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AskReddit/ey3wak1	cvfrfv	Why do you stay away from the news?	I feel like news increases my anxiety. I already have a diagnosed anxiety problem which I've been struggling with for years and the news tends to make it worse. Unfortunately staying away from the news makes me pretty ignorant regarding certain things but oh well, I'd rather be ignorant than worrying.	2
AskReddit/ejc11it	b591hu	What is toxic masculinity?	My ex girlfriend once asked me about a sports game. I told her I didn’t know the answer because I don’t watch sports. She told me “You need to start doing things that real men do.” My ex girlfriend now works two jobs to care for her two children by two different fathers. One is in jail, and the other makes his child su...	4
explainlikeimfive/djveahx	6lojco	How do people brute force your passwords?	Brute forcing rarely happens in the first place. And when it does, it's not thru the system UI. It usually happens when system has been compromised and the password data has been retrieved and stored on the hacker's or another hacker controlled machine. The raw password data is analysed and perhaps run thru a precalcul...	3
AskReddit/ckcd0pi	2fspcb	What are some brilliant FOREIGN shows I should be watching?	Like the others, it depends on your definition of foreign. These are comedy shorts rather than shows, but try Service apres vente and Un gars, Une fille for a laugh. You just want to get into some shows from other English speaking countries than the USA? If you liked The Young Ones try Bottom, including the live shows,...	3
AskReddit/e9yqpv6	9y6nq6	What’s the dumbest thing you’ve heard your teacher say?	Hold on let me get my list out. From my AP US History teacher: "The moon landing was faked" From the AP bio teacher: "Penguins are mammals" From my physics teacher: " heavier things fall faster"	4
askscience/c6wiw7b	12n6tr	If an obese person attempts to lose weight and starts eating healthy, would the plaque on their arteries decrease and/or disappear over time?	Point of clarification, just being obese doesn't mean that there are plaques in arteries (arteriosclerosis). Being obese only raises the risk for developing plaques. That said, a healthier diet and weight loss in a person that does have plaques can slowly decrease the natural progression of the plaques.	42
AskReddit/cp0razv	2xjzf5	Why do so many people think Multiculturalism is a bad thing?	I myself am a product of French, Irish, Jewish, Italian, Cherokee, Blackfoot Sioux and Muskogee Native American Ancestry. I see multiculturalism as a solution to racism and a way to battle ignorance of culture which leads to intolerance. Why shouldn't white people celebrate their diverse heritage if they have one? Why ...	2
AskReddit/dxi5oaz	8cvls5	Who or what do you pray for?	While I don't personally pray anymore, I always think about this quote from C.S. Lewis who I hold in very high regard, I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God, it changes me.	9
explainlikeimfive/da3cvuc	5dbyyd	Why does light cast from two equidistant lamp posts not cancel out shadows?	You have two light sources independently adding light to the region. Light A and Light B, both emitting 1 "unit" let's say. Where they both can reach it is receiving 2 units. Where neither can reach it is receiving 0 units. When you are blocking one light but not the other (occurs on both sides due to your positioning)...	5
explainlikeimfive/cvmw56e	3nd06z	Why flash memory is always in multiples of 8 (256GB, 512GB) while hard drives use a round number?	Hard drives are lying. As for your second question, it's easier to quote the 'gross' storage capacity because the 'net' storage capacity depends on how the drive is formatted, which is up to the user/OEM and isn't something the drive manufacturer has control over.	13
AskHistorians/cvtrjeb	3o3pfv	How does the quality/quantity of historical evidence for Jesus compare to that of other notable historical figures like Julius Caesar?	Historical theologian here. We have no concrete, substantial evidence for the existence of Jesus beyond the tradition that followed in the late 1st century and forward. In my studies, the most convincing evidence for the existence of Jesus are the writings of Flavius Josephus, who mentions Jesus a couple of times. I sa...	16
AskReddit/cktzuqa	2hmd4b	What is the most ridiculous dream you've ever had?	Had a super realistic feeling dream that I won a fan-tryout with the Boston Bruins hockey team, worked out and practiced with the team and was allowed to sit on the bench with them during a pre season game, all of which was an amazing and fun experience. What made it ridiculous was that with the game well in hand and w...	2
AskReddit/dw4yb5f	86gv4f	If you could create an animal, what would it be?	I would create spirit animals. A tiny animal manifestation of its human and would sit on their shoulder. The human couldn't harm it but everyone could see what type of person they were purely based on the animal/being sitting on their shoulder.	2
AskReddit/coqppgz	2wgtmr	Could an automated world where only 25% of people need to be employed work, or is it against human nature?	I do believe such a society would work. A small apartment, food, basic internet like TV and internet and a limited consumer basket would be provided to all. I do believe people would accept it over time. The real question is what would the mental state of such a population be? What mental disorders would be suppressed ...	6
AskReddit/e9it2xm	9w8um1	When is the last time you changed your opinion on a political discussion, and what were the circumstances?	Gun control. I used to be well for it and by observing discussions things came up like the increasing violent crime in Britain and acid attacks and stuff, or how statisticians pull a sneaky by including suicide by firearms jn murder counts and such, and the fsct-based discussion changed my mind	3
AskReddit/dzbngyq	8kz9hv	If you were given a sticker and a cup, how would you have fun?	If I was given a sticker that had a picture of two attractive girls on it I would stick it on the side of the cup fill the cup with hot cocoa and go around with a hot cocoa mustache and wait for people to get the joke and crack up.	3
askscience/e5gy921	9dcy4u	Why doesn't atoms nuclei collapse?	>The question I'm asking is, if the strong nuclear force is that much stronger than the electromagnetic force at the distances of a atom nucleus, why does it have a radius? It's the same thing as will the atom. Nucleons occupy discrete orbitals within the nucleus.	23
AskHistorians/ccqs3k0	1oc8tn	Were Ancient Greeks offended that the Romans adopted Greek mythology and made it their own?	I don't particularly understand the question. Why would they be offended? If you believed that Zeus was king of the gods, would you be offended if somebody else also believed that? the Greeks and Romans generally conceived of other religions with analogies to their own, so the Egyptians worshipped "Zeus Ammon", in Gaul...	38
AskReddit/ejiqhou	b67zhg	What's the game that you played for the longest time?	Probably Civ or Age of Mythology because I always return to them, but for the last year and half I've been playing Fate Grand Order almost daily (missed a few days). Like all good mobile games, it demands that you grind and grind and grind, and because it has biweekly events you rarely if ever get a breath, especially ...	5
askscience/ckckhbx	2ft7ha	Is there anything theoretical that suggests something (material or digitally) can be forced to be faster than light?	The framework of general and special relativity does permit you to input velocities faster than the speed of light into the equations. The problem is that the numbers you get out are physically unacceptable. For most intents and purposes, we treat these computations to imply that the speed of light is a strict upper bo...	9
AskReddit/eb72bjj	a3kaca	What song you want to be played at your funeral?	I had decided some time ago to have a funeral playlist of my favorite rock and classical music, but then I thought better of it and left directions to play that awful muted background organ music instead. My reasoning is that I don't want to ruin great music for my loved ones by associating Queen or The Rolling Stones ...	2
askscience/chq0j4a	26cwnn	Do gemstones fade in sunlight?	Gemstones are normally colored due to trace amounts of certain metals (e.g. corundum with trace amounts of chromium is a ruby, with iron and some others it's blue and a sapphire). These don't undergo reactions and degrade the way organic dyes do when exposed to UV light. They can, however, alter their state when expose...	9
explainlikeimfive/cpubixf	30ohae	Why are there so many different programming languages?	That's only part of it. Originally, programmers coded directly in machine code (binary). Assembly language came along to make it easier; the instructions were a little closer to english, so it was easier to understand, but there was still a one to one correspondence between assembly instructions and machine code. Highe...	5
explainlikeimfive/edd26c8	ad2rso	How are sewers made?	I interned one summer many years ago at the NYC Dept of Environmental Protection’s Sewer Analysis group. I can confirm that the sewers generally run down the middle of the street. For installation and repair, the street is closed and gets torn up. The oldest sewers in the city only date back to the mid-nineteenth centu...	3
AskReddit/cxtafl9	3w4k9e	What skill do you feel like you've reached a plateau at?	Driving. I've driven in cities and suburbs as a pizzaman. I've commuted to work an hour both ways. I don't feel as if I am improving on my driving or navigation techniques anymore.	2
AskReddit/ejr5le5	b7et5e	What is the strangest/funniest time someone has pocket dialed you and what did they say?	my father once pocket dialed me ten times and didnt say a word, I got quite worried and started calling him back, he answered but didnt talk. he had no idea he was calling and answering me, this went on for like half an hour, it drove me crazy lol	3
AskReddit/cozkgeq	2xeog7	How would you convince a stranger out of suicide?	I'm trained in suicide intervention and the short answer is you can't convince someone to not want to die by suicide. The end goal of intervention is to disable their suicide plan and create a safe plan to keep them safe. The first task in intervention when you've established that suicide is the intention is to talk th...	14
AskReddit/dhz5u4d	6d25j5	What is the worse thing that has happened to you/seen while working retail?	I don't know about worst, but the most depressing thing I saw when I worked in retail was the loneliness in some of the customers. It seemed like their entire life revolved around coming to the store, picking something out, and then returning it within a few days. Some would go through the effort to place a web order a...	3
AskReddit/e7vjxl0	9ooxyl	What was the moment you realized you had fallen in love?	Hmmm the moment I realized I didn't care what anyone thought about the person I was seeing. Literally nothing coukd change the way I view this woman. We aren't together anymore but I love her till this day and we speak very often . She is 14 years older than me.	2
AskReddit/cpan2lj	2ylig4	What is a recurring theme in your dreams?	I've had at least five dreams that have involved me being attacked by former Pro Wrestler Ahmed Johnson. I'll always be at some random place (i.e. the gas station, grocery store, mall, etc.) and Ahmed will come out of nowhere and hit me with his finishing move, "The Pearl River Plunge." It will never hurt that bad, but...	3
AskReddit/c0xx7n8	d6k5r	Have you ever stared down or shrugged off embarrassment and thus saved a potentially mortifying situation?	If I take a bad fall doing something I get up and scream TA DA! to make sure everyone in hearing distance knows I totally did it on purpose. This has 'worked' in instances such as: Me falling into a garbage can Me flipping my bike and landing face first on the sidewalk Me running into a door after staring at the boys t...	2
AskReddit/elsv0xg	bhh2g0	Where do you feel the safest?	I feel safest in my living room, original I know, but there is a reason as always. A few years ago my grandmother passed away and last year my grandfather. My family keeps their pictures in the living room so when I’m there I feel like my grandparents are watching over me and keeping me safe. It also reminds me of how ...	3
explainlikeimfive/d2t6a5l	4hxdjw	How do dogs sense when they are approaching a previously visited place?	My guess would be that your dog only gets taken on car trips lasting longer than 10-15 minutes when you are going to visit them. At the very least it's the most common long car trip so it's just a matter of conditioning.	2
explainlikeimfive/eoxoy8t	btgugg	If bugs are attracted to bright lights, why don’t they fly towards the sun during the day?	They’re not naturally attracted to lights; they evolved to use the Sun and Moon for navigation. When they fly past an artificial light source, their tiny brains think they’re off-course, and they turn towards the light to compensate.	13
AskReddit/e2u2afz	90yhxt	What's the stupidest school rule did you encounter?	I went to private school and all the rules were ridiculous! One rule was: if you got into a fight, both students will get suspended or expelled. It doesn’t matter if you was defending yourself or not you still got in trouble. That’s problematic because what if you was being attacked? The administration expects you to j...	2
AskReddit/dr5pkkw	7jeixo	What really causes 'stage fright' and what is it that we are actually scared of?	One time I had to go up on stage and just announce a few things at a martial arts course, stuff like, who has won the student of the week award and who was going to be taking their black belt that week and random stuff like that. There were a few hundred people in the audience. I was just about to go up the steps onto ...	2
AskReddit/cucgvx6	3i1hmj	What decision did you regret at the time, but looking back are happy with the choice you made?	Letting my psychiatrist at college call my parents to tell them how much I was struggling with depression. I thought my psychiatrist was a traitor and had thoughts of stopping treatment altogether. I'm so glad she did tell my parents though. It really got the ball rolling to help me feel better. My psychiatrist saved m...	2
AskReddit/eiuqvuc	b2sfim	If you were 23 again, what is the one virtue you would follow and live by for your next several years?	I am 23 and have many decisions to make with how I want to proceed with my life these next several years. I am trying to simplify my thought-process by having just one "virtue" to guide my decision-making, whether it's "fearlessness" or "kindness" or something along those lines. For those of you older than 23, what is ...	3
AskReddit/dzlf71v	8m7hc0	Which do you prefer; coffee or tea?	Coffee. It's very rarely I'll pick tea over coffee but nothing beats a nice afternoon tea with a couple of good biscuits. Preferably Digestives. What? I'm English.	2
AskReddit/cs16awo	3983ws	What is the weirdest thing you have been dumped by your ex over?	Looked after my extremely needy, agoraphobia ridden, manic depressive girlfriend for 2 years and forgot to take care of myself. She dumped me because I didn't do anything for her and I'd been 'letting myself go'. Sigh.	2
explainlikeimfive/cmm4maw	2odntt	Why is it so difficult to get manned craft to the moon nowadays but it was possible several times in the 1960's and 70's?	It was even more difficult back then. We did it because it was considered worth the effort. Today we don't have the international intrigue and we know what precisely is on the moon so the reasons for going that existed back then do not exist today. Today's reasons for going are not enough to convince society to expend ...	4
explainlikeimfive/cky7fq9	2i2gvf	What's the difference between the S&P 500, DOW, NASDAQ, and the NYSE?	The school is selling cookies to raise money. S&P 500 is a collection of the 500 highest selling students. Dow (Dow Jones Industrial Average) is the average of the schools 30 best students. NASDAQ is the schools largest bake sale (stock exchange), but students can't buy baked good from each other, it's done via the sch...	16
askscience/csutcn8	3cej9c	How do we know that gravity effects time?	You get weird paradoxes if gravity does not affect time. Imagine you shine a 500 nm laser from the ground to a space station. Is the laser the same when it reaches the space station? If so, you increased the potential energy for free. You could turn it into a particle and antiparticle, send it back down, and get energy...	10
AskReddit/c21ra61	i8l3w	Why are treadmills automatic?	I don't know for sure, but I'm gonna throw out a few possibilities. Constant pace. Setting a constant speed helps keep you from slowing down and doing "junk miles." Fancier treadmills have programs that vary speed and incline to simulate hills, warm-ups, and cool-downs. Form. Having to push the track will change your p...	2
AskReddit/dv9reb5	82fs5e	What part of everyday infrastructure would cause the most chaos if it went haywire for one hour?	An hour isn't that long. I think pretty much anything going down for an hour would be handled alright. That said, imagine if somehow roads were unusable. I don't even know how that would present itself, but the terror of it happening again would be enough to get some major changes done in transportation infrastructure....	2
AskReddit/d6o2pd8	4yimdz	Which villain actually had a point?	Literally any villain (excluding liquid, really.) in the Metal Gear series. Big Boss wanted to create a haven for soldiers, to fight for what's right, not what a country tells them to. Liquid Snake, honestly, just had daddy problems. Solidus Snake was trying to end the tyranny of the patriots, a group of A.I.s who cont...	6
AskReddit/dat1u2m	5gkqa1	What should everybody know about money?	It's worth is entirely dependent on the whims of the people using it. It is essentially like a pop idol, as soon as that idol loses popularity they become just a normal person. Money only has value that a merchant attaches to it, if they think it is worthless, then money is literally just paper, except useless for most...	2
AskReddit/drupos9	7mjces	What's one of the best feelings that's not sexual?	When every musician in a jam session suddenly locks on the same page. It doesn't always last that long, but knowing that the feelings which the prior chaos inspired in you also led the other musicians to the same point, and now at this moment everyone is pushing to externalize their feelings in the same direction.it's ...	2
AskReddit/c1swyuq	h6ec6	What is your opinion on "male abortion"?	I think that it's a bad idea. It is a shame that there are problems with the child support system, but that doesn't mean we should opt for this without trying to reform it. The one major problem is that if a child is born to a relatively poor mother who cannot count on the father for some support, who loses? the child....	10
AskReddit/c2b4q1h	jd5nq	Has anyone noticed I wear the same jeans every day?	One time I had been wearing the same pair of jeans for three days in a row cause they were the only name brand jeans I had. this guy walks up to me in front of everyone and tells me "Hey weren't you wearing those pants the day after yesterday?" I felt my ears getting hot but I just smiled and said yea. it wasn't until ...	2
AskReddit/d9qsowz	5brvhi	What is the funniest thing you have heard someone say in their sleep?	My older brother frequently talks in his sleep. I vivdly remember on a family vacation, we shared a hotel room. I was in one of the two beds and he was in the other. I was working in a paper (in college at the time) and I hear him roll over and he mumbles "hot.hot as camel coochie" and I absolutely lost. I was laughing...	5
askscience/cj0gttu	2azep6	Could there be new elements in extra terrestrial environments?	Elements 1 (hydrogen) to 94 (plutonium) are naturally occurring, either because they have stable or very long-lived isotopes, or because they are produced by the decay of natural radioactive elements. For example, carbon is a natural element because it has stable isotopes. Promethium (element #61) is also a natural ele...	5
explainlikeimfive/c3rs9je	ps2yj	Why does the length of music files differ from how long the file plays?	In streaming especially, media files come with not only the media content but also some metadata like Title, Artist, and Length. This is important because you can't estimate the length of a song you haven't finished downloading. Since this data isn't directly calculated from the actual length of the song, it can be wro...	3
AskReddit/c3g066w	obqey	What's an old game that you really miss playing?	Sunset Riders (with 4 people). Edit: My dad's work Mac in the early 90s had a game called "Crystal Quest". I used to play that for hours.	8
AskHistorians/dd1fzoz	5qqpgr	Why didn't the Europeans, during the height of the North American fur trading industry just simply bring the animals back to Europe, breed them, and sell them that way?	What would it cost to transport, breed, and raise a wild animal population in a farm or ranch like setting to point of commercial viability back then? Not very many animals in the history of mankind have received this treatment, and it usually takes quite a bit of time.	22
AskReddit/c2ty3b6	lmkhd	What's the most awkward thing you've said to someone you're attracted to?	What I meant to say: "I cant believe I'm lucky enough to date a great girl like you." What I actually said: "I cant believe I'm dating someone like you." How I tried to Bolster the statement: "not like that, its just that you're pretty special." Yep, that's not something you should say to girls that you would like to c...	2
AskReddit/cp8h7lr	2ydgeu	What is a "despite popular opinion" fact about yourself?	Despite popular opinion I don't really like myself. What people see is a moderately handsome, physically fit, and intelligent individual. In reality I don't like my own personality, or overall appearances. As well as I just want one person I can be connected to but I always get pushed away. Or find a reason to push the...	4
explainlikeimfive/cor4xjo	2whume	Why didn't America keep the statue of liberty polished so it didn't turn green?	The patina (the copper rust) is considered by a lot of people to be aesthetically pleasing and is therefore designed into a lot of different architecture. The statue was designed to rust and turn green	3
AskReddit/dgwv0f4	68a2n8	Why did people actually believe the world was going to end in 2012?	2012 marked a transition period in the Mayan calendar, from one chronological cycle to another -- since they measured cycles in millennia (over 5, to be exact), the tail end of their 4th cycle (cycles 1-3 were more mythological than historic) hit on December 21, 2012. Thing is, they didn't seem to have put much emphasi...	3
AskReddit/dief952	6f02ho	What is the strangest thing you have seen or encountered while hiking?	My friend and I went hiking once, and we decided to go up a certain hill that was close to a fence because it had a really great view. We found a place to sit and started relaxing when all of a sudden we heard gunshots, and loud ones too. I stoop up to see what was going on when I saw a man on a rooftop with a gun that...	6
AskReddit/egax0hc	apt4tm	What’s your best advice against anxiety?	Anytime I start to feel like my anxiety is like super high and increasing and panic is gonna happen, I try to slow my breathing down as slow as I can. All while telling myself it’s going to pass. Usually helps but takes a min.	6
AskReddit/d942jcp	58xoqi	What's something you thought was okay as a child but now realize is actually far from okay?	I once thought it was normal for parents to beat their kids. Until I went to boarding school and at some point my then best friend and I chatted about our lives at home. Then I found out that not everyone gets a beating from their parents. I was probably 14 or 15 at the time.	4
AskReddit/d1z2ps6	4ed7w8	What is something you like about the company you work for?	It is extremely focused on the future of the industry and direction/strategy of the company's growth. I work in an industry that is heavily impacted by both technology and cultural movements, and it is important to stay current. Because of their anticipatory emphasis, they do not lay people off and the company is const...	2
AskReddit/cx6thhn	3tk2dm	Why are the large predator species dying out?	Large predators like lions and tigers generally have huge home ranges of dozens of square kilometers. When humans start to develop areas in these home ranges it causes "habitat fragmentation" and cuts off the animal's ability to access resources and potential mates. It also doesn't help that farmers with livestock will...	5
explainlikeimfive/evsilqq	ckxylu	Why do radios have better reception when you are near and/or holding the aerial?	It depends entirely on the situation and the type of radio. But i think the most general explanation is that now part of the antenna. You and the antenna will receive frequencies differently (reception strength) . Sometimes that's helpful, a lot of the times it isnt.	2
explainlikeimfive/d5ynglp	4vhsnd	What happens if we're isolated for a long time?	Humans are biological wired to be social because we depend on others for protection, caring, food(hunting), and our brain chemistry rewards us when we succeed in conforming to the group. So, usually, serotonin and a host of other chemicals are negatively altered when isolated leading to depression. Seriouslydepressed p...	22
AskReddit/e8q5gx3	9so8em	What would you do if you won the lottery?	1) Invest in real estate - depending on how much I won, I'd try to buy an entire apartment building. A cash cow investment that will pay dividends monthly while increasing its value over time. 2) Put the rest in medium risk stocks. 3) Live comfortably while trying to build a consulting/political career. I think it woul...	2
AskReddit/eb1m5gr	a2vrws	What is the weirdest thing your dog/cat has ever done?	My previous cat used to lick weird random stuff, like chairs or the carpet. But the funny part was that he was embarrassed about it. He’d go to town licking, but when he realized that we saw him, he’d stop mid-lick and just. stare with a wide-eyed expression. Then he’d slooooowly back away. It was hilarious.	2
AskReddit/enjb24x	boqepx	What was the worst crime you ever reported?	I was five, so I reported it to my mother, who then called 911. But I witnessed a murder in my front yard. A son who was drunk, killed his dad with a pool cue. Not a fun thing for a 5 year old to witness.	4
AskHistorians/cal6yjn	1gjt53	Could the Mongols really have conquered Western Europe?	Consider Europe in this period was heavily populated and contained a huge amount of states and kingdoms. Alexander conquered a vast area of land in a short time, but population density was much lower and the conquest of a single state gained him most of his territorial gain. My point is that the sheer time it would tak...	2
AskReddit/d4ddbqv	4okobx	How much income/year do you consider a "comfortable life" (in USD)?	It's not how much you make per year, but how much you save. So depending on where you live, any amount that allows you to save 20,000/year would be pretty comfortable and as your savings grows, you'd become more and more secure financially, which means more comfort.	3
AskReddit/cmfaocn	2no4cq	If the US were all wedding guests, what persona would each state have at the wedding?	I'm going to try to be as offensive as I can: South Carolina is the small town girl bride who is rebelling against her father's conservative ways. Oregon is the husband - a city boy who graduated with a double major in sociology and modern art, is a feminist and grows his own cannabis. Mississippi is the "touch my daug...	2
AskReddit/c6bk6vn	109m8a	What is something that everyone else seems to find annoying but doesn't really bother you?	Mobile phones. People make too big a deal if it makes a noise to a point where it no longer makes any rational sense. You could be having a meeting next to a construction site full of drilling, shouting and hammering. But somehow if someone's phone makes a noise for 1-3 seconds then the world is ending. The only except...	2
AskReddit/ehj9hcb	aw0uq4	How is a single, 30ish male with no children, supposed to act around kids?	I am in my 30’s, don’t have kids, and coach little league. I just talk to them like they were my friend. Most kids like talking about things I like anyways. Like Marvel/DC movies or baseball. I don’t baby talk or talk down to them. Just be careful with your language.	2
AskReddit/d7ofvhq	52yq4k	In Star Wars, why do Sith Masters take apprentices when it seems like all Sith Apprentices eventually try to kill their Master?	That's the point. It's to ensure the Sith keep growing in strength. Weakness has no place in the Sith and if the master is not strong enough he is useless. This way they keep growing, instead of stagnating like the Jedi Order did.	6
askscience/e5u1uc5	9f4hus	What causes bleeding after IUD insertion?	Insertion of a foreign body can cause inflammatory responses which can lead to blood loss Physical trauma to the endometrium from the iud The hormones prevent withdrawal bleeding. But regardless, spotting happens Copper creates a hostile environment in the uterus. Bleeding is a response to that.	12
AskReddit/c0go29t	aawia	What would You do with 700 Ferrero Rocher Chocolates?	Create a reward system for users who figure out their own problems. If they create a ticket, tell them you will give them one Ferrero Rocher Chocolate as a treat for them being able to use Google to figure it out and not bug you. This will cut down your overhead and mark you as the dominant male in your place of work.	4
AskReddit/dornpok	787l4q	What concept album would make a great movie?	Mastodon actually made a "movie" of sorts for their album Crack the Skye. It's kind of a long form music video more than a movie, but it's still pretty cool.	9
explainlikeimfive/cx0a1su	3stp7p	How are suicide bombers able to so easily circumvent what is considered the deepest human trait: self-preservation?	Self-preservation is not the deepest human trait as we can see when people sacrifice themselves for others. Survival of the fittest doesn't refer to the individual but to the genes that are passed on by your relatives. There are situations where looking after yourself will get everyone killed but if one person sacrific...	4
AskReddit/e5c62pv	9cotwb	Why are cops associated with donuts?	Not all that long ago, donut shops were the only food places that were open super late where one could sit in relative peace and quite and have a coffee and a snack, which cops needed at that point in their late night shift. From then on, the stereotype kind of just took off.	3
AskReddit/e6ckykt	9hka7y	If a genie gave you the choice of changing your height permanently or choosing your weight that would never change, which would you choose?	This would be easy for me: I'm very comfortable with my height but can't eat or work out enough, regardless how I try, to stop being skinny. As a male, that's an issue. I'd pick a nice normal weight and keep my height.	12
AskReddit/dbxl2vk	5lpycs	What's the best advice you can give to someone about to enter college?	Don't blow off your first year. It's easy to think "ahhh no big deal, I'll get my GPA back up next year." It doesn't work that way, it just puts you in a huge hole. Meet new people. Get involved in things that you are passionate about. Remember, no one knows you when you first enter college. No one knows if, in high sc...	7
explainlikeimfive/c2my16r	ksy61	Why is insects drawn to lights?	Insects fly in a straight line by keeping the moon off to the side at a fixed angle. As the moon is far away the reflected light is coming in as nearly parallel rays so the angle to moon does not change as you move in straight line. You may have noticed if you drive along a long road at night the moon will be hanging o...	7
askscience/ceqnsud	1vbkon	How do we know LEDs have a lifespan of 25+ years when the technology hasn't even been around that long?	LEDs have been around well over 25 years, WHITE Leds are the ones you see today, but red and green where common. Blue was invented in the 90s I believe and that allowed for the development of white LED. if I remember correctly. This is why so much stuff uses blue LEDs, because it's like the kewl new LED. Old steroes fr...	31
AskReddit/e2nq9fu	903zvz	What are you addicted to?	Cannabis, definitely. I haven't had any since December of 2017, but I think about it every single day. I plan on going back to it, I'm just not living in a legal country this year. The day I return to legal soil, though, you bet I'll be back. In an abstract sense, though, one of my friends accused me if being "addicted...	12
AskReddit/caedexj	1fw59n	What is the most ridiculous reason you have been given for being fired?	when i was 17 the manager claimed that an unknown coworker had stolen money out of the cash register (happened on my day off) and if one of us didn't confess within 24 hours, all of us were fired. no one confessed so he fired the entire crew. this was regional coffee shop many years ago.	3
AskReddit/d0kw5dy	48n0jr	Do you trust anyone with your life?	I mean, in a lot of ways, every time you get in a car you are trusting somebody with your life, or when you walk accross a pedestrian crossing, or if you eat at a restaurant, etc. It's that we normally don't make a conscious decision to frame this as entrusting someone with our life.	8
AskReddit/cg7ouwi	20xo0n	What's your favorite "What a small world we live in" story?	I traveled to Australia and New Zealand one summer with a group of people for school credit and ran into some people I played hockey with in High School. Then, the next summer, I went to Europe on vacation and ran into a girl I went to Australia and New Zealand with the summer before! Small small world	2
AskReddit/cybxicv	3yay9j	Why did your 2015 new year resolution fail?	Because I left my wife. My resolution was to make my marriage better and my wife happier. On the last day in August I realised just how unrealistic my hopes were so I left her. This year my resolution is for me to be happier and get a divorce.	2
AskHistorians/d3zq0sz	4n04gm	What would the written language of the Mali Empire have been?	I think most of the writing that's survived in the sahel is arabic, the mauritanian manuscripts are and the most famous timbuktu manuscripts are too. However, according to University of Cape Town the Timbuktu manuscripts do also contain works in Songhay, Fulfulde, Tamasheq and Hausa. The problem is the manuscripts aren...	2
AskReddit/cv6clu7	3lhipc	Why do people do/don't like planned parenthood, and why was it stripped of its funding?	They feel that abortion is murder and that that's all Planned Parenthood does. There were also some recently-released highly-edited videos that suggested they were selling baby parts. In reality, Planned Parenthood provides lots of services other than abortion, which only accounts for 3% of what they do (and no federal...	2
AskReddit/d51863x	4rhuwp	For those of you who felt like you drifted through life until you found your career (or didn't), what were some of your odd jobs and what are you doing now?	I was kind of drifting through life. I didn't change jobs a lot but I didn't try to make things happen for myself. I never got out of my high school job of flinging pizzas at Chuck E Cheese. I got offered a management position and it hit me that if I took the promotion, I would be stuck there. I had one guy that worked...	2
askscience/c7we988	16ikgi	Is Wheat, whole grain or otherwise, harmful to human health?	First point containing (hopefully) relevant discussion information: We have evolved to crave and seek out energy dense sources of nutrition. Quality fresh food has been a scarcity through most of our evolutionary history. As a result, the innate response is to cultivate and consume. The problem only becomes apparent in...	4
AskReddit/e8f72d7	9r9v5d	What are the most inspirational quotes you have come across?	Maybe not necessarily inspirational, but “I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe”. I used to mock cliche or overused quotes and this is probably the first one that resonated with me. Reminds you to appreciate how important you are, and yet, how insignificant you/your problems are as well. Sometimes you need to...	2
AskReddit/e8ksv9r	9rz8m3	What are the long term cons of not having a support group/close friends?	It depends on how well you can handle solitude. If you can't then you'll become more prone to getting depression or anxiety. You might end up seeking social contact in all the wrong places out of sheer desperation. If you can handle long-term solitude then there aren't any cons. You just get used to not having any frie...	2
AskReddit/e3mf3bb	94nydm	What was your most memorable customer service experience and how did it make you feel?	Got trapped in O’Hare airport for 2 days on three flights in the middle of the summer with no weather. Finally got on a flight and they landed us in the wrong city. Told us they would get us a bus but it would be 4 hours away and a 2 hour drive home. United rep kept me on hold for 45 minutes and summarily told me her s...	2
AskReddit/c0hvlzu	ajfec	Is a credit card/debit card required to rent a hotel room?	Yes a credit card is required. The reason so, it because, say you order room service, or order a movie on their TV, they bill your room and the charges appear on your credit card. It's hard to wrangle cash away from people, so hotels just charge the credit card. It's really all standard. Some decent motels will take ca...	4
AskReddit/d65y5ep	4wct60	What's an obscure video game from your childhood that you can't seem to remember the name of?	It was this video game that was on the SNES and it involved fighter jets and there was a screen before the mission where you'd pick and customize your fighter jet and there was an old man on that screen. Was loads of fun, but can't seem to remember the name.	5
AskReddit/dgsr5ts	67rynd	Why do you own a self defense weapon, what is it?	Because I'm a member of a group that is disproportionately affected by violence against us, and I currently carry a Kel-Tec PF9 (though sometimes it's a Diamondback DB380 or a Rossi 351, depending on various factors). My home defense weapon is an H&R Pardner Tactical 12-gauge shotgun.	3
AskReddit/ef8pqe7	akx9s6	What’s your favorite way to relax and help you fall asleep faster before bed?	I usually put long videos on YouTube where people are talking constantly. I have two ways of doing it, sometimes I watch the video and fall asleep while doing so and other times I put the phone on my bedside table and listen to it with my eyes closed and eventually I fall asleep.	2

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Dataset Card for RedditQG

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains answer-question pairs from QA communities of Reddit.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

An example looks as follows.

{
    "id": "askscience/123",
    "qid": "2323",
    "answer": "A test answer.",
    "question": "A test question?",
    "score": 20
}

Data Fields

id: a string feature.
qid: a string feature. There could be multiple answers to the same question.
answer: a string feature.
question: a string feature.
score: an int feature which is the value of upvotes - downvotes.

Data Splits

train: 647763
valid: 36023
test: 36202

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

Reddit users.

Personal and Sensitive Information

Samples with abusive words are discarded, but there could be samples containing personal information.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

CC BY 4.0

Citation Information

@inproceedings{cao-wang-2021-controllable,
    title = "Controllable Open-ended Question Generation with A New Question Type Ontology",
    author = "Cao, Shuyang  and
      Wang, Lu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.502",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.502",
    pages = "6424--6439",
    abstract = "We investigate the less-explored task of generating open-ended questions that are typically answered by multiple sentences. We first define a new question type ontology which differentiates the nuanced nature of questions better than widely used question words. A new dataset with 4,959 questions is labeled based on the new ontology. We then propose a novel question type-aware question generation framework, augmented by a semantic graph representation, to jointly predict question focuses and produce the question. Based on this framework, we further use both exemplars and automatically generated templates to improve controllability and diversity. Experiments on two newly collected large-scale datasets show that our model improves question quality over competitive comparisons based on automatic metrics. Human judges also rate our model outputs highly in answerability, coverage of scope, and overall quality. Finally, our model variants with templates can produce questions with enhanced controllability and diversity.",
}

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