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3qlbdu | since our "time" is determined by the orbit of the earth around the sun and it's day/night cycle, why don't we just make a slight adjustment to the duration of a single second to eliminate leap years and dst issues? | [
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"answer": " > The earth takes 23 hours, 56 Minutes and 4 second to rotate for a \"day\"\n\nThat's a \"sidereal day,\" which isn't so useful for day-to-day timekeeping. If you see that a certain star is directly overhead then 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds later that star will be directly overhead. If... | null |
54cno7 | why are ultrawide monitors 21:9 and not 7:3? | [
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6p86aq | can a sea creature that lives in deep sea swim to the surface? | [
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"answer": "If a human swims too deep he drowns. Unless he have specially designed breathing equipment in which case he will be fine. It is not the pressure that kills you but the problems of supplying you with oxygen. And at high pressures air changes properties so there is a long list of issues with getting ... | null |
bj94mr | Why is mortality from measles in the Philippines so high? | [
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"answer": "Copied directly from one of the sources you provided in your post:\n\n*\"The measles case-fatality rate in underdeveloped nations,* **where vitamin A deficiency is prevalent**, *is about 3–6% of reported cases, 30 to 60 times higher than in developed countries.\"*\n\n•World Health Organization. Mea... | null |
305lae | what do the +/- tracking controls do on a vcr? | [
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"answer": "From what I remember from a long, long time ago, the information magnetically encoded on the VHS tape are actually encoded in diagonal stripes running the length of the tape. If you were able to see it, it would look something like this:\n\n -------------------\n / / / / / / / / / / \n --... | null |
3sr4lf | why are some muslims so radical? what is written in the koran that makes them lash out to such extremes? | [
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"answer": "Some people in all religions are extremists. They act that way because that is what they believe, not because the Qur'an or Bible makes them. In any religion, some preachers advocate those extreme views. Outsiders aren't particularly effective at dealing with these preachers because they are out... | null |
1r8jb1 | since i learned so much in the detroit discussion, what happened to cleveland? | [
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"answer": "If anyone missed it (like I did!), [this is the Detroit discussion](_URL_0_)",
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"answer": "I think these videos do a comprehensive job explaining, with the first explaining how jobs are being funneled out of the city and the second touching on how the Cleveland ec... | null |
2ve9ou | After the winter and summer solstices, why does it take so long for the Earth to warm up/cool off? | [
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"answer": "This delay in warming is mostly to do with lag times in heating and cooling of water, water requires a lot more energy to raise its temperature by a degree than the equivalent surface of land, this is knowing in climate mapping as continentality. When an area is near a large body of water, i.e an o... | null |
5p458x | if sociopaths make up a sizable portion of the population, why aren't mass murders more common? | [
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"answer": "Not all sociopaths also have a blood-lust. Many satisfy their sociopathy by getting into positions of power. You'll find most sociopaths in jail, or the corner office\n",
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adtr5t | how is it possible for comets to continually “shed” themselves for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and never run out of comet dust? | [
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"answer": "It’s because it’s a very tiny amount of dust. It doesn’t take that much dust for a noticeable tail. Couple this with the fact that comets are huge (Haley’s comet is 3 miles in diameter) and you will see that it would last a long time",
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46btkl | In beta positive decay, isn't mass created? | [
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"answer": "That is precisely why a solitary proton can't decay into a neutron. Beta plus decay only occurs in certain nuclei, where you have to calculate the total mass based not only on the sum of protons and neutrons, but also the mass due to intranuclear binding (the [liquid drop model](_URL_0_) is useful ... | null |
1ja3lm | why aren't people buying the $1 houses in detroit? | [
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"answer": "You still have to pay property taxes, and there might well be local laws requiring some minimum standard of upkeep as well.",
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"answer": "Have you ever owned a house? If you can't sell your money pit, it becomes a money black hole.",
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4gcm3x | why do d-day landing crafts open at the front? | [
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"answer": "In addition to the other remarks. One of the main issues with a beach landing is the water, the further the troops are away from the beach the deeper the water, the more the risk of drowning, the slower the troops move, the wetter and more tired they are when they eventually make it to the beach. A... | null |
2bfm1m | Why were double barreled guns not used more in 18th and 19th century European warfare? | [
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"answer": "Weight would be a problem. Most soldiers in the 18th century carried a musket. The defining characteristic of a musket as compared to an arquebus is that it shoots bullets large and fast enough to pierce through armor. But muskets were only barely possible to carry and to shoot without support. A d... | null |
17uh0e | When were dates invented? And if it was a long time ago, how did they calculate 365 days for the earth to rotate around the sun? | [
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"answer": "It is quite easy to note the day of the year with the longest or shortest hours of daylight. All one needs do is count between two successive midsummer days and you'll get the number of days in a year.\n\nWe use the [Gregorian calendar](_URL_0_) adopted on 24 February 1582, itself a variation on th... | null |
50kiox | What effects does castration after puberty have on a male's lifespan? | [
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"answer": "I do not believe this topic has been researched. I cannot find studies regarding this topic. There is a difference between removing the gonads and having the sperm duct cut (which is done when you want sterilization). If the sperm duct is cut, the gonads will still produce it's hormones without dis... | null |
298q16 | What was the reaction of the major world powers at the time to the creation of the Zionist movement in 1897? | [
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"answer": "First of all, I know you're referring to the first Zionist Congress, but the Zionist movement itself had begun before. The first people to write about Zionism that books usually mention as influential are the German-Jewish Moses Hess (1862, wrote *Rome and Jerusalem* arguing for a Jewish social com... | null |
6bu2i7 | sovereign citizens. why do people think they are not required to follow the law? what is this based on? | [
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"answer": "[This decision](_URL_0_) by a Canadian Court is the best write up I have ever seen of what the SC movement is/believes and where it comes from.\n\nThe ELI5 version is that SC's have been told---sometimes by people trying to sell books and seminars, sometimes by true believers---that the legal syste... | null |
3ipryp | Since the Indian Plate is subducting under the Eurasian plate, will there come a time when the whole subcontinent no longer exists? | [
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"answer": "No. Continental crust is very difficult to subduct because of the density contrast between it and the underlying mantle. Small portions of continental crust (small being relative to the size of an entire plate) can subduct in large continent-continent collisions, but this is restricted to the leadi... | null |
4v35ar | how does a computer read keystrokes from a keyboard? | [
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"answer": "A keyboard is just a list of switches. There is several ways to connect those switches but basically when a switch is pressed, it allows current to flow thru and a microcontroller ( a smart chip if you wish) will detect this current and basically record which one was pressed or released. In turn th... | null |
7bxa03 | Was America inevitably going to declare war on Germany after Pearl Harbor, had Hitler not pre-emptively declared war first? | [
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"answer": "A look into the [World War II](_URL_1_) section of the FAQ, [United States](_URL_2_) subsection, finds only [\"Would the US have still gone to war with Germany in WW2 if Hitler hadn't declared war on the US post-Pearl Harbor?\"](_URL_0_), a reply by /u/coinsinmyrocket, but it's only one comment and... | null |
3f5lbr | Why are sun spots black? | [
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"answer": "They are still very bright but they are significantly less bright than the surrounding material so appear dark in contrast.\n\nThey can be up to half as hot (~3000-4000K) as the normal photosphere (6000K) and due to the T^4 relationship of luminosity that can mean up to 16 times less bright.\n\nedi... | null |
e17gp0 | why it's bad when car batteries go completely dead/once they go dead they can't/rarely can be recharged to full strength? | [
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"answer": "Car batteries are designed to be able to push a few hundred amps on demand. That's actually kinda atypical for most batteries; your cellphone battery might do 4 amps top and that would be considered a high workload, and your car's battery is only 3 times the voltage (~12 car battery vs ~4 cellphone... | null |
hj8og | If we are made of tiny particles and empty space then how do we stay together/solid? | [
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7pyk4o | what are the characteristics that define the market as either a bull or bear? | [
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"answer": "It's called a \"bull market\" when the line indicating the price of stocks is trending upwards, like the horns of a charging bull, and it's a \"bear market\" when the line is trending down like a claw of a bear. ",
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1cjmql | What evidence is there that the rivers on Mars were actually composed of water from their leftover traces? | [
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"answer": "Several types of minerals have been identified on Mars that are only known to form in the presence of water. [Phyllosilicates](_URL_1_) (think clays) are the products of the weathering of earlier rocks in the presence of water and have been identified in many locations on Mars. Sulfate salts, whi... | null |
90ifcp | The Homeric myths and stories were a definitively oral tradition, passed in by word of mouth. But our text translations today go back at least as far as medieval Europe. Where do our current ‘definitive’ Iliad and Odyssey come from, and when was it penned? | [
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"answer": "I don't understand what you mean by:\n\n > But our text translations today go back at least as far as medieval Europe\n\nDo you mean that translated texts from Greek go back to the Middle Ages (strictly speaking not true, Latin translation predates that, but for modern vernacular languages...sure I... | null |
80t1h1 | might sound dumb, but what's a rational number? | [
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"answer": "A rational number is a number that can be expressed as a fraction, like 7 or 1/3.",
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"answer": "A rational number can be written as the *ratio* of two integers: q = a/b, like 3/5. In other words, fractions.\n\nThis includes whole numbers, since, e.g. 7 = 7/1.",
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5xoods | why does urinating on a lemon tree help it grow? | [
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"answer": "Hold up.....WHA?????? lol\n\n\nOk I know nothing of this legend BUT i do know that urine will break down into Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium with many trace minerals. so in that respect it is actually one hell of a good fertilizer for any plant. If the salts were an issue there would be many a ... | null |
ce3ehq | why can all the areas in our mouths repair itself with new skin, but our gums can not? | [
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"answer": "Our cells can only figure our their function from their surroundings and interactions.\n\nA wound in the skin of our mouth is surrounded by other skin cells. The new cells see those surrounding cells and realizes they should function as skin.\n\nThe gums attached to your tooth are different. They e... | null |
iqqaw | Why can't astronauts whistle in their space suits? | [
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"answer": "[Referring to this interview with astronauts](_URL_0_) in which they mention \"the resonant frequency of the cavity of your mouth\" (around 1.10).\n\nI'm going to take an educated guess that the lower frequency doesn't resonate inside the mouth, so no sound can be heard. ",
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3dwrnv | if i open the car window is there an equal but opposite breeze outside? | [
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"answer": "Technically if you open a window air will flow in yes. But also air will flow outward because of the maximum capacity of airflow. The air will circulate and exit the car.\n\nSo yes there is an equal and opposite airflow",
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3w48xe | Has the United States been the primary cause of disruptions in the Middle East since the 1940s? | [
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"answer": "Clarification: the US was not a primary disruptive force in the establishment of the Jewish state either. Typically, the British, Soviets, and Arab states are considered to be more disruptive in terms of turning the tide towards Jewish self-determination. The US played a critical role in helping pa... | null |
26iihu | what happens after we die? (i.d, saving accounts, property, etc) | [
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"answer": "Your job will probably consider your death a resignation. Your SSN will probably be recycled at some point in the future. That's the only special part of your \"government ID\"; nothing else is that unique. Your bank accounts, loans/debts, and other money related issues may be pushed off onto your ... | null |
ex8y2f | what happens if you take a stimulant and a depressant at the same time? | [
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"answer": "You end up potentially not realizing how out of it you are. It feels more normal, but in terms of objective measurement you're just as out of your mind as you'd predict given dosage and drug. This runs the risk of people thinking they can safely take more and ODing or just getting way higher than t... | null |
9dz70c | how does nuclear materials make it possible to split the atoms to make a nuclear bomb possible. | [
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"answer": "It only works if you start with rare, special unstable atoms that are ready to split already. Typically these will be plutonium, or enriched uranium.\n\nAverage atoms are damned hard to split.",
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3ev93b | how did germany manage to take so much of europe during wwii despite its central geographic location? | [
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"answer": "There are too many reasons to list succinctly, but some factors that combined to get them their initial gains were initiative, an element of surprise, some newer military tricks and strategies, unpreparedness of their enemies, making effective use of modern weapons, etc. \n\nAnd once they had taken... | null |
6gfdwn | how did jordan maintain relative stability during and after the arab spring, and how is jordan still maintaining the relative stability with the state the middle east is in right now? | [
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"answer": "Despite being a monarchy, Jordan is actually one of the better countries in the region when it comes to democracy and human rights. The king is popular and doesn't rule as a dictator.\n\nThe religious demographics also help. Jordan is 92% Sunni Muslim and allows a decent amount of religious freedom... | null |
cetdgb | Can you explain me quantum decoherence in simple language? | [
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"answer": "To understand this, it probably helps to start with quantum coherence. At a simplistic level, coherence can be thought of as the information that the quantum system holds. More precisely, it is a measure of the relationship between different possible states of the system. Quantum computers rely on ... | null |
8gm7sm | how is profit margin a useful metric when a company can just reinvest all of their money back into the company? | [
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"answer": "This is why you actually *read* the earnings reports if you want to invest in a company. They specify how much they earned for what sectors and how much they spent on various activities(materials, wages, facilities, marketing, expansion, and reinvestment)\n\nIf you dig through it you'd see somethi... | null |
3xdurq | what are foreign currency reserves and why are they important? | [
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"answer": "They are important for two reasons:\n\n1. Countries that fix the price of their currency need to control that price either by buying/selling currency below market value, which drains their reserves, or by banning currency trading. When you ban currency trading you effectively freeze your imports a... | null |
360ccz | with all the wealth, resources, and technology in the world today, how does everyone not have a basic education, food, water, and shelter? | [
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"answer": "Define \"basic\".\n\nBecause if you don't have enough of those things to survive, you're dead. And survival is the bottom of \"basic\". \n\nNot that people don't die from lack of those things, but mass starvation or exposure death is nothing compared to death by disease or violence.",
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966vi2 | how do procedurally generated video games work? how are players not constantly stuck in a situation where they can no longer progress due to the level generation? | [
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"answer": " > Are procedurally generated levels given guidelines they must abide by\n\nyes. that's why it's called \"procedurally\" and not \"randomly\". the game has to follow a procedure that makes sure the result is a playable map. a simple example would be to allow it to make gaps in a path, but the gaps ... | null |
4nqp5s | why isn't the orlando shooting on my front page? | [
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"answer": "The uncensored megathread on /r/news (censored comments appear in red): _URL_0_",
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6lfyn2 | how do power outages happen when too many people are using electricity? | [
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"answer": "Imagine a bathtub full of water, the water represents electricity. The bathtub has a faucet, which represents the generation of electricity. Imagine now that there are little holes in the bottom of the bathtub, all plugged up. When ever a home needs power, unplug the drain and let the water flow ou... | null |
atfjz6 | So what's up with dogs and TV's? Can get watch it or is it something about the type of TV? | [
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"answer": "There is evidence that most dogs don't see a typical frame rate of 24 to 30 frames per second as continuous motion, but as separate still images. (_URL_0_) The changing images will still often attract an animal's attention, and many will react to what's on the screen even if it doesn't look smooth ... | null |
a7c7bd | if an spf50 sunscreen increases my skin's natural resistance to uv rays from 5 to 250 minutes, does its effectiveness wear off after 250 minutes even if i spend them in the dark, or does it only wear off during sun exposure? | [
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"answer": "Imagine your skin is a sponge, no try to think of a sponge absorbing water.\n\nThat 250 minute timer is how long it takes to absorb.",
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77eu4i | breastfeeding and immune system | [
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"answer": "They absolutely can! Most people now donate milk though. Many neonatal intensive care units have milk donation programs for the preemies because it has a lot of benefits for them. There are also milk donation programs for those who can’t breastfeed or adopt newborns. ",
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egdfrc | How effective was gunpowder armies against traditional armies in battle? | [
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"answer": "A lot of ink has been spilt in /r/AskHistorians over the question of muskets v.s. bows, many of them ridiculously well-sourced. It's not a direct answer to your question, but I think it's pretty easy to infer: in general, gunpowder armies destroy traditional armies, which is why there are none of t... | null |
8o29iw | Viking era (late 8th, early 9th century) history breakdown | [
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"answer": "If you want an overview of the Viking period as a whole, I'd check out Gwyn Jones's *History of the Vikings* from Oxford Press. It'll give you just about everything you need for a broad overview of the period.",
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1xcb95 | How do our lungs differentiate between oxygen and nitrogen when breathing? | [
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"answer": "Lungs themselves don't really separate gases like you seem to be imagining. The alveoli have a very large surface area with lots of capillaries, allowing gases to diffuse in and out of the blood. Any molecule that's more concentrated on one side than the other will diffuse across the barrier (altho... | null |
1b5riy | If I eat a 3500 calorie surplus today, how long until 1 pound of fat is produced on my body? | [
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"answer": "The body begins storing calories four to eight hours after consumption. It quickly will store around 1,000 calories in your liver as glycogen. It takes several days for the rest of your excess calories to be stored as fat. ",
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2lo04t | how do non-human primates look after their teeth and why do humans need dentists? | [
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"answer": "They don't really, and they don't really need to. Evolution wants you to live long enough to reproduce then its just a waiting game, so you only *need* teeth in your early adulthood in a manner of speaking.\n\nwe also live longer and eat more sugars acids and general crap that is bad for us so ther... | null |
1bb3fv | fair use of copyrighted material. | [
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"answer": "That isn't an easy question to answer, largely because the US will view it's copyright rules applying everywhere and because it is likely that a variety of countries would have a valid claim but my not be able to actually do anything about it.\n\nThe most important question is probably how Youtube ... | null |
564h0c | what would happen if 2 hurricanes ran into each other? | [
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"answer": "This is rare but it does happen. If two hurricanes are formed pretty close to each other they can interact. They basically spiral around each other and form one large storm. \n\n \nThis doesn't have the hugely devastating effect that you may think of and such large storm systems merging normally le... | null |
lun0m | magic the gathering rules/strategy | [
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"answer": "Deck building strategy largely depends on what format you are playing in (ie, Vintage, Legacy, Modern, Extended, Standard, Block, Commander) The different formats dictate which cards you can use, which in turn dictates play styles and meta-games.\n\nMake sure you understand the rules first, as las... | null |
2fjrdr | what's my computer doing for the last 1% of an upload? | [
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"answer": "Your file is uploaded in chunks. Once all the chunks have uploaded, the server has to put the chunks back together and perform an integrity check to ensure the received file is the exact same as the one that you've attempted to send. These additional steps aren't factored into the total upload ti... | null |
6ucifq | Do the properties of a black hole change depending on the amount of material they suck in? | [
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"answer": "About the subquestion: blackholes lose mass through [Hawking radiation](_URL_0_), which grows weaker the less massive the blackhole becomes. Basically, a blackhole that does not consume further mass eventually evaporate at an ever-slowing rate.\n\nEDIT: Apparently I misunderstood the rate thing. It... | null |
292l60 | how do scientists determine the composition of atmospheres from earth? | [
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"answer": "There's a Cosmos episode that should cover this. They basically take a prism and split the light coming from a celestial body into a spectrum. There will be darker lines in that spectrum. Each group of lines corresponds to an element, depending on which frequencies of light are most easily absor... | null |
24vj0c | In WW2 who had the most effective small arms and why? | [
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"answer": "I don't think this question is specific enough. Do you mean the most produced and used small arm? Probably (Mosin Nagant). The most innovative and influential after the war? (STG 44). The easiest to produce? I would put that to the (grease gun). \n\nThe guns were produced based on the infantry... | null |
4mkarh | how are professional rugby players able to tolerate such physical punishment seemingly with little injury where as soccer, basketball and protected american football players seem to have devastating injuries quite frequently? | [
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"answer": "As a rugby player I'll give my thoughts but they aren't science backed or anything. When you play rugby you learn how to take an impact without getting injured. You learn how to fall correctly and brace before you get hit. If you watch some \"big hit compilations\" on YouTube you will see that ther... | null |
2vhet6 | how does planting trees in drier areas increase rainfall? | [
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"answer": "Trees transpire (essentially 'breathe out') water vapour - they draw in water from the root system, circulate the water throughout the tree, and then expel water in vapour form through stomata in their leaves. If you get enough trees planted in a dry area the collective 'breathing out' of water vap... | null |
2neohv | the heat of our body...what is producing the ''warm'' side of our body? and why are some animals cold blooded like frogs? | [
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"answer": "For starters, 'warm blooded' and 'cold blooded' are pretty generic terms. There's actually a lot of complex variation between and within either category. Not all cold blooded animals are cold blooded the same way, and vice versa. \n\nThere are advantages to either system. For instance, reptiles, or... | null |
45mwhp | how do aquatic animals know how far they should go down in the water? ex. blue whales can only go so far down, what prevents them from going further? | [
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"answer": "Well, to answer the latter, that would be pressure. The open body cavities in their sinuses and especially their lungs would have to deal with great collapsing of tissue at depths. \n\nWhales have adaptations for this, such as already collapsing their lungs but this won't be effective for long. Sin... | null |
36s9py | how do we keep track of locations in space? | [
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"answer": "You have to agree on something to act as the base point from which everyone else is measuring from. When dealing with stuff in our galaxy, we usually use the Earth as the reference point, since pretty much everyone knows where the Earth is. \n\nFor an extrasolar planet, we'd use two reference point... | null |
47ranl | How large does a piece of land have to be before it is no longer considered an island? | [
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"answer": "I would guess it has to do with [plate tectonics](_URL_0_). For example, Hawaii is a volcanic *island* because it is in the middle of the Pacific Plate. Similarly, Greenland is an island because it is part of the North American Plate. On the other hand, we call Australia a *continent* rather than a... | null |
1yhjap | why is kim dotcom wanted by the us government? | [
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"answer": "For copyright infringement by the MPAA, the Motion Picture Association of America, amd the RIAA, the Recording Industry of America. They were mad that he was profiting off of piracy, or stealing (copying?) copyrighted, or works created by people for profit. \n\nExample:\nI make a movie, I expect pe... | null |
nadfh | If we send garbage into the sun to be incinerated and the cargo contains some iron would the sun destabilize? | [
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"answer": "No. Iron does not directly cause stars to cease fusing elements, nor does it directly cause destabilisation or anything like that.\n\nWhat actually happens with iron during fusion is that stars lose energy from fusing iron and heavier elements. Elements lighter than iron produce more energy than th... | null |
4pqtcv | What is the earliest known example of satirical, fake news in the same vein as the Onion? | [
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"answer": "I can't attest to what I've encountered being *the* earliest, but my period of study (English Civil War) was significantly affected by the boom in printing and the drop in restrictions on publishing so I feel it'd be a strong starting point for the discussion in a 'rise of mass media' sort of a way... | null |
111rry | If quantum physics deals with phenomenon on a microscopic scale, what is the largest observable quantum phenomenon? | [
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"answer": "I know it's not the largest, but I'll pick a permanent magnet. It requires quantum mechanical spins to align.\n",
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3sihdb | why do your bones "crack" when you stretch in the morning? | [
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"answer": "Your bones aren't actually cracking. It's the sound of pockets of air in your body getting crushed by joint movement. It's sort of like how it makes a sound when you pop those packing bubble sheets. ",
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kwmm0 | why does my phone take longer to charge than the actual time of me using it? | [
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"answer": "Yeah that doesn't sound right... Unless your usage is high performance, like you're rendering 3D video constantly.\n\nIt sounds like there's a problem with your battery. Consider getting your phone replaced?",
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3vved1 | what happens to my digital media if the distributor goes bankrupt? | [
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"answer": "Kinda yeah, but most likely they would give you a warning ahead of time to download all of your stuff before it goes down.",
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49b2sc | why does everyone use q-tips to clean ear wax when the box specifically tells you not to? where did that start from? and what should be used instead? | [
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"answer": "I think the box has always said this so the company can claim to have warned you if you puncture your eardrum with a q-tip. But they know everybody is doing it. It's like putting \"External use only\" on a box of McNuggets. ",
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18820w | how is redbox in business? | [
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"answer": "I think its convenience.\n\nRedbox isn't something that requires an internet connection and its a buy and go mentality. Redbox are located next to grocery stores like ATMs are and are fairly popular because they are simple.",
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"answer": "Because what costs me $1.2... | null |
5xy1f2 | Are European dragons and Asian dragons related? | [
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9qmu6k | In the colonial times, the tricorne hat is often portrayed as being very popular which then evolved into the bicorne hat. Why were both these hat popular, especially when it doesn't look like they are effective at blocking the sun from you face? | [
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2kflf4 | Why was the Prime Minister of Australia dismissed in 1975, and what was the reaction? | [
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a0evw0 | how does rock climbing work? how do people get the ropes set up at the top of the rock/cliff? can you climb any rock face you want or does it have to already be set up for all the equipment to work? | [
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"answer": "There are many types of rock climbing.\n\nWhat you're talking about sounds like free climbing, where a person inserts clips and rope as they climb up the cliff. The clip (called an \"anchor\") holds very tightly into the cliff and then the climber can put the rope through it to prevent injury.\n\nI... | null |
6ll0hv | does a charge of attempted murder include all of the crimes that go into the attempt? | [
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"answer": "Nope...Separate offenses, even if they are steps in an overall plan are charged separately. This is done to improve chances of a conviction, assure that any individual aspect that is somehow justified does not pardon the entire case, and to maximize sentencing. \n\nYou would be charged for kidnapp... | null |
d7lh4j | how does breaking one part of a screen mess up the picture of the whole thing? | [
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"answer": "Each individual pixel in a screen needs to be controlled somehow. You can do this with a pair of wires to every single pixel, but that’s a lot of wires and very expensive with a high res screen. More usually it’s done by setting up a grid and scanning the screen with vertical and horizontal wires t... | null |
185et0 | is it possible for unskilled workers to form unions? | [
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"answer": "depends on what you consider \"unskilled\", if you mean jobs that do not require a certification then yes, happens all the time.",
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"answer": "Did you know that no McDonalds has ever unionized? Organizing into a union is a giant pain in the tuchus (and McDonalds w... | null |
1ad2wm | Why is WWII history so fascinating? | [
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liy9b | why does licking a 9v battery zap you, but touching it to your skin not? | [
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"answer": "your tongue is more sensitive than your arm (more nerves). Try sticking the battery on your... somewhere that is a more sensitive area than your arm and you'll feel the shock if it's covered in water. Water is more conductive than dry skin.\n\nTechnically, your still being \"shocked\" when you plac... | null |
13qqrj | Let's talk organized crime. | [
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b2frnq | [Physics] How far can the human visual system semi-accurately detect range via only parallax? | [
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"answer": "According to [this study](_URL_0_), 97.3% of subjects could detect a difference in depth at 2.3 minutes of arc or smaller.\n\n & #x200B;\n\nConverting that to degrees, we get 0.0383333 degrees. If we now consider a right triangle with one leg of 65mm (typical distance between pupils in a human), on... | null |
1rmlvc | Has there ever been a case of a racially/ethnically segregated society where all of the races/ethnicities were truly "separate but equal" and everybody was more or less content with the system? | [
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"answer": "The closest I can think of is the Ottoman Empire. Different religious communities lived in different neighbourhoods and villages and applied their own law to social issues (marriage, divorce, inheritance, etc) although all were also subject to imperial law. Furthermore it was relatively common for ... | null |
9o03au | where do waves come from and why do they come in sets of seven when you’re at the beach? | [
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"answer": "The regular waves you get are actually the result of wind working.over the vast surface of the ocean. Given enough time and a long enough stretch the waves created by wind can be very significant.\n\nThere are also the tides that rise and fall twice a day due to the moons gravitational pull.\n\n",... | null |
42h5b2 | How much do we know about Rome prior to the Republic? | [
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"answer": "We don't know very much at all: all the literary sources for this period are from centuries later, and the archaeology of early Rome is made difficult by the fact that most of it is buried underneath later Rome. There are basically two schools of thought about early Rome: one is that the sources ar... | null |
a63aha | Did pre-automobile societies have ”drunk driving” laws? How drunk were you allowed to be while riding through town before you get arrested? | [
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"answer": "How drunk you were was always up to the enforcing officer until tests were introduced in the 20th Century.\n\nI can only attest for English law. Although other countries may have previously have had laws concerning drink driving in past centuries, the texts of those laws are not readily available o... | null |
q9gyp | why is the daytona 500 so important in nascar? | [
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"answer": "Cause it just is. NASCAR has a lot of history in Daytona Beach the Daytona 500 has a huge purse, it's one of the fastest tracks of the season, it's the first race of the calender, but mostly it's the biggest race of the year cause it's the **Daytona 500**.\n\nIt's along the same vein as the **Indy... | null |
42b858 | Question on Iranian government | [
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3cpt9a | if a dj is truly mixing and not "pressing play", how does the lighting team sync lights to the music? | [
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"answer": "most lights will react to audio (music) and pulse to the beat\n\nalso the DJ may do certain signature moves at certain points that can be expected\n\nDJs have lighting teams? I thought only people who played instruments used those",
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54igb9 | what are particle accelerators trying to achieve when the particles collide? | [
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"answer": "The mocking analogy that's been used is that they're trying to figure out how clocks work, by smashing them to tiny pieces and studying the explosion. To be honest, that isn't so far off the mark. Instead of clocks though protons, anti-protons, electrons and positrons are used, to study what *they*... | null |
620b4a | do i have to be worried about isps selling my information? | [
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"answer": "You should only have a problem if you happen to get your internet from an American ISP... Which would be strange given that you live in Sweden. So no, I wouldn't be concerned about it at all in your personal situation.",
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11xptj | What's the estimated amount of time for distant galaxies to start disappearing due to the expansion of the universe? | [
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"answer": "[100 billion years](_URL_0_)",
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"answer": "For about the next 2.7 billion years, more and more galaxies will become visible as the light from them reaches us. After that, it will all start to slowly go dark as everything else is too far away for the light to EVER ... | null |
b3dhrm | how do electric cars work so it supplies enough energy to the car? | [
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"answer": "Electric cars use an electric motor (or multiple motors in most cases) The electric motor is powered via electricity by energizing elector magnets that basically push and pull causing the motor to turn. Attach a wheel, and you've got something to strap into a car. Your battery in your gas car doesn... | null |
41y6p4 | how is sarah palin such a high profile political figure? | [
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"answer": "She was governor of Alaska. Partly because she was quite wealthy ly when she started out. She also pander to the oil companies (absolutely necessary in Alaskan politics) and that is a big plus in the US political system.",
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"answer": "she was governor of Alaska... | null |
6aouhq | how can a company "take over" another one? and how is this different from a sale of a company? | [
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"answer": "You owe your dad a chore because you got something you wanted, I give your dad the cost of that thing you wanted, so now you owe me a chore.\n\n_URL_0_",
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"answer": "Its not exactly a sale, its acquiring majority of company's ownership and \"taking over\" the boar... | null |
b7taly | how and why was america chosen as the name of the original uniting colonies? | [
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"answer": "It wasnt. America is the name of the entire continent that the colonies were founded on. Hence the ‘United states OF America’. \nThe states are OF America, they are not America itself.",
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"answer": "Let's be specific. Are you asking why the Americas are called the... | null |
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