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AskReddit/cfy4yc6
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1zx57c
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What is some relationship advice you wish you had known when you were younger?
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Relax, calm down and enjoy the person your with. 2. Don't be with someone if your goal is to change them. If they need to change to make you happy, you're not right for each other. 3. When you marry a person, you marry their family. It's not your job to get in between family relationships. That is up to the other person if they want to cut ties or not. Again, see advice #2.
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AskReddit/dun3k1f
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7zcxsl
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What was the first album you forced yourself to love?
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Gorillaz - The Singles Collection Gorillaz is my son's favorite band, and I thought it would be nice if the kids got to listen to some of their music in the car, instead of having to listen to my music all the time - particularly on long road trips. At first, I wasn't really a fan - but after leaving the album in the cd player and listening to it a bunch of times, I learned to love it - and subsequent Gorillaz albums as well. I even took my son to a Gorillaz concert last fall - and we both had a great time.
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askscience/cq228jh
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31hpo5
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Why is it that if you go into a desert, or anywhere with minimal light pollution, you can see millions of stars and even our galaxy, but when you leave earths atmosphere its not the same?
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When you leave Earth's atmosphere, it is actually the same. That's one of the reasons we send telescopes in space (such as the Hubble Space Telescope, or the future James Webb Space Telescope). One of the other reasons is that in space, there is no absorption of the ultraviolet (UV) radiation by the atmosphere, and then you can build specific telescope to observe in the UV.
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AskReddit/cdjqgkm
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1r5det
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If you had to choose to be deaf or blind, which would you choose and why?
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I think being deaf must be so isolating; imagine never hearing the sound of music? Or laughter? That blanketing silence that covers over every inch of your world would be terrifying, you'd be so alone. But I could not be blind, I could not live in the fear of my own house or put such a burden on my family. I need to see.
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AskHistorians/cytu4cw
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40f1ph
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How were steppe people like the Mongols able to be such a threat to settled people?
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Well, I think where your assumption is incorrect is in thinking of the Persian peoples of this time period as "settled" in contrast with Mongol horse archers. It's true that the vast majority of the populations of these territories, stretching west from approximately modern Afghanistan to the Med and beyond, were settled and had established large, prosperous cities. But going back to at least the 9th century and the "Anarchy at Samarra", formalized in the 10th century with the Samanids and continued by the Buyids, Seljuks, Ghaznavids, Khwarezmians and a host of other smaller dynasties, the actual military rulership of the Persianate (and for that matter, most of the Arabic) world was in the hands of Turkic steppe peoples from the east. These peoples were very similar to the Mongols in most respects, and when you consider the relative ease with which they defeated and displaced one-another it's less surprising that they could be defeated and displaced by the Mongols. The more interesting question, then, is not how these groups were defeated but rather why the Mongol conquests were so monumentally destructive in comparison. There are different reasons for this. One is scale, the Mongols obviously amassed a much larger and more powerful empire than virtually any steppe power before them. Furthermore they were savvy enough to employ settled peoples with expertise in attacking cities and had plenty of experience in dealing with cities from their conquest of China. But in my view, and that of many historians, Islam was the really big differentiator. All of the other steppe dynasties I mentioned were already Muslims at the time they conquered. So even if there was a nomadic/settled Turkic/Persian divide, the Islamic elites of Persia were able to mediate and facilitate the new rulers, so that even if the dynasty changed, law, order, taxation, treatment of the conquered peoples, basically all of the social aspects of actually living under a state were virtually unchanged despite the succession of dynasties who exercised control from the 9th to 13th centuries. Hodgson terms this the Amir-Ayan system, which you could translate as something like "Military Commander-Local (Islamic) elites and notables" system. The Mongols break that tradition. Once the Amirs were defeated in battle the Ayan did not understand they were dealing with something new, and even if they had it would not have helped because the Mongols didn't care about respecting the societal norms of Islamdom. As such, not only were the conquests themselves uniquely brutal in the history of the region, but their post-conquest rule was similarly disruptive. The negative impact of their rule lessened significantly after they converted to Islam and started working with local advisors/viziers like Rashid ad-Din Hamadani at the end of the 13th century. edit: typo
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AskReddit/e24mbwk
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8xp62o
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What is something you would never do in public yet feel comfortable doing around close friends or family?
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Play piano. I've very good, and enjoy entertaining friends. But the larger the audience, the greater chance somebody better than me is watching and thinks I'm a hack.
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AskReddit/dwv6kus
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8a1v8e
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How would your best friend describe you?
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My best friend is an angel and would 100% hype me up way too much. Given what she’s already told me, I’d guess she would describe me as: goofy, perceptive, intuitive, and creative. Probably some more adjectives in there that I don’t deserve. Love that girl.
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AskReddit/chnnsvb
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264sdp
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What is that one story, about you as a child, that you don't remember but other people in your life love to tell over and over?
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As a little toddler girl I apparently used to go around hugging boy toddlers and saying "I LOVE BOYS!" I can't even bring my guy friends let alone my boyfriends to my house anymore because my parents always tell them this story.
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AskReddit/df6xk32
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60jjc0
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What's one thing you wish you knew how to do?
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I wish I knew how to dance. I feel like it would be a very attractive trait, as well as being a good source of exercise. Plus, I've met a lot of cute girls that happen to be good dancers.
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AskReddit/erdca62
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c1i04d
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What is the one movie you can watch again and again without it getting old?
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The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. My brother and I, when we were kids, used to literally watch it on repeat. We'd hear "OCEAN MAN, TAKE ME BY THE HAND" and we took that as our cue to hit "Replay" without even thinking. I'm an adult now and I still will never get tired of that movie.
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explainlikeimfive/cy3uxag
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3xe8eu
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What is the margin of error?
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in statistics, its very hard to get an exact number. Most of the calculations for certain statistics come with that factor, a margin of error. Its basically the amount of possible variance in the answer. so 20% with a margin of error of 5% means the actual answer could be from 15%-25% but its definitely somewhere in there.
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askscience/dv93xj6
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82ag9v
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Why is the background smooth in IBM in atoms?
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Scanning probe microscopy doesn't work like normal microscopes. The objects are not "seen" as much as they they are "sensed" or "felt" through a fine needle like probe. The reason for this is because individual atoms are smaller than a wavelength of visible light so it is impossible to see them. In a nutshell here is how a scanning probe microscope works: First the atoms being scanned need to be super-cooled to as near absolute zero as possible that way the atoms won't move around and vibrate so much. In the case of the "IBM" atoms they are xenon atoms on a nickel surface. Then imagine a fine needle like probe that can sense the tiny force fields of individual atoms being positioned to the exact point where the final atom on the very tip of the probe can sense the outer or valence shell of a single atom's array of electrons. The probe can even be adjusted so it can pick up and move a single atom from one place to another. That's how they were able to arrange the atoms to spell out "IBM". The very tip of the probe is only sensing one atom at a time. In this case the xenon atoms on top of the surface, rendering the nickel atoms that make up the surface "invisible" to the probe. Hope that helps. Source - I have met and spoken with Don Eigler and even asked him the same question you posted here. He is the scientist who led the whole team that accomplished this man-on-the-moon moment in nano-technology. I still say he deserves a Nobel Prize for his work. He did this back in 1989. Don are you seeing this?
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AskReddit/c0q6qs5
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c52j8
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How do I convince my mom to let me study abroad?
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Well if you're in college it ultimately isn't her choice, unless she controls the purse-strings here. What exactly are her objections? Have you brought it up with her yet? I studied abroad for a couple of months. Its extremely rewarding. You should probably mention that. Its also easier than ever to keep in contact with family in the US, thanks to the internet. Bring a laptop with a webcam and show her how to use Skype.
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AskReddit/dyw5toz
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8j03by
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How do you deal with a schizophrenic family member?
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My grandmother was schizophrenic, and I had a very close relationship with her. I think the main reason we were so close is because I never questioned her. The rest of the family was constantly trying to pick apart everything she said. They always wanted to know if stories she told were real, or something she had made up in her head. I always just listened to her. I never cared where the lines between fantasy and reality got blurry. I kept my patience with her when she repeated things, or said things that might not have made perfect sense. I cooked for her and stayed by her side when she wasn't feeling well. I cleaned her apartment and did her grocery shopping for her. (She did not like to go out in public at all.) I made sure she took her medication on time. Mostly, I just treated her like a normal person. I always figured she had a doctor, and it was his responsibility to figure out all the things she was experiencing, and help her handle it. My job was to be her granddaughter. The rest of the family treated her like a lunatic, but I just treated her like my grandmother. We had a wonderful relationship, and she taught me many things.
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explainlikeimfive/d3hxhop
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4kty2j
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What's the difference between logarithm and exponential equation?
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A logarithm is just an exponent. It answers the question of "What exponent is needed to go from 3 to 9?" All of its properties can be directly tied back to properties of exponents. When you’re graphing a logarithmic function, you’re actually graphing all of the (result, exponent) pairs. So if 3 is the base, you’d end up graphing (3, 1) (9, 2) (27, 3) . Your values of y are increasing very slowly since exponents just tell you how many times to multipy the base, and accordingly increase much slower than the result of that multiplication. Exponential functions answer the question of "What’s the result if I square 3?" When you’re graphing an exponential function, you’re graphing all pairs of (exponent, result), so if your base is 3, that would be (1, 3) (2, 9) (3, 27) (4, 81) . Your values of y are increasing very quickly because the result increases much more quickly than the exponent. You can see then that they’re asking for different parts of the same expression (exponent vs. result), but they’re inverses because their domains and ranges have switched or they’re reflected over y=x (conditions for functions being inverses).
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AskHistorians/cepd8u1
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1v6sxf
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How did the passenger pigeon population went from billions to extinction?
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Jenny Price's book Flight Maps has a chapter about passenger pigeons, although the actual process is well summed up by the other response. Before the nineteenth century, they were a valuable supplemental food source that localities exploited every few years when a flock appeared close by. During the nineteenth century, however, railroads meant that a professional pigeon-hunting industry could develop and supply the big east-coast cities every year. At the same time, pigeons became a fashionable food at posh restaurants in New York, and thus demand for them increased. This increased demand and constant extraction by what were essentially industrial hunters, combined with habitat destruction, meant that passenger pigeons essentially vanished quite rapidly in the 1880s. For decades after, people expected them to return, or thought that they had gone to the Amazon or Siberia or something. Their legendary abundance made it difficult for people to imagine that they could become extinct.
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AskReddit/eutdf9q
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chi4c2
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What is a super wholesome story that you have?
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Not sure if it's super wholesome, but one time in high school during lunch I was about to buy my food when I found out I lost my money. Thankfully one of the lunch ladies gave me some of her money.
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AskHistorians/cniv3f8
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2rs896
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How thick could a castle wall conceivably be?
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With unlimited time and resources walls could become infinitely thick. The thing is that width is not a problem in construction of walls its the height. Height with masonry has compression issues that cannot easily solved. That's why the flying buttress was invented. I am not a structural engineer so i cant tell you the exact physics of masonry and the height a stone wall will top out at before it can no longer support itself. If your curious about large castles of the 11th century i would recommend reading up on Caernarfon Castle in Wales. Its one of the bigger castles of that era. I would also recommend the Theodosian walls of Constantinople. They were built 600 years before your time period but are quite a feat in themselves.
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AskReddit/c2kqw63
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kjfd2
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If you've ever worked in an office, what were some some of the oddest office/ company rules you had to follow?
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Privately-owned engineering company, some years ago: • All cars in company parking lot had to be late-model American, recently washed. • Suit required at all times, unless in your own office. Then you can take your jacket off, but must use door hangar for jacket. • Shirts must by white or pastel. No prints. • One piece of paper on your desk at a time. • Clean desk every night. Many more, but that's what I remember.
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explainlikeimfive/cirz90f
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2a6ivp
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Why do people (and what is it like to) care SO MUCH about the outcome of sports games?
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Catharsis and shared achievement. Humans are empathetic creatures. We share in the achievement of others. Sometimes we even associate ourselves WITH others. We say "WE won" or "WE lost" not 'They'. Team sports are particularly good at building this kind of feeling. You're not rooting for an individual, you're rooting for a group of people working towards a common goal. and look! They have something in common with you! We are a team together! As you watch your team week in, week out you develop a camaraderie with them. Think of sports as the greatest reality TV show there is. Unscripted, challenges met, challengers bested. we FEEL along with the team. Sometimes more than the team members themselves do. We want this for them, because we want it for ourselves. We've invested a part of ourselves into the event. Into the team. It's sincerely a part of the human experience. and it's not limited to sport. Its why we cry at movies, love our favorite television characters, get invested in video game console wars, and just about any other event where caring doesn't make logical sense.
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AskReddit/d2nnvzg
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4h5ymz
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Why don't you trust your local police?
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How can I trust an answering machine? I live in a town in Southern Jutland, the souther part of mainland Denmark, and the police here is chronically understaffed. I don't trust them but I don't distrust them either. "You're the next in line, please wait," or something like that they said when I called about my stalking ex girlfriend. My friend had a similar experience, but he actually got through, and they told him "Handle it yourself."
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AskReddit/d3tdlk9
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4m7kaa
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How much work do you actually do in a work day?
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I actually have productivity standards that I am required to meet: 85% of my time at work must be in face-to-face contact with patients. The other 15% is paperwork. 8 hour day = 6.8 hours of treatment time.
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AskReddit/e5l1rir
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9dzk1f
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What’s your “I got drunk and don’t remember” story?
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I was at a party when I was a teen and got completely blackout drunk. I remember nothing but I woke up in bed with my ex (who doesn't drink). I don't think anything went down but I was told by friends that i left the party still smashed and my ex was sober cos they drove. I was pretty angry after the fact because we didn't break up on good terms and that bed was the last place I wanted to be edit for spelling
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AskReddit/cr9n2bl
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360qqy
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What's something odd that your parents taught you that has always stuck with you?
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"It's easy to raise kids that you like (all parents love their kids), it's harder and more important to raise kids that other people like." It's a strange thing to tell a child, but now that I am a parent (with another on the way) I totally get it.
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explainlikeimfive/cmnibu5
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2oiejl
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Why don't humans go into heat?
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The question should be re-phrased into: Why don't humans openly display fertility? Humans do go into heat, its mostly that we have executive brain functions that can suppress primal urges. But we do have circadian rhythms of hormonal levels in both males and females. One supposition is that hiding fertility enhances a females opportunity for pair-bonding, especially since human infants go through a comparatively long sequence of infant and child helplessness as the executive brain functions mature relatively slowly as compared to other mammals with more limited brain function. (A new-born giraffe can stand up and walk within twenty minutes of birth.) Having a pair-bonded mate for an extended time tends to result in raising children into sexual maturity. Another supposition is that hiding fertility may tend to keep male partners around longer (species-wide), as it is not easy for them to pick out other alternative fertile mates at any given time. It may also allow selection by the female of male partners in an attempt to obtain the best genetic material available.
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AskReddit/d00og2b
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45won6
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What is a common scam that lots of people have fallen for?
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Lately, a lot of old people have been falling for that random phone call from an "IT Group" asking for some info on your computer so they can do a "remote update" on it. My wife got a phone call from them and they called themselves the Geek Group. I face-palmed at how bad these people were at their scamming game, yet people still fall for it.
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AskReddit/cv0mdq6
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3kujhg
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What are some "rookie mistakes" people make in relationships?
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Being too afraid to ask where the relationship is going and then ending up hurt because where you think it's going and where they think it's going are not the same thing. You can't be afraid to ask whether you're the boyfriend/girlfriend or the bootycall. You can't be afraid to ask where a relationship is heading or what the people you're dating are looking for. Anyone worth your time will be willing to answer those questions and if they get scared by them or refuse to answer then they are not mature enough for you to be dating.
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AskReddit/dggtihh
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669pvt
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What does love mean to you?
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Someone who listens intently even if they are not interested. Someone who wants the best for you even when its not the best for them. Someone who will try and raise you when you are at your lowest and you can see that they sincerely want for you to see how amazing you are. True love though, Is time tested and based on many downfalls which have been conquered together. It perseveres because those people cared too much about each other for one of them to stay mad at the other, over and over and over again.
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explainlikeimfive/cciphuw
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1nhqb8
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What causes Pi to be irrational?
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If you chose a random real number by any reasonable method, it'll be rational with probability zero. So don't ask why pi is irrational, ask how the physical constants which are* rational got that way, there is probably a good explanation. (*reasonable = any "continuous probability distribution", basically as long as you really choose a random number and don't have one in mind)
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AskReddit/ce15s8n
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1stt8a
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How much trouble can I get in by attending a college class I did not pay for?
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I did this my first semester of college. Of course, it wasn't really the same thing you're trying to do. I took an anthropology class from a very awesome teacher named Timi Barone. She made anthropology awesome for me, and I loved it so much I went to both sessions that were offered that semester. One was MWF 9am-10:00am and the other was TuesThurs 2:30pm-4:00pm (or so). I would always answer questions in the sessions I wasn't supposed to be in, and would refer to me as the "random visitor" often. She must not have paid attention very well because she didn't realize I was in her MWF session until I mentioned it to her a couple months in. I don't think you can get in a lot of trouble. I would say it depends on the teacher. In my case, I lucked out because I think she thought it was funny and she admired my desire to learn about the subject she taught.
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AskReddit/e36oitl
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92m7s4
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Why do you wear different outfits every day?
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If it was up to me, I'd wear the same outfit for two days in a row before switching outfits, as long as it was still clean. But people judge you if you do that, so I wear a new outfit everyday to avoid that stress.
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AskReddit/d3vvamx
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4miaci
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What are your major turn offs?
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A lot of these seem to be general or sexual things that lots of people find turn offs, but I wanna go one that turns me off when I'm getting into a relationship with somebody; Overvalidation. Like over the top reassurance or compliments. I was seeing a girl that would end normal conversations with stuff like 'have a beautiful day, you always deserve all the best'. It would make me feel very awkward, and kind of made it impossible to tell when she was being sincere.
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explainlikeimfive/cttttdm
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3g0czu
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What was wage growth like under President Clinton, and why has wage growth slowed to the point of stagnancy?
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Wage stagnation is a far more economically complicated and poorly-understood question than most of the Bernie Sanders lemmings in here would have you believe. It's virtually impossible to provide a detailed analysis of the framing of the problem and its many causes without 20 pages. Economists don't quite understand it either. My best guesses are that: Globalization and the massively increased supply of educated labor has put downward pressure on wages for a while now. There are a lot more people in the world with the skills to do many educated jobs in the US - it's a simple function of supply and demand. Fallout from the recession - although painfully stupid metrics like unemployment have returned to relative normalcy, the unemployment rate isn't what you think - it only considers those individuals actively looking for jobs. What I'm more concerned with is the labor participation rate - the percentage of able-bodied individuals working or looking for work. It's at a 40-year low now, and shows no signs of bottoming out. There are simply shitloads of people who could be working who aren't. The rise of non-taxable non-cash benefits such as health care is an increasing percentage of total income, but is often not counted in these statistics. The US economy has, for maybe the past 30 years, been shifting from a predominantly manufacturing economy to a technology/IT and services economy. Other people can manufacture things cheaper than Americans, thanks predominantly to labor unions. This leaves a lot of unskilled laborers without the skills to secure a good job, and increases the value of education which, unfortunately, is becoming prohibitively expensive for many average households - that's another discussion entirely. Anyway this broad shift could help explain why the stagnation trend began so long ago. Of course this is all mostly guesswork. In the end I think we'll benefit in the next few years from a lot of smart statisticians and economists stratifying the wage stagnancy data (not to mention collecting much more) to see things like: which sectors see the best and worst wage growth? Why? Where are they located? Does education level explain any of the disparity? What other economic indicators is wage growth associated with?
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explainlikeimfive/ery03c4
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c4rv12
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Are innocent smoothies actually healthy because of the fruit content or does the high sugar content outweigh the benefits of the fruit?
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You can not categorize every food article into healthy and unhealthy. You have to look at your entire diet as a whole and even your body and activities. Some people might have a hard time getting the required vitamins and minerals and would have a big benefit from drinking more smoothies. However others might have issues keeping their calory intake reasonable and their weight low and the same healthy smoothie would be quite unhealthy due to the sugar content.
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AskReddit/c2nkyio
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kvlxi
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How do you set goals for your life?
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jus tmake goals that are stuff you're already going to do. like, goal 1: eat a bologna and american cheese sandwich while watching TMZ in your underwear at 1am when you should be asleep. orrr goal 2: drink bawls while playing world of warcraft then imagine your elf lady was real.
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AskReddit/c8hek9a
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18rf6q
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What's the religion of whoever raised you, and what's your religion (or lack thereof)?
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I was raised Catholic, made a verge towards protestanism for a while, now I'm just spiritual and okay with that. I'm the president of the Interfaith Movement on my campus and I love learning about different faiths and spiritualities. I just take it all in and enjoy the culture.
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explainlikeimfive/dcpteq2
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5pb7n9
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Why hasn't USA adopted Nordic countries education and health care system?
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Sigh. Some of us have, it just doesn't go anywhere for a variety of reasons. The "core" reason is that when the European democracies rebuilt after WWII, they developed universal healthcare systems to ensure everyone had care. This was largely an expansion of the systems Germany used to strikebreak or otherwise help industrial workers even before WWI, and it spread relatively easily in the wake of WWII - it was also seen as a comfortable political compromise with socialism, which had arrived rather dramatically on the political scene with the influence of an emboldened and expanded USSR. Giving people free healthcare and high taxes but keeping most of a capitalist economy while rebuilding from a grueling war was where people would up. In the US, things were a little different. We have a very long history of wealthy people and their corporations having a lot of say in how things are run through several mechanisms. During WWII, it was really hard to get anyone to work for a company - most young men were at war, and there were only so many women who could or wanted to work in the factories or other businesses. This caused some problems, and part of that solution was the government stating outright that nobody could be paid more than a certain amount - but healthcare insurance policies were not considered "pay" by this rule. So companies started competing about health insurance instead of just wages. This eventually led to a system where the government, insurance companies, and the medical industry all have roughly-equal say in how things are run - and the medical industry and insurers both have a lot of say in how the government is run, since they're fairly wealthy and we still defer to the wealthy in a lot of things. It's not necessarily smart, but it's where we wound up.
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explainlikeimfive/cp1k2zb
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2xmyki
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Why does my compressed air can get really cold when I spray it?
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It all has to do with the physics of compressed gases. When you compress the gas into the can (where it becomes a liquid), a lot of heat is given off by the process of compressing the gas. After a while, the compressed gas returns to room temperature. When you release the now room temperature compressed gas, the rapid expansion of the gas causes a rapid cooling to a much lower temperature than the gas before it was compressed. Same basic principle that allows appliances like your fridge and freezer to cool off your food.
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askscience/c1fjgjh
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ffez1
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Why do some animals eat their young?
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I think the question is not why the eat the young, but why the kill the young. The eating part is straightforward - good availability of nutrients. These are the examples that I know of: When a male lion takes over a pride he will kill all the cubs of that pride. Animals are sort of 'programmed' to want the best for their offspring, and the lion kills the cubs because they will create competition for resources/mates for his future offspring. I know that when female rabbits are stressed in pregnancy they will abort the fetus and eat it. Basically they figure that the current environmental conditions are not ideal and its best to cut their losses, absorb the nutrients from the foetus, and try again later. Its not uncommon in pigs and other animals to kill/ignore-starve the runt of the litter. Basically the animal decides it would rather have fewer, but healthier offspring. I can't remember if pigs also eat the young. But basically in all these situations its due to scarcity of resources.
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AskReddit/ctvj5ya
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3g79to
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What's your guilty pleasure movie, the one you're ashamed to admit loving?
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I don't have any that I'm ashamed to admit loving. Disney movies I still love, and I love Les Miserables and a few other musicals, and a lot of chick flicks. Not typically masculine movies, but I'm not ashamed about them. I love horror, thriller, war, action, etc. movies, too, so it's all good.
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AskReddit/e5h1mk7
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9d3fw2
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What should you know before getting married?
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Depends on how long you've known the person. If you have been seeing each other less than 2 years there is still a lot of that person you haven't seen yet and like wise for them when it comes to you. Also where you are both at financially. If one of you or both of you are in debt then work on that and have a plan. There is nothing worse than taking on debt that neither of you talked about before hand. Talking about kids, travel, school, work, these are all things you should talk about before jumping into marriage. I've had many friends that got married very young and ended their marriages because they were young or not on the same page.
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explainlikeimfive/c9t8ol1
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1drrgg
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How is plastic made?
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it depends on the kind of plastic. i'll give you the three most common varieties. also, you'll need to know: plastic=polymer, polymer=long chain molecule polyethylene (PE) : think plastic milk jugs. polyethylene is made from ethylene. typically, polyethylene is industrially produced by bubbling ethylene through a solution containing molecules called catalysts. the catalysts can bind ethylene, break the carbon-carbon double bond in it, then insert it into the growing polymer chain that is growing on another site on the same catalyst molecule. then it does the same thing again and again, making the chain longer and longer. these catalysts are typically left at the end of the chain, and they are called Ziegler-Natta catalysts. polypropylene (PP) : think yogurt containers. same thing as polyethylene actually, except you start with propylene polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE) : think plastic coke bottles. in this case, two molecules are mixed together and reacted in equal proportions. they are terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol. both of these molecules have two reactive sites and easily react with each other. think of them as molecules A and B. in the first step, A reacts B to form AB. second, AB reacts with A to form ABA, as the B can still react one more time. next, ABA reacts with B to form ABAB, as the A also still has one more reactive site. this continues on for a while, until a large chain is produced. water is also made as a side product of this reaction. the part about oil comes in because ethylene (and propylene) are made by steam cracking of petroleum products. in this process, bigger molecules are broken into smaller fragments, such as ethylene, which can later be used for polymerization and other things.
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explainlikeimfive/cx8xf02
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3tsx4t
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How come if I get in a very hot bath, it can momentarily feel cold?
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Your skin can't actually detect temperature, it can only feel relative temperature to itself. If the relative temperature is very large (i.e. very hot or very cold) you can only detect that there is a large difference and not in which direction it is. It's just an evolutionary artefact, because the appropriate reaction is the same, you move away from the source, so you don't need to know if it is hot or cold.
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AskReddit/c0qtp5r
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c8cdu
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What are you favorite healthy snacks, especially for work?
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Cucumber. Split into half, put salt, rub the halves to each other for better distribution of salt, and that's it! Warning: Highly addictive. Almonds. Best type of nuts in the world. Though, gotta watch the amount carefully. Yogurt or quark, flavored or non-flavored. If non-flavored, add salt, mint, red pepper and cumin. If you can find, you can add sumac too. Basically, for any "tasteless" snack, experiment with spices or zero calorie dressings. Sumac is my favorite when lemon juice is not readily available. It's awesome on anything lettuce-like. Furthermore you can add yogurt to chopped lettuce as a light salad dressing too. If you want to convert it to a full meal, feel free to add chicken breast and some whole grain pasta. If you crave especially sweet stuff, try dried fruits. Plum, apricot, raisins, papaya. You can mix this with non-sweet nuts too; hazelnut or walnut my favorite here. You can still have a mini sandwich. If you put enough veggies to it, I thinks it's the best snack for its palatability/healthiness ratio. Switch anything oily with mustard or yogurt though. If you like, strained yogurt is nice as a substitute too. With all, milk is the best to have with. Proteins, calcium and stuff, in addition to high digestion time which means longer satiety. Alright that's all.
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AskReddit/cfvo0c9
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1zp65m
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Does being around kids make you dumber?
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Depending on the age, Id say they would actually help you out mentally. Kids are great brain teasers with their own questions about the world. It stops and makes you think about things you haven't in a while or ever. Also them going through school really means you're going back through it too
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AskReddit/dsn9pty
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7q8w1p
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What straight-out-of-a-movie moment have you witnessed in real life?
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Not something I witnessed, but it was straight out of a movie. When my dad was younger, he lived in mexico. Now in mexico they believe in Witches, demons, gnomes, evil elfs, you name it. So when my dad was about 10 years old, his mom (My grandma) thought he was demonically possessed. He was "acting out" or whatever. It was probably more due to the fact that his dad abused him and his mom was never home (Always working). So they did an exorcism. They tied him to a chair, created a circular fire around him. 2 priests where in there with him, and they would do there words from the book, and then burn him to "Force the demon to leave". After about an hour, it was over. He was all burned up. He still has scars on him today from that.
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askscience/cq5ch4b
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31uwup
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Is charge imaginary mass?
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No, because two completely different forces govern (electric) charge and (gravitational) mass: What is usually called charge is actually only electric charge. But electromagnetism is only one of four fundamental forces, the others being weak and strong interaction and gravity. Strong interaction also knows "charge", but this color charge is also completely independent of electric charge. So by the logic of the question, (color) charge, quark flavour and the other force mediators should also be part of "mass". However, one scientific goal is to find a so called theory of everything, which aims to describe the four forces in a single theory, which is not yet found (and may even be impossible). Maybe you misread the specific line of that paper.
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explainlikeimfive/cv7y1sl
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3lodtp
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How do the economics of Formula 1/2/3 work?
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There is currently no F2 series. F3 is a minor series now. So lets talk F1. There is a company called FOM, Formula One Management. Run by Bernie Eccelstone, it is partly owned by him and a bunch of investors. FOM own the commercial rights to F1 - they sell TV coverage to TV stations all around the world. They also earn money from tracks who pay to hold a grand prix. Some of this money get passed on to the teams, the better results they have, the more money they get. The rest of the money that the teams have comes from their owners, sponsorship and/or drivers who pay to drive the car. In a nutshell, thats how F1 works economically. There has been much conjecture about which teams get how much money - we know its a sliding scale (i.e. if a team wins the constructors championship they get more than the team that comes 2nd, who get more than the 3rd placed team etc). There are also, it seems extra payments - Ferrari get extra money for basically being Ferrari. Do note that exactly how much money each team gets is highly secret and is part of their contract with FOM. It is also part of the contract that anyone who knows the details must not share them. You will see many articles stating who gets what money, but they are all guesses and conjecture. There are maybe 30 people who really know and all of them are contractually obliged to keep their mouths shut. In the F1 feeder series such as GP2, GP3 and World Series by Renault drivers typically pay for their seat - personal sponsors or if they are lucky one of the big F1 teams (Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull) sponsor them as a way of bringing new talent on. Those teams have "driver academies" where they help guide the careers of young drivers and teach them about the sport. Before those series you may see drivers in Formula Renault, Formula Ford etc - all of this stuff is self funded, either by family or sponsors.
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AskReddit/em6z0hy
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bjbyum
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What was one of the worst sicknesses you've ever had?
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I caught an unknown food-bourne sickness in a shithole Asian third world country. And I've never, ever had diarrhea and gas that long in my entire life. Everything I ate was indigestible for three weeks. I lost ten pounds, and there wasn't any fresh water to be had anywhere. And I still managed to show up for work every day, on time, and fulfill my responsibilities.
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explainlikeimfive/dd7s9dj
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5rjpfi
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What punishment would I face for unknowingly paying for something with counterfeit currency that I received from another unknowing person?
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None. Counterfeit money gets circulated all the time, half the time passed from the counterfeiter to a cashier who doesn't check it, then paid out as change, then to another cashier, then out as change again. Your punishment is that you're out $20 because no one will want it, and odds are good you're not even getting the fake bill back. There's some really hefty punishments for creating counterfeit but it's pretty hard to prove it and the vast majority of people you try to pass the bill to won't care enough to pursue it. EDIT: Just to expand this into something a little more interesting: crime in the US requires intent. Ignorance is not an excuse, but the prosecutor has to prove that you meant to commit a crime to convict you (with exceptions - liability claims don't require intent, nor does statutory rape sometimes). If the prosecutor can't prove you meant to commit a crime - for example, because you were given a fake bill without knowing - then you can't be convicted of a crime. Mind, you can still be arrested, which is why ignorance is not an excuse.
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explainlikeimfive/crbyjzc
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369fzp
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Why is internet speed measured in mbps but when I download stuff, it's measured in mBps?
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When you measure line speed, you're taking about bits per second. 8 bit bytes means you divide by 8. This doesn't quite give the whole story though. Because there will always be a degree of variance in the actual throughout you will get due to traffic, error connection (and positively, compression) etc. stating a throughout would be potentially very misleading. My broadband (Virgin Media cable) connection is 152mbit. This line speed doesn't change (unless there's a fault). DSL providers use the term 'up to' x mbit because the hardware isn't capable of a greater line speed than that. My 152mbit line has a theoretical Max throughout of 19MiB/s, I regularly see 18+ from it. Using on the fly compression COULD potentially see the 19 exceeded, however anything that readily compressed packet by packet probably isn't going to be large enough to make that sustainable. [I mention on the fly specifically above as it would be a nonsense to suggest downloading of pre-compressed data improves line speed]
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AskReddit/euk3415
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cgrk3e
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If you discovered that you had only 5 minutes left to live, what will you do with your remaining time?
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Record a video of myself telling my daughter I’m proud of her and all the good times we shared. Call my mom tell her she did an awesome job raising me. Tell my gf to look in my book bag because the ring I was going to give her was in there. And take the last 10 seconds to reflect that I’ve lived a mostly happy life.
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AskReddit/dh625zh
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69esau
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What toy from your childhood will be worth the most in 100 years?
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Not in a hundred years, but a couple of years ago I asked a friend to help me empty what used to be my childhood room. He found my old viewmaster and asked me if he could buy it from me for around $200 USD. I even told him he could take it for free (I was trying to get rid of most of my childhood toys at that moment), but he insisted he wanted to buy it. As far as I know it wasn't a particularly valuable model, the only reason he wanted to buy it is because he used to have one just like mine (even most of the same reels) and he was feeling extremly nostalgic so decided he HAD to have that one. Bottom line, easiest $200 I've ever got.
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AskHistorians/cg30n2k
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20gdxx
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How were anti-miscegenation laws justified during different time periods?
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Irene Silverblatt's Modern Inquisitions is a good read on this topic as it applies to colonial Peru. It examines the concept of "race thinking," i.e. the division of the world's peoples into distinct ethnic/cultural/genealogical groups, as a quintessentially modern phenomenon. She explains the strict "Indio," "Castellano," and "Negro" (Indian, Spanish, African) race divisions of the period as the result of the nascent bureaucracies. In particular, she focuses on the Inquisition as an institution that examined/governed/threatened all citizens equally and required demographic statistics, such as clearly defined races, to function properly. Silverblatt's source for much of her discussion on miscegenation is Guaman Poma's Nueva Cronica y Buen Gobierno. Poma was from an elite Quechua family and wrote extensive records on native life. He argued for the existence of three races (listed above) and three classes (nobility, commoner, peasant). These intersected to form nine sects, though two (noble negros and peasant Spaniards) were more theoretical than anything. For a stable society and government, these sects could not intermarry. The keyword: "purity." He argued that before the Spanish arrived, the Inca ran a stable society because only Indios had children together, and only within their respective classes. Despite no contact with the Church, they lived a more truly "Catholic" life of justice, charity, and chastity, just as the Spaniards did in Iberia. When the Castellians arrived, and brought with them Africans, the lascivious women could not keep to themselves and desired men of other races, causing a mixed and fragile society. (For all Guaman Poma did to preserve knowledge of pre-colonial Peru, he was never too respectful of women's self-control.) Guaman Poma proposed two solutions: *Residential separation: this ran in line with Viceroy Fransisco de Toledo's (grand architect of colonial social and economic engineering in the Viceroyalty of Peru) plans to divide urban domestic areas by race. Putting space between races would hopefully reduce affairs. *Legal rights for parental intervention: family lines were integral to Quechua culture, so Guaman Poma encouraged regulations that allowed patriarchs and matriarchs to arrange marriages to best suit their interests. He pointed to similar Inca regulations that maintained purity as the basis for his proposals. summarized from Silverblatt, Irene. Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. Duhram: Duke University Press, 2004. If you're interested in historical race relations, I highly recommend this book.
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AskReddit/ecmpmob
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a9ts8o
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If you had enough money that you never needed to work again, what would you do with your time and why?
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Hire escorts, smoke weed, travel, build a company that makes me money but also has an altruistic purpose, meet some really cool or interesting people to spend time with
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AskReddit/cyi4m3m
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3yzxh7
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What is something someone has done to you that they still feel guilty/apologetic about?
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When my mom was a young new mother, she accidentally let me get sunburned while I was in the stroller. She still feels really guilty about it and I like to joke about it cause most of my family is light skinned and I'm Moreno (brown skinned).
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AskReddit/dcpr8y2
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5paxxk
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What gets you excited?
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When my neurologist finally found the medicine combination which makes me seizure free. I was waiting. Days gone by. Weeks gone by. And i was so excited to go back for a control visit, and tell him it's working! It was amazing.
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AskReddit/egvllps
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asofva
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What's the thing that always helps you feel better when you are feeling down or going through a rough period?
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My therapist recommend I watch an episode or 2 of my favorite comedy. I'm now conditioned to watch The Office anytime I'm feeling down or anxious.
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AskReddit/drn5nf8
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7lljh3
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How did you meet your best friend?
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We became widows about a year apart and our preacher suggested we meet. Unbeknownst to the other, each of us said, "It takes more than being widows to have anything in common." Turns out we had a lot in common, and have been best friends longer than either of us was married.
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AskReddit/dvn4g7y
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846g1p
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How scared should we be that the post-WW2 (US-led) world order is changing?
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The leaders of the original countries that led the world have changed so drastically in their ethics and leadership ability that we were on a dangerous path any way you look at it . power corrupts and the longer one group has power the deeper the corruption goes.
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AskReddit/ciemp3r
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28ujeu
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What is your most hilarious camping experience ever?
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I went camping with my girlfriend at the time and a few of her friends. It was drizzling the whole time so I fought being cold with rum and beer. Somehow the tent got setup and a fire was made, but I was going to the point of no return. Everyone went to sleep except I'm to the point of puking and I know it. Not wanting to puke on her friends in a tent, I sleep in the car. I puke a lot near the car, on my shoes, and stumbling to the bathrooms, but never once in the toilet. I get back in the car and am told I'm being an awful person for letting them all freeze in the tent while I enjoy the car. They'll never know the vomit cannon I saved them from. TL;DR I had a terrible time from too much booze then thought I was being noble by sleeping in the car only to be scolded for not sleeping, and thus puking, in the tent. Should have just puked on them all.
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AskReddit/da1o3en
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5d3soq
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What is the creepiest non-paranormal thing that has ever happened to you?
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I live in a seaside town and there are a bunch of huge houses that sit on the coast, mostly occupied by rich folks. One day last week one of them totally burned down. The weird thing was this is a small town and I didn't hear anything about it from anyone. I decided to go to the house to see what state it was in as it was this huge old fashioned house. Not only was the house burned down but three cars were burned out, there were bullet holes in one of the cars windscreens and graffiti everywhere saying 'drug scum' and 'more 2 come'. Got such an eerie feeling being there and got out asap. No one knows what happened there.
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AskReddit/dhhw2e0
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6avrrx
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What's the most vivid dream you've ever had?
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I've once had a dream in which it was 9pm and someone rang my doorbell. I get up to answer it, I open the door and it's some guy wanting to come in. I don't know why, but I let him in and escorted him to the living room where my family was. The next thing I knew was this guy pulls a gun on me and shot me right in the chest. I fell to the floor, and had to watch my parents, sister, and Nana get brutally murdered as I layed on the floor paralysed. Ever since that dream whenever I hear the doorbell ring after the sun goes down I alwaysake sure I have something with me just in case. I've also since then have had similar dreams like this one on occasion.
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AskReddit/eubz61t
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cfrli8
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What is the strangest thing, someone you have met, did on a regular basis?
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I had a friend I visited once (we were about 14-15 I think Me being the oldest). He asked me if it was okay another one of his friends came by. I said okay and we hung out with this guy. At one point my friend left us alone in his room for a bit and this guy takes is socks off. Didn't think much of it until he proceeded to peel off dead skin from under his feet and eat it! He asked if I minded and I said no because I didn't want to be any trouble (just sat there disgusted in silence). He then told me I was the coolest girl he'd met and couldn't figure out why girls didn't like him (he was of course a bit strange in general). I was just too polite. Glad I never saw him again.
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AskReddit/e2hrj8w
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8zcztp
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What’s your best advice for a first-time Mom-to-be?
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Trust your instincts and don’t get lost in all the books and do this, do that. Being a mom is awesome! It’s hard, like everything else worth anything in life, it’s fun, it’s more than you could ever imagine. Believe in yourself!
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AskReddit/cpchqv6
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2yseqy
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If the British had won the Revolutionary War, what would America be like today?
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Probably your best guide is to look at other countries that were ethnically similar and which remained part of the British empire after the US went their own way. Australia and Canada are probably the most easily comparable Vs say India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa etc which all had significantly different ethnic make ups. >what would America be like today? More like Australia or Canada I would say.
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AskReddit/cbz7zqk
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1lh6rp
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What's a movie not in English you think everyone should watch?
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Night Watch, it's Russian Sci-fi comparable in scale and theme to something like Constantine. If you get a good copy of it, the subs actually have relevant special effects to the movie in parts.
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AskReddit/dkyjqoo
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6qnego
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What is the worst way/time that you found out about a loved ones death?
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I found out about my brother's death on a Sunday night. He was older and didn't live in the house with me and the parents, but we were expecting him for dinner that night. The phone call from his fiancé was devastating. My parents were not sure how to handle the news. They sent me and my sister to school the next day anyways, only to come back two hours later to pick us up and apologize profusely for sending us in the first place. No parent should have to outlive their child
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explainlikeimfive/cj1lx9f
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2b444a
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How were animated movies made without computers?
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Each frame of animation was hand drawn, then traced onto a transparent cel and painted, filling in the colours. Then that transparent cel was photographed against a background image (which might have been drawn in the same style, but was frequently painted instead: feature films tended to use painted backgrounds, while tv animation tended towards drawn ones). The process was (and is) very labour intensive. Some animation is still done using the basic techniques, but computers are involved in the process which simplifies and streamlines some of the process.
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askscience/c3ovqrx
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pf2u6
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How much of intelligence is purely genetic and how much is determined by environmental factors as a child?
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I'm assuming we're talking about IQ here, and our best measures of this construct are intellectual abilities tests. A statistically significant portion of IQ is affected by non biological properties. Just how much each of these factors (age, ethnicity, level of education, etc.) impact is specified in each of the test manuals. A common one is the Barona Index, which allows us to estimate someones premorbid IQ following an insult to the brain.
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AskReddit/d5iy2um
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4tnmwc
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What is the opinion you have,but dont tell it aloud as it might be politically incorrect?
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I'm not one of the people who avidly hate or criticise muslims, but my politically incorrect opinion is that Islam, at it's very core, is an aggressive religion. As far as I know, there are often references to holy wars against non-believers, most of the extremist terrorists groups in the world are interpretation of Islam, and whenever Muslims on TV are asked to explain or condemn Islam attacks, they never seem to say "this is horrible, we are ashamed to be seen like them", they always say "well i'm not a terrorist am I?" and make themselves to be the victim.
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AskReddit/c3u28r7
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q1zsk
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How detrimental to Apple's success would it be to either raise safety and occupational health standards for their manufacturing workers in China, or to move their manufacturing to the United States?
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According to Apple and other tech comp, it's not just cost, but also flexibility as they say. The entire tech industry and their suppliers are based in China. All the screw manufacturers, plastic, glass, etc. So if you need a bunch of x screws, you don't have to wait a month for it to shipped by sea or make it 10x more expensive by shipping via air. They also complain of lack of skilled labor. They can hire 10k engineers overnight. Lax labor law enforcement also allow them to wake up employees at the middle of the night to boost production. Not sure if I totally believe that. Amazon hires 15k temps every Nov. for Christmas. The NYT said it would take 6 months to find several thousand engineers in the US. Ultimately, the investors will not have it. The price of the widget may stay the same, but profit would drastically shrink, and there would be more delays. Would the public accept a product deployment pipeline that resembles Valve? (okay probably not that bad). This would then cost Apple billions in stock value.
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AskReddit/emkqigf
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bl0mec
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What's a memory that you have that makes you happy and sad at the same time?
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During college I failed an exam I had put a lot of effort in. It was the last day before summer vacation, so my friends decided it would be great to go to the beach that very afternoon and have a "farewell dinner" all together. I was so depressed I didn't want to go, but my gf insisted so much. I'm glad she did, because it was a great evening, so that's the happy part. But it's also sad because I remember how down I was and can't help but think: "You fool, you had everything. It was the first day of summer. You were young, you had an awesome group of friends, you had a pretty gf who loved you so much and yet there you were, unable to fully enjoy all that for a stupid exam you knew you'd pass eventually."
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askscience/dxi5t6z
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8cuac7
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How do other baryons behave inside atomic nuclei?
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>I've found quite a few interesting papers on hypernuclei which I am working through, but very little more easily digested material. Yes, this is what you're looking for. It's a relatively young area of research, and obviously a lot of it is theoretical rather than experimental. We understand QCD very well, but it's hard to calculate the properties of many-body systems directly from QCD. That's why when you look in the literature, only very light hypernuclei have been studied so far. Instead of starting from QCD, one can use an effective nucleon-lambda interaction to do "ab initio" calculations of light hypernuclei, but then that requires an understanding of how nucleons interact with lambda baryons. As for how other baryons behave in nuclei, they do basically the same thing that nucleons do. They undergo short-ranged interactions with nearby particles via the residual strong force. They occupy some set of orbitals, just like nucleons do. Although other baryons are not identical to nucleons, so there is no Pauli exclusion principle between nucleons and hyperons. The simplest observables that a theorist would try to calculate about some nucleus (hyper or otherwise) are binding energies, charge radii, etc. That's why you see theory papers calculating binding energies for hypernuclei. It may seem like a "boring" observable, but it's the first step for a nuclear structure theory to be able to calculate the binding energy.
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AskReddit/errln4e
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c3kc1e
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What is your favorite thing?
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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens brown paper packages tied up with strings these are a few of my favorite things
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AskReddit/dh7mqv2
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69m4v6
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Why don't people make as big of a deal about driving high, as they do about driving drunk?
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Long time smoker here. 7 years smoking probably 99% of the days. If driving high does anything, it just makes me paranoid that I'm doing something wrong. I've never been pulled over or have gotten in an accident while being high. Knock on wood. I'm very cautious and aware and my motor skills stay up to par. Being drunk however. You can be aware of the fact that you're driving like a dumbass and not be able to fix it.
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AskReddit/d92wf1n
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58si18
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Who are some of the nicest/meanest celebrities you have met?
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Matthew nicholls,drummer from bring me the horizon one of the most down to earth famous people I've ever met,we spoke about the band for a good 20 minuets and our passion for music, defiantly a top lad �
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AskReddit/czyj4l5
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45jzph
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What's the most uncomfortable movie scene?
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I saw Wolf of Wall Street with a girl and she actually almost threw up at the part when he slaps his wife, does some blow, upper cuts her in the stomach, grabs the kid, and tries to run for it. Her crying and freaking out made me uncomfortable. 10/10 would recommend the movie though
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AskReddit/emvccdb
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bmbjgn
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What’s your dream job?
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Basically my present job, but without some of the duties and for more money. I work for a law firm as a performance analyst. I gather statistics on how we're doing, run reports, and present it to the partners. Partner says "hey we're thinking about doing [x], would that be profitable?" I plug in numbers and see. I also track how the firm is doing, and how individual people are doing. I also cover accounts payable because we don't have anyone else doing that and I hate that part, but luckily we're hiring someone else to do that. Also, I want more cash. But other than that, it's pretty much a dream job. It's literally the exact same thing as I do in my free time, except that in my free time it's sports statistics, not lawyer statistics. So I guess if there's an equivalent position in the world of sport, I want that.
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AskReddit/em01d4k
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biein4
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What's the dumbest thing you've been pulled over by a cop for?
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In my podunk hometown I was pulled over three times within two miles for a broken headlight. The third time I had to refuse a search. Their reason omg for the search was the “suspicious size of what i claimed to be a phone”. The police were known for hassling teenagers but, in the end they all got their just deserts when half the force was fired for forging time.
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AskReddit/d8dab0w
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55sauj
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How do you deal with the lack of Inherent Meaning in Life?
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What are you talking about? Miracles happen all around you, happy endings are real, and you're your own hero. You're fighting dragons every day. I fell in love at first sight, and every day is a new adventure. By that metric, life is a fairy tale. I was dead sure I'd kill myself before I got to college, but I'm still here. How can I NOT believe there's meaning to this? All of this is too insane, too miraculous, too beautiful. Maybe this life is ars gratia artis, and life itself is the meaning of life, but I'm good with that. Have you read Life of Pi?
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explainlikeimfive/das2e26
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5gfhkd
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Why do we study history?
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One cannot understand the present without knowing the past. Studying history gives a person a unique insight into why the world of today looks the way it does. The world of today didn't just happen, countless of events, some large and obvious others small and easy to miss, melded together to create the world of today. Knowing what happened and why is paramount to knowing why the world is the way it is, and what can be do to change it. Knowing the past also makes it easier to predict the future. History has a tendency to repeat itself. Studying history lets you see the patterns and reasons for why things happened, and when you see those same patterns today you'll have an idea of what might happen. As for why you feel kind of empty, it's hard to say. Maybe you're studying history too superficially? Just learning dates and reading about things that happened isn't as interesting as understanding the whys and hows.
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AskReddit/excqxhh
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cs5trt
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What is addiction to "Gaming"?
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Whether it's gaming or anything else, addiction is when you become dependent on something, and it begins to negatively affect your life. You "can't" go a day without it; it affects your physical and/or mental health, your interpersonal relationships, etc.
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askscience/c89lnux
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17wwp1
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If the universe came from a singularity, which seems by definition to be homogenous, why is it currently heterogeneous?
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Short answer: quantum fluctuations. Longer answer: we don't know that much about the really early universe. Until the universe was ~42 thousand years old, nearly all of the energy in it was trapped in photons, which would periodically undergo particle / anti-particle divisions, but the universe was so dense that these pairs would quickly recombine with an appropriate partner to turn back into radiation. Even after this point, the universe was still opaque to radiation until ~380 thousand years old, which was the point at which (due to the expansion of the universe) the average temperature of the universe cooled to the point where it was energetically favorable for electrons and protons to bond together to form hydrogen atoms, allowing light to finally travel relatively unimpeded. (this is the origin of the cosmic microwave background) When you look at the cosmic microwave background (aka CMB, and is an extremely famous result that was awarded a nobel prize), you can see a number of features, but when you strip out many of them, you are left with a randomized pattern whose fluctuations can be calculated to be on the order of thermal irregularities from quantum fluctuations. As a final note, the difficulty with talking about the early universe being homogenous is that such a concept really doesn't exist at short distances / fast speeds. If you look closely enough at empty space, you begin to see particle / anti-particle pairs winking in and out of existence all over the place. The closer you look, the more massive these pairs can be. The issue at stake is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which also says that the uncertainty in your measurement in energy is related to the uncertainty in your measurement of time. Thus, if you want to know WHEN something happened precisely, you don't know how much energy it has, hence why these particle / anti-particle pairs can stick around for a bit of time, seemingly violating conservation of energy. Thus, the universe has never been truly homogenous, especially not when it was young.
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explainlikeimfive/cd69im2
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1purcr
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How can I get Obamacare?
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Obamacare isn't a thing that you can "get". It's a sweepings legal change that is properly called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly the Affordable Care Act, or ACA), and is simply affects how health insurance works. That said: >I am a 21-year-old college student. Part of the ACA makes it so that you can stay on your parents' insurance (that they get from their employer) until you're 26. They don't have to get you a separate insurance plan.
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AskReddit/dkz7jjx
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6qqgt0
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What is your most embarrassing elevator story?
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Not really embarrassing as much as funny. Lunch time in downtown St. Louis on a busy summer day. I worked in a high rise building of 37 floors. When my lunch break was over and time for me to return to my office I went to the main lobby and waited for the next elevator along with dozens of other people. When an elevator was available as many people as possible crammed into the space, with many people hollering their floors to the people next to the selection buttons to please push the respective floors they needed to get off on. Just as the doors were closing a homeless person squeezed in. She absolutely smelled unbelievable. I'm sure she hadn't had a bath in months. When the elevator reached the second floor everyone got off. Funny and sad at the same time.
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AskReddit/cd7qw6y
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1pzw33
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What are some tips for an 18 year old that just moved out of their parents house that they HAVE to know?
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Ive just moved to Uni, so Ill try and relate. Youll see comments relating to finance, and this is incredibly important. But make sure to have your five a day. When set meals start to falter, so does health. Try and make a plan of what to eat every day (this will also help with finance by buying only what you need.) Good luck!
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AskReddit/e6plhvq
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9j8tqb
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What was your senior prank?
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Some dudes decided it would be hilarious to spray paint dicks on the wall of a rival school, then drink and party in the field right outside of that school's main gate that morning while people we're coming to school. They were arrested, and called it our "senior prank"
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AskReddit/cw537lr
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3pc9wl
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What will happen if all mosquitoes suddenly disappear off the planet?
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You'd have a lot of starving fish/frogs. Mosquito larvae play a vital role in the bottom of the food chain and are a quick easy meal. The larvae also eat organic material in the water so they help purify it. As adults, mosquitoes are a source of food for birds, bats, frogs etc. Male mosquitoes generally feed off nectar and they help pollinate some plants. As bad as they are, they do serve some purpose. Source: Biologist
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AskReddit/crbtgr2
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3690x6
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If boxing with gloves cause more deaths than without, why couldn't regulators insist on weightless gloves given today's technology?
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Gloves protect your hands so you are more able to punch people in the head, which is more dangerous for the recipient. Before gloves, most hits were body shots do you didn't break your hands on your opponent's jaw. edit: Prepositions are hard
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Ask_Politics/dqvmt17
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7i17ui
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What is the benefit to the US to move our embassy to Jerusalem?
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Moving the embassy has almost zero benefit on an international level, but it is very beneficial on a domestic level. For starters, we already have a consulate in Jerusalem, and while that is technically different from an embassy, it won’t make much a difference in reality. The location of the embassy doesn’t really matter in terms of foreign policy or foreign relations anyway. That said, moving embassy will anger ever enemy of Israel in the region, as well as every friend of Palestine, not o mention their allies. So ultimately it will give us better relations with Israel, which were already very good anyway, but far worse relations with many of Israel’s neighbors. However, domestically, support Israel scores major points with the religious right. It will also take news time away from Russia, Roy Moore, disastrous tax plans, and whatever else Trump has done lately. Filling a campaign promise and “doing something Obama wouldn’t/couldn’t do” is very helpful for a Trump regime currently under intense fire.
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AskReddit/df2vywd
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600onl
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What is the best video game you've ever played?
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The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. I thought the game was near perfect before the expansion, but the Blood and Wine played on my love of beautiful music, scenery and folk tales even more that the main story does. (I genuinely have never played a game that's so visually stunning, to me Skyrim can't compare at all.) Combining this with the excellence of the entire game pre-expansion gives it the closest to a 10/10 I could give anything I've ever played. No other dark fantasy RPG has or will ever compare in my eyes.
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AskReddit/cr6imip
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35pfot
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If humanity wanted to crowd fund space exploration, what organization would be best to donate to?
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NASA is one option, sure. But SpaceX, run by Elon Musk or Virgin Galactic by Richard Branson are probably the two biggest commercial entities trying to conquer space that would do great with even more funding. NASA will make good short term use of funding, but they aren't profit oriented. Meaning that they rely very much on outside funding to keep going. Commercial endeavours like that of SpaceX and Virgin Galactic will use the funds not only to push farther ahead with technology development and such, they will also invest the money in a manner where it will earn them even more money down the line. They will be more self-sufficient. The future is in the hands of private corporations. And the first Trillionaire might just be a guy like Elon Musk if he keeps going with his plans and eventually manages to achieve things like space mining. People like him are our best bet at conquering space - at-least as so far as within our Solar System. (Anywhere farther is mostly science fiction at this point)
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AskReddit/cr1na6o
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35787q
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What does chloroform smell like?
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working in a lab which commonly uses chloroform, I never really gave it a good full sniff, but i did breath in a few vapors from minor spills from errant pipetting. and my experience so far is that it smelled like most organic solvents but with a rather sweet aroma. hope that'll answer your question
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explainlikeimfive/dqj2z5r
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7gh9ws
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If ESPN is failing, what does this mean for televised sports?
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NBA viewership and attendance is up in 2017, including games broadcast on ESPN, so the league isn't going anywhere. If ESPN were to disappear it would take one bidder out of the market to televise NBA games, so other networks like TNT or NBC Sports might have to pay slightly less, but the league would find another partner to televise games. ESPN's biggest issues aren't directly related to any issue with the sports themselves, but more that it's becoming increasingly irrelevant in the Internet era. SportsCenter used to be appointment viewing because it was the one place you could go to see highlights and scores from around the country; now, you can get all the highlights you want from your phone on NBA.com. It's similar to how the ability to watch any music video you want on YouTube killed the main draw of MTV.
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Ask_Politics/cz0finv
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418seq
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Why does Hillary Clinton want to be able to use gun manufacturers or sellers for gun violence?
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Because renting guns is more expensive long-term. JK, I know you meant "sue." This whole thing is basically policy theater. There's good case law that protects manufacturers from liability for unintended use of their products. The case given in my old business law class was that of a woman who locked herself in the trunk of her car while it was running in the garage to kill herself. It ran out of gas, and she ended up stuck there for some time. She tried to sue, but because the car wasn't supposed to be used to kill yourself, she lost. Since guns are supposed to be used to shoot people, the case law isn't perfect protection, but they could probably rest on the defense that a gun isn't supposed to be used for murder. The idea of deliberately exposing manufacturers to liability is really just something to appeal to the gun control interests.
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AskReddit/c5tct4o
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y8t9s
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What is the most abhorrent thing you have ever witnessed a parent/guardian do to a child as a punishment?
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Oh my actual god! I cannot imagine how scared this little boy must have been. Also, knowing he has to spend the rest of his childhood with someone like that as a "parent". I once saw a woman buying crates and crates of beer, full on scream at her toddler for daring to put crayons in with the shopping. I watched this woman make the little crying girl walk back to where she found the crayons, to put them back. I guess sometimes getting wasted is way more important than not neglecting your child .
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AskReddit/cx1ziso
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3t0f6n
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Why did you eavesdrop?
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Specifically, why did I eavesdrop in a particular situation? Because I wanted to know if my crush was talking about me. Generally, why do I eavesdrop on people I don't know? To learn how others talk and increase my chances of writing better dialogue.
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AskReddit/drh18ev
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7ktnnp
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What’s a computer trick you think everyone should know?
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Everytime you get that “blue selection” stuck in your text cursor that will cause you to overtype/replace everything when you just tried to fix something. Just press Insert to get rid of it. Most office workers don’t know it. and it’s a pretty basic yet useful ‘trick’ to know.
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AskReddit/enx4rnz
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bprxt2
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What song has aged terribly?
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Early 2000s was a dark age for a lot of music genres, but probably the worst was that trend where songs progressively became louder. A lot of good bands produced their worst music during that time, and it sound terrible today.
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