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riotjune
United States3394 Posts
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
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GreenHorizons
United States23957 Posts
On December 25 2016 12:38 Epishade wrote: Is there any nutritional difference between having a diet filled with actual foods that fulfill 100% of your daily nutritional needs vs a soylent-type diet made up mostly of powders, vitamins, and liquids that also fulfills 100% of your daily nutritional needs? Not sure about the nutrition, but you're taking two very different types of dumps on those diets. | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On December 25 2016 12:38 Epishade wrote: Is there any nutritional difference between having a diet filled with actual foods that fulfill 100% of your daily nutritional needs vs a soylent-type diet made up mostly of powders, vitamins, and liquids that also fulfills 100% of your daily nutritional needs? theres some controversy over whether vitamins actually work I think. but assuming its the same nutrition and your body can process it properly I don't see why not. think people are still arguing about these things and theres no consensus. I'd guess it all depends on how the soylent diet is. theres probably some soylent diet that would do the same thing. I have very little actual knowledge about these things but thats just my thoughts. | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45937 Posts
On December 25 2016 13:09 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: what would happen if a country randomly with no warning declared all its currency worthless? As in, the Federal Reserve/ U.S. Government suddenly declared that all U.S. dollars and bills had absolutely no national or international value, i.e., you could no longer buy anything with U.S. currency inside the U.S., and you couldn't exchange it for other currency outside the U.S.? Presumably, there is a safeguard in place that stops such a declaration from actually affecting anything, in the same way that a country couldn't just magically declare that all of its currency was worth ten times more in exchange rates. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45937 Posts
On December 25 2016 12:45 GreenHorizons wrote: Not sure about the nutrition, but you're taking two very different types of dumps on those diets. That, and also presumably your caloric intake would be different right? Either way, different ingredients can still affect the body differently. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18292 Posts
On December 25 2016 13:09 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: what would happen if a country randomly with no warning declared all its currency worthless? Argentina '00 happens. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On December 25 2016 01:04 SoSexy wrote: Yesterday I met a girl and told her 'hey, let's take a drink' and she said 'I cant, I'm on antibiotics until March 12th' Am I safe to copulate with her? I see no evidence that she would kill you for inserting things into her pussy. But I am unsure as to why your question is really asking. | ||
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imp42
398 Posts
On December 25 2016 13:09 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: what would happen if a country randomly with no warning declared all its currency worthless? Currencies have different purposes. They enable trade by providing a means to express the value of two different goods in the same dimension (without this you would have to establish lots of bilateral relations, like "1 egg is worth 3 potatos" and "1 apple is worth 0.75 potatos" etc.). Another purpose of a currency in the form of printed paper is its nature of a contract, stating that the owner of the contract (the bill) has the right to claim a value of say 100$ that the government owes him as a debt. A country can't really influence the first purpose much. Relative values of goods are mostly established by the market. But with regards to the second purpose: there was a time when the US dollar was bound to the value of gold. That is, the US declared: "you give us gold, we will give you this little paper stating that we owe you that amount of gold". Then suddenly the decided: "No, we are not going to bind the dollar to gold anymore". In other words, the contract was broken. Now the US could throw more paper money on the market and suddenly your contract would only get you half the gold of what you originally were entitled to. A similar example is Venezuela declaring its 100$ bill invalid giving only a short time to trade those bills in the national bank. If you happen to live outside of Venezuela your bills are likely to just render worthless (which was probably the intention of the act) Tl dr: what you are asking has already happened in a bit weaker forms. The usual consequence: A very small part of the population makes an enormous profit, everybody else pays the price for it. Edit: to elaborate a bit on the question itself: A country can't just declare some value to be 0. A value of anything is always determined by what the seller and the buyer think it is worth. So a country could only state: "we won't give you anything for your money anymore" = "we don't accept it as a form of payment anymore". But a currency system using paper money is based on trust. Trust that you can obtain a good with that piece of paper equivalent in value to the good you gave away when you got the paper. The government not accepting the papers anymore would surely hurt that trust severely. By the way: to limit possibilities of abuse somewhat the currency is often administered by a National Bank which acts independently of the government. Probably few people realize that e.g. The Federal Reserve is a private institution. | ||
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
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Uldridge
Belgium5161 Posts
What are the ancient languages still spoken today? Could a person speaking the today's version of said language converse with someone speaking the language from the year 0? 1000 BC? Even further? | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On December 27 2016 09:43 Uldridge wrote: My question is twofold: What are the ancient languages still spoken today? Could a person speaking the today's version of said language converse with someone speaking the language from the year 0? 1000 BC? Even further? Hebrew got revived but not sure if its the same. there are some tribal/group languages that are relatively primitive from a linguistics perspective. not sure how similar they are to the past though this seems pretty good but its just a bunch of people answering. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-oldest-languages-in-the-world | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On December 27 2016 09:43 Uldridge wrote: My question is twofold: What are the ancient languages still spoken today? Could a person speaking the today's version of said language converse with someone speaking the language from the year 0? 1000 BC? Even further? Latin and Italian are pretty similar.. maybe with ample hand gestures (which comes naturally for Italians) and some patience (not as natural) they could have a basic conversation. What about China and Japan region? How much have those languages changed last few millennia? Otherwise you want to go for really small isolated communities. Some valley up in the mountains somewhere. Some tribe in the jungle. Maybe the Australian aboriginals for that matter. Could very well be that they'd understand their ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago. | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
On December 25 2016 22:49 Thieving Magpie wrote: I see no evidence that she would kill you for inserting things into her pussy. But I am unsure as to why your question is really asking. Certain antibiotics will reduce the efficacy of the pill, so remember the condom. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18292 Posts
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
what you want here is vulgar latin, the "common speech" (sermo vulgaris) but since no one cared about it/no one studied it, it was forgotten(overwritten). people from the Caucasus to Portugal would understand some of it. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11839 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22373 Posts
On December 28 2016 01:30 Simberto wrote: Yes, but how do you know that their languages haven't changed a bunch over time? Because a community that is completely static for hundreds of years is just that, static. The changing world around us and how we interact with it and each other is what causes changes in our language. If nothing about how we live changes and we never come into contact within anyone outside our closed community, why would our language change? | ||
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