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Steven Hawking's, in In To The Universe, just claimed that 10 minutes after the big bang the cosmos was already thousands of light-years in diameter; how can this be possible?
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"text": "In 2010, Penrose reported possible evidence, based on concentric circles found in WMAP data of the CMB sky, of an earlier universe existing before the Big Bang of our own present universe. He mentions this evidence in the epilogue of his 2010 book \"Cycles of Time\", a book in which he presents his reasons, to do with Einstein's field equations, the Weyl curvature C, and the Weyl curvature hypothesis (WCH), that the transition at the Big Bang could have been smooth enough for a previous universe to survive it. He made several conjectures about C and the WCH, some of which were subsequently proved by others, and he also popularized his conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) theory.\n",
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"text": "While at the Lick Observatory, Mayall collaborated on a 20-year project with astronomers at Mount Palomar and Mount Wilson on the Big Bang theory of the beginning of the Universe. Together with Milton L. Humason and Allan R. Sandage, he wrote a 1956 paper concluding that the age of the Universe was six billion years (three times the prior estimate, and about half the modern value), and its size three times larger than thought.\n",
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"text": "About a decade later, in the midst of what was dubbed the \"Great Debate\", Hubble and Slipher discovered the expansion of universe in the 1920s measuring the redshifts of Doppler spectra from galactic nebulae. Using Einstein's general relativity, Lemaître and Gamow formulated what would become known as the big bang theory. A rival, called the steady state theory was devised by Hoyle, Gold, Narlikar and Bondi.\n",
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"text": "The book also discusses the \"big questions\", including life (\"in the next 50 years, we will come to understand how life began and possibly discover whether life exists elsewhere in the universe\"), time (“You can’t get to a time before the Big Bang [because] there was no time before the Big Bang ... If the concept of time only exists within our universe and the universe came to be spontaneously ... and with it, brought time into existence, there’s simply no 'before' to consider.\" Further, Hawking believed the universe could reach an end point, either through an eventual cosmic \"crunch or an expansion\" ... \"In the interim ... We are all time travelers, journeying together into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit”), the possibility of time travel (“asking if time travel is possible is a 'very serious question' that our current understanding cannot rule out\"), and God (“knowing the mind of God is knowing the laws of nature ... My prediction is that we will know the mind of God by the end of this century”; further, \"if you like, you can call the laws of science ‘God,’ but it wouldn’t be a personal God that you would meet and put questions to ... [nevertheless] the simplest explanation is that God does not exist and there is no reliable evidence for an afterlife, though people could live on through their influence and genes\"). \n",
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"text": "During its initial 29-month mission, which was extended, it made observations in ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation in the universe 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang. Since scientists believe the Universe to be about 13.8 billion years old, the mission will study galaxies and stars across about 10 billion years of cosmic history.\n",
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"text": "On January 11, 2013, the discovery of the Huge-LQG was announced by the University of Central Lancashire, as the largest known structure in the universe by that time. It comprises 74 quasars and has a minimum diameter of 1.4 billion light-years, but over 4 billion light-years at its widest point. According to researcher and author, Roger Clowes, the existence of structures with the size of LQGs was believed theoretically impossible. Cosmological structures had been believed to have a size limit of approximately 1.2 billion light-years.\n",
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why are ahmadiyya muslims, who appear in the news when they are either helping a community or being murdered, hated by the muslim community?
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"text": "The Ahmadi community released a persecution report in 2018 in which the discrimination faced by Ahmadis in Pakistan has been detailed including \"indiscriminate arrests\" of people from the community. Ahmadis are forbidden to call themselves Muslims or use Islamic symbols in their religious practices. They are also mandated to declare themselves as non-Muslims in order to vote in general elections. Another report listed 3963 news items and 532 editorial pieces in the country's Urdu-language media for spreading \"hate propaganda\" against Ahmadis.\n",
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when did blue became the standard color for ball pens?
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how do we know anything about the unobservable universe?
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"text": "The observable universe is one \"causal patch\" of a much larger unobservable universe; other parts of the Universe cannot communicate with Earth yet. These parts of the Universe are outside our current cosmological horizon. In the standard hot big bang model, without inflation, the cosmological horizon moves out, bringing new regions into view. Yet as a local observer sees such a region for the first time, it looks no different from any other region of space the local observer has already seen: its background radiation is at nearly the same temperature as the background radiation of other regions, and its space-time curvature is evolving lock-step with the others. This presents a mystery: how did these new regions know what temperature and curvature they were supposed to have? They couldn't have learned it by getting signals, because they were not previously in communication with our past light cone.\n",
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how do ventilators help people breathe and are they complicated to manufacture?
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If heat and sound are both vibrations of molecules, what's the thing separating them?
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"answer": "Sound is a periodic change in density of an material.\n\nHeat probably isn't the word you're looking for, as heat is the amount of energy transferred between systems.\n\nTemperature can be naively related to statistical moments of *random* velocities of particles in large ensembles. This can be even further stretched to relate it to vibrations of molecules/atoms of a solid, but outside of naive high-school physics, it's starting to be a little too wrong. A formal definition of temperature in context of (quantum and classical) statistical physics (only really meaningful place to define something like temperature in a more abstract way) is that it's an parameter that describes how much the entropy changes with change of internal energy of a system (or rather, temperature is actually the inverse of this parameter).",
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"answer": "You're confusing two different types of \"vibration\".\n\nSound is a *pressure* wave. A sound wave is a difference in pressure (or density, if you prefer) that is propagating through a medium. Think of it like one guy in the back of a large line of people shoving the guy in front of him. You will see that pressure wave travel through the line as each person bumps into the next person.\n\nIt just so happens that vibrating a physical object, like a speaker or a guitar string, will create sound (pressure) waves - so that might be where you're getting confused.\n\nSound waves have little to do with the absolute temperature of the medium. Think of the temperature as the average movement speed of each individual in that line of people. Although the whole temperature being related to the average movement of a bunch of particles is not totally accurate.",
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Historically, have we ever hit a "peak oil" like situation with other commodities? What should we expect?
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"answer": "Jareed Diamond wrote a book \"Collapse\" that provides some case studies on similar situations. Deforestation caused enviromental problems that led to the collapse of the Mayan civilization. The Mayan city states fought harder wars with each other as the competition for scarce resources was racheted up. Water shortages also caused other civilizations to collapse. The Moche and Teotihucan civilizations both ended around 750 AD when both regions experienced decade long droughts. ",
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"answer": "The belief in peak 'x' has been very common in history. However what actually occurs isn't 'peak x', it's that innovation drives the search for substitutes and/or making the original issue irrelevant. \n\n\nFor instance, here's an extremely well written essay from Victorian times about their concept of peak coal: \n[The Coal Question](_URL_2_) 1865\n\n[The Limited nature of Coal in Great Britian](_URL_4_) 1798\n\n\n[A general view of the coal trade](_URL_5_) 1812\n\n\n\n\n\n > It chanced one day that Spilett was led to say, \"But now, my dear Cyrus, all this industrial and commercial movement to which you predict a continual advance, does it not run the danger of being sooner or later completely stopped?\"\n > \"Stopped! And by what?\"\n > \n > \"By the want of coal, which may justly be called the most precious of minerals.\" …\n > \n > \"Oh! the veins of coal are still considerable, and the hundred thousand miners who annually extract from them a hundred millions of hundredweights have not nearly exhausted them.\"\n > \n > \"With the increasing consumption of coal,\" replied Gideon Spilett, \"it can be foreseen that the hundred thousand workmen will soon become two hundred thousand, and that the rate of extraction will be doubled.\"\n > \n > \"Doubtless; but after the European mines, which will be soon worked more thoroughly with new machines, the American and Australian mines will for a long time yet provide for the consumption in trade.\"\n > \n > \"For how long a time?\" asked the reporter.\n > \n > \"For at least two hundred and fifty or three hundred years.\"\n > \n > \"That is reassuring for us, but a bad look-out for our great-grandchildren!\" observed Pencroft.\n > \n > \"They will discover something else,\" said Herbert.\n > \n > \"It is to be hoped so,\" answered Spilett, \"for without coal there would be no machinery, and without machinery there would be no railways, no steamers, no manufactories, nothing of that which is indispensable to modern civilization!\"\n > \n > \"But what will they find?\" asked Pencroft. \"Can you guess, captain?\"\n > \n > \"Nearly, my friend.\"\n > \n > \"And what will they burn instead of coal?\"\n > \n > \"Water,\" replied Harding.\n > \n > \"Water!\" cried Pencroft, \"water as fuel for steamers and engines! water to heat water!\"\n > \n > \"Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements,\" replied Cyrus Harding, \"and decomposed doubtless, by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force, for all great discoveries, by some inexplicable laws, appear to agree and become complete at the same time. Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable. Some day the coalrooms of steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead of coal, be stored with these two condensed gases, which will burn in the furnaces with enormous calorific power. There is, therefore, nothing to fear. As long as the earth is inhabited it will supply the wants of its inhabitants, and there will be no want of either light or heat as long as the productions of the vegetable, mineral or animal kingdoms do not fail us. I believe, then, that when the deposits of coal are exhausted we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future.\"\n > \n > \"I should like to see that,\" observed the sailor.\n > \n\nJules Verne, [The Mysterious Island, ch. 33 ](_URL_1_)\n\nWhile I'm on the subject of coal, early coal adoption itself was a response to the growing scarcity of wood in pre-industrial Britain. There weren't enough resources to support academics with peakesque theories back then, but if there had been there would undoubtedly been numerous papers outlining the vital problem of 'peak wood'.\n\nTo answer your question, while we have many, many fears of 'peak' like events occuring for various commodities ('Peak' Salt, Cotton, Indigo, Tin, Copper, Gold, and etc,) there never has been an actual coming true of the fearful predictions. I'd recommend you read [The Prize](_URL_0_), the Pulitzer winning history of the oil industry, to judge for yourself how likely the predictions of global doom as a result of 'peak oil' is. \n\nMore recently, Paul Ehrlich's 70s bestseller 'The Population Bomb' predicted peak just about everything. He was predicting peak copper, tin, grain, etc etc. Just as an example, he was predicting food riots in Kansas by 1985, and 'Great Britian will have ceased to exist as an entity' by 1990. His bet with Roger Simon, or the [Simon-Ehrlich bet](_URL_3_) proved rather disastrous for his own peak theories. But he's back, and peddling a remixed version of the Club of Rome's 1950s version of 'peak everything' last I heard. \n\n",
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"answer": "There is also a discipline called resource economics that studies this. Basically don't take \"doomsday\" predictions of resources running out too seriously because:\n\na) These predictions are based on estimates of natural resource levels which invariably turn out to be wrong. We should have run out of oil several times already according to past predictions. Realistically people actually have no idea how much oil there actually is in the world.\n\nb) We cannot predict technological trends. In the 1800s many states planted a shitload of forests because they were sure they would run out and wouldn't be able to build ships. Wooden ships became steel 100 years later and it turns out those forests were a waste of time.\n\nNot that depleting our resources shouldn't be a major concern. These kinds of doomsday predictions are however, taken too seriously. They make good sensationalist documentaries - shrouding the issues in misinformation.\n\n\n\n ",
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"answer": "[Easter Island.](_URL_0_) The natives overexploited the forests and fish stocks, leading to general ecological collapse, famine, civil war, and depopulation. By the time the Dutch arrived in the 18th century, most of the island was barren and uninhabited; all that was left was a single small village whose people had forgotten their history.",
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"answer": "i am not a historian, nor do i consider myself to have expert judgement on resources, but a book that i've been really enjoying that you might be interested in is Collapse by Jared Diamond. it's got descriptions of lots of failed civilizations that collapsed often due to the unintended abuse of natural resources and how once that resource ran out it was in some circumstances too difficult for the society to recover.\n\nit seems that in the course of most of the failed civilizations that have existed, most food resources weren't irreplaceable, but wood is and has been for most civilizations--without it, your society isn't able to do lots of things it tends to want to do, even though the people can survive. even though wood can replenish itself pretty quickly if you let it, the inhabitants of Easter Island actually killed off the native tree species, and because of it they couldn't escape the island when it became a death trap (as Diamond's thesis goes, i understand there might be some debate on exactly what happened there). the Anasazi in the American Southwest also destroyed their surrounding forests but didn't collapse for a few more centuries. \n\nwhat we *don't* want to happen is for oil to suddenly run out and to have no alternative around as a replacement, but i think others have addressed the relationship between availability of the resource and technological progress better than i can.",
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"answer": "Mercury: I understand that there is only one mine in Spain still producing it.\n\nHelium: this is a bit artificial because of the stock-piles of helium which are now being exhausted, but economically relevant anyway. Important for superconductors, and probably no viable substitutes.\n\nPerhaps the one we should most be concerned about is phosphorus which is needed for fertiliser. We are not at peak phosphorus yet, but it is in sight. There is no substitute.",
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"answer": "I find it interesting that the top voted comments in this thread insist that humanity will always have cheap energy sources, because by nature we innovate. The common adage is: \"The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones\".\n\nOf course it is true that technological solutions might be found as the age of cheap oil fades (it is already pretty much over). But to insist that we will *inevitably* employ a new source of cheap energy is simply faith-based reasoning.\n\nBelievers refer to past innovations, but ignore past collapses. \n\nHuman civilisations in the past have collapsed and have gone backward in their use of technology.\n\nDon't mistake me for saying that total catastrophic collapse is inevitable. I think it's likely, but I don't know everything. \n\nHowever, to insist that there is only one possible outcome, and that it is a favourable one, requires blind belief combined with a limited set of experiences about the world.\n\nMake no mistake: we are out of cheap fuel, and continuing to exploit the reserves that remain [puts our life-support system at risk](_URL_0_). If you think that as a species that we can sit back and let the scientists sort it out, you are living in a bubble seperate from reality.",
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"answer": "It's not quite what I'd call a natural resource, but the Romans liked using [Silphium](_URL_0_) as a medicine and contraceptive so much that they harvested the plant until it went extinct.",
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"answer": "The lost city of [Iram](_URL_0_) was an important trade crossroads, but at some point in history they ran out of water and the city was abandoned.",
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"answer": "If Professors didn't have things to warn us about they wouldn't have jobs.\n\nIn grade school I learned that we would run out of oil in the 1990s. Fool me once. \n\nNot saying that they're wrong, I'm just no longer invested in worrying about it.",
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"answer": "One of the competing theories for the Bronze Age Collapse, that affected the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Middle east around 1200 BC was an exhaustion of easily available tin to make Bronze. The rising cost of bronze, the highest quality metal available at the time, lead to the rise of Iron as the chief metal of War. The decrease in Bronze production (a complex and centralized process) erased the technological advantage of the primary civilizations and made them vulnerable both economically and militarily to the various \"hoards\" that prey on a weakening empire. The ability of strong central governments to control the tin trade was one of their cornerstones, and without that fragmentation occurred.\n\nThis does not necessarily have any directly applicable lessons to the oil crisis, but it does answer the first part of your question.\n\nEdit: It is worth noting that when those civilizations recovered from their 'Dark ages' they came back more technologically and scientifically advanced as a general rule. Just as technological advances continued through Europe's middle ages, paving the way for the renaissance. The broad view of history has shown that it is civilizations that exist in isolation that are the ones that are vulnerable. Those of the mound builders, Easter Island, and Tazmania. When Humanity is consided as a whole, were millennia mark the passage of time; we may stumble, we may fall, we may slaughter ourselves by the hundreds of millions, but we will always rise stronger, further, and with more shiny toys to play with. I trust that whatever shortages lay ahead, that trend will continue.",
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"text": "Latin America experienced independence revolutions in the early 19th century that separated the colonies from Spain and Portugal, creating new nations. These movements were generally led by the ethnically Spanish but locally born Creole class; these were often wealthy citizens that held high positions of power but were still poorly respected by the European-born Spaniards. One such Creole was Simón Bolívar, who led several revolutions throughout South America and helped establish Gran Colombia. Another important figure was José de San Martín, who helped create the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata and became the first president of Peru. Some Latin American revolts, such as the Haitian Revolution, were led by slaves.\n",
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why do dogs have random patches of differently colored fur?
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"text": "The fur of the African wild dog differs significantly from that of other canids, consisting entirely of stiff bristle-hairs with no underfur. It gradually loses its fur as it ages, with older specimens being almost naked. Colour variation is extreme, and may serve in visual identification, as African wild dogs can recognise each other at distances of 50–100 m. Some geographic variation is seen in coat colour, with northeastern African specimens tending to be predominantly black with small white and yellow patches, while southern African ones are more brightly coloured, sporting a mix of brown, black and white coats. Much of the species' coat patterning occurs on the trunk and legs. Little variation in facial markings occurs, with the muzzle being black, gradually shading into brown on the cheeks and forehead. A black line extends up the forehead, turning blackish-brown on the back of the ears. A few specimens sport a brown teardrop-shaped mark below the eyes. The back of the head and neck are either brown or yellow. A white patch occasionally occurs behind the fore legs, with some specimens having completely white fore legs, chests and throats. The tail is usually white at the tip, black in the middle and brown at the base. Some specimens lack the white tip entirely, or may have black fur below the white tip. These coat patterns can be asymmetrical, with the left side of the body often having different markings from that of the right.\n",
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the period between donating blood
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"answer": "The body needs 6-8 weeks, on average, to replace the red blood cells you give up when you donate whole blood. 8 weeks was determined to be the safe period for everyone.\n\nIf you donate plasma, which puts the red cells back into your body, you can donate again much sooner. The plasma comes back in 24-48 hours.",
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"text": "The campaign has clarified that donating blood is a permitted and, in fact, a recommended act in Islam. Some eminent religious scholars have issued information regarding the donating of blood and shown support for the campaign.\n",
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"text": "Visitors to Israel are also welcome to donate blood through the \"Sharing for Life\" program. Since its inception in 2001, increasing numbers of people have donated blood, usually through groups such as Christian solidarity missions, or family Bar-Bat Mitzvas, especially during seasonal traditional pilgrimage times, such as Passover and Easter.\n",
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"answer": "The color that we see something is a reflection of what is being absorbed. \n\nSomething is black colored *because* it absorbs all the light; it doesn't absorb all the light because it is black, if that makes sense.\n\nSomething that appears grey is just absorbing most of the light uniformly (even levels of light), and reflecting some of it at less intensity than it is absorbing it at. IE, it's absorbing 60% of the light and reflecting 40% of all the light. \n\nBrown is also a reflection of all colors in the spectrum, just with red being more intense than the others. ",
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"answer": "Because you've never seen true black, it doesn't exist (on Earth). Most blacks you see are blackish. For painted stuff it's usually a very dark grey. Carbon black or the famed vanta black is the closest to true black.\n\nVanta black is almost nonreflective",
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Can there be incomplete annihilation?
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difference between marxism and cultural marxism?
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"answer": "Usually it's because there's a preferred road to travel on and you're not on it. It can be a few main roads that gets all the greens to keep traffic moving and you're crossing them so you get the reds, or increasingly where I live, a toll road that the operators have a contract with the government to direct traffic onto either because its the new main road, or just so the toll road is always faster than the \"free\" roads.\n\nOther reasons are because of poor planing or the lights run off sensors and aren't coordinated (which amounts to the same thing)",
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"answer": "Background: Served on Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for a major Canadian city. Involved in design/implementation of roadworks, including intelligent stoplight systems. \n\nSome background on stoplights:\n\nThere are multiple kinds of stoplights, the most basic just running on a simple timer-based system. Every so many seconds, the lights change, but there is no awareness of the traffic conditions.\n\nSome more advanced stoplights contain vehicle sensors embedded in the roadway at or before the stop line. These sensors feed information into the light control system, allowing it to make intelligent decisions. For instance, if you have a minor road intersecting a major road, there may be sensors placed on the minor road, so that the lights only cycle when there is a car waiting to cross. Sometimes they are used to signal a preemptive left turn light. The civil engineers will space out two sensors 4-5 car lengths apart, and if both sensors are covered it means there are at least that many cars queuing, and the advance left will allow those cars to proceed first. Most major intersections have at least a few roadway sensors. \n\nThe most advanced systems allow the lights to communicate and can be timed to allow waves of traffic. In my city, there is an Intersection Control Centre, with live feeds from cameras at each intersection, and the ability to adjust intersection timings on the fly. Priority routes are identified, along with traffic flows during certain times of the day. The stoplights along these priority routes are then synchronized, taking into account the relative speed of the traffic and the speed limits. If you're going with the priority flow of traffic, you'll hit at most one red light, after which point you'll be synchronized with the traffic flow, and you should hit all greens, as long as you drive the speed limit. If you drive too fast, you'll hit each red just as it turns green. \n\nIf you're hitting all the reds, you might be going in the wrong direction, or you're just really unlucky. I highly doubt that your city is specifically engineering the light cycles to slow you down. If anything, they'd be aiming to speed you up. \n\nEDIT:\n\nSo this blew up overnight. I'll try to answer a bunch of questions that people have had.\n\nI'm not an industry professional, I've just been in the scene with them for awhile. I work in IT, not traffic engineering.\n\n0. There's no big \"Traffic Engineering\" bible that every engineer uses. Different cities can do wildly different things, and all we can do is speculate. There's no way to answer \"My road is optimized for exactly 42mph at 11am, why is that?\"\n\n1. People are really good at finding patterns where there aren't any. Conspiracy theorists abound! If the lights in your city are messing with you, they probably aren't. Having said that, weirder things have happened. *shrug* It's certainly possible for clever engineers to slow traffic down or to speed traffic up. I'd bet dollars to donuts that they do this in Vegas, as many people have mentioned. A few people have also mentioned that the lights are used to prevent speeders, another plausible possibility. It really depends on your city and the engineers.\n\n2. \"aiming to speed you up\" is meant within reason. I'm talking about a jam packed 6 lane road where coordinated light cycles can mean the difference between 40km/h and 50km/h. At night, the lights probably ARE optimized to dissuade people from speeding/racing.\n\n3. Buses and emergency services usually have preemtion devices to allow them to hold a green or switch to a green (usually respectively. I know that buses where I live aren't able to force a red to a green, but fire trucks can)\n\n4. The roadway sensors use magnetic induction to detect when a large chunk of metal is above them, e.g. your car. It's not by weight or pressure, you don't need to hit them exactly or run them over, you just need to get your car near them. The preemption devices mentioned above use special strobe lights (or wireless in higher-tech systems), so flashing your high beams probably isn't gonna do dick, unless you can flash your high beams 20 times per second.",
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"answer": "Something in a similar vein- Near me there is a long commercial strip with probably 10+ sets of lights stretching over a couple kms. The speed limit is 60km/h BUT, if you go at or near 60, you get through only one(or maybe 2 if you punch it)lights before getting stopped. HOWEVER if you are at the start of the strip(and grandma gets out of the way) and take it up to ~72km/h, you can cruise the whole strip not stopping once. It has been like this for at least 10 years. ",
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"answer": "When the frig fuck are they just going to require car manufacturers put a signal-emitting unit into cars that are then picked up by related sensors in lights so they know how many cars are at each intersection and contain logic that decide which lights are green and for how long? No cameras needed, no oversight by human beings in a control center. One and done. Freeze me like Walt Disney and wake me up when that happens. ",
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"answer": "This was intentionally done by the UK government to waste fuel and increase tax revenue. I'm sure it was pitched as a \"safety feature\" long ago in your case. \n\n_URL_0_\n\n > In the UK, in 2009, it was revealed that the Department for Transport had previously discouraged green waves as they reduced fuel usage, and thus less revenue was raised from fuel taxes ",
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"answer": "City councils instaling traffic lights opt to stagger traffic near commercial areas to make you stop and consider shopping at the small businesses you have time to notice. It's like forcing you to look at advertisements on the internet. And it works. \n\nSource: designed stoplights. ",
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"answer": "I've seen the contrary. The lights were set up so you *would* catch every light only if you went 25mph or slower through downtown.",
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"answer": "Boston does this to slow traffic down and make the city more \"pedestrian friendly.\" It doesn't work, it just makes drivers more aggressive and mad. That's what happens when your town is run by Puritans.",
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"answer": "Coming from my father that did a little traffic engineering... \"half of the issues you see with traffic are caused by humans fucking shit up, the other half of the problem is a poorly designed traffic plan fucking shit up. \n\nOnce all the lights become networked things will get better. Especially when cars all become autonomous and networked with the traffic grid. Very little traffic and all way safer.\n\nA big problem is they very well may have come up with a very good local traffic plan for a new shopping plaza, but will not give enough credit to how it affects the traffic grid as a whole. Not because of laziness because it is enormously time-consuming to continue to manually set up traffic assessments and monitor flow, speed, numbers, numbers. With the actual time humans have to work on these issues it's almost as if they are fighting against chaos theory. All of this takes time. We are in a weird place in history where we \"should\" see a huge improvement in these problems within our lifetimes. \n\nAnyway sometimes this is on purpose to allow side traffic to enter safely and not have side streets get backed up. The wave affect. Periods of time all the tributaries have time to empty out onto the main street. Yes this all sucks for everyone. \n\nThere is just too many people. ",
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"answer": "This is not the case in (at least) some avenues in Manhattan. Many times the lights ahead basically turn green around the same time, and we pass a ton of green lights in a row, until they all turn red.",
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"answer": "Wow, an ELI5 I feel qualified to answer! I'm a graduate student in transportation! Signal timing is actually a very complicated process, **but it really comes down to the fact that you can't please everyone all the time** (this is the tl;dr of every life problem probably). \n\nLet's illustrate it with a simple example. You want to time three signals, they are split with 30 seconds green and 30 seconds red. If you drive at the speed limit, it takes you 10 seconds to go from the first to the second signal, another 10 seconds to go to the third signal. So how would you time them? Well, it seems easy, set the second signal to start green 10 seconds after the first signal, and the third signal to start green 20 seconds after the second signal. The problem is this only works in one direction! Imagine, now, you want to go in the opposite direction using these timings. If you pass signal 3 when it first shows green, signal 2 will already have been showing green for 10 seconds (20 seconds of green left), and signal 1 will already have been showing green for 20 seconds (only 10 seconds left). Since it takes you 20 seconds to reach signal 1 from signal 3, it's easy to see that someone going in the opposite direction is going to have to stop. Add in cross streets and you've got yourself even more priorities to juggle! \n\n\n[Here's an image I found on Google to illustrate this](_URL_0_). In this figure, the green arrows represent the \"greenband\" (the \"window\" where arriving vehicles will get green along the whole corridor) for the major direction, and the signal timing is plotted out as horizontal bars. You can see that the opposite direction's \"greenband\" shown in blue arrows is not as wide, and many vehicles will stop at one of the three lights. \n\n\nThe reality is, transportation systems are designed to minimize the total system delay, which means spreading the delay around such that the total (volume*delay time) is minimized. This means that not-so-busy directions will see red more often, and you may see red at cross streets. Roads where both directions are busy are also really hard to time. Vehicle tracking technologies and things like this are used to adapt the signal timing so that less people have to stop. Usually most cities will time their signals a few times a year based on volume demands, and they may have special timing plans for bad weather (which changes how fast people drive) and special events that add extra demand on certain streets.",
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"answer": "It's called \"Traffic calming\" and it's done intentionally just like speed bumps. \n \nWhat it really says is \"fuck you for trying to get where you are going in a car. We will make it just as slow as taking a bus if we can.\"",
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"answer": "In Brussels (Belgium) it's actually done intentionally with the idea of 'discouraging' people to come to the city by car and to 'stimulate' the population to take public transport.\n \nOf course, the effects on trafic density are negligable and the main results are simply much longer trafic jams than necessary. \n\nSo yes, the people in charge here are indeed complete and utter morons. \n",
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"answer": "About 2 years ago I did a tour of the traffic management centre in my city, and they explained that in some cases it is deliberate. In the central business district it's done to both deter traffic from the area and to optimise the traffic light cycles for pedestrians (which has a side effect of not being optimal for cars). In the suburbs it's done to a lesser degree; you might get 2 or 3 green lights in a row but never continuous green lights (when traffic is heavy anyway). The reason for this is to bunch the traffic up periodically, to allow cars etc turning from side streets a chance to enter the traffic flow by creating gaps. They explained that they use sensors to pick up the bluetooth signals in people's phones to give an estimate of the amount of traffic in specific areas, and a computer then decides what to do with the traffic light cycles to optimise the flow. They also have a bunch of cameras at major intersections to keep track of what's going on, and I believe that humans can intervene if there's a major issue or unexpected traffic jam. \n\nThey also said that it was one of the most advanced systems in the world - not sure if this was actually true or just local pride creeping in, but if it is true it may not be applicable everywhere. ",
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"answer": "In The Netherlands in some busy roads with have system which let's you know what your driving speed should be in order to make the next green light. It will tell you to drive slower to avoid standing still. If you follow the instructions you will almost always be able to drive all the way through town without stopping once. This is a wikipedia article about it [_URL_0_](_URL_0_)",
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"answer": "I remember seeing \"Green Wave\" signs in some cities of Turkey. They were saying:\n\n\"If you go at 50kmh, you won't hit a red light in this road\"",
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"answer": "I work in traffic control and I can tell you were not intentionally trying to slow you down, we drive on the same roads and want to get home too so we do our best to time lights correctly, keep the fiber and loops up and just keep the maintenance on schedule the best we can. If you want, and you notice serious traffic issues call us. We don't see every light and sometimes the timers can lose its time base over months causeing weird traffic conditions. Just call traffic engineering and let them know what you think is wrong. \n\nOn a side note sometimes cops and emergency services accidentally will leave there opticom on unknowingly and this causes some backups as well. I say unknowingly because at least for our city there is no notification if it's left on it's just a switch and after a big event they just get left on by accident. Happens quite often actually. ",
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"answer": "Some communities will do this on purpose to stop people from speeding, especially in school zones or high pedestrian traffic areas.",
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"answer": "Back in the 1950s and 1960s, there was a theory that having the stop lights staggered would increase foot traffic in downtown areas, because people would be more likely to walk where they were going. It's been long discredited as a good traffic control technique, but some towns still use the timing patterns for the lights.",
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"answer": "Not all traffic systems are designed equally, and not all are designed by people who know what they're doing. In a small town near here (technically a city, but only by technicality) they completely messed up the road system when they changed the one-way system and traffic management about 15 years ago. Basically what they'd achieved in their oversight was that, every time a light went green, the cars at those lights couldn't go anywhere, since the cars in front of them were still stuck at a red light. When the cars in front of THEM got a green light, they couldn't go anywhere because the cars in front of THEM were stuck at red lights. This went on and on around the small town traffic system until it ended up back on itself near the train station, so as soon as it got remotely busy, the entire town came to a grinding halt. \nThey temporarily \"fixed\" the problem by covering all the traffic lights with polythene bags and letting drivers work it out by courtesy - which worked exceptionally well, unexpectedly.\nOnce they'd re-thunk things they put the traffic lights back in action, but honestly, it has never flowed so smoothly as it did when the lights were turned off.\nOccasionally there will be a blackout of the traffic signals, and everyone has to rely on driver courtesy again, and it always works better than anything the town planning can come up with.\nThis may be a peculiarity of the town's layout, I guess.\n\nEDITED: typo",
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"answer": "It's largely just poor planning.\n\nSome cities do try to time adjacent intersections so that if you're traveling at \"typical\" speed in the \"typical\" direction of traffic, then you'll go from one green light to the next. (Of course, in trying to time it right, you also assume that traffic will actually flow at the predicted speed, and if it doesn't, you might end up with the situation you describe where the light is just always red when you get to it. So it also depends on somewhat stable and predictable traffic conditions)\n\nIt is my impression that this is more common in Western European cities than in the US, but I can't say that for sure.\n\nThere's also a difference in technology. Cities which invest in modern stoplights which have sensors to detect current traffic conditions can do this much more intelligently than ones that are just following a timer.",
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"answer": "As an aside to u/cdav3435 amamzing explanation, I had a friend, an engineer student, who had timed the lights in a major stretch of road. Those were optimized for a traffic flow of 35mph. However, he had found that, if he went somewhat faster, he would hit all green lights as well, and one day invited me to drive in his car while he did it.\n\nHe failed to mention that the speed necessary to accomplish this was 70mph.",
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"answer": "Theyre supposed to be timed slightly one after the other so that if youre going the speed limit you will eventually hit continual green. But after repairs etc the timing gets off. ",
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"answer": "In smaller towns in Oklahoma, when the lights are ON THE FUCKING HIGHWAY, it's so you have to stop while driving through said pissy little town. When you have to stop anyway, you're more likely to visit a gas station or fast food joint. Rather than building overpasses, or finding some other solution that allows the highway traffic to maintain speed, they use this to try to bring money in. Along with tickets they hand out like there's a raffle going on as people run red lights or miss the constant speed changes and end up going 10 over...",
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"answer": "Often lights are timed this way in shopping districts to make you stop and look at the window displays more often. \n\nSource: mother when she was in city planning/council ",
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"answer": "We have the lights with sensors on the ground. If there is a gap 4-5 car lengths, then the light changes red. It is frustrating when the person infront of you is slow and doesn't keep up with traffic, so the light changes red. Or when they sit at a light behind the sensor on the road, so the light never changed because the idiot infront of you won't move up. \n\nAlso timing between lights with these sensors suck on the main road and favor the side street turning into main road. For example, if you are main road sitting at red. The side traffic turns left onto the same direction you are going but ahead of you. So that side street traffic triggers the next light, there is a gap of that traffic with yours. So when your light turns green, that next light has turned back to red because of the gap. So main oncoming traffic always hits reds. Frustrating as fuck. ",
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"answer": "They don't, they do the opposite. You're probably always speeding and race to a stop light. If you catch a green and are going the speed limit, you will almost always catch multiple greens.",
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"answer": "We could synchronize all our lights on a route and time them perfectly, but that costs money. So we use radio interconnect to cut costs and isn't reliable. We don't send traffic engineers out to tweak timings. We set them up once and move on. You're lucky if you tweak timings every three years. So the bottom line is costs. \n\nNow throw in adaptive systems that tweak timings automatically. They are usually low bid and you can get some subpar equipment. Throw in system/detector maintenance? Comes back to money. ",
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"answer": "I'm surprised no one has mentioned the economical benefits. These lights are usually strategically placed in cities to force traffic to stop to recognize small business and billboard advertisements. It's an idea that's been around for quite some time. I'm not sure if OP was looking for the mechanical explanation, but this should be noted. ",
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"answer": "I don't know about other countries but in the Netherlands they try to use this system called \"green wave\" which means the lights in the city are all tuned so that if you drive at the speed limit you would get only green lights, but if you exceed it you'll face the lights so you don't gain anything from speeding. \nOf course, only the main roads can be like this because all intersections would then need to be red, so it only works for some of the roads.",
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"answer": "Where I live you can make it a stretch of main road with out a stop if you catch it at the right moment. Otherwise you're fucked with consecutive reds. ",
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"answer": "most of the things you make in chem lab (aspirin, toluene containing compounds, etc) include substituted aromatic rings in their structure. these rings usually look yellow.",
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Were stone carvings in ancient, medieval, or renaissance sculptures painted or colored?
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"text": "Ivory carvings, often for book covers, drew on the diptychs of Late Antiquity. For example, the front and back covers of the Lorsch Gospels are of a 6th-century Imperial triumph, adapted to the triumph of Christ and the Virgin. However they also drew on the Insular tradition, especially for decorative detail, whilst greatly improving on that in terms of the depiction of the human figure. Copies of the scriptures or liturgical books illustrated on vellum and adorned with precious metals were produced in abbeys and nunneries across Western Europe. A work like the Stockholm Codex Aureus (\"Gold Book\") might be written in gold leaf on purple vellum, in imitation of Roman and Byzantine Imperial manuscripts. Anglo-Saxon art was often freer, making more use of lively line drawings, and there were other distinct traditions, such as the group of extraordinary Mozarabic manuscripts from Spain, including the Saint-Sever Beatus, and those in Girona and the Morgan Library.\n",
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Would it be possible to build a predictive model of chemistry?
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how are you supposed to know if a self diagnosed mental illness isn't just the placebo effect?
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"answer": "Its easy...a self diagnosed mental illness isnt the placebo effect. It cant be. The Placebo Effectis a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cannot be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself, and must therefore be due to the patient's belief in that treatment. \n\nNow you could mean.... \nHypochondria \nsomatic symptom disorder \nor maybe even... \nMunchausen syndrome \n\nTake your pick, \nthe answer to your question is STOP SELF DIAGNOSING. Go see a professional. \n",
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"text": "A diagnosis of mental 'illness' implies that a person is in no way responsible for the abnormality of functioning and as such is not to blame. The concept of 'no blame' is generally thought to be more humane and likely to elicit a much more sympathetic response from others.\n",
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"text": "In May 2015, Black addressed the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She told the audience that anxiety and depression have \"no objective signs. When you examine a person, you can't get an objective disease; it's not in front of you\" - a claim that appears to diverge from the principles underpinning the mental state examination, where clinical signs of anxiety, such as tremor, or clinical signs of depression, such as psychomotor retardation, are identified. She also appeared to suggest that because mental illnesses do not show up on X-rays, they have less of a scientific basis than diseases that do. With stress disorders and depression, she explained: \"If you order an X-ray or a test, you don't get a positive result\".\n",
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how do people die from strangulation but wake up from being choked / knocked out?
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What is located in the area that would otherwise be a uterus if a man were a woman?
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"answer": "The uterus is approximately the size of a very small pear (or a woman's fist) when there is nothing in it. (It expands up to 100x it's normal size to accommodate a fetus.) The uterus is located behind the bladder and in front of the rectum, so one could speculate that a male's larger excretory organs would \"take up\" that room. Since the female pelvic bones are shaped a little differently than a males (in order for a human skull to pass through the pelvic opening), I would imagine that there is even less of a real-estate issue for reproductive organs--females simply have more room in that part of their anatomy, and only a small space is needed for a uterus.\n\nTo be literal, the seminal vesicle lies between the male bladder and rectum, so that is what is there \"instead\" of a uterus.",
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why do modern ultraportable laptops only have a 32/64gb ssd, when netbooks, which were even smaller, commonly had 120gb hard drives?
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since it's illegal for children to purchase cigarettes, why isn't forcing 2nd hand smoke on them also illegal?
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"answer": "I agree the it should be stopped, but how would you enforce it",
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"answer": "The only way it'll stop is when society matures enough that either no one smokes, or everyone who does smoke doesn't do it in a situation where it affects anyone else.",
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"answer": "It's not illegal for children to buy cigarettes. It's illegal for shops to sell cigarettes to children. In other words, you can't make money off of children consuming tobacco.The difference there kind of defeats the parallel you were drawing. ",
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"answer": "A friend of mine was able to get sole custody and restrictions on his exes access/visitation. She and her boyfriend smoked heavily in their home and car. One of the kids had asthma. The Mothers' attitude really sealed her fate (It's my house, my car, my kids)",
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"answer": "It is illegal in some places, particularly to smoke in a car with a child. ",
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"answer": "Where I live it's illegal to smoke in a car if someone 17 or younger is in the car. ",
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"answer": "Interesting you say this; I know a young woman whose currently in medical school at Harvard with a concentration in public health. She is currently working on creating legislation that would make smoking in cars where children are present illegal. So I guess in due time your concerns may be answered.",
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"answer": "Why isnt forcing 2nd hand smoke on **anybody** illegal?",
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"answer": "There is proposed legislation in my city to do just that. I'm glad, my parents smoked in the car when I was growing up and it was fucking gross. Kids should not be subjected to that.",
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what makes guitars that expensive?
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"answer": "Can be vintage, or workmanship in general. High priced manufacturers (PRS) are known for good sustain, and of course the art that may be put into it. I'm not much of a player, but this I know",
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"answer": "My good friend is a guitar maker and sells them for about $3000-4000. At the end of the day, he makes around $20-25 per hour for his effort. He says each guitar takes at least 100 hours to make, and the woods alone cost between $700-1000. So the best guitars are hand made, and that's why they cost so much- expensive woods and a lot of labour. \n\nCheap guitars often just use ply-wood or cheap woods, and are often mass produced by machines/factories",
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"answer": "Depends on the brand. But in general you get what you pay for in guitars. My dad and I share a collection of around 20+ and they range from a few hundred to 10,000 and I can assure you that (in general) the more expensive ones are more well made and sound better. Rarity can also play a big role in price though. There are a lot of factor that contribute to a price of a guitar, and some guitars are much more worth the high price than others ",
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"text": "Jon Kammerer Guitars emphasizes customization of many guitar options as included in the standard price. This allows a customer to personalize the guitar he wants to an unprecedented degree at no additional cost. Features available for no-cost custom choices include hardware color, fretboard material, fretboard radius, body wood, stain finish color, fret marker inlay material, neck carve, left-handed versions of any model, choice of pickup configuration, and electronic switching options.\n",
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g-force - what is it and how does it injure/kill?
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"answer": "Imagine your bodies vascular system, your heart pumps the blood around your body and is able to do so at earth gravity. The moment u accelerate faster than earth gravity (9.81m^s2), you begin to experience forces greater than 1G. But your heart is only designed to supply your body with blood at 1G. \nA pilot in a plane can experience multiple Gs, at this point your heart is unable to pump enough blood and supply your brain with enough oxygen which can cause a black out and ultimately cause a plane crash.\nAnother example would be a Car crash. Your body would be subject to multiple negative Gs as you decelerate very quickly. Your body wants to carry going while your veins or nerves become severed.",
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"answer": "Did you ever go on a extreme ride like rollercoaster or one of those spinny type things?\n\nThat feeling you are getting very heavy and pushed back in your seat? That even stretching your arms in front of you takes more muscle power than you can muster?\n\nNow imagine that same ride going faster and faster, and you will feel heavier and heavier. Your body will be crushed by it's own weight. \n\nWith things like car impacts and accidents and such it is often because of a extremely high g-force in a very short time. Imagine your body weighing 30 tons for 0,05 seconds.\n\nSplut ",
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"text": "G-force induced loss of consciousness (abbreviated as G-LOC, pronounced 'JEE-lock') is a term generally used in aerospace physiology to describe a loss of consciousness occurring from excessive and sustained g-forces draining blood away from the brain causing cerebral hypoxia. The condition is most likely to affect pilots of high performance fighter and aerobatic aircraft or astronauts but is possible on some extreme amusement park rides. G-LOC incidents have caused fatal accidents in high performance aircraft capable of sustaining high \"g\" for extended periods. High-G training for pilots of high performance aircraft or spacecraft often includes ground training for G-LOC in special centrifuges, with some profiles exposing pilots to 9 \"g\"s for a sustained period.\n",
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"text": "The term g-force is technically incorrect as it is a measure of \"acceleration\", not force. While acceleration is a vector quantity, g-force accelerations (\"g-forces\" for short) are often expressed as a scalar, with positive g-forces pointing downward (indicating upward acceleration), and negative g-forces pointing upward. Thus, a g-force is a vector of acceleration. It is an acceleration that must be produced by a mechanical force, and cannot be produced by simple gravitation. Objects acted upon \"only\" by gravitation experience (or \"feel\") no g-force, and are weightless.\n",
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Why does Turner's syndrome have any effects at all?
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"answer": "In the past there have been people who have been revived after a hour underwater. Some time ago I was watching a lifeguard show, and they claimed that once an hour pasts of a person missing in water it becomes a search and recover, not search and rescue. All I could find on the subject was this [article on a 2 year old under](_URL_0_) the water for an hour.",
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"answer": "This is possible in very cold water (hypothermia onset delays tissue damage from hypoxia) in conjunction with a laryngospasm which prevents water ingress to the trachea. Rare set of conditions, but possible.",
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"answer": "There was a woman caught in an avalanche at Mt. Baker around 8 years ago, as well as several others. One of the other people was only partially buried, and walked out for rescue. The next morning, they dug the girl out. She had a core temperature somewhere around 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and even though she was completely buried, she had not suffocated. (typical avalanche suffocation occurs after about 7 minutes). After re-warming her core temp, she regained consciousness and recovered with no brain damage or frostbite.\n",
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"answer": "Others have covered quite a bit but I can put a name to the phenomena: [mammalian diving reflex](_URL_0_). It's a set of processes that occur that allow mammals to survive being underwater for prolonged periods of time, and is particularly strong in young individuals.",
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"answer": "Depends on the temperature of water. The colder the better (as long a it's above freezing).",
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"answer": "This is possible in very cold water (hypothermia onset delays tissue damage from hypoxia) in conjunction with a laryngospasm which prevents water ingress to the trachea. Rare set of conditions, but possible.",
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"answer": "Others have covered quite a bit but I can put a name to the phenomena: [mammalian diving reflex](_URL_0_). It's a set of processes that occur that allow mammals to survive being underwater for prolonged periods of time, and is particularly strong in young individuals.",
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why does the usa still have an embargo against cuba?
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"answer": "The older Cuban-American generation is vehemently anti-communist and, therefore, very pro-Republican. They're adamantly opposed to lifting the embargo. They're a powerful constituency group within the Republican Party, and they happen to be centralized in a major battleground state.\n\nTL/DR: Older Cuban-Americans are politically important and won't let it happen.\n\nSource: I work with the GOP.\n\nEDIT: Changed 'Cubans' to 'Cuban-Americans' to avoid confusion.\n ",
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"answer": "*Not* only is there still the strong anti-Castro pro-Republican contingent lobbying hard to keep the embargo AND no motivation to lift it, but it is a matter of continued doctrine, principle, and preparation for the demise (of old age, probably) of the Castro brothers.\n\nIn Cuba, a single strong dictator confronted us directly both ideologically and (granted, re-actively) militarily by allowing launchers so close to US soil. We lost face in the Bay Of Pigs incident (long forgotten except in Miami) and then cut a deal with the Soviets (which continued with the Russians, btw) that we would not invade militarily. So basically the U.S. government took the position that we will win this confrontation the easy way; through attrition and time. This is actually a good tactic because the U.S. believes that the only thing that holds the Cuban nation together at this point is the Castro family. Once Raul is gone, the system will *likely* fall apart within a couple of years. A large (and rich) ex-pat community will then pour much needed capital and political leadership into the island nation.\n\nFidel, though many have wished him dead of old age for years now, is still hammering away ideologically from the sidelines, but it is Raul that is the military strongman now. Behind him is...nothing. Well, at least nothing with their force of personality or the Castro family name-brand attached to it. In short, within a few years of Raul's death, no matter who takes over, the island will revert to where it was before Communism took over and we will not have needed to fire a shot.\n\nThe embargo keeps their economy weak and prepares the way for the wave of Cuban-heritage politicians and business people from the U.S. that will provide the next government and economic base once the Castro brothers die off. These 1st & 2nd generation Cubans have *vast* wealth. Others have political power & experience in local Florida as well as national-level politics. Let us not forget that we have THREE U.S. Senators that are of Cuban heritage. Senators. [One of those, Marco Rubio](_URL_0_), will likely be a Republican nominee for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES as well. That is some serious pro-embargo political clout at the highest levels of our government.\n\nSome ex-pat Cubans have something even better... money AND political power. Combined with the very generous hand-outs and recommenced trade from a newly friendly U.S. government, these people will probably turn Cuba from one of the poorest nations in the Caribbean to one of the wealthiest in less than a decade.\n\nTLDR: The embargo keeps them weak & paves the wave for 2nd generation Cubans in the US to transform it almost over-night into a rich & (more importantly) US-friendly ally once the Castro brothers die.\n\nEdit: I seem to have drawn the ire of Mtl_dood. I am not trying to justify the embargo or predict the future; I was simply answering the question by explaining the US rational for keeping it in place.",
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"answer": "I am Canadian the owner of an online tour business in Havana and a very frequent visitor to Cuba.\n \nI see things slightly different than starstarstar42, I do agree with the overall point but would like to point out that while the US sits and waits the end of the Castro regime the people in power in Cuba are also watching and waiting. \n\n These people do not want the status quo to change they are quite happy with how things have worked out for the Cuban 1% and have been preparing for years the eventual power shift.\n \nWith recent economic developments in Cuba massive trade deals with both Russia and China the building and opening of the Mariel special economic zone and the concentration of tourism resources in the hands of the Army I would hesitate before saying that Cuba will fall shortly after Raul Castro dies.\n\nI think there will be changes in Cuba to be sure but the US will not be invited in with open arms to buy everything and run everything.\n\n ",
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"answer": "Because the people who lost under Castro moved to the US and they have inordinate power to shape US anti-Cuban sentiment.\n\nThere actually remains zero good reasons to continue the embargo.",
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"answer": "Because the USA and Cuba got into a huge dick waving contest, and the USA lost, and refuses to acknowledge that loss.",
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"answer": "Cuban exiles and their families are still furious over having their property nationalized. Basically they were the wealthy ruling class in Cuba under Batista, and then Castro came in and took all their money and all their power. They fled to the United States, predominantly Florida, where they have used their wealth and understanding of power to amass political power in Florida politics. Florida has an outsize role in US politics due primarily to the electoral college, but for other reasons as well.\n\nFor many years it was politically problematic for any Presidential candidate to propose changing the policy toward Cuba, and there is no strong \"end the embargo\" lobby who are nearly as passionate or adament about it as those who hate Castro because they are angry over what they feel was a wrong done to their family. Put another way, I want the embargo to end, I had a chance to visit Havana and thought it was wonderful. But it's not issue #1 for me, so I'm not pushing my elected officials to do something about it, while the bitter Cuban exiles care about nothing else more, and are vocal about their caring.\n\nA related issue not mentioned below is that US political doctrine changes very slowly. Just look at the number of policy areas where Obama sought to make changes, like closing Gitmo, but has been stymied by the extensive forces at play maintaining the status quo. These forces are also at work preserving the embargo even as its logical underpinnings are mostly gone.",
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"answer": "It because there is a small but noisy contingent in a swing state (Cubans in south Florida) that will throw a tantrum if it gets lifted. The embargo has done absolutely nothing in 50 years.",
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"answer": "It's essentially a sham at this point. Cuban Americas can go visit their family and take them whatever they want to Cuba and bring most things back too. They can visit as much as they want now too. My brother in law just brought back a bunch of Havana Club rum when he went to visit his grandmother. My sister in law took her younger brother a PS3 a few years ago. The embargo is a political bargaining chip anymore and only prevents companies from doing business and exchanging goods, not individuals. It messes up tourism too. People are now signing up to be mules taking things (not drugs) to Cuba thru people who pay their flight round trip.",
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"answer": "Very interesting that most explanations are ignoring the history of Cuba. For example, we have wanted to annex Cuba since the Revolutionary War. Founding Fathers such as John Adams saying\n\n > If an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can only gravitate towards the North American Union.\n\nBut more recently, we made very active moves towards annexing it after going to war with the Spanish over ownership of it's very rich and undeveloped lands, then forcing within their Constitution various clauses that allowed us political vetoes over their decisions and eventually ownership of their only port--Guantamano--in addition to the land surrounding it which was still very rich, very fertile, and undeveloped (still is). Then there is the absolute hate for it within American government, going back to the NSC and Kennedy administration. There was contempt for Cuba because it was the \"threat of a good example\" i.e. it was a model of development for Third World countries that did not rely on the US and therefore satisfy US interests. It drove them crazy, logically, and they enacted terrorist campaigns such as Operation Mongoose--overseen by RFK but headed by Edward Lansdale as revealed in Arthur Schlesinger's biography of him--that did nothing but insist that Cuba was\n\n > [t]he top priority in the United States Government -- all else is secondary -- no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared\n\nSo farms were sabotaged, plants and factories bombed, militias raised and used to attack the countryside, and so forth.\n\nEven after the Bay of Pigs, our failed attempt at an invasion which escalated into a nearly \"hot\" moment in the Cold War, the embargo which was supposed to bring democracy to Cuba has done nothing more than bring starvation to children, death and suffering to the masses, and unnecessarily made life hard--it could be considered an act of siege and thus an act of war if the UN was serious about enforcement but it's not so it's not.\n\nIn fact, due to their successful defiance of our imposed model and our interests--as dictated by the Monroe Doctrine--we actually made the embargo **harsher** under Clinton. All sanctions on \"terror states\" were removed save for Cuba. When these sanctions were declared illegal by international organizations such as the Judicial Commission of the Organization of American States and the World Trade Organization. Clinton simply reacted with horror that these organizations would challenge American policy and declared their judgement null and void.\n\nAgain, you ask why. It's very simple, everyone from Dean Acheson to the NSC to the CIA to RFK and even JFK have said something on the subject. It's simply because\n\n > Cuba, as symbol and reality, challenged U.S. hegemony in Latin America.\n\nTherefore they had to be made an example of--it's a very logical elite response to a threat to power.\n\nedit: THANKS FOR THE GOLD! Hard to believe but it's my first one!",
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"answer": "The only thing that matters to the US is the fact that they can never let Fidel die thinking he won. The US knows the only way they lose is if they submit to Fidel. If he dies while the embargo is still in place, he never wins, and then the US can simply pour money into Cuba like they've wanted all these years. I believe it's more of a personal grudge than anything else. Although the political influence of expat Cubans in the GOP is important.",
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"answer": "Before Cuba had become Communist, there were a number of American businesses located in Cuba. Once communism had set in Cuba, those businesses were shut down without compensation to the owners. The US officially refuses to lift the embargo until those companies are compensated.",
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"answer": "ELI5 is an embarrassment to reddit. Where do you get off asking political questions in a place such as this. To get to the truth of the matter of something like that requires a research project.\n\nAll you will get here is popular American sentiment from people who don't know the first thing of what they're talking about. It's inevitable, it's the nature of the downvote/upvote system. There are no experts in reddit; the only expert is popular opinion. But I suppose you probably knew that and all you're looking is for something that seems mildly agreeable, and maybe a pad on the back.\n\nThe idea that everything can be explained simply given enough skill on the part of the explainer is so naive it makes me cringe to think someone could believe it. The world is complex and sometimes there are nothing but complex answers. If you want to know the answer then do not be lazy, but otherwise do not bother. Don't ask here and pretend you'll get anything out of it.",
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"answer": "Same reason drugs and prostitution is illegal. Just waiting on all the conservatives to die. ",
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"answer": "I once asked on the Miami Herald Boards why Cuban refugees didn't try to form a counter-revolution beyond the ill-fated Bay of Pigs. Hell, even Nicaragua mounted a counter-revolution before the cynical installation of the appearance of democracy, and one lonely centrist rule by Chamorro.\n\nIn the Miami boards I got the same response, that the US promised to lay off Cuba, as if that explained why thousands of well-off expats wouldn't fight to get their country back. IMO what happened was they got spoiled and complacent in Miami, and used US isolation as an excuse. We shall soon see, but I predict rich Cubanos will not move back to Cuba in any notable numbers when Raul dies. Certainly Bacardi Rum and other former employers will not return, so when Raul dies the century of bickering of what belongs to whom can begin. And there will be no jobs beyond cigars.\n\nAs for embargo, that was the trade-off for not turning Cuba into a radioactive reef. When Castro brought missles into Cuba, this country went crazy. I was 14, and remember the whole country started going to church-they had to run extra sermons and masses. We were *scared*, we were losing it on the border of going stupid, and I remember Kennedy with respect for keeping us intact, respect I can't have for many other Democrats.",
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"answer": "It amazes me that Americans, who are banned from traveling to Cuba, think they know so much more than people who go there.",
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"answer": "These answers all seem fine and dandy, but I learned it as being political suicide for any person that suggests lifting the embargo. Florida is a major swing state with a large Cuban bloc who hate the Castro's. If any politician suggests lifting the embargo, they and their party will lose Florida for many years, and since it's a big swing state that often decides elections, no politician or party would want to risk losing it. ",
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"answer": " > In 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton expanded the trade embargo even further by also disallowing foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to trade with Cuba.\n\n\n > President Barack Obama has outlined a series of steps that Cuba could take to demonstrate a willingness to open its closed society, including releasing political prisoners, allowing United States telecommunications companies to operate on the island and ending government fees on U.S. dollars sent by relatives in the United States.\n\n_URL_0_\n\n\n\nTIL: Clinton and 0bama are Republicans!\n",
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"answer": "I don't think the Florida Mafia is behind this anymore. Ex-Cubans are old folks. They'd like to visit childhood haunts before they die. \n\nThe US has an interest in fomenting a culture of fear. \"Walk softly and carry a big stick\" only works when other nations can see the results of the stick.",
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"answer": "One of the reasons the US still has an embargo in Cuba is because Castro's form of communism actually works well in a small island nation like Cuba. If the embargo were not in place, Cuba's economy would increase greatly, due to an increase tourism, and selling of goods to other countries.\n\nIf this were allowed to happen, then other small countries in the Caribbean would quickly try to implement similar styles of government. And instead of having 1 communist country within a short distance, we would have a may more. This would be a foreign policy nightmare for the US. It would also demonstrate how the US does not even have much influence within tiny countries right in its backyard. It would put capitalism in direct confrontation with communism all over again. And it would diminish US' influence worldwide. ",
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"answer": "Florida is a swing state, full of Cuban ex-pats, and they hate Castro.",
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"answer": "Putting aside the political drama, the bottom line is there is no incentive for the US to lift it. Doing so would only benefit Cuba, so why bother.\n\nIt's not like their tourist dollars or exports would meaningfully benefit us, and opening up trade and travel would just benefit them at the expense of ourselves and the rest of the Caribbean.\n\nEven in the unlikely event the political issues were solved, there has to be something in it for us, and there is not.",
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"answer": "Pretty much what's been said previously. Older cubans wield a lot of political party within the state of Florida and won't allow the embargo to ever be lifted. \n\nAt the sametime the US government continues to offer all Cubans that land on American soil amnesty through the so called \"wet foot dry foot policy.\" This is also known as the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. This ensures that any Cuban national that sets foot on any American soil is granted legal status within the US. \n\nWhile this might sound great in reality it is a form of passive aggressive warfare being waged against the Cuban nation by depopulating the island. We could also get into discussions on the hundreds of people that have died attempting to reach American soil and the blame that should be assigned to the US government and yet never has been. \n\nWe should also mention that individuals such as Mexicans leave their country for the same reason 90% of Cubans do (financial) and yet they don't receive the same legal benefits. The claim that Cubans continue to flee Cuba due to political persecution is almost dead. Very few of the individuals that leave Cuba these days are actual political prisoners of some sort. In reality most of them return to Cuba as tourists after having been here for the prerequired period before their able to obtain a green card. \n\nJust my two cents. \n",
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"answer": "IMHO there are many reasons, below are the key ones I believe are the most important. \n\nWealthy Cubans that fled to FL and vote for the GOP oppose Communist Cuba.\n\nThe Republicans need minorities (especially Hispanics, although many Hispanic voters don't vote like Cubans), so the Republican party is sympathetic to the demands of the Cuban population in FL. \n\nUneducated people are manipulated into believing communism is still a threat to our way of life. \n\nElites use the uneducated and manipulate them for votes. (See recent examples portraying Obama/Liberals as communists).\n\nBecause many uneducated people have been primed to see communism as this evil specter ready to raise again, it cost too much political capital to go against the embargo.\n\nPoliticians have nothing to gain from going against the embargo, risk, no reward.\n\nCorporate assets.\n\nOld people raised during the height of the Cold War Era still vote.\n\nedit: The reason Democrats don't oppose the embargo in my theory is because many Democrats are elected in electorally vulnerable districts. Democrats in safe areas like California, and the North East could take whatever stance they want on the issue. However, Democrats in purple states could suffer from their party taking such a position. ",
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"answer": "Because the US government is run by rich business assholes and idiot lawyers. ",
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"answer": "A theory I have heard, from someone who is usually wrong:\nThe U.S. sugar industry consists of cane sugar (Hawaii) and beet sugar (mostly Idaho). Powerful right wing people control each. They don't want sugar competition from Cuba. Since the only source I have for this is one whack job, I don't trust it.\n",
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"answer": "They're an example of what happens when you come at the global hegemon. Iran has the same thing going on and the only reason they get any play at all is because they have oil and nukes. ",
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"answer": "It's because Cuba is one of only 3 countries in the world without a Rothschild owned/partially owned central bank.",
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"answer": "Because Cuba is not under US hegemony and there's nothing to be gained politically by lifting the embargo.",
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"answer": "Cuban-American here. Born in Cuba, raised here. My parents and I left in 94' when shit hit the fan. Plan and simple, even if the embargo was lifted, Castro is a communist bastard that has never wanted anything to do with the US. He still believes in some \"revolution\" bs. It's pretty sad, honestly. I still have family there and they are shit poor. Clothes torn, food is scarce, we send money when needed. We visited in 2006 and looked like the Iraq war was being fought there: streets cracked with huge holes in them, people running with buckets to collect water when there was a broken pipe, no AC in their homes, and a thing called \"the little black book\". This book has the size of your family in it, along with your info. When it's time for you to buy food, you present it Nd they check to see if it really is your turn. Once everything checks out they give you \"enough\" (Cough bs cough) food till the next week. They also stamp it so, no, you can't cheat.",
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"answer": "So much wrong in here, fucking conspiracy theorists. \"If we lift the Embargo, Cubans will all come here and vote democrat/republican\" Dumbshits think your vote actually sways the electoral college?\n\nFirst, the embargo was not because of the cold war. It happened during the cold war, yes. The Cuban Missle Crisis was the \"straw that broke the camel's back\". It was mostly because of the Cuban Revolution (which the USSR had a hand in), and the overthrowing of Fulgencio Batista as president of Cuba. The U.S. liked him, and he liked us. It was a corrupt system, but we both made money. Fidel Castro and his revolution, ousted Batista and killed the relationship. Castro sided with the Soviets and taxed the shit out of everything from the U.S. So then, they were making a lot of money off us, while we made no money off of them. So they got cut off. Their tax laws have not changed, it is illegal for Cubans to visit, or move to the U.S., and they refuse to acknowledge or abide by NATO agreements. Obama even told them that if they were to work towards fixing those issues, the embargo could be lifted, they don't care.\n\nAlso, that's also why we will not leave Gitmo. That was a deal worked back in 1903. As long as we pay, it's is ours. Castro came in and said it wasn't ours, and wanted it back. So, since the 1960's, we've been paying the lease (which like $4,000/year), but Cuba has not been \"cashing the check\". The treaty signed that is the lease agreement states that Gitmo is ours as long as we recognize Cuba as a sovereign nation.",
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if you are short-sighted, is it better for your eyes/eyesight to wear your glasses in front of a computer screen?
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"answer": "Um, wut? I'd have to be 3 inches or less from the screen to read it. This is not a thing for me.",
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"answer": "Anecdotal, but I'm near sighted, my vision starts to go blurry around the 8-10 foot mark. I typically wear my glasses at the computer, and find if I don't I tend to get headaches and/or eye strain. Not sure if it's the antiglair costing helping or what. But that's what I do.",
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"answer": "I'm short sighted to an extent, I only really need my glasses to read far away things like road signs but I absolutely do not wear my glasses when I use a pc and very rarely use them at all if I'm not driving. ",
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"answer": "I work in IT, and spend most of my free time PC gaming. My eyesight has been the same (shortsighted... - 1.75) since I was about 8, and I always wear my glasses, even though I don't really need to at the PC.\n\nSo, anecdotally, it makes no difference if you do or don't. ",
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How do cold blooded animals cope in colder climates? Do they feel such things such as brain freeze? Is there any examples any cold blooded creatures living in the cold?
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"text": "Some animals living in cold environments maintain their body temperature by preventing heat loss. Their fur grows more densely to increase the amount of insulation. Some animals are regionally heterothermic and are able to allow their less insulated extremities to cool to temperatures much lower than their core temperature—nearly to . This minimizes heat loss through less insulated body parts, like the legs, feet (or hooves), and nose.\n",
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"text": "By numerous observations upon humans and other animals, John Hunter showed that the essential difference between the so-called warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals lies in observed constancy of the temperature of the former, and the observed variability of the temperature of the latter. Almost all birds and mammals have a high temperature almost constant and independent of that of the surrounding air (homeothermy). Almost all other animals display a variation of body temperature, dependent on their surroundings (poikilothermy).\n",
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Did the Norse colonies of Greenland make contact with any Inuit tribes? If so were there any records of interaction? Conflict? Trade?
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"answer": "Yes, the Norse called them *Skraelings*. The relationship between the Norse and the skraelings appears to have been mostly belligerent until the abandonment of the Greenland colonies.",
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why do video games ship with unused files and portions of code?
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why is pirating more socially accepted than other copyright infringement crimes?
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"answer": "It's a lot easier to do than other forms of copyright infringement. Not as many websites or services are dedicated to helping you do other things like counterfeiting. ",
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why is it that most people can hold their breath for at least one minute, but if you’re ‘choked out’, you can go unconscious from lack of oxygen in roughly 10 seconds?
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- why a government would 'peg' a currency to, say, the us dollar, and why a less-valuable currency is better for foreign trade.
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regarding ice (frozen water not the drug), why is there a white centre and a clear shell?
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"text": "As with water, ice absorbs light at the red end of the spectrum preferentially as the result of an overtone of an oxygen–hydrogen (O–H) bond stretch. Compared with water, this absorption is shifted toward slightly lower energies. Thus, ice appears blue, with a slightly greener tint than liquid water. Since absorption is cumulative, the color effect intensifies with increasing thickness or if internal reflections cause the light to take a longer path through the ice.\n",
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"text": "Glacial ice has a distinctive blue tint because it absorbs some red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule. Liquid water is blue for the same reason. The blue of glacier ice is sometimes misattributed to Rayleigh scattering due to bubbles in the ice.\n",
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cancer cure that scientists recently claimed to be one year away
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In calculating standard deviation, why do you square the variances instead of taking the absolute value of the variances?
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"answer": "I believe you can do it that way too. Look up Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD). The standard deviation and volatility of a stock's price, for example, is one way a forecaster can measure risk. Calculating MAD is a much less computationally intensive process to measure a stocks risk than using standard deviation which involves exponents and was therefore favored in the early days of Markowitz's portfolio optimization theory.",
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"answer": "The distance between the coordinates (a,b) and (c,d) is \n\n* sqrt((a-c)^(2)+(b-d)^(2))\n\nThis extrapolates to any dimension really well. For example, in n dimensions, the distance between the points (a*_1_*,a*_2_*,...,a*_n_*) and (b*_1_*,b*_2_*,...,b*_n_*) is\n\n* sqrt((a*_1_*-b*_1_*)^(2) + (a*_2_*-b*_2_*)^(2) + ... + (a*_n_*-b*_n_*)^(2))\n\nThis is nothing more than the Pythagorean Theorem. Now, let's say that we have a population and we pick n samples from it, x*_1_*,...,x*_n_*. We can think of this as the n-dimensional coordinate (x*_1_*,...,x*_n_*). Now, if, for instance, all of the x*_i_* were the same, then they would all be equal to their mean, M=(x*_1_*+...+x*_n_*)/n and the coordinate would be (M,M,...,M). The coordinates of the form (x,x,...,x) form a line in the n-dimensional space, called the Main Diagonal. Since there is no spread when the point (x*_1_*,...,x*_n_*) is actually *on* the main diagonal, a good measure for how unequal, or spread apart, the sample is would be the distance that the point (x*_1_*,...,x*_n_*) is from the main diagonal. This distance is exactly the distance that that the point (x*_1_*,...,x*_n_*) is from the point (M,M,...,M), where M is the mean. This distance is \n\n* sqrt((x*_1_*-M)^(2)+(x*_2_*-M)^(2)+...+(x*_n_*-M)^(2))\n\n\n\nThe only issue is that this kinda depends on the size of the sample. Adding more points will increase this distance, even if the new points are within the same spread. To counteract this, we can divide the sum by the number of points in the sum (like taking the average). This will happen inside the square root. This means that a good measure of the spread of n-points, that is not dependent on n, will be \n\n\n* sqrt(((x*_1_*-M)^(2)+(x*_2_*-M)^(2)+...+(x*_n_*-M)^(2))/n)\n\nWhich is exactly the Standard Deviation of a sample. This is the most geometrically natural way to measure the spread.\n\nTo reiterate, from a sample of size n, we can create a point in n-dimensional space. The Main Diagonal in n-dimensional space is the line of points whose coordinates are all equal, and so a good measure of how *un*equal the coordinates of a point in n-dimensional space are would be the distance that this point is from the main diagonal. This distance is given by the formula above, which is nothing more than the Pythagorean Theorem in n-dimensional space. We then normalize the sum by dividing by the number of terms, so that it does not depend on sample size.\n\n You *can* try to talk about spread using (|x*_1_*-M|+...+|x*_n_*-M|)/n, and this is called the [Average Absolute Deviation](_URL_0_). This, however, is far less useful because it is not as smooth as the standard deviation and it does not take advantage of typical Euclidean Geometry in an advantageous way.\n\n\nAnother important aspect of the Standard Deviation is that it is naturally related to the first and second moments, which are quantities that naturally pop out of distribution when we do calculus with them. This is extremely convenient.",
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how is it possible to get doom to run on so many devices that are not even purpose built as home computers, like the gps console on someone's car for instance?
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"answer": "Doom is an old game. It was designed to run on the very limited hardware of the time. Even a very limited computer by today's standards can be powerful enough to run Doom.\n\nSource code for Doom was made public in 1999, which made it possible for people to port the game to other platforms. People try to port it to unusual things like GPS consoles and printers mostly for fun - [there's even a webpage for it](_URL_0_).",
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why are monotremes considered mammals?
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how people sell movie scripts and who decides if it's a big budget movie?
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Why does smoke from incense or cigarettes not (usually) set off smoke alarms?
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Why does plaque always come out a yellowish-white color, regardless of the color of food you've eaten?
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For Scandinavians' and Germanics' mythology:
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just saw a video where a snowmobile accelerates really quickly in a drag race setting. a commenter said part of the reason is it's cvt transmission . what is that?
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What did contemporary political maps of Warlord era China look like? Did they just mark the Republic of China, with pre-warlord borders, or did they update it at all? Did this vary depending on where the map was made?
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"answer": "So, I wont be able to answer this question in full, mainly because anyone is gonna have a hard time finding maps of warlord-era China. It's just, as you said, a period of total chaos where China really is a failing state. I tried looking into it quickly online, but to no avail - I couldn't find any contemporary maps. I'm lead to believe that the best bet for anyone would be Japanese-based sources because, as I'll explain, Japan had a heavy hand in the chaos that engulfed China during this time. Unfortunately, I do not read/speak Japanese well enough to launch into that. That being said, I can answer parts of your question, especially the last \"How much was known about internal politics by outsiders at the time?\" \n\n & #x200B;\n\nWhen the Qing dynasty fell apart in 1911, the rest of the world did have an eye on China. China was a key region for European goods such as silk for clothings and soybeans for farmers, kind of like it is today. The nation with the most interests in watching this progress (and influencing it) was Japan, which for all intents and purposes by this point in history was considered Western by many Chinese nationalists. By 1922, another nation which was born into the world also looked down upon its southern neighbor with interest - the USSR. I'll break this response into two seperate parts dealing with Japanese interest and Soviet interest, and how they played an influential role in the way China would be formed.\n\n**Japan**\n\nIn 1895, Japan defeated China for control of Korea, Taiwan, Qingdao and Port Arthur (Lushun). The event would lead directly to the outrage of a patriotic Chinese citizenry and the downfall of the Qing. From the moment the Qing fell apart in 1911 up to the beginning of WW2, Japan had a keen interest in keeping China isolated and dissolved. Japan's ultimate goal was, at this time, the unification of a pan-asian front, and China was the largest region to this ideological alliance. In the Northeast, or Manchuria, Japan directly played a role in politics by giving material aid to a bandit named Zhang Zuolin. Zhang would become the biggest puppet in Northern China for Japan until his assassination (by Japanese officers) in 1928. From there, Japan was successfully able to control the valuable soybean trade that exported massive amounts of beans to the West. In 1926, when the Northern Expedition kicked off in earnest, Japan deployed additional troops to Shanghai and Jinan, resulting in the Jinan and Shanghai Incidents (1928 & 1932, respectively), where Japanese forces attacked Chinese troops. After the KMT takeover of most of China, Japanese influence generally degrades in most areas, although in 1931 the Japanese do outright invade Manchuria. From 1928-1945, it really does become an off-and-on battle between the Republican KMT and the Japanese who are attempting to take control of China. Some speculate that later defectors of WW2, such as Wang Jingwei, may have been in contact with Japanese officials much earlier than one could assume.\n\n**USSR**\n\nThe birth of the USSR meant the opportunity to export the revolution. Sun Yat-sen himself was somewhat of a socialist, but he never did identify fully as a communist. Most importantly though, both the USSR and the KMT were anti-imperialist organizations defending their homelands from what they saw as attacks by the West. From its founding to the end of WW2, the KMT would receive an egregious amount of materiel aid and funding from Stalin, as Stalin saw the KMT as a good way to protect Russia's flank from Japanese invasion. The USSR was also involved with direct invasions of Xinjiang after the near defeat of their puppet, Sheng Shicai, in 1934. So both the USSR and Japan, both ideologically believing to be helping China (though in very different ways) held Chinese puppets that supported their direct interests. Even after the 1928 Purge of the Communists by the KMT, Stalin continued to support the KMT as he knew only Chiang Kai-shek would be apt for the job of defending Russia's rear, which was most important to Stalin, especially after the Nazi takeover of Germany.\n\n**Other Powers**\n\nThe USSR and Japan were the largest influences on Chinese politics in the warlord period, but other powers were certainly aware. In fact, Germany allowed several officers to be sent to China in order to train Chinese troops on modern weapons tactics. There is a flurry of correspondence between the UK and US about Japanese aggression against China, especially as it becomes more apparent that Japan will stop at nothing to unite East Asia. Everyone knew there was a huge power vacuum in China, that the KMT was mostly corrupt and weak, and that Japan was lurking at any moment to stab China in the heart. It was a dangerous time, with dangerous consequences.\n\n**Conclusion**\n\nI know this doesn't answer your questions about the maps in full, and that may not be answerable on a community like this, as primary sources from this time are rarely translated into English or available. Such was the chaotic nature of China where so many crucial historical documents are unnoticed, lost, or were destroyed. However, I do hope I did a good enough job answering some of your other question, particularly on foreign influence.\n\nSo in conclusion, yes the outside world knew very well what was going on in China during this period. The two major powers influencing these politics were the USSR and Japan. But after 1937, most of that didn't matter, as China was left to face Japan on its own for four years.\n\nSources:\n\n*Biography of Zhang Zuolin* by Xu Che and Xu Yue (In Chinese)\n\n*Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927* by Bruce Elleman\n\n*Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937* by Parks Coble",
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"answer": "/u/Drdickles and I had actually been discussing this question by PM, and at the time we both hit the same obstacle – it's really bloody hard to find contemporary maps of China! But since then, I've had a bit of a eureka moment and traced an alternate lead: world maps. In turn, this has led me to the [David Rumsey map collection](_URL_3_), an open-access database of high-quality digital map scans, including from several major atlases of the period. In turn, I was able to locate the specific China maps within those atlases, and one freestanding one. In all, I turned up 3 maps of China and 6 world maps printed between 1919 and 1928 (no doubt, there must have been more, these were just the ones I could find in around 45 minutes.) These were, in chronological order:\n\n* ['The Official Map of the World'](_URL_4_) by L. V. Crocker, published by the National Survey Company in Chester, Vermont in 1919;\n\n* ['The World, Prepared Especially for The National Geographic Magazine'](_URL_1_) by Gilbert Grosvenor, published in Washington D.C. in 1922;\n\n* ['World - Political'](_URL_0_) and ['China - Southern Section'](_URL_8_), published by the Institute of Social and Religious Research in New York in 1923;\n\n* ['2. Weltkarte' (Map of the World)](_URL_10_) and ['74. China'](_URL_2_) by Hermaan Haack and Adolf Stieler from the second edition of *Stielers Handatlas*, published in Gotha, Germany in 1925;\n\n* ['The World Showing Principal Nations' Colonial Possessions'](_URL_9_) and ['China, Japan and Mongolia'](_URL_7_) from *Atlas Of Prince Edward Island, Canada, And The World*, published by the Cummins Map Co. in Toronto in 1925; and finally\n\n* ['The New Map of the World'](_URL_5_), published by the Washington Square Book Shop in New York in 1928.\n\nFrom the world maps, it's readily evident that they weren't just marking pre-Warlord borders, they were marking *Qing* borders! World maps produced during the late 19th century typically marked a clear internal border between China proper (the eighteen provinces as established by the Ming) and 'Chinese Tartary' or what have you – take [this American nautical chart currently in the Hong Kong Maritime Museum](_URL_6_). (Side note: if you're ever in Hong Kong, visit the Maritime Museum. This isn't an invitation, this is an imperative.) World maps of the early Republican period show the entirety of the Qing Empire as it stood in 1910 continuing to be lumped under the 'Chinese Republic', irrespective of actual separatist movements in Tibet, Mongolia and to a lesser extent Xinjiang, yet at the same time retain the marking of internal borders within the broader former empire. Hence Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia and Manchuria are generally marked out as sub-units of the whole. This continuity reaches somewhat absurd extremes, with the three world maps from 1925 and later showing Mongolia as part of China, despite it basically having become a Soviet satellite state since 1924. The sole exception to the trend of including Mongolia is the specific China map in the 1925 Canadian atlas, which shows it as a separate entity (also, interestingly, controlling the former Northern March of Xinjiang, which is now PRC-ruled), but Stieler and Haack's map of China marks only an internal border, as does the 1928 map from New York. Tibet, which was *de facto* independent until the 1950s, remains part of China on all three.\n\nIrrespective of which map you look at, though, individual warlord cliques are never marked out. This is in part because while warlords exercised *de facto* regional military hegemonies and there were functionally no centralised government bodies to speak of, there was a relatively cohesive civilian world in the early Republic, and a continued diplomatic recognition of a central Chinese state based in Beijing, even if the specific government running it tended to be a little volatile. China ultimately became a belligerent power in WWI and dispatched the Chinese Labour Corps under the auspices one such Beiyang-backed figure, the old revolutionary leader Li Yuanhong. Basically, these maps seem to have been conveying *de jure* territorial claims as proclaimed by the (somewhat ephemeral) Republican governments, rather than seeking to convey the *de facto* political realities on the ground, and this manifested both at the broad geopolitical level as regards 'imperial' territories of the old Qing empire, and the smaller-scale clique politics below those top-level divisions.",
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"text": "The map's accuracy is superior to that of other maps from the same era. It is assumed that some parts of China were based on \"Hwangyeocheonramdo」\", and parts of Joseon referred to \"「Dongkukjido」\" drawn by Jeong Sanggi (정상기). Japan is described in detail except for Hokkaido, and the western coast line of Taiwan is also shown in the map. The map shows that Eastern Asia was becoming a defined area, with precise information of roads, post-houses, and signal-fires.\n",
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why do we still not have bold, italics and underlined keyboard options for typing on mobile devices?
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why does the world need money?
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"answer": "Because after many tries and experiments, people found that it was really, really inconvenient to buy a water buffalo with skittles. Just as an example.",
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"answer": "It's an easy way to make an indirect trade. Rather than be paid in potatoes or grain or whatever the employer or tradesman had on hand, it's much easier to be paid in a trustworthy currency and then exchange that for whatever it is you really need or want, whenever you happen to need it.",
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"answer": "Because without money, trading usually hits a dead end. Like in this example.\n\n > \"Hey Roof Guy, my roof is broken. Can I trade you two chickens to fix my roof?\"\n\n > \"Sure thing, Chicken Dude.\"\n\n\n**Two weeks later**\n\n > \"Hey Chicken Dude, I'm really hungry. Can I have some more chickens?\"\n\n > \"I don't have anything that needs fixing, go away Roof Guy.\"\n\nOnce you add money into the mix, Roof Guy doesn't have to starve. Each of us only has so many skills or goods to trade; money allows us to turn that skill into value that can be used now or later, even if our services aren't needed.\n",
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"answer": "Probably too much of an answer, but this (very long) quote from the fictional character Francisco D'Anconia in the Book Atlas Shrugged (1957) addresses the value of money. \n\n“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?\n\n“When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears not all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor–your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money, Is this what you consider evil?\"\n",
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"text": "BULLET::::- To quote monochrom's press statement: \"Money is frozen desire. Thus it governs the world. Money is used for all forms of trade, from daily shopping at the supermarket to trafficking in human beings and drugs. In the course of all these transactions, our money wears out quickly, especially the smaller bank notes that are changing hands constantly. ... Money is dirty, and thus it is a living entity. This is something we take literally: money is an ideal environment for microscopic organisms and bacteria. We want to make your money grow. In a potent nutrient fluid under heat lamps we want to get as much life as we can out of your dollar bills.\" (\"Growing Money\" was part of the \"Experience The Experience\" tour.)\n",
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"text": "In 2011 Dunn was credited with creating the phrase \"the earliest money is the best money.\" This term describes the power and importance of compounding interest. It means that the money you contribute now is more important than the money you contribute 1 year from now. This is because it will have more time to grow, thus it is the most powerful contribution. Just as last year's contributions are more powerful than this year's contributions.\n",
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"text": "Defenders of the World Bank contend that no country is forced to borrow its money. The Bank provides both loans and grants. Even the loans are concessional since they are given to countries that have no access to international capital markets. Furthermore, the loans, both to poor and middle-income countries, are at below market-value interest rates. The World Bank argues that it can help development more through loans than grants, because money repaid on the loans can then be lent for other projects.\n",
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Does the temperature of the earths core contribute at all to sustaining normal/livable temperatures on the surface. If so, why or why not?
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"answer": "Actually I believe it does have a large effect on surface livability but not in the way you may be thinking. A very important part of the action of the earth's core is the convecting action that drives/is driven by the heat. The iron/whatever is constantly churning and heating and rubbing, causing friction and heating some more.\n\nRegardless of the ability to feel this heat on the surface, this action drives earth's magnetic field. If our core was colder/slower moving, our planet would have a weaker field, and possibly be less able to hold our atmosphere and regulate wind and weather. ",
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why does food taste worse when you eat a lot of it at one time?
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"answer": "I assume you mean is if you eat the same thing over and over, in that case, it is because you are not getting all the nutrients your body needs from that particular food; thus making your body \"tired\" of eating it. Or it could be from getting too much of a type of nutrient. Its like the opposite of craving, let's say milk, because your body is in need of calcium. \nI am not entirely positive that is correct, but its the answer I got before for asking a similar question. Also I apologize for my grammar, I am in the process of learning better grammar.",
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"answer": "Your body makes food taste \"worse\" as you continuously eat in order to protect you from overeating. Your body does so by creating more leptin (hunger inhibiting hormone) and reducing the production of ghrelin (hunger inducing hormone). It's basically your body's way of following the \"law of diminishing marginal utility\".",
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"text": "Since then, his research has established that the sight, touch and sound of food can have large effects on its perceived taste. Other findings include that strawberry mousse is perceived as 10% sweeter when eaten from a white container over a black one, that coffee drunk from white mugs tastes almost two times more intense but only two-thirds as sweet as coffee drunk from a black mug, and that eaters perceive yogurt to be roughly 25% more filling when its plastic container weighs two and a half ounces more. \n",
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"text": "Conditioned taste aversion is the only type of conditioning that only needs one exposure. It does not need to be the specific food or drinks that cause the taste. Conditioned taste aversion can also be attributed to extenuating circumstances. An example of this can be eating a rotten apple. Eating the apple then immediately throwing up. Now it is hard to even near an apple without feeling sick. Conditioned taste aversion can also come about by the mere associations of two stimuli. Eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but also have the flu. Eating the sandwich makes one feel nauseous, so one throws up, now one cannot smell peanut butter without feeling queasy. Though eating the sandwich does not cause one to through up, they are still linked.\n",
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"text": "Sour and salt tastes can be pleasant in small quantities, but in larger quantities become more and more unpleasant to taste. For sour taste this is presumably because the sour taste can signal under-ripe fruit, rotten meat, and other spoiled foods, which can be dangerous to the body because of bacteria which grow in such media. Additionally, sour taste signals acids, which can cause serious tissue damage.\n",
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How do we know Proxima Centauri is the closest star?
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"answer": "The 4th closest star-system (excluding the sun) was found recently in April 2014. It's a brown dwarf at a distance of 7.3 ly (compared to Proxima centauri at 4.3 ly). It's debated if it's an actual star or a rogue planet though. \n\nIt was found going through data collected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, data which is [available online](_URL_1_). \n\nSome more info:\n\n_URL_3_\n\n_URL_0_\n\n_URL_2_",
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"answer": "We don't know for sure. Proxima Centauri is the closest known star.\n\nIf there were even a very dim red dwarf star closer than Proxima we probably (but not certainly) would know about it by now, so it's not very likely. A cool brown dwarf within that distance could have easily escaped detection though.",
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"text": "to the Union Observatory, which Innes used in the discovery of Proxima Centauri. In 1915, he found a faint star fairly close to and sharing the same large proper motion with Alpha Centauri, which until then was believed to be the closest star system to the Sun. Innes believed, on rather slim evidence, that it was closer than Alpha and in 1917 named it Proxima. He was not able to measure its distance accurately with his 9-inch refractor or the short focus Franklin-Adams astrograph. The definitive distance was measured by Harold Lee Alden at the Yale observatory station in Johannesburg which was equipped with a long focus camera designed for stellar parallax work. Alden’s more precise measurements confirmed Proxima to be the closest star to the sun. No closer star has been found to date.\n",
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How acceptable was it to support the IRA in America around 1981?
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why do we continue drinking alcohol, when it continually causes problems for everyone?
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"answer": "Prohibition caused even more problems so they had to give the booze back. Meanwhile, special interests have been pressuring the government to control alternative intoxicants to protect their various interests for about a century which has led to so many other prohibitions. A lot of these other substances have smaller fan bases, thus making it difficult to reverse existing bans. Drug prohibition has led to much greater problems than that of alcohol and will likely be reformed soon.",
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"answer": "Alcohol isn't ignored. In fact we made it illegal for more than a decade. In the thirteen years of prohibition the crime rate rose to a point where law enforcement couldn't get a handle on it. The vast majority of people who drink do so responsibly. Most people have a drink or two and rarely cross the line into drunkenness. Others, the minority, drink specifically to get drunk and it's these you see causing problems. \n\n",
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"answer": "Because alcohol as been a staple of existence since we can remember. It makes us feel good, it makes us feel something, and goddamnit, it makes us feel good. Bad aspects aside, when it's used responsibly it does a more wholesome job of altering our present state for people to widely accept its use as a social lubricant and coping mechanism than other recreational drugs in a wide forum due to how it's firmly established in our existence. Personally, I do not wholly agree, but at the same time, there is a reason I enjoy myself a beer when I finish up my day.",
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- how doomed are we in america with the sequestration thing?
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"answer": "Well its almost certainty happening. However the country isn't doomed. Most of the effects wont be felt for another month and the places that do feel them will be very specific.",
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"answer": "$85,000,000,000 of $3,800,000,000,000\n\nTake 9 zeros from both sides, it's like you've got $3800 to spend and someone steals $85, and the thief promises not to steal money for food or rent. It might inconvenience you, but it probably won't kill you.\n\n",
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1i5h3z
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why some foods completely unrelated to animals contain fat (olives, nuts, avocado), please.
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"answer": "Fat is used by plant to store energy. Nuts have fat so the plant inside has energy to grow a stem and leafs. Once the plant has leafs it can produce it's own energy.",
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what are some scientific explanations for well known cases of 'supernatural' phenomena?
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"text": "Supernatural Thrillers was an American horror fiction comic book published by Marvel Comics in the 1970s that adapted classic stories of that genre, including works by Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells, before becoming a vehicle for a supernatural action series starring an original character, the Living Mummy.\n",
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why current religious freedom laws are considered so objectionable.
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how is it ok for the usa to try to force other nations to denuclearize even though we maintain a nuclear arsenal that is capable of destroying the world.
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what on earth is wwe wrestling about
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"answer": "Hey... uh... you know all those movies and TV shows you watch? They're not real either. You still watch those despite knowing it's acting, don't you?",
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"answer": "Its a performance. This of it like a play. The characters play archetypal roles of bad guy, hero, newbie, jerk boss etc. Notice they talk more than athletes do and the fights last odd amounts of time. Think of it as a play. Hopefully your favorite will not turn bad this week.",
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Why did 4 year liberal arts educations become popular in the United States?
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why can't i goto a doctor 2x a year and just get screened for every disease and eliminate the risk of cancer/etc?
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why do you get really thirsty after eating chocolate/sweets?
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"answer": "I believe it has to do with your blood sugar being elevated. One way your body eliminates excess sugar is through urine. Diabetics experince polydipsia-increased/insatiable thirst when their sugars rise very high.",
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As an enthusiast of astrophysics, and one who is out of the loop, I would love to know about quantum fluctuations.
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If you were locked up and only had access to 1 litre of water, how should you comsume it in order to survive the longest?
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a bill was passed to remove internet privacy regulations today , what does that mean really ?
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"answer": "My take on it would be to eliminate piracy, no more GBA Roms and free e-books for me. Some could say it's for the protection against terrorists but really, the TSA hasn't done anything and neither will monitoring 5 million people named Mohammad.",
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"answer": "Basically, now American ISPs can sell the data they collect from you to advertisers without your permission.",
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"answer": "But doesn't this really just put things back to how they were prior to the October FCC decision? I'm very confused about this and haven't found anyone that will actually explain how my life is going to change due to this ruling today.",
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"answer": "Are VPNs an effective workaround?",
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"answer": "Does this affect people outside of the US using websites based in the US?",
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"text": "This case established the right to privacy of internet users and guaranteed the protection of basic rights while on the internet. It was established that the government does not have oversight or authority over the internet and thus cannot necessarily make mandates for it.\n",
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"text": "On March 7, 2017, Flake introduced a bill to eliminate FCC Internet privacy rules that were passed under President Barack Obama. His proposed bill would allow Internet service providers to share and sell consumers' browsing history without consent. In regards to Obama's FCC Internet Privacy rules, Flake stated that \"It is unnecessary, confusing and adds yet another innovation-stifling regulation to the Internet.\" Flake received $22,700 in donations from paid lobbyists representing Internet service providers and tech firms to sponsor the anti-privacy legislation. In April 2017, the legislation passed both houses of Congress, which are Republican-controlled, allowing ISPs to sell consumer browsing history and other information without the user's consent. One constituent at a town-hall meeting told Flake that \"You sold my privacy up the river.\"\n",
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"text": "The law was criticized for encroaching on personal freedoms and liberties, in particular, accessing phone and Internet data without a signed warrant from a judicial authority. \"Internet surveillance has now escaped from any legal proceedings to be placed under the direct control of the state,\" criticized \"Le Monde.\"\n",
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"text": "Senators John Kerry and John McCain announced a bipartisan Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights, the United States' \"first comprehensive privacy law\", during a press conference on April 12, 2011. The purpose of this bill, which prescribed consumer privacy rights, was to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals. It mandated that websites collecting user information:\n",
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11qakd
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why are some classical compositions titled like standard songs (moonlight sonata) and some are... not (overture no. 2 in b minor)
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"text": "Sonatas, duos and fantasies by Franz Schubert include all works for solo piano by Franz Schubert, except separate dances. They also include a number of works for two players: piano four hands, or piano and a string instrument (violin, arpeggione).\n",
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"text": "Note that in Schubert's lifetime \"Fantasie\" (Fantasy) and \"Sonate\" (Sonata) had a somewhat overlapping meaning: by convention the \"Wanderer Fantasy\" was never numbered as a sonata, while , first published as a Fantasie, always was.\n",
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"text": "Among Schubert's symphonies there are several sketches for a symphony in D major. In the first edition of the Deutsch catalogue, these were grouped under , apart from the early . Apart from the completed Third Symphony, D 200, there appear to be at least four independent sets of sketches for a symphonic work in that key:\n",
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"text": "Schubert's three last sonatas have many structural features in common. D. 958 can be considered the odd one of the group, with several differences from the remarkably similar structure of D. 959 and D. 960. First, it is in a minor key, and this is the primary departure that determines its other differences from its companions. Accordingly, the major/minor scheme is alternated, with main material being minor, and digressions and the slow movement set in the major. Its opening Allegro is considerably more concise than those of the other two sonatas and does not make use of the expansive time-dilating modulatory quasi-development passages that so strongly characterize the other two opening movements. Furthermore, its slow movement follows an ABABA form instead of the ABA form of the other two sonatas. Its third movement, instead of a scherzo, is a slightly less lively, more subdued minuet. Finally, the finale is in a sonata form rather than rondo-sonata form. \n",
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"text": "The sonatas have been performed and recorded by numerous pianists. Many, especially the devoted Schubert performers, have recorded the entire sonata trilogy (and often all of Schubert's sonatas or his entire piano repertoire altogether). Others have sufficed with only one or two of the sonatas. Of the three sonatas, the last (in B) is the most famous and most often recorded. The following is an incomplete list of pianists who have made notable commercial recordings of the sonata trilogy, in full or in part:\n",
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For Americans in WWII, did your geographic location determine which front you were sent to? For example, were Californians sent to the Pacific while New Yorkers sent to Europe?
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"answer": "No, perhaps to our detriment. In the German army of the same time, men in an individual infantry division were drawn from the same military area (wehrkreis). There were something like twenty of these in Germany, so they would be quite small areas. Think: recruiting men from greater Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, etc. This system may have broken down at some point during the war, but that was the ideal. The US Army dispersed draftees and wartime enlisted among units without any geographical basis. This, along with the combat replacement system, may have led to the bewilderment and isolation of new men.",
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"text": "Following the outbreak of the Pacific War, the War Department demanded that all enemy nationals and Japanese American citizens be removed from war zones on the West Coast. The question became how to imprison the estimated 120,000 people of Japanese and American citizenship living in California. On February 11, 1942 Roosevelt met with Secretary of War Stimson, who persuaded him to approve an immediate forced evacuation. Roosevelt looked at the secret evidence available to him: the Japanese in the Philippines had collaborated with the Japanese invasion troops; the Japanese in California had been strong supporters of Japan in the war against China. There was evidence of espionage compiled by code-breakers that decrypted messages to Japan from agents in North America and Hawaii before and after Pearl Harbor. These MAGIC cables were kept secret from all but those with the highest clearance, such as Roosevelt, lest the Japanese discover the decryption and change their code. On February 19, 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which ordered Secretary of War, and military commanders to designate military areas \"from which any or all persons may be excluded.\" Roosevelt released the imprisoned Japanese in 1944. On February 1, 1943, when activating the 442nd Regimental Combat Team—a unit composed mostly of American citizens of Japanese descent living in Hawaii, he said, \"No loyal citizen of the United States should be denied the democratic right to exercise the responsibilities of his citizenship, regardless of his ancestry. The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.\"\n",
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"text": "Taking a southerly route to avoid the Japanese Navy, they arrived in southern Australia at Port Adelaide on 14 May 1942, having traveled in 23 days. They were the first American division in World War II to be moved in a single convoy from the United States to the front lines.\n",
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"text": "By May 1944, 1.5 million American troops had arrived in the United Kingdom. Most were housed in temporary camps in the south-west of England, ready to move across the Channel to the western section of the landing zone. British and Canadian troops were billeted in accommodation further east, spread from Southampton to Newhaven, and even on the east coast for men who would be coming across in later waves. A complex system called Movement Control assured that the men and vehicles left on schedule from twenty departure points. Some men had to board their craft nearly a week before departure. The ships met at a rendezvous point (nicknamed \"Piccadilly Circus\") south-east of the Isle of Wight to assemble into convoys to cross the Channel. Minesweepers began clearing lanes on the evening of 5 June, and a thousand bombers left before dawn to attack the coastal defences. Some 1,200 aircraft departed England just before midnight to transport three airborne divisions to their drop zones behind enemy lines several hours before the beach landings. The American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were assigned objectives on the Cotentin Peninsula west of Utah. The British 6th Airborne Division was assigned to capture intact the bridges over the Caen Canal and River Orne. The Free French 4th SAS battalion of 538 men was assigned objectives in Brittany (Operation Dingson, Operation Samwest). Some 132,000 men were transported by sea on D-Day, and a further 24,000 came by air. Preliminary naval bombardment commenced at 05:45 and continued until 06:25 from five battleships, twenty cruisers, sixty-five destroyers, and two monitors. Infantry began arriving on the beaches at around 06:30.\n",
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What did happen to the Lincoln Battalion survivors when they came back home in 1939?
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Carroll, however, writes as both a scholar and as someone who has long been intimately involved in the commemoration of the American volunteers, and writes with barely-concealed disdain and fury regarding how they were treated by the government as so-called 'premature anti-fascists'. He may well be right to do so, but is to my mind a little too willing to take their version of their treatment during the Second World War at face value. Not that I think that Lincoln veterans were lying, but rather that they naturally had limited insight into how they were being discriminated against. I also suspect - and this reflects my own research in a British context - that there is an important question of source representation here. Simply put, the Lincoln veterans whose discrimination is best-known and whose stories appear most prominently in Carroll's account tend to be those who were heavily involved with the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB), and tended in turn to also be heavily involved in the Communist Party of the USA. In other words, it can be difficult to disentangle the discrimination faced by Spanish veterans with the discrimination faced by prominent communists.\n\nThe other side of the literature has its own problems. Carroll's narrative has been challenged particularly by John Haynes and Harvey Klehr, two more conservative scholars of American communism. They attacked the 'premature anti-fascist' narrative in a very literal sense - they question the origins of the phrase, arguing that rather than being a label used by the government to identify and discriminate against Lincoln veterans, it was made up by them in the 1940s as an ironic label and as a way of securing sympathy, noting that no official documents actually using the phrase in this period have ever been found. The whole thing was a ruse, according to Klehr and Haynes, to disguise the fact that between 1939 and 1941, the communist-aligned Lincoln veterans had changed tack in line with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and opposed US involvement in the Second World War, a position they equate to pro-fascism.\n\nAs noted subsequently by Carroll, the lack of documents bearing the phrase is not conclusive proof (most military personnel records were lost due to a fire in the 1970s, and the FBI and other intelligence agencies aren't exactly forthcoming with releasing these kinds of documents). However, his own rejoinder - based on some scattered allusions to the term made by sympathetic politicians and veterans in 1945 - is hardly all that convincing either. \n\nThis historiographical diversion aside, how did the discrimination actually work? Owing to the lack of records it's hard to say for certain, but like any large organisation, the military is concerned with human resources, and keeps tabs on its members. NCOs and commanders could be notified of any 'problem' soldiers under their command, and could restrict their duties and opportunities accordingly - either willingly, or as ordered to. They might not be trusted, for instance, to receive certain types of training (one reported being refused radio training, for instance) or the opportunity for promotion or field service. They might even be rejected for service or not drafted in the first place. Naturally, of course, bureaucracy is fallible - plenty of Lincoln veterans fell through the cracks and served in any number of capacities, or managed to pull strings to get reassigned where they wanted to be.\n\nHow far this made sense is an inherently subjective question. The whole 'premature anti-fascist' label became popular as it seemed to epitomise the ridiculousness of not trusting the group of people who had shown the greatest desire to confront fascism before the war. However, reality is, as ever, somewhat more complicated. Most Lincoln veterans were members of the CPUSA, who up until mid-1941, were officially against the war effort (though individual veterans naturally had their own, widely-varying views). There was a not-unreasonable suspicion that communists in the military would try to sabotage or subvert their units, or carry out espionage for the Soviet Union. Even after 1941, where communists became very keen on fighting fascism again, there was a lingering suspicion of their motives, and the institutions involved - the military and the FBI in particular - hardly needed much encouragement to view communists and communist sympathisers with suspicion. While there may have been some rational basis for the original suspicion, that it lasted so long is testament to the ingrained anti-communist cultures of certain American government agencies.\n\nInterestingly, one area where this didn't apply was in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the agency that would later become the CIA. Its founder, William Donovan, sought out Lincoln veterans with experience of guerrilla campaigns in Spain, to act as both agents and trainers, proving crucial in setting up the OSS's guerrilla warfare school. Not only were these veterans some of the only people in America with recent experience of irregular warfare, many were European immigrants who spoke relevant languages, making them ideal for the role. Moreover, as Spanish veterans were often very prominent in resistance movements in occupied Europe, their time in Spain made for some useful connections, particularly in North Africa, Italy and Yugoslavia. While those recruited by the OSS were only ever a tiny minority of the Lincoln veterans, their skills and knowledge were certainly appreciated in this context at least.",
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What causes sunscreen to lose potency over time after application?
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"answer": "It has always been my understanding that over time it is washed off or worn away by water/sweat/rubbing (like wiping your eyes to get water off takes a little sunscreen with it).\nMy dad (the protective doctor) has always recommended re application every 3-4 hours if you are just outdoors and every 2 hours when swimming. Also allow 15 minutes for sunscreen to dry before swimming (duh). ",
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"answer": "On /r/skincareaddiction, I read that the skin absorbs some of the sunscreen over time, so it's no longer a barrier on the surface of the skin. Apparently that's why some powder SPFs are recommended instead.",
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"text": "Since sunscreen absorbs ultraviolet light and prevents it from reaching the skin, it will prevent tanning. It has been reported that sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 8 based on the UVB spectrum can decrease vitamin D synthetic capacity by 95 percent, whereas sunscreen with an SPF of 15 can reduce synthetic capacity by 98 percent.\n",
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how do astronauts travel between the earth and the iss?
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Artisans in the early middle ages
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what happens to old crinkly dollar bills?
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"text": "After his wife's death, Juettner had limited financial means. In 1938, Juettner began using ten to twelve homemade counterfeited bills a week in select stores in the neighborhoods of Manhattan. Over the following ten years, Juettner continued to use his counterfeited bills sparingly, never repeating storefronts or tenders. The bills were always poorly made on cheap paper and included details such as Washington being spelled \"Wasihngton.\"\n",
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"text": "A Ghanaian native caught perpetrating the scam revealed to ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross the tricks of the trade. Authentic hundred US dollar bills are coated with a protective layer of glue, and then dipped into a solution of tincture of iodine. The bill, when dried, looks and feels like black sugar paper. The mass of notes are real sugar paper; when the victim picks a \"note\" for cleaning, it is switched with the iodine coated note. The \"magic cleaning solution\" is actually crushed Vitamin C tablets dissolved in water. In another arrest, ordinary raspberry drink mix was found to be the \"magic cleaning solution\".\n",
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"text": "The media reported various complaints about the banknotes, including that new banknotes stuck together, some vending machines did not recognize or accept them, and that they may melt when exposed to high heat. An individual will be reimbursed for a damaged banknote only if the banknote's serial number is known. A report by the Calgary Herald based on an informal survey it conducted in 2013 stated that Calgarians complained about the \"same old faces, and the same old colours\".\n",
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"text": "He became impossible to track down, since the bills were low profile and were used so rarely in new places each time. In 1948, the counterfeiting came to an end. After a fire in his apartment building, Juettner decided to throw out his destroyed counterfeiting materials into the street. Once snowfall came, the materials were effectively hidden. Later on, a group of children found several of Juettner's $1 bills and took them to their parents. The parents subsequently reported the found bills to the Secret Service. Upon arrival to his apartment, the old man was arrested.\n",
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"text": "A series of counterfeit United States dollar bills have been traced to an unlikely source – the Reverend Joseph Shepherd, vicar at the rural St David's Church. WIN's suspicions are raised, and in the days leading up to Christmas Professor McClaine, Sam Loover and Joe 90 are dispatched to the neighbouring village to investigate. Equipped with the brain pattern of a World Bank vice president, Joe determines that the bills were printed within the last two weeks, even though the last official printing was 17 years ago and the plates were subsequently destroyed in a fire. The trio decide to confront the Reverend, who appears to be half-deaf, at his vicarage. There, the suspect amazes the WIN agents by identifying the make of Loover's gun based on nothing more than the click of its safety catch.\n",
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why do companies like verizon work so hard to limit customers internet usage?
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"answer": "Money. They don’t want to invest in infrastructure so they throttle customers to save costs.",
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"answer": "To reduce there cost and income and incrase profit.\n\nData usage in mobile networks cost money. It is not the cost to send the data as the only cost then is a small around of electricity usage. The cost is to have enough capacity. A cell tower like any other communications system have a max bandwidth So if many people use more data the max capacity is reached and you need to build add more cell towers to give the users the ability to use the network. So it cost a lot of money to increase the amount of data the network can transmit. So if you reduce data usage you can have more customers in the same network and the result in higher profit.\n\nThe other part is they like to sell more expensive contract. So even if the network is not congested if you can get people to pay more you get higher profit.\n\nYou have to compare both parts with the risk of consumers moving to another cell phone provides so increased price or reduce data can result in that you loose more customers and the result is a decreased profit so what operators do depend a lot of the competition on the market.\n",
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"answer": "There are a few ways to answer this.\n\nIn the USA, the system and laws are set up a certain way. Basically, they only have so much bandwidth to go around, and they've found they make more money by telling people it's unlimited then throttling later, rather than giving an accurate assessment of how much you get. So that's what they do. By throttling, they can provide a higher average speed to everyone (who isn't getting throttled), and charge extra to people who are getting throttled. \n\nIt's basically just a way of getting the most money possible out of a finite resource, and continues to be true if we're on 1mb/s connections or 1gb/s connections. The system is set up in such a way that allows them to do it, and they make more money that way, so they do it.\n\nTo put it another way, the system is set up such that the more they screw people over, the better their company does.\n\nIn the UK, ISP's have hard, enforced limits on truth in advertising and aren't allowed to do such things, so they don't. They tried to get around it by selling \"Up to 50mb/s\", but that was recently outlawed as well, so what you see is what you get. Also the UK has a higher population density and laws again monopolies in utilities, so they have to compete against other companies.\n\nThey still try to screw people over, but the law limits the number of ways they can do that, and limits the rewards. This makes a strategy of complete screwing over less profitable, and in some cases it even provides less added value than the goodwill of acting in good faith. But that's another story.\n\nI'm simplifying here, and there are other differences besides between the countries. But the basic rule is, if a situation is set up which incentivises a certain action in a global economy, companies will take that action. ",
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"answer": "Imagine you are a cell phone network provider.\n\nYou have a number of towers to service a number of customers. These towers cost money. They are assets that depreciate, they have equipment that needs maintenance, they require electricity and the upstream bandwidth needs to be paid for as well. Additionally, the FCC in the USA leases bandwidth out to network providers in an auction process, so you've paid in advance for that bit of spectrum you're going to use as well. You also have sales, general and admin costs, like any other company.\n\nThis asset of a network costs money to run, so it is your job as a cell provider to extract the maximum value from your customers for your whole network. (That's capitalism.) This is why cell providers charge extra for services like picture messaging (in the UK at least, almost everyone probably uses Whatsapp or other services nowadays.) They know the few customers still using those services will pay extra to have that.\n\nIf you have only so many customers in a given area and if all of them started using 1TB per month you'd have to install many more cell towers and bid for more bandwidth to make this viable. As a result, you'd have to charge a lot more money per customer.",
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"answer": "I know the reason, but wouldn't it be wonderful if you still got a few MB/s even when you go over, and then they start the Chinese water toture of kilobytes after you double your \"data cap\" on your UNLIMITED FUCKING PLAN?!",
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"answer": "Its called a contention ratio. \nThe idea is that the customer wont use 100% of their pipe 100% of the time.\n\nSo the pipe serving your area/telco isnt customer pipe x customer number, its customer pipe x customer -50% or whatever ratio they can get away with.",
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"answer": "I switched to T-Mobile over 55 plan in March, and immediately both my phone and my daughter's got 100% locked out of youtube, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix.\n\nEverything else works great (Pandora, Amazon Music, Spotify).\n\nEven when you got _URL_0_, it doesn't load.\n\n(and I am getting creeped out that most of the times I have posted this, I get downvotes making me think T-Mobile has people monitoring Reddit, but obviously not sure about that)\n\n\n** EDIT ** \n\n1) For those who have said that I should contact them -- > I have contacted them. I spent hours in April, gave up then this week I started again and have been on the phone for hours. They are going to call me again on Monday. \n\n2) For those who said their T-Mobile works fine, so did mine, it was amazingly good until the instant I switched to the 55 plan. Then all of a sudden both my phone AND my daughter's phone lost Youtube, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video (amazon music streams great btw)\n\n\n\nMore detail: The original call was a farce. \n\n1) Switch out the SIM card. Okay, really? Both my daughter and I lost Youtube the instant we switched. It works on Wifi. In the history of SIM cards has there ever been one single instance where the SIM card was corrupt causing just 3 APPs to not work, and on two separate phones on the same plan at the same time?\n\n2) Reinstall youtube. Really? It works amazingly well on Wifi, AND I can't even reach _URL_0_ in any of the browsers on my phone. Doesn't sound like the APP is the problem.\n\n\n",
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"answer": "If you control the supply you can charge what you want - I.e debeers have loads of diamonds but only release minute amounts so they can charge more",
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"answer": "What's the average limit on broadband plans in the USA? I mean, the one you can afford if you're a student or just started to live there with an average job, how much data can you afford? \n\nEDIT: Are the mobile data plans different or bundled with broadband? If different, how much mobile data can you get on average? ",
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"answer": "Not sure if it's like this in America, but in my country the internet service providers have to essentially lease the amount of bandwidth they will use from the government controlled infrastructure. So they want to limit customers so they don't have to buy more bandwidth. But it's not a huge issue here, really. I have the fastest internet in my country, and unlimited, and some months I have used a lot and never had any issues. They used to say they'd throttle it during the prime times, but they never do - I think that's just a precaution.\n\n & #x200B;\n\nI am not sure, with how the communications companies split America and don't really compete, whether the infrastructure is owned by the companies or the government. So maybe this comment is pointless.",
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"answer": "Why should I pay the same as someone who watches netflix every day?",
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"answer": "People are forgetting Verizon and other larger cell companies sell celltower usage to smaller companies and prepaid services.\n\nSo not only are they saving costs, they're generating more revenue to allow other smaller companies piggy-back off their towers where the smaller company has no coverage.",
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the difference between shifting gears on an automatic and on a manual. bonus: how does it relate to bicycle gears?
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"answer": "Transmissions, manual or automatic are made up of a bunch different gears of varying size, hence the gears on the bike. These gears change in order to play with circular motion. Pretend you have a stick in your hand and you are swinging it in a circle. The part closest to the middle of the rotation (where your hand is) moves much slower than the end of the stick. The end of the stick covers more distance over the same amount of time as the middle. Velocity = distance/time.\n\nThe engine of a car can only rotate so fast for so long without damaging the parts. The least amount of resistance for the engine (or you on a bicycle) is on the lowest gear. In the lowest gear you can pedal as hard as you can and you will hardly move, by shifting up a gear you change the sprockets and create a different gear ratio. By making the gears become smaller and smaller as you up shift, it requires less speed and force in order to produce the same amount of rotation. Low gears are for low speeds and high gears for high speeds. For instance, starting from a stand still while your bike is in a very high gear is almost impossible. It requires much more force to get up to speed. In a car it is the same. If you have an automatic transmission, this isn't really a problem, but with a manual transmission starting from a standstill into anything after second gear requires more force.\n\nThe numbers on an automatic transmission (i.e. 4/3/2/1) simply limit the gears to which your car will shift. If you are at a standstill and you have the shifter at 1, your car will not shift past one. The same is true for the other numbers. Just remember though, the number only limit up shifting, not down shifting. So if you have it in 3 and start to slow down it will automatically downshift as necessary. D simply means your car will shift to the highest possible gear (probably 5th for your car) if applicable. Some cars have as many as 8 gears.\n\nI do not feel like proof reading this so ignore any grammatical errors.",
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when watching a live sports broadcast, why does radio tend to deliver audio feeds a few seconds before transmitted via television? why are they not equally quick?
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If I have a direct line of light to a galaxy that is on the edge of our observable universe, what would I see as time progresses?
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how can a 64-bit minecraft world seed create an infinite world?
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"answer": "Although as others have said the Minecraft world isnt actually infinite, there isnt actually anything stopping it from being in regards to the seed at least.\n\nA random seed is only the \"starting point\" for a random number generator, once you've started it you can get as many pseudo-random numbers as you want out of it.\n\nThe only limitation the 64 bit seed is that there are only 2^64 different possible sequences of those random numbers (and thus only 2^64 different possible minecraft worlds.)",
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"answer": "its not infinite, its bounded by the hardware capabilities. The world has a rule based on the seed, this rule will generate new areas of the world as you attempt to explore them, this simply reduces the cost of starting a new world, so that you dont spend all day waiting for it to create the biggest possible world it can. However, it is limited by the programs memory space, which is pretty huge but not infinite.\n\nSo lets say that you have a computer with 8 gigs of memory, which is a finite amount of memory. And you generate a minecraft world, this world will generate a small section at a time, but you play and play until you have created 8 gigs worth of world. This world might seem huge, and might seem to extend for ever, but thats just your brain being fooled, it is finite still. In fact it is exactly 8 gigs. If you attempted to expand the world further your machine would error (depending on how minecraft handles an out of memory exception, it might just keep running and have you hit a wall, idk i didnt write the program)\n\nthe issue here is that infinite has a very very specific meaning in computer science and mathematics and most people simply do not grasp it, or assume incorrectly that big = infinite",
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"answer": "its not infinite, its bounded by the hardware capabilities. The world has a rule based on the seed, this rule will generate new areas of the world as you attempt to explore them, this simply reduces the cost of starting a new world, so that you dont spend all day waiting for it to create the biggest possible world it can. However, it is limited by the programs memory space, which is pretty huge but not infinite.\n\nSo lets say that you have a computer with 8 gigs of memory, which is a finite amount of memory. And you generate a minecraft world, this world will generate a small section at a time, but you play and play until you have created 8 gigs worth of world. This world might seem huge, and might seem to extend for ever, but thats just your brain being fooled, it is finite still. In fact it is exactly 8 gigs. If you attempted to expand the world further your machine would error (depending on how minecraft handles an out of memory exception, it might just keep running and have you hit a wall, idk i didnt write the program)\n\nthe issue here is that infinite has a very very specific meaning in computer science and mathematics and most people simply do not grasp it, or assume incorrectly that big = infinite",
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"answer": "[23rd Aug 2012, from this subreddit](_URL_0_)\n\n[22nd May 2011, from TIL](_URL_1_)\n\nSame video in both",
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"answer": "I don't really understand why these prices have been set so high. $300 000 AUD for an apartment in a country where the average annual salary is $6 000? Who is deciding that that's a reasonable asking price?\n\nIt's as though they are being kept deliberately empty, but for what reason?",
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"answer": "Speculation: Preparation for if/when North Korea (China's ally) crumbles and millions and millions of refugees will need a new place to live?",
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"answer": "Chinese people have very limited options for investment and saving. They can't move their money between provinces easily, nor can they invest overseas. Not only this, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think that they have good interest rates (or any interest at all) on bank accounts.\n\nTherefore, investment in property is one of the few options left.\n\nAdditionally, this is pushed hard by the government because it grows GDP.",
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"answer": "[This 60 Minutes segment may clear things up](_URL_0_)",
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"answer": "Not sure if this is good for a five year old but tried to keep it simplistic. \n\nChina has very few markets for regular people to invest in other than the housing market. The regular people do however have lots of saved cash and are very afraid of inflation (their money will become weaker and they'll lose money in the banks) so they dont' want it all sitting in the bank. So this led to a huge investment of money into the housing market.\n\nWith this huge investment many people became VERY rich and powerful and grew to become very good freinds with government leaders. These leaders kept the housing market going and pretended not to see the housing bubble being created for a long time because everyone was making so much money. By the time they realized it was a problem it was too late and the bubble was too big to allow it to burst. \n\nTo solve this problem the government decided to slow down construction of houses, but they couldn't stop it completely or people might panic and collapse the bubble. Plus because the construction industry is so big, it helps many other industries grow as well and shutting down the construction industry would probably collapse many other markets int he country and many people would lose money and jobs. \n\nSo what can they do? They are already rebuilding many cities around the country but they needed more and fast. Why not try to recreate the success of ShenZhen! The little fishing village that was rebuilt as a giant mega city over night? What a great idea! But where? Why not in the middle of Inner Mongolia? Becuase it's a terrible location with nothing around it you say? Good point... but let's do it anyway! So they did, and there grew Ordos, the most famous of all ghost cities. It was beautiful, brand new state of the art stadiums, government buildings, five star hotels and more! It could house a million people and it was billed as one of the new up and coming cities that anyone who was intelligent must invest in, and invest they did! People bought the appartments all over the city, but they were mostly bought by people as second or third houses for investment, nto to live in. And those who did go to live there quickly found that the streets were empty and their neighbours non-existant.\n\nOrdos is the most famous of these towns but htey exist all over, often right in the middle of another city. Many people say it's Ok because houses retain their value! But unfortunately Chinese construction methods don't last very long and many of those beautiful appartments in Ordos and other places are already starting to crack. Others say it's OK because Chinese people aren't going into debt to buy these houses so it can't lead to a housing crash like the West's, and they are right, but that doesn't mean it's not dangerous as China has a great many problems in the country and one of the main thing it needs to become stable and self sufficient is to convince their people to spend more money and buy more things to keep their economy strong without the West. But it will be hard to convince they to spend more money when they are losing their life savings in a housing bubble. \n\nNow it's not all doom and gloom, the leaders and government members have come to realize just how dangerous this situation has become, they are now bringing in new laws and regulations to try and slow, and hopefully start reversing, the bubble but the rich are very powerful and have very good friends (Friendship is everything in China) and they finding ways to get around the laws through loopholes and corruption. The new leaders have promised to solve the problem and XiJinping is said to be working hard at it, so we'll see in the coming year or two if anything is actually done or if it's more empty promises while the rich flee to the West with their savings. \n\ntl;dr: No where else to put thier money, construction industry runs the country and has a lot of friends. Lastly building these cities gives lots of opportunity to pocket cash.\n\nEdit: spelling correction",
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"answer": "My question is how does a bubble burst in a state-run economy? I understand that capitalism has taken root in China, but the government is still in control. So how does the bubble burst and what would the government's reaction be? Also, can/will the government take action to keep the free-market boom-bust cycle from occurring?",
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"answer": "Kyle Bass described the Chinese economy as a bug in search of a windshield.\n",
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"answer": "I forgot they were called \"ghost cities\" but here is a really interesting piece from 60 Minutes. _URL_0_\n\nFor those that can't watch the piece right now, basically, the jist of it is: (paraphrasing) \"They are owned by China's emerging middle class now has enough money to invest, but with few ways to do it. They're not allowed to invest abroad, banks offer paltry returns, and the stock market is a roller coaster.\" ... \"So what they do, is invest in property because property prices have always gone up by more than inflation.\".. \"So people in the middle class have sunk every last penny in buying 5 even 10 apartments, which fuels a building bonanza\"\n",
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"answer": "I wonder if it has anything to do with this comment by the Chinese General in 2005: \n \n\"if the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,\" and that \"we [...] will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xi'an. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds ... of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.\" (_URL_0_) ",
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"answer": "I saw a \"ghost city\" going up in 2009 just outside of Suzhou (west of Shanghai). The whole area started with roads being built, then parks, and then buildings. Some of the roads ended abruptly where a building complex would be built in the near future. That's the way the Chinese government builds new districts - the whole thing at once. A few months after the buildings are completed, people start to move in and they are no longer \"ghost towns\". Some of my relatives and family friends moved into new districts outside of Beijing this way.\n\nSometimes the government gamble doesn't pay off (like Ordos) and the city remains empty. However, photos of Ordos on the internet are all pretty old - I wonder if it's been built up yet?",
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how could a world without money function.
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"answer": "Barter system. You'd trade things for other things. ",
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"answer": "As our economy is built? It couldn't. But you can actually see some examples for real: generally, a standardized currency falls out even when no money is imposed. For example, Diablo II had an entirely barter-based economy, but a few valuable and fungible (interchangable) items became effective currencies.",
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"answer": "Basically everyone in this thread is wrong. Don't listen to them. There have been many, many different kinds of societies without money and they have functioned many, many different ways. \n\nBarter is a spot trade of one good for another. I give you chickens, you give me a cow, and we walk away. There has never been an example of a pre-monetary society which used barter for everyday transactions in either the historical or anthropological record. It simply has never existed and there's no evidence that money emerged from this non-existent system. Barter does not lead to money.\n\nIn fact, to the extent that barter exists at all, it seems to be what happens when people who are already used to dealing with money have no access to it—as happens in prisons or POW camps. For people who have never had money before, barter only really happens between strangers (because there's really no reason for spot trades between neighbors) and is often not really a separate economic activity. Rather, barter usually takes place amid feasting, dancing, fucking, and mock-warfare (that sometimes devolves into actual warfare). \n\nAs for how non-monetary societies actually *did* function, there's really quite a range. Many societies used a system of gift-giving. If you wanted something, all you had to do was praise it. Your neighbor would simply give it to you and it would be an unspoken understanding that you'd owe them one. Usually these kinds of systems were accompanied by a hierarchy of different kinds of stuff—a cow, a canoe, or a necklace might all be roughly equal to each other but not equal to a chicken.\n\nAnother common practice was to keep everything in a common storehouse to be distributed on the authority of the village assembly, a council of women, or even the state (in the case of the Incas, a state society with no money or market).\n\nIn the 1930's, during the Spanish Civil War, the anarchists attempted to remove money from their territories as much as they could, keeping in line with their communist ethics. They did have to interact with the outside world though, so they couldn't completely abolish money. They did, however, employ aspects of both of the above-described systems as well as a form of non-circulatory vouchers and labor notes. One cool thing they did was federate the gifting process upwards, having whole communes grant goods to communes which were less well-off.\n\nThere have been so many other ways that non-monetary societies have functioned that it would take an anthropologist to do it justice. [Here's a video of one](_URL_0_). [And in print](_URL_1_).",
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what are the main reasons for most of the worlds population (non british colonised countries) wanting to learn english?
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"answer": "I think what OP means how it become a global language. Not why people wanting to learn it today because thats pretty obvious (mentioned in other comments).\n\nMean reasons are that the British Empire expanded a large portion of the world. Basically they were everywhere. America for example, a lot of people migrated there and there were many languages. Eventually English became dominant and the main language (forced by a ban on other languages).\n\nSome parts of the world the British Empire was mainly there for trade and not many people settled. Like Asia the language did not stuck.\n",
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"answer": "People yearn for poetry and literature - we consume stories and narratives avidly (think if only of the billions of value that Hollywood and TV and book publishers are worth).\n\nAnd thus it is natural that people will seek the richer sources of stories and narratives. English is one of the richest such seams of all - from Homer and Chaucer to Shakespeare - even to the modern day with JK Rowling and Jon Grisham.\n\nAnd thus learning English to access such treasures is indeed a viable and worth goal of many a person across the globe.",
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why does my apple iphone require that i have at least 4.5 gb of storage available in order to update?
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How do you calculate the amount of rocket fuel needed for a specific weight?
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"text": "where g is the gravity constant of the planet (which is Earth in most cases). This also enables the volume of storage required for the fuel to be calculated if the density of the fuel is known, which is almost always the case when designing the rocket stage. The volume is yielded when dividing the mass of the propellant by its density. Asides from the fuel required, the mass of the rocket structure itself must also be determined, which requires taking into account the mass of the required thrusters, electronics, instruments, power equipment, etc. These are known quantities for typical off the shelf hardware that should be considered in the mid to late stages of the design, but for preliminary and conceptual design, a simpler approach can be taken. Assuming one engine for a rocket stage provides all of the total impulse for that particular segment, a mass fraction can be used to determine the mass of the system. The mass of the stage transfer hardware such as initiators and safe-and-arm devices are very small by comparison and can be considered negligible. \n",
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"text": "For modern day solid rocket motors, it is a safe and reasonable assumption to say that 91 to 94 percent of the total mass is fuel. It is also important to note there is a small percentage of \"residual\" propellant that will be left stuck and unusable inside the tank, and should also be taken into consideration when determining amount of fuel for the rocket. A common initial estimate for this residual propellant is five percent. With this ratio and the mass of the propellant calculated, the mass of the empty rocket weight can be determined. \n",
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"text": "TSFC or SFC for thrust engines (e.g. turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, rocket engines, etc.) is the mass of fuel needed to provide the net thrust for a given period e.g. lb/(h·lbf) (pounds of fuel per hour-pound of thrust) or g/(s·kN) (grams of fuel per second-kilonewton). Mass of fuel is used, rather than volume (gallons or litres) for the fuel measure, since it is independent of temperature.\n",
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"text": "Where formula_25 is the mass of the oxidizer and formula_26 is the mass of the fuel. This mixture ratio not only governs the size of each tank, but also the specific impulse of the rocket. Determining the ideal mixture ratio is a balance of compromises between various aspects of the rocket being designed, and can vary depending on the type of fuel and oxidizer combination being used. For example, a mixture ratio of a bipropellant could be adjusted such that it may not have the optimal specific impulse, but will result in fuel tanks of equal size. This would yield simpler and cheaper manufacturing, packing, configuring, and integrating of the fuel systems with the rest of the rocket, and can become a benefit that could outweigh the drawbacks of a less efficient specific impulse rating. But suppose the defining constraint for the launch system is volume, and a low density fuel is required such as hydrogen. This example would be solved by using an oxidizer-rich mixture ratio, reducing efficiency and specific impulse rating, but will meet a smaller tank volume requirement.\n",
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"text": "For example, if an aircraft is flying at a weight of 5,000 kg and the weight of fuel on board is 500 kg, the ZFW is 4,500 kg. Some time later, after 100 kg of fuel has been used, the total weight of the airplane is 4,900 kg, the weight of fuel is 400 kg, and the ZFW is unchanged at 4,500 kg.\n",
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Why does hot water rapidly cool when poured into a glass that contains salt?
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"text": "Glass reacts slowly with aqueous sodium hydroxide solutions at ambient temperatures to form soluble silicates. Because of this, glass joints and stopcocks exposed to sodium hydroxide have a tendency to \"freeze\". Flasks and glass-lined chemical reactors are damaged by long exposure to hot sodium hydroxide, which also frosts the glass. Sodium hydroxide does not attack iron at room temperatures, since iron does not have amphoteric properties (i.e., it only dissolves in acid, not base). \n",
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Did the British paratroopers use a different helmet than regular infantry during WWII?
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At the beginning of WWI, why was the German army so much more professional/organized/effective than the French or English armies?
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This culminates in 1.6 million soldiers of the west army -- almost 1000 infantry battalions -- rolling across the Rhine River at the rate of 560 trains of 54 cars per day. Another form of the swiftness of the mobilization was the public support. Abysmally small numbers of men dodged conscription. I do not have precise numbers for the Germans in front of me but for the French the number was 1.2% of the 1914 conscripts failed to report for duty. That gives you an idea of what I mean by \"abysmally small\". It went so well that Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg was allowed to shelve multiple plans to arrest unpatriotic dissenters, mostly Socialists. The Social Democrat Party, one of the major anti-war parties in Germany, even voted to give large amounts of funds to the mobilization effort.\n\nThis is a bit of a loaded question though. It tries to paint that the Germans were inherently superior to the French (who I'll be focusing on particularly) during the onset of the war which is patently false. The Germans fell into the same trap as the French, believing that infantry were the primary fighting force still. Charles Repington of *The Times of London* in October 1911 said after watching German military maneuvers that *\"No other modern army displays such profound contempt for the effect of modern fire.\"*^[1].\n\nAnother glaring area of neglect was modern communications. This is something I really want to emphasize here -- the Germans had nothing short of contempt for electronic communication. During their tenures and even during the war for the latter Schlieffen and Moltke alike were content to deliver orders manually via horseback. On the outset of the war the Germans only had a planned 40 telephone companies but most were still being created so their reserve of 21,000 carrier pigeons were used in their stead. Yes, on a modern battlefield.\n\nWhere the German success' come is not in an inherent German advantage but an inherent French disadvantage -- the cult of the offensive as it is commonly called. For example, in December 1913 regulations it said *\"The artillery does not prepare attacks, it supports them.\"*^[2] Less mobile artillery was thrown out for things like the 75mm rapid firing field gun which was used because it could keep up with rapid infantry maneuvers. I do not think I can stress enough about the French's war plan of offensive first before anything else. It was ingrained in their military doctrine and as we'll see later it costs them dearly. \n\nThis was born out of General Joffre's vow to never allow the French army to be encircled and destroyed as it was in the Franco-Prussian war just decades earlier which allowed the formation of Germany. *\"The French Army, returning to its traditions,\"* he wrote in the aforementioned regulations, *\"accepts no law in the conduct of operations other than the offensive.\"*^[3] Few officers appreciated the gravity of the situation that the 120 75mm guns in the French arsenal might get outmached in an all out offensive slugfest against the Germans armed with 108 77mm guns, 36 105mm guns, and 16 150mm guns.\n\nA few days after the declaration of war, the French attacked the city of Bonneau in the Alsace-Lorraine region -- their shared border with Germany. On the 9th of August the counter attack from the Germans commenced. The orderly, shoulder to shoulder advance quickly fell into absolute chaos. Fighting ensued in a heavily wooded vineyard and fighting was close quarters. Heat and exhaustion were primary combatants. Men were dropped off in roadside ditches. Men fought in building to building fighting and many companies fired off over 15,000 rounds blindly and friendly fire among the Germans and French alike was rampant. Night warfare was something very new but something that would become very prevalent in this upcoming war. \n\nThe Germans, who were unique in that they used their reserve troops on the front lines, sent their troops in against the French at the Rhone-Rhine Canal. The French unloaded on the Baden Landwehr (reserves/militia, basically) with machine guns. Retreating got so bad that Major Otto Teschner only stemmed the tide by threatening to shoot deserters on sight. From this point on the Germans would also face a familiar foe -- francs-tiereurs. Regular people with hunting rifles firing on the Germans from concealed positions, and it ravaged them. To the point where the Germans were going around burning down villages, executing civilians, and holding priests hostage.\n\nThe German early war was one plagued with incompetence. The Southern forces on the shared border with France and Germany near Alsace-Lorraine served one purpose -- defense. They were to hold the French in place while the Hammer swung down through Belgium and surrounded the French. That was their job. Well, Von Moltke the Younger would learn that the strategy of allowing a loose command structure became less plausible on the modern field with hundreds of thousands of men over a multiple hundred kilometer wide front. \n\nGeneral Krafft and Crown Prince Rupprecht, the leaders of the Southern forces, were insistent on taking matters into their own hands. They intentionally retreated onto German territory to goad the French into a pocket and try and encircle them. When it did not work they told the central command, *\"One either lets me do as I want or one gives me concrete orders\"* in regards to their request for a direct offensive into French territory. What's even worse is that not only did they do this with their own men, the campaigns in Belgium were going so well Von Moltke even diverted troops down to the Crown Prince to assist his offensive which would only bleed and distort the German plan even more. They would be later explicitly blamed with taking Bavarian noble interests over the interests of the German people as a whole and those accusations would not be far from the truth.\n\nTheir attack disintegrated into a mess almost immediately. Although they routed the French back to their defensive fortifications at Nancy, the attack was still a blunder of epic proportions. Low level guerrilla warfare by francs-tieruers dominated German morale. Hills and vineyards and hills and fallen trees became holes for marksmen to pick off hundreds of Germans. Paul Pouradier of the 58th RID infantry brigade describes the chaos: *\"The wagons bump each other and collide. Shafts splinter. Horses spook and collapse. Oaths and agitated cries ring out into the arkness. One artillery piece even falls into the stream alongside the road. Suddenly, shots rang out. Now, the disaster is complete. Whoever has a rifle or can lay their hands on one begins to shoot about wildly.\"*^[4] It took several hours to restore order.\n\nSo basically, the Germans weren't any more inherently organized or professional than the French. Sure they were drilled and marched in lockstep but at the end of the day everyone was taken by surprise by the devastation of the First World War. The French charged into artillery with their smaller, maneuverable cannons and cavalry thinking maneuver warfare was still the key and the Germans marched shoulder to shoulder in line formation into French machine guns at Morhang-Saar, Luneville, and the Siege of Liege. \n\nWere they more organized? Well that argument can certainly be made for the *mobilization and deployment*, in the execution and the combat itself I don't think that would be a fair generalization to make. Unfortunately, for both the Germans and your claim that they were 'more effective', when you plan everything down to the minute when anything goes awry things get thrown into quite the mess right away. Fortunately for the Germans, the French were even more disillusioned about warfare because of men like Joffre and also charged headfirst into artillery and machine guns and completely ignored the idea of a German invasion through Belgium until it was too late. \n\nBy the time the Germans had rolled over Belgium and were tearing apart Northern France and Joffre realized that the German attack would not be coming through the center it was too late and the French would be forced to retreat until they reached a collection of rivers that would empty into a larger river named the Marne where they would dig in, fortify, and beat the Germans back and send the war into what we now know as \"trench warfare\".\n\n**tl;dr:** \n\nThe reasons for German effectiveness in the war was the French insistent on maneuver warfare gave them a significant disadvantage in the artillery department which would come to dominate the war. Joffre's obsession with the cult of the offensive sent the French into unnecessary meatgrinders, weakening them with their already significantly lesser manpower reserves and perhaps most importantly the General Staff's refusal to take any action against the German advance in Belgium until it was far too late.\n\nThe German being more 'professional' and organized was born out of the Schlieffen and later Schlieffen-Moltke plan which called for a rapid defeat of the French combined with Schlieffen and Moltke's obsessive attention to detail. Other than that however I do think it's unfair to classify the Germans as somehow inherently more organized, professional, or efficient than the French. \n\nIt was the Germans who sent wave after wave of Landewr militia troops against French machine guns. It was the Germans, never the French or Belgians, who responded to defeat by burning entire villages and punishing guerrilla's by slaughtering and deporting thousands of French civilians and committed what is now known as the \"Rape of Belgium.\" (for very good reasons) They were not robots of professionalism. They were human beings just like you and me and they acted on emotion and fear and anger once the bullets started flying.\n\n--------\n\nNotes:\n\n[1] Hew Strachan, *The First World War*, p.239\n\n[2] Robert Doughty, *Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War* p. 27\n\n[3] *Ibid* p.26\n\n[4] Deuringer, *Die Schlact in Lothringen*, p. 544\n\nEverything else: Holger Herwig, *The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World* and the aforementioned Robert Doughty, *The Pyrrhic Victory*.\n",
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Why was Nestorianism so readily accepted by Churches in the East, yet rejected to the West?
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What was Nazi Art and Architecture like in the 1930's?
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it's so dark near pluto, how was new horizons able to take a picture?
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Had a question in Physics class; I got one answer, teacher got another. Can someone explain where I am wrong?
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Are battle depictions of one or two extremely skilled swordsmen that kill dozens of men, while thousands of poorly trained infantrymen that usually die true?
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"answer": "There is the tale of a single Norse warrior at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 who stood alone on a bridge across the river and defended it against the entire Saxon force. \n\nThe bridge was narrow so one imagines only one Saxon could fight him at any time. Some sources claim he killed 40 Saxons before one enterprising warrior floated underneath and dispatched him with a spear rammed up through his groin. \n\nThis story is mentioned only in Scandinavian sources, and not in the English and may be more legend than fact. But it is possible that it is based in truth.",
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"answer": "A lot of this is going back to earlier ideals of heroic combat. Whether or not it actually ever existed in practice, the idea of picked individuals battling for the honor of their respective armies/kings/states what have you was very much remembered. So even though Medieval warfare is really a team sport, being about 90% raiding and besieging strongpoints, 10% fighting in close formations, you still see picked champions dueling each other before the start of battles as late as the High Middle Ages.\n\nThen you have the whole other issue of some men seemingly being more able to kill at will. It's quite muddled up - a fellow named S.L.A. Marshall did a study on it, interviewing combat veterans in WWII and Korea, but he kept no documentation and his findings can't be confirmed. The study reports that only about 15% of any body of (modern) fighting men actively try to kill their enemies, but this is very disputed, as we're basically relying on the (deceased) author's word.",
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"answer": "Skill and armor can only get you so far. An army depends on the cohesion of its units and their resolve. A single highly skilled warrior could do well in battle if he fights with a strong and well-organized army at his side. Battles are chaos, it's impossible to cover every angle and depending on the location in which you are fighting it could be very easy to lose you footing. A could example of this was during the 100 year war between France and England when the long bow was first introduced. The French got slaughtered partially because of the superiority of the long bow over the French crossbow but also due to the muddy terrain that tripped the soldiers and made it difficult to reload. However take a case like the battle off Thermopylae where you have a bottleneck situation and it one with skill could definitely shine ( perhaps the Thermopylae is a bad example considering the Greeks were slaughtered but in a case where the armies are more evenly sized such a situation could potentially allow for such heroics).\n\n",
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"answer": "I asked a [similar question recently here](_URL_0_) concerning martial skill in combat; I do not wish to hamper further discussion, but I wanted to share some of the excellent answers already received.",
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why do i never have to poop when i'm on vacation or camping, but as soon as i come home, i'm taking the biggest shit of my life within minutes?
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"answer": "I'm no poop expert but I think it's a territorial thing. Think about our evolutionary ancestors. They were comfortable and safe pooping in familiar territory. If they were on a hunt for a Wooly Mammoth or something, the act of pooping would put them in a vulnerable position.",
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"answer": "I have never had this happen to me. I guess I just poop where I want",
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"answer": "You're not alone, my friend. I'm really regular at home, but as soon as I step over the border to another country, BAM, backed up. \n\nIt's an actual thing, though, just google \"safe-toilet syndrome\":\n\n1. Your body is missing the comfort and the privacy of the toilet at home\n2. You're probably drinking less since you're on the move and know that you won't be able to find a toilet every hour when you're for example on a city trip\n3. You're probably eating different stuff your insides are not used to, maybe less fibre, too\n\nTake all these things together, aaand there you go (not).",
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"answer": "HSA - Home Shitter Advantage. It's an inherited survival trait. ",
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"answer": "Id imagine being at home has a lot of \"triggers\" that lead to your body saying this is an OK time to poop. Kind of like as soon as you get in the shower your body seems to think its time to pee?\n\nPersonally, I have to poop before I go anywhere for an extended duration, and as soon as I am back. But anywhere inbetween? Never have to poop (or even feel the urge)",
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"answer": "Oh, this is the worst :( In the beginning of a new relationship I spent 5 days at her house (long distance relationship). I went poop camel. Vacation with my friends for a week? Poop camel. Pooping in peace is a beautiful thing. ",
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"answer": "I don't trust people who poop in public. Just smacks of poor planning.",
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"answer": "One factor: Change is stressful, and stress will cause a sympathetic response in your autonomic nervous system, which will inhibit your gastric motility. When you get home, you can finally relax. Most people know that sympathetic stimulation = fight or flight, but they forget that parasympathetic stimulation = rest and digest.",
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"answer": "Vet student here.\n\nThis phenomenon has to do the activation of the sympathetic nervous system.\n\nWhen you're in a new place, with different/new people, even if the environment is supposed to be relaxing, you're a little more physiologically on-edge. Your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) is running a little higher than normal.\n\nIn order to get that poop out, your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) needs to get cranking. But for your parasympathetic nervous system to ramp up, you need to calm down. As soon as you get home, back into familiar surroundings with familiar people, your parasympathetic nervous system turns on, and you drop the kids off at the pool.\n\nIf you're on vacation for a looong time, you might even turn a corner, get used to the people you're with and the new environment, and be able to let your guard down enough to have that poop.",
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"answer": "In high school I went on an ROTC weekend field training. Last shit I tooks was on a thursday night. Then next one was the following sunday night. I chalk it up to youth and health. Something like that would kill me now. \n \nI noticed new muscles emerge on my forehead and browline . Must have coincided with one of those critical periods of teen years when hormones kick in to overdrive. ",
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2qyjw0
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how can people lose consciousness when a cabin or area depressurizes? can't you hold your breath for several minutes if you need to?
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"answer": "You can hold your breath in normal air pressure, but not really in low pressure environments.",
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what is light, wavelengths, and how do we see colour?
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"answer": "The eye contains cells called \"rods\" and \"cones\" that sense certain wavelengths of light. The brain interprets those signals as color, depending on the wavelength determines what color you see...\n\nAn interesting thing is the colors Pink/Maroon in that area don't actually exist in nature. they are a combination of multiple wavelengths that your brain interprets as pink/maroon. if you look at a rainbow/prism you will see there is no pink....",
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"answer": "Light is basically a packet of energy in the form of vibrating particles, not dissimilar to sound waves. It can oscillate at different frequencies however, which are inversely proportional (if one increases, the other decreases and vice versa) to wavelengths. The wavelength is how far along the wave travels in one oscillation. The light hits the eye and the different frequencies are converted to electrical signals which the brain interprets into an image.\n\nThis is a pretty rough explanation but I'm happy (to try ) to go into more detail if you need.",
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"text": "Humans are able to see an array of colours because light in the visible spectrum is made up of different wavelengths (from 380 to 760 nm). Our ability to see in colour is due to three different cone cells in the retina, containing three different photopigments. The three cones are each specialized to best pick up a certain wavelength (420, 530 and 560 nm or roughly the colours blue, green and red). The brain is able to distinguish the wavelength and colour in the field of vision by figuring out which cone has been stimulated. The physical dimensions of colour include wavelength, intensity and purity while the related perceptual dimensions include hue, brightness and saturation.\n",
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