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I make wildlife documentaries. This is an answer that I cut and pasted from a previous thread. I can't really say too much about long lens stuff cos I specialise on invertebrates. But for them what you do is use a mixture of sets and wild shot footage. You have certain things that you can't film in a studio and other t... |
The power going into your phone via usb is DC format. The power from the wall is AC format. It needs to be transformed to go into your phone. That big plug is a transformer. It never had anything to do with the need for a grounding plug. Despite it being 2017 those still take up space to function and the basic rules of... |
The C-level executives (CEO, CFO, COO, etc) of a company run it on a day-to-day basis. The board usually consists of the CEO as well as a number of people who aren't employees of the company (these are called outside directors). The outside directors get paid a lot less than the company's executives usually, but the ti... |
I've always assumed that it was because that way they only have to design one set of bottles, or cans. Since the rest of the world uses metric anyway. |
The way that things are presented to you has a strong influence on how you feel about what is being presented. For example, companies go through extraordinary lengths to brand themselves in a certain way, have their stores look a certain way, and engage with the public in a certain way. They want you to associate their... |
We retain information more effectively when we process it using multiple parts of the brain, instead of just one. It's actually the same reason that people who take notes during classes often remember the material without needing to look at the notes again. When you're taking notes, your brain has to use both the verba... |
Something that only exists solely because a bunch of humans agree it exists. Consider the value of cash, for example. A couple of sheets of cotton and some mostly zinc coins you have in your pocket aren't of much practical use to anyone. However, because we all agree they have value, they do. |
To quote /u/Kowzorz from [this thread from last year]( URL_0 ) > You can have a computer program look at the pixels on the screen and generate a "true" path by applying some vector math to the curve generated on screen. Then you can draw that curve from the perspective of the camera and overlay it on the screen. Altern... |
If you're going to simulate a virtual space where the laws of physics are different, you're already in "simulate the motion of subatomic particles" land. The amount of processing power required for this is immense. The world's most powerful supercomputer would probably not be able to simulate the action of me crushing ... |
First you need to understand how the "regular" Internet works. Search engines like Google use scripts called crawlers (a type of "bot") that visit every site they can and gather information. The information is then processed by various algorithms and indexed. The thing that made Google explode and become one of the lar... |
not at all....fermat's last theorem is literally over 100 pages long and uses a multitude of different strategies/branches of math to solve, most of which are very high level (ph.d+) but, the main chunk that is used to solve it is elliptic graph theory |
...the camera lens. The shorter a camera lens, the worse people often look. It amplifies bold features. A long camera lens or telephoto lens will make you look much more put-together. [Here is an example]( URL_0 ), and [here's another example]( URL_1 ) Their face. Some faces just look better on camera. Ive photographed... |
the floor and the chair legs are touching, but there is a lot of friction between them. Eventually the angle or your force overpowers that and it skips upwards because the friction won't let it slide. but then when gravity pulls it back down again it impacts, and then it happens all over again. however this happens tho... |
It means they have proved that a particular number has some property. For example, it's no secret that the following number exists... 6353526374303929879127012501290127402919200192601923419028340912401927492180129801297012912012912261202912061 We don't need to go hunting for it. It's right there. However, is it prime? ... |
Heinz wants you to be able to see that your ketchup is getting darker and a bit dried out and think "Maybe I should buy another bottle". On the other hand, the restaurant buys in bulk and fills the ketchup doodads themselves, and they'd rather your ketchup look full and fresh at all times. At restaurants they are usual... |
When you sleep your muscles going into a state of paralysis to stop you moving around too much in your sleep. Your brain is sending signals to check if your muscles are still responding No one is entirely sure. Its a topic of ongoing research and there are many different ideas. A study suggested that it could be "an ar... |
The yolk is fat. The white is protein. Chemically, these behave very differently when added to a recipe. For example, the egg white is often used to add air and leavening to a recipe because the protein can help retain air and bubbles, but any fat added with it can break the bubbles. The solution: add them separately a... |
Well, it does. The difference is that most people smoke one or maybe two joints a day..or less. While tobacco smokers count their habit in packs of twenty. The tar that's created from burning tobacco causes cancer, not *just* the additional chemicals that are added to the cigarette. A lot of people in this thread are s... |
From your title, I was going to post an immediate "NO" to your question. However you also mention that the syllabus for the 2 programs are basically the same. This confuses me greatly and makes me think that someone who doesn't know the field named the programs. Obviously, the course of study is what I would look at ov... |
In Civil-Law based Systems statutes and codes are written and designed to basically cover all eventualities and possibilities (in lets say a murder case). The judges have only a very limited ability to applying law on a case to case basis. In Common-Law based systems you also have lots of statutes etc. but the most imp... |
I'm pretty sure the school has a sponsorship type deal with the company of the product/s and the company/companies are basically paying the school for doing their marketing for them to a degree. |
For one, there is no air resistance when running on a treadmill. When running outside, your body has to physically push the air you move through out of the way. It may not seem like much, but try running outside with a tailwind (or conversely into a headwind) and you quickly notice the difference air can make. |
Let's start with the word "sphincter". When people hear that word they usually think of a very specific body part. But a sphincter is basically a ring of muscles that seals something. Your digestive system has many of them. Your stomach isn't like an open bucket. Thing of it more like a ziploc bag. Stuff goes on, then ... |
If you are not being formally charged you will get released where you can retain your own lawyer or go to the public defender's office (or equivalent). If you *are* being charged, you will get booked into jail. The phones are free to use until you get assigned a cell. You can try to find a free lawyer at this time but ... |
Sleep is controlled by two systems. The sleep-wake homeostasis system and the circadian rhythm. The sleep-wake system works by making you more sleepy the longer you have been awake and less sleepy the longer you have been asleep. In your case you spent the same amount of time asleep, so this isn't a sleep-wake homeosta... |
We know because pi is an irrational number. More to the point, we know it is not a rational number. (warning, math ahead) A rational number is one that can be represented as a ratio of two integers. For any repeating or terminating decimal out there, you can do a little math to express it as a ratio. With a terminating... |
Freezing doesn't kill microbes, only suspend their reproduction. Defrosting brings the temperature of the product up to a level where microbial action starts up again. Add to this, many people defrost food on bench tops where at least parts of the food are at room temperature. Defrosting should be done in a fridge. I w... |
Credit card companies are providing security of funds, both guaranteeing payment and safety from robbery, etc. they are also proving liquidity for consumers to allow them to buy more. The fees also cover rewards (1% cash back) and chargebacks/disputes where the credit card company ends up eating the cost. |
Here is my 2 cents: Because it gets compressed to save space and bandwidth. Same thing happens to YouTube videos. As a general rule, any file you upload or send online gets compressed depending on the server, some are better than others at this. In the YouTube video example, the difference in quality is not that notice... |
Dosage mostly. When taking prescription stimulants you are getting a consistent dosage of a pure product. Most of the negative effects associated with recreational stimulant use come from impurities in the drug and the user's tendency to increase the dosage to chase the high of the initial use. |
The person who committed the act would be responsible. If it is not possible to make them pay, then the expense is on you. However, on a case by case basis, the government will often create a fund to assist victims. For 9/11, a fund of $7 billion was made available, and each victims' family received on average $1.8 mil... |
When you sleep your blood pressure drops as circulation slows down and your muscles are paralyzed to prevent you from acting out dreams. Since your body is requiring less energy at this time, extra oxygen can be sent to your brain. In deep sleep your body is at its least active which gives it time to repair any small m... |
Atoms bonding together to make compounds fundamentally changes how those atoms as a combined entity behaves as opposed to how they behave separately. It all comes down to the strength of the interactions between atoms and molecules, and how many different ways these molecules can absorb heat energy. When oxygen and hyd... |
Because through the various traits of evolution (which doesn't really have a why, it just is) a substance which happens to be white turned out to be the best one for chewing food. So your opponents can quickly identify when you aggressively bare your fangs at them. The brighter the fangs, the "bigger" they appear. Edit... |
It means that on others days in the past that had the same conditions as today, (such as temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind speed, cloud cover, etc,) it rained on about half of them, and on the other half of those days it didn't rain. So because we can only predict future events based on the past, the best we ca... |
You could always wear a motorcycle helmet, but those are heavy, hot, restrict your vision somewhat and are probably overkill for most cyclists. Bicycle helmets don't protect against neck, chest or spine injuries either but we don't wear protective equipment for those. We rely on paying attention to our surroundings to ... |
If you don't wash them before storing, the bacteria and mold reproduce. If you wash them and don't rinse them enough, the left over soap rots. If you wash them and store them in boxes, they take on the smell of the boxes. Especially true if you use the same box over and over. Last but not least, organic fibers break do... |
I'm sorry for my short answer but I believe it has to do with how much of a hurry it is. Using the blood veins is a way to get it to the whole body quickly. The drugs (usually)get into the tissues the same way. Injection into a vein gets the drug there faster, but injection into a muscle is quicker to inject (no need t... |
No. The air resistance slows the bullet down enough for it to not be lethal when it hits the ground (or rather, a person). It would probably hurt a lot, though. You can't assume no air resistance, because without air resistance, there would be no terminal velocity. [In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical... |
The government's role is not to prevent people from hurting themselves so why should it be illegal? It's politics. Anything can be bad for you. You can drink enough water to kill you (and it's not as much as you'd think), but water isn't illegal. Then there are substances that are illegal, but clearly less dangerous th... |
I imagine that you are talking about Japanese porn? Since this is the only ones that my friend told me about that are censored. In the case of that type it has to do with the culture. It is allowed to make porn there that shows certain sex acts so everything is blurred out. This is the reason why tentacle porn was made... |
Small amounts aren't deadly at all -- as you point out, these items are good for you. The problem is simply that you can *overdose* on salt concentration. Ocean water contains far, far too much salt compared to the amount of water provided. But mix it with 10 parts fresh water and you're fine -- it's not toxic. We need... |
Professionally trained actor here. So, there are several ways of doing this. There are physical ways, some people have things they can do to their body to induce tears, like pinching a nerve or the such. But most actors who need to generate tears do so through emotional memory. We think very intensely about a memory wh... |
Jesus on the cross is dying for our sins, to absolve and protect all the rest of us. He protects us from our own "demons," that is, our sinful nature. Remember, being crucified didn't destroy Jesus. He was resurrected shortly thereafter. It was merely an ordeal he went through on our behalf. I think I've got this right... |
Like all processes and activities controlled by the brain, paying attention requires the release of neurotransmitters onto neurons (in this case, specifically those associated with motivation and learning). A prolonged and constant stimulus (e.g. listening to a long lecture) that induces neurotransmitter release can us... |
Adding to other comments on weather modelling and data, it depends on where the raw data comes from. In Australia, the government weather bureau is not used by most popular weather apps - e.g. Apple weather, Yahoo weather and Android's default weather app. They use a service called Weather Underground, which crowd-sour... |
In short, because "autonomous" means "has its own rules". An autonomous region is an area that mostly governs itself, although it has a degree of dependency on the country it's a region of. There are different degrees of autonomy, so no general rule. For example, Wales has a small degree of autonomy within the UK, but ... |
Basically, they get more experience at writing code for that hardware and learn how to optimize it. It's like getting more practice with a set of paints. You don't get more colors to work with, but you learn how better to use the ones you do have. |
The victim is not rewarded for telling the truth, because the torturer doesn't know the truth - instead the victim is rewarded for saying things that make the torturer feel vindicated. So basically it's a process of a torturer forcing someone to say what they have already decided is true. That's why it's used by terror... |
Are you sure this isn't just you? I have not experienced this, nor heard it mentioned by my dentist or other people. Your two front teeth are not inherently more sensitive than any of the other teeth. The outer layer of your tooth (the enamel) is essentially an inorganic crystal that has no feeling whatsoever. Sensitiv... |
I would assume so kids aren't learning the American pronunciation for certain words? This is simply a method of translating geographical differences in syntax and terminology. Even though America and England share a demographic of the English speaking citizens, there are still just different words for identical things.... |
Be wary, OP. This issue is a lot more complex than people convey in many ways. There are many variables to take into account and nobody knows every statistic. Remember to compare responses and do your own investigating so that you can form your own reasonable opinion. Edit: wary not weary |
You can get HSV-1 from sharing a drink or common things like that. You generally get HSV-2 from sexual contact. From a social perspective, getting a disease from an everyday activity is fine, but getting a disease from sexual activity is your fault for being loose. It is because HSV2 is classified as a STD and HSV1 is ... |
Blood pressure is not about the static pressure of a certain amount in a container. It's about the effort needed to drive it round your blood vessels like through the pipes of a central heating system where near-blockages are bad. |
the money is being used to pay for all the spendings of the everyday government in addition to tax income. we owe the money to whoever buys bonds issued by the US government. a bond is an IOU. give the US gov $100 now and in 15 years, the US gov will pay you the value with interest. 30year bonds are about 3% interest. ... |
Bad luck, genetics. Duct blockage/infection. They formula fed early, and during formula time weren't also pumping their own milk. Like a cow, the boob stops producing milk if it thinks there's no demand. Going too long an interval between pumping/feeding will also cause demand to drop. I'd recommend hitting the various... |
Heavy Cream is what is known as an emulsion. Basically tiny droplets of liquid suspended in another liquid and the two don't mix together. In the case of heavy cream, it's little droplets of fat mixed in with mostly water. When you shake or churn heavy cream with enough force, you make these little drops of fat stick t... |
When the water evaporates, it leaves behind all the impurities (like minerals), that is what you see. They say the "harder" the water (i.e. more impure) the more water spots you get. |
With bittorrent, the last percent takes a long time because there's only a couple or just one block left, and it's coming over a slow connection. You can only get a block from one peer at a time, and you were likely getting it from someone with a slow connection or it wouldn't be the last one. When you're downloading t... |
Let's say a person wants to buy a house, but they don't have the cash up front. But, the bank has a bunch of cash, and they can buy a house. So the bank strikes a deal with the person: the bank will buy the house, and let the person live in it; in exchange, the bank has a piece of paper that says, "This person owes me ... |
Animals have been evolving for a very long time to understand what eyes are, where they are, and what they're looking at. Predators don't like chasing down prey for a long time, that's wasteful and a lot less likely to be successful. They'd rather creep up very close and jump on something that has no chance of escape. ... |
It takes a great deal of force to compress water. When you jump into the water, mostly it's getting out of your way rather than compressing. If you're moving too fast, then the water molecules can't move fast enough to get out of your way, and they won't compress. You hit a bunch of molecules that don't move, so it mig... |
When the body is found, the authorities try to identify it and see if any relatives want to have a funeral. Assuming it was not murder, if the body is not claimed it is buried in a pauper's grave as cheaply as possible. The paupers grave, or [Potter's Field]( URL_0 ) is where I'm going to end up. It's not because I'm h... |
Brain damage due to lack of oxygenated blood circulation will result in brain death. Once brain death occurs, even if the heart were to restart, the patient would never regain consciousness. > For example, a human\animal is out of oxygen for 3 minutes, and it dies. Then, he gets oxygen (inserted directly to his lungs),... |
The same reason why you wear sunscreen. UV causes irreversible damage to your eyes and if you wear glasses anyway why not protect your eyes from UV if you can do so without adversely affecting the performance of the glasses? You'll go blind without UV protection in sun glasses. Your eyes think it's darker so they open ... |
This is from some museum entry about orb weavers: That’s where the spider’s genius for recycling comes in. When the orb-weaver takes apart an old web, it actually eats the silk. The protein from the old silk is never wasted, from the spider’s digestive system, it goes to the silk glands to be made into a new web. Even ... |
ok, so essentially calories are the value attributed to the amount of simple and complex sugars that a material has inside of it. Wether that's carbohydrates, fats or protein calories are the estimated value of how much energy that food stores in it. Calorie free, or extremely low-calorie foods use substitute ingredien... |
Women's clothes sizes is a bizarre, non-standardized, mess. Men's clothes are measured in cm or inches, normal scientific units. Women's clothes are "size 8", which is a different number of cm/inches depending on how much the item costs. The fundamental problem is trying to represent many variables in 1-2 parameters. W... |
We learn very few words by having their definitions given to us. We learn most words by example or by ostension (pointing). So our parents say, "Look at the firetruck!" *and* "There is a firetruck!"; but then they say "Look at the water!" but *not* "There is a water!"; they say "You are a sweetheart" but *not* "You are... |
I know what you mean. Isn't it really just miscalibration of our feet? |
Words are a kind of symbolic algebra. When you really learn a word it is a natural meaning. The word represents a native thought. So when you think the word "cat" it evokes a series of ideas. Furry. Small. Sharp. whatever... Whether you like cats or hate them the word itself evokes and invokes the the ideas and images ... |
Essentially you pump energy into a cloud of atoms to get them to emit light, then you trap it between two mirrors so it builds up in intensity before you let it out. Better explanation here: URL_0 Magic. I mean, not really, but frankly quantum electrodynamics makes about as much sense sometimes. It's all about the math... |
Some old psychologists used to think it's because we inadvertently do that to protect our necks while the brain is too busy to process all the outside stimuli. Others say it's conditioning. It's a lot easier to think when body is in relaxed state and the more upward blood flow goes to brain. Resting chin on head reduce... |
It's called diastasis. Our ab muscles are surrounded above and below by a white thick layer that goes around everything in your abdomen called the fascia. The abs separate in the middle, but they are still connected to the fascia. I can't answer the former, but as for the latter, she wouldn't need to 'work' them back b... |
When you turn the key in a car, it just turns a rotary switch. A switch is just a mechanism that connects wires. If you know the right way to connect the wires, you don't need a switch to do the job. Now, a lot of newer cars make this impossible because of various security features (like chips in keys) but on older car... |
I assign ips, both public and private for a hosting company. Im also responsible for switch configuration and firewall provisioning. Postal service is the best analogy here. Your house address is how people send letters to you. Each up address can be broken down into street and house number but for this example let's j... |
Because the string is actually two strings in a spiral Form. As the teabag soaks in all the water it gets heavier which leads to the spiral unrolling. |
When we have a word that finishes in *-ing*, it means that that thing is temporally unbounded: there's no real, exact, or distinct beginning and/or ending to it. "I walked in the room, while he was talking." I'm not sure when he began talking (no real beginning). "The TV is running in the background" (not sure when it'... |
Depends on house price vs rental potential as to how easily you can make money. We started by simply not selling our old house when we bought a new one. We maintained two mortgages instead and rented one property. We then slowly built up enough funds for further properties until we had five total. We have since scaled ... |
There are a few things you could be talking about here. There is something called DOMS or delayed onset muscle soreness that usually shows up between one and three days after a workout, especially when you do a new exercise. We don't actually know exactly what causes it. But it is thought to be related to little tears ... |
Generally speaking it relies on very few ingredients that can be grown or otherwise cultivated in a wide range of climates Serendipity is the art of the fortunate accident. When people discovered grains as a useful, and renewable food source, they set out on a path to the accidental discovery of both bread, and it's co... |
If you can use it as a walking stick or light saber,is a stick. If you can pick it up but not swing it, it's a branch. If you can't pick it up, but can roll it, its a log. If you cant move it at all, it's a tree in the ground silly. It's a question about more than length, width, and weight. You also have to consider it... |
There's a few ways, but it's all about how you deliver the gRNA and the Cas9 protein and your repair DNA (these are the components required to use Cas9 to cleave a certain site in the DNA). If you modify germ cells (like egg or sperm cells), then any progeny from these cells will have the modification in all cells beca... |
No. A ponzi scheme is supposed to give investors a guaranteed rate of return, usually a high one. Social Security doesn't make that promise, and the increase is only tied to inflation. Second, social security was supposed to set up a trust to hold/invest money put into it. Unfortunately, politicians can't think long te... |
When your body releases adrenaline it's because your brain has sent out an alert that you need to prepare to either stay and fight or run to safety (flight). You brain prepares your body by increasing your heart rate, so that your core organs are functioning at their highest level of performance. Your brain will also i... |
They take s smaller sample of the sperm sample, and examine it under a microscope, and literally count the number of live, normal sperm. Then they use the density of sperm in the sub sample to extrapolate the total sperm count. |
Because it's goes thru the carrier's network. iMessage uses Apple's servers, so the carrier is not involved. Android is a total mess in terms of everyone having the same experience, most people are not on the latest operating system and updates are depended t on your phone and carrier. By making it implemented on the c... |
When you injure part of your body, it response by flooding the area with cells and compounds that are supposed to start the healing process. These are carried in fluid (like blood plasma), so the injured area swells up a bit with the extra fluid. This swelling makes changes to the pressure in the area (like the pulsing... |
What causes skeletal muscle to contract is when a little neurotransmitter (a chemical messenger from your brain) called Acetylcholine binds to its specific receptor on skeletal muscle. However, acetylcholine is used for more than muscle contraction, it is also used for the parasympathetic nervous system as stated below... |
I feel dumb and unoriginal: URL_0 It seems because the government covers it there will not be a pop just a slow in GDP. A debt bubble is a bubble because it can pop, entirely because people default on the loans. The overwhelming majority of student loans can't be defaulted on without an *immense* amount of difficulty t... |
They're not. They're almost always displayed in *your* local currency. If you're in the US, airlines everywhere show prices in US dollars. Meanwhile, a person in China can buy flights on American Airlines in renminbi, and a French person can buy using euros. |
Remember that cards are printed in large sheets and then cut. If you want to make just 52 cards, your closest option to making them square is 4x13. With 54 cards, you can print a 6x9 sheet which has much more manageable dimensions. Many decks these days are printed on 7x8 sheets giving you 56 cards in the pack. Jokers ... |
First off; you don't measure with weight either. You measure with *mass*. Less flippantly; it's much easier to measure a volume than it is to measure a mass/weight, particularly given that one absolutely requires a scale to do it accurately. In addition, since most ingredients for foods don't experience significant cha... |
I'm having a tough time with the ELI5, so how about an ELI12? When your eyes focus, your brain is taking the same small area from the image from each eye and using it as a place to combine them into one image. When you look at a fence like that (or many other repeating patterns), your brain isn't exactly sure which of ... |
I literally have the exact opposite problem, and I'm not even a huge snob. Peet's Coffee + French Press = heaven. All the restaurants I go to the coffee tastes burnt, or not brewed long enough As any barista will explain coffee is a delicate balance of quality beans, quality equipment and a stedy hand. Good beans means... |
This is hilarious because I've been thinking this for years. People don't want the country to get better... They want their side to win. When politicians lost the motivation to cut deals with each other. In the name of "ending corruption" rules were changed whereby moderates no longer sold support for their local desir... |
Standardization in general is usually a result of a growing population. Basically, when you're dealing with a smaller set of people, you have a better chance of understanding the differences of each person and providing solutions to accommodate such things. As the pool of people you need to account for grows, you're le... |
Most modern CPUs have vector units, so they do not differ from GPUs in any meaningful way. Intel's x86 family of microprocessors initially supported IEEE scalar floating point arithmetic with the x87 family of coprocessors. This architecture was integrated into the CPU starting with the 80486, providing a separate regi... |
Organic chemical reactions are in some cases pH dependent, pH is actually defined as the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution, this is expressed as acid or alkaline 7 being neutral, lower then 7 is acid and higher is alkaline. now the body usualy operates at around 7.4, Slightly alkaline, and if it differs from... |
Unless development documentation had leaked to the public, pirates would have to reverse engineer their target platform. This process usually involved looking at how the game system behaved given an existing program (a legitimate game) but also could include decapsulating chips and looking at them with an electron micr... |
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