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5p3w46 | What are the pros/cons between putting a video game on a cartridge vs a disc? | The release of the Switch has me curious | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5p419h | Why do internet data caps exist? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5p4j04 | Why do gas stations hide my debit card pin for security, yet leave my credit card zip code visible? | If it's a security measure, why would they not obscure the zip code? This has never, ever made sense to me. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5p540m | How does your phone know where you are tapping the screen through a plastic/glass screen protector? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5p70z8 | Why can't computers/operating systems detect when they are about to "freeze"? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5p8f61 | How do calculators work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pau4l | is it really true that 10 strategic atomic bombs could wipe out the human life on earth? | it's something someone told me when I was younger. But when I've used the nuke map to compare sizes of nukes compared to cities I can't seriously believe that 10 nukes, even really big would be able to take out whole human lifef on earth. How many nukes would really be needed? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pbcnj | How exactly does Morse Code work and how was it developed? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pbdex | Why can't/won't we use SVG's for textures in PC games? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pblm4 | Why do so many people stress protecting yourself on public wifi but no one says anything about mobile data towers shared by everyone? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pcx8d | How are we so sure that all the wireless communication is not harmful to us? | Living next to a pretty massive TV-tower I am wondering if and why we know that all this radiation from cellphones, wifi networks, radio stations and tv-networks is not harmful to us. Obviously it would be very long term harm but that makes it even harder to prove, doesn't it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pdecr | Why we get shocked when we lick the top of a 9v Battery | Growing up, my mom told me to lick the top of a 9v to check and see if it had any charge left. Whilst that does work, it's a cruel joke to play on a 7 year old lol, but how does it work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pfupl | What is net neutrality? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pgfaf | What is the difference between http and https? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pgfpl | Why is white a brighter color? | This question came to mind because sometimes at night I will put a white page on my second monitor to create a sort of 'lamp.' I understand that white is a lighter color than black or blue, but why is it brighter, especially when on a computer/phone/tv screen? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pgkzc | Why does a kettle boil water so much faster than a pan on the hob? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5phy6d | Technicolor | How does it work and how does it affect the visuals of a product when compared to other types of effects? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pk6t6 | What is a PGP fingerprint and why are reporters putting it in their twitter bio? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5plv2h | Why can a coaxial cable carry hundreds of HD TV channels but a PC display cable can barely handle high resolutions? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pm1ij | How does my Amazon Alexa not react when a commercial for it comes on? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pm4ad | If Linux can't detect SD cards/eMMC at boot, then how do SBCs like the Raspberry Pi boot off them? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pm91w | Why is it that video games have loading screens after deaths? | Okay, so I accept the need for loading screens in general. I don't get, however, why they're necessary after you **die**. It seems to me that if you have a save in the room/area you're fighting in when you die, the area should already be loaded (because you were JUST standing there) and all the computer has to do is re... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pnxde | Why do all remote controls have squishy rubber buttons instead of proper hard keys like a keyboard? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5po977 | Skyrim got a revamped version. It is the same game but with better graphics. One of the new features is the 64 bit engine. What did the programmers have to do? Rewrite the whole game? What is the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit from that perspective? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pokog | How did MS-DOS make Microsoft an OS power house? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ppu0b | How can game key aglorithms be simultaneously strict enough that they can't be guessed and vague enough that millions of games can generate millions of single-use keys? | And how do the people designing these algorithms can be sure that their key generator won't accidentally create a key for another existing game? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5prhe8 | How does Facebook change its mobile layout and colors without having me update it on the App Store/play store? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5prtil | Why do games need to restart in order to change certain graphics settings (e.g. resolution) but not certain other ones (shadows, etc.)? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5psjrs | When you press the unlock button on your keys, how does it only work on your car? | I'm guessing it unlocks it with a frequency value, but there must be something more? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5psv8d | How do they produce TV shows so much faster than movies? | It seems they take so much longer to make a entire movie compared to one episode, but think of how long a TV show runtime is for an entire season. How do they do it so much faster? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ptdmg | What is the purpose of the turnable dial around the face of a watch? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ptfy7 | How does Google Maps and other GPS calculate my estimated time of arrival? | I understand that Google has massive amounts of data available to them to calculate arrival time, but what do they use, exactly? For example, do they estimate as if you are going to drive the speed limit the entire drive or do they use the current data at hand and estimate that you will be driving the average speed of ... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ptmgo | Why are some redirecting urls like URL_0 just as long as the origanal urls? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pto1o | Why did each (manned) Apollo Mission have a different crew? | I'm doing research for a paper on the Space Race during the Cold War, and part of that has been researching the Apollo Missions. I noticed that each of the manned Apollo Missions had a different crew on board. For instance Apollo 10 was basically a full test for the moon landing that would occur with Apollo 11, but wit... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ptpyf | how do computers tell time? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ptrdc | what's the difference between triple A games and other types of games? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pv8j8 | How do fishermen on those large trawlers with nets catch the exact fish they are looking for? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pwxbq | Why is quartz so useful in making watches? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5px40z | There are a surprising amount of people who believe any moon landings were a hoax. Why can't we use telescopes/powerful cameras to prove there was activity on the moon? | Are there no traces of the landings (flag, residual space ship parts, any other debris) that are visible using a high powered camera or telescope? I know even consumer-grade cameras are getting to be pretty good at taking high res photos from very far. I'm not saying that it is necessary to provide MORE evidence of a m... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5px7np | What is Net Neutrality and why is there a lot of controversy surrounding it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pxfou | Why can't touchscreens recognize a touch while a finger is being held on it in another location? | My toddler plays a learning game on my touchscreen phone but he doesn't understand that when he holds the phone (with this thumb touching the screen) he can't touch anything else on the screen. I cannot get him to move his thumb because otherwise he will not be able to hold onto the phone. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pxjv4 | Why is it that a 10 minute 720p video I record with my phone is 700mb, yet a 720p 1.5 hour long movie uses less data? | Thank you everyone for your answers. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pxwa5 | How does an air fryer work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5py3mv | In the age of computers, why do traffic cops take ages to write a traffic ticket by hand? Why not have the system that scans your drivers license and creates a ticket for the next available court date? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5pz30y | How is this light effect created in 90s cartoon animation? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q1xt1 | How does a hacker get caught? Couldn't they just go buy a $200 laptop, install their hacking tools from a cd or thumb drive, and then take it to a public wifi place (library, Starbucks, etc)? Then burn their stolen hacking data to a CD when they get home? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q27qs | Why do cars have two controls for parking? | I'm referring to the gearstick park and the parking brake (or hand brake). Would it not have been possible to incorporate both into a single control? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q2uto | How do random number generators work on the most fundamental levels in programming or otherwise? | I was trying to think how I would come up with it but couldn't find anything that was very clean or efficient. Thanks for reading | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q3z6w | What exactly will an Exascale supercomputer be used for, and how will it benefit humanity? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q7i9b | Where does an electron "go" once it enters a piece of electronics? Whathappens to it? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q8eqo | Why do Apple consumers stay devoted to Apple products and have a hard time switching to anything else? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q8io0 | How does Twitter censorship work? And how are governments involved? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5q8t1n | each time a new wireless standard comes out, it seems better and faster than before. Any reason we couldn't have accomplished this sooner? What are the enablers we now have that we didn't have before? | I'm asking because I happened to be reading about Bluetooth 5. This is also applicable to wifi etc. Did we discover new encoding / compression algorithms or what? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qapjx | How do ad blockers work? | How do they differentiate between native content and ads? Edit: also how do ad blocker blockers work? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qe0zg | why is it that people use underscore "_" instead of "-" when programming | On the internet (URL's) you rarely see the "-" while in programming languages i've never seen them, why is that? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qe3xy | How does chat applications knows when the other person is typing before sending the message? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qg4ol | If web browsers treat Javascript consistently, why can't they do the same with CSS? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qg97v | How is that my cable box can record up to 4 HD TV shows at once whilst playing 5th one directly but my internet, provided with a package cannot cope to smoothly stream HD anything | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qgq1c | What does "/16 or /24" after an IP Address mean? | Hello all - I have seen the /16, /24, etc multiple times after an IP Address and I just don't understand it! How do I know which number after the slash belongs to my home network? Any help/guidance an explaining this would be very much appreciate! Thanks in advance! EDIT 1: Thank you everyone who replied and for not ma... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qh9y4 | How do transportation apps like Moovit or Navigation in Google Maps know exactly when buses are arriving late, where exactly are they, at what time will they serve, etc? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qhbrw | How come Digg died but Reddit thrived? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qhebi | How do most companies monitor their employee's internet activity? | I recently left the start-up business world and started working for a large corporation. At my old jobs, I used to use social media, do my banking, and handle personal things online at work in my downtime. This is pretty much frowned upon and not allowed at my new job so most "non-work" sites are blocked. I understand ... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qhr27 | Why is Social Media so addictive? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qhz1i | why must I first dial 1 before calling this number? | Computers can land a satellite on a meteor, but can't add the 1 themselves? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qjn9g | Why is Apple suing Qualcomm? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qkjw7 | Why can't huge companies like Google and YouTube beat ad blockers? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ql0z0 | why water completely damages a cell phone when submerged. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qly78 | If monitors only have 3 colored pixels: red, green, and blue, how do we see colors like yellow on our computers/phones? | So, as I understand it, the basic monitor has pixels and those pixels can be colored in as red, green or blue. If those are the only colors on the monitor, how can we see colors like yellow, or even different shades of yellow? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qoepv | DRM and how it actually stops pirates instead of just making it more difficult for me to play my movies on my many devices, etc... | DRM has been around the block, and eventually removed from music in pretty much every market place, but only increased in invasiveness with movies. Despite this, pirates can circumvent enough DRM schemes that pirated movies are common. Are there quantifiable ways in which it's deceased movie piracy, or is the inconveni... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qohy8 | Why do every (most) games start with one having to "press a button" to get to the game menu? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qovvo | What would happen if I followed one of those "Shoot the target to win a new iPhone" pop-ups on a webpage to the very end? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qpcgc | How do mobile companies like Verizon and Sprint decide on data charges? Does using more data really cost them more money? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qpo45 | Why do internet browsers fail to prevent "add extension" advert pages from locking up the browser? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qpq34 | Why do different parts of the world have different emergency numbers? | Eg. Currently living in Switzerland where the emergency number is 117, whereas in most European countries it's 112, etc. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qqh1j | How do video game servers differ from web servers? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qrxdx | Can someone please explain how Jurassic Park (1993) was visually so ahead of its time, it seems almost comparable todays visual effects? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qsh5y | Why is the YouTube video player so much better than other sites (For instance ESPN, Netlfix, SlingTV, etc)? | I have found myself getting more and more frustrated with video players and streaming, especially on sites that I use frequently; ESPN being the most common. On seemingly every other video site with regards to jumping forward or back, or even just starting a video, there is a major issue with speed, buffering, and skip... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qt88d | How can malware get installed on your computer just by openning up a website and without the user getting notified about a download? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qufpa | Why US Telecos still use CDMA technology, when majority of the world uses GSM for the communication? | What's benefit of using CDMA in the US ? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5quj61 | What is the difference between Chrome & Chromium, and who owns Chromium? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qw1o3 | Smartphone CPUs, compared to PC ones | What are the best, the worst, and the in-between? I've heard good smarphones use Snapdragon, does that mean they are the i7 of smartphones? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qyp7f | What is ActiveX control? And what does it do? | I tried searching the internet, but I couldn't find anything that I can understand. | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5qzpcq | Why aren't busses aerodynamic? | I know that some busses are aerodynamic but most of them are not. Why? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r34rq | How are rechargeable batteries different from regular ones? | Basically - how are rechargeable batteries able to be charged, but other batteries aren't? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r3dme | How come calculators are the only computers we've commonly adapted solar panels into? Why haven't we intergrated them into things like laptops or cellphones? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r5ezb | How Pilots and Trucks driver communicate over the radio ? | For example, a plane is flying over a restricted area, so a military aircraft, Say Turn around... bla bla, how one plane find the radio signal of another plane ? and same with trucks drivers, for example one truck pass another truck in the route, sometimes they pick up the radio and say something to each other, how the... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r6jt3 | Why is it that in most depictions of UFO's, their vehicle has some kind of rotating piece | ELI5: Why is it that in most depictions of UFO's, their vehicle has some kind of rotating piece? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r6qpo | What's the difference between cmd.exe and Windows PowerShell? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r6uyw | Why can't we charge batteries very quickly or even instantly? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r84zy | What is the difference between Shell, Bash, Zsh and terminal? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r9jsb | Since smartphones are basically tiny computers, why aren't people assembling their own phones like we do for computers? | Is it just a matter of everything being too small, and the parts being too specialized? Don't most phones have similar processors and chips etc? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5r9ojc | How are vocals removed from songs to make instrumentals? | Sometimes you can hear a little bit of the vocals still but how do they completely remove them without changing the rest of the sounds? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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5ravno | How come websites like Google and Amazon are never down "for maintenance?" | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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73j5i7 | Why can’t video games make walking/running look realistic? | Video games have seen major innovations in recent years, with incredible graphics, new forms of interaction like VR, and more complicated algorithms. But while playing FIFA 18, I noticed that players running around still have the illusion that their feet are sliding around. It seems that their feet are never actually p... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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73l5cq | Why do some websites prevent me from putting a number at the start of my username? | I've noticed a handful of websites I sign up for don't let me start my username with a number. Does it have something to do with attack prevention? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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73lgga | How did we "solve" the Y2K problem? Was our solution completely thorough? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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73m6la | Why do newly released blockbuster films only circulate on the internet when they have been released on DVD? | I find it strange that when a film is released to cinemas worldwide, it never leaves their systems. It doesn't get hacked. Angry employees don't leak them. It is tightly contained within the bounds of where the filmmakers want them and quite literally does not leave that spot until they want it to --and I'm not quite s... | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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73p6uv | Why is Windows 8.1 Considered the 'Worst' Microsoft OS? | Technology | explainlikeimfive | {
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