Question: Why does metal feels hotter than the surrounings when it's out in the sun?

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 Why does metal feels hotter than the surrounings when it's out in the sun?

Metals are usually very good conductors, so they can quickly conduct a lot of heat into your hands. They’re also very dense, so they can store a lot of heat. They may not actually be at a higher temperature than a slab of wood sitting in the same sunlight, but they have a lot more energy to give and can dump that heat into your hand dramatically faster - you’ll feel the difference. The rate of heat transfer is a critical part of how you perceive heat, that’s why a drop of 212F boiling water is so much “hotter” than the 400F air that comes out of the oven. The hot air can’t transfer heat very well, the much denser and more conducive water can.


Question: Why is coffee/pepper that you grind at home better than coffee/pepper ground at the factory?

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 Why is coffee/pepper that you grind at home better than coffee/pepper ground at the factory?

Coffee, pepper, and many other spices have very volatile oils that evaporate fairly quickly after their outer shells/skins are broken. So the closer to end use you put off the grinding of the spice the better it will taste and the more of those oils you consume. Grinding them in a factory means you lose a lot of those oils, and therefore lose flavor.


Question: Why hasn't the US devalued the penny?

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 Why hasn't the US devalued the penny?

Politically, supporting the phase-out of the cent coin is seen as suicidal: acting against constituents who resist change (pun intended) and those who benefit from the zinc/copper industry.


Question: What's the difference between measuring a person's temperature and an object's temperature?

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Some surfaces radiate heat better than others, just like some surfaces reflect light better than others. When the thermometer only registers a small amount of heat being radiated by whatever you're pointing it at, that may indicate that the object is cold. But the object could also be hot and not good at radiating heat (such as shiny metal objects). In order to calculate the temperature accurately, the thermometer needs to know what kind of surface it's dealing with. When you set the thermometer to body temp mode, it applies a certain correction factor for human skin, whereas it's going to use a different value for objects, even though that value can only be a guesstimate. The property that we're talking about here is called emissivity.


Question: In England all energy providers provide energy from the same grid, how comes they are all able to sell the exact same product at differing prices? And why is there competition between them?

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 In England all energy providers provide energy from the same grid, how comes they are all able to sell the exact same product at differing prices? And why is there competition between them?

They basically just keep track of how much energy they provided to the communal grid, and how much their customers drew from the communal grid. They can produce it at a certain price, and prove their customers drew that power out the other side, so it doesn't really matter where the specific electrons came from as long as they provided enough for their customers' use. Make sense?


Question: Are all the stars we see in the sky actually stars or are some planets?

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 Are all the stars we see in the sky actually stars or are some planets?

Stars emit light. They are like giant candles. Most of what you see in the night sky stars that are very bright but very far away. We can see "local" planets like Mars and Venus sometimes for the same reason we can see the moon. The sun (a star) reflects its light off of those planets and they are close enough for us to see with the naked eye. Planets around other stars are too far away for us to see.


Question: If the color white reflects light (and black absorbs it) why does a lighter skin tone easier get sunburned?

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Dark/black colours "absorb" light turning it into heat. Light/white colours bounce it. That is true. The sun's visible light doesn't cause that much damage to skin, and heat isn't the concern. Ultraviolet (UV) light damages DNA and that's what really causes a sun-burn. That layer of skin dies and that's why it peels off. That's what you're really protecting yourself against.


Question: Are gas giant planets gassy? As in could I land on a gas giant and like poke my finger through?

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 Are gas giant planets gassy? As in could I land on a gas giant and like poke my finger through?

Gas giants are weird. If you tried to land on a gas giant, you'll first encounter an atmosphere, similar to what you would expect on earth. It would start very very thin and becomes more substantial as you go down. As you get deeper the pressure would increase to very high levels, the temperature would rise, then the gas would turn into liquid. Unlike earth, where the transition between the atmosphere and the ground happens at a very defined point, gas giants transition smoothly. So the atmosphere would become thicker, then soupy-er, until it's basically a liquid. You would be very dead long before this point, but if you somehow continue to dive deeper, you would encounter another smooth transition, from the liquid mantle made of mostly hydrogen to the solid and rocky core. > and like poke my finger through? Not really. The atmosphere doesn't start at a set altitude. Vacuum just become less and less void as you get closer to the planet, and there is no point where the change is abrupt enough that it would feel like poking something. **************** **[edit]** Many people are asking why we can see gas giants so sharply if their atmospheres doesn't have a clearly defined boundary. This happens because the transition zone from hard vacuum to dense atmosphere, while being several hundred kilometers in height, is very small compared to the overall planet (like a fraction of a % of the radius). The decrease in pressure is also exponential, so only the very lower layers are dense enough to see. [You can actually see the fuzzyness in some close up photos.]( URL_0 ) [The same is true for earth's atmophere.]( URL_1 )


Question: I don't understand the term/diagnosis "Borderline Personality Disorder." Borderline what?

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 I don't understand the term/diagnosis "Borderline Personality Disorder." Borderline what?

From [wikipedia]( URL_0 ): > Clinicians noted a certain class of neurotics who, when in crisis, appeared to straddle the borderline into psychosis. The term "borderline personality disorder" was coined in American psychiatry in the 1960s. It became the preferred term over a number of competing names, such as "unstable character disorder" during the 1970s.


Question: What is the difference between law and a regulation?

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 What is the difference between law and a regulation?

For complicated subjects, laws give the big picture, but regulations fill in the details. For example, you might have a law that says "it is illegal to put too much pollution in the air". But what is pollution? How much is too much? Often answering those questions is complicated, and the answers change as we learn more. So then the law will go on to say, "the EPA will decide what is pollution and how much is too much". The EPA then studies what things harm the atmosphere, and writes regulations saying those things are pollution. Because the law says the EPA can define what is pollution, if break the regulation, you are breaking the law.


Question: What are mutual funds? How do we make money of them?

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People pool their money together under a fund manager and they invest following a particular set of rules. For example, it could be that 99% of the money must be equally distributed in S & P500, and less than 1% in cash. Periodically the fund manager buys/sells to keep the holdings balanced. Or the rules could be - buy a certain list of small companies, or large companies, or just American companies, or just Tech companies, ...there are a bunch of styles. You make money by leaving your money invested (hopefully), collecting dividends and/or watching stock prices go up. Gains are realized when you sell. Depending on the fund, managers have more of a human role, choosing what to buy/sell and when. Personally, I like “index” funds, where it’s more robotic - like the S & P 500 example. Over long periods of time, they do better and for a smaller fee :)


Question: Why back in early 2000 Motherboards were green, and now they are mostly black. Why the color change and why aren't we seeing any pink motherboards?

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Back in those days we didn't have fancy windowed PC cases. Once those modded cases and windows popped up the manufacturers started to built visually appealing components. E.g. fancy RAM heatsinks, nice motherboards, PSUs and so on. Wouldn't there be such cases as today, I believe we would have stayed with boring, cheap green motherboards and RAM modules, etc.


Question: I've spent a lot of time on long, sandy beaches where I've dug deep holes with me my feet. Why is it now a popular notion that more stars exist than grains of sand on Earth?

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 I've spent a lot of time on long, sandy beaches where I've dug deep holes with me my feet. Why is it now a popular notion that more stars exist than grains of sand on Earth?

Because the universe is incredibly incredibly incredibly massive. It is hard to comprehend how massive it is. And within that huge enormous space, there are also many many stars. [This does an attempt at explaining the math] ( URL_0 )


Question: Why do schools force students to specifically use a No. 2 Pencil as a writing utensil when taking exams?

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There used to be a Scantron machine that would check the bubbles automatically. Needed to be dark enough for it to work. Not as important anymore, but I'm sure popular in some schools


Question: Why does the government give tax incentives to married people and those with kids, but no incentives for single and childless people?

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It is generally believed that people having kids is helpful to a society. It creates the next generation of consumers/taxpayers, for example. Having kids is also generally costly. The idea of tax benefits for people who have kids is that it represents an offset of the cost to the individual of having the kids, giving them a slightly larger share of the wider societal benefit of having kids that they can't individually capture. Marriage is similar, though more debatable and less direct. There are many who argue that marriages, especially stable ones that produce kids, tend to create "stronger" or better ordered societies. However, at least in the U.S. so far as I know, most of the tax "benefits" of marriage tend to be more about the weirdness of people having combined incomes---more an after effect then a genuine "incentive."


Question: Why is there only one internet and not multiple?

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There are many, many mini-internets. However, if you connect one to the main internet, then you lose nothing and now you have access to way more information from your network. As such, most people choose to connect their 'micronet' home networks to the internet.


Question: What is the fundamental difference between how light, sound and gamma rays travel through the vacuum of space?

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 What is the fundamental difference between how light, sound and gamma rays travel through the vacuum of space?

For one, gamma rays and light travel the same way since they are essentially the same thing. It's the equivalent of asking how light and blue light travel. Sound is just a pressure wave. Think of a tightly packed crowd of people. If one person shoves someone, they will bump into the person in front of them, and so on. Light is.... well, someone else should answer that.


Question: Do animals perceive the world at different speeds compared to us?

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You're on the right track. Different animals can perceive TIME differently. Since different brains process stimuli at different rates, it affects the perception of the passage of time. A big reason that small insects are so hard to hit is because their brains process the world around them much simpler and faster, so they perceive movements of larger creatures as happening much more slowly.


Question: Why do the original batteries in a device seem to last so much longer than any you replace them with?

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They don’t. Or at least it is far more likely that one of two things is happening. 1) You are storing your batteries in an environment that greatly reduces the life. 2) What you think is happening as a part of a pattern isn’t really even happening regularly, you just experienced or believed 3 or 4 coincidences and assumed a pattern. There are dozens of little things that could effect performance of the device, requiring more power to perform, but not so much with these really basic devices.


Question: What is the significance of the UK leaving the single market?

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The Single Market is essentially an agreement that we harmonise our laws and regulations so that everything is legal in all EU countries. Without this, you can have conflicting laws in different countries, meaning some products are illegal in the other country. For example, in the USA all eggs **must** be washed. In the EU, all eggs **must not** be washed. This means you cannot sell USA eggs in the EU, or EU eggs in the USA. (Washing eggs means the membrane breaks and they need to be refrigerated.) As well as the regulations being harmonised, we don't have import duty to pay between EU countries. This means my car factory in the UK can import parts from Italy and Spain, and sell cars to Germany without having to pay a lot of duty. If we were to leave the single market, I would have to pay import duty on my Italy and Spain imports, then pay import duty again selling the finished cars to Germany. This would make my business much less competitive than one inside the single market. In the short term, this could cripple a lot of businesses. While we are members of the single market, we have a voice in shaping the EU regulations. If we leave, then we'll have to obey all the regulations if we want to be able to export goods to the EU, but won't get any say in what those regulations are. In the long term, this could lead to us being forced into following regulations that aren't good for the UK, as its not economical to make a product just for the UK market. (Except for Kettles.)


Question: Why do remotes starting working again once you hit them?

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 Why do remotes starting working again once you hit them?

One working theory is that oxidation forms on the battery contacts which causes a poor connection. By hitting the remote it causes the batteries to change position slightly and causes the contacts to rub against the batteries like sandpaper, cleaning the contacts. This is the same reason blowing into the classic Nintendo cartridge causes it to work. It actually has nothing to do with the blowing, it's merely the fact that removing and re-inserting the cartridge cleans off the oxidization layer on the contacts.


Question: why does ground beef / chicken breast cost less than red peppers?

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 why does ground beef / chicken breast cost less than red peppers?

**TL;DR: Lots of reasons.** *Certain fruits and veggies are highly seasonal and light for their weight and require careful handling and importing from outside the country. Meat's easier to keep growing through the winter using local government-assisted jobs so grocery stores can access massive quantities and sell it at a reduced price.* Fruits and vegetables don't grow outside in colder weather, and many have very limited growing seasons coupled with limited shelf life. So you either have to grow them in a warm climate that's far away and then invest in rapidly shipping them in a temperature-controlled container until they arrive, or grow them in a regional warmed greenhouse or hydroponics farm. Both options are expensive and add to the cost. A lot of fruit and vegetables bruise very easily and are filled with air (peppers are a good example). So you have to ship them in protective containers that don't really contain much weight compared to their volume. This adds to their cost compared the small volume for each pound of, say, pork that comes in. There are no seasonal limitations on growing many meats. Pig sties and chicken farms run throughout the year, feeding their animals through locally grown crops that keep really well like dried corn. Do it right and you can get several harvests of chicken each year. However, strawberries and asparagus really only grow once per year in a certain season. Getting those products out of season usually means they've been shipped from far overseas. Stores put on sales according to supply and demand. In your chicken versus grapes example, they were able to buy a massive quantity of local chicken at a cheap price, and they were willing to let it go at less of a profit per package because everyone's buying it and then buying other things in their store too. There's no massive quantity of grapes being routinely harvested in winter, so there's no sale on those and the store's getting full profit on each bunch they sell. And finally, as someone else mentioned, sometimes regional governments interfere in the price-setting elements of "supply and demand", charging tariffs and taxes on imported good while subsidizing locally produced ones.


Question: What makes GPUs (stuff like NVIDIA and AMD cards) so much better than the generic integrated cards (Intel HD cards) in normal laptops and computers?

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They're processors, not like RAM (memory storage). What differentiates them are two things: integrated GPUs are built onto the same die as the CPU itself, and integrated GPUs share system RAM. Discrete GPUs come with their own memory. The upside that makes integrated graphics worthwhile is they're cheaper, they're sufficient for most non-gaming purposes, they produce less heat (no need for a fan or extra cooling/space), and they consume less power (important in a mobile setting).


Question: How does yeast work in bread?

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Yeast is a fungus, and it likes to eat sugar (as many things do). When it eats the sugar it produces ethanol and carbon dioxide as waste products, and the carbon dioxide is what makes dough rise.


Question: How did we accurately depict molecules?

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Not luck. You can get a lot of information about molecular shapes from crystallography, which has been around for a lot more than 10 years. Among other things, this was how we figured out the shape of DNA. Once you figure out how electron orbitals work (which falls out of quantum mechanics) the bond geometry can be calculated so now we can model it direct from first principles without having to look at the molecule. This is how protein folding programs work.


Question: Why are (seemingly) all primes +/- 1 away from a product of 6?

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Let's start with thinking what primes could possibly be, considering relation to multiples of 6. Could a prime be a multiple of 6? Obviously no, since if it were, you would have it be divisible by 6, and that means it's not a prime. Could a prime be 3 away from multiple of 6? That would mean it's NOT divisible by 6, but it WOULD be divisible by 3(Say, from 6, it's either 3 or 9, both divisible by 3). So the only way it could be a prime is if it's 3. Otherwise it would be divisible by 3 and thus not prime. Could it be 2 away from multiple of 6? Think about that for a while, it's the trickiest of these. First off, 6 is an even number. 2 is an even number. 6 multiplied by any whole number is still an even number. So 6 multiplied by any whole number, +- 2, would still be even number. And since any even number, beside 2, is divisible by 2 and thus not prime number, you can't have be prime number be 2 away from multiple of 6. So all the primes larger than 3 have to be, no question, some multiple of 6, plus one, or some multiple of 6, minus one. We have ruled all the other choices out.


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 When positioning two Mirrors facing each other and then looking through, why does it seem like the reflections disappear into fog/into the distance?

So in this situation the light you're seeing is bouncing between the two mirrors constantly. Mirrors aren't perfectly crafted or perfectly clean, so on each bounce some light particles are deflected sideways or don't reflect due to debris on the surface. So on each bounce you lose a bit more of the original light and eventually the image becomes blurred and indistinct


Question: Why did China never suffer trade retaliation when it literally blocked US companies such as Google, Facebook etc from trading there?

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 Why did China never suffer trade retaliation when it literally blocked US companies such as Google, Facebook etc from trading there?

One thing to understand is that not all industries are treated the same when it comes to trade and tariffs. Some sectors, such as financial services and agriculture, are protected far more than others. The reasons behind this are varied, usually political. So just because a country is protectionist in one area doesn't mean you can penalise them in others.


Question: if ammonia and chlorine cannot mix, then why do we clean toilets with bleach?

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 if ammonia and chlorine cannot mix, then why do we clean toilets with bleach?

Ammonia is soluble in water, and it's also very volatile, so by the time you throw the bleach in, there is no more ammonia there. But let's say you didn't flush the toilet and threw the bleach in, there isn't that much really in your pee to make a big reaction and it could be dangerous if you were to put your head in the toilet at the same time, but throwing bleach in the toilet with your head in it wouldn't be safe regardless of the ammonia Mixing bleach with a cleaning solution of ammonia would be an other story since it has a fae greater concentration


Question: How is the volume of highly complicated 3D bodies calculated?

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There are a couple of clever ways. A simple one is to have a container of water of known volume, submerge the mystery object, and then see how much the water level increases.


Question: Why are bicycles so much more popular than tricycles?

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bikes are faster, handle better, and cheaper; in a generality. They are also easier to store. Bikes are available with multiple gears, which would be much more complex on a trike.


Question: Why do we crave different types of food at different meal times of the day?

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 Why do we crave different types of food at different meal times of the day?

it's mostly learned. the excruciatingly high calorie american breakfast is often unappealing to people from european cultures where lunch is a more substantial meal.


Question: Why is computer memory always multiples of 2?

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 Why is computer memory always multiples of 2?

binary works like light switches. Each data channel is on or off. 0 or 1. so with 2 channels you can count 4 positions. 00=0 01=1 10=2 11=3 Each data channel you add doubles the potential number of states you can count to 000=0 001=1 010=2 011=3 100=4 101=5 110=6 111=7 0000=0 0001=1 0010=2 0011=3 0100=4 0101=5 0110=6 0111=7 1000=8 1001=9 1010=10 1011=11 1100=12 1101=13 1110=14 1111=15 and so on and so on. 2 bit is fairly useless 4 bit was common in early systems of the 50s and 60s The earliest home/business computers were 8 bit Over time we have gotten more and more sophisticated in our processors and computer languages. 32bit was the prominent number through the turn of the century which comprised most of peoples experience with computers. Advances lead us to 64bit implementation recently....and in due time we will jump to 128, 258, 1026, 2048....and beyond. The limitation comes from multiple avenues... 1. hardware takes time to develop and advance 2. legacy support of older software 3. PROFIT its expensive to develop new more powerful CPUs and operating systems...and you have to earn a profit off your work before moving forward 4. NECESSITY....You dont build the control for your toaster with a supercomputer if a simple thermistor does the trick...and you dont put an 8 core 64bit processor in a furby if an 8 bit single core microcontroller gets the job done. The growth and complexity of our systems follows a pseudo organic model....evolving as the need arises.


Question: Why is it that after an argument with your partner is settled, a lot of time, both partners feel emotionally closer and sexually more attracted to each other?

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 Why is it that after an argument with your partner is settled, a lot of time, both partners feel emotionally closer and sexually more attracted to each other?

Because she is sexy when she is mad. If the argument is of an intensely personal matter, the ability to openly communicate feelings you normally wouldn't is the definition of intimacy. Most people aren't ready to 'go there' until it has gotten so stressed that you end up in an argument and you absolutely have to 'get there'.


Question: How can electromagnetic waves travel in space, even though they have no medium to move in?

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Electromagnetic radiation(light, radio, microwaves, heat) does not require a medium to travel in. We used to think it did (The Ether) but discovered it didn't. Light is not just energy, as weird as it sounds, it is also mass. Just as a ball can fly through space, so can light (or radio waves).


Question: If sound is air escaping things, why does hitting a metal fork against a glass sound different then hitting a plastic fork against a glass?

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 If sound is air escaping things, why does hitting a metal fork against a glass sound different then hitting a plastic fork against a glass?

Sound is not just air escaping things, it's a wave travelling through air. It is characterised by compressions and expansions of air, which vibrate our eardrums allowing our brains to interpret it. Things sound different because they produce different waves. Real life waves are not the simple sine waves you commonly see diagrams of - they have numerous different components which define the texture of the sound. This is why different instruments playing the same note have different sounds, even though the dominant frequency is the same. A plastic fork vibrates differently to a metal fork, which in turn produces a different sound wave.


Question: How do digital to analog conversions work?

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Let's start by analog to digital conversion. Let's imagine a speaker, that moves back and forward, and we want to digitally capture what's happening. There are two things that need to be decided beforehand: - How often will we measure the position of the speaker (we call this *sampling rate*) - How precise will the measure of the position will be (we call this *bit depth*) For CDs, the standard is 44,100 measures per second (sampling rate of 44,100 Hz), and 65,536 possible positions (a bit depth of 16, e.g. 2^16 values). Why a value as high as 44,100 measures per second? The [Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem]( URL_0 ) says that reconstructing a _perfect_ wave is possible, with no discontinuities nor chopping, as long as the captured frequencies are half the sampling rate; in the CD case, that means sounds up to 22,050 Hz can be perfectly reconstructed (humans can't hear above 20,000 Hz, so we even have some wiggle room). The sole trade-off of analog-digital transformation is addition of some noise, caused by the non-infinite bit depth. At 16-bits, though, the level of noise is low enough to be a non-concern. So, we start recording. We store the first 16-bit value; could be `0110110010110101`, then the second, `1001011010001010`, then the next; we do this 44,100 times per second. On playback, the DAC reads 16 bits at a time, that gives position of speaker at time Tₒ; reads another 16 bits, gets position of speaker at time T₁, and so on. The DAC keeps a set of values, then applies the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem to recreate the analog sound wave. Without choppiness; without discontinuities. A recorded sine wave will not “look like” a staircase once digitized then converted to analog, it'll be smooth as baby skin. (Why no staircase? As the sampling rate is 44,100 Hz, the DAC _knows_ that the maximum frequency is 22,050 Hz; a “staircase-like” waveform is impossible when only using frequencies below 22,050 Hz) So your hunch is right, the DAC needs to wait for a bunch of bits before it starts outputting analog signal, but that process is *very* fast for hardware.


Question: How do secret banks accounts work?

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The secret element is that the banks can't be forced to reveal who holds the bank account to foreign governments, so criminals and others can "hide" money in them.


Question: Who decides or how is having a unique bank account number designed so that no two bank account numbers are the same anywhere in the world? Similarly, how were country-codes for phone numbers decided?

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Bank account numbers can be the same. Each bank has a unique code, as long as the account numbers are unique within each bank then both numbers together form a unique reference. Allocating a list of unique account numbers in a bank IT system is relatively easy.


Question: why does an extremely bright source of light cause the surrounding area to appear dark?

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 why does an extremely bright source of light cause the surrounding area to appear dark?

Yes, this is exactly it. Your pupils expand and contract according to the amount of light you receive. When you see something very bright your pupils contract, making everything darker.


Question: How dairy companies take out the lactose of their dairy products?

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 How dairy companies take out the lactose of their dairy products?

Lactose isn't really taken out of the milk, instead, what the industry does is to add lactase (the enzyme that digests lactose) to their product. The people that can't digest lactose lack the lactase enzyme, so, by adding it in their product, people without lactase can safely drink milk. In a sense, the lactose "comes predigested". Nutritionally, regular milk and lactose-free milk are exactly the same, the only difference will be that the lactose-free milk will taste sweeter because the lactose has already been broken down into its components, glucose and galactose.


Question: Why does the answer in a series of operations change when you don't follow the PEMDAS rule?

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 Why does the answer in a series of operations change when you don't follow the PEMDAS rule?

PEMDAS is just grammar we decided to use for writing math. All that matters is that it is consistent. You could easily mix up that order to make it read differently. You just would need to make sure other people understand you. Like if we all agreed to speak like yoda then that would be okay, but it would be confusing if just you did it.


Question: how do LED’s work and why are they so much more energy efficient than light bulbs?

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 how do LED’s work and why are they so much more energy efficient than light bulbs?

Normal lightbulbs work by running electricity through a small wire (filament) and heating it up until it glows. Well when you heat something to be white hot its going to give off some energy as visible light but most of it (96-98%) is going to be given off as heat (IR radiation). Normal incandescent and halogen bulbs only turn 2-3% of their energy into light. LEDs work by exploiting some quirkier physics. If you take an electron that's hanging out in a material with a high energy level and then you shove it across a boundary into a material at a much lower energy level then it has to get rid of the energy difference, and to do that it gives off a photon with that energy level. If you tune the difference between the energy levels you can make red, green, blue, even IR and UV LEDs, but each LED is only a single color. The LED bulbs in your home have a layer of phosphor over the LED and this phosphor absorbs the violet-UV light that the LED is setup to emit and turns it into a much broader spectrum of white light which is what you want. LEDs have some losses because they need a power supply with some inefficiencies to provide the right voltages and currents for them to work, but a screw in LED bulb can turn 15% of the electricity it receives into light you can see while bigger commercial and industrial fixtures can be upwards of 20-28%. The upper limit for white mixing with a phosphor is about 44% so upper 20s is pretty close to ideal.


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 If a sailboat moves using the wind, how can they travel if the wind is going the opposite direction?

1. Aim about 45 degrees left of the wind. Sail for a while. * Turn around and aim about 45 degrees right of the wind. Sail for a similar while. * Repeat as necessary. Over time this maneuver ([Beating to windward]( URL_0 )) averages out to travelling in the windward direction.


Question: How do deep space telescopes work?

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 How do deep space telescopes work?

I assume by "deep space telescope" you mean a wide and stout telescope like [this]( URL_2 ) or even the Hubble telescope. These telescopes are called reflecting telescopes, and they work differently than the long, thin refracting telescopes (which look like [this]( URL_0 )). A *refracting* telescope works like a looking glass or binoculars; it is a long tube with lenses that focus light to create an image. The problem is that these telescopes have very small "objectives" (the piece that receives light) compared to *reflecting* telescopes. These are used for deeper space observation because (among other reasons) they collect more light. They are wider, so they collect more light, so they can see dimmer and farther things. So how does a reflecting telescope work? It's actually very simple. Curved mirrors focus the light into a small area. That's it, really. There are various designs, and the [Wikipedia article]( URL_1 ) has some good diagrams, but the principle is very simple. They work just like a satellite dish, where a large, curved surface focuses radio waves to a receiver. The only difference is that these telescopes use mirrors to reflect the light, and they may reflect it multiple times.


Question: How does our inner voice work? Who do we hear? Does everyone have one?

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 How does our inner voice work? Who do we hear? Does everyone have one?

Not everybody has one, but most people do. Usually this "voice" is referred to as an inner narrative or inner monologue. For most people who have one, the voice they hear is their own.


Question: How does something wind up becoming muscle memory after some time?

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There is a specific part of your brain (cerebellum) that does that specifically so you can take your higher mind off doing those things.


Question: With world record calculations of pi, how can we be sure that the digits calculated are accurate to the extent claimed?

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 With world record calculations of pi, how can we be sure that the digits calculated are accurate to the extent claimed?

Short of, as you hinted, actually calculating it yourself, there are algorithms (google "Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe" if you want the gory details) which allow you to calculate the n-th digit of pi without knowing the preceding digits. Using this, one can spot-check random digits until they're satisfied it looks good.


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 Why is it so difficult to memorize some of the things which we really need to whereas somethings we easily memorize without even putting in the effort to do so?

The amount of interest one has in the endeavor. Say for instance, as a language teacher, you’re teaching students that are either very keen on the subject or resistant to it due to the amount of interest they have in the language. The students who are more interested in the subject will always do better than the students who are in class due to parental pressure. Another good example is when I moved to South Korea with my best friend, we both came to the country with an equal amount of knowledge of the language spoken here. I went on to learning the language far quicker than he did due to his lack of willingness to learn. But, we both also studied Japanese too, here he excelled at the same rate I did in Korean. The brain has a tendency to turn off the recording mechanism when it appears to have found unimportant information, where as it records and holds onto information it enjoys or has an interest in. This is just one example I’m giving to why somethings are memorized faster and longer than other things. From my experiences as an ESL teacher for 15 years in South Korea.


Question: How do birds know which way to go when they are migrating?

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 How do birds know which way to go when they are migrating?

In addition to what the previous answer said there’s starting to be science that at least some species use the magnetic fields to navigate, though science isn’t sure how yet.


Question: How can digitally filmed movies be remastered?

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 How can digitally filmed movies be remastered?

You’re partly right but the filesize doesn’t have much in common with the files resolution. Sure, it increases when you add more pixels but that actually depends on the used compression. It’s right that you can’t just scale an image up and expect it to be as sharp as before (you may encountered that while creating a power point presentation). Movie Studios who re-release a movie in 4K that was originally shot digitally probably reworked the CGI which makes effects look a lot better and also added features like HDR or Dolby Atmos. The image quality itself doesn’t really improve but with the right setup you’ll get a much better experience watching the movie. There are some [lists]( URL_0 ) available where you can see which movies are up scaled and which are not.


Question: What does the body do to suppress the appetite when food is not available?

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 What does the body do to suppress the appetite when food is not available?

This may not fully explain the matter, but one element at play is your body’s sympathetic nervous system, also known as your fight or flight response. It’s counterpart is the parasympathetic nervous system, also known as the rest and digest response. These two are always competing with each other and neither is a simple on/off switch, they’re spectrums. So when your sympathetic system is winning the tug of war your body doesn’t care much about eating or signaling hunger. Sympathetic activation does not only occur in emergencies. It kicks on with any stress- even just a really busy day at work.


Question: What will a nuclear war with N Korea be like from a civilian's perspective?

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 What will a nuclear war with N Korea be like from a civilian's perspective?

If they launch a single nuclear weapon we cover their entire country with them wiping it off the map. that is the nature of MAD doctrine. Unless China chooses to retaliate against the US very few people will notice anything outside of North Korea. North Korea is small enough that the fallout of the bombs will not be a major issue, but it will cause some problems for neighboring countries.


Question: why do many major league player's sports contracts always include a deferred annuity portion?

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I'm not sure how common they are, but here are some possible reasons why a sports contract would include one: 1) Athletes are notoriously bad with money. Annuities provide a more stable source of income rather than giving it all to the player at once. 2) Because the salary is deferred, the team has more time to acquire income and invest its savings, enabling the team to give the player a larger amount of money. (e.g. You can have $1 million now or you can get $1.05 million if you're willing to get paid over the course of a year.) 3) If the full salary isn't paid right away, it frees up cash for immediate spending on other players. Having a team full of better players is beneficial for both the player and the team since they both have an interest in winning a championship or at least looking like serious contenders for a championship.


Question: What is depression and how do you know if you're depressed?

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 What is depression and how do you know if you're depressed?

There are a lot of dramatic ways to explain depression but basically it co down to lack of interest or excitement in things that typically interest you or excite you. Edit: this is from someone who has suffered from chronic depression for many, many years.


Question: What exactly is a Boltzmann brain?

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 What exactly is a Boltzmann brain?

It's an indication that something is wrong with your theory of physics. There are several different boltzmann brains, but probably the easiest to explain is the original. The other versions are broadly similar, but pop up in relation to different theories of physics. So, anyway: the original Boltzmann brain starts with a pretty basic and important question, namely "why is the universe as we know it here?" At the time, nobody knew about the Big Bang or the expansion of the universe, and the going scientific theory was that the universe was eternal and unchanging. But if that was the case, it should have long since reached as state of maximum entropy...a "heat death" where everything was just a haze of evenly distributed atoms with no stars or planets or anything. That's kind of a problem since there are stars and planets and everything. However, it's also known that entropy is _probabilistic_. If you take puzzle pieces and shake them in a box, they are going to just get more and more jumbled...get closer and closer to that "heat death" of perfect randomness. But if you shake long enough hypothetically all the pieces _could_ bounce back just right to form the puzzle again. So the original idea for how we could have the universe is that, over long enough time, the universe just sort of happens to bounce its way out of heat death and back to a low entropy state, and that's the universe that we see. It's _staggeringly_ unlikely, but if you have an infinite universe and infinite time, why not? This is the "Boltzmann universe". ...But..then someone pointed out that, while still staggeringly unlikely, it's much easier to just spontaneously generate a brain that thinks a momentary thought than an entire visible universe, in the same way that if you are bouncing around a puzzle box it's much easier to bounce together a couple pieces to make a guy's head than it is to bounce together the whole puzzle... and in fact you should bounce together random heads a huge number of times compared to bouncing together entire puzzles. So any theory which relies on random entropy reduction to generate an entire universe has the problem that anyone in the universe is far more likely to be one of those two puzzle-piece heads than a part of a fully built puzzle. This is contradictory and absurd and rather implies that there's something fundamentally wrong with the theory. ....and indeed, later observations showed there _was_ something fundamentally wrong with the theory, namely that the universe is not eternal and unchanging but instead is expanding and only a few billion years old. As a result, no highly unlikely entropy fluctuations are needed and thus there's no implication of zillions of boltzmann brains for every actual universe. Now, even current theories sometimes spit out boltzmann brains under different situations but if you ask me, that just means we don't know all there is to know about the universe yet.


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 Is 10,000 people shouting louder than one person shouting?

It depends on how far away they are from the listener and how closely packed or spread out they are. Imagine one shouter at one end of a football field and the listener at the other end. Now add another 9,999 shouters to form 100 close-packed rows each of 100 shouters. It will be much louder. Now imagine a long line of shouters well spread out and a listener standing right in front of the first shouter. The other 9,999 won't make as much difference.


Question: How do we know what the other planets in our solar system are made of if we don't have the technology to take samples?

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 How do we know what the other planets in our solar system are made of if we don't have the technology to take samples?

Using the science of [spectroscopy]( URL_0 ), astronomers are able to analyze the patterns of emission and adsorption of specific wavelengths of light coming from celestial bodies, which tells them what elements are there in that celestial body. Basically, every single element on the periodic table of elements has its own a particular fingerprint in terms of the way it interacts with light. Light interacting with Hydrogen has a different fingerprint from light interacting with Helium, or Oxygen, or Iron, or whatever. These fingerprints can be seen by taking the light coming from a star or planet, spreading it out into a rainbow, and then looking for lines of missing light in that rainbow that correspond to particular elements.


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 Why there exist so many USB partitions? NTFS, FAT32, Extended Journal and some OS recognize only some of them whereas other USB peripherals never have this issue.

First, those are examples of *filesystems,* not partitions. A partition can have a filesystem on it, though. A lot of filesystems exist because computers have been around a long time, and some of them get phased out over time (FAT to FAT32 to NTFS), and sometimes some people want to use a different filesystem for a different operating system (Linux can use ext2/3/4, for example). Some OSes just don't know how to read certain filesystems, while others do.


Question: Why weren't there any convictions for Emmett Till's murder?

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Double jeopardy says that you cannot be subjected to the same trial twice. If your question is "why is double jeopardy important," well, that's a matter of opinion; but the rationale is that a hostile government could subject a person to trial for the same crime over and over again otherwise. As for why there was no further prosecution, well, this was 1950s Mississippi. Memorials to Till are still being defaced and destroyed *today*, and that's in our supposedly enlightened modern times. In the 50s sympathy for a murdered black child was far, far less.