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I don't think so.... How can unspent dollar from budgeting be treated as this year's profits? Profit is the amount gained from gross revenue less expenses. If I did not sell an item, how can the saved amount from expenditure be treated as profit? And doesn't this budgeted fund come from previous years earnings? So those would have been taxed before previously. If they taxed it again wouldn't it be double taxing?

What difference does that make?

Storing money in a coffer isn't an inherent good. You should either be improving the company with that cash or returning it to shareholders.

If you let cash pile up the business with either issue a dividend, share buyback or make an acquisition, etc.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I am trying to understand how scientists can be certain that the light they capture, especially from objects that are thousands/millions of light years away that the light is indeed from those objects and is not contaminated by other light? Again, kindly eli5!

Can you explain the cancer part? I recall that’s why it is way easier to use them on animals as the cancer risk is “less of a problem”.

I’m pretty curious, if you have the time, I thank you a lot.

Those are a bit different. They don’t use active noise cancellation. They just use the limits of the audio amplification circuitry. Essentially sounds above a certain threshold just don’t get amplified and the passive noise reduction does it’s thing.

Apparently. Ya, I can do that too.

It came from observing changes in personality following head injury. Phineas Gage from the 1800s is the classical example. He had an iron rod go through his head while working on a railroad. He survived but his personality changed dramatically (he was no longer polite and inhibited as he was before, the accounts don’t seem to go into detail but the observers were clearly shocked by what they saw).

No cure for blunt force trauma eh?

Thanks for the insight

>. If the business owner sees one department consistently not spending their full budget, they think that department doesn’t need that budget

This kind of thinking is prevalent in my company too (a project manager told me the exact same thing), but isn't it mind boggling they will think like this? Why don't they ask the dept why? Perhaps they were really able to help the company save money? There should be a policy that saved monies can be carried over to future years which the dept can draw from in case of real emergency.

Just imagine the amount each company can save if everyone adopts a cost savings attitude

Specifically, the bacteria Clostridium tetani. It's a benign bacteria which lives in the soil, or in the gut of animals. It's just that inside the bloodstream, in hypoxic conditions, they can produce a toxin.

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Rich people (in general) rarely hold substantial sums of cash.

Cash gains you nothing, and actually loses value year to year due to inflation.

Even investing in bonds gets you 5% + annual returns right now, and if you're using leverage in new businesses you can see returns substantially above that with more risk.

This is where the "rich gets richer" theme comes from. If you've got $10 million, you can earn $500k per year (5% return) in a very low risk way. Once you have enough money, you can fund your lifestyle without touching your original money or working.

>ELI5. Why is honey and lemon a popular cure for cold like symptoms.

Because people believe it is a cure, and this belief passes through the population as a meme.

People see demand for products containing these ingredients, and so they make them in order to profit from their sale. The presence of these products in stores reinforces the belief that they do something, and so the meme perpetuates.

People looking for validation that the products work will try the product, and then will feel better, and will conclude that the product caused them to feel better even if they would have gotten better anyway. This also reinforces the belief.

We also have a compulsion to share our knowledge with others, even if that knowledge is wrong. So anytime you ask a question like this on social media you'll find many people convinced of their beliefs who sound very authoritative telling you about the benefits of things like raw honey, lemon juice, or that magical fluid vinegar. This also perpetuates the belief.

There is evidence that a vitamin C deficiency hurts your ability to recover from illnesses. It's very hard to be vitamin C deficient unless you're on a pirate ship for a year, so vitamin C supplementation is almost always pointless. You'll just pee it out. Your doctor can tell you if you are deficient in vitamin C.

In other words, there's no actual evidence that any of these home remedies actually do anything aside from the placebo effect.

But it's also relatively harmless, and if you're drinking fluids or eating soup in order to get that bonus vitamin C or whatever the remedy is that you're taking, you're getting fluids. It's important to be hydrated when you're sick so that your immune system has access to all of your body's waterways to fight off the infection. So even if putting lemon juice or honey in your water doesn't help you directly, if it encourages you to drink more water, and reduces your stress, it's still helpful. This is why your doctor may still encourage you to try things like this at home. It makes you feel better feeling like you have some control over your own recovery even if you don't and you're getting fluids, which really is what your body needs.

While I see where you're coming from, I kind of hope we never need that sense of urgency again haha

This is what's infuriating and confusing to me. If a typical family spends their budget like how a company does, there would be much less $$$ saved annually, just because we need to spend every single cent annually. I just don't understand why a company don't see savings can be stored in the coffers for future rainy days.

I don't think it reduces the quality or scope of philosophy if one doesn't assume a soul/immaterial mind.

Assuming unnecessary things to explain phenomena does, on the other hand, usually have negative consequences. Every one of your postulates is like a filter through which the truth must pass. More/stronger filters means it's more likely that the truth snags on one of those assumptions.

You can stick caltrops in dung so they are more dangerous than "3cm nail in the foot" would ordinarily be. For actual handheld weapons, keeping them in good, sharp condition is kind of a priority, since it's small comfort to know the dude you scratched had a bad time a week after he partitioned your ass like it's Poland. Of course peasant armies often went to war with whatever pokey tool they had, and you can absolutely get tetanus from getting stabbed by a hay fork or a straightened scythe. Against armored opponents, sharp weapons are of little use, so knight vs knight combat would have been maces and hammers mostly, and those don't do deep stab wounds anyway (except war picks and morning stars

The way I understand it is that rust is a good environment for the bacteria so it is more likely to maintain active bacteria better. But I could be wrong lol.

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I can't wrap my head around the idea of "opposite sound".

Microwave ovens work by causing the water molecules in the food to vibrate. That's how it heats food. You can look it up.

By your explanation a dry plate with no food on it would heat in a microwave.

From what I've always heard that would damage the microwave as there has to be water to absorb the microwave energy.

Sound is swinging air. Its like a wave. You have tops and bottoms in the wave. Noise cancelation records the sound and gives back the opposite spike. Top spikes get cancelled with bottom spikes of same strength and other way round. This is why you can feel some sort of pressure in your ears, when you have noise cancellation in your ears without actual music, when the outside is loud.

Now put them basically everywhere besides the feet like the commenter said.