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What does a runny nose actually do for recovery, like from a flu?
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"It prevents additional viruses from entering. As the immune system is busy handling one virus it leaves the body open to attack from another virus. To prevent this there are several other defense mechanisms that turn on like increased mucus production, lack of hunger and tiredness. The flu virus and influenza virus does take advantage of this as it spreads though mucus that gets airborne after you cough. So it will also stimulate mucus production."
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"Could you imagine only having one nostril? What would happen when it clogs 30% of the day and you don't have the other to fall back on? What about when you have the sickness? Would you be down with it?"
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Is it bad to hold back sneezes? Like pinching your nose to block the sneeze etc.
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"Every time I hold in a sneeze (like when I'm in a very quiet place and don't want to draw attention) I almost shit my pants. I literally can picture the sneeze working in reverse and trying to come out the other end."
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"Sneezing is usually triggered by irritation of the nasal mucosa (tissue in your nose). When this irritation occurs it sends signals to parts of your brain to say \"we're being irritated\". If enough of these signals are sent, your brain will say \"ok time for a sneeze\" and sends signals to the parts of your body responsible for sneezes. If there aren't enough of these signals then your body doesn't trigger a sneeze to occur. This is so weird feeling because your body has to fix the irritation internally, which usually takes longer and so you are irritated for longer. TL;DR: wannabe sneezes happen because your nose is getting irritated, but not irritated enough to trigger a sneeze PS: if you feel a sneeze coming and want to sneeze faster, stare into a source of light and blink really fast"
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How were the lights synchronized in Lady Gaga's halftime show?
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"The drones use Intel's realsense technology combined with infrared LEDs, allowing the drones to know where each other are and form a sort of wireless mesh network. Once the drones know where they are and where they are supposed to be, you can program them. Example of drone formation from 5 years ago: _URL_0_"
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"Stephen Hillenberg, the creator of Spongebob, passed away last year. In the show, there’s an episode where they perform the song Sweet Victory at the Super Bowl, and it’s considered one of the best moments of the show. There was a social media movement/meme thingy to have Sweet Victory played during halftime at the 2019 Super Bowl. Fast forward to today, they teased the song by showing a clip from Spongebob but not actually playing any of the song. I think people are upset bc they expected the amazing moment of Sweet Victory played at the Super Bowl, and were sorely disappointed"
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Why two signals at different frequencies can coexist?
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"It's just like sound. If you press two keys on a piano, you hear a sound that is different from the sound either key makes by itself. The combined waveform has components of each note's frequency. A more selective receiver, the kind that only hear's one note, like the kind your radio uses, works differently than your ear. It internally generates a signal with the one frequency it detects. It uses a circuit called a phase locked loop to align itself with that frequency even when it's mixed with other signals. Once it syncs up, it can detect when the signal is there, what it's amplitude is (for AM) or measure small chages in frequency (for FM)."
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"> you tend to get your period around the same time They don't, it is a myth. What can happen is similar to when turn signal sync up; any regular cycles of different speeds will periodically sync up and diverge just through their unrelated operations. They are not connected in any way, you just notice them more when they happen to coincide."
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How many color combinations are possible with choosing 4 out of 7 colors if colors can be repeated and which formula is applied in this instance?
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"7^^4 = **2041** of possible combinations Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this should be it E: Wrong, it's **35**, see below"
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"No numbers are \"red\" or \"blue\". It is just a way of talking about it a bit more intuitively. Another way of telling the same problem is: Try to divide all integers into two groups so that it is not possible to pick some three numbers a, b, c satisfying equation a^2 + b^2 = c^2 from any of the groups. The talked about computation made sure that there is no way to do this, by confirming a counterexample - that is, that the first 7825 integers that satisfy a^2 + b^2 = c^2 could not be divided into two groups this way. The whole red vs blue is only another way of saying that there are two sets of numbers (with no number being in both of the sets)."
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What causes alkaline batteries to leak when mixed with other types of batteries?
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"All batteries of the same size pretty much always put out the same voltage regardless of what they're made of, so I think it may be a case of the other batteries may leak and they just copy-pasted the same safety warning. Those cheap \"Heavy Duty\" batteries you see in dollar stores are I believe Carbon-Zinc or Zinc Chloride batteries, an older, cheaper battery technology that has a lower capacity, and, more importantly, leaks when it is fully discharged. If you mix alkaline cells with these cheaper ones, because their capacity is lower, they will deplete first, but because the alkaline batteries will still have power left, your TV remote might still work, but one of the batteries is rotting it's guts out and is a out to spray acid all over your lap because, of course, you lost the battery cover. Its most likely a warning because if you mix battend types, one type may start leaking when it dies, but you won't be warned by all the batteries running down."
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"You can actually recharge non-rechargeable batteries such as alkaline batteries. However, they perform very poorly and take a very long time to recharge (Up to one day). They will also only last a handful of cycles before completely dying. I highly advise against trying this as your normal battery charger will likely cause the battery to overheat and catch on fire. Essentially what recharging a battery does is reverse the flow of electrons, pushing all of the electrons from one side to the other. Nearly all batteries can do this, but only ones such as NiCad, NiMh, Lead-Acid, and Li-Ion/Po can do this efficiently. The only reason that alkaline batteries still exist is that they're cheap, durable and relatively safe."
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If I fall asleep at 12:30am and naturally wake up at 6:30am, will I be better or worse off then getting 2 more hours of sleep, but waking up to an alarm?
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"I heard it's best if you get up the first time you wake up naturally. It's your natural cycle. Majority of people need around 8 hours but there are people who just need 6. some might need 10, it depends. I've noticed myself that I'm less tired if I get up the first time I wake! You should try it :)"
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"He means what is our body doing when we force ourselves to sleep longer than necessary, for example a rainy Sunday morning where we sleep until 10am even though we could have gotten up at 8 with enough rest. What does the body do with those two extra hours"
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How can they tell how many people watched certain TV show?
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"They use Nielsen ratings. Certain households, called Nielsen families, participate in a program where they log everything they watch. These statistics are extrapolated to the whole country. So the viewership numbers you hear are estimates based off the number of Nielsen families that watched that show."
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"They want you to subscribe to the TV channel, not be able to watch for free online."
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Why can mayo remove water stains from finished wood?
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"The combination of fat and mild acids penetrates the top layer of the finish to replace the water with nourishing oil. At least that's what it says on _URL_0_"
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"It keeps water from sticking to the inside of the lens. Same thing as soaping up a mirror in the shower."
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Why do red objects and text appear blurrier than other colours in low-quality digital videos?
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"Digital sensors use what's called a [Bayer Filter](_URL_0_) over the sensor to filter out the colours. As you can see in the images on that page, red pixels are only a quarter of the total number of pixels. This actually roughly matches the sensitivity of your eye, providing a more accurate colour balance. A side effect of this is that pure red and pure blue can sometimes appear 'bitty'."
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"It's nothing to do with your eyesight or colorblindness - it's that the photos were taken in lighting conditions that changed the way the dress/jacket look when seen on your screen. You can experiment with this with any decent camera, by tinkering with the white balance settings - there may be a setting that lets you actually use a white card for reference, or there may just be presets called daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, and so on. Basically, the color, brightness, and direction of the light in which the photos were taken fools your eye when you look at them on your computer."
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It has been a few years since the big boom of the "Occupy" movement. Did any major changes result from those protests? It seemed like every major city had an "Occupy" at one point. Did we ever ever see a shift in wealth (99% vs 1%)?
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"No, there wasn't a shift of wealth. Occupy never managed to really push a mechanism for changing that. What one can say Occupy did accomplish in a very real way was to shift the national dialogue. Pre-Occupy very few people were talking about the wealth dispairity except in lofty academic circles. The whole 99% thing wasn't even in the common national discourse. Occupy made people aware of the issue, but wasn't able to effect much change on it."
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"Honestly, this has been the issue a lot of people have with this protest. There is not a single demand that people are protesting for. Some have called to repeal corporate personhood, but Wall Street doesn't control that. Some have called to remove lobbyists, but again, this would be better suited in Washington, D.C. This is no clear demand."
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r/KotakuInAction and "Gamergate"
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"KIA and gamergate is anti SJW. GamerGate began due to the accusation of a female game developer of sleeping around with game reviewers, which was partially true and partially false. So, the internet rioted and began to demand ethics in game journalism, while some attacked her directly on the internet. She accused her accusers of attacking her because she is a woman in a male dominated industry, claimed they were harassing her, and others came to her aid. The gaming journalist sites sided with them, and basically it has been like this for half a year now. GG claims it is trying to find ethics in journalism, anti - GG claims this is really a group trying to fight against women in the gaming industry. r/kotakuinaction is the largest pro GamerGate subreddit. My suggestion to you is to tread no further. I once got wound up in this conflict and now I see that the conflict in general is very vile basically cancer."
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"Using reddit search I found: ELI5: Jehovah's Witnesses _URL_0_"
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Why are all videos not available on mobile youtube?
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"Uploaders can choose for each of their videos whether or not to enable mobile viewing. Google implemented this choice because the mobile Youtube apps used to not be able to display ads, and some uploaders might not want to lose out on that ad revenue. That reasoning is obsolete now, since ads are shown during mobile viewing. Maybe Google hasn't removed it yet because there are other reasons. One guess that comes to mind is for channels like Vevo which have ads on the webpage all around the video player."
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"Because Youtube. There's no point in keeping two separate hosting services. For the same reason they abolished youtube login details, so now you log in with your normal Gmail username and password."
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How can businessmen get prosecuted for things like insider trading and securities fraud when their businesses have limited liability?
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"Limited liability protects members from debts, liabilities, and tort claims -- not crimes. For example, if you're a member of an LLC that goes bankrupt, you are not responsible for those debts. If someone slips on a puddle of coffee inside your office and sues you, you are not personally responsible for paying that judgement (if there is one). Limited liability does not protect you from being prosecuted for a crime, whether you committed the crime as an owner of the company or in your own interest."
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"It's a form of securities fraud. Stock exchanges rely on the notion that everyone has the same information to consult when making decisions. If you have access to information that others do not, you can use that information to manipulate prices. Because so much wealth is tied up in the stock market, securities regulation is very important to protect all of that wealth. I have zero idea why your question implies that the USA is the only country with securities regulation"
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How do clouds stay up in the sky?
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"Air also has weight. Remember that clouds are totally gigantic. The amount of air that would take up that space actually weighs more than that. Since the cloud is lighter, it floats on top of the air. As the cloud gets denser, it can sink down. As it gets less dense, it can rise up. That's why fog, stratus clouds, cumulous clouds, and cirrus clouds hang out at different heights."
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"It's not air pollution. It has to do with the way light refracts on particles in our atmosphere."
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Why drugs have the stigma that they possess today?
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"Well... it's obvious there have been enormous negative social impacts from drug use. I think it'd be ridiculous to say it's \"purely\" because of corrupt governments or money. Obviously the War on Drugs didn't help their public image, and some-not-quite-as-bad drugs were caught in the \"drugs are terrible\" crossfire, but it just doesn't make sense to discount the actual harmful issues they cause to society (as a general class, including legal drugs)."
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"Because alcohol use is socially accepted and legal. When we say \"he's high,\" it means that he's doing something illegal. It's a huge difference, hence different words."
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Can some please explain to me how computer programming works?
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"Computer Science graduate here. Those \"seemingly random lines of code\" are in fact deliberate and specific lines of code that tell the CPU (brain of the computer) to display a shape at this size and this color, display a comment on reddit, or keep track of all the files you have downloaded. Your question isn't terrible, but just because the code is random to your eyes, does not mean that it doesn't have a precise order and exacting function for each and every line."
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"I need somebody to ELI5 that question for me."
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Why Does My Spoon Taste Metallic After It Touches Aluminum Foil?
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"Some of the aluminum oxide, which **always** coats the aluminum, rubs off. It tastes metallic because you are tasting aluminum rust."
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"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 Adapted For. Vitamin-D Deficiency Was Very Common In Black Children In The Northern US And Europe Before Modern Technology Made Nutrients More Easily Accessible. Being Black Or Brown Outside Of The Tropics Would Have Been Maladaptive For Most Of Human History Because There Would Not Have Been Enough Sunlight For Proper Nutrient Uptake. Capital Letters."
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How can our brains allow us to kill ourselves?
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"They try really hard to stop us, but sometimes they're too damaged."
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"I imagine that their sense of bullshit is overwhelmed, leading to loss of consciousness. On a serious note, the human brain can do incredible things. In this case, their belief is so strong that it leads them to act in completely irrational ways. People have been shown to have the ability to ignore pain, why shouldn't they be able to ignore reality too?"
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Why is a president commenting on a judicial procedure not a violation of the separation of powers?
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"He is allowed to comment all he likes. He is even allowed (and often expected) to fight judicial procedures in court. What he can't do is order his executive branch to directly violate the court findings."
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"It was not a Washington State court. It was a Federal Judge who lives in Washington State. There is a very big difference. As to how the Federal Judge can overrule an executive order? That is one of the purposes of Federal Judges and the Judicial Branch's check and balance against the Executive."
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The inclusion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance during 1954.
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"one of the main points of propaganda against the soviet union was that the soviet union was atheist and godless, while the US was strong under the protection and guidence of god. The pledge of allegiance was written by a baptist flag salesman to increase sales anyways."
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"> National Prayer Breakfast Not any sort of official government function, just something the president traditionally attends. > oath-swearing before taking office An oath to the Constitution, yes. If you're referring to the \"so help me God\" traditionally attached to the end of the presidential oath-swearing, that's also just unofficial tradition. > Thanksgiving Not really a religious holiday. > the mention of a creator in the Constitution Not to my knowledge. A quick Ctrl-F on the text of the Constitution reveals 0 uses of the terms \"God\" or \"Creator\". > bigamy as a crime Not a purely religious issue."
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Why do I often get calls from random numbers with nobody on the other line?
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"They're likely scammy telemarketing calls. Outbound call centers typically use a \"power dialer\" that calls a bunch of numbers at once, and if the line picks up, instantly connects it to an operator. In legit call centers, they're tuned so that you rarely get enough people picking up at once that there are no operators available. But scammy telemarketers? They don't care, they want 100% of the scammers working 100% of the time, and if that means you get woken up 3 times to a dead line, so be it."
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"Sounds like some form of caller ID. Perhaps even if you don't pay for such a service, the company pays for a version of it where their name will show up instead of their number, for advertising purposes. Out of curiosity, which company's name came up?"
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Why are most road kill on the side of the road?
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"State trooper move the carcass to aide of the road if it's blocking or endangering traffic. Later on, animal services comes by and takes the carcass if animals haven't eaten it already. If healthy itll be butchered and donated to local animal shelters"
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"Because some countries drive on the left side of the road, and others on the right. And you want the driver near the side of the road, and not the center?"
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What are the pros and cons of "right to work" laws?
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"> A \"right-to-work\" law is a statute in the UnitedStates that prohibits union security agreements, or agreements between labor unions and employers, that govern the extent to which an established union can require employees' membership, payment of union dues, or fees as a condition of employment. Pros: employees that don't want to be in a union cannot be forced to as a condition of their employment. Cons: The functional power of a union is reduced. Strikes are less powerful, as nonunion employees can still work without fear of retribution."
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"A couple recent policy moves: * He has been pushing to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10, from it's where it stands currently at $7.25. * He has imposed visa restrictions and economic sanctions on Russians \"who undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine\". * On 3/4, he proposed his $3.9-trillion budget for FY 2015. Some highlights: 1% decrease for NASA, 2.6% increase for the Department of Energy, 0.1% decrease for the Department of Defense (military), $750 million for universal preschool programs, high income tax increases, and low income tax breaks. The above are facts. If you want to have a debate on whether they are good or bad, that's another story. The mainstream media is fundamentally biased so you have to do your own research and be able to dig through to rhetoric. edit: bullets, additional point"
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Why are some apples crisp and some mushy, even within the same variety?
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"Because all apples are inferior to honey crisp! But probably age picked. They all just get jumbled up together so you could have apples picked one time, and apples from two months earlier in the same bag or batch"
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"Think of cannabis like apples. There are red apples and green apples and even yellow apples. Each Apple tastes a little different, some are sweet some are more sour, but they are all still apples. Cannabis is the same way."
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Are animals less prone to mental disabilities due to evolution and the 'survival of the fittest' mechanism?
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"Survival of the fittest is something of an old term, and not terribly accurate. Closer to reality is 'survival of the good enough.' If a species has evolved a heritable high likelihood of mental instability to the point that it can't function, then it is going to be hard for that species to survive. So you'd expect to see natural selection not reward that trend. If you mean 'relative to humans' rather than in general, we'd have the same effect on us. There are a lot of people, and a lot of them are mentally stable."
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"You're making it sound like the fact that a grass allergy evolved means that it's beneficial. That's not how evolution works. The classic \"survival of the fittest\" slogan is actually incorrect. A more accurate slogan would be \"survival of the fit enough\". A grass allergy isn't severe enough to cause those with it to be disadvantaged in terms of passing their genes on to future generations, so it wasn't eliminated through natural selection."
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. Why does white text/black background on a monitor make my vision wonky? But on tv or a movie screen it doesn't really bother me...
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"Most text on your monitor is very small compared to the size typically used on movies or TV shows. The clarity of small fonts is much more affected by the slight \"smearing\" effect of white on black. An extra 1mm of white doesn't hurt the clarity much when a character is 25mm wide."
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"Can you clarify what you mean? When you re open your eyes is everything black and white? If so you should see a doctor."
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Is eating too fast that bad for your body ?
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"Yes. Eating too fast increases the likelihood of choking, and vastly increases the incidence of stomach upset and gastric reflux."
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"What source says that alcohol is bad for your teeth?"
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Why is horizontal head-shaking an expression of saying 'No' while the vertical head-shaking is for 'Yes'?
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"It's arbitrary. Most of the world uses this system, but there are actually a few countries and cultures that do the opposite, as well as some that have neither system."
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"downward nod is like tipping your hat to acknowledge someone; it's how you'd do it if you were wearing a hat by nodding down while slightly while lifting your hat. upward nod is almost the motion you'd make when actually saying \"what's up\" to someone you know. that's how i've always viewed them."
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Did the holocaust have any lasting effects in the make-up of non Jewish people in Germany and elsewhere?
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"Before we say anything else here, it's important to note that there are many Jewish people who are blonde with blue eyes, and many Germans who do *not*! *That* said, here's the thing. *Tens of millions* of people died during WWII - 3% of the total population of the entire world, at the time. The holocaust is a part of that, but Germany was devastated by that war, and limiting the rippling effect to just the holocaust itself is probably not very feasible."
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"I sincerely doubt there's much difference in personal liberties between America and Western Europe."
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How will the newly imposed China tarrifs affect the average consumer?
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"China's tariffs shouldn't directly affect US consumers, it only affect the people who produce those goods (soybean farmers, car manufacturers, etc), who will find it harder to export their goods. Trump's tariffs *will* affect US consumers though. Everything Trump puts a tariff on will become more expensive for you. The worry is that Trump will tariff some things, then china will retaliate, then Trump will retaliate with *more* tariffs, until there's a full blown trade war."
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"Basically one country imposes trade barriers (tariffs or quotas) on another in retaliation for other trade barriers. Let's say the US wants to protect domestic manufacturing, so they put tariff (basically a tax) on imports from China. In retaliation, China puts on quota on imports from the US."
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What did people do to for snake bites and staph infections and such before modern medicine? Did they just die?
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"Did you ever play Oregon trail? Friggen snake bites killed my family constantly. Yes, many more people died from diseases and wounds that today are easily treatable. Aside from antibiotics and the like, sanitation also played a large role."
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"Sad reality is, with any kind of infection, before antibiotics you'd probably just die, or in the case of your son, hopefully just lose hearing in that particular ear. It's as simple as that, really, which is why we experienced such a huge population growth since we came up with antibiotics."
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what is happening to this ingot of tin to cause the ringing sound?
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"Like every material the metal changes its size due to the temperature change. Because the temperature does not change evenly parts of the metal ingot change more than others tension builds up. It seems that this tensions leads to a point where internal cracks form, and and this motion lets parts of the metal vibrate. A way to find out what happens exactly would be to tap the metal ingot and listen to the resulting sound (does it sound similar?) and then examining a cross cut of the ingot under a microscope to look for features where the ingot is not solid, but has parts that can vibrate freely."
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"You are correct, the metal becomes brighter as temperature goes up due to highly energized photons being expelled. Also the automoderator can go choke to death on a bag of dicks. As it becomes hotter, they turn yellow, orange and then finally white, you can see that phenomena in the gun barrels of the M134D Gattling gun."
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What is that deep, almost primal feeling of wonder, longing, and even sense of place we get when we see pictures of open landscapes or the natural vastness and beauty of earth?
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"It's probable that it's a remnant from our evolution. Ancient humans who felt the same wonder and attraction to lush, fruitful landscapes simply were more fit to survive, and passed that 'instinct' to further generations who also were more fit because of it. Compare it to an attraction to barren, dead landscapes. Ancient humans who were attracted to homes there may have struggled to find food and sustenance compared to humans drawn to life, fresh water, and greenery"
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"/u/sabrinapemberton suggested a lot of good contributors, but I'm going to add a couple more that are associated with largely white landscapes: winter, beaches and salt flats. Snowscapes, particularly during blizzards are often desolate, cold and empty. Life is usually largely absent and the environments are frigid and inhospitable. Ditto salt plains, except for maybe the cold part. And white coral-sand beaches on desert islands are often empty of apparent life as well. Where we see a lot of white in a landscape, it often comes with a feeling of emptiness or absence of life about it."
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How do people shave in prison?
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"Why do people in Western countries use forks?"
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Why does climbing a tree, or a ladder, or any steep height seem fine going up, but much more scary coming down?
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"* you can see where you are going and what you are doing better going up that down * if you run into a problem going up, all you have to is let gravity bring you back to where you just were...going down, you have to overcome gravity if you change your mind and want to go back to a safe spot"
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"The elderly often have weak muscles and using a handrail or cane allows an older person to use his/her arms to assist his/her legs. Stairs are actually really hard to climb. You'll notice that no matter how fit you are, you can still become winded from climbing just a few flights of stairs. The amount of strain on your body, in general, is just not handleable by many unassisted elderly people. And if you're asking exactly why stairs are so hard to climb, it's that every step requires you to put all your weight on one leg and have it lift your body to the next step."
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why do some products in stores have a "if found at another retailer, please call...." sticker on them?
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"Generally, they are to discourage you from buying something from Retailer A and then turning around and reselling it through Retailer B for more money. For example, buying some stuff from Walmart during a crazy sale and re-selling it on Amazon later for a profit. This has some info: _URL_0_"
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"it makes the customer thing they're getting something for free. when they're actually paying for the second item, by calling that charge a shipping and handling fee. industry not-so-secret: shipping a small package item anywhere in continental 48 states costs much less than $5."
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How illegal immigrants can be appointed to government positions, get driver's licenses, etc.
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"Legitimately they can't and it is against the laws. However, currently, immigration laws in this country mean nothing."
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"Because they believe that illegal immigrants breaking one law -- being here illegally -- doesn't prevent them from being eligible for social benefits. There's lots of laws you can break that still allow you to receive government benefits, being an illegal immigrant is just one of those on the list."
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Are their more Android vulnerabilities nowadays or are we just hearing about them more?
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"There will always be vulnerabilities in software, but like Windows, Android is the biggest target, so it will probably get the most publicity. However, like Windows, there are some cut corners in order to get that install base IMO, and it's a bit worse now with the tie-ins with carriers and OEMs. I'm a bit concerned though, as a Google services/Nexus 5 owner, how much does Google really care about their own security. They don't shy away from throwing stones at other companies, primarily MS, but they don't seem to take security as serious with Android, as Apple does with iOS, eg the recent Stagefright patch that doesn't work."
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"It was, at the time, a big thing. The company I worked for were aware of it before it hit the news - our IT security people were on it like a rash, and our vendors were also well aware. Within hours of it hitting the news, our customer were asking us what we were doing about it, and we were able to tell them our plans immediately. The answer is that when something like that blows up, the majority of people get it patched almost immediately. Are there servers out there that are still vulnerable? No doubt. Do you have personal data on some of those servers? Perhaps, perhaps not. It hasn't gone away, but it's less of an issue than it was, due to diligent IT security and admins who get stuff like this fixed as soon as humanly possible."
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How do bookies at an event keep track of wagers when everyone's shouting at them and handing them money?
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"It's overly dramatized in movies. You can't actually just shout at a bookie and throw them money and expect your bet to be recorded."
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"It's based on reaching an equilibrium of betting on both sides. They have records on bets placed in previous games, when certain players are inactive, following such and such event. Essentially, they put the best number they can out at first and adjust it over time as actual bets come in."
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What's the difference between 2$ HDMI cables and 50$ HDMI cables?
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"You being ripped off. If an HDMI cable works it works. There is no difference in quality from a $2 one to a $50 one. At best the price difference may mean they used a higher quality material to make them and they will last longer under heavy use."
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How do we determine how "large" (in bytes) a genome is?
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"In genetics, Mb doesn't mean megabytes, it means megabases. DNA is formed as a sequence of bases (usually A, C, T, or G), and that's the unit of size that they use, so the sunfish has a genome that's about 730 million bases long."
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"It's due to the difference between 32 * 1,000,000,000 bytes and 32 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes. The former is how hard drives are measured and sold, the latter is how Microsoft counts them."
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Why does Tea and Coffee taste bad when it's watered down, even though they're mostly water?
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"Coffee and tea are a specific ratio of water to \"stuff;\" the stuff is the oils and other chemicals from the coffee beans or tea leaves. So when you brew a cup of tea, the box of tea will tell you \"Steep this tea bag in X water for Y minutes.\" That's like a recipe - it makes sure there's the right amount of stuff vs. water. Pouring extra water in there messes up that ratio, and it tastes worse. Just like if you put too much flour in a cake or too much water in a soup."
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"Because most coffee you drink is hotter than room temperature, so in comparison to what you expect the coffee to feel like, a coffee at room temperature would feel cold. But we usually drink milk from the refrigerator so when it's a room temperature it's hotter than what you expect. And the reason why coffee is usually hot is because you need hot water to properly get the favour out of the grains and the reason why milk is usually cold is because you can keep it longer that way."
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The link between allergy medicine and dementia.
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"This is a science press story on an article in JAMA Neurology, the led publication in the neurology field. This is almost certainly legitimate scientific research. There have been other studies on anticholinergic drugs, and they do have potential to cause problems in older populations. Most prior studies indicated they drugs lingered longer than in younger patients reducing glucose and making them report feeling \"foggy\", potentially making this dementia concern greater. Your term \"cause dementia\" is probably too strong. If you're getting close to retirement with a family history of dementia, you might to try hard to get allergy drugs based on other mechanisms. I'd look at ah H1-blocker (zertec et. al.)."
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"> Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. That seems sketchy, just reading the abstract..."
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What happens when a company buys a competitor but keeps the name?
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"Branding is important, and time will tell if those two brands have more value separately or together. A smart acquisition keeps its options open and gathers market intelligence over time to inform such decisions. Yes, they've eliminated a competitor. They've also expanded their business, now with two distinct customer bases: the traditional Allstate and the online eSurance. Each surely had lessons to learn from the other. Potential for a 1+1=3 situation. A business operation has a certain amount of overhead. Combining businesses has potential for economies of scale once they figure out how to merge their systems. (SO much easier said than done.). This is potential for 1+1=1.5 ... eliminating redundancies in overhead operations."
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"It’s mostly business related. A company owner ‘adopts’ their successor to keep the business in the family."
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Why do aquatic mammals swim with their fins moving up and down, but fishes swim with their fins moving side to side?
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"The most basic reasoning would be bone structure. An aquatic mammal still has bones in the same general shape as ours, meaning that their shoulders work a lot like ours do. Up and down and using them as rudders works well with the bone structure. Its the same with penguins. Fish also share a common bone structure with us, but it is so far removed from terrestrial animals that its barely recognizable. Fish limbs are the original limbs for swimming. They then evolved for walking on land, then in the case of aquatic mammals or birds, re-evolved for ocean life."
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"Almost all birds have stationary eyes; they cannot move their eyes like humans can to look at something. In order to see anything while walking, instead of just a blur, birds keep their heads stationary and move their body. Then they move their head forward and repeat. It kind of looks like they are bobing their head."
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What is the clear fluid that fills a bilster (from heat or pressure) and what is it's purpose?
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"It's usually plasma, which is the liquid part of blood that the red and white cells are suspended in. It helps the healing process of the underlying damaged skin."
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"The gas surrounding/expelled by the liquid burns, not the actual liquid."
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What is Black Body radiation and how does it work?
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"Everything that has a temperature will self-radiate by the emission of electromagnetic waves, e.g. light. The name \"black body\" radiation comes from the idea that if you have a perfect absorber, a body that absorbs 100% of all light in the entire spectrum that hits it (hence, \"black body\"), the said body will emit light not by reflecting incoming light but by spontaneous emission. This emitted light is referred to as \"black body radiation\"."
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"The energy of a quantum of light (a photon) is related to its frequency. The higher the energy of the photon the greater its frequency hence their relation ship is linear and increases at a rate equal to Planck's Constant. Edit: This is one of the foundations of all quantum mechanics as we are treating photons as discrete packets of energy (quanta) and not just waves. This helps us explain some unusual but critical physical phenomena such as the photo electric effect or the uncertainty principle and much more."
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Why do movies about modern times often include outdated technology (e.g., paper & pen, dedicated camera, typewriter, etc.)?
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"Paper and pen is not outdated as of yet. Many if not most still use them daily."
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"Lots of descriptively obsolete terms stick. I.e rolling up a window even though we often push buttons. Or upper case and lower case, which referred to height of storage for the big and small cases of letters for a printing press. Or \"rewind\" even though we usually don't wind tape anymore. There are many more examples."
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How do wet dreams cause one to cum if there is no sexual pleasure in reality?
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"Sexual pleasure is mostly in the mind. Your dreams are fully capable of providing that. What little contact is needed for wet dreams is provided by your underwear/other clothing, sheets, or actually masturbating in your sleep."
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"Sex is physically nearly the same as masturbation, so far as the penis is concerned. In fact sex is the reason we ejaculate, as that is how we get the semen into the woman to fertilize her egg. As for nocturnal emissions. That is a result of a prolonged period of not ejaculating, physical stimulation of bed sheets and clothings (sometimes even humping pillows or mattresses) while sleeping, and having erotic dreams. Women are just as capable of having orgasms while sleeping, and may in fact have an easier time doing so."
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Is looking through someone else's glasses on similar to their vision with their glasses off?
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"I would think it could but in the inverse direction, as long as you have perfect vision. In other words, say you have 20/20 vision. You put on your friend's -3.25 glasses, meaning they are myopic. Wearing glasses with -3.25 brings them to zero but since you're already there, your vision will correct to +3.25 *edit: which would give you nearsightedness*. (I'm not an optometrist and am purely speculating but think this is how it works.)"
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"I have never heard of this being the case. Ever. Unless your glasses are closer to your prescription it shouldn’t be the case."
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How is medical marijuana legally distributed?
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"Marijuana is prohibited under federal law, but state law is an entirely different matter. If a state allows the prescribed use and regulated sale of marijuana, then it is not a crime in the eyes of any state official. Federal law enforcement agencies, however, are able to enforce federal anti-drug laws, but they mostly have the courtesy to allow regulated medical marijuana dispensaries to operate. Of course, it varies greatly based on location and local laws/federal agency policy. About the doctors' licensing, marijuana has known medical benefits, and it's prescription as an alternative form of medication is valid."
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"Illegal: You can be arrested for selling or using marijuana. Decriminalization: You can get a fine for selling or using marijuana, but it's not going to show up on your criminal record. Legalization: Marijuana can be sold or used in a manner similar to tobacco or alcohol."
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Whats the differences between 'Lieutenant' and 'Leftenant'?
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"No difference; the former is the American/Canadian pronunciation while the other is found more in Britain and its former colonies. They're both spelled \"Lieutenant.\""
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"They signify what country's military they represent. USS = United States Ship HMS = Her/His Magesty's Ship, meaning UK. HMCS = Her Majesty's Canadian Ship"
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What all this Amy's Bakery drama is about?
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"Delusional crackpot had this fantasy that Ramsay would come and tell her how wonderful and right she is against all the \"haters\" and \"losers\" who dared to give her restaurant bad reviews or tell her her food was undercooked, because cooking is her god-given talent and a real chef would certainly recognize that."
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"Surrealness for the sake of surrealness. What are you confused about?"
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How does glass become sea-glass?
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"It becomes smooth after 20-50 years of being tumbled by waves and tides, in contact with abrasive saltwater and rough sand. It's possible because sand is of similar hardness to glass (being made from similar materials), the sand is able to wear away the glass. \"Fake\" sea glass is fairly easy to make in much less time. Usually glass is placed in a rock tumbler or treated with acid to produce the smooth edges and frosted appearance."
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"Glass can have different hardnesses. Sand, comprised of the same materials as glass, might contain all sorts of geologic material depending on where you found it. Glass can scratch glass."
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How does something go from nothing to a brain?
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"Indeed, how does a perfectly normal human being become a pathology?"
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Quantum physics grad student Ben Ames, wins Alan Alda's 'The Flame Challenge' by most effectively communicating the complexity of a flame to children in his animated video.
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"A great primer for understanding einstein's theory is the movie they made about his formative years. It was called Young Einstein. In it a young Einstein explains his theory to a young Marie Currie. There's also a very good history of the origins of his E = mc squared equation. One of the best historical documentaries ever made IMO."
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What exactly am I paying domain registrars for?
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"There are some administrative that need to be paid for (staff, office costs, hosting their own website). But mainly there needs to be some fee involved otherwise there's nothing stopping people from registering millions of domains, just for fun."
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"They don't sell them, they register them for users. To register domain names you have to be registered with ICANN, GoDaddy is one of many companies set up with them, you cannot directly register a domain with ICANN."
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Will a people with lighter skin tones gradually darken after generations (1k+years) of living in places like the middle east or Africa? Would a people with a darker skintone gradually "Lighten" after generations living up north in Europe or Siberia?
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"If everyone with the unfavorable skin tone for their region died before reproducing, then yes. In the modern world, no. We have technology that exists to shield ourselves from the harmful effects of the sun for lighter skinned people, and we have ways to replace nutrients lost from lack of sunlight exposure for darker skinned people. So, even if you lived in a region your skin isn't suited for, you'd probably still get to reproduce and pass on your genes, so evolution doesn't work in this case."
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"Being blonde is a genetically recessive trait. This means that they have to get the genes for blonde hair from both parents for the hair to be blonde. If they get genes for brown hair or black hair those will take precedence and you will not be blonde. In general you have not had enough mixing with Europeans for there to be much blonde hair in Asia, though you do see it from time to time with the Mongols and other plains peoples. You also see red hair, and green eyes which are also recessive among those peoples from time to time too."
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Why is it so hard to clean up radioactive waste like Chernobyl? Why hasn't it disappeared on it's own after such a long time?
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"Three main reasons: 1. The potential for disaster, a la Chernobyl and Fukushima. Say what you will about how poorly designed those reactors were and how much we've learned from those disasters, it doesn't make people feel safe. 2. Nuclear waste. Currently in the U.S. we have no long-term plan for disposing of it ever since our last plan of \"put it in a hole really far away from everyone\" was scrapped. Radioactive waste has the potential to be dangerous for millions of years. If some less-than-savory types get their hands on it, it can be used to make dirty bombs as well. 3. The \"ick\" factor. When people think of nuclear power, they don't think of green energy, they think of Godzilla and the Incredible Hulk. Regardless of how dangerous nuclear power actually is, it's a difficult stigma to shake."
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Regarding the 2020 Olympics, how will Olympic Karate look different from Olympic TKD?
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"It's like boxing vs. kickboxing. They are similar, but one allows kicks and the other doesn't. It's a small change, but it completely changes the strategy. Muhammed Ali was one of the best boxers of all time, but I don't think he would have been a very good kickboxer. The same applies to Taekwondo and Karate. Taekwondo focus on kicking so fighters stand slightly farther apart and try to jump and kick the other person in the head. Kicking gives more points, and it's harder to effectively land a punch. So Taekwondo uses hands as a backup if they happen to get close and need to space back out. Karate focuses more on punches, chops, and strikes. The fighter stand closer together and use their legs as more of a back up. You could say that these are still pretty similar, but the little differences matter. Sprinting 100M is very similar to sprinting 400M, but most runners don't do both."
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"Most 5-year-olds would have fallen asleep during the answers so far. Soccer schedules are ten times simpler than North American sports schedules. Here's what you need to know. 1. Champions League matches are played during the regular season. 2. Qualification for the Champions League is based on the previous season's performance in the national league. 3. The World Cup and European Championships are played every four years in the off season (i.e. summer). The European Championships are happening now. The next World Cup is in 2014."
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What is the feeling of grogginess and why do we experience it?
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Why do we put so much effort in keeping certain species from going extinct and invasive species out of foreign areas when the more "natural" thing to do is let it happen? (read description for clarification)
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"Endangered is one thing. And more so humans trying to take responsibility for their actions. Most animals that are really endangered, it's partially our fault. As for invasives, the thing is, naturally it wouldn't have happened in the first place. How is a Python from Burma going to relocate to the Florida Everglades without human interference? (Funny thing is they are endangered in Burma, but super invasive where I live. Idk why we don't just ship em over). So, short answer for endangered, guilty humans. For invasive, depends. Edit: I just want to reiterate I'm not like some tree hugger or human-hater that blames my fellow species for everything. Like I've seen other people say, it's hard to rule out what animal is genuinely endangered and which is our fault."
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"I think this is more of an ethics and philosophy question, rather than a concept. What right does man have to interfere with nature? How can we be sure that our actions will not cause more harm than good? How do you define animal suffering? Where do we draw the line? Should all wild animals be kept in zoos? What about the insects, which out number humans a billion to one? Is it right to focus our limited time and resources on animals when there are humans who are still suffering? (Similarly is it ethically right that someone donates to an animal charity when there are humans in need?)"
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Syndication of TV shows
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"Syndication is when the company that owns the rights to a show sells it to other networks to show. For example, Seinfeld originally aired on NBC and the cast got money from that. But, they later sold the syndication rights to TBS so that TBS could show old episodes of the show. TBS is still paying and some of that money ends up with the original cast."
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"Advertisements or from people who subscribe to premium service."
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Nashville Mayor’s affair proven by reading deleted chat logs from her cell phone. How are these deleted files accessed? Are there ways one can securely delete private data from cell phones and computers?
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"So when you delete a file off of most computers, the computer doesn't actually *do* anything to that data, other than hide it from the view of the operating system, and mark that section of your storage device as OK to re-use. The right software can just get the data off of those sections of storage media. There are tools that can be used to \"zero out\" a hard drive (so called because it takes every bit (1 or 0) and sets it to zero) or a file, google with keywords privacy and true delete and you'll find dozens of software packages that will do things like this. But there are forensic methods that can detect what data existed even before this is done; your run-of-the-mill phone snoop won't likely bother with this, but law enforcement can get things off of devices that have been melted to slag. When you're under investigation for a crime, and law enforcement is searching your stuff, then there's not really an expectation of privacy."
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"Modern phones have cloud technology that saves content on servers owned by the provider. Gaining access to an email and password is relatively easy work for a serious hacker and it would be all you need to access those photos on said servers."
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Why can't we use Micro SD cards (or the technology it uses) to create ultra small - high capacity hard drives?
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"We essentially already do. They're called solid state disks. They can be a number of form factors but 2.5\" is the standard because that's what size laptop hard drives are."
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"Mostly due to your computer has a much faster CPU/data bus and a computer SSD is much faster than flash memory in a phone."
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Turning on/off double vision?
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"I found out I have double vision because I have a retinal tear behind my one eye. It causes it to lag and I have slightly a dropped eyelid as well due to it. I really would go to your optometrist as soon as you can. Anything to do with vision is VERY important and will not go away by itself!"
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"Download RES. It allows you to. The link is at the bottom under tools."
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If we're in the first world, and places like rural African countries are the third world, what and where is the second world?
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"It's an archaic system because the Cold War is over. It used to be: First World: Capitalist powers Second World: Communist powers Third World: Everybody else So, back in the day, the USSR (and, to an extent, China) was the \"second world.\" I guess you could still say that China is \"second world,\" but I've never heard anybody say that. It's now generally preferred to use developed, developing, and undeveloped, because it makes more sense."
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"The United States are *not* the wealthiest or most advanced country on the planet. And what exactly do you mean by anxiety?"
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What do we benefit from keep near extinction animals around? Should we just let them go extinct? (not a popular opinion I know, more of a description in comments)
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"There are two basic arguments. First, the moral one. We are morally obligated to protect animals that we had a hand in taking to the brink of extinction. Second, the utilitarian one. We can possibly learn something from ecosystems with intact species that could help us later. If we alter the ecosystem to much it could come back to hurt us later in ways that we don't expect. Here's a good thread that goes over this topic in more detail: _URL_0_"
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"I believe that subconscious trigger, like many we used to have, no longer plays a role for certain people. In the same way's that we have learned to nurture and care for the sick and wounded, rather than leaving them behind. I think humans in civilized parts of the world are no longer concerned for survival of our race as we are, in a sense, flourishing and no longer NEED to worry about the continuation of our bloodlines. Please forgive me if I've said anything ignorant or offensive. That is just the best way I can think about it. (Not a psych major) Edit: I mean this from a psych standpoint and not an emotional one. It's always been a hard subject to explain why people love who they do, no matter the sexuality"
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Why does every car have a different type of battery when every car takes a 12-Volt battery?
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"different sizes. the bigger the engine, the bigger the amperage is needed for the electric starter motor to turn the engine. the bigger the amp requirement, the bigger battery you need. bigger batteries also happen to be more expensive and more heavy. so you use the size battery that most appropriately matches your engine starting needs."
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"The same as the difference between using a AA battery and a D battery (a 9V battery is basically 6 AAAA batteries packaged together). The voltage may be the same, but the D batteries have a whole lot more energy than a single 9V."
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Why are people still so obsessed with being racist ?
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"There has always been a huge push to separate people into groups, as opposed to looking at people individually. Race is a very obvious/visual difference among people, so it is often used to divide. Many people are susceptible to falling into the trap of pigeonholing others based on one characteristic. However, learning about someone on an individual basis, is really the only true way to understanding their character."
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"Are you saying we should be more racist towards cats?"
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Why do universities make tests too hard and then curve the grades?
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"So they know where everyone is. If someone gets a 100 then you know they're good on the subject, but not how good. The tests are used to check progress, so they make the upper end redicleously high so they can track everyone's improvement."
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"I think it's because these standardized exams are tied to the school's financial benefits, and so the schools are resorting to just \"teaching the exam\" and not a wider curriculum. Also there are many news articles out there about teachers giving answers to the exams, and even school districts proposing to move some trouble students from one school to another to balance out test scores and avoid financial penalties. SATs and ACTs are directed at individuals to provide an easy comparison for college aptitude. A person can volunteer to take it, and while I do remember taking SAT prep courses in school there wasn't a financial penalty to my school if I screwed it up."
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Who has the most power in the U.S political system?
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"No group is suppose to have \"the most power\". Every branch is suppose to have counters and checks on the other two. President: Appoints Supreme Court Judges, Has Veto power over potential laws. Congress: Approves Supreme Court Nominees, Has Impeachment power over the President. Supreme Court: Has the power to overturn laws made by Congress, Has the ability to overturn Executive orders."
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"How would you define \"winning\" a presidential debate?"
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Why are there different styles of wall plugs around the world?
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"For the same reason there isn't an international language, we've just not been culturally connected for long enough to develop a standard. Slightly off-topic: The Danish one is my favourite, because its so happy ●‿●"
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"There is much greater adoption of public transportation in Europe than in the US."
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Why does the U.S not have massive military parades like Russia and China?
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"Im a former US Marine ... all I can say is Thank you to my battalion commander/regiment/division/etc. for never having me do any bullshit like that. Fuck drill."
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"We didn't get kicked out. Russia isn't letting us use their rockets anymore. There's a big difference."
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Why do movies and shows have to blur out or block out company names on products?
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"In addition to product placement fees, there's also the reverse that if it isn't blocked out and the product is featured and doesnt like it, then they could always sue."
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"Companies do it because they want people looking at their car not the license plates, plus they can't show a real license plates in a commercial and have to put something there. Companies pay millions for their ads and if people are reading the license plate instead of looking at their car their losing money."
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What are prions? Can animals die from prion disease?
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"Yes, non-human animals can have prions. Basically, a prion is a protein that has been folded in such a way that it not only doesn't perform its function, but reacts with versions of the same protein that are folded correctly, in such a way that they fold in the same way as the prion and so obtain the prion's properties, reacting with more proteins. This keeps going and eventually the amount of proteins that have been converted to the prion add up to the point where you have all kinds of symptoms (which relate to what happens to the body if that protein is missing, since it might as well be), and eventually death. In order for one animal to catch a prion from another, regardless of species, it has to consume the nervous tissue of that animal. I'm not sure why, but all prions that we know of primarily attack the nervous system."
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"This is because of prions, which are infectious misfolded proteins. They exist only in the brain and are transmitted when someone/thing eats infected brain matter. The prions cause the host's proteins to misfold, causing cell death. This creates the characteristic spongy brain associated with prion diseases like Kuru and Mad Cow. In short, don't eat brains."
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Why isn't museum art featuring cherubs/naked babies classified as child pornography?
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"For the same reason that [this google search](_URL_0_) is not classified as CP: there is no sexual innuendo involved. Also asked before so please search next time."
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"Child pornography and pre-teen modeling aren't the same thing.... Little kids in pageants are pre-teen models -- they're not naked or having sex, so it's not child pornography."
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What happens if the president won the election due to foreign intervention?
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"Russia parties down and said president gets closer to his claimed level of wealth. Meanwhile the other two branches of our government being controlled by republicans means everyone gets away scott free."
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"There are only two ways for a POTUS to be removed from office: - The VPOTUS and 1/2 of the cabinet determine the POTUS is unfit for office. They can submit a written declaration to Congress of this fact, and the VPOTUS becomes Acting-POTUS - The House votes to impeach the POTUS and the Senate finds him guilty of an impeachable offence. Neither of those methods specify what type of crime is required. If the POTUS did rig an election, it would be up to one of those two parties to remove him. The actual _results_ of the election do not change - once they election results are certified by their respective states, those _are_ the results, regardless of any information that comes to light at a later date."
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What exactly is work ethic?
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"When someone shows up to work on time and does their job as expected without complaining or causing problems or slacking off and being lazy they are considered to have good work ethic. Also if they are willing to go beyond their job duties and help other workers out or are willing to do other jobs that their boss asks them to do."
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"What do you want to know about them exactly?"
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Why did Myspace fail?
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"When Facebook first came out, it was exclusive to only people who had university email addresses, it was supposed to be a \"college student only social network\" The exclusivity made people want to be on it. This exclusivity combined with some key features like groups and status updates that only existed, at the time, only on Facebook made people want to use Facebook more. For a long time most people were on both Myspace and Facebook but Facebook was adding features that people wanted faster than Myspace."
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"How do you think they stay rich? ;)"
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How does a company like SpaceX remain a functional and profitable company?
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"They have large private investors which allow them to operate. Google and Fidelity Investments have invested about $1b, for example They have multiple contracts with NASA which run into multiple billions of dollars. They also do business deploying satellites. They are also in negotiations with the US military, and contracts like that will probably be fairly lucrative for them I believe they have been running at a loss until fairly recently, only the last year or so has been profitable"
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"As successful as Google is, it's still primarily a technology company. It could no doubt create a bank, but banks are incredibly risky ventures for a company that is already doing so well."
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If we can teach chimpanzees to use sign language, why can't we teach them to use fire?
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"Well, I imagine it wouldn't be strictly impossible to teach a chimpanzee rudimentary fire starting skills. But why would you do this? Now you have a chimpanzee fire starter. They certainly don't have the experience or wherewithal to deal with fire as well as humans, and humans themselves screw it up often enough. There goes your lab."
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"Probably because we haven’t had to hunt and kill for food and survival in thousands of years. Also, that’s just our DNA. That’s like Koko the gorilla saying, “How come I had to work so hard to learn the basics of a language when human kids are learning mathematics with letters and putting chemicals together and shit?” We survived with brains. They survived with brawn"
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What are the connections between The Theory of Relativity and The String Theory?
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"This is not really something that we can ELY5 because it's the million dollar question that the scientific community has been unable to figure out. Not specifically String Theory, instead more broadly: Quantum Theory. The scientific community knows they both work, but how they fit together is still unknown. String Theory goes further than quantum theory, but it's worth mentioning that String Theory is a misnomer and is not actually a scientific theory. Requirement criteria for a theory: - Must contain an explanation of a natural phenomenon. - Must be falsifiable, but not have been falsified. - Must stand up to repeated testing. - Must be backed by many strands of independent evidence. - Must make successful predictions. String \"Theory\" does not meet 4 of those 5 requirements. As of now String Theory is just a mathematical concept. The math looks great, but there has been no confirmation, as of yet, that it is anything more than beautiful math."
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"Pre-modernism: We have the truth. Modernism: We can find the truth. Post-modernism: There is no truth."
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What limits how quickly a battery can charge? Why can't you provide it with an excessive current to charge a phone battery faster?
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"Batteries are chemical storage device. The transition between electrical energy and chemical state takes time. Extra energy is dissipated as heat. Too much heat and you compromise the cell container and/or the electrolyte. With lithium interacting with atmosphere, it catches fire and goes boom. You don't want that."
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"A laptop can run directly off wall power; a phone cannot. Even when a phone is plugged in, it's actually running off battery power. So when you plug in a dead phone it takes several minutes to build up enough charge to power itself up."
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how come we usually blur out license plates in photos but not when they're vanity plates?
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"Because they're often the subject of the photo. There's no point to a picture of a vanity plate that blurred out."
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"Companies do it because they want people looking at their car not the license plates, plus they can't show a real license plates in a commercial and have to put something there. Companies pay millions for their ads and if people are reading the license plate instead of looking at their car their losing money."
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Why do some institutions know my new address, while others don't?
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"Organizations can subscribe to the National Change of Address registry and be notified of address changes for people on their lists. There is a cost involved with this service. Some organizations are willing to pay to ensure they have an accurate mailing list, and others rely on the people on the list to update their addresses with them."
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"It is up to the college, and generally speaking they do expire over time. You couldn't drop out and expect to come back 20 years later to pick up exactly where you left off."
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Where are all the baby pigeons?
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"Our city pigeons are actually a form of [Rock Dove](_URL_1_) and they build their nests on places on our buildings which are most like cliffs and rock ledges. And the chicks stay in the nests until they're ready to fly but before that they're really [ugly buggers](_URL_0_)."
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"Why do you have so many lips and chins?"
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Why do our eyes adjust to bright light quickly but take a while to adjust to the dark?
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"Your cones (the vision receptors designed for bright light and color sensitivity) can fully adjust in only a few minutes. Your rods (the dark-adapted receptors) take much longer, 30+ minutes for just 80% adaptation. Your cones play some part in looking in the dark, so it doesn't take 30 minutes to start adjusting to the dark, but full dark adaptation can take hours."
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"Better to set it to low. Your eyes use blue light (light of the sky) to synchronize the body's internal clock. Blue light means daytime which means you should stay awake. Our digital devices nowadays produce a great deal of blue light. The more blue light exposure at night you get, the more your body's internal clock gets confused, causing you to have worse sleep at night. High brightness will also cause your eyes to lose dark sensitivity at night. If you stare at something bright for a long period of time, you'll notice that you won't be able to see well in dim lighting. This recovers in ~20-40 minutes in darkness and is known as dark adaptation. If you find yourself taking a long time to adjust to darkness, go see an eye doctor as this is a symptom of eye disease."
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Why does hair grow strangely in Moles?
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"Moles are a type of tumour. Tumours are formed when cells cannot regulate their growth and split much too often, and grow too large. In tumours like moles, this usually doesn't cause problems, like cancerous tumours do. But to get back to your question, the hairs growing out of the tumour are subject to the same factors that make the skin cells grow out of control."
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"They have very crinkly beard. The curlier a hair is the more likely you will have ingrown hair when it grows out. Many women have the same problem shaving bikini line."
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Why are eastbound flights faster than westbound flights?
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"As you suspected, it is because of the winds, specifically the [jet stream](_URL_0_), which mostly flows from west to east. The rotation of the earth makes no difference, because the atmosphere in which aircraft fly rotates with the earth. If the rotation of the earth did make a difference, logically you'd expect the opposite effect - as the surface of the earth moves to the east, the aircraft, you might think, would move to the west relative to the earth's surface. But this isn't what happens at all."
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"Flying across Canada or the US is a greater distance than flying places within Europe. For instance New York City is 2,789 miles ( ~4488 km) from Los Angeles while London, England is only 1158 miles (~1864 km) from Rome. Another way to look at is London is closer to Newfoundland Canada than New York City is to Los Angeles."
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All of our muscles get tired and we have to let them rest. Why doesn't our heart have to rest?
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"Basically when you sleep your body does all the things it cannot really do while you're awake. Because you don't have to eat, or do anything, so your brain can focus on the things now. It uses the rest of the energy you have to heal and grow. That's why most people are hungry soon after they wake up."
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There are estimates that 46% of the labor force is at risk for being automated in the next 10-25 years. Why is no one talking about this? Why do we need "jobs" when there are about to be less and less for more and more people?
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"This is actually quite a prominent area in leftist theory that goes back to Marx. One of Marx's biggest points wasn't just workers controlling the means of production, but also the advancement of technology to increase everybody's leisure time. Fully Automated Luxury Communism is a bit buzzwordy but encapsulates well what quite a few modern leftists adhere to (myself included). This book explains it well - _URL_0_ Also, the Universal Basic Income is a way of allowing leisure time to increase during automation without the negative financial effects caused by mass unemployment. You can read more at /r/basicincome."
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"robots will not take away every job in the world. In fact, researchers suggest that the automation of the industry (Industry 4.0) will create as much jobs as will be destroyed. Of course you have to keep in mind that many of the \"destroyed\" jobs will be those you could acquire without training/education. So the automation will most likely hit low-paying jobs. But the demand for such jobs will decrease."
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Why do youtubers tend to ask for "likes" on their videos, when they get paid per view, and having an uninfluenced like counter could help them produce better content?
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"YouTube changed how they pay youtubers to be based on how frequently they upload and the length of their videos. Let's plays, and other game play videos can be very long and don't take much time to make. Not saying they're bad, but these videos are so perfect in the eyes of YouTube they get paid more than basically anyone else. It may be cool to get a really high quality video, but those aren't profitable to YouTube and thus not as profitable to creators."
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Why do movies use stunt doubles in simple situations like a car pulling into a spot or jogging?
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"The first thing to remember, is that movies are rarely shot in order and such. Anytime you can use someone that is not a main actor to fulfill their role (often called a \"stand in\") means that main actor can be shooting a different scene, even on the other side of the world. These helps the timeline and cost of making a movie. Second, stuntmen and such are very trained for these, they know how to make it go off without issue, and get it right the first time. They can knock this out in one take, safe, quick, and cheap. Thats exactly what you want when making a movie."
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Why do songs that we haven't heard in a long time randomly start playing in our heads?
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"I think it might be different for everyone. At least for me, there are some songs that I instantly love and simply listen the hell out of them, most of the time until it bores me. There are other songs, however, that I'll listen to them the first time and think, meh...and the more I listen to it the more I like it. I have also had the experience where I'll hear a song for the first time and not really pay attention to it, but then I'll randomly hear it somewhere, like at a party or a club, and for some reason I automatically like it, since I've heard it before and recognized it. Like I said, it's probably different for everyone."
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When you pick up your luggage after landing from a flight, how do airports make sure that the right person is taking the right luggage, and not stealing someone else's?
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Is drinking 8 cups of any liquid (i.e. pop, juice, coffee, beer, etc) pretty much the same as drinking 8 cups of water in terms of hydrating your body since the primary ingredient in any drink is water?
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"There's some difference. First these beverages are high on water, but it's not all water. Cola has like 88% water in it. Black coffee like 98%. Also, the amount of minerals make it either easier to absorb and keep the water, or harder. If you'd drink something high on salt (like sea water), you'd actually get really sick because partially the salty water in your bowels will attract water from you. This will cause diarrea and causes dehydration. Some ingredients work as a diuretic, which means you will pee more because of them. Think of beer and coffee. While uptake may be the same as with normal water (but probably isn't the same) you also excrete more of it. So, the additional ingredients do matter."
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"The drink 2 litres of water a day is actually a bit of a myth; you only need to replenish what you lose. You will actually absorb a lot of water you need from your daily food intake (unless you were eating a lot of dried or salty/sugary food). You can actually die from drinking too much water, by flushing essential salts out of your blood stream. In other words, you need about 2 litres of fluid day, but you don't necessarily have to drink 2 litres of water, most of the fluid content will be in your food. One of the best gauges of how hydrated you are is the colour of your urine; it should be a pale straw colour. If it's really dark (and smelly) then you are likely dehydrated, if it's colourless, then you are probably getting rid of an excess of fluid intake."
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Why do large, established companies like Coca-Cola outsource their branding to boutique firms?
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"Advertising is something that is generally outsourced to companies who specialize in it. It is very specialized, they are the experts at it, and they are the ones who do it. Sometimes they will keep some of the analytics in house, but generally at a minimum the creative and such is outsourced to the \"experts\" (but they may outsource parts (or all) of the analytics too!) Its very uncommon for large or even smaller companies to have their in-house advertising department, or at least one that could hold their own against a company who's business is advertising. But one last thing -- remember \"advertising\" is not the same as \"marketing\". And companies generally keep marketing completely inhouse"
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"Originally it was venture capital. But with all of their tie-in events, a lot of it is coming from advertisers."
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Why aren't baseball players afraid of being hit in the face by a stray ball?
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"Because they are wearing special gloves, the express purpose of which is to apprehend said baseball."
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"How the fuck do you accidentally throw a bowling ball at something above your head?"
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