Question: What does overclocking do to my processor?

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 What does overclocking do to my processor?

You know how in the old times ships used to have a bunch of people with oars, and [a guy with a drum]( URL_0 ) to set the rhythm? Some people are weaker, some are stronger, so if you let everyone do what they want, you wouldn't go anywhere. If you want to go straight, the people on both sides of the boat have to row at the same rate, or the ship will start turning. So you have a guy with a drum setting a beat, so that everyone pushes at the same rate. There's also going to be some speed at which all the rowers can go forward comfortably. That's what the CPU clock does. Overclocking is just banging on the drum faster. CPUs are also like that. They have a bunch of components, some of which are faster and some of which are slower. The clock synchronizes everything. Usually there's a bit of margin, so if you run the clock faster, you get better performance. But if you overdo it, some parts of the CPU won't get their stuff done in time, and the synchronization will fall apart. Just like different ship crews are going to have different qualities, fabrication is imperfect. Some CPUs will have better made internals than others, and will have a higher maximum speed at which they can operate correctly.


Question: Why do strobe lights cause seizures for certain people?

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 Why do strobe lights cause seizures for certain people?

The bright, flashing lights irritate the nerves of some people to the point of overexcitement, causing those nerves to send continuous signals to the brain. The brain can’t process it adequately, so it, in essence, shuts down and reboots.


Question: How do union strikes work?

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They are not required to strike, but there is a lot of pressure from their coworkers to honor the strike. Nobody will require them to stand on the picket line. Most of them want to be there. Some may be doing it out of pressure from coworkers. When you are on strike, the company will not pay you. Some unions have setup a strike fund, and the union will pay employees out of that fund. The idea is, if you have a large strike fund, and the employees are still getting some pay, they are actually able to hold a strike out longer, which increases the power of the union. The pay when striking is typically significantly less than one would make working.


Question: Why do we have imperial/metric units, and so many different languages, while time has a universally accepted measurement?

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Historically, every culture had their own measurements. Over time, we developed organizations to standardize these. Except for one country, everyone in the world uses a single system (metric). Even in the US, many types of commerce are increasingly in metric. There have been attempts to standardize language (Esperanto, for example). As well as historic "lingua francas" (Greek, Persian, Latin, French, English) that at various times become the language of international commerce and academia. However, language has proven to be much more resilient: 1. It's a lot harder to teach people new languages than new measurements 2. Language is tied to nationalism, culture and identity


Question: On a molecular level, what is energy?

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 On a molecular level, what is energy?

You can think of temperature as a measure of the "moving" energy of the molecules. Let's say we have water in a test tube at room temperature. There is no heat being exchanged with its surroundings because it's in "thermodynamic equilibrium" (baiscally, heat/energy flows from the hotter objects to colder objects, but if there is no difference in temperature, no heat flows). But its molecules, while loosely linked, are still moving in random motion, colliding among each other, and with the walls of the test tube. Now let's say we heat it using a flame. The molecules are still linked together but move faster and collide harder. Thus, its temperature rises. On the other hand, if we cool it by putting it in the fridge, the molecules move slower. Thus, its temperature falls. I hope that isn't too basic and answers your question.


Question: Why do certain product categories, vape stores or amazon mattresses, have such a positive review bias?

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 Why do certain product categories, vape stores or amazon mattresses, have such a positive review bias?

Reviews make the sale. Amazon has been fighting off fake reviews for a long time. Sellers know that you will pick the best rated at the price point you pick. Sure not all of them are fake but I follow tons of Amazon sellers podcasts and this is common practice. They used to pay for reviews, then Amazon banned that. Then they would give away stuff for good reviews, then Amazon banned that too. Shilling is on everywhere. Reddit is really bad with it right now. Monsanto threads and audiophile threads are perfect examples to look at. Video game systems used to be king if this but thankfully that's over with for the most part.


Question: How exactly does drafting in automobile sports such as Formula 1 work ?

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A car's "slipstream" is the volume of air that gets dragged along behind it when it's moving. In this volume, the effect of air resistance is markedly lower, meaning that another car following behind gets to save power while maintaining speed, meaning it doesn't have to use as much fuel. It also lets a following car build speed before attempting to overtake the car it's following behind.


Question: Why does the freeway/highway clog when there’s a high volume of traffic? What slows it down?

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I am going to steal the explanation for this one. They are called "Phantom Jams" as opposed to traffic jams caused by accidents. > A phantom jam begins when a car in dense traffic slows down even slightly, which causes the car behind that vehicle to slow even more — and the slowing action spreads backward through the lane of traffic like a wave, getting worse the farther it spreads. > Eventually, the cars far behind are forced to stop completely or risk hitting the slower vehicles ahead —and so the traffic grinds to a halt over nothing.


Question: Some genes, increase the likelihood of getting certain diseases (like cancer) why?

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 Some genes, increase the likelihood of getting certain diseases (like cancer) why?

It's kind of misleading to think of the gene as being exclusively for cancer-causing purposes. Typically the "cancer genes" people talk about are variations on a gene that codes for sometime useful. Like when people say they have the BRCA1 gene (the gene most commonly associated with genetic breast cancers), they don't actually mean they have a genetic sequence in a place where everyone else has nothing. Everyone has a BRCA1 gene, it's just that normally it codes for tumor-suppressing proteins. In people with certain mutations in that region, however, the proteins that it codes for are not produced correctly and thus do not properly suppress the uncontrolled growth of cells.


Question: How can somebody be be convicted of 2nd degree murder, third degree murder, AND manslaughter all for the same crime?

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 How can somebody be be convicted of 2nd degree murder, third degree murder, AND manslaughter all for the same crime?

In these cases the sentencings overlap rather than stack. Often for serious crimes people are convicted on multiple, overlapping charges at the same time. This is so if a higher-level conviction gets overturned for any reason (i.e. the 2nd degree murder), they don't have to go on a retrial to get reconvicted for the "correct" charge (i.e. the 3rd degree murder or manslaughter).


Question: Why is it typically windy during the day but not so much at night?

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The sun heats up the air, which causes density differences, which causes sinking and falling air. Then you get wind.


Question: How do cassette tapes work? The tape looks blank so how does the cassette player read the tape?

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 How do cassette tapes work? The tape looks blank so how does the cassette player read the tape?

Hi :-) > blank While you can buy something like the "3M Magnetic Tape Viewer" (A disc you can place on tape to show the weak magnetic fields), you can easily try this at home: - Take an old/expired card with a magnet strip (e.g. gift-card). - Use some iron powder (Nail, file) and sprinkle it on top of the magnet strip. Gently tap it. - You can see a "barcode" where the strip is magnetized. Tapes have a similar structure (plastic tape, coated with something containing iron particles). As you can't see which way the tiny tiny iron particles point in the coating, it always looks the same with your eye. > work Audio is just vibrations in the air. A microphone pics these up and turns it into electronic signals, either analog as varying voltage, or digital as a lot of on/off signals per second. There's a magnetic head in the tape player that can re-arrange the iron particles according to the signal the microphone picked up. The faster the tape moves while stuff is recorded, the better the quality. Thus you could sometimes find dictaphones with two settings (same with videotapes). > read And the head in a player can read the weak magnetic field, runs that signal through an amplifier, turning the recording back into something that can be played through a speaker.


Question: why does warm air rise while cold air sink?

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As air warms it expands, unless something prevents it from expanding. If you take a set amount of air and make it bigger it is less dense than the air around it. That warm air will then tend to float upwards, like wood floating on water. Colder air will do the opposite because it is more dense, like a rock in water. More detail: Temperature is a measurement of how quickly the molecules in something are bouncing around (the energy of that movement). As the molecules in the air bounce around harder they are pushing on each other and tend to separate more. If they can't separate, such as inside a sealed bottle, the pressure will increase inside. But when you were smoking there was nothing that prevented the warmer air from spreading out and becoming less dense.


Question: How do we discover moons around Jupiter just now, when we have discovered planets more than a thousand light years away from us before that?

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because they are very small and you can only spot them when the sun hits Jupiter and the moon is between Jupiter and Earth


Question: Can you melt wood into a liquid?

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No you can't melt wood. Heat causes the wood to break down and decay so it can never return to the original state. You would essentially get charcoal without having had a flame.


Question: Why does it feel really good, when something brushes our skin very lightly?

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 Why does it feel really good, when something brushes our skin very lightly?

We have thinner nerves in certain parts of our bodies that send gentle touch signals to the brain. In my experience its a sign of trust, and a way to make social contact with the least force possible


Question: What differentiates brands of the same alcohol, like vodka or rum, that make it taste smoother than others? Is it a process or perhaps ingredient driven?

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Comes down to number of times distilled (removes impurities) and what it is made out of mainly. This doesn't always apply though as I've had multiple distilled varieties that don't taste much better than some mid-grade.


Question: Why do your eyes tear up really badly when you bump your nose, or when you pull out nose hairs?

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 Why do your eyes tear up really badly when you bump your nose, or when you pull out nose hairs?

I'm not entirely sure, but am pretty confident that it has to do with the naso-ocular reflex path. Your eyes and nose are connected by certain nerves, which cause the other to react when one is irritated. When you pluck a nose hair, you irritate the nasal mucose membrane, and the body reacts by trying to "flush out" the irritant via increased fluid secretion. Similarly a jab to the nose warps the mucosa causing similar irritation and secretion. The reflex nerve pathway will make your eyes secrete as well, and thus tears are produced, which will flow into the nasal cavity to help with the flush. It's also complicit in the eye symptoms due to allergies, and likely to contribute to ACHOO-syndrome (I kid you not, look it up!), also known as sun-sneezing.


Question: How did they know how many days were a year in the past?

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So actually **not** by measuring the sun. The Egyptians were the first to figure out that there were 365 days in a year. Before that calendars usually had 360 days because it more or less lined up with everything and the Babylonians used a base 60 number system that this fit well in. It’s also part of the reason we have 360 degrees in a circle. This was more based on observing the moon too. You’d have a new moon cycle roughly every 30 days, and 12 moon cycles would more or less line up with the sun being in sorta the same place and the seasons coming back around. Eventually this would fall out of sync since the moons cycle isn’t actually 30 days, and there’s not 360 days in a year. So sometimes they’d add an extra month here or there and it worked well enough. But the Egyptians looked at the stars instead. They saw that the star Sirius appeared just above the horizon at dawn at the same time every 365 days. That lined up closely with the flooding of the Nile too, so it was significant beyond just being interesting. It gave them greater predictive power over important events. So they made a calendar with 12 lunar months, and then 5 extra days on top of that for 365 days total. They did know it came a day later every 4 years, but they just let that slide. The calendar fell behind a little bit every four years, but they could see by looking at Sirius when it had been a year and the Nile would flood again. They put a lot of emphasis on observing the stars for largely religious reasons. So they could see pretty clearly when an important star appeared to rise in the same location. It’s more of a discrete event to them that they could see happened every 365 days than a measurement they had to try and get right with tools from 5000 years ago.


Question: What maps do pilots use?

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A flat map can display correct distances. The scale is just not the same for all part of the maps. You have to compensate for it but it is quite possible. For Mercator projection the scaling [looks like this]( URL_0 ). The Mercator projection was created for sailing because it preserves angles. If two lines cross at 32 degrees on a Mercator map that still do that if you draw them on a globe. It preserve angels and shape locally, this is called a conformal projection. A course with a constant bearing is a straight line on a Mercator map. The Mercator projection was created in 1569 for use in navigate because of it's properties. The compensation you need to do for distance is relative simple to do. Angle conversion would be a lot more troublesome. Today there is lots of computer that you can use for planning that do all use spherical coordinates internally. Just test [ URL_1 ]( URL_1 ) and click on stuf and the PLAN and you will se the the great circle path between the points with correct distance.


Question: I’m terms of planets, are gas giants literally just giant balls of gas?

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 I’m terms of planets, are gas giants literally just giant balls of gas?

The answer to this, as far as I know, is still not really known. One of the purposes of the Juno probe was actually to answer this exact question. Since Jupiter is so huge, that means that the pressure at the core would be enough to solidify certain elements (for example, the core of Jupiter might be a chunk of solid, metallic hydrogen) but these effects also have to compete with other effects such as heat and chemical composition. So it is possible that these planets have solid surfaces, but they would be so deep down, it becomes very hard to study.


Question: What is price gouging and why is it bad?

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 What is price gouging and why is it bad?

Price gouging is where you raise the price of a good or service to take advantage over a situation that may be happening. An example would be if there were a hurricane (I live in the south) and there was a mandatory evacuation. You as a gas station owner know people will need to buy gas to leave the area, so instead of your normal price of $2/gallon, you jack it up to $5/gallon. You are just trying to take advantage of people in need.


Question: How did it work out so that every 9 x 1-9 works perfectly on your fingers?

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It is no coincidence, as others have suggested. There are no coincidences in math. There are 2 things that make this work. The first is that we use a base-10 number system, the same number of fingers a person has. The second is that 9 is one less than 10, the base of our number system. If you already know what a base-n number system is, you may skip this paragraph. For the uninitiated, a base 10 number system means that we have 10 digits that we use to count things: 0,1,2, ..., 9. If we need to count more than 9 things, what do we do? We start counting groups of 10. For example, the number 15 can be thought of as 5 single things plus 1 group of ten things. We can write 15 = 1 x 10 + 5. This let's us count things all the way up until we get to 100. What do we do when we get to 100? We group things into a 10 by 10 square. The number 123 is really 3 things, plus 2 groups of ten things, plus 1 group of ten-groups-of-ten (ie 1 group of 10^2 things). We can write 123 = 1 x 10^2 + 2 x 10^1 + 3. It's thought that humans developed a base-10 number system because we have 10 fingers. If we had 12 fingers total, we may have developed a base-12 number system, which would work the same way, except we'd have digits for 10 and 11. If we had 8 fingers, we'd do the same thing, but we'd only have 8 digits and we'd sort everything into groups of 8 instead. This property would work in each of these cases. We can prove the finger trick works using a little algebra, actually. The only magic happening is that we're multiplying by 1 less than the base of our number system. In base 10, multiplying a number A by 9 is the same thing as multiplying by 10 and then subtracting A. So we can write 9A = (10 - 1)A = 10A - A. Note here that if A is less than 10, this number will be between 10A and 9A; this allows us to get the first digit using the finger trick. The second digit will just be 10-A. Why? If we multiple a small integer A by 10, the number in the 1s column will be 0. So the right hand side of the equation says that the last digit will be 10 minus whatever number we're multiplying by. Concrete example to follow, but this is the technical reason why it works. Say we want to use the finger trick to find 9 times 3 (which should be 27). We can substitute A=3 into the above and see that our answer is really 10 x 3 - 3. Note that this will be in the 20s, since we're starting with 10x3 and subtracting a little bit. (More generally, the number in the tens column will be one less than the number we're multiplying by). To apply the finger trick, we put our third finger down - the number of fingers on our left will be one less than 3. The number of fingers to the right will be 3 less than 10. We get our answer: 27. But this would have worked the same way if we had used any other base as long as we had the right number of fingers. We can do the same trick in base 4 to multiply by 3, just use 4 fingers. We can do the same for base 16 (use 16 light switches or something, idk) to multiply by 15. Concrete base-4 example. If we want to multiply 2 by 3 in base 4, we use 4 fingers. Note that 2x3 is 6 in base-10, which is 1 group of four plus 2 singles, so our answer should be 12 in base-4. We put down our second finger from the left, so there is 1 finger on the left and 2 remaining on the right.


Question: What is a dollar index 7-day change chart?

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That graph is a 7-day moving sample of the dollar index. Rather than show the index every day (or every hour as some graphics do) it shows the high and low in the last 7 days. This takes out some of the noise spikes, so that the spikes that remain are longer-lasting. When there is a spike, it means that over a 7 day window there was continued trading across a large range. The main thing that the graph shows is that people sure want dollars a lot more than their own currency. As someone else said, a "scary" amount more.


Question: Does activated charcoal passively collect fumes as any other surface or is there a 'pull' effect?

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Passively is the answer to your question. It has a lot of surface area to catch things, but does not draw anything to it.


Question: What makes bikes stay upright while moving?

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If you've ever played with a top as a child, notice how the speed of the rotation of the top gave stability? (Assuming flat surface, and within the bounds of said top). This is very similar to what is happening on a motorcycle. The wheels give balance/stability (usually) according to the rotation. (gyroscopic effect)


Question: How does cisplatin work in chemotherapy?

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 How does cisplatin work in chemotherapy?

It binds to the DNA inside the cells and makes sort of a "molecular bridge" between different parts of a DNA strand that aren't supposed to be connected. This makes it impossible for the DNA to replicate or repair itself. It the DNA can't replicate, the cell can't divide and thus can't make more cancer cells.


Question: Why are some ancient ruins buried while others are on the surface?

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The most important thing in real estate is location, location, location. Cities are just large real estate and they develop in areas with economic (roads, water access) and/or strategic (protective terrain, ship access) resources. If a city goes into ruins (enemy attack, disease/famine, etc), others may find the same area suitable for building a new city once they demolish and build over the older ruins. All the new "ground" comes from resources that they carry into the new city or waste generated from living in the city. Other ruins that do not get buried like the Akropolis or Pantheon often have significant cultural value and remain standing for long periods of time without being demolished and burried.


Question: Why does plastic get so much easier to tear when it has the slightest cut in it?

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Because that cut gives the stress your putting in the plastic a focal point. Whenever you push or pull on a uniform piece of material, it reacts pretty uniformly, but whenever this is some kind of break or difference or discontinuity, it can alter how the material reacts to stress causing it to have kind of a magnifying effect. For plastic, which at the molecular level is made up of long chains of hydrocarbons, but put simply just long chains. Which you pull it apart all at once, it’s like you’re distributing the load across all those chains, but when there’s already a break and you start at the break, instead of pulling on all chains at once trying to snap them all, it’s like pulling on each chain on at a time, breaking them one by one.


Question: Einstein said If you can't explain it to a 6 year old, you don't understand it yourself." How would you explain your job?

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 Einstein said If you can't explain it to a 6 year old, you don't understand it yourself." How would you explain your job?

I am afraid this question is not suíted for this sub. Anyway, my job consist of filling forms With patients indo when they need medical attention, and i have to answer The Phone.


Question: Why can we predict huge things (like where a galaxy will be in the next 500 million years) but not where a particle will be in the next second?

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 Why can we predict huge things (like where a galaxy will be in the next 500 million years) but not where a particle will be in the next second?

Same reason we can't predict where each little ball will be but we can predict the shape of the whole thing in that game. — > URL_0


Question: Why are there GSM and CDMA phone lines? Is it more beneficial to have one then the other? Why isn't there just one kind of phone line?

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GSM and CDMA are mobile phone standards. GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communications (it originally stood for Groupe Spécial Mobile but they changed it). GSM uses Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) as a way of allowing multiple devices to share frequencies. CDMA is Code Division Multiple Access. The easiest way to describe the difference is imagine you are in a room with lots of people, they cant all talk at the same time and be heard. TDMA would be the equivalent of everyone taking turns (I.E. everyone has a turn to speak), CDMA would be the equivalent of everyone speaking in different languages.


Question: How can Climate-Change cause hurricanes to happen more frequently?

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The atmosphere is like a giant heat engine: the driving force for airflow is the temperature difference between the poles and the equator. The greater the temperature difference (either the poles get colder or the equator gets warmer), the higher the driving force for air flow and the more likely it is you'll get a hurricane. This is a very oversimplified explanation, and I'm sure a meteorologist could give a better explanation but it does start with the fact that the increased difference in temperature provides more energy for greater flow of air over the Earth.


Question: How do all of our voices sound different from one another?

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"The sound of each individual's voice is entirely unique not only because of the actual shape and size of an individual's vocal cords but also due to the size and shape of the rest of that person's body, especially the vocal tract, and the manner in which the speech sounds are habitually formed and articulated." Source: google query "why do people have different voices". Listed at the top


Question: How do different USB types allow better data transfer rates? What is actually happening?

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The USB 3.0 standard introduced new connectors that had 5 extra wires: 4 of these pins were reserved for 2 new data pairs , allowing full duplex communication, (a huge increase from the single pair on the previous connector). The type C connector optionally has two more data pairs, used by USB 3.2 gen 1x2 and usb 3.2 gen2x2 (10 and 20 gigabits per second, respectively)


Question: How does CPU cache affect the performance/processing speed of a Laptop?

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In general, the bigger the memory, the slower it gets. In pure theory, your computer could work by only using your hard drive. But it would take literal days to do any basic thing because the hard drives (also SSDs!) are SO slow. So there’s RAM. A lot smaller, but much faster than a hard drive. Your computer can work much better now. But still, RAM is kind of slow with respect to the speed of your processor. And so, the next step is cache. Cache is an even smaller, much faster memory that’s next to your processor so that it can do its tasks at full speed without having to wait for slow memories. The usual example goes like this: if you want to read a book, you could go to the library next to your house. But is it worth it if you only needed to cite a sentence? What if you need just a couple sentences from multiple books? You’d have to go there every time. Solution? You can rent some of the books and put them in your bookshelf, so that at least you don’t have to leave your house. And if you’re working with one book right now, maybe it’s easier to just keep it on your desk right? Same reasoning here. The bigger the cache, the bigger the desk, so that you can put more books nearby and reach them without leaving your chair.


Question: What makes medical grade skin adhesive patches so sticky, and how are they able to stay in place for weeks at a time?

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 What makes medical grade skin adhesive patches so sticky, and how are they able to stay in place for weeks at a time?

Really strong glue chemically bonds to the surfaces it's applied to. Scientists found a glue that chemically mixes with the skin permanently. But it only reacts with the top layer of skin. As your skin cells die off and shed, the chemically bonded cells are shed too. So when the patch comes off, it's not really the glue that wore off, but the skin it bonded to.


Question: Is the Universe expanding in a particular direction?

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No, there isn't any central point the universe is expanding from, the whole thing is getting bigger everywhere. The usual analogy here is a balloon--if you put dots onto the surface of a balloon, then start inflating it, the dots will all move apart; there won't be a single dot that you can point at and say "The rest are all expanding outward from this one".


Question: - if clouds are made from water evaporation, why are there more clouds and rains in cold areas (nordics/Scotland) than in hot places (Greece/Dubai)?

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 - if clouds are made from water evaporation, why are there more clouds and rains in cold areas (nordics/Scotland) than in hot places (Greece/Dubai)?

You also need condensation. If the air never cools, the water won't condense. There are a lot more factors, that's all I can think of atm.


Question: How did societies enforce the law before police were a thing?

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There were always enforcers, members of the tribe that enforced the rules, they just didn't have job titles.


Question: Is "planned obsolescence" a real thing with our devices?

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Sorta. Rechargeable batteries do go bad. They do not last forever, and if phone manufacturers put customers first, batteries would be replaceable. BUT phones nowadays are iP67 or better, which usually means that there’s a glued seal that your average user isn’t going to replace if they swap to a new battery. For your Xbox, chances are that either the thermal paste has bit the dust, or dust has collected in a heat sink. Things get old and stop working, and because consumer devices are much more complicated than they were 30 years ago, more things can (and do) go wrong. They are planned to last a minimum amount of time, so sometimes it feels like things are planned to go wrong, but it’s usually less ‘planned obsolescence’ and more ‘accounting for entropy.’ Usually, at least; there are probably some cases going through class action lawsuits for it.


Question: Why are internet speed tests always way faster than any speed I receive when actually downloading something?

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 Why are internet speed tests always way faster than any speed I receive when actually downloading something?

So there are several things going on. 1) Read the fine print, you're paying for "up to 100mbps." It's a subtle distinction but an important one. 2) ISPs market their service in megabits; speed tests and downloads themselves normally measure in megabytes. 100Mb = 12.5MB. 3) Just because you can download at 100mbps, doesn't mean the site you're downloading from -- or the networks between you and them -- can serve the content at 100mbps. 4) That 100mbps is "at the pipe," and will be shared between all devices on your network. Roommate downloading the latest 30GB CoD update? That's going to eat into the available bandwidth. Sister running her camshow in the next room? That's going to eat into the bandwidth. If you've got a house full of people sharing 100mb, it's potentially going to go fast. 5) Wifi. It's convenient, but a 100mb wired connection will not give you a 100mb wireless connection, especially if there are walls, floors, etc between you and your wireless modem.


Question: If sunlight through glass objects can cause fire, how come glass skyscrapers don’t set fire to their surroundings?

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 If sunlight through glass objects can cause fire, how come glass skyscrapers don’t set fire to their surroundings?

It's typically things that are lens shaped (like an actual lens, spheres, round drinking glasses, etc.) that \*focus\* light which cause problems. A flat plane of glass doesn't change the light passing through it much. But it has actually happened with buildings, if they are shaped to focus light. There was a building in the UK that worked like a big parabolic mirror and roasted a handful of cars.


Question: How does the Monte Carlo method work, and apart from Pi, what can it be used to approximate?

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 How does the Monte Carlo method work, and apart from Pi, what can it be used to approximate?

Monte Carlo method basically just means: "simulate something a lot of times." For example, let's say you want to know the odds of getting exactly three heads out of 10 coin flips (in any order). Yes, you can calculate this mathematically but let's say you don't want to. Instead, you write a computer program that does 10 coin flips. But also it does this set of 10 coin flips ten million times. Each time a set of 10 flips results in exactly three heads, you note it and count, out of those ten million times, that event happened. This also gives you the odds. The Monte Carlo method can be used to empirically come up with a mathematical result by doing something so many times that variations and flukes due to randomness cancel each other out.


Question: what happens to my mortgage and possibility of selling in the future if the housing market crashes like it did in 2008?

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 what happens to my mortgage and possibility of selling in the future if the housing market crashes like it did in 2008?

The good: you can refinance your loan to get a lower interest rate if the market crashes. The bad: you will have a hard time getting any value out of your home if you try to sell, much better to wait untill the market is rebounding. The ugly: you can get so upside-down (owe more than the value of the house) on your mortgage that the bank will demand a lump sum payment to protect its investment.


Question: If water is clear and colorless, then why is it blue?

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 If water is clear and colorless, then why is it blue?

Water is blue because it absorbs red, yellow and green light, but scatters blue light. The reason a small amount of water appears clear is because not much light is scattered. In larger bodies of water there are more water molecules for light to collide with, resulting in more blue light being scattered.


Question: How does the moon appear to get bigger and smaller in the night sky?

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 How does the moon appear to get bigger and smaller in the night sky?

I think it's 2 things combined. The moon always appears larger when its lower in the sky, this is an optical illusion caused by you seeing the moon near other objects (tops of house, trees etc). Then there's also the fact that the moon isn't always the same distance from earth, it varies from 356,500km to 407,700km - which is enough to make a visible difference. Combine these two effects up (low in the sky and close to earth) and you'll get a moon that appears much larger than a moon high in the sky and furthest away.


Question: How does chemotherapy help to remove cancer?

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 How does chemotherapy help to remove cancer?

Chemotherapy is a treatment that kills cells that are in the process of dividing. Cancer cells divide much more frequently than normal cells (indeed, that's what makes them cancerous), so it kills a lot of cancer cells. It also kills a lot of non-cancer cells, since the human body needs to produce new cells regularly to keep operating properly, which is why it has such terrible side effects.


Question: How do computers work at its most basic level? How did we take physical objects, put them together, and have it so when we press a button, a portion of our screen lights up? And how did we turn this into a code that can be used to make other software?

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 How do computers work at its most basic level? How did we take physical objects, put them together, and have it so when we press a button, a portion of our screen lights up? And how did we turn this into a code that can be used to make other software?

You know how you can use a switch to turn the lights on or off? The switch sits on an electrical circuit and can break it, preventing electricity flow and turning the lights off, or reconnect it, restoring the electricity flow and turning the lights on. Now If you put two switches together on the same circuit, then it will only work (lights on) if both switches are turned on. This is an “AND” gate. If the two switches are connected in parallel, then the lights would be on whenever either of the switches is turned on. This is an “OR” gate. The computer chip is basically millions upon millions of such microscopic switches and gates on tiny circuits.


Question: How does a software determine if your password is strong or not?

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 How does a software determine if your password is strong or not?

It's hard to tell what exactly the code is doing without reading the code itself, but we can make a good guess. The code likely has a list of attributes, checks for those attributes, and has a scoring system to judge how good a password is based on how many attributes it has. For example; if password length is between 8-12, then +1 score If password length is 13 or more, then +2 score If password has uppercase and lowercase letters, +1 score If password has a special character, +1 score If password has 3 or less points, than password is weak If password has 3-6 points, then password is medium If password has 7 or mote points, than password is strong


Question: People Say Keeping the Lights on Drives up the Electric Bill, but Isn't It Simply Using the Electricity That Is Already on Standby?

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 People Say Keeping the Lights on Drives up the Electric Bill, but Isn't It Simply Using the Electricity That Is Already on Standby?

There is no such thing as "Electricity on Standby". Electricity is the flow of electrons, much the same way that water from a faucet flows out. You experience electricity doing work as it flows through your light bulb. Until that flow starts there is no electricity. That flow cannot start until your circuit is completed by turning the light on. Imagine the light as the kitchen sink drain and the electricity as the water flowing into that drain. You are allowing it to flow, thus 'consuming' it.


Question: Why gas smells when it comes out of the stove, but stops when it becomes a flame?

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 Why gas smells when it comes out of the stove, but stops when it becomes a flame?

Because combustion is a chemical reaction that rips apart the chemical compounds in the gas and turns them into other compounds. Natural gas on its own doesn't smell. Since this would be hazardous if there were a gas leak, gas companies add odorant chemicals like [methyl mercaptan]( URL_0 ) to give the gas a distinct unpleasant odor that makes leak detection easy. Since methyl mercaptan is itself a flammable gas, it burns up and is chemically destroyed with the natural gas.


Question: how does .999999... repeating equal 1?

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 how does .999999... repeating equal 1?


Question: Why can’t you refreeze something after you’ve already defrosted it?

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 Why can’t you refreeze something after you’ve already defrosted it?

When you freeze food, ice crystals form inside it. These expand and have sharp edges, which pop and shred cell walls, membranes, and other structures which give the food texture. It also makes it so water is more easily lost. When you thaw it, all that released water drains out, and freezing it again does more damage, with either the water being lost by draining away, or forming even larger crystals which damage the food even more.


Question: Where does the water inside snow globes go?

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 Where does the water inside snow globes go?

The most likely cause is differential pressure against the gasket causing fatigue over time, which leads to very slow leaks. & #x200B; Obviously there's a little pressure on the gasket all the time, but it's both minor and stable, minimizing the rate of fatigue. Changes in pressure, however, would exacerbate the fatigue process. For example, if your snow globe is in the sun, it will likely warm at a faster rate than it's environment, which would create an outward pressure. While the opposite pressure is possible, it's unlikely to ever surmount the pressure of the water given the density difference between air and water, so we're mostly talking about a gentle "wiggling" outward by the change in water temperature relative to air temperature. & #x200B; If you'd rather it not leak, just put a thin bead of a flexible sealant such as pure silicone on the plug next time you top it off.


Question: If cooking a protein would mess its structure, how does the body use it as a nutritional value?

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 If cooking a protein would mess its structure, how does the body use it as a nutritional value?

Our bodies break down proteins into their amino acid components, then use these amino acids to create proteins specific for our bodies and our bodies needs. Cooking or heating a protein otherwise typically makes it non-functional, but it’s nutritional components (amino acids) are still there.


Question: How do overadvertised mobile games make money?

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Microtransactions are not to be underestimated. The free to play model basically goes like this: you get the game and it starts fun. The first few minutes or even hours are great and you really start getting into it. After that initial phase progress slows down. Now, you can maintain that fun progress in the beginning but it will cost a couple dollars. You can refuse to pay but it will take you longer to progress. Alternatively you can get a minor boost if you watch this 15 second ad that another company paid to put in the game. Also, we have really cool items that make the game even more fun but you have to open these loot crates. You get the first few free and you can get more over time but if you buy more you get more chances to get that item you want. Long story short the free to play model uses the same principles as gambling. It rewards you enough to keep you around and spend money but never enough where you are fulfilled. Games you pay for do the same thing now (looking at you EA). So just like gambling it's not for everyone but there's a few that fall into it and blow a ton of cash.


Question: Why are matrices useful? What do we want them for?

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 Why are matrices useful? What do we want them for?

We use certain types of matrices (known as vectors) in physics all the time. For example, a matrix containing the x, y, and z coordinates of an object, or the x, y, and z velocities/accelerations of an object. They're also used in quantum mechanics; you use operator matrices and eigenvectors to calculate probabilities of certain things happening, for example, that a particle will be spin-up or spin-down when measured. There are also applications in solving systems of differential equations (or regular equations for that matter.)


Question: How do stores like dollar general make profit?

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 How do stores like dollar general make profit?

Cheaper off-brand products bought in bulk. Think of it like this...You have Scotch-brite brillo pads for washing dishes you can buy at a Wal-Mart for $2 right?, Where as Dollar General sells the knock off "Scot-brit" brillo pads for $1. It costs the "Scot-brit" company 20 cents per pad they make, They sell them in bulk to the retailer at 40 cents a pad for 50,000 pads to distribute to all their stores nationwide, Which they sell for $1.


Question: Are HDR movies edited in HDR?

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 Are HDR movies edited in HDR?

Not necessarily. Shot in HDR, probably but a lot gets thrown out somewhere in the pipeline. That being said ... There is an incredible amount of post production work that goes into media that can add color detail back in. Obviously it's best for the final product to have as much information inputted but after color grading, visual effects, etc. there is plenty that would be improved via HDR. Keep in mind HDR is mostly about a screens ability to not only give more granular levels of color but also do it all at once. Screens have to compromised somewhere whenever a detailed image is shown and HDR certified screens can handle it better.


Question: Why do strongmen tend to have more body fat and less toned muscles?

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 Why do strongmen tend to have more body fat and less toned muscles?

Because there is no incentive for them to have low body fat. It’s easier to build and maintain muscle mass on a calorie surplus.


Question: All things that happen in Internet are generally instant, why then changing DNS configuration can take up to 48h?

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 All things that happen in Internet are generally instant, why then changing DNS configuration can take up to 48h?

DNS records have a TTL (time to live) value. This value is the number of seconds a server that caches the record should wait before rechecking the authorititive server to see if it's changed. If a DNS change is taking 48 hours, that means the person making the change did not lower the TTL value first (of course this change would take 48 hours to propogate, but the subsequent change would then be quicker.) The usual low value people use is 300 seconds.