Question: How do people who live in eastern asian countrys eat so much yet stay so healthy?

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 How do people who live in eastern asian countrys eat so much yet stay so healthy?

This should be tagged as biology, not culture. Weight gain/loss is determined by how many calories you take in, compared to those you expend based on your baseline metabolism and activity level. Ingredients can have more or fewer calories, but healthy food and unhealthy food with the same amount of calories will cause the same weight gain - you will simply feel differently after consuming it. A few things to think about on your end are snacks between meals or drinks during meals - this is frequently where people consume calories in significant amounts. Try taking a day where you count every single thing. On their end, keep in mind that if you see videos of these events, they are likely not the norm. People don't take videos of their everyday meals, they take videos of interesting food they eat, or of interesting events in their lives.


Question: how does platforms like Steam or Amazon know if you're using a correct visa card or not if you didn't buy anything with it?

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 how does platforms like Steam or Amazon know if you're using a correct visa card or not if you didn't buy anything with it?

There is some internal logic to the format the numbers should be in. So in many cases a typo of one digit would make the number invalid. Old computer games could also do that offline where the CD key had to follow a certain format and rules. Someone else can probably explain in detail how the check actually works.


Question: - Do animals have ways of keeping their teeth clean? Are they affected by the same dental problems that can occur in humans?

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 - Do animals have ways of keeping their teeth clean? Are they affected by the same dental problems that can occur in humans?

Animals have a variety of ways of maintaining oral health. Some animals, like sharks, continuously grow new teeth and shed old ones. So if they chip or lose a tooth they just have to wait a few weeks for new ones to come in, then it's back to business as usual. A lot of rodents and ungulates have a different solution of having teeth continuing to grow indefinitely. This has some drawbacks, primarily that if they don't wear down their teeth, the teeth can become overgrown and and even grow into the animal and hurt it. So maintenance is key. Animals who don't have either of those benefits can do a variety of things, some chew on leaves, some form symbiotic relationships with smaller animals that pick bits of food out from between their teeth. But ultimately, without modern dental care, these animals will one day lose their teeth and be unable to feed.


Question: How is it that pigs can grow from being a tiny piglet to a mature 250-300 pig in 6 months, but it takes some animals (like humans) so much longer to achieve that much growth?

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 How is it that pigs can grow from being a tiny piglet to a mature 250-300 pig in 6 months, but it takes some animals (like humans) so much longer to achieve that much growth?

Because we are born before our heads get too big to come out of a woman's pelvis. We are MUCH weaker than other mammals at birth. Many take minutes, hours or days to walk. We take a year or more. This is caused by two parts of our evolution. 1, we have large brains and need a large head to accommodate them. That means that we need to be born before our heads get very big. Two, being upright instead of on all fours limits how much the pelvis can spread. So a woman's pelvis is narrower than typical for a mammal and a baby's head is larger than normal for a mammal. This all results in babies needing to be born waaaaay before most mammals do.


Question: Why does the US military and associated branches use a 24 hour clock while the rest of America uses the 12 hour clock?

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Military and other institutions need to be precise and are strategic, so by using a 24 hour clock they don't have to worry about confusion with AM or PM,


Question: why are we taught to eat until we’re full instead of eating until we’re satisfied?

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Our instincts don't line up with our current reality. Lots of people are hardwired to eat all the food they can stuff in because in nature you never know where your next meal is going to come from. We also have a number of cultural biases that you don't want to waste food, or that not cleaning your plate is rude, etc which are leftover from times when we didn't have a supermarket around the corner. For us in the Western world you never have to worry about your next meal, it's just a drive through away. So people eat far too much and get fat. It takes a fair amount of discipline to control your eating habits and make sure you calorie count etc, and that can be difficult even for professional athletes to keep under control. Obviously there's a lot more to the obesity epidemic than just that, but it's one factor.


Question: How can My State Minnesota experience both severe cold like now and extreme heat. I understand the cold being so far north. But how can we also experience the same heat as a state such as Florida or Arizona when they dont get near as cold?

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 How can My State Minnesota experience both severe cold like now and extreme heat. I understand the cold being so far north. But how can we also experience the same heat as a state such as Florida or Arizona when they dont get near as cold?

Fun fact about Minneapolis is that it is exactly halfway between the North Pole and the Equator. The 45th parallel runs through its city limits. But the earth is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees. In the summer, Minneapolis get the same power of sunlight as a city at 21.5 degrees north would on March 21st. That's the same as Kauai or Cuba. In the winter, it gets the same power of sunlight that a city at 68.5 degrees north would get. That's about as north as Murmansk, Russia.


Question: what happens to your body and brain when you are in a coma? Either induced or through trauma.

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 what happens to your body and brain when you are in a coma? Either induced or through trauma.

We don't know what consciousness is... like at all. We have no idea why anesthesia works for instance. We don't have a real solid idea of why we sleep even.


Question: How did they recalculate the kilogram?

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I know I'll come of as conceited, but everybody in this thread is wrong. At the moment, [the kilogram is still defined by The Kilogram]( URL_0 ). There is, however, a [proposal]( URL_0 rev-si/) to change this definition. In fact, there is a proposal to change a couple of the 7 SI base units (the metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the candela, and the mole). The proposition is that all of theses base units should be defined by physical constants, which are then set to an exact value. This means that that is their exact value, and there is no uncertainty in them. For instance, the Planck constant currently has some uncertainty due to measurements. With this redefinition, this will disappear. It's also so that these constants aren't chosen arbitrarily. The constants that are chosen are actual constants, and aren't (likely to) going to change. For instance the second. It's going to be defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the frequency of a transition of a Caesium 133 atom, which is equal to 9192631770 when expressed in Hz, which is s^(-1). Similarly, the metre is defined by taking the speed of light, and setting its value to an exact value, paired with the definition of the second. And the kg will be defined as the exact value of Planck's constant, paired with the definition of the speed of light, and the definition of the second. The reason scientists are doing this, is to remove any ambiguity. Currently, if you want to calibrate your scales, you should go to Paris and use The Kilogram. But by defining these units in terms of physical constants, you can do this anywhere. If you're in LA, Hong Kong or Kaapstad, those physical constants will remain the same, and as a result, the units will remain the same. This redefinition removes the need of any physical thing that you need to measure in order to get the unit.


Question: Why do newspapers and books have dull paper and magazines have shiny paper?

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Newspaper's are cheap and published daily, while magazines are meant to be kept for at least a month, so require a higher quality. Magazines also showcase more ads and articles that require higher quality images.


Question: Self-checkout machines have existed for at least a decade now. Why has the technology not improved at all over that span of time?

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 Self-checkout machines have existed for at least a decade now. Why has the technology not improved at all over that span of time?

Mind you, some grocery chains are heavily unionized and they have language in the contracts preserving jobs even with the rise in highly accurate automated check out systems. I'm willing to bet this is a major factor for some chains. Amazon GO is on the bleeding edge forefront obviously, but even Sam's Club is in the same sandbox with their scan as you shop app. You simply scan as you go with your smartphone and skip the checkout line completely. We are going to need a major overhaul in tech and social acceptance before fully automated grocery becomes the norm. We might even need universal basic income before it fully catches on, something I'm neither for nor against, but warily apprehensive.


Question: What is the bad feeling you get but cannot figure out what you did that makes you uneasy?

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 What is the bad feeling you get but cannot figure out what you did that makes you uneasy?

When i was young i went to the beach with my parents every so often. But this one time i was swimming out a bit too far. Before i knew it the current was taking me and my beach ball to open sea. In my struggle to get back i had to ditch the ball and my mother and a bunch of strangers had to pull me out of the water. To this day i still dream about that fucking beach ball and i have no clue why. The experience was not scary but the scene of that beach ball drifting away makes me feel sooo guilty that i remember it decades later. In short: dont ever lose your beach ball because it will haunt you


Question: How do panic attacks work? Like hormones?

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Your body releaes adrenaline which amps you up as if your life was on the line. Adrenaline is what creates the flight or fight response which increases your heart rate and shuts down your digestive system. But the problem is that our bodies give that response in scenarios that aren't life threatening therefore we just call it a panic attack.


Question: How do pencil erasers work?

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When you rub an eraser across a pencil mark, the abrasives in the eraser gently scratch the surface fibers of the paper to loosen the graphite particles. It only works becuase of friction.


Question: How is the filthiest thing in the house able to clean things we put in our mouth. How does rubbing an unhygienic sponge on utensils and dishes clean it?

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 How is the filthiest thing in the house able to clean things we put in our mouth. How does rubbing an unhygienic sponge on utensils and dishes clean it?

The goal of the sponge is to knock off large chunks of grime. After wiping with a soapy sponge, your dishes will still be covered in a thin nasty layer of soapy, bacteria and grime filled water. But, and this is the key thing, that nasty layer of gunk should no longer be _attached_ to the surface of the dish. Then, when you rinse off the dish, you are rinsing off the now-unattached nasty layer of soapy gunk...some of which is from the sponge, some of which is from the dish itself. This leaves the dish cleaner than it would be without wiping down with a sponge.


Question: How did it become common for bedrooms to be on the second floor of a house?

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Because bedrooms are considered more private, personal space compared to the places where one might more regularly entertain guests... so your public spaces are more easily accessibly on the main entrance level, while the bedrooms are further away. Additionally, hard surface flooring is more common in public areas like kitchens, dining rooms and living rooms, and people walking on those would make more noise on ceiling of rooms below, making bedrooms impractical if below a kitchen and trying to get kids to sleep.


Question: What is a fed rate hike and why should I care?

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The Federal Reserve sets a "banking interest rate" (before someone yells at me, I'm simplifying it here). That banking interest rate affects how banks and big money does business which each other, but it also affects consumers. If you have a credit card, open up your credit card agreement envelope, and look at your APR (the interest you pay on your credit card). It will usually say "Prime Rate + 15/20/25%". That means that your consumer credit, consumer auto loans, consumer mortgages are influenced by whatever the Fed is doing. A "rate hike" means that interest rates across the economy are about to increase. That makes it more expensive to borrow in order to consume stuff, limiting your ability to consume stuff. Even if you are personally not really interested in getting a loan, it still affects other people and businesses, and a rate hike usually slows down production in the economy. Another point is that after the recent recession a few years ago, the Federal Reserve reduced their interest rate tremendously (to effectively 0%), attempting to force the economy to start moving and spending money again. Now they feel that the recession has finally been dealt with, and they can stop slamming on the gas pedal, pull back, increase rates, and let the economy move on on its own.


Question: How do fuels give off more CO2 than they weigh themselves?

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Because oxygen also weighs a lot. It actually weighs more than carbon. and when you burn fuels, you are taking the carbon in those fuels and combining them with oxygen. So you end up with a lot more carbon dioxide than you had in fuel to begin with. It is nowhere near as extreme as one gallon of gas producing tons of carbon dioxide. But it is very noticeable, with the mass of carbon dioxide being about twice the mass of the fuel being burned most of the time. It varies depending on the exact composition of the fuel, of course.


Question: Why do GPUs require frequent driver updates whereas CPUs do not?

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CPUs have very standard instruction sets. All AMD and Intel CPUs pretty much use the same instruction sets, though sometimes there is a little bit of differences, but not many. So games can just compile themselves and they'll easily run on all AMD and Intel CPUs without any changes. GPUs are not like that. Nvidia and AMD make vastly different families of GPUs. And even outside of the same family, there is vastly different functionality of the GPUs. A game maker can not optimize it's game for every GPU out there, it's just impossible. So they interface with a common interface normally, DirectX, and hope that DirectX does well at displaying their game. The GPU manufacturers want their GPUs to perform well and sell well, so they go ahead and make a new version of the driver that detects the new game and optimizes the interface between DirectX and the GPU so that the new game performs well. They don't have to do this, but if they don't gamers won't buy their GPUs. Think of it as your car. If you drive your car on the highway, you can buy tires for it that are meant for the highway, and it will perform well. But if you need to start driving in ice and snow, well those tires might not perform that well. So you can buy different tires that perform well in the ice and snow. You are still driving the same car. Just have a different version of the tire now.


Question: Video game developers sometimes keep a game (like Bloodborne) exclusive to a single console because of a deal with their publisher. How does this type of deal even come close to making up for all the lost sales missed out on because the game wasn't released on all popular platforms?

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 Video game developers sometimes keep a game (like Bloodborne) exclusive to a single console because of a deal with their publisher. How does this type of deal even come close to making up for all the lost sales missed out on because the game wasn't released on all popular platforms?

There's several reasons a game may come out on only one console: 1) The studio making the game is owned by that party. Sony owns several studios, probably isnt keen on money they spent making a game going towards Microsoft or Nintendo for it to be on their console. Same for the other two. Often times the games that you find that _are_ multi-platform are from 3rd party developers who arent owned by one of the major three. 2) For some 3rd party developers, the exclusivity to one console is due to that 1st party helping pay for some of the development costs or giving a better deal on the split of profits per sale due to licensing on their console. 3) Some 3rd party developers, like EA, simply choose not to developer for certain platforms, such as when they dropped Nintendo as a platform to release on, due to considering that platform not worth it. EA did this with the end of the Wii, all of the WiiU, and is still slow to fully support the Switch. There's also the case to be made with the amount of developers choosing the PS4 over the XB1 due to the XB1 console sales lagging behind.


Question: How do pharmaceutical companies name their new medicines? Is there any set methodology to it?

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So there's quite a process involved here. So most medications start off as compounds. These are just molecules that scientists think might have some effect on the body, but more research is needed. These compounds need to be named. Apart from the obvious chemical name of the compound (like CO for carbon monoxide) there's a name that is made up of a brand label and then ten numbers, so a compound being researched by Pfizer could be named PF-83738403-01. Then in the next phase the drug gets it's generic name. This name must be approved by the WHO's INN programme and the USAN council. The name itself is made up of a prefix and a suffix. The suffix is based on the formula. So viagra, for example, is called sildenafil. The "-afil" explains the way it works, as it refers to the drug's function as a PDE 5 inhibitor. The prefix is a whole different story. The prefix is chosen to be pronounceable yet different from other drugs to prevent confusion. The names have to follow a set of rules in order to be approved: 1. The prefix must have two syllables. This helps create more variation. 2. The name must avoid certain letters. For drug names we use the Roman alphabet, but some countries that use the Roman alphabet don't use some letters (such as Y, H or W) these letters cannot be used. This ensures the drug is pronounceable for all countries. 3. It can't be considered marketing. The drug company cannot use the name of the company in the name of the drug, for obvious reasons. 4. It avoids medical terminology. Drugs can have uses that are only discovered later, so by not naming the disease or type of disease the drug is intended for, any later uses can be easily put into practice without confusion. So if you have a cancer drug that starts with onc-, and it later turns out to help with, say, diabetes, the name would become misleading for some. When the research team has a shortlist of around 6 names, it gets sent to the USAN council, which will either approve one or more of the names or decline. If the name gets approved then the name gets sent to the WHO's INN programme who will also either approve the name or not. If the name gets approved the name gets added to a INN (International nonproprietary Names) list at which point the public has 4 months to object to the name. If no problems arise the name is approved and the pharmaceutical company can start using the name.


Question: How do scientists make sure satellites don't crash into one another?

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Satellites are on a set orbit. The scientists put the satellite into that orbit to begin with, so they know when and where in space the satellite is going to be. When they launch a new satellite, they just calculate the appropriate trajectory and launch time to get the new satellite into space without hitting the other ones.


Question: Why do some edges of the laptop screen "hide" the mouse while others do not?

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The corner of the cursor is the pixel that is the focus of a click. To reach the right-most pixels, it has to go off screen. I'm pretty sure I used to have a windows 95 theme installed that actually flipped the cursor when it was too low or too far right.


Question: Why do our ears get red when angry or embarrassed?

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The blood vessels in your face and extremities are close together and near the ‘top’ of your skin so when you get flushed or have the blood run quickly through them you appear red. Feeling angry or embarrassed would often trigger adrenaline which causes faster blood flow and redness in those areas


Question: Are bodyguards really expected to take a bullet for their client?

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Sort of but not quite. The job description of a body guard is to protect their client. This may include putting yourself into a dangerous position where you might get killed although it is preferable if nobody gets killed. Nobody would ever expect that a bodyguard is required to get himself shot if the client is shot at. But that is something which might happen while he is trying to protect his client instead of running away.


Question: Why does a shadow become more fuzzy when the object that casts the shadow is further removed from the surface it casts the shadow on?

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Imagine you have two point source lights that are near each other. A surface that's exposed to both lights will be illuminated twice as brightly as a surface that's only exposed to one. Now, put an object between the light and the surface. Because there are two lights, the object actually casts two shadows. But, if the object is very close to the surface, the two shadows will be close to each other, even overlapping. As you move the object away from the surface, the two shadows get farther apart. Where the two shadows overlap, you get a dark shadow. Where there's only one shadow, you get a light shadow. Now, the thing to realize is that no real light source is a single point. It takes up space, which looks the same as multiple light sources very close to each other. So, in summary, the fuzzy border of the shadow is the region where only part of the light source is visible.


Question: - How do counterfeit pens work?

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currency paper is a mixture of cotton and linen with no cellulose. The iodine in the pen reacts with the starch (cellulose) in lower quality counterfeit bills paper causing a dark stain to form. Genuine bills fail to react and the iodine evaporates after a short time.


Question: Why do bloody noses usually only bled from one nostril?

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When your nose is bleeding, you're normally bleeding from a specific place on the inside of your nose (like if you make it bleed by picking it). The blood will come out of whichever nostral that place is in. When you bleed from both, it's probably because the whole inside of your nose is dry to the point where bleeding happens in both nostrals.


Question: Does running vs walking an equal distance use the same amount of energy?

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It depends what you mean by "energy". Running and walking a mile are both going to move the same mass the same distance, so in terms of physics, you did the same amount of work and expended the same amount of energy. In terms of calories, running is going to usually go burn a few more for a given distance. Running uses energy a little less efficiently, especially if you run fast enough to get into the anaerobic range. At that point, your body isn't getting enough oxygen, and has to rely on a much less efficient process to convert glucose into ATP. On the other hand, your body will burn a certain amount of calories each hour, 50-100, just being alive. This is kind of a calorie tax on anything you do, so if you were very fit and walked very slowly, the tax you pay might be more than what you save in efficiency. Finally, there is our perception of energy and fatigue. Your cells burn glucose for energy, and glycogen is your bodies main short-term energy reserve, as it can be readily converted into glucose. Usually, there is enough in the muscles to do whatever you need them to do. When that is exhausted, there is glycogen in the bloodstream that can replenish it. When that is exhaust, more is stored in the liver. And when that is exhausted, your body has to start converting fat into glucose. Each of those steps represented an additional level of fatigue, as your body has to replenish the various reserves as they are exhausted. That is why sprinting a mile will leave you feeling more tired than walking five miles, even though it used fewer calories. Walking burns calories slowly enough glycogen can be replenished as you go, while running will result in a deficit.


Question: Why is it essential that the US is included in the Iran deal?

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Because the US is the world's largest economy and it penalizes all companies that deal with Iran in any way, directly or indirectly, so no one wants that hanging over their head. It's an economic war with Israel and KSA/Sunni muslims trying to destroy Iran's economy and asking for the US to back their side


Question: why do video games usually have players and objects fall at a set speed instead of increasing in velocity over time like Portal and Portal 2? It would make a lack of air control and high fall damage seem a lot more fair.

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Games generally do have players and objects accelerate as they fall, but they might reach terminal velocity sooner than what is realistic. I don't see how changing that would make a game better.


Question: What is actually happening when you raise a number to a non-integer?

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In the first scenario, it's 3^(1+1+1) = 3^3. In the second, you can make it a fractional exponent. 2.8136 = 28136/10000. That simplifies to 3517/1250. Fractional exponents are expressed as power/root. So it would be the 1250th root of 3^3517th. 3^3517 = 1.09 E1678 1250th root of 1.09e1678 = 22.00


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The viscosity prevents the stream from merging with the puddle you’re pouring it onto right away like with water, so as more comes down the stream, it essentially piles up and collapses as it becomes unstable, or “top heavy” within the stream


Question: What is the state of matter of a flame?

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A flame isn't a state of matter, because it's not matter. It's a *process*, an *activity*. A flame is a chemical reaction where a fuel combines with an oxidizer to produce some sort of new chemical, along with extra heat that causes the reaction to continue. With a typical fire, the fuel can be a solid, liquid, or gas; the oxidizer is gaseous oxygen; and the byproduct is a combination of gas (typically carbon dioxide) and solid particulate matter (soot, which is made up of bits of unburnt carbon). The orange part of the visible flame is cause by bits of soot that are so hot from the reaction that they glow, like metal in a forge. The blue part of the flame is light emitted by the chemical reaction itself.


Question: - What makes a band 'indie'?

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It's an historical definition, and the reason for the name is interesting, but not terribly useful anymore. There was a period of a few decades where it started to get cheap enough to produce and distribute an album that some bands could do it by themselves. Then the internet happened and pretty soon it was almost free for anyone to make an album. "Indie" was defined in that period from the 70s through 90s, and had a few qualities: * It wasn't like the mainstream music of the time (so not rock or pop or metal, etc.) because most of the bands that were successful in those genres got picked up by record labels * It also had an audience that wasn't tiny little niches. So, it wasn't "hardcore" or "screamo" or "viking metal", or any other genre that was obviously "not mainstream" * It was music that was kind of popular, but not super popular. So genres we'd now identify as "alternative" or "brit pop" or different flavors of "punk". These were all genres that shared similar roots, were growing in popularity at that time, and had enough fans that some bands could afford to make their own records and actually make money doing it. * At some point these genres started to get more and more popular and some big bands broke out and saw mainstream success. Inevitably they were accused of "selling out" and indie was used to describe similar bands that weren't as mainstream/popular/etc. * By the early 2000s anyone could make and distribute a record and the "indie = independent" definition really stopped being useful anymore. By this time the sound of the bands that happened to fill that niche for the last couple decades really defined what people thought of as "indie." * There was also a huge proliferation of music of every genre from everywhere, and this particular genre that was becoming more and more popular was absolutely flooded with derivative bands cranking out mediocre (at best) music. * And now we end up with the situation where a successful indie band is just as likely to be on a big record label as not. And we're another 20 years after the time where the genre hit the mainstream, so there's tons of different sub genres (indie pop, post-punk, garage rock, emo, etc.) that probably all had their roots in "indie" music. And the further and further we get away from the time when the term was originally coined, the less and less useful it becomes.


Question: - Does the newly added Us inflation give to me (a European) more power to buy products from the us?

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No because the Euro can also inflate/deflate. It means that if you are a producer of goods or services, you can now sell those goods or services to the US for more money than before. Inflation rate is pegged to the prices of goods and services. Foreign exchange rates are tracked separately.


Question: How do we know there’s water on other celestial bodies?

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By using what's called spectroscopy. Light interacts with material that it passes through or reflects off of, and that interaction leaves a unique signature in the spectrum of the light that we see as [lines in the spectrum]( URL_0 ). Since these lines are unique to the specific material the light passed through, we can look at these lines and tell exactly what that light passed through or reflected off of. We can look at these lines in both infrared and ultraviolet as well. That means we can detect water ice on the surface of Europa, hydrogen in a distant nebula, and even methane in the atmosphere of extrasolar planets.


Question: What financially sustains the USA to the point where they are arguably the most powerful country in earth?

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1) Population - The US is the third most populous nation in the world 2) Resources - The US is the third largest nation in the world, and unlike the larger two, very little of that land is hostile permafrost. 3) Political stability - The US hasn't seen any meaningful military activity on its own soil since 1865. There have been skirmishes over islands and a few world war naval hit and runs, but no notable domestic loss of life or infrastructure in generations. Compare to the european nations that were razed in the 1940s or the many developing nations still repeatedly ravaged by civil wars.


Question: How is music digitally stored AND played?

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Every single sound is just a combination of waves in the air. Instruments and the like are designed to create certain specific combinations, which is why (for example) a trumpet sounds like a trumpet: it vibrates the air in a attern that is (more or less) unique. Speakers are cool in that they are capable of producing any sound wave. They do this simply by vibrating a plate back and forth very carefully to create the exact same wave that was recorded. (This vibration is caused by an electric current creating a magnetic field that can push or pull the metal plate) Recording sounds works in very much the same way. If you play loud sounds at a speaker, the plate inside it will vibrate, and then produce a current which can be stored as data.


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 How was the salty seabed in the Netherlands transformed into usable farmland?

The seabed didn't dry out by evaporation, the water was pumped out, while there was some salt in the land it wasn't as great as your question is making it appear.


Question: How much of a club DJ’s set is actually performed live versus being preset? What are they actually doing up there?

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Very much matters what flavor of DJ we're talking about. Many are exactly as you describe. They mixed up a set at home, put it on a USB and hit play. Others will have 2-3 songs playing at the same time, fading them in and out into a unique creation while they swap out the tracks live. Others will have a custom keyboard setup with a different riff or sound bound to each key, and are essentially playing piano except it's all beats and samples.


Question: How does our mouth know when to open the path to the lungs, and when to open the path to the stomach?

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The airway is open as default on our body. When we swallow something, the epiglottis moves in order to close the airway for a few seconds and returns to default after that. It's just like a trucks' exhaust flapper, but in reverse. This image could be helpful. URL_0


Question: What happens to light particles after they are observed?

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In order to observe the photons, they have to be absorbed by your eyes (or by some other detector like a camera sensor). So nothing happens after because they no longer exist.


Question: Can you lose fat while growing muscle simultaneously?

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While I am by no means near a professional level, as an amateur bodybuilder I can firmly tell you, yes. You can most definitely do that. In the spirit of this sub let me try and keep this simple. & #x200B; Your muscles grow, because you are damaging them when you train. You lift heavy weights, in order to quite literally tear your muscles apart. Now since your muscles are made out of protein, in order for your body to repair the muscle, it needs protein from food, to have something to repair the muscle with. (this is also why most people eat meat, since it's literally already complete, existing muscles of different species) Now in order for your body to survive and keep up it's daily functions (such as keeping your heart beating, pumping blood through all your organs, breathing, digesting, etc...) he needs energy. Energy is given to the body through consuming food. Energy is measured in different units, most commonly in something we call calorie. Now your body has it's own requirement of how much energy (calories) it needs, but for this example let's say it needs 2000 just to survive and keep up it's daily functions. If you now consume more than 2000, the body will store this excess energy, in fat cells and you will gain weight. If you give the body less than 2000, he has to get the remaining, needed energy from somewhere else, since this is what he absolutely needs to survive. He then has two options: He burns of the fat, that he stored in fat cells for later use or he breaks down muscle tissue in order to use their protein (remember that's what they are made of) To a certain degree, your body will use both of these options to keep himself going, when you underfeed him. However, since you basically only wish for fat to be burned and muscle fiber to be preserved, there are certain things you need to look out for. First and foremost, you need to supply your body with enough protein throughout the day. You must also keep an eye on the intervals in which you eat, since you have to avoid going long stretches of fasting (you do not want to give him a chance to attack muscle fibers). You must also (and this is the part many people seem to forget) keep using your muscles. I'm sure you heard the expression "use it or lose it" before. You need to keep working out, and you need to keep the weights fairly heavy, because otherwise the body will think, he does need that much muscle anymore and start eating it. So the trick to doing what you have asked is, slightly eating less than what your body needs to maintain itself, so you are still forcing him to eat fat from your fat cells, in order to fill the remaining energy difference, while also keep working out, in order for you body not to "view" your muscle mass as not needed, and start consuming it. In short: eat less, train fucking hard, up that protein intake. & #x200B; There is so much more to say about this, but I hope this will suffice. If you need more just send me a message :)


Question: How do people sleep through their own snoring?

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They actually wakeup eventually and try to adjust their position. Some people are also just so used to their snoring. Some also get less quality sleep and wake up tired; so they're not totally immune to it if that's what you mean.


Question: If countries switch to electric vehicles only, is crude oil still distilled for the other products (plastics, oils, tar, etc) ?

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I suspect that we will still need lubricants,and heavy fuels such as kerosene, and JP4. But the requirement will be greatly reduced as gasoline will become a byproduct rather than the primary product. With luck, once we move away from our dependence on internal combustion for transportation, more focus can be placed on development of efficient engines for things such a generators. Also. Oils and plastics can be recycled, it’s not a 100% recovery process, but it can significantly reduce the need for new crude oil.


Question: how are deafblind people taught to communicate?

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I'm a nurse that works with DeafBlind individuals, hopefully I can explain this well! For most things, it's all about teaching the concept behind the idea. And using all other available senses. Also, repetition. For an apple, you can sign with AITSL (adapted interactive tactile sign language - hand over hand) the sign for apple. Have them eat an apple, sign it again. Smell apples, sign it again. Feel the apple, sign it again. Etc. For more abstract concepts - for example, laundry - seems simple enough. It's easy to teach someone the *skill* of doing laundry, but *why* do we do it. Because things are dirty, of course. But if you cant see the dirt, or get the concept of the clothes being 'dirty', it seems silly as to why we put out clothes in this machine. So we have to start with teaching 'dirty', go I. The garden, get messy, feel/smell the dirt on your clothes. Then teach the concept of clean. Then putting it all together, explaining that the machine takes the clothes from dirty to clean. This is a painstakingly long process, and also relies alot on the DeafBlind individuals cognitive abilities. Also, keep in mind, most DeafBlind folks have some residual hearing and vision. One client I support just requires that we sign for her about 2-4 inches right in front of her left eye, as that's where her visual field is. I hope that helps! Edit: Gold?!?! Thank you, a hundred times over, kind strangers!! Also I've had a lot of requests for an AMA, I'm totally going to do it, stay tuned! And thank you all for the overwhelming interest in what I have to say!! And especially to OP for asking the question that started all of this awesome dialogue :)


Question: It is said one teaspoon of a neutron star is 5 billion tons. What would this material be something with a higher atomic number than uranium?

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A neutron star is a giant nucleus with uncountable numbers of neutrons in it, basically. Not sure what it would "look like" because neutrons possibly absorb photons (light). Trying to remove "a teaspoon" of the material means taking it out of the intense gravity that's created by the neutron star (it's an entire Sun compressed down to 10 miles), and without gravity to keep it "compressed" it will just blow up like 5 billion tons of nuclear weapons. By themselves, neutrons "decompose" to protons + electrons (i.e. hydrogen atoms) in about 15 minutes.


Question: If I have a 1/50 chance of winning and I try 50 times, why is a win not guaranteed? What would the actual odds be?

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> If I have a 1/50 chance of winning and I try 50 times, why is a win not guaranteed? For the same reason that if you flip a coin and it lands on heads, it's not guaranteed to land on tails the next time. Each event is what's termed an "independent event". The coin (or whatever device/situation you're dealing with) has no memory. It doesn't know what happened last time. Your 50th attempt to win something is identical to someone else's 1st attempt. > What would the actual odds be? The way to calculate the odds of winning at least once after 50 attempts is by calculated the odds of *never* winning after 50 attempts, and subtracting it from 100%. So the odds of not winning on the first attempt is 49/50. The odds of not winning on the second attempt is likewise 49/50. So the odds of not winning 50 times in a row is 49/50 times itself 50 times, or (49/50)^(50), which comes out to be approximately 0.364, or 36.4%. So the odds of winning at least once after 50 attempts is 100% - 36.4% = 63.6%


Question: Why is the use of self-checkouts considered anti-labour, or "killing" jobs, when businesses must keep with the advancement of technology to stay competitive?

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I don't use self checkouts because i have a job, and it isn't working in a supermarket for free.


Question: Why does stuff get cooled faster when you spin it next to ice, rather that it just laying next to it?

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I dont think either of these ELI5, though. So, the liquid in the can is warm and the ice on the outside is cold. The ice cools through the can, but then the liquid inside the can next to the edge is now cold, but not the liquid in the center. Spinning the can constantly moves the liquid inside the can so that the part being cooled at the edge mixes into the middle faster and lowers the overall temperature of the liquid faster.


Question: Why are there so many earthworms on the street after it rains?

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Worms breath through their skin. Earthworms are attracted to moist soil, as they need it to survive. However, if the rain is too heavy, the oxygen in the waterlogged soil may "run out" (gets displaced by watwr and also used up by organisms faster than it can be replaced. The worms then need to come to the surface to breathe, and as the soil is wet, they don't dry out.


Question: What do the numbers in anti-aliasing represent (e.g. MSAA 2x/4x/8x)?

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How often the filter is applied. So at x8 the filter is applied 8times and edges look very smooth but ur gpu may be on fire tho


Question: In cases such as the murder of Dylan Redwine when it seems like there could be no possible reasonable doubt regarding the murderer, why does it still take so long for someone to be arrested and charged?

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I'm not familiar with the case, but as a former defense attorney, I can tell you that the evidence you've listed is probably not nearly enough for the prosecution to secure a conviction. As you mentioned, people can only be convicted of a crime if the state has enough evidence to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused committed each element of that crime. All crime (I'm simplifying) are comprised of two elements: an action, and an intention. So, if you want to show murder, for example, you have to have evidence that shows the accused killed, and the accused intended to kill. The evidence you've listed doesn't show that. Why? Look at each piece. **Cadaver dog scent.** Ignoring the possibility the dog is poorly trained, poorly handled, or picked up a non-human scent, whose scent was it? **Dylan's blood in the house.** Children bleed. Parents bleed. You have traces blood in your house right now. That doesn't mean you murdered anyone. **Threats.** Words are not actions. Did the father act on those words? How do you know? Even assuming all the evidence you listed is true, and the child died at the home, how do you know the death resulted from the father's actions? Did the child die accidentally? Did the father panic and take the body somewhere? The situation you described seem similar to the Casey Anthony case. The child is dead. The child likely died in the mother's home. But that doesn't prove intent or action. Going further, let's assume the father did kill his son, or that Anthony did kill her child. That doesn't mean you can get a conviction. To get a conviction the state has to show the evidence. Even if the father murdered 1,000 people, if there's no evidence, he's not guilty. And this is exactly why people acquitted of a crime are declared "not guilty" instead of "innocent." Guilt is a legal standard. When the state doesn't have the evidence, you're not guilty even if you actually did it. It's not your burden to show you're innocent. It's the state's burden to show you're guilty.


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There isn't always a formula that you can easily follow and just get the information that you want. For example, one of the biggest and easiest to understand unsolved problems in math is Goldbach's conjecture. Goldbach's conjecture is that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. This... makes sense. 4 is 2+2 6 is 3+3 8 is 5+3 10 is 5+5 And if you continue this pattern, you'll find that it works for *every* even number that you try. But here's the catch-- even though it seems like it works for every number, no one has proved it. And what formula would you even follow to solve this?


Question: How were Congressional Republicans able to delay and ultimately avoid hearings for Merrick Garland, yet Democrats couldn't do the same for Brett Kavanaugh?

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Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the Republicans, in the past presidential term, held the majority in the Senate at the time when the confirmation vote required a 2/3 majority. The Republicans have also since changed the rules to simply need a majority vote (greater than 50 percent). The filabuster rules have changed as well. Republicans didn't like the rules so they changed them to suit their needs.


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Primarily because it has only happened once. Imagine it this way, picture you hear a loud clap outside your window that causes you to jump in your chair. You are freaked out and look outside but don't see anything. When you inspect everything around the house and in your room you find nothing that could have caused the noise. When you describe the noise to others, no one has ever heard anything like it. And even years later you have never heard another sound like it and it has never happened again. How exactly would you identify it? You can make guesses based on the traits of it, but you really have no way of being sure what it was, just hypotheses.