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What one thing has your career taught you for certain?Sean Kernan, Son of QuoraOver and over again, I see people in corner offices who, on paper, are of pretty mediocre intelligence.If they were pitted against you on an academic test, most of you smart Quorans would best them fairly easily.And you know what?It means nothing.The moment you step out of academia and into the office, nothing you did in school matters anymore.Your SAT score.Your board rankings.Your perfect grades.They evaporate. Gone. They were the price of entry.Being smart certainly matters. It helps.But the longer you spend in the business world, the less you’ll see success manifesting itself as a product of smarts.You’ll someday realize that it was always just a contest of who wanted it the most.

Which fruits should I stay away from?Kurt Hadsall, Oilfield Wireline Field Specalist at Baker Hughes (2003-present)My former career was retail grocer/produce manager. For over fifteen years I enjoyed the very best produce, because I had “pick of the litter” as the saying goes. I still to this day am very picky about produce.Fruits are mostly seasonal. Apples, pears and citrus Fall/Winter. Berries and grapes Spring, and Soft fruit/melons Summer.Transportation and processing of fresh food has improved and we are able to import more fruit from South America and beyond.You still won’t find me eating warehouse apples in the summer or peaches, plums or melons from South America in the winter.Picked early enough to extend shipment and warehousing time means, lack of flavor and or downright spoiling because ripening never happens.Hybrids, crossbred and genetically modified strains of fruits and vegetables can be the exception to this in that they taste good, hold up better until eaten and can be grown in regions not native to their natural cousins.A couple of examples that I enjoy are Fuji apples and Hothouse tomatoes harvested and sold still on the vine.When shopping inspect, examine, observe, ask for a sample, read the stickers and boxes. Look, taste and smell, the nose knows.No matter what fruit you reach for make sure to rinse throughly and it will be much better for you than Micky D’s or processed foods.Hope this helps!

What are some of the greatest things humans have achieved that most people don’t know about?Andrew GrimmEver wondered why the world was basically the Middle East and the tropics for many generations and then some people moved to the colder places like Europe and such?I have an answer and its one you probably didn’t expect.Hay.yes, that dry bundle of grass that most farmers now take for granted is one of the most important reasons why people were able to move into colder climates.You see, hay is durable dry feed for animals during the winter months (especially horses), and before that, if you moved to the colder areas, you may have had yourself to feed, but you couldn’t run any livestock.Hay changed all that.From the period when Hay was first cultivated and used, this enabled people to finally travel to some of the much colder climates and actually last through more than a single winter without preserves and pickles.Freeman Dyson:"My suggestion is not original. I don't remember who gave me the idea, but it was probably Lynn White, with Murray Gell-Mann as intermediary. The most important invention of the last two thousand years was hay. In the classical world of Greece and Rome and in all earlier times, there was no hay. Civilization could exist only in warm climates where horses could stay alive through the winter by grazing. Without grass in winter you could not have horses, and without horses you could not have urban civilization. Some time during the so-called dark ages, some unknown genius invented hay, forests were turned into meadows, hay was reaped and stored, and civilization moved north over the Alps. So hay gave birth to Vienna and Paris and London and Berlin, and later to Moscow and New York."So the next time you visit a major European city and look around at its 500 plus year magnificence .. you can thank the use of Hay on a regular basis for that.

What seemingly strange question will reveal a lot about a person?Paul Barends, lives in The NetherlandsWell, once during a job interview I was asked a strange question.This was in the 1980s when unemployment was high. A small company advertised a sales position in a local newspaper. It wasn’t clear what they actually sold and I didn’t have much experience, but it was close to where I lived, so I applied by letter anyway, and to my surprise was invited for an interview.The strange question must have at least revealed I was paying attention, because my immediate response was, “Why would you ask me such a question?”“It reveals a lot about a person I’ve learned,” the business owner replied.At that age I was totally unprepared. I was ready to explain sales strategies.So I needed a moment. My first thought was that this might be an indirect way to learn about the religious convictions of a person, and that this might be a secret demand.Still I managed to come up with a coherent answer, but I don’t recall what I actually said.He had originally asked me, “What do you think the purpose of life is?” and that question definitely caught me off guard.Eventually I didn’t get the job, which wasn’t a big deal. However I’ve always kept wondering whether the question was asked because of his religious beliefs, or that it was in fact an assessment relevant to sales positions.Either way, the answer to such a question is always revealing.

Smart people: seriously, why aren't you breeding?Blake Senftner, Mad computer scientistTwo reasons:My “smartness” comes with a giant helping of anxiety, which I do not want to pass on. I suspect it’s genetic.I feel like it is unethical to bring children into today’s world.Plus, to have kids today, they are not yours , they are “owned” by society. Unless you can live/work at home and raise them with your interpersonal influences more than the influences of our popular and social media, your kids are imprints of society more than they are imprints of you and your values. And the values of our society are immature, short sighted, unrealistic, overall pretty bad…

What are some unspoken rules in the U.K.?Graham Short, Micro-artist, Supplier to the Royal Household,When you park your car in the street close to the football ground and a local urchin asks for a fiver to look after your car… pay him! If you tell him, “There’s no need, I’ve got an Alsation in the boot,” don’t be surprised if you hear him say, as you walk away, “I bet he can’t put out fires.”When watching the Jeremy Kyle Show you must always say,”Why don’t these people get their teeth fixed.”When David Walliams comes on the TV, it is compulsory to say, “I can’t stand him, he’s creepy.”When speaking to a Brummie, if you haven’t got the sheet music you will never understand him.When the ad comes on TV and comedienne Jenny Eclair asks, “Have you got a bothersome vagina?” Don’t look at your mother, mother-in-law or granny. Keep your eyes fixed on your newspaper and pretend you haven’t heard it.If you are a young slim woman, you must regularly visit the food store, Iceland. You will feel soooo good when you look around at those who shop there.When you see a morbidly obese woman in the street wearing a tracksuit, never ask, “Are you on your way to the gym?”

What are the dirty little secrets of the stock market?Carl Heintz, CPA, MBA, CEA, started, built, sold numerous successful businessesWhat follows may be shocking, but it is true.The market is “rigged” for small traders. The big boys have insider information and trade on it all the time. Ok, maybe not insider information like the SEC defines it, but if you rub shoulders with people on a daily basis, you pick up things that allow you to do things that strangers may not be aware of. The stock markets are cozy little markets.Most of the trading is done by computers, following algorithms. Yes, you as an individual are competing with an AI driven machine.Most financial statements by public companies are not accurate. Ok, maybe they “fairly present” the results of operations, but there is a tremendous amount of “massaging” of the data that goes on behind the scenes. Some of it falls within the legal, some of it borders on unethical.A small investor cannot compete with big investors on a short time frame. If you are clever, do your research, you can do well, but it takes a lot of time and effort, skepticism and insight. Daytraders are gamblers and typically have the same results as those who frequent the casinos.Stock brokers, financial advisors, financial planners and the like are for the most part sales people. Beware.

What are some jobs that surprisingly pay over $1,000,000 a year?Michael Cheng, Worked several years at a small VC and an investment bank.Originally Answered: What are achievable jobs that pay a million a year?In the world of real estate, lots of people in various roles make a million dollars a year.Almost no one has a job that pays a million a year, given what real estate professionals know about available favorable tax treatments in real estate.Loan officers or brokers, real estate brokers, contractors, flippers, appraisers, and even property inspectors can make a million bucks or more each year, all through handling some aspect of real estate.Some of the roles require licenses, but many do not. Many just have a college degree and some may not have even graduated high school, just vocational school, especially for the contracting trades. For example, my elevator guy bills at $392 an hour and he rounds up to the nearest hour, so he often bills at a higher rate than my fancy lawyers from Harvard.My commercial property inspector charges $8–10K for a two hour inspection and he averages an inspection a day. No license required.Many of these roles don't require much formal education, just a willingness to work hard. The work itself isn't particularly challenging and you don't need a specialized talent or be able to put a ball in the right spot fifty feet away.Indeed, one of my loan officers clears $1.5M a year in commissions, and he admits he doesn't do much more than punch in a few numbers to pull up current mortgage rates and send out a few emails a day with pre-approvals. He is on the phone a lot, discussing rates and terms. But, the bulk of the actual grunt work in completing and closing the loan is handled by his assistants, who only get paid a couple of pennies by the bank compared to his rate.It can be a tedious grind, but for the money, it's not so bad. For anyone willing to work, it's a very achievable result. Getting started is often as simple as pulling up the licensing requirements on the appropriate state board website, fulfilling the course requirements, and getting the license in a few months. Of course, most people looking for a million dollars a year won't even do that, so there remains plenty of roles which keep paying out that well.

How do you spot a beginner manager?Yariv Adan, works at Google AssistantTrying to be involved in everything that is happening in his teamFeels uncomfortable delagatingOver indexes project development over people developmentWay too high "answers and directives to questions and challenges" ratio (towards his team)Generally overwhelmed and defensiveUncalibrated in people's performance management - usually scoring all her people as strong performersOverworking the team (often through setting an example), and being proud of itDoesn't know how to manage low performers, hesitant to provide constructive feedbackSays "I" and "my" when talking about the teamWay too focused on the layer below and layer above, and misses the bigger picture of the teams and organization around, and how her team fits there

What's the most ridiculously simple idea that made someone rich?Christopher Chong, studied at London Business SchoolArguably the richest family in the world are the Rothschilds. Their exact wealth is unknown but some have speculated that it could be as much as $2 trillion (unlikely but it is likely to be a large number). The founder of the Rothschild wealth was Mayer Rothschild (1744–1812), an orphan at 12 but brought up in an extended family living in what was then the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt. To understand what Mayer did that was so simple and so brilliant, one needs to understand the history of banking.The idea of taking gold or money (deposits) and then re-lending them to another party is ancient. In Europe, it was already well established by the Medici (1397) and others (eg Bardi & Peruzzi families). Banking is what we called an intermediation exercise. The bank is the intermediary taking the money and then lending it out. So and regardless of how the lending goes, the depositor can always go after the bank.Mayer had two ideas - why could his bank not have other branches or banks in other countries and why could he not invest directly the money instead of lending it (disintermediation). Mayer lived in a time of turmoil and change. But he also had luck. In 1769 he became the Court Factor (the modern day equivalent would be the head of the Federal Reserve and the CEO of JP Morgan rolled into one) and later confidante of Crown Prince Wilhelm (became Wilhelm IX, Landgraf of Hesse-Kassel, 1785), the richest man in Europe. Levering on this, and the fact that he had 5 sons and 5 daughters, he sent his sons to various cities (Naples, Vienna, Paris and London) to establish branches of the family bank. By doing so he created the first bank to transcend borders - the first international bank. The Rothschild’s used what was then the most extensive network of carrier pigeons to communicate with each other. As a result, the Rothschild’s benefited very significantly from the French revolution, a pan-continental social explosion, as they were the only bank that could lend and supply armies in several countries. As a result, the largest army in Europe at that time - the Austrian army - gave the Rothschilds the exclusive right to supply the whole army.Mayer only tinkered with his second idea and it took his son, Nathan (1777-1836), to really develop it. Nathan invited depositors to back him into industrial ventures and by doing so crystallized his father’s idea into what we now know as private equity investing. His timing was impeccable as it was the start of the industrial revolution. It is no understatement to say that the Rothchild’s financed that revolution. But Nathan also did far more ambitious things. He helped fund the newly created Kingdom of Belgium (1830) in return for the Almadén mines in Spain. This gave him a monopoly in mercury, which was then used to refine gold and silver. This, in turn, resulted in NM Rothschild & Sons producing gold and silver for the Bank of England.Two simple but, in their time, radical ideas that were so very right for that rapidly changing period of history.

What is a truth so shocking that most people struggle with accepting it?Larry Lama, Forensic Psychologist at Crab INVENT (2016-present)Excellent question.People have a hard time accepting some things and I will be painfully honest.Your secret crush could easily get over you when you stop replying messages, calls or stop saying hi.There is always someone more beautiful or handsome than you.It is true that, today one is down and tomorrow, they become the big man in the town or big woman .Gossiping shows the victim how weak you guys are, why? the victim is still standing. Are you guys still talking?The people that love us the most, crush on us the most: ignore us, gossip about us, never want to show they like us, avoid us, slander us. You just love me that is why you are behaving that way.Sex is useful in a relationship. Just be careful not to make babies that you can’t handle.Being rich is good. Being happy is better. Be rich and happy.A marriage does not need money to survive. It needs time, dedication, respect, encouraging each other and working to make that grass greener. This is how to make money in a marriage.Short, tall, fat, slim, we all will make fine husbands if you gave us a chance. They all will make super wives if you gave them the chance. Appearances are just a social pressure. Overcome them.Africans are smart and they love white people. Try dating one today.White people are interested to meet Africans, allow them to do so.Politics is terrible even in third world countries. We can only help ourselves as citizens of the world.

Does life get easier after you get hired by Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Amazon?David Seidman, former Security Program Manager at Microsoft (2005-2016)I'm not gonna lie: yes, life gets a lot easier when you get hired by a top tech company.You'll almost certainly get an interview anywhere you apply. But you probably won't have to apply, because recruiters will be constantly calling you. And after a while, you'll know people all over the industry who can give you a real referral, the kind hiring managers actually pay attention to, as opposed to “I met this guy at a party and he seemed smart.”You're also going to get paid well. Money may not buy happiness, but money can buy a jet ski, and have you ever seen an unhappy person on a jet ski? (Credit to Bill Hicks)I wouldn't say life is easy - you'll still have to work hard and you won't be able to spend all your time on a megayacht - but it's about as easy as it gets for a working person.

What is the point of small talk when you know the other people don't care?Daniel Tay, I know about Human Behavior because I behave like a humanWhen I was in my 20s, a priest greeted me, “How are you?”I proceeded to tell him how I was. After a couple of minutes, while I was still answering his question, he turned and walked away while I was still speaking.“How rude,” I thought to myself.It was only later that I learnt that the correct response to his question is, “I’m fine. And you?”The question, “How are you?” and its response is a social ritual. The person isn't asking how you really are. It's like “Hello”.Small talk is a social ritual. It helps the other person to feel more comfortable around you. It's not the meaning of the words that matter, but the process of what's actually going on.

What are straight-up facts people won’t swallow?Jacinta Mooney, Texan, pianist, part-time ninjaWhen most people say to a depressed friend, “I'm here to talk anytime you need me”, they're only saying it out of courtesy and don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into. Then when their friend takes them up on the offer, they suddenly freak out and realize they can't handle it. And if they're immature they'll eventually start blaming their friend for “not trying hard enough” “looking for attention”, or “not wanting to get better”.People with real talent, artistry, and integrity get overlooked all the time or made fun of because they're not loud, charismatic, rich, or “in” with popular groups of people.If you aren't comfortable with being alone, you probably shouldn't be in a relationship.The amount of people who cannot recognize emotionally abusive behavior/relationships is staggering. This is usually because they grew up in homes where such abuse was considered normal.People will always find ways to divide themselves into groups and fight each other.Gun control doesn't stop murder because people who want to kill will find a way to do it, weapons or no.Obedience is a virtue, not a weakness.Religion will never disappear.Restraining your desires leads to greater happiness than gratifying them constantly.Who a person is and what they choose to do are not one and the same. Hence why the phrase “hate the sin, love the sinner” is true. Actions and identity are not synonymous.Forgiveness doesn't mean you forget what they did or you have the warm fuzzies for them; and it doesn't mean you never suffer effects from trauma. It means you don't hold a debt against them or expect them to repay what they took. Forgiveness is a decision. It's when you say “they did me wrong, but I'm not demanding payback or revenge.”If you have even 5 true friends during your lifetime, you are truly blessed.No one is going to hand you success, respect, education, or other nice things on a silver platter just because you exist. Hard work and competence is required to achieve anything, especially respect.

What is the definition of an insecure person?Jane Olaguer, I had an unpleasant encounter with an insecure personAn insecure person is,Someone who extremely lacks self confidence.He or she won't know their worth and they would dislike their physical appearance.Not feeling good enough, feeling sorry for themselves, feeling sorry for people who look at them.Insecure people are really kind at heart, they just don't love themselves. Due to the influence of others, be kind. Words do hurt, what you say matters.Their insecurity results from low self-esteem, often due to rejection or a humiliating experience as a child.They feel socially inadequate, causing them to worry about what people think about them.They want to be liked by people and will go out of their way to please others, because they don’t want people to get mad at them.They constantly compare themselves to their peers and others to see how they “stack up” against the perceived “competition.”They will often insult or bully others to feel better about themselves.They will also lie about their alleged “success” to impress people.They basically hide their real self to avoid being rejected or despised, when most of their perceptions are false.For example:An insecure male will often be controlling in his relationship, because he feels he is not worthy of having his woman and therefore, fears his girlfriend will find a better man.He gets angry and jealous if another man only looks at his woman in admiration. He will listen to other people’s conversations in order to hear if they are talking bad about him, or will read through his woman’s text messages and diary to see if she is betraying him.

What are some secret investment hacks?Gary Mishuris, Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer at Silver Ring Value Partners (2016-present)Charlie Munger, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett’s partner said something simple yet profound at the 2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting: “A lot of other people are trying to be brilliant and we are just trying to stay rational. And it’s a big advantage.” Some might think that becoming an excellent investor requires off-the-charts intelligence or some highly proprietary model that leads to an edge that nobody else can replicate. That is not what experience has shown.Here are some traits and behaviors that have allowed investors to excel over the long-term:1. Temperament. Temperament is the most important quality for an investor to have. My observation of many investors over my 15+ years of professional investing has led me to believe that temperament cannot be learned, but rather it is an innate characteristic of one’s personality. Some people are able to remain rational and continue to follow their process even under great duress or during periods of external upheaval. Others get swept up in the emotion that typically runs amok during such circumstances, and abandon their discipline.2. Ability to do nothing most of the time. Most of the time there are few good investments that combine sufficient business quality with a large margin of safety in the form of a large gap between price and intrinsic value. That doesn’t mean that great investors are spending all of their time relaxing on the beach – to the contrary, they are typically avariciously reading and studying business and industries, preparing for the moment when securities of companies they understand well can be purchased at attractive prices. It does mean that they make investments infrequently, and that most of the time when they look at a potential opportunity they end up passing. Those who are unable to maintain this state of low activity frequently end up making questionable investments to satisfy their desire to do something, and more often than not it is their brokers who are the biggest beneficiaries of their elevated activity levels.3. Accumulation of mental models. Understanding different disciplines helps great investors look at questions of business analysis in new ways. While studying economics and industry-specific information can certainly help, the best investors also use insights from other fields to reach better decisions.4. Focus on process over outcome. Benjamin Graham wrote: “In the short-term the market is a voting machine, but in the long-term it is a weighing machine.” What he meant was that in the short-term security prices fluctuate purely based on the opinions of market participants, and can deviate widely from the underlying business values. In the long-term, it is the company’s assets and cash flows that determine its value and exert a force of gravity upon the price of its securities. With security prices available on a minute-by-minute basis, the run-of-the-mill investors focus on analyzing randomness – allowing themselves to become happy or sad over short-term price fluctuations that are disconnected from whether they were fundamentally right in their investment analysis. The best investors work hard to not be affected by the short-term price fluctuations, and instead focus on both improving their process and consistently executing it. Over the long-term their performance is a result of the quality of their process and of the consistency with which they execute it.5. Minimizing behavioral biases. Behavioral biases are pervasive and nearly impossible to eliminate, but the best investors work hard to be consciously aware of them and to take specific steps to mitigate them. There are a number of steps one can take to stay as unbiased as possible. One of my favorites is to consciously seek out the strongest possible opposite point of view that contradicts my thesis. If done well, this can lessen the impact of many biases, such as anchoring, over-confidence and base-rate neglect.I frequently get asked by prospective investors about what my ‘edge’ is as an investor. Sometimes I think the answer that they are looking for is some proprietary model, some black-box that spits out superior answers that nobody possesses, or an ability to know what the future holds based on some deeply proprietary network of sources. The real answer is less exciting, but nonetheless quite effective. It is the combination of the traits and behaviors that I described above. I would add a sixth one to the list – staying humble while maintaining your confidence. History is littered with many seemingly great investors who fell apart and produced disappointing results for their clients just as they had accumulated the greatest amount of assets after a good run of performance. Perhaps some of them were never as great as they seemed, but in other cases I can’t help but think that it was a combination of hubris and complacency that led them astray.The best investors stay humble – always thirsting to learn and improve as well as accepting that they are fallible and can make mistakes. This helps them to be on guard against the traps of complacency and overconfidence. Some view this posture as inconsistent with confidence in one’s abilities – after all, this is an industry where some think that the best investors are supposed to be on CNBC or on the cover of some financial magazine telling the world how great they are, which seems incompatible with a humble, introspective approach. Believe me, the people I admire most as investors have rejected this false dichotomy, and are able to balance humility with confidence and competence in a way that allows them to continue to improve for many years.

Should we do push ups slowly or fast?Brandon Richey, Strength Coach |Fitness Trainer| NSCA--CSCS (2001-present)The answer to this question is that it just depends on your goals.The speed at which you do push-ups will develop the outcome.Your muscles have three types of muscular contractions…Concentric: Shortening of the primary muscle.Isometric: Tensioning of the muscle without movementEccentric: Lengthening of the primary muscle.If you focus on a slower descent in the push-up you’re going to build a great deal of strength and endurance as the slow descent primarily involves the eccentric portion of your muscles’ contraction.The eccentric contraction actually places the most stress on the muscle and will result in more strength.However if you’re emphasizing more speed like you would with a plyometric push-up, or just doing the push-ups fast you will develop more speed and power.So to answer your question it’s a great idea to place both protocols into your training to develop a little balance between the two if you’re not sure as to which trait you currently need the most.If you’re just trying increase your push-ups just focus on control and slowing the tempo just a bit.However, if you’re a martial artist, or boxer you still want to emphasize the strength, but it would also be a good idea to do some fast push-ups as well to enhance your hand speed for fighting.You just need to learn how to identify your needs and then you can go from there.

How does Walmart prevent theft when customers use self-checkout?Mark Johnston, former EFL Teacher (2005-2012)When I worked at Walmart, self-checkout was my jam.There is always an attendant at the self-checkout area, both to deter theft, keep the place tidy, and assist customers when the machines act up. Each machine has its own video surveillance, as well as a few wider-angle cameras over the whole area. When you scan an item, the computer knows how much weight to expect to enter the bagging area. If you scan an item and don’t bag it or bag an item but don’t scan it, it will give an audible reminder.When it’s particularly busy we might have multiple attendants or make a show of checking receipts. It’s not foolproof, but it’s pretty good. Most people are, in fact, honest and/or risk averse. A truly flawless theft-prevention system would be costly to implement or lose business due to customer inconvenience - Walmart has evaluated the amount of loss it sustains ‘acceptable’ considering the alternatives.

What are the Internet hacks that we can learn in one minute?Mike St Laurent, Professional Conversion Rate Optimizer at WiderFunnelOh boy, do I ever have a good one…In only 30 seconds you can learn how to get 10% off pretty much anything online.Ready? Good.If you ever want something for a pretty deep discount then put the product/item you want in your cart. Then start the checkout and give them your email, but…… DON’T check out. This is important.Then go visit all their competitor’s sites and do the same thing. The more the better.Within a few days your browsing experiences (especially Facebook) will be littered with these companies trying to re-target you. Everywhere you look there will be advertising for the product you are looking to buy. Plus all the ones that have your email will have sent cart abandonment emails to you with an attached discount.Even if you have 100% intention of buying something already, just put it in your basket and wait a week. Guaranteed one of these companies will have a campaign in place to try to re-activate you as a customer. This is why you should do it with a few companies. Some offer deeper discounts than others.Remember this is a waiting game. The more you browse around the better discount you may be offered. But be careful because if you wait too long you will fall out of their target group and your discounts may disappear.This also works for things that are not ecommerce, like flights and hotels. Just browse around enough, maybe return a few times, and eventually the site’s algorithm will put you into a campaign bucket that will include a discount.Enjoy your 10% off!You're welcome.

How do old people lose all their teeth? How can I prevent this for myself?John Fenn, Trained by the best, Dr Janet Travell, the first female white house physician.Two days ago I retired from a 50 year association with dentistry. I started dental school at 17 and I retired on my 67th birthday.There are only three ways to keep your teeth throughout life. Be one of the .083% or die early. Or get everything crowned.One of the reasons that I retired is that as an old person practicing dentistry most of my patients were old too. And the village I live in has an average age of around 60 and rising. So every day I went to work to see patients with loose teeth, massive plaque buildups, broken teeth and failed teeth with great fillings. Failing dentistry and failing teeth.The simple fact is that old teeth fall to bits, old gums get inflamed and old people do not have the manual dexterity to clean their teeth and floss their teeth daily. And carers at retirement villages and aged care facilities cannot clean their clients teeth for them. They are resisted at every turn due to dementia or because it is uncomfortable to have your teeth cleaned every day.If you go to an aged care facility and walk around you will find that the only people with reasonable looking teeth are either crowns or dentures. And as the person ages then these too will fail. Most people with natural teeth entering an aged care facility or developing dementia will have no teeth left within 6 to 12 months. And for the denture patients there comes a time when they can no longer wear their teeth and they take them out for good. Carers tell me that from the day they take their dentures out they have 3 months to live.So you see the biggest failing of dentistry is that it is a futile exercise to say you can keep your teeth for life. Because we live too long these days and there is only so much abuse that glorified chalk can withstand.I did have maybe 5 patients out of 6000 who have great teeth into their 80’s. I observed a number of similarities with these people.They have all of their teeth, yes wisdom teeth also.They had really good occlusion.They make lots of good quality saliva, not the this watery stuff of most elderly people.they have very few if any fillingsthey do not brux and they do not do a lot of hard chewing. Their teeth do not show wear facets and chips and cracks, they look like they are brand new. Except for the darker colouration.they are not genetically coded for gum disease.So if you are one of the .08% of my patients you may indeed keep your teeth for life. But for the other 99.916% sorry, you are fresh out of luck.

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Most people think that the main part of staying in shape is doing a lot of working out, but this is simply not true. If you want to stay in shape, you must first adhere to a good nutritionally clean diet. That is the real secret they don’t tell you, so they can hawk their Ab-Cruncher 500s and all of their weight loss pills.If people knew staying fit was as simple as getting enough sleep, eating clean and staying hydrated, the weight loss industries would lose tons of money, so they try to blind you with their gadgets and pills and workouts.No need, simply eat a clean diet, stay moderately active, sleep well and stay hydrated and you will remain fit.I hope this helped you, friend and I ask that you visit my blog for even more content.

If the best investments only get you 10-15% returns a year, how do people become rich from investing?Satvik Beri, Data Scientist (2010-present)I’m going to teach you a useful trick called the rule of 72.Without a calculator, if you invest $100 for 40 years at a 10% interest rate, which of these is closer to how much money you’d end up with?$500$1,000$5,000$10,000The answer is 3 – you’ll have made nearly 50x your investment (45.3x to be precise.) And furthermore, there’s an easy way to estimate this in your head: if you have an X% interest rate, then your investment will double approximately every 72/X years. So a 10% interest rate will double about every 7.2 years, while a 12% interest rate will double roughly every 6 years.That means 40 years is 5–6 doublings at 10%, which gives you somewhere in between 32x and 64x your original investment. Not bad at all!And that’s how people make money off of returns – a reasonable return, combined with a lot of time, is a pretty good vehicle for significantly increasing your wealth.

Why do good employees quit in almost every job?Kyle Cooper, Semiconductor Service Company Chief @kylecoop.comUpdated 3h ago · Upvoted by David Gutzman, Employee engagement survey designer and researcher. Founder…Underperforming employees have something to lose.Employment.Income.Position.(tear jerker image source: Stunning free images)An employee that grows expertise and knowledge increases his or her value.That is a threat to the levels immediately above (future) and a threat to the same level (compete for the same bonus and salary increase).A big company is accumulating bad and underperforming employees by nature.(source: viral posts on Linkedin with some blablabla and some other blabla but still I wish I posted the image)Today, your knowledge is your value. If you believed in yourself that you could graduate from college and you did, it means commitment. Most people’s lives end there. Biologically they live on.If you believe in yourself, that you can acquire more knowledge and skills.If you believe you can become an expert in various fields.If you believe in yourself like you believed in yourself starting in college.Then you know it doesn’t end at graduation.Don’t put your faith in a company that uses shady tax evasion strategies, tries to cover up problems, lies about career opportunities and performance based pay, fires employees because the profit was the same as the last quarter and the CEO’s stock value drops because the analysts of Wall Street expected more. Employees are so expensive but still they pay the consultants double of what you make. Does that really make sense to you? Does this match fair pay in your book?Put your faith in yourself.You can select employment by solely focussing on important skills you need.Change jobs even companies if you cannot learn more.So much better than leaving your faith and that of your family in the hands of an overweight and way too rich CEO.Any employee with more than one braincell walks away from fixed employment.The only protection against unemployment is expertise.And if you are playing above your capabilities, you stay, no matter what. If you become more valuable, you are losing by staying. Simple as that.Oh, and don’t listen to recruiters. Very important. They have a financial intrest in keeping up appearances. I don’t.

Which profession causes the most amount of depression in people?Jonathan Schnapp, Psychotherapist at Private Practice of PsychotherapyWhich profession causes the most amount of depression in people?Full transparency I googled this question because I was curious. I got mixed results although it seems that doctors and dentists lead with the highest rates of suicide, followed by police officers, Vets and those in financial services. As for depression it seemed caregivers (nurses, etc), teachers, social workers, farm workers, lawyers and construction workers, were listed among those mentioned above. However, people who are unemployed had the highest rates of depression.What did this tell me? Not a whole lot. People experience depression across the spectrum of professions. While some very stressful jobs may lead to increased rates of depression, I think the goodness of fit between the individual and the job is a far more significant factor. There are those who love, hate and everything in between, in every profession. The trick is finding something that works for you, as opposed to doing a job that you think you should do because someone else thinks it makes sense, or because of the respect or status or money you think it will earn you.I’m not suggesting you should ignore the fact that we need money to pay our bills. This is a part of reality that cannot be ignored without serious consequence, but so few people actually pursue jobs or careers that they are passionate about because they assume that working is not supposed to feel good. It’s one of the most unfortunate myths in modern society.“It’s work.”“It’s just a job.”“Work isn’t supposed to be fun.”Well, I’m telling you that this is not true. There is a lot of pleasure and gratification that can be gotten from any job, whether you are washing dishes, teaching, doing surgery or fixing someone’s pipes. You just have to find the one or ones that work for you at the current point in your life.I add the variable of time, because these things change, and what you enjoy or feel passionate about today might not be what floats your boat 5 or 10 or 20 years from now. Know yourself and know what works for you. It’s not always easy to figure this out, because first you need to recognize that your needs are not necessarily what everyone around you has been telling you.

Found out (by accident) that my boss is seeking to replace me. Am I doing the right thing by resigning asap?Neel Kumar, Have had many bosses, am one too.There is a great line someone told me years ago. I have begun to appreciate it only in the last few years:Communication is not what you say, it is what the others hear.There are many possibilities:The boss is NOT replacing you but getting an additional headcount. Not bad.The boss is replacing you because:The boss thinks you are a lousy employee. If the first indication of this impression is to replace you, the boss is pathetic. You would be better off with a smarter boss.The boss is afraid that you will replace her and hence wants to get rid of you. Not as uncommon as you think. If you are able to, reach out to your boss’ peers to see if you can switch groups.The boss is afraid you are going to leave him and is preparing for that contingency. This is sheer idiocy on part of your boss. There are far smarter ways of dealing with this situation.Your boss’ peer wants you and your boss wants to be a dick and is creating an environment where you will leave and your boss’ peer would not get you. Such people are toxic and you should stay away from such people.The person you heard the news from or someone upstream is spreading false information for their own personal benefit.Leaving gives the boss an easy out. And resigning without another job in hand makes your life difficult. Why do something that hurts you AND helps the person you don’t like?Continue working, put up a brave face and see what all is happening. Make connections. See if someone else also sees the situation the same way and warns you. In times of trouble, you really get to know who is looking out for you. :)Maybe you will discover that things are far more complicated. Maybe your boss is being railroaded into hiring your replacement. Who knows!To summarize, do NOT resign unless you have a better job offer in hand. See if you can get the boss to talk more about your performance. See who else is interested in working with you. Best of luck!

How much salary bump is "normal" when moving jobs?John L. Miller, Worked and recruited at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle. 25 yrs industry. PhD.I’ve moved between companies several times. The first time or two, I didn’t have a good handle on what to expect. I was moving primarily because of life circumstances. For example, I took a job at the university my then-girlfriend was going to for her PhD, so I could be in the same town. They gave me a raise from my Microsoft wages (which were lousy back then), but I just took what they offered, not knowing better. Loved the job & city, but that’s a “and-by-the-way…”Years later I was back at Microsoft, feeling trapped. The thing that originally had me feel trapped at Microsoft was stock which had yet to vest. I didn’t realize that it is customary for the big companies to look at your outstanding stock at your old company, and offer you similar stock in THEIR company. For example, when moving from Microsoft to Amazon, They gave me a stock award and hiring bonus schedule that year-on-year was better than the stock I was waiting to vest at Microsoft. When I moved to Google, a similar situation. To Oracle, a similar situation.Likewise, I hadn’t realized that it’s customary for someone hiring you away to ensure your total compensation is higher. In my experience (and from talking to other people), it’s 10–20%, everything being equal. That’s a hard precondition to meet in computing, though, and is heavily flavored by the company you’re moving from and to, and their relative locations.I’ve had the opposite possibility as well. One big employer Who Shall Remain Nameless had a job I wanted, but their first question when salary came up was “how much of a pay cut are you prepared to take to work here?” They could only offer me about 60% of the total compensation I was already making elsewhere. It took some thought, but I figured I would be resentful if I came, so I said no.Summing up - if you are working in a competitive industry and area - at least in computing - shoot for 10–20% bump to move. If you’re not able to get that, think VERY carefully about whether you should make that switch. If you’re not getting a money bump, you need to make sure you’re getting other compensating factors: an easier lifestyle, a much better commute, what have you.

What is a trend that is happening in the United States job sector that I can take advantage of right now?Christopher Ordway, works at Rite Aid PharmacyAnswered Jan 27 · Upvoted by Isabella Newman, Female President at The United States of America (2017-pres…I’ll just tell you what I’m noticing as someone living in California.Millennials want to go to college, pay a ton of money and get a degree, and get a cushy office job. If you try to compete with this kind of job, you might be ok, but you better be on your game and ready to compete. There are a lot of Asians coming in and are very competitive in this scenario. Over the next several decades it is estimated there will be a lot more Asians (more than any other demographic increase) and any professional/office job that looks attractive to you is probably going to look attractive to the 2 billion Asians in India/China/wherever that would like to come to the US. This might sound anti Asian or whatever, I’m just going by the facts and using common sense here.On top of the increased Asian immigration over the coming decades, technology will make it easier all the time to outsource white collar work. If you can have someone work on a computer, why not have someone in India do it from their computer? Why not have your engineering team in Japan engineer it? It’s only been recently that the internet has been fast enough to offer telecommuting so we’ll see where this ends up when we have things like virtual reality enabling even more global interconnectedness over the coming decades.The next thing to note is that we’ve had many technological revolutions in the last 100 years and most of them have begun in the US. The first telephone, alternating current leading to the electrification of the home, toilets, flight at Kittyhawk, Henry Ford’s assembly line and the ubiquitization of automobiles, the television, the interstate road system, personal computers, cell phones, the internet, etc. In fact there have been many innovations that improved productivity that people don’t even recognize for being as impactful as they are. Ok but what’s the next big thing? I have a theory that we’re pretty much out of low hanging fruit to create wealth. Will there be innovations that make people rich? Sure. But as far as innovations that make EVERYBODY richer? It’s not clear what that’ll be, or when. Apple seems to not have any more “one more things “as Steve Jobs would say. Maybe some super improvement in battery technology or fusion that enables a green revolution but I’ll believe it when I see it. 3D printing? Useful but it hasn’t seemed to live up to the hype so far. Moore’s Law is ending soon or already over depending on who you ask.So how do you take advantage of this? Well I would steer clear of white collar jobs that are easily offshoreable, stay clear of jobs that require a lot of money to get into and might not be around in 5 or 10 years.In the last couple of months I’ve paid $1,200 to fix something on my roof, $3000 to do some electrical wiring and piping in my kitchen, $550 to yank out old cabinets, $2,000 to lay down some tile. Some of these people are just doing it as a side job under the table tax free. They didn’t have to go to school or go into a lot of debt to learn to do these trades and they’re making good money. There’s no way to offshore these jobs and the more white collar people there are that don’t know how to do these themselves, the more they’ll be worth. If you ever want to get out of it, you can hire people to work for you and run a business doing it.

Why does it seem today that bands just can't recapture the magic that bands like: Zeppelin, The Doors, The Stones, Pink Floyd, etc. had?Joe Becker, Former BMI/Cherry Ln Music Publishing affiliated songwriter. Music & Film AudioContinue ReadingTHERE’S A GOOD JOKE GOING AROUND The music business has done a good job of discouraging pirating by releasing a lot of music nobody likes.FORMULAPeople use a formula to write songs. The Beatles wrote what they felt and had fun doing it. We wouldn’t have Eleanor Rigby or Yesterday if they wrote to formula. They didn’t fit the mold. Kids today are told what to do, sing, and how to sing it. Producers write the hooks and the arrangements. It’s all mechanical and predetermined. From choreography toThe Beatles innovated. It was all new. Something new on every album. This became even more pronounced with the release of Rubber Soul. Things got progressively newer with each new release after that. Sgt Pepper’s was a milestone. Magical Mystery Tour gave us more. Abbey Road was one of the most influential albums of its time. Let It Be brought us back to what the Beatles started as, a bunch of guys playing songs together in a band.My friends and I talked about the weird idea that someday Beatles music would be old fashioned. It took 30 years for it to happen. But it did happen. It was so new and fresh that it stayed relevant for decades. It still is relevant, but it does sound old, because it is. it’s all been done before.There were bands who tried to sound like the Beatles, and some succeeded. Badfinger did a great job of making songs that sounded like new Beatles releases. But they were just songs. Great songs, but just songs. They didn’t try to innovate or be something new. They tried to be the same thing the Beatles has already done.There were many experimental bands in those days. But experimentation led to unlistenable noise. The Beatles were an experimental band putting out hits. Listenability is the number one factor of any song. If it’s not listenable, it’s no good. If it’s listenable, lyrics don’t matter. People will listen. If it’s highly listenable, people will listen a lot.Today, people are making music that has been done before. Some have rejected the highly produced and layered sound for just an acoustic guitar and vocals. Do you know how tired that sounds? Or a piano and vocals. If you can make your song stand out with just a guitar or piano, you’ve got a good song. But please, do something to make it better. The jinga jinga jinga of the guitar is a very tired sound. Time to move on.Then there are those who really try. They’re writing nice lyrics with a good message, they’re writing clever tunes… but again, it’s all done on the same instruments and with the same beats… It’s all been done before. We need something new.When the Beatles showed up they injected life into a tired pop music industry. When Zeppelin showed up, they injected life into a tired rock industry. Give us something new and exciting. That’s what keeps things moving.No one is giving us anything real and new and exciting. They’re giving us plastic copies of same old with different colors of paint.Autotune, choreography, producers writing your hooks… it’s all formulaic processed crap.We need someone who is tired of baby steps to take a death-defying leap and land on their feet. Music is art. And that’s what it takes to make great art. But it has to be real. It has to come from the heart. Otherwise, it’s just another form of processed crap.

Why do some waiters squat when they serve a table?Sam RadionThis is a psychological trick and once you have noticed it once you’ll start noticing it forever!Squatting at the table puts yourself on the same level as the diners. It allows you to look them straight in the eye rather than looking down on them and humanises you as “Sam your server”. “I like Sam, he seems friendly, lets’s give him a bigger than normal tip”And that’s what it’s all about in this instance - money.It may be to get a bigger tip or it may be to ensure you feel comfortable at the restaurant and come back again and again to buy food, it’s a business after all.Some servers are naturally good with people and will do this automatically, some are told to do it in training. The trouble is, now you’ve started noticing this behaviour, you’ll start noticing all the other psychological tricks that are used on you…That’s sweet, the server drew a smiley face and wrote ‘thanks’ on my billThe server touches your shoulder or upper armThe server gave their nameThe server repeats your order back to you (builds rapport)The waitress is wearing a red t-shirt (only seems to work on waitresses serving men)The server said that the dish you chose was their personal favourite tooThe server told you they had a special offer for only one couple tonight and they chose youThe bill came with a small gift for you (a small free liqueur, a sweetie or chocolate) - receiving a gift means you should give a gift, i.e. tip.And don’t start on all the psychological tricks employed on menus like boxing out the highest margin foods

Which is better, walking or running?Misha Yurchenko (ユルチェンコ ミーシャ), Japan-based writer, entrepreneur, and avocado-eaterResearch has found that walking directly affects the brain’s blood supply. Now, this isn’t news: we all know that exercise increases our blood-pressure/heart rate meaning that our entire body reaps the benefits of increased circulation.What’s worth noting about this study is it shows that the effect that walking has on the brain is more direct. Specifically, the impact of one’s foot on the ground sends specific pressure waves rippling through the body?6?6—?6?6this acts on specific arteries by increasing the blood supply sent to the brain (which, naturally, improves brain function and cell growth in many ways).Surprisingly, this benefit is specific to walking?6?6—?6?6although running creates a higher pressure impact, it does not have this same effect. There seems to be a mechanism related to the number of average heartbeats/minute and how syncing our steps close to that rhythm can “optimize brain perfusion, function, and overall sense of wellbeing during exercise.”“There is an optimizing rhythm between brain blood flow and ambulating. Stride rates and their foot impacts are within the range of our normal heart rates (about 120/minute) when we are briskly moving along.”Finally, 40 minutes of walking 3 times per week had benefits above other exercise forms (stretching, yoga, resistance training) and walking was shown to increase the size of the hippocampus, the brain’s center for memory.Edits: There still remains to be a lot of research done on walking and the studies I mentioned above have not been replicated. Ultimately what we know about cardiovascular exercise shows that running is better for you if you’re looking at lowering blood pressure as well as overall longevity. That said, if you’re too lazy to run, don’t be scared to get on your feet — it’s still pretty good for you :)

What's a deeply unsettling fact? SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT Gabriela Ilinca, A Flawsome TeenagerUpdated Dec 27, 2017Continue Reading·       There are over 200 corpses on MountEverest, and they are used as way points for climbers.[1] SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT ·       You are six minutes away from death.Breathing resets the clock. [2] SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT ·       There are more vacant homes than homelesspeople. [3] SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT ·       There are 2,368 species of bacteria livingin your belly button. [4] SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT ·       15% of the air you breathe in on anaverage Metro Station is human skin. [5] SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT ·       We pass our pre-death anniversary everyyear. [6] 

What has been the biggest wasteof your money over your lifetime? SHAPE  \* MERGEFORMAT Jeff Sturm, Amateur economistAnswered Jan 6Continue ReadingThank you for the A2A! That’s easy toanswer—when my family was young we bought a large home on a 30-year mortgage.At the time we considered only monthly payments to determine whether a car orhome was affordable along with our other bills and monthly income.We were naive. The home was mortgaged forabout $250,000, but if we’d kept the mortgage for 30 years we would have paidover $750,000—three times the value of the home!I had bought into advice from family andfriends that buying a home was the path to wealth—it was an appreciating assetand would serve as a long-term investment. Although once the recession hit,home values dropped, my payments increased (on an adjustable rate) while myincome dropped. I realized I certainly wasn’t getting rich, but someone elsemust be.Eventually we could no longer meet ourmonthly bills. We tried to renegotiate debt. We scheduled bills for laterpayment, often past due. We wanted to make sure we could still meet our monthlymortgage obligation, above all.At our lowest point the gas to our home wasshut off, and we used a camp stove to heat water for cooking and bathing.Eventually we were also late on a mortgage payment. We tried every tactic tonegotiate with the company servicing our loan but they would not budge.Eventually the bank took back our home too.That’s how we almost ended up homeless. Wemoved into a very small home and make land contract payments to the owner.Today we own the new home outright.In hindsight I realize we were house poor. Wesacrificed our lifestyle and savings for a home we could not afford. After thatexperience, I would probably never again accept another mortgage with anadjustable rate. I would also apply for a 15-year loan instead of a 30-yearmortgage, even if that meant a smaller home.And besides the unfavorable mortgage terms,the house was large, cost far more to heat (up to $600/month in winters!),property taxes were high, and insurance was higher. I now wonder why we wantedsuch a large home at all.

What are the three best habits for an exciting life?Daniel Karan, Strategist and Entrepreneur @DeclareWarWithin.comAnswered Nov 7Habits for an exciting life:Be systematically crazy. A mentor once told me that. He said when you identify as crazy, you are now free. When you do something outside of the norm people will just say “oh him? he’s crazy”. Every now and then do something ‘weird’ and begin labeling yourself as ‘crazy’ to others.Say yes. Want to check out that new restaurant? Yes. Want to travel to South America? Yes. Do you want to stay up all night and watch the sunrise? Yes. Want to try this weird food? Yes. Just say yes to things you want to say no to.Approach strangers. When you have the ability to come to a stranger and spark a conversation everywhere you go turns into a playground.

Why would a successful person feel insecure?Mohieddine Shebaro, B.S Computer Science, Beirut Arab University (2020)Bill Gates: “I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages.”Kim Kardashian: “If you Google 2008 and 2007, I had the craziest, hairiest hairline, so I did laser it. Everyone would just Photoshop it every time I did a photo shoot [anyway]. I didn't really change the shape, I just got rid of all the baby hairs.”Ryan Reynolds: “I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time.”Katy Perry: “I was insecure about my skin.”Rihanna: “I do pick on my body. It's a thing that women do. We walk in front of the mirror and we look at our butt. Is it getting bigger today? Ew. It's still flat.”Justin Timberlake: “I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people’s attention everything changed for me, my mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down.”Dwayne Johnson: “I found that with depression one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone.”Howie Mandel: “If I’m triggered and I get some sort of weird thought in my head that can’t go, then my day is, is stopped. My life stops.”As you can see being successful does not mean that you are perfect simply because you are a human being just like the person who is begging for food in the streets. It just means that you have successfully conquered those imperfections by thriving despite them holding you back.

Why does Netflix pursue such an aggressive wage policy by paying its computer programmers almost twice as much as Google or Facebook?https://blog.salaryproject.com/netflix-software-engineers-earn-a-salary-of-more-than-300000/Linchuan Zhang, Software Engineer at Google (2018-present)Answered Jan 13 · Upvoted by Marc Bodnick, Former institutional investor in Facebook and Jeremy Miles, Data Scientist at Google (2015-present)Continue ReadingNetflix only hires Senior Software Engineers. As far as I could tell, this isn’t title inflation [1], but descriptively accurate. That is, engineers at Netflix are usually at skill levels comparable to Senior Software Engineers at other top tier tech companies.At that level, the difference in pay is much less than a factor of 2. Netflix allegedly pays ~400K for senior software engineers. Keep in mind that Netflix has relatively few benefits, and basically no monetary compensation other than base salary. I can’t find reliable and public total compensation numbers for Senior Software Engineers at Google/Facebook, but rest assured that it’s considerably higher than 200K. Still on average less than 400K, probably.As for why Netflix probably pays more, here are the possible reasons:Because they can. My impression is that just as ads at Facebook/Google makes money fall from the sky, Netflix subscriptions basically print money, aka it’s a highly scalable way to make lots of money with high gross margins. Unlike Facebook or especially Google however, which hires a lot of people on ancillary projects in the hopes of funding the next moonshot, Netflix seems laser-focused on their core product. So they both make a lot of money and don’t need to hire a lot of people. If tech is the center of your business and you’re only planning to hire a few engineers, why not pay a lot to hire the best?Work at Netflix is more stressful. I don’t know how true this is, but the reputation in the Valley is definitely that Netflix is much more stressful than Facebook which is more stressful than Google.Netflix has a reputation of firing people early and often. Sid Reddy's answer to Does the Netflix work culture create a culture of fear amongst its employees?If this is true (and arguably even if it isn’t, as long as enough people believe it), then Netflix has to pay more to compensate.(more speculative) Poorer hiring/training pipeline. Google, Facebook, and basically every other large tech company hire generally smart people and then train them at every stage in their careers, usually from college internships onwards. The career trajectory is usually something like college intern -> junior engineer/graduate intern -> mid-level engineer -> senior engineer -> staff+ (most people never reach this level). This process engenders a surprising amount of both name recognition and company loyalty for engineers. Netflix tries to skip past all of that, and only start hiring at the senior engineer level [2]. If they only poach senior people from other companies and don’t have a native hiring bench, is it any surprise that they have to pay more to compensate?[1] Unlike at, say, LinkedIn.[2] If you look for “internship jobs” at Work at Netflix, there’s only a single hiring team, and they only look for graduate students with very specific academic experience.

If a manager says "you're fired" and you reply back, "no I quit!" Can you legally say you quit your last job?Derreck Frost, Aspiring Novelist with dozens of works being made.“If a manager says "you're fired" and you reply back, "no I quit!" Can you legally say you quit your last job?”Yes, because a business is likely going to state that “You quit” on their end, why? It makes it so they don’t have to pay any severance pay, if entitled to it, and moreover, makes you less eligible for Unemployment benefits.My friend, who is a manager states it is common practice to try and make a worker quit over firing them or letting them go as it will only cost the business if they fire someone without full, just cause. So they will just literally start cutting your hours back and back and back until you quit and then they are clean of having to pay any severance or EI.So you can legally say you quit all you want, hell, most business will support your right to say you quit, they will bolster your pride if it means they don’t have to pay you afterwards, that is a trade most business will take any day of the week.

At what point in your life did everything start to make sense?Sean Kernan, Son of QuoraGetting married.I finally understood why everyone said it was so hard. Every morning you wake up and go “Oh hey - it’s you again.” You get home from work and go “Oh hey - it’s you again.”Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over.All of a sudden I thought:Ah! This is why my parents used to fight all the time. It’s sorta like candy corn. A few candy corns are good. Marriage feels like someone rammed 10,000 of them down your throat.ENOUGH WITH THIS DAMN CANDY CORN. BLEH.

What are some “rules” to being classy?Bretton Palm, Lifelong devotee of Miss MannersHere are a couple:When it comes to bathroom functions, less is more. Phrases like “I need to pop in the restroom” and “I’ll be back in just a moment” are very classy.When you burp, follow it with a surprised “Excuse me!” at the same volume level as the burp.Always be charitable in your assumptions of others. That person didn’t deliberately shove you - it was an accident.Carry a pack of Kleenex and hand sanitizer with you. The Kleenex should be in your back pocket if you have one.Never put food directly on your desk at work - use a napkin, plate or tissue.Don’t sit on desks or counters.Say “Roger - will do” when given correction.Whenever someone brings a wardrobe flaw to your attention (belt missing a loop, shirt inside out), say “Thanks - I’d rather know than not know” and fix it discreetly.Cultivate a social smile like politicians do.Use euphemisms instead of cussing and swearing.Be able to laugh at yourself.

Can an airline crew detect if a cell phone is left on?Steve Bazer, Captain at A Major U.S. AirlineNo. The requirement to have them turned off from before takeoff to after landing is an archaic rule. They don’t work anyway once airborne, and once the groundspeed exceeds a certain value, the cell towers don’t process their signals. Also, Cell towers are designed to have a horizontal beam, not a vertical beam, so the reception capabilities quickly drop below the required minimum signal strength, once above a fairly low altitude.Here’s a tip to make phone call while airborne. Get on the aircraft’s WiFi. Use the FB messenger app’s phonecall feature to make a crystal clear call to anyone else with FB messenger. Now you can be annoying all of the time!

What are the 10 easy tricks they don’t want you to know about driving?Sierra Knowles, I drive on a daily basisIn most states, you’re allowed to turn right at a red light after coming to a complete stop. Just make sure your way is clear every time.It’s likely there’s a small leeway with the amount of speeding you can get away with.[1] My suggestion is to go the speed of the others around you, or otherwise don’t exceed the limit by over 7mph.Be careful, though. Cops can and will pull over more than one person at once (See the answers here: Can a cop pull over 2 or more cars at once?)Driving with your hands in the 9- and 3-o’clock position on the steering wheel may actually be better than the alternatives 10 and 2, and even 8 and 4[2] (See picture below). It might feel foreign to some, but the additional safety might be worth it.Ever seen someone flash their headlights? They’re probably trying to tell someone something - and there’s a good chance it’s you. Whether you need to turn your own headlights on, or someone is aiming to pass you, or warning you that there is a speed trap ahead, take note and pay attention.Increase your following distance. Seriously. It’s said that a safe following distance from the vehicle in front of you is two seconds, in ideal conditions.[3] Always increase that when needed - e.g. in traffic and bad weather.When in doubt, use your blinker. Please.It only takes a few seconds and letting other drivers know what you’re going to do will benefit you, and them, and everyone’s safety.[4] Also, your hand should always stay on the wheel when you turn on your blinkers.Know your vehicle. Being familiar with the vehicle you’re driving and knowing your way around the controls will help you out, I promise.Stop caring about what other drivers think of you. When the situation calls for it, it’s always better to slow down and be safe than risk an accident, even if you potentially piss off other (bad) drivers.On that note, nobody cares how fast your windshield wipers are going. Stop feeling self-conscious about it and use them for what they were made for.And lastly, for some final advice: Use your common sense. Wear your seat-belt, pay attention, and be safe.[5]Keep in mind I wrote this answer relevant to driving in the United States.Footnotes[1] Is there a 5-7mph leway on speed limits?[2] Steering wheel science: AAA says '8 and 4' is the new '10 and 2' of driving (video)[3] Safe following distances[4] New Study Says Failure To Use Turn Signals Is A Leading Cause Of Car Accidents[5] Vehicle control for supervisors | eRegulations

What makes people mentally strong?Jose Hale, Furniture Designer10 Things mentally strong people don’t do1. They don’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves Mentally strong people don’t sit around feeling sorry about a lost game or how others in game have treated them. Instead, they take responsibility for their actions and understand that LoL isn’t always easy or fair.2. They don’t shy away from change Mentally strong people don’t try to avoid change.3. They don’t waste energy on things they can’t control You won’t hear a mentally strong person complaining over things they can't control. Instead, they focus on what they can control in the game. And sometimes they recognize that the only thing they can control is their attitude.4. They don’t worry about pleasing everyone They recognize that they don’t need to please everyone all the time. They’re not afraid to say no or speak up when necessary. They strive to be kind and fair, but can handle other people being upset if they didn’t make them happy.5. They don’t fear taking calculated risks They don’t take reckless or foolish risks, but don’t mind taking calculated risks. Mentally strong people spend time weighing the risks and benefits before making a big decision, and they’re fully informed of the potential downsides before they take action.6. They don’t dwell on the past Mentally strong people don’t waste time dwelling on the past and wishing things could be different. They acknowledge their past and can say what they’ve learned from it. However, they don’t constantly relive bad experiences or fantasize about the glory days. Instead, they live for the present and plan for the future.7. They don’t make the same mistakes over and over They accept responsibility for their behavior and learn from their past mistakes. As a result, they don’t keep repeating those mistakes over and over. Instead, they move on and make better decisions in the future.8. They don’t resent other people’s success They can appreciate and celebrate other summoners skill in the game. They don’t grow jealous or feel cheated when others surpass them. Instead, they recognize that success comes with hard work, and they are willing to work hard for their own chance at success. When they play with or against a better player they adapt what that player does and learn from him. Be Humble!9. They don’t give up after the first failure They don’t view failure as a reason to give up. Instead, they use failure as an opportunity to grow and improve. They are willing to keep trying until they get it right.10. They don’t expect immediate results Mentally strong people don’t expect immediate results. Instead, they apply their skills and time to the best of their ability and understand that real change takes time.

What do teachers know that would scare their students?Natalie Ayambem, Math Faculty (2014-present)Answered Nov 27 · Upvoted by Daniel Kaplan, Veteran high school English teacherContinue ReadingWhat do teachers know that the average US college student would be scared to know?Dear student, please pull up a chair as I would actually love for you to know:That even though you ask for that extension on a missed test, you’re more than likely still not going to do well. Okay, let’s be frank…you made up a great excuse for missing the test, but you’re still going to fail for not having prepared. The “extra” week or even two only delays the inevitable, and now you’re even more behind because the class still progressed after the test date.Even though you never miss class and are soothed to believe “I attended class therefore I’ll be ok” is incredibly misleading: your sitting in class playing on your phone, watching videos on your laptop or just doing nothing equates with being absent. Seriously, students— either participate and engage or save yourself the time and expense of a class.That study guide or practice test that you adore and ask for every class and every test—is useless if you don’t understand the material. Really. I kid you not - but neither a study guide nor a practice test will ever replace the engaged hours required in class in addition to the work that’s assigned outside of class to practice and master the skill taught to successfully pass the test.Oh there’s more (like, really, we can tell even without seeing you cheat during the exam when we grade it that you actually cheated…it’s not rocket science)…suffice it to say:Students, please (1) show up-always, (2) be ready to learn and (3) do what’s asked of you. It’s just that simple.

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What happens if I eat 5 eggs a day?Rebecca Cremer Hinkley, BS Biology, Grand Valley State University (2003)Answered Apr 14Originally Answered: How will it affect my health if I eat 5 large eggs with their yolks everyday?Not a dietitian or nutritionist here; all I can tell you is my own experience. I have been eating 3–5 eggs every day for the past twenty years. My blood lipid profile has always been incredible according to my doctor, with the healthy fats unusually high and the unhealthy fats unusually low.However, bear in mind that eating that many eggs is part of a diet where we make all our own meals at home, don’t eat fast food except very, very rarely, only get pizza maybe twice a month, and exercise regularly.You can’t look at just one food item in your diet; you have to look at your entire lifestyle. There is research out there suggesting that eggs will help increase HDL (good) while lowering LDL (bad) in your blood, however, eating 5 eggs while existing on a diet of big macs and sugary colas the rest of the time isn’t going to produce miracles.