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Thứ Ba, 26 tháng 5, 2015
How would you rate Emilia Clarke as an actor? - Quora
Answer: She has three facial expressions: 1. Mile-long vacant stare when she...
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How would you rate Emilia Clarke as an actor?
Kelsey L. Hayes
, copy chief at POLITICO Pro.
1k votes
She has three facial expressions:
1. Mile-long vacant stare when she's trying to look ethereal.
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Why didn't junk food cause obesity in the olden days?
Jim Seidman
, Retired Software Executive
552 votes
In days of yore, most junk food was quite high in naturally occurring fats. When someone ordered a burger, french fries, and a milkshake, all of those were replete with fat...
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How does Elon Musk work?
Roshan Thomas
3.5k votes
Being one of the early employees at Tesla I was interviewed by Elon as part of his policy although the middle management position that I was joining perhaps really did not...
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How does Elon Musk study?
Dylan Yang
735 votes
People tend to overstate their feelings about somebody. They are usually not as good as we say they are nor as bad as we say they are.
Elon is smart but he's not so much ...
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English (language): What is the most misspelt word in the English language?
Kiran Kumar Reddy
, A person in the making
2.4k votes
I have noticed this mistake very frequently in written English, even from very well read people. In spoken English, it's difficult to make out whether the person saying it ...
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I'm 18, and I've written 2 lines of code. By age 21 or 22 I want to be a programmer at Google. What do I need to do?
James H. Kelly
, coder, animator, writer, designer...
1.4k votes
Give up this silly dream. You have it backwards.
Learn to code. Who knows, you may love it, you may hate it. If you do like it, figure out what type of coding you like to...
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What do Chinese citizens, particularly the young adults, think about events such as the June 4th Incident (aka Tiananmen Square massacre) when information around it has been so heavily censored?
Kirk Wu
, anime fan, in-house otaku
958 votes
I think I qualify as a young Chinese (hopefully, approaching my 30s), and I feel like throwing in my 5 cents about the event here if it is of any value at all.
As a Beijin...
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Why is the United States of America so much wealthier than other countries?
Adam Cohen
, I work for SeatGeek.
977 votes
This answer is essentially a response to Venkatesh Rao. I don't usually go in for "rebuttal" answers, but in this case I feel like I have to speak up.
If Ventakesh's "Fact...
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What's the
tl;dr
(Cliff's Notes) of different countries' entire history?
Sami Kukkonen
, Chairman of the Board (Burton T7)
2k votes
The condensed history of
Finland
from 9000 BC to 2014 AD.
Ice age, hunters and fishers, agriculture, Swedish Crusades, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, famine, war,...
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What are some common misconceptions about the military?
Jon Mixon
481 votes
From experience:
That it will make you into something which you are not
- If you are lazy, undisciplined, cowardly or stupid, before you enter the military, you are likel...
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Thứ Ba, 19 tháng 5, 2015
In modern wars, what happens to captured weapons? - Quora
Answer: It depends on the type of weapons, and what our needs are. In Iraq, my...
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In modern wars, what happens to captured weapons?
Dan Rosenthal
, Former Foreign Service Officer, Iraq ...
826 votes
It depends on the type of weapons, and what our needs are. In Iraq, my unit regularly captured caches (sometimes very large ones). Typically these were your standard "slavs...
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What is the difference in the traditions of the outward palm and the palm down salute?
Sam William
395 votes
In the Indian Armed forces the salute differs by the particular service. I'd guess this is the same across most of the former British colonies.
1. Army: Outward Palm
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How do fat and out of shape people make it through basic training?
Jon Davis
, Writer and Blogger on Military, Veter...
985 votes
For the Marines, the basic regimen is that they do all the same training and work with half rations, i.e. with half the calorie intake of the other recruits. Underweight re...
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What is the significance of the images in The Big Bang Theory (TV series) song?
Robert Frost
, engineer/instructor at NASA
491 votes
Show co-creator, Chuck Lorre liked the way the band, The Barenaked Ladies, packed a lot of information into their song One Week. So, he asked them to do the theme for his ...
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What would you do if your IQ was 1000?
Igor Markov
, EECS Prof at Michigan - currently at ...
1.3k votes
As long as you live in three dimensions and are subject to the same laws of physics, chemistry and biology as everyone else, you'd become
I/O bound -
like a fast computer w...
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What kinds of conversations only happen in China?
Paul Denlinger
, Senior China Tech Policy Analyst
2.8k votes
Here is a conversation which has happened to me fairly frequently. I get approached by a man or woman who is in her 60s or 70s, and the conversation starts like this:
"Are...
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Should Ronald Reagan be added to Mount Rushmore?
Peter Flom
, Independent statistical consultant fo...
712 votes
Of the surveys of historians done since his presidency, Reagan ranks from 6 to 26, with an overall rank of 17 (see Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States)
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Can a passenger ever go into a cockpit?
Youcef Es-Skouri
, entrepreneur into startups & product ...
8.9k votes
I spent an entire commercial flight in a 737-800NG cockpit. Here's the story.
At the beginning or end of each flight, I speak to one of the flight attendants, explain my c...
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How did Alan Turing figure out the Enigma machine?
Andrew Warinner
, Code monkey, expat, utility infielder
735 votes
Alan Turing did not figure out the Enigma machine, Marian Rejewski did.
The critical parts of the Enigma machine were its rotors and the reflector. The interwiring of the ...
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How does a person of low intelligence think?
David Stewart
2.8k votes
The school I teach in at the moment is for students who all have a recognised intellectual disability. They've all been tested and found to have an IQ below 70. They're al...
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