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Soft drink bottles have to stand up to pressure because of the carbonation. The 5 point bottoms are designed to hold the pressure better. A 5 point bottom isn't the only way, its just one way that works well and is in common use. Bottled water is not carbonated so there is no need for a pointed bottom. A flat bottom us... |
I do not know all of them. All companies try to get favorable tax policies so they maximize their profit. Companies buy equipment which will last for years but eventually become junk. This includes cars, trucks and actually everything else. So the value of the property declines over years. They argue with tax men over ... |
That isn't a bug, its a feature. Let me give you an example here. I went to install the Uber app at least three times and each time I stop because of how offensive their access requests in the app are. In theory here the app needs access to my GPS, and an internet connection so it can hail a ride. It doesn't need anyth... |
As a mathematician, the first thing I can say is to NOT watch a video called "Imagining the Tenth Dimension." It's poor math and worse science and completely misses the point. A better way to approach this is to understand what "dimension" really means to a scientist. A "dimension" is basically anything you can measure... |
Basically your brain analyses from past experience how much force you need to swing with to hit the ball, and usually goes overboard because you want to hit it hard. If you're just swinging in the air without an aim to hit anything, you're using less force. Not connecting with the ball means the bat has excess force fr... |
From an evolutionary view it is beneficial for us to easily remember bad memories. This helps us avoid repeating mistakes we have witnessed and keep us out of dangers way e.g. My friend was eaten by a bear in that cave, I remember this in great detail and avoid that cave in future so I'm less likely to be eaten by a be... |
The Halal method of butchering involves chopping off the head of an animal by cutting its neck with a sharp knife in such a way that the carotid artery, jugular vein and windpipe are all severed in a single swipe so that the animal feels the least amount of pain before it dies. Initially, a lot of blood is drained when... |
This is going from my experience as an infantryman and radio operator in an Airborne unit. In peacetime, never in combat. There are a few things going here: 1) Wind direction. Wind can carry and mask sound, just like it does smell. Pilots will often approach from upwind for this reason. 2) Terrain. Being down in a vall... |
I think that you may need to relook at the science. Prolong fasting does not cause appreciable loss of muscle mass, strength or bone density. Check out URL_0 for scientific studies. These studies conclude that fasting is associated with increased regenerative markets, along with a decrease in risk factors such as diabe... |
Yes, technically. When you develop an addiction, it is because a substance gives your brain a sensation it enjoys heavily and it is can be built up in either a short or long amount of time (depends on the person and their habits/mental susceptibility to dependencies). In your scenario, your body becomes attached to the... |
There are a couple possible factors here: 1) Line conditions: This is especially true if your connection uses some flavor of DSL - the signal is sent over copper wire from a cabinet somewhere in the area. Copper wires suffer from signal attenuation - the signal gets weaker the longer it needs to travel, because of ener... |
He's the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Basically, as he was receiving intelligence about connections between the Trump campaign/administration and Russia, instead of passing that information onto the democrats who are also on the House Intelligence Committee, he went directly to the White House to tell the... |
the 20/ system is a subjective system. 20/20 means that you can see objects at 20ft (first 20) can see as clearly as a person with "good" eyesight can see at 20ft (the second 20) 20/100 means that you can only see the object at 20ft what a "good eyesight" person can see at 100ft. the other end of scale is better than 2... |
Heat doesn't expand. Heat as temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the atoms in an object. In layman's terms, the hotter something is, the faster the molecules in the thing vibrate. Energy, including energy in temperature, will always move from areas of higher concentration to areas of lower concent... |
I would assume it has something to do with "clearing your thoughts" for a moment. By looking "up" (at the sky, or a blank ceiling), you generally reduce the amount of stimulus the brain is dealing with - in this case, visual, which is a lot of information to process - freeing it up to focus on searching for the memory. |
When that happens, they generally are. But it's completely legal for a company to donate to a politicians' reelection campaign fund -- just like it's legal for you to. They aren't taking direct money into their pockets. That would be bribery. Super PACs that support them and run all of their advertising, lawyers, strat... |
You are feeling the extreme activation of your *salivary glands.* The presence of very sour foods makes you produce much more saliva than normal, very suddenly, and this action feels uncomfortable. |
One thing we've learned about light, is that it travels differently through different kinds of materials. This is why, for example, you get that famous [pen in a glass of water]( URL_0 :) effect: the light travels differently in the water, so it makes it look like the pen is in a slightly different place, compared to t... |
It has to do with the quantity of salt involved. If you throw a cell into a cup of salt water 3 things can happen. If there's the same salt in the cell and water, there is no change (this is called an isotonic solution). If there's more salt in the cell than in the water, then water passes through the cell membrane (os... |
Animals aren't very good at retaining body heat. They're very good at generating heat and distributing heat throughout their bodies. Blood's the thing that holds heat and moves heat, and blood is mostly water. Water has a high specific heat, which means it holds a lot of energy; water is slower to heat up or cool down ... |
The "funny bone" is actually a nerve (the ulnar nerve) controlling your 3rd and 4th fingers. When the nerve gets hit against the upper arm bone (the humerus) the nerve shoots out signals which is the tingly feeling that occurs. It's a location where the ulnar nerve can get pinned between some object and your bone. In s... |
The most basic distinction comes down to how we measure distance in space-time. In ordinary 2D geometry, without considering time, we can find the distance between two points using the equality (total distance)^2 = (distance along x-axis)^2 + (distance along y-axis)^2 And in 3D this simply expands to (total distance)^2... |
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 re... |
In the summer, monsoons from southeastern Asia are drawn north due to the presence of the Himalayas and the Thar desert heating up creating a low pressure area. This forces the formation of cooler temperatures in the region and draws much of the monsoon rain into India. About 80% of their rain occurs during the monsoon... |
Someone at the event is a bookie. people yell out saying they want to put money on said action. The bookie can make odds and start taking bets, or choose not to take the action The bettor places his bet. The guy writes a betting slip, takes the cash and gives the slip to the bettor. |
Deterrence Theory calls for having enough nukes in enough places that even if the enemy jacks you right in the mouth right at the start of the fight, you still have the means to murder them. The technical term for this is "second strike capability" (the "First Strike" being the one the enemy made against you, hoping to... |
Blue whales have also been known to protect seals from orcas. Elephants are known to avenge their fallen and remember, and mourn as they walk by the graves of those they knew. I think this may be due to the ability of consciously aware creatures to sympathize (or empathize) with another conscious being. Sympathetic and... |
Certain consumables metabolize into aromatic compounds that are excreted in the urine. Asparagus in tuna fish are a couple of others. Additionally, if you are not drinking enough fluids, your urine will be more concentrated and therefore have a stronger scent |
A few models will show weather out a few weeks. Some models are for determining seasonal outlooks on monthly basis. Most Meteorologist use models as guidance to their skills, and all will tell you there are drop offs in model guidance at days 3 and 5. Most Mets will not talk about anything beyond day 5. Anyone who says... |
Maybe a learned association between crying and paternal attention/affection? |
It usually recommends 1 OR 2 at a time. So... it's pretty obvious isn't it? I noticed that the ones that instruct two pills tend to have bigger pills. I figured it was because two smaller pills are easier to swallow than one huge pill. Because people under 50kg (adults and children) should only take 500mg of paracetamo... |
because tea contains phytonutrients that calm you as well as caffeine that winds you up. that is the basic answer. one of these compounds is called theanine and it also makes a nice supplement for people with anxiety. it's called The Janus Effect btw. URL_0 Coffee is brewed with beans that have been roasted. When the b... |
One factor not mentioned is that the sides, top, & bottom of the oven chamber, along with the rack or baking sheet you place the food atop, being solid metal will hardly give up much heat the time the door is opened to place something inside the oven. This is the purpose of preheating, for it takes longer to heat up th... |
Because Black Americans who are descendants of slaves usually don't know their family's country of origin. Slave owners and traders were not interested in the ethnic origins of their slaves and kept only the most rudimentary records. Many Black Americans find it impossible to trace their families back more than a few g... |
Genetics History of cancer in your family. Exposure to carcinogens and radiation. Bad luck. Cancer basically kills you by stealing all of the nutrients from healthy cells, causing them to die out. All while multiplying it's bad cells more and more, and spreading. This is why Chemo works. Chemo is **poison**, but since ... |
Its not a zero sum game for the people trading it, its zero sum because their trades are not generating any (or much) value for the market. Among the people trading, there are still winners and losers, its just that it roughly evens out, the winners win the amount the losers lose Some people imagine that they will be t... |
I did some reading on this and it seems that the method of saving really depends on the developer, and less about technology. Not to say there were technological constraints, of course. Games use to be cartridge based, so saves had to be as predetermined points because all of the information was on the cartridge itself... |
The s in Https means secure, that means its encrypted before it goes over the network so that some one listening over the networks can not read it. when ever a password, credit card number, or any other private information you would not want someone to read should only be typed into a website with https HTTP is the Hyp... |
Check the units. Speedtests give you speeds in megaBITS per second (Mb/s) Downloads are often measured in megaBYTES per second (MB/s) Notice the capitalisation of B. There is a factor of 8 difference between the two. 1 MB = 8 Mb. * Many of the speed test sites are owned by the ISPs and prioritize max bandwidth for thos... |
No, definitely not. Basically, companies can collect data on you either to sell or for their own use. Other companies can buy this data. It helps them get insight in trends for their users. While good for the business, that means your personal life is being used for monetary gain. That's what happens with grocery store... |
They tend to work out different muscle groups, giving each area a rest while working out different areas. |
It's carbon dioxide that has been dissolved into a liquid, usually water. When co2 is dissolved in water, it's just individual molecules of co2 getting "trapped" in the mess of trillions of molecules of h2o. Normally co2 would be much lighter than the h2o, which would of course cause the co2 to simply bubble out and es... |
Based on several very anti-MSG people I've met, it's because of the following reasoning: We should limit our salt intake. Salt is a seasoning. MSG is kind of like salt, but has a chemical name. Chemicals are bad. MSG must be a manmade salt-equivalent. MSG is therefore bad. It was frequently compared to aspartame, with ... |
The FCC Privacy regulation would have prevented ISPs from selling your social security number, medical information, information about your children, and similar extremely personal information without your express consent. This regulation would have come into effect later this year. The FCC is now prohibited from trying... |
I believe it is from Ancient Rome. They were a nation known to let conquered nations keep thier relooks and language with the condition that they would accept a new leader and take part on a new monetary system, to avoid war and such many agreed, and so to make the face of the leader known and keep unity they started p... |
Our ancestor species lived in the ocean, which is salty, and grew to thrive in their only available habitat -- salt water. As the next speciel started to climb out of the ocean and live on land, their bodies developed mechanisms to keep salt water inside, so that they could stay alive. We still have those mechanisms. |
It's a historical anomaly. Initially basketball required you to pass it to another player before you could move (once they caught the ball they would be stationary). Eventually players realized they could make a short "pass" that they themselves caught, to allow them to move with the ball. Then they realized it was fas... |
There is a cluster of satellites in orbit (the much cooler term is "constellation of satellites"). Each one has a very accurate clock and they continuously broadcast their current time and which satellite they are. Your GPS device receives these time signals and since it knows (a) which satellite sent which signal, (b)... |
because of left over chemicals from the plastics and the leather or faux leather treatments are evaporating into a mostly sealed environment That sweet sweet smell is just a bunch of plastic chemicals that are probably as bad as smoking a cigarette. |
Calculus, both integral and differential calculus, is based upon limits. We don't actually reach our answers but we get infinitely close to it. You can't calculate instantaneous rate of change (the value of the derivative) without using two infinitely close points. Well, you *do*, but not without using limits to derive... |
Just going to Copy-Paste from another thread I replied to: Ok, I do netsec & net eng so without going into super specifics let's give this a whirl: > but is it now also possible Google to sell my browsing data It always was, and they do. Google makes it's money by creating user profiles, and selling them to ad agencies... |
Before you go to sleep: Depending on the stretch, you can release gases and muscle waste. Mostly, it's a way of relaxing your muscles. Instead of them being tight, you give them a good stretch so they can be more flexible and keep you from cramping and being sore when you sleep. Waking up: After having your body relati... |
[Well here's a picture of the Moon and Earth drawn to scale.]( URL_1 ) Most of the picture is just black space, which is useful in situations like this where you want to gauge the distance between them, but for most illustrating purposes you usually just want to show the two bodies together with the moon slightly furth... |
You can also get vitamin d from fish, milk products and other foods it is just that the skin when exposed to sunlight can make relatively large amounts of it. |
Political affiliations, shopping trends, personal kinks, how many people google stupid shit out of laziness, and all the blackmail you could potentially want over another person. In reality, sponsored content is going to get harder to distinguish from real news articles |
The biggest difference is that interest is not allowed under islamic banking. They get around that by setting up constructions that effectively come down to the same as interest without ever being actual interest. For instance, in a regular bank you get a car loan. You buy a car with it straight away and you pay off th... |
It's all about recognizing patterns, which is a crucial part of learning ability and thus IQ. Since you asked for a stream of consciousness on a solution, lets look at the first link for an example. I look for a pattern, the first thing I focus on (on a whim) is the circle in the middle of each image. I see that in the... |
Most people are going to tell you that they make their money through ads, and for some people that is where all their money comes from. But for properly run channels, ad revenue normally only accounts for about 10% of the total revenue (this is obviously a very broad generalization, but it's what I've seen consistently... |
Religious reason: Quran/Torah is God said so. The Bible has the Torah as its Old Testament so documents this instruction, but it does not apply to Christians. Christians are specifically told in the New Testament that they do not have to follow the Jewish food laws and that all meat is fit for them to eat. Likely Histo... |
Athletes have had their heart pumping at greater speeds for longer periods of time than most people, and have thus worked harder to pump more blood than most. When you work out a muscle harder, the cells grow, which is called hypertrophy. Athletes hearts slightly hypertrophy and thus can pump more blood in one beat tha... |
The flame would likely go out very rapidly. I know this sounds like a cop out but.. yeah. The flame would go out due to lack of oxidizers. The centres of gas giants are likely hot due to immense pressures and friction down below the top lawyers of gas. So if they were to ignite or something then I. Suppose it would alr... |
Follow-up question: what is the situation in Europe like? I read somewhere that in the EU ISP's already are selling internet usage data of their clients. As far as I have heard this is already done on a limited scale and people seem to misunderstand what they mean by selling your info. Companies will not buy your speci... |
I'm going to hazard a guess here and say it's because you're concentrating the hot liquid on one part of your mouth. If you drink without a straw, you get to spread out more of the drink, so it's cooler. With the straw, you just get a blast of hot liquid on one specific spot. Think of it like why people can lay on a be... |
Remain voter here, so I'm fully admitting some bias here. However, the main arguments I heard during the referendum were: * Plenty of money is drained from the UK Economy and given to other EU countries. Each country in the EU pays into a pot which is then redistributed according to various criteria to support the bloc... |
Not sure of the mechanics of gofundme, but the way Patreon works fits youtubers quite well and it's a matter of market share. Patreon did a few very smart things though: 1) They branded themselves as a means to support "artists" which appeals to the creative spirit and ego of youtube video creators whether they are par... |
Because you practiced and learned muscle memory. Spend 2 hours a day writing your name with that hand and youll be able to do that too |
When bees are in need of a new queen, whether due to an unexpected death or an aging queen, the worker bees sense this is happening and will begin making new queens. The workers will begin chemically secreting "royal jelly", which is the honey-like product with hormones and other signals necessary for a queen to form. ... |
Yes, technically, but you can almost always neglect the effect. This is because electricity is the flow of charged particles; usually electrons. These particles have a tiny mass compared to their charge (for the pedants out there, by this I mean that the forces on them from gravity will be much much smaller than the fo... |
A lot of people will tell you it's mostly dead skin cells, but that's obviously not the majority of dust. You can easily verify this by leaving stuff in a non climate controlled storage unit for a year and coming back to find a layer of dust. Dust is mostly just particles of dirt and whatever else that is light enough ... |
Imagine a quarter floating in the air in front of you. It's not blocking vision right? Now imagine a lot of quarters. Any two quarters are at least five feet apart. Five feet into that cloud isn't going to obstruct vision really. Nor will 20ft. Bit eventually those floating quarters will start to interfere. You can do ... |
It isn't. You should do weights and cardio and reduce caloric intake. Better yet do some intermittent fasting, cut out all sugar, drop carbs to around 100-150 grams per day, and increase good fat intake. If you can restrict all consumption of anything but water to a 10 hour period every day you will be even more succes... |
Most humor is the juxtaposition between what we _expect_ to happen and what actually happens. Take the (lame) joke: > Three men walk into a bar; none of them ducked The humor there is that you expect it to be a drinking establishment, not a physical barrier Now, the idea is that this humor reaction evolved in us to qui... |
Muscle memory is the consolidation of a specific motor task into memory, usually through repetition. This allows the specific motor task to be easily repeated without conscious effort. |
The first amendment protects the people's freedom of speech and assembly. The supreme court has stated that giving money (donations) to a political entity is protected under this as well. So you as an individual can give money to political campaigns and the government cannot prevent you from doing so. Otherwise, govern... |
Qualcomm owns many many patents in the US basically forcing any company to use Qualcomm's modem to connect to wireless signals. Companies are free to use any SoC (System on a Chip) they want, the Galaxy S6 used the global SoC version but used a Qualcomm modem. The big issue is Qualcomm prices things in such a way that ... |
You're forgetting all the jobs those initial jobs create. Forgetting all the people employed to actually build the factory, and to provide the materials and equipment required for that construction; those 130 people will require dozens of other services and products *for the rest of their lives*. They'll need houses to... |
You can control what you give to those sites. You can't control what you give to your ISP because they are your gateway to the net. You don't have to use Google/Facebook. You have to use an ISP to connect to the internet. It's unavoidable. Long story short, now they don't have to tell you they're doing it and don't hav... |
First of all, selling internet history is already allowed. The rule that the FCC wanted to put in place was blocked before it could go into effect. Additionally, Google and others would still have been able to sell your history even had the rule gone into effect (and so could the ISPs, if they'd had you sign a contract... |
Another term for burning is oxidizing, which is just using oxygen as part of a chemical reaction (like wood + heat + oxygen = fire, changing the wood) for now, let's call calories food (or glucose). Our body uses glucose and oxygen to create energy for our needs. It's not fire, but instead of fire in the above example,... |
Lobbyists don't "buy" politicians. I know that it's the common "I'm angry at Washington" belief, but honestly, lobbyists spend money to convince politicians that the people/organizations that they represent have the correct opinions about some subject. I'm not saying that there's no corruption in Washington. I'm sure t... |
Followup: If there is a limit, what in real life would be impossible to simulate because it's too complex? Computers cannot compute upon non-computable numbers. Computable numbers are a subset of rational numbers. That means the majority of rational numbers cannot be computed or enumerated, and all irrational numbers a... |
I'm no expert, but I think I once read those thoughts are normal, almost necessary for us. Fantasizing about these actions prevents us from doing them. Or something like that. I'm sure someone here can explain better. Or point out that I'm wrong... I can't say exactly WHY we have intrusive thoughts, but I can say as an... |
> In prehistoric days, wouldn't humans eat only whatever was locally available? Yep. > What would prevent severe nutrient deficiencies? Nothing. People died a lot and were covered in parasites, crippled by diseases, and lived short, violent, painful lives. I'm not sure why the new wave of health nuts thinks this stage ... |
It is a form of a mild attention disorder, in most cases. It has to do with memory. Not to worry, it can quickly be rectified with training your brain. |
So first thing first, instead of using volume to measure, they almost always use mass. It is a lot easier to measure mass accurately than to measure volume. Secondly, they have set proportions, and then scale it up. So they don't make a single 200mg pill. They make 200 kg and then make a million pills from that batch. ... |
One of the main points of the original "vote no to independence" campaign was that an independent Scotland wouldn't be allowed to join the EU. Many people voted no based on that. The margin in the end was 55% no, 45% yes. Then the Brexit vote happened. Every single constituency in Scotland voted to remain in the EU, an... |
You've stumbled onto a key concept in engineering, which is the difference between [normal stress]( URL_0 ) and [shear stress]( URL_1 ). In normal stress (tension or compression), you're pushing or pulling in line with the atomic bonds, like pushing/pulling on a spring. In shear stress, you're forcing lines of atomic b... |
The arguments that I see are several, obviously your mileage will vary: 1.) Everyone on the internet sells browsing data, from Google to Amazon. Many if not most internet companies sell information---including sites visited. Why not ISPs? If they could make money this way, they could offer more services at lower cost, ... |
An API is an Application Programming Interface. It is a structured way for one program to offer services to other programs. In the case of website APIs these programs are running on different machines - a program running on Facebook's servers are offering services to a program running on your computer or another web se... |
Sometimes they just grind it. At my job they replaced the road and gave us the grindings to spread about the yard, and half of my home driveway is ground asphalt The term you are looking for is asphalt recovery. Google has lots of very detailed information but in a nutshell yes there are machines and processes for reco... |
First off, that isnt always true. When you lift an object, you have to overcome the force of gravity holding it down. When you drag the object, you have to overcome the friction between the item and whatever it is sitting on. Gravity is constant, but the friction can change depending on the object and what it's resting... |
You can get the ingredients from analyzing Coke, sure, but it's not going to tell you anything about the manufacturing process. If I put a pizza into the lab and it tells me it's: * 50% wheat * 25% low-fat dairy cheese * 10% tomatoes * 10% eggs * 5% oregano It doesn't tell me whether it was a pizza or a calzone. It doe... |
Do we? This is probably the first I've heard of it. Only correlation I can think of you are trying to make is the randomness and frequency of the static is like the randomness and frequency of your nerves firing off. My understanding of static in the radio or TV is that it's essentially random patterns of sound frequen... |
Autism is a range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication, as well as by unique strengths and differences. It is diagnosed by the symptoms, which can demonstrate in an enormous range from person to person. [Here is the diagnostic criteria.](... |
Your data has been being sold by Google, your web browser, etc for years. Google makes money by compiling tens of thousands of users browsing trends and data into one big anonymous package (for example: they don't care what michiruwater is looking up, they care what 18-21 year olds are looking up between 3-6PM). Your I... |
everyone entering a different country will need to abide by the entry laws of that country. just because you own the plane doesn't mean you don't pass thru customs. usually private charters don't disembark at the gate, they go thru a private terminal where the customs agent comes to the plan to check everyone. a small ... |
If that sample of 1500 people is truly randomly picked out of the population, you can actually get extremely accurate estimates of the overall population's feelings. When you take a sample of random draws from a distribution (such as selecting random people's answer to a question like "who will you vote for"), the aver... |
Bribery is when you give some consideration to an official, personally, for voting/acting in their official capacity for your benefit. Donations to a candidate aren't in their pockets -- it's in the campaign fund, and is used for them to run for office. Think of an issue that you feel strongly about. If someone was run... |
They are competing payment processors. Each has a different range of benefits (mostly for card issuers and merchants, less so for consumers) and not all are accepted in every location (Mastercard and Visa are accepted almost everywhere, Amex, Discover, and the smaller guys are less commonly accepted). American Express ... |
They're not burned. They're just heated up to their melting point. And it's all done in a chamber with very little oxygen in it to prevent the plastic from catching fire or otherwise chemically changing. |
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