Question: Who decides how much the president gets paid?

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 Who decides how much the president gets paid?

The president's salary is set by Congress, and under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, may not be increased or reduced during his or her current term of office. The current presidential salary of $400,000/year was set by the 106th Congress in 2000 under the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act (Public Law 106-58).


Question: Why do companies such as Nvidia and AMD fall short of knowing how much demand their products will have?

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 Why do companies such as Nvidia and AMD fall short of knowing how much demand their products will have?

For the most part, demand is just a guess. They do research and they determine what they _think_ people will want, but there is never any real way to know for sure. Now, in the case of the 3080/3090, it isn't an issue with them not understanding demand - they knew they would be understocked. The issue is that they simply aren't making them fast enough to keep up with demand. For products like this, there is always an initial shock of demand that levels off at sustainable levels over time. Since it costs money to tool factories to make these cards, you want to tool up factories at _sustainable_ levels rather than _peak_ levels to maximize profits.


Question: Is all of our universe... lit? Can you be hurtling through space and accidentally fly head first into a planet because oops you didn't have your headlights on?

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 Is all of our universe... lit? Can you be hurtling through space and accidentally fly head first into a planet because oops you didn't have your headlights on?

> Space ... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. > > \- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" The chances of something running into something else in space (other than the occasional hydrogen atom) is miniscule. That said, most of interstellar space is also quite dark. In deep space, nothing's going to be illuminated like you'd see on Earth. If anything, something large or very close by would only be visible as a silhouette against a the background star field of space (and, unless you're inside a galaxy, that star field is going to be very very very dim. For something the size of a planet, you might notice the gravitational pull of the planet long before you otherwise sense it (if you think to look for it). If not that, everything emits a tiny amount of radiation, so there's a very dim and invisible-to-the-naked-eye glow to everything, if you have the instrumentation to see it. If the object was, say, the size of a box truck, floating in deep space, you'd probably bump into it before you noticed it without with some sort of active scanning technology.


Question: Why can't we just make water by smooshing hydrogen and oxygen atoms together?

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 Why can't we just make water by smooshing hydrogen and oxygen atoms together?

We CAN. Now, it's not very often in nature you come across pure hydrogen and pure oxygen. But if you do have pure hydrogen and pure oxygen and you put them together in the right ratio, it's very easy to get them to form water. In fact, it's hard to PREVENT them from forming water. It's a common 9th grade science experiment, you run electricity through water in a certain way and one electrode has bubbles of pure oxygen forming on it and the other pure hydrogen. You catch each in their own test-tube. You combine the two. A very small spark will cause them to smoosh together and form water. Thing is, sometimes you don't even need a spark, sometimes just the right (or wrong) type of shaking will do the trick. Now, in the process of forming water a lot of heat is generated, which has the potential to be very damaging. Also, pure oxygen tends to burn super easy so there's not a lot of pure oxygen around. And pure hydrogen tends to react with stuff a lot too. So you don't bump into pure forms of them very often in nature. And making pure forms of them is relatively difficult and expensive. **DUE TO REQUESTS - VIDEOS** [ URL_3 ]( URL_3 ) \- an animation of what is going on [ URL_4 ]( URL_4 ) \- a guy using 2 thumbtacks and a 9 volt battery to do this - but he isn't catching the gas [ URL_5 ]( URL_5 ) \- a guy mixing O and H in front of a flame, it goes POP and they zoom in on the small droplets of water formed on the inside. [ URL_1 ]( URL_0 ) \- a guy builds a medium simple electrolysis set, then fills plastic bags with Oxygen and Hydrogen - then lets them float around. [ URL_2 ]( URL_2 ) \- a very classic '9th grade science' experiment version **Wow, this question has received a TON of awards - gold, silver, hugs, wholesome, heck some guy sent me some art. I am amazed, this is very unexpected, I was just trying to be helpful.**


Question: How are hackers able to gain access to people’s personal accounts? I’m assuming that they don’t individually type in thousands of different passwords, right?

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Hollywood has taught people that hackers use super complex tricks and tools to hack into computers. But in reality, it's usually just some dude posing as local IT or some sort of trustworthy person and asking for passwords. Why spend hundreds of hours looking for a weak spot in their security when you can just trick Karen from HR to give you her credentials? Hackers will also cycle through lists of emails and known passwords. Unfortunately, many people still use horrible passwords such as "qwerty" and "123456". So they will just program a bot to go a site like Facebook or Twitter and try a bunch of those passwords with known email addresses. The bot will make a list of all email and password combos that work. Most of the time, these hackers will sell them to other people who use them for spam. Lastly, Keyloggers are a less common, but very effective way to get your credentials stolen. Installing suspicious programs can sometimes include hidden payloads that contain keyloggers, a malware which records everything you type and send it to a hacker.


Question: What would be the fallout and consequences if the big banks were not bailed out?

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Total economic collapse. Since some others have been auto-deleted I suppose I have to make up some more words. Basically, if the huge banks with everyone's money in them were not bailed out when they failed then everyone in those regions/countries would lose every penny they owned. In a day or week no one would be able to pay anyone else with anything except cash. Credit cards would suddenly simply stop working. We would quickly revert to a barter economy "I'll give you 2 chickens for a barrel of pickles". Except most people don't have 2 chickens or a barrel of pickles, so they would have nothing to trade, so they and their babies would starve. Only most of them would refuse to starve. In 2 weeks you'd see widespread canabalism and genocide as each race reverted to tribes and ate the other races. Likely the most powerful 'race' in your area is the blue race, the police (except in cities with a military base...), so they would go door to door and collect all non-perishable food, and simply execute you when you have given them everything you have. If your daughter is of mating age (14-22) and very, VERY pretty, she may be saved by being taken as a sex slave. It would not be pretty. All countries are 2 missed meals away from a revolution.


Question: What is the probability that my next toss is heads, if my first two tosses were heads? Why?

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50% (if you don't count the rare case of falling on the edge and staying that way). The universe gives no damns about your previous throws, only the present matters and that present is you holding a coin with two sides.


Question: Calculating radiation received at distance from light source?

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It's simple, it's like spreading butter. The radiation from the bulb is 10W, and will be spread over the surface of the room. A room of 2m radius will have 4 times the surface of a room of 1m radius (surface grows quadratically). Therefore, the power received is scaled by 1/distance^2 . Notice the unit is W/m^2 . So no, the further you go, the less power you receive. And therefore, the more powerful you need the lightbulb to be if your goal is to disinfect the room. Note that anything in the shadow won't get disinfected...


Question: Why is Swedish krona falling ?

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Because the central bank keeps a really low, even negative, interest on the short-time loans they give to banks. This interest spreads to the financial system, leading to relatively low interests throughout every instance. Since the interest is so low, foreign investors are not rewarded as much interest-wise as they would have been if they had invested somewhere else. Thus, having a bunch of Swedish currency isn't as sexy as having another currency since it can't grow at the same pace when invested. When something isn't sexy, the relative price drops- > the krona is falling. It should be added that the central bank has reasons to keep the interest this low. One of their main goals is, by law, to maintain an inflation around the two percent mark. Since the underlying inflation is below that mark, they need to speed it up artificially. By maintaining a low interest, the households can afford to borrow money at a low cost. This increases their purchasing power and thus the prices can be pushed higher, increasing the inflation. If you're interested, the central bank releases their new report on the state of Swedish economy tomorrow. Might be available in English.


Question: How do chemists know the “shape” of molecules?

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For a good part of the history of chemistry, they didn't. Or at least they only had vague ideas, many of which turned out to be wrong. See for example here: URL_0 Nowadays there are a couple of pretty reliable methods, even though they can take a lot of time an effort in some cases still. * X-Ray crystallography. This is probably the gold standard, since it gives a very direct readout: the positions of the atoms in a very very pure crystal of the stuff scatter x-rays in a particular way, which you can record and then calculate the structure from that. Downside: You have to make a rather large and pure crystal, which can be pretty hard. Also the shape you get is the shape in solid form, and that may not be what you're really interested in, for example when studying proteins. * NMR: Basically an MRI machine for molecules. You put a solution of the stuff in a strong magnet and hit it with radio waves. The way the atoms resonate back tells you about the neighbors of them, which you can stitch together piece by piece. Easy to do (a basic 1H NMR only takes a couple minutes to measure), but rather complicated to evaluate if your molecule is larger. * Mass spec: Make the molecule break apart and measure how heavy the debris is. Since you know what structural features tend to break more easily, you can trace back what was in there. A good way to distinguish otherwise very similar molecules, since you can measure the mass *extremely* precisely. * UV, infrared and visible spectrometry: Shine a light on it, see what color gets absorbed and what not. Different chemical bonds absorb different wave lengths, so again you get an idea of what structural features the molecule has. That's the extremely short and dumbed down version. Each of these points can easily fill a semester-long lecture.


Question: How is mains AC turned into usable DC power, particularly in the context of a desktop computer PSU?

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AC is converted to DC using a rectifier. Diodes (which restrict current flow in one direction) are used in a bridge circuit so that each half of the AC waveform is output at the same polarity, and then capacitors are used to eliminate the ripple and smooth the DC output. To drop voltage, a transformer may be used on the input AC, or a DC-DC converter (inverter / rectifier) may be used on the output side.


Question: Why are Internet and phone companies so closely related? How has their relationship changed over the decades?

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Over the last 30 years the internet has evolved from using the phone line system to connect homes (dialup), to being offered with cable TV services, to being offered exclusively over cable or fiber-optic. In the same span of time the phone system has gone from connecting every home with dedicated phone lines, to competing with cable services and finally being usurped by cable services. In order for the internet to function, there has to be infrastructure to support it. When the internet was in it’s infancy in the 90’s, using the phone line infrastructure that was already in place made sense. However, the phone line system was never designed to transmit data. Internet modems were developed as a “hack” to convert audio signals to digital signals and vice-versa. As the capacity and capability of the internet grew, the two copper wires designed solely for transmitting one phone call at a time became inadequate and another solution was needed. Cable television providers in the late 90’s realized their infrastructure was far more suitable to provide internet service, despite being designed to transmit video. Cable television has the ability to provide multiple television channels through a single cable, so providing internet service as an additional “channel” was possible with the addition of a cable modem, which could interpret the signal on the internet “channel” as data understandable to a computer. Starting in the mid-2000’s cable television providers began converting their analog cable television systems to digital systems to pack more channels and to provide faster internet service. Around the same time, VoIP (Voice Over IP) services began to crop-up. VoIP services allow audio to be sent over the internet as a digital signal instead of an analog signal on traditional phone line. This spelled the end for traditional phone services for a few reasons. 1) A VoIP service provider does not have to contend with the cost of maintaining phone lines. Their service works as long as you have internet access. 2) VoIP has the ability to transmit several calls simultaneously on the same line. Besides the reduced audio quality (which would be quickly rectified with increasing internet speeds) VoIP could be offered for much cheaper than a traditional phone line. Eventually, cable television providers realized they could develop VoIP software and offer it as a service alongside their cable television and internet packages. With the ability to develop and offer phone service cheaper and bundle it with cable television and/or internet services, dedicated phone lines have become more and more obsolete over the last 10 years. Over the last 20 years, cable service providers have acquired traditional phone systems through buy-outs and mergers. Many lines have been entirely replaced with cable services, but much of the traditional phone system is still maintained in places where cable service are not yet developed.


Question: If geysers have a opening at the top how do they become pressurized?

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Water pressure from the water column inside. Higher pressure = water boils at a higher temperature. So the bottom of the geyser is actually much hotter than 100 °C when it starts boiling. When it does, the steam starts pushing out the water above, which lowers the pressure (since part of the water is gone now), which lowers the boiling point, which makes more water boil, which in turn pushes more water out.


Question: Why do computers need restarting?

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Software bugs (mistakes made by humans) put the computer into a bad state. Something is incorrect and since the computer can’t always fix itself, restarting (reloading the software) will put it into a less broken state.


Question: How is Trigonometry used in Astronomy to find distances between the Earth/Sun and other state/planets?

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 How is Trigonometry used in Astronomy to find distances between the Earth/Sun and other state/planets?

I know this one, but maybe perhaps not that well in english. See every triangle is known shape. We know a few things about every right triangle out there, we know that a^2 + b^2 = c^2. We also know a triangle is 180 degrees. From that we can extrapolate at what angle the three points on a triangle has (trigonometry). When observing things in space, you have already made one "line" just looking at the thing you are looking at. That would be one side of a triangle - Earth to moon is one such example. Now to get a second side of the triangle you could draw a line between the Moon and another known object, let's take the stars. That gives us two known sides of said triangle. Me got A (Moon to Earth) and we got B (Moon to Sun). Now because we know the things we know about triangles, we can figure out the last side, at what angle it meets the other (remember, total of 180 degrees in one triangle) and with that we can figure out the unknown distance C (Sun to Earth). This works on objects on earth or even in space, all you have two know is two points and you can figure out the distance to anything based on how the angles of said triangles points. Pythagoras Theorem works with finding out distances based on the two other distances (a^2 + b^2 = c^2) - Trigonometry takes this one step further and figures out distance based on ANGLES of where two sides of a triangle meets. Look at this picture and keep this in mind: URL_0


Question: Why is prostate cancer so common when the prostate is a relatively small organ that is not directly exposed to carcinogens (e.g. UV light, cigarette smoke)?

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Cancer ultimately happens when a cell replicates and through random mutation/damage the gene that limits its replication is defective, causing it and its spawn to go wild and replicate without limitation. There is a chance of getting a cancerous cell with every replication. So 'high turnover' organs that replicate and replace cells frequently are more liable to cancer even without carcinogens present, which includes the prostate. Carcinogens are just things that can damage DNA, making defects more likely to occur. They are not needed to cause cancer.


Question: I always hear people say things like "I asked my lawyer" or "My lawyer is looking into it". Where are people getting these pocket lawyers? How do they afford them?

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 I always hear people say things like "I asked my lawyer" or "My lawyer is looking into it". Where are people getting these pocket lawyers? How do they afford them?

The term is retainer. This is where a person pays a fee on a regular basis, and in return the attorney answers and performs activities for the client whenever needed. This price changes from attorney to attorney. For example my personal attorney charges $1000 USD a year for retainer services.


Question: How is old film converted into digital for DVDs or online streaming?

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 How is old film converted into digital for DVDs or online streaming?

They use a scanner, just like when you scan a photo. Well, not exactly the same type of scanner, but one specifically designed for scanning film.


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 Why does wasabi and horse radish kick you in the nose unlike other spicy stuff?

The active chemical in hot peppers is capsaicin. Wasabi has allyl isothiocyanate, which, unlike capsaicin, is able to vaporize and get up your nose. Allyl isothiocyanate is also not oil based like capsaicin, so it doesn't linger as long in your body.


Question: How is it more profitable to produce new porn instead of recycling overabundant available supply?

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 How is it more profitable to produce new porn instead of recycling overabundant available supply?

because 4 billion people are still trying to find the perfect porn video where the guy behind the camera keeps his mouth shut the entire time and the stunt dick also doesn't say anything stupid during the money shot.


Question: Why is everything so much more interesting when you’re procrastinating?

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 Why is everything so much more interesting when you’re procrastinating?

Dopamine is the main reason, we usually like scrolling on social media over studying, because dopamine works when there is expectation of something satisfiying's about to happen. For example, dopamine is secreted when you are looking for a funny post, not when you actually find it.


Question: Apparently this decade has only just begun this year?

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 Apparently this decade has only just begun this year?

Your girlfriend is only correct in the most old fashions of terms. The 3rd decade, of the 21st century began in 2021. But the 20’s started in 2020. They use different convention. The first one uses the 1 to 0 convention. The second one uses the 0 to 9 convention. Nobody really uses the 1 to 0 convention for decades, only for centuries. This only really came back into living memory because there was controversy on when the 3rd millennium started in 2000 or 2001. And a lot of people were wrong in thinking it was the start of the 2nd millennium.


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 How are ovens able to cook at a lower temperature /faster by being fan assisted?

that is the difference between a conventional oven and a convection oven (one with a fan). the fan does two things. The first is it mixes the air in the oven, so you get a more even temperature throughout. This helps things cook more evenly. The biggest difference, though, comes from the flow of air through the oven. Moving fluids, be they gas or liquid, transfer heat faster that stagnant fluids. Stagnant air is often used as insulation. Conventional ovens do have some airflow due to the slight temperature differences between the top and bottom of the oven and having a heating element on the bottom, but this is minor compared to convection ovens. TL;DR faster moving air transfers heat better than slow or non-moving air so a convection oven cooks faster than a conventional oven.


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 What makes it that liquid "adheres down the side of a glass" sometimes?

Surface tension. Basically, the water molecules want to stay together due to intermolecular forces that attract them to each other. Due to the shape of the glass and based off of the speed at which you pour the glass, the water molecules will want to roll down the side of the cup instead of dropping straight to the ground


Question: What exactly are financial derivatives?

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 What exactly are financial derivatives?

Instead of buying a stock, one can choose to buy an options contract that gives them the right to buy that stock under preset conditions (price and time). This is a derivative. It gets its value from the underlying stock. Similarly, I might want to invest in residential real estate, but instead of buying a bundle of mortgage loans, I can buy the right to buy this bundle, which allows me to specify the conditions under which I may or may not buy it. The contract that specifies this is a derivative.


Question: Why does time seem to pass more quickly as we age?

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 Why does time seem to pass more quickly as we age?

Because logarithmically a day becomes faster. When you are 1 year old waiting a year is waiting an aditional 100% of your life. But when you're 50 years old, 1 year is only 2% of your time. The way we experience time is logarithmically not arithmetically. A bit of a over simplifyed answer, but hell this is ELI5.


Question: Why aren't orbits thrown off when two planets get near each other?

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 Why aren't orbits thrown off when two planets get near each other?

It absolutely does. The change is just small that over the course of human existence which is only a few hundred thousand years, let alone the few hundred years that we've been able to reliably measure, the difference is too small to matter. The orbits of the planets are stable over long periods of time, but dynamic over cosmic time-scales. We can only predict them with any confidence out to a few tens of millions of years.


Question: If the sky were red would large bodies of water be red too?

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 If the sky were red would large bodies of water be red too?

Yes and no. Water is actually blue in large quantities, it is a subtle tint so it seems clear in small amounts but it is really extremely faintly blue. Water also has a partly reflective surface so that would reflect a red sky, but the water would still be blue if there is any blue light to see it by. Probably it would look much like the ocean at sunset.


Question: Why, when we are getting or have become sick, does our skin, especially forehead, become very hot?

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 Why, when we are getting or have become sick, does our skin, especially forehead, become very hot?

Having a higher body temperature makes it harder for the bacteria/virus to replicate inside of you. The higher temperature makes it uncomfortable for them which gives your body time to fight off the infection.


Question: Why does Moore's Law exist?

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 Why does Moore's Law exist?

Calling it a law is a bit of a disservice. It was actually an observation made by Moore. The distinction is important. As for your question, AFAIK it is mostly due to the progress of manufacturing and production of chips, rather than any willingness to prevent progress. It is expected that Moore's law will break down once we reach the 7nm scale, as beyond this point Quantum Tunnelling starts to become a problem. Quantum tunnelling is when the particle "jumps" the barrier (not my forte, so can't explain it properly). We are currently 4 generations away from that problem, i.e. we use 14nm commonly, 10nm is in development, 7nm are in development, and 5nm are predicted after. Without moving to quantum computing there is the likelihood that we will stall out in the improvement of processor speeds while reducing their size. Edit: I would expect this stall to happen in the late 2020s, given the rate of progression from development to manufacturing.


Question: Why do juices taste better after shaking them, even juices without pulp?

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 Why do juices taste better after shaking them, even juices without pulp?

Unless you're getting it right from the fruit, most juice is pasteurized. (Both from concentrate, and not). This basically kills the flavour, so an additive is put in. This typically separates when sitting, so shaking disperses the flavour additive evenly throughout, making it taste 'better' than if it'd been sitting.


Question: Why do our tastebuds change as we get older? Why did I used to hate brussel sprouts and asparagus as a kid but now I think they’re delicious?

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 Why do our tastebuds change as we get older? Why did I used to hate brussel sprouts and asparagus as a kid but now I think they’re delicious?

Part of this is also multiple exposures. It can take up to 10-20 tries for a child to start to accept a new food. Adults acquire tastes for black coffee and alcoholic beverages, too. So it's not as if preferences stop changing in adulthood. This is more the psychological part of "liking" or "disliking" a food. It's not just the taste. If someone hit you every time you ate chicken, you'd probably grow to dislike chicken very quickly.


Question: Why is the US concerned with Khashoggi?

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1) He was a US resident. 2) He was a notable journalist (on topics of Saudi Arabia and some of the activism and issues there). Anytime a journalist is injured/killed for their work huge red flags come with it. 3) He was not just killed, but to our knowledge brutally tortured and murdered. 4) They have admitted he was interrogated and that he past away (saying it was an accident) yet have not produced a body. 5) Supposedly someone was able to procure audio and video of the interrogation (Turkey I believe). 6) People in power don’t brutalise and murder people for no reason. 7) Saudi Arabia is a key foothold for the US in the Middle East. So the question is, if the world sees Saudi Arabia as murders and worse how will that affect US relations with other countries. 8) This was done so sloppily that mere hours afterwords it was known internationally.


Question: why does your vision become so much worse when you’re hungover /still drunk?

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 why does your vision become so much worse when you’re hungover /still drunk?

Alcohol can effect the occipital lobe in the brain by slowing down receptor time. The occipital lobe is the part of the brain that processes what your eyes see, thus if the receptor time is slowed, it will take the lobe longer to process what you are seeing, resulting in blurred vision and poor distance judgement. [Source 1]( URL_0 ) [Source 2]( URL_1 )


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 When a pen quits half way through the word, why will it write on a fresh piece of paper but not over the words it failed to write in the first place?

Because you already pressed down this part of the paper... it has less friction to turn the ball of your pen. So no ink can be transferred.


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 How do stock options work and what is the benefit/downside of using them over normal stocks?

Options are a contract giving you the right (but not obligation) to buy or sell 100 shares of stock at a certain price (strike price) on a certain date in the future. The real use for options is to hedge holdings as a form of insurance. But investors don't have to hold the underlying shares and often use as a primary investment. They can go up/down much more dramatically, so you can make a lot of money, but can also lose a lot of money. There is also the time factor, as they lose value closer to the execution date, and if they aren't "in the money" they are worth $0 at that point. Here's an example... let's say you buy 100 shares of AAPL ahead of Apple's earnings. You pay $188/sh (current price), or $18,800. Let's say they beat expectations, announce more share buybacks, and the stock goes up 3% to $193.64, and you can sell for a 3% gain, or $564. Now let's say you predict they'll do well when they report earnings on 7/31 and buy call options at $190 that expire on 8/17. The current cost is $4.80/sh., or $480 for a 100 share contract. If the stock goes up to the same $193.64 and there are still 3 weeks before the option expires, maybe it goes up to $6 as investors expect continues stock increase. Instead of a 3% gain, you've made 25%. Or they blow earnings out of the water and you more than double your money as the stock crosses $200. On the flip side, if they miss and the stock goes down the options could lose much of their value.


Question: What Stephen Wolfram is doing in the Wolfram Physics Project?

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 What Stephen Wolfram is doing in the Wolfram Physics Project?

Okay so when you dig deep into the inner workings of the universe, you find that everything is made of this thing called "energy". No matter what you think of, mass, chemicals, electricity, heat, motion, space itself, all of it is made from "energy" Think about the vast diverseness of everything that exists. All of that is the manifestation of a single "material" There is a, or a set of, rules that govern how energy interacts with itself. As we understand it, these basic rules are known as "the four fundamental forces", and are in some way responsible for everything we observe. There are some areas that are unknown however. Dark matter. Dark energy. Quantum mechanics vs relativity. We dont understand how these things arise, despite our best guesses. But we do know how a lot, like, A LOT arises from these four fundamental forces, these four rules. What if we...made up our own rules? Just make up some new rules of interaction, and just...see what happens? Maybe we make some rules, let the clocks run forwards, and find that those rules give rise to dark energy? Give rise to dark matter? Wouldnt that be something. Even if they dont give rise to something we observe in the real world, we might still find useful information, like ways of better storing information, or navigating information. The mere pursuit itself is worth investigation.


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 What makes glass able to store so many different kinds of chemicals?


Question: What happens in the brain when we feel guilt-tripped?

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Your brain lets loose some angry juice up there. Because you feel the social contract has been broken and you've been abused. You cause a mess and that encourages others to not do that. Or, did you mean, when you feel guilt? Your brain lets loose the sad juice. Because humans are social animals and we do something that harms our society, a normal healthy brain will disincentivize that action. Offer not available for psychopaths.


Question: Why are the letters x, y and z used for representing points in a coordinate system?

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Rene Descartes started using those letters to represent unknown coordinates in his maths book 'La Geometrie' and everybody else followed the convention from there. Same reason as that the ratio between circumference and diameter uses the π symbol - Euler started doing it and it got popular from there.


Question: With all the amazing advances in technology, why is there not a smartphone that can take a selfie without reversing everything in the image (writing on shirts, etc.)?

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 With all the amazing advances in technology, why is there not a smartphone that can take a selfie without reversing everything in the image (writing on shirts, etc.)?

There's an option for that in the camera settings. In mine, its called 'Mirrored Selfie', might be a bit different in yours. Just turn it on and all writings will appear the correct way.


Question: Why do some alcohols have a high calorie content While others have zero calories. Are calories removed in the distillation process?

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 Why do some alcohols have a high calorie content While others have zero calories. Are calories removed in the distillation process?

By definition you cannot have zero calorie alcohol. 1 ounce of 40% ABV vodka (which is basically just alcohol and water plus small amounts of impurities) has 64 calories. The calories aren't coming from the water, so they must be coming from the alcohol. Other kinds of alcohol have more calories because there are other things in them besides water and alcohol - like sugar or other carbohydrates.


Question: Power from Nuclear reactors other than heat/steam?

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Several space probes have used [Radioisotope thermoelectric generators]( URL_0 ), which are much simpler than steam generators. Heat one side of a thermocouple and cool the other, and you get a charge across the device you can use to power stuff. But the efficiency is low.


Question: Why can we see 55 million light years away but we can’t (haven’t) zoomed into planets some where much close to check if there mobility/intelligent life?

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 Why can we see 55 million light years away but we can’t (haven’t) zoomed into planets some where much close to check if there mobility/intelligent life?

We have trouble looking at really small things. The black hole was very far away but it was also enormous and even that photo was blurry. URL_0 Xkcd put together a nice size comparison to show exactly how big that black hole is


Question: Why do European forests seem to have less underbrush than forests in the Eastern U.S.?

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Im no expert but I believe its because they've been left alone to grow longer, when trees get bigger it cuts off sunlight to the floor, over time you get a lot less smaller plants in the underbrush due to that and maybe the bigger trees using up more nutrients. I recall reading that in USA it used to be possible to ride a horse through the forests easily because there was much less underbrush to deal with. Then practically all the forests were cleared at some point and in most places once they get big enough loggers come through and do it again. Also most forests in USA arent entirely natural, certain varities of trees are planted for certain purposes and it's never with the goal of recreating a naturally occuring forest environment. Could be wrong or lacking info but that's my understanding of it.


Question: If captchas look at your mouse movements to tell if you're a bot, how does it work on mobile devices?

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They actually don't always have to measure anything to do with your mouse movement or click. They can look for a cookie, or a collection of cookies that various Google services like Gmail place on your device, maybe even cookies from other companies. Also, your browser gives a lot of information to websites about its capabilities in the user agent string. URL_0 Obviously, the details of what exactly Google is looking for are secret or bots could just spoof them. Some people think that Google can actually identify individual people with their No CAPTCHA tech. They think Google can potentially read so much information from your browser that they can track you even if you delete cookies or take other common steps to avoid that kind of tracking: URL_1


Question: Why divide by (n-1) for standard deviation?

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It's to correct for an underlying bias in the sample standard deviation that causes it to systematically underestimate the true population variance. If you calculate the expectation of the population variance (sigma squared) minus the formula for standard deviation with an n rather than an n-1 in the denominator (the biased estimator), you'll end up with the variance of the sample mean (sigma squared over n). This implies (because of the linearity of the expectation operator) that the expectation of the biased estimator is sigma minus sigma squared over n. Basically, since the expectation of sigma squared is sigma squared (it's a population parameter, just a number) and the expectation of sigma squared minus the biased estimator equals sigma squared over n, then the expectation of the biased estimator must just be sigma squared minus sigma squared over n. Sigma squared minus sigma squared over n is just (n-1)/n times sigma squared. So all we have to do is multiply our biased estimator n/(n-1) to correct it. The n in the numerator cancels out the n in the denominator from the biased estimator and leaves the squared deviations from the mean over n-1. I know this is kind of awful without symbols and formulas (I don't really know how to do that on reddit but didn't want to just link to the wiki). What I described is just method three of the proof on the [wiki]( URL_0 ). If you have specific questions about what they did there I should be able to answer them.


Question: Why does carbon-14 not degrade until the death of the carrier?

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 Why does carbon-14 not degrade until the death of the carrier?

It *does* degrade, but then the plant or animal gets more from the atmosphere. But once the thing dies, it doesn't eat or breathe anymore, so it's not gaining more from the atmosphere (even second-hand).


Question: What is the material feature, that determines its color?

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When a molecule interacts with light, the molecule enters an excited state. This excited state increases its energy level. Jumping up and down different states of energy emit a specific wavelength of light, which changes what color this light ends up being.


Question: Why does the convex part of a spoon reflect the right way round, but the concave part of a spoon reflect upside down?

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Draw two curved lines, one concave and one convex. Now draw a bunch of lines towards those curves and draw the reflected angle lines away from the curve and watch what happens. The tougher thing to mentally work out is why this relationship doesn’t hold for reversing left and right....


Question: why are pyramid schemes bad?

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A pyramid scheme is bad because generally what happens is that you can only make money if you get other people to join the scheme, and if you can't get anyone else to join the scheme, you end up losing money. So what happens is that people at the top of the pyramid have a huge incentive to just lie about the scheme to get other people involved. And maybe they don't directly lie about it, but they do everything possible to get others to join. They promise that you *can* (but not necessarily *will*) get rich. They tell you all the perks. They tell you that you can own your own business or invest your money early and live a great life. So the next 10 people join. And they do the same thing, they get 10 of each of their friends and family to join. And those 100 people get 10 each of their friends and family members to join. But eventually, everyone in your friend group, all of network.. they're all in. So you can't get anyone else to join. But you've already paid to invest, or paid to buy product that you're trying to sell, or paid to become a part of the scheme. But there's nobody left for you to sell it to. So you spent $1,000, and you get nothing. And so you have maybe 1,000 people that all made a bunch of money. But you also have 10,000 others that were promised something great, and instead they just spent $1,000 to get screwed over. & #x200B; Some pyramid schemes are for selling products, such as Mary Kay makeup. And if you're a good salesperson and you're creative with where/how you sell the makeup, you can still make money. But a portion of those sales go to the people 'above' you in the pyramid scheme. And while you can make money selling the product, you can make more money recruiting people 'under' you, and getting them to sell. And maybe they have to pay to get the product so they can start selling it, and if they can't sell it then they just eat the cost. Or maybe they try to sell the product and get nowhere, and they've just wasted their time. So while it's not the worst scheme ever, it's still a pretty shitty way to do business. Then other types of pyramid schemes, like a Ponzi scheme, are just straight shitty. In a Ponzi scheme, you tell 10 friends (or just all the suckers you know) that you can invest their money and double it in 2 weeks. So 10 suckers give you $100 each, thinking you're starting a business or investing that money in a hedge fund that they don't understand. But instead of investing it, you tell those 10 suckers to spread the word and you'll give them an extra cut of the profits. So those 10 suckers bring you 10 more people each. Those 100 suckers each give you $100. Now you take $2000 and give it to the first 10 suckers. They're happy, they've just doubled their money, just like you said. And you're still left with $8k from the 100 suckers, and another $1k from the first 10 suckers, so $9k total. Now those 100 suckers, you tell them the same thing, recruit more people and I'll give you a cut. So they recruit 10 people each, and you use the money from the 1000 new suckers to pay back the 100 suckers double. And you pocket another $80k from them (and give a little extra to the 10 suckers original suckers to keep the charade going). Eventually, there just aren't any more people interested in 'investing' in your bullshit hedge fund, and you just tell the people at the bottom that the hedge fund went bust and lost all their money. But you still come out with potentially millions of dollars. Meanwhile, you didn't actually invest any of the money, you just scammed people into giving you money that you put into your own pockets. & #x200B; And that, kids, is why if someone tells you they 'met a nice retired couple that is training you on how to build your own business', or that they're in a business but they won't say what it is directly, right up front, or if someone tells you that you can 'get in on the ground floor of a great new venture', or that 'you can be your own boss' (but won't say that there's a specific product or service you're selling), or tries to sell you on any other business idea or investment product that you don't fully understand.. it's ALWAYS a pyramid scheme, and it's ALWAYS a pile of hot garbage that you should call them out on social media for because they're trying to sell you shit that they don't believe in, in order to make a quick buck off you. Also, those 'secret sister gift exchange' things (the one where you buy one person a gift, 'hello Amazon!', and can get 6-12 gifts or whatever in return)? ALWAYS bullshit. It's just another pyramid scheme (and it's basically a Ponzi scheme, in fact).


Question: What determines whether a gene is dominant or recessive?

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"Genes" are not dominant or recessive. One version (variant, allele, mutant) of the same gene, can be dominant or recessive over another version of the same gene. I will assume this is what you wanted to ask. This question usually arises because we have 2 copies of each gene, one on each copy of the chromosome. So we ask, which copy is "dominant". In general, if a version of the gene introduces a new feature or property - technically called "gain-of-function variant", it is dominant. Imagine, there is a gene that makes things colored. Now there is a version of the gene that makes things colored, but it also, on top of it, makes them glow. In this case, the glowing is a new "gain of function". So both versions of the gene do what they do - they make things colored, but the new gain of function variant also makes the things glow. So what you see is that as long as you have even one copy of this new variant, glowing things appear - it's dominant over the other normal (can only color) version. Now imagine another variant of the gene, that cannot do anything. It just leaves things colorless and transparent. It's a "loss-of-function" variant - the function here being to color stuff. If one of your copies is this variant, it's going to leave things colorless. But the other normal copy of the gene will still add color to things. So things are going to appear coloured anyway. The only way that things will appear colorless to you is if BOTH the copies of the gene are this "loss-of-function" variant. So we say that this variant is "recessive" . That's the gist of why versions of genes may be recessive or dominant, but explained in a simplified manner. In reality, genes have very complex intertwined functions in cells, and it can be very difficult to see how a particular version of the gene will actually affect the millions of things happening in an organism and whether it will end up as a dominant or recessive type. This really only works well for very large and very obvious changes that we can observe and not for the details, and that too, typically in the few cases when a single gene is linked to an easily observable feature of the organism. This is NOT the case for most genes. The only reason we study these aspects is because historically , single genes and their variants causing large obvious changes were the easiest to discover. But in the era of molecular biology, one rarely talks of gene variants as being dominant or recessive. It's a bit of an outdated view, that is useful in some cases as a simple concept, but one that quickly falls apart as a general principle.


Question: How do advertisements and pictures get put under ice in ice rinks?

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Typically they are painted into the base surfaces once the white has been applied. Once that and the lines are dried (sometimes the lines are fabric - maybe silk) the side boards are put up and then the ice water application begins in layers. Here is a video of a rink conversion timelapse in florida : URL_0


Question: Why do permanent magnets need to be made of iron, as opposed to some other element?

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There are less than a handful of naturally occurring elements that exhibit functional magnetic properties. Iron, cobalt and nickel are the most common and useful examples.


Question: What's the resolution on a human eyeball? At what point will this HD/Ultra 4k race surpass what our eyes can notice as an improvement?

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1 arc minute 20/20 vision is having an angular resolution of 1 arc minute(1/60th of a degree), but this is only true for your central vision, it falls off rapidly the further out you go We've pretty much hit the point where resolution doesn't really matter. Phone screens are exceeding 300 DPI, to distinguish individual dots your eye needs to be really close to the phone but then it can't focus anyway. The higher resolutions will come in handy for VR headsets though, as they are much closer to your eye they need a much higher pixel density to maintain the same angular resolution


Question: Why cant we artifically metabolize food to use as a renewable energy resource?

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We can. That's basically what bio-diesel/corn-based ethanol fuel is. The problem is that food provides enough energy to power a human body handily, but when you want to start powering machines with it, you need a *lot*, more than there's really room to grow if you wanted to power a whole civilization. The other problem is that all the energy that goes into growing the food and processing it into fuel vs the amount of energy produced by the fuel results in a net loss.


Question: How can food burn in the microwave but the plastic film covering it doesn't melt?

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Microwaves react with molecular dipoles, creating an oscillating electromagnetic field that causes these little molecular magnets to move around. Water is a very polar molecule, but other molecules that have dipoles will also respond to the field. Plastics are generally non-polar, so they respond less to the field or not at all.