Question: How does the weather change so fast?

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 How does the weather change so fast?

The distance to the horizon is typically a few miles to maybe 15 miles depending on your elevation, so looking all around you might be able to see 30-40 miles worth of sky (15-20 in either direction). If clouds above your head are moving at 20mph, they can easily blow over the horizon in under an hour. Also, clouds dissipate, sometimes quickly, depending on lots of factors (temperature changes, wind speed an direction changes, humidity changes, etc.). Combining your limited view of the sky with ever-changing clouds, it's not unusual to have a cloudy day turn into a sunny day, and vice versa, in under an hour.


Question: . Can the definition of 20-20 vision be changed? Since the definition is "what the average person sees at 20 feet" can the goalposts be moved so to speak if peoples' vision gets better or worse enough? Has this ever happened in the past?

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 . Can the definition of 20-20 vision be changed? Since the definition is "what the average person sees at 20 feet" can the goalposts be moved so to speak if peoples' vision gets better or worse enough? Has this ever happened in the past?

Having 20/20 vision on the Snellen eyechart does not mean "what the average person sees at 20 feet". The 20/20 refers to the specific line on the eyechart that the patient can read. The first number (always 20) is the distance in feet at which the test was conducted. The second number (and this is a little complicated) is the distance in feet at which the gap in the letter "C" in the font used on the eyechart would cover 1 minute of visual angle (1/60th of a degree). So, for the 20/20 line on the eyechart, that would mean that 20 feet away from the chart, the gap in the letter C would be 1 minute of visual angle on the retina. So, if the 20/20 line is the smallest you can read on the chart, then you have 20/20 vision. If the smallest line you can read is the 20/15 line, then you have 20/15 vision. 20/20 vision is typically considered good (better than average) and the repetition of the numbers is "catchy" so that may be why the phrase caught on.


Question: Why is it accepted that some commodities can fluctuate in price daily, (like hotel rooms or gas), but others are expected to stay relatively stable (Windex, batteries, an iPhone)?

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 Why is it accepted that some commodities can fluctuate in price daily, (like hotel rooms or gas), but others are expected to stay relatively stable (Windex, batteries, an iPhone)?

Apple certainly decides how much the next iPhone is going to be priced for, based on popularity / sales of the previous year's iPhone. Likewise, a grocery store certainly updates prices regularly based on demand as well (go check out the 'clearance bin' if you don't believe me). So demand-driven pricing still applies to all those things, but you generally don't see it because it happens on a much slower time scale, and you're not regularly buying those things. What's special about the items that you do observe price fluctuations on, is that those items are based on _immediate delivery_ of something that has a _limited supply_. For those industries, the price fluctuates much more quickly. Also, when a local sports team near me moved from standardized ticket pricing to dynamic ticket pricing, the local media / fans _did_ go apeshit. We complained and yelled. And then we got used to it, and bought the tickets. So I guess the real answer is, that behavior is ok because we let those companies get away with it.


Question: why is it that the bigger your FOV is in a game, the faster it feels like you're moving?

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 why is it that the bigger your FOV is in a game, the faster it feels like you're moving?

If you're in a moving car and look straight ahead (in the direction the car is traveling), it doesn't look like the car is moving very fast compared to if you look out a side window (perpendicular to the direction of travel). In the car analogy, increasing your FOV exposes more of the area to the sides of the car to your eyes. So a higher fraction of the things in your line of sight look like they're moving faster. This same idea holds in games.


Question: Where does a online bank keep their money?

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 Where does a online bank keep their money?

They have your bank account number and the $5 is deducted from your total. It’s a numbers game. Banks don’t have all of the money of every client on hand at any given moment. That’s why they pay interest for you storing your money with them. And that’s why the [bank panic]( URL_0 ) leading to the Great Depression were so bad. Everyone tried to withdraw their money at the same time, but the banks didn’t actually have their money. The banks made a gamble and they lost.


Question: Why can firms like Ally & Goldman Sachs offer much higher interest rates for savings then my own bank?

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 Why can firms like Ally & Goldman Sachs offer much higher interest rates for savings then my own bank?

Instead of higher interest rates, it offers services like in person tellers, physical branches, linked checking accounts, notary services, certified checking and networks of no-fee atms. Enough people value those extra benefits that those banks don't feel the need to offer higher interest rates to compete with online no frills banks.


Question: why are we addicted to drama?

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Probably because we as humans enjoy hearing about other people’s suffering to distract us from our own.


Question: Why is a genetical improvement of human babies considered unethical?

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The genetic editing of babies is generally seen as unethical because right now we don't really know that alterations are going to be improvements. You might try to make someone be a better runner for example and actually end up growing a baby with only 20% of normal lung function. Or maybe try to make a baby with a better immune system and what you get is a baby who's skin keeps falling off on its own.


Question: How come the moon look tiny sometimes, and gigantic sometimes?

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 How come the moon look tiny sometimes, and gigantic sometimes?

It's called the [Moon illusion]( URL_0 ). I can't really ELI5 since there's no single accepted theory as to the cause of this particular optical illusion. But the above-linked Wikipedia page lays out several theories.


Question: what makes RAM faster if there are no moving parts?

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 what makes RAM faster if there are no moving parts?

RAM is faster *because* there are no moving parts. Compared to a hard drive RAM operates at much high speeds mostly because it doesn't have to wait for seek time, which is the amount of time need for the drive to rotate and the hammer to move to the correct position. Different RAM modules have different speeds due to continual improvements made in the architecture. Newer chips are more efficient in design and heat resistant and can operate at much higher clock speeds.


Question: With all the technology, why can’t they make a vacuum quiet?

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 With all the technology, why can’t they make a vacuum quiet?

Actually, they can. The problem is that first this costs money (you'd have for instance to make a bigger vacuum to add material to dampen vibrations and noise), and second people think silent vacuums aren't powerful. There's also such a thing as a central vacuum where you install a big vacuum motor in the basement and run vacuum lines around the entire building. This is of course not easy to install, but it would reduce the amount of noise upstairs by a huge amount.


Question: Why does the sound a kettle makes, slowly decrease in frequency (high to low), the closer it gets to the boil?

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 Why does the sound a kettle makes, slowly decrease in frequency (high to low), the closer it gets to the boil?

Looks like it's related to what is happening with bubbles! "There are three phenomena that occur before vigorous boiling of water that produce sound. 1) Air dissolved in water on heating forms small air bubbles at the bottom of the container. These air bubbles get released from the bottom of the container on reaching a sufficient size. The process of release produces a sound of frequency \~ 100Hz. 2) On boiling, small vapor bubbles get produced at the bottom of the container and also produce sound of \~ 100 Hz on release. However, they cool down before they reach the surface of water and collapse. This collapsing produces a sound of frequency \~ 1 KHz. 3) Collapsing vapor bubbles agitate the water to release small micro air bubbles from water and also from the air trapped in the vapor bubble. This production of micro air bubbles produces a sound of \~ 35 - 60 kHz." & #x200B; [Source]( URL_0 )


Question: What is the difference between renting and "sharing"?

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 What is the difference between renting and "sharing"?

There's no legal/functional difference. It's almost all PR. The cultural difference is that "sharing" is from (presumably) normal people renting out their rooms/cars/etc. as opposed to an actual entity buying rooms/cars/etc for the express purpose of renting it out. Building a hotel = renting; renting out a room in your house that was already built = sharing. Since lots of people are now explicitly building rooms for rent in AirBnB, this distinction doesn't mean much.


Question: why do glass and ceramics break when you drop them, while plastics and metals don’t?

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 why do glass and ceramics break when you drop them, while plastics and metals don’t?

Ceramics have a rigid crystal structure. They cannot take much/any strain before breaking apart, there is no ‘give’ within the material itself (ability for layers to slide over each other without breaking apart entirely). Breaking Strain is a physical property of a material - the extension (before breaking) divided by the length under test. Ceramics also invariably have surface imperfections which are the source of crack propagation, if for example you knock the material it might shatter (at the speed of sound). Plastics are made up from tangled chains of C based molecules, which can slip and slide over each other while maintaining structural strength, within limits of course. Metals too are ductile (opposite of brittle) - gold can be drawn to atomic thicknesses, according to Wikipedia, which is a great source of information for questions like this.


Question: Is potential energy just a cop-out?

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 Is potential energy just a cop-out?

It turns into kinetic energy of the ball, for as long as it keeps rolling, and the ball will "pay out" that energy bit by bit to get over bumps, knock aside blades of grass, and so forth. When it's finally used up all the energy it was carrying, that's when it'll come to a halt.


Question: Why haven’t scientists been able to make humans immortal yet?

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 Why haven’t scientists been able to make humans immortal yet?

Scientists have been able to make humans immortal. Sadly only at the cellular level, in the form of cancer, releasing toxins that causes the brain to stop functioning. Still, one of those cancers have been alive for the better part of a century on top of the lifetime of the person it's from, helped make vaccines for polio and figure out cloning, all sorts of stuff. So yeah, that's pretty much all that's stopping us. We need to not only find the cure for cancer, but a way to make cancer not be cancer and/or not happen in the first place despite doing stuff that should definitely cause cancer.


Question: Why does water taste different after being left out for a while?

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 Why does water taste different after being left out for a while?

If water is left out in an unsealed container like a glass for a prolonged period of time carbon dioxide will slowly dissolve in the water. This will form carbonic acid, bicarbonate, and carbonate giving the water a slightly acidic and stale taste like flat sparkling water.


Question: What would happen if 2 supercomputers played chess at against each other? Would the game end in seconds?

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 What would happen if 2 supercomputers played chess at against each other? Would the game end in seconds?

Well, that'll depend on how "supercomputer" they are. Are they so super that these hypothetical computers can solve the game? Then yes, it could be over in seconds. With conventional computers and the best chess engines right now, we are far from solving the game and it would take as much time as the engine believes necessary to think. The vast majority of games will be draws. What aren't draws will be White wins. There will be very few, if any, black wins.


Question: If room temperature is comfortable, what are blankets often necessary while sleeping?

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Human body drops a few degrees while sleeping. Also it kann by just because you are used to sleep with blanket so your brain won’t let you sleep without it.


Question: Why is it so difficult to make reflections in video games?

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Doing a reflection essentially means drawing the scene twice, once from the camera's point of view and once from "within" the mirror. Drawing the scene takes a lot of processing power. If the game runs at say 60 fps normally, having to draw the scene twice will make that framerate drop significantly. That said it should be possible if the developers are clever about where they place mirrors. For example if a lot of the game has wide open spaces with lots of stuff in it, but mirrors are only ever in enclosed spaces with not much in them then it could work ok. But it's still a lot of work to implement mirrors, and generally do players care about them that much? The time is usually better spent on other features.


Question: How and why are “decreasing birth rates” a problem?

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 How and why are “decreasing birth rates” a problem?

Most first world economies are predicated on a model of perpetual population growth, which is of course unsustainable.


Question: Why do people on meth talk to themselves? And why is it often times rambling nonsense?

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You know sometimes you get an urge to do something, and you just gotta do it? Well when you're on meth your mind races and that impulse to do something is ramped up a lot. So sometimes you fixate on something, maybe a subject like exes/relationships or whatever, and you just gotta get it out. You'll often delve deep into introspection, and have conversations with people/play a scenario out in your head, different angles/different perspectives etc. The main thing is that meth makes you fixate on stuff, and you just keep pulling the thread. You've probably heard of people becoming clean freaks when on speed spending hours on end cleaning their carpet, picking at it, or trying to find drugs that "fell" or more likely don't exist. The addict/user will know what they're doing is stupid, but they've just got to keep on looking around/"cleaning" etc.


Question: Why does each subsequent generation seem to look younger than the last?

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 Why does each subsequent generation seem to look younger than the last?

Many of our grandparents and certainly out great grand parents worked manual jobs , many outside. This will age you faster with exposure to the elements. Plus, the older you get, you forget what you looked like when you were younger so people just look younger than you remember


Question: Were famine and water scarcity always such huge problems in Africa? How has it come to such conditions?

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 Were famine and water scarcity always such huge problems in Africa? How has it come to such conditions?

Not always. In some places, colonists brought non-native plants and agricultural methods that were not sustainable to the area, and cut down large areas of jungle and forest. This damaged the ecosystem and made it hard to grow sustainable crops. Wangari Maathai’s memoir “Unbowed” talks more about this.


Question: Why did the Nazi Party brand themselves as National Socialists when they are considered far-right?

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Because their platform was socialist with a nationalist focus. It's kind of in the name. Have a look at point 7. of their platform. > 7. We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich. So that's socialist in that everyone is provided for, *if* they are a German national. The far right is the last part. Expulsion of all non-citizens if the Germans were not all capable of a decent standard of living. [Here's a list of their 25 points.]( URL_0 ) If you have a look at that, you can see strong socialist elements, with far right elements as well.


Question: What makes cough syrup taste bad? Why can't they make it taste better?

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The active ingredients (the actual medicine) are in fact bitter. They try to add strong flavors to hide that, but there's only so much they can do.


Question: . What is a flame? I know energy is released and heat but what is a flame?

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A flame is the light released by flammable gases reacting with oxygen. When you burn something, the first thing that happens is the heat causes large carbon-based molecules, like the cellulose in wood, to break down into smaller molecules, molecules small enough to be gaseous at those temperatures. These rise, because they're hotter than the air, forming that iconic flame shape as they do so. Then, because these are both hot and flammable, they react with oxygen in the air, which causes the release of light and even more heat.


Question: Why does it always seem like cancer patients health nosedives when they get diagnosed with cancer? Is it a mental thing or were they just that close to showing serious signs when they went to see a doctor?

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The procedures and medicines used to combat the cancer cells will also attack the healthy cells, making their health nosedive.


Question: why does honey form small coils when it's being poured?

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 why does honey form small coils when it's being poured?

Destin from Smarter Every Day has a video on this: URL_0


Question: What makes water freeze in the shape of a snowflake?

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[This Wikipedia article on hopper crystals]( URL_0 ) is illustrated with the famous shape of bismuth, but it mentions that the phenomenon also applies to water crystals: under the right circumstances the crystal growth is strongest at the edges and corners. In its most extreme form it creates the "flake" shape.


Question: How does sword swallowing work?

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The sword swallower trains their throat and gag reflex such that they can insert the sword without the muscles constricting around it. Basically the same concept as deep throating except deeper. The "sword" is of course a dull prop sword for the show, basically a smooth metal strip.


Question: Why are obvious MLM's/pyramid schemes (like herbalife, huns,... ) not illegal in the USA?

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The main reason is that they are not pyramid schemes. A pyramid scheme is a scheme where early investors are paid not out of profits from the investment, but from the initiation fees or investments of later members. There is no underlying business model (or, at least, not one capable of sustaining the business) in these schemes - they only exist because new members come in. In contrast, businesses like Herbalife _do_ sell product and most of their revenue does come from product sales. Now, you can make _more_ money if you recruit additional people to sell, but your profits still come from actual sales of product (be those from yourself or from your recruits). Maybe they _should_ be illegal because the recruitment is a bit deceptive, but they don't operate like pyramid schemes so they shouldn't be illegal just be cause such schemes are.


Question: How does 2 channel, 4 pole, audio from a 3.5mm jack deliver 7.1 surround sound?

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The additional channels are decoded by the receiver. Dolby Pro Logic does this (very old school surround). So the signal is encoded by the manufacturer of the audio and when you turn on the Dolby Pro Logic it sends a different set of tracks that include the whole data, this gets decompressed and played back. This process is referred to as Matrix-encoding because it uses linear algebra equations to encode / decode the data. This did not need high end digital circuitry, and could be done using resistors capacitors and amplifiers. For ELI5: pretty much just play the left front and rear on the same line but separate them using electronic trickery. Then decode those back out into two channels at the receiver. EDIT: It's a pretty simple circuit. URL_0


Question: Why does the human brain contain such a high amount of fat, making it the fattest organ in human body?

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Mostly because of its function. It isn’t a muscle nor much of a manufacturing organ. The cells mostly just have lots and lots of surface area. Neurons have lots of little fingers. The supporting cells coat the neurons. So the dominant cell material is cell membrane. That’s made of fat.


Question: How do we know how well animals can hear/see things?

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We examine the eyes of dead animals and learn about things like their focal length, their concentration of optical nerve fibers, what *kinds* of nerve fibers. We see the rods and cones and we use what we know of our own experience with cameras and optics (and our own eyes) to create a mathematical model of how *their* eye works. Sometimes we're able to test our guess and sometimes not. Sometimes we just see evidence of their vision, like when we see a hawk stoop and snatch a field mouse when it was on the horizon only moments ago. Sometimes our model is complete conjecture. We're kind of guessing how some prehistoric animals eyes worked because we haven't got one to dissect.


Question: What are the ins and outs of purchasing a new/used car?

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Used cars: 1. Don't buy anything without the seller providing a CarFax report to you at no cost. 2. Any used vehicle you are serious about purchasing you should be willing to take it to a mechanic and spend about $100 for them to do a thorough inspection. They can tell you that certain years/makes have a history of this or that being a problem. 3. Prices are to be negotiated. Do not hesitate to walk away from a vehicle if you can't afford it. Don't let a dealer tell you that they won't offer you the same price the next day, that's a load of crap. I'd they can make that deal today, they can make the same deal tomorrow. 4. Don't buy something you can't afford to drive. Know what your spending limits are for the vehicle, insurance and gas. Also consider how expensive repairs will be in the future. The gadgets/features/tech, the more expensive it is to fix it. 5. Do your own inspection. Look under the car, under the hood, inside the door seams, on the roof, under the seats...etc... 6. Make sure you're comfortable driving it. It sucks when you have a long distance drive and are miserable the whole time. 7. Go online and see what other people are saying a out that particular vehicle. There will be good reviews and bad reviews like any other product. Just be mindful of what the majority is saying. That's all I can think of at this time. Good luck!


Question: Why do fires make smoke?

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Not a chemist: some reactions do not create smoke, IE pure hydrogen burning in pure oxygen will give you water. My assumption for any other fire would be the fuel, mixing with the oxidizer, will create the waste by product of the reaction. A tree isn't pure carbon, so mixing it with pure oxygen wouldn't just create CO and CO2, it'd have to create numerous other compounds as well. The burnt and unburnt portions of the reaction would then rise away from the heat as smoke. Best explanation, as I understand it.


Question: How does toilet paper not become damp from the steam produced by a shower?

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TLDR: Your shower doesn't produce THAT much moisture, and it doesn't last long enough to cause considerable damage. Basically paper has to be splashed with water or soaked in it to get damp. Moisture in the air isn't enough for paper to get what we would consider damp. Just looked this up on a few sites talking about archiving paper. Even at 100% humidity and room temperature paper only absorbs about 20% moisture content. That's enough to start causing curling but not enough to get it wet. Generally speaking a shower wouldn't be enough to cause this on it's own. You are more likely to get paper damaged by water if you live in an area that has 100% air humidity on a regular basis.


Question: How come the drunker you get, the more you want to drink?

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Because when you are drunk you have horrible judgement. Also, you think that the awesome feeling will somehow be more awesome if you drink more


Question: Why do some websites punish you for using ad blockers? Why can you get free stuff in games just for watching ads? What do these people gain or lose from the simple fact of someone staring at their ad for 30 seconds?

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The advertising industry works like this. I want to sell something, I pay someone to put my ads everywhere, hoping I gain a lot more (because my ads convinced someone to buy my stuff) than what I pay for. The websites are being paid for putting those ads. If everybody starts using ad blockers (and refuses to set up exceptions), the whole thing is completely useless, because no one even sees the ads, so there's basically no chance for the whole ad concept to even work. And if this doesn't work anywore, they (websites hosting ads) lose a significant part of their profits. Hence why they "punish" you.


Question: What are classes in C++?

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Classes are related to object-oriented programming. In particular, a class is essentially a "blueprint" for an object, which is a bit of code and data that acts as a small module in your program. By combining and recycling objects that communicate and work with one another, it's possible to build a very complex program piece by piece.


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They mostly just wait. It falls off by itself after a while. Some animals eat it to regain nutrients. Humans can extract stem cells from the cord, they can save the blood it contains for various purposes, it can simply be disposed of as medical waste, and some people do things like burying it and the placenta under a tree seedling.


Question: How are solid state batteries different from current lithium batteries, and why are they better?

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Ssbs do not use a toxic liquid electrolyte. Without that, dendrites can't form and kill your battery over time, or short it and make it explode. They are safer, can last a lot longer, and can be recharged many more times than normal batteries.


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The answer is, it depends on the screen. Electronic screens are complicated devices. Essentially we have many “pixels” that emit light of varying colors, but.... how do we do that? There are different ways to physically make a screen that does this, and each has different concerns. Some have small viewing angles, where each “pixel” is only directing light mostly forward. Viewing the screen from above, below, the side, ruins the brightness or color or some other aspect of the image. Other screens keep their color and brightness even when viewed nearly from 90 degrees. They would differ in price and materials. On a technical level, different display technologies can have almost nothing to do with each other. They all make a screen with pixels, but *what it’s made of* and *how it works* are different. Your phone might have an expensive screen with great viewing angle, because it’s small. But a screen like that might not work on a laptop. They could pull different amounts of power, weigh different amounts. They’re also completely unrelated to a CRT screen, which literally uses a massive electromagnet to bend a stream of electrons to only hit the parts of the screen it wants to light up.


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I used to run a pizza restaurant and I think the main difference is that we shredded our own cheese. Low moisture part skim mozzarella that came in 5 pound blocks. Because it is freshly shredded, it doesn't contain anticlumping agents like cornstarch like preshredded cheese does.


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 what's happening when I'm thinking nonsensical things before sleep?

When you are fully asleep you're brain is active in different ways than when you're awake. I dont think theres a solid answer yet for why is acts this way. So as you start falling asleep you can sometimes still be conscious when this starts to happen. So your brain will be doing it's own thing, and your conscious self is trying to piece together what is happening.


Question: How is poker considered a skill game rather than a chance game?

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 How is poker considered a skill game rather than a chance game?

To quote Bond "In poker you never play your hand. You play the man across from you." Poker is not a game of random chance, it's a game of understanding human behaviour. Goading people into a sense of false security so they'll bet too much, figuring out when people are bluffing etc. Yes it ultimately comes down to what you have in your hand, but the best hands are the ones where you make money and never have to show your cards.


Question: How do companies offer free shipping and free returns for heavy stuff?

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 How do companies offer free shipping and free returns for heavy stuff?

Contractual rates. The 29 that didn’t return it pay for the one that did. Also, it’s in the cost of the chair... just not itemized or easily identified by a consumer. When you are big enough and have enough products, it becomes a rounding error unless a large proportion are returning the product.


Question: The first basic fusion that will happen in a star is two hydrogen atoms fusing and becoming helium. We know that other elements will be produced by fusion, like Neon, Iron, etc. What is the sequence after the atom is helium for subsequent fusion... H > He ...?

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 The first basic fusion that will happen in a star is two hydrogen atoms fusing and becoming helium. We know that other elements will be produced by fusion, like Neon, Iron, etc. What is the sequence after the atom is helium for subsequent fusion... H > He ...?

Carbon comes next, fused from three helium nuclei. Once carbon shows up a few things can happen. The [alpha process]( URL_0 ) reactions start to occur slowly and build up small amounts of heavier elements while the helium burning phase is occuring. What happens next depends on the mass of the star. Stars around the sun's size can't go any further once the helium supply starts dropping and they fizzle out. Much larger stars can compress their cores enough to start pulling off: 1) Carbon to neon-oxygen-magnesium 2) Neon to oxygen-magnesium 3) Oxygen to silicon-sulfur 4) [Silicon-burning process]( URL_1 ) that produces iron and nickel and kills the star. Tl;dr: H > He > C > Ne > O > Si > Ni/Fe > Boom


Question: How did the recession of 2008 happen?

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 How did the recession of 2008 happen?

I guy named Louie figured out that you could sell a mortgage like a bond. That caused banks to give people mortgages they couldn’t afford, because the bank would just immediately sell it to another bank. The agencies in charge of making sure this didn’t happen accepted payment to look the other way.


Question: If the vacuum of space does not conduct heat very well, why don’t celestial bodies just heat up continuously until they melt and evaporate into the cosmos?

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 If the vacuum of space does not conduct heat very well, why don’t celestial bodies just heat up continuously until they melt and evaporate into the cosmos?

Because you can also shed heat via radiating infrared (or even visible) light, which doesn't need a medium to conduct it.


Question: Why are some plastics so strong until a tear is made?

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 Why are some plastics so strong until a tear is made?

For the same reason that some knots are so strong until you cut them. Plastics are long tangled and branched carbon chains, with the hardness of the plastic determined by the length, "tangledness", and "branchedness" of the chains. Once a cut or tear is made, you now only have to cut or pull out a few chains along the edge instead of cutting through the whole mass.


Question: Why is the middle of our galaxy so bright?

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 Why is the middle of our galaxy so bright?

A dense concentration of stars much more closely orbiting the black hole in the center, which also has a massive plasma cloud orbiting it that is made from stars that have been torn apart


Question: Why do some subjects come naturally to an individual while others are more difficult for them to learn?

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 Why do some subjects come naturally to an individual while others are more difficult for them to learn?

It can be a variety of reasons. Sometimes there is simply zone natural aptitude for comprehending particular topics, and I'm not sure there's any way to explain that. Sometimes a person may have a particular interest in the subject matter, making then more engaged and more inclined and likely to think about it in more detail and more often - this strengthens the neural links created/used meaning they recall details better. There's also the idea that when we learn things, we do so by adding them into our existing world view. Sometimes things make sense in the way we already see the world, and so they're easy to integrate; but sometimes they will cause a cognitive conflict because some of the new information doesn't make sense based on our existing understanding and experience. A good example is when someone is first introduced to the idea that in space an object will never slow down. Most often school children, since they don't understand friction properly yet, will believe something along the lines that "the force/energy eventually runs out and the object stops". The cognitive conflict means they will need to readjust their existing views to accommodate the new information - this can be difficult, & some are better at doing so than others. However, when your existing ideas don't need to be changed, it is quicker and easier to pick up the new information.


Question: Why does the wave nature of particles decrease when mass increases?

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 Why does the wave nature of particles decrease when mass increases?

This is more quantum physics than chemistry. The wavelength of matter is called the De Broglie Wavelength and is defined by the De Broglie equation: λ=*h*/p where *h* is Planck's constant and p is momentum. Planck's constant is on the order of 10^(-34). Due to this you can see that any object with significant mass will produce a very, very, very small value for the De Broglie wavelength. A 1kg object moving 1m/s would produce a wavelength of 6.6x10^(-34) meters. This number is 10^(22) times smaller than gamma rays. So small, in fact, that it becomes essentially non-existent. You will find with every quantum effect, as soon as you move outside of quantum scales the effect disappears.


Question: Do stock brokers/traders serve a purpose beyond making themselves money?

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 Do stock brokers/traders serve a purpose beyond making themselves money?

Think of it like this, what would happen if all real estate agents quit and no one wanted to buy or sell houses anymore? Well when you want one, no one is there to sell you one. Brokers are basically like real estate agents where in they offer the product to buy/sell and you as a trader are the customer who acts. Traders provide liquidity in the stock/futures/forex etc markets just like you provide liquidity in the food market when you buy oranges from the person selling them. It's just another market.


Question: If i am trying to predict some outcome that has a 70% chance of being A and 30% chance of being B, will my predictions be more successful if I guess A 100% of the time, or A 70% of the time and B 30% of the time?

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 If i am trying to predict some outcome that has a 70% chance of being A and 30% chance of being B, will my predictions be more successful if I guess A 100% of the time, or A 70% of the time and B 30% of the time?

Your first option will obviously score 70% success. The second option will be 49% successful for the As and 9% for the Bs, for a total of 58% success.


Question: How does hail form/stay in thunderstorm clouds?

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 How does hail form/stay in thunderstorm clouds?

the water vapour in the air condenses and freezes including dust to form ice. it has to be the right conditions to hold the water up long enough to form hail


Question: Why does water turn white when it crashes?

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 Why does water turn white when it crashes?

The water doesn't actually turn white, what you are seeing is a bunch of tiny air bubbles that are getting trapped in there from the agitation.


Question: why do companies pay Google for ads for their own company-name?

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 why do companies pay Google for ads for their own company-name?

Partly it is to prevent a competitor from buying that top ad space, which comes first above their organic search result. It is a common practice to buy ad placement with a competitor’s brand name as the keyword and try to outbid them. It is still common and not prevented by Google or other on-line ad services.


Question: why are weapons such as rifles and machine guns still used in war given how overpowering modern tanks, aircraft and artillery are (referring specifically to conventional war not guerrilla war)?

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 why are weapons such as rifles and machine guns still used in war given how overpowering modern tanks, aircraft and artillery are (referring specifically to conventional war not guerrilla war)?

Boots on the ground win the war. A tank can't clear a building, an aircraft can't run positive PR with civilians, and both are a hell of a lot more expensive to buy and maintain than a SAW. This equipment all also needs infantry support and cover, a rifleman can bring their weapon to bear on someone more quickly than a tank and can protect the zone immediately around them.


Question: What is the purpose of the holes in windmill blades?

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 What is the purpose of the holes in windmill blades?

Is it all windmills with [blades like this]( URL_0 ) you are talking about? The answer can be seen in the image. The wooden structure with hols is there as a support for fabric that catches the air. It is a way so you can change the catchment area of the blades so you can regulate the speed the rotate it. When not in operation you can roll op the fabric and there is a lot less braking force needed to keep it still. Modern wind turbines have a blade that can be rotated to change the angle of attack for the same reason, some even has tips that can rotate independently so they provide a force in the other direction as a way to keep the blades stationary if needec.


Question: Why does scratching feel so good when it ends up in a much worse rash than before?

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 Why does scratching feel so good when it ends up in a much worse rash than before?

Scratching sends a low level pain that distracts your brain from focusing on the itching. It can also help to slap the itchy area so that you can get the same distraction without causing damage with scratching.


Question: Why are younger children so picky about the foods that they eat?

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 Why are younger children so picky about the foods that they eat?

I remember having a course on evolution and behaviors where we were taught that children are picky with vegetables because in nature, a lot of plants are toxic and children tend to avoid them, especially since children are more fragile in case of an eventual poisoning. Moreover, a lot of green vegetables have a bitter taste and this tends to be an indication of toxicity in plants. As adults, we lose our sensitivity and therefore our aversion for bitterness, and we just learn what is safe or not to eat. Add to that some other factors, like cultural aspects (advertising for instance, fastfood restaurants), or the fact that humans have a natural tendency to favor energy-rich food (for evolutionary reasons that are not really "useful" anymore when you live in a developed country).


Question: How does lack of sleep slow down your metabolism?

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 How does lack of sleep slow down your metabolism?

When we lack sleep, the body likely believes there is something wrong with our situation (sleep is such a basic necessity that its disruption surely signals some danger or inadequacy in the environment) and thus attempts to conserve energy by slowing our metabolism. Insufficient sleep additionally effects two key metabolism-related hormones in the body: one that controls the feeling of fullness (leptin), and one that controls the feeling of hunger (ghrelin). When you don't get enough sleep, the level of the hormone that controls the feeling of fullness decreases, while the level of the hormone that controls the feeling of hunger increases. Thus, you feel less full AND more hungry when you haven't slept enough. Since your metabolism is already slowed, this is the perfect recipe for overeating and potential weight gain if you sleep poorly for a long period of time. & #x200B; Sources: "Why We Sleep" by sleep scientist Matthew Walker, [ URL_1 ]( URL_1 ), [ URL_0 ]( URL_0 ).


Question: what determines whether a #2 will be a sinker or a floater?

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 what determines whether a #2 will be a sinker or a floater?

According google. “Poop Should Sink. Listen for the sound of your stool as it hits the water in the toilet. Floating stools are often an indication of high fat content, which can be a sign of malabsorption, a condition in which you can't absorb enough fat and other nutrients from the food you're ingesting.”