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5b0wpk | Why are some apples crisp and some mushy, even within the same variety? | Because all apples are inferior to honey crisp! But probably age picked. They all just get jumbled up together so you could have apples picked one time, and apples from two months earlier in the same bag or batch | fc14c897-f16b-407b-93c5-7b4aea050b66 |
3kxrm4 | Are animals less prone to mental disabilities due to evolution and the 'survival of the fittest' mechanism? | Survival of the fittest is something of an old term, and not terribly accurate. Closer to reality is 'survival of the good enough.' If a species has evolved a heritable high likelihood of mental instability to the point that it can't function, then it is going to be hard for that species to survive. So you'd expect to see natural selection not reward that trend.
If you mean 'relative to humans' rather than in general, we'd have the same effect on us. There are a lot of people, and a lot of them are mentally stable. | 1f27befd-9fa2-41fe-a48f-d3bd4ed04286 |
43g5sw | . Why does white text/black background on a monitor make my vision wonky? But on tv or a movie screen it doesn't really bother me... | Most text on your monitor is very small compared to the size typically used on movies or TV shows. The clarity of small fonts is much more affected by the slight "smearing" effect of white on black. An extra 1mm of white doesn't hurt the clarity much when a character is 25mm wide. | 9bcde9b2-0b57-43c6-9a06-ff08f274e80a |
38ffib | Why can't we just throw all of our trash into an oceanic trench? Wouldn't it be recycled back into the earth? | Trash is all sorts of crazy stuff, including oils that float, plastic bits that float, paper bits that float, wood bits that float and even cans with a little air in them that float. It's also filled with air. And air floats.
So you'd need to seal it and get all the air out of it to keep it down there. So you Wall-E big cubes of garbage as best you can and seal them somehow.
Now you have to deliver it to the dock, and then load it on a vessel, and then pay that vessel huge amounts of money to transport it to that trench because most are pretty far away from land.
Now you're over the trench. The bottom of the trench is way way down there where the water pressure is super high. Drop a Wall-E cube.
As it sinks, its irregular shape causes it to tumble and drift off. So you build a giant cable that you hook your delivery vessel and cubes to to they it drop down straight. Delivery system complete...
But as it falls, the pressure on the cube rises, and any remaining air (because you can't get it all) dramatically increases the chance it's going to rupture if not just float. It does, and all the air and those lovely oils and other chemicals squirt out, and with them comes plastic bits and other pollutants as your case's integrity fails.
A few hours later there's a minor but potently stenchy oil slick under your vessel and that giant floating garbage patch in the middle of the ocean gets just a little bit bigger, and your picture's on a dartboard in Greenpeace offices all over the globe. | 7c7fa154-0d29-491f-a9d4-293626450f45 |
6rsm8w | Is eating too fast that bad for your body ? | Yes. Eating too fast increases the likelihood of choking, and vastly increases the incidence of stomach upset and gastric reflux. | bcd7c97a-688b-4121-bf17-22faaee92c5b |
2eiysz | How exactly does the French Foreign Legion work? | It works pretty similar to that of any other countries military service; although the enlistment criteria is different. Usually a specific countries military will only taken citizens of that respective country. The FFL differs in that it will take recruits from pretty much any country, with a criminal history. The initial 'recruitment' process is very simple and if you were to join it's simply about turning up to a recruitment center, say Marseilles, and off you go to do your fitness and medical tests. If you pass you'll then be shipped of to basic training under a 5 year term. At the time of signing your contract you will have been given the opportunity to undertake a new identity or keep your existing identity. This is part of a tradition that the FFL still does and is often romanticized by multinationals that have a tarnished criminal record. If you choose to take the new identity route then you will not be allowed to take leave (out of France) during the 5 year period. If you keep your identity then you will be afforded international leave. Once you have passed basic training you will have the choice to join one of 10 units ranging from artillery, admin to special forces.
At the end of your 5 year service - you will be offered the chance to leave the FFL with your new identity and become a naturalized French Citizen. A new life, clean slate - so to speak.
The FFL serves in a great ranging amount of countries and has had a part to play in an equally great ranging amount of conflicts.
The FFL is not for the faint hearted and is a reputable force, although there is a typical critique from equal or regiments, forces that have a more advanced training. This is something that happens across the world and opinion differs on how 'elite' certain regiments are.
Traditionally the FFL was a safe haven for criminals and literally an opportunity to start their lives afresh - inline with my above statement however, a lot of recruits underestimated what was required of them and went AWOL and absconded. Only to further go on the run.
Nowadays you cannot join the FFL if you have commited murder and/or are wanted by INTERPOL. Although the FFL have stopped serious offenders from joining they still have pretty lax guidelines when it comes to criminal offences.
Obviously whilst doing you service you'll be afforded accommodation, food and equipment. After 4 months of training you can leave base in your free time - you'll get 45 holidays a year and the pay, is, well - maybe not so good.
Your question is pretty broad and there are plenty of informational sites detailing the actuall history of the legion. Bears Grylls did a fantastic documentary and, of course, there's the official website. None of which are linked here as I am on my phone.
Hope my brief overview helps.
SOURCE - Had a breakdown and nearly joined the FFL | a1899358-c866-4f17-a91b-0cbc2fcb6682 |
3qy3kd | Why is horizontal head-shaking an expression of saying 'No' while the vertical head-shaking is for 'Yes'? | It's arbitrary. Most of the world uses this system, but there are actually a few countries and cultures that do the opposite, as well as some that have neither system. | 54b6f1c9-9269-4cfc-afe1-9ee49d21e851 |
74gcir | Did the holocaust have any lasting effects in the make-up of non Jewish people in Germany and elsewhere? | Before we say anything else here, it's important to note that there are many Jewish people who are blonde with blue eyes, and many Germans who do *not*!
*That* said, here's the thing. *Tens of millions* of people died during WWII - 3% of the total population of the entire world, at the time. The holocaust is a part of that, but Germany was devastated by that war, and limiting the rippling effect to just the holocaust itself is probably not very feasible. | 9b4ca296-43ea-4a78-862a-1488b5318b09 |
89uat0 | How will the newly imposed China tarrifs affect the average consumer? | China's tariffs shouldn't directly affect US consumers, it only affect the people who produce those goods (soybean farmers, car manufacturers, etc), who will find it harder to export their goods. Trump's tariffs *will* affect US consumers though. Everything Trump puts a tariff on will become more expensive for you.
The worry is that Trump will tariff some things, then china will retaliate, then Trump will retaliate with *more* tariffs, until there's a full blown trade war. | d1cf5192-bc70-4eaf-8908-fef6c1ebb021 |
6gj8pp | How is it possible for babies to cry so loudly for so long? | Babie's throats aren't fully developed yet. When a baby cries, it's vocal chords don't touch, much like the false chord gruttal screaming technique you hear in a lot of metal songs (look up "the black dahliah murderer" or "whitechapel" for example"), where the sound is not profuced by vibration of the vocal chords but the epiglottis. This reduces a lot of friction and thereby the stress the voice is put under. As we age we learn ne ways of communication, utilizing our vocal chords, tongue and lips to shape more distinct sounds, aka language. | 4484472e-b8ef-40e3-b57c-7c60a3366a34 |
2hfaif | What did people do to for snake bites and staph infections and such before modern medicine? Did they just die? | Did you ever play Oregon trail? Friggen snake bites killed my family constantly.
Yes, many more people died from diseases and wounds that today are easily treatable. Aside from antibiotics and the like, sanitation also played a large role. | 34bb8160-45bd-4f62-9be9-cea6740cf3d8 |
4o26y0 | what is happening to this ingot of tin to cause the ringing sound? | Like every material the metal changes its size due to the temperature change. Because the temperature does not change evenly parts of the metal ingot change more than others tension builds up.
It seems that this tensions leads to a point where internal cracks form, and and this motion lets parts of the metal vibrate. A way to find out what happens exactly would be to tap the metal ingot and listen to the resulting sound (does it sound similar?) and then examining a cross cut of the ingot under a microscope to look for features where the ingot is not solid, but has parts that can vibrate freely. | 7457644f-b093-4cea-ad16-f1af90bcfaa2 |
6wpvxp | What is that deep, almost primal feeling of wonder, longing, and even sense of place we get when we see pictures of open landscapes or the natural vastness and beauty of earth? | It's probable that it's a remnant from our evolution. Ancient humans who felt the same wonder and attraction to lush, fruitful landscapes simply were more fit to survive, and passed that 'instinct' to further generations who also were more fit because of it.
Compare it to an attraction to barren, dead landscapes. Ancient humans who were attracted to homes there may have struggled to find food and sustenance compared to humans drawn to life, fresh water, and greenery | 5e9256f3-83ee-4422-875f-f64fc46c4611 |
65aci7 | What is happening when you mentally picture (for lack of a better term) a person or scene from your memory? | The only comment here was removed, disappointing.
The best explanation I can give is that we simply don't fully understand how the brain works yet to provide a solid answer.
It's common that we can not only remember faces and places in this way, but we can play a song in our head and hear it even though we aren't actually hearing it, we can even change it a little, and this subconscious audio sometimes even plays off of real ambient noise like an air conditioner. Smells are a little harder but they're also linked to taste. However, the why of all this is most likely unexplainable at this time.
In a physical sense, neurons are firing from long term memory into conscious thought or recall. There's chemical and neuroelectrical reactions going on. An imagined scenario, like a guitar player imagining he's on stage for a million people, is probably more complex a process but likely conforms to a similar pattern. Again though, what is actually happening when you conjure mental images and sounds isn't completely known.
Sorry I couldn't provide a more in-depth answer. | 0127797f-3977-4e36-8b9e-a3ec3b940e34 |
29llnp | How do people shave in prison? | And before disposable razors were invented, prisoners used locking safety razors like [this](_URL_0_). The guards would put in the blade and use the cylinder on the right to tighten the razor together. | d04bcbf6-7aa1-4d6e-8aeb-98830908fd4e |
1q6fim | What is stopping commercial planes from being drone-piloted? | There are two main reasons:
1) For emergencies. Automatics can handle every routine task on an aeroplane. They can even handle a selection of emergencies that the designer thought to take into account. But when things go off-script, automatics don't know what to do.
Think about the double engine failure in New York that resulted in the aircraft landing in the Hudson with no injuries or fatalities - there's no way that any automatic system could possibly have assessed all the options, and decided that the Hudson was the best place to be.
2) Because passengers wouldn't want it. Talking about emergencies is all very good. But the fact is that emergencies are very rare, and human error occurs in aviation, and causes far more accidents than are caused by technical problems. There really is very little technical reason why pilotless aircraft couldn't be operating on commercial flights already. But most passengers would be really, really uneasy about this. Airlines know this, which is why airlines are not pushing for pilotless commercial flight. | fe2ef300-dbdd-498d-bf08-107ad9b1bdb8 |
8r4x9b | Why does climbing a tree, or a ladder, or any steep height seem fine going up, but much more scary coming down? | * you can see where you are going and what you are doing better going up that down
* if you run into a problem going up, all you have to is let gravity bring you back to where you just were...going down, you have to overcome gravity if you change your mind and want to go back to a safe spot | 469c2f79-672d-46d9-b9f1-2b4d41ae7fdb |
5bp65a | why do some products in stores have a "if found at another retailer, please call...." sticker on them? | Generally, they are to discourage you from buying something from Retailer A and then turning around and reselling it through Retailer B for more money. For example, buying some stuff from Walmart during a crazy sale and re-selling it on Amazon later for a profit.
This has some info:
_URL_0_ | cc8c1151-86ee-4762-830c-4756a63c2f01 |
3frxw2 | How illegal immigrants can be appointed to government positions, get driver's licenses, etc. | Legitimately they can't and it is against the laws. However, currently, immigration laws in this country mean nothing. | 34c465c6-e02c-4311-bf3f-e6549e427361 |
6suk3s | If I have an understanding of law, why can't I practice it without having a law degree (US)? | If someone hires you to be their lawyer, they're hiring you because they don't know or understand the law. Since they don't know or understand the law, they don't really have any way of evaluating whether or not you know the law. They just have to take your word for it. This would make it very easy to fool anyone about how skilled you are at being a lawyer and the person who hired to fake lawyer would be screwed by the time they found out.
In order to make sure that people know they're getting a lawyer of at least a minimum competency, you have to be admitted to the bar to represent someone else. Since you have to prove you at least know a good amount of law to join the bar, everyone who is a member is assumed competent to represent someone else.
This is pretty much the reason for all professional licensing - most people don't know enough about certain areas to be able to tell whether a professional they're hiring is competent or not. If it were easy to tell, then the topic would probably be much simpler and there wouldn't be a need to hire a professional. A regulatory body can license people as a way to guarantee to the public that people who are licensed actually know what they're talking about.
Take a doctor, for example. If a doctor runs tests on you and tells you that you need an expensive surgery, you probably don't have the knowledge to say whether the doctor is correct or not. You could get a second opinion, but that involves hiring another doctor. You probably trust the doctor, though, because they've been licensed and vetted by other doctors.
It's also worth noting that you can always represent yourself. You can also technically practice law without having a degree - you just have to a member of the bar. A few states let you join the bar without a degree, though usually you have to apprentice at a law firm first. But that's a holdover from earlier times and is rare to see these days. | 498b54aa-1cc7-4f9d-8e21-867827e5bb81 |
3h3cct | Are their more Android vulnerabilities nowadays or are we just hearing about them more? | There will always be vulnerabilities in software, but like Windows, Android is the biggest target, so it will probably get the most publicity. However, like Windows, there are some cut corners in order to get that install base IMO, and it's a bit worse now with the tie-ins with carriers and OEMs.
I'm a bit concerned though, as a Google services/Nexus 5 owner, how much does Google really care about their own security. They don't shy away from throwing stones at other companies, primarily MS, but they don't seem to take security as serious with Android, as Apple does with iOS, eg the recent Stagefright patch that doesn't work. | 545a42df-d7dc-41be-9915-b0f7852a9c02 |
2ukgcv | How do bookies at an event keep track of wagers when everyone's shouting at them and handing them money? | It's overly dramatized in movies. You can't actually just shout at a bookie and throw them money and expect your bet to be recorded. | dddacac9-3493-45f0-b311-4d882f7badab |
1hk3ot | What's the difference between 2$ HDMI cables and 50$ HDMI cables? | You being ripped off.
If an HDMI cable works it works. There is no difference in quality from a $2 one to a $50 one. At best the price difference may mean they used a higher quality material to make them and they will last longer under heavy use. | 60558b52-dd2f-4f75-9823-05b3a74667e7 |
873e7z | Why are half of the square pockets in waffle makers smaller than the other half? | Your experience isn't typical. Do you have a picture of these waffle irons? | d5b8e054-7701-468c-9d54-25d79c554173 |
51nbgf | Why so many police officers accused of crimes either get light sentences or have their charges dropped entirely, and how this relates to police unions. | Often times its the jury that deals with this situation (I have been on the jury of a case with a police officer.) Once the evidence is presented it's usually not the officers fault.
A shaky video comes out of a police officer shooting a subject. Then during court you learn that the subject was on hallucinogens and waving a gun earlier. You hear from 35 witnesses about the situation and what really went down. You hear from medical experts on what the hallucinogen could cause and the dangers of it with someone with a gun. You hear from gun experts and the police testimonies involved. All of which without the history of anyone involved so you don't create any mental biases.
In most cases it isn't the police officer's fault.
Many cases police officers get it rough. I have one case saved, I can grab it later. Of a guy getting his license out of his car and getting shot, he dropped to the floor and asked the police officer why he got shot and he said "I thought you were getting a gun." That police officer ended up with 20 years in prison, thats more than an attempted murderer will get in many cases. So sometimes police, when it is actually their fault, will get it much more harsh than a regular person.
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Also know jury doesn't decide punishment, but they are given certain charges to determine guilt. In the case with police they may be given 5 different types of murder charges to decide which one it is. With the lowest being no punishment and the highest being 25 to life. But those punishments are still determined by the judge and the jury only gets to determine the charge's accuracy. | da8e14b2-e2d5-495a-a721-89580ab425c2 |
5i63wh | How do we determine how "large" (in bytes) a genome is? | In genetics, Mb doesn't mean megabytes, it means megabases. DNA is formed as a sequence of bases (usually A, C, T, or G), and that's the unit of size that they use, so the sunfish has a genome that's about 730 million bases long. | 747132c8-408c-4e66-a266-31b3abdc2061 |
4bt643 | Why does Tea and Coffee taste bad when it's watered down, even though they're mostly water? | Coffee and tea are a specific ratio of water to "stuff;" the stuff is the oils and other chemicals from the coffee beans or tea leaves.
So when you brew a cup of tea, the box of tea will tell you "Steep this tea bag in X water for Y minutes." That's like a recipe - it makes sure there's the right amount of stuff vs. water.
Pouring extra water in there messes up that ratio, and it tastes worse. Just like if you put too much flour in a cake or too much water in a soup. | 66a2b20d-eeae-4701-924f-9d03f7b23adb |
4gb7m8 | The link between allergy medicine and dementia. | It probably is a true link, however this study looked at older populations, who are at higher risk of Alzheimer's than younger patients. Alzheimer's disease is associated with degeneration of the basal nucleus of meynert in the brain, which provides cholinergic input to a certain part of the basal nuclei that are involved in memory and emotion. The thought is that an anticholinergic agent may expedite this process, but it is likely that it would only happen if you are older. If you're any age under 60, I wouldn't worry about it.
This is similar to the link between ibuprofen and other NSAIDS and peptic ulcers. If you don't use NSAIDs chronically, or if you don't have a predisposition to peptic ulcers, they're fine to use. However, if you have problems with that, you need to find an alternative source.
If you're concerned about it, I would recommend switching to an H1 receptor blocker (claritin, zyrtec, allegra, etc...) or to a low dose corticosteroid (e.g. prednisone, flonaise). These medications are not anticholinergics, and work through a different mechanism. | 6ed8de59-6836-43f5-9058-4a971b098986 |
5wll4y | What happens when a company buys a competitor but keeps the name? | Branding is important, and time will tell if those two brands have more value separately or together. A smart acquisition keeps its options open and gathers market intelligence over time to inform such decisions.
Yes, they've eliminated a competitor. They've also expanded their business, now with two distinct customer bases: the traditional Allstate and the online eSurance. Each surely had lessons to learn from the other. Potential for a 1+1=3 situation.
A business operation has a certain amount of overhead. Combining businesses has potential for economies of scale once they figure out how to merge their systems. (SO much easier said than done.). This is potential for 1+1=1.5 ... eliminating redundancies in overhead operations. | e848edf8-3c4d-4f2d-a530-215a9713c7ad |
1jls0w | Why am I tired all day long, every day of my life, but as soon as 8pm roles around I feel like a frat boy with an eight-ball and a keg of Naty Ice. | It could be something simple as your daily routine. What time do you wake up? What do you do for a living? Are you active and do you work out? How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
Or it could be an actually disorder: _URL_0_
Basically, it could be a number of things. If you're really concerned however, I advise you go see a doctor. They might be able to help you out better. I know that's really not the answer you may have wanted, but trust me, do not self diagnose yourself with conditions. | 217573ce-4a1f-4941-8a33-7f4f3dbedd62 |
6f532t | Why do aquatic mammals swim with their fins moving up and down, but fishes swim with their fins moving side to side? | The most basic reasoning would be bone structure. An aquatic mammal still has bones in the same general shape as ours, meaning that their shoulders work a lot like ours do. Up and down and using them as rudders works well with the bone structure. Its the same with penguins. Fish also share a common bone structure with us, but it is so far removed from terrestrial animals that its barely recognizable. Fish limbs are the original limbs for swimming. They then evolved for walking on land, then in the case of aquatic mammals or birds, re-evolved for ocean life. | e398181f-70c0-45b7-99d4-3736ae6cbdc5 |
8sv2vu | What is the clear fluid that fills a bilster (from heat or pressure) and what is it's purpose? | It's usually plasma, which is the liquid part of blood that the red and white cells are suspended in. It helps the healing process of the underlying damaged skin. | 71fca1e8-d4d2-4fe3-8ed3-6ab8921ae5ba |
20gzbe | What is Black Body radiation and how does it work? | Everything that has a temperature will self-radiate by the emission of electromagnetic waves, e.g. light. The name "black body" radiation comes from the idea that if you have a perfect absorber, a body that absorbs 100% of all light in the entire spectrum that hits it (hence, "black body"), the said body will emit light not by reflecting incoming light but by spontaneous emission. This emitted light is referred to as "black body radiation". | 60e26e4e-97d2-4e4b-a064-7bf40b35c177 |
47foe6 | Why does it take so long for finger/toenail fungus to be cured and go away? | Nail beds are moist, warm, and dark. Fungi must like this. It's a very good growing medium for fungi? | ed91a680-ee3d-4e14-b2ed-2d651f82c9e7 |
7jxme3 | What is SegWit? What are its advantages and disadvantages? | Segregated Witness (or Segwit for short) was an update deployed recently on Bitcoin and a few other cryptocurrencies. Without getting into the nitty gritty details, it fixes a bug known as transaction malleability, which prevented doing some things with bitcoin such as payment channels. Along the way, it also somewhat accidentally allowed for a fix to decrease the amount of bytes that a transaction counts towards Bitcoin's blocksize limit, allowing for more transactions and less fees. This is all opt in, to opt in you need to use Segwit enabled wallet/address.
This has no disadvantages aside from it breaking a certain Bitcoin mining "cheat" called asicboost which affects very few people. | 59831c20-97df-4365-a3b1-dbbf83f2a9ad |
2bjrzm | Why do movies about modern times often include outdated technology (e.g., paper & pen, dedicated camera, typewriter, etc.)? | Paper and pen is not outdated as of yet. Many if not most still use them daily. | 18456575-0aca-4013-a499-1d78fb5a1fc8 |
44kkh4 | How do wet dreams cause one to cum if there is no sexual pleasure in reality? | Sexual pleasure is mostly in the mind. Your dreams are fully capable of providing that. What little contact is needed for wet dreams is provided by your underwear/other clothing, sheets, or actually masturbating in your sleep. | 01cf9975-c429-4daa-b778-25ee74a67de8 |
8fxuqi | Is looking through someone else's glasses on similar to their vision with their glasses off? | I would think it could but in the inverse direction, as long as you have perfect vision. In other words, say you have 20/20 vision. You put on your friend's -3.25 glasses, meaning they are myopic. Wearing glasses with -3.25 brings them to zero but since you're already there, your vision will correct to +3.25 *edit: which would give you nearsightedness*. (I'm not an optometrist and am purely speculating but think this is how it works.) | 8d704a14-3316-41f5-b69f-c9215b8b0e90 |
4qj4gt | How do criminals get away when being interviewed in documentaries on National Geographic and such? | The police cannot assume what is on "TV" is true. Neither should you. It could easily be staged or scripted. In order to become evidence, a man or woman would have to testify in court that everything on the video is true. That would make the film makers job very difficult in the future, so you can imagine they aren't running to court to testify. | 2a50ecbe-6966-465b-a21f-fa8fc4660ad7 |
l3snd | How is medical marijuana legally distributed? | Marijuana is prohibited under federal law, but state law is an entirely different matter. If a state allows the prescribed use and regulated sale of marijuana, then it is not a crime in the eyes of any state official. Federal law enforcement agencies, however, are able to enforce federal anti-drug laws, but they mostly have the courtesy to allow regulated medical marijuana dispensaries to operate. Of course, it varies greatly based on location and local laws/federal agency policy.
About the doctors' licensing, marijuana has known medical benefits, and it's prescription as an alternative form of medication is valid. | 0f80befe-12b1-4364-9ad6-df2786365033 |
2bcvor | Whats the differences between 'Lieutenant' and 'Leftenant'? | No difference; the former is the American/Canadian pronunciation while the other is found more in Britain and its former colonies. They're both spelled "Lieutenant." | 7b1c01af-084b-4a83-aab0-ddf539e72547 |
1ebkd7 | What all this Amy's Bakery drama is about? | Amy's Baking Company was featured on Kitchen Nightmares, a show in which Chef Gordon Ramsay visits failing restaurants and whips them into shape with his culinary and business acumen to rescue them from closing.
He visited Amy's Baking Company, a spot in Arizona owned by a husband and wife duo who were convinced that they were besieged by some kind of plot by "Yelpers" to flood them with bad reviews out of spite as some sort of cyber bullying attack.
The service was slow, the food was bad, and Gordon identified the same basic issues he finds in most every restaurant. The owners, though, refused to take the criticism and screamed at Gordon, their staff, their customers, and each other.
Throughout the course of the episode it was revealed that the chef had no training, the food was frozen but marketed as fresh, the owners would pocket servers' tips, only the husband was allowed to access the cash register (leading to accusations on reddit of money laundering), the restaurant has gone through 100+ wait staff/bussers in a year, and the husband would threaten people with violence for sending their food back. It was like watching a comedy skit about the worst restaurant people could think of.
Gordon made the decision to cut the episode short and walk out, since every time he said something the wife/chef would react incredibly poorly and scream about being oppressed/bullied.
Once the show hit the air, people started flooding the restaurant's facebook page with fake reviews. The owners responded as poorly as you'd expect and continued threatening, cursing, and invoking god against the "yelpers" and "reddits" terrorizing them.
All in all it was a glimpse of two people with mental illness and how they react when the entire world seems to decide to fuck with them. Hope that helps. | d7ab4f99-f58b-49a1-95fd-7c781a25df1f |
57ciy2 | How does glass become sea-glass? | It becomes smooth after 20-50 years of being tumbled by waves and tides, in contact with abrasive saltwater and rough sand. It's possible because sand is of similar hardness to glass (being made from similar materials), the sand is able to wear away the glass.
"Fake" sea glass is fairly easy to make in much less time. Usually glass is placed in a rock tumbler or treated with acid to produce the smooth edges and frosted appearance. | c7fb3d35-d406-4c7a-93a8-8d9f6408787f |
31l8hh | How does something go from nothing to a brain? | If you want to make a brain from scratch, you must first invent the universe. | aac84264-f2d4-466b-8cbb-888adcc9b3b8 |
uxvkh | Quantum physics grad student Ben Ames, wins Alan Alda's 'The Flame Challenge' by most effectively communicating the complexity of a flame to children in his animated video. | > First, we need something big and black like
oh no
> this pitchfork
Oh. | 2e94f5f5-e8c6-443f-b2d6-fafe36fee727 |
2yif74 | Daylight Savings Time. I get why we set the clocks forward.. but why, in Autumn, do we set them back an hour? Is there something gained by having an extra hour of darkness in the Winter? Why don't we just keep time at "Daylight Savings Time" year-round? | Historically, people like to think of Noon as being when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. Under DST, you're an hour off from that. | 00c0e927-d7a1-44a7-a832-dd5e2bea2526 |
kql7t | What exactly am I paying domain registrars for? | There are some administrative that need to be paid for (staff, office costs, hosting their own website).
But mainly there needs to be some fee involved otherwise there's nothing stopping people from registering millions of domains, just for fun. | 55c038d7-6266-49d9-91d1-f533d73d7767 |
535og3 | What does it look like when a hacker gains remote access to a computer? Is it literally just a mirror of the victim's desktop? | It depends.
Computers can only do one thing - run programs. And "program" is just data and some calculations applied to it. So when someone says "hacker gained access to a computer" it means that hacker is either able to access data on that computer or is able to run programs there. Or both.
In many cases hackers only need data, like your photos, or credit card numbers. In this case it's enough for them to simply have a console where they could type something meaning "copy that data from victim's to my computer".
However, also in many cases, in order to get access to data, hacker would need some program to be run on your computer. Which could be planted via viruses, trojans and other type of malware.
Now this program may be as simple as something capturing all your key presses and sending them to the hacker, or as complicated as actual Remote Desktop (screen mirroring, mouse control, access to disks etc.).
In most cases Remote Desktop capabilities are not needed (unless hacker's goal is to sit and watch what you're doing), and since it's a more complicated thing to set up, it's a waste of hacker's time, so they don't use it (unless it's the easiest way to get in, which means your system's security is in really bad shape). | f3516a24-adf7-4362-9e44-f0fd16c0554f |
3dyd97 | Will a people with lighter skin tones gradually darken after generations (1k+years) of living in places like the middle east or Africa? Would a people with a darker skintone gradually "Lighten" after generations living up north in Europe or Siberia? | If everyone with the unfavorable skin tone for their region died before reproducing, then yes. In the modern world, no. We have technology that exists to shield ourselves from the harmful effects of the sun for lighter skinned people, and we have ways to replace nutrients lost from lack of sunlight exposure for darker skinned people. So, even if you lived in a region your skin isn't suited for, you'd probably still get to reproduce and pass on your genes, so evolution doesn't work in this case. | e1dbd1f6-2429-4144-a095-ebb6316c4622 |
25uar9 | Why is it so hard to clean up radioactive waste like Chernobyl? Why hasn't it disappeared on it's own after such a long time? | Cockroaches can withstand higher levels of radiation because they lack soft tissues, which are the most vulnerable to radiation poisoning. | 8c4edede-e200-49ad-846e-09843806dfba |
1ryovp | How does the 'Skylanders' Video game work? | I would assume RFID chips in the figurines so the game knows which ones are being used. | c53472c6-562e-4e37-b83f-4c4c58fc2836 |
3gw2fn | Why does no one like Internet Explorer? | Internet explorer must be loved in some circumstances. It is the world's most popular browser for downloading Firefox and Chrome.
So remember, everything has its uses. | e121cf23-45d2-4ee7-a934-24b406e5702b |
3mc8k4 | Why do people use terms like right-wingers, left-wingers, liberals, and conservatives instead of republican/democrat? | Theyre not the same thing.
Right wing and left wing are pretty similar to democrat / republican, left wing being democrat, right wing being republican.
Liberal tends to mean you take a liberal understanding of the constitution. You treat it more like a living document that can be changed and have an open ended view of some of the things it says. Conservative on the other hand would generally believe that it is written in stone. They say changes shouldnt be made to it.
There are conservative democrats who support democratic party ideals, yet who believe the constitution is pretty much in stone, and there are liberal republicans who would like to rewrite half the constitution to fit their agenda.
Conservative is likely one who doesnt want things to change. In a lot of cases, thats how republicans are. They dont want gay marriage legalized, they dont want drugs legalized, they dont want any of this new generations stuff to come about and change the way theyve been living and doing business their whole life.
Young people are often the ones coming up into an old system and theyre the ones who have a problem with it and want to change it. As it stands, democratic ideals are currently the ones that say things like lets legalize gay marriage, etc. Thats what the younger people want, so a lot of younger people (not all) are generally left leaning or democrats.
It is possible to be a right leaning democrat. That would mean in general, you see yourself as a democrat, but you also agree with a few republic issues.
When you explain it, especially when you read that last sentence, you start to realize why the two party system is absurd. The idea that a person is going to fit into one of two categories with every single belief is stupid. Politics would be much better if we could all just ignore parties and look at everyone as an independent.
From the perspective of a candidate though, having a party is really sort of essential. A democratic candidate virtually guarantees themselves the votes of every democrat out there. The party system hurts us as voters since it forces us to lean one way or the other and eliminates independent candidates from serious runs | e63815bb-043b-4951-86f4-e979a6d37bcd |
804k6y | Regarding the 2020 Olympics, how will Olympic Karate look different from Olympic TKD? | It's like boxing vs. kickboxing. They are similar, but one allows kicks and the other doesn't. It's a small change, but it completely changes the strategy. Muhammed Ali was one of the best boxers of all time, but I don't think he would have been a very good kickboxer. The same applies to Taekwondo and Karate. Taekwondo focus on kicking so fighters stand slightly farther apart and try to jump and kick the other person in the head. Kicking gives more points, and it's harder to effectively land a punch. So Taekwondo uses hands as a backup if they happen to get close and need to space back out. Karate focuses more on punches, chops, and strikes. The fighter stand closer together and use their legs as more of a back up.
You could say that these are still pretty similar, but the little differences matter. Sprinting 100M is very similar to sprinting 400M, but most runners don't do both. | 6ddc8dd4-d22a-4142-8a78-c94c776d48a0 |
1qj30q | What is the feeling of grogginess and why do we experience it? | Hi !
Before I explain this, you need to understand that there is **a lot** that we do not understand about the brain and all the molecules involved yet.
The molecule involved here is **Adenosine**. You can find it in all the body, but the part that answers your question is its work **in the brain**.
So Adenosine has **receptors** in the brain which when they "receive" Adenosine, it inhibits the **central nervous system** (CNS). The CNS is what **integrates** all information coming from the body and **coordinates** the nervous activity. So like you are 5 : More Adenosine in the brain means more grogginess.
The cause for **morning grogginess** is the built-up of Adenosine in the brain during NREM sleep.
Point of interest : research proved that caffeine works on Adenosine receptors in the brain (among other things) and inhibits Adenosine itself, hence the "awake" feeling.
Adenosine also works on the lungs, the heart, interacts with drugs. It's also involved in the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) and research is made to see if there is not a connection with brain disease's like Alzeihmer or Parkinson or Brain cancer. Look it up if you are interested. | 6d1e4d9d-f367-4873-8775-9f6f5c3ae235 |
3y3t3r | Why do we put so much effort in keeping certain species from going extinct and invasive species out of foreign areas when the more "natural" thing to do is let it happen? (read description for clarification) | Endangered is one thing. And more so humans trying to take responsibility for their actions. Most animals that are really endangered, it's partially our fault.
As for invasives, the thing is, naturally it wouldn't have happened in the first place. How is a Python from Burma going to relocate to the Florida Everglades without human interference? (Funny thing is they are endangered in Burma, but super invasive where I live. Idk why we don't just ship em over).
So, short answer for endangered, guilty humans. For invasive, depends.
Edit: I just want to reiterate I'm not like some tree hugger or human-hater that blames my fellow species for everything. Like I've seen other people say, it's hard to rule out what animal is genuinely endangered and which is our fault. | 0e0605d9-7f2c-4289-ae16-d81b3a91bd22 |
6xe9o8 | Syndication of TV shows | Syndication is when the company that owns the rights to a show sells it to other networks to show. For example, Seinfeld originally aired on NBC and the cast got money from that. But, they later sold the syndication rights to TBS so that TBS could show old episodes of the show. TBS is still paying and some of that money ends up with the original cast. | 51b26cc8-75bf-405b-a42c-c43d69704a56 |
3eqlsx | If you had a stick one lightyear long, would the kinetic energy transfer faster than the speed of light if you poked something? | No. The stick would not move all at once; your push would propagate down the stick at the speed of sound in whatever the stick is made out of. | ed83b32c-2825-4d52-a01d-0cbb4bc0d1f9 |
7zj4hy | Nashville Mayor’s affair proven by reading deleted chat logs from her cell phone. How are these deleted files accessed? Are there ways one can securely delete private data from cell phones and computers? | Most computer file systems operate like the planning department of a city rather than a demolition firm. When a file is deleted, they mark the space as available and ignore the existing data, which will be overwritten if/when a new file wants to use the space. Until a new file actually uses the space, the old data is available to be recovered. There's software for many file systems that can automate the recovery process.
Computers have always been terrible for privacy, without lots of very careful precautions (strong encrypting at the file system level and and strong encrypted for communications, as well as other operational security good practices). The privacy rule for computers has been "never put anything on a computer that you wouldn't put on a post card" for several decades. That lots of people don't follow this rule, without having their affairs revealed is more a factor of the lack of interest in them rather than any inherent security.
It's quite hard to secure a smartphone, because your phone is designed to share as much as possible, because the phone makers all want to use your information to more effectively sell you things. | 3865062b-3eda-4d26-b98c-d0253b2b9e0c |
17xdex | Why can't we use Micro SD cards (or the technology it uses) to create ultra small - high capacity hard drives? | We essentially already do. They're called solid state disks. They can be a number of form factors but 2.5" is the standard because that's what size laptop hard drives are. | e6b1cbdc-6f4a-46d0-a811-abfe4dc763f5 |
8n3agt | Turning on/off double vision? | I found out I have double vision because I have a retinal tear behind my one eye. It causes it to lag and I have slightly a dropped eyelid as well due to it. I really would go to your optometrist as soon as you can. Anything to do with vision is VERY important and will not go away by itself! | 84b921b3-75e1-4533-9644-65f7fbd98fcb |
1mg7zg | If we're in the first world, and places like rural African countries are the third world, what and where is the second world? | It's an archaic system because the Cold War is over. It used to be:
First World: Capitalist powers
Second World: Communist powers
Third World: Everybody else
So, back in the day, the USSR (and, to an extent, China) was the "second world." I guess you could still say that China is "second world," but I've never heard anybody say that.
It's now generally preferred to use developed, developing, and undeveloped, because it makes more sense. | 5a6ba48d-0815-4431-8d63-fff6dddc9589 |
3ejjdq | What do we benefit from keep near extinction animals around? Should we just let them go extinct? (not a popular opinion I know, more of a description in comments) | There are two basic arguments. First, the moral one. We are morally obligated to protect animals that we had a hand in taking to the brink of extinction.
Second, the utilitarian one. We can possibly learn something from ecosystems with intact species that could help us later. If we alter the ecosystem to much it could come back to hurt us later in ways that we don't expect.
Here's a good thread that goes over this topic in more detail: _URL_0_ | b4f4d29d-5837-4992-88e3-c1e2d7260154 |
5l73mp | Why does every car have a different type of battery when every car takes a 12-Volt battery? | different sizes.
the bigger the engine, the bigger the amperage is needed for the electric starter motor to turn the engine. the bigger the amp requirement, the bigger battery you need.
bigger batteries also happen to be more expensive and more heavy. so you use the size battery that most appropriately matches your engine starting needs. | 50ecb7d8-31e1-4f73-a083-4c49004a49b0 |
25d7i6 | Nash Equilibrium | Nash Equilibrium is a concept in Game Theory. Basically, when a few people are participating in a "game" (which can be any real or imaginary situation), and each player has his/her own strategy, a Nash Equilibrium is when no player can benefit by changing their own strategy, assuming the rest of the players don't change theirs as well.
Here's an example: a group of people are taken hostage by a single bank robber with a gun. Suppose each of the hostages has two options: try to overtake the robber, or sit and wait to be rescued, but risk a chance of being executed. Now, if all of the hostages are currently sitting and waiting, this is a Nash Equilibrium. The reason for this is that for if one of the hostages decided to change his strategy (by attempting to overtake the robber) and the rest don't, then this hostage would be gunned down - which is obviously a bad outcome for him. Only if all (or most) of the hostages decide to change their strategy together, then it would benefit them. | 6425e6e0-611f-44f8-801d-c197b4b7e679 |
2fn6f2 | Why are people still so obsessed with being racist ? | There has always been a huge push to separate people into groups, as opposed to looking at people individually. Race is a very obvious/visual difference among people, so it is often used to divide. Many people are susceptible to falling into the trap of pigeonholing others based on one characteristic. However, learning about someone on an individual basis, is really the only true way to understanding their character. | 27b6ed51-b66b-4a1b-9c55-45c674b00461 |
6b4pcz | Why do universities make tests too hard and then curve the grades? | So they know where everyone is. If someone gets a 100 then you know they're good on the subject, but not how good. The tests are used to check progress, so they make the upper end redicleously high so they can track everyone's improvement. | 42e3bcbc-f6fe-42fd-953b-df701ee63c9a |
4p2v00 | Who has the most power in the U.S political system? | No group is suppose to have "the most power". Every branch is suppose to have counters and checks on the other two.
President: Appoints Supreme Court Judges, Has Veto power over potential laws.
Congress: Approves Supreme Court Nominees, Has Impeachment power over the President.
Supreme Court: Has the power to overturn laws made by Congress, Has the ability to overturn Executive orders. | 41581159-63a2-48c7-a5ea-5f5438ef303e |
1iqfqp | Why are there different styles of wall plugs around the world? | For the same reason there isn't an international language, we've just not been culturally connected for long enough to develop a standard.
Slightly off-topic: The Danish one is my favourite, because its so happy ●‿● | dd9bde17-90fe-4b1d-9210-718e55642e05 |
6i07dy | Why is it that (historically) Christians have largely persecuted Jewish people despite Jesus being Jewish? | 1) Primarily because they are outsiders to the local social structure. They are not native to the region and so are suspect. It is the same reason Gypsies are persecuted.
2) Religiously Jews rejected Christ and killed him. As such they are evil to the mind of many Medieval Christians.
Edit 3) Christians were not allowed to charge interest on loans given. Which basically means they were not allowed to be bankers. So Jews took up this role. People tend to not like people that they owe money to.
But the majority of the reason is them being an outsider. | 64fef2bf-4832-48b2-8cf6-b4e7b1a54b13 |
1wybgl | Why jailbreaking an iPhone 5 is different than on an iPhone 5s. | But the hardware is different. Different exploits use the hardware and software in different ways. | 0c5a72ca-1143-4a93-b31a-3dcb1aabc2db |
3jiy4m | Why does the U.S not have massive military parades like Russia and China? | Im a former US Marine ... all I can say is Thank you to my battalion commander/regiment/division/etc. for never having me do any bullshit like that. Fuck drill. | 3217282c-43f2-401d-8b58-5f17476c61e3 |
5vg5tu | Why do movies and shows have to blur out or block out company names on products? | In addition to product placement fees, there's also the reverse that if it isn't blocked out and the product is featured and doesnt like it, then they could always sue. | f305ace1-2169-4b7f-9e9e-cc65fd072311 |
85pjpg | Why is it that when people bald, they bald on the top of their head? | This is called pattern hair loss (commonly known as male-pattern baldness). Different hair follicles have different structure, and react differently to a chemical the body produces called DHT. The hair follicles at the top of the head will gradually go dormant due to the effects of DHT, but the hair at the side of the head is barely affected by it.
For most people (mostly men, but some women as well), this means that they will go bald on the top of their head first. There are actually a few patterns, based on the individual's genetics. Some people will go bald towards the top-back of their head first, giving them the classic "bald spot". Another common pattern is for the hairline to recede from the from to the back. | e0c4e91e-b868-4a2f-a3a9-15e3de8903ae |
8dv1cm | What are prions? Can animals die from prion disease? | Yes, non-human animals can have prions. Basically, a prion is a protein that has been folded in such a way that it not only doesn't perform its function, but reacts with versions of the same protein that are folded correctly, in such a way that they fold in the same way as the prion and so obtain the prion's properties, reacting with more proteins. This keeps going and eventually the amount of proteins that have been converted to the prion add up to the point where you have all kinds of symptoms (which relate to what happens to the body if that protein is missing, since it might as well be), and eventually death. In order for one animal to catch a prion from another, regardless of species, it has to consume the nervous tissue of that animal. I'm not sure why, but all prions that we know of primarily attack the nervous system. | 23318865-400f-4d0b-9d2b-bf5deea471c8 |
3grjcu | Why isn't museum art featuring cherubs/naked babies classified as child pornography? | For the same reason that [this google search](_URL_0_) is not classified as CP: there is no sexual innuendo involved. Also asked before so please search next time. | 1d428f34-5021-4548-9789-9d6f37f3a868 |
62gh6y | What happens if the president won the election due to foreign intervention? | Russia parties down and said president gets closer to his claimed level of wealth. Meanwhile the other two branches of our government being controlled by republicans means everyone gets away scott free. | 19ae55af-0dbe-482a-aa6b-73ccee54ea37 |
6eam39 | What exactly is work ethic? | When someone shows up to work on time and does their job as expected without complaining or causing problems or slacking off and being lazy they are considered to have good work ethic. Also if they are willing to go beyond their job duties and help other workers out or are willing to do other jobs that their boss asks them to do. | d2d9041d-8b42-405e-9c34-b44f5278113c |
3jna7y | Why did Myspace fail? | A huge factor was customization: myspace was of the opinion that people want to be able to customize their space----music, flashing animation, their favorite teams, etc. And they were right, people DO want to customize their space.
But most people are tasteless, tacky fucks, and myspace quickly grew to resemble a chintzy E-vegas in Hell. Everyone's page took 2 minutes to load and crashed your shit. Broadband was still a thing of the future for most people. It was a nightmare.
Fb was neat, tidy, exclusive. Only college people here, all lined up and organized. Here are their pictures, there is their contact info, nowhere is their buggy green and purple layout and autoloading limp bizkit loop.
This is the same difference between Apple and pc: you can do anything with pc, and the results are wildly disparate. People think they love Mac, but in reality, Mac isn't better than the best pcs, or even comparably priced pcs. Macs only offer one thing pcs don't-----simple uniformity.
Tom from myspace gave the people what they asked for, and they abandoned him. Let that be a lesson to you; design something for everyone and it'll work for no one.
EDIT: I'm not anti Apple. I use a Mac g5, a mid level pc, an Android phone and an ipad, daily.
That's why I know that Mac's superiority is a myth. PCs come in all shapes and sizes: economy, luxury, workhorse, show piece.
Macs come luxury and up.
This gives people the illusion that Macs are inherently better, when in fact what is better is that you'll never use a weaK Mac because they don't make them for that price point.
This is also why there is Honda and lexus, even though they're the same----if honda and lexus merge names, their identity will be muddied. It's better that lexus be known for luxury and honda for affordable quality.
True of Toyota and Infiniti, Mirimax and Disney, and a shit-ton of "organic, fresh, local" foods that are in fact owned by international conglomerates.
Apple guards their name as well as anybody, and at their height, they had a cult whose adherents can still be seen.....some might say in this very thread's comments.
Macs are great machines----as would be any number of comparably priced pcs. But only Mac has a guarantee, and if Tommy Boy taught me anything, it's that people need a guarantee...And that Chris Farley was a genius.
EDIT: I GOT MY CARS TWISTED AND I'M LEAVING EM BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT FARLEY WOULD DO heeheehaheehaheehaheeheeha | 73bd23b7-1bac-47a3-9dfc-0b74c86324c0 |
4nlxws | How does a company like SpaceX remain a functional and profitable company? | They have large private investors which allow them to operate. Google and Fidelity Investments have invested about $1b, for example
They have multiple contracts with NASA which run into multiple billions of dollars. They also do business deploying satellites.
They are also in negotiations with the US military, and contracts like that will probably be fairly lucrative for them
I believe they have been running at a loss until fairly recently, only the last year or so has been profitable | 973351d3-cd3e-4351-8bd8-28366c2d0469 |
37mgyr | If we can teach chimpanzees to use sign language, why can't we teach them to use fire? | Well, I imagine it wouldn't be strictly impossible to teach a chimpanzee rudimentary fire starting skills. But why would you do this? Now you have a chimpanzee fire starter. They certainly don't have the experience or wherewithal to deal with fire as well as humans, and humans themselves screw it up often enough. There goes your lab. | 3b912b27-4d72-4f33-ac16-fed43132f3c5 |
35ypnb | Why/how do our stomachs "grumble"? | Your intestines grumble. The reason is because when you are hungry, there's less solid/semi-solid material in there, more gas and fluid.
The muscles lining them move, both to stir up the mixture of food and goop moving through you, and to move it along the 'path' to the back door. When it's mostly gas and liquid, it makes more noise as it is squeezed by those muscles, the material is gurgling around. | c89d8089-44b1-4aab-9f10-0b4d097df69b |
2wbo41 | What are the connections between The Theory of Relativity and The String Theory? | This is not really something that we can ELY5 because it's the million dollar question that the scientific community has been unable to figure out.
Not specifically String Theory, instead more broadly: Quantum Theory. The scientific community knows they both work, but how they fit together is still unknown.
String Theory goes further than quantum theory, but it's worth mentioning that String Theory is a misnomer and is not actually a scientific theory.
Requirement criteria for a theory:
- Must contain an explanation of a natural phenomenon.
- Must be falsifiable, but not have been falsified.
- Must stand up to repeated testing.
- Must be backed by many strands of independent evidence.
- Must make successful predictions.
String "Theory" does not meet 4 of those 5 requirements. As of now String Theory is just a mathematical concept. The math looks great, but there has been no confirmation, as of yet, that it is anything more than beautiful math. | b7ac081c-1adb-4f86-8a28-fc844028abb4 |
78j74u | What limits how quickly a battery can charge? Why can't you provide it with an excessive current to charge a phone battery faster? | Batteries are chemical storage device. The transition between electrical energy and chemical state takes time. Extra energy is dissipated as heat. Too much heat and you compromise the cell container and/or the electrolyte. With lithium interacting with atmosphere, it catches fire and goes boom. You don't want that. | 996575f6-fe5f-495f-ad42-f1c03d6dc6ce |
6qai3i | how come we usually blur out license plates in photos but not when they're vanity plates? | Because they're often the subject of the photo. There's no point to a picture of a vanity plate that blurred out. | 8de37476-1175-4f22-b407-6c8a33fa0a9b |
6ftclg | why do we mow lawns? | Well the concept of a lawn was to improve visibility so enemies couldn't sneak up close. Then it was used for grazing. Then we decided that it was a status symbol to have a large well manicured lawn. | 56c5b0fe-7ea9-4da2-b71e-f878a508d2c8 |
5kl8xi | Why do some institutions know my new address, while others don't? | Organizations can subscribe to the National Change of Address registry and be notified of address changes for people on their lists. There is a cost involved with this service. Some organizations are willing to pay to ensure they have an accurate mailing list, and others rely on the people on the list to update their addresses with them. | 35e2c410-e5a8-4289-87a8-ae792fb13816 |
2f0xea | Where are all the baby pigeons? | Our city pigeons are actually a form of [Rock Dove](_URL_1_) and they build their nests on places on our buildings which are most like cliffs and rock ledges. And the chicks stay in the nests until they're ready to fly but before that they're really [ugly buggers](_URL_0_). | 36ded9c7-b3c0-4c6f-a6de-8c246e68613f |
78i75p | Why do our eyes adjust to bright light quickly but take a while to adjust to the dark? | Your cones (the vision receptors designed for bright light and color sensitivity) can fully adjust in only a few minutes. Your rods (the dark-adapted receptors) take much longer, 30+ minutes for just 80% adaptation. Your cones play some part in looking in the dark, so it doesn't take 30 minutes to start adjusting to the dark, but full dark adaptation can take hours. | cae8234f-14da-4c79-a609-2647f4e2460d |
1mlwyz | Why does hair grow strangely in Moles? | Moles are a type of tumour. Tumours are formed when cells cannot regulate their growth and split much too often, and grow too large. In tumours like moles, this usually doesn't cause problems, like cancerous tumours do. But to get back to your question, the hairs growing out of the tumour are subject to the same factors that make the skin cells grow out of control. | 16762a84-e754-4657-bdf8-d3a2d0aa41e3 |
38u0j9 | Why are eastbound flights faster than westbound flights? | As you suspected, it is because of the winds, specifically the [jet stream](_URL_0_), which mostly flows from west to east.
The rotation of the earth makes no difference, because the atmosphere in which aircraft fly rotates with the earth. If the rotation of the earth did make a difference, logically you'd expect the opposite effect - as the surface of the earth moves to the east, the aircraft, you might think, would move to the west relative to the earth's surface. But this isn't what happens at all. | a49028c6-9267-411c-95ef-6d3b80d3e097 |
1qwb0d | All of our muscles get tired and we have to let them rest. Why doesn't our heart have to rest? | _URL_0_
One answer is that the “cardiac” muscle that comprises the heart is of a different kind than the “skeletal” muscle comprising the hand. Skeletal muscles are attached to bone structures and cannot stay long in a flexed position without depleting their energy reserves. Those energy reserves come from mitochondria: structures inside the cells that use the energy taken in from food. Thus the more mitochondria it has, the greater the available energy for the muscle.
Because it has not been necessary in the course of evolution for humans to be able to flex our skeletal muscles for prolonged periods of time, the total volume of skeletal muscle contains an average of only 1 to 2% mitochondria. This is an entirely sufficient energy source for such intermittent muscular tasks as walking or running. The total volume of the heart, by contrast, is between 30 and 35% mitochondria.
That massive amount of energy-generators means cardiac muscle, in a healthy state, need never rest: there is always some energy being transferred to the muscle at the same time that more energy is being derived from caloric intake. And always just in time for that next beat. | 50c5a625-c7cd-4c42-8873-5bd7a1b68d97 |
3um6uc | There are estimates that 46% of the labor force is at risk for being automated in the next 10-25 years. Why is no one talking about this? Why do we need "jobs" when there are about to be less and less for more and more people? | This is actually quite a prominent area in leftist theory that goes back to Marx. One of Marx's biggest points wasn't just workers controlling the means of production, but also the advancement of technology to increase everybody's leisure time.
Fully Automated Luxury Communism is a bit buzzwordy but encapsulates well what quite a few modern leftists adhere to (myself included).
This book explains it well - _URL_0_
Also, the Universal Basic Income is a way of allowing leisure time to increase during automation without the negative financial effects caused by mass unemployment. You can read more at /r/basicincome. | ca0ba35a-1822-4386-a331-71a1d9cbd3e2 |
2ax6m7 | Why do youtubers tend to ask for "likes" on their videos, when they get paid per view, and having an uninfluenced like counter could help them produce better content? | More likes - > higher ratings - > more traffic. | 69dbe71a-d9d2-45de-8649-deb307499f6c |
6qcrco | Why do movies use stunt doubles in simple situations like a car pulling into a spot or jogging? | The first thing to remember, is that movies are rarely shot in order and such.
Anytime you can use someone that is not a main actor to fulfill their role (often called a "stand in") means that main actor can be shooting a different scene, even on the other side of the world. These helps the timeline and cost of making a movie.
Second, stuntmen and such are very trained for these, they know how to make it go off without issue, and get it right the first time. They can knock this out in one take, safe, quick, and cheap. Thats exactly what you want when making a movie. | 7ad5a075-d3b7-4c89-95b2-1a735eb15215 |
4hkb6a | Why do songs that we haven't heard in a long time randomly start playing in our heads? | Our thoughts and memories are in a semantic node network. Meaning, each memory/thought/concept has it's own node (theoretical node, not physical), and they're all connected. If one node gets activated, then the activation threshold for connected nodes lowers, meaning it's easier for them to be activated and thus come to mind. For example, the "apple" node is connected to the nodes "red" and "fruit". So if I see an apple, I'm much more likely to think "red" or "fruit" after thinking "apple", because those are much closer to the apple node than a word like "tissue".
So about the songs--song nodes can be connected to a lot of other nodes, be it because of lyrics, emotions we felt when listening to that song, childhood memories, etc. You probably saw/heard something (even if you didn't consciously process it) that has a node closely connected to Frosty the Snowman, and activated it. This is an easy example--maybe you saw a picture of a snowman, or a picture of winter.
Hope that made sense. Yay brains! | 43242605-8c8f-4a0f-bafb-2431e6289892 |
5yg4ch | When you pick up your luggage after landing from a flight, how do airports make sure that the right person is taking the right luggage, and not stealing someone else's? | Airports don't check this -- they assume that it's been done correctly until they're told otherwise, until someone reports that their bag isn't there. That's the big reason why it's important to pick up your bag promptly after landing. | bc6c7007-f974-49c2-9fdc-72e260c397d3 |
7efvvy | Is drinking 8 cups of any liquid (i.e. pop, juice, coffee, beer, etc) pretty much the same as drinking 8 cups of water in terms of hydrating your body since the primary ingredient in any drink is water? | There's some difference. First these beverages are high on water, but it's not all water. Cola has like 88% water in it. Black coffee like 98%. Also, the amount of minerals make it either easier to absorb and keep the water, or harder. If you'd drink something high on salt (like sea water), you'd actually get really sick because partially the salty water in your bowels will attract water from you. This will cause diarrea and causes dehydration.
Some ingredients work as a diuretic, which means you will pee more because of them. Think of beer and coffee. While uptake may be the same as with normal water (but probably isn't the same) you also excrete more of it. So, the additional ingredients do matter. | 37283668-8fb6-4365-9955-c014773b0358 |
5nh9ax | Why do large, established companies like Coca-Cola outsource their branding to boutique firms? | Advertising is something that is generally outsourced to companies who specialize in it. It is very specialized, they are the experts at it, and they are the ones who do it. Sometimes they will keep some of the analytics in house, but generally at a minimum the creative and such is outsourced to the "experts" (but they may outsource parts (or all) of the analytics too!)
Its very uncommon for large or even smaller companies to have their in-house advertising department, or at least one that could hold their own against a company who's business is advertising.
But one last thing -- remember "advertising" is not the same as "marketing". And companies generally keep marketing completely inhouse | f48cf8e2-521f-487a-a190-56b2d503e33a |
2bq0au | Why aren't baseball players afraid of being hit in the face by a stray ball? | Because they are wearing special gloves, the express purpose of which is to apprehend said baseball. | 02e5a585-48b9-4a57-97d0-7268aadb0515 |
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