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It incentives people to buy into health insurance when they are healthy. The more people that buy into health insurances the more the cost of premium is driven down. The hope is that if everyone has health insurance then it will be cheap for people that do need it. Then one day when you need your health insurance and y... |
Because it was a fad. They were cold, very uncomfortable, hard to get out of without waking your SO. MOST importantly....lord help you if that thing popped. As a sleep specialist I can say that they don't really offer much in the way of support or spinal alignment. They are worse for your back than an air mattress (I'm... |
As an Irishman, we say God looks out for drinks and fools, and we usually qualify for both.....so I'm guessing he has a soft spot for a bird that exists only to feed walrusses the same way all prey survives their predators, by outnumbering by huge margins. There are a lot of animals that can be considered dumber than t... |
When you smell something, tiny particles or fumes of the substance have gotten into your Nose... These particles/fumes can float around in Water or Air. But in water it can also be liquids (Like Blood). The Taste Buds of every animal are basically the same. There are a few thousand tiny receptors for every smell that a... |
When you put a letter in your outgoing mail, it's been "sent". When the letter carrier picks it up, it's "in transit". When a letter carrier drops the letter off at its destination, it's "delivered". When the recipient opens the letter, it's "read". Even though things *seem* instant, electronic messaging systems genera... |
No negative effects. If you read the labels, almost all products have similar cleansing agents. It's all about companies making money off of hundreds of different products. I know someone who uses regular dove soap for face, head and body and has never had issues. (He's got very short/shaved hair on his head). |
Because their platform was socialist with a nationalist focus. It's kind of in the name. Have a look at point 7. of their platform. > 7. We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to... |
Because you start to hear it and see it as the letters and sounds it is made up of, not the meaning or the entire word itself together. |
There are 2 phenomena at play here. First off, if you don't know about something you'll tend to gloss over it if you overhear it or see it briefly mentioned in an article/thread. Once you learn about it/know it then it will start to "pop out" at you more, and thus you'll notice stuff that you'd otherwise have ignored. ... |
Say you tell URL_0 to generate a short link for your user profile page, Bitly will tell you to use a link that looks something like this: ` URL_0 /aabbcc` When you asked Bitly to generate the link, they write a note in their private database which says: "The short link /aabbcc should send the user to the full URL URL_2... |
Cancer cells aren't "attracted" to sugar any more than any other cell is. Sugar is chemical energy, which all cells need for life. Cancer cells mostly do the same thing ordinary cells do because, for the most part, they *are* ordinary cells with some very important but small changes. Giving cancer cells more sugar [doe... |
Our sun doesn't have enough mass for that. It will eventually swell into a red giant and eventually putter out into a dwarf. Unfortunately no massive explosions involved. Our sun will not go supernova, and when our sun begins to die, it will go big and red. We know this due to calculations that we do and observations. |
copypasta from another post. You may be thinking about the adjective form of the word "goodnight," as in "she gave him a goodnight kiss." In that part of speech it is one word, but as a noun or an interjection it is still two, as in: > "Good night," he said. "It will be a good night indeed," she replied before giving h... |
It's very easy to buy illegal guns from Indiana. There is a major power vacuum among gang leadership in Chicago, leading to a lot of splintering in the gangs and a highly stratified drug trade. The result is a bunch of small, hyper violent groups constantly killing each other for drug territory (as well as a bunch of o... |
> "A full bladder is uncomfortable and creates a sense of urgency in our mind. The conflict between the desire to take action to relieve the stress and the fact that circumstances don’t currently permit us to, gets translated into various rhythmic displacement behaviours. These include humming to ourselves, clenching a... |
Everyone is different. Their hand sizes vary. How they grip the pencil or pen is different than almost everyone else. The pressure they put when writing is also very different. Combine all those factors and that's why people's hand writing is so different. |
It's often known as "zalgo" text. It's just an abuse of [Unicode]( URL_1 ) - the way we represent language on computers. Back in the day, everything was super simple. We just had [ASCII]( URL_0 ) - there were 128 (or 256) different values that could be letters and that was it. It's basically a way of mapping numbers to... |
You get sleepy in cycles, your body tries telling you it's time to sleep but you override that urge so the body goes "shit, no time for sleep now got to work" and postpones the urge. Oh and also melatonin levels turn off your lights and phone giving off light. |
If you're talking about the random jerking awake when you're on the point of sleeping it pretty much happens when your muscles get to a state of total relaxation. Your body thinks it is impossible to feel like that unless you're in freefall and jerks you awake. Really freaking annoying, happens to me at least twice a w... |
If anyone can explain also how a vertical line of dead pixels in my monitor came back to life, I would appreciate that as well. physical damage and shock aside (where a physical trauma breaks connections, such as a drop or a hit), a 'dead pixel' can sometimes be a symptom of a systemic problem with the array of transis... |
Apple still has to comply to European standards and as a result, all iPhones sold there have to have a microUSB to lightning adapter, and probably USB-C to lightning adapter soon. It is just easier for the other companies to switch to microUSB after the standardization law was passed in Europe. |
They did. However there were better drugs out there. When legal production ended it was harder to get which caused people to move to other drugs that gave more effect for the money. However ludes are still popular in other places around the world like South Africa and India. Why are they still popular in India and Sout... |
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services to contrast their shipping services. It is a collection of services that Amazon provides online. These are things like storage, backup, DNS, database, load balancing and maybe the most popular, virtual machine hosting. The concept about all this is the economy of scale. Amazon will bu... |
This happens when the liquid is cold enough to be freezing but lacks anything to form ice-crystals around to become solid. It happens that you can have a supercooled bottle of water, that when you take it out of the freezer and give it a small tap, the disturbance is enough to let it start forming crystals and you can ... |
The purpose to a bra is to hold your boobs up to alleviate back pain. If your sports bras do this and make you feel comfortable, then by all means wear them everywhere. You can, but it might not go well with certain clothes that are designed with a regular wired bra in mind. But if that's what you prefer, go for it. Yo... |
Excellent question. A bunch of people want to communicate at the same time. Since other people make a lot of noise, you have to speak louder. Everyone else speaks louder too and eventually you are shouting as hard as you can and nobody can hear you since everyone is shouting. To make this work, you need a system. First... |
Because less people means less government revenue and a smaller labor force. Less taxes, less GDP. |
Because America had the guns, but the Soviets had the numbers. Massive numbers. I'm talking a gobsmackingly horrendous disparity in combat ready forces in Europe. The Western Allies crunched the numbers ( URL_0 ), and determined that the Soviets had a 3 to 1 numeric advantage; taking the Soviets in a straight fight jus... |
The difference is this: For you to see light, the light has to be strong enough to reach your eye and produce a reaction there. For it to illuminate you, it would have to reach you, scatter off you, reach someone else's eye, and produce a reaction there. During the scattering, the light is spread out more, so it become... |
We mammals are endotherms, meaning we regulate our own temperature. Our bodies have proteins that are designed to work specifically and optimally at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (more or less). Temperature is energy from particle collisions. Fast moving particles are hot, slow moving particles feel colder than their fast co... |
Washington State doesn't have an income tax. So what they do for businesses is put this B & O tax on their revenues. It will vary based on what industry the business is in. According to [this link]( URL_0 ) the tax rate is .00471 (.471%) for retail businesses. Unlike income tax, this is a tax on gross sales (revenue) n... |
You ever wonder what Willy-Coyote would do the day after he catches Road Runner? He has spent decades, his whole existence, building elaborate traps and now the reason for doing it is gone. You think he might build traps (or design them) for old times sake? That is you. We won the evolution game. For our whole existenc... |
As we age our vocal cords and surrounding muscles start to wear out which results in a change of pitch and adds extra vibrations making our voices sound more rough. You can think of a new guitar string compared to an old stretched out, worn, or frayed guitar string. Follow up: does the voice in your head also change wi... |
Because we have a large brain and stand upright (on two limbs rather than four). Those two needs mean that women's hips need to be large enough to allow a baby's head to pass through, but narrow enough that she can walk. The only way to reach both limits is to birth babies that are very undeveloped compared with other ... |
Controlling physical access is the single most important aspect of computer security. Give me the most hardened Linux server on Earth, and so long as I've got physical access I'll own in under 5 minutes. I can just boot it to single-user mode, change the root password, and then reboot into normal mode. Likewise I can r... |
Think of the moon as an iPad, during nighttime hours it is easy to see, but when the sun is shining on it the iPad is not as easily visible because of the direct light on it. The moon may appear faint against the sunlit sky because while the brightness of the moon does not change, the comparison against the ambient lig... |
Your brain is always getting information from the environment around you: what you hear people say, the color of the walls, what you see people do, the feeling of your clothes against your skin, what cards you have in your hand when playing a card game, and so on. Not all of that information is important. When you're p... |
A lot of how physics works is related to gravity, and doing science in space allows us to look at how some of those things work where the feeling of gravity is much less. It's also an easy place to study how different kinds of things like microbes and plants grow with less gravity, or being exposed to the vacuum of spa... |
There is no evidence they have **ACTUALLY** created fake shortages, this story pops up with virtually every console launch (I remember it for the Playstation 2) but the economics behind it don't work. Nintendo would not make more money by having people fight over a limited set of existing devices. You're right, it only... |
A quark is a type of subatomic particle that (among other particles) makes up the proton, and neutron, ~~and electron~~ of the atom. Quarks exist in an upstate and a downstate, and the combination of ups and downs determines the charge of the larger particle. It is also the name of a bartender on a space station in the... |
because AI is vastly useful. when computers became popular, it allowed a multitude of mundane tasks to be accomplished extremely quickly (think math, accounting, email, encryption, etc) but computers are still "dumb" machines. that is to say, they follow a discreet set of instructions given to them by an intelligent hu... |
WiFi security (the kind where a pass is required to connect, not the "coffee shop wifi" where you connect then need to go to a webpage) is based on encryption. Everything is hopelessly scrambled beyond recognition, but your computer has the formula to descramble it! Except for one very important piece: the key. The key... |
> Doesn't it cost money (interest, fees, accounting costs, etc.) to carry debt? Yes, but wealth makes wealth. If you invest $100,000 into a machine for example you expect it to make you much more money than that or you wouldn't have bought it. So if you can service the debt for less than the borrowed wealth will earn y... |
We find certain smells almost universally off putting because they're associated with something that could make us sick. Decaying bodies, excrement, and ammonia are all smells that indicate you shouldn't be eating anything around here, so we've evolved a response of disgust. Essentially evolution and natural selection.... |
Cold air still being pushed down from the north meets warm moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. This clashing of fronts causes storms including tornadoes as well as rain. During the summer warm dry air comes down from the north and the hot moist air from the Gulf of Mexico blankets the south in asphyxiating hum... |
You don't need an even number of teams to play an even number of games. To simplify it, imagine there are 3 teams. Team 1 plays team 2. Then team 1 plays team 3. Finally team 2 plays team 3. Now each team has played eachother and played 2 games despite being an odd number of teams. |
The flat earth theory is that the sun is a giant spotlight being shined onto the earth in a focused beam. (Yes, we know it's crazy.) And that beam moves around the circular earth once every twenty-four hours. (Yes, we know it's crazy.) Throughout the year, the spotlight moves away from the North Pole and toward the "ed... |
They leak mostly emails. Emails contain a mechanism called DKIM which basically inserts code into the email when it is first sent. With this code you can 100 percent verify if they were tampered with and the source. Using said method you can easily see all emails released by wiki leaks are verified. The site has never ... |
The numbering scheme for the Interstate Highway System was developed in 1957 by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). The association's present numbering policy dates back to August 10, 1973. Within the continental United States, primary Interstates—also called main line Inter... |
Actually, most dermatologists will tell you that your diet doesn't affect your acne, unless you're bad about washing the extra grease off your face. Source: I've been to a dermatologist Carbohydrates are the main issue. Many fast foods and processed snacks contain ingredients that have a high "glycemic load". The glyce... |
Imagine an extremely hot and humid day. Once you step outside, you'll be drenched in your own sweat immediately. Being in a hot shower/bath/pool is almost the same environment. You're still sweating large amounts but you don't feel it because the sweat is washed away immediately. Since you are losing water through swea... |
oil essentially boiled to separate the byproducts each has a different cools at a different temperature as the vapors rise in the cooling tower they cool down the towers are designed so that as the vapors condense they do so at certain heights in the tower and are collected. |
Three reasons, really. First, as the end user, you don't actually know that the passwords were hashed at all. All too often we find out that a site was storing passwords as cleartext only *after* an intrusion gets revealed. Or they might be hashing passwords but *also* leaking a cleartext copy of it somewhere. It's hap... |
Vault 7 is reported to be a collection of internal CIA documents pulled off a CIA internal Wiki. WikiLeaks has redacted all the hundreds of names in the documents and replaced them with static identifiers (so Bob Smith becomes Person1, Jane Doe becomes Person2, etc.). These documents mostly focus on IT-related tools an... |
Tesla's goal is make conventional vehicles extinct and replace them all with electric vehicles (part of their overall goal of getting rid of dependence on fossil fuels). To do that they need to dramatically reduce the price of all the components of their vehicles, the most expensive being the lithium ion battery. Also ... |
It is much easier for a young child to comprehend the present than the future. They understand that they are in trouble and want to avoid the consequences of now. Recognizing that being truthful will lead to trust in the future is too abstract of a concept for a young mind to comprehend. Source: My 3 year old son drive... |
"Islamic State" is the name the group itself uses now; it's more up to date than "ISIS." However, the BBC does not want to legitimize the idea that it is actually a sovereign state, which is why it says "so called." They call themselves the islamic state. ISIS is not recognized as a legitimate state by any other world ... |
Inflammation of your vocal folds. Basically, you have a voice because there are folds of tissue in your throat called larynx, or your voice box. These vibrate, like guitar strings, when air is passed over them. This vibration creates a sound. When these folds swell, due to overexertion or illness, they can't vibrate as... |
To get a current you need a connection between two different voltages. This is why electrical connectors and plugs have at least two connectors. But a bird sitting on a power line only have one connection to the line. As long as the bird do not touch the ground or anything connected to the ground or the other wire they... |
This is known as a [binomial distribution]( URL_0 ). The probability that you'll get the exact same number of heads and tails is very small - despite it being the most probable outcome, it has one million other outcomes to compete with. The specific formula is thus: 1000000! / (500000! \* 500000! \* 2^(1000000)) which ... |
I think you might actually be thinking of a diuretic, which causes you to urinate. There are no drugs that are called diarrhetics. There are four main types of laxatives; stimulants, stool softeners, osmotic laxatives, and bulking agents. Stimulants, as the name suggests, stimulate peristalsis; this is the name for the... |
There's a pit of Hydrogen in the middle of the fissionable mats at the core, then when is compressed, it super heats to the point of fusing the H atoms, which release Neutrons back to the Pu. This in tern allows for more of the Pu to go through fission and release more energy. A regular fission (Atomic) bomb doesn't ge... |
As a general rule, you don't count cards in Poker - you count cards in BlackJack. This is because, unlike most card games, BlackJack does not shuffle the deck between hands. This means that knowledge of historic cards can give you important information about what cards remain in the deck for future hands. There are mul... |
Materials becomes brittle, magnetic fields are generated which can cause voltage to jump between parts on integrated circuit boards or wipe magnetic media, bits can be flipped which can corrupt the memory in solid state components, etc. Radiation is comprised of both an electric and electromagnetic component When you e... |
Basically, radiation interacts with matter in a few ways to produce various effects, gammas can induce a photoelectric effect/ compton scattering, which will cause an atom to release an electron and become an ion. Alpha and beta radiation are charged particles, and can therefore scatter or be absorbed. The negative eff... |
Inertia! when you crouch down to prime for a jump, you're lowering your center of mass. When you extend your legs to actually jump, they can only push you as far as they are long (as soon as your legs fully extend, that's it. You're not going anywhere) Inertia takes over at this point. Your mass, previously lowered, is... |
* homeless women often maintain a lower profile due to the dangers of living on the street and being greater targets * women in need are typically perceived in a more sympathetic light than men, are more able to receive aid from family, friends, and charitable organizations * woman are more able to engage in survival s... |
It's a fair question, although Sunvox exists. I think part of the cost is most music creation software depends on samples. Unless you're digitally creating the effect totally from scratch, those drumrolls and piano notes were probably lifted from the real thing and cleaned up. That took someone's major time and effort ... |
The tax pay (in theory) wouldn't fund rail fairs only those who use the railway this hasn't happened. In theory it would lower prices and create copetiton, this hasn't happend mostly due to franchising the line. If I'm to go form Edinburgh to London I will be on Virgin. If I'm to go from Llanelli to Caerdydd I will be ... |
> what is it about coughing that gives the observer a better look? It doesn't, but it increases abdominal pressure and may act to knock things loose which were stored "up there". More commonly the exam for a hernia involves coughing as the increased abdominal pressure would act to push organs out a tear in the abdomina... |
You bought it at 0,50, and it's at 50, which means it has increased by 49,5. Much like if it had doubled you would say it's a 100% increase (increase by 100% of original value, which is 0,5), the new value is the old value increased by 9900%. So, it's 10000% of the original value, or a 9900% increase. Just like 1 is 20... |
Well, you might think that a bigger brain would have a faster reaction time, but the opposite is likely to be true. First of all, signals have to travel much farther and across more cells in a big brain than in a small brain. This takes time. Secondly, the type of processing may also play a role. For a fly, the process... |
Time and spatial scales are important here. People who think humans are not at all at risk of going extinct due to climate change do not understand the ramifications of our civilization's environmental impact, how these will change the political behavior between nations, and how reliant we are on this careful stability... |
Although it's certainly true that fax is technically inferior compared to e-mail or web transfers, say, it has advantages as well. For example, developing a standards-conforming website to which people can upload private medical information is pretty expensive and has weaknesses that are difficult to manage, like user ... |
A country is defined geographically and/or culturally. A state is defined by its government. England, Scotland, and Wales are each a country, and all are part of the United Kingdom, which is a state. |
Distilled water has been turned into steam and collected and cooled to remove all the impurities, metals, minerals etc. Spring water often has higher amounts of minerals and metals than tap water and other waters, because as the water travels through the spring, it picks up minerals from the soil and rocks in the river... |
Because there isn't much sunlight that far north, so they need to produce less melanin to allow the UV light to create Vitamin D in their skin. Melanin is also what makes hair and eyes dark too, so they end up with pale skin, pale eyes, and pale hair. |
A large number of factors * It costs a whole lot more to develop a "major" game on the PS4 than the PS2 If you want to make a PS2-level game with those sorts of graphics and features it won't cost all that much, but the smaller developers who would make use of that usually go even lower and make things imitating NES ga... |
In addition to what /u/palcatraz said, there's also this recent specific study, which concluded that: > 200,000 lives have been saved from endometrial cancer over a 9-year period. This group, known better as the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies on Endometrial Cancer (Oxford), showed that “about 400 000 ca... |
You speak your mother tongue at home with your children. This lets them get started with understanding one until they go to school. They will then pick up the mainstream one from school and their surrounding which will be their dominant language, however they are still able to understand your mother language. Then you ... |
Yes, though they often have people standing by to allow them to spit out the food in the event of multiple takes. Some actors do prefer to swallow though, for effect. Chris Pratt for example eats everything. Depends on the situation. If a scene is taking place where alcohol is involved, the drinks are likely non alcoho... |
Tweaking the volume usually means adding dynamic compression (not to be confused with mathematical compression). This is useful for making music easier to hear on weaker, lower quality amps, such as found in phones and other small devices, but distorts the original music, which is especially audible on better equipment... |
Those coils are not made of conductive materials. [Here's a picture]( URL_0 ). You have a heating wire surrounded by an insulator which makes you electrically safe. The insulator is then coated with another layer of metal to protect the insulator. This is why it takes electric stoves so long to heat up - you've got a l... |
I don't have an answer for you, but I'm curious as well. Short story: I just moved into a new apartment and had the internet connected at my house. The install tech came REALLY early and woke me up. When I opened the door half asleep and greeted them they were absolutely floored when they heard me talk because they tho... |
For mass production, it's usually not. For a small, plastic object, mass production would be done using something like injection molding. They make a metal mold, then inject molten plastic into it. Depending on the size and complexity, you can put out ~200 parts per hour, while a 3D printer may be able to do 1 or 2. Wi... |
Part of it is simply their weight. Terminal velocity for an ant is much lower than for a human. It won't hit the ground with as high speed as a human will. Additionally, when it does hit the ground, it won't hit the ground with as much force because it's much lighter. The heavier something is, the greater structural in... |
A stack overflow is when a program runs out of memory in a stack. A stack is a way of organizing memory such that the program sets one piece of data above the previous one, the next above that, etc. It normally refers to a specific stack, though. Each program has multiple areas of memory it can draw from, each with its... |
Psychological point of view: Long naps confuse the body and disrupt your original sleeping schedule, which already decreases your quality of sleep, while a short sleep can give you a quick burst of energy without disrupting sleep pattern. The brain does understand that short naps are normal and don't directly interfere... |
It's pretty similar, they plan out the film, storyboard, and so on. Animation is done with simple models at first, they work on the shots, camera movements etc. The big difference is the finalized shots take hours or even days to render out. A film director is more in charge of the artistic "vision" of the film. Often ... |
Fire is a chemical reaction that consists, in simple terms, of oxygen bonding with the material that's on fire. In order for this to happen, you need a spark, material to burn, and oxygen. In branches or newspapers, oxygen's readily available everywhere, but there's no way for air to reach the center of a log. |
Many incorrect answers here. Male Pattern Baldness is caused by having too much of an enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT. DHT is present in all men but too much of it causes baldness on your head. It doesn't affect the hair on other parts of the body hence your observation that hairy men are bald. It's not a prob... |
Usually if you are eating birds or animals killed by a shotgun you just have to spit out the shot whilst eating. So far as I know, most everybody does it super low tech. With birds, you typically hunt with a shotgun that shoots small lead pellets called "shot". It's tough to get every single piece of shot out while but... |
We all have different biological clocks. I'm not a morning person, but I can work until 3am no problem. This is actually super complex, but start at the beginning. First, if you don't get enough sleep (7-9 hours a night for a healthy adult) or have poor sleep quality, you probably aren't going to jump out bed fully ref... |
Well, that's probably because you're damaging your eyes. [**DO NOT PUT PRESSURE ON YOUR EYES**]( URL_0 ) > Most are familiar with closing the eye lids and pressing on the eye to see 'phosphenes', the constructs of our cortex in response to signals from the retina, but stimulated by pressure not light. Such pressure, if... |
Xanax is a pretty powerful sedative. The body didn't respond because he was so drugged up his normal instinctive reactions to stimuli no longer worked. The effect is doubled if he had been drinking. When you do too many drugs for your body to function properly, it's called an **overdose** (for fairly obvious reasons). ... |
A key thing to understand with regard to the DSMV is that it solely deals with mental disorders. A key aspect of calling it a disorder is that the condition impacts negatively on the functioning of the person. Or as DSMV states: > Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, occupational... |
Debt can be good or bad. The USA is in an extremely privileged "debt position" right now because it can actually issue debt that it repays at less than the inflation rate. This means people are effectively giving the USA money for the pleasure of owning its debt. However the debt of the USA is mostly due to a structura... |
There's a thing called the [Just-World Hypothesis]( URL_0 ). Humans want to think that the world is a fair place; so when we hear about something bad happening to someone, there's a tendency to think of a reason they *deserved* it. The most common moral frameworks don't hold animals accountable for their actions, so th... |
While there is some usage of the term to describe applying Marxist principles or criticisms to the arts and social sciences like history, anthropology, etc, it's mostly used as a criticism of progressive movements by reactionary conservatives. This second use has a long pedigree. For example the nazis accused the Jews ... |
Through basic developmental biology. When the egg is made, it's filled with a single fertilized cell and a whole lot of raw material. The cell divides and divides, consuming the yolk as it grows. |
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