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[ "In the US? Sheriffs work for a county. Police work for a city or town. State troopers work for a state." ]

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[ "To simplify this a lot, it's pretty much like internal farts?" ]

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[ "I believe the term you're looking for is district heating (DH). It is used to supply a large amount of buildings with hot water by heating the water in combined heat and power (CHP) stations or thermal power stations. In some countries or especially in rural areas district heating isn't really used, but it's common in cold, densely populated areas where the need for heat is large. So the heat is usually generated by burning coal, biomass, natural gas or other fuels with different methods, and the released heat is captured to water and/or steam. If it's a CHP plant, part of the heat and energy is extracted as electricity in steam turbines. Most of the remaining heat is transferred to DH system in heat exchangers. DH system is basically just a huge system of insulated pipelines with some pumps to keep the water flowing. The pipeline is connected to buildings, where there is a separate heat exchanger that takes heat from the DH water to your domestic hot water, that you'd get from your tap. Domestic water is just clean, cold water coming from your local water supply, and the hot water is the same water but just heated. ELI5 explanation: power plants heat water in a water circulation system, and your house takes part of that heat." ]

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[ "Heterochromia iridium is not a singular disorder. It is just a description of a symptom that may present as a result of many different syndromes; whether [congenital or acquired]( URL_0 ). With Heterochromia iridium, there is an affected eye that usually does not reflect the genetics of the person, the color is simply caused by the condition itself. It's impossible to be sure due to not knowing the specifics of your fathers condition, but it's likely that your father has a recessive blue allele. This would mean that likely both your mother and father have a recessive blue allele and a dominant brown/green allele, thus giving a 25% chance for blue eyes in their children." ]

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[ "Batteries convert chemical potential into electrical current. With rechargeable batteries, if you reverse the flow of current then the chemical reaction also runs in reverse. Alkaline batteries (the most common non-rechargeables) don't fully reverse their chemical reaction when you try to charge them. This makes them significantly less efficient to charge, which causes heat and can cause buildup of hydrogen gas. Since most batteries are sealed, a build of hydrogen gas can caused them to rupture and explode. The reason they're more popular than rechargeables is that they are significantly less expensive. Also, they're better at holding their charge when not in use. This is important for very low usage scenarios like your remote control." ]

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[ "If you mean \"**re-**attach\", as in re-connecting the spinal cord after it's been severed as a result of some trauma, the answer is that the spinal cord is basically just a big bundle of nerves. If it gets severed, that's a problem. *Physically* stitching the nerves back together isn't *that* difficult (though there are so *many* nerves in the spinal cord that this is impractical), but that's not good enough. It'd be like breaking a circuit board for your computer in half and taping it back together. Sure, the relevant parts are now physically connected again, but that doesn't actually restore the severed circuits. In particular, nerves tend to form scars at the points where they're cut (called \"neuromas,\" though not all neuromas are traumatic in origin). Neuromas don't transmit nerve impulses very well, if at all, so even if you put the nerve itself back together, the scar is still a problem." ]

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[ "\"Copying the system\" is difficult for 2 unrelated reasons: * A new system won't just affect the population, it would affect the health care workers (doctors, etc.) and institutions (hospitals, insurance companies, etc.), and if the changes are dramatic, they can result in \"outages\" so to speak. Imagine a scenario where the doctors completely lose the way they are currently paid, and must seek new ways / new employment according to some new laws that just got passed. * Reforms are passed through the current voting system, and may be vetoed or voted down for various reasons... Politics isn't always about what's best for the populace, and sometimes the populace as a whole doesn't know what's best for it. I don't want to get into a discussion about politics; it's a hot topic that's best avoided here. As far as \"good\" vs. \"poor\" health care, the UK system is paid via taxes, whereas the US system is paid via subscriptions for \"insurance.\" In the UK, citizens who work pay taxes, and thus pay for health care for themselves AND for those who are unemployed - this works very well if the unemployment rate is low. In the US, citizens who work generally have access to company-sponsored insurance plans, and, since the ACA reform, the unemployed can also have access to similar plans via the government, but it's not free - they must pay for the \"insurance\" subscription, and this is difficult when you don't have a job. Otherwise, I'm not sure about other issues, such as the availability of \"basic\" healthcare vs. the availability of \"specialist\" or \"cutting edge\" procedures. Generally, tax-based systems make the \"basic\" procedures free and very easy to get, but possibly specialists or cutting edge procedures are difficult to schedule or find. Whereas pay-as-needed or insurance systems have basic procedure costs that are too high for the unemployed or the poor, but specialists are more available if you have the insurance subscription. Looking at the statistics (source:Google) for liver transplants, which at $700,000 would fit in the \"lives were ruined by medical bills\" category: * 6000 liver transplants are performed in the US per year, 750 in the UK * Population: 325 million in US, 65 million in UK. Thus, US performs 63% more transplants per capita than UK. 63% more lives (financially) ruined, or 63% more patient lives saved, you can look at it both ways. But it's difficult to conclude whether this is from the availability of transplant doctors, or from the availability of donors, or from people on the waiting list being rejected / approved using different criteria between the two countries, etc.." ]

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[ "Assuming you're eating a reasonably decent variety and quantity of food, and have no other outstanding medical issues that would require a supplement, they don't do all that much. If your diet is unusually narrow or light, then they'll smooth things over a bit (i.e. you won't get healthier, but you won't get sick either). It's mostly a form of preventative medicine that covers gaps left by a bad diet to stop you from developing issues in the first place." ]

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[ "Rhythm is innate in life. The first rhythm is the rhythm of your mother's heartbeat in the womb. Then it's your own heartbeat and pulse. You need rhythm in your walk (otherwise, you're limping). If you walk while stomping your feet, you're creating a percussive beat. Then get 3 people doing the same thing, and you're on your way to music and dance. Your speech has rhythm. The whole \"iambic pentameter\" thing is a good example for English - da DA da DA da DA da DA da DA. I don't anything about other languages, so I'm not going to speculate. I've never met a child who doesn't have a sense of rhythm. I have my own thoughts about why some adults \"lose\" that sense, but I'm not going to speculate here." ]

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[ "At the very least, takeoffs would still be flown by hand, since (to my knowledge) many jet's autopilots won't engage unless you are on a somewhat stable heading and are closely trimmed (flight controls set so that minimal yoke/sidestick pressure is needed to maintain the current path) to your current flight path. Landings are also often flown by hand after a certain altitude, since automated landings can be very firm and not every runway and plane is certified for automated landings down to touchdown." ]

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[ "The faster a speices cells divide, the longevity of their organ tissue, the efficiency of their kidneys and liver, and their diet and lifestyle all factor into age. Human tissue is pretty long lasting compared to most species, as cells divide DNA is slowly broken down, until cancer or organ failure or a dozen other diseases set in." ]

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[ "In the case of a web browser, sometimes temp files and cookies are not current, or even become corrupted. Either way, if changes were made in the browser when trying to load, if the browser is attempting to use what is cached and it is conflicting with what the website currently has, then it can load screwy or not load at all. So clearing it forces the the browser to load it as if it were visiting the page for the first time. Also to note, sites that use a page count, such as newspapers who allow a limited number of articles to be read without a subscription, use cookies and temp files to show that this browser/pc has read x-number of articles, which would cause it to load that annoying screen prompting you to log in or subscribe. Clearing the cookies removes that reference point." ]

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[ "Somewhere deep inside your brain the rocky theme starts playing. Your goal becomes your only focus as tunnel vision takes over. The montage begins. The chaos emeralds circle your body. You're now super sonic and have the ability to run an extra bit." ]

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[ "Language isn't learned, initially, by describing the meaning of the words. Language is learned by associating of the sounds of the words with the thing they describe. As you note, this is rather straightforward with simple objects. But humans are capable of abstract thought and learning from context and use. Plenty of verbs and adverbs are very physical and plenty of verbs and adverbs are closely related to nouns. Consider: \"The fast car\" (fast = adjective) vs \"The car is moving fast\" (fast = adverb)." ]

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[ "1) There's not a lot of common, naturally-occurring things that stain hair that readily. We need strong artificial chemicals to do it to our own hair. 2) The fur keeps growing. If you bleached your hair blonde, it wouldn't be permanent. Soon enough you'll grow more new hair." ]

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[ "Survivor(ship) bias. Even with age correction, one of the most likely explanations is that survivor bias spans all age groups. In a less developed country with limited access to healthcare, everyday infections, diseases, and ailments in general become much more severe. Still, there are other factors that contribute to differences in cancer incidence rate. These are, but are not limited to, regional diet (particularly diets that are high in anti-oxidants and micronutrients), genetics and epigenetics, lifestyle, and the prevalence/absence of certain occupational hazards. Also it should be mentioned that the method and frequency of detection of said cancers may not be on equal footing. I will also mention that some people believe the higher incidence rate is linked with obesity, diets with copious amounts of processed food, and higher substance abuse." ]

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[ "One thing I know is that the US influenced Japan culture quite a bit after WWII. As you should know, Japan was forbidden to have a military. That was Article 9. It offered Japan \"a way of retaining a positive sense of uniqueness in defeat\". Japan modernized quite a bit and at a rapid pace post-WWII. I don't remember the exact details as it was a long time ago. The book I learned this from in college was called \"Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII\" by John Dower." ]

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[ "The simple answer is that 911 calls are very, very important. So important, in fact, that all the cell providers have agreed with authorities to let any phone through that needs to make an emergency call. No matter if it's their customer or not. Because it's one of those times when who you are paying your bill to shouldn't really matter. Emergency is emergency, and that is that." ]

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[ "The yellow light comes from Sodium lamps. It's just how they glow for chemical reasons. More modern street lights are LEDs and more white to light-blue. They're also brighter and more directed instead of glowing in all directions." ]

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[ "each element has has electrons on shells/layers, and those electrons constantly absorb energy and release it, depending on the vibration frequency and the number of electrons a atom has, the energy is released in different frequencies, some of those light. also molecules have Intramolecular bonds which vibrate in different frequencies that absorb light in those frequencies. therefore giving off a color in according to that. A very interesting topic in this regard is transition metals, you have metals like Chromium that have a whole range of colours depending on the oxidation state the metal is in, yellow, red, purple, and its non oxidized silver like color." ]

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[ "You can control that. However, your lense muscles are tensed way harder when looking at something closer. So it'll be more natural/easier to look through it and see what's behind." ]

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[ "Of all the artificial methods we know to transmit information through a vacuum, the electromagnetic spectrum is pretty much what we can both send and receive; there may be other theoretical concepts, but radio, and light, and various other points along the electromagnetic spectrum are what we have to work with. It's not because we think aliens will use it, it's because it's what we can currently work with that isn't naturally occurring that is most likely for aliens to be using. So, you are correct: absence of data doesn't prove aliens do not exist, but in cases like this you can't prove a negative as you're noting, so people who say this is proof that aliens do not exist are making insubstantiated claims. It doesn't prove they're wrong, either, it means they're using the wrong info to reach the conclusion." ]

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[ "A jihad basically translates to \"struggle\". This might for example be used to refer to a physical struggle against those seen as enemies of Islam, or it might be the internal struggle of someone against sin. So you might have a jihad against alcoholism, or to lose weight, instead of always thinking of jihad as meaning bombing children's buses. Our current media almost universally uses the term to refer to terrorists though, which can be disturbing to Muslims who understand the word to simply mean a general striving or struggle for anything." ]

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[ "Planning, documenting code, and compartmentalizing tasks. Or, in lots of cases, it's just total chaos." ]

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[ "Evolution. A mother bear gives birth to two cubs. One (due to totally random gene combination) is not afraid of death, and dies early on. Second (again, due to totally random gene combination) is afraid of death, and lives a long life, mating with some females and becoming father of more cubs. The first \"mutation\" was less optimised for survival, and produced less offspring than second \"mutation\". Thus second version is more likely to appear in future cubs (because it managed to actually produce those cubs). So over many many many many many generations, entities with instinct of self-preservation were more successful at survival, and thus at propagation, and so became dominant." ]

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[ "You go into autopilot, your brain doesn't take logs unless something interesting occurs, but while you're in autopilot you are still actively scanning the road and controlling the car and responding to routine inputs(stop signs, road markings, corners in the road) Once you do a task enough your brain makes an autopilot routine for it, this is why you can walk and chew gum at the same time. Why you can have a deep conversation with someone and walk up a flight of stairs. Walking has been fully automated since you were young, if you think about how you're walking up the stairs it'll be awkward. While you may not remember paying attention it doesn't mean that your brain wasn't paying attention. It just means that this morning's commute was completely uneventful" ]

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[ "For additive colours the primaries are red, green and blue. Red plus green makes yellow; red plus blue makes magenta; and green plus blue makes cyan. For subtractive colours the primaries are yellow, cyan and magenta. Yellow plus cyan makes green; yellow plus magenta makes red; and cyan plus magenta makes blue. School teachers and others that teach young children that the primaries are red, yellow and blue are talking about subtractive colours. They don't want to be using strange words like cyan and magenta so they say blue and red instead, even though this is technically incorrect. Often they do this without even being aware of the issue themselves." ]

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[ "Your brain in both situations: No weed/booze, \"I don't really need anything too sweet or salty, just a little hungry.\" On Weed/Booze, \"Lowered inhibitions mean i don't care what goes in me because I'm only thinking about now, so yes, I'll take the chocolate covered chocolate with dipping chocolate.\" Also Cannabinoid receptors, and booze is technically a light poison and your body instinctively craves food to soak up said poison and to return electrolytes/nutrients to your body." ]

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[ "When you’re tired your eyes are usually dry, rubbing them stimulates the glands that release fluid. You also get droopy eyes when tired and the physical stimulation helps the muscles keep them open. Finally there’s also a nerve connection between your eye muscles and heart that is stimulated by rubbing your eyes. So there’s a few reasons." ]

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[ "Yep, the use different materials to get a specific frequency, you’ll sometimes see blue LEDs called “gallium nitride” because that’s what they use to make them. However white LEDs use just blue LEDs, but put a layer of phosphor on top in order to get all the colors of white light in a spectrum. There are some rare colored LEDs that use the same method as white ones, but with a colored phosphor instead for a less monochromatic light" ]

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[ "You don't see it *all* day and *all* night. On any given day, it is roughly in the same position relative to Earth (changing by only 1/28th of a rotation each day). When your location on Earth is facing the moon, you'll see it. When your location on Earth is facing *away* from the moon, you will not. At times when it's between the Earth and the sun, you'll see it during the day (though you're mostly looking at the dark side so its smaller and less visible). At times when it's \"behind\" the Earth and opposite the sun, you'll see it at night. Other times it's \"next to\" the Earth (compared to the sun) so you can see it for part of the day and part of the night. But never for all day and all night-- unless you're at an extreme Northern or Southern location. At these same times in these same places, neither the sun or moon would disappear." ]

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[ "Capsules are the most efficient way to get people and things into space. They don't take up any more space or weight than they need to, and fit nicely on top of a rocket in an aerodynamic way. Airplane based designs are much much heavier, and almost all of that extra weight is purely so it can function as an aircraft in the atmosphere which is exactly the place where we don't spend much time, so it's extra useless weight 99% of the time, and extra useless weight is the mortal enemy of rockets. It's perfectly fine to land under parachute in the ocean and get picked up by a boat. It's not that much more helpful to land on a runway, especially when it means you're lugging around a whole airplane on your back the whole time to facilitate that goal." ]

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[ "Water is very sticky due to the polar nature of its molecule, so it tends to cling to itself and to other surfaces. In the case of sand it would permeate all the empty spaces and cause all the individual sand grains to stick together. Therefore more resistance and more friction is experienced when you attempt to push your hand through." ]

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[ "I'll answer this from a neuronal perspective, since that sounds like the sort of thing you're asking. Memory is located throughout the brain, but it ultimately exists as connections between neurons. By changing the strength of connections between neurons, you can effectively strengthen or weaken memories. Memories are formed through a process called \"long-term potentiation\". So briefly, I'll talk about how a neuron is laid out. Take a look at [this]( URL_0 ) picture. The dendrites of a neuron are basically where it receives information. It then \"transmits\" this information down the axon, and the axon terminals are \"synapsed\" with the dendrites of another neuron. Basically, there's a tiny gap between the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of the \"downstream\" neuron called the synaptic cleft. Once an electrical signal goes down the axon of the \"upstream\" neuron, it reaches the axon terminals. Then the axon terminals will release neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft, which would bind to receptors on the downstream neuron. These receptors open channels in the neuron that let ions go into the neuron, basically generating a small electric current. Once the electric current reaches a threshold, the neuron will fire. Enough background. So lets say I have two neurons, an upstream neuron and a downstream neuron. If I gently stimulate the upstream neuron, I see a small amount of current in the downstream neuron. **However**, if I strongly stimulate the upstream neuron, then wait, then gently stimulate the upstream neuron, I measure a much stronger current in the downstream neuron. In other words. if I gently stimulate a neuron a bunch of times, I keep seeing a small current. However, if I strongly stimulate a neuron, then gently stimulate it, I see **stronger** currents. If I shock the neuron again, future gentle stimulate cause even **stronger** currents. In other words, it seems that neurons become **more sensitive** if they are subjected to strong stimuli. Could it be that memories are strengthed this way? It's a pretty good idea. So how does it work? A quick background check again Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. AMPA and NMDA receptors are glutamate receptors on the dendrites of neurons. AMPA receptors are simple. When AMPA receptors bind to glutamate, they open an ion channel allowing Sodium to move into the cell, causing a slight current and making the cell more positive. NMDA receptors are a little different. When glutamate binds to NMDA receptors, they'll open, but nothing can pass through them. This is because there is a magnesium ion blocking the ion channel. However, if the cell becomes positive enough, then the magnesium ion will be released, and the ion channel will open. This would let sodiuim **and** calcium into the cell. So it's easy to see that typically, AMPA receptors open, allowing sodium into the cell, making it more positive. If enough sodium ions move into the cell, it becomes positive enough that NMDA receptors release their magnesium ions and let sodium and calcium into the cell. This works because when calcium enters the cell, it increases the **number** of AMPA receptors on the dendrite, basically making the cell more sensitive to glutamate, thus strengthening the connection." ]

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[ "Headphones are pretty simple objects: you’ve got two wires going in, a resistor or two inline, then a magnet, sitting behind a diaphragm. As long as the diaphragm doesn’t rip and the dryer gets the electrical contacts dry, everything should still work fine." ]

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[ "Washer machines has a load level, also, requires some supervision of the activity [i.e. Trying to open the door when water level is hight]. Dishwashers can't be \"overloaded\" neither visual inspection is needed." ]

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[ "It's not a technical problem but a legal one. As long as it's legal this will keep happening. This problem hardly exists in the EU because there are strict laws about these kinds of things." ]

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[ "Symptoms are the body’s method of fighting disease. They make us miserable, but they work when the disease is minor. Like a fever makes your body less hospitable. We have less stress hormones at night so our immune systems kick into action." ]

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[ "Thanks to the Red Cross we have reasonably good statistics on the number of people, military and civilian, who have died due to armed conflict. Those numbers have been trending down. URL_0 ...of course, overall the 20th century was bloody as fuck because of two major instances of industrial war. Some of the optimism about peacefulness comes from the formation of groups like the EU, which (maybe! possibly! we hope!) make it less likely for historical conflicts to flare up again." ]

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[ "Water is a fluid, and fluids under pressure exert force in all directions. Since the *Titanic* is filled with high-pressure water inside and out, the water pressure on the outside of her walls is equal and opposite to the pressure on the inside. Therefore, the total force on the walls is zero. *Titanic* would only be susceptible to crushing if she was hollow and watertight." ]

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[ "Imagine you own a piece of land. How do you sell that land to someone else? You can't take the land and put it in a bag and give it to someone. Instead, you write on a piece of paper: I sells this land to Susan. If Susan needs to sell the land, she shows the paper to the buyer, then adds another sheet of paper that says Susan sells the land to the new buyer. Now, the problem with this setup is that Tommy can show up with a sheet of paper that says Susan sold the land to him already and he owns the land! So, you and Susan register the land sales with a trusted third party which keeps a ledger of land sales. If Tommy shows up saying he owns the land, just look in the ledger and see who owns the land. An NFT is just a digital way of doing the transfer documents and ledgers using computers. It uses Blockchain tech which is basically a digital ledger that is nearly impossible to fake (as in Tommy can't break into the ledger and insert his name in there.) So, an NFT for a meme is just the same idea of transferring ownership of something that can't be physically owned like land or the rights to a video or picture that can be copied easily on a computer. The NFT just takes care of the ledger and records of transfers. A similar thing could be done without technology with lawyers and a contract saying the rights to the meme are being sold. How do you make money? You can make money selling whatever people will buy. I can sell you air, if you are willing to pay for it. I can sell you my soul if you are willing to pay for it. A meme creator can sell someone an NFT to the rights of the meme if someone will pay for it. Of course, someone needs to confirm that the meme creator is who they say they are and that the NFT being sold can be traced to the original creator or rights holder. But after that, every transfer of the NFT can be digitally confirmed and traced." ]

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[ "Apart from the usual euphemistic language surrounding death, killing a largish animal like a cow or horse, literally puts them down onto the ground." ]

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[ "Workers on the high tension lines, **insulate** themselves from the ground and then attach to the line. This brings them up to the same voltage as the line. Electricity only flows from high voltage to low voltage so if the workers are the same voltage as the line, then electricity won't flow into them." ]

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[ "It is always circular. You just don't see the lower part of the circle in the \"classical\" rainbow, as it is covered up by ground." ]

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[ "Swelling/inflammation is how our bodies keep us from using an injured body part. Obviously, we want to avoid using an injured body part so that it can rest during the healing period. Inflammation does \\*\\*not\\*\\* help the healing process, and our bodies very frequently go way overboard on the whole matter. We swell too much, for too long, and it can actually cause our muscles to deteriorate. It can become a chronic problem (if untreated), and then affect us for our whole lives, which can atrophy our muscles and/or make them much harder to use, long after the healing is complete. Because our ability to treat injuries has become so advanced, we want to fix up the injury as best as possible and then reduce the swelling/inflammation so our bodies can go through the natural healing process without having to worry about those problems listed above. A broken bone can be reset and mended far more efficiently in the operating room than in \"the wild.\" We cut down healing time dramatically through modern medicine and surgery. & #x200B; tl;dr Swelling isn't a bad thing on its own, but modern healing techniques make it less useful and sometimes harmful. It's better to fix the problem, toss some pain killers down your throat, splint it up, and tell you not to move it." ]

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[ "High sugar content acts as a preservative (the same way canning fruit in syrup does). Microbes (like most cells) are bags of water with a membrane that balances the amount of \"free water\". Something like honey has very little \"free water\", so the water moves out of the microbe. But because the difference is so extreme, there's not enough water left in the microbe. Some honey also contains antibacterial compounds and various enzymes that make life unpleasant for microbes." ]

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[ "Up to a point, having a fever is a good thing when you're fighting an infection as in the case of sepsis (infection in the blood). Many pathogens don't fare well in even a degree or two of average raised temperature, while your body is much more resilient. It's still a pretty serious condition on its own, and sepsis is frequently fatal regardless of the not only the body's attempts to fight it, but with medical intervention. The problems in general however, start when the fever is too high, or just high for too long. Your body will release something called chaperone molecules that help your proteins fold correctly, but there will still be errors and it's more energetically expensive. This chaperone molecules also have limits, and past a certain point your body fails on a number of levels. For one, a lot of what your cells do is interact with, transport, and produce proteins. The function of a protein is determined by its three dimensional structure, and it gets that through a process of folding. This is a process which can go wrong, and heat makes it far more likely to go wrong. Past a certain point critical proteins will start to unfold (denature) as in exposure to cooking methods. Needless to say, this does you no favors. For another, most fevers are not in response to something like sepsis (outside of admissions in a hospital at least), they're the result of either the disease-causing organism (pathogen) releasing molecules which cause your body to develop a fever (pyrogens) or an immune response by your body. In the former case the magnitude of the infection can cause a release of these molecules so great that your temperature-regulating system is utterly overwhelmed. In the latter case your body's inflammatory signaling systems can go haywire, causing runaway inflammation and fever; this is called cytokine storm and it's a potentially fatal condition. Ebola is often thought to kill as a result of cytokine storm, in humans at least. So you need to manage a fever, first and foremost by identifying its cause and treating it appropriately. This will inevitably take time, and the sicker the patient the more time it will take. During this time you could develop cardiac problems, your metabolism could be seriously disrupted leading to many bad side effects, and you could suffer lasting brain damage from seizures, even coma or death. As a result with a bad enough fever you treat the infection, modulate the immune system response if necessary/possible, and then just try to bring the temperature down. Alcohol, cold water baths, and even infusions of cold IV fluids can all be used. tl;dr Unless you're septic, it isn't generally helpful for your immune system to suffer under a fever, and it can cause organ damage, damage to the blood, damage to the brain, and even death." ]

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[ "Practically speaking, the 2 most important things about citations (both in text and in a list of references) are: 1) That you provide enough information that someone could easily find the source you're using. This means including article and journal titles, volume numbers and page numbers for journals, edition numbers, relevant page numbers, and editors or authors for texts, etc. When you're new to citations (i.e. when you are a student) you're much more likely to leave out important information, which is why teachers tell you to follow a particular style. If you leave pertinent information out of your citation, at the very least, your teacher/professor will be super grumpy about it but kind enough to google the source. At worst, they'll just act like you didn't cite it in the first place. Option B is quite bad for you, and even option A might affect your grade (grumpy profs are less forgiving and generous. I know this firsthand). 2) Your citations must be internally consistent, meaning that the journal titles, article titles, page numbers, volume numbers etc. are always in the same order within each citation, and that the citations be ordered in the same way relative to each other. Again, this is important so that your teacher/professor/reader can quickly figure out what source goes with what bit of information without having to go on an information safari. In all of the STEM fields I have experience with, the citation style actually changes depending on what journal you're writing for (i.e. we don't use APA or MLA styles). Each journal has their own preferences and they provide directions and templates to accommodate their styles. If you're writing for an internal paper, you can just make up your style, assuming (again) that it provides sufficient information and is internally consistent. As long as you're in school though, none of that matters. You need to do what your teacher/professor tells you to do because they're the ones grading your work." ]

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[ "It is not. There is proof to suggest that the antioxidants in wine are good for you. But with that said, current consensus is that *any* alcohol is bad for you, and for virtually all drinks, the downsides outweigh any upsides. Drinking is always bad and should be avoided for optimal health." ]

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[ "I'm actually in the middle of all my tests to donate one of my organs, so I had this conversation somewhat recently with my coordinator. It depends on the particular hospital and program you are using, but you absolutely can have contact between donor and recipient if both agree to it. The initial contact is organized through the transplant center, so that neither side feels \"obligated\" to talk to the other if they don't want to. If both agree, then it is off to the races. Some people choose not to, though. You have to go through _a lot_ of psychological testing to donate because they want to ensure that you aren't going to be upset if the recipient doesn't live their life in a way you feel is \"befitting\" the gift you gave them. Recipients may not want that kind of pressure, or they may not want to talk to them out of guilt or a sense of debt. It is a really personal decision and I can totally understand why people may not want to be contacted." ]

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[ "Because the sugar in honey is heavily concentrated, it has a low [Water Activity Level. ]( URL_0 ) Despite the fact that it contains water, it is effectively too dry for organisms to grow in it and it causes their cells to become dehydrated until they stop functioning. However, being dehydrated isn't necessarily fatal for many organisms, it just stops their metabolism and stops them from growing. This is called *Cryptobiosis*. If you mix honey with a certain amount of water, however, it will begin to ferment, creating *Mead*. In fact, honey typically contains a variety of microorganisms such as yeasts, fungi, various bacteria. These are picked up by bees from their environment. Honey, being a natural product, isn't sterile. **EDIT**: for this reason honey is sometimes used to begin a sourdough bread culture. Infants have sometimes been known to contract certain diseases such as Tetanus, Botulism, or *Clostridium difficile* Colitis from honey. **EDIT:** these are rare to be sure but life threatening when they do occur. These are all caused by bacteria in the genus *Clostridium* that tend to be common in the soil but can only grow in low oxygen conditions. These bacteria produce spores that can withstand dryness for years or even decades. Once they reach the intestines of s young child, this gives those bacterial spores an ideal low oxygen environment in order to grow. Infants don't have the same diversity of gut bacteria that older children and adults do, and their immune systems aren't well developed. This allows *Clostridium* bacteria to overgrow and begin to produce toxic proteins that can cause life threatening diseases. For this reason infants shouldn't be given honey until about 12 months. In normal adults the intestines are already heavily crowded with normal gut bacteria, and *Clostridium* can't grow easily." ]

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[ "Atoms bond because they want more or fewer electrons than they start with. By sharing their electrons (covalent bond), O and H end up with more. This would give them a neutral charge, but it's not enough for them. OH wants one more electron, so they \"steal\" it from another atom. An extra electron gives them one more negative particle than their total positive particles (protons) giving them a 1- charge and making them an ion, a polyatomic ion. Of course, whoever they stole that extra electron from is now a positive ion, and since opposites attract, they're probably going to hookup. And like any such relationship, it's going to be a pretty weak connection and will only last until they find the next ion to hook up with. O and H though, that's a solid bond built on mutual sharing that will be hard to break. O and H are like Bonnie and Clyde, always stealing shit, and being romanticized by the people they stole from (the positive ions), and leaving chaos in their wake (OH- tends to be pretty reactive)." ]

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[ "Fingerprints aren't genetic. Well, their existence is, but not the actual pattern - identical twins for example have different fingerprints. The pattern is simply formed by our development in the womb." ]

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[ "Our metabolism and heart rate increase when it's hot, and our body works harder to regulate our body temperature. For instance, one thing it does is produce sweat to help cool down the body -- that requires energy. The more energy you spend, the more tired you feel." ]

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[ "The curviture of the lenses bends light through refraction. Light travels slower through glass than air. Think of it like if you drive a car through a puddle. The tires that went through the puddle would slow down and cause the car to turn if you weren't holding onto the wheel. Same thing with refraction. This bending of light changes the size of the image we see." ]

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[ "[Negative Interest Rates]( URL_0 ): > ...occur when borrowers are credited interest rather than paying interest to lenders [...] With negative interest rates, central banks charge commercial banks on reserves in an effort to incentivize them to spend rather than hoard cash positions. That last bit is important. Wells Fargo will never have negative interest rates on loans to consumers. That'd be like them paying us to borrow money. This answers your last question. Directly, no, to both. But, *if*, for whatever crazy reason, negative interest rates were to impact consumers, those who borrow would pay back less than they borrowed, while those you lennd would get back less than they lent. A central bank like Federal Reserve can set negative interest rates on reserve requirements instead. The purpose of setting negative interest rates is to stimulate the economy by encouraging banks to lend excess reserves. As someone else said in another comment, some central banks in other countries have negative interest rates. Stimulating the economy is why. The reason a central bank would set a negative interest rate is because lowering the interest rate is usually how they stimulate the economy. Intuitively, 0% interest encourages spending to the max. If you spend $100 now, then it's exactly equal to spending $100 in a month, when interest rates are still at 0%. So, you might as well get what you want now instead of saving it. Sometimes, though, banks don't do that. They keep holding onto money. Consider the 2008 financial crisis. Banks got bailed out with a massive injection. They were awash in excess reserves! The interest rate had fallen to 0% pretty quickly as it does in a recession. The Federal Reserve expected them to lend the extra money ....but the banks held onto it and didn't lend until they felt comfortable with the risk. The economy recovered at a significantly slower pace because of it. If the Fed had set negative interest rates, it would have made banks *more* eager to lend. Why pay extra money for holding money when you don't have to? So, yeah. Here's a summary: 1. It's a rate to incentivize banks to lend money and for consumers to spend money 2. Negative interest rates are set when people are especially reluctant to lend and spend. 3. It's good for people that spend/borrow, and not as good for people that save/lend." ]

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[ "Not all antennas are a half wavelength. A simple antenna is just a piece of wire or metal that is cut to resonate with the frequency. The frequency is inversely proportional to the wave length. Lower the frequency the longer the antenna, higher the frequency the shorter the antenna. An antenna cut to one wavelength for wifi would be 12.5 cm long. You could put that on your router and it wouldn’t be a big deal. An antenna cut for AM radio at 770kHz would be 390 meters tall. That would be impractical to install anywhere especially if you just want to listen to talk radio." ]

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[ "Soda is filled with sucrose which disrupts the hydrogen bonds in the liquid. Alcohol, sugar and salt all play a role in weakening these bonds which opens more pathways for carbon dioxide to escape. That's why champagne loses its fizz quicker than sparkling water as well. Edit: Hi ELI5 community; my inbox has been blowing up, and I've literally been at this post for 14 hours straight, so I wanted to add some things that may clarify additional (and repeated) questions. 1. Please remember, this is ELI5 and in that spirit I am painting with a VERY broad brush for a basic overview of these reactions. I didn't address this question on AskScience 2. Why do you keep saying hydrogen bonds and not surface tension and/or solubility? Think of them as interchangeable terms (see item 1): URL_12 (also van der Waals forces) URL_3 URL_10 URL_7 3. Why do you say it's only sugar, salt and alcohol that breaks the bonds? It's not, there are many additives and even water imperfections that cause the carbon dioxide to fall out of solution.(see item 1) 4. I don't like your second post analogy! Sorry, but too bad... I'm not a writer. If you got the gist of it through either of the posts then it did the job. 5. Why do I experience X when you said Y? Chemistry is testable, observable and repeatable in a controlled environment then it gets sent out into an imperfect world. I can't account for environmental variables, including: elevation (yes, that matters here), manufacturer's formulas (they very well can saturate the solution with more carbon dioxide than their competitor), cup you poured it in, ice you used, how much you hate carbonated beverages, etc...see item 1. 6. What about beer foam and champagne? I'm not addressing head on beer, just the 'fizzyness' of the different drinks but protein chains help to form the foam structure; \"Beer is a complex mixture of over 450 constituents and, in addition, it contains macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and lipids. In beer, several different protein groups, originating from barley, barley malt, and yeast, are known to influence beer quality. Some of them play a role in foam formation and mouthfeel, and others are known to form haze and have to be precipitated to guarantee haze stability, since turbidity gives a first visual impression of the quality of beer to the consumer. These proteins are derived from the malt used and are influenced, modified, and aggregated throughout the whole malting and brewing process.\" URL_11 Champagne is served in a champagne flute for a reason, see /u/cab354's fun fact! 7. What about diet soda, why doesn't it fizz as much? Diet soda uses sweeteners that are much sweeter than sugar, so less needs to be used. Less used, less nucleation sites. 8. What are nucleation sites? Wikipedia 9. Why does ice and Mentos make things super fizzy/violent? Ice isn't all that smooth, the water layer on top is what actually makes it slick (that's how ice skates work). The rough surface of ice, relative to tiny molecules, create nucleation sites in the water where the bubbles are able to form. If you look closely, there are tiny bubbles clinging to the surface of your ice cube, that's the carbonation. Add that to the general agitation of the drink by dropping a solid into it and you have fizz producing actions on two fronts. Believe it or not, the Mentos reaction NOT a chemical reaction but the same physical reaction as ice, but the surface of a Mentos is super rough, creating more of those nucleation sites for the carbon dioxide to fall out of solution. There is no magic chemical in the candy, it's just a texture thing. It works better in diet Coke because there is less sweetener in it to naturally create these nucleation sites (aspartame is a very effective sweetener) Here is an article on the Mentos and Coke reaction: URL_8 10. How do you know all this? It's highly related to my job. 11. Is there a better explanation than what you have given me? URL_9 12. Why do you have so many grammar/spelling mistakes? I've been at this post for 14 hours (and see item 4) 13. Do they have to be squares or can they be triangles? (in reference to my second post analogy: shout out to /u/dvorahtheexplorer) They can be tetrahedrons if ionized, that's basically 4 triangles stuck together! 4X the triangles! 14. What was that thing about ionization? Not mine: URL_2 15. Why does my coke act differently than this when I pour it into my (alcoholic beverage of choice) Introducing the solution to alcohol is different than having a carbonated alcoholic solution. The order chemicals are introduced to and in a solution are very important in chemistry. Here are a few starter resources as a jumping off point as I am only capable of this hyper-simplified explanation right now (been at this post for almost 12 hours straight): URL_0 URL_6 16. So if you put X in sparkling water/seltzer/fizzy water it would fizz up? Oh yeah, in any carbonated drink! Here's a fun experiment to live vicariously through YouTube until your isolation is complete (and thanks for self-isolating, it helps me keep my team and me healthy and your power and water running!): URL_1 17. Aside from things that won't mix with water or rare exceptions, anything that isn't water reduces water's ability to hold CO2 with stability. - not a question but put so simply and elegantly by /u/Gibborim I had to include it! 18. Is this why sparkling water fizz feels a lot stronger? Yup, mouth feel is a hell of a thing! 19. Anything medical: Nope, not a Dr. 20. What about temperature? See /u/ThMogget , A cold solution will hold their bonds much better than a warm one. Remember, temperature is one of the byproducts of atoms in an excited state. 21. What about fizzy mineral water? Mineral water usually has salts and sulfurs in it, it's actually just a fancy pants way of saying it's spring water that hasn't gone through some sort of purification process (like reverse osmosis). These imperfections in the water break those hydrogen bonds just like sugar so depending on where the spring is and how many impurities (minerals) there are in the source, they could very well be just as fizzy. Good way to test the purity of beverages is to let them go flat, like completely flat, but protected from outside contaminates (like dust) and put it in the freezer for a few hours. If it's super pure, it will stay in liquid form until you agitate it (give it a knock). That will introduce nitrogen (most of the air we breathe) and create a nucleation point for the water to form crystals around. You will literally see ice rapidly form in front of you. Check out these two super short videos: URL_5 URL_4 22. It's not the sugar! It is the sugar. Now go brush your teeth. 23. But it's sugar free! OK, but it's not additive and impurity free (see item 8 and still go brush your teeth) 24. You are misleading people by omitting X,Y, and Z! See item freaking 1 25. Are you a teacher? Nope, not anymore – but I was in Japan, Germany and Korea for a long time. 26. It's about the carbon dioxide saturation level. Saturation of carbon dioxide is indeed a huge contributing factor, but it's not the mechanism by which it's released from solution. 27. Could you explain the effects with alcohol more? I’m a bartender and noticed how there are far less bubbles when the liquor is in the cup first (Shout out to /u/kitcatpaddywhack and first direct addressing of surface tension) Basically all the same as sugar. The difference between bottles and open air is pressure. To go with the house analogy, the bottle (or keg, or can) is like a tarp over the holes that the termites ate in the roof. They keep the pressure in the house and help hold the roof together so the balloons can't get out. Notice that if you pour some carbonated beverage on the ground, it goes flat much quicker than in an open cup, even though both are exposed to open air? That's because the gaps between the molecules are further apart allowing the pressure to regulate quicker. 28. Part of that is probably because alcohol has a much weaker surface tension than water, meaning it isn't nearly as capable of holding bubbles. When you mix alcohol into anything, it'll go flat much quicker. 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[ "clear goo is going to be mostly blood plasma, and white goo is pus or mostly white blood cells (they're dead after killing off the bacteria that got into your skin) \"safe\" is a relative word when you talk about squeezing them. the big problem with doing it is the pimple is there because that site was teeming with bacteria that got into your system and your immune system is fighting it off. If you pop it, there's still probably a lot of bacteria around there, so you risk infection (or prolonging the existing problem). If you don't mind using a pin or needle (that you've sterilized) and you've washed the area, you can pop them that way with less chances of scarring and greater infection. Putting something like neosporin on it will help too. If the choice is between just popping it with your fingers (and no other prep) and letting it go away on its own, you're probably better off letting it go away on its own. Most of the time, you'll not get an infection or scarring if you pop it, but this is the choice you have to make." ]

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[ "Lobotomies were based on the theory that there are certain parts of the brain that cause certain psychological problems. What a lobotomy does is hope to cut away that piece of brain that causes the issue without Damaging or killing the patient. The patient was kept under local anaesthesia and with surgical tools your skull was cut open. After that in a perfectly concious state, you were asked to answer some questions as they give minute electric shocks so the doctors don't cut the wrong part of the brain.Ex- a picture would be placed in front of you and you will be asked what it is, to check if you can still see. After cutting. The part causing issue was taken out and the skull was bolted on with rivets and the skin sticthed back on. The success or failure of the operation is irrelevant to the question but the patient was disfigured due to the surgery." ]

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[ "For a RAID setup with 5 hard drives and single parity, each block of data you store in the RAID array is divided into 4 parts. From these 4 parts, a 5th part called the parity information is calculated (see URL_0 for a non-ELI5 explanation of this step). If you lose any 1 of the 4 parts of your data, the remaining 4 parts (3 original + 1 parity) can be used to determine what the missing part is. This gives you limited protection against data loss in the event of a hard drive failure. If you can replace that hard drive and let the RAID array rebuild the missing data before any more hard drive failures occur, you can avoid data loss. But if another hard drive fails before the rebuild can be completed, you would not be able to recover the unrebuilt data since you would not have enough parts to do so." ]

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[ "you don't really. oil and water don't mix, so you'll just end up with a mixture instead of a more dilute solution. you can thin oil by mixing it with a oil of a lower viscosity." ]

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[ "Water is good at cleaning some things because those things interact with the water more favorably than they do your skin. When water washes over your skin that stuff binds to the water and leaves with it. However, there are other things that interact with your skin more favorably than water. these won't, for the most part, leave just because some water comes by. Soap consists of molecules that have two very different ends. One end interacts well with water while the other end interacts well with stuff that doesn't interact well with water. This means it can basically act like a chain connecting the water rushing by to this stuff that water normally doesn't interact with too much." ]

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[ "Because the people who set them up, don't use secure passwords, and so when a hacker finds the device they just try commonly used passwords, and get in. People are warned over and over to use secure passwords, but they don't because its hard to remember. Also, many companies have 2 factor authentication, but people don't want to be bothered with it because they are lazy. Only you can protect yourself." ]

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[ "To make it simple, imagine that there are sensors (nerves) this guys can feel what it's going on the outside and inside, so they send the info to the brain and he makes the decition on what to do, if there is to much hot or cold. Edit cuz spanish native, autocorect some words." ]

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[ "Currency is a representation of wealth that make is easier to trade. So you have a supply and demand where demand is the wealth, because the more wealth we have the more we want to trade, and currency is the supply because we need it to trade. So if you increase your currency, that mean there is more supply than demand, so the value of your currency decrease that's inflation. Today we have a central bank that control the flow of new money to keep some balance between the wealth and the currency of the country. But in the past the currency was silver and gold so when the Spanish discovered a mountain full of silver, people were just happy, mined the silver and used it as currency, which increase the supply by a lot, which decrease the value of currency drastically aka high inflation. The spanish governement to be prepared for the inflation should have controlled the quantity of silver injected in the economy, to not flood the market. It's the same thing if a country today would start to print currency like crazy, this would drop the value of the currency aka inflation." ]

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[ "Things in space have an attractive force called gravity. In contrast to celebrities, things with more mass have a more attractive force. Between two bodies, based on their relative mass, there’s a center of gravity. Those two bodies orbit around that one point. When considering things with divergent mass, it appears as though one thing is orbiting around the other thing (Sun/Earth, Earth/Moon). Here’s the issue, that’s for a two body problem. There is no closed mathematical solution for a three body problem (ie Sun, Earth, & Moon). Everything is pulling on everything (just like celebrities). The orbit of the moon around Earth is affected by both the sun and Jupiter. Just to varying degrees depending on the time of year." ]

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[ "Flour Salt, also called popcorn salt, is the powdered variant of salt crystal used by humans and looks very similar to powdered sugar when put in a bowl or on a plate. It is used for coating things in salt (such as popcorn) or when you want salt to dissolve very quickly in something and may not have time to heat it (such as with some sauces)." ]

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[ "Data Lake = throwing all your toys into a big pile in a room in your house. Data Warehouse = Putting all your toys in a neat and orderly fashion in a room, labeled and ready for use. Toys that don’t fit how things are organized are never brought into the room." ]

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[ "Nothing. The President can only be impeached if he himself has committed \"treason, bribery, [or] other high crimes and misdemeanors\". Being the beneficiary of the crimes of some other foreign government is not grounds for impeachment so long as they were acting without his knowledge or consent. If, however, it can be proven that he knowingly conspired with a foreign government to affect the election then he could be impeached and possibly found guilty of treason. Note: I am not a Trump supporter by any stretch of the imagination, simply acknowledging the reality of the situation." ]

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[ "It's possible you have a lot of light pollution in your area. Keep an eye on the sky at the same time of night when rain is approaching or even if you have just have dense cloud cover. Where I am it's actually easier to see on a cloudy night compared to a clear night because the of the city lights reflecting off the clouds." ]

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[ "Media people, cameramen, sound people, the other 80odd players not on the field, the coaching staff, the athletic trainer staff, the medical team, NFL officiating crew, security... Add it all up and you usually have several hundred people on the sideline of a typical NFL game. It takes a lot of people to make that kind of televised spectacle happen." ]

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[ "Plastics have properties which make them resistant to biodegradation. Firstly, plastics are water resistant. Without moisture, bacteria/fungi cannot grow on it. Also, any digestive enzymes released by these organisms will be repelled from the surface. Secondly, producing plastics is very energy-inefficient compared to biological cellulose or other biomaterials. So nature has never bothered to evolve plastics and the enzymes to digest plastics. Also, plastics are very similar to wood (cellulose). When wood was first evolved, there were very few organisms capable of digesting it. This led to dead trees piling up everywhere and filling the earth with wood, which all eventually became coal. This period of earth’s history is the Carboniferous period, where almost all coal on earth came from this pile of dead trees. If plastics become as widespread as wood was, something will evolve to digest the abundant source of energy." ]

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[ "A lot of trash centers have what is called single stream recycling. So all types of recyclables go in together. And most trash centers separate recyclables because they can earn money from them. Until a few years ago when the world kinda stopped recycling. It's not really China's fault, but nobody is really stepping up to fill the capacity loss. Incan go into a lot more detail if you're interested." ]

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[ "Using a blanket helps us to deal with our lower nightly core body temperatures. It also increases the serotonin and melatonin levels in our brain which helps relax us and fall asleep. Our circadian rhythm – that's our natural sleep rhythm – is a huge driver for our sleep" ]

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[ "There's a variety of techniques, but most modern cities use deep tunnel boring now which uses specially designed machines to dig the tunnels underneath everything else. This avoids most existing infrastructure and modern escalators and elevators mitigate the issue of getting people down so deep underground. Older subways, like those in New York, are mostly cut-and-cover where they took existing roads, tore them up, built the subway tracks, and replaced the roadway above it. This was mostly done in the early 1900s most tunnels built like this are only a few feet below the streets. Nowadays cut-and-cover isn't used as much there is already a lot of existing infrastructure that needs to be moved (and identified as to what it even is) and it's politically unpopular because it's very disruptive to traffic and local businesses." ]

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[ "Both fusion and fission can either require or release energy, it simply depends on which elements are being fused / fissioned. Lighter elements are easier to fuse together than to break apart, while heavier elements are easier to break apart than to fuse together. [This chart]( URL_0 ) demonstrates this." ]

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[ "They compare it to the pre-election polls, and they do exit polls. If those two unofficial polls indicate a clear winner, and the 5% of votes counted align with those unofficial polls, then they feel safe calling the state. It's not official by any means, and no news station would ever call a state before polls close, so as not to affect people who haven't voted yet. But a state like California is never going to vote for Trump, so they can call it the second polls close." ]

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[ "Burka = Head to toe cover, including mesh over eyes Niqab = Head to toe veil, eyes show Hijab = Head cover, worn in addition to clothes. [see]( URL_0 )" ]

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[ "Psychics use a technique known as cold reading. They watch to see how the mark reacts as they make vague pronouncements, then they get more specific as they discover what the mark wants to hear. The mark wants to be fooled which makes the process easier." ]

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[ "Okay there’s a couple ways I know how to answer this. Ask if it’s not enough. It was written without the statement, but in 1952 it was added (at least by my knowledge) in response to the Communist threat in the 1950s. Anti-Communists and evangelicals pushed the idea that god could be a banner to rally around against Communism. I personally think it was a silly way to fight the “godless Commies”...but that’s the story." ]

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[ "Older animation used painted backgrounds that were larger than the animated frame (called a cell) to make it easier to animate the whole film. Individual animation cells were then drawn on transparent sheets. When a branch (or other object) changes from just being a part of the background to being part of the animation, the animator would \"paint\" over the background usually resulting in a less detailed image (and the creation of a new background painting). The lack in detail is usually attributed to there being between 24 and 40 animation cells per second of animation and the demanding production schedule. Thus an animator would have to draw thousands of cells each day and would skip some finer details to keep up with the production schedule." ]

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[ "The game is solved (as in a perfect strategy is known). Depending on the number of sticks in the initial pile either the first player will always win, or never win if both players play perfectly. [You're looking for the Nim game, or the subtraction game]( URL_0 )" ]

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[ "Warm=keeping room temp above set temp Cool=keeping room temp below set temp The temp you set the thermostat to isn't necessarily going to be the room temp, it's just the temp that activates the system." ]

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[ "It's called electrolysis and we use it all the time. All the process requires is electricity, water, and a few parts. Nuclear Submarines for example use this process to generate Hydrogen for Fuel and Oxygen to breath from salt water. The catch is Electrolysis requires a fair amount of electricity so it isn't practical for a lot of applications, but submarines have power to spare and limited resources so it becomes worth it." ]

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[ "It's controlled by our brains, including parts of the brain associated with physical/motion control, which we don't consciously think about and can't 100% control without practice. This is similar to how we naturally walk a bit different from other people, we can control our gait but usually don't think about it. Our brains, thoughts, etc are related to genetics but also shaped by our upbringing, development in our mothers' womb, random chance, etc. Accents for example are largely a symptom of how we're taught to speak and the people we observe as we're learning. And the vocal cords can be affected by environmental factors like smoking, eating/drinking or dehydration, etc." ]

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[ "Colour is what your eye sees in response to different frequencies of light. Things have different colours because they absorb all of the colours except the one you see, which is reflected at you." ]

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[ "They have a microphone that picks up sound, amplifies it depending on the criteria set by the audiologist and then relays that to the wearers ear via a small speaker. The criteria for amplification is defined based on the results of a hearing test, so that only frequency bands that the user has difficulty hearing are amplified." ]

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[ "Electrical friction essentially. Create a changing magnetic field under a metal pot. The electrons in the pot see the magnetic field and try to line up in it. The field keeps moving though and the electrons can’t keep up. They get dragged a bit and give off heat. Do this process rapidly and frequently enough and your metal pot starts to heat up." ]

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