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When a movie star signs up for a big budget movie how/when does he/she get paid? | [
"Talent agent here... they get paid multiple times in various ways. There's the lump sum upfront guaranteed money (ie We'll pay you $10M dollars to do this film), royalties (plus 2% of box office sales, TV broadcoasts and DVD sales), and bonuses/incentives (plus another $1M if you do a publicity tour in Europe, wit... | [
"Television and film make lots of money and the actors are the only people that the audience associates with the work. It is not uncommon for a tv show to return 100 dollars for every 1 invested. As such there is incredible interest in keeping the show going. Which allows actors to get extremely good salaries. Or A... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is it generally harder to sleep when "trying"? | [
"You're right in saying that overthinking and anxiety interfere with falling asleep. When you \"try\" to sleep, are you also worrying in the back of your mind that it won't work or that it will be harder to sleep, as you stated? This sounds like anxiety, which could explain why \"trying\" to sleep keeps you from ac... | [
"I'm no expert, but I do know it's harder for you to wake up and feel energized during the middle of REM sleep"
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Why can't the United Nations overthrow North Korean's dictatorship and rehabilitate the ~25 million people with government funds? | [
"Please remember this is ELI5 and it's a question that deserves good answers, not snide ass remarks."
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"The Koreans have long lived under tyrannical rule of the Japanese. Toward the end of WWII, as the Japanese Empire was crumbling at the hands of the US, the Russians, who were terrified of US influence at their doorstep in East Asia, declared on Japan to expand their own influence and limit their rival's. The Sovie... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why a Catholic priest would find molesting a child somehow less offensive to the church than intercourse with a woman. What exactly is the logic here? | [
"The whole \"pedophile priest\" thing isn't really about the Catholic faith. It's more to do with the sickest of pedophiles and their ways of attracting young boys. Really sick pedophiles like to get involved with things like churches, little league sports, and the Boy Scouts because it puts them around young boys ... | [
"Because it is a satirical figure meant to offend and mock people with religious beliefs. Remember no matter who your invisible friend is he is better than anyone else's invisible friend."
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Why do rings make your skin green? | [
"Rings generally do this because because of a chemical reaction between the metal on the ring, and substances on your hands (oil, acid). The reason it happens with some rings and not others is due to the type of metal the ring is made from/plated in. Silver is very common in rings, and readily oxidizes when it com... | [
"Why do the glands in my neck burn like high hell when I'm holding back tears?"
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Why is blue such a prominent colour in Italian sports kits when there is no blue on the flag? | [
"As far as I know it was because it was the colour used to represent the royal family and the colour in the coat of arms."
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"It originated in France. It might interest you to know that up until around the 1940's, pink was a *boy's* color, and blue the girl's color. It gradually switched in response to French tradition."
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Why does food taste different when sick? | [
"The taste of a lot of foods is influenced to various degrees by smell. So if your nose is clogged from being ill, your food will taste different."
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"Do you also cough when eating popsicles and frankfurters/hot dogs? If so, it might be your technique."
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Why can't I curl my pinkie finger (little finger) without curling my ring finger too? | [
"Mostly because you're used to it. If you trained on bending your pinky without bending your ring finger, eventually, you'd be able to do it."
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"The tendon for the ring finger is connected to the middle and pinky tendons, if you follow them on the back of your hand you can kind of see where they join just above the wrist."
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Why do some companies put coupons on their products that give the customer say for example an automatic $2 off? Why not make the price $2 cheaper? | [
"Finding a coupon for a discount makes you feel like you're getting a deal. If the price were simply lower, you wouldn't notice the difference. Consumers are more likely to spend money when they know they are saving money."
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"There are two types of coupons: Store Coupons, in which the store is running a promotion to entice people to come to the store, because most of the time people end up buying a bunch of other stuff in addition to the sale item. They usually still make a smaller profit off the sale item. Manufacturer Coupons, in whi... | eli5_question_answer | {
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When Yellowstone is called a supervolcano, what do they mean? | [
"> What part of Yellowstone is the acutal supervolcano? [Nearly all of it](_URL_1_) Yellowstone is a gigantic caldera. That's when a bubble of magma forms under the surface of the earth. It's too wide to actually form a volcano and instead forms a [peak around the edges](_URL_0_) It's about 1,500 square miles of la... | [
"In reality theres no sure fire way of knowing its going to erupt soon until, you know, it erupts. The thing could be completely inactive for all we know. Also, dont worry, because its completely out of your control."
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Why don't bugs bleed red when they explode on my windshield? | [
"Bugs don't have blood. Bugs have hemolymph. Hemolymph serves as both blood and the other fluid that surrounds cells in our bodies. The color difference comes from the molecule that binds to oxygen. Blood contains hemoglobin, an iron-based protein that binds to oxygen. Hemolymph contains hemocyanin, which is copper... | [
"Here are two extra questions: 1.What would happen if you jammed the door catch and started microwaving with the door open? 2. When I microwave olives (delicious), they sometimes spark, does that mean the seeds have metal in them and should I not be doing this without parental supervision?"
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Why doesn't the US update their paper money to a more secure format? | [
"> Since the superdollars were first detected about a decade ago, the regime has been pocketing an estimated $15 million to $25 million a year from them. (Other estimates are much higher — up to several hundred million dollars’ worth.) That sounds like a lot of money, but compared to the $1 trillion in cash circula... | [
"We shouldn't have it, it's just a worthless throwback. We should split the difference and use the same time year round."
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Why is it that I can hold my breath for like 30-45 seconds in a pool but in the shower I can't last five seconds while washing my face beforebi have to gasp for breath? | [
"This is likely related to something called the [mammalian diving reflex](_URL_0_). When cold water contacts your face, your heart rate immediately slows by 10-25%, and the blood vessels to your extremities begin to close off. This reduces the oxygen being consumed by your body, and leaves more available for your v... | [
"I will answer the second part of your question, and I promise you that this works 100% of the time for me. When I have hiccups, I hold my breath and drink tiny sips of water for 12 seconds. After that, not more hiccups for me!"
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Why do schools adopt a zero-tolerance policy and what do these policies generally dictate? | [
"Zero tolerance policies are there for the convenience of dishing out discipline & avoiding complaints about unequal punishment being dealt out. For example, a zero tolerance policy about fighting means that when you break up a fight, both people are automatically guilty and punished. The teacher doesn't have to fi... | [
"> Many states have extended their discipline policies to cover student conduct off campus or after school hours. Almost every school has the power to discipline students for off-campus conduct that directly interferes with the learning process, such as cheating on homework. Additionally, on-campus behavior continu... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How can America spend $600 billion a year on their military, 54% of their federal spending, while other large countries spend a 10th of that? | [
"\"How?\" Because the US priorities military spending. Why can other spend less, this becomes a somewhat circular question. And it's because the US spends so much. The US vastly subsidizes its allies militaries. Basically the US military is super bad ass, so others don't need to spend as much and can do other thin... | [
"Because they usually only give a few hundred million or a few billion dollars to a foreign nation. Internal US finances are in the hundred of billions and trillions. Foreign aid accounts of about or less than 1% of the US budget."
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If dogs and other animals do not have to brush their teeth daily, why do humans? | [
"Hi, first, animals don't eat candie, they don't drink cofee, don't smoke, ... And they only live a few years while we can live up to 100 years old. Sorry for my english ;)"
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"Because animals don't eat Twinkies, and wash that down with a vanilla milkshake. Quite simple. If you eat things that are bad for your teeth, you have to take better care of your teeth."
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How are restaurants able to keep soda carbonated and ready to serve? | [
"They don't. Inside the soda machine are containers of syrup and a tank of compressed CO2. The two are mixed together at the time the drink is dispensed. On a small/home scale, you can look at a SodaStream system to see how it works."
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"In the US refills are free because soft drinks are commonly dispensed from fountain machines. A 12oz soft drink from a fountain costs the restaurant almost nothing, typically less than a penny. So restaurants see free refills as a perk they can offer with only a tiny cost to themselves that might encourage patrons... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is the Multiverse and why do we think it exists? | [
"In mathematics and physics, you can ask questions with mathematical equations or series of equations and proofs. Generally, without getting too far into it, when quantum physicists specifically address this question, the math sometimes suggests that multiple universe exist. It takes some imagining if you don't un... | [
"We don't know, but physicists are working hard to try to find out. Seriously, it's one of the Big Questions."
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Today Earth is closer to the sun than any other time in it's orbit. Why are we not more significantly affected by this? | [
"At its closest the Earth is about 147 million km from the Sun. At the furthest 152 million km from the Sun. That's barely anything."
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"The moon does not have a perfectly circular orbit around us. Like just yesterday, I watched the supermoon, where it came something like 5-7% (correction would be lovely) closer than usual. It can also depend on the tilt of the Earth, just like in seasons."
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Why does AIDS keep getting cured like once a week? | [
"There's lots of things that may kill/destroy a virus. The trick is finding something that doesn't also kill/destroy *you*."
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"Is it me, or has this never happened to anyone else?"
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If there was nothing, how was there a "Big Bang"? | [
"Lots of theories out there, but the simplest and most correct answer is that no one has a clue what may or may not have existed before the big bang."
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"As far as we can tell, time did not exist before the big bang. So there was no before the big bang."
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How we measure the measurements themselves | [
"First keep in mind that units are arbitrary - they don't have any impact on the results of experiments. Units are just a way to put a number to \"that far\" or \"this long\" or \"this much.\" With that being said, units: -The second is defined by to be 1/the frequency of the light emitted by a particular process i... | [
"I am not an expert, but my answer would be three words: high interest rates."
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Why are American politicans/judges/ect allowed to accept financial contributions (for example campaign donations) in exchange for their support (or the opposite) of issues/laws/judgements? What is the legal justification for this when bribery is illegal? | [
"There can be no *quid pro quo,* per se, attached to a campaign contribution. Otherwise, that would indeed be illegal. (wink, wink). The party line, and they're sticking to it, is that you contribute to support those you feel share your ideology and/or viewpoint in the *hopes* (wink, wink) that he or she will vote ... | [
"Lobbying is literally just saying \"Congressman X, you should vote for this bill because reasons.\" That's all it is. Have you ever signed a petition? Wrote a letter to a congressman? Asked a question at a town hall meeting? Congratulations, you've lobbied! Lobbying is a vital part of a democratic government. It a... | eli5_question_answer | {
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"No approved therapeutic claims" on ads. | [
"Their claim hasn't been verified in any scientific way. If I gave 10000 people a sugar pill and 1000 of them lost weight I could legally claim that the pill helps with weight loss. It wouldn't make the claim true, and the results might not be repeated in a larger sample population. The disclaimer would keep people... | [
"Advertisements or from people who subscribe to premium service."
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Why is the 'highest quality' of audio cables gold plated when silver is a more conductive material? | [
"Gold is more corrosion-resistant. Silver is very quick to tarnish, particularly if people touch it."
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"Being old doesn't have any relevance to the connector. It is simply metal touching metal in order to transmit audio, so it can't get any better than that. What makes it so widespread even today is that it is simple and it works."
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How do governments prevent terrorist attacks without violating the privacy of its citizens | [
"They don't. They could, but that would be counterproductive for them."
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"Because we are supposed to be in charge of our government, not the other way around. Our constitution grants the government very limited power. Attempts to reach beyond that are interpreted as affronts to our freedom. Our basic right to liberty literally means to be left alone. A government snooping into every ema... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What changes (if any) occur to the circulatory system when someone becomes an amputee? | [
"At first, your blood pressure would increase, as the heart is working just was hard to push less blood a shorter distance. But your circulatory system has a feedback system that monitors both how much blood is needed, and what pressure it is at. It would eventually recognize the you were getting plenty of blood, a... | [
"Fluid buildup due to poor circulation that is often resolved by sleep. Someone correct me if I'm wrong"
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Why do lawyers defend obvious murderers and criminals? | [
"> Why do lawyers defend obvious murderers and criminals? Because you cannot have a fair legal system that is based on \"obvious\" guilt. Guilt must be *demonstrated* via *evidence*, not assumed via something as subjective as \"it's obvious\". > Why might a lawyer defend someone where the case is totally against t... | [
"Step 1: Take almost all the money away from our mental health system to ensure that crazy people are unable to get the help hey need. Step 2: Encourage free speech among groups that are overtly racist, thereby allowing them to incite people to acts of violence. Step 3: Fight so hard for our freedom to own guns uni... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why aren't clothing sizes universal? | [
"A small part of the problem is \"vanity sizing\" where retailers will size their clothes slightly larger than others so people feel better about themselves and therefore the clothes. You then tend to get into sizing wars with retailers trying to outsize each other, meaning sizes drift over time. This tends to be w... | [
"In which region? Or are you looking for global statistics on literacy?"
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Civil rights vs Civil liberties | [
"The very easy way to think of it is that Civil Rights refer to the idea of all people having equal treatment, especially being free from discrimination based on factors like race, sex, etc. Civil Liberties are those freedoms protected explicitly by law. First amendment rights, etc. There's some overlap, obviously.... | [
"Republican: Economic freedom, social control Democrat: Economic control, Social freedom Facism: Economic control, social control Libertarian: Economic freedom, social freedom"
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Why is there a scandal in South Korea right now? What happened? | [
"It was discovered that the president of South Korea has been getting advice from a \"psychic\" claiming to be able to channel the spirit of her dead mother, and that not only has the president been giving federal money to this woman, but that this \"psychic\" has been behind pretty much every decision they've made... | [
"Why is election on weekdays instead of weekends?"
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What does "70mm" mean in film, and why are people excited about it? | [
"\"70mm\" means that the film on which the image was collected and later projected is itself is 70mm wide. Think of older cameras that used 35mm film as a standard, but up this to 70mm and apply it to cinema. The reason 70mm film gets people excited is that the film allows for greater image resolution. Larger forma... | [
"The originals were filmed in higher quality -- it had to be downgraded to fit the consumer technology available at the time. Older movies are the same."
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Why is the national debt a problem? | [
"Well it's arguable that it isn't a problem, at least not yet. There are different ratios of debt/interest payments to GDP that are considered the point where this is a real problem. We're probably not all that close to it now in the US. We can easily sustain the amount of debt we have now or simply grow our way ou... | [
"What's the reasoning behind term limits being a good idea?"
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Why did early pistol and musket designs have such unergonomic looking grips? | [
"Ergonomics as a science hadn't been invented yet, and guns were mostly handcrafted pieces, so each gunsmith was kind of just doing his own thing. Ergonomics also isn't all that important when you have a gun with no sights and you're only expected to fire a couple rounds a minute at most."
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"There's a bit of a blur between what is considered a swivel gun and a wall gun (which is the term I have heard used most often). Swivel guns often had no stock and were instead mounted in forks that were fixed in prepared positions (but they could be pulled up and moved). Wall guns usually looked like over-sized m... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How come using better sports equipments isn't considered cheating? | [
"It is considered cheating. There are very strict regulations about what can and cannot be used, and what types of modifications can be made to equipment. So, for example, baseball bats have to be made a certain way. If you make them out of a different material, or make them shaped different, or anything else that ... | [
"Testosterone can be used for cheating in athletes, and has high potential for unsafe abuse. You might as well ask why steroids are illegal, its just as good a question."
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Why does is Cyanide so toxic if its just Carbon and Nitrogen? | [
"The atoms that make it don't matter in this case. What matters is the shape of the molecule they make together, and how that mixes with other shapes in the human body. Imagine that some molecules are locks, and others are keys. There is one particular lock that is necessary for your cells to produce energy, which ... | [
"Carbonated water is more acidic. Carbonated water is made by adding a lot of Carbon Dioxide to Water. The Carbon Dioxide combines with Water to make Carbonic Acid."
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Why do professors continuously write exams with extremely low averages and then curve, rather than write easier exams? | [
"if they set the bar too low, they wouldn't get a representative sample of what the class understands. For example: if you're in calculus class, and the test only has \"what is 2+2?\" on it, then obviously everyone will pass. Which tells the professor nothing. If, however, there is a wide sampling of problems of va... | [
"They have teaching assistants that grade, teach, and tutor. For individual teachers with multiple choice tests they use a grade guide, it's like an overlay with the correct answers punched out. All you need to do is color in the hole with red ink on any answer that fails to match up. With essays they often only gr... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why doesn't reddit have an official iPhone app? | [
"We already have lots of apps that work fine, like alien blue etc. Reddit doesn't need to make an official one."
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"Is there a way to make a subreddit for this? Like... with closed/moderated submission or something? Just seems more likely that people will check a subreddit than an external site."
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Why people talk to babies/dogs/cute things in a high pitched voice? | [
"Lower pitched noises tend to represent anger and instill fear(Christian Bale as Batman), while higher pitched tones tend to feel happy or nice (Owl City). If you subscribe to evolutionary psychology, generally predatory animals like dogs will have low pitched growls while harmless animals like birds will have high... | [
"Because their parents talk to them like morons, and kids therefore think everyone goes around all the time talking like an idiot. Language is picked up by mimicry and when people call a child's blanket a blanky, their kids think that's the actual word for blanket."
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Why proteins are shown in scientific papers as bunch of tangled wires and arrows, and not like some kind of chemical element or something similar? | [
"Proteins are molecules, like water, not elements like hydrogen. But instead of having three atoms connected like water , they can have hundreds. They are structured in ways that look all twisted as well."
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"> But what does an atom actually look like? It doesn't look like anything, it *can’t* look like anything. The structures are too small for visible light to distinguish. It is like trying to map out the structure of someone's face by poking it with a probe the size of a building. > Is an atom actually like a ball,... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Rocket "Launch Windows" | [
"> What creates and ends a launch window? Usually it has to do with the orbital motion of their target (such as the ISS), or their desired path through the solar system. If you are launching a probe toward Mars for example you need to get your launch mostly pointing toward Mars. If you wait 12 hours your launch pat... | [
"Explained in the original thread. Explanation: _URL_0_ Thread: _URL_1_ Thanks mocmocmoc81"
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The Kathy Shelton Rape Case | [
"Kathy was brutally raped when she was 12 years old. Hillary Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas. The defendant in the case asked for a female lawyer, the judge asked Clinton to be the public defender for this lawyer. Clinton reluctantly took the case and fought aggressively for the client and got a one year sentence... | [
"Sleep - Shake Unconscious - Splash Coma - Wait and Hope Vegetative State - Wait and Bury"
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How do teams of developers work simultaneously on one project without messing each other up? | [
"Cooperation and tools. A Code Management or Code Versioning system allows multiple developers to work on the same source code modules. Primitive ones allow a developer to \"lock\" a source code file, preventing others from making changes to it until they've finished. More sophisticated ones allow multiple develope... | [
"End to End has a much more generic meaning than the one listed in that wiki page, so I presume that's what your co-worker is referring to. For example \"End to End testing\" simply means you test an entire system or pipeline instead of testing the components in isolation. Normally if you work on software or hardwa... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Older PC's used to have a "Turbo" button on them. What did it actually do? | [
"It was there to make the computer slower. The original Intel 8088 CPU had a fixed clock speed of 4.77MHz. Many applications (mainly games) used this for timing. When faster CPUs came out, these games would run too quickly and were unplayable. CPU manufacturers solved this problem by allowing you to revert back to ... | [
"Sure! * Monitor - Let's you see stuff the computer wants to show you * Keyboard/Mouse - Let's you put information into the computer, control things * Harddrive - Stores information in the medium/long term (SLOW) * RAM - Stores information in the short term (FAST) * Optical Drive - Let's you read from disks using l... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is the OJ case iconic? | [
"Well, it was a huge deal at the time. The coverage was unprecedented, and in fact it is credited as being the first \"reality\" TV - from the white bronco chase, throughout the court coverage."
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"Exactly the point and why this is a serious problem, OP."
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Why pink is treated and named like it is such a distinctive color | [
"It's just a cultural artifact - we have a single word for \"light red.\" Not all languages have words for the same colors. Russian has separate, basic color words for \"light blue\" and \"dark blue\" (goluboy and siniy respectively). Hungarian has two different categories of \"red\" (piros and vörös) that aren't s... | [
"I forget why it switched, but it used to be opposite: blue for girls, pink for boys. Reason behind this was because boys were seen as young warriors, and red was the color of warriors. Pink was like a lesser version of red. And blue was just a softer more comfortable color, making it good for girls."
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Why did games from around decade ago have videos that played if you were idle in the menus? | [
"They acted as a screen saver. Old CRT televisions would have an image burned into the screen if it displayed the same thing for a long time ([like this](_URL_0_)). The video just stopped the same image for displaying for too long. These days, image burning isn't really a problem with LED and plasma screens."
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"My only issues were art changes and having to be online the whole time I play annoys me."
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Why are computer processors produced in a vinyl size disc form? | [
"The silicon needed for the processors is produced as a huge cylinder, which is then sliced into these thin discs, called wafers. It's cylinder shaped because of a process called [Czolchralski process](_URL_0_)."
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"They're printed with massive amounts at one time, not individually carved out. A transistor is not a very complex component after all. It's merely a few pieces of semiconductor."
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What is the difference between Chrome & Chromium, and who owns Chromium? | [
"Chrome is a browser created by Google. Chromium is an open source browser based on Chrome. Chrome OS is an operating system made by Google, where the Chrome browser is the primary user interface. It is designed for lightweight devices that are primarily used to access the internet. Chromium OS is an open source ve... | [
"Safari comes standard on Macs. IE comes standard on PCs. Choose Mozilla Firefox if you want customization Choose Chrome if you want speed IE and Safari should never be your default browsers."
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What makes some whiskey/bourbon/scotch "smooth" and others "harsh?" Price is not the answer I'm looking for. There are affordable examples of each that are smooth, and others in the same price range that are harsh. Food science based answers would be the most helpful. | [
"The taste can be influenced well before aging by the shape and height of the destillery and the destillation temperature. Different alcohols have sometimes very slightly different evaporation points and they carry different aromas. With a high destillery you can more easily adjust for a favorable mix since some no... | [
"Unfortunately, everyone's idea of what knowledge is \"basic\" varies. I can tell you that wine is made from grapes, and there's red and white. But you already know that, so it's not very useful. If you want to get into all the ninety bazillion kinds of grapes and regions where wine is made and so on, then a wine t... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do gas prices change daily, but nearly all other consumer products have a fixed price? | [
"Consumer products don't have a fixed price. Rather, they don't have a fixed cost, but retailers usually mark them up high enough that the profit buffer is still there no matter how much the cost fluctuates. There's also the theory of the \"menu cost\" which holds that retailers incur some cost to actually change t... | [
"A) Allows them to advertise lower prices B) Allows them to advertise the same prices for all stores - in the US, sales tax can vary across city, county & state borders C) Allows them to mark the price once - sales tax rates change, by small amounts, fairly often"
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Why does the DMV care how much I spend to buy a car from a relative? | [
"Because the DMV is responsible for collecting taxes on the sale of a car from the buyer. Cars are one of those special items that are taxed even when bought used. Your relationship to the seller is irrelevant."
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"Nothing. Understand that you will have to pay a fine, and the fine increases every year. Other than that, nothing will prevent you from buying insurance when you need it."
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Why does water dry out our hands? | [
"Your skin has a layer of oils which it uses for waterproofing, making it more difficult for water to escape your tissues. However, it's not invincible, so enough washing (particularly with soap, or hot water) can strip this layer. This allows water to escape from your tissues to the air more readily, drying it ou... | [
"It's probably just pulling moisture from your nose and drying it out, hence the pain."
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How does it feel falling through a cloud while skydiving? Is it safe to perform such a feat? | [
"As a pilot, I can advise that as a rule of thumb, clouds have turbulence. Not always bad turbulence, but I feel lik skydiving through them is asking. It some rough bumps. Just a WAG."
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"It’s a very unnatural, unnerving feeling but in a controlled environment. It’s a safe form of thrill seeking. Some people like to be scared, whether it’s the heights, the speed, going upside down, the free fall feeling, it’s just way fun for some people."
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Does taking a double dosage of something have the same effect as taking it twice a day? If so or if not, how? | [
"They'll have different effects. When you ingest something, the amount in your blood increases fairly quickly as it gets digested, then begins falling off as your liver/kidneys filter it out. But that filtering is sort of a proportional thing. Like, your liver will remove 15% of whats in your system every hour, say... | [
"I no longer feel qualified to give you a full eli5 answer, as I've been out of the field for some time. However, all stimulants prevent hunger and dry your mouth. From what I remember, this happens because stimulants cause your body to go into a moderate fight or flight mode. So the last thing your body thinks abo... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If the hottest man-made temperature ever is 5,500,000,000,000C in the CERN, how come the lab and everything sorrounding it didn't melt down? | [
"Think about the difference between the filament of a light bulb being at about 2550 Celsius vs your entire house being that temperature. Obviously that is the difference between business as usual and your entire house burning, melting, and exploding at the same time. That very high temperature at CERN was in a ver... | [
"The surface of the sun is not generating heat. The \"engine\" where the heat is made in the sun is about 400,000 miles from the center and about 27,000,000^o F. The rest of the sun is just hot stuff heated by the core. None of it generates heat (well, some from friction but comparatively not much). The earth's cor... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do the citizens from countries like Canada and USA get the connections to join groups like ISIS or even the Peshmerga? | [
"Through social media and \"connections\" that are met at gatherings, such as mosques. NOTE: This is not to say that all mosques are recruiting grounds for ISIS but it has happen."
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"Follow up, if this warrant a new post please tell me: How did politicians and the general public react when they found out these companies were aiding Nazi forces in WW2?"
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Japan's transition from the Empire we fought in WWII to the friendly, efficient, stable (video game/anime factory) they're known for today? | [
"The US also kept intact the Imperial Monarchy. Being vital to the Japanese culture and ethos, the Allies allowed for a constitutional monarchy ( which was arguably in place after the Meiji era anyways). By having a peaceful occupation and rebuilding, along with respecting the Japanese culture, they became our All... | [
"Because we then helped rebuild their country and became a significant trading partner for the next half century (also, don't forget that technically they started that war with us) In general though, the speed with which the beligerants of WWII became allies is pretty historically impressive. The unification agains... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why is Brazil's crime rate so high, and where did these trends begin? | [
"There is still a massive gap between the rich and poor in Brazil. And when the poor can't get jobs to feed themselves and their families, they turn to crime. It doesn't help that guns are easily available in Brazil as well. Tourists make very easy targets, as many seem to leave their brains at home when they go ... | [
"What you talking about, Willis??? HIV and AIDS are epidemic in rural India and Southeast Asia. They're also rising in parts of China, but they won't release official figures."
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Why is it that 4G internet on my phone feels insanely slow, almost useless sometimes, but years ago, back when 4G and LTE didn't exist, 3G on my Blackberry felt fine? | [
"It's because websites have put more content into their pages. If you tried to use your old 3G again, it would be painfully slow. Even though our computers are getting faster, the actual time taken to run our software is the same across the years. We keep building heavier software."
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"They can, My in-laws don't have internet in their house, they just have a hotspot device that they turn on and off when they need internet. But generally, wi-fi is faster and more reliable than cellular data. Even 4G LTE is not as fast as AC internet speeds."
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why do car engines vibrate more when in park? | [
"When your engine runs, it doesn't deliver nice constant power. It's a series of captured explosions delivering sudden bursts of power, followed by a lag until the next burst. This is more noticeable when the engine is running really slowly, since the explosions are further apart. Also, the weight and resistance of... | [
"Lets start with how an engine works. You have pistons which compress gasoline and then it gets ignited. The explosion drives the piston back, which cause a different piston to compress gasoline. But when an engine is stopped you can't compress the gasoline. Modern cars have when is called a Starter Motor, which is... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why did using AM radio for music fall out of favour? | [
"AM sound quality isn't great, but it travels longer distances. FM sounds better, but doesn't travel far. This is probably not an official stance, but I think AM - being sports and news talk primarily - has a smaller audience appeal, so reaching farther audiences is better for them as it expands their potential lis... | [
"As opposed to what? Radio is probably the only form of entertainment you can enjoy while driving, taking a bath, closing your eyes to go to sleep, mowing the lawn, and many other things. It's not going to go away any time soon! It is going to change, though. Digital radio is gradually becoming more popular in the ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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As a broke, 24-year-old pizza delivery guy what can we as citizens do to help fight against internet censorship? | [
"Honestly I question whether this belongs in ELI5. There really isn't a way to explain what the problem is without 'bias' or 'blatant speculation'."
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"Because believe it or not it affects what goes on around you. The amount of tax you pay, the amount of social assistance, whether or not wars both foreign and domestic occur. Look at what just happened with net neutrality. Had that not passed your Internet could be slowed down considerably while giving corporation... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What is really happening when you snap mentally? | [
"Define \"snap\". It can mean a lot of different things. Like snapping from stress where you just can't take it or snapping as in waking up one day and killing 10 people?"
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"Isn't it just another way to take your mind off it?"
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Why do free range eggs have harder shells than the "conventional" kind? | [
"Free range chickens have a more varied diet which contains more minerals. Or in short, because they eat bugs."
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"Color of eggs varies by breed of chicken used to lay the egg. Generally speaking, the color of the egg matches the color of the feathers near the chicken's ears. The most popular breeds of laying hens in the United States lays white eggs, so that is what most people are used to. Marketers have tried to spin off br... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How it is possible that before 2. world war only men worked and still earned enough for whole family when today we have whole families (mom, dad, child) working and barely survive? | [
"People don't realize that our \"quality of life\" is significantly better than during that era. Even 20 years ago, we didn't pay for cell phone, internet, cable. Cut that out? That's $200 a month minimum. Even 20-30 years ago, a lot of people had 1 or 2 pairs of shoes. 2 sets of clothes (daily clothes, church clot... | [
"I'm not really an expert but I can tell you it's going downhill here as well. The last 10 years have seen very bad developments for the working here and we now also have what they call 'the working poor'; i.e. people working full-time yet not being able to live from it so they have to be supported by the state..."... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why are some people attached to a particular sleeping position? | [
"I would also like to know why I always end up sleeping on my stomach with my arms by my head, even though my arms fall aslep every time I do this. My scumbag sleeping brain never learns..."
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"A follow-up question: Why do some people love that feeling while others detest it?"
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why is it that fire normally burns orange? Why isn’t it blue, green, or purple? | [
"The color of a flame depends on what is burning and how hot it is. Most flames come from burning carbon based fuel (wood, wax, etc) and these things burn orange/red/yellow. The higher the temperature the whiter the flame. Other chemical substances simply burn different colors than carbon. This has to do with the a... | [
"Because cold things such as ice and people are blue and hot things like metal and people are red."
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Why were futurist so optimistic about the year 2000? | [
"Futurists of the 20th century merely used the year 2000 as a distant, exotic-sounding future year. Their optimism was based on projecting their economic system (capitalism or communism) into the future in order to demonstrate that the troubles of their time are temporary and that perseverance will lead to a greate... | [
"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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What is the advantage of being young when it comes to gymnastics? | [
"Because the rules don't allow them to compete internationally below 16. Younger girls gymnasts can complete more difficult maneuvers than adults, performance peaks at 16 to 18 because 16 is the cut off. It's not bullshit, a large part of women's gymnastics events involves spinning the body (more spins=more difficu... | [
"It's not about the method but the motives."
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How did plants appear on land when all life started in the ocean? | [
"Just as with animals plants grew in shallower and shallower water... then at the edge of the water... then on the land. A gradual 'evolution' from aquatic to terrestrial."
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"We would have no tides, which would affect the oceans a great deal. As life began in the oceans, maybe the world would have no life at all."
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When a singer is performing during a concert and they have an earpiece, what are they listening to? | [
"I'm pretty sure it's their own self singing so they don't mess up on the feedback from the stadium. Like if you ever spoke in an auditorium with speakers there's like a 1 sec delay or even more depending on how large it is. Basically, when you're several words ahead and then you hear back what you just a couple s... | [
"Because you can hear what you're singing when you're listening to the radio, but you have nothing to go off of when you're singing on your own. This is one of the reasons singers in the studio will have headphones on and be listening to the instrumentals while recording vocals."
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The proper use of commas. And other grammar that is used in everyday business language. | [
"[Grammar Girl](_URL_2_) is a good resource for learning grammar rules. In a professional setting, you'll probably need to use commas to separate items in a list (I think we'll need to get Janine in Accounting, Kevin in Legal, and TJ in HR involved in this), to join two clauses using and/but/or (I emailed Kevin abo... | [
"These are things that get done back in like elementary school. They're also frankly not that important. Being a good writer is about more than memorizing what arbitrary category words fall into."
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Why are electronic language translators so bad at their jobs? | [
"The sentence \"Go take a run.\" has some 1200 base meanings without any context. The word \"set\" has over 400 definitions. How the hell is a computer supposed to figure out exactly which one you mean when you input the words to be translated? On top of this, you've got grammar to consider. In English, we tend t... | [
"There's a big difference between being good with words and having the talents required to write dictionaries."
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Why does the sun seem to burn hotter in the morning (ca. 10:00) than in the afternoon (ca. 17:00)? | [
"1000 is only 2 hours off of noon. 1700 is 5 hours off if noon. The morning equivalent of 1700 would be 0700."
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"That's an oversimplification. Because many cities in Norway are so far north, and so close to the arctic circle, there is an exceptional change in daylight between summer (when the north pole is pointed toward the sun) and winter (when it's pointed away). EDITED--- On June 25 in Reykjavik [ICELAND], the sun rose ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How is time an illusion | [
"People like to think this, and *deep thinkers* come up with this on their own all the time, but time is actually a part of the universe, that exists with or without people. It is relative, but it definitely exists and has been mathematically proven over and over"
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"What you're really asking is, why is aesthetic subjective?"
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Why is that James Bond movie called 'Quantum of Solace?' | [
"It is also a term meaning \"extremely small\". The idea is that Bond is getting an \"extremely small\" amount of solace (comfort) by hunting down and killing the people responsible for Vesper's death. Also the bad guy's are called \"Quantum\" so there is that too."
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"It doesn't mean anything. It's like \"Rama Lama Ding-Dong\" or \"Give Peace a Chance.\" --Homer Simpson"
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What is Blu Ray? Why is it significant? | [
"It's essentially the same tech as a cd or a dvd, but it uses a laser which is in the blue spectrum rather than the red spectrum, which means it has a wavelength that is considerably shorter than that of the previous formats and allows you to write the data closer together on the disk, which means you can get far g... | [
"What's to explain? Why we have it? How it works?"
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Why do cities in China still have such high pollution when they have so many bike users? | [
"Most Chinese pollution is particulate based. Mainly from the burning of coal (although dust produced from lots of construction work adds to the effect). Chinese emission regulations are actually stricter than in the US from a design perspective however they seem to be much, much more lenient / not enforced when in... | [
"Actually we used to have the same problem. Circa 1900s we were in the midst of the industrial revolution that changed our landscape. Major cities were smog centers. The difference is that we have had 100 years to implement clean air acts, something China has been slow to do. The end result, for instance, were scru... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How do giant cruise ships float? | [
"The mass of the volume of water that they displace while sitting in the water, is greater than their mass. So, even though it's an enormous pile of metal, it's still \"lighter\" than the water it's displacing."
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"Because every part of the submarine is designed to make it as hard to find as possible."
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Why we still use electoral votes. | [
"Simply put: because the system exists to avoid allowing someone to win the presidency by sweeping a few large states. By making a 50.1% victory in California worth the same as a 90% victory there, it encourages candidates to campaign nationally, and speak to the issues important even to the smaller states. Because... | [
"In the real world why would anyone want to be a politician?"
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Being caught for piracy. | [
"For direct downloads from a server, they have to either seize the logs of the server, or work with ISPs or other men in the middle to figure out who is downloading what. For bittorrent and similar peer to peer systems, it's pretty trivial. Find a torrent you want to monitor, join the downloaders, log the IPs of th... | [
"It is; it probably falls under theft of services."
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Galaxies that are further away are moving away from us at an increasing rate. The further away we look, the further we go "back in time". Why can't we correlate the statements prove that the observations are evidence of acceleration from the big bang? | [
"I'm confused by what you are asking exactly. The recession of distant galaxies, and that it is faster at greater distance *is* one of, if not the most significant pieces of evidence for the big bang theory."
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"We know the big bang happened because the Hubble can still see light at the edge of the universe from the initial explosion. Another key piece of evidence for the big bang is red shift, red shift states that if an object is travelling away from us the red wave lengths stretch out so we see the object but tinted sl... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How would a compete collapse of Russia's economy affect the rest of the world? Which countries would suffer the most? | [
"With my basic understanding of economies and greater knowledge of energy markets, Russia's current troubles won't have too much of an effect on the rest of the world. Most of their money comes from energy exports and with their issues in Ukraine earlier this year, many of their customers (countries) had already tu... | [
"A financial collapse of the US economy or USD would destroy the entire world economy, not just Canada's. The US economy is so large and intertwined with the global economy that it would trigger a domino effect, taking the whole world down with it. A few reasons: 1) The world uses the USD as the primary reserve cur... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Beastie Boys "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" on TNMT movie commercial? Despite statement that no song will be used for commercials?? | [
"Sabotage was in Star Trek (and Star Trek Beyond). I think that films are OK with the Beasties, including commercials for the movies. I think the no commercial clause was actually worded as not used to sell commercial products, like Coke Zero or Tampax. That cheapens the music. Film is another form of art, that the... | [
"A lot of music, especially, is licensed from someone else for the game. So if they're showing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, they have permission to show the video game. If they want to play the music (\"When Worlds Collide\" - Powerman 5000), then they have to get permission from Powerman 5000 or their agent/record la... | eli5_question_answer | {
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how are movies that were recorded in a lower definition able to be released in higher definitions? | [
"They were recorded on film, which isn't limited to an amount of pixels- for the most part. Remember that they were broadcast on a huge screen. As long as you can get the original print you can re-release the movie as HD."
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"It's kinda a strange concept, but since old movies were taken on real film, the film itself is basically HD (It's not that hard to realize either, if you look at some film, it's very very high quality picture) As long as you have the old film, it'll be convertible into HD into at least the near future (Past the ti... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do some electronics have lights to indicate that they are off? | [
"Electronics don't have lights to indicate they're off. If they are off then by definition there's no power to run the lights. However, some electronics *do* have lights to tell you they're on standby or low power mode. This is important because you need to know whether certain devices are still powered to ensure t... | [
"If there is nothing plugged in, then no it will not use any electricity. For electricity to flow, there must be a complete circuit, and to complete the circuit you must plug something in. Some devices draw current even when they are off if they are plugged in, that may be what she is thinking of."
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Why does it seem that more men snore than women? | [
"It may just be the case that it's louder (and therefore more noticeable) when men snore because men as a rule have larger lung capacities than women."
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"Is there scientific data showing men have more flatulence than women? I think we just talk about it less and do it less around our friends."
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How is powerful acid stored without eating away its container? | [
"Highly inert materials are used. Frequently glass or a dense polymer. \"powerful acid\" simply describes a highly reactive solution that reacts in a certain manner. You simply have to pick a material that resists the particular chemical reaction the solution favors."
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"> So I'm looking at this can of fruit cocktail and I see no interior white liner, just the metal can. Do not all cans have an epoxy resin liner? Is this one transparent on this can? Also, why is it necessary to have it? Most cans do have an epoxy liner, especially if they are holding acidic contents. This liner is... | eli5_question_answer | {
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If some letters are silent in certain words then why include then at all? | [
"Often just tradition. When they began printing books in English, there weren't many typesetters in England, so they imported Dutch typesetters who often spelled English words in a Dutch way. So that's how we got the 'h' in 'ghost' and 'ghastly.' Other times the silent letter actually serves a purpose. The differen... | [
"Words like yeah, yellow, and young, it is a consonant. Words like anomaly, physics, and sandy, it is a vowel. Edited to add - Listen to the way it sounds in those words to help figure out the difference."
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Why do historians talk about civilizations being more advanced who had "the concept of zero," and why was that concept so hard to develop? | [
"Creating a \"concept of zero\" is the first step towards using math for something more complicated than counting cows in a herd, or a weight in gold. Once you are at that point, it's possible to move on to more complicated math, which leads to basic engineering and architecture. Zero is the first mental jump from ... | [
"Only about 3 civilizations in the whole world ever invented written language; it's *that* rare and extraordinary. All other civilizations got it by learning the idea from some other civilization that had it -- or didn't get it at all."
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Why did older CRT monitors for computers typically work in a black background with green text? | [
"[Green P1 phosphors ](_URL_0_) had long persistence (decay time). Amber P3 was medium persistence. White P4 was faster. Longer persistence meant your video could be at a lower frame rate without flicker. Nobody was watching videos or playing fast games, so it didn't really matter."
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"Accessibility - because some of the colourblind folk will not be able to see text and pictures rendered in native colour, but can in inverted. Battery - on some screens e.g. AMOLED, being able to invert a usually white background (like websites usually are) to black helps to save battery life in the long-run, bec... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Google made 3bn USD profit, but wall street is not happy, eli5 me why?? | [
"Because they expected more. Like you're 5: imagine I promise you 20 sweets next week. But when next week comes around, I only have 15 sweets to give you. You wouldn't be happy, right? But that doesn't fully explain it. Imagine I promise you 20 sweets next week if you give me your pocket money. But Johnny's dad say... | [
"The insurance companies have a lot more customers so this is good for them. Massive hit? You mean, why they haven't been making a big splash about the good news? They have towards their shareholders I'm sure. Going out to the public would be bad PR though - people would demand rate reductions."
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Difference between 'fiscal' and 'financial' | [
"To put it in simple terms fiscal just has to do with government spending & revenue. You may hear or read the term 'fiscally conservative' which is the view on how the government should spend their money, which generally means reducing the government spending and basically reducing the national debt. Fiscal conserv... | [
"What you're asking is the allocation of public resources at the disposal of government either by properietory of geographical jurisdiction or fiscal policy(statehood and taxes). In a democratic framework, government proposes a \"budget\" which is a kind of treaty between public and the state. The government alloca... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What are sister cities? Do they actually have any relationship benefits or is it just a gimmick? | [
"People in city government get to take free tourist trips to other places to \"foster communication\" and \"gather ideas\"."
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"Sometimes it's geographical or historical, like Minneapolis and Saint Paul, USA. They're two cities which are very close to each other and got the nickname Twin Cities that way. Other times it's purely cultural. I think you don't see it as much nowadays, but there was a time when towns and cities all over the worl... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Why do busses not have enough seatbelts? | [
"Busses have a very large mass compared to anything they hit. In almost every collision a bus is involved in, it does not decelerate quickly enough to do serious harm to the passengers. Large mass means a lot of momentum and most things that get hit by busses just move out of the way."
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"It will become standard eventually; just like seat belts, central locking and rim spinners."
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Data limits. Why were pioneer plans offering unlimited data and now we're seeing caps on not only cell service, but even at-home ISPs? | [
"ISPs can no longer increase revenue by adding subscribers. Nearly everyone that wants and can afford broadband already has it. This leaves them looking for new revenue streams. It is also a way to limit cord cutting."
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"Because Virgin and Straight talk utilize bandwidth throttling and also use unused carrier bands from the major providers. Verizon and other Major carriers provide the hardcore backbone for primary subscribers, and then use the secondary carriers to give a cheaper option, but at reduced functionality. They may not ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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The Difference Between Different Programming Languages | [
"Different languages are designed to best do different things. Asking if one is better than another is like asking if a metal hammer or rubber mallet is better, and asking why so many exist is like asking why there isn't only one tool that hits things."
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"Next Week's Theme: 'Royalty, Nobility, and the Exercise of Power' To be followed by: \"Eastern Europe\""
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If I pour one cup (~600) of bees into the dryer and run it (without heat) for a couple minutes, could they just fly around in the middle without issue? | [
"There's only one way to find out. Be sure to take a video, you're going to need it for the TIFU."
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"Probably the dry cycle. It has a heating element that is turned on to basically bake the inside of the washer to dry and sterilize the dishes. Takes awhile. You can probably see steam coming out at this point."
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Why do episodes of TV shows air months apart in different countries even though they still air in the same language? | [
"I'm pretty sure this has to do with licensing & intellectual property laws and getting them sorted out globally."
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"Getting episodes not long after they air is more expensive to license than shows that were cancelled a decade ago."
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