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How come people can't be cryogenically frozen safely as the ice crystals destroy the cell membranes, but sex cells such as sperm are kept frozen for long periods of time yet remain functional?
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"Sperm is frozen in liquid nitrogen, and the water in the cells is replaced by glycerol (basically antifreeze) as a \"cryoprotectant\", which displaces the water and does not form the crystalline structure that damages cells. However, the freezing and thawing process is still pretty harsh and many sperm don't survive. Luckily, there are billions and you only need 1."
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"Yes, which is why it isn't very feasible for humans and other mammals. However, various \"cryogenic\" companies actually drain all of the blood from a customer's body and replace it with an anti-freeze like substitute to reduce damage from freezing. They also rapidly chill the body to minimize the formation of large ice crystals. That being said, several other organisms do have innate ant-freeze systems and can/do go into stasis when frozen only to thaw out later without any side effects."
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How is Ishmael the father of arabs ?
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"Well if you look at the Old Testament, Abraham had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac. Ishmael, though older, was born to Abraham's servant and as such was not able to inherit directly from Abraham. Abraham freed the servant and Ishmael, and he went on to father many children and became a prophet and the patriarch of Islam. He's not technically the father of Arabs, he's the father of Islam, the two just tend to go hand in hand"
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"i believe that it is a reference to the holy trinity, (the father, the son, and the holy ghost) not 100% _URL_1_ the bible Jesus and St.Paul both refer to Abraham as father for he is a spiritual leader on earth, the closest to Him we will find on earth and so we call them father because they are closest to our true father (GOD) we can hope to see. by the way i'm not christian but got my info from this website _URL_0_"
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There's an aweful lot of craters on the moon, would having a moon base up there be safe?
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"The moon has no atmosphere or running water, so there's no erosion. The craters on the moon today are the result of basically every single impact over its entire history. Impacts are still comparatively rare."
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"possible, though it would be a bitch since there is no more ore chilling on the surface or in easily accessible mines that can be accessed with simple tools. so, unless all the wreckage were to remain around for us to scavenge raw materials from, it would be slow."
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why people make viruses?
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"For a lot of them, to make money. For example, many kinds of viruses load a screen as soon as you boot up that says something to the end of \"You did something bad...your computer is locked....pay fine at this place to restore your computer\" and users will \"pay the fine\" to get around it. Some virus authors are simply sociopaths who enjoy inconveniencing and hurting other people. And then the others are creating viruses irrevently (like NetGear's MrVGina.dll incident around 2007)."
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"hey you, I see what your doing. do your own research!"
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Why does starting task manager when my computer is frozen seem to unfreeze it?
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"Task manager has top priority, so if any other program is hogging up the computer in an endless cycle you can force it to shut down."
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"Default your device back to factory settings and then see if it acts the same way. Usually, I find that there a rouge apps running in the background sucking up available memory / cpu cycles (that even a restart of the device doesn't clear)."
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Why is beer not sold in plastic bottles?
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"Glass has been used for centuries to contain alcoholic beverages because the glass does not react with whatever it contains - wine and whiskey do not age once bottled and sealed, for example. They've pulled bottles of wine out of shipwrecks on the ocean floor and they're still perfectly drinkable after decades of being underwater. Plastic bottles, on the other hand, tend to react with whatever they contain, and leech certain chemicals, such as bisphenol-A. Apart from the obvious health concerns, this would also affect the taste of the beer in question."
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"I think your premise is flawed. Soda *does* come in glass bottles in the United States."
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How do our bodies “get used to” being in very cold water (e.g. the ocean) after several minutes?
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"Your brain contains a region called the hypothalamus. This acts like an internal thermostat that controls your body temperature. When you jump in the ocean or a cold pool, your hypothalamus instructs your body to use more calories to raise your body temperature. Of course, it's not foolproof. If the water is sufficiently cold, your body temperature will drop faster than you can regulate it, and you risk nasty side effects like shock and hypothermia."
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"The temperature of water relative to your body temperature vs the temperature of water relative to what you perceive as cold drinking water. Another example would be getting into a pool of \"cold\" water. The water may only be 60 degrees, which is cold when you submerge yourself into it, but you would not think it is cold if you drank water the same temperature."
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Why can't Mexico do anything to stop the drug cartels?
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"The cartels have tons of money, local support in some areas, and a small army worth of mercenaries. Mexico is up against a very difficult task. America's hunger for drugs is what finances the cartels, and Mexican leaders have repeatedly asked us to reconsider our drug enforcement policies."
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"Compton - Not enough problems, yes there is crime, but not enough of it is obvious enough to be stopped by the military. Juarez - You mean that place so riddled with cartels and gangs that it would be like trying to roll tanks into Afghanistan and expecting it to stop terrorism? It's the fact that it won't do anything."
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When dropping a counter into a slot from the exact same postion on a pegboard/plinko/pachinko style game what is it that stops the counter from falling the same way everytime?
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"If you could drop the counter into the same position in exactly the same way and the game was in exactly the same state then it would fall exactly the same way. However, you can't do that because even though it may seem like you are doing things the same way on the large scale, on the small scale there are very tiny variations which cause a different outcome. Think about firing a gun. If you are shooting hundreds of yards away then even a tiny movement of the gun, too little to see without looking down a scope, will cause the shot to land a large distance away. Air movement along the path of the bullet will change where it hits, temperature differences in the barrel, etc. can all impact the result. In the same way the game has a lot of variables which make things happen differently each time."
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"Imagine a disk with holes under the teeth. The teeth aligned with holes go down. The tooth that doesnt align with a hole triggers the mechanism. Resetting the jaw spins the disc (randomly landing on a new sore tooth)"
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why does cold water taste better than regular water?
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"It's just a cultural thing. The Chinese prefer to drink hot water. If there are contaminants or bad-tasting substances in the water, though, it'll taste better cold simply because you'll taste it less."
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"Is coke cheaper than tap water or cheaper than bottled water? Bottled water has a huge mark up."
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What does having insurance on a priceless artwork do?
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"Priceless is a subjective term used to describe something that is one of a kind and no reasonable amount money can replace. Realistically, every piece of art has a price (what others are willing to pay for it). For insurance purposes, a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, in return for payment. If you buy a “priceless” hand carved art for $1000 and then spend $400 to preserve and display it, you may want to insure it for all or part of your investment."
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"If you had the money you could. But no insurance company or universal health care would cover that."
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How can a solution to a problem suddenly pop up?
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"Subconscious mind solves it for you with all of the acquired knowledge and experience. This won't happen if you've no knowledge."
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"Absolutely, but right now our best bet is to look for conditions that we know are able to support life."
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how do you take an idea to invention if you have no applicable talents?
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"You need a partner. It is very doable if you are willing to do work. I.E research what materials are needed, how much it will cost. Applicable uses, just research what you can research. Get a patent. then you can do a lot of stuff. You can PM me for more info. BTW don't talk about it too much and just do. You don't want someone stealing your idea. I also agree with the other people in this thread. An idea isn't worth shit by itself."
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"Because educators have no way of knowing if you'll be an scientist or programmers or a street sweeper. But it bennifits society as a whole if people understand basic algebra how else could you know your mpg"
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Why do we need less sleep as we get older?
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"We do? I don't know about you but I am *tired all the time*"
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"I think it has more to do with psychology than physiology: adventure is more important to children than comfort. Our priorities shift as we get older."
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How is it that SD cards stay the same size but manage to have such varying levels of storage?
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"Because the actual part the data is stored on is tiny. Think of it like this; a school buss looks just as big from the outside when it's carrying one kids as it does when carrying 20 kids."
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"They're differentiated by speed, reliability, and cost, these come from their usages A flash drive is limited by power provided by USB and the max speed of a USB port, it doesn't need to be stupid fast, but cost is important An SD card may need to record live 4k video so write speed is very important, it's small and easy to swap so capacity isn't a huge problem, price is still important but less so, and it won't see a huge number of writes so it can be decently reliable without great hardware SSDs need to be big, fast, and reliable. They'll see petabytes written to them over their lives. Write speed can be traded for read speed which is what computing applications need. Cost isn't nearly as important as for flash drives so they can use better chips Not all flash chips are created equal, they are created and binned for specific applications and use cases"
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Why is my inner monologue an arsehole?
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"I'm not sure what kind of answer you're looking for. We don't know what your inner monologue is saying. It's your own unfiltered thoughts. So apparently you consider yourself to be an asshole."
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"I just spent 30 seconds poking my belly button to no avail. Am I the weird one?"
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Are Volvos actually safer than other cars?If so why?
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"Yes they are. If internet is not lying then one of Volvo's co-founder's wife died in car accident, and safety was the highest priority from the start. They invented three point seatbelt (and gave it away for free to other car manufacturers, which was very generous move) and side airbags."
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"That's exactly how car insurance works. Can you clarify your question?"
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In the recent Nuclear Weapons Treaty, why did the Netherlands vote in opposition?
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"There are American nuclear weapons stored on a Dutch air base. It was public secret for a very long time, though it was confirmed in more recent years. That sort of thing would be against the treaty. Currently, the government is not taking steps towards removing these weapons / ending this cooperation with the States, so they also cannot really vote in favour of a treaty like that."
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"Because the UN does not have the power to do this. Such an order would have to come from the UN Security Council, where most of these countries have veto power."
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Why is our organ of equilibrium located in our ears?
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"If you want to keep balance you want the system measuring it somewhere that experiences the least acceleration during normal movement and that is the head. The position in the ear is useful, too, as it is further and on opposite sides from the center of the head and therefore experience more movement and in opposite directions when you turn your head which improves signal strength. If it were near you nose it would be more or less just measuring in one spot while the ears are far apart so you have two points for measuring. It also needs to be close to the eyes as it causes/controls eye movement to compensate head movement so that the image you see is stabilized."
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"They are trying to hear you more efficiently, based on the shape of their heads and where their ears are currently pointing."
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Why do wall chargers seem to charge iPhones faster than computers, xbox... etc
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"To add to the other replies, current (measured in amps) is drawn by the phone rather than pushed by the charger, and the rating of the charger is how much can be drawn before it shuts down/overheats/burns out. By default, the phone will only draw a low amount of current (should probably only be 150mA to allow for USB 1.1, but it's generally 500 mA). The charger has a way to signal to the phone that it's able to give more current (connecting the data pins together, putting a resistor across them, etc.), and then the phone will draw a higher amount, generally 1 to 1.2 Amps. Most phone manufacturers have settled on a de facto standard, but Apple decided on a proprietary standard so an iPhone charger won't charge an Android device quickly, and vice versa."
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"The charger itself puts out a certain amount of power - 1A, 2A, maybe in voltage, etc. The more power it puts out, the faster your device will charge. Some chargers cannot put out enough power to adequately charge your device (think a USB 1.0 port), in which case your phone is telling you."
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Why does my hair grow to a certain length a few weeks after I shave my head; but remains that length and never goes past my shoulders even after years?
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"Your hair doesn't actually remain a certain length. Depending on which part of the body, your hairs can only grow to a certain distance, once they reach that distance, they fall out."
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"I've grown my hair to my waist before (now I keep it around 5-6 inches.) Your hair never stops growing. You just don't notice it's growth much once it's long enough until it hits some kinda of anchoring marker. Ear length, chin length, shoulder length, etc. It's easy to notice when it's very short, because each 1cm growth is a large % increase in length."
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Why do Computers have dates going back to 1969?
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"A timestamp of -1 gets rendered as 12/31/1969. _URL_0_"
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"Because we started counting centuries at 0. Year 1 was in the first century, 101 in the second, 701 in the 8th, 2001 in the twenty first. EDIT: added word “centuries” for clarity"
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How come animals can eat off the ground? Does germs not effect them?
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"Not all germs cause disease. You can eat off the ground, too, and (depending on what ground you're eating on) getting a parasite is very possible, but most bacteria and viruses don't survive outside a body for a very long time. People ingest more germs than they think they do, and for the most part, its unavoidable."
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"Cat saliva has antiseptic properties. Even their asses are no match. This does not mean that anything they find in their asses won't harm them. They're prepared for most things they would find in there."
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From the Psychology perspective and personal perspective. What is depression like?
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"From a personal perspective, it's like a darkness over and through every thing. There is no hope, there is no point, nothing good even registers, and you just want to die. It's horrible, and NOT AT ALL the same as 'being down', being sad, or any of that. I went into a very long and very dark depression about 20 years ago, and even looking back at that time, it's like a very dark fog is over everything. I had a very nearly successful suicide attempt, not because I wanted attention, but I just wanted it all to stop. I'm so glad I didn't because of all that I would have missed, but even knowing there were good times ahead wouldn't have changed anything."
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"Yes often we describe social pain in the same language as physical pain. One of the leading professors about social pains is Matt Lieberman. Believe or not but pain is registered in the brain. His findings concluded that the same neural circuity in the brain that simulates physical pain is the same for social pain. Here is a link to his article :_URL_0_ Also for further reading his book: \"Social: Why are Brains are Wired to Connect\"."
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How do cell phones only pick up signal from their specific provider?
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"It's because of the frequency bands; they are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. I do not know who shares which frequency in Amerika but here in Germany we got 4 mobile networks (D1, D2, E1, E2) each got a different owner and a different GSM900 frequency range. * D1 / Telekom 13–49, 81–102, 122–124 * D2 / Vodafone 1–12, 50–80, 103–12 * E1 / E-Plus 975–999 * E2 / O₂ 1000–1023, 0 2007 E-Plus and O₂ paid for their frequencies 22mio € ea for 9 years ownership. It's equal to your radio, if you are listening to 92,2 you do not get the signals of other stations because of frequence."
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"> After the Hawaii scare and thinking more about emergency alerts I'm curious how they decide who to send the alerts to, is it based off your area code or location and if your location services are off if you would still get the notification. It is even simpler than what you are thinking. Cell phones connect to cellular towers which are generally within about 5 miles in urban areas (as much as 20 in ideal conditions in rural areas). If the authorities want to alert people within a given area they can just issue the alert to anyone who is connected to the cellular towers that cover that area, regardless of if their phone has any idea of where it is. By being connected to those towers they must be within that general area."
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How do people see beauty? For example, what makes a rose beautiful but a Cactus not?
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"I find cacti beautiful, its all subjective. Beauty is not in the object, it is in your perception of it."
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"This is literally impossible to answer. It's like describing to a blind person what purple is."
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Why does the moon have a ring around it some nights?
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"was it a rather cold night? I believe that the Halo may be a light refraction caused by ice crystals in the air, similar to rainbows."
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"The moon cycle is not caused by the Earths shadow. It is caused by the Moons own shadow. If you were standing in the Sun then only half of you would be lit by the Sun and your other half would be in the shadow. It is the exact same thing with the Moon. Half of the Moon is lit by the Sun and the other half is in its own shadow. It is also the exact same thing with the Earth where half of it is lit by the Sun (daytime) and half is in shadow (night). There is however some times when the Moon will be in Earths shadow. This is called a lunar eclipse. It is a quite rare event and only lasts for a few minutes. When it is happening you can see the shape of the Earth as its shadow moves across the surface of the Moon."
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The 9th amendment to the US Constitution.
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"The US government has \"enumerated powers\", which means that it can only do those things which are specifically laid out as legal for it to do. Civil rights, which the first eight amendments protect, work precisely the opposite way. The ninth amendment basically says that, as opposed to the powers of the US government, citizens' rights are NOT enumerated, and a provision for a specific right should never be interpreted to mean that those are the only rights that a citizen gets to enjoy. Unless there are laws against something, a citizen can do it; unless there are laws allowing it, a government cannot."
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"Look at the 14th amendment. Passed after the Civil War, the States have to do what the Fed says."
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How Tube Amps And Solid State Amps Work
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"Do you want to know how amplifiers work or why people choose tube over solid state? Solid state devices go into saturation (distortion) at a sharp knee, tubes do do in a gradual curve. It is believed that the gradual curve of the tube going into saturation is more pleasing to the ear. Source: im an electronics technician and engineer for a pedal company and a high end sound reproduction company."
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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 are sentences by judges that are aimed at making an example out guilty parties not a violation of "Equal Justice Under Law", and therefore unconstitutional?
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"Each type of crime has a valid minimum and maximum sentence. As long as the judge stays within these guidelines, it is 100% legal."
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"In the USA, interference of that sort could be seen as unconstitutional, a violation of the First Amendment."
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Why don't we sneeze when we're asleep?
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"A simple google search will show \"We're actually more prone to sneezing while asleep, since the mucous membranes swell when we lie down, but because there usually isn't much airflow or movement to stir up dust or other particles while we sleep, the membranes don't come into contact with as many stimulants as they do when we're awake.\" Not gunna lie though, it is pretty neat"
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"Oh, it comes out of your nose, too. Try plugging your nose while you sneeze and see how your head feels.* *Don't do this."
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it's 90 degrees fahrenheit outside. It's going to rain. Is the air more humid just before it rains or just after?
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"Actually it's most humid WHILE it's raining. The air has so much water in it that some people even use umbrellas or stay indoors completely."
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"Well, the first thing to know is that it doesn't. It's just a truism, not an undeniable fact or anything. But at sunrise and sunset, the sunlight is coming in at an oblique angle to the atmosphere. If the atmosphere is full of particulates, then the light will scatter and make the sky look red. In this situation, there's a good chance it's going to rain in the next few hours, then be clear after that. So if the sky looks red at sunset, it's a safe bet that it will rain during the night and be clear the next day. On the other hand, if the sky's red at sunrise, there's a squall a-brewing, and you should shorten sails."
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When you bump, scrape, or acutely injure yourself, why does it instantly feel better simply by putting your hand over the injury?
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"Your nerves are mostly sending either pain or pressure signals to your brain. However, they can only send one signal at a time, and pressure takes priority over pain. So when you get hurt and apply pressure, your body thinks \"ok there's pain and pressure but since we can only send one signal to this meatbags brain we'll send pressure, and ignore the pain for now\"."
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"Depends on the wound. Let's say you close your finger in a car door, like I've done. Blood vessels break inside the finger, filling the skin like a water balloon. Boom, your finger just became a too-full water balloon, and it's hard to bend. In some cases, like on a crick in your neck, the muscles spasm and seize, causing stiffness. That, and pain is a bitch that calls for you to avoid it at all costs. Anyone who's had a bad sunburn can attest to just how \"inflexible\" burnt skin feels, even though it's still completely malleable"
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How can ocean water and air temperature be the same temperature, but the water feels so much colder?
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"You don't feel temperature. You feel rate of heat transfer, which is greater for the water because of its higher thermal conductivity. The same thing is true when you put your hand in the oven at 350F: in air, no problem. Touch the metal, problem."
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"The sunlight hitting your skin also transfers heat via radiation. If it was a cloudy day the temperatures would probably feel very similar."
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2001: A Space Oddessy.
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"There is much more to the monoliths than they get around to in the movies. Read the books, they cover a LOT that's not in the movies, I can elaborate in PM, don't want to spoil the books if you may be interested in reading them. Of better yet, if you want book spoilers, read the wikipedia entry for the novel. _URL_0_"
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"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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Why do hotels always keep a bible in every guest room?
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"A large Christian organization called the Gideons gives them to the hotels as a way to evangelize."
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"They actually all pretty much do offer those things, you just have to call the front desk. No clue why they don't just leave them in the room though. They also usually have toothbrushes and disposable razors, too. And more pillows, don't forget to ask for more pillows obviously."
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why is the Mona Lisa so highly coveted- I've seen so many other paintings that look technically a lot harder?
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"Five reasons: 1. The smile. It was the first painting of its kind to have someone smiling in such a way, so it was sort of a new era. 2. The brush strokes. He used strokes so small, they were damn near invisible, creating a very 'photographic' painting in a time when that wasn't really done. 3. Street Cred. Leonardo Da Vinci was an extremely talented guy, the quintessential renaissance man. He was a genius, and is thus rightly given praise. 4. Time. This painting took four years of Leonardo's life to make. 5. Subject. Nobody's entirely sure who he's portraying, which is pretty weird for portraits. Usually, portraits like this one are commissioned by the person depicted, but it doesn't appear this was for anyone but Leonardo. Is it a girly version of him? A prostitute? A secret lover? Or just something out of his head?"
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"Check out Johannes Vermeer, he worked in the early part of the 17th century and is especially noted for making hyper-realistic, almost photo-realistic painting. (Keep in mind, when you look at his paintings that they are nearly 400 years old and show their age somewhat). I'd say it's safe to say that it was definitely possible since it was actually done by at least one artist. As to why so many of the other celebrated artists of the period didn't bother to be quite so realistic is another question that I can't answer."
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Because you have to swear to tell the truth in court then why is "I swear I'm not guilty" not a viable defence?
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"By saying that you decline to answer. Generally it is illegal to withhold information (if explicitly asked for it), yes. But the fifth amendment is an explicit superior exception to this. You are not allowed to lie, but you are allowed to withhold information if it might incriminate you. If John is asked if he murdered Jane, he can say \"I decline to answer under my 5th amendment rights.\" or simply \"I plead the 5th.\" And this statement then must not be held against him. So the judge and jury can't just say \"If he was innocent, he would have said it. He **must** be guilty.\" They must have other evidence against him. Which they probably have, otherwise he wouldn't be already a suspect."
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What people mean when they say they have a fast/slow metabolism, and how that affects their diet.
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"Metabolism is the amount of calories your body naturally burns to stay alive. This is without assistance from fitness or athletic training. Fat takes less energy to burn than muscle which is why skinnier people tend to have faster metabolisms than heavier people. This also allows them to eat more without the weight gain. Your metabolism will become faster if you workout and build muscle."
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"You build muscle and stimulate fat loss with exercise and burning calories. You can still lose weight by eating less, but if you also exercise you lower your risk for a lot of diseases related to your heart. Just my best guess honestly, I am not an expert on this at all."
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Why does 1% battery last longer?
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"Battery remaining is pretty much just a guess. Your phone measures the voltage and makes a guess as to how much of power is left. If you rarely or never let your phone run all the way to where it cuts off from lack of power, it will slowly start measuring more and more inaccurately. First it will think 1% remaining is empty. Then 2%, and so on. Eventually, it's estimate of remaining battery is significantly far from correct. When you finally let it run all the way to empty, it will seem to last longer. It thinks it's empty at 5%, so it's shows 1% remaining when you really have 5% remaining. Since it still has power, it still runs, but the estimate is wrong. Because of this, battery drain slows down as it nears empty."
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"On a related note, why do 2 oranges cost more than 1?"
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What is happening in our bodies when we feel our stomachs drop?
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"It's part of the fight or flight response. Blood rushes out of your stomach to your muscles"
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"Extreme weather is an example of stress on your body, which likely results in a sour temperament. This is similar to why you feel cranky when you are in pain."
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Why do all contests have a NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN clause ?
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"If a purchase is necessary, it becomes gambling, which is illegal in most states. As such, in order for contests to be legal, they have to include an entry option that doesn't require the entrant spend money. Usually the requirements are overly cumbersome (physically mail in an entry form, which still requires stamps), so no one really bothers. It's worth noting that most contests are more to generate publicity than direct sales (though one drives the other), so just having the advertisements and getting people thinking about the product is usually enough."
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"Perhaps the doctor is more familiar with the brand name. But the pharmacist will be familiar with both names, and you can save some money (sometimes, a *lot* of money) by asking the pharmacist to fill the prescription with the generic. Pharmacies in the US will typically have a sign posted that reads as follows: \"THIS PHARMACY MAY BE ABLE TO SUBSTITUTE A LESS EXPENSIVE DRUG PRODUCT WHICH IS THERAPEUTICALLY EQUIVALENT TO THE ONE PRESCRIBED BY YOUR DOCTOR UNLESS YOU DO NOT APPROVE.\""
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How does the compass on the iPhone work?
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"Non-douchey answer: There's a chip inside that can sense magnetic fields (such as that generated by the Earth) and can use the field to determine the direction the phone is facing. There's really no way to explain simply how the chip works inside, as it uses fairly advanced principles of electromagnetism, but it actually works very much like a real compass, but digitally rather than analog."
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Why does streaming from sites like Youtube or Twitch seem to hit my bandwidth harder than playing online video games in real time?
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"The game is rendered on your computer so it only needs to stream the information about events and player actions. A video stream needs to stream constant video and audio which takes up more space."
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"Wireless can cause packets of data to be lost, which might cause a little bit of lag, so try to use a wired connection if possible. Often, it comes down to the location of the server. Being from the UK, when I play on a Uk game server I tend to get about 6ms of lag. Playing against people in the US I'd get at least 200. Try to find local games if possible. If you have broadband internet of any speed, lag shouldn't be too bad, but make sure you've not got someone else on your home network using bandwidth. You can't play video games while torrenting files or streaming movies, basically. This is me speaking from the perspective of a PC gamer where games are run on dedicated community owned servers. I'm not sure of the specifics of the PS3 online system, so there might be something involved there, too."
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Why are some videos framerates 23.976024 fps (as opposed to exactly 24)
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"Basically it solves the problem of fitting 24 fps source material onto a 29.97 fps NTSC video signal. 23.976 fps is 80% – or four fifths of 29.97 fps, which is the frame rate of the NTSC video signal. By slowing down 24 fps *ever so slightly* (by 1/1000), you get 23.976 fps. This then allows four frames of source material to be spread over five frames of NTSC video using a technique known as [**three-two pulldown.**](_URL_0_)"
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"> Are sporting events not shot in 60 fps Whether they're shot in 60fps or not, they're not *broadcast* at 60fps. TV is not 60fps, it is 30/1.001fps (29.97) or 25fps, or in interlaced form, 59.94i (which means 59.94 screen updates per second, but each update only applies to half the screen, so you're only getting 29.97 *full* updates per second). When you're watching on your computer you're watching at 60fps, on your TV you're watching 30, thus the difference. Sports are commonly filmed at 60-180fps even though they can't broadcast it, because it lets you do slow motion replays."
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How is Uber legal without following the same liscensing rules as taxis?
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"Basically, because a taxi is defined as a car that you can stand on the sidewalk and hail. Legally, if you don't provide that service, you're not a taxi. This was upheld in a recent lawsuit against Uber, and the judge ruled that Uber didn't meet the definition of a taxi, since they can only be hailed from the app. They're closer to, say, a limo service where you call and schedule a trip, which generally aren't classified as taxis."
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"There are a lot of people who aren't fond of Uber for trying to dodge regulations and avoid paying their \"contractors\" benefits. You may just not be reading the right articles."
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Why are people mad about Microsoft's Windows "spying" but not Google's same "spying" in Android?
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"Everyone knows Google is spying on them. It is part of their business model, and Google is up front about it. They even give you web pages that show you how much they are spying on you. Microsoft is less up front about it, and has more of a history of doing dodgy things without telling users. Also, they are an older company, so a lot of their misdeeds occurred before people were as used to getting spied on."
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"When this was posted in /r/technology it was pointed out more than once that Win10 is collecting the same data in the same basic way, for the same basic reason as Facebook, Google, previous versions of Windows, OSX, Android, etc. Literally the only difference seems to be that because Microsoft is making the effort to explain to Win10 users what they're doing, people are losing their fucking minds. To tl;dr several of the comments: > Siri, what is the time of my next appoint? > Sorry Kevin, but I cannot do that. You freaked the shit out about me collecting data and prevented me from collecting data from your calendar, so I don't know when your next appointment is. So, basically, you shouldn't care."
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How come some city streets in the US like in NY emit large amounts of smoke/steam from underground unto the curbs yet you never see this phenomena in european cities?
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"Because the buildings are heated with steam that sometimes escape. We don't have that in Europe."
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"Electricity can be transported underground. It costs a lot more to dig up the streets and lay the lines. In some cities' downtowns all of the lines are underground though, Portland, OR for one."
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How exactly does our body produce electricity?
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"At the very basic level, it is caused by Sodium and Potassium ions, which are differently charged, and using these ions to create channels of chemically-induced electric current. It would be extremely inefficient if we wanted to use it as a sort of biological battery. Our current chemical batteries have much better storage and voltage and so on. (Basically, the Matrix's premise of using humans as batteries is complete garbage from a realism standpoint. We make terrible batteries and even worse power sources)"
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"Your brain is telling your body to make room."
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Does this lawsuit make the family (and possibly the lawyer) some of the richest people in the country?
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"No. [ABC News](_URL_0_): > An attorney who persuaded a Texas jury to award one of the largest civil verdicts ever says he and his clients don't expect to collect any of the $150 billion judgment, but they hope it helps persuade prosecutors to seek charges against a man they say doused a boy with gasoline and set him on fire."
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"Because it is worth a lot of money to the government!"
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Why do water pipes not burst after you turn the sink/hose off? Shouldn't the pressure from the water backing up cause this?
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"Imagine that you have a bucket full of water. Poke a hole in the bottom of the bucket, and water will start pouring out. But if you plug the hole, the bucket doesn't burst from pressure backing up. The pressure is constant, and does not (noticeably) increase when the water stops flowing. The same is true with water pipes: The pressure is caused by gravity pulling water down out of water towers. When the water stops flowing, the pressure just levels off."
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"> Does pressure build up in a pipe if the pipe valves are not opened No. Pressure in the public water supply is created and maintained by pumps and water towers to a standard point of about 50 psi. This pressure is fairly constant and doesn't increase just by sitting there. Think about it like the pressure of water at the bottom of a pool caused by the weight of the water above it. Does that pressure continually rise just because it is left there? Of course not. Keeping a tap closed isn't going to cause it to burst."
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What exactly happens in a Windows computer when you delete system32?
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"System32 contains all the components to get your OS running, deleting that would just result in getting stuck in the bios. This doesn't happen when you are an active user in the OS, only when you restart your computer after trying (you can't delete all files whilst you're active) to remove the folder 'system32'."
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"These programs create entries in your Windows Registry. Its a database to store eg. settings and other useful information to the right place. Restart is needed so the Programm can accsess all the information in the right order at once! Most of the time its not a big deal except if the program uses some hardware or messes with windows in a way (eg. creating a virtual drive)."
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Why do humans get time suppression during tragic events?
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"Time appearing to slow down is actually an illusion. The part of our brains that helps us feel emotions, the amygdala, becomes more active during times of stress. This causes our brains to ramp up memory recording, making our memories in the moment of a car accident or similar situation much more dense and detailed. Compared to our normal memories, it seems like memories that detailed must have been made over a longer period of time than the quick few seconds of the crash would allow. This makes us feel that time slowed down. But it's just memories temporarily being set into \"4k recording\" mode, so to speak."
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"We don't know, there isn't an answer yet. There are a few theories, and some are fairly ridiculous, The brain interprets the input from one eye then the other causing the image to seem familiar. A small mistake during the brain's construction of the situation results in a false sense of familiarity. A mix up between long-term and short term memory. Men in Black. Reincarnation. It hasn't been linked to serious mental disorders but possibly to certain drugs. Nobody can say for sure. Sorry."
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Why do I, sometimes, really not like some people for, seemingly, no reason?
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"You're probably not a terrible person. Everyone has a few little things that just rub them the wrong way. Not everybody is socially compatible. The polite response is simply to tolerate those people who you don't like and observe the social niceties when necessary and avoid them the rest of the time."
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"There are people who are simply immune to it. I don't really want to find out if I'm one of them, although the idea does seem interesting."
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Why are smartphones coming out with a 64 bit processor but < 4GB ram?
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"Well if you've already hammered out your 64bit support before you need it for the RAM that's always nice, of course. There are some other advantages, though none I would imagine are Earth-shattering. 64bit CPUs would also generally use 64bit registers, which means you can potentially keep more useful information in the CPU at a time."
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"That's really not the case. Just from a quick search on NewEgg, There are 14\" Lenovo Thinkpads (i5 6200U, 4GB RAM, 1TB HD, 1080P screen) for $499. It's also worth noting that comparing a 2.3ghz i5-6200U is not an apples-to-apples to the i5-2430 at 2.4ghz. Clock speed is not the only thing that matters when you are talking about processors."
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Why do fries get soggy the next day?
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"It doesn't, if you reheat it the right way. (Stop using the microwave.) In fact, I actually prefer some foods the next day. Lasagna is so much better on day 2, freshly reheated out of the oven."
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Is it possible to drink water at a constant rate such that you can just keep peeing indefinitely?
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"No. You can drink in excess to the volume of water you excrete, and this can in fact even be fatal if done excessively enough. The result is that your extra-cellular fluid will be low in solutes, and osmosis will shift it into your cells, causing swelling in (among other places) the brain, what is sometimes called water intoxication. Sufficient swelling can result in death."
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"It's solely because you're interested in achieving the effect of drunkenness. If you put your mind to it, you could drink the same amount of water, soda, coffee, tea, or whatever beverage in the same amount of time. The diuretic effect takes hold after the first hour or so, though, in which consuming alcohol will cause you to urinate frequently, thereby emptying your bladder so that you can consume more alcohol. Coffee does the same thing, though."
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When I play guitar my left hand is fluent, fast and accurate but when I use it for anything else it's basically useless. How come?
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"Probably just because you haven't practised doing it one way but do practice the other way because you do it out of habit. I've never really thought can do it both ways without a problem, and if you tried for about a week you probably would be able to as well. I think this because I remember what it was like learning to play the guitar. When you begin playing moving your fingers in the correct way is incredibly difficult and it feels like you would never be able to do it, but then all of a sudden one day you realise that you can play all kinds of things without looking/thinking even though you once thought your fingers couldn't move like that."
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What is going on with You Tube? All sorts of fairly popular channels are being deleted, losing monetization, or having constraints placed on them and seemingly out of nowhere. Is there new management, broken automation, or something else?
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"I'm not sure if this is what the OP meant to imply, but the limitations aren't being placed on specific channels, but are rather sweeping algorithm and policy changes that affect everything. The two that seem to be causing the most grief are the switch from a per-view monetization plan to a per-minutes-watched monetization plan (although this happened a long time ago in internet standards) and the fact that their content-ID algorithm gives false flags to videos ALL THE GODDAMN TIME. When a video is flagged for copyright violation, the monetization is automatically disabled for that video. There have been cases of things like the *sound of rain* triggering the algorithm to flag a video for copyright infringement. tl;dr a combination of seemingly benign policy change and bad automation [Super Bunnyhop has a great video on this.](_URL_0_) It's from 2013, but it's still incredibly relevant."
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"It's not laziness, Wikipedia doesn't want to worry about YouTube changing things or pulling down content. They also don't want to deal with potential copyright infringement claims. Legal or not those claims are a pain in the butt and can ruin a site's reputation. Disney is notorious for enforcing copyright and nobody really wants to fight them on it."
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How does radiation from the Fukushima plant affect the fish I eat in North America?
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"It doesn't, really. The levels measured are incredibly tiny, nanosieverts. You'd get more radiation from spending time in Denver or eating a banana."
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"Because it is cheaper to cultivate, grow and harvest and ship cucumbers from Mexico to Canada than it is to do the same in a greenhouse in Canada."
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Why do some sudden noises scare the crap out of us, while others go nearly unnoticed?
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"(This is purely from what I understand about the flight or fight response; I have done no research into whether this is an accurate explanation so take it with a grain of salt). If your ears cannot detect or is not expecting a specific sound the brain defaults to \"this sound is foreign or out of the norm so it must be bad\" and releases some adrenaline to help you fight the the threat or go away. In the days of primitive humans, a foreign or unusual sound usually meant danger, so the brain evolved this response to help fight or flee from the perceived threat. Since your brain knew the second time around the sound wasn't a threatening sound or you might have been expecting it your brain simply ignored the signal to release adrenaline, since the brain wants to conserve as much energy as possible; again this comes from speculation and my limited knowledge of how the human body actually works; fellow redditors free to correct me if I have misunderstood or misinterpreted anything."
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"It seems to come as a surprise to my dog, every time he farts the noise spooks him. Also do you go sit on the toilet or go outside every time you fart?"
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How exactly did the rotors on the Wehrmacht Enigma work?
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Whats the psychology behind the "silicone baby" phenomenon on YouTube.
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How to pay off students loans?
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"Interest is a percentage that you were told when you took out the loan, and every month (or year or some other time frame) that much percent of the amount you have left to pay is added to your bill. To pay off the loans you probably have to contact the company you took out the loan from, look for a contact number on the monthly statement you receive for the loan in the mail or online."
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"Bankruptcy will not protect you from student loan debt."
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Why is the patriot act viewed negatively?
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"The purpose of the act was to deter and punish american terrorists. In reality it was used by the FBI to ignore the constitution and things like 'probable cause' to investigate people unrelated to terrorism. This included, drug traffickers, homeless people, visitors to las vegas, and a webmaster regarding copyright infringement. > One criticism of the Act is that \"other purposes\" often includes the detection and prosecution of non-terrorist alleged future crimes. _URL_0_"
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"It's mostly that despite the fact that it's the most powerful nation in the world, it's still incapable of solving its problems. * Overt nationalism * Antiquated gun laws, violence in general * Terrible healthcare system * High obesity rates * Ignorance despite access to education * Education system in general * The strong influence of religion despite being secular * Europeans think it's too conservative, Middle Easterners think it's too liberal Of course, this isn't all of the United States, and are mostly stereotypes. It's just how other countries may view it."
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How do software engineers keep track of all the code in a very big program?
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"[Let me introduce you to git](_URL_0_) Git is a version control system that acts as a repository for your source code. It has features like version history, branching and merging, code rollback, all the things you need to properly handle large coding projects. Git is one of a number of version control systems, and it is one of the most popular (if not THE most popular). Other examples include Perforce (popular with game development studios because it handles binary files much better) and SVN."
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"It solves the problem of having to deal with a large amount of code. Something the size of the Facebook app requires a large number of programmers to maintain, and programming gets harder the more people you have to add to a project (there's a book called The Mythical Man-Month that goes into this in depth). Having multiple smaller projects allows them to improve both products faster."
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Why are older people generally more conservative?
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"Who's more likely to tell you their salary: a rich person, or a poor person?"
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What does the common person seek to gain from denying climate change?
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"Start with the other side. If the climate is changing, why should the average person agree? You probably answer that with \"They can **act** to change things and not destroy the planet\", that's the common argument. What people get by denying climate change is freedom **not to act**. If the action you're suggesting is expensive, inconvenient of politically challenging, great benefit accrues if there is a plausible excuse not to act. To understand beliefs, you need to consider how actions might be different."
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"Because most of us are blinded by cognitive dissonance, even though we have the biggest prison population in the world."
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What is it about the color black that absorbs light and converts them into heat?
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"it's physics. and you got it the wrong way 'round. objects appear black to you BECAUSE they absorb the electromagnetic waves we call light. that light carries a certain energy with it which gets absorbed, which is then converted to thermal energy aka heat. If thats not what you meant, please elaborate a bit on the question"
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"Snow is really good at reflecting light. Water is really good at transferring heat."
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What is the scientific reasoning behind some substances that have a reverse tolerance?
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"\"Reverse tolerance\" or drug sensitization is a real thing that can occur with certain drugs or alcohol. If you think about alcohol in particular, over time you build up a tolerance for it and it takes more alcohol to get you intoxicated. Supposing you continue to drink heavily, you can damage your liver, which can lead to a reduced tolerance or \"reverse tolerance\". Some drugs require a sensitization period, in which your brain/body needs time to build the proper neural connections and uptakes in order to feel the full effect of the drug. Antidepressants/antipsychotics tend to fall under this category."
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"There is a small amount of similarity in terms of electrical activity, but the two processes are chemically distinct. The real difference however comes from the surgical procedure you are likely receiving, the stress, cortisol, sympathetic activation produce a vastly different physiological state to natural sleep."
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How do spiders get to the top floor of apartment buildings?
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"They can climb. They can also get blown along by the wind until they land on a higher floor of a building."
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"How can you look out your window and still see the interior of your house?"
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Where gold gets it's worth from and why it's so valuable to economies
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"If something is useful, then it's valued more. If something is hard to find, then it's valued more. If something is shiny, it's valued more. Since Gold is useful, hard to find, and shiny, it is very highly valued. A few reasons Gold is used: * for jewelry and awards, because it's shiny and has a nice color. * for making computer parts, because it conducts electricity and is easy to mold into many shapes. * in spaceships by NASA as a lubricant between mechanical parts, because it can withstand harsh space conditions. There are plenty of uses for gold now, and the list of uses will grow, which means it will get even more valuable. And as Gold supplies get used up, fewer Gold will remain, *further* increasing it's value. And that is basically why Gold is so valuable."
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"Transport is an important part of a country's economy. If all the oil were to suddenly disappear in your country, it would be a major problem. * Food, goods, materials - they wouldn't show up in the stores * Most people will be unable to get to work * The army would be reduced to foot soldiers, they are suddenly weakened * A lot of plastic products won't be made anymore So you can see that a lot of aspects of your daily life depend on oil. As for gold, it is a precious metal. There are many precious metals but traditionally, gold has been the main choice. It is seen as a way of protecting investments. If the price of gold is going up, it means investors are scared and are trying to protect their money by investing in gold. When it goes down, the economy is healthy and investors are happily spending elsewhere. Currencies used to depend on the gold a country had, but I don't believe that is true any more."
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Why is it more expensive to eat healthy?
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"Your premise is somewhat flawed; it is not necessarily more expensive to eat healthy. It certainly *can* be, if you buy certain types of raw ingredients, but does not have to be. Industrial scale food processing is extremely efficient, so a lot of prepared food is cheaper than the make-it-yourself equivalent...so if you try to eat the same stuff as just build your own, it usually doesn't work out. However, if you adjust how you cook and eat (stay in season, stay local, stay low on the food chain) it's fine."
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"It's cheap and convenient. That's really all there is to it."
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The game Skyrim. I've watched half a dozen videos about it, but don't get it.
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"It's an \"open-world\" RPG. Kinda like WoW, but tailored for a single player. Essentially, they've plopped a big sheet of land down; decorated it with trees, mountains, and other nature stuff; built some towns, cities, dungeons, and people or creatures to populate them; wrote stories and quests for the player to do; then told the player to have at thee. It's exploratory fun."
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"The content is still copyrighted and video game publishers could have it pulled but they mostly chose not to because it's good free advertising for them. They aren't afraid of losing sales if someone sees the game online because people buy games to play them, not just to watch them."
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How do we see images in our head?
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"Cutting through the bullshit in this thread - I will tell you that people who argue \"you're thinking of the last time you saw a banana\" are absolutely pissing me the fuck off. *HOW* the dick can I imagine shit I've never seen then? To play devils advocate, I will admit the philosophical answer is found in Descartes' idea of real components making up imaginary beings (hippogriff, siren, etc) - ie we can't imagine something without using components of things we already know. However, more to the point of what you're actually asking, the idea parallels why we \"see\" while we dream, or hallucinate. There's some stimulation of the visual cortex, and it would make sense that this wouldn't be something humans can do by will, because if you can *make* yourself see things that aren't actually there how can you know what's real or not?"
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"Relevant/expansion to the question: Why do we make noises when we feel pleasure in general? And pain?"
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How can IQ be so confidently ascribed to racial characteristics (i.e. hereditary)?
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"Simply put: 1) There is really no consensus amongst psychological sciences that IQ tests can be considered to be an accurate measure of anything, other than performance on the specific and abstract tasks that constitute IQ tests. 2) Even when using an arbitrary test like an IQ test, it has proven completely impossible to isolate and filter out learned and acculturated abilities. 3) It is thus impossible to attribute any results of IQ tests on a population scale to genetic traits, as the social and learned effects cannot be discounted. The claims to heritability do not thus necessarily point to genetic inheritance, IQ scores are far more likely to be passed on by upbringing. 4) IQ tests are a product of a pursuit - the assessment of intelligence - that is controlled and influenced predominantly by white, upper-middle class, academia. So, unavoidably, the results will be a bit skewed towards white test-takers."
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"Genetically, there are no races. Also, the most biologically-diverse group of humans are those with direct and recent ancestors from sub-Saharan Africa....meaning if a human from outside of Africa is capable of doing it, a human in Africa is capable of doing it....at least in terms of intelligence and physical ability. It is pretty hard to argue genetic superiority for Europeans or Asians given the genetic evidence. The methodological flaws in most research in the area is that Europeans are biasing the study to (shocking, I know!!!) show Europeans are superior!"
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Is there any significant difference between different brands of water?
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"Significant, I wouldn't say. The source of the water changes its composition, and therefore also the taste. If two brands get water from the same source, they would be practically identical, unless one of them really screwed up the bottling process. Unless you have a serious mineral deficiency, I can't imagine one brand being measurably more healthy for you, and if you had a mineral deficiency, you should get a proper supplement for that anyway, not bottled water."
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"They don't; you're thinking of a different kind of battery."
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When I have a cold, why does my nose often continue to feel blocked after I have blown it thoroughly?
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"The blocked feeling doesn't only come from mucus, it's usually inflammation of the sinus cavities and nasal passage."
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"There is a tube that connects the inside corner of your eye to your nose. When you cry the tears drain down this tube into your nose and you get a runny nose. So, you have to blow your nose when you cry."
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Why does being tickled make us laugh when it is such an unpleasant sensation?
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"The short answer is we really don't know. Of course, [people have their guesses](_URL_1_), and it seems to be that it isn't a naturally occurring physiological response driven by (as you put it) a biological imperitive. Most of the hypotheses point out that you typically 'learn' about tickling through a parent/child interaction. Indeed, if you feel like reading up on scientists scarring childeren for life, [Cracked](_URL_0_) has 6 good tales, one that tried to prove whether tickling was a physiological response or a social learned response."
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"Because you can see it coming. The sensation of being tickled is something that your brain does in reaction to an unforeseen contact on your skin. The feeling is intensified in squishy regions such as belly fat, your armpits etc. If you know that you are gonna touch yourself in a specific spot, you are not going to be *surprised* at yourself, which is why you won't feel the tickling sensation."
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How is it that prisoners can earn law degrees while serving time, but on the outside people go into six-figure debt to get the same degree?
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"Offering prisoners the chance to study in prison lowers their chances of returning to a life of crime afterwards and improves their behaviour while inside. That said it is not the same degree. Do you really think prospective employers are going to look at a harvard degree and a prison degree and are going to go 'yes, these degrees are exactly the same in terms of worth'."
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"They admit anyone who has (or can borrow) the money to pay them, regardless of whether they are ready or able to do the coursework. They provide subpar education at excessive cost. Their graduates tend to find themselves not particularly employable, and in a lot of debt."
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How do they measure how fast a continent is moving?
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"There are fixed points all over the world. People are continuously measuring the position of these points in relation to each other. It used to be with triangulation and celestial observations but nowadays they are using GPS."
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"Tectonic plates move something like a centimeter at most a year. It would take tens of thousands of years for it to noticeably move."
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What the hell happened to Shia Lebouf?
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"Well according to [this song](_URL_0_) he's a cannibalistic serial killer. But I think that might be fiction."
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"Am I out of the loop on something? Who hates Ringo?!"
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Why is the Word "Character" Pronounced as "Ka" racter and not "Cha"racter ?
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"Character and chameleon come from Greek root words. When the Greek word was adopted into our alphabet the \"ka\" sound was written as \"ch\". Champion and Chalk came from Latin and over time were pronounced with the \"cha\" sound that was also written as \"ch\" in our alphabet."
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"Ahem. Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why are \"Kansas\" and \"Arkansas\" pronounced differently? ](_URL_0_) ^(_12 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Why are Kansas and Arkansas pronounced differently? ](_URL_6_) ^(_1 comment_) 1. [ELI5: Why is Arkansas and Kansas pronounced differently when they both end in Kansas? ](_URL_5_) ^(_5 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Why is Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw? ](_URL_1_) ^(_25 comments_) 1. [Why is Arkansas pronounced \"ArkanSAW\" and not like Kansas? ](_URL_3_) ^(_16 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Why are \"Arkansas\" and \"Kansas\" pronounced so differently, when they are spelled the same? ](_URL_7_) ^(_8 comments_) 1. [ELI5:Why isn't Arkansas pronounced R-Kansas? ](_URL_2_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [Why are Kansas and Arkansas pronounced differently? ](_URL_4_) ^(_6 Comments_)"
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Why do we humans get so easy problems with their teeth while animals don't brush their teeth at all and most of them do fine their entire life?
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"We have terrible diets that contribute to damage to our teeth. Many animals also don't live as long as humans, and that damage can take a while to really compromise your teeth. And ultimately, if an animal's teeth go bad, which does happen, that's typically *the end* of their entire life. You don't see the bad teeth animals running around because they have died from complications to having bad teeth, like disease and starvation."
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"That is what they are adapted to do. It is like asking how fish can swim all the time or how whales can hold their breath for so long. The stress of being used for what they do isn't something difficult for nipples to do."
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Do film companies pay theatres to show their movies, or do theatres pay film companies for the rights to show their movies?
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"It's a shared pool that works out roughly like this, the ticket price is split between the studio and the theater at a percentage 1st week: 90% studio / 10% theater 2nd: 80/20 3-5: 60/40 ...etc Specific movies and specific studios may have deals that alter the percentage for each week and timeframe, it's all negotiated, and these are estimated but it's a good rough base of how it works. The theaters still collect all the money on concessions, that's where they make the bulk of their profits."
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"The distributor will make a determination on that based on the quality of the movie, and they market at the time. Many movies are destined for DVD from the outset. Some may go straight to DVD based on what that studio and others have released at that time. The movie studios have to keep the exhibitors (that is, your local movie theater) happy. And that means providing movies that fill the theaters with people who will purchase popcorn, candy and sodas. If a movie won't fill many seats, then even if they get some theaters to show the movie, it won't last past the first week. When a movie is sent to theaters, the distributors spend a lot of money on advertising. It's much more expensive to market a movie in theaters than it is to market a direct-to-dvd film. So, when they send a movie to the theaters, they have to back it up with a lot of money for advertising, so they don't want something that the theater owners will yank out after a short time."
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Why is it, that on the same amount of food consumption, I feel fine to exercise, but feel empty to edit an essay?
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"The empty feeling when thinking about the essay is a psychological process. There could be many reasons your brain wants to avoid it. This most likely has nothing to do with food intake. Sounds like small dose of the maladaptive coping mechanism psychologists call *avoidance*. (Yes, it's a thing.) Plain old procrastination is different. I'm guessing it's the coping mechanism because you have some deterring \"feeling\" associated with it."
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"Don't know about you, but actually I am usually more hungry and do eat more after exercising."
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Why do people listen to music with earbuds in while driving a vehicle that most likely has a stereo in it?
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"They could be listening to music from an audio player which can't connect to the car stereo (for example if the car doesn't have an aux input). Or they could just be using their headphones to talk to someone on the phone. And where I'm from it's very illegal."
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"Talking on the phone is only illegal if it involves taking your hands off the wheel. Having a car phone and talking on the phone through that is not against the law. But in many places it is against the law to be holding your phone and talking. Because then you're not only not giving your full attention to the road, but you've got something else in your hand that could prevent you from grabbing the wheel quickly enough in an emergency. Therefore, not at all the same thing as talking to a passenger in the car with you."
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Why are head-lice a 'kids thing' that seems to only exist amongst groups of younger aged children?
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"Because kids, when at school and play they get their heads close to others. Adults, consider it rude/weird/childish to do that. While the lice may spread from child to adult, it is less likely to happen between two adults."
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"Better nutrition during pregnancy for one. For two, they fix that sort of thing when the kid is very young and you don't see it on the street and it isn't a big enough story to make the papers."
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The Turkey/Netherlands Diplomatic Tensions
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"Basically Turkey wanted to send someone over to the Netherlands to campaign, but the Dutch government was like 'we want none of that here'. Turkey said some not so nice things about the Netherlands and they responded by not allowing the Turkish campaign dude to land there with a plane. Turkish people in return tried to burn the Dutch flag but it turned out to be the French flag (I laughed so hard at this) and stabbing oranges for some reason. Now more countries are getting involved and basically scolding Turkey for handling things poorly."
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"High Crime + Dwindling Population + Crumbling Infrastructure + Diminishing Jobs = Perceived Shithole."
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Why does the toast get crunchier when it cools?
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"The steam evaporates off, so it's less moist."
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"It has to do with how much moisture is in the food compared to how much moisture is in the air. Oreo? Drier than air, they gain moisture and turn soft. Loaf of bread? More moist than air, it loses moisture and dries up. Kitchen hack: put a slice of bread in with cookies to keep the cookies fresher a little longer."
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How do computers know what time it is?
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"They have an internal clock, a lot like a wristwatch. It keeps track of the time. There's even a small battery on the motherboard to keep track when the computer is unplugged."
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"there are official world wide time keepers and they tell people all over the world what time it is. Then those people tell everyone under them what time it is."
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Can someone please explain the sunk cost fallacy?
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"Imagine you've had a car for the last fifteen years, and that car is a piece of shit. It breaks down every few dozen miles, it smells gross, it looks like shit, and you're constantly pouring money into it. The Sunk-Cost fallacy is where you would be more likely to keep the car and keep pouring money into it than to spend a whole bunch of money on a new car. The thinking is something like \"I've spent so much money on this car, it'd be stupid of me to buy a new one.\" This is also extremely common among gamblers, who might keep playing a machine, reasoning that since they've put so much money into it already, it's bound to pay off eventually. TL;dr, It's where you think that it's more beneficial to continue doing something, despite that something being obviously detrimental, because you're sure that if you keep doing it, you'll get a return."
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"Excuse my ignorance and laziness but can somebody give me a TL;DR on sea org?"
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What's the difference between the different tiers of gasoline and is it really worth the extra money for premium gas?
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"Higher grades of gasoline are refined more carefully to give them a higher octane rating, which means they burn more consistently and are less likely to \"knock\" (ignite prematurely) under the higher compression in high-performance engines. Unless your car's owner's manual specifically says you need to fill the tank with a higher grade of gasoline, it's a waste of money. Check the owner's manual."
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"The grades of gasoline are Octane measurements. Higher octanes ignite at a higher pressure. High performance engines have high compression, so a low octane fuel will explode too early which will mess with your engine, so they need high octane fuel. Regular cars don't get anything special out of high octane fuel. It's a waste to use it. Detergents like techron do actually remove carbon buildup in your engine, but you don't need to use them that often considering how much more expensive Chevron is compared to other filling stations. Some of them work really well, but the question becomes \"is the buildup at any given time in my car that big of a deal?\" The answer is probably no. You can go to an auto store and get a similar product you add to your own tank for around $1 (which is less expensive than paying an extra 20 cents per gallon for techron)."
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How come I can tell you the numbers that come before and after 7 right away but have to go through the alphabet in my head to tell you the letters that come before and after H?
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"You do addition and subtraction on numbers when you are a little kid all the time. So, 7-1 and 7+1 are intuitive. You don't do the same for letters. H+1 and H-1 aren't drilled into your head as a little kids, so many people have to recite the alphabet to know the position of letters."
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"Dyslexic here! I have some difficulty with them, and find myself having to retry them more than my peers but they don't pose to much of a problem. If I'm having a problem with determining a word/symbol or a set of words/symbols I just have to isolate the problem and ask myself questions to clear it up. Is that a p or a q...? Well a q faces the same way as an a.. So it's a q... Problem solved!"
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Why do the windows in the back seats of cars not go down all the way like in the front?
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"It's not to keep children in the car. It's simply that there isn't enough space inside the door for the window. The bottom of a front car door is bigger than the window, so it can go entirely inside. The rear doors have a cutout for the rear wheel well, which keeps the window from being able to go all the way down."
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"I can only answer the second part of the question The reason the driver's seat is on the left of right-driving roads is so that the driver is seated as close as possible to the middle of the road, giving him or her the best visibility. If your seat was on the right while driving on the right side if the road you'd be too far from the opposite lane to correctly calculate distances"
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The current American immigration problem
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"The **unbiased** report is that the politicians are still arguing what they think needs to be done. And since they're arguing and arguing and arguing about it, nothing gets done. In the meantime, many poor and desperate people from the impoverished countries of Central America will continue to immigrate illegally to the USA. They will do the jobs which most US-Americans refuse to do, like agricultural work and cleaning jobs."
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"1. They are ridiculously expensive 2. The global decline in Nationalism in favor of Globalism"
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Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan
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"It regards taxes. 9% tax on corporate income, 9% tax on individual income, and a 9% national sales tax across the board. of coarse this is impossible, but people are having fun with herman, and I think he is having fun too"
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"Funny you should ask. Roni Jacobson wrote an article that covers a lot of what you ask in this Tuesday's *New York Times*: [\"60: Behind Every Second, Millenniums of History\"] (_URL_0_)."
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Why is it that some days after my hour long drive home, I cannot remember the journey at all?
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"The human brain has (as I understand it- could be wrong) a bit of an autopilot function. However, with this said, if the brain detects a problem, it pops out of it. That's the reason why you start paying attention just as the guy cuts you off, from what I understand."
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"Odd, for me, I sleep for hours, and it's lucky if I remember more than a couple of minutes of dreaming."
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Why do a lot of hospitals have religious connections?
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"For centuries medical care was provided by churches and temples. This is because for many religions care for the sick is a major command of their faith. This tradition has carried on into modernity and a lot of hospitals are heavily funded by religious groups, and many are physically owned by them with the religious group actually paying to have it built and owning the land."
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"Why do some parts of the world call gasoline petrol?"
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How are the elements in the 7th row of the periodic table created in a lab?
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"Particle accelerators fire streams of one type of atom at another type of atom. The kinetic energy is enough overcome the repulsive forces, and smash the nuclei together, creating new elements. It is nuclear fusion, not chemistry, so while you can't change an element through chemistry, you can through physics."
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"Every time you remove a proton, you have a different element. The number of protons *defines* the different elements."
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