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How to start saving for retirement in your 20's | One tip that I heard somewhere is: Don't make savings of what you're left with after you paid for your life. Make savings in amount you find right and then live with what you're left with. | Retirement savings account A retirement savings account is a type of retirement plan account that is envisioned to replace all three different types of individual retirement accounts that are currently used in the United States: traditional IRA, Roth IRA and Simple IRA. Contributions would be made on an after-tax basis... |
Why does it take so long for inmates on death row to be put to death? | Very quickly written, so pardon any errors...
Once someone is sentenced to die, they are immediately forced to undergo several appeals processes and inquiries. The state doesn't want to execute the wrong person, even if one made a confession. So, those years are there because the prisoner has to go through each of the... | an elderly woman for robbery shortly after being paroled from a life sentence imposed for a similar crime. Stays of execution According to Article 475 of the Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure, the death penalty must be executed within six months after the failure of the prisoner's final appeal upon an order from the ... |
Why are Microsoft computers more prone to viruses compared to Apple computers? Also why does Microsoft have so many more operating system updates compared to Apple? | Microsoft is maintaining backwards compatibility with operating systems which presumed that each PC was an island, unconnected to anything else. There were few security checks, because there were few security threats. This approach encouraged lots of hardware and software vendors, making the windows marketplace the la... | the first SMS malware that affected Google's Android operating system, and which sent SMS messages to premium rate numbers without the owner's knowledge, accumulating huge bills.
Currently, various antivirus software companies. Meanwhile, operating system developers try to curb the spread of infections with quality co... |
What are the differences between Mahayana, Theravada, and Zen Buddhism? | They all stem from the core teaching of the Pali canon - that is, they follow the four noble truths and the eightfold path and adhere to the philosophies of dependent origination, and the three marks of existence. In that respect they are all the same. They differ in the surface details and practices which, in general,... | religion in Asia.
From a largely English-language standpoint, and to some extent in most of Western academia, Buddhism is separated into two groups at its foundation: Theravāda, literally "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the Ancient Teaching," and Mahāyāna, literally the "Great Vehicle." The most common classification ... |
Exactly how does a bullet proof vest only last five years? | The Kevlar fibres in such vests are set with a 5 year "good for" life. After that the integrity of the vest is variable so setting that limit saves liability for manufacturers. | so the weight of the vest is a limiting factor in vest fragment protection. The 2-4-16-64 grain series at limited velocity can be stopped by an all-textile vest of approximately 5.4 kg/m² (1.1 lb/ft²). In contrast to the design of vest for deformable lead bullets, fragments do not change shape; they are steel and can n... |
Winter Smell | I looked it up, and apparently the air has negative and positive ions and causes the air pollution to create thsi metallic, sterile smell. But don't take my word for it. I am not sure if what I say is true and I'm afraid I can't explain it any more for you. | The climate is also humid, with cloud cover in the winter months that keeps temperatures down and can produce cold nights. Average temperature between December and April is 18 °C. The area receives most of its rain in the summer to early fall. However, the cloud cover that exists in winter is generally absent and dayti... |
When does a boat stop being a boat, and become a ship? Is there a set line that a marine vehicle must go past before being considered a ship? | The best explanation I've heard is that a boat is something that can be carried by another vessel. So a launch, tender or dinghy is going to be a boat. A ship is something too big to be carried, and big enough to carry something else. | Ship Nomenclature Ships are generally larger than boats, but there is no universally accepted distinction between the two. Ships generally can remain at sea for longer periods of time than boats. A legal definition of ship from Indian case law is a vessel that carries goods by sea. A common notion is that a ship can ca... |
ELII'M5: What does "wild-type" mean in the context of genetics? | 'Wild-type' means the phenotype of a species that occurs in nature (in other words, "normal"), as opposed to 'mutant'.
So for example, in humans, wild type would be having five fingers, whereas mutant might be having six. | Morgan concludes, "the evidence shows clearly that the characters of wild animals and plants, as well as those of domesticated races, are inherited both in the wild and in domesticated forms according to the Mendel's Law". "Evolution has taken place by the incorporation into the race of those mutations that are benefic... |
Why have we struggled so much over the centuries creating devices that keep accurate time over long periods? | Even a tiny error can 'add up'. If a clock runs just 0.01% too slow or too fast, then after a year it will be nearly an hour behind or ahead of the correct time. With an error of 1% the clock could say any time at all after just 3 months.
For example the clock of Big Ben has a pendulum weighing 660 pounds, and it's ad... | computers had grown enormously in power – to the point where computer operators were looking for new ways to get people to use their spare time on their machines. One of the major developments during this era was time-sharing, whereby a number of users would get small slices of computer time, at a rate at which it app... |
is microwaving food for 2 minutes the same as microwaving food for 1 second, 120 times? | If you could do it with no interruption in between, yes, sure.
But you can't, so heat will be dissipated in the 119 interims, so no. | it is cooked. The microbes only return if the proben is stored at ambient temperature after having been cooked. The study concluded that the risk of contamination can be reduced simply "through practice of personal hygiene employing standard cooking temperature (171–185 deg C) and time (10–15 min)" and by making sure t... |
Does snoozing in the morning have any actual positive physical effect, or is it just denial of having to get up and doesn't actually help? | I don't recall ever reading something scientific about it but never have I ever read anything suggesting hitting the snooze button has positive effects. There's plenty out there suggesting it is bad for you though.
Anecdotally the people I know personally that are ritual snooze buttoners have the worst sleeping habit... | not normally associated with it is the hiccup. Hiccups are harmless and will diminish on their own; they also help to release gas that is in the digestive tract before it moves down to the intestines and causes bloating. Important but uncommon causes of abdominal bloating include ascites and tumors. Fiber Most cases of... |
Why do certain multivitamins turn urine a highlighter yellow color, and should I be concerned/lower dosage? | Riboflavin (also known as vitamin B2) is noticeably neon yellow in color when in solution or as a powder.
Many of the B vitamins and C (and others) are water soluble, and are easily excreted via urine if excess quantities are present in the bloodstream.
When you are drinking sufficient water, but still producing neon... | medication, porphyria, intra-abdominal bleeding, vaginal bleeding, neoplasm located in either bladder or kidneys pathways.
If urine looks dark yellow or similar to orange color, the causative factors might be recent uses of vitamin B-containing nutrient supplement, carotene, phenazopyridine, rifampin, warfarin and laxa... |
How would unemployment dropping to 1% affect the United States? | Unemployment is calculated by the number of people currently out of the workforce, looking for look, and receiving unemployment benefits. Theres always going to b *some* unemployment, since markets are always adjusting. Companies shrink and lay off workers, others grow and hire workers. The most important thing is t... | The fall of the unemployment rate was temporary because it could not be sustained. In sum, the trade-off between inflation and unemployment cannot be relied upon to be stable: taking advantage of it causes it to disappear. This story fits the experience of the United States during the late 1960s, during which unemploym... |
How do you find a passion? | I've had this question some time ago. Passion is not something you search for, it's something that you like doing and that pleases you: it's more like something that you simply won't mind doing. I mean, you won't be bothered to work on it at any time and spend a shitload of hours in it.
Let me tell you a story: since... | Passion (musical) Background and history The story originally came from a 19th-century novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, an experimental Italian writer who was prominently associated with the Scapigliatura movement. His book Fosca was a fictionalized recounting of an affair he'd once had with an epileptic woman when he wa... |
why don't homeless people commit a crime that will get them sent to prison where they have food and a place to sleep? | Some of them do. Some of them would rather die on the street than be in a cage. | Protection Orders. Homeless people are banned from town centres, some are routinely fined hundreds of pounds or sent to prison for repeatedly begging. The above treatment can make it harder for homeless people to sort their lives out and find work. Orders issued against homeless people are potentially illegal but le... |
Why can't people 'hack' bitcoins? | They have, 5 years ago someone gave themselves 186 billion bitcoin and the whole bitcoin economy had to be rewound by 8 hours to fix the bug that allowed it. It hasn't happened again since but maybe it could. | theft. As of December 2017, around 980,000 bitcoins have been stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges.
One type of theft involves a third party accessing the private key to a victim's bitcoin address, or of an online wallet. If the private key is stolen, all the bitcoins from the compromised address can be transferred. In... |
Sooooo... is a tumor edible? Is it meat? Will it kill you if you eat it? (sorry for grossness) | Immunologist/MD student here. Yes it is edible, no it is not "meat" unless it is a tumor of muscle, and even then odds are they are undifferentiated tumor cells not really approaching real meat. I do not know why you would want to eat one, but yes. If it belongs to another person, the odds of you "getting" cancer ar... | the chemicals, which are very toxic to the liver. Common foodstuffs contaminated with the toxins are cereals, peanuts, and other vegetables. Contamination of food is common in Africa, South-East Asia, and China. Concurrent HBV infection and aflatoxin exposure increases the risk for liver cancer to over three times that... |
How do marines in Iraq wear their heavy gear in the out doors with out passing out from heat exhaustion? | Being fit, lots of training in bad conditions, and staying hydrated | knowing how long they would be in Iraq was lifted. Finally, the Marines began to get some idea of when they would be leaving. They went directly from being at Fenway indefinitely to being told they would be leaving in a couple of days. Shortly thereafter, tents began to come down and Marines began packing up to return ... |
Is there any reason for me to vote in national elections? | Because we vote to decide who will be in the electoral college.
Also, there are lots of down-ticket races that are direct election, like Congress, governor, state legislature, and county and local races. | each conduct their own popular elections on Election Day to help determine their respective slate of electors. Thus, the presidential election is really an amalgamation of separate and simultaneous state elections instead of a single national election run by the federal government.
Like any other election in the United... |
How are surgeons able to operate for 20+ hours straight in an operating room? | Multiple surgeons. Plus surgery is not like in the movies / TV. People walking in and out of the room is common, and doctors can rescrub. The important thing is just to maintain a sterile field and don't break your own sterility.
Additionally, once the patient is under, music is usually put on for the staff. Surgi... | The passage of the conduit through the abdominal wall allows the rectus abdominis muscle to aid with continence. Recovery and function The surgery itself along with recovery time depends on the patient. Robotic surgery can take approximately 6-12 hours. A patient's time in the hospital can take 7–10 days if no compl... |
Why do some people have more pigment/melanin than others and how do you tan easier? | Melanin protects the skin from UV light. There are two types: red and brown. Red is in the lips and in the hair of redheads. Brown is in the rest of the skin.
Basal skin pigmentation level is genetic. Skin cells will produce melanin at the rate that genes dictate.
Tanning via UVA and UVB are different. UVA causes exi... | eumelanin in their skins. This makes their skins brown or black and protects them against high levels of exposure to the sun, which more frequently result in melanomas in lighter-skinned people.
Not all the effects of pigmentation are advantageous. Pigmentation increases the heat load in hot climates, and black people ... |
Can someone explain the history of Rome's turning into an Empire LI5? | I did a research project for an ancient civ class last semester, I can e-mail my outline to you if you (or anyone else) is interested. It's titled 'Dismantling the Republic: From Res Publica to Principate' and i covered from the rise and fall of the Gracchi brothers to the assassination of Julius Caesar. I would like t... | the Peloponnesian War and Alexander the Great's conquests. Rome is described from its formation and the Monarchy, continues into the Roman Republic and ends with the Roman empire. The five good emperors - Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and particularly Marcus Aurelius are covered in detail. The description of t... |
When did swear words become swear words and why? | Words that are "taboo" are a reflection of the culture's taboos. So where you have a cultural taboo against directly talking about sex, for example, you'll find a linguistic taboo against direct words like "fuck." Bad words are simply those that would offend the listener -- usually by directly stating an obscene or sac... | Minced oaths in media Novels W. Somerset Maugham referred to this problem in his 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence, where he admitted:
Strickland, according to Captain Nichols, did not use exactly the words I have given, but since this book is meant for family reading, I thought it better—at the expense of truth—to put ... |
How does closed captioning work for live television? | First, "live" television is actually delayed from a few seconds to a few minutes (so they can censor, alter, cut, *etc*. should anything happen). It also gives the T.V. station a little window to add close captioning.
Now, your question :
Close captioning is NOT done by typing. Instead, the captioners are sitting and... | late 1980s and early 1990s before built-in decoders became a standard feature of US television sets. This suggested that the largest audience of closed captioning was people whose native language was not English. In the United Kingdom, of 7.5 million people using TV subtitles (closed captioning), 6 million have no hear... |
the (x-amount children) in downvoted comments. | Child comments are comments in response to another comment (called the parent comment). If someone were to respond to this comment, theirs would be a child comment of my comment. If someone responded to my child comment, my child comment would become the parent comment of the new comment, and my comment would be the gr... | children are not immune from getting the answer wrong as well, and do sometimes enter incorrect answers.
For the first two series, the following children were hired specifically for the show: Jackpot question The rules change slightly for the jackpot question. The player is only shown the subject of the question before... |
If snow and ice are both frozen water, how comes I can't make snow cubes in my freezer and mountains aren't covered in thick ice? | A snowflake is a tiny crystal of ice, while an ice cube is a solid frozen cube of ice. They're both ice. If you were to take an ice cube and grind it in a blender, it would resemble snow (but not look like the pretty crystals that form naturally). Snow on a mountain can also warm up, melt a bit, and freeze again, makin... | or freeze the crushed ice or ice cubes together within several seconds once the mixture stops moving within the mold. The ice water component of the mixture will expand 9% on freezing, so rubber, foam or foam lined casting materials work best to combat the water to ice expansion problem not encountered with wax, cemen... |
If Chinese kanji are one character per word, wouldn't books have considerably less pages in Chinese? | * It's hard to compare since translations are not exact.
* The characters are more complex than single Latin characters, so they are usually printed larger.
* You need different amounts of characters and phrases to express various concepts.
* In my experience, Chinese printed matter does have somewhat fewer pages on av... | Mandarin character readings following common practice among scholars, even though it is also possible to read Classical Chinese using the literary readings of other modern Chinese varieties (as commonly done in Hong Kong, where Cantonese readings are generally used), or even using a reconstruction of character readings... |
How fish naturally end up in ponds | Flooding washes them there, they stick to plants or animals, they come in whatever water source feeds the pond, etc.
But don't overlook the simplest answer: people put them there. people love fishing and people love looking at fish and it costs just a few dollars to make an attempt to stock a pond so if there is a po... | Fish pond A fish pond, or fishpond, is a controlled pond, artificial lake, or reservoir that is stocked with fish and is used in aquaculture for fish farming, or is used for recreational fishing or for ornamental purposes. In the medieval European era it was typical for monasteries and castles (small, partly self-suffi... |
when I get a bug bite, why does the skjn become red, raised, and the flesh underneath firm?? | Whatever bites you usually injects some bug spit under your skin. These bug spit usually helps the insect feed on you, such as stopping your blood from turning into a scab, or temporarily stops your skin from feeling the irritation. The side effect is that your body needs to fight these foreign bug chemicals off, so th... | cause itchy red rashes with raised pustules in areas where the larvae have got trapped under swimwear and discharged their stinging cells into the skin. Cases caused by Linuche aquila have been reported from Thailand and the Philippines. Most cases occur between the months of March and August, peaking in May and June. |
why do we "hide under the covers" when we feel endangered. Why do we feel like it makes us Safer? | We are taught this at a subconscious level throughout our childhood. You are put to bed by your parents, given special attention in the form of stories or goodnight kisses, and told everything is fine. Repeats this every single night of your young childhood and suddenly there is a very strong psychological reason why y... | one's present life. Fear According to the method, fear is a natural protection mechanism, an integral capacity that enables recognition of potential threat. Fear triggers various physical responses that alert, energize and enable quick and relevant action in a dangerous situation. While fear appears at the moment dange... |
Why can I find a video from youtube on my computer but then not find it when I search for it on my phone? | irishman13 was right.
Certain videos are not allowed to be played back on mobile devices due to YouTube's policies and also whatever the uploader decides is necessary. Generally, companies that own and upload copyrighted material (often times music videos) may decide they only want those videos playable on computers, ... | looking for, since you’re shown distracting YouTube videos on the way to your destination", said Aboukhadijeh. He continues by saying that he thinks this is perfect for many internet users.”
YouTube Instant presents itself as a "streamlined, neatly presented microcosm" of the YouTube universe, which provides a simple a... |
Why is the Holy Grail the center of so many movies (Indiana Jones, Da Vinci Code, etc.) | It's a McGuffin: it's valuable and used a lot because the plot needs something all the characters want.
This kind of plot device is used in a lot of other movies where it's *not* the Holy Grail. To list a few:
* The Ark, stones, and crystal skulls in Indiana Jones
* The Maltese Falcon from the book/film of the same ... | Henry Jones, Sr. Characterization The father of renowned archaeologist Indiana Jones, Henry was born in Scotland on December 12, 1872. He is a professor of medieval literature, having received his degree from the University of Oxford on June 5, 1899 and is, according to his son, "the (professor) the students hope they ... |
deer hunting. Why do hunters aim at the heart rather then the head? | Center mass is an easier target than a head shot. With a well placed heart and/or lung shot, one can put down a deer pretty quickly. | Deer hunting Deer hunting is hunting for deer for meat or sport, an activity which dates back tens of thousands of years. Venison, the name for deer meat, is a nutritious and natural food source of animal protein that can be obtained through deer hunting. There are many different types of deer around the world that are... |
How do you short a stock? | Hard to ELI5, let me try.
Short buying a stock means you sell a stock you don't own. So, you see that the Reddit stock is at 100$. You call your broker to short buy Reddit. He "lends" you the Reddit share by selling one of *his* shares and giving you 100$, but he reminds you: "Hey, keep in mind you owe me one Reddit ... | Naked short selling "Normal" shorting Short selling is a form of speculation that allows a trader to take a "negative position" in a stock of a company. Such a trader first "borrows" shares of that stock from their owner (the lender), typically via a bank or a prime broker under the condition that he will return it on... |
why are there so many types of screwdriver heads? | Partly because there are different technical requirements for different screws, and different driver heads work well in different cases.
Partly because of [this](_URL_0_). | than an external wrench. Screwdrivers are applied in-line with the fastener, rather than from the side. These are smaller than most wrench heads and cannot usually apply the same amount of torque. It is sometimes assumed that screwdriver heads imply a screw and wrenches imply a bolt, although this is incorrect. Coach s... |
How do restaurants get that "taste" that you can't get at home? | Add fat and salt to everything until it tastes good.
Restaurant kitchens get through *a lot* of butter. | Taste Festivals Taste Festivals is a company which runs a series of food festivals around the world. As of 2012, these have taken place in fifteen cities. The events typically have the prefix "Taste of", although the company also runs The World Restaurant Awards. The events are typically attended by restaurants who ope... |
Why do fast food meals include fries and soft drinks? | Those things are included because it's a very cheap way to pad their profits. The markups on those things are *HUGE*, and as long as they have you there and can offer you the illusion of increased value... well, they will sell you fries and a beverage for only $0.79 more. | snack bar. A Dutch fast food meal often consists of a portion of French fries (called patat or friet), with a sauce and a meat product. The most common sauce to accompany French fries is fritessaus (a low fat mayonnaise substitute), while others can be ketchup or currysaus, hot peanut sauce, a pickle relish of chopped ... |
How am I able to cross seemingly vast distances in video games in only a few minutes of real time driving/riding? (GTA, Red Dead Redemption, etc). How do they achieve that illusion? | You can move slightly faster in the game and still feel like your going at a reasonable speed due to visual effects that happen IRL that show us speed.
GTA is an example where the game play effect's this. If you drove according to speed limits and traffic it would take you a lot longer than normal in GTA. | storing velocity overflows. It is possible to accelerate until reaching 1.23×10³⁷ miles per hour (1.98×10³⁷ kilometres per hour; 5.8×10²⁰ light-years per second) or more than 10²⁸ times the speed of light. At this point, all checkpoints will turn green and the player will instantly win the race because this extreme spe... |
Why do objects in orbit, such as satellites, seemingly defy gravity and not plummet toward the Earth? | They do plummet toward Earth. But they're moving sideways so quickly that by the time they reach where Earth would have been, it's way over there < ------ now.
That's all an orbit is, really. Perpetually falling, and always missing what you're falling toward because of your sideways velocity. | an anchored structure or a counterforce. Satellites stay in space because of their tremendous horizontal speed, which allows them—while being unavoidably pulled toward Earth by gravity—to fall "over the horizon." The ground's curved withdrawal along the Earth's round surface offsets the satellites' fall toward the grou... |
Why is pinching yourself considered a valid method to know if you are dreaming or not? | I think the idea is supposed to be that the pain of the pinch would wake you up if you were dreaming.
In practice though people have done research on "lucid dreaming" (ie. waking up while you're dreaming), and pinching yourself isn't the way to do it. While you do need a "reality check", such as trying to check the t... | need to use one's intuition. For English speakers, it may suggest that the dreamer must recognize that there is "more than one way to skin a cat," or in other words, more than one way to do something. Faraday, Clift, et al. In the 1970s, Ann Faraday and others helped bring dream interpretation into the mainstream by pu... |
What can I do to fight/stand up against the Muslim ban? | what ban on Muslims?
If your talking about the executive order banning people from certain countries for 90 days, my feelings are those countries are not friendly or have large terrorist groups operating in their countries, also it is only temporary, except Syria.
most of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe have bee... | they may be". The ban has led some ("the left", according to Sunny Hundal writing in The Guardian) to criticise it as a "blow to free expression", which will "serve to undermine the government’s effort to prevent violent extremism". Deborah Orr has commented in The Guardian that the ban "erodes democratic rights with t... |
What makes someone a heavy or light sleeper? | Hi /u/BassisBest35,
Heavy" and "light" sleeping depends on how deep you are into the sleep phases. Calling someone a heavy or light sleeper, is incorrect because it solely depends on their phase of sleep. the deepest part of sleep is the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) phase. This is also the phase in which you begin to drea... | heavy weight is felt on the chest. Yet, people cannot wake up from that state. Some of the causes are sleeping without adequately covering the body (especially women) and eating in bed. Scientific explanations Victims may have been experiencing waking dreams or sleep paralysis. The phenomenon of sleep paralysis is well... |
What is the purpose of microwavable silver cardboard? | It reflects the energy back into the food item. It kinda helps to defeat the cold centers that never really heat up. | and plastic from heavier glass and metal. Cardboard is removed from the mixed paper and the most common types of plastic, PET (#1) and HDPE (#2), are collected. This separation is usually done by hand but has become automated in some sorting centers: a spectroscopic scanner is used to differentiate between different ty... |
Why can I hear high frequency sounds like a TV whine but my regular hearing is awful. "Can you repeat that?" | I literally just turned in a paper on hearing conditions.
It's not tinnitus, as that is spontaneous production of a frequency by the cochlea.
Presbycusis is acquired through old-age and general use, which is much more likely. To be specific, sensorineural hearing loss is encompassed by damage to the sensory hair cell... | person's left ear to the right ear; such a noise coming directly from the front will be easily reduced by an active system but coming from the side will tend to cancel at one ear while being reinforced at the other, making the noise louder, not softer. High frequency sounds above 1000 Hz tend to cancel and reinforce un... |
How do FBI rewards work? | This is my crap comment for the year but my ex-gf was a intelligence analyst for the fbi, she still met with some informants but was not to the special agent position yet. She was very reluctant to tell me anything about the actual process but a couple times she told me that it was a slightly surreal experience because... | Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other interested U.S. agencies.
Proposals to pay rewards are submitted to the Department of State by the chief of mission at a U.S. embassy at the behest of a U.S. law enforcement agency. Reward proposals are carefully reviewed by an interagency committee, which makes a recommendation... |
If there's enough food and resources in the world to go around, why is there so much poverty concentrated in certain parts of the world? | Because the food and other resources are concentrated also. There are physical, logistic, and economic barriers to redistribution. | and given that food is grown for projected need as opposed to a global marketplace demand. Nevertheless, on-farm losses in storage in developing countries, particularly in African countries, can be high although the exact nature of such losses is much debated.
In the food industry of the United States, the food supply ... |
I got into an argument about who the first president of the United States was. I stated George Washington. The counter argument was John Hanson. Why do people think John Hanson was the first president of the United States? Is he? | John Hanson was the president of the continental congress under The Articles of Confederation. He wasn't a president as it's now described in the constitution (as that position didn't exist) so saying he was the first "President of the United States" isn't exactly accurate. | Douglas H. Thomas's 1898 book, was one of a number of biographies written seeking to promote Hanson as the "first President of the United States". Regarding the opinion, historian Ralph Levering stated: "They're not biographies by professional historians; they aren't based on research into primary sources." According t... |
Quantum Locking | [Video for the curious](_URL_2_)
In a "normal" superconductor, magnetic field is completely blocked from the material when its cold enough. This leaves the material suspended in place when it is positioned in a magnetic field, but free to spin or flip around. [That is the Meissner effect](_URL_1_).
Quantum locking ... | Quantum version A quantum version of the paradox illustrates some points about the relation between classical or non-quantum information and quantum information, as encoded in the states of quantum mechanical systems. The formulation is loosely based on quantum game theory. The three doors are replaced by a quantum sys... |
In older cars, why is there so much unburned fuel in the exhaust system that a smog pump would be necessary to combust it? | On cars with carburetors, it is very difficult to ensure accurate adjustment of fuel/air ratio over all conditions. This is quite important because if the fuel/air mixture is too lean, then you can get ignition problems and misfiring, or detonation which can damage the engine. At high engine load, lean mixture are also... | poorly, and fuel that has not yet been burnt may start to spit out of the exhaust. The engine will run very slowly and seem to have no power and possibly cut out from being flooded with fuel. Although, being too rich is better than being too lean, because being too rich just means the engine is getting too much oil whi... |
Why do cell phone providers usually limit the amount of data you can use, but home internet providers give you unlimited? | Part of it is monetary and the cell phone providers wanting to make more money, but it's also a matter of bandwidth. Cell towers have a limited amount of airwaves that they can send data over, which are limited by their ability to discretely send a concept via a wave and still have it understood by the receiver: _URL_... | speed of access to data, slowing down the user's internet use. By region As of October 2015, there were 58 wired broadband providers in the US that used data caps, among them major wireless cell phone providers such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T.
Before 2010 there was a trend of providing unlimited data without bandwidt... |
Why don't limbs or hands etc. just grow back? | Back in 2010, a woman named Deepa Kulkarni lost the tip of her finger to an altercation with a slammed door. She was able to grow it back with the use of a powder made of ground-up pig bladder (seriously) called MatriStem which, according to ACell, the company that makes it, "incorporates into the surrounding tissue du... | arms but not the hands, or to be able to use the fingers but not to the same extent as before the injury. Furthermore, the deficit in the limbs may not be the same on both sides of the body; either left or right side may be more affected, depending on the location of the lesion on the spinal cord. Causes Tetraplegia is... |
How do fat cells work? | Overinflated fat cells can undergo mitosis and make 2 fat cells, but apart from surgery, old fat cells don't just die, they stay there, deflated, until the person begins gaining weight again. | Adipocyte White fat cells (unilocular cells) fasting state White fat cells or monovacuolar cells contain a large lipid droplet surrounded by a layer of
cytoplasm. The nucleus is flattened and located on the periphery. A typical fat cell is 0.1 mm in diameter with some being twice that size and others half that size. Th... |
Glass-Steagall Act and why it was repealed | Glass-Steagall was an act of Congress passed during the Great Depression to separate commercial banking (that is, accepting deposits from people, and lending them out to borrowers) and investment banking (creating, managing, and owning stocks, bonds, and other investments and securities).
Because of Glass-Steagall, ba... | Glass Steagall Act The Glass–Steagall Act was enacted after the Great Depression. It separated commercial banks and investment banks, in part to avoid potential conflicts of interest between the lending activities of the former and rating activities of the latter. In 1999, President Bill Clinton signed into law Gramm-... |
Why are steroids viewed as miracle medicines for the weak and elderly, and deadly poison for the young and healthy? | The difference in mainly that the elderly are using them for medical reasons, young people for athletic enhancement. The former requires a doctor's supervision. The latter, it's largely self administered with no medical supervision. Without a good knowledge base, this can lead to some major problems. Another big thing ... | drugs for cosmetic purposes. "Among 12- to 17-year-old boys, use of steroids and similar drugs jumped 25 percent from 1999 to 2000, with 20 percent saying they use them for looks rather than sports, a study by insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield found."(Eisenhauer) Another study found that non-medical use of AAS among colle... |
How do sellers on popular e-commerce websites like ebay and a4c sell original Apple products like earpods at such low prices? | Former Sprint sales rep here; I can't specifically say where any one retailer gets their stock, but I know in our (Sprint Store) case, Apple would regularly supply us with extra cables, headphones, etc, in case any in stock were damaged or missing, and we would receive them with replacement phones for service orders (b... | domain. Apple's competitor Amazon.com updated its iOS Kindle app in July 2013 to bypass the 30% revenue share by requiring the user to purchase content using the Kindle Store's website instead of using the Kindle app; users can still get free e-books or samples while using the app. Controversy Some critics have stated ... |
why car blinker bulbs can last years but my house bulbs fuse within a month if I turn then on/off frequently? | This is like a question from 10 years ago.
I haven't had incandescent bulbs in my house in probably that long, and the CFLs that replaced them are now mostly replaced with LEDs.
Car turn signals are now marching quickly to LEDs too, but incandescents are still common.
Anyway, house incandescents operate at a MUCH... | the thermal bimetallic strips. Dimmers or low batteries generally do not affect the twinkling interval, but as with incandescent bulbs, having them off part of the time extends battery life.
LEDs start blinking immediately upon being turned on, but slight manufacturing differences mean the frequency is slightly off be... |
- Why can't you zip a zipped file to get better compression? | You can't compress a file ad infinitum. Any lossless compression method is not guaranteed to make the file smaller. This is down to the pigeonhole principle. Any lossless compression method will make some files larger. You want to design the compression so that meaningful files are the ones that are made smaller, and t... | package under the file APPNOTE.TXT in 1989. By distributing the zip file format within APPNOTE.TXT, compatibility with the zip file format proliferated widely on the public Internet during the 1990s.
The .ZIP file format was released into the public domain in 1989. Design .ZIP files are archives that store multiple fi... |
history buffs; In light of Pearl Harbor, my question is: when did the US and Japan become such close allies? At one point we declare war and now we are close. Was there a single event/treaty/election? Or was it a series of events? | The warming of relations started pretty shortly after the war ended actually. Japanese Reconstruction started in 1945 and was led by General Douglas McArthur. During this time the U.S pushed for widespread Military, Economic, And social reform. We helped rebuild the cities that we destroyed and in return set up a more ... | Events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor A series of events led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. War between Japan and the United States had been a possibility that each nation's military forces planned for in the 1920s, though real tension did not begin until the 1931 invasion of Manchuria by Japan. Over the next de... |
Why is nodding your head, almost universally, known as "yes". While shaking it is "no". | One theory (and I must stress that there's not much proof one way or the other) is that it comes from babyhood behavior. Babies will nod their heads forward towards the breast when hungry, and turn their head away when not.
That being said, it's probably coincidental/a result of colonialism. In Eastern Europe for exa... | Head shake To indicate rejection Different cultures assign different meanings to the gesture. Shaking to indicate "no" is widespread, and appears in a large number of diverse cultural and linguistic groups. Areas in which head shaking generally takes this meaning include the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Africa... |
How big would an ant need to be in order to carry a 200lb adult? | Ants can lift about 50 times their weight, so to carry a 200 lb adult, it would need to be a four pound ant.
That assumes its strength scales proportionally, however there is a scaling problem: as you increase its size, its own weight increases and what works for a very small insect doesn't necessarily work as well fo... | that range in size from the large giant antshrike, which measures 45 cm (18 in) and weighs 150 g (5.29 oz), to the tiny 8-cm (3 in) pygmy antwren, which weighs 7 g (0.25 oz). In general terms, "antshrikes" are relatively large-bodied birds, "antvireos" are medium-sized and chunky, while "antwrens" include most small... |
What does monatomic mean? | It means one atom. Some elements, to be stable, will bond with themselves or other elements like nitrogen will bond with itself to form N2 or oxygen will bond with carbon to form CO2.
Argon and the noble gasses are unique in that they are already stable and do not need to bind to be stable. They can remain as single a... | types is powerful, but the unique features and stringent behavior of monads set them apart from other concepts. History The term "monad" in programming actually goes all the way back to the APL and J programming languages, which do tend toward being purely functional. However, in those languages, "monad" is only shorth... |
How does confinement in Gluons work? | Nuclear physicist here!
Since gluons themselves carry color charge, they participate in strong interactions. These gluon-gluon interactions constrain color fields to string-like objects called "flux tubes", which exert constant force when stretched. Due to this force, quarks are confined within composite particles cal... | linked with the confinement–deconfinement phase transition: in the confinement phase vortices percolate and fill the spacetime volume, in the deconfinement phase they are much suppressed. Also it has been shown that the string tension vanished upon removal of center vortices from the simulations, hinting at an importan... |
The importance of the Holy Grail. | Started out,
Seeking fortune and glory
It's a short song, but it's a
Hell of a story, when you
Spend your lifetime trying to get
Your hands on the Holy Grail
**My interpretation of the Holy Grail is that it is something you seek.** | from? Where do we go when we die? What about fate and karma, Divine justice, free will, the Mission of Jesus, the Son of God, the Laws of Nature and Creation, and many others. In the Light of Truth also gives information about the Holy Grail. While ancient sagas and legends, and modern art, depict the Grail as an earth... |
The different types of medical imaging (PET, CT, MRI, X-ray, etc. ) and why you would use a certain one | PET scans are the coolest. They actually put a little bit of antimatter inside of you. This antimatter annihilates with the matter inside your body and produces a lot of energy, and this energy is picked up by a machine who interprets it as an image.
CT scans are just like X-rays but more high-tech. It's a lot of X-ra... | an ultrasound-based diagnostic medical imaging technique used to visualize muscles, tendons, and many internal organs to capture their size, structure and any pathological lesions with real time tomographic images. Ultrasound has been used by radiologists and sonographers to image the human body for at least 50 years a... |
If Oil prices have dropped close to 40% per barrel, why has diesel only dropped 10% at the pump [UK] | Because the price at the pump isn't solely determined by price per barrel. Refining it still costs the same and the government and/or state taxes don't change. I also costs the same amount to transport. Also, 1 barrel of oil (42 gallons) translates into about 10 gallons of diesel when refined. | oil rises, which is refined in much the same way. Because of recent changes in fuel quality regulations, additional refining is required to remove sulfur, which contributes to a sometimes higher cost. In many parts of the United States and throughout the United Kingdom and Australia, diesel may be priced higher than pe... |
How does nearly every new automobile advertised wins some type of award or fantastic rating? | *Ratings* are easy to get (relatively speaking). All you have to do is meet a certain list of criteria (e.g.: safety features, crush resistance, etc) and *every* car could get a 5-Star rating. There is no cap on the number of ratings that can be given out; it's just how *high* the rating is, depending on the features.
... | winning cars according to various criteria. Among other things, designers evaluate the design there, and connectivity experts check the networking of the cars. Celebrities such as entertainer Barbara Schöneberger and crime scene star Richy Müller rate the driving pleasure and racing drivers such as Formula 3 driver Mic... |
Why can I remember so many TV show and film lines, music melodies etc., but hardly anything I learnt in a classroom? | Because you care, emotionally, about one thing more than another. You might care about classes rationally, but it doesn't have the same impact. | learning. Some children's music is considered Educational, and, historically, most educational music is geared towards children. Prominent examples include songs from LazyTown, Sesame Street, Schoolhouse Rock, Smart Songs' educational rap videos on YouTube, and Tom Lehrer's songs for the PBS show The Electric Company.
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How the hell do our eyes move? Like they sort of just look in different places seemingly on their own | Muscles attach them to the skull from various directions. To look right, you tense the muscle on the right side while relaxing the one on the left.
Since we (obviously) can't see these muscles, we never really become aware of moving them, but if you stay up for a long time (I'm talking well over 24 hours) while focus... | eyes move together and almost involuntarily. This is a key factor in the study of strabismus, namely, the inability of the eyes to be directed to one point.
There are two main kinds of movement: conjugate movement (the eyes move in the same direction) and disjunctive (opposite directions). The former is typical when sh... |
Why are bananas the classic slipping cliché in most cartoons? | The use of a banana peel as an injurious prop is actually alarmingly realistic and a reference to its ubiquity on the streets of American cities in the early part of the 20th Century. Refrigeration and shipping speed had combined to make bananas the most popular fruit in the country, and in that age before anti-litteri... | traced to the late 19th century, when banana peel waste was considered a public hazard in a number of American towns. Although banana peel-slipping jokes date to at least 1854, they became much more popular, beginning in the late-1860s, when the large-scale importation of bananas made them more readily available. Befor... |
why do grades in school skip "E" and go straight to "F" as the lowest grade? | The oldest grades were given at Yale, optimum, magis, maxime (best, worse, worst).
William Farish invented *letter* grades about 200 years ago. He borrowed the system used by shoe factories in determining if shoes were good enough for sale. Shoes were graded as "Excellent, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, and Unacce... | progress to Eleventh Grade, and so on.
In each year, it is up to the student's discretion what level of course they take. The choices are B-Level, A-Level, Honors, and A.P. (for 11th and 12th Graders.) A.P. English 11 is equivalent to A.P. English Language, while, A.P. English 12 is equivalent to A.P. English Literatur... |
How the experiments to test if our universe is a simulation work. | You can't really test this. The universe as we know it does what it does; what's behind it has no bearing on anything we can measure from within.
People have put some arguments forward. Say, when we simulate a little part of the universe on our computers, our calculations aren't 100% exact. Things can snap to a fine g... | experiments that may be performed on the two systems, whether jointly or individually. At the time the EPR article discussed below was written, it was known from experiments that the outcome of an experiment sometimes cannot be uniquely predicted. An example of such indeterminacy can be seen when a beam of light is inc... |
Why are there different types of screw heads? Why not use a universal screw head? | Well answered by [XKCD](_URL_0_). Every attempt to create a standard screw head has resulted in one new type of head. | a "head"; it does not. Such a flat-headed screw may have a slotted, cross, square recessed, or combination head. Before the development of the newer bit types, the flat-blade was called the "Common-Blade", because it was the most common one. Depending on the application, the name of this screwdriver may differ. Within ... |
What exactly is going on with PewDiePie? | PewDiePie made "edgy" jokes about hating Jews. Those sorts of jokes are popular with a lot of young men who think it's dark humor, but it can (and did in this case) come across as bigoted. As such, Disney, who owns Maker Studios, the group that handled him on Youtube, cancelled their deal with him because they didn't w... | By February 2015, the channel had reached one billion views and 3.2 million subscribers.
In January 2016, McLoughlin was one of the initial YouTubers signed under PewDiePie's network, Revelmode. Early 2017: Scare PewDiePie controversy McLoughlin co-starred as the antagonist of the second season of the YouTube Red show ... |
what evolutionary purpose does love serve for humans? surely it would be better from a reproduction perspective if we swapped sexual partners constantly? | Love drives us to form strong family groups and pair bonds. An emotionally bonded couple that feels a strong drive to protect their children will be more evolutionarily successful than a couple promiscuous individuals that feel no drive to protect their children or work together. | Biological basis of love Evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology has proposed several explanations for love. Monkey infants and children are for a very long time dependent on parental help. Love has therefore been seen as a mechanism to promote mutual parental support of children for an extended time period. An... |
How are sport commentators able to keep with the action with such precision? | The unspoken skill of a sports commentator is the ability to talk and listen at the same time. While they're talking to you, there's a producer talking in their ear. Try it some time, it's ridiculously difficult. The producer also has people talking in his ear, a lot of them. There are people in the truck watching the ... | the two-person commentating team is not used as much as elsewhere. In Germany, most broadcasts of sports matches traditionally feature a single play-by-play announcer who also provides commentary, background information, and statistics. If the broadcast is on TV, the announcer will usually not comment on visually obvio... |
How come the ocean isn’t making the ocean floor compact? Like, the pressure at the ocean floor is absurd, the weight of the ~4km of water is a lot and yet we see the sand loose. | The pressure exerted on the sand at the bottom is experienced in all direction. They are separated because they have different densities.
Imagine you have a plate on the floor of a pool. Apart from just it's inertia and the viscosity of the water you could easily pick it up.
Large pressure differences on either side ... | the ocean bottom is still a challenging experience. Scientists are working to find ways to study this extreme environment from the shipboard. With more sophisticated use of fiber optics, satellites, and remote-control robots, scientists one day may explore the deep sea from a computer screen on the deck rather than out... |
Why does the cost of living/wages have to keep rising? why not stay the same indefinitely? | Inflation. Basically as more and more money is printed the money becomes less valuable. Since the money is less valuable the price of goods goes up.
Imagine if I had a LeBron James rookie basketball card and there were only 10 in existence. That would be pretty valuable and you would probably pay a lot for it. N... | particular, the extent to which house price increases affect the rest of the economy is a critical question. Other differences from the income effect If 'leisure time' is a superior good the income effect will partially cancel itself out, since people will work less as their hourly pay goes up. A change in net wealth d... |
Why do things get crispy rather than soggy when you cook them in oil? | Any food cooked in hot fat is fried. The method of heat transference is the same whether there’s just a little fat in the pan (sautéing), the fat comes partway up the sides of the food (shallow-frying), or the fat completely envelops the food (deep-frying). When food is added to hot oil (usually 350°F to 375°F), its su... | to hold more moisture and resist shrinking. Meats may be cooked before deep frying to ensure that they are done inside while keeping juiciness.
When performed properly, deep frying does not make food excessively greasy, because the moisture in the food repels the oil. The hot oil heats the water within the food, steami... |
The United States spends a vast sum on the military, and leads a coalition of 40 other nations. Why can't they wipe ISIS off the Earth in days or weeks? | Because they are attempting to do so without killing the innocent civilians standing right next to ISIS. The US could flatten the entire region and turn it into a smoldering pile of rubble. However, I don't feel that's what the american public actually wants. | of 23 senators, and the only Republican, to vote against the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, which provided the legal mechanism for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. When asked, in 2015, how the U.S. could most effectively deal with ISIS, Chafee said the U.S. should pursue a policy of containment th... |
Why are the fines in professional sports so low considering they make millions each year? | They really aren't that out of line if you look at them on a percent basis.
So say an NBA player makes 5 million/year, and they get fined $50,000 for a big technical foul or something like that.
So as a percentage, he is fined 50,000/5,000,000 = 0.01 or %1 of his yearly wages.
If a average joe working construction m... | per-diem for players at $115 per day, followed by the NHL whose per-diem began at a base of $100/day in 2012–13 and is adjusted each year based on changes in the US Consumer Price Index. Minor pro and collegiate athletes also receive meal money for overnight trips, usually paid as a rate set by the league or university... |
what is the difference between a kraken and a leviathan | A Kraken is a mythical monster that is basically a gigantic squid or octopus.
A Leviathan is a mythical monster that is most often described as an extremely fast sea serpent. It is also mentioned in the bible. | Kraken (Marvel Comics) Kraken is a name or title shared among several characters in Marvel Comics. While the original Kraken is the creature of the same name, the rest have been people who have used the name as their persona. The creature and one of the characters has appeared in other media. Publication history The fi... |
Why do we sometimes feel like something we swallowed is still in our throat? | Most likely it rubbed/scratched/ or in some way irritated your throat as it went down. It's similar to having an eyelash stuck in your eye, and rubbing the shit out of your eye until finally it is out (do not do this, use clean water!) Yet it feels like the eyelash is still in your eye. The eyelash combined with the fu... | food is pushed to the back of the mouth by the tongue, or by stimulation of the palate (palatal reflex).
Swallowing is a complex mechanism using both skeletal muscle (tongue) and smooth muscles of the pharynx and esophagus. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) coordinates this process in the pharyngeal and esophageal pha... |
How come when I swat a gnat or fruit fly it doesn't really do anything? If a much larger creature swatted me like that, I assume I'd die. | Generally you don't physically touch the insect. When swinging your hand there is a compression wave directly in front of your hand. This wave actually acts as a buffer between your skin and the fly or gnat, pushing them ahead of your hand. This is also why swatting at larger flies, bees, or flying insects can damage ... | caterpillars multiple times and then wait until their prey is paralyzed enough to approach. Then the wasp must bite its prey into chunks in order to carry it back to the nest. The larvae prey lose muscular control, become paralyzed, and then the wasp grasps the caterpillar in its mandibles and chews it into packets of ... |
How does an oil rig work? | An oil rig works the exact same way as a power drill you would use to drill a hole in your wall to put up a light fixture or hang a picture. It has a big engine to spin metal pipes that have a drill bit on the end, a big rack to hold lengths of pipes, and equipment to link or unlink the sections of pipe to/from each ot... | Drilling rig A drilling rig is an integrated system that drills wells, such as oil or water wells, in the earth's subsurface. Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas extraction wells, or they can be small enough to be moved manually by one person an... |
How does a childproof cap work? And how are they different from the regular caps if they have the same guides inside the cap? | There are many different "child proof" cap technologies, a very common one it the one that you must push down and turn at the same time, and it works like this:
The cap is actually made of 2 caps one inside the other, the cap has the threads that screw into the bottle, and the outside cap has the grippy edges that all... | Side cap Side cap is one of several terms in English used to refer to a military cap that can be folded flat when not being worn. It is equivalent to the garrison cap or flight cap (in the United States), Schiffchen (in Germany), pilotka (in Russia), a wedge cap (in Canada), or field service cap (in the United Kingd... |
Why are sim cards still used? Couldn't they just be done in software with modern smartphones? | The entire point of SIM cards is to have a hardware component that is replaceable and tied to an account. This is not a flaw in the design, it's a key feature.. It allows account switching on devices without tying up valuable phone company employee time. The account is tied to the SIM, not the phone. | form factors. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 has a hybrid dual SIM tray that accepts one micro SIM card and one nano SIM card, the latter of which can be swapped for a MicroSD card. Market Dual SIM phones have become popular especially with business users due to reduced costs by being able to use two different networks, with ... |
When taking a picture with flash on, why does it need to flash for a millisecond, instead of having the light just stay so you can better adjust the image? | Flashes on cameras use capacitors to store electricity. When you take a photo with the flash, the high voltage that is stored in the capacitor is suddenly released and lights up the bulb with great intensity, which quickly drains the capacitor too, this is because the energy required to make enough light to take a phot... | lead to shut eyes in every picture taken. The blink response time seems to be around 1/10 of a second. If the exposure flash is fired at approximately this interval after the TTL measuring flash, people will be squinting or have their eyes shut. One solution may be the FEL (flash exposure lock) offered on some more ex... |
- How does the Chinese communist party/government function? | Generally speaking, pretty much anyone in China can choose to join -- or not join -- the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Not joining does not have any negative ramifications, though many people choose to join whether out of genuine ideological affinity or pure careerism (Party membership can open up networking opportu... | Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Function According to the Constitution of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee is tasked with "carrying out the decisions of the National Congress, leading the work of the party, and representing the party internationally." The Central Committee is theref... |
People associate record corporate profits with a strong economy. Doesn't it just mean they're exploiting and generally f'ing people over like never before? | 50/50
It could be that they have tapped a new resource, spread the prosperity around and continue to grow.
Or they just laid off 75% of the work force and are terrifying the remaining 25% into working harder.
No, you're missing nothing. Responsibility to shareholders generally means giving the shaft to either the em... | Enterprise records represent those records that are common to most enterprises, regardless of their function, purpose, or sector. Such records often revolve around the day-to-day operations of an enterprise and cover areas such as but not limited litigation, employee management, consultant or contractor management, cus... |
Why are all modern chemical weapons nerve agents? | Conventional chemical weapons were not that effective in battle:
* Early chemical weapons were inhaled; so everyone started wearing gas masks, which nullified their effectiveness.
* Non-nerve agents which affect the skin are generally pretty limited, you can make someone's skin itch or burn, but probably not kill them... | containing three new nerve agents developed by the Germans (Tabun, Sarin, and Soman), prompting further research into nerve agents by all of the former Allies. Thousands of American soldiers were exposed to chemical warfare agents during Cold War testing programs (see Edgewood Arsenal human experiments), as well as in ... |
The differences between The House of Lords and the House of Commons in today's era. | Commons is elected MP's, Lords is mostly inherited positions and some due to profession (I think the church of England gets a couple of people in there). They can't really be compared to political parties, but in general Lords is likely to be more conservative. A better comparison to US politics would be something like... | as the lower house and the house in which governments are formed, from the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster.
There are three basic differences between the House of Representatives chamber and that of the Senate. Firstly, the House is more crowded with seating than the Senate, reflecting the requirement fo... |
Why don't dogs have belly buttons? | Mammals that are birthed live have belly buttons. I am not aware of any exceptions. However, Dogs and Cats definitely have them. They are, of course, covered by fur (although fur does not grow out of the belly button itself). Also, on most dogs and cats, the belly button is rarely more than a small, flat scar. | The neck and back are well muscled and the chest is broad and deep. Unlike the vast majority of canines, the croup is higher than the withers. The legs are heavily boned. The skin is very distinctive of the breed, as it is thick and loose all over the body, mainly in the region around the neck. The thick skin forms ... |
Why do we use the term "sprite" for 2d computer avatars when the original meaning was something like a fairy? | From [Wikipedia - Sprite (computer graphics)](_URL_0_):
> The term *sprite* was first used in the graphic sense by one of the definers of the Texas Instruments 9918(A)video display processor (VDP). The term was derived from the fact that sprites, rather than being part of the bitmap data in the framebuffer, instead "... | basis for Nintendo's Radar Scope and Donkey Kong arcade hardware and home consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System. According to Steve Golson from General Computer Corporation, the term "stamp" was used instead of "sprite" at the time.
The term sprite was first used in the graphic sense by one of the definers... |
Should I take the gunk out of my dogs/cats/my eyes? Is there a positive to gunk? | The gunk is made up of excess oil secretions, dead skin from inside the eyelid, debris, and dead bacteria/byproducts of the immune system (mostly dead cells as well). All this stuff starts to form a "booger" by adhering together and eventually gets pushed to the corner(s) where it dries out.
Oil is needed to protect t... | cat's anus (cats can only be used while equipped with a shotgun or assault rifle) as a "silencer". Every time a shot is fired, the cat meows in apparent agony, and the gunshot is muffled. After nine shots, the cat has run out of lives and it will fly from the end of the weapon. Most dogs have the ability to befriend th... |
In california, why is it a legal infraction to possess marijuana, but it's a criminal offense to solicit it? | The same reason that a 19 year old drinking alcohol will get slap on the wrist but the person who bought if for them can face jail time.
One person possessing weed affects one person. A supplier affects many. | escapes taxation or regulation by California but users in other states will pay a much higher price. Possession Local governments may not prohibit adults from growing, using or transporting marijuana for personal use. An appeals court ruled that inmates who possess small amounts of marijuana in prison are not guilty of... |
Why is the decrease of population growth in countries like Japan considered a bad thing? Shouldn't it be the other way? | The problem with Japan and many countries like it is that they have a society that is build up on the fact that the young will carry the costs of the ageing population. With the ageing population becoming too big, that is no longer possible. Is immigration an answer? Well, it can be part of an answer, but it is often n... | explained by a demographic switchback. In sharp contrast with earlier years when Japan experienced fast population growth, in recent years there has been a consistent reduction of about 1 percent a year in the working-age population. While this has applied a steady brake to growth in headline GDP, growth in per-worker ... |
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