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ELI5: Why is the majority of ads played on Spotify advertising Spotify? | explainlikeimfive | 2o8o74 | 1 | true | false | 1 | I understand the ones advertising Spotify Premium, but why do the ads explain how to create a playlist, for example? Wouldn't it be more profitable for Spotify to sell the ad space instead of using it for obviously non-profitable ads? | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmkrsyg",
"comment_text": [
"I agree with you there but it's just the norm with most products, Dish advertises on everything, hell they even have their own channel dedicated to themselves lol"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmkrwmg",
"comment_text": [
"Yes but telling you how to use Spotify Free doesn't get them any income as far as I can tell, apart from more reaching for ads, but it is useless if their ads are pointless! I'm really confused"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmkrxkt",
"comment_text": [
"So why aren't all ads advertising Premium?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmkrxkt",
"comment_text": [
"So why aren't all ads advertising Premium?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmks1t8",
"comment_text": [
"That's a really good explanation, thank you very much."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELi:5 Why did the American Revolution succeed while so many others failed. | explainlikeimfive | 2ongls | 0 | true | false | 0.4 | For example the French Revolution and in more modern times many of the countries that were involved with Arab Sprimg. | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmor7n6",
"comment_text": [
"The object of the American Revolution was to establish a government that was independent of Britain. Whether or not you like the new government, that goal was accomplished. "
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmorbhq",
"comment_text": [
"The French Revolution was a massive success, why use it as an example?",
"There's been dozens of successful popular revolutions in the last 2 centuries. In the last century, many colonies have also peacefully separated from their colonizing countries. I'm n... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmorc3l",
"comment_text": [
"Revolutions just have a really low chance of success by nature. Often times, it is the \"weaker\" side rising up against the \"stronger\" side. For example, the Americans did not have their own standing army, and all of their resources were given to them by Brita... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmorw2v",
"comment_text": [
"Well, there were a ",
" of successful revolutions since the American one- all of the Latin American countries, Toussaint L'Overture's Haitian revolution, the French and Russian revolutions, the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland... it's a pretty long list, and mos... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cmoreqa",
"comment_text": [
"Also the communist revolutions succeeded in the Soviet Union and China. "
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: How did gay marriage make so much progress in only a year's time? | explainlikeimfive | 2q5eoh | 2 | true | false | 0.56 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn32a6v",
"comment_text": [
"Lawsuits. ",
"Lawsuits take a lot of time, and this was the cultivation of many years works. ",
"They realized that voting it in wasn't the way to go (even california voted against it) then when they realized that they could sue and it would be easier. ",... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn3424v",
"comment_text": [
"You know how a musician can spend decades honing their craft, only to get a #1 hit and be called an \"overnight sensation\"?",
"That's what happened with gay marriage. After a civil rights movement that began in the 1960s with the Stonewall Riots, and decade... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn3nezo",
"comment_text": [
"It didn't actually just happen in a year. It's been building for at least the last decade.",
"After the first few states started recognizing marriages of same gender couples, a lot of states passed gay marriage bans. This in hindsight may have actually sped u... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn4pjwo",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you! :) I was afraid it got too long for EILI5, I'm glad it worked."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn4psuo",
"comment_text": [
"Something that happened after I posted - the Supreme Court has announced that same gender marriage will be ",
".",
"This is part of that circuit court split - since the 6th circuit court ruled to uphold gay marriage ban while all others have rejected it, ... | ||
ELI5: With the losses of MH370 and QZ8501 in mind, is there any significant difference in safety between Boeing and Airbus aircraft? | explainlikeimfive | 2qq76d | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn8hyet",
"comment_text": [
"Both are greatly over engineered and if adequately maintained, should fly trough those conditions without problem. MH370 is suspected to be foul play, but in any case, it's almost always pilot error and miscommunication "
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn8k8bs",
"comment_text": [
"I agree but there is also some issue with the massive complexity of these aircraft, so much software and tech that the possibilities for totally unforseen system errors will only increase. Its not possible to check every single possible eventuality there fore we ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn8lt8o",
"comment_text": [
"Yes they are very complex machines, but they're designed so that the pilot knows the status of all systems, real time. For most new Boeing planes, Boeing knows the status of the airplane while its flying. ",
"How often do you hear stories like these about maj... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn8moac",
"comment_text": [
"Yes the training was mentioned by an expert in the media (sorry no details to hand) basically he said the training is still old school pilot training with all the modern stuff kinda ad-hoc'ed in there, it is quite a mish mash... They are going to need to complete... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn8m7vk",
"comment_text": [
"Its not possible to check every single possible eventuality there fore we could in theory be sitting on a problem, only time will tell.",
"And this is why many planes usually have triple redundant and sometimes quadruple redundant systems and are tested for t... | ||
ELI5:why do we know more about outer space than we do our own oceans? | explainlikeimfive | 3uz4zs | 4 | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxixuve",
"comment_text": [
"Do we? That is quite subjective."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxj7oir",
"comment_text": [
"I know what you're getting at. Space is pretty easy to see. We can see loads of it with the naked eye and small telescopes. We can see even more of it with really big telescopes and radiotelescopes and we can work out a lot of it using data and mathematics. ",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxiy1f0",
"comment_text": [
"In percentages they're not even comparable, you're probably thinking of the expression \"We know more about the moon than we know about our oceans\", which is correct, as it's a lot easier to chart a small moon with no oceans."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxiyrwk",
"comment_text": [
"At night, stand in your backyard, can you see the oceans? I bet you can see the night sky..."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxiy62j",
"comment_text": [
"Christ, the sea would be a ",
" scarier place if we knew less about it than space..."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: What is Dark Matter? | explainlikeimfive | 3vd4xc | 2 | true | false | 0.75 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxmgtwe",
"comment_text": [
"It is a hypothetical form of matter that we don't know much about, but we can see the effects of. A few decades ago, an astronomer was plotting the speeds of stars around the galaxy. They saw a drop off in speed as you got further away from the galaxy as might be... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxmhdwa",
"comment_text": [
"axion theory",
"looked it up. it's a theoretical explanation as to why quantum chromodynamics (the way quantum particles of different \"color\" interact) doesn't violate charge parity. it's some incredibly deep quantum physics and i am not a quantum physicist... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxmixie",
"comment_text": [
"Ah, thanks. I'll remember to search next time."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxmmh1a",
"comment_text": [
"While thanks for the explanation, I looked it up to write the original explanation, and I couldn't make sense of it enough to write one. The same is true for a lot of topics that pop up here like general relativity. Haven't been able to wrap my head around that e... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxmivca",
"comment_text": [
"Thanks for the reply"
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: Bad KI in games? | explainlikeimfive | 3vuauq | 0 | true | false | 0.33 | I'm pretty sure designing a good KI is pretty hard but why? Is it difficult to program a clever AI or to not program a too clever KI because as a computer its clearly better than you? | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxqs1m6",
"comment_text": [
"It needs to be fun to play against, as well. You can easily make an AI that just shoots you in a millisecond every game, but what's the fun in that? Games can only get so complicated before you get frustrated, because the AI isn't restricted by human thinking tim... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxqq53a",
"comment_text": [
"Incidentally, whats a KI?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxqq8n4",
"comment_text": [
"German for AI... which OP didn't realize, I guess. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxr92e6",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah exactly. I'm sorry "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxqrrip",
"comment_text": [
"AI is very difficult to build.\nComputers like to work logically and linearly.",
"You basically have to program in everything.",
"Although you can see a game world, identify objects, identify shapes and paths an AI cannot do that.",
"If there is somet... | |
ELI5: Why do American radio stations have such weird names, namely just strange combinations of letters like WBEZ or CFRM or K-PAX or KGB? | explainlikeimfive | 2q75li | 212 | true | false | 0.85 | Just asking. Tried googling a bit as well but couldn't find any satisfying answers. | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn3h91b",
"comment_text": [
"The letters are the call sign. It's just the identifier for a particular radio station. There are ",
" always four letters. WXKP 107.1 in New York. KROQ 106.7 in Los Angeles.",
"The FCC regulates radio stations in the US so the stations have to give o... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn3ic5r",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah, stations are commonly called by nicknames like \"Hot 95.5\" or the like. KBEQ 104.3 is called \"Q104\". WKFJ might be \"The J\". KBOB might be \"Bob 101\" or whatever.",
"Each station gives themselves a cute name like this for branding. The name ca... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn3k10x",
"comment_text": [
"Unless you're KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA"
],
"score": 32
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn3kp62",
"comment_text": [
"And those nicknames do a hell of a job as branding tools. Z100 in the NYC area? I couldn't tell you what station number or callsign that is for the life of me, but it's the biggest station in the metro area and everyone has it pre-programmed in their cars.",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cn3kkle",
"comment_text": [
"Or WDAY in Fargo, ND"
],
"score": 16
} | |
ELI5: Why publicly known criminals, e.g. drug dealers are not in jail? | explainlikeimfive | 3xbnmo | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | Got inspiration from this post, about 'rapper' 'stitches': So he's very young, but is throwing cash all around himself (driving exotic cars), beating (or trying to) people up in public, etc. In the same thread many says, that all the big money comes from selling drugs, for which he is known for. The main question, how ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy38j8k",
"comment_text": [
"Mostly because there is a difference between \"everyone knows that...\" and \"It can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law that...\".",
"Just because everyone thinks something is true does not actually mean it really is true.",
"With rappe... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy3byce",
"comment_text": [
"Easy. You have a big company funding you giving you car and money and telling you to lie and say you're a poor kid from the streets that got rich selling drugs."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy39ybx",
"comment_text": [
"+1 agree.",
"Though does such bad rap, can create such large income in such short time? ",
"That guy is active for no more than a couple years, but has garage of cars, more expensive than a 2 year salary of $250/hour accountant. Or is it just another part... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy3bzhg",
"comment_text": [
"plausible."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy387t7",
"comment_text": [
"I mean, in the cases of musicians a lot of it is about creating an image for yourself right? I'm not going to pretend to know a damn thing about who that guy is, but it's possible he's like many other rappers who have lyrics that aren't actually indicative of the... | |
ELI5: Why the Ottomans were considered so lazy | explainlikeimfive | 3xo43l | 0 | true | false | 0.33 | Title | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6cql4",
"comment_text": [
"It is not really that they were considered lazy. It is that they were not as quick to adopt the advances of the industrial revolution and that their Empire was is slow decline because of that. The final nail in the coffin was losing WWI. "
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6drgq",
"comment_text": [
"Slow industrialization, Colonization of the America's gave Europe a huge boost that the Ottomans did not expect and cold barely catch up to. The Suez canal also meant that Europe was no longer dependent on Ottoman trade. In the late 19th century the Balkan region... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6dcw2",
"comment_text": [
"It's a commonly held stereotype that Mediterranean people are lazy, Ottomans are not the exception in this case."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6diwn",
"comment_text": [
"The Ottoman Empire from the 19th to 20th century was also seen as the \"Sick man of Europe\" due to its declining Empire, old age and an industry that was nearing a halt. Ottoman control was slowly dying in Europe like that of a sick man."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6dkt6",
"comment_text": [
"What was the cause of its decline?"
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: How does Santa Claus deliver so many presents in one night? It just seems impossible... | explainlikeimfive | 3xo5w1 | 1 | true | false | 0.55 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6c8rd",
"comment_text": [
"well, luckily many many years ago scientists thought this out. What you haven't learned yet in school are Timezones. These divided sections of earth allow Santa to deliver presents to all the good boys and girls in the world in one night. ",
"For example, it ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6catq",
"comment_text": [
"Rain deer can't run on jet fuel"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6catq",
"comment_text": [
"Rain deer can't run on jet fuel"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6c6c6",
"comment_text": [
"Here's an examination of the technical issues involved:",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNaEM2O5pU"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cy6chds",
"comment_text": [
"Are you really questioning Santa 4 days before Christmas. ",
"What else do you do for fun - play tag with trucks, maybe tell your wife you really are not listening.",
"If you are reading this Santa, we are not all sceptics. I is a good boy.",
"repost ... | ||
ELI5: Once melted why can't snowflakes turn back into snow. | explainlikeimfive | 3yogr3 | 6 | true | false | 0.8 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyf6ksy",
"comment_text": [
"They can be turned into snowflakes if they are formed in the same way, but snowflakes only form the way they do because they are grow from tiny droplets freezing high up in the air. If they are on the ground or in a big falling rain-drop, they will freeze into f... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyf9sy6",
"comment_text": [
"Thanks for responding. "
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyf6wvj",
"comment_text": [
"A snowflake starts when a bit of water freezes onto a dust particle and crystallizes. As it continues to fall, more water crystals form, building on the surfaces of the crystals, which is why they have symmetrical shapes. If the built up snowflake melts on the wa... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyfcgrl",
"comment_text": [
"Too much complicated icy science on other comments. Or maybe I'm just tired.",
"Anyways, that stuff does its snowflake thing higher up I think.\nOnly way is to recreate that environment I'd bet or let the melted flakes evaporate.",
"Technically, they can ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyfaxc2",
"comment_text": [
"I thought snow formed when water vapour sublimated into tiny ice crystals. If tiny droplets were to freeze, wouldn't they form hail?"
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5:Why does iced coffee tend to cost more than hot coffee when you typically get less coffee when it's iced? | explainlikeimfive | 3wjdwa | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxwmc19",
"comment_text": [
"Properly made cold brewed iced coffee has a completely different flavor than hot brewed coffee, and takes a much more time to make.",
"Now if you're just referring to placing ice cubes in hot brewed coffee and adding some sweetener to it - which is what a lot... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxwm8cf",
"comment_text": [
"Because it's trendy, and as you already explained, you get less for more and therefore the profit margins are bigger."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxwmi0b",
"comment_text": [
"Well. TIL."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxwnwvn",
"comment_text": [
"They actually double brew it (two bags of coffee instead of one) and put it in a special thermal pot. Then above proceeds. Ice, double coffee, flavored sugar syrup of your choice. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cxwm99x",
"comment_text": [
"Because it takes more time to make. Iced coffee is made by steeping coffee grounds in cold water for about 12 hours, after which the coffee grounds are filtered from the liquid."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: Why do people hate unions? | explainlikeimfive | 2idlq0 | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cl17nmi",
"comment_text": [
"Because they have been demonized by employers for well over a century now. An employer's strategy for dealing with unions always comes down to two basic approaches: ",
" Turn the public against the union by blaming any increase in price, decline in quality o... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cl1923y",
"comment_text": [
"Unions are a threat to oligarchs, so oligarchs use propaganda against them."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cl17muw",
"comment_text": [
"because collective bargaining results in better work conditions and wages for its members. when business owners make poor decisions and start to lose money they then like to blame the unions for their costs rather than blame themselves for their poor decisions. N... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cl1a7bi",
"comment_text": [
"Just as bad? When is the last time unions cost the economy ",
"$6-14 trillion dollars in the space of 5 years",
"? When is the last time unions put ",
"20 million people out of work",
" in 2 years? "
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cl18str",
"comment_text": [
"As I understand, different areas will lend themselves to different climates with unions, but in my city the unions have gotten really big and powerful, and there's a lot of backlash against them. I can provide a few reasons."
],
"score": 2
} | ||
ELI5: Why can we test drive cars but not homes? | explainlikeimfive | 3ys6n5 | 0 | true | false | 0.17 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyg460p",
"comment_text": [
"Two reasons.",
"Firstly, a major part of buying a car is knowing that it's mechanically sound, and there are some things you just can't tell without driving it. When buying a house, you should get a survey done which has the same effect of finding problems...... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyg4x7b",
"comment_text": [
"I can't see how a one-night stay in a house would necessarily highlight bad neighbours. Except for possibly noise issues, you're unlikely to experience issues on such a short stay.",
"You'd have much more success finding out about neighbours by knocking on do... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyg5px9",
"comment_text": [
"Your real estate agent doesn't know this either. There's no bad neighbor watch list, and the things that annoy you might not matter to the person who lived there before so they don't even think to notice. "
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyg4h8w",
"comment_text": [
"This is something some places allow I have seen it offered several times before"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyg4fzm",
"comment_text": [
"And I'm indicating that the question needs rephrasing, because I see the two systems as being equal. Test driving a car is about the same as walking through an open house. Apart from needing to look past other people's stuff hanging around."
],
"score": 2
} | ||
ELI5: How is public intoxication and drinking in public a crime if selling alcohol at a public place/event is legal? | explainlikeimfive | 2k0z49 | 1 | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_clgvy0u",
"comment_text": [
"\"Drinking in public\" covers places where you're not allowed to drink. Sure, you can drink in a bar but if you're walking around downtown with a bottle of whiskey in the open, you're probably in some trouble.",
"\"Public intoxication\" isn't having a little... | {
"comment_id": "t1_clgwdmk",
"comment_text": [
"singing along to the Backstreet Boys and high-fiving all your friends is not.",
"Depends on where you are :P"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_clhd4jz",
"comment_text": [
"So not cool at JT's house.."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_clgvy7b",
"comment_text": [
"Just because a place or an event is open to the public doesn't mean it's a public event. Someone owns, rents, or reserves the venue, and has the permits necessary to sell alcohol. Drinking to the point of intoxication and then becoming a nuisance on the public ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_clgwe41",
"comment_text": [
"Okay, here's what I'm getting.",
"What is public intoxication?",
"\"Public intoxication laws require that the defendant be in a public place, rather than a private residence or other area that is not open to the general public. Examples of public places i... | ||
ELI5: In the biblical stories. Why was Cain pictured as the bad son for killing his brother Abel if the Ten Commandments has not been established yet, therefore, Cain had no prior understanding the murder is bad? | explainlikeimfive | 2k47jd | 0 | true | false | 0.45 | {
"comment_id": "t1_clhqdfg",
"comment_text": [
"Sin existed before the ten commandments were laid down. The ten commandments were the final codification but even Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden for sinning."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_clhqsi9",
"comment_text": [
"Sin existed as \"defiance or disobedience of the word of God\" prior to Adam and Eve, however they were explicitly forbidden from performing the action they did - eating the forbidden fruit. This is why they were cast out of Eden. Murder, which had yet to be defi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_clhr5um",
"comment_text": [
"I believe it is in the gospels that Jesus points out that the 10 commandments were only written down because the Hebrews at the time we're being cunts about the whole \"be decent human beings\" thing and specifically asked God for a list of things he wanted from ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_clhq9ng",
"comment_text": [
"You don't need the Ten Commandments to know that killing somebody is wrong."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_clhqt25",
"comment_text": [
"My own understanding is that technically, the only sin committed was disobeying god from eating out of the tree of knowledge. No set rules had been established yet therefore, acts of murder may have been done out of ignorance. If murder was already considered \"b... | ||
ELI5:Why can't the police be privatized but attorneys almost exclusively are? | explainlikeimfive | 3jhk3t | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cup8wki",
"comment_text": [
"This is an odd comparison question.",
"There are more public attorneys than private ones: they're public defenders. ",
"But the police (and there are private security firms) is a different story. We as a civil society agree to the rules that we are to abi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cup8oii",
"comment_text": [
"They can absolutely hire a security company on top of the police force for their area. That can be anything from cameras, alarms, (armed) bodies on the ground, etc. Many times these are off-duty or retired police officers, etc due to ease of licensing (if your ar... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cup8rfx",
"comment_text": [
"They totally could and some do fund their own police force. It is called ",
"private police",
", and can range from not much more than simple security guards with no real arrest powers to a full police officer for their contracted area."
],
"score": 1... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cup9j8h",
"comment_text": [
"Prosecutors and public defenders are (mostly) employed by the government. Prosecutors have the obligation to act not only in their interest, but in the public interest. Most private attorneys only have the obligation to represent their client zealously.",
"G... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cupch6y",
"comment_text": [
"Watch Robocop and you'll see (although very fictionalized and over the top) reasons why you don't want a large corporation running a city, including a police department.",
"You don't want a police department being a private for-profit entity. You think they ... | ||
ELI5: Is flying from Berlin to New York technically faster than flying from New York to Berlin? | explainlikeimfive | 3k385a | 2 | true | false | 1 | Since Earths rotation. And how much faster is it? And for the sake of the argument let's say we are flying 400km/h. | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuud826",
"comment_text": [
"I think just the opposite. The jet stream moves west to east, which gives flights in that direction tailwinds that allow the jet to move more quickly."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuud8vr",
"comment_text": [
"Scheduled flight times are typically shorter going from New York to Berlin because of the prevaling wind direction of the jet stream in the northern hemisphere. Nonstop eastbound flights are scheduled for 7.75 hours while nonstop westbound flights have a schdule... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuud9dp",
"comment_text": [
"The atmosphere is rotating with Earth so earths rotation will not affect an object moving inside the atmosphere."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuuf4ko",
"comment_text": [
"You are on a train going at some speed , you throw a ball up in the air , it comes back down in your hand right? The fact the train is moving doesn't push the ball. So if you throw it at your friend at the other end of the carriage it spends the same amount of ti... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuuj9nz",
"comment_text": [
"Since Earths rotation.",
"Because if you're flying ",
" the Earth's rotation you must be flying faster to cover the same distance?",
"One of the things that Einstein's theories of relativity taught us that there is no such thing as an absolute speed: ... | |
ELI5: The Iran deal | explainlikeimfive | 3jqxwg | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_curjbmw",
"comment_text": [
"The Republicans are mad about it because wealthy pro-Israeli donors to their election campaigns are mad about it.",
"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-gop-candidates-kiss-up-to-billionaire-sheldon-adelson/2014/04/01/5ba335dc-b9dc-11e3-9a05-... | {
"comment_id": "t1_curjeq5",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you.",
"But what is the deal?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_curjnyb",
"comment_text": [
"The deal is to restrict the amount of enriched uranium Iran is allowed, which can be used for nuclear power and.. you guessed it, nuclear missiles.",
"supposedly Iran was close to making a nuclear weapon (3-4 months), which considering Iran's position on the ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_curjym6",
"comment_text": [
"supposedly Iran was close to making a nuclear weapon (3-4 months",
"Iran was supposedly just months away from making nukes for about 30 years",
"Iran's position on the holocaust",
"You really shouldn't believe whatever you're told.",
"You do know ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_curniie",
"comment_text": [
"Condemning all of Iran because of the outlandish positions of religious nutbags is the same as saying the Westboro Baptist Church represents all Americans."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: DJs nowadays get a lot of hate for not being "true" DJs. What is the difference between what DJs used to do and what they do now? | explainlikeimfive | 3lgafo | 0 | true | false | 0.46 | Obviously, technology has improved, but it seems to me the same elements of being a DJ are there. You play a song, you transition to another, you add some effects where you can. I know this is oversimplifying what DJs do, but I don't get why it's "sooo much easier" to be a DJ nowadays. | {
"comment_id": "t1_cv615mw",
"comment_text": [
"The trope is that DJs can create entire playlists, including transitions and effects now and just hit \"play\" when they get to whatever event they're DJing at. ",
"In the Olden Days they had to actually put the vinyl on the record players, spin them up, manu... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cv61sbg",
"comment_text": [
"DJs would also do complex beat matching between records by hand which is very hard to do."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cv622o0",
"comment_text": [
"In the past, it was a lot more equipment and resource intensive. You had to set up turntables, bring a truckload of records, and know exact where each track was on each record, ready to play. You'd also have to transition smoothly from one song to another, whic... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cv64sh1",
"comment_text": [
"It's a ton easier because of beat matching and vinyls vs sound files. Beat matching is when you seamlessly transition from one song to another matching it's tempo and beat to make it seem like one song. In the past this takes listening to the song being played ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cv69azo",
"comment_text": [
"A lot of people use the term producer and DJ interchangeably...in reality these mean different things. A producer makes music, while a DJ mixes records live and some famous producers are notoriously bad DJ's.",
"While I understand and support a lot of critici... | |
ELI5:Why is the use of gas in war so important to prove when we have facts that innocent people are being killed with ferocious violence with guns or torture. | explainlikeimfive | 3k34xr | 37 | true | false | 0.73 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuucqkp",
"comment_text": [
"Gas warfare is against international law. it has been outlawed since the end of WWI. No nation approves of the use of poison gas by any other nation. It is a weapon of mass destruction which cannot be aimed at a specific target such as at fighters.",
"Torture... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuudcdw",
"comment_text": [
"Chemicals are deemed especially cruel and inhumane. The pain of chemical death is much much worse than getting shot. "
],
"score": 26
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuudtt9",
"comment_text": [
"Gas is a particularly painful and cruel way to die. It can also contaminate the area where it is used for years afterward. Guns and bullets don't have that problem."
],
"score": 16
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuuga4u",
"comment_text": [
"Gas is indiscriminate. You shoot a bullet at an enemy soldier, maybe that was right, maybe it was wrong. You release gas, and it also kills unarmed men, women, and children. Dogs, cats, and livestock . . . true non-combatants. It's \"careless ethics\"."
],... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cuulm68",
"comment_text": [
"Little Timmy and Johnny are fighting during recess. Johnny cut in line and took the last apple juice. Timmy won't stand for that injustice. The rest of the first graders gather to watch, and to make sure no one breaks the rules; no sticks, no rocks, no dog doo.",... | ||
ELI5: How do electronics connect to satellites and how do different rays say different things? | explainlikeimfive | 3lz5zw | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvakxe6",
"comment_text": [
"Let's play pretend. I have a flashlight and it can shine with 4 different colors of light. When I shine the red light on you, you stop moving. When I shine the green light on you, start moving. When I shine the white light on you, lay down. When I shine th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cval5os",
"comment_text": [
"Actually the satellites behave more like a mirror for this analogy- they don't send the message or interpret it- they bounce it like light on a mirror so it can be seen somewhere that the light can't go directly."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvak0jv",
"comment_text": [
"Think of it like a radio that could also talk back to a radio transmitter tower. It's using frequencies that are quite a bit higher than FM radio though (~1500 MHz vs ~100 MHz). The \"radio\" in this case knows how to understand the information it is given."
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvakim6",
"comment_text": [
"Eli5 please"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cval8s2",
"comment_text": [
"This is an amazing explanation for a five year old. "
],
"score": 2
} | ||
ELI5: Why are so many people smoking crack or just getting high in the USA, and not in Europe? | explainlikeimfive | 3lyw34 | 0 | true | false | 0.2 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvahhcz",
"comment_text": [
"As far as I know, there is no significant difference in the drug habits of Americans vs Europeans. "
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvalnhk",
"comment_text": [
"Not that many people in America smoke crack, in absolute terms. You are allowing movies to get in the way of your perception of reality. "
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvahrgw",
"comment_text": [
"China and India are the only two countries with more people"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvajknv",
"comment_text": [
"I am sure there are plenty of people who smoke crack in Europe. \nIsn't that Ed Sheeran song \"The A-team\" about crack?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cvahihl",
"comment_text": [
"To be fair, the US also has a larger population of ",
" than most, if not ",
", of the countries in Europe."
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: Why aren't single-player and multiplayer versions of games sold separately? | explainlikeimfive | 2ra2yw | 0 | true | false | 0.14 | I am not into multiplayer, some people on the other hand want only multiplayer. Why can't we be given an option to buy one or the other or both? Why the hell am I paying full price for a game half of which I will never play? | {
"comment_id": "t1_cndwkll",
"comment_text": [
"Because they'll make more money selling the full product then selling two half products. This is hardly the only example of products you can't pick and choose how much of it to pay for. You can't buy Microsoft Office but want to only pay 99.9% because you never... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cndwvms",
"comment_text": [
"Why the hell am I paying full price for a game half of which I will never play?",
"For the same reason that you pay full price for a game that you never beat. Or why you pay full price for a car when you don't carry any passengers, meaning that most of the s... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cndwrz8",
"comment_text": [
"That's actually a bad example. The Office has different versions. Home, Personal, etc. All with different options.\nI want the same for games. I want the Light version with singleplayer campaign only. \nAnd actually this would make sense economically because peop... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cndwajr",
"comment_text": [
"If you still bought it, that's really why. It makes more economical sense.",
"Also calling it half is hardly fair, it's far more complex than that. There's a huge amount of the underlying system you need for either or both. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cndwjyl",
"comment_text": [
"I didn't buy it. That's the whole problem. ",
"I understand that both modes are written into one another. Fine, let me download both but disable multiplayer options for me. If having both on and running is absolutely crucial for a title then fine, this title ... | |
ELI5: Do caterpillars know that they are going to become a butterfly? If so, how? | explainlikeimfive | 2s1498 | 18 | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnl7pfl",
"comment_text": [
"It's a common mistake that people sometimes make to try to apply human levels of intelligence to insects.",
"Insects are not self-aware. A caterpillar does not even know that it is a caterpillar. It is aware of the general shape of the surface it's on, and it... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnlbyxu",
"comment_text": [
"They aren't even really situationally aware. You could pick them up as they move towards a food source and put them down in the same space a hundred times, and they won't vary their strategy. ",
"You can use a fake food source, and insects that normally feed ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnlbyxu",
"comment_text": [
"They aren't even really situationally aware. You could pick them up as they move towards a food source and put them down in the same space a hundred times, and they won't vary their strategy. ",
"You can use a fake food source, and insects that normally feed ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnlc0qt",
"comment_text": [
"Great answer, I've always viewed insects like little biological robots. "
],
"score": 7
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnl72kp",
"comment_text": [
"Think of the process this way: did you know when you were going to hit puberty growing up? Or did you even know before somebody told you it would happen?",
"It's the same here. One day, hormones go off in the caterpillars body, and this leads to the chain of ... | ||
ELI5 How is Steam able to cut game prices to nearly 100% during its sales? | explainlikeimfive | 2s9o4l | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | What percentage of the money thats made actually goes to the developers and how much of a cut does steam get? And how is it possible to get all those games at such ridiculously low prices? | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnng3zd",
"comment_text": [
"Cause everyone already buys dozens, and even sometimes hundreds of games, only to play like 3 of 'em."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnng426",
"comment_text": [
"Because it really doesn't cost anything to sell a game. It's not like if you go to the store and buy a banana, the store will lose that banana you buy. But a digital game can be copied an infinite amount of times to basically no cost at all.",
"So it's just u... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnnixap",
"comment_text": [
"Can confirm, I bought \"Don't Starve\" for pennies on one sale because it looked neat and have since bought 4 copies at full price (or close to) for friends because it's a fantastic game."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnng5u3",
"comment_text": [
"Steam gets a 30% cut of every sale. All discounts on games are set by the publisher/developer and not Valve alone. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnng8l0",
"comment_text": [
"It hits a point where it saturates the market for a particular game at a reasonable price. Once it gets here, as it costs nothing to actually sell any more of that game, it can lower the price significantly to attract the casual gamer who isn't bothered about hav... | |
ELI5: How can you believe pokerstars is not rigged? | explainlikeimfive | 2t933f | 0 | true | false | 0.4 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnwvulk",
"comment_text": [
"First time I read this, I was thinking of World Poker Tour (or any other major televised poker event) and not online poker. It made way more sense once we were on the same page lmao"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnww5f6",
"comment_text": [
"It's not that much more action packed than in real life.",
"It may seem that way because you play a lot more hands online than in real life, so the craziness will happen more often, and also because you are already on the internet so it's easier to rant and r... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnwwpqg",
"comment_text": [
"i am aware that all hands have occurred, i am questioning the large percentage of these crazy hands and how i feel the game adapts to the players who are in."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnx0y9j",
"comment_text": [
"Please post this in ",
"/r/changemyview",
", as you already have an opinion on the matter which you are looking to have confirmed or challenged.",
"Removed."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cnwxlc1",
"comment_text": [
"1) you've probably agreed to some terms and conditions somewhere, in which they in some tongue-twisting manner explain that this is their representation of poker, or maybe they just don't state anywhere that this is actual poker. +there wouldn't have to be a larg... | ||
ELI5:The differences between Norway, Sweden, and Finland for someone looking to move there. | explainlikeimfive | 3s6cpv | 2 | true | false | 0.75 | Hi! I'm thinking cultural, governmental, education, and employment comparisons of each country. I know this is a HUGE question, so any feedback is appreciated. I'm looking to move there after graduate school, so I'm interested in things that would be important to know about living there as a foreigner. All I know i... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cwugwmc",
"comment_text": [
"an incomprehensible moon language that nobody else speaks",
"Indeed, the Finns barely speak when they can help it."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cwugm15",
"comment_text": [
"Are you from an EU country? If not, you might want to start by looking into visa and residency requirements. I've heard its fairly difficult if you're coming from somewhere else."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cwuh3c3",
"comment_text": [
"Immigrating into the EU to work is a bit of an arse unless you actually have a job somewhere. What with the recent events, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of countries start tightening their laws. Best to start researching work permits I'd say."
],
"score": ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cwugubt",
"comment_text": [
"One difference is that the Finns have an incomprehensible moon language that nobody else speaks, while Swedish and Norwegian are fairly similar to other Germanic languages.",
"That said, English is widely spoken all over Northern Europe."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cwugpei",
"comment_text": [
"US resident here. Scandinavia churns out a lot of leaders in the Peace and Conflict field which is what I'm currently studying. I've heard (no idea if this is true) that the more niche of a specialization you have with regards to employment makes the visa/resid... | |
ELI5:Why is our government (aka the taxpayers) required to pay interest to the Federal Reserve for every currency note issued? | explainlikeimfive | 32chhy | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | It seems as if this creates a system where the government is perpetually in debt to banks, instead of using them as a vehicle to promote free trade. | {
"comment_id": "t1_cq9x6io",
"comment_text": [
"I think you are confused about how all this works. Any profit the Federal Reserve makes is required by law to be paid to the US government. In 2010 (most recent data I saw with a one minute search) the Fed paid the US Government 79 Billion dollars in profits.",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqa0r1w",
"comment_text": [
"Except when banks borrow money from the fed at 0 percent and use it buy government bonds at 2.75 percent."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqfqrf2",
"comment_text": [
"How often does this occur though? It's my understanding that a great deal of the money borrowed from the FED is sitting stagnant in private banks reserves."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqfqou4",
"comment_text": [
"Thanks for your response, prodded me towards more research, what I found was that although the FED technically is required to return earned interest to the US government, the numbers don't add up and there are experts who consider it highly probable that a great ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cq9wxbu",
"comment_text": [
"Our government gave away there right to create money they gave all that power to the federal Reserve. So technically the reserve loans the money to all the banks (to loan to us) and our government and charges a intrest rate for it. "
],
"score": 0
} | |
ELI5: Are stores legally allowed to sell expired products, especially food? | explainlikeimfive | 33gap9 | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | I ask because I just came home from the grocery store. While I was there I picked up some snacks that were discounted 50% off. As I am eating them I look at the expiration date and it is from last month, March. | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqkmg1d",
"comment_text": [
"I read-",
"Did you know that a store can sell food past the expiration date?\nWith the exception of infant formula, the laws that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) administers do not preclude the sale of food that is past the expiration date indicated on... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqkp4na",
"comment_text": [
"Where is this place you speak about?",
"I have seen stores throwing stuff into the dumpsters, because they are past the best by date. They are legally bound to ",
" give them out, for some reason. "
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqkm8hc",
"comment_text": [
"snacks just go stale. Milk or meat might be an issue and those are almost never sold"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqkm8w8",
"comment_text": [
"I believe they can't sell products that have passed the \"Use by\" date but they can sell \"best before\" products."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqkmbnc",
"comment_text": [
"I bought a bottle of red wine and it was 72 years out of date, I poured it down the sink"
],
"score": 3
} | |
ELI5: Why is blasphemy not a crime in western countries, but sending offensive/gross text messages (no images) to a woman a crime? | explainlikeimfive | 29jtwk | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cilln3n",
"comment_text": [
"Offending or harassing a god is blasphemy.",
"Offending or harassing a woman is harassment.",
"Blasphemy is not a crime because gods are not real.",
"Harassment is a crime because women are real."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cillpfm",
"comment_text": [
"This has been deleted because it is a loaded question, ie you already understand the issues and have posted just to debate them. Try ",
"/r/changemyview",
" for this type of post. Thanks."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cillrgc",
"comment_text": [
"Well Mohammed isn't around anymore and so speaking ill of him, in any way, harms no-one. Blasphemy is a truly victimless crime.",
"I don't want to get into an argument about whether or not gods are real, but using the standards applied to everything else that... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cillrgc",
"comment_text": [
"Well Mohammed isn't around anymore and so speaking ill of him, in any way, harms no-one. Blasphemy is a truly victimless crime.",
"I don't want to get into an argument about whether or not gods are real, but using the standards applied to everything else that... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cillw3g",
"comment_text": [
"I think Jesus was a real person. I don't think blasphemy should even be considered as a crime. I believe in total free speech.",
"What we ",
" do is respect eachother and be kind to eachother. "
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5+: What actually happens on the electrical grid when the power goes out? | explainlikeimfive | 29jtwg | 1 | true | false | 0.6 | I was standing outside watching a storm when the electricity went out. As it was going out I heard a low pitched electrical sound for a few seconds. I noticed that not everything in the neighborhood (houses/streetlights) went out at the same time, but it didn't flicker out either. Thirty seconds later it came back on. | {
"comment_id": "t1_cillmte",
"comment_text": [
"There are three main categories of power outage.",
"Line Breakage. This means a power line is severed and would take days to repair.",
"System overload. This could mean a breaker somewhere was tripped, a large fuse somewhere was blown. This would take or ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ciln36i",
"comment_text": [
"Electricity wants a path to ground. Electricity is also lazy, and wants the easiest and quickest path to ground. ",
"I assume during the storm it was windy and wet out. So lets say an electric wire is blowing around in the rain, and hits against a wet tree. T... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cilu1kl",
"comment_text": [
"Almost always the system detects a fault, and has a circuit breaker open when a fault is detected. Usually faults don't clear themselves. What likely happened is lightning struck a transmission line, and that line went down. This caused the other transmission lin... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cillk21",
"comment_text": [
"Depend of the situation. There can be hundreds of issue creating this."
],
"score": 0
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cilmzbd",
"comment_text": [
"There's really no purpose to an answer like yours. If you think there are a lot of possibilities, and still want to submit an answer, then you should pick the couple most common issues and explain them. As it is now your comment just accomplishes nothing other th... | |
ELI5:Why is it socially acceptable to shame things like drug abuse and smoking but it's not socially acceptable to shame people for being obese/morbidly obese? | explainlikeimfive | 348s5a | 6 | true | false | 0.62 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqsd7dw",
"comment_text": [
"You can stop smoking tomorrow. But you can't stop being fat overnight.",
"Try shaming people for eating fast food or junk food instead of for being fat. But, like with smoking, only shame them when you can physically see them doing it."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqsi119",
"comment_text": [
"What if they've gained weight because of a medical condition? What if they take a medication that slows down their metabolism?",
"The miniscule prevalence of metabolism-altering conditions makes this a nonfactor to consider when you \"shame\" a fat person, an... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqse8rc",
"comment_text": [
"Thyroid problems have been shown to barely affect fatness"
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqscreq",
"comment_text": [
"People \"shame\" obese people all the time. ",
"It basically comes down to what the majority opinion in a certain group is. In America for example enough people are obese that the risk of being \"challenged\" for fat shaming is to high for most people. If yo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqsd4vc",
"comment_text": [
"This is completely crap. It is absolutely socially acceptable to shame fat people, you just have to pretend that it isn't. Bonus points if you do it with subtlety "
],
"score": 3
} | ||
ELI5 Why is HIV more prone to gay men? | explainlikeimfive | 2akni7 | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_ciw4cij",
"comment_text": [
"It's also worth pointing out that the risk of transmission to someone receiving anal sex is much, ",
" higher than the risk of transmission to someone giving anal sex. ",
"So while many heterosexual couples have anal sex this is the biggest problem if th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ciw3svm",
"comment_text": [
"Uh ",
"yeah they are",
" and its not even remotely close."
],
"score": 7
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ciw3mzl",
"comment_text": [
"This story",
" goes through all the latest research"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ciw3otj",
"comment_text": [
"Because arseholes aren't meant to be stretched too much and can often tear and bleed a little, couple that with small cuts on the cock that come from friction and you have blood contamination. "
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ciw41rk",
"comment_text": [
"In North America and Western Europe, mostly, they are. "
],
"score": 3
} | |
Eli5: it's 2014 why are there no flying cars around? | explainlikeimfive | 2brfv9 | 0 | true | false | 0.36 | It's 2014, where are the flying cars, the moon bases, the robots, underwater cities, etc? Why does 2014 not look that different from 1980s? | {
"comment_id": "t1_cj865dy",
"comment_text": [
"Apparently, we overestimated our abilities."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cj86hle",
"comment_text": [
"Flying cars is a hard problem. Even if you ignore the effort involved in lifting things off the ground (which you shouldn't, because it's really hard to do without magical antigravity like the Jetsons had), it's also tremendously dangerous. Image what happens i... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cj86k0x",
"comment_text": [
"Have you seen how bad people are at driving non-flying cars? You know how they're always crashing into things and running people over? Well, imagine all the crashes if those same people could move their cars not only forward and backward and side to side but also... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cj866vv",
"comment_text": [
"They exist:",
"http://www.terrafugia.com/"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cj868a2",
"comment_text": [
"Not really my expectations. I was hoping one would look like the Jetsons cars "
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: Why Hispanic American citizens are supposed to be pro-immigration? | explainlikeimfive | 2fr3i7 | 2 | true | false | 0.62 | At the end of the day, almost all American's are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. So why does the media constantly frame the argument that Hispanics are, as a group, pro-immigration? | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckbzjeu",
"comment_text": [
"Because the ones that are pro-immigration are the loudest, for example, La Raza. When I lived in California, I lived in an area where most immigrants that entered the country legally and first generation citizens from immigrants were very much against illegal ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckby50z",
"comment_text": [
"I like how you say that most broadcasters don't do their research, and then go on to make a sweeping statement about native-born Latinos based on anecdotal evidence."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckby50z",
"comment_text": [
"I like how you say that most broadcasters don't do their research, and then go on to make a sweeping statement about native-born Latinos based on anecdotal evidence."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckbzh9w",
"comment_text": [
"That's my entire point. If someone is already legally here, why should they be considered pot-immigration just because the largest immigrant group is the same ethnicity as the group in question. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckbzl9u",
"comment_text": [
"Like my other comment says, it's just rhetoric set up by the media. If you're pro-stricter-border-security you're a racist who hates Hispanics. So if in reality a bunch of Hispanics support stricter border security, then that would contradict that rhetoric."
],... | |
ELI5: What happened with the Atlanta Hawks leadership regarding the racist comments and stuff. | explainlikeimfive | 2g18gz | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | There is just too many articles and all of them are confusing. Please help. | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckeo0hy",
"comment_text": [
"It sounds like some easily offended politically correct assholes are attacking him for saying the team needs to do things to appeal to more people with the most disposable income."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckenuf0",
"comment_text": [
"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/wizards/atlanta-hawks-owner-bruce-levenson-will-sell-teamafter-sending-offensive-e-mail/2014/09/07/b14b0e26-36da-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html",
"its not confusing. just read it instead of being lazy"
],
"score": 1... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckes38t",
"comment_text": [
"Stop being lazy and just ELI5"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckes5by",
"comment_text": [
"how about go fuck yourself. its not a ELI5 because its not a complex concept that needs an ELI5"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckesf52",
"comment_text": [
"I just read the entire article and it says nothing about the current GM (Ferry) and the trouble he's in. All the current news seems to be about him (which is why I was confused). I searched for an article that comprehensibly detailed the events in chronological o... | |
ELI5: Converting Decimal/Binary/Hexidecimal | explainlikeimfive | 2fx60s | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | Doing a computer architechure course at college as part of the three I chose, we've just done the first lesson on converting decimal/binary to hexidecimal and although I understand it slightly, everyone seemed to understand it completely whereas I struggle. For example, I had to convert 712 > Binary > Hexidecimal. 512 ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdjxbt",
"comment_text": [
"binary to hex is actually very easy. Just group your binary digits into groups of four. so 1011001000 turns into 10 1100 1000. Now each grouping is a hex digit. 0010 = 2, 1100 = C, 1000 = 8, so the hex value of our number is 2C8.",
"In fact, going from binary... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdk2om",
"comment_text": [
"Adding a slight piece of info here helps.",
"Groups of 4 binary digits have 16 possible values, because 2",
" = 16. Since hexadecimal is base 16, this allows you to easily see where each digit comes from."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdkekb",
"comment_text": [
"If you can get decimal to binary, then binary to hex will eventually come easily. It's all about knowing the binary representation of the hex digits:",
"\n0:0000",
"\n1:0001",
"\n2:0010",
"\n...",
"\nA:1010",
"\nB:1011",
"\nC:1100",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdk0xb",
"comment_text": [
"0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F",
"Every \"place\" is a multiple of 16. The \"ones\" place is 0 - 15 by 1. The \"tens\" place is 16 - 255 by 16. The \"hundreds\" place is 256 - 4095 by 256.",
"712 - (256 * 2) = 200 - (16 * C) = 8 - (1 * 8) = 0",
"712 ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdk2hy",
"comment_text": [
"If it helps, try converting from binary to hexa decimal. For your example 1011001000, add a leading zero(s) to make it 12 digits (multiple of 4).",
"001011001000",
"Divide it into groups of 4. ",
"0010 1100 1000. ",
"Write each of them in hexadec... | |
ELI5: Why Jayna Palmer is not receiving as much criticism for hitting first | explainlikeimfive | 2fx8lx | 1 | true | false | 0.52 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdlens",
"comment_text": [
"She didn't hit first, she responded to Ray Rice spitting on her."
],
"score": 17
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdmh8t",
"comment_text": [
"Did Jayna Palmer knock Ray out cold and drag him out of the elevator? Did she punch him in the face so hard he fell over? Is she one of the strongest, most athletic women in the country? No. ",
"Are you telling me Ray Rice feared for his life? Are you telling... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdl51s",
"comment_text": [
"Whoopi said it best \"If You Hit a Man, Don’t Be Surprised if He Hits Back\""
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdkzgu",
"comment_text": [
"Credibility of threat comes into play.",
"He did not need to hit her to defend himself. She did not represent a real credible threat to him. If Ray had been in an argument with a guy his size we wouldn't even be having this conversation.",
"Is it a doub... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ckdlce4",
"comment_text": [
"See: Jay Z vs Solange Knowles"
],
"score": 4
} | |
ELI5: How much power does a judge really have in court? | explainlikeimfive | 2ybu6e | 5 | true | false | 0.74 | Can a judge theoretically decide whatever he wants in court or can someone put in their veto? If not every judge would give the same sentence for the same criminal act, isn't one of them not judging correctly? For example could the judge responsible for the boston bomber case just let the guy go free even though there ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp87xj0",
"comment_text": [
"Ok sounds interesting.. and complicated. Thanks for the answer =)"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp87xj0",
"comment_text": [
"Ok sounds interesting.. and complicated. Thanks for the answer =)"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp83yu5",
"comment_text": [
"Where are you? ",
"This matters a lot."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp8487c",
"comment_text": [
"I want to know how it is in the U.S. Probably also depends on the state though..."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp84iir",
"comment_text": [
"Fair enough, it's the best bet for good replies.",
"I have no idea."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: Why do people that are smarter in school tend towards the same type of computer games? | explainlikeimfive | 2yfn69 | 0 | true | false | 0.36 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp91ki5",
"comment_text": [
"Is there any proof this is true?"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp91m56",
"comment_text": [
"Sounds like just something maybe you've observed"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp95441",
"comment_text": [
"Just something that has happened to me and also my elder brother. Just thought it was normal."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp99rb4",
"comment_text": [
"Probably because the smarter kids prefer a challenge and the smart kids often havw their own clique in which if A,B and C plag a game then D will. This is more prevalent in smarter kids as gaming is often more attractive and interesting as a smart kid. ",
"So... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp9aeji",
"comment_text": [
"The \"smart kids\" tend to get lumped together in classes & become friends. People are going to play the same games as their friends."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: Recent buzz about One Direction | explainlikeimfive | 30gwsh | 0 | true | false | 0.4 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpsbjao",
"comment_text": [
"One of the singers left the boy band, so everyone's going nuts. Not really a big deal, never liked them. But that's why."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpsbpuc",
"comment_text": [
"My favorite band is already dead...but I didn't even react."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpsbjxv",
"comment_text": [
"Ya why is everyone going nuts?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpsbl8f",
"comment_text": [
"Imagine your favorite band splitting up. Now imagine you're a teenage girl who freaks out about everything."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpsbq8f",
"comment_text": [
"Were they dead before you became their fan?"
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: How in the world Chess can be considered a sport, but a piano recital cannot? | explainlikeimfive | 2z2t7p | 0 | true | false | 0.36 | I honestly just don't get it. I play chess casually, and I have a friend who is very involved in the competitive format. I don't know about him but I don't really get how it can be called a sport. The argument that I hear is that "its a skill based competition that involves physical activity". But honestly that's true ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpf60zg",
"comment_text": [
"how can they compete head to head? most definitions of the word sport involve some kind of head to head competition. and also \"sports\" are losely defined based on popularity. like if you wanted to have dueling pianos, it would have to be prevalent enough to ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpf63t9",
"comment_text": [
"sure there is. they fish and see who catches the biggest fish :P"
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpf67f4",
"comment_text": [
"Fishing is a sport on multiple levels, between man and fish for one since you need to have the right strategy for catching them, and then between man by seeing who can catch the biggest/most fish.",
"I dont see there being a strategic element to a piano recit... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpf6vq1",
"comment_text": [
"You're not coming off hostile at all, but to some people War is a sport, its unfortunate but its the truth and in a way its the ultimate sport.",
"I mean we even have rules for how to engage in war, pretty strange when you think about it."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cpf6690",
"comment_text": [
"My personal definition that few of my friends agree with, is that sports must have competition, defense, and an object of interest. Chess qualifies for all three, making it a sport. (The King being the object of interest) ",
"A piano recital had no defense, s... | |
eli5: legality situation? | explainlikeimfive | 44d83r | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_czpcx6q",
"comment_text": [
"Don't ask reddit for legal advice, get a lawyer. Reddit is not a lawyer."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_czpdcrn",
"comment_text": [
"Since you'll be appearing in court, I would recommend seeking some sort of professional legal council, and maybe looking into sleep disorders/going to a different doctor."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_czpdcvl",
"comment_text": [
"Please try ",
"/r/legaladvice",
" since this isn't an ELI5 type question. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_czpddru",
"comment_text": [
"If you don't get a lawyer, my suggestion is that you take responsibility for the situation because no one likes to hear \"its not my fault\". It is your fault when it happens the second time. I'd suggest something like \"i've been seeking medical assistance wit... | {
"comment_id": "t1_czpdei0",
"comment_text": [
"This sub won't likely find you very good advice. For a more legally focussed sub, you can go to ",
"r/legaladvice",
". However, their advice--beyond commenting on what their interpretation of your legal situation is--will be to contact and retain a licens... | ||
ELI5: How do 'off the menu' items work at restaurants? Are they created to build exclusivity? | explainlikeimfive | 45q2ch | 86 | true | false | 0.88 | {
"comment_id": "t1_czzhz0u",
"comment_text": [
"Off menu items are generally 1) Thing made from components of other menu items. 2) Delivery mistakes that either send the wrong item, or send too much of an item. 3) An experiment that they are testing to see if it should be on the menu. "
],
"score": 26
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_czzjf9c",
"comment_text": [
"4), specialty food which customers may dislike if they don't know exactly what they are getting. For example, a Chinese restaurant nearby with owners from Sichuan serve the western friendly versions of Sichuan dishes, but if you ask them about it you can get auth... | {
"comment_id": "t1_czzjdr1",
"comment_text": [
"I worked at a place where the chef was also the general manager. Sometimes he would sit in the bar area and befriend customers. If he got to know someone really well, he would make them custom sandwiches or burgers. We didn't have steak on the menu but he ordered... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d00b9en",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah doesn't really seem secret if the whole concept is telling them what to put in a drink. It's like saying Subway has secret menu subs. It's all in front of you, congrats, you picked your own ingredients."
],
"score": 9
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_czzmywt",
"comment_text": [
"This could also be things that were at one time on the menu but were taken off to make room for new things or maybe because it wasn't profitable enough. Yet they still carry those ingredients for other things and regular customers remember it. "
],
"score": 8... | ||
ELI5: Why does the fate of Syria seem to be so important to the world powers? | explainlikeimfive | 45v0hr | 3 | true | false | 0.67 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_d00djbx",
"comment_text": [
"Iran gives a fuck because Syria is one of the few Arab states where they have some pull and they want to move from being isolated to being a major regional power.",
"Syria is Russia's only ally in the region and hosts their only Mediterranean military bases."... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d00ditk",
"comment_text": [
"countries care for different reasons. The biggest reasons are for security and economic reasons. Economy = oil in the region. Security = terrorists and destabilization in the region. ",
"Also, if your enemy/definitely-not-friend is interested in something, yo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d00dq7e",
"comment_text": [
"Thanks for the response. I pretty much already knew this. I guess I was just looking for a more insider opinion to get to the bottom of this whole conflict. I served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and it pisses me off that we've been at war in that region for fucking... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d00ehgi",
"comment_text": [
"sorry to hear you had to go through it first-hand, but Occam's razor indeed... In WW1, the generals sent hundreds of thousands of troops to their death for no real reason considering the tactics and armaments of the time (machine guns + trenches). In Vietnam, US ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d00dw6i",
"comment_text": [
"Might be stretching the limit of the ELI5 spirit, but a number of really good comments regarding the situation in Syria has made it to ",
"/r/bestof",
". They all come from slightly different angles that highlights particular nuances of one sort or anoth... | |
ELI5: Why do hackers feel the need to release private information to the public like officals' names and addresses? What do they gain from this? | explainlikeimfive | 4669j7 | 27 | true | false | 0.73 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_d02ul8m",
"comment_text": [
"I writing this under the assumption you mean blackhats.",
"Sometimes it's the appeal of vigilante justice such as when a group of hackers released a list of public officials who are a part of the KKK. Everyone wants to be like Batman in their own way.",
"... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d02s0zt",
"comment_text": [
"The same thing that kid in middle school got out of making fun of your shoes and squirting ketchup on them. Publicity and embarrassment. Bullies thrive off of the reaction they get out of it, my assumption is thats what pointless hackers get out of pointless hack... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d02t2ue",
"comment_text": [
"Sure, why not. I cant think of any other reason other than being vigilantes and anarchists. Which is possible and likely for some but I know a lot of people just do it for the heck of it."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d02tfno",
"comment_text": [
"Could be lots of reasons. The chief reason I can think of is control. I assume OP's question refers to black hats, or criminal hackers. In these cases, they may publish the data for publicity or acclaim, even if it's only among other hackers.",
"Sometimes an ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d02zhje",
"comment_text": [
"What are thoooooose? "
],
"score": 3
} | |
Eli5: does political correctness have anything to do with politics? Where did the political come from? | explainlikeimfive | 4696kh | 5 | true | false | 0.65 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_d039m63",
"comment_text": [
"I'm guessing it's speaking the way a politician would do. Carefully chosen words not to hurt your reputation. "
],
"score": 10
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d039o1r",
"comment_text": [
"To be \"politically correct\" is to phrase things in a way that is palatable to the public, your constituency. Implicitly, to be ",
" correct may occur at the expense of the truth or being honest about your views.",
"The phrase is often used pejoratively ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d03boq0",
"comment_text": [
"The word \"politically\" in \"politically correct\" does not directly relate to the word \"politics\". It instead relates to the (these days uncommon) word \"politic\", ",
" the 's' on the end.",
"\nˈpɒlɪtɪk",
"\nadjective",
"\n(of an action) seem... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d04tc77",
"comment_text": [
"And it changes based on the political environment you're in. So in Iran its PC to call for the death of America, whereas in the US It's not."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d03kkd5",
"comment_text": [
"In college I remember writing a paper tying political correctness to the Nazi party... I can't remember enough to explain how I made that leap."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: How are Artificial Intelligence programs coded so that a computer can LEARN? | explainlikeimfive | 4690v6 | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d03928h",
"comment_text": [
"It's not hard to write a program that can make decisions based on stored data. Learning just means the computer updates (based on some input) the stored data in such a way that future desicions will be (more) \"correct\" for whatever you want it to learn.",
"... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d038wp2",
"comment_text": [
"Very complex question. So what we (the company I work for C.R.G) currently are doing is giving the code the ability to change its code. So if an algorithm is inefficient,, it will rewrite the code itself to correct and be more efficient.",
"So for a simple ex... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0395sf",
"comment_text": [
"Interesting is there a core of the program that is unchangeable by the program? "
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d03chuo",
"comment_text": [
"In principle, it isn't very difficult to make a computer learn by trial and error.",
"It starts by making decisions randomly, and evaluating the results of those decisions. It remembers the choices that lead to a good outcome and weights them more heavily so... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d03aagx",
"comment_text": [
"The root commands that \"call\", well it can change those really/ This is not issac asimov stuff. It just adapts. You can do something called heuristics.",
"You can try and lock some commands but the system will always find a way around it. that is what scare... | ||
ELI5: Why Do Dogs Smell so Bad When They're Wet? | explainlikeimfive | 47fmg1 | 2 | true | false | 0.67 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0cjuf4",
"comment_text": [
"Bacteria and yeast on your dog leave waste on their skin and fur, and when they get wet, the moisture evaporation carries some of that waste with it."
],
"score": 7
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0cm4jc",
"comment_text": [
"Something tells me cats are gross, too."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0ck7xy",
"comment_text": [
"No problem."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0ck7xy",
"comment_text": [
"No problem."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0clw7z",
"comment_text": [
"Sounds kinda gross. How do you clean it?"
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: When I am drunk, what happens when a mosquito stings me? | explainlikeimfive | 30krlr | 3,258 | true | false | 0.89 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cptdvb9",
"comment_text": [
"in a mosquito, alcohol (and any fluid other than blood) is diverted to a \"holding pouch,\" where enzymes break it down before it hits the nervous system. \nSo the answer sadly is no."
],
"score": 2611
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cptddyt",
"comment_text": [
"Uh, I think you mean THIS one: ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc"
],
"score": 931
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cptenpw",
"comment_text": [
"God damm it why do the two answers contradict each other. "
],
"score": 478
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cptf1b9",
"comment_text": [
"They don't, one is saying if you directly introduce alcohol into a insect, (say injection), then it'll affect it. The other is saying that when mosquitos ingest alcohol, it gets filtered out."
],
"score": 475
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cptda3x",
"comment_text": [
"Alcohol does affect insects. There was a post a long time ago about what spider's webs look like when different kind of drugs are introduced to their system. I am not sure what the effects are when it comes to mosquitoes though.\nHere is the link: ",
"http://... | ||
ELI5: Why did this glass explode on its own? (Image & details in post) | explainlikeimfive | 47ihw2 | 1 | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d57cl",
"comment_text": [
"Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"Because this is asking about a condition or phenomenon that pertains to yourself, it classifies as a personal problem and is therefore not suited for ELI5.",
"ELI5 is also not for requesting... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d5h0c",
"comment_text": [
"First, I wrote Rule 1, I'm well aware what ELI5 is about. I didn't suggest your question was stupid. You're reading into things. ",
"/r/nostupidquestions",
" is a popular subreddit that has much more lax rules on what can go there than ELI5, in that sub... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d5h0c",
"comment_text": [
"First, I wrote Rule 1, I'm well aware what ELI5 is about. I didn't suggest your question was stupid. You're reading into things. ",
"/r/nostupidquestions",
" is a popular subreddit that has much more lax rules on what can go there than ELI5, in that sub... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d5ij0",
"comment_text": [
"Then apply those rules to everyone else. A question about whether Gadaffi's regime was good or bad, is asking for an opinion. Asking what that dizzy feeling is when cars alongside you move is asking about something that is a personal concern. I don't get that fee... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d5kz6",
"comment_text": [
"K, any help you can offer reporting would be appreciated, as I said below, we're volunteers. Feel free to use the report button under the threads title.",
"I've removed those two."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: Are today's unheard fuel prices hindering progress or funding in alternative energy fields? | explainlikeimfive | 47ie4i | 3 | true | false | 1 | For a lot of people who buy hybrid or electric vehicles or utilize alternative energy in their homes their motivation in the past has been to save themselves some cash. With gas prices so low are people putting off becoming more environmentally responsible? | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d4nmk",
"comment_text": [
"That is exactly why OPEC is keeping prices so low. It's not even very good for them, to be so low. But domestic oil and alternative energies are taking off, so they need to undercut the competition.",
"So yes, this is going to hurt alternative energy pretty ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d5221",
"comment_text": [
"Yep, \"domestic oil\""
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d5221",
"comment_text": [
"Yep, \"domestic oil\""
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d4pgw",
"comment_text": [
"It could go both ways, honestly. It could make it so that people don't want to buy a new car, since it isn't overly expensive to keep driving the car they already have. On the other hand, it can help people transition to the less expensive vehicle options, since ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0d55zy",
"comment_text": [
"Nope.",
"Investment in alternative energy, and sales of electronic cars have not been affected at all. "
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: What is the economic argument for not raising the minimum wage to $15 a hour? Is there one? | explainlikeimfive | 2xn5tx | 23 | true | false | 0.71 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp1p1w7",
"comment_text": [
"Raising the minimum wage can be bad for a number of reasons.",
"It can price young people out of the job market. Before the wage hike, I am paying employee \"A\" $15/Hour because they have been working there for a few years and have a lot of experience. I am ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp1lgmo",
"comment_text": [
"There is some evidence that raising the minimum wage increases unemployment, but this is controversial and economists disagree on whether or not this effect is statistically significant.",
"Raising the minimum wage also raises operating costs, which can incre... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp1r1e4",
"comment_text": [
"Ah, the old minimum wage perpetual motion machine. ",
"It does not work like that. "
],
"score": 17
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp1lxd6",
"comment_text": [
"Raising the minimum wage does not raise production, it only devalues the dollar. For example: Joe owns a bakery and employs Jim at $7.50/hr to bake bread. Jim can make 25 loaves per hour which sell for $2 each. This covers materials, overhead and wages that Joe m... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cp1sv7m",
"comment_text": [
"I hope people upvote this, because you are 100% correct.",
"At the end of the day, if employers aren't getting more value than what they are paying you, it's bad for everyone involved. People don't get employed, consumers don't get the stuff they want, and th... | ||
ELI5: Intel Turbo boost, why not just keep it at the frequency that it is turbo boost at instead of a lower frequency? i.e 2.4ghz normal 3.2ghz turbo? | explainlikeimfive | 4e1t8g | 2 | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1w9p7y",
"comment_text": [
"There are multiple reasons for a turbo speed vs what is the nominal max speed. In fact, most processors don't run at max unless stressed. I will use my own 4790k as a example. This has a max speed of 4GHz and a turbo speed of 4.4GHz.",
"Let's imagine it like ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1w94ic",
"comment_text": [
"At the higher speeds, more heat is generated. This can be dealt with for some period of time, but can't be supported full time. Thus, when the processor is less stressed, it runs at a lower speed to avoid cooking itself."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1wdbx1",
"comment_text": [
"Good explanation! There's just one thing:",
"Finally consider a engine in 'sports mode' and you floor the throttle. The engine runs in a boosted mode but it has restricted performance such as limiting power when it over heats.",
"Sports mode in a car usua... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1wfk7t",
"comment_text": [
"In Manual cars it actually changes the ammount of fule and compression ratios, providing more total Power for a short while like sklee explained. It's like Chip tuning, but one that comes with factory warranty.",
"\nMy bet is (never owned or actually drivem a... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1widid",
"comment_text": [
"Entirely depends on the car. For example the newer BMWs actively change engine maps and system settings based on the driving mode. The old M cars specifically detuned the engine when M mode wasn't on.",
"However I agree that other cars differ and only change ... | ||
ELI5: The 9/11 Documents and Saudi Arabia's Threats. | explainlikeimfive | 4f4bqd | 85 | true | false | 0.91 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d25ussi",
"comment_text": [
"They Saudis have actually said they want the documents released. It is the US that doesn't want to do it:",
"\"Look, the Saudis have even said they're for declassifying it. We should declassify it,\" he tells Kroft. \"Is it sensitive...a bit of a can of worms... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d25xesb",
"comment_text": [
"Yes they don't want to lose money. Of course they are going to pull out their investments if the alternative is that they lose all of the money they put in.",
"Also this question is about classified documents not some bill."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d25vhow",
"comment_text": [
"They Saudis have actually said they want the documents released. It is the US that doesn't want to do it:",
"\"Look, the Saudis have even said they're for declassifying it. We should declassify it,\" he tells Kroft. \"Is it sensitive...a bit of a can of worms... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d25xrql",
"comment_text": [
"Its about the same thing so i dont see why you say that"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d25xxgs",
"comment_text": [
"ok my bad."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: In South Africa, why is crime so much higher in rural Coloured communities as opposed to black communities? | explainlikeimfive | 4f6zu0 | 1 | true | false | 0.57 | Gangsterism? | {
"comment_id": "t1_d26ef1r",
"comment_text": [
"Crime scales with ",
" more than anything else. Poverty in South Africa disproportionately affects blacks for many reasons, but the biggest one is racist apartheid laws enforced all the way up until 1994."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d26ew41",
"comment_text": [
"If you look at the maps I linked, that's not true. Poor black areas in Limpopo are generally safer than poor coloured areas in the interior of the Cape provinces."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d26fecs",
"comment_text": [
"What do you mean \"Colored\"?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d26fh3o",
"comment_text": [
"It's an ethnic group of mixed African, European, and Asian descent found mainly in western South Africa. They mainly speak Afrikaans."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d26y0vj",
"comment_text": [
"If I understand correctly, you've compared poor mixed- ethnicity areas with poor homogeneous areas. In a nation with a fairly recent history of strong racism. So poverty + racial tension is greater than just poverty, is my thought. certainly that's how it tends t... | |
ELI5: If Great Britain leaves the European Union in the upcoming referendum, how would that change the rights of Britons to live and work freely within the Schengen area? What other things would change for the average British citizen? | explainlikeimfive | 4f1wg8 | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | The news has been talking non-stop about the possibility of a 'Brexit' from the EU. I'm thinking of moving abroad within the EU for a couple years and concerned how this might affect my prospects.
Thanks. | {
"comment_id": "t1_d2572fk",
"comment_text": [
"Unsure. There is no legal framework for a EU-member wanting to leave the union. ",
"Worst case scenario, British citizens would need to ask for a visa to be able to work & live on the continent. Chances are however that the UK would sign some bilateral accord... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d259az4",
"comment_text": [
"Probably not like Norway, since being in the customs union means that you have to pay the EU for imports, have to apply all EU regulations and not have any say in them. I can't imagine the British people accepting that."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d25ajbv",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah; what I meant is 'not technically in the Union, but having a lot of treaties with it'."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d25750y",
"comment_text": [
"No one knows. Most likely, freedom of movement would end but there'd be some transitional arrangement for people already living abroad. The UK doesn't want the rest of the EU to send every British citizen home, and the rest of the EU doesn't want their citizens s... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d257dne",
"comment_text": [
"I doubt it would affect it much. New treaties would/will be drawn up to solve issues like this"
],
"score": 0
} | |
ELI5: How to not get screwed buying a used car | explainlikeimfive | 5idzbl | 3 | true | false | 0.8 | {
"comment_id": "t1_dbbtdns",
"comment_text": [
"As someone who has spent most of my life in the car business I will say I am constantly amazed by people like this. A quick internet search tells me a chevy sonic has up to $2650 in total markup but people will never trust that because idiots like this who confid... | {
"comment_id": "t1_dbbqqqm",
"comment_text": [
"Do you have any proof of this markup?"
],
"score": 14
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_dbbtm4s",
"comment_text": [
"I wish there were those kind of profit margins. I'd be a rich rich man instead of a broke ass college student."
],
"score": 13
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_dbbspf4",
"comment_text": [
"It's astounding how wrong your information is."
],
"score": 13
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_dbbuv1o",
"comment_text": [
"Its crazy to me how confident you can be while being wrong. That's a talent in and of itself."
],
"score": 12
} | ||
ELI5: why do humans have phobias | explainlikeimfive | 3c6ws9 | 52 | true | false | 0.77 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_csst5ei",
"comment_text": [
"If you have an experience which makes you genuinely afraid for your life then you pick up on features of the environment that serve as a trigger to that danger. People tend to unconsciously fixate on things that are novel to them.",
"An easy example is that ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csstzly",
"comment_text": [
"caviar",
"It's funny you mention caviar in particular because I have a story regarding that.",
"My parents really like caviar. One day my mom makes us tea and puts up some bread with different spreads (mostly jam) but also yellow/orange caviar. I bite int... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cst49b5",
"comment_text": [
"I'm not super sure to why some crazy fears like, \"Genuphobia\" (fear of knees) exist, BUT, I can contribute a bit on the clown thing. The reason for this is the \"uncanny valley\" This ",
"video",
" talks about it from a film/games point of view. And the... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csstcwj",
"comment_text": [
"Human beings are capable of strong feelings/emotions, one of these feelings/emotions is irrationality. A phobia is an irrational fear, a fear that comes from something that can't possibly do a person any harm. That's why there is no word for a fear of sharks or ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cssy27l",
"comment_text": [
"I hated that book. "
],
"score": 3
} | |
ELI5: Anti depressants? | explainlikeimfive | 3d4uzb | 2 | true | false | 0.75 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct1rv3j",
"comment_text": [
"I've gone through the therapy, the medication, the sit down with family. I know, at least on the surface, what you're kind of going through.",
"First thing I want to say is if your therapist is not breaking through and you don't feel comfortable telling them ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct1t35q",
"comment_text": [
"That's great man. That's seriously takes some real ambition. Well done to you. I know people who have come off them too, and others that are still on them after a few years. It takes some real authority and will power to address your own problems instead of getti... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct217ai",
"comment_text": [
"I really like this."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct1rs71",
"comment_text": [
"I'm not sure what you want us to explain here. Most of us aren't doctors and for even those who are they couldn't diagnose you from a couple of paragraphs.",
"You need to tell your therapist what you told us. I spent some time on antidepressants when I was ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct1ujc7",
"comment_text": [
"Thanks for all the feedback. "
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: How are sand sculptures possible to build? | explainlikeimfive | 3dwrnn | 24 | true | false | 0.74 | Like this post for example: Unbelievable Batman Sand Sculpture in Parksville, British Colombia All my experiences with sand have been a crumbly mess | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct9er8w",
"comment_text": [
"IIRC, they use spray bottles full of adhesives to make the sand stick, then shape the sand into the sculpture."
],
"score": 9
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct9fv0b",
"comment_text": [
"Yup they make a huge mound of sticky sand then remove what they want to create their art. "
],
"score": 7
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct9lmcv",
"comment_text": [
"This sub doesn't like one word answers generally, but this is a question that can be answered fairly simply: ",
"Glue."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct9ocza",
"comment_text": [
"i want to say this makes it a lot less impressive but ive only made an ashtray out of clay, so what do i know"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct9iyad",
"comment_text": [
"Not all kinds of sand is good enough to form a sculpture of it. It depends on the shape, the size, and the sturdiness of the particles. If you want to use a sand that has particles the same size and shaped like marbles - well, that sand will behave more or less l... | |
ELI5: Why does closing my eyes burn when I'm really tired? | explainlikeimfive | 3denkw | 131 | true | false | 0.89 | There are days I just can't wait to get into bed and go to sleep, but sometimes closing my eyes for the first time (other than blinking) burns for a bit. I'm guessing it has something to do with when they've been used a lot or under a lot of stress or when staring at a screen for long amounts of time is involved, but w... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct4hfuj",
"comment_text": [
"I think it is because your eyes become dry when open for a long time so your eyes burn in order to cause you to tear up, rehydrating your eyes"
],
"score": 37
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct4m694",
"comment_text": [
"TL;DR-- There's probably some dust all up in there. ",
"Usually, when you're really tired, you blink less often, because closing your eyes even momentarily makes you feel sleepy.",
"This, coupled with lots of screen time, means by the end of the day you'r... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct4ilzv",
"comment_text": [
"I like this idea, dry eyes with the friction of your lids cause a slight form of irritation giving the sensation of burning."
],
"score": 8
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct4lqtj",
"comment_text": [
"The tear ducts are on the sides of your eyes. Blinking distributes the tears. "
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ct4kpe3",
"comment_text": [
"Hm.. why don't our eyes just tear up when they are dry then.. rather than going the dry.. burn.. tear route...",
"stupid humans."
],
"score": 3
} | |
ELI5: How exactly does paper film work? | explainlikeimfive | 3egtn1 | 1 | true | false | 1 | I was researching about pinhole cameras because I've never heard of them. Basically because of the small hole, the light of a scene can only enter at certain angles, and it is imprinted onto film which will obviously retain the image just like a regular camera. Also, why are images shown negative on film if the film is... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cteubbw",
"comment_text": [
"when you put film into a camera, it's enclosed inside a cylinder. When you take all the pictures, you wind it up so it's all back in the cylinder. ",
"When you need to develop the film ,you have to take it out of the cylinder it came in and wind it on a diffe... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cteswz9",
"comment_text": [
"Film stock is treated with light-sensitive chemicals.",
"Where light ",
" the film activates a reaction which ",
" the film, no light = no reaction so the film doesn't change in those spots. So the image produced is a negative because it can only sho... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cteta45",
"comment_text": [
"So if I were to expose film to a very sunny day, would the vast amount of light ruin the film?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cteteg2",
"comment_text": [
"Absolutely! you must never expose film to sunlight. Or indoor lighting. Or ",
" light ",
" except when taking a photo."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cteu4ln",
"comment_text": [
"So how does one take out the film after the image is imprinted without it being ruined aside from taking it in a pitch-dark room? Is that what those red-lit rooms are for? ",
"Sorry, I know next to nothing about photography"
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: What does it mean to be "Triggered" | explainlikeimfive | 3escap | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthx85h",
"comment_text": [
"But the ones SJWs cry makes zero sense to me.",
"Exactly. People have hijacked the term and misused it, to the point of it becoming an online slang term for being \"offended\"."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthxgnb",
"comment_text": [
"It is sad when people who actually get triggered and have actual PTSD are having to hear that term being sloshed around by people who do not really know what it feels like to be triggered."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthwh1a",
"comment_text": [
"For people who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sounds and images that remind them of their trauma can trigger flashbacks and panic attacks. You can find stories of veterans panicking when they hear fireworks because they think they're back in t... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthwqu6",
"comment_text": [
"I understand the PTSD triggers, I've witnessed them... But the ones SJWs cry makes zero sense to me."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthxo83",
"comment_text": [
"No personal experience w legitimate \"triggering\", but I've always liked the attitude: An intelligent human being cannot be insulted. If it's a lie, ignore the idiot or sue. If it's the truth . . . "
],
"score": 0
} | ||
ELI5: Why can a serial killer find God and get into heaven but a moral atheist is automatically going to hell? | explainlikeimfive | 3esclc | 0 | true | false | 0.29 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthwj3b",
"comment_text": [
"For the religions that hold this view (many christian sects for example) they start at a different point.",
"They don't see ",
" as moral. If everyone is too flawed to get to go to heaven then it's no surprise that a \"moral atheist\" would also be too f... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthwbu4",
"comment_text": [
"It depends on the religion. In many religions it only matters if you lead a good life, regardless of religion. "
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthzj93",
"comment_text": [
"If Jesus was truly good, his advocacy on our behalf would not be contingent upon our belief in him. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cthzj93",
"comment_text": [
"If Jesus was truly good, his advocacy on our behalf would not be contingent upon our belief in him. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctir10c",
"comment_text": [
"In Christianity nobody deserves to go to heaven. A serial killer, an atheist, the pope and your mother are all horrible pieces of shit who deserve to die a horrible death and go to hell. The other side of that is anyone who sincerely asks for forgiveness, gets fo... | |
ELI5: How did some universities earn its reputation as a "Party school"? | explainlikeimfive | 3f9btc | 1 | true | false | 0.6 | Every time someone mentions "ASU" or "USC" people comment how it's a party school with a vibrant . These schools all have good programs and have solid reputations but when a school is recognized by Playboy as a "party school" or "best place to get laid", some eyebrows will be raised by administration and professors. Ho... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctmiusw",
"comment_text": [
"I graduated from a ",
"school",
" that had a reputation of being a party school. At the time as a student, it seemed like something a source of pride.",
"After I graduated, I realized the negative impact of that reputation. When I was still a greenhor... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctmig2n",
"comment_text": [
"maybe students are just attracted to schools for different goals.",
"This is pretty much it. Some students value the partying aspect of college more than the academics. So, if ASU or USC has a reputation of being a party school then it's a bit of a self-fulfi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctmiizd",
"comment_text": [
"but \"party schools\" have never weighed down an institution's academic reputation to such an extent that the administrations say \"It's time to do something about this...let's shut down parties!\"",
"I don't know of any instances where college rankings were ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctn4y65",
"comment_text": [
"Your comment has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"I'm sorry but ",
"top level comments",
" are reserved for explanations to the OP or follow up on topic questions.",
"detailed rules",
"."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctn4y65",
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"Your comment has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"I'm sorry but ",
"top level comments",
" are reserved for explanations to the OP or follow up on topic questions.",
"detailed rules",
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"score": 1
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ELI5: Here in the UK we are one of the windiest countries in the world, but also very northerly with quite weak sunlight, so why is there such a big push here for solar power as opposed to wind? | explainlikeimfive | 4ieo4m | 5 | true | false | 0.86 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_d2xfd5x",
"comment_text": [
"Wind power can be very inefficient, whereas a good solar panel receives the sun through thick cloud cover. ",
"Wind turbines need electricity to get them going in the first place, and they don't actually produce that much power. My secondary school got a litt... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d2xsnqd",
"comment_text": [
"Actually the northern location is not such a big deal for solar power as people often assume. As the solar panels are tilted toward the sun, the elevation does not matter that much and northern solar panels can produce almost as much electricity as they would in ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d2xw04j",
"comment_text": [
"The lack of sunlight in Britain is chiefly due to the weather rather than how far north we are. If it isn't raining, then it is completely overcast. Days like today where we can see the great lightbulb are a rarity. ",
"Being far to the north freaks out touri... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d2xfkp0",
"comment_text": [
"Wiltshire. Neither that sunny or that windy on average, but it's absolutely cloudless today and all the shirtless, middle-aged men in B&Q are already sunburnt. It's a good day for solar power today.",
"The county council has invested in solar; there are aroun... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d2xfkp0",
"comment_text": [
"Wiltshire. Neither that sunny or that windy on average, but it's absolutely cloudless today and all the shirtless, middle-aged men in B&Q are already sunburnt. It's a good day for solar power today.",
"The county council has invested in solar; there are aroun... | |
ELI5:How stealthy are stealth planes (B-2, F-22, F-35 etc.) in todays world with current technology. | explainlikeimfive | 3z95hn | 5 | true | false | 0.7 | How well do they perform with today's detection systems? | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyk8h2v",
"comment_text": [
"It honestly depends on what you mean, and what detection methods are being used.",
"If we're talking about radar detection, it depends on the aircraft itself, and the radar's frequency band (what frequency the radar's using).",
"For example, the F-117, th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cykasl8",
"comment_text": [
"A lot of this stuff you can learn from books ",
"[PDF of ",
"]",
", ",
"online sites like this (",
")",
", and also on certain forums on the internet - sometimes 'armchair generals' can also be radar engineers, etc (two decent forums are ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cykafxj",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you for writing all that out. It was perfectly brief, informative and educational. ",
"How do you know so much about stealth aircraft and radar?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyk8z8p",
"comment_text": [
"That would be ",
"Zoltán Dani",
", who later admitted he made that up as a way to make America afraid to use their stealth aircraft.",
"What happened was the Air Force became too lax, and was flying the F-117s along the same path at the same times, ev... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cyktorh",
"comment_text": [
"They are not invisible to radar, just their signature is greatly reduced.\nInstead of a plane sized object, it may reduce it to a bird sized object - at extreme ranges of the radar it won't reflect enough signal to get a lock, but close enough it will. \nAccordin... | |
ELI5: How did the world just come about? | explainlikeimfive | 48hbq9 | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0ji7qh",
"comment_text": [
"He said world, not universe. "
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0ji30h",
"comment_text": [
"It didn't just pop into existence.",
"Clouds of gas and dust orbiting our star coalesced through gravity to form planets and moons. Our planet was formed in the right place for life to talk hold."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0ji5ln",
"comment_text": [
"Assuming you mean the universe, no one really knows and, most likely, we'll never be able to know for certain. The best scientific explanation we have is that all energy and matter were condensed into a single point approximately 13.8 billion years ago. The unive... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0jik9h",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah, but the post (before it was deleted) asked about how something came from nothing, which makes it sound like \"the world\" was supposed to mean all of existence. "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0jiot1",
"comment_text": [
"I think we can both agree that OP was muddled on one or both points. "
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: how are presidential candidates able to request protection by the secret service? Do they have to pay? | explainlikeimfive | 4ae4io | 6 | true | false | 0.8 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0zk6nd",
"comment_text": [
"No, they don't pay. Major presidential candidates get Secret Service protection; this has been standard after the 1968 assassination of candidate Robert F. Kennedy."
],
"score": 7
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0zk61t",
"comment_text": [
"As they are all prospective presidents, they are all entitled to security.",
"The secret service is paid by taxes."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0zk72q",
"comment_text": [
"Think of it like this:",
"One of them is the future president of the US",
"The secret service is promised to protect the president of the US current and future",
"I don't think there is a price of protection but that is how I see it."
],
"score": ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0zlw2l",
"comment_text": [
"Certain requirements must be met (basically proof they are a contender) and a candidate can request secret service protection. They do not reimburse the government for the costs:\n",
"http://www.shfwire.com/early-candidate-protection-adds-secret-service-burde... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d0zmujo",
"comment_text": [
"\"I'm OK with letting this dude die because I don't agree with his politics\" is pretty shaky moral ground"
],
"score": 2
} | ||
ELI5: If RAM is faster than SSDs, why can't we use RAM as a hard drive? | explainlikeimfive | 4akqf2 | 3 | true | false | 0.71 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d116eh5",
"comment_text": [
"People do, look at Ramdisks.",
"But there are two main downsides:",
"RAM is still expensive as hell per GB compared to SSDs.",
"(More importantly) RAM by its very nature does not store memory when it's not powered. This makes storing long-term data on... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d116k51",
"comment_text": [
"because ram loses all of it's information when you turn off the power (all common modern forms of it that are used as main computer ram, anyway). Hard disks and SSD's are used because they keep their info after you turn off the power, unlike ram.",
"All moder... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d116jih",
"comment_text": [
"And when it is powered, it uses a lot."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d116nsu",
"comment_text": [
"Ooh, and it's fun to note here that hybrid HDDs are even more fun - They're a disk based hard drive using an SSD for a much larger cache than normal, in addition to the normal RAM cache in front of that."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d116seq",
"comment_text": [
"and i have seen large battery backed ram arrays with scsi interfaces in the early 90's. Expensive. Like 5K for a 20 meg drive."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: why do joints sometimes "catch"? | explainlikeimfive | 4c8ve3 | 263 | true | false | 0.85 | For example when you try to straighten your elbow or ankle and it feels like something kinks in the joint so much that you couldn't possibly force the movement any further without causing serious discomfort... And then a minute later you have full range of motion with zero pain again. | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1g9y8e",
"comment_text": [
"very sore.",
"That's the polite version of: fucker hurts like a sumbitch, doctah."
],
"score": 86
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1g7byz",
"comment_text": [
"ELI5 isn't a guessing game; if you aren't confident in your explanation, please don't speculate."
],
"score": 77
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1g84xp",
"comment_text": [
"Youd snap a tendon, which would be very sore."
],
"score": 38
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1g84xp",
"comment_text": [
"Youd snap a tendon, which would be very sore."
],
"score": 38
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1g84xp",
"comment_text": [
"Youd snap a tendon, which would be very sore."
],
"score": 38
} | |
ELI5: How do Cheerios lower your cholesterol? | explainlikeimfive | 3g7fcp | 1 | true | false | 0.6 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctw1mpz",
"comment_text": [
"So if I take an Oreo (tm) McFlurry (tm) and add a teaspoon of whole-grain oats to it, I'll magically lower my cholesterol, in spite of the sugar and starch in the dessert? That's the kind of thinking they're encouraging. (sigh)"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctvkyyb",
"comment_text": [
"Cheerios are made from oats, not wheat (though the ingredients indicate wheat starch further down on the list). "
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctvkqmz",
"comment_text": [
"You can't believe everything you read, especially in the context of a commercial. And you'll probably note the little asterisk (*) which takes you to a statement that the USDA hasn't approved this statement and that Cheerios does not diagnose or treat any illness... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctvl9mb",
"comment_text": [
"I think it'd be weird if my cereal could diagnose an illness."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctvkqy4",
"comment_text": [
"The Cheerios website actually had a ",
"pretty decent explanation",
". ",
"But keep in mind that they never claim and never actually outright say, \"if you eat Cheerios, you will lower your cholesterol.\" They say that ",
" can help lower choleste... | ||
ELI5: What differentiates a "cuss word" from a normal word? | explainlikeimfive | 3g1wor | 25 | true | false | 0.73 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctu24cd",
"comment_text": [
"Well, in some sense, words are defined by what meaning people ascribe to them. So, a word is a cuss word or otherwise vulgar because people ascribe to it a meaning or connotation of vulgarity. Bad words are bad because people believe them to be bad / insulting.... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctu4acs",
"comment_text": [
"It's also worth noting that a lot of our \"bad\" words come from the Germanic root, while our \"proper\" words come from the Romantic root. ",
"So fornicate is a fine word, but fuck isn't. Same thing for feces versus shit and a number of others. "
],
"sco... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctu4i4y",
"comment_text": [
"This is true. I would suggest this follows from one of two possible reasons. One, that the Germanic root is associated with the language of the commoners and the uneducated, while the Latin root is associated with the language of the Church, the aristocracy, an... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctu7xip",
"comment_text": [
"So, the high-class words became the language associated with what is proper, and the low-class words became vulgar.",
"That's essentially exactly what I was taught about the topic. ",
"After the Norman invasion of England in 1066, the ruling class spoke a... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctu7gah",
"comment_text": [
"Well I don't know why it means female dog but calling someone a dog has never been polite. "
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: International student funding. | explainlikeimfive | 3gk23d | 9 | true | false | 0.65 | ELI5: With regard to international students. I work retail in a moderately prestigious college town. Many students come in that have received a fair amount from our (US) government plus their respective governments to come here. Some that are even tax exempt, representing 'x' oil company from 'x' country. Ultimately ma... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctyvhzf",
"comment_text": [
"A lot of people say a lot of silly, confused, or out-right false things. Just because someone says something, doesn't mean it is true.",
"Unless they shows you the paper work and you verify it, don't believe someone who says the US government is paying them ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctyweyz",
"comment_text": [
"Generally the US government does ",
" pay foreign students to attend here. The main exception is that a state-funded university may pay a graduate student to be a research assistant or a teaching assistant -- but the pay is very low, nothing like $90k a year,... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctywifd",
"comment_text": [
"The international education market get's students from countries that lack prestigious university infrastructure to pay a premium for an education from a country that does.",
"In fact - they are in all likelihood paying much more for their education than the ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctz58yx",
"comment_text": [
"Based off of the previous comment it may be more of the business/country they are coming from versus the US. Thanks for your input!"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ctz579o",
"comment_text": [
"I'm more referring to the money directly going to sources within our country versus the money going to the international student base. Not that they spend money on our economy. I have at least the intelligence for that. The reason I ask this is due to the incred... | |
ELI5: Why isn't menstrual blood considered a biohazard, especially in public bathrooms? | explainlikeimfive | 3h1e37 | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu3d6oz",
"comment_text": [
"Why isn't urine? Or shit?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu3dfwd",
"comment_text": [
"Actually, HIV/AIDS is on the decline. It's fallen by over half since its peak in the 1980s."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu3dfwd",
"comment_text": [
"Actually, HIV/AIDS is on the decline. It's fallen by over half since its peak in the 1980s."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu3dg6l",
"comment_text": [
"B/c HIV exposed to air gets destroyed. However without knowing how much blood drys in a tampon outside body I cannot give you accurate assessment. Also custodians wear gloves when they work and there are no sharp objects so risk to exposure is minimal to zero."... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu3eefb",
"comment_text": [
"Sterile in the definition that it formed less than 100,000 colonies in one test. It's not massively dirty, but it's only 'sterile' if you use a certain definition."
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: What does the internet adjective "based" mean? | explainlikeimfive | 3h90cd | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu5b5f9",
"comment_text": [
"Can you give an example? I don't know what you're asking. What's an \"internet adjective\"?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu5c3mh",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you!"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu5c3mh",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you!"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu5bbs8",
"comment_text": [
"There's a ton of different meanings for \"based\" based on context. Give us an example and we'll give you the meaning."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cu5cvg2",
"comment_text": [
"....eli5: how do I do that"
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: Africa was one of the first populated continents; why were they left behind when the rest of the world moved forward with technological advances? | explainlikeimfive | 4bx1hv | 301 | true | false | 0.87 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1d4xs3",
"comment_text": [
"Super complicated, but short of it is that (a) there were sufficient available resources for immediate needs, which resulted in less need for technological advancement; (b) room elsewhere for excess population to migrate to --- so instead of needing to build up (... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1d74gs",
"comment_text": [
"The Sahel, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Swahili Coast constitute quite a bit of Africa, and the Portuguese and Spanish were trading along the coasts of Central Africa since the 15th century, resulting Atlantic Creoles along the way. ",
"Most of A... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1d74gs",
"comment_text": [
"The Sahel, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Swahili Coast constitute quite a bit of Africa, and the Portuguese and Spanish were trading along the coasts of Central Africa since the 15th century, resulting Atlantic Creoles along the way. ",
"Most of A... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1d4ikh",
"comment_text": [
"When people migrated away, they encountered a lot of environments and climates that they never had before. Forcing them to invent and adapt to survive. The ones that stayed in Africa didn't have that need. That was the basic start of it. When you turn 10 we can ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d1d6avh",
"comment_text": [
"Short answer: all the good advancements like wheat and horse riding and cows and oxen came from the middle east and Asia. Northern Africa actually was really well developed for a long time. The problem? There's a huge desert in the way of all that moving south in... | ||
ELI5: Can someone explain to me what the Irish Republican Army was/is and their role in Irish history? | explainlikeimfive | 3hsrxb | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_cua9gk9",
"comment_text": [
"So the first \"Irish Republican Army\" was essentially the first military of an independent Ireland. From 1919-1921 they fought a war for independence with Britain and won. However the war wasn't won unconditionally. As part of the peace process, the island of Ir... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cubep79",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you for the really detailed reply, it was very thorough and clear."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cubh9n4",
"comment_text": [
"no problem"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cubeomf",
"comment_text": [
"Thanks for the detailed reply! :) I knew there were problems in Northern Ireland but I never knew how severe they were."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cua8upt",
"comment_text": [
"The IRA was started after world war I, after Irish veterans returned from the war and started an organized resistance against British rule in Ireland. Eventually they managed to win independence for most of Ireland, called the Republic of Ireland, although the Un... | |
ELI5: Why do boxers have to be at fight weight a day before the match? | explainlikeimfive | 34kvpz | 0 | true | false | 0.43 | Why not weigh them right before the fight? | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvo6re",
"comment_text": [
"Generally, fighters cut their weight down to significantly below their normal weight in order to qualify for their weight class. In order to do that, they end up severely dehydrated. Weighing in the day before allows them to get back to a reasonably healthy hydra... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvo827",
"comment_text": [
"This doesn't answer the question; the answer to yours could be answered on the day of the fight, just like op mentioned.",
"But why do they do it the day before?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvqgex",
"comment_text": [
"Fighters starve and dehydrate themselves in order to make weight.",
"Waiting a day gives them a chance to recover, so the viewers get a better fight."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvtqhk",
"comment_text": [
"Gives them time to call fight off if needed, hey everybody showed up spent all this money, this isn't a fair fight its gonna be called off?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvnexm",
"comment_text": [
"I'm pretty sure it's because officials need to make sure that the fighters are in the same weight class before fighting. It wouldn't make sense to put a 180 lbs man against a 400 lbs+ man and call it a \"fair fight\"."
],
"score": -1
} | |
ELI5: If some animals are so smart, as we say, why can they still be that easily continioned? Why do their brains, in some points, still work only so simple? | explainlikeimfive | 353a0n | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr0jjyi",
"comment_text": [
"Humans are also easily conditioned. We're not that far different from the rest of the animal kingdom. You can influence our behavior with punishment and rewards. We like to think that we're so intelligent, but at times we're not that much better than a pig or dol... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr0onjn",
"comment_text": [
"If you want to see how easily humans are conditioned go to Vegas and watch people playing the poker machines. I have a friend who designs those games - his degree is in animal behaviourism (dog training)"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr0jj7k",
"comment_text": [
"Did Charley Day write this question?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr0pujx",
"comment_text": [
"\"Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power. Good. Thank you, thank you. If you vote me, I'm hot.\" What? \"Taxes, they'll be lower... son. The Democratic vote for me is right thing to do Philadelphia, so do.\""
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr0kt2i",
"comment_text": [
"Another word for conditioning is ",
".",
"Being able to learn is a sign of high intelligence, not low intelligence."
],
"score": 2
} | ||
ELI5: Why is it that Americans are often portrayed as ignorant of history beyond the confines of the USA and 1776? Is this an accurate portrayal of anyone? | explainlikeimfive | 35hl7q | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | For examples, they are portrayed as saying things at times such as "speak american", even though they speak an English variant and seem poor at international geography etc. EDIT: I'm not trying to insult anyone or say Americans are stupid. I'm trying to understand why such a large nation with such massive educational r... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr4gkuz",
"comment_text": [
"Not I. Nor the people I know. Your generalized opinion is wrong for most, true for some. ",
"As far as history goes, I'm not up to par. But that is due to a lack of interest. Im a science and natural world type guy. I'm too old to force myself to learn someth... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr4gkuz",
"comment_text": [
"Not I. Nor the people I know. Your generalized opinion is wrong for most, true for some. ",
"As far as history goes, I'm not up to par. But that is due to a lack of interest. Im a science and natural world type guy. I'm too old to force myself to learn someth... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr4gy4a",
"comment_text": [
"Eh... this is one of those questions that lumps so many people together it's rough to answer fairly, as all stereotypes go. But I'll bite. I was raised in a suburban town with very nice schools, and then went to a college prep school in another state, and eventua... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr4gi7t",
"comment_text": [
"Speak American ",
"Most of us don't say this. ",
"poor at international geography ",
"Except for the major countries, yes."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cr4gqm3",
"comment_text": [
"Every race, nationality has its ups and downs. Good people and bad. Some who could recite every president some who may not even know what day it is. ",
"America: We're not all dumb, fat and loud. We don't all drink Budweiser and smoke Marlboroughs. We don't ... | |
ELI5:What are these benefits that illegal immigrants receive that have so many people upset? | explainlikeimfive | 363d8b | 4 | true | false | 0.75 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_crabyeq",
"comment_text": [
"In the US they receive schooling, emergency medical care, the protection of police and fire departments, the use of roads, at times when they are using false social security numbers they even get welfare. They also depress the work market. Since it is illegal to ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crabtfz",
"comment_text": [
"Because they have no rights, and will work for low wages. This makes them a good candidate over citizens who demands certain rights in the work place and higher wages. This in turn lowers their value (take it or leave it, we've got a dozen Jose in the waiting lin... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crabqwq",
"comment_text": [
"Well that is based on each country.",
"As far as I know ",
"/r/Finland",
" could answer your question giving you a reason to understand why people are upset."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crac836",
"comment_text": [
"The big ones are Public Services; Education, Healthcare, Police & Fire.",
"All of these resources are supported by taxes. With illegal aliens outside of the tax collection system, they are not paying for the services they are using. Many people consider tha... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cracgn4",
"comment_text": [
"They are painted as victims by left wing groups, and villains by right wing groups. The thing is, they want something in the us and they don't want to go through the law to get it.",
"So it could be they want money. They come over and trade there freedom for ... | |
ELI5: What exactly would happen if all mosquitos were wiped from existence? | explainlikeimfive | 36oixz | 16 | true | false | 0.89 | {
"comment_id": "t1_crfpm2b",
"comment_text": [
"Malaria would be eradicated for one and campers worldwide would rejoice.",
"Many experts postulate that nothing harmful would happen if mosquitoes were to go extinct, as other insects would take over the functions mosquitoes currently serve.",
"Nobody kno... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crfpow1",
"comment_text": [
"Pros:\nMalaria, West Nile, Yellow Fever, etc would become nearly non-transferable ",
"Cons: Mosquito larvae provide food to many types of fish and mosquitoes themselves are food source for many birds, and without that food numbers would fall drastically. ",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crfskt7",
"comment_text": [
"Mosquito genocide is already being planned.",
"This is an excerpt from:",
"http://www.medicaldaily.com/malaria-eradication-scientists-modify-mosquito-sperm-produce-only-male-offspring-new-approach-end",
"\"In the new study, which has been published in... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crfrvd5",
"comment_text": [
"I swear a redditor is going to plan a mass genocide against mosquito's by creating some chemical compound."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crg9ije",
"comment_text": [
"Great, hopefully this gets more funding."
],
"score": 2
} | ||
ELI5 Why do jeans shrink after washing and then go back to normal after being worn? | explainlikeimfive | 34kv4v | 906 | true | false | 0.83 | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvp0kw",
"comment_text": [
"Denim is a very strong material, it's actually so strong that it's used in paper money. When it gets washed and then heated up when dried, the fibers in the strands tighten up due to the heat. Wearing them forces the fibers back apart. It's actually what causes j... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvp1p9",
"comment_text": [
"When you wash them, water fills up and spreads out the fabric.",
"When you dry them, the water is removed, and the fabric winds up more pulled together than before.",
"When you wear them, you stretch that fabric out again."
],
"score": 268
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvpn52",
"comment_text": [
"I wash cold and line dry and they still shrink while washing. I don't think heat can be the cause (or at least not the whole cause)."
],
"score": 128
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvpxtw",
"comment_text": [
"line dry in the sun?"
],
"score": 71
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_cqvsprp",
"comment_text": [
"Isn't that why socks disappear in the dryer? "
],
"score": 71
} | ||
ELI5: Testing prime number candidate by dividing by primes. | explainlikeimfive | 36sa8m | 1 | true | false | 0.67 | Hello, I am writing an algorithm that sums all prime numbers before 2,000,000. It currently identifies a prime number by dividing every odd number before 2,000,000 by every number greater than 1 and less than the candidate. I have been told that I don't need divide the candidate by this many numbers, but only by previo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgm9a6",
"comment_text": [
"It's a principle known as the Sieve of Eratosthenes.",
"The reason why you only need to divide by primes is simple. Any object that is not a prime, is a result of the multiplication of at least 2 primes. (If it were not, it would itself be a prime number).",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgmtk5",
"comment_text": [
"1) You don't need to divide by any number greater than the square root of the candidate prime. If the candidate has a divisor greater than it's square root then it must also have a divisor less than its square root (and vice-versa) - since the quotient of a numbe... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgmwh8",
"comment_text": [
"If a number is not prime then it is divisible by at least one number other than itself and one. That much is true by the definition of prime numbers. However, you can prove that for a prime number there has to be at least one factor that is prime.",
"For ex... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgmgrr",
"comment_text": [
"If a number is divisible by 12, then it must also divisible by 2, 3, and 4, and 6. So if you already know it isn't divisible by 2 (a prime factor of 12), checking to see if it's divisible by 12 is a waste of time. This is true for every composite number."
],
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgmhbl",
"comment_text": [
"Every composite (i.e. non-prime) number that you use as a test number will be divisible by at least 1 prime.",
"So instead of taking your sample number and dividing it by a test number like 20 or 40, you can just divide by 5. 20 and 40 are both composite numb... | |
ELI5: Why do oil company's spill so much oil? | explainlikeimfive | 36s6l3 | 1 | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgl7rd",
"comment_text": [
"that money and all of the fines are cheaper than what it would cost to put in those safety measures to ensure it never happened. Itd be very expensive to upgrade everything to ensure spills rarely happened (you could never make sure it never happened)"
],
"sc... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgl9j8",
"comment_text": [
"Why would the company's be held accountable for things they didn't do? Do you think they just let open the taps on their precious money liquid for kicks? ",
"Odds are high that the oil spilled was because someone did something that the oil companies couldn'... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crglaf6",
"comment_text": [
"Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"Please search before submitting.",
"This question has already been asked on ELI5 multiple times.",
"detailed rules",
"."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crglafb",
"comment_text": [
"Safety measures and procedures cost money. If their cost exceeds the estimated cost from lost oil and fines, the oil companies will be unlikely to implement them."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crglc53",
"comment_text": [
"I'm unsure of what \"spilt in the gulf war\" means.",
"IIRC, Saddam purposefully blew oil wells and set them alight in an attempt to screw with US forces as they moved through the area. If this is what you're referring to, there's not much a oil company can d... | ||
ELI5: what it means to take a company public. | explainlikeimfive | 36sa70 | 3 | true | false | 0.8 | When a companh goes public, what does that mean? | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgmvm6",
"comment_text": [
"Privately held companies have much more control over their own operations. The owner(s) can decide to do whatever s/he/they want(s). They are not beholden to anyone and are free to do whatever they wish. Many people believe the reason that Valve and Steam have do... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgm71l",
"comment_text": [
"It means that their stock is traded on one of the public stock exchanges, where anyone can buy and sell their stock."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgmmv9",
"comment_text": [
"Valve, for instance, is a privately held company. It is not publicly traded, but it's still a company/corporation that makes products and lots of money."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgnc14",
"comment_text": [
"A private company is one held by a single person or a group of owners. It can also be that all the stock is held by one person or entity. As Teekno noted, it is not traded on the public exchanges and you cannot buy it. The obvious benefit is that you have comp... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crgmio2",
"comment_text": [
"As opposed to what? "
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5 what happens when you are driving forward at a high rate of speed and you suddenly throw your car in reverse. | explainlikeimfive | 37wznc | 1 | true | false | 0.57 | {
"comment_id": "t1_crqh5qs",
"comment_text": [
"Many cars will have a mechanical block to prevent you from putting the car into reverse while driving forward. I have a manual, and I can't even get the lever to go into reverse unless I'm moving at less than 5 mph or so. An automatic car will have the same type ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crqr8i7",
"comment_text": [
"You know nothing about cars...."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crqij4w",
"comment_text": [
"Well, hopefully no 5 year olds are driving lol"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_crqh0ot",
"comment_text": [
"Depends entirely on the make/model/year, transmission. Some cars will shut off to avoid damage to the drivetrain, others will let you twist a driveshaft or burn out clutches/bands or grind gears. Most standard transmissions are pretty tough if not impossible to g... | {
"comment_id": "t1_crqh6vq",
"comment_text": [
"You eat the stearing wheel while you proceed to destroy your transmission. This will most likely total your car and and you to the hospital. "
],
"score": 0
} | ||
ELI5: How can animals "adapt" to their environment? Like a birds beak changing shape because of what it eats. When humans can't adapt the same way? Like humans living in cold climates growing fur? | explainlikeimfive | 56wf0f | 3 | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_d8mxkzr",
"comment_text": [
"They adapt by evolution. And humans do too. Humans in less-sunny climates developed lighter skin, to get more ultraviolet light and thus generate sufficient vitamin D, for example. ",
"We didn't adapt to get furrier in colder climates because we adapted enoug... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d8mxl4j",
"comment_text": [
"Humans have adapted. White people are white to allow more sunlight into the body for vitamin D production. Never needed fur because we made our own clothes."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_d8n8rgc",
"comment_text": [
"Your comment has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"ELI5 is not a guessing game.",
"If you don't know how to explain something, don't just guess. If you have an educated guess, make it explicitly clear that you do not know absolutely, and clarif... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d8n8rgc",
"comment_text": [
"Your comment has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"ELI5 is not a guessing game.",
"If you don't know how to explain something, don't just guess. If you have an educated guess, make it explicitly clear that you do not know absolutely, and clarif... | {
"comment_id": "t1_d8mxtxr",
"comment_text": [
"Evolution works by conferring a survival advantage on an individual. That individual will be more likely to survive and pass its genes and thus the beneficial trait to the next generation.",
"Birds did not develop their beaks in a single generation but rathe... | ||
ELI5 Why do people die from exposure to extreme amounts of radiation? | explainlikeimfive | 5shuyd | 5 | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ddi5u8r",
"comment_text": [
"Well, I guess I know where I ",
" going this summer..."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ddf5wv5",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah, thanks for the five year old explanation, but wouldn't radiation affect a person more in the long run and not as much the instant they got exposed? "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ddf5wv5",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah, thanks for the five year old explanation, but wouldn't radiation affect a person more in the long run and not as much the instant they got exposed? "
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ddf6i05",
"comment_text": [
"Imagine a rainbow from red to violet. Red is barely radioactive. Violet is super duper radioactive. Colors are waves. Red is long, mellow waves. Violet is short, choppy waves. You have a boat full of flour sitting on the waves. Your boat can sit on red waves for ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ddf5u5j",
"comment_text": [
"There are probably more than one mechanism, but the only one I know anything about is DNA damage. \nBasically, high energy radiation (be it UV, gamma/beta/alpha, etc.) can cause breakage/damage to DNA strands and bases. If the damage is excessive, any healthy cel... | ||
ELI5: What is "Right to Work" and why do so may people think it's a ripoff? | explainlikeimfive | 3a87l2 | 3 | true | false | 0.81 | {
"comment_id": "t1_csa6dzy",
"comment_text": [
"It's the label that anti-union forces have placed on legislation which prohibits workers from being forced to join a union at a business where a union exists.",
"The argument for \"right to work\" is that people should be able to decide whether to join the un... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csa7411",
"comment_text": [
"I think this is helpful. If you don't mind, I have followup questions/clarifications (because I'm pretty close to five when it comes to this stuff) please tell me how much of this is correct:\nSo unions fight for/help workers in certain fields and work separately... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csaffrg",
"comment_text": [
"In most union shops, the union negotiates for all workers, and the results of the union's negotiation (regarding conditions of work, benefits, etc.) are enjoyed by all.",
"If this is seen as a problem, wouldn't a better solution be for the union to negotiate ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csa6j4x",
"comment_text": [
"The second half of your last sentence is not quite right. Having a boss that can fire you for any reason or no reason at all (except on the basis of your race, ethnicity, gender, disability, or another protected class) is called \"employment at will.\" \"Right ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csbdjxn",
"comment_text": [
"You've more or less got it."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: How does one actually lose weight? When does it happen? How long does it take? I feel I understand only about half of it. | explainlikeimfive | 3a9ss5 | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | [deleted] | {
"comment_id": "t1_csakgvc",
"comment_text": [
"The 1700 is your base metabolic rate, that means \"you need this much if you are in a coma\" (i.e. no additional expenses whatsoever). The 500 of your workout adds on top of that."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csalxhl",
"comment_text": [
"I will effectively have gained around 800 calories that day, less than half of what I need to maintain current weight. Why don't I drop half a pound during the night?",
"Because 800 calories is roughly 100g (0.2 lbs). ",
"To lose 1 pound of fat you need t... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csaorik",
"comment_text": [
"Sorta yes. Calorie restriction (CR) effects are not fully understood yet. There are many studies ongoing on the subject. However there are many negative effects that can happen without proper instruction from trainer personnel. Such as such as anemia, muscle ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csaorik",
"comment_text": [
"Sorta yes. Calorie restriction (CR) effects are not fully understood yet. There are many studies ongoing on the subject. However there are many negative effects that can happen without proper instruction from trainer personnel. Such as such as anemia, muscle ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csauk66",
"comment_text": [
"All that food sounds great. Sugar is tough to avoid it's in everything. Basically anything in the isles of the grocery store has some type of sugar in it. A good rule to apply is the 80/20 rule. You can't be perfect with your diet it will drive you mad trying... | |
ELI5: whats the diffrence between catholics and christians? | explainlikeimfive | 3a9sx6 | 1 | true | false | 1 | The internet explanations are way too confusing. | {
"comment_id": "t1_csakp1s",
"comment_text": [
"A Christian is defined as someone who follows the teachings of Jesus.",
"So, Catholics ",
" Christians. Simply a denomination (a sub-division if you will) of Christianity.",
"The fundamental difference between a Catholic and anything else (generally p... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csakybh",
"comment_text": [
"Pfft, you can't just say that I'm wrong and not tell me which bit, or what the right answer is... I'm totally open to learning when I'm wrong, but I can't learn if you don't actually correct me."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csakybh",
"comment_text": [
"Pfft, you can't just say that I'm wrong and not tell me which bit, or what the right answer is... I'm totally open to learning when I'm wrong, but I can't learn if you don't actually correct me."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csakqhu",
"comment_text": [
"This isn't correct at all."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csakqhu",
"comment_text": [
"This isn't correct at all."
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: How to eat pizza rolls without eating it whole or bursting the hot innards onto my shirt | explainlikeimfive | 3adez7 | 2 | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_csbl1fw",
"comment_text": [
"I almost never eat pizza rolls whole. I may sound like some kind of lardo for this, but I love pizza rolls and have a method I love to use to open them, it's also really simple; so without further ado:",
"I grab two corners on the same side and rip it in half... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csblh1k",
"comment_text": [
"OP is talking about pizza rolls, not pizza."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csblhli",
"comment_text": [
"err.... uh.."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csblg94",
"comment_text": [
"Well there are several methods. ",
"1) Folding the pizza slice such that you keep all the topping on top/in the fold. ",
"2) Have your pizza cooked more thoroughly. this will result in a stiffer crust that will not bend and drop toppings on your shirt. ",... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csbm0bx",
"comment_text": [
"And my comment gets flagged for being useless..."
],
"score": 1
} | ||
ELI5: Why must humans cook their meat before eating to avoid getting sick where all other mammals eat their meat raw? | explainlikeimfive | 3bfa8n | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | ELI5: Why must humans cook their meat before eating to avoid getting sick where all other mammals eat their meat raw? | {
"comment_id": "t1_csllizb",
"comment_text": [
"You can eat raw meat without problems (assuming it is not infected with something), it is however significantly harder to digest than cooked meat."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csllj48",
"comment_text": [
"It is mostly a matter of how fresh the meat is. Human eat meat that was killed days to weeks ago in most cases. This gives time for bacteria to collect on it. Compare that to say a lion who will start eating almost as soon has its prey has died."
],
"score":... | {
"comment_id": "t1_cslllw5",
"comment_text": [
"This, and it allows us to eat meat that would be too tough if uncooked."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csllqqd",
"comment_text": [
"It also has to do with the length of our digestive tract. A lion, for example, has a digestive tract only 2-3 times their body length. A human's is 10-12 times as long as our body. Raw meat going through a lion's body travels pretty fast, so things are digested q... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csllv11",
"comment_text": [
"We are omnivores, but not very good ones. Our Hominidae ancestors mostly survived on a diet of various fruits, berries, and other plant matter. However, at some point our ancestors started to eat meat when the opportunity presented itself. This has, in evolutiona... | |
ELI5: Are Tesla cars actually better for the environment? | explainlikeimfive | 3biemy | 4 | true | false | 0.83 | {
"comment_id": "t1_csme7kw",
"comment_text": [
"I could probably find some Japanese folks that would like to disagree.",
"There are 0.04 deaths per terawatt of energy generated for nuclear, and 278 for coal. More people died at a coal plant accident in 2012 than in all nuclear accidents ever recorded combi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmdlyg",
"comment_text": [
"You are right, if all the energy that we use to fill up the batteries comes from fossil fuels, we didn't really win anything.",
"You still could win out some. A fossil fuel power plant is tuned to be way more efficient than your cars engine. So if that gained... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmdj8j",
"comment_text": [
"Right, so they use batteries. That means that we can choose where the energy for the cars comes from.",
"You are right, if all the energy that we use to fill up the batteries comes from fossil fuels, we didn't really win anything.",
"But here's the point:... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmdu9c",
"comment_text": [
"True, but imagine this - a city has 2,000 all-electric cars being charged from a power station - this power station tends to be more efficient than an internal combustion engine which is rather inefficient to start with. Also, if you upgrade the power station to... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csme49d",
"comment_text": [
"The latter's still better, though. Power plants are ",
" more efficient at converting fossil fuels into energy than car engines are, and electric cars are more efficient at turning electricity into momentum. Even if all electric cars were powered by burning p... | ||
ELI5: Why do other Arab factions have such a problem with the possibility of a Kurdish state? | explainlikeimfive | 3bidvh | 0 | true | false | 0.5 | (Ex. Turkey) | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmfy6r",
"comment_text": [
"First of all. Turkey is a Turkish state.(not arab) They speak Turkish and write in Latin. \nSecond of all. The Turkish government fought a hard and long battle Versus the Kurds. ",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%80%93PKK_conflict"
],
"score": 3
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmjql1",
"comment_text": [
">mplying 1 state is equal to 20% of a country. Kurds claim 1/5 of Turkey. That is HUGE. No way they will get that"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmdizw",
"comment_text": [
"Because they all have minority Kurd populations within their borders to some extent. Giving the Kurds a home-state could lead to sections of their country wanting to sheer off as well to join this new state. As having minority populations in your country and the ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmh272",
"comment_text": [
"I agree. Also the US should give 20% of their country to the indians. And The Spanish should give 20% of Spain to the Basques. . Yeah no the area has been Ottoman and Seljuq for over 500 years. No way that they will allow a Kurdistan"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_csmjp0i",
"comment_text": [
"20% is not just 1 shitty state. How about giving 10 states to the indians? That is about the amount of ground the Kurds claim. "
],
"score": 1
} |
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