They can and do (although not quite in that way).

The main problem with it is that it devalues the currency. Money has no inherent value, so usually the effect of printing a load of money (or creating it on paper) is to decrease how much existing money is worth.

Simplifying a lot, the amount of actual worth or value stays the same (as nothing of actual has been created and no work has been done), but there are more dollars around, each dollar must be worth a bit less. And this leads to inflation which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but can be pretty disastrous if it gets out of control.

I always tought (without research) that lime had more acid that lemon. If its close, is it because lemon is more sweet and bitter 0o?

A little thing called "inflation". More money in the system means everyone's money is worth less, which means they have to spend more to be able to buy less. Not a really good solution for anyone.

This begs the question though, if said live sperm enters the female body it must be extremely hot in the uterus area during eg a heat wave. Just wondering.

Add some thyme if you want to be fancy!

Works like a charm

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Yeah, no argument on that, although I think there are more "law and order" types than criminal justice skeptics in a typical jury pool.

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S'all good!

Lemon juice is more acidic than orange juice and more popular than lime juice. The acid helps to cut through the phlegm in the throat and make it easier to clear out. Honey, taken straight, is as effective at stopping coughs as any OTC cough syrup. It coats the back of the throat and soothes the irritated nerve endings. Unfortunately, the effect only lasts about 20 minutes. So, if you have an acute attack of coughing, it's great. If you've got a constant cough caused by a viral infection, you need something longer lasting.

Sound waves or vibrations are very small and air is very thin and mostly invisible. It’s easier to understand/imagine using something you can see, like big slow (compared to sound) waves in water.

Next time you’re in a pool or bath or whatever, put your hand flat on top of the water and start moving it up and down in a rhythm to make some sustained waves. Once you’ve got that going, start changing your rhythm and you’ll see that some changes make the waves bigger by amplifying the existing motion or energy in the water, and some changes make the waves smaller by going against the existing wave.

Now think about how there’s a perfect adjustment to that rhythm that will cancel out the existing wave entirely. That’s what’s going on with sound in the air that gets canceled by an “opposite” sound. It’s an opposing wave calibrated just right to cancel the other one.

>giant companies don't take a more sophisticated approach to things

Giant companies are giant. It is difficult to give each group/department/division its own rules, so they prefer one-size-fits-all approaches, even if they are more inefficient individually. The amount of admiration overhead of having uniform rules means that it is more efficient for the entire company. In some cases, large divisions or unique groups are run more like individual companies: think of Gmail under Google, or the logistics arm of a retail chain.

>I work in quite a senior position at a big company and my boss sent an email several weeks back to me and other managers that was basically just 'we have lots of money left, send me your wishlists'. You would think that the company would realise what's happening when every year every department orders a bunch of fancy expensive tech in December, but it seems not...

Every year, people are limited to what they already decided they needed, and those decisions were often made the previous year. Then, once 95% of the year and 85% of the budget is gone, there is some discretional money left over that can be used for new lab equipment, better chairs, bigger monitors, or whatever else. This "extra money" is thought to be good for the morale, and it gives a chance to buy one-offs that were hard to budget for. My group often will buy equipment to do proof-of-concept or tester equipment, to evaluate if we should consider using new technology or not.

This "extra money", at least in cases I have seen, comes from the group spending less money than expected, often through intelligent employees, but sometimes just by dumb luck. In either case, it works as an incentive. If we figure out how to do the same job, but use 9 widgets instead of 10, then the money for that extra widget can be used to replace everyone's old nasty keyboards that year... The company does not care, since they expected to spend that money anyway, and we employees are happy when the pallet of new keyboards show up.

I do know there are some instances in the world where people request twice as much money as their group actually needs. My hope is that those are discovered and stopped, unless that group is making the company so much money that nobody cares...

Whelp. I replied to the wrong comment. Lol

I am aware of annihilation.

I suppose I should have worded differently. ANC will not stop you from getting hearing damage as opposed to something that blocks the sound like ear plugs and the like

Does it play the opposite sound into the users ear? Or play it towards the incoming sound to ‘shield’ the users ear?

But isn't that very fleeting? Or is it enough to cool down? Apologies for my ignorance.

Yes. I'm not claiming this is new.

Some people call it a sling blade

Honey does not have a lot of microbes. Honey's properties kill microbes and fungi. Unpasteurized honey may have microbial spores - bacteria with a kind of protective shell. The worst of them is botulinum, the stuff that causes botulism poisoning. A healthy adult can eat unpasteurized honey with no ill effects, but children under one year of age and adults with weakened immune systems should never eat unpasteurized honey.

Even though Hot Toddys work mainly on the placebo effect, it doesn't quite answer the question of why lemon? The answer is simply, it tastes good. The belief is that the alcohol will help cure your cold and the honey will coat your throat, lessening your cough. Whether it actually does is beside the point. The honey makes the alcohol more palatable, but then the drink is too cloying. If you add an acid, it tastes less sweet and has a bit of a bite. Soda has an incredible amount of sugar in it, and if it wasn't for the citric acid, most people would fit way too sweet. It is the same concept. Why lemons versus oranges, limes or even vinegar? That is a cultural thing. Other places might swap out their acids for a different one, but the only reason is to make the drink more tasty.

> for some reason

I live europe, but i remember that this was covered in US sitcomes often, that parents give codein their kids to get them sleep

Except you can’t cancel it completely because there is a processing delay to invert the sound waves being played. Because of this delay, instead of getting no sound waves, you get double the amount of waves into your ears. Noise canceling doesn’t prevent ear damage

Opiates reduce the respiration reflex. For the doses found in cough syrup, it just means that it suppresses your coughing, but if you take too much of it, you will eventually stop breathing.

Due to the opioid abuse epidemic, doctors have pretty much stopped prescribing opioid-based cough suppressants unless the other stuff doesn't work. You'll get the other stuff that works up to a point but won't make you barf or get you high.

Just the video I expected

good answer but terrible response to an ELI5