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ELI5: relearning technology/compsci | explainlikeimfive | wdb1vv | 1 | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | true | false | 0.57 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiheq9b",
"comment_text": [
"You’ll alway be a tech. Wether or not you choose to get paid for it is your choice. \nWe all punch and kick our way through problems. \nWe sometimes sleep on it and figure it out the next day. \nSometimes we are meticulous like NASA rocket surgeons. \nSo don’t b... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiheq9b",
"comment_text": [
"You’ll alway be a tech. Wether or not you choose to get paid for it is your choice. \nWe all punch and kick our way through problems. \nWe sometimes sleep on it and figure it out the next day. \nSometimes we are meticulous like NASA rocket surgeons. \nSo don’t b... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiheq9b",
"comment_text": [
"You’ll alway be a tech. Wether or not you choose to get paid for it is your choice. \nWe all punch and kick our way through problems. \nWe sometimes sleep on it and figure it out the next day. \nSometimes we are meticulous like NASA rocket surgeons. \nSo don’t b... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiheyia",
"comment_text": [
"you know, that's a fair point and you're probably right. but i'd like to fight smarter rather than harder. i need workbooks and practice, not more anger"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iihfr5n",
"comment_text": [
"You build a foundation of knowledge and go from that in any career. If you have no certifications, then get some to start. \nIf you have certifications, then just start working. \nThe rest will fall into place. ",
"If you just want to be a barista, do that. ... | |
ELI5: Why is so hard to not think negative thoughts? | explainlikeimfive | bau6wl | 8 | Psychology | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ekdzfne",
"comment_text": [
"We get used to everything, we don't appreciate what we have. Positive things are rooted in what we have, negative things in what we can't have."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_eke03lq",
"comment_text": [
"This is known to psychologists as \"negative intrusive thoughts\" and it is an area of active research.",
"It's an issue which affects different people to different degrees. Nearly constantly negative intrusive thoughts becomes ",
" which is a hallmark s... | {
"comment_id": "t1_eke15po",
"comment_text": [
"For what it's worth - trying to actively stop or avoid negative thoughts is shown to ",
" how often they appear. It's much more effective to distract yourself by performing a task, or to get your language center too busy for negative thoughts by reciting a p... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ekdzqpb",
"comment_text": [
"If it often gets overwhelming, so you can't sleep for example you should talk to a therapist. \nOther than that just be aware of your thoughts and consciously change them to something good. Use music or comedy, whatever is good to you. \nMeditation helps some peo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_eke0j20",
"comment_text": [
"I have panic attacks very often. I’ve been in therapy before but it always came back. Right now I’m trying yoga and meditation. But when I have negative thoughts I can’t stop them. I hope with time the meditation/yoga will help"
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: Why do so many tribes exist alongside modern society? | explainlikeimfive | wdorcf | 0 | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | true | false | 0.45 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iijmn4f",
"comment_text": [
"Some are. A famous example are the Sentinelese of a small island in the Indian Ocean, who have tried to kill everyone who has tried to contact them.",
"But most aren't. It's easy to think of different cultures, especially those very different from our own, as... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iijk4k1",
"comment_text": [
"I’m sure they’re forever banished from the tribe itself",
"Not necessarily. Those tribes don't necessarily have a ",
" with modern lifestyles or with those who live them, it's just not how they, personally, live. ",
"Here",
", for example, is a tr... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iijh869",
"comment_text": [
"In the past there have been problems with trying to \"civilize\" people with other lifestyles, and now its kind of frowned on. A lot of those people have no interest in changing. The ones who do usually go ahead and abandon their way of life. We, as a global soci... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iik4748",
"comment_text": [
"As someone who's part of a tribe, my tribe doesn't exist 'alongside' modern society, it IS part of modern society, at least in my country as we make up about 16% of the entire population. I share a similar language and culture with other members of my tribe and t... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iikn70z",
"comment_text": [
"The distinction you're drawing between civilised societies and \"tribes\" is generally considered outdated and chauvinistic. The cultures you're talking about are all very different from each other, and most of them have adopted many modern technologies and have ... | |
ELI5: Why are there Two Hurricane Models, the European Model and the American Model when physics and statistics are the same everywhere? | explainlikeimfive | xmr8e2 | 299 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.86 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ippjilw",
"comment_text": [
"Models as complicated as the ones used for predicting the behavior of weather systems are ",
" complex, and for a \"perfect\" model would require an immense amount of processing power, time, and an unrealistic amount of data to feed into the model.",
"Thu... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipq5cag",
"comment_text": [
"The European model is generally a \"stronger\" model in that it makes less assumptions/more valid assumptions,",
"Listen, the European model is obviously deficient because Europe has only been hit by 4 hurricanes maximum. If their model was any good they wo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iprkmr7",
"comment_text": [
"All models are wrong, some models are useful. And \"useful\" isn't just a one-dimensional scale from \"good\" to \"bad\"."
],
"score": 87
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipqudc4",
"comment_text": [
"I'm sick and tired of Americans holding European models to American beauty standards. Both are gorgeous in their own ways."
],
"score": 76
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipptz1m",
"comment_text": [
"Physics is the same but we don't have a full understanding of atmospheric physics nor the ability to get all the right measurements",
"We know that strong upper level winds hurt storm formation, but how much? How strongly does that interact with the other 24 ... | |
ELI5 if rocks can't burn, how meteorites burn up and get consumed while falling to Earth? | explainlikeimfive | wcfyc5 | 0 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiceagh",
"comment_text": [
"Of course rocks can burn, who told you they couldn't? It all depends on what they are made of. Some elements only melt at very high temps, others at a lower point."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iicedho",
"comment_text": [
"They \"burn\" in the sense that they become hot enough to melt, and then the little bits of molten rock are torn off by the supersonic winds blasting over the meteor. It's not a fire in the sense of, like, wood."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iicehld",
"comment_text": [
"Rocks can burn, everything has a melting point and combustion point.",
"Meteorites are often have high metal contents raising thier melting point from the average silica based rock. The speed at which they move causes friction on the surface and begins to mel... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iice6xv",
"comment_text": [
"generally, the heat of entry is enough to cause most meteorites to fracture into smaller and smaller pieces, by the time they enter the atmosphere fully, they're pebble sized or smaller"
],
"score": 0
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iice9ce",
"comment_text": [
"When rock fall it pass through atmosphere which cause rock to burn up due to friction and pressure."
],
"score": 0
} | |
ELI5 If the universe is constantly expanding, how could the big crunch happen ? | explainlikeimfive | wdgtu3 | 8 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.83 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iii3ejh",
"comment_text": [
"The idea behind the big crunch was that while the universe was expanding, that rate of expansion would slow over time and eventually reverse. Like throwing a ball attached to an elastic band - it will travel for a while, but eventually slow and return to the poin... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iii5j4j",
"comment_text": [
"In the Big Crunch hypothesis the idea is that the there are two forces in play - an initial outward momentum of everything caused by the Big Bang and the small and persistent gravitation attraction trying to pull everything back in. Like a model rocket launched u... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iik70he",
"comment_text": [
"Does the heat death say that once it's all done with, nothing else will happen forever? Because we need SOMETHING to have been \"before\" our big bang right?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iilpx85",
"comment_text": [
"To the heat death part- there's nothing to suggest that anything happens in the Universe (at least on a material level) after heat death- given that there will be no usable energy. It will be very boring way before then, waiting for matter to degrade--- it will ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iik7idf",
"comment_text": [
"Does the heat death say that once it's all done with, nothing else will happen forever? ",
"We don't know. That's all anyone can say about it.",
"Because we need SOMETHING to have been \"before\" our big bang right?",
"There was no before the Big Ban... | |
eli5: How do mosquitos survive on blood? I thought blood had no nutritional value? | explainlikeimfive | wccygs | 2 | R6 (False Premise) | true | false | 0.55 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iibvizr",
"comment_text": [
"Female mosquitos suck blood to produce their eggs. Blood has iron and amino acids that are required for that. Mosquitos actually drink plant nectar for their energy."
],
"score": 25
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iic0cmh",
"comment_text": [
"Your premise is false. Blood is full of nutrients. Blood is literally how our nutrients get to all our cells in our body. A diet of only blood is not sufficient for humans, but mosquitos also don't only eat blood, they eat other things, and specifically female mo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iibwgr5",
"comment_text": [
"Mosquitos will drink blood from mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds. There's nothing special about our blood specifically."
],
"score": 8
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iibwm43",
"comment_text": [
"oh right. we're just the only ones that complain about it."
],
"score": 8
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iibvcbk",
"comment_text": [
"Huh?\nBlood is full of proteins. When dried it's almost all protein"
],
"score": 6
} | |
ELI5: What made the big bang happen? What was there before the deed? | explainlikeimfive | wc2dth | 0 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.33 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia4dxe",
"comment_text": [
"Unfortunately it's the same as asking \"What was Jim Henson thinking before he existed?\"",
"The question is mostly coherent. There are ways to investigate what Jim Henson was thinking while he was alive. There might even be some rare documentation of Jim Hen... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia2pw2",
"comment_text": [
"We don’t know what caused it, if anything caused it at all.",
"There was nothing before the big bang, since time started at the big bang."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia2uir",
"comment_text": [
"Nobody knows. One guess is that it originated from a black hole in another universe and pinched off from it, never able to make contact with it again. In the beginning there may not have been matter, or very little, but their must have been laws that created or h... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia3xw2",
"comment_text": [
"We don't know. Our current physics can trace back to a time about 10",
" or so seconds after the Big Bang, and we've got reasonably solid theories that take us back to about 10",
" seconds. But before that, our current understanding of physics runs into p... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia5sz1",
"comment_text": [
"Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"Subjective or speculative replies are not allowed on ELI5. Only objective explanations are permitted here; your question is asking for speculation or subjective responses. This includes anything... | |
ELI5: if darker colors absorb MORE light, and lighter colors reflect light, why did indigenous people in Africa (and other very sunny places) adapt to have darker skin? | explainlikeimfive | wc7hag | 1 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.55 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiaybhf",
"comment_text": [
"Absorbing the light in the outer layer of the skin keeps the light from going into the deeper layers and causing problems like sunburn and cancer. When there is a lot of sun, you can use a small percentage of it to make enough vitamin D. With less sun, you need... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiaysda",
"comment_text": [
"Wouldn’t a darker skin tone be better to properly absorb vitamin D and whatnot from the less-available sunlight?",
"Vitamin D synthesis requires the absorption of ultraviolet light by the chemical 7-dehydrocholesterol. Darker skintones absorb ultraviolet ligh... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iib0on4",
"comment_text": [
"If I remember correctly its about the level of ultraviolet protection aspects of the darker skin tone. And not about heat absorption per se. \nWhiter skin lacks that UV protection and thus related diseases like skin cancer are more common among light skinned peop... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iibpvap",
"comment_text": [
"Reflection is usually a property of metals, not really a skin color."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidw8zj",
"comment_text": [
"Guess whe should have eaten more iron then :)"
],
"score": 1
} | |
eli5: Why can't we use microscopes like telescopes? They are just big scopes with really really REALLY good zoom power? | explainlikeimfive | wc36id | 0 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.11 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia6zj2",
"comment_text": [
"Microscopes might offer similar \"zoom\" to some telescopes, but they have a completely different focus. A microscope focuses on something very close, while a telescope focuses on something very far. You might notice with your eye, or a camera, that if you're f... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia6qbs",
"comment_text": [
"The reason you can't use a microscope as a telescope is because the main benefit of a big telescope isn't in magnification (though they do also magnify things), it's about the amount of light collected to make dim stars appear brighter. For that you need a wide l... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiaszhr",
"comment_text": [
"Naw that's also fair. Looking into it more while the light collection is important for astronomy, you still have land telescopes for like guns and stuff. So parallel light in = parallel light out would be more fundamental for a telescope."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiar1e3",
"comment_text": [
"The major difference between the two is about different focal lengths, which is a function of the shape of the lens. I'm pretty sure your standard, at-home telescope is just about magnification, not increased light collection."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiaa2a1",
"comment_text": [
"There’s a fundamental limit to how much you can magnify with lenses. Even a perfect lens can’t see things once they’re too small, limited by the wavelength of visible light, which at most is about 300-1100 nanometers. Anything smaller than 300 nm larger is litera... | |
ELI5: How do you drive up on a steep hill without drifting back? | explainlikeimfive | wc19rt | 0 | R2 (Narrow) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii9uufa",
"comment_text": [
"Keep slight pressure on the brake pedal until the engine overcomes the braking force. Release brake pedal. Much harder in a standard shift."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii9wy8x",
"comment_text": [
"Standard does tend to be a mix of vroom screech, or vroom clunk, and angry drivers till you figure it out :D"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia2ixf",
"comment_text": [
"Back in the good ole days, i would use the handbrake to keep me from rolling back while releasing the clutch until the car started to pull then release the handbrake."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia0y36",
"comment_text": [
"Absolutely terrifying to drive a standard in San Francisco! I did it one time as a very experienced driver (5+ years with a stick) and I was nervous the whole trip."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iia1xcp",
"comment_text": [
"I've driven San Fran roads many times. It takes some getting used to for sure. And not just the hills."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: Why the separation of schools for grades K-5/6-9/10-12? | explainlikeimfive | xjq6e1 | 1 | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | true | false | 0.6 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9sgc9",
"comment_text": [
"Most schools are grouped by age as the populations are too large, and having multiple k-12 schools is more costly than elementary, middle, and HS being separate. Also, the ages are so that students are grouped similarly- cuts down on bullying and avoids things li... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9raku",
"comment_text": [
"The separation of schools for grades K-5/6-9/10-12 is due to the different educational needs of students at each level. Elementary school focuses on basic skills such as reading, writing, and math. Middle school introduces more complex concepts and prepares stude... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9sgwt",
"comment_text": [
"I would add that it's not all split like that either. ",
"When I went to school it was K-3, 4-6, 7/8, 9-12"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9smcf",
"comment_text": [
"Agreed my school was a bit different too, K-8 then 9-12."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9sw66",
"comment_text": [
"And for me it was K-6, 7-9, and 9-12. The overlap is because the public junior high schools went 7-9, but private schools didn’t, so the high school has a small number of 9th grade students coming from private (mostly religious) schools."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: What is a "half life"? | explainlikeimfive | xjqyo4 | 0 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9vzta",
"comment_text": [
"It's the time it takes for \"half of it\" to stop existing. ",
"So like say you have 200 pounds of something with a half life of 50 years. ",
"In 50 years there will only be 100 pounds of it. ",
"In 100 years there will only be 50 pounds of it.",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9y6yu",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you so much!! This actually did really help :)"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9x5r6",
"comment_text": [
"Imagine that every single atom of carbon 14 has a coin inside of it. And every 5,730 years, every carbon atom in the universe flips that coin. If it comes up heads, it disappears. Otherwise, it keeps existing.",
"Since there are so many such atoms, we can exp... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipa0gmr",
"comment_text": [
"The key is the probabilistic nature of the decay. Any atom has the same chance of decaying in any time period as any other atom. Weirdly, this means that there is no finite time when all the atoms will for sure have decayed. Even if you start with only one atom."... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip9weeu",
"comment_text": [
"This was a much better explanation than what I tried."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: Why is sports betting not allowed in all states? | explainlikeimfive | xjfpgs | 0 | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | true | false | 0.33 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip82hti",
"comment_text": [
"Because some states have laws against it. ",
"I mean, it's really just that simple. Gambling regulations are left up to the states to decide. Many states only allow gambling in certain areas, such as racetracks or Native reservations, so allowing online sport... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip855gt",
"comment_text": [
"I get that, but does one side of politics care more? I mean in Texas the lotto is fine but there’s no gambling, but you can bet horse races. Just seems dumb and was curious if there was a solid core reason states give for not allowing"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip8ca58",
"comment_text": [
"Lotto is different because the proceeds go to charity and to fund state operations. ",
"I wouldn't say \"One side cares more\", moreso that one side will have interests that promote it more at different points in the process. It all depends on which side has... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip83d4c",
"comment_text": [
"Gambling is entirely illegal in many states, sometimes with only exceptions for racing bets and social games on native American territories."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip83f92",
"comment_text": [
"Gambling can be a very destructive addiction. Governments occasionally restrict or prohibit potentially self-destructive behavior under the belief that it protects overall society."
],
"score": 1
} | |
Eli5: How can hackers try thousands of passwords to get into an account, but if I type my password wrong 3 times, I am locked out? | explainlikeimfive | wd53kn | 9,662 | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | true | false | 0.94 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiggvm9",
"comment_text": [
"Hackers rarely do this anymore, but when the do, it works like this. By compromising a system some other way, they get a copy of the password database. The password database contains all of the passwords used by the system, stored in an encrypted fashion. The ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iigijxv",
"comment_text": [
"Technically the passwords aren't encrypted, they are hashed (or salted and hashed). ",
"Encryption is a 2 way function. You can take plaintext and turn it into ciphertext (encrypted), and take ciphertext and turn it back to plain text (unencrypt).",
"Has... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iigkyxk",
"comment_text": [
"What you're describing is called a \"brute force attack\" and just about nobody uses those anymore.",
"That's one of the biggest reasons why those \"must contain at least one capital, a number and a special symbol\" password requirements are outdated and poin... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iigm3ap",
"comment_text": [
"In addition, a huge volume of users use the same email/password combo over dozens of sites for convenience. As such, it can become a master key for way more than just the one site. ",
"User at a college with lousy security has a breach, odds are good the pers... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iigkfnl",
"comment_text": [
"Salting should prevent the same password from being encoded in the same way, so a Rainbow table wouldn't work."
],
"score": 442
} | |
ELI5: Is it unhealthy to shower once everyday? | explainlikeimfive | xgszvy | 1 | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | true | false | 0.57 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iotp8y7",
"comment_text": [
"Showering everyday is healthy. ",
"If you wash your hair all the time though, it can mess up the natural oils in it (why some people need conditioner). Also if you dry your skin aggressively with a towel or use soap that's too strong you can dry out your ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iotoaf5",
"comment_text": [
"You can have 10 shower is ok"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iott0cd",
"comment_text": [
"Precisely.",
"Showering every day is not unhealthy. Showering every day ",
" however, is. Humans have been bathing regularly all throughout history despite myths about peasants only bathing once a month in the middle ages, but before relatively modern soc... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iotn4y0",
"comment_text": [
"My english isn't the best and I'm new to using this app. Does anyone know where I can ask such questions in a place where it's more suiting?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iotps3p",
"comment_text": [
"Don't you dare shower 11 times though."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: Is there gravity underwater? | explainlikeimfive | xglud8 | 0 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 0.25 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosj1jr",
"comment_text": [
"Hi ",
"/u/redpie47",
"!",
"There is gravity under water. I am guessing you are asking this because we can swim in water? If so, the reason for this is, that water is more dense than a human body (with air in its lungs). Therefore, the gravitational fo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosiz2n",
"comment_text": [
"Yes, that's what keeps the water in the water. That's also why ships sink, and why there's sand/rocks at the bottom of water."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosj98j",
"comment_text": [
"There's gravity under people too."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosjeec",
"comment_text": [
"Yes. Floating is the result of the density of an object being less than the density of water. Rocks are more dense than water. Humans filled with air are less dense than water. Dense is like heavy. Less dense is like lighter in weight. #yourefive"
],
"scor... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosjgxh",
"comment_text": [
"Yes, it is why dense, heavy things sink to the bottom of bodies of water.",
"You don't notice gravity as much inside water because you are more or less about as dense as the water around you and you and the water gets pulled down by gravity almost equally."
... | |
ELI5 How is it that I still feel tired sleeping for at least 6 hrs from 2am to 8am? | explainlikeimfive | xgpphj | 0 | R2 (Personal) | true | false | 0.43 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iot4afd",
"comment_text": [
"No one says get 6 hours of sleep, so there's your answer. I just woke up from 8 hours, and can tell you that 10 pm to 2 am is not the same amount of time... Get some sleep"
],
"score": 11
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iot5n6y",
"comment_text": [
"Who says 6 hours sleep? I've only heard 8 hours, and even more if you're a child or a teenager. (also, 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM is only four hours).",
"Fact is that everybody is different and some people need more sleep than others. Supposedly if you go a few days... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iot6iza",
"comment_text": [
"It's called circadian rhythm . You sleep in cycles of deep sleep and lighter sleep. It will affect you if you interrupt certain times in the rhythm. That's why you can sometimes feel refreshed after sleeping 6 hours and other times you're tired after 8.",
"ht... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iot4sui",
"comment_text": [
"National Sleep Foundation guidelines advise that healthy adults need between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night. Babies, young children, and teens need even more sleep to enable their growth and development. People over 65 should also get 7 to 8 hours per night."
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iot8vcr",
"comment_text": [
"Because 6 hours is not enough sleep. Most experts say we should be getting at least 8 hours. ",
"People seem to be misunderstanding OP here. OP is talking about 10pm VERSUS 2am, not 10pm TO 2am, and keeping the length of sleep constant at 6 hours."
],
"sc... | |
ELI5: How come the great filter theory almost always states there's only 1 filter | explainlikeimfive | xff45v | 2 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.6 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom7m3e",
"comment_text": [
"There could be. But a single filter would explain the observed lack of life in the Universe around us, so that observation doesn't make two filters any more likely than one in the way that it makes one more likely than zero."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom9jer",
"comment_text": [
"The idea is that “the filter” is one aspect of modern society that sentient life can’t get past. It’s not a combination of things, because if we only “kinda” blow ourselves up with nukes, then it was never really a filter at all. Just a speed bump. ",
"If we ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom84i7",
"comment_text": [
"I've never heard the Great Filter theory be described without the caveat that it could be multiple filters."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom7ne8",
"comment_text": [
"I've always taken the theory to mean any combination would apply. The point being that there are factors making expansion self limiting vs the possibility of continuous expansion being self perpetuating."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom899g",
"comment_text": [
"Well, societal collapse usually involves a number of factors"
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: I didnt shake the burnt dtuff off my first cig. Is it likely for me to get cancer? My friend told me the white burnt stuff is the most cancerous part. | explainlikeimfive | xfghdf | 0 | R6 (False Premise) | true | false | 0.18 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iomevcn",
"comment_text": [
"That's the ash and it is what is left after you've already inhaled the most cancerous part."
],
"score": 11
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iomeygc",
"comment_text": [
"They mean they didn't ash their smoke as they smoked it, almost certainly this person and their friend are underage. They're also completely wrong."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iomeygc",
"comment_text": [
"They mean they didn't ash their smoke as they smoked it, almost certainly this person and their friend are underage. They're also completely wrong."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iomf288",
"comment_text": [
"No, the fertilizer and pesticide-laden plant matter and bleached paper you're setting on fire and breathing into your lungs is the most cancerous part. There's no magic way to smoke a cigarette that makes it less bad for you. Your friend is either full of shit, o... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iomgcb8",
"comment_text": [
"Rule #1 of ELI5 is to ",
".",
"Breaking rule 1 is not tolerated.",
"If you would like this removal reviewed, please read the ",
"detailed rules",
" first. ",
", please ",
"use this form",
" and we will review your submission."
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Eli5 why is the heart on the left side of the body? | explainlikeimfive | xfnpt9 | 0 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ionecud",
"comment_text": [
"It isn't always. There are people born with their heart and other organs on the opposite side to where they're generally found.",
"Isolated dextrocardia is where only the heart is on the opposite side of the body, and there are no other abnormalities with the... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iond6vu",
"comment_text": [
"Your heart is located in the front of your chest. It sits slightly behind and to the left of your sternum (breastbone)."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iond6vu",
"comment_text": [
"Your heart is located in the front of your chest. It sits slightly behind and to the left of your sternum (breastbone)."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iond6vu",
"comment_text": [
"Your heart is located in the front of your chest. It sits slightly behind and to the left of your sternum (breastbone)."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iondlet",
"comment_text": [
"Yes it's left-centered"
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5-Why does the storm on Jupiter never dissipate? | explainlikeimfive | xfc1s5 | 3 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.64 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iolmxoc",
"comment_text": [
"It presumably will at some point, it just hasn’t yet in the several hundred years we’ve been able to observe it."
],
"score": 10
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iomh4o8",
"comment_text": [
"Think about storms on Earth.",
"Small clouds come and go in hours. Small storms might last a few days. Hurricanes can last a month or more as they grow, then dissipate. Bigger storms last longer - a lot longer.",
"The Great Red Spot is 1.3 times the diame... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iols1mn",
"comment_text": [
"And in today's weather we have a storm front approaching from the west that should last at least until 400 years from now, so close those windows and bring your pets in tonight, over to you Phil for today's traffic report"
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ioovwr5",
"comment_text": [
"Think about how far Earth hurricanes can travel over water compared with how quickly they weaken over land. Without the ocean to power and replenish them, hurricanes eventually burn themselves out. There’s no Florida on Jupiter to cut the GRS off from its fuel. W... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iolo6lx",
"comment_text": [
"A look at what causes the red spot and the distinct coloured bands or jets to appear on Jupiter. Why the red spot has endured since first being observed by Cassini and how ammonia ice crystals alter the colours we see on Jupiter. - ",
"https://youtu.be/9xsz1I... | |
ELI5 How do files on a computer require actual physical space? | explainlikeimfive | wcq6tm | 0 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.4 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidxtrv",
"comment_text": [
"A file is indeed a text with a certain format and text can be sequenced in 1s and 0s (binary), so anything in a machine can be represented by a longass 0,1 string.",
"Imagine a light switch, it can be on or off and it'll let current pass through or block it d... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidxycq",
"comment_text": [
"Files on a computer take up physical space on the computer's hard drive. The hard drive is like a filing cabinet where all the files are stored. The more files you have, the more space they take up on the hard drive"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iie46h0",
"comment_text": [
"Basic:",
"Computers basically use a bunch of switches to store information.",
"Imagine you decided to use your house lights to remember arbitrary; when your bathroom light is on it means you need to go get groceries, when the hall light is on it means it'... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidxhy5",
"comment_text": [
"You’re basically taking unallocated space on physical material and allocating it to the file. The bigger the file the more that is allocated."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iie1ie1",
"comment_text": [
"This is true, but even in principle, even being total agnostic about storage method, information occupies a volume in spacetime and that volume has a limit. Even the most efficient storage system would ultimately need to occupy a volume that grows as the capacity... | |
ELI5: How do you check if a source is valid? | explainlikeimfive | wctf2t | 1 | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | true | false | 0.6 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiei80q",
"comment_text": [
"I don’t really know what you’re talking about but I’m assuming you mean research sources. The best way is to reference multiple studies on the same thing. But, they can’t be done by any of the same people or companies.",
"Most sources have some bias too, it’s... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiejy12",
"comment_text": [
"To check if a source is valid, you can look at the source's credentials, its publication date, and whether or not it has been peer-reviewed"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iieke4h",
"comment_text": [
"Unfortunately, there's no master list of valid sources. Instead, you have to use your own judgement, but there are some things that you can check to make that judgement:",
"-Check other sources to see what they have to say. If there seems to be a consensus vi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiekf9t",
"comment_text": [
"Any reputable publisher or news source will include the name of an article or person that they used to write their own story. This way their peers can follow up on their claims to see if they come to the same conclusion. ",
"If your source is from a science/e... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiemjt5",
"comment_text": [
"Everything stated as fact should cite a source unless it’s something widely known. You go to that source and see what it is and what it actually says. ",
"Types of things to look for:",
"Is it academic research? Who funded it? Corporations tend to get wha... | |
eli5: How does our GPS system work so accurate in real time especially for moving vehicles | explainlikeimfive | wcxil9 | 0 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iifcdyz",
"comment_text": [
"To add to the other explanations, GPS would not work without accounting for general relativity. The satellites are moving so fast relative to us that time itself progresses slower for them. If we didn't correct for this difference, your GPS would lose accuracy in... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iif8a2e",
"comment_text": [
"GPS was designed to work in fighter planes at over the speed of sound. Your car isn't a hard case.",
"GPS works by sending a very precise time and position message from a bunch of satellites. The GPS chip in your phone takes the measurements from 4-6 satell... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iifib1m",
"comment_text": [
"I think this is my favorite thing to tell people who thing relativity isn’t real."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiftmn1",
"comment_text": [
"It's funny, because relativity is one of the most robustly tested phenomena"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iif8t47",
"comment_text": [
"GPS works using time signals from satellites.",
"\nThey send out precise times, and knowing the satellites locations, and how long it takes to receive the signal can tell relative locations. ",
"This in itself can be relatively accurate with a good signa... | |
eli5: Why can we walk on earth even though it's moving really fast through space | explainlikeimfive | xff4ae | 0 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.22 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom703a",
"comment_text": [
"We are moving the same speed as the earth. It’s like walking inside a moving train. Everything is all moving together."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iombkud",
"comment_text": [
"These are kind of saying the same thing. The Earth’s motion has synced your body’s mass to be part of the same frame of reference. Inertia is just your mass’ tendency to stay moving at that same speed. If Earth’s motion accelerated in a significant way, you could... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom72xz",
"comment_text": [
"We move at the same rate the earth does. It's like two sky divers falling next to eachother. From there perspective they aren't moving at all relative to eachother, the earth is moving towards them from a really local perspective. If we are moving at the same spe... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom7woa",
"comment_text": [
"Where would we fall to?",
"We only fall (down) because gravity is pulling us towards the center of the mass of Earth.",
"We are being pulled constantly towards the moon, and Saturn, and literally every other thing in the universe - but because the force d... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iom8und",
"comment_text": [
"He says, \"inertia\" and I say \"relative motion/frame of reference\""
],
"score": 2
} | |
Eli5: Why are companies making record profits in the midst of record inflation. | explainlikeimfive | wb797c | 3 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4xcjd",
"comment_text": [
"There’s a war going on. Can just blame putin for it all and raise prices on everything while not raising wages at all. Stonks."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4xvnn",
"comment_text": [
"Because they’re outpacing inflation. If I sold grilled cheese sandwiches for $2 and the ingredients cost $1 I’m making $1 profit per sandwich. If inflation caused my ingredient cost to increase to $1.25 and I changed my prices to $37 per sandwich I’m spending mor... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4yr07",
"comment_text": [
"Which is the big issue. People aren’t willing to pay this much for things like gas and rent but what’s the other solution? Being evicted and and defaulting on loans, losing your job because you can’t commute to work?",
"It’s all fucked"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4z9u3",
"comment_text": [
"There's a concept in economics called ",
", which is basically how much less of a good is bought as the price increases. Goods that are ",
" include life-saving medications, gasoline, and certain food staples. If the price of gas doubles but you still nee... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii50544",
"comment_text": [
"First, record profit implies it's some large amount, but in reality if a company made a penny more than their best, that's a record profit.",
"So record profits mostly means they showed more earnings than last year. Could be a penny, could be millions.",
... | |
ELI5 condensation | explainlikeimfive | wbamya | 1 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii5vguu",
"comment_text": [
"When you hang a wet garment up, where does the water go? It evaporates into the air.",
"Condensation is like the opposite process. It's water coming out of the air and turning to a liquid.",
"Warm air can hold more water than cold air. So, on warm days, y... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii5iwj4",
"comment_text": [
"Air has water vapor within it, and the amount of vapor the air can hold is related on temperature. Cold air holds less moisture, hot air more. ",
"If you have a glass that is very cold (because it's full of ice water) in a warm room the air immediately touchi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii5j5wa",
"comment_text": [
"When the warm ambient air comes into contact with a cold surface, in this case a cold container, the ambient air starts to drop towards the lower temperature of the container. This temperature drop causes the air to reach its \"dew point\".",
"The dew point i... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii6ity7",
"comment_text": [
"The most important aspect is that the a/c is on, even on a cold day."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii6ity7",
"comment_text": [
"The most important aspect is that the a/c is on, even on a cold day."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: Why are shows allowed to talk about WW1’s Germany | explainlikeimfive | wax6h6 | 0 | R2 (Legal) | true | true | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii3g2p5",
"comment_text": [
"World War One didn't have anything at all to do with Nazis. There were no Nazis at the time.",
"BTW, there are a lot of important stories that you can't tell without involving the Nazi party."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii3goi7",
"comment_text": [
"Nazis was WW2, not WW1.\nThere are different rules depending on the country as to what you can/can’t show.\nThere aren’t really any shows that show nazis in a positive light though, as this would go against broadcast regulations in some countries, for example Ger... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii3h0ke",
"comment_text": [
"World War One didn't have anything at all to do with Nazis.",
"Eeeh, debatable. While during the timeframe of WWI the Nazi party didn't exist, it was formed based on a disappointment of and anger at the Treaty of Versailles."
],
"score": 0
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii3xs6a",
"comment_text": [
"When did the war end?",
"When was the Nazi party formed?",
"You can 'debate' anything if you ignore facts."
],
"score": 0
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii46cfv",
"comment_text": [
"Saying that WWI had nothing to with the nazi party ignores facts. It's WWI and humiliation Germans felt after the Treaty of Versailles that led to the creation of the Nazi party. While small initially and its ibfluence growing during and after the Great Recession... | |
ELI5: Why does some shops have 1 button for the machine to accept both debit and credit while others have to ask you for the specific one or else it wont work? | explainlikeimfive | wcmld6 | 11 | R2 (Narrow) | true | false | 0.66 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidddj6",
"comment_text": [
"The places that have one button are likely just hitting your card as if it were a credit card regardless of card type. Places that ask are going to prompt for your pin and process it as a debit transaction.",
"The difference being timing of funds being trans... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidn50d",
"comment_text": [
"The extra confusing ones had 3 options: Debit, US Debit, credit. Good luck guessing correctly.",
"Thankfully that didn't last long."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidjdxw",
"comment_text": [
"Why do you have a button at all?",
"The only place I ever encountered the choice was in the US."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidms96",
"comment_text": [
"Some cards work with both, others work with only one or the other.",
"When Debit is selected, the merchant pays a lower fee. The machines that don't make you pick one are likely just automatically picking debit to try and save money at the potential cost of t... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iidjash",
"comment_text": [
"All of my amex cards start with a 3"
],
"score": 3
} | |
ELI5: How is alcohol so calorific if it takes energy to process and contains no macronutrients? | explainlikeimfive | wb2kf5 | 44 | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | true | false | 0.85 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii46q6c",
"comment_text": [
"Our bodies are designed to take sugars as energy and break them apart and digest them down into water and CO2. When we describe energy in molecules we use a base point as a place to make our measurements. So we can say that water and CO2 have \"0\" energy (becaus... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4ac36",
"comment_text": [
"Alcohol is technically its own macronutrient and contains 7 calories per gram but because it isn't essential for survival it's not typically mentioned with the other macros: protein, fat, and carbs."
],
"score": 41
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4iwy0",
"comment_text": [
"So the organisms we ferment alcoholic drinks with are a mixture of yeast (a fungus) and LABs (\"lactic acid producing bacteria). These organism are more than happy to use oxygen to digest sugar and get energy but they have a trick. Their trick is their cell build... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4ti7i",
"comment_text": [
"Well, alcohols are a group carbohydrates"
],
"score": 14
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii4xcol",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah, 'cause you'll be dead"
],
"score": 10
} | |
ELI5: can someone explain to me what short selling is? | explainlikeimfive | xkhwz9 | 1 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipe31xs",
"comment_text": [
"I borrow a toy from you, and agree to give it back next week.",
"I can sell the toy for $10",
"3 days later the price of the toy drops to $5",
"I can buy a new toy for $5 and then return that toy to you.",
"I just made $5",
"If instead the pri... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipe5bgr",
"comment_text": [
"How does it work when someone then borrows the toy from you (the borrower) and sells it as well? I hear about this happening in share trading and I don’t get it."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipe8ppo",
"comment_text": [
"Having the toy borrowed from you has no risk because you're guaranteed to get it back at an agreed upon time. There's also no benefit to having it borrowed from you as a result."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipdzrvo",
"comment_text": [
"The idea is that you're borrowing shares, seeling them immediately, and hoping the price later decreases by more than you're paying on margin. ",
"If it does, you can repurchase and return the shares for less than you sold them for, and pocket the differenc... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipe0bx5",
"comment_text": [
"Also worth mentioning the key difference between shorting and normal purchase of shares is risk. If you buy £100 worth of shares, the maximum you can lose is £100.",
"If you’re renting £100 worth of shares, hoping they go down, and they increase in price, you... | |
ELI5: If we have an extra day added every 4 years, then how come we are not noticing it? | explainlikeimfive | xk1cfk | 0 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.32 | If earth's rotation is 365,25 days this means that the first year December 31st at 23:59 will look like an early afternoon; on year 2 it will look like noon and year 3 it will look like a morning (since we have 18 hours to spare). | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipbbino",
"comment_text": [
"The Earth still _rotates) just the same around its axis making the day length, it is the _orbit_ around the sun making the year, we are correcting for. The earth does not complete the whole circle around the sun in 365 days, we need an extra day every 4 years to ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipbc9ca",
"comment_text": [
"That is not how it works.",
"A year is how long it takes the earth to orbit around the sun and a day is how long it takes the earth to turn once around its own axis in respect tot eh sun.",
"A year is not an whole number of days.",
"It takes the earth... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipbed0i",
"comment_text": [
"IF we always had a calendar with 365 days. The missing 5 hours and 48 minutes each year would add up over time and things like the beginning of spring would move around bit by tiny bit.",
"One of my underrated favourite things in history is Caesar making a su... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipbg7uz",
"comment_text": [
"And every 400 years we skip the skip. But that's as far as the skipception goes. Year 2000 was a leap year."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipbcqiy",
"comment_text": [
"Clocks describe the cycle of days, not years. At 11:59 pm on NYE (and every day of the year) it's night time, because that's what 11:59 pm means. A year and a day are two separate measurements of time describing two unrelated motions of the planet. ",
"What i... |
ELI5: Why is a Bootstrap Loader called a “Bootstrap” Loader? What’s it got to do with Bootstraps? | explainlikeimfive | xmraxv | 1 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 0.66 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ippk5lz",
"comment_text": [
"It comes from the term \"Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.\" When starting a computer you need to initialize it to be able to load applications so that you can run the application which initialize the system. That is inherently impossible and just like ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ippjpfv",
"comment_text": [
"It's a tongue in cheek reference to the expression \"Pull oneself up by their bootstraps\" which means to stand up unassisted."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ippk12t",
"comment_text": [
"Tech was developed by the nerdiest of nerds. Who love puns and nerd jokes. It keeps things entertaining. Until you run into cases where it makes things impossible to understand for anyone but the person who wrote it."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ippkp4p",
"comment_text": [
"The other commenter is correct except the portion of his answer which would logically make you ask what's tongue and cheek about it. Nothing. Nothing about it is ironic, flippant, or insincere. Bootstrapping itself up is exactly what that portion of the program d... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ippkrgx",
"comment_text": [
"Rule 2 forbids straightforward questions."
],
"score": 1
} | |
eli5: Is it possible to find the contact information of the members of wealthy families? | explainlikeimfive | wagqdd | 1 | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii0qnpu",
"comment_text": [
"Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"ELI5 is not meant for any question that you may have, including personal questions, medical questions, legal questions, etc. It is meant for simplifying complex concepts.",
"If you would lik... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii0quoj",
"comment_text": [
"Bunch of different ways. ",
"For instance, say a family member owns a store/business and has contact info. ",
"In Florida, unless to request not to, you can look up who owns any property, so you can find family members if they own their home (and not th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii0quqp",
"comment_text": [
"Are they public figures like business owners or politicians? Then they likely have some way to reach them or their office. ",
"Are they just rich? Then probably not unless you can find their social media. Just being \"rich\" by itself doesn't make one a publi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii0vros",
"comment_text": [
"Elon Musk, Rothschild etc. I looked it up and a website claims to have their phone number but it looks fake."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii0wvae",
"comment_text": [
"These are business owners and executives. The contact info is probably for their office."
],
"score": 1
} | |
eli5: Do the lasers from smartwatches that measure your blood preasure etc have longterm effects on your body? | explainlikeimfive | xocjun | 0 | R2 (Narrow) | true | false | 0.09 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipy3ex4",
"comment_text": [
"I'm pretty sure you're just being paranoid and not used to wearing a watch... if those were lasers, there'd need to be a warning label, those are just led lights...",
"Lasers like pulse-ox sensors are controlled by the fda guidelines as they're classified as ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipy2zek",
"comment_text": [
"No they do not have any effect on your body whatsoever. Whatever you think you're feeling in your wrist is just psychological."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipy4nvx",
"comment_text": [
"If you've hand tendonitis in the past, the mere fact that the watch is pressing on your wrist might be the problem. You could experiment by letting the watch run flat and wearing it for a few days.",
"Another thing that watches in general can do is cause alle... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipy497s",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you i feel more relieved now :)"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipy4oxi",
"comment_text": [
"The battery might be radioactive though."
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: Why do fast food burgers not fill me up, but ones made at home do? | explainlikeimfive | wg9d6t | 0 | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | true | false | 0.4 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiycpn2",
"comment_text": [
"When are you measuring the weight? Because advertised weight of burgers is uncooked weight, where a significant portion of the fat renders out and is not eaten. If you're measuring post-cooking, then you're adding 10-20% more meat than a fast food burger."
],
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiyxkpf",
"comment_text": [
"So you're claiming the opposite of what OP observes?"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiz3qoo",
"comment_text": [
"Clearly, by reading like I’m 5. Thanks for the catch."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiyevao",
"comment_text": [
"Fast food burgers are almost always thinner patties, Buns filled with sugar, and everything else is not as important. The buns that are practically more sugar than bread are the biggest factor if you ask me. And other comment went into the details of before/after... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiyf4k9",
"comment_text": [
"Most fast food burgers are cooked on a flat top grill. When the fat cooks out of them it sits on top of the grill or sticks to the burger instead of dripping or burning away. Cooking 100’s of burgers a day leads to a lot of grease on the grill, and it’s very ea... | |
Eli5: How exactly do HR background checks work? Is there any way to confirm a previous job besides calling them? And if so, can they see any other jobs you may have worked at not on your resume? | explainlikeimfive | xomvdj | 90 | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | true | false | 0.93 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipzeu1f",
"comment_text": [
"Well, it's going to depend. They can call your previous jobs and verify employment. They can also validate any certifications or education you have. They can check social media presence.",
"Sometimes it might involve a credit check and/or criminal background ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipzgsab",
"comment_text": [
"They can only check on what you tell them. There is no master list of previous jobs. So if you don't tell them about the burger flipping job you had in highschool or even the last job you had they will likely not know about it.",
"Credit and criminal is a d... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipziv15",
"comment_text": [
"I have received an employment verification call many times.",
"“Can you verify that John Doe worked at [Place] from X date to Y date?”",
"“Yes”",
"“Thanks”",
"End of call"
],
"score": 25
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipznk09",
"comment_text": [
"This is right. They may call your previous jobs, or they may not. They are typically more likely to call your references. Some places, depending on the industry or company, will do criminal background checks in which anything that has not been expunged will be vi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipzrxqt",
"comment_text": [
"Apple famously will not confirm or provide any job title so if you ever worked there you are free to select any title that appeals to you."
],
"score": 15
} | |
Eli5: Why has it taken so many years for the civil suit against Alex Jones by the Sandy Hook Families to happen? | explainlikeimfive | wg8ste | 24 | R2 (Recent/Current Events) | true | false | 0.81 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiyagt9",
"comment_text": [
"Alex Jones has been actively delaying it. He has:",
"under suspicious circumstances"
],
"score": 47
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiya1e7",
"comment_text": [
"I'd like to live in a society where someone who knows better can't instigate nationwide harassment toward families whose children were murdered without consequence."
],
"score": 46
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiyaud5",
"comment_text": [
"They didn't sue him for saying mean or stupid things. They sued him for defamation. Big difference."
],
"score": 31
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiyaud5",
"comment_text": [
"They didn't sue him for saying mean or stupid things. They sued him for defamation. Big difference."
],
"score": 31
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiybffl",
"comment_text": [
"This is all what makes the copy of his phone thing so sweet. Much of what you described is likely on there."
],
"score": 21
} | |
Eli5 Why do people consider Jordan Peterson offensive? | explainlikeimfive | wfqgn7 | 0 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iivd987",
"comment_text": [
"Maybe it's because he's quite disrespectful to trans people. Most recently, he was put in Twitter jail for refusing to delete a transphobic tweet against Elliot Page, calling the doctors that operated on him criminal. He also then posted a video about the issue c... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iivi9zw",
"comment_text": [
"Here's Peterson's ",
"video",
" on the subject and the ban. ",
"Peterson is unrecognizable to me here. I enjoyed and got something from his earliest university lecture videos but this rant is an excellent example of how dis- likeable he has become.... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiwflod",
"comment_text": [
"My favorite quote from this is “Up yours, woke moralists! We’ll see who cancels who!”. He’s trying to frame himself as a martyr"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiveanm",
"comment_text": [
"Anyone who expresses views in opposition to a those considered acceptable by a given group will always attack negative feedback from members of that group. How popular the person is matters more than what they say.This polarization of viewpoints generates enormo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iive8gt",
"comment_text": [
"Peterson is, at heart an academic and university professor and lecturer. Much of his work, especially his earlier videos are actual uni lectures. He summarizes, explains and combines the issues and findings of published psychology studies, as he did in his \"12 S... | |
ELI5 Why do we have nightmares? | explainlikeimfive | wfxoha | 72 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.86 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiwfyu0",
"comment_text": [
"Scientifically we know that dreams occur while the brain replenishes certain cells and transmitters,",
"The Activation-Synthesis Model says that dreams are actually random. They are our brains' way of making sense of activity that goes on while we sleep. Our ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiye7lr",
"comment_text": [
"\" They are our brains' way of making sense of activity that goes on while we sleep.\"",
"I have always subscribed to this theory for a long, but I have always wondered, since our brains assign images and meaning to otherwise random firing in the pons and am... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiwo8hr",
"comment_text": [
"I heard an interesting theory on what the evolutionary adaptation that led to us dreaming is. That dreams are practice for the real world. Where we can go through scenarios without risking injury or death."
],
"score": 13
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iixwkor",
"comment_text": [
"Ah, good old evolution preparing us to stand up totally naked and give a presentation to our classmates. :)"
],
"score": 9
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iixn8fd",
"comment_text": [
"Generally people don’t not dream; instead they don’t remember their dreams when they wake up."
],
"score": 9
} | |
ELI5: Why is it okay to speed while driving? | explainlikeimfive | wfmcgb | 0 | R6 (Loaded) | true | false | 0.31 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiuomm6",
"comment_text": [
"Enforcing speed limits on literally everyone could be a massive resource draw and potentially cause more harm than good. ",
"Picking off and heavily fining a few of the worse offenders sends enough of a message to seriously deter speeding."
],
"score": 8
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiuoe4w",
"comment_text": [
"This varies by country.",
"In the U.S. most speed cameras don't take a picture to issue a fine unless the vehicle registers as going X mph over the limit. It's not usual for them to tag you for going only a couple mph fast."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiuok2k",
"comment_text": [
"The 5-10 miles is just a zone to lend grace and for adjusting/ passing/ merging. ",
"If they raised the limit that much ppl would speed over that limit. So they just agree on a safe speed for certain types of roads and bends and allow extra room. ",
"It r... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiuq0py",
"comment_text": [
"The reason for that enforcement buffer is usually because of errors in measuring speed. For example, if a police car is on the highway, driving along, their radar needs to account for their speed. Measuring the exact speed of a car can be very difficult. Your car... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiuq4vv",
"comment_text": [
"Because if the speed limit was raised by that amount, then people would speed by 5-10 MPH over that limit instead. Additionally, the amount of time and resources it would take to get everyone who goes about that much over the limit usually outweighs the benefits ... | |
ELI5: How the jury is kept from being rigged? | explainlikeimfive | wfbyyb | 1 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 1 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iit04ta",
"comment_text": [
"So in the US there is something called “Jury Nullification”. Not a lawyer but this is my rough understanding of the concept. Attorneys from each side interview selected jurors and try to tease out any biases that they might have. In your example, the attorneys wo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iit0uwy",
"comment_text": [
"Jury Nullification is something different but does answer part of Ops question. Jury Selection is what you are referring to. Jury Nullification is when the jury returns a verdict of Not Guilty, even though the jurors believe the defendant is guilty beyond a reaso... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iit05ol",
"comment_text": [
"Jurors are randomly selected. Then they have to fill out a survey for the lawyers to look through and dismiss any jurors they think might be biased. Then they meet in person and same thing basically. They can dismiss a juror for damn near any reason to avoid any ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iit08vy",
"comment_text": [
"There is a \"charge to jury\", wherein the judge explains the law that applies. The jury is to assess the facts as presented - they could say something like \"Joe says he did not cause the damage, and Ray says he did - we do not believe that Ray has proven that ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iit0f25",
"comment_text": [
"There is a process for selecting jurors (appropriately called \"jury selection\") to try and deal with these kinds of issues.",
"People who, due to some past experience, are not able to provide an unbiased take on the case are screened out. This avoids issues... | |
Eli5 Hello! Can someone please explain to me what joining the union for a job means? I have an interview with an armored money truck company tomorrow and I am constantly seeing people say to join their union. What is it and why should I? Thanks! | explainlikeimfive | wfe5ic | 181 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.91 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iitdlo4",
"comment_text": [
"Unions are worker organizations that help all the workers negotiate as one with their employer, leading to better working conditions, better benefits, and better pay than if all the workers were fighting individually for themselves.",
"The details vary from U... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iitgze3",
"comment_text": [
"If people are telling you to join the union there, then i would guess that the union is already well established and most the other people who you’d be working with are union already."
],
"score": 102
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiu8js3",
"comment_text": [
"The US has a strong union busting culture because employers don't want employees to be empowered or paid well, so there's strong anti-union propaganda that gets a lot of financial support from big companies. So take the negatives with a grain of salt. ",
"I'v... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iitfrym",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you for your explanation. Do employers see union workers differently? I don’t want to be treated differently if I decided to join."
],
"score": 50
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iiu8wvc",
"comment_text": [
"Note that i am european not american.",
"But the \"bad things online\" said about unions in america is from what it looks like from over here, to be propeganda from corporations.",
"They will happilly spend money on anti union talk which in return tells y... | |
eli5: why is death irreversible? | explainlikeimfive | xiidh7 | 1 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 0.57 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip36csm",
"comment_text": [
"Well this is sort of by definition - life threatening conditions that ",
" reversible can get fixed, saving your life.",
"You are dead once an irreversible health issue has stopped the blood flow to your brain long enough for the nerve cells to destroy th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip35tw5",
"comment_text": [
"Because too many cells in our bodies are killed and are broken apart.",
"If we use a 500 piece puzzle, imagine not only are the pieces separated, but the pieces themselves are starting to decompose and break away into dust. There is no recovery from that"
]... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip36kkd",
"comment_text": [
"when your brain dies, you die. Without a blood supply, your brain cells start dying off rapidly in around six minutes. Then there’s an irreversible loss of all neurological function in the brain and brain stem. No sign of life, no coming back, sign the death cert... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip37kd7",
"comment_text": [
"Death is considered irreversible because we lack the knowledge and technology. For example, we only have basic understanding of how a brain works. We can see the cells and give very good guesses as to how parts of it work. But we don't know how it is all put toge... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip37kfd",
"comment_text": [
"All our cells require energy and nutrients to keep themselves alive. So as soon as our heart stops (or some other blockage occurs), the clock starts ticking until our cells run out of reserves and start dying. This is a problem for most organs, but if you resume ... | |
ELI5: Where did STDs originate and how did the first human or animal get them? | explainlikeimfive | xi1erd | 21 | R2 (Whole topic) | true | true | 0.71 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip13hiy",
"comment_text": [
"I can verify you're not a doctor."
],
"score": 28
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip1p1w0",
"comment_text": [
"Some of them have been with us for longer than we can guess. We've found evidence from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt that STIs existed back then. ",
"We know gonnorhea first came from livestock. That doesn't mean that people were having sex with livestock, bu... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip10el8",
"comment_text": [
"As far as biologicy knows they have always been with us. The subspecies of the genus bacteria and family of vituses which cause STIs cause different diseases also. Animals have their own versions of these.",
"Consider that world around us is filled with micro... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip12kxh",
"comment_text": [
"This is probably less where they originated and more how they evolved. Think Darwin and his finches. \"If no one else wants this free real estate, I'll take it\" bacteria and viruses have to compete with one another for occupying the same type of cells. That's wh... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip224yj",
"comment_text": [
"The subspecies of the genus bacteria",
"What exactly are you trying to say here?"
],
"score": 2
} | |
Eli5 where “egg yellows” go when companies make “egg whites”? | explainlikeimfive | xiorpu | 5 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.62 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip4880y",
"comment_text": [
"all sorts of foods are made with just egg yolks or with eggs plus the egg yolks of a few seperated eggs. aioli, creme brulee and other custards, cakes, ice cream, salad dressing (especially caesar dressing), pasta carbonara sauce, hollandaise...that's just off th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip4ifnh",
"comment_text": [
"Corporations are very rarely wasteful if there is an opportunity to make money (and often times disposal is more costly than finding an alternative). Most physical food waste is either redistributed internally to produce other products or sold to other companies ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip49wwn",
"comment_text": [
"You can also purchase just egg yolks. As well as other egg yolks based products. ",
"https://www.google.com/search?q=egg+yolks&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&prmd=sinv&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqsPDk6aH6AhV9IkQIHaElBfEQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=384&bi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipfe7sk",
"comment_text": [
"Tbh I have all the yolks don't tell op shhhh"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ip4ozb1",
"comment_text": [
"Haha wise ass over hear got a few jokes"
],
"score": 1
} | |
eli5: What causes recession? | explainlikeimfive | wa453t | 0 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.4 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyt9hi",
"comment_text": [
"People losing their jobs means the real economy (stuff) shrinks. That's the recession, people not working. This happens after the money-economy shrinks. Aka people lose their jobs because something happens financially where people stop getting paid (debts go bad,... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihytd94",
"comment_text": [
"It's typically a decline in economic activity. That can be caused by a lasting massive drop in employment/income/expenditures/retail sales/production like during covid or a massive drop in values like in housing or dotcom bubbles. The fed spending more money isn'... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyz71k",
"comment_text": [
"There is no single unique cause to a recession. For example, the recession associated with the financial crisis of 2007-09 was caused by a collapse in the housing bubble and the subsequent impairment of the financial sector which then spread to the real sector. "... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihz0g1m",
"comment_text": [
"To go into a bit more detail on this -",
"A recession is defined as a fall in economic activity, usually GDP falling for two quarters. Basically a country is producing less stuff and providing less services.",
"Why might this happen? Well if you're Ukrain... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihz20co",
"comment_text": [
"That's a good break down, but makes me ask another question regarding energy prices. Correct me if I am wrong, but UK has it's own gas, at least I was told so. If UK has it's own gas then why the energy prices are up?"
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: why can’t we look directly at the sun? | explainlikeimfive | wa33ea | 0 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 0.3 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyo274",
"comment_text": [
"Because the lens in your eye focuses the light coming in to your eye to a small area, and it literally starts to burn. Think of what happens when you focus sunlight with a magnifying glass into a point, and you can burn paper or kill ants with it. Almost the same... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyp3xa",
"comment_text": [
"The tradeoff makes sense \"hey so with eyes, you can focus at many different things and distances clearly, and adapt to different light conditions by ",
"focusing the light coming into the eye with",
" lenses... as long as you don't look directly at the s... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihynsy2",
"comment_text": [
"You can, it just damages your eyes if you stare at it too long. The radiation from it is just too much for the eyes to handle over extended amounts of time."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyug24",
"comment_text": [
"To go one step further - the light from the Sun (that we don't need to look at) is much brighter than the light from physical objects (that we do need to look at) because those objects are generally rough and so exhibit diffuse reflection. This spreads the incomi... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyurdc",
"comment_text": [
"And where there was, creatures developed tricks to mitigate, like seeing polarised light"
],
"score": 2
} | |
ELI5: Why do recipe sites hide the instructions at the bottom of the page? | explainlikeimfive | w9vhec | 7 | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | true | false | 0.77 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihxijn9",
"comment_text": [
"To force you to go past the adds so they get add revenue. These sites tend to survive and pay for content via the add revenue ",
"It's really that simple. ",
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
],
"score": 18
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihxkq95",
"comment_text": [
"Google favors longer pages in search results and it is also the chance for more ads, which probably come from Google, too"
],
"score": 10
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihxja7w",
"comment_text": [
"Recipes also can't be copyrighted the way stories can."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihxnin5",
"comment_text": [
"Another one is search engine optimization.",
"\nThe search engines favor websites with more keywords, and ads favor longer engagement time on the website.",
"\nParagraphs of story add to both of them which increases traffic to the site and site income."
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihxr6pk",
"comment_text": [
"This is the real answer. These sites are trying to be the first result in your search and then serve all the ads that they can. ",
"It also has nothing to do with copyright about their BS stories. Almost all of the stories are completely made up by contracto... | |
ELI5: If higher frequency radiation has a harder time penetrating objects, then why do we use X-rays to see bones? | explainlikeimfive | w9s4va | 1 | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | true | false | 0.6 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihwypph",
"comment_text": [
"higher frequency radiation has a harder time penetrating objects",
"Well, that's not a thing. Higher frequency radiation has more energy per photon. Some materials absorb some wavelengths and transmit others, that's how glass works. There is not general re... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihwyree",
"comment_text": [
"The frequencies used are chosen specifically because bones in particular absorb them more strongly than many other materials found in the body. This contrast is very helpful for looking at bones, and has many other uses."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihx53xn",
"comment_text": [
"It doesn’t.",
"From low to higher frequency:",
"Hf radio loves to bounce.",
"Radio bounces",
"Infrared too but interferes with things (heats things)",
"Light does go through something, and heats others, or bounces.",
"UV goes through skin,... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihxi152",
"comment_text": [
"In audio though it is very true. If you live in an apartment and your neighbor has a sound system, it’s the lower frequencies (bass) that you will hear moreso than the higher frequencies, that’s because lower frequency notes lose less energy going thru walls."
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihx8kd9",
"comment_text": [
"X-rays pass through soft tissue more easily, and pass through dense bones less easily.",
"\nSo the way the X-ray machine works is literally just taking a picture of the shadow of your bones using x-rays instead of visible light."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: How does La Croix work? | explainlikeimfive | xh3hel | 97 | R2 (Narrow) | true | false | 0.75 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iovdm2d",
"comment_text": [
"They have the flavor of a fruit without the sugar. Where does the flavor come from? ",
"There was never any actual fruit in it, it's just chemicals that taste like fruit.",
"How do they extract the sugar?",
"There's nothing to extract because it was n... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iove3rn",
"comment_text": [
"Yeah, it's all chemicals that are also found somewhere in nature. It's just not necessarily from the ",
" fruit."
],
"score": 232
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iovfrxx",
"comment_text": [
"fun facts... everything is made of chemicals"
],
"score": 68
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iovdy27",
"comment_text": [
"But… it says natural flavors. 😢"
],
"score": 57
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iovvdgq",
"comment_text": [
"Its not the same though. I say this as a bubbly water person, the different brands definitely have different tastes. ",
"Bizarrely when I was in texas I honestly thought the HEB one kinda punched above its weight."
],
"score": 49
} | |
ELI5: Why are the rocks in the western US all red. I know it is iron but why is there so much iron in the west? | explainlikeimfive | w9yv9o | 2 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyeb8y",
"comment_text": [
"It isn't. Many parts of the West have other rock colors - most notably the flood basalts of Montana, Idaho, and Washington, which are black.",
"You're probably referring to the ",
"Navajo sandstone",
", a massive sandstone formation that covers most o... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihy56qf",
"comment_text": [
"Ancient Lakes basically.",
"Over millions of years ancient mountains eroded, and the iron deposits went into the lakes and settled at the bottom. Eventually due to changes in geography the lakes dried up and got covered with other sediment. Then new mountai... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihydxqn",
"comment_text": [
"Yep. Silica (a 1:2 mix of silicon to oxygen) is an extremely common mineral. You know it as quartz or sand, among other things."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihyekg0",
"comment_text": [
"The most recent lakes in the West are far, far younger than the Navajo sandstone. Actually, the sandstone is quite a bit older (~200 Mya) than the mountains are, too: the Rockies (~70 Mya) and Sierra Nevada (~5 Mya) are pretty young."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ihya103",
"comment_text": [
"Then why isn't it so red in the east, and the North. Etc."
],
"score": 3
} | |
ELI5: Why is water "matte" in some places and "clear" in others? | explainlikeimfive | l6uv5q | 6 | Earth Science | true | false | 0.8 | I notice it becomes "clear" when a duck swims through it for example, or on the river bank like in the picture example below. Is it something on the surface of the water? Thanks in advance! Let me know if I can specify :)
Also I added the flair "earth science", hope that fits. | {
"comment_id": "t1_gl2t1x4",
"comment_text": [
"It's the wind ruffling the surface. Even a small amount of breeze will cause small ripples. Near the bank it's sheltered. With the duck, and even a boat moving slowly, it will move the water sideways it passes and break up the ripple formation.",
"As a dinghy... | {
"comment_id": "t1_gl35i0g",
"comment_text": [
"The matte parts have more smaller ripples. When you look through a curved piece of glass the light going through it is distorted. If you sandblasted that piece of glass the surface of it would be covered in a whole bunch of very tiny curves, each of which would d... | {
"comment_id": "t1_gl2tyks",
"comment_text": [
"The ripples in the water don't seem to effect it, both clear and matte parts of the water have ripples going over it but the difference is still there. \nWhen a duck swam through the water it created a ripple which passed over both the matte water and the \"clear... | {
"comment_id": "t1_gl53tl0",
"comment_text": [
"Wind/water movement causes tiny ripples in the water with enough of these the water becomes matte. But in still water like a lake or a very slow moving stream the water has very few ripples and is clear. The only other thing might be dirty water but it has to be ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_gl3045t",
"comment_text": [
"That's the thing none of it is frozen!"
],
"score": 1
} |
ELI5: What is privatization exactly? Good or bad? | explainlikeimfive | cmtpr9 | 5 | Law | true | false | 0.78 | Recently my friends and I were having a sorta layman's debate if privatization of government sectors like airlines or railways etc is good for the country or not. I have no technical idea about this. So enlighten me? | {
"comment_id": "t1_ew4lx3u",
"comment_text": [
"\"Privatization\" is the process of taking traditionally government-provided services and having private companies do them instead.",
"This has some benefits and some drawbacks. Privatization is typically significantly cheaper (at least at first), because the... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ew4nfba",
"comment_text": [
"The thing about privatization is that the main goal of companies is not to provide a service, but to make a profit. So while a government can afford to, for example, maintain a bus route with few passengers, a private company would be more inclined to scrap that ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ew4mae2",
"comment_text": [
"Was gonna comment, but had nothing else to add. It's neither good or bad, just a matter of private vs. state ownership."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ew4oy9c",
"comment_text": [
"There are some services provided by govt agencies that cannot be profitable, such as running social welfare programs. ",
"Other services would be a huge headache, such as roads, paying a new toll every so many miles because a different company owns that stret... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ew4ymmx",
"comment_text": [
"because the government has no incentive to cut costs. ",
"an authoritarian government has no incentive.",
"a democratic government does."
],
"score": 4
} |
ELI5: Why do security cameras record on such low quality? | explainlikeimfive | xgipkv | 0 | R6 (Loaded/False Premise) | true | false | 0.43 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ios3wsn",
"comment_text": [
"It depends on what you are talking about. A security camera as the ability to record at whatever resolution it displays at. The higher the resolution the more bandwith and drive space a recording will take though. So for some things you might want to record at... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ios3wtz",
"comment_text": [
"I think it’s a storage issue. You can’t store continuous high quality video because the size required to make a clear image"
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ios42mm",
"comment_text": [
"Assuming you mean for businesses: ",
"They likely record 24/7 and they likely have at least a dozen cameras. ",
"Let’s go full tilt with some great quality, the modern iPhones shooting in ProRes: ",
"A minute of 10-bit HDR ProRes is approximately 1... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ios48jj",
"comment_text": [
"Most security systems these days will only record when there is movement. There may be some applications where you want constant recording but with more modern systems they can detect movement and then start a recording 10 seconds (or more/less depending on sett... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ios4kk8",
"comment_text": [
"Right, but if talking a store, that still would be actively recording during most hours the business is open. So if an everyday place, like a convenience store, still talking at least say 15hr every day. Not to mention people choosing for continuous recording if ... | |
ELI5: Why is the word Allegedly is used when a person commits a crime and evidence clearly shows the person committing said crime? | explainlikeimfive | cnp3ok | 2 | Law | true | false | 0.63 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ewcjpe3",
"comment_text": [
"Because everyone is innocent until proven guilty in fair trail. Even if he is caught by the hand"
],
"score": 23
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ewck1wa",
"comment_text": [
"People forget that the presumption of innocence is important."
],
"score": 13
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ewcjti3",
"comment_text": [
"Because a court of law has yet to determine guilt, and saying guilty before that is slanderous.",
"You may think the evidence is clear, other evidence not availible to you might show a clearer picture."
],
"score": 8
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ewck3qi",
"comment_text": [
"Additionally, what might be clear evidence from an untrained eye may not be clear evidence to a trained eye. Your average reader might not really understand what certain legal charges actually entail and instead has a more general description in their mind that m... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ewck91l",
"comment_text": [
"According to the US Constitution (and similar laws in other countries), a person under arrest is innocent until proven guilty. That means, ",
" there has been a trial or plea bargain and the suspect has either been found guilty by judge or jury or voluntarily... | |
ELI5: What is the legally plausable reasoning behind allowing for non-disclosure agreements for potentially criminal acts? | explainlikeimfive | cl2kdo | 2 | Law | true | false | 0.58 | I hope the premise is not flawed, but I've read quite a few articles about (mostly US-based) corporations and people paying people "hush money" to "buy their silence", i.e. signing non disclosure agreements. I understand that NDAs can be valuable to protect intellectual property, but why would a judicial system allow o... | {
"comment_id": "t1_evsfw32",
"comment_text": [
"NDAs cannot be used to silence reporting of criminal activity. Any NDA that tries to do so is void as against public policy. The law is clear on this.",
"Buying silence (\"hush money\") is typically settling a civil claim one person has against another pers... | {
"comment_id": "t1_evshiui",
"comment_text": [
"Thank you for that elaborate answer! That answers a few questions about the mechanisms.",
"Yet I am still no further in understanding *why* a judicial system would have this possibility included. I understand that settling matters out of court makes sense, bu... | {
"comment_id": "t1_evsikq7",
"comment_text": [
"Yep, I get it - it seems to run counter to the interests of justice. That said, there's a difference between allegations and proof (or even existence of) actual criminal or malicious conduct. And there are plenty of times someone is wronged by an action that wo... | {
"comment_id": "t1_evvc85r",
"comment_text": [
"I have been thinking a lot about this reply and I must say that I admire how well written and nuanced it is!",
"\nOften, when I encounter a policy or norm that I deem reprehensible or outdated, I'll try to understand the history or motivation behind it. If th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_evvd1fn",
"comment_text": [
"To be honest, the premise stems from a mixture of videos, articles and wikipedia. I was trying to understand cases like Harvey Weinstein, Stormy Daniels and Theranos, and why powerful people would want to pay people to prevent a scandal. The thing that made no se... |
ELI5:the difference between orthodox, catholic and protestant christians | explainlikeimfive | xgidde | 0 | R2 (Religion/Politics) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ios3es7",
"comment_text": [
"Catholic and orthodox are very similar as they are both very old conservative churches. They split when the Roman Empire split into the Eastern and Western Roman Empire and not due to any huge theological issue. So their differences are more in the detailed inter... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosi4e9",
"comment_text": [
"In Mexico 99%+ are Catholics, however I've met a few Mexican people that adamantly claim that they are not Catholic but Christian. What does this mean?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosjh6f",
"comment_text": [
"There are a lot of different christian denominations. There are others which are as old as the catholic and orthodox such as Coptic. And a lot of what might be categorized as a protestant denomination does not identify themselves as protestant. So it could mean a... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iosmykv",
"comment_text": [
"I see. Thanks!"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ios8k3z",
"comment_text": [
"Orthodox and Catholic technically mean the same thing, but in the modern parlance Catholic refers to ",
" Catholics. Basically there was a breakup in the older Catholic Church in 1054 AD due to a set of doctrinal differences, and while both churches think tho... | |
ELI5: how the hell was the startup menu of computers made? how do you code a little chip to do such a thing.. and where? | explainlikeimfive | xg7xfa | 0 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ioqm7dh",
"comment_text": [
"Your computer's processor has a set of initial instructions physically built into it. Those instructions tell it to set an initial state of the processor and begin at a particular point in its memory. At that point in memory is a small program called a BIOS (\"ba... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ioqmzhp",
"comment_text": [
"Yes, there's a chip in the computer with a hard-coded program called the BIOS (basic input output system) that gets the computer started. It's *just* smart enough to get things going and load the real operating system (Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc.) from storage an... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ioqn8u2",
"comment_text": [
"Startup code was originally hard-wired, and parts of it still are. But, all of that original code had to be worked out ny hand, first, then tested on a real machine (and they were big@$$ clunky machines back then, with vacuum tubes and everything). After that, ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ioqnnej",
"comment_text": [
"The CPU itself is designed to when the power turn on to star reading from specific memory address. That will be where the BIOS/UEFI is on a PC. What happen after that depend on the instruction at that address. The code there was stored in chips on the motherboar... | {
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"Your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):",
"wiki entry",
"If you would like this removal reviewed, please read the ",
"detailed rules",
" first. ",
", please ",
"use this form",
" and we will review your submission... | |
ELI5: Why is it normal to go through cycles of recession and expansion? Why can't we grow at a slower but more consistent rate, without experiencing recessions? | explainlikeimfive | wbgva5 | 22 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.88 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii6tiu3",
"comment_text": [
"The economy is a very complex system. Cycles of growth and recession basically happen because the perceived value of things changes over time. For example, in the 90s tech boom the perceived value of websites skyrocketed creating a boom and huge hiring in softwar... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii6tb4m",
"comment_text": [
"Because it’s not a constant world and people think with their emotions and decide with incomplete data."
],
"score": 5
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii6ts32",
"comment_text": [
"By and large, we don't have our pulse on what's going on with an economy 'right now'. You'll see right now they are busy arguing whether or not the USA is in a recession...after 6 months of gathering data. Because it takes so long to figure out what's HAPPENING, ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii72vq6",
"comment_text": [
"So what do you propose to replace the current global economic system?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii6wxml",
"comment_text": [
"Honest answer is human greed, read all of the long winded answers and read between the lines. The posters will tell you it's complex. X happened as a result of which produced Z etc. But in every case the overriding driver was the desire and percieved opportunity ... | |
eli5: When the Feds raise the interest rate, so everyone pays more on their variable APR credit card debt, where does all that extra interest money go? | explainlikeimfive | wbw3o2 | 18 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.69 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii8zwf8",
"comment_text": [
"The Fed raises interest rates on the money it lends to banks, so the banks have to pay more to the government.",
"The banks then raise interest rates on their customers/borrowers, because they want to keep making money. So you (the borrower) pay more money to... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii93b1p",
"comment_text": [
"The federal reserve was set up to be more independent from the day to day political pressure but it most definitely is still controlled by the government. The governing board are literally appointed by the president, and any money they make from the interest rate... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii93ac1",
"comment_text": [
"Rising interest rates also cost governments since governments routinely issue bonds, especially the Federal Government."
],
"score": 19
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii948pi",
"comment_text": [
"Let's not get it mixed up, the Fed is through and through a government entity. It was created by the federal government and its members are directly paid using taxpayer money. The annual profits that the Fed makes gets paid to the U.S Treasury, except a small per... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii91top",
"comment_text": [
"So, the government ends up making more money from the hikes? I never thought about that aspect before!"
],
"score": 10
} | |
ELI5 - Why was the decision made to toss bin laden’s body into the ocean made? | explainlikeimfive | xksi3r | 1 | R2 (Narrow) | true | false | 0.53 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipfnm40",
"comment_text": [
"The White House said they followed Islamic tradition, washing, shrouding and burial within 24 hours of death. As far as the sea goes. It’s kinda 50/50 if that part was okay or not. ",
"But, I believe that, not many places would allow his family to bury him in... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipfo3le",
"comment_text": [
"I'm not up to speed on Muslim burial traditions. But I'm pretty sure a big part of it was not wanting a shrine of any sorts to develop. The US obviously didn't want to allow a tradition of a pilgrimage to their number 1 terrorist's grave. Burial at sea avoids tha... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipfrbb5",
"comment_text": [
"They wanted nowhere people could go to turn his death into martyrdom. No shrines. No flowers. No bronze-age Imam stirring up trouble."
],
"score": 6
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipfnvhg",
"comment_text": [
"Oh god I just noticed the mistake"
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ipgwl9v",
"comment_text": [
"Shashi Tharoor papa lagte hain kya?"
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5 : why is atmospheric re-entry so dangerous? | explainlikeimfive | wbr7ll | 13 | Planetary Science | true | false | 0.79 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii8cqi8",
"comment_text": [
"It's always more dangerous to run into something really fast than to run away from something really fast."
],
"score": 16
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii8p7n2",
"comment_text": [
"Akschualy it's air particle compression what makes majority of the heat, friction is only a small part of that"
],
"score": 16
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii8ctid",
"comment_text": [
"Friction. In order for you to walk forward, the air currently in the area in front of you has to be pushed aside first. If an object moves quickly then the air also has to be moved out of the way just as fast. ",
"When reentering the atmosphere objects can re... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii8eixc",
"comment_text": [
"If you cant land in your first reentry due to shallow angle, you wont endlessly drift because you will still be on suborbital trajectory and you will get back into the athmo after one orbit again."
],
"score": 7
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii8d8qc",
"comment_text": [
"There are a few factors to consider all of which concern entering the atmosphere with a lot of velocity. ",
"Firstly, if you enter too fast to will generate heat due to friction. Too much heat and you will burn up so you have to ensure you are travelling at t... | |
Eli5: Why do kids sleep on a floor with no consequence but adults are sore for the next two days? | explainlikeimfive | war2jq | 15 | R2 (Narrow/Personal) | true | false | 0.78 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii2h2m2",
"comment_text": [
"We generally weigh more putting more stress on our bodies and do it less as we grow up and become less flexible, at 44 I'm still OK to sleep on a floor and be OK afterwards but I just never stopped."
],
"score": 27
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii2lqr3",
"comment_text": [
"I’m 42 and still prefer to lounge on the floor rather than the furniture. I operate under the principle that as long as I keep doing it, I’ll always be able."
],
"score": 17
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii2kuok",
"comment_text": [
"The relience (bounciness) of joints reduces as we age. ",
"The amount of synovial fluid in joints reduces, so it gives you less cushioning, but there's also a change in an acid present in the fluid, so you suffer a double-whammy there. The cartilage becomes... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii2jas8",
"comment_text": [
"I'm 41 and sleep on the floor a lot because I am an alcoholic. Honestly the floor doesn't bother me near as much as the fact that when the night ends that way, I leave the lights on. ",
"I rarely wake up sore though, unless I stretch my neck weird or somethin... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ii2n4oj",
"comment_text": [
"35, been working in agriculture and construction since 13 years old. The floor is necessary sometimes. Damn back, IM TOO YOUNG THIS BULL SHIT."
],
"score": 8
} | |
Eli5: What's in petri dishes, why are there different colors and what happens after they've been used? | explainlikeimfive | tl8xkx | 2 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 0.67 | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1u2q9f",
"comment_text": [
"Usually the growth medium is agar based. Dyes are used to distinguish between different variables. For example a red Petri dish may be exactly the same as a blue Petri dish but they have different strains of bacteria or one could have a new antibiotic added while... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1u4sw1",
"comment_text": [
"Add to that some agars can be of a select color based on it's type. Blood agar, well, looks like blood. What they do after use is to dispose of the agar then santazie them for reuse in the next round of either expirements or growth studies to determine cause of a... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1u4w6n",
"comment_text": [
"There are different nutrient mixes that people use to grow different organisms, although they're usually just shades of brown. ",
"Sometimes, colouring agents are added that the microbes will interact with. This is used to identify different types of organism... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1v5fcf",
"comment_text": [
"and for those who don't know, Agar is a gel that is extracted from certain types of seaweed."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1x795s",
"comment_text": [
"Rule 2 forbids straightforward questions."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: what is escrow? | explainlikeimfive | tkqdau | 5 | R2 (Straightforward) | true | false | 0.99 | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1s0hr3",
"comment_text": [
"You (Mr A) want to buy something from someone else (Mr B).",
"You don't trust Mr B and he doesn't trust you. So neither of you want to hand over the money, or the product/house to the other person first, in case the other person does a runner.",
"So you ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1ry7bp",
"comment_text": [
"Escrow is money kept on your behalf in an account to pay for something you're legally obliged to pay at a future date. For instance, as you pay for your home mortgage, you may need to contribute to your property tax escrow account throughout the year so you have ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1rz2ry",
"comment_text": [
"Another example of this is, when you buy something from let's say Ebay, your money doesn't go directly to the seller, it is held in an escrow account until you confirm that you've received your product, at which point the money then goes to the seller"
],
"sc... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1s38ft",
"comment_text": [
"Rule 2 forbids straightforward questions."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1wurqo",
"comment_text": [
"Sorry."
],
"score": 1
} | |
Eli5: Where does the sea and oceans wave power come from? | explainlikeimfive | tkv2l3 | 1 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.6 | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1srzro",
"comment_text": [
"Mostly from the Sun. It warms air and water up which leads to wind and currents that move water around. Tides, however, are caused by the Moon's gravity pulling water while the Moon rotates around the Earth."
],
"score": 4
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1suu4s",
"comment_text": [
"Surface waves are caused by wind, which is caused by pressure systems, which are ultimately caused by the heat from the sun.",
"Tides are caused by the gravitational force of the moon (and to a lesser extent, the sun).",
"Tsunami waves are caused by under... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1stk2v",
"comment_text": [
"Wind over the water forms waves. As the wind blows, it tugs on the surface of the water, and this forms small waves. The continued action of wind makes those waves bigger."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1sut2q",
"comment_text": [
"and then waves keep going and going. Waves we see on a windless days come from storms and hurricanes that are hundreds or thousands of miles away."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1sy3am",
"comment_text": [
"Movement in the ocean comes from temperature differentials in the water and wind, both of which are caused by the Sun. It is also affected by the pull of the Moon's gravity as well as things like earthquakes."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5 - Why does Canada continue to construct large dams (site C) but USA has not? Eli5 | explainlikeimfive | tkni0t | 0 | R2 (Business/Group/Individual Motivation) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1rmtah",
"comment_text": [
"There is no definitive single answer for the whole country, but there are some overarching issues. The first and probably most pressing issue is a lack of funding. Dams are incredibly expensive projects. More expensive than most states can bear on their own. Many... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1rnb19",
"comment_text": [
"I see. I didn't think of the supporting infrastructure issues."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1sgok9",
"comment_text": [
"Good points. Especially the last one about water rights and affected people. Canada has more empty land, where fewer people are affected. ",
"In regard to funding, Biden did pass a pretty large infrastructure spending bill. Do you feel it will make a differen... | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1rn9gr",
"comment_text": [
"That's why I was having some issues with the question. If that is the case, why is Canada moving to create more large dams whereas the USA is not?"
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_i1rn9gr",
"comment_text": [
"That's why I was having some issues with the question. If that is the case, why is Canada moving to create more large dams whereas the USA is not?"
],
"score": 1
} | |
Eli5: How is there enough water for 7+billion people? | explainlikeimfive | gjdy25 | 2 | Geology | true | false | 0.6 | It seems like for most of humanity, access to clean fresh water was severely limited. And back then, the population was significantly smaller. So how are we pulling it off? | {
"comment_id": "t1_fqkeaek",
"comment_text": [
"The same way we’re feeding that 7 billion. Technological advancements. We have discovered how to pump more water faster through increasingly advanced filtration and distribution systems. Water that would have poisoned our distant ancestors is now able to be pr... | {
"comment_id": "t1_fqke7ca",
"comment_text": [
"When you pee, it gets filtered with rain and other waste water that isn't overly corrosive. It's renewed"
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_fqkehxb",
"comment_text": [
"Y'all seen earth? ",
" ton of water on earth. Also, we actually aren't pulling it off. Many countries and regions of countries have no access to fresh water, and either have to drink unclean water or make it as clean as possible by boiling it before use. ",
... | {
"comment_id": "t1_fqof9rw",
"comment_text": [
"But take Kabul Afghanistan for instance. How do they have running water and where do they get all their water? How does Mecca, a city in the middle of a desert, have water for hundreds of thousands of people and hotel rooms to use and drink and flush, every singl... | {
"comment_id": "t1_fqptzbm",
"comment_text": [
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Saudi_Arabia",
"This is stuff that can be googled pretty easily. In the case of mecca: Desalination of salt water combined with massive pipes. Also Mecca isn't in the middle of a desert. It's only a... |
ELI5: Why can't US electiones just count individual votes? | explainlikeimfive | v44o1d | 0 | R7 (Search First) | true | false | 0.5 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib29sle",
"comment_text": [
"Our constitution, and the government it built, weren't designed for individuals to vote at all. Originally, each individual state's legislature would just pick who they wanted the state's delegates to vote for, no popular vote required. ",
"In the last 100 ye... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib29yal",
"comment_text": [
"It is part of the history of the founding of the country. The original colonies that became states in the USA, were not equal. Some were larger and some were much wealthier. In order to persuade all these colonies to unite into a nation, compromises were made. Th... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2ad4l",
"comment_text": [
"Because the constitution says state legislatures pick their electors. Individual votes are only useful to help the state legislature know who their constituents favor. Most states have laws requiring the electors to vote for the person who won the statewide popu... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2802l",
"comment_text": [
"To avoid giving all the powers to only the most populous states. States like Iowa would be completely ignored, and only New York, California and maybe a couple of other states would determine election outcomes."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2cjne",
"comment_text": [
"This is actually backwards. The Electoral College was a compromise to appease the larger states, not one to appease the smaller states. The alternative was a one-state-one-vote approach. There was no meaningful support for the notion of direct popular election of... | |
ELI5: If we are made of atoms and so are non living things, what makes us 'alive' ? | explainlikeimfive | v457xy | 1 | R2 (Subjective/Speculative) | true | false | 0.6 | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2cac3",
"comment_text": [
"Edit: This is a religion agnostic point of view. This is using observable science, and may not be true of within all religions. Just putting this disclaimer here as I don't intend to discuss religion.",
"Humans are not magical, any process being done inside t... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2cezo",
"comment_text": [
"It really depends on how you want to define \"alive.\"",
"One definition of life is anything that can maintain consistent internal conditions, can respond to environmental cues, has a metabolism (transformation of energy into components of the body), is organ... | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2choc",
"comment_text": [
"Generally just brain activity. ",
"You may be referring to consciousness though, in which case that's a real problem that no-one seems to have solved: ",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard\\_problem\\_of\\_consciousness",
"."
],
"score": 2
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2hluk",
"comment_text": [
"I don't think this is right, there's plenty of things that are alive that don't even have brains. A flower, for instance."
],
"score": 1
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_ib2huqc",
"comment_text": [
"He referred to “us”, which I read as meaning humans."
],
"score": 1
} | |
ELI5: why do modern religions not care that other religions have existed and died | explainlikeimfive | v3q4uo | 0 | R2 (Religion/Politics) | true | false | 0.14 | {
"comment_id": "t1_iazuphq",
"comment_text": [
"Just because something else has failed, it does not mean that you will fail. The comings and goings of other religions are somewhat irrelevant if you truly believe your religion to be right."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iazx4bu",
"comment_text": [
"Past performance is no indication of future success."
],
"score": 3
} | {
"comment_id": "t1_iazuwz3",
"comment_text": [
"Well, plenty of science has changed. Many scientists and doctors have been wrong on countless issues throughout history, and their beliefs have died over time. The accepted scientific consensus on how the universe worked in 1100 is completely out of line with wha... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iazv0b9",
"comment_text": [
"I think there are a few reasons.",
"First, religions are based on belief and not reason. So, reason is not very effective in convincing someone that what they believe is not reasonable because reason is not why the believe. Your argument is based on reason bu... | {
"comment_id": "t1_iazudsc",
"comment_text": [
"Sorry read the rules little closer, is there a better subreddit for this question"
],
"score": 1
} |
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