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[ "The same that happens when you change gears in your bike, my dear 5 year old. You want to pedal a lot and not be tired or pedal a little and with all your strength, climb that hill. That's manual transmission. Automatic transmission makes the choice for you. The motor of the car is coupled to the wheels in such a way that it transmits the rotation of the motor to the rotation of the wheels. The rate at which this happens is the gear. Reverse adds a further cogwheel to the system so that the rotation of the motor gets transmitted backwards to the wheels. Manual transmission requires you to disengage the gear before engaging the next. That's what you do with the clutch. You \"disconnect\" the motor turning cogwheel from the wheel's turning cogwheel. Select appropriate cogwheel (gear) release the clutch so cogwheels are \"connected\" again and motor rotation is transmitted Automatic transmission forces the gears to slip to the next one whenever the motor reaches a certain number of rpm. In manual transmission you have full control of the motor. Look at this [diagram]( URL_0 ). The cogwheel from the engine is green." ]

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[ "Actually they do collide. I'm case of WiFi in your house, it use 2,4 or 5 GHz signals. But it doesn't use exactly 2,4 or 5 GHz but rather a slightly different frequency, like 2,389 or 4,997. With that the network \"trys\" to avoid to use the exact same frequency as a near by network and to avoid on this way to \"collide\" with each other. There won't be a total signal loss if two networks send on the same frequency, but the packet loss and therefor the speed and reliability will suffer." ]

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[ "You can design a very primitive Akinator of your own by just drawing a big tree-shaped flow chart on a piece of paper. First things first, come up with a question, any question. Let's say question #1 is \"is your character an adult?\" Write that down in the top flowchart bubble, then draw two lines coming down from there, one for \"yes\" and the other for \"no\". The first few times you play this game with someone, it will be very short and unimpressive. You'll say \"Is it an adult?\" And they say \"no\" and you say \"huh, I'm stumped. Who is it?\" And they'll say \"Dora the Explorer\", and then you write down \"Dora\" on your chart under the no. Then you play again with someone else. You ask \"adult?\" and they say \"yes\", and you see that you have no one written down on the \"yes\" branch of the tree. So you say \"I give up, who is it?\" And they say \"Superman\". So you write down Superman under the 'yes' branch. Now the next game is a bit more interesting, but still not so impressive. You ask \"Adult?\" and they say \"No.\" and then you follow the \"no\" line on your flowchart and find you've got a name there! So you say \"I know! It's Dora the explorer!\" and they say \"Nope, it's Timmy Turner.\" So you write down Timmy's name next to Dora's. Now, you have 2 names at the same node in your tree. That's a problem. So now you have to extend your tree. Ask the player: \"What's a question you could ask, where the answer would be yes for Timmy but no for Dora?\" Maybe then they say \"Is the character male?\" Write that down on that node of the tree, and put Dora and Timmy below it. So now, your updated tree looks like this: [ URL_0 ]( URL_0 ) If you keep doing this thousands and thousands of times, your flowchart will get bigger and bigger untill you start actually getting quite a lot of guesses right. You are basically letting your players do the work of teaching you what characters exist, and what questions you can ask to determine who they are. & #x200B; Now this is a pretty cut-down algorithm. The real Akinator has a little more complicated logic in it to account for the fact that not everyone answers the questions the same way, even when they're thinking of the same character." ]

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[ "When your tires roll over the road, its more like pushing over and over again in terms of physics. In a short distance, high acceleration event, the asphalt beats your tires by ripping bits of it off. In a long distance, low acceleration event, your tires wear out considerably slower. Sort of like washing dishes with short fast strokes versus long slow wipes. The former is much better at tearing things up." ]

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[ "ew0yxj1" ]

[ "The port is nothing more than a specified way to transfer signals. I'm not familiar with lightning ports specifically but I'd assume it has a way to transfer power, and a way to transfer data. Every device that uses a lightning cable follows the same standards that the port has so it knows it gets power and data over specific parts of the cable. So when you plug a device in, every device works effectively the same way. It transfers data over the cable and the computer/phone/whatever that has the port is able to use the data it transfers to identify the device. Once it knows you have (for example) an audio device connected, it knows if it transfers audio signals to the device, the device is capable of using them properly." ]

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[ "djva4u0", "djvd09l" ]

[ "Same reason you could actually have ordered 6 nuggets and receive 10: somewhere in the late part of the chain of events, someone messed up. There're many areas of the brain involved in saying something. First you've got to have the thought of saying it, and then you've got to communicate it, and that last part is where something can go wrong. See [aphasia]( URL_0 ), a condition where patients can fully keep their cognitive abilities, and yet they'll say completely different words when verbalizing them, leaving them unable to communciate. And interistingly enough, aphasia also affects visual language, like sign language." ]

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[ "dizd5b3" ]

[ "Telecom is a regulated industry. Every company that is successful in that business is successful because they work within the rules and lobby to get the rules they want. They all have to work together because they are highly regulated. They have a common enemy, the consumer, and they have customer satisfaction ratings to prove it. Tech companies are much more competitive. They spend a lot of work beating each other in order to win the customer's money. Government has been hands-off in their business area so they haven't been involved in a lot of lobbying, which many of their founders consider \"cheating\"." ]

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[ "dks55rn", "dksa7k5", "dks5dc9" ]

[ "You sign up. Social services does some routine investigations to qualify or disqualify you. Then then place a child with you...and you get a monthly stipend of $600-800/mo plus some amount of foodstamps to feed the kid. Theres a caseworker assigned to you that has waaay too many foster kids to pay proper attention to each case. When theres a complaint or problem they respond and evaluate whether there is an actionable issue or not. Abuse happens sure. BUT most foster parents take good care of the kids they foster. Most kids in foster care are a lot better off than they would be in group homes. Like anything you hear more about the failures and flaws than the success stories." ]

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[ "Cooking meat doesn't add more energy into the food - what it does (in simple terms) is make it easier for the body to get the energy out of the food. This essentially means that it takes less energy to digest the food so the overall energy gain is greater - it also makes the food more able to be digested completely meaning less energy is wasted by not being digested." ]

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[ "f2rxhbq" ]

[ "Leukonychia due to injuries or calcium or zinc deficiency, normally they are an indicator of health problems." ]

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[ "geb35fx", "geb33x0" ]

[ "The key is not whether the drug is prescription, but if it affects your reaction time. Pot makes you sluggish and fixate on irrelevant details, and both of those are bad when you're driving. ADHD medication makes people with ADHD able to concentrate and ignore distractions, which is generally helpful when you're trying to not crash a car." ]

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[ "h23xzo2", "h24111s", "h23yjsn", "h23ynvp" ]

[ "Space is empty. Really, space is really almost completely empty. There are things out there, damage has occurred, and maneuvers are made to avoid the big things that are being tracked. But mostly, space stations depend on space just being empty." ]

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[ "gmwedzq", "gmwfwyn" ]

[ "Gravity doesn't pull on mass. Gravity is a distortion in spacetime. Inertial matter (matter with no force acting on it), including matter in a gravity well, will follow straight lines through spacetime. However, a straight line through spacetime will 'curve' towards the massive object. Light is an extreme of this, moving at c, but it follows the curve just as well." ]

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[ "erw87se" ]

[ "Pet chemotherapy does not use the same high dosage as in people. Pets with aggressive cancer often only will live months to 1-2 years (with a few exceptions, notably low grade B-cell lymphoma that respond well to treatment), so the expectation is not usually a cure/remission, but to provide as long quality of life as possible, which would not be the case if we hammered them like they do in people. However, pets still do get side effects of chemo drugs affecting their rapidly dividing cells, but is usually limited to temporary bone marrow suppression and GI signs (vomiting, diarrhea). People with cancer can live a long time if they reach remission, so they tend to be more aggressive, plus people understand the pro/con of the suffering and sickness of going through chemotherapy, making it worth it. MOST dogs do very well with chemotherapy, side effects wise." ]

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[ "f9m0nqk", "f9m05ff" ]

[ "Having the ability to see something is not a requirement for being able to store it or use it. I mean, we can't see helium but we can collect and store it. We can't see air but we can store it and separate it into its constituent gases. Most of the hydrogen we collect is as a byproduct of oil and natural gas extraction, but there are many other methods, like electrolysis of water for example. It's all just chemistry." ]

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[ "fmhtqqr", "fmhsh2m", "fmhqdhr" ]

[ "Shutting down all workplaces for a month will trigger a recession and massive economic losses, even if it took place in the greatest economic time period in history. No economy is designed to be able to withstand a month of shutdowns. To say it happened because it was a bubble is false." ]

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[ "diaj4ak" ]

[ "It's hard to imagine the timescale involved- While comets hit the earth much less often today, understand that there were millions of comets around in the beginning stages of the solar system. If you could have been around to see it happen you would witness a constant bombardment. Let that happen for 500 million years or so and we easily have a planet that is mostly water on the surface. Plus as has been said, there is evidence that much of the water was right with us from the start." ]

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[ "dlva8zz" ]

[ "They know what people are playing and they compile costs based on play count and cut checks to the labels on a pre-determined basis. Sometimes rates are different based on quantity and such. It all differs, but most services pay standard rates that are set by law. Sometimes companies pay different rates depending on if they have a contract that gives the artist greater control of the streaming rights and sometimes they pay different rates for specific artists for things like exclusives. It depends on the situation, the song, and what agreements have been struck." ]

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[ "Heat transfers very quickly through *conduction*, which is when a hot thing is touching a cold thing and the heat flows into the cold thing through that touch. Gases aren't very dense and don't touch your skin nearly as much. Gases are very good insulators because of this. So even though the air is very hot, it's not touching you enough to transfer a lot of heat to you very quickly. Water, on the other hand, is way more dense and touches your skin *a lot* so it transfers heat *very* quickly to you." ]

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[ "dflr60d" ]

[ "Our muscles are all defined to work on impulses. Neurons send signals at a certain speed to get us to move a muscle. When you move your fingers slowly you're just sending multiple signals of \"move just a little\" not one signal of \"move slot very slowly.\" There's more in here about action potentials and thresholds but I'm not qualified to talk about that stuff." ]

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[ "ecwdiin", "ecw7g4x" ]

[ "To answer a little more specific from the perspective of a Californian and answering directly about PG & E: They’re simply going to have to pay a fine. Maybe someone higher up in the company gets a sentence. That’s really it. This isn’t the 1st, and it certainly won’t be the last, time that PG & E is responsible for a large issue in California. So long as they can put a $ value on it, the company will be fine. They’ll have their lawyers find ways to have to pay the $ back over a long period of time or find reduce the $ amount through a settlement." ]

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[ "fravju5" ]

[ "It wouldn't. Deoxygenated water is just plain water without extra oxygen dissolved in it. If you were a fish you couldn't breathe it as you need that dissolved oxygen in it, but a human drinking it would be unaffected. Imagine it like a soda, it has carbon dioxide dissolved in it which becomes really apparent when you open it and some of that CO2 escapes. The same with water, it can trap plain O2 in it." ]

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[ "eaignwg" ]

[ "Antibacterial soap doesn’t get your hands cleaner. It’s actually very bad to use and here’s why. It may kill some bacteria but those that survive are made stronger by it. Then they reproduce stronger bacteria. This is how antibiotic-resistant bacteria come to be. When antibiotics first came into use, people would stop taking them when they felt better. So instructions to take for 10 days (because it takes 10 days to kill them all) resulted in some surviving and reproducing bacteria unaffected by that antibiotic. Antibacterial soap will have the same results over time so it’s bad for the planet to use it plus unnecessary because your hands ARE NOT CLEANER" ]

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[ "They're not. Often people with peanut allergies are also allergic to soybeans, because both are legumes. However, they're not necessarily allergic to tree nuts such as almonds and walnuts. And vice versa - people who are allergic to tree nuts aren't necessarily allergic to peanuts. That's not to say that someone couldn't be allergic to both, but they're not related allergies. Edit to change the word \"typically\" to \"necessarily\" because although the two are unrelated, both are common." ]

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[ "My husband wakes himself up snoring all the time. Either he startles himself awake or I kick him. Either way, once the snoring gets to a certain level, he will wake up." ]

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[ "[This wiki link is a good place to start if you're curious about fibrous composites.]( URL_0 ) So \"carbon fiber\" the material has some incredibly high tensile strength to weight ratio. It's like a super rope material if you will... But like rope, it doesn't hold it's shape. You can weave the fiber into a shape you want, and then the matrix(resin/plastic) provides the stiffness. Then when there is a force in the direction the shape is designed for, the incredibly strong fibers take a lot of the stress. This means you can make it stronger and lighter. If you're doing a force the structure isn't made for, it can actually make it weaker - because the fiber isn't taking any stress in the direction and can actually cause a failure mode." ]

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[ "g3d8ei4" ]

[ "Meat is high in protein, and the human body has to work a lot harder to break down protein than other foods. That extra work creates heat and energy, and causes your body to sweat." ]

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[ "Glucose is our staple energy source. If the body needs energy, glucose is broken down producing ATP and releasing CO2 and H20. If the body does not need energy, the glucose is built in to chains for easy storage in liver. These chain molecules are called glycogen. They are easily accessed and broken down to glucose whenever blood sugar levels decrease to provide the body with energy, During starvation, when there is no energy provided by food, the body has to break down it's 3 main energy stores - liver glycogen, body fat and muscle. Your body begins by breaking down the liver glycogen. Next is body fat and and if desperate - muscles. In terms of weight and total calorific content this comes to, for an exemplar 70kg male; about 0.2kg liver glycogen = ~800kcal, about 15kg triacylglycarides (TAGs = major component of body fat)= ~135,000kcal and 6kg muscle = ~24,000kcal. As you can see, body fat is the major energy store of the body. Fat cells exist partly to be used as an energy store. However, the body will break down glycogen first always as its simpler and more direct. Breaking down body fat (TAGs) for use as energy requires two more complex processes; 1) beta-oxidation of fatty acids to the natural precursor for a specific stage in the same natural metabolic pathway as glucose, and 2) gluconeogenesis, producing glucose from glycerol ( a non-carb source!). Muscles are the last to be broken down, for obvious reasons - we need them. Muscle breakdown doesn't only affect things like leg and arm muscles, but also things like cardiac and diaphragm muscle, so it is really a last attempt for the body to survive by breaking these down. This would probably be around a couple weeks in to starvation and death would soon follow." ]

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[ "It can. Imagine you have a job at a convenience store where they give you a 50% discount on baseball cards. You don’t care for them much, but your friend does. He regularly buys them from you for 90% of list. You never buy anything from him. Your friend has a trade deficit with you. The trade, though, is beneficial for both of you and you’ll keep doing it as long as it works out for both of you. And you’re not living outside your means to do it. Your teacher may have been talking about a budget deficit, which is a whole different thing. That is living outside your means. *edit: I had the trade deficit backwards. Macro at 7am never safe." ]

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[ "They probably can't be sure that the water tanks are clean, especially if the station has been in place for weeks and weeks. They don't want to be liable if the water has cooties in it and gets somebody sick. It's like the water at campsites - they try to make sure it's good enough to drink, but they can't guarantee it, so they recommend you not drink it. (Then if you do, not really their fault.)" ]

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[ "They do it a whole ton. That and they keep themselves pretty healthy and don’t over perform to get themselves sick or injured. Most people aren’t trained in how to properly sing and control things like breathing and sustaining your voice. Singers know how to do that and don’t expend all of their energy like you do. Plus singing in the shower and on stage are miles apart. You cannot compare the two." ]

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[ "Several candidates. There is island inhabitants of Niihau in Hawaii, Population 100 or something. There is various Amazonian tribes, usually only a village worth or so. Small, you mean population?" ]

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[ "Dissect their eyes to see the actual color detecting cells and test what light they respond to. The cone cells have specific proteins tasked with reacting to specific wavelength bands of light, you can expose those proteins to light in the lab and monitor their activity. Since all animals are at least loosely related, there are only a few variants of these color detection structures and it's pretty easy to see which ones are present and which are missing." ]

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[ "A 5kW panel will generate up to 5kW of electricity. Due to the sun rising and setting and the weather, you’ll only average about a seventh of that, even if the panels are ideally positioned. So 5kW times 24 hours divided by 7 gives around 17kWh per day, on average. In the summer it could be more than double and in winter less than half; much depends on the climate where you live, orientation of the panels, and any shading from things like trees and houses." ]

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[ "It can be either or both. After all, chemicals are physical things. Heating iron up in a furnace would make it turn red. And so would painting it red." ]

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[ "This is a good example of how we really have more \"senses\" than can fit into the usual five. Think about a finger. It can tell you all kinds of stuff: Hot/cold, rough/smooth/sharp/dull, vibrations, pressure, pain, and even where it is in space. (A good neurologic exam can look at all these separately.) They're often a bit different in the way they're sensed and how that information is passed along, which means drugs may hit them differently: \"Local anesthetics have greater affinity for receptors within sodium channels during their activated and inactivated states than when they are in their resting states.1,2 Therefore, neural fibers having more rapid firing rates are most susceptible to local anesthetic action. Also, smaller fibers are generally more susceptible, because a given volume of local anesthetic solution can more readily block the requisite number of sodium channels for impulse transmission to be entirely interrupted. For these reasons the tiny, rapid-firing autonomic fibers are most sensitive, followed by sensory fibers and finally somatic motor fibers... The dentist is generally spared this consideration because the trigeminal nerve branches anesthetized for dental procedures are comprised only of small, rapid-firing sensory fibers. However, the many classes of sensory fibers also vary in their diameters and firing rates. For example, pain fibers are more sensitive than those carrying pressure and proprioception. A patient may remain disturbed by a sense of pressure despite complete anesthesia of pain fibers.\" ( URL_0 ) **ELI5: To shut someone up by throwing a sock in their mouth, their mouth has to be open. A pain nerve is like five people who are always chattering, so throwing five socks will shut most of them up. A pressure nerve is like ten people who only talk when it's important, so even ten socks may bounce off.**" ]

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[ "Maybe in the 80s they taste tested it... its cooler in the movies then busting out a testing kit and going csi on it It tastes chemically...then numbness and thats how you know its not powdered sugar. The amount being consumed in a touch'n'taste is too little for any significant effect beyond local numbing. Insufflation not only involves a larger dosage but also provides a more conducive path of absorption." ]

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[ "Technical diving is extremely complicated, and there are a lot of risk factors. Decompression sickness and narcosis will both kill you real dead if you aren't extremely careful about monitoring your depth, time, and the amount of gas you're breathing. Any strenuous physical activity will make both of those problems worse. Now add to all the normal diving problems that you have to drag a welding unit with you, and that you're going to be diving around heavy machinery and in areas that potentially have huge pressure gradients (dams, pipelines, water towers, pump stations, etc), and that you'll be doing it all in less than ideal conditions most of the time (cold water, low visibility, strong current, rough seas, etc). It's a tough job that requires mastery of two quite hard to master skillsets." ]

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[ "The noise was usually attributed to the fly back transformer that was used to generate high voltages for the crt tube. Transformers generate an alternating magnetic flux that would separate the laminations in to core and cause them to vibrate with the alternating current." ]

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[ "The foam on beer is stable because of the proteins in it, so the bubbles break less easily and a head can form. Fizzy drinks like soda contain much less protein so the bubbles formed are less stable, pop more easily, and are therefore much harder to foam." ]

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[ "Oil is used to produce some 70,000 different chemicals and synthetic materials, so until we find a way to produce each of those things without oil, then it will never be obsolete. We're not talking about silly things either, oil is an essential material for making plastic, nylon, and a thousand other synthetic fibers. Basically, if you wear any clothing not homemade, use a computer, drive a car, or use... anything these days, then you need oil. If it's not made out of metal, wood, or 100% cotton, it's got a little oil in it somewhere." ]

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

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[ "It just is. It's not a satisfying answer, but it's the right one. It might seem logical that the visual cortex would be as close to the eyes as possible, but if there was an evolutionary disadvantage to having the visual cortex at the back of the brain instead of near the eyes, it wouldn't be that way. The fact that the visual cortex is where it is shows that there's no disadvantage to having it in the back of the brain. In addition, it is not the case that fibers are not \"just\" running from the eyes all the way back to the visual cortex - there are additional targets for the signals from the retina besides the visual cortex. And even for signals that end up a the visual cortex, there is quite a bit of processing that happens along they way in other parts of the brain before reaching the visual cortex." ]

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[ "Two hundred years or so ago, James Clark Maxwell was coming up with a bunch of equations to describe how electricity and magnetism are related. During this, he came to a rather bizarre conclusion. He realized that magnetic and electric fields could actually self-perpetuate; they could sustain themselves without a nearby magnet or electric device. They could propagate as a wave, with no need for nearby wires or magnets. He also concluded that, in air, these waves would travel at 299,700,000 meters per second. This is electromagnetic radiation - an alternating magnetic and electric field traveling independently of a wire or magnet. Being a wave, this electromagnetic radiation can have frequency. When experiments showed that visible light also travels at this speed of maxwell's waves, it began to seem as if light was also this electromagnetic radiation, but at a much higher frequency (more waves per second). This is indeed the case." ]

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[ "Amendments are exactly that. They were items not in the original wording of the Constitution but the country thought them important enough that they were amended to be a part of the Constitution." ]

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[ "the correct answer is that the outward setting makes the papers easier to pull apart than the inward setting. it's a temporary attachment rather than a permanent one" ]

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[ "How drunk you are depends mainly on two things. How quickly and how much your drink, and what else is in your body when you drink. If I skip breakfast and lunch and then chug two beers for dinner, I’ll probably get pretty drunk pretty quickly. But if I have a large meal, and then drink half a bottle of vodka over the next 4 hours, it will take a lot longer for me to get drunk, and I won’t get as drunk as if I hadn’t eaten." ]

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[ "GDP is gross domestic product, a measurement of the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a given year. Every t-shirt, car, Apple, candlestick, massage, medical treatment... Every thing people in a country buy or service people pay for. This measures roughly the economic output generated by that country over the course of time. It's one of many measurements used to reflect what is going on in an economy. More useful is GDP per capita, which is simply the GDP divided by the number if people living in the country. So a country with a high GDP but also a high population such as China would have a lower GDP/cap than the United States which has a higher GDP and a lower population." ]

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[ "Zoo animals births are 1000x more successful than in the wild. Zoos aren't just a place for entertainment. It a rehabilitation center focusing on saving species. If an animal is born in a zoo there's a WHOLE medical staff ready to jump in if there's any signs of distress or issues. The baby then gets checked their shots and reintroduce to their mother and monitored closely by the staff. To ensure its health They don't have that in the wild. Especially predators. Ready to kill the newborn." ]

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[ "This can happen when cellular access points have been added to the tunnel. The tunnel still shields out external signals, but it has interior signals all of its own." ]

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[ "By design our noses work best when warm and damp conditions are present. A shower has those conditions pretty prevalently supplied. The warmth and humidity causes the molecules causing the smell to stick better to the scent receptors in your nose." ]

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[ "Copyright is tricky. You have to determine what is copyright-able when it comes to a song. Example, a few months ago, Katy Perry lost a copyright suit when a christian rapper said that the 8 tones used in a part of her song was similar to an 8 tone sequence in his song (they weren't the same notes, they were similar, but with the same rhythm). A month later, Led Zeppelin successfully defended a lawsuit regarding a small part of Stairway to Heaven, where the judge said that the portion being contested was too small to be copyrightable. This led to a reversal of the Katy Perry lawsuit. If you want an analysis from youtube copyright/trademark lawyers on the Katy Perry case (I watch Leonard French all the time). [ URL_0 ]( URL_0 )" ]

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[ "Cache. If/when you're streaming over bluetooth it's not in real time. It's delayed just enough to copy enough of the file to the display device so that the program can be relatively confident it will play without errors. With proper transfer speeds and compression, the delay can be almost imperceptible to the viewer, but in computer timing small portions of a second can be more than enough time to \"stockpile\" enough data to present it smoothly **grammar and spelling*" ]

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[ "Counter-battery radar. The radar detects and tracks artillery shells and rockets, and a computer then locates the enemy battery by tracing the projectile's path back to its source. Before radar artillery directors used sound, intelligence reports, aerial surveillance, and reports from scouts to locate enemy guns." ]

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[ "The caffeine in coffee stimulates neurotransmitters that have to do with alrtness. It is possible to overstimulate and drain these neurotransmitters. So if you are drinking lots of coffee and energy drinks, that can happen. Also for some people who have very \"hyper\" or \"scattered\" or \"trouble focusing\" brains (aka ADD) the stimulus from caffeine can actually help the \"focus\" of the brain, and it is very relaxing and even restful." ]

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[ "The brain is made up of [several parts]( URL_2 ) and -just like any other complex structure, there's a lot of stimulus reception, chemical signaling and biochemical responses going on. For communication to happen between different cells/tissues/organs/systems, complex chemical interactions have to happen, when people say \"your brain releases chemicals\", they're talking about (a) hormones which are regulated by the [brain glands]( URL_1 ), and (b) neurotransmitters, which are mostly [electrochemically charged biomolecules]( URL_0 ). Those molecules serve as a signal to certain stimuli, when stimuli A happens, a signal is sent to the brain and the brain releases chemical B as a response. All those complex chemical interactions are what -to some extent- keep organisms living. Currently we don't know the refined details but we're getting closer each day!" ]

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[ "What matters to microorganisms is something called water availability: basically, are the surroundings moist enough that water goes into the cell, or do they suck water _out_ of the cell. When you pack foods in salt (And they literally pack food in a mass of salt) then the salt draws the water out of the food through osmosis and out of any bacteria as well, making it impossible for them to grow. Salt-preserved food typically is exposed to much higher salt levels than sea water, for example one might use a pickling brine of 10%, compared to 3.5% salt for sea water. Or just stick food straight into a barrel of salt." ]

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[ "I'm still a student in EE but I will try to answer your question. Electricity is a form of energy, energy created by the movement of electrons. In physic, both for newtonian and quantum, there are energy levels. This levels are also called as potential. Every particle in the univers want to be the lowest possible energy level/potential. This is called stability. For example; visible light is simply an excess energy comes from an electron moving from high potential to low potential. Remember this information. Imagina a circuit. It is just a battery connected to it's own poles with a conductor, lets say a wire. When you connect batteries minus polar and plus polar, you create a potential difference. This potential difference causes electrons to move, as expected, tolowest point. When an electron moves, lets assume clockwise direction, it creates an imaginary particle which is called \"hole\". This particles, holes, sre what we call as electricity. So you can say that, when an electron is moving it creates electric on the opposite direction. Hope this will help you." ]

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[ "Part of is resetting the modem, and part of it is resetting the connection. Resetting the modem is obvious - it's a computer, and sometimes computers have bugs which corrupt a portion of memory. Turning them off and on restores the defaults. Resetting the connection is a bit more complex. The ISP maintains some amount of state for your modem - it knows the modem's IP address (which is assigned dynamically when you connect), and each side has some information remembering agreed-upon details for the connection. Sometimes, one side or both screw up the connection state, and in this case the connection must be torn down. The longer gap is to make sure this reliably happens on your ISP's side, instead of the ISP's side just deciding that the connection is slow for a bit. [This page]( URL_0 ) has a bit more technical information." ]

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[ "Gymnastic bars are made out of fiberglass and given a wooden coating. Fiberglass is, by design, an incredibly flexible material. And that as well a sproper trianing allows them to bend without breaking when used by gymnasts. But by no means are they invinsible, they can break it's just rare. Like with pole vault shafts" ]

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[ "Your inner ear structures are still moving around and/or activated and irritated inside your head. These structures are responsible for balance. While you were swimming, you were off balance and your inner ear was reacting to that. You leave the water, and it's still in a state of reaction. The same thing happens when ride a bunch of roller-coasters at an amusement park and then go home for the day. Whoo, feeling loopy." ]

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[ "Well, back when we were migratory creatures, we wouldn't. Head north during the warner months and south fir the cooler months. But once we decided that settling down was better. The amount of fertile land and other natural resources was tempting enough for the settlers to brave a few cold months." ]

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[ "Bigger. It's on the order of 1000 of petabytes. And growing. A petabyte is 1000x terabyte" ]

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[ "People are not using the low value coins. The reason the US Mint stopped making them were that their warehouse were filled. They also stopped production of the $1 coin in 1981 for the same reason until 1999 when the stocks became low enough to start production again. US Mint make coins and notes for banks and big businesses. Fresh coins are ordered by businesses to fill their till to make sure they have enough coins for change. However if people do not want the $.50 coin in change there is no need for businesses to restock their supply." ]

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[ "It helps them geographically spread out their seeds. Animals eat the fruit and carry the seeds elsewhere. This functions as an alternative to relying on the wind to spread seeds." ]

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[ "The premise of your question is flawed. Prehistoric animals weren't bigger than our modern animals. The largest animal to ever exist is the blue whale, which only evolved reletively recently. Many of the large land mammals comparable in size to dinosaurs only died out very very recently (in the last 100,000 years or so). This has an assignable cause that has nothing to do with atmospheric oxygen. It was us. The onset of humans caused mass extinction of large mammals wherever we went. As for the dinosaurs, remember that larrge animals are easier to find in archeological digs than small ones, so we discover disproportionately higher numbers of them than small animals, leading to the incorrect assumption that there were a lot for of them. Also keep in mind that the scale of prehistoric time is very very long. A lot of those animals you think of that existed \"back then\" like in the age of the dinosaurs, did not exist at the same time period as each other. There were few mega fauna roaming the world at any one time, not many. However, insect size is highly dependant on atmospheric oxygen, since they don't breathe with lungs or gills. They absorb oxygen directly from the air into their blood. Therefore, the size they can reach while still being able to get enough oxygen to function is highly dependent on the concentration of oxygen. This means that insects were larger due to higher levels of oxygen." ]

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[ "Black smoke is soot - carbon dust, full of all the toxic stuff in tires. White smoke isn't smoke. It's a cloud of vapor. That friction doesn't create a fire. It doesn't start a combustion reaction. Instead, it superheated and instantly boils certain chemicals and oils in the rubber, which then immediately disperse into the air, and condense into tons of tiny droplets of liquid. That cloud is white because it's just like clouds in the sky, just made of the volatile chemicals and oils in the rubber, rather than water." ]

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[ "As an additional similar question, how did natives figure out if you mix one inactive plant (with DMT) with another inactive plant (an MAOI), together they create ayahuasca? Neither plant alone is effective and there are millions of options for deadly trial and error in the rainforest." ]

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[ "This is an interesting phenomenon. Time of course continues to pass at the normal pace while we sleep, but our perception of time is temporarily suspended. This can be attributed to the altered state of consciousness associated with sleep. We are kept unaware of our surroundings, which would certainly make it difficult to remain informed of the passing of time. When we awaken in the morning, we have the memory of going to bed the night before, but new memories are rarely made while we sleep. Therefore, upon waking up the following morning it feels as if no time has passed, but our minds reason that many hours have elapsed simply because it is now light outside, and perhaps your bedside alarm clock is telling you that it is morning. TLDR: you don’t have a reference point of time because you’re asleep and you have to “make” new memories as you awaken. Source: URL_0 Phil Salant" ]

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[ "It's a short form of the Latin \"numero\" which is what \"number\" is derived from. Numero is used in French, Spanish, and Italian." ]

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[ "Basically what happened is that the cost of living, especially rent and home prices, escalated dramatically, but wages did not keep pace. Here's a real-life example: In the old days, when I got married, my ex and I were both making $5 an hour. The minimum wage was abut $2.75 an hour then. Neither of us had degrees of any kind. We were able to get FT jobs out of high school, none of that trying to piece together a living wage from three-PT jobs stuff so many high school grads do now. We could find a 1-bedroom apartment in a decent but not glamorous area for $500 a month. So together, we made $400 a week gross and were only spending 31% of our gross income on rent. This low proportion of rent-to-income allowed us to be able to stay out of credit card debt. We were able to live on a cash basis for a pretty long time. My ex had a skill he used on weekends and by using that skill and selling the work from it, we were able to save up for the down payment on a house. Only needed 3% because of FHA loans. My ex's pay eventually got doubled to $10 an hour and by then we had a child, so we were still living in a $500 a month unit, on the same pay, but now with a baby. My body made the baby's food for the first 6 months, and I even used cloth diapers because disposables were so expensive. We had a washer in the garage and bought a used dryer. I took in ironing to make a few extra dollars, and also made dolls to sell when hand-made dolls were all the rage. I also did some sewing for a friend of the family who was very large and wanted dresses made out of 100% cotton. (Those are hard to find for big ladies, even today.) Eventually my ex got a decent raise and was earning enough to be considered lower middle class. I stayed home with the kids. But the thing that REALLY gave us the leg-up in life was that we weren't paying 50% or more for f-ing rent, and we didn't have to get a credit card to buy food and clothes. We had enough extra cash every month to pay two car payments and buy the needs of life. We did not get into trouble with credit card debt, something I see so many kids in their 20s do now, because we could afford to live on a cash basis. It wasn't easy - especially after we had the first child - but I shopped for used stuff at thrift stores, bought at the Big Box stores, etc. The other thing that was not all that unusual back then was that we could both find jobs that paid almost double minimum wage without any degree at all. We started out adult life at a relatively high wage. There are some trades that still pay that well, but I worked for a family-owned retailer. NO ONE pays retail cashiers or clerks without even an AA degree double minimum wage now - unless it's a legal pot shop in California, I guess. And, if they did, that means in California I'd be paid $22 an hour as a cashier in my county. (Minimum wage is now $10.50 hr. here.) Hell, I'll be a career cashier right now for $22 an hour. This is why, when I talk about the economy, I try to tell people how it was in the old days - the 60s, 70s and early 80s. Then Reagan and the GOP got elected and Robber Baron economic theories took over the country. *NONE* of those GOP theories have been proven to work to lift up the poor, but the theories exist nonetheless. \"Trickle down economics\" - let the rich get richer and it will \"trickle down\" to the poor. **That's a lie.** So, we were lucky to get the jobs we got, but we were also entering young adulthood in pre-Reagan times. We had an economy designed to help us, not hurt us. Today, young adults have an economy mostly designed to HURT THEM. They SHOULD be marching in the streets in rage and running for office. More power to them." ]

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[ "When you compress air, you take a large volume of air and make it smaller. That small volume of air still has the same amount of water in it as when it started. When it cools, that water will condense and settle out The air dryer is used to get most of the water out of the air but it doesn't get it all. If your pipes are setup right then all the water should funnel back to a single point, but if they aren't then over time you'll end up with water sitting in the pipes and rusting them out. Consider how many cubic feet of air you use and how humid normal air is. If it only gets 99.99% of the water from the air that can still leave a sizable amount of water behind in industrial applications" ]

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[ "There are companies like BMI, ASCAP, etc. that specifically handle the licensing of music. The collect fees from places playing music like restaurants and then pay it to the artist or their estate." ]

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[ "Education doesn't bring immediate results. If you cut funding to roads, or police, or fire fighters, you immediately see the downside. The roads fall apart. Crime rises. Homes burn down. But if you cut education, it's a lot harder to see the problems that will happen when those kids grow up. It's thus easier to say \"Oh, they'll be fine.\" and not realize that in the long run, cutting funding for education is really bad for society." ]

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[ "Normal glass (used in windows and such) is not transparent to UV light. It mostly absorbs the wavelength,(it reflects some), the same way say asphalt absorbs almost all wavelength or your blue T-shirt absorbing all wavelength but blue. Absorbed photons transfer energy to the material (usually electrons) and turns into heat." ]

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[ "I studied brain science in university. This is actually not your brain but your spinal cord. It contains hardware connections between your various limbs that help them stay perfectly in sync (like for jumping) or perfectly opposite sync (like for running)." ]

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[ "The capsaicin that causes the hot feeling is an oil, and because oil and water dont mix, the water just spreads the oil around. Milk is basic, while capsaicin is acidic, and when you mix these two together, they become neutral, which is why milk makes the hot go away" ]

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[ "* Humans *could* feel comfortable in the same position as the fly...if we had evolved that way. * But we didn't. * So the muscles that help move our blood through our blood vessels work way better in one direction than the other. * The fly didn't evolve this way so, no-problem-o." ]

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[ "Short answer from an amateur, lots of animals (i.e. Rodents, sharks, others) never stop growing their teeth and thus just either break off decaying parts or replace them entirely. Another factor here is we humans have extended our life spans FAR beyond our natural evolution, our teeth were never designed to last this long and we have had to compensate for that." ]

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[ "Your working out the deepest scratches as quickly as possible. If you start with a grit more fine than the deepest scratch it will take longer to remove the metal down to the depth you need." ]

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[ "Although the starch molecule is a chain of hundreds of glucose molecules, it doesn't activate your sweetness taste receptors like individual glucose can. The beginning of your digestive tract is not the stomach, but the mouth. Like your stomach, your saliva contains enzymes (amylase) which break down complex carbohydrates (starches) in to simple sugars (glucose). The harder it is for the amylase to access the starch, the longer it takes to start breaking it down to glucose. Pulverizing starch containing food allows your amylase to start breaking down the starch far more quickly and as a result will produce larger quantities of glucose which will taste sweeter. If you ever start lightly chewing on a piece of uncooked dry pasta, it will take several minutes but eventually you will taste sweetness." ]

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[ "Poison is something that is harmful if ingested, venom is something that is harmful when injected by an animal through a bite or sting, and a toxin is usually a harmful byproduct of some other process." ]

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[ "They're not! While there are a handful that are filmed in NYC, most movies and shows that are set in New York are filmed in Vancouver, Toronto, or Atlanta, where they can get a similar feel but save a lot of money from tax breaks designed to bring production and filming to those cities. Some more artful productions like Mr. Robot are filmed on location as a matter of principle. If your question is why so many movies are *set* in New York, it's because it's such a recognizable setting (self fulfilling prophecy, I know), with a wide diversity of different options for a wide diversity of different lifestyles." ]

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[ "It has two screens on top of one another and the light projects at different angles to trick your eye into believing it’s 3D. If you move the 3DS too far to one side, the effect will disappear." ]

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[ "Programming languages are like real-life languages. There are times one may be easier to communicate in - like speaking French when you're in France - but for the most part they all communicate the same things. If you want to program a sensor to detect when you press a button on a remote and then do something, you'll probably have an easier time in C since it was designed to keep stuff like that simple. But if you don't know C, you can still use Java or C# or whatever you do know, it will just be expressed differently. So really, they all serve the same function to communicate what you want to do to the processor. The only things that change are how that's expressed and how familiar you are with how to express it." ]

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[ "Cameras can be hidden in various ways but the most common method is to film at an angle where it is just out of frame. Obviously if the actor was exactly straight on to their reflection then the camera would need to be right behind their head. Another way is to just have no mirror at all and film through a frame that looks like a mirror." ]

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[ "The general idea stemed from Ancient Greek concepts of medicine called \"Humorism\". In their model all sickness was caused by imbalances in the four distinct fluids: Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. Such ideas make some sort of intuitive sense in that if someone becomes sick they produce an overabundance of phlegm and if someone loses too much blood such as through a wound they will die. Otherwise of course it is complete nonsense, but what people were trying to do with the bleeding is to bring the four into balance. Unfortunately you might identify a fever as a sign of excess blood (blood being associated with hotness due to flushing from exertion, etc) and then decide to bleed someone simply because they have an infection causing fever. Not a great plan!" ]

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[ "Yawning opens an air canal that pumps air into your ear from inside. (Sneezing, blowing nose, etc does that also). Changed pressure makes it harder to hear, because ears aren't as sensitive to vibrations due this. Sort of like banging a drum (or any similar surface, really) sounds duller if you press your other palm against it, to block or dampen drum skin from vibrating as much as it normally does. Or for example, try to bang the drum underwater. Ears are all about pressure." ]

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[ "It depends. It might belong to you, unless you live in a regulated water rights district. In Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah; the default is that the government owns precipitation, even on your property. In general, these water rights owners are not responsible for damage done by their water on your property, so it's strictly lose-lose for you." ]

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[ "I don't know the specifics on Dr. Dre's aneurysm but in general an aneurysm isn't life threatening until it bursts or starts leaking. At that point a lot depends on the severity of the bleed and how quickly the patient gets proper medical treatment. My uncle had a ruptured aneurysm in his brain (this was a couple decades ago) and from what I've been told it was relatively minor. He has zero lingering symptoms after healing from the surgery to repair it. A family friend had one a couple years ago and despite being on the grounds of what is apparently one of the best facilities for this in the western US when it struck (she was a medical sales rep and was just finishing up a sales call). She was effectively dead within minutes of the onset of symptoms (she was on life support for about a week but the prognosis from the get go was that she would almost certainly never recover).." ]

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[ "Aquatic turtles DO swallow water when they eat, and actually can't swallow *without* water as they do not produce saliva. But they have a specially evolved esophagus that acts as a sort of pre-stomach. They fill the esophagus with food and water, and then constrict it to expel all the water while keeping the food inside. The food and a small amount of water then enter the stomach. Edit: Three years on reddit and I finally got gilded while I was asleep, and for something turtle related :D. Obligatory \"Thank you kind stranger\", and \"this blew up\". Seriously though, thank you. Volunteer to be the one who protec." ]

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[ "It’s sensory overload. Your body has independent receptors for hot and cold; but occasionally when you trigger them with too hot of a source, both hot and cold will react. The term for it is paradoxical cold." ]

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[ "Multicore can theoretically improve performance. In practice, it does not because scheduling multiple cores is a nearly intractable problem on a general purpose O/S. If you look at the CPU time on your multicore processor, you'll notice almost all the work is being done by a single processor. Multithreading is a much more significant element. What multithreading allows you to do is have multiple threads ready and when one thread stalls, the other can consume CPU time that would otherwise be wasted. Caching is even more significant. The reason those threads get stalled is largely due to 'cache misses'. The memory in your L1 cache is hundreds of times faster to access than your main memory. As a result, any time a program requires a read from main memory, you're left with your CPU idling for hundreds of cycles. Better cache performance and techniques like multithreading (above) and branch prediction can prevent this. Specialized sub-processors also help a great deal. Unlike multiple generic processors, sub-processors solve the scheduling problem by forcing the software to run on certain, specific processors - processors optimized for those sort of problems. Vector processors for graphics are the most common example, but floating point math processors predate them. In the future, you might see even more of these sub-processors to deal with other common, time-consuming tasks. Smaller footprint and more efficient instruction sets can also make processors faster. It may seem like electricity moves pretty fast, but saving a few millimeters here or there makes a huge difference when you're talking about gigahertz speeds. Lower power can also help. A major limitation of modern processors is heat. Lower the power and you lower the heat. Unfortunately, you also increase the interference - which can be addressed by better channel coding (within limits)." ]

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[ "Fiber. Pepsi won’t help digestion. Not to mention the damage that can be done to your teeth." ]

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[ "A router is a device that lets you connect several devices in a local network. A wireless router is the same thing, except that the devices connect to it worelessly (although it usually contains a couple of ethernet ports). A modem is what connects you to the internet. Some modems also functions as routers, so you don't need two separate devices. What you want is a wifi extender." ]

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