T-T-N t1_ja1zxql wrote on February 26, 2023 at 6:20 AM

Reply to comment by phiwong in ELI5 When you buy a house (USA), where does your money go? by W0lfyw0lfw0lf

A couple percent goes to the agent that clip the ticket, but then they do have to arrange for ads and open homes etc

T-T-N t1_j2cflz0 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 5:20 AM

Reply to comment by frustrated_staff in eli5 how names work in the world by Nakakapag_pabagabag

So siblings might be called Hans Eriksson and Saffi Eriksdotter even if they have the same parents?

T-T-N t1_j2b2tyn wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:04 PM

Reply to comment by yalloc in eli5: Why couldn't a country in debt mint a coin of immense value and use it to pay off the debt? by Derikoopa

Every government are classical economist in good times and Keynesian in bad time. That really frustrates me

T-T-N t1_itu5bfq wrote on October 26, 2022 at 10:05 AM

Reply to comment by Dokibatt in Eli5 how did we make the first computer by Bamisher_007

I think tricking domino into adding is cooler. If you have more of them and a way to automatically erect themselves, that's a computer.

Or get a bunch of people on a field, give each instructions to raise or lower a flag and a big gong to synchronize them, uou have a computer (the v sauce documentaries demonstrates vision, but if you make each person a NAND gate, you can make a computer)