit or something? You should consider verifying your email (use a throwaway email if you want) - that usually lessens the posting restrictions."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit comment:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit comment:"
} |
How can Donald Trump go bankrupt multiple times but still remain a millionaire? | [
"Donald Trump hasn't gone bankrupt. The businesses he has [mis]managed have gone bankrupt. When you create a corporation, the individuals running it are not liable for the corporation's debts."
] | [
"US President is the highest office in the nation. Once you've been President, you can command many thousands of dollars in speaking fees, you can open your library, you can publish your memoirs and make more money, you receive a pension of $200,000 per year - why would you want to stay in politics? Anyways, they d... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How can conversations be so real, interesting and fascinating in dreams if it's really just our own brain talking to itself? | [
"Well, your brain knows what's interesting and fascinating to you so it's easy for it to interest and fascinate you in your dreams."
] | [
"In addition to breaking down events, dreams also hold fragments of conversations, thoughts, and feelings, no matter how tiny or insignificant they may have seemed. Doing 95 mph down the interstate and briefly glance at a billboard advertising a dental exam? Congrats, you're going to dream of dentistry. The content... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post about Psychology:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document about Psychology:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document about Psychology:"
} |
That feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when looking over the side of a tall building. | [
"It's the fight or flight response. When you encounter something that is frightening or potentially threatening, your body releases hormones like adrenaline to help you prepare to deal with it. That feeling is a side effect of the hormones."
] | [
"Adrenaline. It will hit you like a ton of bricks the next next day."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the argument:",
"neg": "Represent the argument:"
} |
why do guys spit all the time? | [
"Us men don't. Some disgusting slobs who also carry a mounted penis do spit, but they barely qualify as human."
] | [
"do they squirm when you squeeze them? if so yes."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
If white rice is starchy, high-carb "empty calories," why was obesity not traditionally prevalent in Asian countries where rice is a staple? | [
"There are a lot of factors to consider. Portion size, overall diet, typical amounts of daily activity. A culture having a food that is high in calories is a small piece of the puzzle."
] | [
"Red meat isn't generally considered intrinsically bad. Our ancestors probably ate it when they could, as it's a really great source of protein and other nutrition. However, until the advent of animal husbandry it wasn't a staple or central part of our diet. So the idea that \"red meat == bad\" is mostly that \"red... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit answer:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit answer:"
} |
Why whenever I get up from TV, computer, or even reading, I get that lightheaded, dizzy feeling and almost fall over. | [
"You should go see a doctor about it."
] | [
"Huh? I have this the other way around. When I sit it's all good, but when I stand and start to walk I have to hurry to the bathroom."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question about Health and Wellness:",
"pos": "Represent the text about Health and Wellness:",
"neg": "Represent the text:"
} |
What's the difference between Alzheimer's and Dementia? | [
"Dementia is just a word defined as: > A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. Dementia is a symptom of Alzheimer's however Dementia is not its own disease and has many causes from Alzhei... | [
"Dementia is the generic term for \"losing your mind\". It can result from many causes, including trauma, oxygen deprivation, strokes, etc, as well as various diseases. Patients with Alzheimer's disease commonly present with dementia as a symptom."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
Why does being "over qualified" discourage people from hiring you? | [
"Because it's unlikely you will stay at that job. You are a high risk of leaving the moment something better comes along."
] | [
"HR Manager: \"Hmm, between these two applicants, A has a job and B doesn't. Why doesn't B have a job? Maybe there's something wrong with him. I better not take the risk of hiring someone like that. I'm going to hire A.\" And that's why it's easier to get a new job if you're already employed."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why is the line item veto unconstitional? | [
"Some parts of laws are designed to work with each other. For instance, Congress might pass a law that lowers taxes on the poor and raises on the rich, as a compromise between people who just want to lower taxes on the poor and people who just want to raise taxes on the rich. If the President used a line-item veto ... | [
"What's the reasoning behind term limits being a good idea?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit paragraph:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit paragraph:"
} |
Why is France bombing Mali? | [
"Mali is a former french colony, as such France still has a lot of influence in the region. Mali is amongst the poorest countries in the world and does not have a modern military. The French military are assisting the Mali army is eradicating terrorists in the area."
] | [
"Most Likely the US and European Countries in NATO will conduct air raids on Syrian military and government positions like what happened in Libya."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
The screaming and what appears to be madness that takes place on a trading floor. | [
"You wear a jacket to hold pens, calculator, phones, trading pads, etc. People will deliberately or accidentally write on you as well. The pads are what you write your trades down on and you turn them in periodically, they have a carbon copy for you to keep. You yell and flail around to get noticed because you all ... | [
"If you mean the police showing up, it's the same police who showed up at the corpse of a man one of the main characters killed. If you're talking about the organ music in place of the end credits, no idea."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
AT & T, Verizon, and other cellular services are ditching contracts. Why? | [
"There's been a bit of a consumer backlash against contracts, and some carriers decided to go against the grain and work without them. That seemed to work, so now other companies are emulating that behaviour. Now, a cynic would say that these huge companies will easily manage to make this seem like it's good for t... | [
"They probably offer lower end devices or different quality of service for Cricket to offset the price difference. Similar scenario with Sprint and Boost. Just trying to attract a different audience."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post about Technology:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document about Technology:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
What's actually happening when you crack a whip? | [
"When you flick your whip, the tip of the whip snaps and actually reaches a speed faster than the speed of sound which makes a small 'sonic boom' and that's the *crack* that you hear."
] | [
"Don't worry, before long you'll be wishing there was something to slow it down."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit passage:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit passage about Science:"
} |
Why is it that when two people/things make a sound at the same pitch, the total noise reverberates? | [
"I don't think it has much to do with harmonics. its more about the subtle differences between the two pitches are suddenly pronounced. You can observe this easily with a little experiment. Turn down your headphones and play the tone of these two frequencies. _URL_0_ _URL_1_ What you will hear is a 1Hz pulsing. If ... | [
"Blackout gave a good description but to put it more basically: Things sound in tune when the frequencies between the sound waves different instruments/voices make fit certain ratios. If my voice gets lower, the frequency of one of the sound waves drops, but the ones that the instruments are making doesn't. So the ... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the query:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why is voting so important? | [
"Your elected representatives exercise a lot of power. If you don't vote, you haven't communicated how you want them to exercise that power. Various \"get out the vote\" drives do attempt to target voters of certain demographics, who might be expected to vote a certain way."
] | [
"What's so bad about having something made in Israel?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
What happens when I get goosebumps from a song, scene in a movie, real life event...? | [
"Basically it's because your dopamine levels shoot up as a result of the emotional response to the stimulus. Further reading here: _URL_0_"
] | [
"Usually it's triggered by a memorable lyric of the song showing up somewhere in your life. Like the title of the song or a couple of words or a phrase that you saw somewhere and your subconscious puts them together making you start thinking about the song or singing it or whatever. This happens to me all the time.... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post about Science:",
"pos": "Represent the post about Science:",
"neg": "Represent the post about Science:"
} |
Why did facebook grow so big? There were a lot of other social networks long before facebook. How come they did not grow into such a huge company? | [
"MySpace's main problem, IMHO, is that it allowed the user too much freedom, so that MySpace pages often looked terrible (with, for example, thousands of animated gifs). Facebook adopted an elegant, minimalist design for every user's wall (now called timeline). Users found it more attractive. There may have been a ... | [
"I'm not an expert but I'll give my thoughts on the matter. Google+ is a social networking style of site. However there are many social networking sites already established, the biggest currently being Facebook, and before that probably MySpace. Currently Facebook is huge, but in recent trends i would say it is mor... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question about Technology:",
"pos": "Represent the document about Technology:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why do you get dizzy if you stand up too fast? | [
"So when you are sitting or laying down, your blood is sitting or laying down with you. When you get up really fast, your blood wants to be sitting or laying down still, so it is tired and moving slow. Your brain needs blood, but it takes a little bit for your blood to get back up from sitting or laying down."
] | [
"Your face is swollen when you wake up from sleeping? You might want to stop sleeping hanging upside down, mate."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question about Health and Wellness:",
"pos": "Represent the document about Health and Wellness:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why are the primary colors red, yellow, and blue; while on color pallets for computers use red, blue, and green as the 'primary' set? | [
"There are actually two sets of primary colors. The primary colors of light (aka the additive primary colors) are red, green, and blue. The primary colors of pigment (aka the subtractive primary colors) are cyan, magenta, and yellow, which is sometimes approximated as red, blue, and yellow (especially for children)... | [
"Brown isn't a color in its own right. It's a phenomenon of our brain interpreting a certain mix of colors. Edit: brown can be made from mixing any two colors on opposite ends of the color wheel: yellow and purple, blue and orange, red and green."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the query:",
"pos": "Represent the argument:",
"neg": "Represent the argument:"
} |
Why are Ping Pong Balls so flammable? | [
"They are made of a very, very thin layer of a very, very flammable plastic compound called celluloid. The initial flame just catches what is next to it and keeps going until it is scrapped."
] | [
"Bacteria and Fungi in Air. Sealed Package = > Bacteria and Fungi not in food. Opened Package = > Bacteria and Fungi now in food. Refrigerator makes Bacteria and Fungi grow much slower."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the answer:",
"neg": "Represent the answer about Food storage:"
} |
How do Siamese twins work? | [
"Great question. Could use a better example. I'm completely curious about movement and mental coordination. Is it a shared thought? Is there any internal discussion between the two minds before the movement occurs? Does one ever get tired, while the other is wide awake? How does that work with any other feelings li... | [
"Why do you have so many lips and chins?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit post about Biology:"
} |
Who owns the copyright to a tattoo? The tattooist or the person that is getting the tattoo? | [
"A tattoo is commissioned art so, Unless the rights are signed over or the artist is \"for hire\" (customer says what they want and artist makes it look good) then the copyright belongs to the artist."
] | [
"My guess is that it is safe under fair use rules. Tattoos are considered art and the tattoo is purely for personal use. You aren't making money by having that tattoo."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How come so many Windows installs / file copies, etc get to 95-99 percent complete in 2 minutes... Then take another forever minutes to finish? | [
"I think it's not just Windows. The installers are not good estimators. Sometimes, a download happens then the actual installation takes longer than the guesstimate."
] | [
"Because that 75 MB contains 3kb of changes to make to this 1MB file, and 2kb of changes to make to this 2MB file, etc etc. when it installs, it has to load the original file, duplicate it, apply the changes, and then return the file to its original place and delete the original. So why don't they just do this one ... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit post:"
} |
What is offensive about the Kendall Jenner Pepsi Commercial? | [
"Reducing the complex and nuanced issue of police tensions with protesters to an oversimplified use of the platitude \"cant we all just get along, man?\". Shitty sugary sodas won't solve widespread issues."
] | [
"BBC is very highly regarded, not only here on Reddit but across the world as being focused on news for the sake of informing the public not for the sake of shareholders. Obviously they need to make money and make mistakes but it's generally a very good source for information. There's a meme out there that encapsul... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
how does universities work, especially since its not just coursework. | [
"Can you be more specific? From the way it's phrased, I'm not sure if you're asking how research is funded/makes money, or how faculty conduct research as a practical matter."
] | [
"Try _URL_0_ Basically CC that can offer low tuition can't anymore because they can't make up the money"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why is it hard to implement a standard volume across various mediums like radio and television? | [
"It's not that it's hard it's because it's on purpose. Commercials come in louder because the advertisers want to ingrain their product in your mind and make sure you hear loud and clear what they are selling."
] | [
"They can use it on advertising, adding new features and maybe expanding their company into other communication apps or something."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Can a star exist outside of a galaxy? | [
"We know of no viable method for a star to be **formed** outside a galaxy. However once the star has been born, it (like every other massive object in the universe) is subject to the laws of gravity. We can certainly conceive of a scenario where a smaller star is orbiting a massive object -- e.g. a neutron star or ... | [
"The effects of gravity between local objects outweighs the overall expansion. Local can be quite a long distance away when dealing with the gravity of huge masses like the total mass of stars in a galaxy."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the comment:",
"neg": "Represent the comment:"
} |
Why are humans so much less hardy than other animals? | [
"Everything you mentioned is actually untrue. Humans are apex predators. We are troop forming and smart and way at the top of the list for endurance. We didn't get to where we are by being weak in comparison to other animals. You as an individual could relatively easily catch and dispatch something like a deer with... | [
"There's no such thing as an \"evolutionary scale\" on which we can be considered to be \"so far ahead of the rest\". There's just evolution. We're no more or less evolved than any other species alive on the planet right now."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit answer:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit answer:"
} |
If the NFL just gave all the $ they spent on pink Breast Cancer Awareness accessories, wouldn't the charity be better off? | [
"A quick summary of good answers in the thread: 1) The pink items are sold at auction after the game and all proceeds are donated to charity. Interested buyers are paying a lot more than the usual price (e.g. 2500 USD for a jersey that might cost $100) This means that the NFL spends ~$100 and the charity gets a lo... | [
"They don't \"keep\" any of the money, but they sure do have a lot of expenses to pay out. That CEO for example works really hard at collecting donations, and it costs a lot of money to rent space in his posh home. So most of the money goes to \"admin\" expenses. Many celebrities have this same problem. At one poin... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
If 2 people are exposed to the same flu strain and both are the same age and healthy, why would one get the flu and the other be immune to it? | [
"One got their flu shot. The other didn’t. Either that or they have been exposed to that particular strain of the flu in the past."
] | [
"They essentially lessen the severity of certain strains of the flu. What happens depends on the kind of vaccine you get. Some do a weak live virus, some do dead virus. The point of the vaccine is to infect your body with what the CDC believes and predicts will be the \"MAJOR\" strain of the flu that year. Your bod... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How different orchestra conductors make music sound differently, if it is written by a third-party and written down? | [
"Oh I love this question! I am a classically trained musician so I'll throw my two cents in. The conductor acts as one part interpreter and one part 'sound guy'. Just like people interpret poems or religious texts, the conductor takes a written piece of music and emphasizes and minimizes various components of it to... | [
"My understanding has always been that the composer writes the music while the artist performs it. Since movie scores are normally performed by orchestras, there is no single artist."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
Why do cats jump on you,then jump off again seconds later,then repeat over again? | [
"Ive always thought it was because my cat wanted me to sort of follow her to wherever she wants. Kind of like she wants to play with me and have me chase her, like what kids do."
] | [
"I call this \"question rape\" Basically my girlfriend will go to work in the morning and say to me as I'm sleeping - Can you clean + Hoover ect and ofc I say yes I never remember saying yes and tell her off for question raping me"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit argument:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit argument:"
} |
What exactly happens in your mouth when you drink orange juice after brushing your teeth? | [
"Toothpaste block your tongue from tasting sweetness. So when you drink orange juice, which is very sweet normally, you can only taste its sourness. Which is why it tastes horrible."
] | [
"Bacteria eats sugar and poops acid into your mouth which burns your teeth. Brush and floss and see a dentist."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the text:",
"neg": "Represent the text:"
} |
What is the potential harm of eating raw cookie dough? | [
"It's because the Eggs can be contaminated with salmonella bacteria, we eat it though because it's absolutely delicious."
] | [
"Because mayonnaise has been pasteurized to remove bacteria from the raw eggs. Your cookie dough has not."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How do some people who aren't related look exactly alike? (Ex:Obama Look-alike's, Movie star doubles, etc.) | [
"well, we have this thing called \"[genetic variation](_URL_0_)\" so despite the fact we are from the same species, we are all slightly different. Just on the fact there are billions of humans on the planet, many people do look similar. Also, the stunt doubles use make-up, cgi etc to replicate the actor, its never ... | [
"The same reason British television tries to adapt American tv shows. For example: In With The Flynn's(Grounded For life), Brighton Belle's(Golden Girls), Love By You(Mad About You), Nobody's Perfect(Maude), Upper Hand(Who's The Boss), Days like These(That 70's Show), Married for Life(Married with Children) and so ... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query about biology:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document about biology:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How do the internet clocks that our computers sync to stay so accurate? | [
"The short answer is better clocks. Nowadays that \"better clock\" is the [atomic clock](_URL_1_). Mechanical clocks drift because either the devices degrade over time, or were manufactured with imperfections. On the other hand, every single atom is identical and doesn't change over time. So if you can measure the ... | [
"Did it automatically set its time? There are radio stations that broadcast the time is a format that can be easily deciphered by electronics. This allows clocks to automatically set the time and change to DST."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
With the construction of the pyramids being such an amazing accomplishment, why was this process not more widely documented and better preserved? | [
"It is not still a mystery, it's been fairly well figured out. _URL_0_ In 2010 writings describing the building were discovered. _URL_1_"
] | [
"I'm not an expert on mummification, so I can't comment on the significance of the positioning of the body, nor am I a medical expert with any extensive knowledge of the Lazarus Reflex. What I can tell you is that the mummification process was a deeply religious process that consisted of 70 days of rituals and fun... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the query:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
What is actually happening when drinks go "down the wrong pipe"? | [
"There are 2 \"pipes.\" One goes to your stomach and one goes to your lungs. There is a flap of tissue called the epiglottis that covers the pipe to your lungs when you swallow, but while you're not in the act of swallowing, both \"pipes\" are open to your mouth. Basically, the drink went down your throat before yo... | [
"It's the same sort of irritation that you feel in your mouth and throat when drinking hard liquor."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit sentence:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit sentence about Science:"
} |
Why does the Powerball exist and where does all that money even come from? | [
"the money comes from the tickets being bought. So no one is really putting that money into it, and its not really a \"waste\" because its not pulling money out of anything else."
] | [
"Most police departments are taxpayer funded. Where do you think the money is going to come from?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the query:",
"pos": "Represent the paragraph:",
"neg": "Represent the paragraph:"
} |
Why does Robert Freitas suggest that if through future age-reversion treatments, we restore our physiology to the condition of a 10-year-old's, our life expectancy will be over 5,000 years? | [
"I think there's a statistical correlation between physiological age and death from things that kill you before you can be treated. You have a tiny chance of dying from a heart attack with a 10 year old's body. But you have a higher chance of dying with a 40 year old's body. Assuming people stop dying from chronic ... | [
"Humans natural lifespan without technological advances (medicine, agriculture, shelter, etc) was between 30 and 40 years. Putting us right in the middle for most apes. It is our technologies that let us expand our lifespans to 80-100+."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit paragraph:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit paragraph:"
} |
Why can you only enroll in health insurance at the beginning of the year? | [
"If you could buy your health insurance whenever you wanted, you would just wait until you got sick. If you can't afford insurance, there are aid and subsidy programs to help pay for it. There are also exemptions to the penalty if healthcare is too expensive."
] | [
"If you're exempt from the penalty, you're still exempt, no matter how big it gets. You don't exactly have many options. Unless you have a qualifying life event, you have to wait until 1/1/2017 to get a health insurance plan. If your income is as low as it seems, you likely would have qualified for free coverage un... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit answer:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit answer:"
} |
Why do deserts exist? In a world with so much water, and plenty of air currents, why are there such dry, empty wastelands? | [
"Most deserts exist in places opposite a mountain range from the direction of the prevailing winds. The reason is that as air is pressed \"up\" the mountains it generates the conditions for precipitation (rain, snow, etc.) by the time the air has moved over the mountains, it's much less moist. This is what creates ... | [
"They are much more than 10,000 km apart, so it's not easy for species to spread from one to the other. Antarctica has a lot of dry land, and is incredibly cold. The Arctic has dry land at medium latitudes, and only floating ice at the extreme latitudes."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
What is antimatter and how does it work? | [
"Antimatter is simply matter with a negative charge. I'm going to assume you know that the electron is negatively charged and the proton is positively charged. Antimatter is basically that, but backwards. The thing which acts like a proton in an antimatter atom is negatively charged, and the thing that acts like an... | [
"If magnets are magic, is gravity magic too? Fundamental forces, yo. They run the universe."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why do console game developers aim for either 30fps or 60fps, rather than something in between, like 45fps? | [
"The reason specifically 60 is currently used is because high definition televisions and computer monitors, particularly LCDs, are designed around 60 hertz signals as a common base capability. _URL_0_"
] | [
"It's possible, but the problem is you need far more powerful hardware to manage it. With VR, the game has to generate two images, one for each eye, not just one. So there's twice as much stuff for it to draw. Also you need higher frame rates. For a normal game, 30 fps is usually considered acceptable, 60 fps is de... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query about videogame development:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit sentence about videogame development:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit sentence:"
} |
Can Ebola be spread by mosquitos? If not, why? | [
"Ebola cannot be spread by mosquitoes, and it's really thanks to mosquito biology. When a mosquito bites, she does this to get nourishment to lay her eggs. She sits, digests and lays them, then moves on with her life. It's important to note that the blood gets digested in her stomach; Ebola is not known to survive ... | [
"Ebola is generally perceived as difficult to pass. America is not Liberia... trust me... There's a reason it spread so bad over there. Source: I was in Liberia when it started"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question about Health:",
"pos": "Represent the document about Health:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why do people enjoy playing games that simulate warfare? | [
"If you want to go Freudian, people's motives are comprised of the Life and Death instincts(/drives). A capability to express these instincts in a safe and controlled manner allows us to feed the instinct in a safe and non-threatening way. Essentially, yes, I'm implying that violent video games are essentially the... | [
"Game Developers have tried to make games realistic, but it turns out that doing so makes the game significantly less fun to play. So game developers nudge a lot of things away from reality to make them more fun. About the only place games are realistic these days are the gun models."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
Is there always a star or a "glowing Orb" in the middle of a planetary system? If yes, why is it so? | [
"Well a quick definition I found for 'planetary system' required that there be a star, so no. That said there can be rogue planets adrift in space or even theoretically many rogue planets forming their own system of orbits around one another. You can also have systems of orbiting planets where there's a black hole ... | [
"> I always see photos of our galaxy with an arrow pointing at some super tiny dot saying \"this is Earth\". Do they really know that that particular dot is actually Earth? Those are all artistic renderings, not photographs. So they can point at an area about where we think our star is and call it Earth, because th... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit answer:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit answer:"
} |
Why do women stay with the men who beat them? | [
"It's not like anyone walks into a relationship where they get beaten on the first debate. Physical abuse comes out after a gradual descent into shit. There's usually a bunch of emotional/psychological abuse leading up to it that slowly erodes their self-worth until they think they're responsible for or deserving o... | [
"Because we get tired of the lack of empathy when we're honest about our feelings. We put on a mask that is a caricature of the world we hate Source: I'm the life of the party weekly, and contemplate suicide several times a year."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit post:"
} |
Why do cats wiggle before they pounce? | [
"To sink their paws into the surface they're standing on. It helps them get more traction, which means a longer and faster pounce."
] | [
"Why do you stare at your dog when it's taking a shit?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document about Animal behavior:"
} |
Why is it that pseudo-scientific divination (astrology, tarot, psychics, palm reading) seem to be uncharacteristically more popular with women than men? | [
"The divide isn't actually that big, only a few percentage points. Marketing is what probably makes the difference. EDIT: Some poll by PEW."
] | [
"The person holding them takes their best guess as to where some object of desire is and subtly rotates them to face in that direction. It's often used to 'find' water. It's a lot of made up rubbish so I'm sure different 'dowsers' have different rules, but they rotate them to point towards something like water, or ... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
In the U.S., how can a state allocate a higher percentage of its budget towards education, and then rank so poorly in educational funding? | [
"If I have 200 dollars to feed my family for a month and I spend it all on McDonald's, I'm not going to improve the nutrition of my family that month. There's more to results than the money behind it."
] | [
"The southern states are the poorest, most rural, and have the least state funding towards education. That all contributes towards the lack of intelligence stereotype"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit post:"
} |
Why do people keep dream journals? | [
"Either because they are just interested in what they dream about, or with the goal of learning how to identify when they are dreaming so they can trigger a lucid dream."
] | [
"Spoiler alert: dreams mean nothing at all. Stop worrying about them."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the paragraph:",
"neg": "Represent the paragraph:"
} |
When people die of "old age" what do they actually die of? | [
"To go into more depth, as you age, and cells divide, they can sometimes become mutated during division, and these mutations than get passed on to future cells, a build up of these mutations can eventually cause vital internal structures to stop functioning correctly, and lead to death from that."
] | [
"\"Dying of old age\" happens because the aging process causes such a negative effect on your various internal organs that eventually they fail to work properly anymore. So it can be your brain, your heart, your lungs, your kidneys, etc. and the actual cause of death may or may not be known (depending on how much m... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit comment:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit comment:"
} |
Why do my earphones work perfectly fine after washing, but other electronics just break? | [
"Headphones contain: copper wires, a magnet and a small plastic wafer (among other things). Since these items can not be immediately destroyed by water, they can be dried out and used. Regular electronics have very sensitive wires, boards and other things."
] | [
"Water by itself doesn't ruin electronics. The problem is that if you turn it on, and it's wet, the water causes electrical connections from parts to other parts that were never meant to connect (i.e. an electrical short). These shorts can fry things by giving them more electricity than they were ever meant to hand... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why do fast racing boats use propellers which aren't completely submerged? | [
"They do get submerged at higher speeds. See [this](_URL_0_)"
] | [
"Several techniques are used: - Anything that vibrates (like i.e. engines) are isolated from the body by rubber feet. This prevents the vibrations from reaching the hull, and thus the water (Acoustic decoupling) - The outside is coated with sound absorbing material - Diesel / electric submarines can be more quiet t... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
why does whiskey get greater with age? And does it get better indefinitely? | [
"Whiskey is usually aged in wood barrels I.e (oak) and it pulls the flavor and color from the barrel. This allows it to be less (hot) so the longer its aged the smoother it will be. At some point though it can't absorb anymore of the barrel I would think,but that would be well over the 25 or 26 years you see for th... | [
"Liquor made badly will contain a thing known as methanol, which can very easily blind and kill you. Thus, in many places it's illegal to make it at all."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the query:",
"pos": "Represent the answer:",
"neg": "Represent the answer:"
} |
Do deer and other animals feel psychedelic effects from magic mushrooms, or go on psychedelic trips, as humans would? | [
"There was a famous or at least reasonably well known experiment done looking at the effects of drugs on spiders. Turns out they made different webs depending on what drug they were exposed to. It was pretty fascinating."
] | [
"They would still experience all the non-visual effects such as time dilation, euphoria, strange physical sensations, possibly auditory hallucinations. If they had not been blind all their lives, they might possibly still have some type of visual hallucinations (i.e. neurons firing the brain so that they thought th... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
Why is the Japanese national anthem so controversial? | [
"Wrote this in the other post, but it comes down to the average Japanese person's lack of desire to return to the militaristic, god-emperor days of the early 20th century which led the country to war and ruin. The flag, the emperor and the anthem where things to be venerated and worshiped above all. Didn't work out... | [
"Why is election on weekdays instead of weekends?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit text:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit text:"
} |
what is engineering tolerance? | [
"Tolerance is basically an amount that a specification is allowed to be off by. So, if you want something that's 35cm long, you'll never get *exactly* 35cm. Some precise measuring equipment will always find a difference, it might be 35.0001cm or something like that. So, if you say you want a 1mm tolerance, then the... | [
"Programmer is to construction worker as software engineer is to architect."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit post:"
} |
before internet ad revenue how did music videos generate enough profit to justify being made | [
"Music video were advertisement for the album, just like singles. TV stations like MTV and VH1 used to play primarily music videos. Back in the day MTV was basically just the radio with picture. The shows on it were pretty much just a host who introduced videos, interviewed artists, and talk about some music news o... | [
"They tend to not get as much profit as movies. so broadcasting on tv or the web is usually enough. Same goes with collections of short films."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the query about music industry:",
"pos": "Represent the sentence about music industry:",
"neg": "Represent the sentence:"
} |
What is the "butterflies" you get in your stomach when you're nervous? | [
"Fight or flight reaction. Blood supply rapidly draining from less essential area's of the body (stomach/digestive system) because of adrenaline release. Sending more blood/oxygen to muscles in limbs for possible need in fight or flight situation."
] | [
"Maybe it is anxiety but you don't realize it. Perhaps you're nervous because you don't know what the event/day has in store for you and within a couple hours you've got things figured out so you're now as cool as a cucumber. edited by a 5 year old"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit title:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit comment:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit comment:"
} |
What is "jury nullification" and what is its purpose? | [
"There is no \"purpose\" to jury nullification as it is just a side effect of the jury system. The jury might decide that a defendant is guilty yet refuse to convict them because they don't agree with the law. This isn't intended and would generally be considered a perversion of justice, but the jury decision stand... | [
"> Can you really get booted off a jury for knowing about this or is that a myth? When the jury is being selected, the prosecution and the defense have to agree on the jury. One or the other may have a problem with a juror who advocates the use of jury nullification. > Do legal practicioners in the court room try ... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How Amazon and Walmart are able to offer such low prices on items. | [
"Razor thin profit margins (you buy a $50 item on Amazon, it's likely they're making like $0.20 profit) propped up by massive amounts of sales, and a willingness to lose out money today, in the interest of destroying your competition later. They also rely on the fact that most people aren't going to buy just 1 thi... | [
"* It costs a company more to operate a retail store than an online store, they'd rather you buy things online. * Some people are willing to pay more in order to have an item immediately rather than wait for shipping. * Not everyone will do the research to see if there is a cheaper price online, so will just pay th... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post about Retail:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document about Retail:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How do traffic lights sense approaching cars? | [
"There are little people that work in them and watch the traffic through the lenses. They work based on an algorithm which is focused on the number of cars at the light and the time of day. Each little person talks to the other little people in the other lights via walkie talkie."
] | [
"They use people's cell phones to track the speed of cars on the roads."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the title:",
"pos": "Represent the passage:",
"neg": "Represent the passage:"
} |
Card Against Humanity rules | [
"There's a black card, and everyone has a bunch of white cards. The white cards basically fill in the blank given by the black card. Funniest match wins"
] | [
"Bot explained how bots work. Thank you Internet."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit query:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
What is a PGP fingerprint and why are reporters putting it in their twitter bio? | [
"PGP is a way of having a secure way of talking to another while not seeing each other. Imagine you want to write to your aunt but want to be sure only your aunt can read the letter. So you use a special glue (public pgp key of your aunt) to close the letter, knowing only your aunt has the right chemical to undo t... | [
"Remember when you had to say a special password to enter your friend's tree house? It's the same way on the internet: you have to type in a password before you can use stuff like Facebook and Twitter. So that's why you keep this password secret, because anyone else who knows it can steal all your information and w... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
When I boil water, why am i supposed to use cold water? | [
"This originated in countries with municipal hot water that was run through metal piping. The hot water is a lot more reactive than cold and pulls all sorts of crap from the metal pipes with it. For example lead piping was still used in some parts of Russia in the 90s. You would definitely not want to drink hot wat... | [
"The PH and salinity of pure water burn the nose. Sometimes I use a Neti pot. To make the solution for it you add baking soda and salt to distilled water and then it doesn't burn. I forgot to do it once and it did burn like hell."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post:",
"pos": "Represent the comment:",
"neg": "Represent the comment:"
} |
How do private investigators avoid getting arrested for stalking? | [
"They're not \"stalking,\" in a typical sense. Private Investigators do their job which is \"investigate.\" Stalkers may break into homes, cars, and other property to steal items and do creepy things in general. Private Investigators can also work in tandem with the police if a case requires it. In short, Private I... | [
"Legal in Canada. This actually helps people who are being trapped into sex trafficking to come forward and speak to the police without fear of prosecution. A lot of sex traffickers will tell the victims not to go to police because they will be jailed."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why did it take so long for the concept of zero to be discorved in some parts of the world? | [
"Well, it’s not really a concept that’s as simple as it seems to us now that we have it. In almost every context that matters for ordinary life, numbers are used relative to a certain count noun. There are three sheep. There are two dogs. There is one shepherd. And so on. But think about how weird it is to say th... | [
"So when and where did playing cards as we know them come into being anyways?"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit post:"
} |
Why don't we perceive accents when someone is singing? | [
"I would argue that it's not a question of perception. I honestly think many people lose their accents while they're singing and sound more American. It's not that we're perceiving it to be so. It's actually happening. So, my FTFY question is, \"Why do people lose their accents and sound more like Americans when th... | [
"They would say some words in one accent and then other words in other accents. If the person who spoke in an Irish accent mostly talked about food with them, then food vocabulary would be spoken in an Irish accent. It's also quite possible that the child would speak with each person with the accent of the adult."
... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
Why can we recognise a person talking a certain language but we can't speak it? | [
"Because a language isn't just the words and how they're ordered, it's how phenomes and individual consonant and vowel sounds are governed. It's the speed at which it's delivered. Even if we don't understand the content of what someone says, it's how they say it that we identify."
] | [
"There is a theory that one of the many reasons children cry is because of the frustration at knowing they want something, but not knowing how to describe what they want. When adults get that feeling, we can use context of language to describe how we feel, but a baby can't do that even satisfactorily to themselves.... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
Economic bubbles and how they burst | [
"Imagine that your neighborhood is selling cookies. People think a fair price is 50 cents per cookie. Now imagine that someone images they can sell the cookies for much higher so they start to buy as many cookies as they can. Instead the neighborhood will sell these higher and higher. Now cookies are being sold for... | [
"Deflation and inflation are not predictable enough for short-term solutions. If this trend is merely a passing concern which is indicative of a greater problem of the instability of the marketplace, then printing more money will only make it worse."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
Instead of paying Police officers lots of over time , Why not use that to hire more police? | [
"Partly due to the cost of training, equipping and keeping that policeman at a good salary. Maybe they want overtime, and the ones that don't can work the minimum hours. The other fact to consider; if you have 50 policemen and need 100 hours covered, then getting 100 policemen won't be good because next week you ma... | [
"Politicians are receiving to much money under the table to legalize them."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit sentence:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit sentence:"
} |
Why do so many people, throughout the world and history, hate the Jews? | [
"My understanding is that historically a lot of it started with Jews providing loans, becoming bankers and concentrating wealth among themselves - hence all the 'money' stereotypes. Usury was very frowned upon in the early days by most religions, especially in the catholic church."
] | [
"It's so bad that the most intelligent people from all over the world fight tooth and claw to get here to be educated."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit sentence:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit sentence:"
} |
Why is Apple making Swift open source a big deal and what does that mean for everybody else? | [
"Its a big deal due the fact that Apple has been notoriously stingy about the creation and distribution of content on their devices/platforms"
] | [
"The iOS app market is more lucrative, so it's not unusual for apps to be written for it first. Yes, more coding is necessary to bring the same app to Android."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the paragraph:",
"neg": "Represent the paragraph:"
} |
Why is psychosis bad? | [
"Those are not side effects. Those are *possible* side effects. And if the incidence of these is low, then the benefits of taking the medication outweigh the risks of developing one of these effects."
] | [
"Can you not get an erection in space?!"
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the question:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
How do they filmmakers take shots in front of mirrors without having the camera being in the reflection? | [
"And sometimes, the mirror [*isn't even there.*](_URL_0_) That's Edward Furlong, an animatronic Terminator, and Linda Hamilton in the foreground. On the other side of the \"mirror\" is a body double for Edward Furlong, the real Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie. A bit of carefully sync... | [
"The primary factor is that actors are looking at a green screen, rather than whatever the movie wants you to think they're looking at. This isn't a huge issue if the green screen really is just a background, of course. But as soon as you have people looking out a window at a green screen, or looking over a balcony... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit document:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit document:"
} |
How is Sochi so unprepared if they've had years to get ready? | [
"Because Russia is incredibly corrupt. Many of the people who were hired to build things deliberately stole some of the money, put too little resources into construction, and then lied and said that things were going well."
] | [
"The Olympics are held at all because it was the biggest athletic event in one of the real cradles of western civilization, Greece, for about a thousand years. They're every four years because that's the frequency Greece had them. Both the relative spirit and the frequency of the games were pretty much kept the sam... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the post:",
"pos": "Represent the document:",
"neg": "Represent the document:"
} |
How do corporations do those sandwich tax things? | [
"Im assuming he is referring to [Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich.](_URL_0_) Basically what happens, is that an American Corporation, lets say Google, has Billions in profits. If that money were to stay in the US, it would be taxed at 35%. So, what they do is use those US profits to \"buy\" some proprietary thing... | [
"because there are business owners and stockholders out there looking for different ways to do things The tv ads during Sunday morning news shows are even more obscure - defense contractors, food processing companies, etc."
] | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit post:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit answer:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit answer:"
} |
Why is Blackjack the only mathematically beatable game in casino? | [
"Blackjack, as played, has enough of a history (that is, a history with the current deck, not a history as in \"500 years ago...\") so that you can know the odds going forward and adjust your bets accordingly. Compare that to roulette. Every spin of the roulette wheel has the exact same odds, which favor the casino... | [
"It is not part of the game. This prohibition on card counting is established because they want to make money and for you to lose money. It isn't criminal or immoral, it's just a violation of the terms of the game the casino has established. If you're interested in fair play, you shouldn't have entered a casino to... | eli5_question_answer | {
"query": "Represent the Reddit question:",
"pos": "Represent the Reddit text:",
"neg": "Represent the Reddit text:"
} |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.