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Gnonthgol t1_j6hnuuy wrote

Your body does not experience temperature the same way a thermostat does. You generate heat and you feel temperature as how fast you get cooled down. One example of how this differs is the humidity in the air. When it is cold and humid the air require more energy to heat up so it can cool you down faster then if it was dry. The extreme case is if you get water on your skin, 14 degree water feels very cold. But more then likely it is due to draft. In a house without any air movement you will heat up the air around you and that is the temperature you will feel. But if there is a draft in the house the hot air around your body gets blown away and replaced with cold air. So a drafty house will feel much colder then a sealed house. Another difference might be the temperature of the walls, ceiling and floor. In addition to the convection heat transfer where temperature gets exchanged with anything that touches it you also have radiative heat transfer. Any object emit some infrared heat radiation and this gets absorbed by anything it hits. You may have experienced this when you are close to a fireplace, space heater or out in the sun. The walls in the house will similarly heat you up a bit. If the walls are cold, or have big windows, then you will feel much colder even if the air temperature is the same.

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GalFisk t1_j6hnmwz wrote

You wrote what I was going to, except faster and better.

If you don't wear shoes indoors, floor temperature and heat conductivity also matters. A carpet feels warmer than wood, which fells warmer than vinyl on concrete, which fells warmer than tile, even when they're all at the exact same temperature.

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djinbu t1_j6hnkcg wrote

The IRS isn't really a law enforcement agency. They are a financial agency subject to act in accordance with the law and use law enforcement to perform their job. If you just tell them you've earned $4,000 through trade and markup with no particular structure and pay your taxes, they'll likely just like to see proof that you didn't earn more then you're claiming and move on.

They want their money with as little cost as possible. Unless they have reason to suspect you owe substantially more (enough to warrant investigation), they'll just move along beecher investigation costs a lot.

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Myrrmidonna t1_j6hn9ti wrote

He would, but his muscles would deteriorate from not being used, his metabolism would slow down and eventually his body would need much less calories, so he'd have to keep reducing the calories intake. In the end he'd become thin but very weak instead of fit, like a survivor of a long and heavy illness, and might have earned some ailments as a bonus.

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ihavemymaskon t1_j6hn4kf wrote

humidity

water is a good thermal conductor, so the thermal transfer is greater (that is, more heat is being transfered from the hot body (you) to the colder environment.

or air flow

airflow (wind or draft) causes water on your skin to evaporate faster, which needs energy to occur, this energy is being pulled from your body, so you feel cool

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Konseq t1_j6hm4b1 wrote

If you don't know why you go to therapy, then you should answer that question first. What is the problem you need therapy for? What are the issues you need help with? What impact do the issues have on your daily life? Do you want to change something about it?

Are you willing to change things like your behavior? There is the saying: "You can lead the horse to water but you can not force it to drink."

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chillname t1_j6hm37n wrote

> My understanding is that 3.0 ports are backwards compatible with 2.0 devices, and automatically default to 2.0 levels of power when paired with them.

Not perfect compatibility though. E.g. some older network cards, installers for older operating systems, specialized hardware etc. might not work properly with the 3.0 port but will work in the 2.0 port:

https://superuser.com/questions/1112714/why-do-modern-computer-cases-still-have-usb-2-0-ports

That is particularly relevant for "work", where you might have specialized, old and very expensive equipment, hence many "business notebooks" did leave one port as usb 2.0.

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im_the_real_dad t1_j6hlzz0 wrote

An example from the US is the Anasazi, a long gone people in the Southwest. When the Navajo came down from (what is now) Canada in the 1400s and 1500s, they referred to the people that already lived there as "ancient enemy" or "anasazi" in the Navajo language. The descendants of the Anasazi, the modern-day pueblo peoples, prefer to call them "Ancestral Puebloan".

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