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Answer: Winning a handful of high-population states by huge margins and losing.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest Can the USA continue to call itself a democracy when the presidential candidate who polled the most votes did not get elected? John Cate, Editor, Civitas Media, Mount Airy, NC Written Thu Winning a handful of high-population states by huge margins and losing almost everywhere else does not a President make. And that’s the way it was intended. The states matt...  Read More » Death and Dying: What's the prettiest way to die? Caroline Zelonka, Seattleite Updated Oct 30 "The Prettiest Way to Die" In 1947, Life Magazine published this now-iconic photo of Evelyn McHale, shortly after she jumped to her death from the Empire State Building. WT...  Read More » From a recent session What is something I can start doing today to improve my mental health overall? Lloyd I. Sederer, Medical Editor for Mental Health, The Huffington Post Written Fri Learn slow breathing, also known as coherent or yogic breathing. For adults 6 breaths per minute- 5 sec on inhalation and 5 sec on exhalation (with mild resistance like pur...  Read More » Would a main battle tank with hover technology be superior to current tracked tanks? Henry Zhang Written Jun 4 Probably not but here’s a funny picture: Russian tanks have around 5 degrees of gun depression which means they are exposed if they need to fire over hills. Western tanks ha...  Read More » What shouldn't I say in London? Richard Guy Written Thu “It’s not as cool as New York” “It’s not as pretty as Paris” “Are those men holding hands/kissing?” “Is that a black man in a suit?” ... Read More » How long would it take a good programmer to program a game like Tetris from scratch? Sam Stenner, Amateur Programmer Updated Sep 25 I can’t speak for Tetris, but the other day my Computer Science teacher challenged my class to create the original Space Invaders game before the end of the lesson. Most of ...  Read More » What's the mood in the USA now that Trump has been declared victorious? McKayla Kennedy, Student and teacher, in that order. Updated Fri Truthfully, it's split between jubilation and unrestrained shock. The people who voted for Donald Trump (currently estimated at about 47.5% of all reported voters) are quite...  Read More » Why won't the UK join the Eurozone? Francesco Wang, expert at nothing, I just research a lot and try to come up with a decent answer Updated Aug 14 There are three reasons why the UK can never join the Euro. They are Ireland, Cyprus and Iceland. Ireland The Irish financial crisis saw the near-failure of its entire bankin...  Read More » Why hasn't Russia built a nuclear aircraft carrier yet? Ross Hall, Raised in Scotland; Retired Naval Officer; Homeschool Dad Updated Oct 30 Well, money is certainly a huge part of the answer, but I think there are some other considerations. Strategy Let’s face it. Russia (or the Soviet Union) has always been a la...  Read More » What problem does C++ solve well that other programming languages do not? Jordi Noguer, Startups developer/mentor | Full stack web/app software engineer Updated Feb 26 C++ is simply beautiful and powerful. I have 'deeply' (enough to say goodbye) learned Ruby (RoR), Python, Scala, and less deeply PHP and Java and to me the only language th...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive these emails in the future, please unsubscribe.