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BurnOutBrighter6 t1_jeg74bl wrote

Reply to ELI5: The seemingly huge increase in Ticketmaster fee's and why there aren't competitors trying to cash in on the public backlash by undercutting them? by FIuff

Ticketmaster is part of LiveNation. LiveNation has exclusive deals with almost all of the large venues (stadiums etc.) saying "all shows here must sell tickets via ticketmaster", and deals with many of the artists themselves saying "tickets to my shows anywhere will be sold via ticketmaster".

So any potential competitor trying to undercut them would have to sign new artists and not have them perform in any of the established big venues. They have a functional monopoly, it's literally impossible for a competitor to sell tickets to a concert at a given stadium or for a given artist for cheaper, because TicketMaster/LiveNation have contracts that make it illegal.

That's the problem, they can charge whatever they want because they have a monopoly where it's impossible for someone to undercut on the same product, because they're the only ones that are allowed to offer that product.

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SevaraB t1_jeg6jd1 wrote

Reply to ELI5: How do large ships parked themselves at docks before invention of tug boats? by crenshawcrane

They didn’t. They used tenders, skiffs, ship-to-shore ferries, etc. to get from the dock to the ship too big for the dock.

Here’s the wiki page for the SS Nomadic, which was the tender to get people onto the Titanic- it’s still out there and can be toured as a museum in Belfast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Nomadic_(1911)

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Chromotron t1_jeg5tua wrote

Reply to comment by CautiousCold8392 in ELI5-What is the fibonacci sequence? by amsdys

There is absolutely no physical process that favours the golden ratio for spirals. The factor for a logarithmic one simply is not too large, and not too small. Like 1.3, 1.5, 1.61, or 1.8, maybe even 2 or 3. Some humans attribute patterns where there are none.

The only exceptions I've ever seen where Fibonacci numbers really (roughly) appear are growth patterns that mimic its recursion. Sunflowers are often mentioned, never checked if even those actually work but they might.

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li_grenadier t1_jeg5m91 wrote

Reply to comment by squidwards_noze in ELI5: Is there a time difference everywhere? by squidwards_noze

You keep saying things like "tiny bit different time." No, the clock on the eastern edge of the time zone is the same as the clock on the western edge. If it is 12:30 PM in the Eastern US time zone, it's not 12:05 in Indiana, 12:30 in Pennsylvania, and 12:55 in Maine. It's 12:30 across the whole time zone. That's sort of the whole point of having the time zones in the first place: to sync everyone up in that area, while still allowing everyone to hit "noon" roughly when the sun is overhead in their own area.

When you cross into Central, the clock will read 11:30. So in that sense, yes, the time is an hour different just because you cross that magic border line.

I think what you are really after though is whether or not the sun is in a different position, and the answer to that is yes. Lookup sunrise/sunset times in various cities in the same time zone, and you'll see they vary slightly. So again, in the eastern time zone, sunrise today in Indianapolis was 7:30 am, in Pittsburgh it was 7:05 am, and in Boston it was 6:28 am. All of them hit 7:30 AM at the same time, but the sun position in the sky can vary across the same time zone.

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frustrated_staff t1_jeg5jmu wrote

Reply to comment by squidwards_noze in ELI5: Is there a time difference everywhere? by squidwards_noze

It's not that we don't acknowledge it, it's that we don't acknowledge it in our day-to-day lives because the difference is so small. Your talking femto-seconds or less between Northern and Southern California (due to acceleration and gravity and all that jazz).

If you're thinking time zones (which it seems like you are), those are artificial constructs designed to keep people in different parts of the world talking about time of day in the same terms (If I say it's 4pm, you have abpretty good idea that the sun is up and bright and there's yay-and-so-many hours until dusk, regardless of where I am).

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BillWoods6 t1_jeg5gdu wrote

Reply to ELI5: Is there a time difference everywhere? by squidwards_noze

It takes the Earth 24 hours to turn on its axis once. Or, as it seems to us, for the Sun to go across the sky and come back around. So at points 15 degrees apart in longitude, solar noon will occur an hour apart.

On the equator, the Earth is about 40,000 km around. So at points 1 km apart, solar noon will occur 2.16 seconds apart.

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Antithesys t1_jeg557e wrote

Reply to comment by squidwards_noze in ELI5: Is there a time difference everywhere? by squidwards_noze

> so what you’re saying is there are indeed subtle differences and Northern California would have a tiny bit different time, but we just don’t acknowledge it?

Not really. The subtle difference between nearby places is in when the sun (and other things in the sky) rises and sets. There is no objective "time" at which these events occur. It's determined by the local horizon.

Muslims need to keep track of the sunset for fasting reasons. They are advised that if they happen to be at the top of the Burj Khalifa, they should remember that the sun sets three minutes later at the top of the tower than at the bottom. That doesn't mean it's "actually three minutes earlier" at the top of the tower. It's the same time as it is on the ground, it's just high up so the sun is above the horizon longer.

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drainisbamaged t1_jeg5346 wrote

Reply to ELI5: Is there a time difference everywhere? by squidwards_noze

Time is a construct we use to allow us to manage our lives and communicate.

It is not created by the universe, time is clothing we put on the universe for decency to our small minds.

So to your question, no, there's not minor drift in times within timezones, because the timezones are an artificial construct that does not do so.

Some countries do not use time zones at all at that.

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Madmanmelvin t1_jeg4l60 wrote

Reply to comment by anax44 in eli5 What does “indicted” mean? by jcw10489

  1. Donald Trump is no longer president. There are a ton of potential legal issues with charging a sitting US president with a crime. It opens up a can of legal worms, basically.
  2. This is a state case. This can't be pardoned away in the future. Pardons can only happen on the federal level. Nixon got pardoned by Ford, which is some BS IMO, but it happened.
  3. There was enough evidence to produce an indictment. That's already a big deal. Its just not some hearsay or circumstantial evidence.
  4. Anybody going after a former president is going to face significant backlash. They're not just doing it casually. If the evidence isn't airtight, careers might be ruined.
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