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The dataset generation failed because of a cast error
Error code: DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception: DatasetGenerationCastError
Message: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 new columns ({'subreddit'})
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/manu/eli5_authorship_attribution/500char_filtered_subreddits_large.csv (at revision 5f99e62715ebd9c1abfd00774376ade1076018d0)
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1870, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 622, in write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2292, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2240, in cast_table_to_schema
raise CastError(
datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
Unnamed: 0: int64
user: string
text: string
subreddit: string
id: string
-- schema metadata --
pandas: '{"index_columns": [{"kind": "range", "name": null, "start": 0, "' + 818
to
{'Unnamed: 0': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'user': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'text': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'id': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}
because column names don't match
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1417, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1049, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 924, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1000, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1741, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1872, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 new columns ({'subreddit'})
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/manu/eli5_authorship_attribution/500char_filtered_subreddits_large.csv (at revision 5f99e62715ebd9c1abfd00774376ade1076018d0)
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)Need help to make the dataset viewer work? Make sure to review how to configure the dataset viewer, and open a discussion for direct support.
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0 | ---CitationNeeded--- | So let's say that you want to buy a candy bar, but you don't have the money for it. So you go to the bank and ask to borrow a dollar for it. The bank agrees and gives you an interest rate at 2%. So you get your candy bar today and the bank gets $1.02 tomorrow. Everyone is happy. Now you may be able to pay the bank back for the candy bar every time, but let's say that 1 out of 100 people can't pay the bank back. That means that the money the bank invested in these people is gone, the bank loses it. So this Loss is made up for (and more) by all the interest collected from all the other people. Now let's say that the people who are taking out loans for candy bars are all young people that have never taken loans for candy bars before, and let's say that candy bars have become much more expensive. That means that it's more likely that more people will be unable to pay the bank back. Because of this the bank has to charge a higher interest rate to everyone in order to make up for the higher number of people who won't be able to pay them. Does that make sense? Anticipation. Conscious or unconscious, on the weekends you are looking forward to your day much more than when you have work. Because of this, you are much more alert and willing to get up in the morning. That, and anyone who has that much money liquidated and ready to spend doesn't need to win the lottery. Tall people can bend over. Short people can't become taller. Two very simple reasons. First off, our eyes need light to function. Without light we can't see. Second, take your finger and hold it about a centimeter from one of your eyes. Try to focus on it. Chances are, you can't, because our eyes aren't meant to be able to see at that close range. Your eyelids are even closer. Did that help? If it was safe there would be no point in doing it. It's an evolutionary thing. What if every time you saw a piece of poop, it made you hungry? You would be much more likely to eat poop. And people who eat poop tend to get diseases and die. So we're programmed to be disgusted by it. It's the same reason why people like unhealthy food. We're biologically programmed to go for the more calorically dense food because it would keep us alive. You asked a lot of questions here. For starters, I agree that the system is too soft, but remember, the cardinal rule of our judicial system is that the burden of proof rests on the accuser. Typically murders get shorter sentences or get off entirely because the prosecution could not present enough credible evidence. As for rape, it is by nature an incredibly hard crime to prove. We cannot just | e1a8c9d3-9f3d-4a4d-81ec-a90215c021af |
1 | ---CitationNeeded--- | Upstart gaming companies don't have the budget or the people to do so. Because your pain receptors are highly concentrated there, since it's an important part of your body. More pain receptors = more pain. Someone did it first. If you changed it now, it would feel unnatural to gamers and they wouldn't like it. So let's say that I am heterozygous for legs. This means that I have 2 genes (one from each parent). 1 gene says that I should have legs, and 1 is broken and would mean that I have no legs. So let's say this particular gene is haplosufficient. That's very fortunate for me because it means that I only need 1 working legs gene to have 2 working legs. That's basically how dominant genes work. Was that helpful? Follow up questions are welcome! There's no real answer to that, it's just how the culture developed. Typically the body tries pretty damn hard to fight it, but there's only so much you can do. As to why it's irreversible, cells, particularly brain cells, require *lots* of energy to function. Take away the energy, and the cells die. When they die, they begin to decompose, and that can't easily be fixed. This is why time is so critical when performing CPR. The sooner you can get the brain cells more energy, the better chance the victim has. Like anything else, it wears out. After constant use, the mechanical parts begin to not work as well. If the fan quits on you, it's likely to overheat, causing more damage. Ok so it's really complicated but here goes. First off EV's EV's or effort values are modifiers that increase a Pokemon's stats. They are gained after beating a pokemon that gives those EV's (for instances a machop gives 2 attack EV's) but a much simpler explanation is the power training game. That game gives you EV's, and you can max the EV's out for a pokemon on it which will translate into somewhat boosted stats. IV's are somewhat different and are static for each pokemon. Every pokemon has a number for each of the different stats ranging from 1 to 32. A Pokemon with a stat of 1 in attack for instance, will have a much lower attack, where as a Pokemon with an IV of 32, will have the highest possible attack. IV's can be passed from pokemon to pokemon through breeding, so the goal is to breed pokemon with perfect IVs until you get one with all or almost all perfect IVs, which will then have much more potential to be good. Any questions? You aren't asking a question. You're trying make a point. And a broken one at that. Just being accused of rape can ruin a mans life. Even if he's innocent, he will never regain the respect of the people he loves. Where as women can rape men and have it declared that the guy was just 'lucky'. Oh look! Ad hominem! Well, I'm | 17807058-7647-458f-972b-e3b89c9b9954 |
2 | --geode | By then, "we" won't be around, because whatever is living on this planet, even if descended from us, won't be "human" in any real sense of the word. Because evolution. I don't know how grocery store OJ is economically viable but I will tell you that the fresh-squeezed OJ you get at a cafe or health food store is economically viable because it is as expensive as fuck. The reason you're not getting a straight answer is that the real answer is "no one cares." The architects and contractors and structural engineers have a job to do, they rate everything to a certain life span, make sure it's safe according to some minimum standard set by law, do their job, and gtfo. The first owner of the building knows they will sell it before its ever even close to the point of being beyond repair, so they don't care either. Most famous skyscrapers from even the early days of building skyscrapers are still standing if they haven't been torn down, so the public hasn't made some sort of outcry against old skyscrapers falling down on them, because it hasn't really happened yet. Nobody cares because it's capitalism. The goal is to make a buck and pass on the problem to the next person. You're looking at it like cities are some sort of utopian place where people actually think about the future and where things are going to be in 100 years. That's not how it works. It's a bunch of independent corporations and individuals each trying to maximize their own profits. I'm almost 100% positive that bars in NYC will hire some equivalent of atmosphere models. I have frequently been at a bar on a slow night where there's almost no real customers and there's just a couple of hot ladies hanging around basically doing nothing, chatting to the bartenders. It's hard to explain, but they just give off a vibe that they aren't there to have fun drinking -- they're there because they have to be. This is really obvious at Karaoke bars because these women are also good singers and they'll periodically belt a song out perfectly as if it's the 80th time they've done it... because it probably is! CRTs are analog! Digital technology like LCDs requires taking something that is intrinsically analog (light), and quantizing/encoding it into pixels. That is not something that was really possible until computers were a thing. It might be hard to imagine a world before pixels, but CRTs don't have them -- it's a continuous beam of visual information that represents exactly what the camera saw, just as the squiggles in the groove of a record player are an exact physical representation of the sound wave it's supposed to generate when you play it. Wait, not all planets have plate tectonics? Why not? There are lots of other music apps you can use on an iPhone. For example, there Google Play Music for iPhone: Edit: Sorry, I'm not an iPhone | bee046b2-c37b-4212-b234-a60e2b7101c8 |
3 | --geode | This could not be more wrong. The opposite is actually true. A pitched tone you hear is made up of the fundamental frequency (which is the actual pitch you hear) and its harmonics (which contribute to the richness and timbre of the sound, I.e. more "information"). Harmonics are always higher frequencies than the fundamental because they are multiples of the fundamental. Every pitch has an infinite series of harmonics but the human ear can only hear those harmonics up to about 20khz. So as the fundamental gets higher, fewer and fewer harmonics are within the audible range. This is why low notes sound very different depending on what instrument you are playing, but really really high notes start sounding more and more similar... a bassoon sounds very different from a cello but the highest note on a violin and the highest note on piccolo sound more similar to each other (though still not identical because neither is even close to 20khz) Edit: just to clarify there are also non-harmonic overtones or "noise" components of the signal... but with a pitched instrument they are a small component of the sound otherwise it would be a percussion/drumlike sound with no distinguishable pitch Hi, I studied physics-based computer animation in grad school. Walking is actually an incredibly complex process that involves multiple components working together: a rigid jointed frame (the skeleton), large irregular elastic masses attached to the frame with differing levels of elasticity (differing according to a nonlinear gradient - when you walk your flabby stomach jiggles more than the tip of your nose). To animate all this realistically you'd have to create a jointed skeleton, do all all the inverse kinematics calculations etc, and simulate the motion of the stuff attached to the skeleton (your body and finally clothes). Good game engines do some of this in that they have skeletons/rigs to attach character models to. But full physics simulations on every part of the body -- in real time -- would be necessary to get a sense of total realism, where a 150 pound character taking a step looks like a 150 pound character taking a step. I'm pretty sure even the best game engines can't do all that in real time. In lieu of that full simulation, talented animators do their best to make animations that look as close as possible. But there will always be edge cases (like stairs) and any type of animated movement that doesn't have a full simulation will have an unreal "floaty" quality. I've noticed that Google Play seems to have pretty official lyrics on their site. Maybe they have a copyright deal? You mean it's not "Hold me closer, Tony Danza?" Yes I guess that makes sense. Though being that the Google Play lyrics are the first thing I see when I google "lyrics to X" I'm surprised I'm not seeing it mentioned anywhere here. Some capacitors can hold charge for a long time. I've been told capacitors in guitar amplifiers can hold | 8020575a-11e6-4f88-a85c-dfe8f43f9498 |
4 | --geode | What will happen when we have the technology to graft two different partially damaged brains together into one working brain? That's an AMA I would want to see... "Yeah we were two people and now we're one person. It's not as confusing as you think, basically we respond to both names. John sees colors differently now and Mary can speak French..." Fun fact, this allowed bach to write a piece where the main notes in the theme spell out his name (B - A - C - H). C is the language that the others are based on. It was invented by the same people at Bell Labs who invented the Unix operating system. When it was invented, it introduced some sophisticated (at the time) ways to deal with data. Unlike its predecessor, which was (you guessed it) called B, it had "data types". So, for example, the language would treat numeric data differently than a piece of text. Also, you could take a set of related pieces of data and put them together into something called a "struct." For example, let's say you're writing a game -- the "soldier" struct might have "name" (a piece of text), "rank" (another piece of text), and "serial number" (a number). Structs were data types too, so you could put a struct inside another struct! This turned out to be a pretty powerful idea, and the people who invented C turned around and rewrote all of Unix in C because it was so powerful. Most operating systems are still written in C today -- it's a great tool for that purpose. Okay, so Object Oriented Programming (or "OO") is this idea that when you create a new data type (i.e. struct), you should also stick the code related to that struct basically in the same place. So if you have some code that needs to tell one of these "soldiers" to do things (from the above example), all the things that a solider can do (march, fight, etc) are all wrapped up in the struct too -- you don't have to go trying to find them. OO people call this a "class" rather than a struct. Lots of people wanted to bring classes to C. C++ and Objective C are two languages, developed at more or less the same time, that were separate attempts to do this. Because they were developed separately, they have slightly different ways of doing Object Oriented programming. Yes -- it's annoying, but it's how things evolved. C++ was also developed at Bell Labs, and attempted to fix lots of other miscellaneous problems with C. It was MUCH more popular than Objective C, until recently, when Apple came to the forefront -- because Apple uses Objective C, people have to learn it now. Though I think Apple is now finally phasing it out. Even though you didn't mention it, at this point it's important to mention Java, because it's very closely related to the C family of languages. One | 2fa58422-382b-4d57-8c4a-fb2621e1b055 |
5 | --lolwutroflwaffle-- | Hmmm. I also noticed that some of the comments are intact with only the username being deleted. If I understand it correctly, if you delete your account, only the username on the comments are deleted. But, I'm most likely wrong. Leeching = Downloading Seeding = Uploading It will "seed" indefinitely as long as the torrent is active, or unless you explicitly tell it *not* to seed. I seed to a ratio of at least 2:1 and then deactivate (stop) the torrent. If you don't mind explaining, what happened when you plugged in the wrong 4-pin? I build computers and have never ran into this before. I don't know about you, but I like to keep my public hair as *private* as possible. The more I see things like this, the more I'm convinced we're just organic computers. But being "locked on" doesn't necessarily mean you're dead, right? Quite a few games use the same technique mentioned by /. In fact, most open-world games do it. Personally, it's kind of an eyesore when it's noticeable. In a way, breaking the suspension of disbelief. That's not to say loading screens don't do it as well, but seeing things like that during gameplay is a bit distracting. The term for these musically-induced chills is "Frisson." From reading about it a while back, it's said to be due to the anticipation of hearing a familiar pleasing sound/melody. [Here's a study which goes into much more detail about Frissons and what causes them.]() As much as I like a good pun thread, this isn't really the place. Plus, it kind of sucked. Well then. CodeMeter and iLok2 must be some truly beast protection systems. Both have yet to be cracked. In the case of CodeMeter, there have been multiple competitions held by Wibu-Systems which offered sums of money to anyone who succeeded in cracking the protection. I believe they were given 2 weeks (maybe longer) and had free-reign to do whatever they needed to get the job done. It has yet to be broken. Edit: [Check this out.]() What's wrong with defending yourself? Seven Lions does it to me, too. The most compelling argument I've read about this (Frisson in music) is that it's the *anticipation* of a certain pleasing, chill-inducing melody/rhythm/sound. You virtually never get those chills your first time hearing it. I've personally conducted my own study regarding the supposed anticipation theory and find it to be very, very accurate. I created a playlist with chill-inducing music and the chills start just before the actual piece plays and throughout every single time. It's actually pretty complicated from song to song. Some songs create intense chills, others only slight. So, in my own studies, that theory is most likely correct. EDIT: [Look at this](). It's not where I got the information, but after skimming a bit, it may suffice. EDIT 2: To give some examples of some music that gives me chills: [Devin Townsend Project - Grace]() [Devin Townsend Project - Kingdom]() These are | a2293c9c-86b3-4f39-99f0-3a06dfd2e6f8 |
6 | --lolwutroflwaffle-- | If you haven't found it yet, [here is a 1+ hour Seven Lions only mix]() that you can put on repeat forever, like I do. It has almost all of his songs I think. That is downright creepy. Why is that even....a thing? Check out [isolation tanks.]() Total sensory deprivation. Basically: * No sound (completely sealed sound-proof tank) * No sight (again, completely sealed with no lights) * No taste * No feeling (you are literally "suspended in space" via salt water floatation) * No smelling It was called [Scarred]((TV_series\)), and "that one lame dude" was Jocoby Shaddix from Papa Roach. > A second important aspect of hash functions is that they are designed to be hard to invert. This means that you can't easily go back to the input value when you only know the hash. Pardon my silly question as I may be reading this wrong due to my 37 hours of non-sleep, but are you saying that, hypothetically speaking, if I were to take a directory with tons of different files/file types inside (for argument's sake, lets say the Visual Studio directory,) zip them up, and then somehow reverse the hash, I'd (potentially) get out exactly what was put in? The full zip with an intact directory included? I almost feel like a complete dolt for asking this, but again, I'm tired. I highly, highly recommend [this guide to the history and evolution of EDM](). It shows each genres' evolution (with sub-genres,) what year they became known, and a description with music examples to go along. EDIT: Details. ***DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility from the misuse of software and the resulting damage which may occur. You do this at your own risk.*** ___ Since no one is giving you details on *how* to do this... You want something called a "Mass Production Tool" (super secret software.) [Here are some images of what to expect.](;num=100&client=firefox-a&hs=RJR&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=rcs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=8qk5VKa6Nc-MyASm-YHgAQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw&biw=1280&bih=904) Yes, "Mass Production Tools" are the software they use in the factory connected to devices called "duplicators" which look something like [this.]() Here's the steps you need to take: 1. Download [Chip Genius](). It's safe. (Run it sandboxed if you're worried). There are a number of alternatives to Chip Genius which can be found [here](;sl=ru&tl=en&). Although I've never used them, Chip Genius is updated fairly regularly. 2. Select your device from the list at the top. In fact, run Chip Genius first, *then* insert your device. Chip Genius should automatically select it for you. 3. Take note of the 4-digit VID and PID numbers next to "USB Device ID" in the bottom section towards the middle. [Screenshot for reference (UPDATED)]() using my 4GB SanDisk CRUZER. **EDIT:** Being that there are so. many. tools... You need to search very deeply using not only the VID and PID numbers, but also the "Controller Part-Number" value as well (highlighted in updated screenshot above.) When I search that string, I'm taken to [this page](;tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&;edit-text=&act=url) where he explains that I need a package called "TRANSCEND-SM32X-PV1.1.32-BY-TAGARAZ-N0419". Searching Google for | 515c8e22-b0ea-4286-b044-7029cb8cdd2b |
7 | -10- | I don't know that I can ELI5 the [UCC Article 4A]() but I'll make one observation that hopefully may help you understand: the [total amount of cash in circulation is only about $1.2 trillion dollars](). The amount of "money" that is "out there" and "in bank accounts" is much, much larger than that. Banks don't literally have vaults full of depositors' cash. It's [quite a bit more complicated than that.]() Because prosecutors and judges aren't stupid? Why is NaCl safe to eat but Na and Cl are not by themselves? >Do you buy toast at the grocery store too? []() I'm an attorney in a very rural area. I have to travel across 9 counties which means 18 trial-level courts with the way our system is set up. I have seen and heard announcements like you describe, but in some situations, the judge just walks out of chambers to the bench, the court reporter is already there, nobody says anything. If anybody is standing, the judge just says "please be seated." Then he sort of squints at the day's docket and says "Do I have anybody here for Johnson v. Smith?" Then I say yes, I'm Firstname Lastname on behalf of Johnson. Then the other side yes, I'm Smith or I'm Other Lawyer on behalf of Smith. Then the judge says something like "OK, why don't you come on up" if both sides aren't already in motion. You'd be surprised how many times I see people without attorneys just kind of sit there until the judge says that. Then the judge says "Ok, we're on the record now, this is CI 13-123, Johnson v. Smith, the time is blah blah blah. Johnson appears with his attorney firstname lastname, smith also appears..." I think sometimes they really don't even say "court is now in session" just "we're on the record." >The reason that you can hear a high and low tone at the same time is that the waves can add on to each other without interfering with each other. Except when the high and low tone are very close to each other that isn't quite true, right? As when you are trying to tune two strings on a stringed instrument to the same frequency. You'll hear ["beats"]() when they're close but not quite right. It can't. The only reason why you can figure out what direction a sound came from is because you have two ears. Both ears hear the same sound, but at different volumes because they are different distances away from the source of sound, and your brain figures out the direction. If you had only one ear, your ability to tell which direction sound is coming from would be greatly diminished. It pushes against the propellant spewing out its backside. Family law attorney here. Can you narrow your question a little bit? It's like asking someone to "ELI5: Physics." "A man who spends most of his time doing things that give him pleasure" "A man who pursues | 9a185cdb-4f3a-41fa-91a3-4d8001d29e4b |
8 | -123 | What about when you get a concussion and then you black out? If the Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be in motion with the Earth's original 1100 mile per hour rotation speed at the equator. All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock. This means rocks, topsoil, trees, buildings, your pet dog, and so on, would be swept away into the atmosphere. What causes the blood to be like this? ^just ^asking... What would qualify as an "altered state"? I'm pretty sure these "laws" are human ways of defining the world around us and have been made to help us understand the universe as it is. If the universe developed differently, then we would have different "laws" to govern that universe. The pain from a headache comes from the meninges that surround the brain like plastic wrap. Your meninges are innervated somatically just like other parts of your body that feel pain. When there's pressure on your meninges, you get a headache. When you're dehydrated and hungover, you get a headache because the lack of fluid surrounding your brain makes the meninges pull since your brain has shrunk slightly. This causes the pain. Your heart is surrounded by pericardium which is innervated similarly to the meninges. You feel referred pain in a heart attack in your shoulder, not your chest. That's because the same nerves (cervical nerves 3,4 and 5) innervate your shoulder (specifically 3 and 4). Most of the pain signals coming from those levels are from your shoulder, because you get hit in the shoulder way more often than you have a heart attack. Your brain assumes that this is the case during a heart attack and refers the pain to your shoulder along with your chest. Your brain isn't what's hurting. It's the meninges that surround your brain. They respond to pressure or other sensations. Headaches are generally from increased pressure that pulls on or compresses your meninges. Your meninges are innervated by branches of the same nerves that innervate most of your face and scalp. These nerves can localize where pain is coming from on different parts of your meninges just like they do on your skin. When you see people awake during brain surgery it's because they've numbed the meninges and pulled them back away from the brain. Since your actual brain doesn't have pain receptors, they can do surgery without you feeling anything. >E is for explain. This is for concepts you'd like to understand better; not for simple one word answers, walkthroughs, or personal problems. Read the rules. IF confused, check [THIS]() graph. You can't split it 0 times. It's physically impossible. Also, there's a difference between infinity and undefined. Undefined means that there is no value to assign, and infinity is a CONCEPT, not a number, that is REALLY big. Babies are tiny. They have to be tiny for a few reasons. First, their heads have to fit through the birth canal, | 19ce0913-0d6c-45c6-81cc-b673ba05a3af |
9 | -1KingKRool- | Then you didn’t eat it. No harm no foul. Sounds like they wouldn't be if it couldn't be proved that they knew about it. Can confirm. Went on a picnic with my ten-thousand dollar bill, used it as a blanket. I mean, most any retail store will do that. It’s faster for auditing the registers. >not a real threat. Speak for yourself bub. This would make fights more entertaining though. “And they’re lining up for another pass, and here they come. WOW! What a thunderous jab delivered by the defenseman! You could see his opponent tried to land his blow, but he had his course off ever so slightly. And here they circle the ends to line up for another joust.” Mostly unrelated, I’m still ticked that it’s taking so long for GPUs to go back down. I’m pretty sure mining became non-viable unless you have an insanely optimized rig over 6 months ago, yet they continue to truck along at the high end of the spectrum. Here’s my best stab at it for caffeine. It’s kind of like if a kid is riding his bike ten miles to school every day. Say it takes him sixty minutes to ride there every day. One day, he discovers that there’s a school bus which runs right by his house and straight to school after it stops at his house. He rides the bus instead. What took him sixty minutes to achieve before now only takes him a little over fifteen minutes. Now that it only takes fifteen minutes, he starts planning for only that long to get to school. He gets accustomed to riding the bus, which becomes his new equivalent of the bike. Then one day the bus doesn’t show up. He has to ride his bike instead, which takes four times as long. He shows up late. He has to go back to leaving for school earlier to make it in time. The bike is normal functions, and the bus is the caffeine. Your body doesn’t become *resistant* to caffeine so much as it becomes *dependent* on caffeine to do normal things at a level that fits what is normal for us (getting to school). It works similarly for other things, although some may require more effort from your body rather than less to become accustomed to. That depends. If we're talking about being raked with an LMG, I'd imagine it to be better to be hit on independent passes. If they have it concentrated on you rather than walking across the field, it should end up creeping up and spitting a few into your face (which I'd imagine would wreck your day). Compare that to sweeping around torso height and only being exposed to it for a second. I haven't personally been fired at with an LMG, but that is what I'm deducing. As far as the deflections, it wouldn't be any more likely. The plate is already shattered, and a bullet could it it half-a-second later or | 4e7fd894-de9e-42e4-b693-fdf903bbe0ac |
10 | -500- | Their revenue is 10 billion, but they profit 970 million. Not saying there is any excuse to not pay the zebras, but it does change it a little bit. Damn, Reddit is full of smart people. And I'm just sittin here watchin' transformers. ~~Dogs don't lick themselves to get clean. They lick themselves because they probably have something tasty on them or they have a sore/scratch.~~ A dog's attribute is their sense of smell. They communicate with each other through scent. They will roll in nasty smelling stuff to bring the scent back to the pack. That attribute hasn't been completely phased out since wolves were domesticated thousands of years ago. Cats don't roll in nasty things generally, and are more tidy than a dog for the most part. Though, outdoor cats smell like shit just as a dog would. OP WILL ONLY ACCEPT AN ANSWER HE FINDS ACCEPTABLE. LEGITIMACY IS IRRELEVANT. This isn't an opinion based argument, you asked for the difference between drug cartels and terrorists. We gave it to you. Did you even make an effort to comprehend people's replies? Or are you just going to be hard-nosed bias until we bend the english language to conform to what you think the definition should be? Terrorists need money, but their existence isn't defined by profit making, they are there to convince people of whatever ideology they hold dear. Cartel are "a combination of independent commercial or industrial enterprises designed to limit competition or fix prices." In this circumstance, the cartel aren't killing people to push their ideology, they are killing people to GET MORE AND MORE MONEY. If you can't comprehend this, I pity you. It's just the nature of the game. During those stoppages it may seem like nothing is happening, but in reality, the coaching staff is arranging their "chess pieces" and trying to predict what sort of defensive schemes they are going to have to penetrate in the coming play. EVERY play is important in football, generally. You're right though, there are purely commercial stoppages, but most of the time it's the teams getting their personnel in order and preparing their attack/defensive schemes. can only do so much. More often than not, players are flopping all over the field and aren't being penalized. It's just annoying and makes them look weak and dramatic. Nobody in this thread has mentioned anything about the length of the season. An NFL season has 16 games. EVERY SINGLE GAME is EXTREMELY important. Once you accrue 6+ losses your chances at a post season are dwindling. I think Americans also love the structured nature of the game and the amount of incredible strategy involved. Most of the people that arguing don't understand it at all. In their defense, the learning curve for American football is way higher than most sports...I imagine it would be tough to comprehend the game when you spent your entire life not watching it. But you're rich in love! Right? Thank you for that enlightening | 5bb12e58-dce3-4355-be29-cab2c525c65a |
11 | -500- | Because criminals and psychopaths have the guns already. Make guns illegal, and law abiding citizens will be vulnerable, because last time I checked, criminals and psychopaths don't follow the damn laws. How do YOU not understand that? Because CRIMINALS DON'T FOLLOW LAWS. What is so hard to understand about this? If you make assault rifles illegal, nothing is going to stop criminals from getting them, therefore law abiding citizens are vulnerable. Guns are here, there are more guns than people, there's no way to get rid of them. Making stupid laws is just going to make civilized people vulnerable to people who could give two fucks about 'gun bans'. A simple succinct answer. In America, you defend YOURSELF. Whether it be from home invaders or mass shooters. Some people just refuse to understand this. Half are suicides. (56%) Gang related homicides (40%) The remaining 5% are made up of lawful intervention, undetermined intent, and unintentional shootings. I don't give a shit if gang bangers shoot each other. I, personally, would like some sort of protection against that 40%, but I guess I'm just another paranoid, fat, stupid, ignorant, wasteful American. :p Edit: Source - They'd rather have the government deal with their has worked out oh so well in the past. :p My thinking is this: to be in a position to stop a shooter in a school from killing a bunch of kids, you'd need the pistol to be readily available. If a pistol is readily available, it would have to be in an unlocked safe, either loaded or with ammunition nearby. A school with little kids in the presence of a readily available firearm just doesn't make sense to me. That is the law, unless it's a long rifle, it's age 18. aaaaaaand you don't understand this subreddit, do you? Computer generated graphics (as we know them today) are made up of polygons. In the early days of CG graphics, the technology wasn't advanced enough to render that many polygons and screen resolutions were low. As technology advances, more polygons can be rendered in real time. More polygons, higher definition = more detail. Eventually, we will be able to render scenes that look indistinguishable from real life. At that point, you could say that there is no progression, as what you are seeing cannot be made to look more 'real'. As was mentioned before, expect to see more virtual reality and augmented reality, which will add to the overall realism. So really, the sky is the limit in terms of 'improving' game experiences and realism. I'll just stop saying the word from now on so you don't get offended and can live peacefully in your safe space. Dude, jokes on you, girls love the salt and pepper. I started graying at age 24 and it hasn't affected my game in the slightest. Many factors contribute to fatigue while traveling. For one, being on a plane is surprisingly loud. Which makes for a tough environment to sleep in. Along | 82db09b8-8089-48ee-be39-df50e786c838 |
12 | -888- | yeah but the 3 minutes of the single was probably driven by expected time of songs. Same as how the CD length was supposedly driven by Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I'm 80% sure that for basic cases like yours, they just use a tax program like Turbo Tax. Granted, they know their way around tht program very well and make good use of it. I think you misunderstand the stock market. EA is not faltering at all, and has a PE ratio of 72, which is pretty good. The stock is simply lower than before because speculators drove it up back in 2005. Read other answers for more details. Summary: the price of a stock doesn't indicate how well a company is doing, it indicates how much people think the company will grow in the future. I think the diversity thing is part of the bigger picture: broader education. When you live in an urban area you are exposed to many more ideas, much more discussion, are likely to be more educated, etc. FWIW, the world's best chess program,Rybka , was written by a chess Master. One of the things he used was the book How to Think Like a Grandmaster. Video games are done in 60 or more fps. Ironically, games that are 24 fps are generally considered crappy, video-wise. FYI those black light bulbs that are shaped like light bulbs aren't black lights; they are just purple lights. Real black lights are fluorescent bulbs. LEDs exist but are mediocre black lights to fluorescent bulbs. The people I know who are against it are people who have health care already and a national health care system would result in them having roughly the same care but paying more taxes. So, basically selfishness. You overestimate her supporters. They take her seriously and believe what she says. Sounds like a good name for a wifi network: "TV Detector Van" Babylon 5 is my favorite Sci Fi ever, but I wouldn't quite heap that level of praise on it. Imo this reason is overstated, and the main reason is simply that camera flashes and color conversions make people look much worse. And Aero took up a lot of memory and had a lot of graphics compatibility problems and crashes. Actually it's a great example, because its AI still sucks as much as ever. How would they specify "where to go in the music"? Edit: I'm talking about the case that they don't have sheet music. Apparently they do have it, which explains why they an easily jump to an arbitrarily numbered measure. Don't all engines that are turbocharged or supercharged need premium? Don't forget that Microsoft tried to make their own Java which they tried to extend with proprietary additions, but lost a lawsuit over it and gave it up. What in particular is wrong with Pantene? Don't forget the movie Aliens. And Star Wars Firefox puts extensions such as Flash in a separate process. It has done so for a couple years | 2a288fe5-2d9b-4639-8359-b0b004e63c6c |
13 | -Aeryn- | Transitions are slower on IPS, even on the fastest TN panels for example on vg248qe with 1ms gtg, for black to white transition it can take ~5-8ms. 120hz is ~8.34ms per refresh Like said you can OC, but it doesn't look as pretty Also IIRC.. there's picture quality losses as you increase refresh rates on pretty much all of the monitors we have. Most people buying IPS do it for color depth+reproduction, viewing angles etc - not for the stuff cheaper TN monitors are better at Yea, there are either fly eggs on it or not. They don't appear from a rift to another universe Lossless video takes way too much data to be practical right now. Even blu-rays are very heavily compressed What online game requires 15Mbits up/down? :0 Starcraft 2 only uses like 20-30 kb/s I think AMD uses the same die for fx 4xxx-8xxx (the 2-3 module CPU's are just 4 module chips with 1-2 modules disabled) - not 100% sure. Intel these days has a quad core die and a dual core die on mainstream segment and they don't mix them AFAIK It's extremely common practice. Look at GPU's for example. The same GM104 chip is sold as, in order of approximate performance: * gtx770 * gtx680 * gtx670 * gtx760 * gtx660ti all one chip just with varying parts disabled. For example, the 770/680 have all 1536 cores enabled and all of the memory bus/ROP's etc enabled. The 670 drops to 1344 cores enabled (7/8 clusters) the 760 has 1152 cores enabled (6/8 clusters). The 660ti has 1344, but some ROP's/memory bus disabled, IIRC. They just manufactured one chip and sold it as a bunch of different things depending on market demands and which parts were faulty in the chips that they could disable and still keep most of the performance/functionality. The 290 is just a 290x with some cores disabled. The gtx970 and 980 are both the same GM204 chip, but the 970 has three of the sixteen SMM (clusters of 128 cores and other resources) disabled. Pretty much EVERYONE does it because it saves a lot of money and it's a win for the seller as well as for the consumer. They need to either sell their parts that don't work 100% correctly or trash them - and people like buying something for 60% of the price that has 80% of the performance. Different technology but tl;dr: Magnets. i don't have a good enough understanding to eli5 very well Skill is a much bigger factor than balance in winning. What level do you all play at? >Sony’s reprojection software takes data from the first and second frame, and creates an average of the two, putting it in between .. >this way, 60 fps becomes smoother 120 fps .. >The main benefit of reprojection is that developers don’t have to scale down on image quality in order to hunt higher frame rates. We already know that 60 fps and 1080p is pushing what the | eea71d5b-33c3-4cf1-90e9-6218a553576a |
14 | -Axiom- | The 2nd Amendment grants American citizens the right to own firearms, it's that simple. There is an old saying, "if you're not liberal in youth you have no heart, if you're not conservative in old age you have no mind". Well the simple truth is that without the United States leading the way (and paying most of the bills) the UN wouldn't exist. Another thing, the United States has many rights for its citizens that other countries simply do not have. Are we to relinquish our rights to conform to the rest of the world? Or does the rest of the world give their people the same rights as Americans? This is a major sticking point. Discrimination against whites is not considered racism in America. It's more inflammatory to present the Martin case as a white man killing a black teen. If the story were presented as a Hispanic man killing a black teen, this doesn't fit the purpose of the media to distract people from what the banks & government are doing. Money is an abstract concept. It's (money) used to give value to resources. There are a finite amount of resources in the world but an unlimited amount of "money". Manipulation of "money" is used to control resources. Everything on the planet & the planet itself is a resource, human beings included. In short money doesn't really mean anything it's a way to control resources. I can't speak for other locals but here in Michigan many are opposed to Nestle' because they are getting their water from aquifers that feed many of the cold water trout streams in Northern Michigan. The biggest problem is that they are taking the water out of the drainage basin from which it comes, so it never returns. As a result they release a product that is buggy and unfinished. In addition, the cost of labor in America is so high that to build a house out of anything but wood costs at least 2x - 3x as much All those things you listed are charged for and listed on the bill. They charge so much for tylenol because they can, actual healthcare is a distant 2nd to making an obscene profit. No, there have been huge discoveries in Russia and even Canada. Diamonds aren't rare at all, they are rather common. Diamonds really aren't worth anything unless it's a unique one in some way, you will find this out if you ever try to sell one. In order to control a country like you stated in todays world would require the killing of far too many people to be acceptable to the Western psyche. Other metals do this also, it's the free metal ions that kill or disrupt the cells ability to divide. Germany values education, America only cares about $. Builders I have been working with have been installing cat 5/6 in new homes for over 10 yrs now. These are custom builds as opposed to entry level homes. A better | 936e7481-c57c-4557-947c-f0302807c972 |
15 | -Badger2- | BRO IT'S JUST A PRANK This guy's full of shit. I cut my nipples off all the time. Or >Direct replies to the original post (aka "top-level comments") are for serious responses only. That rule was put in place to stop people talking like "Now sweety, when you have four apples and I take away three, now you only have one!" and the stupid "Hurr, what's a five year old doing asking *that* question?" jokes. Not to discourage simple answers an actual five year old could understand. Less dimensions to worry about. > 5\. The subreddit is not targeted towards literal five year-olds. "Layman" does not mean "child," it means "normal person." Write like you're talking to a friend or colleague who you respect. I'm calling bullshit on that last part. It burns when if you pee *immediatly* after orgasm because your prostate is still trying to resist the flow of urine. If you wait a few minutes, there's no burning. I can't find anything supporting your claim. They're also sweaty as shit. Yeah, they don't use it either. Have you tried googling your problem? So, propped up a bit with cushions in a semi fowlers position? Are those studies funded by condom companies? I wouldn't say wearing a condom feels *worse*, but there's definitely a different "texture" if you will. Things definitely feel different. Goddamn this is getting old. I mean, maybe he was just smoking too much weed? Do you often find yourself floating towards the source of the smell? Except it's not even a thing. Nothing clears the sinuses like stomach acid though. What? You don't like stomach acid flavored wax? > You were already on the list, 'cause you exist Can you put that up on pastebin? Yeah, I'm not sure these examples are doing a good job explaining the reasoning behind an innate behavior. Because if most of your investigations end with "IDK," it makes you look bad. > Well I can't confirm this So don't post in this subreddit. That was just a bait comment to get you to admit it. HEY EVERYONE! THIS GUY PEE PEES HIS PANTS! I'd say a solid 80% of conspiracy theorists are just pretending for attention or because they think it's the same thing as having a personality. Gyfcat *is* videos. It's an html5 video without sound, dressed up as a gif. They load fine for me. What app are you using? To which I responded with an implicit, "I don't know why it's not working for you, but here's what's working for me" It looks like it's $64,000 now. Like 99% of flat Earthers don't actually believe it. They just pretend to because they think it makes them interesting. Like, five of them actually exist. The rest are people pretending for attention. Dude, I don't know how to tell you this, but that was just the bouncer. Except for those times we retreated. > Its not a magic pill It is when I've got a paper due | 337b2d2c-5e2e-45eb-adb6-ec92d681f6e4 |
16 | -Badger2- | This story doesn't make any sense. Who ever has leftover ribs? So I don't get pollen all over my clothes. I just replace all my punctuation with semicolons to trick people into thinking I'm smart; I feel like you just explained why things are "quieter" on airplanes without answering the question. When I was younger, maybe junior high, I got roped into watching my 3 month old niece while my sister got her hair done. SO when there i am, sitting in the waiting area of a hair salon with my niece, and who walks in, but Keanu Reeves. I was nervous as fuck, and just kept looking at him, as he read a magazine and waited, but didn't know what to say. Pretty soon though my niece started crying, and I'm trying to quiet her down because I didn't want her to bother Keanu, but she wouldn't stop. Pretty soon he gets up and walks over. He started running his hands through her hair and asking what was wrong. I replied that she was probably hungry or something. So, Keanu put down his magazine, picked up my niece and lifted his shirt. He breast fed her right there in the middle of a hair salon. Chill guy, really nice about it. Don't give me gold for copypasta. >random That's not what that means. Like most “fan theories,” it’s just propagated by people who think “theory” means the same thing as the phrase “wouldn’t it be cool if...” I mean, I think you did a good job. There’s nothing there an adult layman shouldn’t be able to understand. > How and why flesh (**muscle tissue**) of fish is so distinctly different from that of other vertebrates? Kinda seems like it is the question. I wouldn’t go that far. It’s just less malleable at lower temperatures. They switched to "BPA free" plastics when a study that claimed BPA can leach into water and basically mimic estrogen and fuck with people's hormones became popular. There's still a lot of debate as to how credible that study was. Ducks know nothing about aerodynamics, yet they’ve evolved to fly. You're right, they don't really "die". What happens is some viruses need moisture to basically keep from falling apart. > and some don’t really at all To people who are regularly around weed. People who aren’t desensitized to it can still smell that shit from around the block. > No ape could ever thread a needle. Except, you My score is still hidden to you... Well, that and they basically double as scythes to cut through all the fields they migrate through. I thought they were just so ugly the earth repels them? They can present evidence that suggests you’re not guilty *beyond a reasonable doubt* Like if you were charged with stealing a car, and you told your lawyer, “yeah, I stole that car,” he could claim a videotape of you stealing the car is too blurry to determine who the thief is, ~~or | 2ef53285-61ae-4cf9-83fe-dfd3bbe01c19 |
17 | -Dreadman23- | Only doctors and lawyers practice. Fuck dude, this is my life! You spent a decade in school and are practicing??? I mastered finger painting in pre school. What's your issue? The art of medical billing codes. Kids these days. The Romans built aqueducts that are still standing and functional. Back when we used beads on string like a primitive abacus, we still knew maths. Now we have an app for that and no idea how it could be done otherwise. Sad face. :( I was just going to say that you can ask almost any question to a librarian, and they can tell you where to find the answers. You don't hire the town drunken idiot for that, and Google often fails you. :) Librarians kick ass, and know shit, especially about books and stuff like that. Support your local library. Bees are super smart, and they needed to get maximum amount of Honey into little packages, and wanted to use all of the available space for Honey. Because (bee-cuz) they really like honey. And they really hate wasted space (that is why they sting your dumb brother). They got all the bee's best mathematicians together and calculated that a hexagon was the most efficient use of wax (wasteful use of wax makes them stingy too), and also resulted in no wasted space ( we already know how much they hate wasted space, just look at all the stings they gave your stupid brother). Since most bee's didn't know what hexagon shaped cells meant, they called it honeycomb shape. Since bees love honey more than anything, they simply LOVED the name honeycomb shaped. And decided to build everything that way. Several million years later a human was eating some honey comb and thinking about how many pencils they could fit in their pencil box (because humans love pencils the way bees love honey), the human realized that if they made the pencils honeycomb shape it would maximize the number of pencils in a pencil box, and eliminate wasted space (humans don't like your stupid brother either). Humans decided to call this hexagon shaped, so the bee's didn't get pissed off about stealing their idea. So humans have hexagon pencils , and the bee's still share honey with us. :D The term "want of sleep" is very descriptive. Everyone has a bad night of sleep, or a stressful time of not having proper sleep. When you WANT to sleep and can't, when you physically feel the NEED for sleep and can't, or your patterns of sleep are so DISRUPTIVE that it interferes with your ability to have a normal life and normal health. They call that insomnia or another sleep disorder. This is an ongoing persistent condition, that significantly impacts your well being and quality of life. It is a pretty broad category, with various levels of impairment. Sometimes having someone read you a bedtime story helps. ;) Dove soap contains moisturizer. It is actually part of their add pitch. I | e28601a2-587a-473c-a33e-d269597fe2b0 |
18 | -Gabe | Short answer, Globalization. Long answer, America reached its highest moment as a world power in 1946. Since then we've steadily declined as both our allies and our enemies have been catching up. In part, this was our long-term strategy. We turned Japan into an industrialized nation. Intertwined the Eurozone economies to prevent major western powers from fighting in the future. Ensured Iran and Russia never became close. Prevented Vietnam from closing its market's to Japan. Rebuilt South Korea into a technological hub. After the cold war, became close with former soviet states. And many many other international strategic operations. Meanwhile, technology increased, container ships emerged, and international trade and foreign direct investment flourished. Goods bought buy Americans in the 1950s and 1960s were almost exclusively produced in America. Goods bought today are made almost exclusively outside of America. So our relatively low minimum wage is indicative of the United States attempting to stay semi-competitive with many other parts of the world. You don't need a special browser to get to some parts of the "Deep Web." Every website has a file on its index directory that looks something like this.... >User-agent: * Disallow: / The above makes your website part of the deep web. Here is 's Now the Dark Net is something different then the Deep Web. For starters, the Dark Net IS part of the Deep Web, but the Deep Web doesn't necessarily have to be the Dark Net. For the Dark Net you do need a special browser because Dark Net websites use a .onion extension instead of .com, .org, etc., etc. Common core doesn't educate students, it trains citizens to think, behave, and react a certain way. It is indoctrination on a nation wide scale. Standardization and education are mutually exclusive. The data isn't actually deleted, but rather the 1s and 0s stored on your hard drive become available for rewriting and thus space is freed up on the hard drive. If you have SSD its a tiny bit different, but the overall concept is still the same. **Example: ^with ^some ^sarcasm** You're browsing / and you find a that you want to download. You right-click and save as onto your desktop. At this moment your computer is taking a picture from the internet and writing a bunch of 1s and 0s onto your hard drive. When you want to access this picture your harddrive returns these 1s and 0s so you can display/open/edit this photo. When you shamefully cum this this photo of four midgets in a chocolate factory playing sexy paintball and begin to reconsider all your life choices, you move the photo to your recycling bin and empty it. Purging your shameful shameful deed. The 1s and 0s from are still physically on your hard drive, but now your computer is telling your system that it can overwrite what was previously there since you no longer have a need for Medium and large businesses buy Watson computing capabilities... It's fairly expensive and meant | 36907621-f51e-403e-b9b0-0036b6889efd |
19 | -Gabe | Rich people give Hedge Funds money. Hedge Funds invest that money and hopefully get a huge return, give money + part of money back to rich people. And keep part of the return for themselves. Currently only NSA has the technology to unilaterally take out the internet in virtually any place. Its utilizes a massive QUANTUM attack on key routing servers and even larger end users. The idea is to disrupt internet in a certain place. The NSA has only unofficially done tests internally and Snowden claims they had their first real test of the system on Syria when the internet in Syria inexplicably went offline for a bit. Note. The Quantum attack attacks the very architecture of the internet. Even PoS systems and ATMs went down in Syria. What the NSA has created is a very dangerous weapon. Hillary Clinton's wiping of her email server data and its backups are about as innocent as Chris Christie's decision to close a few lanes on the GW Bridge. Both had non-directly linked staff do the dirty deed, but both unofficially wanted it to happen. African American is far more offensive than black. You can see their skin, you have no fucking idea if they are from Africa... Back in the early 20th century. Kids would make nicknames for each other by changing the first letter. Will -> Bill Rick -> Dick Rob -> Bob Some of this is copied from my essays... Post World War I, two trains of economic doctrine emerged (Ignore Russia for now), the first was an introspective look at economic reconstruction, the second was a collaborative economic reconstruction. Moreover, most economies were devastated after World War I. However for numerous reasons, the United States actually came out ahead and ended up as a net creditor to impoverished European nations. During this same time, New York became the global financial capital that it still is. When post-World War I sovereign debt was set in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Germany was tasked with repaying massive punitive war reparations to France and Great Britian; and France and Great Britian owed money to Private US Syndicates and the US Government. The overall result was a decision to take the first economic doctrine; each country is responsible for rebuilding itself using its own tax revenue and debt owed to it. Economist J.M. Keynes wrote what you could consider a dissenting opinion of the Paris Peace Conference called "The Economic Consequences of Peace." A very good read if you have the time: Move forward to the 1933, the United States had entered a Great Depression. I'll skip covering ALL the causes of the Great Depression, but suffice to say the pre-war gold standard, and the failing European markets were two major underlying causes. The gold standard had fallen apart and Forex markets and bond prices were swinging rapidly. A company in America couldn't sell to consumers in Europe due to such fluctuations. On top of all this, Hitler had just been | f6098bca-2006-46a2-86d5-02b32e0511f7 |
20 | -Intronaut- | It happens if we see or hear something terrible, or don't want to say something terrible, and stops us from screaming or making noise and thereby drawing attention to ourselves. This gag response is a remnant from times when danger could have been attracted by noise. For example, imagine the response of an early human to his friend being eaten by a lion. There is a real time quartz clock that oscillates with some high frequency (> 1MHz). It's accompanied with a couple of programmable counters. These counters are incremented with every tick of the clock. Once a counter reaches a preprogrammed value, it triggers CPU to execute some small procedure (time interrupt). There is a counter that triggers such time interrupt every fixed period (e.g. 4ms). The operating system uses these time interrupts to switch running processes and also to measure real time with the accuracy of one time interrupt (i.e. 4ms). Thats primarily because the ions in the battery get a bit shaken up resulting in the movement of the free electron exchange taking place within the battery, which causes a small voltage difference and current flows. I sometimes chew on the battery a little bit, not to completely deform its original shape but to compress the chemicals inside it a little bit which keeps the batteries going on for a couple of more days after the low batteru syndrome kicks in. Wow, very put sir. Thank you. Thats where stem cell research comes in. When you sweat normally its to cool down your body through evaporatiom of sweat. Cold sweat would be when your body reacts to an external chemical, as in case of an allergy or drugs, which causes your blood pressure to go up without your body heating up, hence the term cold sweat. They are deposits of melanin in the skin, similar to freckles or moles. They are formed along with the rest of the epidermis around 14 weeks.Birthmarks are areas of discolored skin that are on a baby's body at birth or that show up within a few months after delivery. Over 80 percent of babies have some kind of birthmark. Some endure for life, while others fade away over time. Most birthmarks fall into one of two categories: vascular or pigmented. Vascular birthmarks are caused by blood vessels that have accumulated below the surface of the skin. They range in color from pink to red to bluish, depending on the depth of the blood vessels. Pigmented birthmarks — usually brown, gray, bluish, or black — result from an abnormal development of pigment cells. Just closing your eyes wont send you into REM, REM is a state necessary to heal the self and most of the body's re engineering happens during REM. hahah, I like how you put it, with a straw. The brain generates two distinct types of sleep—slow-wave sleep (SWS), known as deep sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM), also called dreaming sleep. Most of the sleeping we do is of | 882a368a-b259-4449-be46-012728c98a6d |
21 | -Jaws- | Eating can help heartburn if you eat the right foods. Many people think that milk will help because it has calcium (like Tums), but it's also acidic. Foods like oatmeal, bananas. melons, and ginger can all help stifle acid reflux temporarily. TUMS tend to works a lot better for me though. I still worry about that now because I often argue with myself in the form if a two person argument, in complete sentences. In exactly the same way. I don't think it's a coincidence that I write and speak fairly well, while being sub par at math and pretty much anything else that requires abstract visualization. Someone could ask me for directions to somewhere I've gone to for years and there's a good chance I wouldn't be able to help them. That being said, I'm an avid daydreamed so who knows? It's exactly the same for me. It seems like I have three mental states: A singular, unified me who only participates in one stream of thought/consciousness ("I") Then there's the me that still feels like one person, but argues from multiple viewpoints to solve a mental debate ("I think that's true, but I think this is also true too") And then there is the Dichromatic me who feels more like two separate consciousnesses speaking to each other ("Why am In so lazy?" "You're not lazy") As far as I can tell, the first state applies to simple things, like identifying a simple object or calculating 2 + 2. The second occurs during more complex problem solving. And the third occurs when referencing something that I thought or did to myself, like giving myself kudos or putting myself down. To add to this, people with OCD have a broken "correlation maker" that is abnormally bad at ignoring pointless/harmless correlations (generally correlations that are perceived to cause harm) "If I don't count every step as I go up these stairs, my mom is going to die". Obviously, that's completely absurd. Most people with OCD know that their obsessions and compulsions are irrational, but their correlation maker won't let them completely believe it. Some people even *make up* an effect so their brain can justify the danger of a cause. For example, " if I don't count by powers of 10 up to a billion before I fall asleep a mysterious force will hurt me". It's really interesting, but it's shit to live with. It's important to keep in mind that *everyone* has anxiety and certain compulsions - that's part of being a human being. Many people like to count things, arrange things, do things *their* way, prefer even or odd numbers. That doesn't necessarily mean they have OCD. I personally have OCD and it goes far beyond mundane worries and compulsions (although I have those too). I've had times when I couldn't stop looking in the mirror for hours. I used to be scared that if I stepped on a crack in the sidewalk my mom or brother would get | 51b390f8-0b66-47b7-9b88-0b684b47e008 |
22 | -Johnny- | I think a lot of us would like to see some of that list. If you do find ways to make it easier then please post in / EDIT: For / and all his/her AWESOMENESS! But they will buy back your broken car, fix it, make a commercial and then give it to you! The fact is we dont NEED these NEW smart phones. You can keep a stable job with a 2008 flip phone. I just got a NEW smartphone from Verizon for $80. Pre-paid so i only pay $45 a month for unlimited call and txt with 1GB of data. lol I live comfortably off 22k a year. I live in a ~~medium city~~ (small city), with a stocked fridge, go on 3-4 vacations a year, have a 30k paid off car with a retirement plan. It hurts my soul to see someone say they dont have much left over after 80k a year.. :'( Well a lot of people use it for quick cash. I use it if I have a really good trade but not enough money in my trading account. I will then transfer the money I need into my account or sell the stock. It is VERY stupid to use the borrowed money without actually having the money to cover it. This is the worst part to me. A prosecutor would rather fully fuck a kids life just so they gain a relatively small amount in the end. In my eyes this is honestly the lowest of the low, this is on the same level of the adults who rape babies. What type of fucked up human must you be to destroy an entire life by sending this to court. One day I was focusing on breathing, for no reason, just wanted to feel how it worked and consciously breath. I focused on it to much and I actually forgot how to breath for a couple seconds and had to make sure I was breathing. I know I was a weird kid. I 100% agree, idk about the medical reasons but I get them all the time when I'm tired and bored. Now that I live a healthier life, eat right and get tons of sleep I might have 1 a year if that. I was getting about 3-5 a month when I was younger. 110% agree with every point you made. I was so pissed they upgraded without asking me. But they upgraded to a better system, so you cant be to mad. I honestly dont know why everyone thinks people want to spy on them. Honestly no one cares about you or your boring ass day to day porn searches. Its more so about who the cop "tags" with the radar. If they tag someone going 90 in a 70 then they will prepare to pull them over. This allows the car slightly behind to not get "tagged". I use to have this too, but then I noticed that I'm not eating | 0b62705b-4c84-4bc3-bc34-c77299551f4d |
23 | -JustShy- | Nah, as a famous alcoholic among a bunch of career alcoholics, you can usually tell when people are lying about it. They usually aren't. I wouldn't even say there's *usually* bits and pieces. I've literally come out of blackouts mid-sentence and realized that I don't remember a single thing for about 3+ hours. That's the only time I've found it disconcerting, because it's very disorienting to literally say a word that clearly belongs in the middle of a sentence, and people are listening to you and you don't know what you're even talking about. Examples: You are suddenly at the poker table and your pants are wet. The last thing you remember was flirting with a cute girl. Now it's clearly late and you're playing poker and you don't know where she went. You ask someone where she went and find out that she was about to take you home, then you passed out in the bathroom and she waited for you for an hour. Or you walk up to the bar to order another round and the bartender says, "Man, you have the biggest balls I've ever seen." And you have no fucking clue what he's talking about. "Man, that dude is way bigger than you. I can't believe you said that to him. That's why you my nigga. I got this round." Yeah, I'm an average sized, unassuming white kid that never does anything crazy. Apparently I told this buff Native American dude with a huge temper that I should have gotten his girl before him and he didn't deserve her. Or something like that. Or someone asks you a question and you suddenly aren't sure why you are where you are or how you got there and wait, why are you looking at me? Oh, you asked me a question. What was it? Or you're at a wedding talking to the bride's sister and she's crying and you're trying to calm her down, but you don't really remember how you're involved or what happened. You're looking around for your ride and you don't see him. "Hey, where'd Rich go?" Bride's sister starts bawling again. Apparently he got in a fight with the bride's sister's husband and bounced. Or you come to New Year's morning at a friend's house fooling around with a girl you hooked up with two weeks ago and she says, "Let's just go to your place." And you do. Or you just yelled, "Get out of my bedroom," at your girlfriend and it's 5 am and you don't even know why you're fighting and you can't believe how much pain is on her face because she's been living with you for three months and is insecure about her place in your life. There's a couple more like that, but you get the point. That's not even counting all the times I've woken up at home, safe in bed (or occasionally next to it) having not the faintest idea how I got there. tl;dr If | 53bbe4ba-fad9-4b4a-aead-ecb18a701db2 |
24 | -JvdH- | Light travels at a slightly different speed through hot air than through cold air. This causes the light to bend, like it does in a lens. Yeah I don't know exactly how it works. Light does have a constant speed in a vacuum. There is a great lecture from Richard Feynman on youtube about quantum mechanics where he explains why light always takes the shortest path. He explains that light has a different speed in glass, and because of that you can bend the light with a lens. I will see if I can find it. **Edit:** [this]() is it. It is the 3th out of a series of 4 lectures that are pretty long but absolutely fascinating. Yes actually c is the speed of causality. Because light has no rest mass, it does not resist acceleration, and so it always travels at "top speed". Yes but only in a vacuum. When it travels through any medium like air it has a slightly lower speed. Yes strictly speaking light does always travel at the same speed. But when it is traveling through the air the photons get absorbed by the atoms in the air, and then re-emitted in the same direction. This proces takes a small amount of time. The colder the air, the higher the density, and the more atoms are in the way. As for how slowing light down bends it: watch [this]() lecture from Richard Feynman. **Edit:** so some people have commented that the absorbing and re-emitting is not how it works at all. I have been looking around and it seems you are right. I still dont know how it does work though. Can someone explain that? Well strictly speaking light always travels at the same speed, as you might have heard. But when it is traveling through air, the light particles are absorbed by the atoms in the air, and then re-emitted in the same direction. This proces takes a small amount of time, slowing down the light. When the air is hot, the atoms are moving more than when it is cold. Because they are moving more, they take up more space, and so in the same volume there are less atoms. Because there are less atoms, the light is slowed down less. **Edit:** so some people have commented that the absorbing and re-emitting is not how it works at all. I have been looking around and it seems you are right. I still dont know how it does work though. Can someone explain that? Well that sort of happens when the hot asphalt heats the air above it. Sometimes it looks like there is water on the road when you are far away. This happens because the light is bent up by the hot air. So you could say that the air acting like a mirror or water is making the road beneath it invisible. When you look over the top of a heater, or you look out in the distance on a | f3d2a220-aaa1-46ca-badf-988946d6455c |
25 | -JvdH- | Like the other commenters have explained the atoms will sometimes loan their electrons to each other in order to get rid of their extra electrons, or to fill a layer that has too few electrons. But the reason that this bonds them together is that the electrons used to cancel out the positive electric charge from their protons. So now one atom has a net positive charge(the one that loaned out an electron), and one atom has a net negative charge(the one that got an extra electron). The opposite charges attract each other which bonds the atoms together. It's not just that you can't measure the 2 properties exactly at the same time, but the particle doesn't *have* an exactly defined position and momentum. So not only do you not know it's position and momentum, but the particle *itself* doesn't "know" it's position and momentum until it interacts with something. Actually when objects cool down they do not emit visible light at all, because of the quantization of energy. The energy of a photon depends on its frequency. So because you can't divide the energy in infinitely small parts, you are also limited in the amount of wavelengths you can emit. This was actually a big mystery in science, because before quantum mechanics it was believed that any body should instantly lose all of its energy by emitting high frequency radiation. Well you're free to believe what you want, no problem. But often things are left out because it's impossible to explain everything at once. Well that is true, but you can look it up for [yourself](). You are probably right that it was a bit much for ELI5, but I was just trying to add to the original comment for people who want to know more. Not trying to show off or anything. It works like those 1 way mirrors the police use. When on your side of the glass there is much more light than on the other side, you will just see your own reflection. But when there is more light on the other side you can see right through it. Now if you angle the glass, you won't see your own reflection but whatever is in the right position. So I assume that in a red dot sight there is a angeled piece of glass that reflects the red light towards you. That way the lightsource doesn't have to be in the way of your target. The electric field and magnetic field define for every point in space a vector. So if you have a negatively charged particle(like an electron) you can imagine that in the space around it there are vectors pointing away from it. When the electric field changes that causes the magnetic field to change too, and vice versa. That is why often it is just called the electromagnetic field. You can generate waves in this electromagnetic field for example by rapidly changing the voltage on a wire. The voltage generates a electric | fadf7bb7-aa11-4fc0-9e29-fa4fec160140 |
26 | -Knul- | Your body heats up a layer of air around it, insulating it effectively. Wind constantly removes this heated layer and replaces it with colder air. (Assuming the air temperature is lower than your body temperature). As your skin is cooled, your body has to work harder to bring it back to your normal body temperature. As for sun exposure, I'm less sure, but one reason could be that because it heats you up, you sweat and lose water and salt. This can lead to heat exhaustion and even heat stroke. Indeed. We just have to evolve to be more like trees. Galaxies do have 'orbits' and form larger structures called [superclusters](). The Milky Way is part of the [Laniakea supercluster](), in which a 100.000 galaxies are gravitationally bound to the [Great Attractor](), which has a mass of 10s of thousand of that of the Milky Way. So far this knowledge hasn't driven me mad, so you should be save. That's not entirely correct: headrests where found in tombs. Presumably so that the dead could sleep using them: many other items were entombed as well for 'future use'. It is also likely that the headrests where padded or wrapped to make them more comfortable. Not really: the carbon you ingest comes from plants, which gained their carbon from the air. The problem with burning fossil fuels is that the carbon contained in that has been removed from the carbon cycle and we're reintroducing it into the cycle. So this means the total amount of carbon in the carbon cycle increases, with all it results. However, you eating plants and animals (which get their carbon from plants also) just means that carbon moves around in the carbon cycle. The total amount doesn't change. One theory I've heard of is that humor is a way to deal with surprise or conflicting ideas. You have an expectation, that expectation is disproven and, if it turns out to be safe, you release that tension through laughter. Humans cognition is very big on predicting things: we are very good at pattern recognition, stories, theories, rules-of-thumb and the like. So as we construct more and more expectations about the world, the more often those expectations are violated. Perhaps that's why we, unlike animals, has so much more need for humor? Your CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer. And yes, you're a very complex Natural Intelligence :) China has 1.3 billion people, more than four times that of the U.S. (319 million). So it's not that strange to assume that the size of China's economy will surpass that of the U.S. The U.S. is not hugely in debt to China: less than 10% of total U.S. debt is owed to China. China also has debt to the U.S. In today's economy, it's entirely normal for countries to own each other's bonds. As for being communist, China is moving away from a command economy for quite a while now. It's one of the reasons for its | a3e4faac-5e7b-43fb-9c34-7fff4b293c49 |
27 | -Knul- | So accoriding to this, why don't men have longer hair? Bears (EDIT *beards*) went in and out of fashion in Rome multiple times, often dependent on whether the emperor had a beard or not. The military requirements explain why soldiers had a certain hair style, but not why civilian males had the same style. This is not ELI5 material: how can it be when the OP studies economics? If you want to debate why people have a different opinion that you do, go to the appropriate economic subreddit. And it is *extremely* recent: for the vast majority of humanity until about 2 centuries ago, calories were very scarce and starvation was always around the corner. Even now, a lot of people do not eat an overabundance of calories. You can hardly expect a species to drastically evolve in 4-8 generations, especially if even in those generations, a lot of people still benefit from the old behavior pattern. If by "we" you mean the U.S.: neither China nor Cuba are friends or enemies, politics isn't high school relationships. However, China is a major trading partner of the U.S. and thus it is important for both countries to maintain good diplomatic relations. The fact that China has essentially moved away from communism doesn't hurt, either. Cuba's economy is unimportant for the U.S., while its leadership caused a dangerous crisis for the U.S., the Cuban missile crisis. When the political top changes and Cuba becomes less communist, things may change. Don't have a cow, man. Vitamine C is known to degrade when heated. AFAIK, some other nutrients also degrade with cooking. However, a lot of nutrients become digestible (or "bioavailable") when food is cooked. In fact, there is scientific evidence that humans could only have grown such large brains because of cooking (see f.e. ). The idea that cooked food is "unnatural" or bad for us is simply ridiculous. It's likely we literally evolved by cooking our food. Even if we would have perfect scientific knowledge, we would still have to make value judgements. We as a society have to decide what we find important, what gets priority. For example, we can have either policy A or B, A increases safety by 10% (while maintaining prosperity), B increases prosperity by 11% (while maintaining safety). Should we get A or B? There is no scientific way to determine this: it depends on how much you value safety over prosperity. Politics is just the name given to this process of a bunch of people getting to decide on such value choices. That doesn't make sense. There are more customers but there are also more suppliers. So if one accountant served 10 people with a 40 hour work week and the populations doubled, we could have 2 accountants serve 20 people while both would be working 11 hour work weeks. Of course that assumes that everyone demands the same amount of services of goods. That is what has changed and what keeps working hours high: people | 9e8de311-7951-485d-9b54-d5b00d35749c |
28 | -Knul- | But the ECB isn't planning to inject 1 billion euros but 1 trillion. With the EU population being about 500 million, that means every citizen would get 2 000 euros. 1) Spending money on interior lasts longer: it could be a better investment per customer compared to spending more money on ingredients (which last just one serving). 2) Economics *is* a mind-game: value is subjective and there is no thing as inherent value. Presentation is not just disguising "true value" or tricking people, it's really adding value, as people will enjoy the product more and thus value it more. Here's a nice talk why marketing isn't just a sham: Accused is ruled to be innocent. Case closed. I can confirm that it's the same with the Netherlands. Just wait until Google starts lobbying for something you don't like. Google is just looking out for itself, like any other lobbiest. So it's 20% more fun? > I mean, isn't this what Darwin envisioned No, he described a natural process, he didn't "envision" anything. It's like saying Newton wants everyone to throw people out of windows because of gravity. Also, the idea that "weeding out the weak" is a good thing is nonsense. Genetic diversity is a good thing and increases the chances of survival. Mass extinctions necessarily decrease genetic diversity. In fact his [grandfather]() already talked about evolution as an idea in 1789. When Darwin came with his theory, most scientists were completely fine with the idea of evolution. What Darwin contributed were ideas and most importantly evidence on *how* evolution works. Darwin should be honored more for "natural selection" than "evolution". Certainly: French (pantalon), Dutch (broek), German (Hose). From what I see, U.S. minimum wage now is about $8. If a $15 minimum wage would drive up the prices until it's worth the same, that would mean more than a 100% inflation. That's just not going to happen. I'm not sure about other consequences, but slighlty increasing the spending power of the poorest quantile isn't going to double all prices overnight. Hell, if increasing minimum wage *would* cause such inflation, we would have an excellent inflation tool! From what I've read, a kilogram of muscle burns about 10 calories/day. So with 5 extra kilograms of muscle, you burn off an apple every day. Really not that much, compared to exercise (6 minutes of jogging would burn 50 calories), although getting more muscular has other health benefits. Well said. I now have the image of well-armored rope in my mind. In the Nordic countries, social mobility is way better than in the U.S (social mobility is how strongly correlated someone's income is to the income of their father, i.e. poor people getting rich and rich people moving down). See f.e. Land still is a big deal. The crisis of 2008 started with a real estate bubble burst. But indeed, back then, land was even more important, as 90%+ of people earned their living from agriculture. Also, deflation (cost of living going | 83551b6e-2bac-46f8-96ff-9565a19cbf61 |
29 | -Malky- | "algebra" itself is actually an arabic word : "The word algebra comes from the Arabic language (الجبر al-jabr "restoration") from the title of the book Ilm al-jabr wa'l-muḳābala by al-Khwarizmi." > But conversely digital films, especially at the dawn of the digital age (think attack of the clones right through to even avatar...I'm pretty sure), all the raw files were 1080p. 1920x1080 isn't used for standard cinema reproduction, resolutions used for 2k DCPs are 1998x1080 (flat) or 2048x858 (scope). In the early time of digital cinema, most films were actually still made on 35mm so theoretically it could be possible to get a better resolution from rushes – except that all postproduction was done digitally... at 2k resolution. Redoing everything from a 4k scan of the 35mm film is probably a tad too expensive for studios, sadly. > and the new ruler was deposed in April of 1978 by the Communists Actually he was killed by them, well it's also a way to depose him, i guess :/ > The first Soviet troops entered Afghanistan on December 25, 1979. Their primary task was to support the Afghan military in its fight against the islamists. Uhhh... [Storm-333]() included ? Calling the mujahideens "radical islamists" is oversimplistic imho. At this time it was a big bag o'stuff which included Sunni groups (Peshawar Seven), Shia militias (Tehran Eight), and even Maoist groups. In each of Sunni/Shia constellations you could find a rather wide range of ideologies, going from democratic central-leftism to right-wing islamism. Compared to the Taliban movement, it was a vastly more diverse crowd. 250 mph & 40s seem kinda low to me, the Veyron grand sport top speed is ~267 mph and according to Michelin the lifespan of those tires at 400 km/h (~248.5 mph) is 12 minutes, with an absolute max speed of 273 mph. That being said, tires are definately a concern at those speeds, as you can see in the top gear episode when captain slow went on for a ride : That's probably [Varig Flight 820]() but the cigarette ended up in the waste bin (yeah, genius award here). I don't really see how a fire could be started by throwing a lit cigarette in the toilet. > Yes it is [No it's not]() > An Internal Combustion Engine is only 12-20% efficient I guess you meant the overall car efficiency (including losses in transmission etc). My own rule of thumb is that an internal combustion powered car has an overall efficiency of ~15%, a good hybrid can reach ~20% with regenerative braking. > Electric vehicles are 95% efficient, and we have ~95% efficiency transmitting electricity over distances. Yes for the grid efficiency, typical losses in a developped country are somewhere around 5-6%. A bit optimistic on the electric vehicule efficiency imho, the battery (losses in the charger and in the battery when charging+autodischarge) has a efficiency of ~90%, and the overall battery-to-wheels part is more likely in the 85%-90% range. However, the result is clear : | 04d0a845-93e5-464e-93e4-795c3289099b |
30 | -Master-Builder- | At least a matress is an important life item. I don't wake up in the morning and say "Wow, I'm totally refreshed and ready for anything! I'm sure glad I spent 4 months pay on this rock." I believe xkcd covered this [here](). The part that you're missing is the only one calling Kanye West innovative or revolutionary is Kanye West. That a looks pretty forced, especially being the only instance of the letter in your proof. This looks much more natural. I retract my accusation. You mean you don't tan your cock? If we're talking about life here, what's worse: Destroying a life with murder, or damaging a life with molestation. What's worse, breaking a window or burning down a building? At least the child is still alive. Obviously they're both terrible crimes, but to say one is worse than the other is laughable. You can put a fucked up experience back together with therapy, how much therapy does it take to raise the dead? I always check the references of my peanut butter before I buy it. If it doesn't have at least 3 credible references I leave it on the shelf. More importantly, why are we setting the standard based off the average height? Won't that make it too short for half the population? But the extreme end of being short will still be under the flow of water, where a slightly above average height person has to crouch to get under the same flow. Since an average height is literally the median measurement, this means that anyone on the taller side of the MIDDLE height would be too tall for the shower. I'm 6'3 and it's very rare for me to find a shower that I don't have to either crouch or bend over backwards to use. In some cases it's easier to just shower on my knees. Water is going to fall towards the earth regardless of how tall the shower head is. So why not just set it at a height that works for the majority of the population and not just the average? > are just simply putting them in place So the same reason Chris hit Whitney? Usually when something causes your brain to release Dopamine (the feel-good brain chemical), it causes your behavior to replicate the action that gave the Dopamine. This is what you would call an addiction. Drugs like Cocaine, Nicotine, Opiates, and Caffine all cause the brain to release Dopamine. When someone refers to something "habit forming" it's usually referring to marijuana. MJ gets it's own "feel good" effect from cannabinoids found naturally in the plant, which interacts with specific cannabinoid receptors in the brain. This causes a non-dopamine based euphoria, which means it's non addictive. You would be cooked long before you reached the center. No, that's on a questionably sticky casting couch. Or a buttery clothes iron. It has more to do with density than size. And our sun will become much more dense near it's | c738c6f0-bb1f-4dbf-8538-c2f651930929 |
31 | -Mikee | >Edit: Fixed some typos. Irregardless isn't a correct word. The word you were looking for was "regardless" For small pieces of dust and dirt, it can flow out through the [Nasolacrimal Duct]() I've heard jokes about diets based on hair colo month/blood type but I didn't think they actually existed. People are fucking stupid. The universe isn't expanding at the edge like you might think. There's just more space now than there was before. 13 billion years ago, that (now) 30 billion lightyear away galaxy was much closer. Oh, and it's 13.8, not 16. That's not actually accurate. The galaxies aren't traveling anywhere near the speed of light. Considering you have the top comment, I hope you'll edit to reflect (as not to confuse more people): The galaxies are traveling relatively slowly away from each other, and haven't made much headway in the past dozen billion years just with velocity alone. What really is making them further apart than the age of the universe is that the universe is getting bigger. There is more space between objects now than there was before. **Two ants on a deflated balloon. They're walking away from each other fairly slowly. They are taveling at 1 inch per hour. The balloon begins to inflate. Their velocity relative to the balloon remains the same, but the distance they have to walk to get back to each other increases quickly. The distance between them is up to 6 inches at an hour instead of the expected 2, because their universe has gotten bigger. The further they were apart to begin with, the more effect the balloon's inflation has on their present distance, which is why we don't see this all that much with relatively close objects.** Edit: It isn't "more thorough" as you suggest. It's just the right answer, as your 2 minute run explanation is wrong. Not to be hostile, but I fear people might just stop at your explanation and think it's correct. They are not moving at the speed of light. The analogy is misleading. It has very little to do with the velocity of the galaxies, and moreso the fact that the universe is expanding at every point all at once, so there is more space now than there was before. But it doesn't explain it in the slightest. It has almost nothing to do with their relativistic velocity. They're traveling nowhere near the speed of light, and even if they were it wouldn't add up to 30 billion light years. The correct answer is that the universe is expanding. More space is being created between them over time, and this accounts for the vast majority of their current distance from eachother. Basically all of 1970's SW florida (the majority of homes) is structural masonry. Most people can come up with the right answer. It takes effort to put the right answer in ELI5 format. OP was wrong to ask something so simple and easily googled, but you were wrong to reply to | 3e7cce5e-5206-4812-9bdd-009c7b1060f2 |
32 | -Mikee | The reason they need to be baked at certain temperatures for certain times is because the heat needs to permeate the food (conduction). The outside of the food is heated first, and the energy is slowly transferred to the inside. Making it too hot outside will destroy the food. (think burned chocolate chips) If you want to cook faster, make your cookies thinner. Control-F'd the word "subjects". Found so close to the top. Was not disappointed. There's way too many unvaccinated people at the moment to reduce the likelihood of mutations enough where we can systematically attack and eradicate it like we did with polio. It's being *regulated* at best at the moment, and in reality the anti-vax movement is great for the medical industry's investors, but not for humanity as a whole. (There's more money in regulating a disease than curing it, in the long run) People need to keep up on their boosters and help raise awareness that everyone eligible needs to be vaccinated. I loved this so much that I now need to change my underwear. I have an ionic filter and had the same problem. Get one of those air freshener sprays. They're bad for the ozone layer - they'll remove the ozone in your room. I hear the colors are amazing. Well, if you apply the transitive property to marketing, the company is offered a blowjob for a luxury feature. I'm going to go with "yes". There's no longer that fine line between migrant workers and surgeons. I believe the actual saying is that the thought processes is "fixing things, not because they're broken, but because they don't have enough features yet" I can control my microwave from my cell phone. Not the most useful feature I've ever done, but it's the perfect example. Pft. I download my steaks in .iso form. I store my beef jerky on LTO4 magnetic tape. Also lead is a terrible material for pressurized cabins. He didn't even consider (strangely) that the lead would be added to an existing design, not designed *from it* I know this is one of those threads where everyone keeps deconstructing and augmenting a previous comment, and I love then too - but I'd just like to point out to people that it's possible OP was talking about setting up a direct connection without involving an internet-facing server. I used to do this all the time. You call someone, let them know you want to play with them or connect to their server, they enable the receiving end, and you directly connect to them. We had to do this because if the receiving end was always active, it would interpret every incoming call as a connection and give annoying computer noises. I eat breakfast about once a week at Tim Horton's. Does that count? Pig hearts can be transplanted into humans, quite easily. You can transplant a potato into a human, if you so pleased. They just wouldn't survive very long. My $300 plex server | 188c45a7-1295-44b9-a4a5-4a74322665db |
33 | -Mikee | BO (from sweat) is caused by about a dozen distinct strains of bacteria. It all depends on what you're exposed to. So if black people smell the same as you're used to, it's probably because in your climate, your distinct city's culture, and their constant exposure to eachother... one or two strains have won out above the others. So a black guy from your city (because they have basically the same diet and integration you do) will smell the same, but his visiting cousin from new york will smell completely different. Only asians, very select europeans, and native americans have specific "immunity" from certain strains that the rest of us find normal and vice versa, but the slightest increase in dietary copper will negate it and leave you with the default strain. Source: Did a bit of research into foot fungus vs. bacteria a few years back, same applies to pit odor. I always order water. Sometimes with lemon. Two splendas, man. Frugal ^4 Lyfe. Look up immune suppressors like heavy steroids, radiation, or AIDs. You just kinda lose organ functions and die. Nothing quite like chocolate chip salad. Mountain dew dressing. That's not your lost hair in the salad, it's vermicelli. Just because it's a restaurant that serves Chinese food, doesn't mean it's run by Chinese people. Just because Chinese restaurants in the US are known for serving questionable food doesn't mean it reflects on Chinese people in any way. Racism is about people. Foods are not people. Industries are not people. A Chinese food buffet resturant is not a person. If you define "Chinese Restaurant" by "Any restaurant that is run by Chinese people" then yes, it is racism. I define it as "Any restaurant that primarily serves Chinese food and/or American analogs" which makes any and all jokes about the food, the undefined employees, and the industry itself - not racism. Prejudice perhaps, but (say it with me now) **not racism**. 100 lots an hour is low for an american auction, atleast anything up north. I attend industrial liquidation auctions religiously - there will be 2000+ lots and around 1000 bidders. Anything less than ~250/hour will mean the auction is stalled and they call in a second auctioneer, splitting the workload until it is caught up. Everyone learns pretty quickly to show up a few hours early to the auction, grab an inventory sheet, and write down the prices you're willing to hit on each lot way ahead of time. Liquidation auction bottom lines are most influenced by newcommers. Sure that's a $3000 fridge and you only paid $500, but there's 20 more identical models and the last guy's going to pay half of what you did. Only if the more important information is left out. These deer are used to a certain feeding cycle, using automated feeders dispensing corn/grain. The vast majority of these "hunting" places simply bring you out to one of these feeding locations at the preset time, and tell you to shoot something. | 22549a1c-9bdb-4774-914d-85601d9f0075 |
34 | -Mikee | In the same way people using RVs still call it "camping", many people call an effortless activity "hunting". But very few hunters are like that, and are quickly berated and belittled by those who are not. Do not generalize. He didn't do any explaining whatsoever. His comment was empty and useless. Lead acid is far cheaper currently, and without weight limitations (which you don't care about since its for a house), there was no reason to go with lithium ion. If this prospect magically brings lithium ion below the cost of deep cycle lead acids (cutting them to about a third of their current cost), it will be insanely good for alternative energy as a whole. It would also mean completely destroying all other lithium ion manufacturers overnight. I don't believe it will actually happen, but here's hoping. Because applying the results of millions of dollars of R&D into as many applications as possible is just good business sense. Larger demand, larger volume supply, cheaper per-unit cost. You have seriously accidentally your math. It's only about 16 batteries. Less if you keep load low. (under 40 amps at the AC side) Unless you're living in a motel-room-sized apartment, I don't see how that could possibly affect you. And at that point, you have larger priorities than energy storage systems. I have 21 batteries (22.05kwh) and it only cost me about $1700. I use a server rack to hold them in a 28 inch by 36 inch area, as well as the rackmount UPS. Keeps my servers going for nearly three days without issue, five if I REALLY needed to (but the batteries would certainly not survive). ~~Which is why I stated the numbers at 40amps AC.~~ sorry, thought you were the other user who made the same statement. 25A reserve capacity standard load, 16 batteries, 400A peak. 120/12 = 10. 400A/10 = 40A. Assume 90% efficiency, that's 36A AC = 25A DC per battery. 36A peak is pretty good for under $2,000, especially considering its with enough reserve capacity to run a modern TV and a few dozen modern lights for about a month straight. One day something will beat lead acid by amphouryear, and when that happens I'll switch over. For now, lead acid is simply the best option for this sort of thing, hands down. TL;DR You're not considering that the batteries are used in tandem, meaning current is shared between them. It's the same way hard drives are FAR cheaper than solid state drives. Sure, its old technology, but that's why they're so cheap. The R&D has already been done, manufacturing has already made up for investment, and they're in practically everything already. When calculating capacity, you only use numbers that deal with useful capacity. Only idiots use full values. So I really don't see the point of stating this. "1000 watt peak stereo amplifier ^^^^40wRMS " "34MPG ^^^^Highway ^^^^only " "Quarter pounder ^^^^before ^^^^cooking " Where do you see 10kWh lithium ion packs right now for | 2a7208f8-cc69-4476-9a67-3b2ed0fb9969 |
35 | -Mikee | Unless he was a jew horse. There's a joke about horses and long noses here, but it's way to early for me. Efficiency in this context is the amount of power delivered per unit of fuel spent. Like stop and go traffic, basically the only reason one would go between 0 and 15 over and over every day for years. Parallel walls, while easier to construct in mass quantity, are very weak at the middle. Bics are round and when crushed, better distribute the load. Every other viral thing they covered was completely real, so I have to disagree with you on that. I never heard of wwitb before south park, but I assumed it was real. Raspberry pi + $5 20" LCD from thrift store = kitchen computer. It basically shows me weather, schedules, news, pictures of cats - and when I want I can pull out my phone and "okay google, how do I make a Reuben?" then cast the video to the screen in one click. Also, plex home theater, baby. Interesting, but how is this relevant to the post in the slightest? Magic mushrooms aren't a pathogen or disease. I completely agree. There's a reason why items purchased singularly are put at the back of the stores. You walk into the store, walk all the way back, seeing everything they have for sale. Then you walk all the way to the front to check out. Without blocking off isles, there's no possible way to expose the customer to more promotional displays and sales than the checkout-at-the-front-exit method. No pressure either way would result in some people still having it, and some not. To completely eliminate something genetically from a population, there needs to be some sort of pressure. It could even be that the gene was also responsible for something else, and we benefited from removing it for a reason completely unrelated to vitamin C. Sadly we don't know why it was eliminated (although there are theories) but we do know how genetic pressures work for evolution. We should all just get degrees in art history. The world would become such a peaceful place, as everyone just becomes art history teachers. I have a hard bristle brush which I use to clean my dishes and sink. Takes 30 seconds to clean the sink, so I do it every time I do the dishes. I rinse then sterilize the brush in the microwave. > no different than leaving it out on the counter. No, it eliminates the factor of time. Bacteria require time - and continuously running water **significantly** reduces the amount of time required for defrost. This is known as conduction. The heat is conducted into the meat, and the (now colder) water is replaced continuously. When left on the counter, the primary method of heat transfer is known as convection. The frozen meat cools the air, the air is brought down to the counter and hotter air replaces it. Slow and horrible. I use my | 85215fe7-ff02-4150-b171-d4116fdd9170 |
36 | -Mikee | The primary idea with a dishwasher is to wash the dishes, making them **sanitary.** You don't really have to kill all the bacteria. You just have to remove them from the object you want to clean, and you do that by rinsing it. The dry cycle kills nearly everything remaining, by bringing the dishes to 170+ --------- And some methods of cooking food actually do kill all bacteria. Boiling or deep frying, for example. Assume the chickens are spherical. How is it different? I've watched a lot of videos on how they did it back in the day, this is basically identical minus the self-powered trencher. So how's tenth grade going for you? Medical care doesn't fall under free market because they aren't required to release expected costs allowing the consumer to compare. No comparison, no competition. In a pure capitalistic sense it's a scam, not a market. They raise rates as high as insurance companies will allow. In the computer age, we could not only easily compare facilities, but individual doctors and surgeons if they forced medicine into the open. Guaranteed someone would have a site for it within weeks of a law being passed. Americans love comparison sites. The hospitals would simply renegotiate their insurance contracts at that location/department to compensate. Some things the hospital makes bank on through insurance. Others they knock down to 30 or 40% of market rate, and the hospital recovers that money elsewhere (rehabilitation/therapies are big on this). It's a compromise based on efficiency. If there was a large spike in one of the less than efficient procedures showing up, they'd just offer that to the insurance company marked down 10-15%, lowering cost for the hospital in exchange for higher compensation elsewhere. It'd be a balance to literally bring it exactly where it is now - the highest profit it can get on average for every patient. Until going rates are published publicly, in real time, and the medical centers are held accountable for the numbers - we will have shit healthcare. It also doesn't help that we're starting nationalized health insurance, further removing the patient from understanding the costs. > evolutionary advantageous Not every. It's more accurate to say that each trait is there because it's not disadvantageous enough in a given timeframe to be lost due to natural selection. At night, you're like an owl. As opposed to being like a bird in the morning. Horizontal or vertical lines that don't move suggest physical damage with the LCD panel itself, specifically the wiring between it and the controller, usually unfixable. Sorry I forgot to add the qualifier. *American* organic standards are shit. If you're not in the US, I don't know your regulations. Organic standards in the US are based primarily on conjecture and barriers to entry. The industry is much more profitable per unit of production, so every added compliance is done so not with science and logic, but in regards to protecting it from being taken over by large | 10fdc725-c9fb-48d4-86f5-7323462273cc |
37 | -Mikee | Change one thing from the original recipe each time you make it, keeping all other variables the same. Keep a logbook of results. Science. They were paid **hundreds of billions** of taxpayer dollars to offset the cost of laying fiber. They took the money and did nothing. Only recently have they been branching out to high density areas like developments, but they'd have done that anyway. That's an interesting question. With a limited vocabulary, you really can't express yourself to others - but when you're thinking yourself, its not like you need to be specific so you'd understand. with a cloth or something? >This last bit is so not true. Thank god you told me, or I would have believed dozens of scientific, peer reviewed studies over some random person on the internet. And gasp reflex? what? The person above was talking about the **Palmar grasp reflex**. Google it. So he should basically do the equivalent of not brushing for a few months, just to save money? This isn't /, try to stick to logic here. Alternating current induces a predictable magnetic field. Magnetic fields can induce currents in conductors. This means when aluminum (a great conductor compared to food refuse) passes through the alternating field, it causes the magnetic field to decay a bit as the energy it contains is spent making electrons flow through the metal. The processor can see this decay as a change in current through the original inductor. Think of a train track curve as a full circle (just to simplify things) The track is made up of two rails. The rail on the outer side of the circle would have to be longer than the inside one (because its a bigger circle) Which means that while wheels on each track have to spin at exactly the same rate (since they're solid), the one on the outer side has to go further than the inner side with the same rotation. Instead of skipping/skidding, it automaticaly adjusts itself on the cone shape so that the wheel size changes. So the same amount of rotation can mean different amounts of linear distance. This may seem silly because of how old it is, but it really explains the problem well: In cars we created the differential to fix it. We don't want that complexity on train wheels, so they're conical to adjust their size. (one rotation at the small end of the cone may mean 1 meter of travel, while one rotation at the wider end of the cone may mean 1.5 meters) Also in a 2000's auto class in highschool. No, cars drive on roads, not rail. It is solved using a differential if you need drive function, or via not connecting wheels to eachother if you don't. Look into the continuously variable transmission. They apply the same conical concept for changing pulley sizes in the transmission. > in Breaking Bad they use a nail salon Carwash. The salon and the laser tag place were rejected. >exposed | 1fc35b51-eab8-432f-9d8a-be9184490eaa |
38 | -Mikee | > reset it for when you actually want to get up. So you're in that golden time between high school and having to get a job/degree? What a wonderful state of mind it must be, where you think people get up when they want to get up. I should shower in the morning. That's 15 minutes. I should save time to get gas. That's 5 minutes. I should eat breakfast, that's 10 minutes. I should get to work early, that's 10 minutes. I should save time for traffic, that's 10 minutes. I *want* to get up at 1PM. I have to get up at 8 to get to work at 10. I actually get up at 9 and make compromises about whats most important. It does, and we get birth defects. In fact, a certain amount of damage happens every single generation. What's different is that we can lose entire groups of people with specific genetic flaws and society isn't harmed. You lose too many heart cells and you just die. The survivors just take the place of the damaged, specifically any "damage" that prevents continued reproduction. Fun fact, the mutations that happen every generation are what is primarily responsible for a certain type of evolution. Genetic mutations that lead to disabling or hindering certain tissues can lead to evolutionary advantages. The human tail, or your appendix, for example. (9 *10^ 16) joules from a kg mass/(1.3 *10^ 8) joules in a gallon of gasoline. This comes out to 692,307,692 gallons of gasoline. It never occurred to you to set up an experiment? (Legitimately curious) In the USA it's the right. Always stay to the right in hallways, escalators, stairs, sidewalks, doorways. You can make tight turns to the right around corners, but always wide left turns. > at all times 1 front and 1 rear wheel have to rotate at the same speed. This is incorrect. Differentials do not work that way. For your information, great video: Pretty much anytime anyone uses the term "starvation mode" outside of talk of a third world nation undergoing a famine and/or holocaust, it's time to tune out. The term starvation mode is almost exclusively used by obese people concocting excuses as to why they're still obese. Adding to it, It's so rare to require precision on exceptionally large numbers, and when we're just looking at small numbers we can just use engineering notation or scientific notation. 514 millivolts is easier to say than 0.514 volts. My grandfather used to mine for cyrptocurrency with a block of wood and duck. Fun fact, this is why you can sometimes tell the difference between artificial flavors and natural flavors. The artificial flavors are generally identical chemically to the natural ones - its just that they only contain a few of the primary sources of the natural food's flavor. So while artificial apple flavor may contain 3 or 4 of the most flavorful chemicals you find in apples, it doesn't contain the dozens of minor chemicals | 44f44b7c-4d6a-45bc-ab82-307e569f712e |
39 | -Monarch | > ~~intensive~~ intents and purposes FTFY > are thought to promote the teachings and faith of the underlying religion. That's the thing and that's the point / is trying to make ... it's not *meant* to promote the teachings and faith of the underlying religion - it's meant as a means to accomplish a political goal. > Abortion bombing christians are pretty much the one example you gave that you CAN'T give a non religious answer for what made people do the things. which is still has a political answer. Conservative Christians are increasingly feeling the strain of progress forcing them to abandon these beliefs and also taking away their political influence. a few decades ago conservative Christians dominated politics, now they don't and they're starting to feel it. bombing an abortion clinic is like a dog trapped in a corner lashing out. it's their way of feeling like they're still in control. "we're still in control, see? you couldn't even stop me from bombing this clinic" > So what would be an example of a geopolitical, nonreligious, reason for today's attacks in Belgium It alienates Muslims from "Western" non-Muslims. If Arabs/other Muslims in America and Europe are hated so much they feel like they have to go back to Arab/Muslim lands ISIS wins. If America and Europe stop accepting refugees ISIS wins. If Americans and Europeans are oppressing Muslims out of frustration ISIS wins (see? we told you they hate us! come here, we'll protect you). They use religious identity as a means of consolidating power. They're less interested in controlling Muslims as they are in controlling people and land. It just happens that they can use Islam as a means of controlling those people and lands. Where Trump makes the world hate America just because of who he is, ISIS *wants* the world to hate Muslims, making it easier to control Muslims and create a power struggle which fuels their growth and power. Just like Nazis needed Jews to hate, ISIS needs "Westerners" to hate. And just like Nazis had the ideology of a supreme race, ISIS has the ideology of a supreme religious ideology (which doesn't resemble mainstream Islam in any way, for the record) edit: words yea that always kills me. "It was about states' rights!" ... yes I'm aware buddy, the states' right to own slaves. "wut?! no!" ... cognitive dissonance > They wanted limited Federal oversight, except in the situations that oversight helped them. That's still how conservatives/Republicans think today > The blacks still had their countries of origination this is assuming they actually knew where they came from ... most had no idea what their "countries of origin" actually were > They don't see themselves as terrorists, but as soldiers. To them, this is holy war. They're fighting the infidels. Yea except the overwhelming majority of their victims are Muslims. This isn't a religious war it's a political war. Erase Islam from their minds and they'd still be fighting the same war. Your | a224dfb8-8da7-4fc9-963b-584e67f10ebb |
40 | -Monarch | > We have to trust the coders Except that we have literally millions of programmers in the US, many of them voters who don't want their voting rigged, that can verify if there is foul play within the code. > It's not "just politics", it's religion. If that were true the same problem would exist everywhere in the Muslim world. But it doesn't. It's almost exclusively in the Arab-Muslim world (which is only about 12% of the world Muslim population). If that were true there wouldn't be governments of Muslim countries threatening loss of citizenship and even death for people that try to recruit for ISIS or join ISIS. If that were true there wouldn't be literally billions of Muslims opposed to ISIS. 99% of Muslims in the world will tell you ISIS' ideology is nothing like the religion they follow. > They are killing muslims who dont believe the same stuff as them. No, they're killing Muslims who don't accept their authority over them and pledge their allegiance to them. Again, it's not about beliefs or religion - it's about politics and power. > religious reasons for killing eachother. Just like the middle east has always done. Yea that's just simply not true at all. Shia and Sunni Muslims have gotten along essentially since the beginning of the spread of Islam. In Syria Shia and Sunni Muslims were neighbors and friends. They babysat each others kids and taught each other at home and at school. It wasn't until sectarianism of the middle 20th century that any real conflict happened between the two groups. And again that conflict was political not religious. A country with a Sunni majority had a government made up almost entirely of Shia Muslims. It was about political representation not religious differences. Why do you hear more about Paris and Brussels than you do about Ankara? EDIT: apparently people downvote when they see a question they can't answer. My wife is a white-skinned immigrant from Morocco .. when she got here she asked me why she can't put "African American" on her paperwork - despite the fact she's more African than any of the black people in the room. It's an interesting phrase we still use for some reason. You must not know what ELI5 means lol I took it for a few years too. I don't remember those years at all now. It made me a zombie and I didn't enjoy life at all. Finally I got sick of it and refused to take it. Please don't give your kids Adderall or any drug like it... you're sucking the life out of them > The present research demonstrates that wearing an abaya with multilayers of clothing creates problems of feeling uncomfortable in many circumstances. So it's not actually the abaya itself that causes discomfort .. it's wearing several layers of clothes, which would cause discomfort no matter what type it is. Jesus I wish more people realized this. > sending good workforce into prisons where | 34d166e8-27ca-4199-bfa1-3edbde7027e8 |
41 | -Monarch | Nobody wants to download a show with commercials in it and have to skip it ... a video that has commercials will get buried after no one downloads it He would save them to a hard drive at his house so he can watch them later using software called Plex which acts as a media server so you can watch videos from your computer on your internet-ready TV and other devices EDIT: not just TV The two most important contributers to dyslexia are an underutilized left-hemisphere, and an out-of-whack central bridge of tissue in the brain, called the corpus callosum. The left hemisphere of the brain can match a letter with its sound, handle information that comes into your brain in strings, like the sounds in a word - one letter after the other, rather than seeing a word as a single picture, separate a word into its individual sounds, and understand grammar and syntax. The right hemisphere is different. It deals in areas and space and patterns. It doesn't understand parts of speech, or keep track of letter-order in spelling. It "reads" a word as a line drawing that it has been taught has a meaning, -- a sketch, not a line up of sounds. If the left side leaves the reading to the right side, the result can come out scrambled eggs. As to the corpus callosum, it is a bridge of nerve cells over which information from one side of the brain gets to the other. Everything you see or hear goes to both sides, but each side has it own specialty. The corpus callosum not only transfers information, it helps decide which is the appropriate side, and sends it there. Obviously a wimpy CC may not deliver language tasks to the left where they belong. On top of that, it transmits slowly, so part of the information arrives out of sync with the rest. As if all that weren't enough, the language areas in the dyslectic brain tend to be smaller than they are in a standard brain. Now you take a wimpy corpus callosum, an over eager right-hemisphere, and an undersized left language area, and you have the recipe for trouble. Source: > regardləss I see what you did there OP already said, "But then the crackers will see that it doesn't work and immediately keep searching the code to find what's preventing it." Well the original code is what is tampered with and experimented on ... if you try and crack the code one way and it fails you go back to the original code and try again until you can successfully crack it. Software cracking means removing whatever copy prevention mechanism is in place - in the example you gave, it would mean removing whatever is in the code that detects the pirated copy and makes it "deletes itself". As another user said - all software can be cracked eventually. > First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— | a22c2f8a-3ecd-44b4-b9c5-c87f76b02113 |
42 | -Monarch | > Socialism, sadly, doesn't work. Except in places where it does. Right, right. "Fantasy land" must be your name for Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium, and many other countries where socialism has been successful. "Happiest countries in the world": Denmark, Norway, Finland, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland ... I'm sure it's just coincidence that 7 out of the top 10 happiest countries on the planet also happen to be the most socialist. People tend to not be happy when there's no jobs or housing or when there's economic stress so I'd say it's a pretty good metric. Also, Forbes named Denmark ( in socialism) to be most business-friendly country on the planet (with other Nordic countries close behind) so there's that too > Free education or free health doesn't necessarily mean socialism Those things are by definition socialism. If "optimism" means you look at life through a positive lens (as in positivity is emphasized), "socialism" means the government looks at the economy through a social lens (as in emphasis is on the needs of society as a whole). Just like "optimism" doesn't mean you completely eliminate negativity, socialism doesn't mean you completely eliminate private ownership or capitalist aspects of the economy. Almost every economy on the planet is a balance of capitalism and socialism, with every country somewhere within the spectrum, but there's not a single country on the planet that is 100% socialist or 100% capitalist. Even the most capitalist countries have aspects of socialism and even the most socialist countries have aspects of capitalism. "Free education" can also be referred to as "socialized education" ... "free education" is by very definition socialism. So you're now anti-union because it took you longer to get to work and because people want to have all the nice things you have too? yea I left the cubing "scene" back when people were debating if the Guhong or the Zanchi is the best You realize there are 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world, right? Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, UAE, Kuwait, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Algeria, Oman, Azerbaijan, and Indonesia collectively contribute about 40% of the world's oil supply. That's a lot - but that doesn't include the other 38 Muslim-majority countries that contribute less than 1% of the world's oil supply each. Sure a *few* Muslim countries have oil ... but not even remotely close to *all*. Side note: "Christian countries" produce almost 50% of the planets oil - including the United States (12%) which produces more oil than any Muslim country besides Saudi Arabia. > we have a more more. Some whales as well have language where one group will speak a completely different language than another group with zero overlap. I would say they're better than toilet paper. Last I heard Star Wars (to use the example given) generated somewhere between $3-5 billion in merchandising in 2015 alone (remember the movie came out in *December* of 2015). Minecraft is no Star Wars, but you can | 66cbb9df-7fc3-43c5-b096-4bf5cb12a14b |
43 | -Monarch | > I have decent knowledge on networking and that just doesn't happen Sorry Mr. Decent Knowledge, but it does happen, and that's exactly how app communications work. > It's generally accepted that Illegal Immigrants are bad for us By whom? Media pundits? Generally speaking, illegal immigrants create a net gain in economic activity overall. They still pay taxes every time they buy clothes, pump gas, buy a cheeseburger, buy a car, etc. The U.S. Social Security Administration estimated that in 2013 undocumented immigrants—and their employers—paid $13 billion in payroll taxes alone for benefits they will never get. They pay taxes without actually getting the benefits of paying taxes as you'll see: > they leech off of government programs Illegal immigrants are not eligible for most government programs like food stamps, welfare, social security, unemployment, government housing, etc. About the only benefits they can take advantage of is public education and emergency medical care. > However, I'm confused with how exactly they do this. They don't, as stated above. > involve me having to prove my citizenship before becoming accepted for things such as government assistance, and Federal Grants, etc.. Which is exactly why they can't actually receive any of those. > How exactly do illegal immigrants take advantage of us? They don't. > I would think that there would be a very basic filter on applications that would prevent undocumented people in our country from receiving benefits, and things like free tuition? There is, and they don't. EDIT: a word Not to be a stickler, but it should be written C:\ not C:/ > Warn me next time before you bring my entire childhood back to my attention. > Islam is twisted to convince men to blow up themselves amongst innocent civilians in order to get 72 virgins. Yea, that's not something Muslims *actually* believe. Like, anywhere. That's a maudu (fabricated/forged/false) hadith (saying) attributed to the Prophet that was dug up by some American after 9/11 and sensationalized in Western media (and made famous by a ventriloquist) as something Muslims strive for - in reality, Muslim scholars across the entire planet have unanimously agreed (for centuries) that this is *not* an authentic saying, that the Prophet definitely never said it, and therefore Muslims the world over reject that it's true. "Jihadists" do *not* rely on men's desire for virgins to get them to fight for them ... that's a very narrow media-influenced way of seeing the situation. It more commonly comes down to "the Americans blew up your wife, children, parents, and half your cousins, destroyed your beautiful country, wrecked your economy, and planted a despot puppet leader in control, what are you going to do about it?" > They will even go against their own party, knowing they won't be around forever. Isn't that a good thing? > If the people would pay more attention to local officials then they could vote them in or out on what they did, rather than needing term limits to force people out. | fb1accb4-96cf-4e05-acad-66197c62b6f8 |
44 | -Mountain-King- | BTW, when a Jedi/Sith throws his lightsaber, he uses the Force to keep the trigger depressed as well as to keep it in the path he wants. Unless of course you're playing DnD, and you know exactly when you missed something. "Make a spot check." "14." "Carry on." See, the best part is being the DM and having the players do this... *when there's no reason to.* Making the players paranoid is fun. Firefox does now have this feature. You can choose what things to sync, including cookies, log-ins, tabs, and history. I think you're the one who's not very good at it. Finding a good seeder ratio will save more time than it will use up - you have to download the thing, after all. A good ratio is the difference between 10 minutes and an hour, sometimes. It's always good to check the comments. He was a bit pessimistic with the 'likely run into issue' and he definitely went into more detail with the pirating. But the main point of it seemed to be that Steam is easier, which is still true. But not all games are on Steam. Yes, there's lots of good advice in the bible. There's also lots of bad advice in the bible. People are confused. [God actually hates *figs.*]() There's a reason you have millionaires with stable wealth levels despite them still making loads of money every years. They spend that money on things. I doubt they spend *proportionally more*, but they certainly spend more in general, which is all / said. I think you're missing the difference between a pedophile and a child molester. A pedophile might have these urges and not act on them - a child molester has acted on it. And pedophilia is a sexual orientation, just like homosexuality - you can't control how you feel. So you're basically advocating killing people who's only crime is how they were born right along with those who've actually acted on their urges and raped kids. No, you can make a version for both sexes. It's not that this one person made a guy version and not a gal version, it's that EVERYONE does. What the hell was he freaking out about? What word did he think was racist? I thought it was / The puritans too, although the common belief is the opposite. They actually believed that the pleasure of sex was a gift from God and to be enjoyed as often as possible, within the bonds of marriage. If you were married it was expected that you'd be getting it on every night, probably in pretty kinky ways. Evolution has driven sexually reproducing characters to find reproduction enjoyable. People who have sex are more likely to have kids than people who don't. Their kids will also be more likely to have sex and therefore to have kids. Let me assure you, if you didn't like it 3 years ago, you would absolutely detest it now. Wasn't the reaction of the | 33faee09-f0d0-4a9f-80ee-362656a10ea1 |
45 | -Mountain-King- | We could call her Nelly. Either Queer or Questioning, depending on who you ask. Also, I hate iTunes beyond belief. Its layout gets worse with every update and I have problems every time I want to change out the music on my phone and I'm forced into using it. It's made of knife. Duh. I think it more commonly derives from the languages (usually Spanish) directly. So you want to ruin the placebo effect they enjoy? Dick move. #$53k isn't really "good" money. It's "ok" money. How do people get high-quality gifs of movies before they're out on dvd? Even pirates have to make do with crappy cams. Oh, that makes more sense. I don't think he knows about second breakfast... I personally have been liking it better since version 2014 or so. That's when I started the college questline, which I hear is a popular one. I hear that that dlc is tough, but rewarding if you're smart and lucky. Yeah, Outside is a pretty expensive game. But hey, at least you pay for everything with in-game money! Men and women wearing shirts can be asked to leave private property too. It's private property. Yeah, to me "good on him" means he did something good, while "good for him" means something good happened to him. Yeah but 100% of people who died had previously lived. We call cool people cats in English too. "Hey you cool cats, what's up?" Is it not where you are? He has to build cabinets for all the Oscars he hasn't won. Well... if life is super common, and intelligent life isn't, then given the size of the universe there still ought to be a bunch of intelligent life. Yes, my family name is Wienersmith... my ancestors sold dildos. Then there's government, where you can get it fast OR cheap OR right. I prefer to think of myself as a meat mechsuit, piloted by a brain. I'm very tired right now... that means only the very stupid New Zealanders move to Australia (raising the IQ of NZ), and they're still smarter than the average Australian? I wasn't thinking it was serious, I understood it was a joke even as tired as I was. I was just trying to decipher what stereotypes it was playing on. You can replicate this by trying to stare out your window in the middle of the night, or going to a friend's house and staring into theirs. [So why aren't they purple?]( ) Pretty sure that FB still owns and funds it. So in the full equation out doesn't matter or not it's negative mass, because the mass is squared. Acceleration is change in speed, not specifically increase. Deceleration is just negative acceleration. Saruman, the wizard who had previously held the title of the White, had turned against the original purpose of the wizards and therefore was no longer worthy of the title. Gandalf (who had actually been offered it before it went to Saruman, but had declined) took | 386f8478-e55f-498f-93fb-35679956ab7a |
46 | -Mountain-King- | Well. Judaism is accepted by the current culture, so it's a religion and culture, not a cult. > people simply don't want to accept the changing world. This is exactly right. Most of them end in a plea bargain, I think. No, Tony Stark's weapons were better than his competitors'. Steve Jobs as a weapon designer would make weapons that were more expensive and shinier than his competitors'. And while they would be easier to use they also wouldn't be serviceable by the user, which is way more important for military purposes. You probably shouldn't. Don't want to get mud on them. Armani combat suits, with kevlar built into the shirt, extra pockets for weapons in the jacket, enlarged belt loops for knives, fitted for comfortable concealed-carrying of anything smaller than a Desert Eagle. The Secret Service doesn't just want practical though, they want to look good too. They have an image to maintain. You mentioned the one percent in art, but I'm not sure that's the right metaphor. The one percent financially leave money to their kids, who stay in the one percent. You can't really leave artistic talent to your kids. Even if you encourage it, anything they put out will be scrutinized to a crazy degree. You've heard of the father, the son, and the holy ghost? Yahweh and Allah both tedder to the father. Jesus is the son. Come in handy, no less. I learned from AMAs with porn stars that they usually do the money shot early to help the guy last longer. In social issues, I think it's not that people shift right and more that society shifts left, leaving older people who don't adapt to new ideas as easily behind. Is that like how there is no war in Ba Sing Se? I'm referencing Avatar: The Last Airbender. One subplot in the second season was that the Earth Kingdom's capital, Ba Sing Se, was under siege by the Fire Nation. However, the citizens had no idea of this, as any talk of war was suppressed but agents of the Earth King, who would take the offender to "Lake Laogai", actually to be hypnotized to forget about the war. This led to the two catchphrases, "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" (which /'s comment reminded me of) and "the Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai", which you may see referenced other places on reddit. ^(It's been a few years since I last saw the show, so if I made any mistakes please feel free to correct me.) Of course they are. Everything in Australia is poisonous. And everyone was disgusted with her. Well, yes. She's white, she claimed she was black, thus disgust. If she were black claiming to be black, that wouldn't be a problem. If you mean that people wouldn't feel the same about a black person pretending to be white, I've seen tons of people that pitying Raven Symone, who recently declared that she isn't African American. | a055353b-e773-42e8-aaa5-7313d7a2a627 |
47 | -Mountain-King- | To be fair, they were totally abiding by the rules of Pym Particles as presented in the comics, which are essentially "fuck you, I do what I want." No he didn't. Smarter than us means that humans aren't as smart as dolphins. Second smartest animals on the planet means that there's another animal smarter than dolphins. He didn't say that humans are the smartest - in fact, he said that they aren't. White mice are, for the record. It's a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide. Even without getting the reference, it's not a contradiction. It did, however, have a smaller selection and streaming want a thing yet - they sent you DVDs. AFAIK in Audible you pay the subscription fee and then you own any books you get, it's not renting. Iirc they meow as kittens. They keep doing it because when they're raised by humans they learn that it gets them attention in a way that hissing doesn't. Here's my problem with unions. It's difficult to get a job in my intended business without being in a union. Okay, so join the union. To join the union, you need to get a recommendation from someone in the union. Okay, so get to know them. They need to have worked with you to give a recommendation (per union laws). Which effectively means that to join the union you either a) need to work with a union member in a non-union job (not incredibly likely) or b) find someone who doesn't particularly care about the union laws to hire you first. They haven't basically vowed to block everything Obama does, they *literally* vowed to do so. Facial recognition software is, like people, better at recognizing people similar to those it was trained on. The more data points it has, the better it is. But if it was never given any Asian points of reference it'll have more trouble with Asians than otherwise. X-Men and thus adamantium, for anyone who's confused. Also, Fox owns movie rights for X-Men. They don't own the actual series. As Weird Al once said, "my pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe, with a force (with a force) proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the distance between them". Wouldn't the chance not technically be 0, just infinitely close to it? It takes a while to not hearing it, and it will always be a little weird. Source: I often record myself and then get too self-conscious about how weird it sounds to show it to anyone. Don't worry about the downvotes. Reddit is a shitty place for this kind if thing. I don't know what the causal relationship is between the hatred of Tumblr and the hatred of anything related to gender and sexuality (if there is one), but I know that both are unwarranted. Anyway, thanks for being the one to brave the hail of blue arrows and hopefully educate a few people. Your brain says "you have no chance? shut | e6cd2fd0-259a-4c88-a6fd-82dfcda4fc31 |
48 | -Mountain-King- | Very low. At worst you might get a letter saying that you have to delete a particular file you torrented or get fined. If you're at a college the risk is higher because you can be banned from using the college wifi if that happens. Probably not. Easier to pay for a VPN though, that's what I do. Furthermore, the system shouldn't be "guilty until proven innocent" as it currently is. Just a note: American liberals are more likely to believe in freedom of religion than American conservatives at the moment, while you have the opposite. Then in the Marvel cinematic universe, movies tie into each other again, sort of lke a tv show, so Kevin Feige has a job similar to the showrunner of a TV show. It was definitely remarkable. There really wasn't anyone who could have actually defeated him if he had continued running for president. He set the precedent for how long presidents serve. If he had stepped down after three terms we'd likely have that as the standard. If he had continued to serve until his death, presidents would keep running until voted out. But Washington was a very forward thinking person and realized that he was setting the precedent, so he did so - he made the position of president different from an elected king, which it could easily have been, and he set a precedent for peaceful transfer of power which has been followed for centuries. Some are students. Others are retired. I expect that many of them are housewives or househusbands supported by their spouses. You say that feminists commonly make false rape accusations based on one case. You say their arguments are immature based on someone else mocking feminism. You are clearly not unbiased. And there are many, many more cases of actual rape. FBI statistics say that about 8% of rape claims are unfounded (not quite the same as false), and a 2010 study found less than 6% are false. Those numbers are certainly higher than anyone would like them to be, but not nearly as concerning as the number of rapes which go unreported - nearly half of sexual assaults go unreported. [Source for false rape claim statistics.]() [Source for unreported rapes.](;iid=1133) As you say, anecdotal evidence is not evidence. I didn't address most of your case because I was on my phone then and didn't want to take the time, but along with heavily exaggerating how common false rape claims are, you also make the case that the views of extremists are the views of all. That's about it for logical errors, but you also seem to believe that women are completely equal to men in first-world countries, confusing legal equality for practical equality. There are still a number of systemic inequalities which remain. For example, [there are fewer women running large companies than men named John running large companies.]() There are also inequalities which favor women, and many of these are also fought against by feminists. For | 2f05694f-aa1d-444d-bfb3-1f2ffe9953f6 |
49 | -Mountain-King- | Yes, but the causal factor is probably income or where they live, which correlate which race, rather than race bring the causal factor for crime. Almost all other sounds, however, from walking to gunshots, are replaced. Especially because he's successful at doing it to his supporters. If the percentage was less than 50% for her, you might have coincidentally not gotten any of it. It's one of the things that makes them the special forces as opposed to the regular forces. I personally hope that one of two things happens: the moderate republicans take over the Libertarian party and it becomes Democrats vs Libertarians, or the moderate republicans join the Democratic party, and liberals found a more progressive party (possibly taking over the Green party or possibly founding a new one entirely). Moderate as in socially liberal and fiscally conservative, which as I understand it is more libertarian. He's just imposing current cultural standards on ancient history by trying to make the claim that it's an instinctual thing rather than a cultural thing. Another issue though is that many poor people don't have time to make food from scratch (even though it's cheaper). I looked it up once and actually found a small gaming forum by that name, which I suppose was named after this joke. The GOP's platform supports it becoming a state. And that, in turn, probably has to do with piano and guitar being more popular instruments. The supply is higher, so the demand is lower. Probably! There are a number of similarities between metal and classical music, and fans of one are often fans of the other as well. From my perspective, people who are into metal are often into both metal and classical, and say that there are a lot of similarities. But people who are into classical say that they're different and will put down metal. This is a similar situation to the difference between comic books and so-called graphic novels, where fans of comics will say "they're basically the same" and will read both, but fans of graphic novels will put down comic books and only read graphic novels. In other words, fans of "high art" put down "low art" so as to keep the "high art" high, while the "low art" fans are able to recognize the similarities. If you don't think it had a plot you weren't paying attention. It's about two artists trying to advance their careers and find love with each other at once, and discovering that they can only do one. And I find it hard to believe that you enjoy musicals if you're criticizing it for *being a musical.* They sing for no reason? No, they sing to advance the plot or establish character, because *that's how musicals work.* They sing in traffic? Of course they do! IT'S A FUCKING MUSICAL! That song, for the record, foreshadows the plot of the entire movie as well as serving as the big opening number which is supposed to get | 981fa757-3f89-4fd3-b32a-c8958c5687a8 |
50 | -Mountain-King- | Iirc, the lowest wavelengths that can be picked up by the blue receptors in our eyes are also half the wavelength that our red receptors pick up. Some reverberating effect makes the red receptors pick them up weakly, so that very deep blues look faintly purple. Well, base 12 is more convenient for a lot of things anyway. Also LEDs trend bluer than incandescents. A "white" LED actually has a slight blue tint, and a "white" incandescent has a faint amber tint. He wants full death, but only for half the people When, exactly, did I say that offensive jokes shouldn't exist? I commented that yes, the joke was offensive, and then explained why when someone asked. Speaking as someone who spent four years working with conventions in high school and then four years working with LEDs in college - LEDs do some weird things, colorwise, and it's very different from the way gels work in conventionals (one big reason is because LEDs mix light additively - putting together small LEDs of different colors to mix them to the color you want - while conventionals with gels mix subtractively - cutting out unwanted frequencies. But also there are just some dumb ways they're programmed). A decent number of lighting designers resist LEDs because despite their convenience as far as changing colors on the fly goes, they're different from what they're used to, and that difference is often frustrating. Plus, LEDs usually use a different kind of power and data cabling than conventionals. I think LEDs are the way of the future, but it'll be a while yet - they're still too expensive for most theaters, and even then there will need to be a generational shift for designers. An LED light, typically, is made up of a multitude of LEDs of different colors, [like this](). Just like how a computer screen can show different colors by varying how bright pixels of a few colors are, an LED light can change the brightness of the different colors of LED to change the overall color produced. Conventional lights, on the other hand, use a single bulb, [like this one](). Color is provided through gels, which are colored squares of a filtering material that's placed in front of the light. That's a simplified explanation neglecting subtleties like how LEDs pull towards blue and conventionals towards yellow, but it's the basic idea. Now, as for why it will look different... Think of [a color spectrum](). Your eyes pic up three wavelengths in particular, but there are bunch in between. So, if you want to see yellow, you can either look at something yellow, which will be weakly picked up by your green and red receptors and be interpreted as yellow, or you can look at a mixture of green and red, which will be picked up by your green and red receptors and be interpreted as yellow. A conventional light will be the actual yellow - the non-yellow wavelengths get filtered out. An LED | b9135bf1-f496-467a-87f0-7891cbe02b06 |
51 | -PM-ME-YOUR-BOOBIES | But zed isn't a word to them. It's the way you sound the letter. Just like if I spelled out 'K' it would be 'Kay' would could be seen as a word. That's not what he was saying. Plenty men can go right after they come again. But he said women experience a high after orgasm that lasts much longer than men. Doesn't matter how fast you're ready to go again, your high doesn't last as long. Eyes are not a slight waste of energy. Having eyes is a vast energy dump, vision accounts for a hell of a lot of any creatures energy use. So not needing to see would only make sense to get rid of the eyes. The slight energy difference in breast size is meaningless in evolutionary terms. Again, evolution doesn't 'think' or pick traits. It's just the traits best selected for reproduction happen to reproduce more. And breast size is a non issue in human reproduction. At this point it is an issue, people sexualized breasts and enjoy bigger ones, so that's why they aren't going anywhere. Women with all types of breasts will always reproduce. Right, that's why I said it's only an issue because we made it one by sexualizing breasts. It's a non issue altogether when it comes to energy use and evolutionary terms. >They all wanted to be Nguyen They all wanted to Nguyen FTFY I don't think a chip could tear the door off of the closed locked car, but that's just me. I feel like if I tried to rip a door off while it's closed all that would happen is the handle would break. The door wouldn't move. There's no where to get a grip on it, it's perfectly sealed when it's shut. What are you gonna squeeze your fingers in the seems? That's the whole point of a door, and a lock, to keep it shut. If anyone could just rip doors off people wouldn't trust the safety of a locked car You didn't mention gender once in your 2nd reply.. so no that's not what OP was saying.. must not be very smart after all >Only won 1 Nobel prize Whelp, guess he's a fuckin nobody. If he doesn't have a shelve of nobels like the rest of us, who the hell is he?? ah I was hoping you knew You ever see the space docking scene in Interstellar? Where Matthew McConaughey has to match the rotational speed of the station they're trying to dock with? It's basically that, the dust is moving just as fast as the air in the same rotation, so it's basically, relatively, not moving at all. Because you tie your identity to your beliefs, right or wrong, it's just something people do. So if you are told something you believe is wrong, you take it as you as a person are wrong, or bad, and you want to not feel bad so you fight the evidence and the claim against your | 117d18a3-5543-4c3e-93d2-1f650cb1c4ca |
52 | -PM-Me-Your-Problems | > I have walked in an anti gravity unit to help with joint pain what is an anti gravity unit? afaik, it is generally considered rude in most Asian countries to touch a strangers head, but that kind of applies to most places (I wouldnt touch a strangers in the US, nor would I want a stranger touching my head) *powers of 2, not multiples. AC current does not work like you describe (hose analogy). They wiggle back and forth > That is because it tastes like a specific varietal of banana, the Gros Michel banana. Just to add this this: Banana flavor (in candies and in bananas) is primarily from [Isoamyl Acetate](). Gros Michel bananas just have a higher concentration of that chemical in them than Cavendish bananas. > HREFs don't link to CSS IDs Yes they do... This is the correct way of doing it. > you'd want <a name="location"></a> at the point in the page you wanted to jump to. That is not valid [HTML5]() Just look at Wikipedia With: <h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span> </h2> I imagine browsers accept both for legacy purposes, but I would be surprised if id wasn't given higher precedence in the event of a duplicate id/name > Do different states have different rules regarding when/where/who/why you can do this? Yes, which makes answering your other questions hard since it is going to vary by state. For example, in California, you can perform a citizen's arrest under these circumstances * For a public offense committed or attempted in his/her presence. * When the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence. * When a felony has been in fact committed, and he or she has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it. Not sure what there is to ELI5 here, but wikipedia answers your question pretty well: Cephalopod ink contains a number of chemicals in a variety of different concentrations, depending on the species. However, its main constituents are melanin and mucus. It can also contain, among other things, tyrosinase, dopamine and L-DOPA, as well as small amounts of free amino acids, including taurine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, alanine and lysine. Both. The alternator is only working when the engine is running so your "juice" is coming only from the battery until your engine starts. Inhaling doesn't take very long. They go to the surface to exhale because they obviously can't inhale when underwater so there would be no point in exhaling underwater. This is pretty much due to two things: informational density in Spanish is lower than in English, and the syllabic rate is higher in Spanish than English. In other words, you need more syllables in Spanish to convey the same information as you would in English. This doesn't necessarily mean that they "speak faster", but it makes it *seem* like they speak faster (and indeed, you generally would be "speaking faster" in the sense that there will be less breaks between syllables on | c7317520-e1b5-42e1-941b-049c751ca385 |
53 | -PM_ME_YOUR_PANTIES- | Firefox and Chrome use different rendering engines for CSS/HTML and different interpreting engines for JavaScript. Basically, the internal parts of the browser that are responsible for the way things look on webpages and the internal parts that are responsible for running the advanced functionality of your webpages are made differently. For the most part, they produce the same output; however, certain elements of the same webpage may display or behave slightly differently between the two browsers because their internals are ultimately made by different people. It all boils down to how a common language (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is interpreted by each browser. This is kinda similar to how the British have their own variance of English than Americans do. While an American person and a British person can talk and understand each other very well, one may use a word that the other understands to mean something different. TL;DR: Browsers interpret data; Chrome and Firefox use different interpreters. 99% of things appear and function the same. Chrome may be a little faster than Firefox. I see a few generally correct answers here, but I feel like a 5 year old wouldn't quite understand what's being explained, so here's my simplified answer: A socket is a single channel of communication within computing. Very much like you can open a text editor on your computer, write some stuff and save that text to a file, you can think of a socket like a file that gets relayed to a recipient. When writing computer programs, you "write" to a socket in the same way you might write to a file, except instead of that data being saved on your hard drive, it gets sent over a network connection instead. On the receiving end, the other program must then "read" the data stream coming from the socket, much like reading from a local file; however, the data is coming from the network interface, and not the local disk. Imagine if you had a peer to peer chat program. In its simplest form, two sockets will be created by the chat program: one to send outbound messages and one to receive incoming messages. The moment you press enter on your chat window, your message is written to that socket, which is connected (bound) to a network connection your operating system manages. When your chat partner sends you a message back, your chat program reads the data from that socket and displays it. Colors to a computer are represented in one of a few ways, the most popular of which are RGB and CMYK. "RGB" stands for "Red Green Blue", which corresponds to the amounts of red, green or blue need to be "mixed" to make up a color. In RGB, a color is represented by the relative intensities of red, green and blue (measured as a number between 0 and 255) that make up that color. These colors are often represented in Hexadecimal pairs (however, they are still stored as binary in the computers memory). | 7129a217-03a9-430e-ab86-30cb411d821a |
54 | -PM_ME_YOUR_PANTIES- | Depends on the site. In many cases, websites do not want to provide a "permalink" directly to a file so they're not just used as a download mirror. Rather, they want users to go through their website, click through their links and view their ads before ultimately getting a download link. In order to do this, a path to the file needs to be opened up and closed after the download finishes. This could be happening in that 5 seconds. Furthermore, it could be another provision (in addition to a CAPTCHA) to prevent "robots" from downloading your content. Finally, it is possibly a ploy to get you to sit on their page for a few more seconds and thus they make a few more cents off your ad impression. The short answer is that it *must* know the date, even if you didn't have to program it. There are atomic clocks that broadcast the "true" date and time over a long-range radio frequency, and its entirely possible your thermostat syncs with that. Video ads seem to start playing right away for a few reasons: - Video ads are generally shorter than the content videos, so they can load faster. Furthermore, video quality for the ads don't matter as much, so that helps push them out there. - Ads are likely served up from a different CDN (content delivery network) which is optimized for spitting out ads quickly. Since there isn't as much load on this CDN, it can serve up the ads quicker than the content is served up by the primary CDN - Ads are also regional, so its entirely possible your ad has to travel a shorter distance to arrive at your device, whereas the content video may be coming from a more distant server farm - Also, if you want to watch a specific video, YouTube has to fetch THAT specific video. However, since you're not looking for a specific ad, its also possible that some ads are cached or the most readily available ad will play first. I don't think "fanny" is common whatsoever in the US. I'd say "ass" and "butt" are the most common. Hell, even "rear end" and "buttocks" are more commonly used than "fanny." There are a few factors that contribute to a "good voice". There are a few things that can be learned, such as proper breathing technique, holding a tune, and understanding how to properly use your diaphragm (aka, sing from your chest vs your throat). Just like you can teach an athlete the proper technique for their sport, you can teach a singer proper technique for singing. Some physical limitations, much like sports apply. The majority of one's ability to sing is their ability to control their diaphragm, breathing and understand how their body produces certain tones. There are, however, certain biological limitations to singing. Not everyone has the right shape of throat, open airway, etc for singing. Your vocal cords are mucous membranes that vibrate when air passes | 8bbfc735-b9ba-4fda-9b9a-cc83db098dc0 |
55 | -PM_ME_YOUR_PANTIES- | Non-police officers don't necessarily get fired from their jobs for doing the same; however, there are legal ramifications. It wouldn't necessarily make sense to fire a police officer for making the same mistake. The 2 week suspension is only a means of temporarily revoking the officer's 'power' as a police officer until investigators can come to a conclusion. Just like everyone else, the officer is innocent until proven guilty, therefore, he still has his shot in court. Now, its very possible that after court proceedings, if he is found guilty, he will lose his job. His suspension is not his only punishment. Just about all living creatures *are* killing machines, in a sense anyway. Animals kill their own food, be it another animal or plant. They are essentially killing what they need to eat. However, survival of the fittest does not mean that "survivors" will go around killing things for the sake of killing things. Many creatures work together to build an eco-system and live in some form of symbiosis. In order to survive, there is a need for food and shelter; however, becoming a "killing machine" doesn't help further that creature. Humans, however, (and their domesticated pets) are slightly different in that we have societal roles where it is someone's job to hunt, etc... so not all humans hunt/kill to eat. [Here]() is nice quick-comparison of the two. In short, the two engines are built differently, giving you more optimal query performance in different situations. Furthermore, your ability to repair, recover data, etc varies from one engine to the other. And for the same reason, you should avoid microwaving water (or at least remove the cup from the microwave carefully). Similar to supercooling, superheating can occur by increasing the temperature of the water beyond the boiling point without actually boiling it. The moment the superheated liquid is disturbed (shaken, add sugar, etc), it may react violently and possibly injure you. Just a PSA. For all intents and purposes, both analog and digital cables are constructed very similarly: a conductor (usually copper) running through a rubber tube. However, certain types of cables may have additional elements for durability or specific use cases (i.e. coaxial cables, optical cables, instrument cables, etc) For most uses, an *analog* signal carried though the cable carries "information" by varying the voltage to produce a continuous "wave" of signal in real time. The variations in voltage through the wire are directly related to the data being transmitted - for example: the analog signal carried through your headphone cord very closely resembles the sound-waves you hear coming out of the headphones. This works quite nicely, but there are drawbacks: an analog signal subjected to signal noise (interference from other electronics, magnets, etc) can directly impact the information being transmitted through the cable. Furthermore, the nature of an electric signal carried through a conductive metal (aka, a wire/cord) dictates the signal will degrade once transmitted over a long enough medium. This is because of the electrical resistance metals | 3ec0aa11-481c-4ca3-87ca-fcf951662793 |
56 | -PM_ME_YOUR_PANTIES- | The producer of that item has a prearranged agreement with various/certain school systems where they promise to donate a certain amount of money for every box-top turned in. They do this so they aren't obligated to pay for each unit sold, rather they wait for those consumers who care enough to turn in box tops, and that saves the company money. This is a loaded question, but I'll answer as best as I can in simplest terms. The American healthcare system is comprised of healthcare providers and health insurance companies. If you are covered by health insurance, you pay some monthly, semi-annual or annual payment to the insurance company in exchange for a certain standard of coverage (detailed in the plan you choose to subscribe to). When you receive healthcare at a hospital or doctor's office, the healthcare provider will ask if you are using insurance or not, and if so, they bill their expenses/costs to the insurance company. The insurance company determines which costs are covered by your plan, pay the docto what the plan covers, and bill you for the rest. In many cases, for preventative care (ie, a standard annual checkup at your family doctor), you pay a "copay" and your insurance covers the rest. This is something like a $10-50 fee, depending on your policy. For major illnesses like diabetes or cancer that require ongoing treatment, it again depends on your insurance coverage. Usually, you'll have a deductible, meaning you are obligated to cover the first X dollars of your medical expenses before insurance kicks in, and of course there are limitations. So this is a difficult question to answer in a generic way, because it very much depends on what your prior agreement is with your insurance provider. If you are without insurance coverage altogether, there is limited care you can receive. Hospital emergency rooms are forbidden from denying care to those without insurance, so you often see many uninsured patients in the ER for things an insured patient would go to a doctors office for. Private practice doctors generally do not accept patients who do not have insurance, as they need to earn money to keep their practice going and pay for their personal expenses. Hospitals, on the other hand, typically have a certain fund/budget/endowment that allows them to be slightly flexible with uninsured patients. They still send the bill to the patient, work out payment plans, etc. Sometimes they forgive the cost of care entirely, but usually work it down to a manageable number for the patient. Often, they bill the insurance companies much more than they would if they directly billed the uninsured patient directly. The Affordable Care Act, or commonly known as "Obamacare", is merely a program where the government subsidizes the cost of health insurance for those who could not otherwise afford it. The level of subsidy is based upon your stated income (and verified against your tax filing). If you earn below a certain level, the subsidies available are | fdccf6a6-fdbb-4ee7-b982-a3408b05e420 |
57 | -PM_ME_YOUR_PANTIES- | I was involved in a very interesting discussion on this topic. / wrote [this]() comment, virtually answering your question in great depth. His comment was gilded. Very much worth a read. EDIT: made my response clearer Cost is the biggest answer. A Boeing 747 can cost up to $380 Million. It takes an airlines many, many flights to recuperate that cost. In addition to paying for the plane, the ticket you buy to get you a seat on the flight is partially used to pay for fuel, airline staff and ground crews wages, the food and drinks they serve, maintenance, taxes and fees, insurance, research and development, marketing, in-flight entertainment, etc. Therefore, airliners must get a lot of use out of one plane and so they don't upgrade very often. We've also seen planes like the Concord (since the 70's) that was able to reduce travel time significantly; however, due to a significant amount of issues, the planes were grounded and banned from the skies. It has remained the most cost effective to continue using our existing technology. I believe you are really asking two questions here: Why is Pi so important? and Why do some people strive to calculate so many digits of Pi? 1. Pi has a huge significance in various mathematical applications. This is particularly useful for various practical applications. To be very brief, the practical uses of math involving Pi are used very frequently, from calculations for digital audio playback to knowing how fast your car is driving and beyond. Pi is a big deal because it fits into so many real world uses. 2. Calculating subsequent digits of Pi we haven't reached yet really isn't that big of a deal nor does it have much of a practical use; however, much like finding the next prime number, finding more digits of Pi serves as a bragging right for mathematicians and nerds alike. It also a means of showing a supercomputers capabilities. Without knowing more about the cameras specifically, it's hard to say that they are appropriately priced or not. It is conceivable to have lapel mounted cameras that record and store 1+ days worth of video and audio, are small enough to wear, high enough quality, durable for field use, etc.. and cost upwards of $1,000. That being said; however, it is also possible that police departments are contractually obligated to purchase equipment from certain suppliers, and knowing these are hot ticket items, the supplier may be seizing this opportunity to make some extra money. Even the Golden Gate bridge, being a suspension bridge, has its two main supports in the water. And the Bay Bridge, just a few miles from the Golden Gate, has many more pylons in the water. Basically, they build a water tight barrier around the area where they are going to insert the pylons that hold up the bridge. They can do this with divers and other aquatic equipment. Once the barrier around where the pylon is to go is | c9379e5e-7e06-41a9-a764-0580f524fbd0 |
58 | -PaperbackWriter- | One theory is that he broke in and for whatever reason, maybe die to nervousness, had to take a poop. He hear Meredith come home and not wanting her to hear him, he didn't flush it and snuck up on her and attacked her. After it was all done he'd forgotten about the toilet and left. That all sounds extremely plausible to me. If someone held her down, where is their DNA? I don't think it's completely out of the question to think that Amanda might have found the toilet like that, and left it BECAUSE she was annoyed by the uncleanliness of it. I could see someone leaving it there so they could point to it as an example when complaining to someone about making mess, or just simply refusing to flush it on principle. Then after the body was found she may have realised the significance of it and that's why she was concerned the police may have flushed it. I maintain that staging a break in makes no sense at all. Why would they do that? Even if they had let him in that night, there was no need at all to do that, as to an outsider Meredith may have let him in, or the door may have been unlocked, any number of things might have happened. I think it's fair to say that Knox and Sollecito are not stupid people. They were both university students and by all accounts bright. So what person with half a brain in their head would stage a break in that left the glass on too of everything, or would ransack the room before breaking the window? There may be another explanation for how things looked the way they did, because I find it had to believe that two otherwise intelligent people would a) think staging a break in was a good idea and b) fuck it up so badly. I'm not an expert but my daughter was recently sick, and what I gathered through all of that was that yes, taking the ibuprofen or even paracetamol to lower temperature can inhibit the immune system's reaction a bit. Not completely but in reducing temperature you stop the body's natural fighting reaction, which is why a lot of doctors have moved away from recommending them for every fever. Most suggest that if you have a fever but are not feeling too poorly, you should allow the fever to continue to fight the infection. The doctor advised me to only give my daughter medication to make her feel better if she was lethargic etc., but to leave her if she was playing, talking and so on. When people tell me I'm smart, I always tell them I think I just peaked earlier than other people. I was smarter than the other kids until late high school, and I rode on that, so now I'm just a person of average intelligence who is useless at studying. This is how I feel about it. | 4e110b92-bb06-4a90-9c6c-2e8e0f51b0b9 |
59 | -ParticleMan- | LOL! you're so delusional that you are now implying that your downvotes for being dumb are actually someone gaming the system all in order to pick on your specifically? Well arent you a special little snowflake! I hate to break it to you, you're just an idiot talking out of his ass. no, because they might break, scratch, or not give it back in a reasonable time. but i do seed, at minimum, 2:1 and usually more Thats not how it works, you have to first make an argument that makes sense and then prove it. if you make the claim it's up to you to prove it, not to make others prove it wrong. and thats how we know you're some 12 year old troll. I went to a huge showing of his work at the philladelphia museum of art (the one that had rocky on the steps) 20something years ago and he did A LOT more than just paintings, but it's like others have said, he did what he did first. it doesnt seem as impressive this long after the fact because it's been done so many times by so many people since then, but at the time, it was new and different. kind of like bullet time in the matrix, at the time is was some cool shit, but now it's been done to death and commonplace He didnt go to jail for weed, he went to jail for selling bongs. > The chances of being a victim of violent crime in the us are so incredibly small.... the biggest argument for having them is to protect yourself from that. maybe it's on a state by state basis, but if a store advertises a price, they're required to honor that price. maybe not on something like a gas station sign, but in print, or if the pricetag is wrong, they HAVE to honor it. Titan is a giant gas station regardless of what it is, it's all in your head! (because thats where your earholes go). that is weird though. i'm 40 (and have had since i was around your age) but i cant change the pitch of mine, i can 'turn it down' or ignore it, as long as there is some other noises in the background. but in a quiet room, it just gets louder can confirm, am not bear i dont think they were asking advice on a diet they were considering. i think they were asking "why cant people do it but bears can" with that kind of attitude it is you sound pissed that its harder to find child porn. Because its considered impolite to rub other people's faces when you're tired. you said the fcc knows what it is because they read it, and then said no one's read it which is it? > The 'fear' that you may have observed is simply an evolutionary reaction that the frontal ganglia is producing to insure the rest of the insect can continue | 3c4056b2-816a-485a-b2f1-55f543e86160 |
60 | -ParticleMan- | people survive gunshot wounds to the head all the time. it's not as foolproof as the movies make it seem. and firing squads aim for the heart anyway. > useless companion companion is a legit job Hyenas, wolves, even bears are distant dog cousins (or vice versa) "This is my wolf, Bear." "Oh him? that's just my bear, Wolf" yep, it works! edit: it would have to be a grizzly bear though. Polar bears are too flashy some people prefer having lives outside of work instead of having bragging rights about how US IS BEST! (even when it hasnt been true in decades) are you talking about the ones that were buried for 30 years in the dirt? it's hard to tell with all of those sources you gave for the claim. >mild mannered boxer i recognize those words but they make no sense together. (unless it's old) I've never had one that wasnt pants on big square head retarded (in a good way) they also basically started over from scratch 6 or 7 times along the way in order to keep up with technology. I dont think that shitshow is a good example for this Considering the vast majority of their customers have shitty soundsystems, they may want to consider it. AZ has also spent the past 50 years preparing for things like this with various storage, rerouting, and basic water management. we may have has some dumb as shit politicians over that time, but not on the subject of water management A more patriotic title that describes the opposite of what it is, even more than "Freedom Act" The We love our Grandmas More Than Anything Act > Weirdos will pay more in bids than what the item can be bought brand new. more like the site has bidding bots that jack up prices for the real users. Why would introducing a bill that would help people and use government money in a way that actually benefits people have to do with getting votes? the selfish projection is strong here This is an actual thing he's submitted, not some hollow campaign promise. Unlike those running now, he actually put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. And when you live in a desert, 80f is a nice day. Where i live, i wont be seeing any of those nice days until mid october, at least (Phoenix) all the videos i've seen of them doing that state that they are abandoned nests > Lactaid pills do get the job done most of the time, but not completely from my experience. the trick is to take more. I have to take 4 at a time for them to work for me. That gif has more artifacts than a museum I think you're being a little generous with the word "think" Well, that sure sounds like an opinion, doesnt it? > There are laws regarding data storage, retrieval, archival, etc. none of which existed at the time. if she | 60ebfc07-632c-4671-952d-e89fea53a6a0 |
61 | -RagnarDanneskjold- | Backwards compatibility with multiple devices. People are still using monitors with varying connections and adding a ports for several of them is a much easier way to get people to buy your product that only offering a card with one kind. Some people are still using VGA, or DVI, or HDMI, while others with enough cash may have switched entirely over to newer monitors using DisplayPort. Some people even use TVs as their monitor. A company that makes graphics cards wants to sell as many as they can to as many people as they can. This means offering the choice for as many realistic standards as possible. Realistic meaning you're not likely to see an old VGA port on a high end graphics card made in the last few years, but you'll still probably see HDMI or maybe DVI along with a few DisplayPort. And there is also the difference between what kind of signal is being sent over that wire. Some are analog only. Some are digital only, or a combination of the two. Some can transmit data or sound while others can only do video. You don't know exactly what your customer needs, and it's not practical to manufacture and sell 40 different versions of the same card with varying types of connections when they can put 4 or 5 of the most common ones on the back and sell the same unit to 90% of the customer base. Because when they are made and packaged, they are made in a sterile environment and have likely had the air removed. This means while still sealed, there is no bacteria or other pathogens in the packaging. When you open it, outside air is introduced which contains millions of microscopic organisms, which then get to work on making more of themselves in the product. Cold slows down (but doesn't stop) this effect. This is why they can last for months or years unopened, but maybe a few weeks after opened, even in a refrigerator. Leave it out in the open air on your counter top and those pathogens can reproduce fast enough to make it spoil in days or even hours. You answered your own question. > songs from the same album or artist were often grouped by chance, it happened a lot that the same song was played twice even if the list is long Purely by random chance, there is the possibility that track 7 from an album would appear on a playlist right after track 6 of the same album. It is random (or as close to random as a computer can make it) but the human brain doesn't see it that way. So they introduced some code to prevent that from happening. You can, in theory, randomly flip a coin 10 times and get heads 10 times in a row. It won't seem random to you, but that possibility is technically as equally possible as any other 10 combinations of flips. Because to most people the | f309c062-8c06-453a-97d7-3cce08b2c78d |
62 | -RagnarDanneskjold- | Well first, dark isn't something. It's the absence of something. Light is actually the presence of something, photons. Second, how fast something can go is limited by its mass. The lower the mass, the faster it can go. Since light has no mass, its speed it considered the fastest. You can't, that we know of and with our current understanding of physics (which is probably mostly correct), have something that has less than nothing mass, so that which has no mass and travels at a certain speed, is by default the fastest. Also, it's the speed of light *in a vacuum* that is the fastest. Since it works the other way and mass can slow things down as well. Light through a medium with mass, like water for instance, or atmosphere, is going slower than it would in a vacuum. Because systems that use PINs are designed to trigger an alert if a certain number of incorrect entries are made, usually in the single digits. This alert can disable access for a period of time, like 10min, maybe an hour, or permanently. You often need to contact the system administrator in order to unlock the account after a lock down like that. So unless you're *reeeaaallly* lucky and make a correct guess within the first one or two tries, you'll just disable access to the account completely. Our large brains mean we have to be expelled from the body before we grow too large to fit through the birth canal, so as a result we have to do a lot of our growing outside the body. Our brains are also the reason why we have and can use weapons to prevent being eaten by a lion. They don't have to develop as much. It actually isn't. The "men's" division is actually open to everyone, women included. Women by and large just choose not to play in it. It's actually the same with a lot of sports. There are women's divisions and open divisions which are open to both genders. As for why women by and large choose not to play chess against men in the open division, that's anyone's guess. It's each player's individual decision. From your own article : >Being targeted does not mean that sensitive voter data was manipulated or results were changed. A hacker targeting a system without getting inside is similar to a burglar circling a house checking for unlocked doors and windows. There was no election hacking. It should be noted that not all nations have historically done this regular maintenence. The Soviet Union let many of their missiles fall in to disrepair and it is thought that a significant portion of them would have either failed to hit their targets or failed to launch entirely if that day had come. That will be an additional $400 for the glass, and $79 for each ounce of milk. > If all the large 'free countries' did not have a military, realistically what would happen? All of | 38feae7d-a283-412b-a2c3-0097211c0dd1 |
63 | -RagnarDanneskjold- | It actually can, but it doesn't look as good. People have become used to seeing what they expect blood to look like in movies, and a more realistic version actually looks less real than than the real thing. None of that pertains to what he was asking... Several reasons. First, mental health treatment even if sought is a craps shoot. We frankly know very little about how the brain actually works and what causes different mental health problems. Mental health treatment right now is a combination of trying to talk to people and throwing an almost random combination of chemicals at them to see what seems to work and what doesn't. Finding the right medications and right dosages to address one person can take numerous attempts, and the failed attempts might not just not work, they might make it worse. And then the next person with the exact same symptoms might take an entirely separate drug regiment to achieve positive results. It's pretty much trial and error on an individual basis. And that's not even including the fact that unlike diagnosing a physical problem, like a broken leg or a cancerous tumor, with mental health we have to rely almost entirely on the patient telling us their symptoms, and being truthful. We can't just scan them and see what's wrong. People often forget that the "better mental health treatment" that is often demanded after an incident like on Sunday *has yet to actually be invented*. A shocking amount of it is just good old fashioned guesswork. Second, seeking mental health treatment is a difficult, shameful, stigmatized, and life-limiting decision. When you break your leg, you don't have to worry about your friends and family thinking you're a weak or broken person for going to get it set and cast. When you get the flu, you don't have to worry about being fired from your job for having had the flu. Not for missing work or getting other people sick. But just "you had the flu once. We can't employ you any longer". When you get diagnosed with Celiac disease, you don't have to worry about that diagnosis following you around on paper for the rest of you life. Job applications and security clearance forms don't ask "Do you now or have you ever been diagnosed or treated for Celiac Disease?". When you purchase a firearm, there is no question asking you if you've ever sought treatment for Arthritis or ever had cancer. Those things *are* the case with mental illnesses. There are jobs you just cannot have if you've ever been treated or diagnosed with mental problems. There are jobs that will not hire you if you've ever even been to any kind of mental health counseling. Entire careers that are simply off limits to you *forever* if you've ever been treated, diagnosed, or counseled for certain mental issues. The current background check from, the ATF Form 4473, does ask "Have you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR | c3059336-193f-4945-a7ea-257f2672c94f |
64 | -RagnarDanneskjold- | [Here is a helpful diagram](), that shows an exaggerated view of what's going on. Bullets don't travel in a straight line, despite what it might look like. They travel up and then down in an arc, called a ballistic arc or path, just like throwing a football. Light on the other hand, for all intents and purposes, does travel in a straight line, which brings about your question. To make sure your bullet hits what you see through the scope you "zero" or "sight in" the scope or optic. This is where you pick a certain range, say 25m, where the bullet will be passing through that point where it looks like it is in the scope. It will then again pass through another point that is in line with the scope on its way down, say 300m. A shooter can pick different ranges to zero his scope, and each one will have a point where it intersects with the straight line path of the sight or scope on its way up the arc, and again on the way down. Different bullets, different barrel lengths, different calibers, etc all change what these paths are, so a good shooter will make a table or chart for a specific rifle, scope, bullet weight, amount of gunpowder, etc and calculate where the bullet will be for that particular setup at any given range. You're right in that it is well established, but that doesn't make it just or right. It's actually *very* dangerous to make setting aside the rule of law for specific interests or popular reasons common and normal. That was on of the things that led to the downfall of Rome in fact. They had a series of law too, about who could hold what position and for how long, who could run for what office, etc. Eventually those laws got set aside due to popular support often enough that they became meaningless. This lead the way for popular strong men like Marius and Sulla, who in turn led the way for Pompey Magnus and Caesar. Your point about amending the Constitution is spot on. If we don't like a certain law, then change it. If it's unconstitutional, change the Constitution. Brushing that all aside and essentially saying that yeah well, it's unconstititional but it's really popular or we think "it's the right thing to do" so we're just going to do it anyways is a very dangerous and toxic attitude to have and it leads to the breakdown of rule of law. To put it simply, the "loose construction" attitude towards the Constitutional is corrosive to liberty and rule of law. It is disguising lawlessness in law and discrimination in equality. It is a mockery to the democratic process and paves the way to oligarchy, tyranny, and capricious misuse of the law against select groups while allowing the law to shield others from justice. Established or not, it is *wrong*. I'm not sure what you mean by scope base, unless | c11338e2-98d6-4e32-9e35-950dbcb40c45 |
65 | -RagnarDanneskjold- | Yes, if they have a field adjustable scope like [this one]() IF they have a simple red dot optic like [this one](), they can really only practically adjust it on a shooting range, and in the field they basically have to just aim higher or lower to find the right distance. Crew served weapons mounted to turrets on US military vehicles have this. It's called the CROWS system. Instead of a gunner in a turret firing the gun, the weapon is mounted to a rotating platform with several cameras and an automatic firing mechanism. The gunner sits in the backseat and controls the turret with a joystick over a video monitor. There is a laser rangefinder built in, and after lasing a target, the system will automatically adjust the point of aim to match the point of impact for that range. No, being told your rights *before you're asked possibly incriminating questions* is a cornerstone of democracy. You don't have to be read your rights if they don't plan on asking questions or charging you with a crime. They do, but those are one step above field sobriety tests. The more invasive the investigative technique, the more demonstrable reason the officer needs to use it. Failing a field sobriety tests is evidence that can then be used to demonstrate the need for a preliminary breath test. Failing a PBT(or refusing) is probable cause for arrest. Once arrested they can then use the much more accurate breath test at the station. The real answer is because aircraft manufacturers sell aircraft to many different nations, and not all ban smoking. So they produce a design that's equipped to handle smoking and let the carrier handle the no smoking stuff if their laws require it. Metal fatigue from compression cycles, or being stretched or compressed beyond their limit. When a spring is made, it basically has three states. The resting state when there is no load at all, plus an upper and lower limit for compression and expansion. If you stretch the spring, but under the expansion limit, it will return to it's resting state. Likewise if you compress the spring within its compression limit, it will return to its resting state. If you exceed those limits however, the structure of the metal is warped and it will not return to its resting state. Similarly, *cycles* of compression and expansion, even within those limits, will over time cause metal fatigue which can cause the spring to eventually fail. However, if you leave the spring either compressed or expanded, but within the limits, and just let it sit with no cycling, it will retain its structure and abilities indefinitely, barring outside factors like rust or corrosion obviously. Basically microscopic cracks that occur at stress points in a metal structure. Different types of metals are made with different techniques, some such as steel, by introducing different materials such as carbon to the process when creating the alloy. The way they make different types of steel | 84b94897-fb00-4b41-9ad5-96bf9de3da48 |
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