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How does eating food stop one from feeling the effects of Cannabis?
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It doesn't. It just gives a burst of energy, but it in NO WAY sobers you.
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How does one body hair (like arm hair) grow so much longer than all the others?
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I have the same issue, sometimes I get one hair on my arm or stomach that grows to be 4 inches or more. Always on my left side, too. I always assumed that it was a mutation. Hair goes through growth and resting cycles and I always assumed that the mutant hair wasn't getting the message to rest or fall out.
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If your mouth has more germs than your anus, why is it easier for you to get sick from putting your mouth on someone's anus rather than kissing them?
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Because "number of germs" is not in any way a good indicator of how likely you are to get sick. Your body contains many many billions of bacteria, most of which are actually beneficial to your body. In this specific case, E. coli (a gut bacteria) is responsible for the sickness. Early in your life, one strain of E. coli colonizes your body; your immune system will ignore that strain. But someone *else's* strain will make you sick.
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is there a way to conceptually describe a 4th dimension in terms of our 3 dimensional world?
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The way that made it sort of click to me is like this: Imagine that you, a 3D person, get transported into a 2D world. You can still perceive depth, but nobody around you can. They only have up and down, and forward and back, but no Z axis. Now imagine someone stuck you in a 2d jail and you didn't particularly feel like staying in there. Functionally this would be kind of like someone sticking you in a square of tape on the floor and expecting it to contain you. In other words, you'd just step over (or around, depending on your orientation) the silly line and go about your business. Now to a 4D person in our 3D world, it'd be much the same. They'd look at our prisons and go "Why don't the prisoners just go red or green and get out of jail?" and to them, red and green would be an axis of their spatial dimensions just like up and down are for us.
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How does the fuel gauge work in a car?
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Go to your toilet and lift the lid off of the water holder. Flush the toilet. See that little floaty thingy? Thats what in your fuel tank. The car takes a measurement of how high that float it floating (by using electronics it can measure how far on a stick that floater has floated up). Take a volume measurement with the float being the heigh and you get how much fuel you have.
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Why are there so many Martial Arts in Asia?
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There's no more martial arts in Asia than there is in Europe. We just view them as foreign so they stick out more. Fencing, wrestling, gymnastics, boxing, and parkour are all European martial arts that are practiced today. Go back in history and you'll find dozens of styles of hand-to-hand combat and sword fighting arts across the continent. Military cultures tend to standardize the way they fight and turn it into a practiced art no matter where they come from. There are even martial arts from sub-saharan Africa and pre-colonial America.
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When Animals interact with each other why do they not look at one another in the eyes like humans do?
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A lot of animals see eye contact as intimidating. Looking an animal in the eyes can be a way to assert dominance. Dogs will usually try to avoid eye contact with a dominant individual, and they'll look down in submission. Other animals always try to maintain eye contact. Domestic sheep will usually only graze when they can make eye contact with other sheep.
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Is the number of open gays increasing or is the ratio because of the change in times?
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Both. Population increase and the fact that people are not as afraid to come out and say they are because ridicule is less than it once was.
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Why don't we simply desalinate/clean ocean water for situations like droughts?
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It's very expensive currently, and you have the problem of brine left over. The process is not perfect so you don't end up with pure water on one side and salt on the other, you get about half salt-free water and the other half is doubly-salty water, or brine. Disposing of brine is a problem. It is usually put back into the ocean but it needs to be done slowly or it sinks to the bottom and raises the salinity at the ocean floor to dangerous levels for the creatures that live there.
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When something hits me in the nose but doesn't make me bleed, I smell something that I never smell in other situations. What is this smell?
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Iron from blood vessels bursting inside your nose. Your smelling the iron in your blood most likely.
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How is aborting a pregnancy because the child would be special needs not eugenics?
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It is in a sense. But Eugenics usually refers to a political commitment or government policy designed to "purify" the gene pool by removing certain people from it. Deciding not to have a child because of the emotional or economic costs---or the belief that the child's life will be painful---of expected health issues is similar, but lacks the larger "goal" that makes eugenics eugenics.
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How does a queen bee/ant spawn and create their own colony?
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When a hive gets too large they will raise a generation of new queens. These queens then leave the hive at maturity along with a few males and a bunch of workers effectively splitting the hive. This is what is happening when you see a bee swarm (most of the time). They go and look for a new place to start a hive leaving only a fraction of the workers, some males, and a queen at the original hive. Once they find a place to start a new hive they start laying eggs and thus establish a new home. Some species of ants do similar things. Others grow a single giant colony that only changes if there is something that forces the colony to split. In which case some species of ants will have some metamorph into a new queen, some will feed special foods to larva to make them develop into a new queen.
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Why the Fibonacci Sequence is important
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Most people say the fibonacci sequence is important, because phi pops up and that's in nature everywhere. That doesn't really make it important(also, most of the places people "find" phi are pretty forced and not actually there.) Anywhere, I'm just saying that the fibonacci sequence isn't really important. I mean, it's extremely interesting, but doesn't really make it important per se. It's just cool. That's math. It's cool for its own sake.
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What is hypothyroidism and how does it pertain to obesity?
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Hypothyroidism is the term meaning "extremely low thyroid-ism". This basically means due to something, your thyroid gland does not produce the amount of specific hormones it needs too(not just the hormone thyroid but a lot of other ones in conjunction, remember just how many of these endocrines rely on eachother). The thyroid is huge for the basic "control knobs" that control your entire metabolic process within the human body. When this control structure is extremely lowered, the result is a huge mess of problems associated with your metabolism being slowed down. You might be hungry, lethargic, more insulin resistant, agitated, not getting enough minerals and vitamins, and so on. There's a lot of problems that can occur from hypothyroidism, because one of the most essential glands in your whole entire hormonal system is unbalanced.
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If electronic voting machines are so easy to hack, why hasn't a group exposed the loop hole publicly so that the problem can be solved?
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It's like saying "If a PC is so easy to hack, why hasn't it been solved yet?" They're so easy to hack because they're based on PC's and there are uncountably many ways to do it if you're serious enough
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Why do some LED displays seem to "jiggle" if I make a low growling noise with my throat or chew crunchy food?
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You're causing your eyes to vibrate, which leads to the illusion that the LED display is actually vibrating.
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Why is the number pad on my keyboard opposite of the number pad on my phone?
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> There isn't a definitive answer, but the most cited theory seems to be that the telephone keypad has letters associated with numbers, so 1 2 3 across the top made more sense. Otherwise, the end of the alphabet would be at the top. Calculators, and therefore computer keypads had 1 2 3 at the bottom because it is more ergonomically efficient.
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What's the big deal with pi?
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Pi the number is the circumference of half a circle in relation to the radius.
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Why isn't anyone(as in a country) doing anything to help Syria? What is going on?
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Who said nobody was doing anything? _URL_0_ _URL_1_ _URL_2_ If you're referring to sending in the troops, that's a much different and much more complicated issue.
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If a plane were to be flying as normal and then gradually on a steeper and steeper slope away from earth, what would happen?
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Airplanes have a ceiling above which they cannot fly. It depends on their engine power and the amount of lift generated by their wings. Yes they could overshoot this ceiling but would falter, stall, and descend. The pilot could regain control and fly at the highest possible altitude. Airplanes use the air to burn their fuel. They can never fly in space. To go into orbit a craft must speed up to about 17,000 miles per hour. This is impossible unless they are out of the atmosphere. To operate outside the atmosphere rockets must be used.
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Why are the lakes Michigan and Huron not considered the same body of water?
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I live less than 2 hours from the Mackinaw Bridge. They are usually considered to be individual lakes because of their currents around the straights of Mackinaw, making some very rough waters. Lake Huron's current runs counterclockwise along Canada and Michigan while Lake Michigan's runs clockwise along the Lower Peninsula, clashing between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City.
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The solution the Zeno's paradox.
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Simple, nonmath answer: Zeno only considers consecutive half-way points. The other points exist; they are just not being considered. By only going looking at the half way points you never look at the end point in distance *or* time. You get infinitely close to the end distance and infinitely close to the end time. But just because you choose to only focus on time close to the end doesn't mean that time itself slows down and you never reach there. It just means that you never consider that time.
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How does a caller to 911 from California able to give an address from Kansas during the swatting incident? Are 911 operators not local?
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It is very, very easy in this day and age to use software to make a phone call from either an anonymous number or spoofing a number. Even an anonymous call would have to be taken seriously by a 911 operator since obviously they can't risk the chance of not acting on a reported hostage situation. 911 operators are located at or near the area they are servicing.
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Why does a ship captain face prosecution for abandoning his or her sinking ship?
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I thought he faced manslaughter charges for running the ship aground, which is different than abandoning the ship. I could be wrong though.
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why can I not wake myself up from dreams even when I'm conscious of the fact I'm dreaming?
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Are you sure you are actually conscious of being in a dream rather than merely dreaming that you are conscious within a dream?
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I'm salaried weekly to make the same amount as what a 40 hour hourly wage employee would make. Does the min wage increase (which increases hourly wage) affect my salary?
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I'm not sure what 'salaried weekly' means. I presume it means you have an annual salary, which you are paid an equal portion of 52 times a year. If that's the case, then no, minimum wage increase means absolutely nothing to your pay. It only affects people who punch a clock and are paid hourly.
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Why is the trade deficit with China so bad?
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China makes most of what it needs, and sells most of what other countries want. They have little incentive to buy things from countries like the UK, and we have lots of reasons to buy stuff from them.
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Why can i be injected with radioactive liquid for a bone scan and not get sick?
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It's a very small amount of radioactive material. You are constantly receiving radiation all the time so while this is a larger amount than normal it's not at all enough to make you sick. Your cells can handle it easily. According to this, the amount of radiation you receive from a bone scan is 6.3 mSv _URL_1_ According to this chart from xkcd: _URL_0_ That's about 1/10 of the yearly dose considered absolutely safe for a US radiation worker.
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Why does repeating a word or phrase over and over make it lose meaning in your brain?
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It’s a phenomenon known as Semantic Satiation. It’s just as you describe; one will say a phrase or word so many times that it eventually temporarily loses its meaning. Interestingly enough, there’s also a phenomenon where if you engage in Semantic Satiation, doing the task at hand will become slightly more difficult. _URL_0_ Edit: There’s a more so “explain like I’m an adult” explanation on the phenomenon where tasks become more difficult if you verbally repeat them, but I couldn’t find much (on the cellular or neurological level) as to why Semantic Satiation in specific occurs.
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Why do planes often pass the destination airport and land from the other direction?
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As a rule, planes take off and land into the wind. This means the speed over the ground is lower. Air is very much like a river. If you are swimming up the current, you are traveling slower in relation to the shore. Going with the current, you travel much faster. In both cases you are swimming at the same speed through the water.
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why is it totally ok and expected to haggle some items (like cars and apparently mattresses), while others have a fixed price? Why can't we haggle the price of chips or an iPhone?
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Amount of inventory and volume of sales. High amount of inventory or sales means little or no haggle. Lower inventory or low sales volume creates better opportunity for haggling.
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How does a democracy work if the majority of individuals don't understand most of the basic concepts involved within their government?
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Well technically speaking, the US, alongside practically all other modern countries around the globe, isn't a 'democracy' - it's a 'representative democracy'. Effectively, this means the electorate don't *need* to be knowledgable in politics and the economy to make the political scene 'work', as they elect people who (supposedly) are knowledgable in the aforementioned areas. Representative democracies allow for people to be somewhat engaged in politics in a semi-regular fashion, whilst not having to dedicate their lives to being 'politically aware' - people can just get on with their lives. Also, I don't particularly think understanding how the House of Representatives and the Senate influences decision making when it comes to picking a president.
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Why can I not just walk up to a drive-thru window & order food?
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It would be a liability to have pedestrians in a lane built for cars to travel through. If they allowed people to do it they would be responsible when someone got run over.
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The recent addition of 80 million years to the age of the universe.
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I think it is unfair to claim that scientists found an extra 80 million years, what they did was refine predictions based on more sensitive data. Using the previous set of measurements of the background radiation the prediction for the age of the Universe was 13.6 billion - 13.8 billion years, the newer, more sensitive calculations place the actual measurement closer to the 13.8 billion year mark. It would be like using a ruler that only had 1 foot increments on it and getting an approximate answer, and then later using a more accurate ruler with markings for centimeters... it would be unfair to ask where the extra length came from if all that happened was a more accurate measurement took place.
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The new iPhone 6 and if it's better than current phones
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It's a typical Apple release. Incremental improvement in the specifications, interesting new capabilities. In 2014, all phones are powerful, and specs are interesting only when then enable new capabilities. Here's the interesting new stuff in the iPhone 6: * Apple Pay Payment system. Scan your credit cards and pay with your phone; leave your wallet at home. Other makers have had NFC payment solutions, but Apple has the juice to sign up enough retailers to get to critical mass, so this is one that will be widely usable. * Improved camera. Image stabilization. More clever post-processing to improve image quality. Better video capture. * Two sizes, with near-identical features. Bigger and bigger-er. * Improved battery life, especially in the bigger-er one. * Enhanced motion processor, enables more data for fitness tracking * Lots of new features in iOS 8, but they'll be available to recent older iPhones.
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How is the length of a radioactive isotopes half life determined?
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The halflife of a substance is the amount of time it takes for _half_ of it to decay. So, in the case of Carbon 14, if you start with 1kg of it, you'll have .5kg in 5715 years. Now, you don't actually have to wait 5715 years to figure that out. By observing and measuring it, you can determine the rate of decay and extrapolate what the half life will be. Think of it like the speed of an object. I can say that a car traveling at 100mph will complete 100 miles in 1 hour, but I don't need to wait a _full hour_ to figure that out. If I observe it traveling 25mi 15 min, then I can extrapolate it will complete 100mi in 1 hour.
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What makes a bad joke bad and why is it viewed in distaste when there is a clear humor?
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Jokes, at their core, are about subversion. The set up is mundane, common, understood. The punchline, a surprise, unexpected. Theres a reason they're called dad jokes. Kids haven't heard them before, puns and play on words that they've only recently gotten comfortable with are novel and fun. As we get older, even jokes we haven't even heard before may become unfunny because though its still something we were unfamiliar with, it wasn't a surprise, it wasn't novel in conception. I haven't multiplied every number ever by 2. But if I've done it enough times, I can extrapolate what would happen. Multiplying yet another number by 2 will get a result that I can anticipate or something I'm familiar with. That's actually at the core of why most professional comedians refuse to apologize and tend to try to push the boundaries, they are always searching for subversion and a counter to expected thought.
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How a phone vibrates?
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it has a tiny little motor that spins a weight around. the weight is off-balance, so it makes the phone shake.
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Why are meals at American schools so expensive?
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Have you ever been to a baseball game? That same food would probably cost you $10. School lunches are run by a business who is (ultimately) a profit seeking entity. That being said, school lunches are generally pretty cheap unless you're going for the "premium" food such as pizza which is often brought in from the outside.
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how dangerous are my uncovered florescent lights regarding UV rays
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Not dangerous. There is a coating in the lamp that absorbs UV rays
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What, exactly, led to the Holocaust?
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After ww1 Germany as a country became really broke and poor due to the sanctions the treaty of Versailles put on them. The government had to pay back money to all the other countries for all the damage that happened because of the war. Hitler blamed this on the Jewish people saying that while the true blooded Germans were away fighting, the Jews stayed home and kept getting rich off the war. He even went so far as to say the harsh sanctions imposed on Germany by the treaty that ended the war were there because the Jews allowed it to be. Hitler's policies started to positively affect the economy for Germany and people began to notice their lives were getting better. They started having good to eat and money to spend and it was all thanks to Hitler and his political views. Germans remembered the famine they survived and were in no hurry to live that life again so they obeyed the voice that put food on their tables and restored Germany to the super power it could be.
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If women on birth control don't menstruate, why do they have periods?
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Birth control pills stop the ovaries from releasing eggs every month, but they don't do anything to stop the buildup of the uterine lining. When a woman switches to the placebo pills, the loss of hormones causes that lining to break down, just like it would in a normal period
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Why does water have no smell?
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Smell (aside from taste) is the best sense for determining the toxicity of something. Because water does not have any toxicity or nutrients, and it is everywhere, humans did not need to evolve the ability to smell water, and so we didn't. Edit: the nose is just a chemical detector. There are certain chemicals that a human needs to detect for survival, such as the chemicals in rotting flesh etc. Humanity evolved to detect those chemicals, and had no need to detect harmless things like water.
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What exactly do people mean when they say a game runs on an engine?
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> Is an engine just the basis of a game's physics? That's pretty close, but there is more to it than that. The engine is what takes the *data*...physical description of the buildings, the vehicles, the people, the weapons, the lights and the shadows and the reflections...basically everything in the universe, and draws it on your screen 30 time a second. Engines take a lot of effort to make. But once they have been created, guns and lasers and magic spells, they all pretty much do the same thing...there is no reason for everyone reinvent the wheel once the make a new game. It is cheaper easier just to buy an engine from someone else.
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Why does heating the house to 70 degrees feel so different from cooling the house to 70 degrees?
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Because it's impossible to maintain the room's temperature at exactly 70°F (for a system that switches on and off periodically). In reality, when heating you heat the room to around 73°F, and when cooling you cool the room to 67°F. When the temperature cools or heats past a certain point the system turns on again. Also, thermostats are crap, even good ones need recalibrating every 12 months or so. They're almost always off by 2°F or so so house to house won't achieve the same feeling for the same set point.
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If China is a communist state, why are there so many multi billion dollar companies and free markets?
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Modern China was founded with communist principles in mind. But after Deng Xiaoping took power, he decided to move China toward a more capitalistic economy. But the Communist Party still rules China and therefore they still are labelled "communist". Similarly, the US isn't completely capitalistic because there are government regulations and also government-owned businesses (such as the post office). It's really a label more than anything else. EDIT: Another thing to point out is that a lot of those "billion dollar companies" are actually owned/operated by the Chinese government. For example: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. They have branches in the US now too.
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The militia thing going on in Oregon
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Rolling Stone has a pretty good summary here: _URL_0_
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why are gun sights always, or typically, red?
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There not. Modern pistol sights often include color dots on the iron sights for easier contrast in lower light conditions, [but can be many different colors, and even combinations of colors](_URL_0_). Even most modern military rifle iron sights are still gun metal black. Red Dot Sights are not as used by the military as Call of Duty would have you believe. They are great for close range where faster target acquisition is essential, and the red dot contrasts with most colors you see on a battlefield. However, at longer ranges they can be a liability, as they add weight to the weapon and add further points of failure (iron sights don't need batteries, for instance).
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Given all the technological information we have in the world, why does YouTube just tell me "An Error" Occurred?
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YouTube knows exactly what went wrong. They just have no interest in sharing that with you.
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What happens to children if they don't get adopted?
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They become wards of the state. Bouncing around foster homes and so forth. More often than not brothers and sisters get separated. Unfortunately it is difficult and expensive for Americans to adopt inside the US.
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Despite having similar vocal cords, why do humans have a far versatile vocal ability than other mammals?
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our vocal cords aren't actually that similar. They're built the same way but developed farther than other animals. if you gave a chimpanzee super intelligence, they still wouldn't be able to vocalize like we can. a lot of our nuance, like writing, speaking, art, comes down to our concentration of fast-twitch muscles as opposed to brute strength muscles. These fast-twitch muscles make very tiny movements, quickly, and with reliable motions, we have them all over but mostly in our hands and our lips and faces. With these, we can speak, and can write, both very intricate movements. Our vocal cords also have these. What we gave up for this, is that many of us will never be as physically strong as any other ape. The strongest of us humans is a tuesday for a bonobo. I mean, look at how thin we are in comparison, our muscle mass is not that much naturally. But, we can write and speak, and I like to think that those are more powerful things than just being really strong.
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Why is a constitution important? Why were efforts made to create a EU constitution?
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A constitution helps set basic laws that then can later be adapted with ammendments. It is the basis for a lot of countries because it is the most basic form of written law really. Im no expert though.
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does all sound travel at the speed of sound?
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So I asked my personal genius; he said the speed of sound isn't constant; it varies with temperature. And it's speed is due to the way sound moves through the gases in our atmosphere. No gases in the air— no sound
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What does refubished mean when looking at electronics? Is it worth buying?
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Refurbished means it has been checked and possibly fixed by somebody who is certified, usually by the manufacture, to do such work on the product.
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In court when one lawyer is doing something questionable why does the opposite lawyer have to object before the judge will take action. why doesn't the judge just stop questionable practices untill one party disagrees with it.
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Because that's the point of an adversarial system (both sides are supposed to have a zealous advocate for their position). The judge can't favor either side, and perhaps occasionally the side that isn't objecting may be running a xantos gambit.
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What does "brought to you by ..." mean on television shows for the company?
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It means that they are a sponsor of the show. They pay for ad time and product mentions.
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How can solid materials like glass be transparent?
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Transparency is simply the ability to let light shine through. Glass does not contain any molecules that absorb or reflect the photons that hit it, so the photons simply pass through the object.
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How does someone like the Long Island Medium perform her, seemingly, precise readings? Any actual insight - not just speculation - would be appreciated.
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It's a "reality TV show", so "reading the script" is probably behind a lot of her precise readings. Leading up to getting your own TV show you can rely on the vague "John Edwards" type predictions, but once you've got your show you need to really rope people in. Drop all pretense of reality, and just start faking it. That's the key to success. I'm reminded of reading once that a lot of David Copperfield tricks for his TV specials consisted of things like making an elephant disappear by making the audience sign non-disclosure agreements, and then pausing the camera and walking the elephant off stage".
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If we need two eyes to perceive depth, how come I can close one eye and still see depth?
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You can determine depth with what are known as *monocular vision cues*. (basically, hints you see with one eye). Your brain has learned a lot of tricks to help decide what *might* be closer or far away. Texture: Things you know have lots of texture, like grass or carpet...if you know that you see a carpet, and it looks smooth, then it's likely not very close. if you can see the fibres, you know it's closer to you. Size: If you know that 2 things are about the same size, say 2 people...then the person that seems bigger is usually closer to you. Air distortion: Things that are very far away seem hazy or blurry...because you are looking through a lot of air (which may be dirty or full of water vapor). Overlap: If you see 2 things, and you notice that one thing partially covers the other, then you interpret the one that is partially covered as being behind the closer one. There are a few more, but I can't recall them off the top of my head.
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Why do some medications cause different kinds of dreams? Night terrors, hyper sexualized dreams, vivid deams etc.
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Some medications, such as pain killers or anti-depressants, change your brains chemical makeup. It makes some parts of your brain, brain chemicals and/or hormone levels change, increase and decrease. These things are all responsible for the way you think and feel. If a medication rises certain levels in your brain then you may be caused to have these sort of dreams. ** _URL_0_
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The Birthday Problem
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Did you read down to where it says "Understanding the problem"? It is a pretty clear explanation. 23 people have 253 different possible pairings. Person #1 could be paired with #2, #3, #4, etc. Likewise, #2 could be paired with #3, #4, ... Since there are so many possible pairs, the chances that at least one pair would have the same birthday becomes large. You need to understand that this isn't the chance that they have a *particular* day as their birthday...those odds would be much lower.
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What is a fiscal year and why do we need it.
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Fiscal years are used by government and some businesses (usually mid-to-large businesses) concerning money. As to why they don't use a traditional calendar year, [here is one reason](_URL_0_): > December is a really bad month to try to close out an entire year's accounting books. Accountants and execs are on vacation for large parts of the month, most retail stores are flooded with revenue (and then contra-revenue as items are returned) that takes time to account at the store level and then filter up to the corporate office, etc etc. It also doesn't tell the whole story for most retail outfits; December sales are usually inflated by purchases that are then returned in January after all the hullaballoo. As a result, a fiscal year end in January or even February keeps the entire season's revenues and expenses in one fiscal year.
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What is happening with the Ebola patients "rising from the dead"?
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They aren't. The people either weren't actually dead, or the stories are complete fabrications. No zombie apocalypse for you.
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Why can't we transfer scents the same way we transfer images?
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Scents are actual physical particles moving in the air. Transferring a scent then requires that you actually move physical things, or that the receiver have the necessary components to manufacture scents when sent instructions. Smell-o-vision is certainly possible. It would just require scent compounds that would need to be replaced as they were used up. Currently there just isn't enough demand for smell-o-vision to support that.
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how a crackws touchscreen can work in some areas but not others on the screen
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The glass part of the screen isn't what makes it "touchable", there is something under the glass called a digitizer that accepts your skin as an input through the glass. If this digitizer isn't broken due to dropping, or physical damage than the area will still accept input
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When to use "myself" in a sentence and when NOT to.
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Unfortunately, it is grammatically correct. *Myself* is a reflexive pronoun, but can be used as an intensive pronoun (adds emphasis to a sentence.) People hate it for the same reason they hate exclamation points. While technically okay, they're unnecessary and are only used to make your sentence seem more dramatic.
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How an Action Replay works
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The code you enter translates into instructions, these could range from "only do the next instruction if a certain button is pressed" to "update the figure for health and set it to 9001". These instructions are then inserted into the instructions sent to the games console at regular intervals to make your cheats work.
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Why do some manufacturers print their own prices on items?
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to prevent strors from over inflating prices. They know how much thier product costs. if someone is selling it for more, the customer knows its not Arizona and does not have those hostle feelings. keeps everyone in check.
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Why is fighting allowed in North American professional fighting? Is it just for show, is it planned? What benefit does a player get out of fighting when they could easily be injured as a result?
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I don't understand your question. Professional fighting is a legitimate sport and the necessary precautions are taken so the fighters don't get seriously injured. Sometimes they do, but that's no different from other sports. In fact, fighting is a relatively safe sport. Basketball, soccer, ice hockey and football cause way way more injuries on average.
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Why is my internet worse at nighttime? When its day time, multiple people are using it (family) but when its nighttime and its just me, it's painfully slow.
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Not a lot of details offered to give a clear explanation, but likely your internet is limited by the hub in your street (so the number of other people in your street also using the internet at night) and the connection your provider has with the world. When it is nighttime in the US, Asia and Europe are active.
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We attribute pollution to death tolls. Why can't we sue or press criminal charges against the united states government for being complicit in these deaths?
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> We attribute pollution to death tolls. First of all, you have that backwards. "To attribute A to B" means that B causes A, and I'm pretty sure you don't mean that death tolls cause pollution. Second, expecting the government to be responsible for deaths caused by pollution would be like expecting the government to be responsible for deaths caused by car accidents. The government isn't going to be able to just make driving cars illegal, because it would destroy the economy. Likewise, trying to make pollution totally illegal would destroy the economy, because some level of pollution is an unavoidable side effect of industry, and so the only way to make pollution illegal would be to make it illegal for manufature most products, or for most power plants to produce electricity. And third, you can't sue the government unless they *allow* you to sue them. This is called [sovereign immunity](_URL_0_)
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Why churches and banks almost always include the word "first" to their names.
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To establish that they are the first church or bank of that type in a given location. It indicates to people who want to use them they are an older, more established organization.
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Why does water feel colder after chewing a minty gum or mints?
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Menthol (a compound in mint) activates your temperature receptors (which normally only get turned on when exposed to low or high temperatures), which creates the feeling of coldness.
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How come Trix stopped making the shape cereal? why is it only circles???
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Well, young 'un, back in the day, *way* back in the day, in the dark ages before the 1990s, Trix *were* round. So, really, what they are now is what they should look like, not your hippity hop fruit shapes. Now get off my damn lawn, you punk kids, or I'll turn the hose on ya ag'in.
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General Government Net Debt Infographic - What does it mean?
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If you worked hard last year and earned $80,000, but you owe $60,000 on your credit cards, how secure in your finances would you feel? That would be 75% on this chart. Why isn't Japan also in trouble? Because there's more than just this one figure that decides when a crisis is happening. (For example, change "credit cards" in the first sentence to "house mortgage", and suddenly things sound ok again) ELI5: You owe almost your entire pocket money for a year to your friends. They thinking of not loaning you money for lunch next week. You might get very hungry.
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Why can't we remember memories when we were a infant?
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our brains are still developing the ability to interpret and store information gathered from the sense, so the structures required to store long term memories don't exist yet.
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Why isn't dodgeball a popular professional sport?
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There was an NES video game in the 80s that was an international tournament. Of course Russia was one of the final bosses, cause cold war. It was amazing in the ways pro Dodge Ball could be. It would need sponsers, eventually. Start up some local tournaments. Heck, check for a subreddit. There was a paper,rock,scissors world championship. You might have to be the one to get the ball rolling OP. I don't see any reason except that it's not done yet. Anyone?
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Why is abortion a religious issue?
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The Bible doesn't take a position, but modern religious leaders do, and they're vocal about it. Many folks take their cues about political positions from the teachings of their religious leaders. Please note: I'm *not* saying that all people take political cues from religious leaders. Just that of the ones whose views on abortion are related to their religious beliefs, it's likely that they're members of a faith that's vocal on the topic.
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Surely someone must know: How do blind people use those bird chirping noises to cross the street? How do they know it's not for the kitty-corner side of the street?
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Bob is walking north when he approaches an intersection that he knows has an auditory signal. He wants to continue north. He presses the button and listens for the next auditory signal. There is one particular sound that's used for north-south intersections and a different sound that's used for east-west intersections. When Bob hears the north-south signals, he continues his north-bound walk.
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How does the Leuxs hoverboard actually hover?
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The board itself is a superconductor, kept super-cold through liquid nitrogen. This causes it to magnetically repel ferric metals. Then they stick it on a steel platform so it repels the floor and hovers.
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Why is .3^.3 larger than .4^.4?
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The minimum occurs at 1/e, where e is [Euler's number](_URL_3_). This number crops up a lot in math. So, we know that x^0 = 1 and x^1 = x. So if we're computing x^x in the range of 0 to 1, we have our end points. Moreover, we know that, as you move the exponent closer to 0, the result gets closer to 1, and if you move the exponent closer to 1, the result gets closer to x. Now find x^x for anything in between. If it's equal to 1, then all values in between are likely equal to 1. If it's less, then you have a local minimum somewhere. If it's more, you have a local maximum somewhere. Nothing special about it.
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How do soccer players curve the parabolic trajectory of the soccer sphere?
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A ball only follows a parabolic trajectory in the absence of air resistance. A spinning ball deflects airflow around the ball, which creates a force on the ball. This is called the [Magnus effect](_URL_0_).
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Why are dreams so crazy & random?
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While you are awake, your brain constructs an understanding of what's going on around you with continuous correction and revision based on information from your senses. While you are asleep, your brain constructs an understanding of what's going on around you with almost no correction or revision based on your senses, and so it goes strange.
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Why does vanilla extract taste amazing when paired with some foods , but tastes horrible alone?
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Pure vanilla extract is made from soaking vanilla beans in vodka or other strong clear alcohol, which is why it doesn't taste as good without any sweet flavoring to go with it.
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Why do male orgasms get more intense in relatively short amounts of succession?
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Well everyone is different. Wildly so, in fact. Some people are capable of sustaining multiple, repeating orgasms of increasing intensity. This is more common in women, but certainly possible in men. Others can only have one orgasm of great intensity, after which they lose sexual stimulation for a long refractory period. What you experience is relatively rare compared to the general male population. But the reason they escalate in intensity is probanly because none of these are "true" orgasms that kick off a refractory period. Theyre more like partial orgasms that heighten sexual stimulation and pleasure, so the orgasms continue to build in pleasure until the satiation signal is triggered.
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Why is there no standard for which side the gas tank is on on a car?
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For the most part, the gas tank is centered on the frame. What you're probably thinking of is where the gas cap is, which generally will depend on the manufacturer. U/aykprod [answered that one](_URL_0_).
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How do airport scans actually work?
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Congratulations on making it onto a watch list! Without saying anything too classified, density. Density of materials is almost like a finger print.
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Why are Rolex watches considered to be so valuable?
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For starters, they're made with expensive and valuable materials like jeweled movements, sapphire glass, and gold. Second, the movements are mostly mechanical, requiring great skill, engineering time, and delicate manufacture. Third and most importantly, Rolexes are valuable because **people think they are**. If tomorrow we woke up with the idea that a Rolex could never be worth more than $500, that's what they would be worth. Rolex is an "aspirational brand" meaning that **people use it** as a mark of proof that they've achieved a certain level of status, wealth, or power. If people no longer considered it a mark of achievement, it would tank in value.
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How can you be sure that it is safe to give your credit card number to customer service online or over the phone?
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As someone who used to do this for a living - you can never be 100% sure, but that doesn't mean the companies don't have a load of policies in place to minimize the danger. Company I used to work for, we weren't allowed to read back the number (so nobody that is passing can copy it), everything got recorded, we had a certain kind of criminal background check to even work there etc. Does that mean that someone couldn't steal those credit card numbers? No. Someone who is very motivated could probably still do it, but the policies *do* minimize the danger and they also usually set up things in such a way that if you credit card number is stolen, they will have a good chance of finding out who did it.
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Why do I find things funnier when I'm tired?
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Same reason you find everything funnier when you're drunk- impaired judgement.
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How and Why does the DEA keep marijuana as a schedule 1 drug?
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A little personal view, perhaps not the most informed: What I know is that marijuana has been legally considered that way because it's considered to be a "gateway drug" toward more damaging ones. However, in my opinion, the very reason why it's a gateway drug is because it's prosecuted the same way the other schedule 1 drugs are. In that a marijuana dealer has absolutely no reason to *only* sell marijuana since they get pretty much the same sentence if caught, whether they sell marijuana only, or if they sell it along with heroin and other harmful substances. And obviously they will push their more expensive wares onto buyers because they want to sell that as well. I think that at least lowering the severity class of marijuana would mostly eliminate this problem. I mean, objectively, it's utterly ridiculous to have it in the same schedule (marijuana) as freaking heroin. But it just gives marijuana dealers a reason to also deal heroin.
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why there seems to be no patent war in the car industry.
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General Motors [patented electric car batteries and never used them](_URL_0_), so their competition couldn't either. I think this is even worse than patent warring.
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If the U.S. president is commander of the military, why isn't his/her experience in military tactics and strategy ever a talking point?
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Because we don't expect the President to be an expert in military tactics any more than we expect him to be an expert in medicine or prison construction or chemistry or meteorology or agricultural science or any of the other things that the President is ultimately responsible for, What we need out of our leaders is leadership -- not nerd-like knowledge of a narrow area of focus. We need someone who can get and listen to people who *are* experts in these areas and make the appropriate decisions.
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Why aren't beers required by law to have nutritional info on their label?
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Foods are regulated by the FDA. The FDA requires nutritional labeling on foods. Beer is regulated by the BATFE. The BATFE does not require nutritional labeling on beer - in fact, doesn't want it, because it would give the impression that beer is food.
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November day light savings time
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You definitely gain the extra hour. Give him an example. Say you forget to change your clock the previous night. You wake up at 6, realize it's daylight savings, set the clock back to 5, then sleep until 6... again.
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How Momentum is Conserved when Light Refracts
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When light refracts at the boundary, it also reflects. This reflected light carries momentum which then satisfies momentum conservation.
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Why does it make sense for an internet company to charge more money for a faster connection speed?
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The more traffic you want to be able to carry, the more that network will cost to build and to maintain. The equipment capital expenditure is a lot of it, but service contracts and transit opex is also more. As an example, you can get an old switch with 1 gbps interfaces for next to nothing. Getting a new one with 100 gbps interfaces is going to cost orders of magnitude more.
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Why is ice cream soft when it's first opened but harden after you put in back in the freezer?
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When ice cream is made it's constantly churned while being frozen, the churning process breaks up the ice crystals into small pieces making the ice cream soft, when you put partially melted ice cream in the freezer there is no churning so large ice crystals develop leaving you with hard ice cream.
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why is the square root of -100 an odd equasion?
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The square root of 100 is 10. There is no "real" square root of a negative number, because ~~no two numbers multiplied together~~ *no number multiplied by itself* can make a negative number. So we invented an "imaginary" number called i to represent the square root of -1. So the square root of -100 is 10 * i, also written as 10i. In other words, 10, but imaginary.
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How does Youtube channels like "WatchMojo" earn money when all their videos contain copyrighted materials?
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Youtuber here. Watchmojo is their own youtube Network. When you join a network, you are assigned a custom id under your youtube network. The ID number is what youtube references. As long as your content falls under the approved media for that ID number, you can monetize. If Watchmojo has these various forms of media covered under their custom id, which they probably do since a majority of films, tv programs and so on are owned by a handful of massive companies, they monetize their videos. This is the same reason Cinemasins can monetize their content. Edit: Clarification
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