Football doesn't need loads of equipment, all you need is a ball and to make some goals or posts. This means it is open to the poor communities as well. They are not restricted by having to buy things in order to play. Young children can play barefoot and dream of being a star.
The sport is so commercialized and is on Television in every country. Thee is a big marketing budget which FIFA handle and it reaches all corners of the globe. When the world cup is played it is the most viewed sport in the world attracting huge audiences.
Football (not American)/Soccer is #1 sport because, football is actually one of the simple games around, even though there are a long list of rules and regulations. The game is available on almost every platform like TV, Internet streams, or even radio. The immense popularity of the game means that a football fan is often a few clicks from catching the game that would be taking place on the other side of the globe. At the same time, they can also drop in to watch a local game between local teams. A fan can take the interest in the sport even further by taking to the game – even in the local streets – with a few friends.
Football happens to be an intense and action packed game. The results are mostly decided within 90 minutes. The excitement value is further increased by the presence of top quality players. Apart from being a great spectacle to watch, football also presents the opportunity to earn money by betting on different markets regarding each game. Betting on football is incredibly popular in several parts of the world that some fans even regard this to be more exciting than the game itself. The popularity of the sport results in the availability of several sites providing tips on betting.
Football has become part of the culture with fans often seen crying if their team loses an important match. Football evolved as a game for the local community. The game is extremely cost-effective compared to some of the sports, This cost effectiveness is a huge reason for its popularity.
It's the number one sport in the world because you need nearly nothing to start playing it, practicing it, and becoming really good at it. And once you are really good at it, you have a chance to be discovered by a big team, and start earning a lot of money.
Basicaly, it is an accessible way out of poverty for many people, all over the world. Even the poorest people can start playing it, with an empty sodacan, or even a rock. You don't need no expensive gear, no expensive to keep animals, no access to specific places...
We all hear about bullies at elementary, middle, and high school. What about at the workplace? We are seeing more and more of this bad behavior. How would you handle the situation? What if the person had power?
Leonardo da Vinci known for his popular drawing of the portrait of Mona Lisa is also a major contributor to science but unfortunately most of his works are not known and even celebrated.
I'd like to know his amazing contributions to science and his inventions.
Leonardo Da Vinci made some important contribution in both science and art. As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the parachute, an improved version of the helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, the use of concentrated solar power, a calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics and the double hull. In practice, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics).
Leonardo's most famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science in a single work that has come to represent Renaissance Humanism.
I assume you're talking exclusively about cryptocurrencies, since you added that tag to your question.
I would say that one perceived downside of decentralization is a lack of a central organization behind the cryptocurrency. Meaning that it could be more difficult to properly organize marketing & user support for that cryptocurrency.
There is not one single company people can go to when they are experiencing, that's confusing for people. I can almost guarantee that a lot of novice Bitcoin users must have been in panic mode when they made a mistake with a transaction and there was no official entity to ask support.
This highly depends on your skill and intention for working and also the happiness/salary you get from working.
If you are quite talented with your job and your intention for working is mostly for the money, career and experience then 5 years would probably a good timeframe for it.
If you work as a developer specializing in one area, then after 5 years you would have gained enough experience to try and switch out to other fields. A field more advance where a lot of new things to be learned and by extension an increase in salary. The more advance your knowledge and expertise is, the more you will be paid. And 5 years is a good amount of time to accumulate that knowledge and experience before switching to other field or company.
However if you are lazy and want consistency, then being loyal to the company pays very well. One could get promoted to a managerial position in which he/she literally have people to do most of his job. Managing is hard, but you get to boss people which is very enticing to lazy people.
It is also worth to note that if you are no longer happy with your work and the environment of your workplace, if you can find another work then do so. However if you have a family that needs to be fed and your salary is more than okay, then just do it for your family. Around 85% of people hate their jobs and would quit it immediately if it wasn't for their family. :)
Fixed work and for life. If possible with 14 annual payments and holidays in August. This has been the holy grail for years in our society. To achieve this, starting as an apprentice in a company and moving up to the top three decades later was the usual modus operandi. To change to the competition or to look for another job supposed a risky movement from the professional and personal point of view.
A combination of the economic conjuncture and the education that younger workers have received has given rise to a new mentality. Now it is difficult to find a company and workers willing to form a well-matched marriage until the end of their (work) days.
The profile of a mobile, restless professional is gaining space, but at the same time he is capable of taking on challenges in a short time and efficiently. A survey published by the English newspaper The Guardian indicates that 90% of the youth of Generation Y or millennials (born between 1982 and 2004) would not stay more than five years in the same job. One third of the respondents do not intend to keep it for two years.
But does this continuous change of work bring benefits? In the opinion of Nacho Somalo, dean of the Impact Business School of the European University of Madrid, it is highly positive. "Enriches the professional much to carry out tasks of responsibility in different areas," he explains. But it qualifies: "Ojo, changing jobs is not the same as changing companies, you can change jobs within the same company or, on the contrary, change your company and not work". And both modifications are interesting.
Even for businesses, this tendency to mobility may be a requirement. "Today everything varies at a speed of vertigo and companies need new air, so the tendency to perpetuate in a position is negative, even for them," says the economist. The expert assures that it can be advantageous even at the economic level, because the expenses in training are compensated with the greater business performance that is obtained by having in staff a professional inaccessible to boredom.
And you will ask yourself: how often should you change your job? Unfortunately, there is no conclusive answer, since it will depend on the needs and expectations of the individual. Professor Somalo talks about 'exhausting a cycle': "The time to define labor changes depends a lot on the type of work and person, so it is good to talk about cycles and these are not all the same". When a worker perceives that he can not contribute more to the company or that this is the one that no longer enriches him, it is that the time has come. But if you want the opinion of the expert, "the best thing would be between 2 and 5 years to opt for the move [if you have options for it, of course]".
People who opt for this busy work life are known, in the Anglo-Saxon world, as job hoppers (skip jobs). It moves them to acquire new experiences, learn and obtain better salary conditions. For Roberto Esparza, specialist in Attraction and Talent Assignment, this profile becomes a problem if the jumper moves from offer to offer without clear objectives or obtaining benefits. "This supposes a negative rotation for the person and can become a problem in a job interview," he explains.
If you are thinking of changing jobs, Somalo advises not to get carried away by anxiety and honestly analyze the range of options available. Before a job interview, says that it is better to show to the recruiter with transparency, and if it is a job hopper, defend it and show why that data plays in your favor. "It is more important to understand why work has been changed than how often it should be done," the expert concludes.
If you want to have an extensive and colorful and splendid curriculum in experiences, according to the specialists, you should not doubt it, because the thoughtful transformation always adds up. There is no formula, no fixed calendar. That decision, however difficult it may be, you will only know ... and your pillow.
I think that's a complete disgrace to the natural laws that have been here for way longer than our bodies exist
You see, GAIA (mother nature) gives you everything you need for a happy & fulfilled, healthy life, on the contrary - all it asks from ourselves is to protect her
Yet we fail at that every single day. What majority of people don't understand, GAIA is not just trees, plants, air, etc. GAIA is every single animal there is. Every single living being, including you & me
therefore, every living being in GAIA plays a certain role & contributes to the perfect ecosystem of nature, the system was even way more advanced but since humans are actively engaged in destroying it, it now looks a bit different
The point is, every living being inside of GAIA contributes his role to make this perfect orchestra of the universe, even the ants & mosquitoes, even the beings you can't see without a microscope - all of them are of equal importance to GAIA
Meanwhile, humans propagate themselves as the most advanced civilization there is & was, but that's a huge lie when you look precisely - there was much more civilizations that were way more connected to nature & therefore understood the laws of life better
We are lost & slowly but safely are losing our true nature. By testing artificial "beauty products" that shouldn't exist at first place, on inhabitants of GAIA that have their particular assignments here, we are not only insulting GAIA that is our mother but at the same time we are putting ourselves above the animals that in reality worth exactly the same like us
Don't believe me? Go close your eyes, mouth & put 2 fingers on your nose. After 2 or so minutes, everything you regarded "as you" will disappear and you'll realize you are no different than any other inhabitant of GAIA
And the CREATOR, who am I not gonna classify as "God" or anything similar (West terminology), put equal amount of thoughts in ant as he did in you & me. Don't believe me, go out and observe ants, you shall realize the longer you observe
I feel strongly against the use of animals in beauty products as They must suffer immensely.
I make my family look for the BWC badge which stands for Beauty Without Cruelty. This organisation make everyone aware of what is actually happening in the industry and supports members and manufacturers who don't use animals in testing.
There are a few countries now that are joining the campaign which is good namely Brazil,Israel,South Africa,India and the European Union. The more the better and I am hoping it will eventually happen worldwide.
Animals are routinely tested and are injected ,gassed, forced fed and killed. They suffer so that we can look and feel beautiful.
I can remember a few years ago a manufacturer testing shampoos on rabbits to see what it would to if it went into your eyes. The rabbits that suffered had huge infections in their eyes and some went blind all in the name of science and testing shampoos.
I love animals and can't think of doing anything cruel so I would benefit. I know this practice has gone on for years but surely they know enough now to stop.
For me its the content, plain and simple. This can include an original post or a comment they made.
It needs to be insightful, relevant, thought provoking. It doesn't necessarily need to be my way of thinking, in fact giving me pause and making me consider different viewpoints is something I really look for in people I follow. I already know what and how I think, why follow someone saying the same things I do?
I like to learn things so I tend to follow people who post new and interesting things, not just cat memes or pic of flower with no description, I can google those if I want.
People who make me think, engage me in philosophical discussion or debate. The ones that can help expand my horizons so to speak.
These are the individuals I tend to follow the most
Has to be the content that they are writing and posting. I will follow them if i enjoyed it and would like to read more of their work.
Sometimes it could be someone following you and commenting and voting on you regularly. It is more out of good manners sometimes to show a thank you for their support. It all depends really and it is about engaging and getting on with everyone.
I have never chased a whale as I reckon you would be wasting your time but if they were a good entertaining writer then I would probably follow them. Account size should have nothing to do with it is what I am really trying to say.
And how do I define the quality of their content? It depends... it can be how friendly they are, how beautiful their pictures are, how interesting the content is that they write, or how good the content is that they resteem.
It depends. If their content is the cream de la creme for that user then definitely I will follow him/her because of the posts, but if his posts are not that interesting for me, and I have such people following, but I am enjoying communicating with then I will follow the person just for communication. Sometimes it happens that I am writing articles that trigger the person and we start the interaction, but generally I find both posts and comments as important factors to follow someone. At the beginning I was following lots of users who have big amounts of SP in hope of some upvotes from them, but after a while I quit that strategy and I only kept in my list persons that I like to read and interact with. I don't like people who resteem a lot by the way.
The thing that is prioritized when following someone is that if they are interesting and they are posting contents from which I get to learn something and it should be a little interesting as well.
Each user has their own criteria and after following few of them it really attracts to go through the posts of the selected ones.
The way of presenting a content, really maters.
The users who engages with the people who comments in their posts is another attraction that leads to a nice communication to build up.
I'm pretty sure I spend about 8 hours daily staring at one screen or the other and believe me when I say it's done a lot of harm.
I'm basically the only one in my entire family who doesn't have any problems with my sight but lately I've noticed that it's been deteriorating. On some days I'm at 100% and I feel like my eye sight is on superman's level, on other days it gets so bad that I can barely see what I'm typing on my phone and laptop.
Next up is my new found buddy, back aches, well sitting down all day and pushing buttons on a computer will most definitely take its toll on you and if you come from a family like mine where you start seeing signs of arthritis before you even get anywhere near 40 then you'll know that it's not a one time thing. My backs been hurting for days and until I lie down flat on my belly, the pain doesn't stop.
So I'll end things here, my backs hurting again, let me go and lie down.
When I was working and much younger, 18-20 hours a day
That's not a joke or exaggeration either,
I would work in front of one for 8 to 10 hours a day, go home do a couple more hours work, get online and game. I actually met my wife through an online game 20 years ago, so you can imagine the time I put in on that game (we lived in different countries at the time).
Out of all the health issues I currently have decades later (I've been using computers for over 40 years on a daily basis) I can honestly say not one of them has come from extended PC use.
At the present condition as I am giving much more time in here (Steem Blockchain ) So I am spending quite a lot of time in front of the PC.
Few problems that I have been noticing is that I am having problems in Sleeping due to the routine messed up But as it seems it is not because of the usage of the PC.
And currently I am spending around 12 hours everyday in here and sometimes more even.
I have not faced any issues till now over being in front of the PC yet.
Well no matter the decision you need to make you'll definitely have to consider the cost of housing and property like in places like the United States I thinking renting will be more convinent because it's mostly a developed country and buying of landed property may be very expensive, and may also be very impossible if the country is practising a communist or socialist system of government.
However in a capitalist democratic country such as Nigeria which happens to be a developing country it'll be more advisable to buy a landed property and build your own home.
For example the cost of renting in 5 years in an urban area in Nigeria Is around 800,000 Naira (Nigerian currency) for a year, and if you multiply that by five years, that will be 4, 000,000 (4 million naira Nigerian currency) which will be enough to buy like 10 acres of a landed property in an Urban area or let's say A dream duplex with nice garden, space and parking lot in a semi rural area in Nigeria with constant electricity as well.
Like I said it depends on the country you are, check the system of government your country is practising, check the Cost of landed property and compare it to renting in the long term then you will know which is definitely the best decision. In some countries renting is better and affordable, in some buying will be better in the long run and save money. Make your research and make your choice.
Buying a home is one of the dreams that the community wants to realize. Home ownership is considered as one of the best investments and an important milestone towards a better life. Which is more appropriate for us, is it owning a house or is it better to rent / contract first?
Buying a house is often done by many people with two methods, namely in direct cash or through installments. If you have enough capital, then many people suggest to buy directly in cash. What if our capital is mediocre? Some recommend buying credit / installments instead of rent / contract.
Buying a home is still an important financial goal, and this can be a great way to build wealth over time. But this does not mean that it is always the best investment choice. You need to consider the goals for your long-term and current financial situation.
Taking into account the following things will help you decide whether this is the right time to buy a house or better to rent / contract it first.
Are You Ready to Settle?
Many people decide to buy a house because they are tired of "throwing money" just to pay rent. However, when viewed from another perspective, renting / contracting provides flexibility and freedom compared to you must be 'imprisoned' if you buy a house in installments for a period of 10-15 years.
On the one hand, the rental price / contract costs may increase, but on the other hand for those who choose to own a house, there is a possibility of a property tax increase and home maintenance costs.
Then, what is the best decision? It depends on you. If you don't plan to stay in the same home and neighborhood / area for at least three years or more, it is usually more reasonable to rent.
It takes a long time for the value of a home property to be able to cover transaction costs associated with buying and selling home property.
Are You Skilled in Caring for Home?
If you have a home, you have the freedom to conceptualize it yourself. You can install hardwood floors and build a deck in the backyard. It is true, we can hire someone to do many things to remodel your home, but that requires quite a lot of money.
Depending on the age and condition of your home, handling care and repairs can be time consuming, stressful and expensive.
Meanwhile, if we rent a house, it can be handled by the homeowner.
Consider Property Taxes and Other Fees
It is true that owning a house can give you additional tax deductions that are not available to tenants, but not always.
You usually have the option to reduce mortgage interest along with property taxes that must be paid, but you must specify this deduction to get the tax benefits.
Also, keep in mind that certain costs associated with home ownership cannot be deducted such as repair costs, homeowner insurance and homeowner association fees.
I think if you have a corpus collected than it is always good to buy your first home. Buying your first home is like everyone's dream. People, tend to dream about their home and have a lot of things to do and flaunt about when they buy their first home. Believe me its kinda different feeling when you have your own home may it be big or small but at the end of the day its your own home and you can do whatever you want with it. Like you can decorate it or have interiors as per your choice but whereas in a rented home or an apartment you will not want to shed out those extra dollars or money in renovating the house as per your taste. Also, having your own first home is like a big achievement in life at-least it was for me. I, was very happy to buy my first home and it felt like a great achievement. Here, I would also like to list down some quick benefits of buying you first home.
Benefits of buying your first Home:-
1. Take advantage of the tax rebate given by income tax department of the country
2. Home loans at subsidized interest rates, so you do not feel the pinch while paying your EMIs
3. You have something to flaunt about and a very good feeling that you are the owner of a property
4. Land is limited so there are chances you could make good amount of money from your home if the prices in future shoots up.
5. I, could just go on and on but so as to conclude Your First Home attaches a lot of memories to it that you will cherish all your life. So, in-order to gain all the advantages listed above and have the memorable feeling, I would recommend for buying your First Home wrt. to renting out again and again. Go for it and buy your first Home.
It's better, period. However, there are explanations behind why it's better if it stays quiet, lemme explain:
I'm sure you know of gold, the store of value?, well, gold is nice, dandy and everything but it's certainly worth several times more than some years ago, why? INFLATION, that and market movements. As the markets and the commodities become more volatile people SUFFER, and I mean it, losing 10, 20 or 30% overnight is enough to cause serious health problems. So when things start getting hectic, like in 2008, or with the QE we had a few years back people need the SAFETY.
So, what happens when there is fear and crisis worldwide? People buy the safest things out there, which are: Gold, Swiss Francs, Japanese yen and real estate at times.
However, Gold can still be mined, Francs and yens can be printed and real estate can be built... Bitcoin is FINITE and extremely secure. By keeping the value stable instead of volatile it will slowly move up due to demand as a SAFE asset.
So, it's actually better for bitcoin prices to be stable and move less than 1% per day, allowing for flow of money and stability. As years pass, if cryptos are still used (which is becoming increasingly likely) then Bitcoin will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, as people just keep buying it for safety and stability.
Most of the most valued and better stocks out there move less than 1% per day, often gaining just 10 or 12% in a year... but it adds up. Look at bitcoin, 6500$, next year it would be 7100$, the next 7800$, the next 8550$, the next 9350$, the next 10400$ and so forth... in twenty years we would be over 20k and that's assuming lack of interest and low growth perspective.
On the opposite side of the coin, bigger volatility means lack of stability which means lack of safety which means it will lose all value on the first world crisis we hit, which should come soon enough, we're already near the date predicted by many analysts, BTW.
There is a simple proof of what I explained in the market... when there is indecision or news of a hack, all alts lose 50 or 60% of their value while BTC loses only 5 or 4%, and that's why BTC dominance is over 50% ATM, everyone knows that a random coin can suddenly die, but BTC can fall at most 10% during critical times which means people sell their alts for BTC, for safety.
If you remove that stability then people would move the alts to USDT, effectively killing the whole market and the value of Bitcoin in general.
Great question!!! In my opinion I think it depends on just exactly what you do with the blockchain as a whole. If you're a trader then you'll definitely prefer it if the price of BTC is dancing around, but if you're a blogger on steemit and you don't appreciate fluctuations in the value of your upvotes and payouts then you're probably going to prefer it if the price of bitcoin remains stagnant.
Besides there's nothing exciting about seeing BTC hit the 5k region, I literally lost my appetite for days until it came back up to the 6k region.
I really prefer it to go down below 1k for at least one last time and then survive and go to wherever it wants to 😎 , the reason being, if it dies, then all alts will go down, and then many people will be able to buy lot of steem. So that will bring equilibrium to this platform, and then steem will have a balanced price feed.
Right now I think stagnation for the rest of 2018 is both where the crypto market should be and where the market is heading for the remainder of 2018. It would really test the resolve of the bitcoin speculators who got in between $10000-$19500 USD during the last year while also giving the opportunity for newcomers to participate for the first time.
Actually stats may not matter when it comes to steemit, I think travel, cryto and food are contents that people love, because before you do or produce these contents you'll have to had put in a whole lot of work in other for these kind of content to be worthwhile.
However from my time on steemit, I've found out that TUTORIALS are the kind of contents that people are more interested in. When I talk of tutorials I mean HOWTO that is tutorials on on kinds of topic that actually shows people how some particular things are done for example @gringalicious does tutorials on how to make different kinds of food @edgsart makes tutorial showing people how to draw various kinds of animal.
To show you that this content is actually sought after @curie takes time to UPVOTE tutorials that are very educative as well.
So I think tutorials top the list of the contents that majority of people wants to see because of it's timeliness and value, in my opinion
Well it basically depends on the user who is searching.
* Few people wants to learn tips on how to improve in here,
* Some are looking for photography related posts,
* The supportive contents that are helping users to grow a little in here.
* Informative posts the gives out information on the desired subjects.
And there are other Dapps that users are reaching out to :
while some wants tech related stuff for them to go on and as many dapps are introduced as time is passing by people are just choosing their own criteria from all those.
Like those who liked blogs they are going through Steemit, busy.org
While those who likes Videos and wants to make one they are just getting into Dtube and making their way through it.
While as Steemhunt is there users are rushing through the product that they are good for searching
As time is passing By MUSING is getting to its glory as well and the users getting the the answers that they are seeking for and the users who have those answers are sharing them as well. Which is a great interaction as well.
I think it's definitely worth it to have your own printer.
The cost of getting a personal printer is actually cheaper than most people think and having one in your house would definitely make work so much easier for you. There are printers that go for as low as 30 dollars these days and aside from purchasing ink and paper, you probably won't spend a dime on anything else.
How bout we take a look at things with both a short term mindset and a long term mindset.
**SHORT TERM**
You'll probably spend less money if you go to a cyber café where you can simply pay next to nothing to print out or scan any document. If you're the type of person that doesn't print/scan/photocopy things often then you probably don't need to get your own personal printer because you'd rarely use it. If you're the type of person that actually does alot with a printer then going to a cyber cafe will definitely be cheaper initially because you won't be thinking of how to change ink or buy new paper.
**LONG TERM**
The thing with having your own personal printer is that first off, it's more convenient, secondly on the long run it's cheaper. If you spend on average about a dollar each time you go to a cyber cafe to print/photocopy/scan documents then you're going to equal the capital cost of getting a personal printer I'm no time. The amount of money that you'll pay for using a printer at a cyber cafe may be small, but over time it adds up. You also have to take into consideration the money you may spend on transportation to wherever the cyber cafe is, as opposed to just having one in your home.
Your best bet would be to get yourself a private printer. It's a much better investment than continuously going to a cyber cafe.
Was this really worth a separate question minutes later?
Well I'll be lazy too I guess
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Any question that involves cost needs to consider TCO - Total Cost of Ownership.
This means you do not look at just the price of something, but all the costs needed to run it and use it over long periods of time.
First for the copy shop
What do they charge per page? What do they charge for colour pages? Do you print in colour? How far is the copy shop from you? How often do you need to go? Are they open 24/7? Can you get there anytime you need to? How much does it cost you to go? (gas, bus pass, subway, taxi, etc). How much time do you need to go there and back home? How convenient is it?
All of the above questions have a value assigned to them. Especially the time and convenience type questions.
Now for an in-home printer you would calculate things like initial cost of the printer (this will vary on your requirements, do you need colour? do you need scan/fax capability?, etc), how much does replacement ink/toner cost? How fast will you need to replace ink/toner? What is the cost of paper? How fast will you need to buy more? Even something as small as what is your electrical cost to run this printer and where can I put it (this is a bit overkill for most people since electrical is miniscule for most printers and home users really aren't worried about giving up space for a printer and what that "costs" them).
All of these factors (and more) play a part in TCO.
For me, I always buy a home printer simply because I hate the inconvenience of having to go to copy shop, having to go when they are open (so its on their schedule not mine) and the drive there and back and gas and everything else lol.
For me those factors weigh heavily as a cost analysis and so I always end up putting more money up front and buying my own printer.
If your printer lasts a few years (so you can't buy the ones on sale for $29 USD) you will definitely save money in the long run over a copy shop, plus your time and convenience.
Lol. Yes of course they can. The Western cape in South Africa has a huge area for deciduous fruit. They grow all varieties of apples and pears. I know the soft drink Appletiser comes from this region.
Apples need a moderate climate that will grow in all temperate zones.They grow best if there is a cold winter and a warm summer with average humidity. I can see why you are asking this question as Africa is seen as very hot. The Elgin/Ceres area in the Western Cape is in a valley called the Hex River valley and this is mainly deciduous fruit farming with apple orchards.
First of all I think the Olympics have a lot of sports which is not even recognised and for me if I have a chance to include any activity I like in the Olympics it's definitely going to be racing walking.
How is walk racing done? It's done by usually walking, but you'll have to increase your pace on the walk so that it will actually look like you're walking, but actually you're doing a walk race.
This is an activity that is very healthy I do it every morning, however since I don't have much energy to burn by running let's say 10 kilometers I race walk,
To understand race walking again, it is done by actually walking however you will need to increase your pace by walking very fast, so it'll look like you're exactly running, and however reaches the finishing line first, wins the race walk
Specifically multiplication or the times tables up to 10X10
When I was I kid I rocked at that.
Sad to say almost 50 years later, thats probably nmy best hope for an Olympic Medal
Oh or sarcastic answers. I could probably give most people a run for their money in that activity (read some of my previous answers and judge for yourself, that's a bronze medal at least)
Well if I could pick any activity that I'm good at and turn it into an Olympic sport then it would have to be eating.
It's not an Olympic sport but competitive eating or speed eating is actually a real thing but it's not recognized by the Olympics. I've actually taken part in one or two eating contests with a couple of friends and believe me when I say I've got talent!!!
The whole idea behind competitive eating or speed eating is to finish whatever dish is placed in front of you in a particular amount of time, or to finish it before the other people who are competing with you do.
There could be rules that govern what you can and can do like how many times you can take a drink or what happens if you vomit some of the food you eat. It's generally a very fun and enjoyable sport especially for someone like me who absolutely loves food.
I'm pretty sure I'd get at least a bronze medal in this. Hopefully the Olympics committee will add it to one of the Olympic events one day.
Climate change is real and has been going on since the earth first formed.
There are of course natural cycles and rhythms that the Earth goes through. It heats up, it cools down. This is why there have been multiple ice ages (the last one approx 10,000 to 13,000 years ago) and then the Earth heats up and the ice melts.
This is simply the natural cycle that the planet goes through. The question about whether humans are CAUSING global warming is absurd when looked at over a great time period. We are not causing it because it was already occuring. We are however greatly hastening the effects and in essence shortening the cycle. This will have the additional effect of throwing more things out of balance and could cause greater unknown problems down the road that the Earth has not experienced before.
I think that saying climate change is a hoax is a hoax. Climate change is a fact. The majority of people who reject facts do it simply because their interests are at stake.
The truth is that only a small research about the earth for 5 minutes is enough to prove that climate change is real, and it is very visible.
Climate is not something that describes daily conditions. What is defined by climate is the atmospheric conditions in a given place for a long time, typically 30 years. That means, claiming that climate change does not exist simply because last year today was hotter than today is a fallacy.
There is another term that we have to talk about, which is "climate variability." Climate variability is the short term fluctuations of conditions in a given place. If you remember that last year today there was rain, and today there is no rain, that is exactly climate variability. The fact that we are wearing a coat today while last year we were going around with shorts does not show that climate change is a hoax. It simply shows that climate variability exists.
Who was speaking about last year? I'm speaking about the Earth cooling down instead of warming up, what elites are trying to sell us. Therefore, I didn't negate the reality of climate change but rather asked is the climate change they are selling us throughout the media outlets real?
I am sorry then, perhaps I didn't get the question exactly right. The only reason I talked about last year was just to give you an example simply because you said that you are witnessing it yourself.
I think you have a point there. Not everything they say about climate change is true. There is a significant amount of wrong information that we are exposed to.
I will try to explain it a bit in a more detailed manner, and you decide if what it is told by the elites is a hoax or not. Climate change is actually something that has existed in the world for thousands of years. It is a part of a cycle. It cools down, then it warms, and then cools down. We all know about the ice ages. An ice age is the cold stage of the cycle. We are not in an ice age now; in fact, scientists often describe the period we are in as an interglacier period. However, the problem here is that when we analyze the present data, there are several unusual numbers that has never been witnessed throughout the history of the world. In other words, we are stepping out of that cycle. Since, for example, the carbon dioxide levels have never been higher, it is certain that humans have caused this. And the high levels of carbon dioxide are one of the reasons that cause the global warming effect, which is one aspect of the "human made" climate change.
Nevertheless, it is hard to predict what will happen in the future. The earth is actually smarter than we think, it can perhaps influence things more than we do.
Back to your question, I don't know where you live, but in Turkey the climate change they are selling us throughout the media outlets is more than often not real. So, it would be better not to believe everything and do the research yourself, you would definitely have more accurate information.
Once again I apologize for misunderstanding the question.
Hello, answering your question. Climate change is not a hoax, it is an overwhelming reality that is killing us faster than we think.
Climate change is a global challenge that has no borders and to combat it requires coordinated work by all countries.
There is a great ignorance of what climate change really is, either due to excess information, inaccuracy in sources or due to misinformation, which gives rise to a series of false myths about climate change. In this space we will approach from an objective and scientific point of view what climate change is, what are its causes, its consequences and how it can be fought. In short, how climate change affects us.
In the first place, it is necessary to clarify two concepts that, although closely related, are often mistakenly taken as synonyms: climate change and global warming. There is an important difference, and that is that global warming is the cause of climate change, that is, the increase in the temperature of the planet caused by emissions into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases derived from the activity of the human being, are causing variations in climate that would not naturally occur.
The Earth has already warmed and cooled on other occasions in a natural way, but the truth is that these cycles have always been much slower, needing millions of years, whereas now and as a consequence of human activity, we are reaching levels that in other times they brought extinctions in barely two hundred years.
The causes of climate change are diverse, but all point to a single culprit THE MAN and his lack of consciousness in thinking that the land belongs to him.
The different causes are the greenhouse effect from the emission of toxic gases into the atmosphere, pollution of marine ecosystems, deforestation, excessive population increase, land pollution.
This global increase in temperature has disastrous consequences that endanger the survival of the flora and fauna of the Earth, including humans. Among the impacts of climate change are the melting of the ice mass at the poles, which in turn causes sea level rise, which produces floods and threatens the coastal littorals -even small island states are at risk of disappearing -.
Climate change also increases the occurrence of more violent weather events, droughts, fires, the death of animal and plant species, the overflowing of rivers and lakes, the appearance of climate refugees and the destruction of livelihoods and economic resources , especially in developing countries.
It is not a hoax. It is actually felt by Countries under Pacific Ring of Fire. We've been experiencing stronger types of typhoons. Our county Philippines has faced a lot of "Super Typhoons" when in fact for a couple of decades, we have not experienced such. Japan has hit so much Typhoon and even Hongkong.
We can see how much destroyed our nature is and as a result, Climate change occurs.
Digital nomads are a type of people who use telecommunications technologies to earn a living and, more generally, conduct their life in a nomadic manner. Such workers often work remotely from foreign countries, coffee shops, public libraries, co-working spaces, or recreational vehicles.
This is often accomplished through the use of devices that have wireless Internet capabilities such as smartphones or mobile hotspots. Successful digital nomads typically have a financial cushion. The digital nomad community has had various events established to host members of it, such as the Nomad Cruise. Digital nomads may vary depending on status; common types of digital nomads include refugees, affluent people, younger people, and entrepreneurs.
People who become digital nomads often do so due to positive reasons, such as financial independence and a career that allows for location independence. Negative factors for why people become digital nomads include a reduced amount of full-time employment, political unrest, and a high cost of living in their country of origin.
Digital nomads are people who are using the internet to perform their work location indepently. They're living a nomadic life of traveling, and they use their location indepent way of working to earn money to be able to travel more. A decent internet connection is basically all they need to be able to work, so they can work from nearly every place, such as their own home (some nomads stay in a particular country for several months), but also internet cafes, libraries, coworking spaces, friendly people they meet, hotel rooms,...
The type of work they mostly perform can be something like photography (selling their pictures), blogging, writing, webmaster, coding (development), ...
A lot of it depends on what you are using it for. If you are using it for commercial purposes then yes you absolutely need a license. There is a test you have to take and I think there is even a small fee that needs to be paid to get the license in the state I live in.
If you are using it for personal reasons, I think the laws are a little more gray, but you are still encouraged to register your drone.
We have a couple of them at the school I work for and I had to give the teacher that runs the program information on how to get them licensed. I am not sure if she ever followed through as I haven't seen much footage from them using them.
Yes more and more regulations are coming into place and I know in South Africa now you have to do a course to obtain a licence.
Over the last few years as drones have become more and more popular there have been a few incidents especially around airports. Because of the dangers imposed by the drones in this regard licences have to be issued now.
relaxing places are hard to find these days so anywhere there is no cell phone signal would help.
I often go to the game reserve for a safari which is about 4 or 5 days long. There is a cell phone signal there but you have to walk quite far to find it. Having your phone with you and just catching up on messages once per day allows your brain to switch off away from the every day hustle and bustle.'
No television and computer just the beauty of nature. It is like a detox for your brain and body as it is the total opposite of what you normally do. There is nothing to do but relax and it is so easy to do.
I think more people should do this as it relieves stress and recharges your batteries. Being able to think and have the time and space to let your thoughts wonder.
The most relaxing place I've ever been in is a church, my church to be precise. I dont know why but there's always this sense of belonging that I don't even get in my home.
Don't get it wrong. My parents are christians but their doctrine differs so much from mine. Theirs tends to impose actions and put pressure on their members but mine invites people to come to Christ and put the demand on him. It makes you free and here there is no one judging you and no one expecting you to be be what you are not.
In my church, I feel safe and secure, the way I never feel even when at home. My parents would almost always drum it into our ears that's you are supposed to do this, supposed to act like this and this sometimes makes living with them an uncomfortable experience. This however is not the case without the church. My church is gives everyone room to learn and grow and most importantly, to express yourself.
Well, mine is not very aesthetic or anything but it is very dear to me. There is a little spot in my university campus and it's pretty far away from all the other buildings. It's a beautiful place with lots of trees and laid back chars under them and there is a little cafeteria on one side so you can order some snacks too.
The best thing about that place is that nobody goes to that place that often. It's very quite and relaxing there. whenever I'm fed with all those hour long lectures and lab sessions I go to that place and just sit there for hours and just think about nothing and worry about nothing. No one is there to disturb you and I just love it.
The most relaxing place I have ever been is my home. I love my home, it is furnished to my taste and has everything I need to feel relaxed. Once I get home from work everyday, I'm already in a relaxation mood. I just take a shower , turn on the tv, bring out my dinner and eat while watching soap opera.
I don't feel comfy in clothes and in my house I can walk around in my immaculate form without any disturbing knock on my door. I can meditate peacefully because it is quiet and I can fall asleep if I feel like. My home is the most relaxing place for me.
First of all I think the question, phrased like this, assumes and generalizes. Yes, some old people are not afraid of dying, but some are just as afraid. Life is precious, and you'd be surprised to know just how deep the human urge for self preservation goes. In fact according to some researches it is equal only to sexual desires, which itself aims at a sort of preservation, the preservation of one's species. Which follows that by preserving your specie you preserve a part of yourself in them. Which brings me to the first point in answering your amazing question.
For those old people who aren't mortified by death, what exactly drives their confidence in the face of death?
1. MAKING PEACE WITH MORTALITY
We all know life is short and no one lives forever. That is the beauty of life. In fact, according to Toni Morrisson, that IS the meaning of life. From childhood we've learnt about this. We've had our whole lives to prepare for it.
Life has its viccisitudes. At a point life's great and everything's rainbows and unicorns, then it isn't. All the ups and downs are there to teach us just how feeble life is. We make friends, we lose friends. We make enemies, we lose enemies. We lose familiy members and loved ones and in the end at one point or another you start to contemplate your own mortality.
It might seem distasteful at first. You might rage against it, like Dylan Thomas said in his poem, but in the end you start to make peace with it. You start to content yourself with thoughts of enjoying the moments. And when you grow old you can look back on those moments you've had and be thankful for them.
2. PRESERVATION
Second, as i mentioned in the introduction, is preservation. As a kid, self preservation is paramount. As we grow old however and start to contemplate our mortality; start to wonder what will become of us in the future years to come, we start to think of ways by which we can preserve our legacies. First among them, like I said, is through our sexual urges; subliminating this into the preservation of the specie via our offsprings.
Much joy can be derived from this at old age, where you feel satisfied by the fact that you have preserved a copy or copies of you on earth to carry on your legacies.
Another way of posthumous preservation might be through deeds. Deeds of great men are honored and remembered. We still talk about and study men who lived thousand years ago. A man or woman who has done deeds s/he feels proud of also tend to feel less fear at the thought of death.
3. RELIGION
Various religions have different beliefs for what haopens after death. That is in fact the basis for most religion. A man or woman who feels his or her life has been lived according to the spiritual tenets of his religion might feel less afraid at the thought of death.
S/he would feel that since their lives on earth had been spent judiciously and piously, there is nothing to fear in the afterlife.
It should be worth noting that some religions don't believe in the afterlife and for these the consequence is neutral..
5. VAPIDITY
Pleasure palls. Life becomes boring. It is true that at the point where you seem to no longer be capable of having a thing you start to value that thing the more, and that is why most of people at their death beds pray for a second chance.
But also most people who have gotten old stay content with the fact that THEY have lived. Death would seem easier for those who have lived and loved to the fullest. Which is why we are always being admonished to not live our lives not for anybody but ourselves, life's too short. YOLO.
4. MORTIFICATION
By mortification I mean genuine mortification/disattachment of the body--which some people do in fact attain. These "mystics" have attained a complete disjunction from eartly things; pleasures, pain, thrills, anything that may have caused them to feverishly cling to life
To them life, the body, isn't the absolute, but the soul. And it is in the preservation of one's soul that true bliss lies. And that can still be achieved even in death.
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So there you have it; depending on your beliefs and dispositions, these are ways by which you can assure you're not afraid when the time comes. Cheers.
I don't think are that afraid of dying. Most of have lived full lives themselves and have lost loved ones along the way. Their health may be failing or their minds might be going. They might miss their deceased spouse or they might just be in so much pain they are wishing it to end.
I think young people are much more afraid of dying than the elderly.
After living for so much time, losing your friends, family and others to old age and disease, people start to long for an end... at least thats what my grandma told me, whats the point of being alive past 80 when most of your friends are death and you can barely recognize the world at that point?
I once had a grandmum who will always wake up every morning angry that she didn't die in her sleep. I always wondered why someone would want to die. Sometimes she asks us to help kill her that she really wants to die. She was very old and frail. She later died at 104 years old.
I discovered that people tend to come to terms with death as they age. They have seen it all. Nothing amazes them anymore. They see at least two people they know die every year, they are tormented with old age sickness and have to go through excruciating pain. They have their children go away start a family and they are all alone with no one to care for them and sometimes sent to a nursing school where they only get perhaps weekly or monthly visits. The pleasures of this world do not entice them anymore. They become very dependant on others to do simple activities like walk, eat, pee etc and if they think back to the younger years, all they want is to just end it all.
Because they already had done so much in their life. They had achieved what they want to achieve. They had lived their life the way they wanted to be. They had contentment of the things that happened, and most importantly they had accepted that the last stage of life is dying.
If I could create my own blockchain network I think I'd follow the trend and create something that's meant to be a blockchain version of an already existing app or service.
I think I'd create blockchain that would be specifically designed for voting. I don't know if something like that exists but if it doesn't then I'd be the first person to make it. The blockchain would be set up in such a way that people would be able to do things like simple class rep elections or nationwide elections and since everything would be recorded on the blockchain, there'd be no chance of rigging.
I'd create it specifically for Nigeria because free and fair elections don't exist over here. The blockchain would of course be usable by any one, be it government or high school student. Considering the fact that in the last US elections, I saw on the news that some Russians apparently hacked the voting register and helped Donald Trump win(Not entirely sure how true this was) but then again it shows how unreliable present day voting systems can be.
Every person would be required to register themselves along with their passports and social security numbers or in nigeria it would be your national identification number. Votes will be casted from the comfort of your own home, simply by going online, providing the relevant information and clicking on who you want to vote for.
I'd also try to throw in a feature for extra security where the fingerprint scanners from people's phones or the face/retina scanners as well would double as a means of verification before the vote will be cast.
Since everybody's details will be recorded on the blockchain, there won't be anything like excess votes and seeing as people's biometric and personal data would be saved on the blockchain, it would be impossible to cast a vote using someone else's account.
For the sake of those who don't have smartphones, voting centers would be set up with biometric scanners for fingerprints, eyes and faces so that no matter what, if you don't pass the verification, your vote will not be registered.
As far as how important it will be to the world, I think it would be the perfect way to completely eradicate rigged elections and be a bold step in the right direction for democracy.
I would create a football blockchain, since it is one of the markets that moves the most money in the world.
I would develop it to make transactions from the stalls, tickets for matches and have a greater control of fans, to purchase passes and sale of football players.
Also do not forget the future stars who have not yet discovered create a site to discover new talents linked to blockchain.
The Steem Blockchain - As someone a little introverted like me, this platform literally changed my life. Instead of spending my free time on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and engaging some discussions with trollers and quality people in there, I don't get anything in return bust pure likes and followers. The likes and attention might be flattering at first but nothing still beats earning some extra money just by engaging with other people.
ANIME & Video Games - Yeah believe it or not Anime and Video Games made my life 100 times better. I have such a lonely childhood and these two made me cheer up. It made me not too much depress about some things from my past. :)
Internet - As I've said I'm a little bit introverted so I'd rather spend my time alone indoors. What would I do without internet? How can I access the number 1 on this list? Lol
Number one would have to be my faith. That is something that gets me through the good and bad times. I may not know what is going to happen and it may not provide me all the answers to life's questions, but it is something I lean on as a source of encouragement.
The second thing would have to be my wife, hands down. She is my rock and my life would be pretty miserable without her. No question in my mind she makes my life 100 times better if not more.
Finally I have to pick my dog. She is just about the best. She has her quirks and goofy habits, sometimes she drives me crazy, but I love her to death. I can't imagine the "joy void" I would have if something were to happen to her.
Resilience. Life is complicated in the simplest way, everything changes. But sometimes life takes a turn that doesn't brings us joy. Resilience is what drives us to adapt, in the most positive way, to life; Take the pain and use it to be better; Build our own happiness.
Love. Because loving yourself always means loving the other. Joy should always be shared with everything that draws breath. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together, says the african proverb. Love is everything that connects us.
Gratefulness. Once you reach true happiness you become a positive influence on the universe. You began to spread love, empathy, hope and dreams. You motivate everyone around you to be better.
These are 3 things that I deem worthy of a life of plenitude.
Because Crypto in general and Steem in particular has still lot of potential in it. Especially if someone is targeting it for a longer period.
If someone intends to invest in this business, one should be very careful and have proper study of the crypto currencies, which he/she intend to buy.
One should also be very clear which type of investment he/she wants to make i.e short term or day trading, medium term and long term.
It seems that prices are at the lower side and eventually will go up if invested for the longer period. The point here is one should invest only that much of amount which he can afford to hold for a longer period.
If the value of Steem is not increased, it is still profitable as we can earn by investing it in Steemit platform.
What I would like to see that would increase steem price is if YouTube had another "Adpocalypse" and fumbled with its public relations like last time. If a few of the major YouTubers coordinated, announced publicly that YouTube cares more about advertisers than creators and left YouTube for the steem platform. A few large YouTube creators leaving and being successful on DTube and steemit would inspire others to switch to decentralized media creation and thus create a large demand for steem.
I think that any cryptocurrency token needs a real world use case if it is to succeed in future. This means that the people investing in it are doing so for more than just speculative profit. Steem blockchain defines the very meaning of real world use by bringing platforms like musing,io and steemit.com to our fingertips. These are all reasons that will make the price of Steem rise in the near future.
Getting paid for content creation is not ground breaking but what is ground breaking is the fact that the Steem ecosystem is incentivized in manner that a user has a stake in the system (Vested SP). Therefore most of the users are financially invested in the platform. This increases user retention and loyalty to the Steem blockchain, since users are invested to see the platform succeed.
All the above points are something that we all know about Steem in general but there are several key points that are worth mentioning separately. Here are the things that will be a key in taking Steem to $10 and beyond:
1. The HF20 is geared towards making dapps the kings on the Steem blockchain. It will effectively make sure that you can make Steem accounts on the dapp itself (this feature will soon go live). Dapps will become free from having to go to steemit.com to register new user account.
2. Platforms like musing.io will grow, gathering and collecting the SP for their needs and this will create a shortage of Steem in the market and thus raise the Steem prices.
3. SMT's will soon follow in January and will allow dapps to issue their own tokens based on the native token Steem. To issue tokens they will need to collect more Steem to back their tokens and thus create further shortage of Steem tokens in the market. This in turn will further raise the price of Steem.
4. The HF20, the SMT's and several other things that have been done to provide more scalability to the blockchain will make sure that Dapps would overtake all other projects on the blockchain. Steemit.com would be there as always but it would be dapps that would propel us towards a higher value of Steem token in the market.
Well the main key is more users of course. There is a rule about the value of a social media company that says if the amount of users grows by 10x the value does grow by 100x. Steem is still very small compared to big social media platforms. So there is a lot of space to grow.
Also it's important to have new Dapps like Musing.io , DTube , Steemmonsters ....
A other thing that will boost the price will me the launch of SMTs next year. In my opinion this does add a lot of value to Steem.
When I was a senior in high school back in 1998 a counselor told me seven jobs during life was the average. I just did a Google search and the Bureau of Labor Statistics now states that the average worker currently holds ten different jobs during their lifetime on average and this number is expected to grow over the next few decades.
I'm totally bored with looking at my feed on Steemit and seeing nothing but posts about Steem and Crypto. There are one or two niche communities such as #needleworkmonday but they are few and far between. I want to see more people come and show off their hobbies and passions instead of blockchain full of people writing and earning huge rewards about and from Steem. Any great suggestions please ?
There are actually plenty of sub communities on Steemit, the hardest part is finding them. You are correct in saying that the majority of our feeds are probably filled up with crypto stories. Those are still a big deal right now and they probably aren't going away. Especially since Steemit is built on the STEEM blockchain.
I have said this as answer in a lot of my posts, but it really is what I believe is the most helpful. Get a Discord account. I feel like that should be the second most important thing you do after you get your Steemit account.
Once you are on Discord and you start joining some of the servers, you will start to meet people that share the same niche interests as you. From there you can build the community that you want. It can be a huge thing.
I am a fan of alternative music. A person I met on Discord is also a fan of alternative music. He started a challenge that has people posting their favorite alternative bands on the weekend. It has come to be a huge following that many people are posting to now. The Metalweekend tag is another example of a person that had a passion for a specific topic and turned it into something huge.
That would be my second piece of advice. Besides creating a Discord account and meeting people on there, try to turn the topic into a challenge or even a contest. As you start to get people responding to it, you will then make those connections with the group of people that you want to target and read from in the future.
It doesn't happen overnight, but if you put a little time, effort, and thought into it, you can build that niche community that you are looking for.
There are many people doing vlogs and blogs about different things, it is likely that you do not follow them and for that reason you can not see the material of that type.
I think the only way is to create a community in which the different categories are rewarded, most of the people publish about crypto in general and steemit because it is what is most sought after.
In steemit the majorityc of people came for cryptocurrencies.
What a brilliant question there, thank you, actually people would definitely say no to this question and this is because they hardly notice any change themselves, because it happens very slowly
As much as I'll hate to admit it, I'll say everybody's relationship changes with their siblings immediately they get married. I'm not trying to say marriage is a bad thing, but the truth is when one us married priorities will definitely change, the attention that one will show to their siblings will be shifted just slightly to their wives/husband and their children because they now have a new redefined responsibility to their children and their husband which will in turn reduce the relationship they share with their sibling.
At first they'll try to juggle both their nuclear family with their immediate sibling but as the years goes by the load of family commitments and family needs and responsibilities will bring changes no matter how small it may seem or look like.
So definitely I'll change because my commitment and responsibilities will be a challenge for me to match the relationship I once shared with my siblings because the commitments will have to be shared and my immediate family which is my wife and children will get the better attention because I'm now responsible for them.
It can and many times it does. For example if you are very close with your sibling and you share everything with them, there will likely be shift from them being your main confidant to your spouse being that person. It isn't something that you purposely do, but it is just something that happens over time. Likewise as they find someone that they want to spend the rest of their life with, that will shift as well.
You are still siblings and you still love each other, but that closeness that you once shared will probably be gone to a certain degree. It may make you sad, but you shouldn't necessarily see it as a bad thing. It is just the way things happen.
In the end it doesn't have to change it any more than you want it to. As I stated, there will be changes, but you can mitigate those changes by still reaching out to your sibling. Try to talk to them frequently. Continue to share with them the way you have in the past. You can both appreciate and respect each other by understanding and respecting the new relationship that they have started.
My relationship with my siblings will not change after I get married because they are family and that is for life. We didn't choose who our siblings are going to be. It was a choice our parents made and must be respected.
The only thing that would change when I get married in the context of my relationship with my siblings is priority. Yes my priorities would move from them to my immediate family. I expect them to do same, because when a person gets married, he begins a new generation.
I would like to give my new family my primary focus and attention. I wouldn't want my relationship with my siblings to suffer but I will try as much as possible to strike a balance. I will call them as often as I can, visit the when I can, give them any form of assistance I can possibly render but not to the detriment of the new family I'm trying to build.
When one gets married, it's like planting a seed. You need to water that seed and give it the right conditions for proper growth. Marriage is that seed. If you don't give it the time, attention, focus and care that it requires, it's sure to crumble. That's one of the reasons some marriages end in divorce courts even before the journey begins. I can't take the risk. This is my life, I've got to live it and I expect my siblings to do same.
Regularly it's not supposed to. They are your siblings and they are important but when you get married, new responsibilities come up. You have a job, you'll have kids and you'll have bills to pay. It's easy to get wrapped up in all of it and most people do and eventually they don't have time for their siblings anymore. It doesn't mean they don't love each other. It just means they are responsible to much more that each other at that point. But every once in a while a call or a visit would be appreciated and when your siblings are in need, never fail to help them. Because they'd do the same for you in a heart beat
The answer may surprise you but it's Yes, banks invest heavily in bitcoin.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of banks that invested in bitcoin in 2017: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, CityBank, Barclay's.
By investing in bitcoin, I mean either bought directly from bitcoin or established partnerships with bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem companies.
In particular, 2017 saw futures trading on bitcoin (more info) on the Chicago Stock Exchange, where investment funds and banks rushed.
Why are banks investing in bitcoin? Simply because they understood that it had become a phenomenon too big to ignore and that bitcoin would take a significant place on global finance.
For the anecdote, JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon publicly stated in October 2017 that bitcoin was "stupid", a scam and would fire any of its employees who traded bitcoin. The impact of the case was global, relayed in the media and bitcoin immediately dropped by 20%.
What did JP Morgan do in the wake? The same day, the bank took the opportunity to buy several million dollars of bitcoin. It was only a manipulation of prices to buy bitcoin, which proves that he did not think a word about what he said about bitcoin. Funny, no!
When we talk about the banks' investments, we usually talk about investing in the bank's own funds. Otherwise called own account investment. Banks can not yet invest to my knowledge in Bitcoin in accordance with the current regulations and compliance with the liquidity and security ratios of the funds of the bank.
However, according to CoinBase, some Hedge Funds have been the experts in investing in Bitcoins since 2014. Here is the list 6 New Hedge Funds Seeking Bitcoin Returns. Therefore, through its hedge funds, banks may have taken positions on Bitcoins and / or offered to some very wealthy clients.
Julien Boyer is right the banks have, his last years, heavily invested in the underlying technology of Bitcoin: BlockChain, or French block chain. To make it simple Blockchain is a secure and distributed database. Basically, we can exchange, validate, and store information, in a completely transparent way. By extension, a blockchain is a database that contains the history of all the exchanges made between its users since its creation.
The profits of the blockchain are both perceived as a threat and an opportunity for the banks. A telling example is the investments that large numbers of banks have made in Ripple technology. Ripple is the new technology that will allow us to make our transfer and replace Swift! As a payment and settlement protocol, large banks like Santander saw Ripple's potential early enough for a bank. In a final fundraising for 55 million, a large Asian Standard Chartered Bank was in the game. Of course, Ripple is an example among others to tell you that yes the banks invert in the Blockchain.
I think it really depends on how severe your phobia is. I can definitely give you some tips that might help you, but keep it in the back of your mind that you might need professional help with this if you're really not able to overcome your fears.
Firstly, it's very important that you know your topic. Practice, practice & practice some more! Make sure that you read your text out loud in front of a mirror or a small audience of friends and/or family. Get more adept at speaking that way, it also helps to record yourself.
It's important that you're able to tackle any nervousness when you're finally giving your talk in public. There are some breathing exercises that you can look up, they might help you out in the moment. Believe in yourself, if you know your topic, that's already less reason to be nervous.
If these things fail, you can join a training course for public speaking. There are probably classes for that where you live, it's not that uncommon. A lot of people have a fear of speaking in public.
Many people have this problem of speaking in public in front of a larger audience. I'll, share some tips based on my experience to overcome this phobia problem.
**Simple tips to overcome the phobia problem while speaking in-front to larger audience**
1. Practice makes the man perfect. So, the trick is to first practice speaking in-front of a mirror. This will give you some confidence and slowly while rehearsing you will get better at it.
2. Do not try memorizing the topic which you intent to present or talk about. Generally, speaking people who are memorizing the topic will fear a bit if they are lost in between. The best practice is to know your subject well and the fear will just disappear.
3. Start with small conversations. Instead of choosing to speak for an hour choose topics that require short talks. This, will help you to build the confidence in you. Smaller talks and knowing your subject well will give you the opportunity to engage with the people and you yourself will not know how the time flew away.
4. Be relaxed. This is the key to getting rid of the phobia while speaking to larger audience. When your mind is tensed you will not feel that confident and you than tend to build that phobia up. Instead of that just be relaxed and concentrate.
5. Talk to people before you start speaking on the stage. Introduce yourself to a few members of the audience in the front row. During your talk look these people in the eye to ease your nerves and connect with your audience.
THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS TO LOSE WEIGHT IS TO DO EXERCISE AND A GOOD DIET.
You can drink any of the two tea without sugar, these are very low in calories.
Eat more
Yes, you read it right. What your metabolism needs to stay active is that you do not put yourself in "restrictive mode", the more you deprive it of food, the more it will retain the little you give it. YES. Make five meals a day that start with a good breakfast, two healthy snacks, a smart meal (depending on the physical activity you are going to do later) and a light dinner. Each digestion spends energy, so if you control the rations, your body will begin to burn more calories. DO NOT. You skip meals, the only thing you will get is to accumulate hunger, slow down your metabolism and boost the rebound effect if you diet.
Have breakfast like a queen
The nutritionists do not stop insisting on the importance of the first meal of the day, which is what starts the metabolism, which gives you energy and helps you regulate the appetite until the meal. Of everything. Your breakfast should contain healthy carbohydrates (bread, cereals or whole grain crackers and better organic, without added sugars or fats); natural juice or fresh fruit (better at the beginning to make digestion better); a skimmed milk or vegetable (if you have lactose intolerance or want to reduce even more calories), coffee or green tea (your first dose of antioxidants); healthy proteins (Iberian ham, turkey, egg) to take away your hunger; some healthy fat (virgin olive oil!) and something sweet if you fancy a lot (it's the best time to take it, you have all day to burn it), like jam without added sugar.
Pica between hours
In addition to helping you keep your metabolism active and consuming energy, it is the only way to control your appetite and not arrive with a wolf hunger for food or dinner. Of course, this pecking must be healthy. Psychologically, it will be a "rush" of endorphins to be able to eat when you are hungry. YES. Natural nuts, unroasted, such as nuts, cashews, almonds or sunflower seeds; a piece of fresh fruit or a handful of red fruits (second antioxidant ration); a skimmed yogurt; an inflated rice pancake; a can of natural tuna or low-fat cold cuts; a couple of oatmeal cookies or a couple of ounces of dark chocolate if you have a sweet attack.
Do not suppress hydrates
The pulses, the cereals, the bread or the integral pasta are not the culprits of your extra kilos. Your enemies are industrial sweets, sliced
bread, salty snacks (stay away from the work machine), sugary cereals and refined foods. This type of fast-digesting carbohydrates are those that control your GI, that is, your glycemic index or blood insulin level. YES. Always take hydrates at breakfast and eat them at noon (a plate of pasta, rice or vegetables) if you are going to exercise in the afternoon. Take legumes at least three times a week (your fiber is great for your intestines and you get hungry for hours) and the rest of the best hydrates, as they slowly pour into the bloodstream, do not produce insulin spikes and do not cumulate in the form of fat as refined ones. DO NOT. At carbohydrates at night. Everything that comes packaged and looks like fast food, forget it.
Discover the hidden sugar
Do you eat a little, try to make it healthy and still not lose weight? The class can be in white sugar, a chemical that does not provide any nutrients to the body and many calories. Do not you drink sugar? You may not add it to the coffee but you are taking it through the mold bread, the packaged vegetables, the soups or tetrabrick purees, the cold cuts, the smoked salmon, the yogurts, the precooked foods ... you just have to start reading the labels of what you buy to take your hands to your head and realize the amount of sugar you inadvertently eat. Less energy All that sugar is what causes insulin spikes, that you're always hungry and that you're low on energy.
Any question that involves cost needs to consider TCO - Total Cost of Ownership.
This means you do not look at just the price of something, but all the costs needed to run it and use it over long periods of time.
First for the copy shop
What do they charge per page? What do they charge for colour pages? Do you print in colour? How far is the copy shop from you? How often do you need to go? Are they open 24/7? Can you get there anytime you need to? How much does it cost you to go? (gas, bus pass, subway, taxi, etc). How much time do you need to go there and back home? How convenient is it?
All of the above questions have a value assigned to them. Especially the time and convenience type questions.
Now for an in-home printer you would calculate things like initial cost of the printer (this will vary on your requirements, do you need colour? do you need scan/fax capability?, etc), how much does replacement ink/toner cost? How fast will you need to replace ink/toner? What is the cost of paper? How fast will you need to buy more? Even something as small as what is your electrical cost to run this printer and where can I put it (this is a bit overkill for most people since electrical is miniscule for most printers and home users really aren't worried about giving up space for a printer and what that "costs" them).
All of these factors (and more) play a part in TCO.
For me, I always buy a home printer simply because I hate the inconvenience of having to go to copy shop, having to go when they are open (so its on their schedule not mine) and the drive there and back and gas and everything else lol.
For me those factors weigh heavily as a cost analysis and so I always end up putting more money up front and buying my own printer.
If your printer lasts a few years (so you can't buy the ones on sale for $29 USD) you will definitely save money in the long run over a copy shop, plus your time and convenience.
How often do you print? And whats the prices? If you print a lot and do it frequently, it would be cheaper to buy a printer as you save time going to the shop and can use that time to earn money elsewhere, but you will also pay less for your printing needs. Calculate your spendings at the shop in one year and see how much it adds up to. See if you can find a printer at less than that and can buy enough ink for it to last you the year at less than the amount you spend at the shop. It'll probably be cheaper to buy a printer if you print a lot.
It actually depends on the quantity, frequency and how much you need the printer. I mean if you wish to print loads of documents (and frequently along the days), buying a printer is a good catch. It also maximize your time and effort as you don't need to the copy shop anymore just to copy your documents. Another advantage of it will be very cost efficient. You only need a paper and a small ink that will surely cut the copy price to only by 10% of the cost especially when you are printing huge number of copies and using it along the days.
If you're just printing small amount of documents and not frequently, it is advisable to just go to printing shop as it doesn't need much to buy one.
In the beginning it was research. A friend of mine had intrdouced me to musing and I had checked out the platform and liked it greatly. But I was busy at the time so I didn't have a chance to really explore as much as I would have liked to. I promised myself I'd be back soon as I had the chance, but a thing or two seized my attention again and I never really got to it.
Recently, however, sndbox--of which I recently became a part--came up with the brilliant idea of having its members explore various DApps on the steem blockchain and write a detailed analysis of their experience. Due to my prior impression and earlier promises, naturally I chose musing.io. So for the last couple of days Id been asking questions regarding the mechanics of musing and also answering a few questions to get the full scope of it.
It's amazing now that I think about it--and this is one of the many beauties of musing.io; Imagine having to carry out reasearch on a subject, and using nothing but that same subject as the tool for your research. Mind bowing right? And that's exactly what happened to me. Here I was trying to carry out some research on musing.io and all I had to do was ask and answer questions on the same platform. No need for visiting external sites, sifting the giant internet for tiny pieces of information, or even bothering people in real life and in for scanty information. (Though i admit I did get some tips from my fellow sndbro @jassennessaj.)
Anyway I began to really enjoy the platform and consequently what began as a curiosity became something I'd fallen in love with.
In the report I wrote for sndbox--spoiler alert--I made mention of the beauty of musing being predominantly that you get rewarded for your curiosity, which is as natural a thing for any human as breathing. Imagine getting rewarded for breathing, then? There is no single day I wake up without some questions burning in my mind. All I have to then is post it on musing, and I not only have my questions answered--which is a reward in itself--but I get rewarded even monetarily. There's no greater compensation.
And even though the beauty and potential of musing is amazing, to be extremely sincere, I really doubt I would have become as enthusiastic as I did without the joy of seeing those generous rewards on your questions and answers. There's no joy like seeing your effort get rewarded.
But the MOST IMPORTANT thing, and this is why I really try my best to engage with as much questions as possible, is the intellctual stimulation and creative boost I get.
Being able to analyse what seems like a simple inmocous question, dissect this question, understand it and produce a coincise but exhaustive answer, is as fulfilling for a writer as the writing itself. This in fact is a form of creativity. Because when you really think of it, what is creativity, but the the ability to find a problem in the world, a question asked by the universe so to speak, and analyse it and come up with a unique answer of your own in form on a finished created piece.
It's a great joy when your curiosity gets rewarded. It's a brilliant feeling when you have a burning question and find someone who gives you a satisfactory answer. It's almost like being terribly hungry and getting offered a remarkable meal garnished with all sort of delicious toppings and a cold wine to booth.
Which is another reason I get motivated to answer questions. I've been lucky enough to have a few of my questions get brilliant answers, so when I come across a question I seem to know a thing or two about I try to do my best to give that question as good an answer that I can to the best of my ability.
So these are definitely the things that motivate me--so far. I hope the platform grows and I get even more excuse to spent the whole of my day here XD.
Good question! If I feel like I know the answer to a question, I'll generally do some quick research, unless I am absolutely sure I know the answer, and if the user asking the question seems genuine , it motivates me to leave an answer.
You seem genuinely curious, and I didn't need to perform research to give you an answer, so there you have it :)
Well few things that does motivates me to answer the questions in here
The type of question - It should be logical.
Have value and my answer will help that person who asks it.
How the user presents the questions that matters as well (is it serious question that has any kind of value or just ask a random question out of nowhere)
I answer most of those questions, that I have encountered in my life and will help the user learn something from it.
Steem related questions gets priority in my answering list as well.
Those Bonus UPVotes from Muisng does really work more too.
And overall the connection we do make with each other that is what matters.
My biggest motivation to answer a question on musing is that I myself get to learn more about the questions that I answer.
I came to musing around two months ago and since then I have answered hundreds of questions and had a ton of engagement here. In these past few weeks for me, it has become a habit and a pleasure to work on answering questions here on musing. This habit has grown to the point that I have spent hundreds of hours, answering hundreds of questions. And all I can think of is - 'where was I on the day musing.io was launched?'
The fact is that musing has been a great learning experience for me. For this the reason is simple - To effectively answer a question, I need to first read and research about it. This has helped me improve my knowledge in just the past few weeks alone. I wonder how much more knowledge I would gain, if I stay here even longer.
I should also mention that musing.io has been very generous to me with their upvotes. Obviously, I try to do my best to create 'question-answer' content here, but musing has been a great place get rewarded for my efforts as well.
My greatest accomplishment so far has been graduating from the university. It isn't supposed to be a big deal to go to a university but it is for me because of what it took me to have a university degree.
I finished high school at a quite tender age but I wasn't allowed to write my first exam that would qualify me to get admission into the university until I was nineteen. I eventually did but for several reasons I couldn't get admission for the course I wanted to study. I had wanted to study medicine with the fire and energy still burning inside me in my teens. It was either I had two marks below the required cut-off marks for my choice course or I was given a different course of study.
I was hell bent on studying medicine and before I could say Jack Robinson, it was six years already since I left high school. My friends we left high school together were either graduates from different disciplines or in their penultimate year in the university. Some were married already and some had kids. Gradually, my self-confidence started to diminish. This time, I wanted admission into any field of discipline because I couldn't stand the pressures from home anymore.
Finally, I was offered admission to read a course entirely different from what I had in mind. I accepted this offer and went to the university.
Going through the walls of the University was the greatest test of my self confidence and patience. It was tough for me especially since it wasn't what I wanted to study. I really didn't give much attention to my studies in my first two years and I had three more years to go.
The battle became intense. It was a fight not to have an extra year or worse still graduate with a very bad result. Putting into consideration the support I received from parents, family and friends. I wasn't about letting them down. They had made so much sacrifices. I couldn't afford an extra year. Eventually, I graduated. Luckily for me, there was no extra year and no bad result. It still is my biggest accomplishment so far.
Gaining over 1070 Steem Power on this platform in only 9months without investing any real money on Steem and/or bugging anyone to upvote my posts.
Yeah I'm quite proud of that. I often see people who joined the same time as me and they are still struggling. I honestly still don't know what I did differently. I just post what I am passionate about (Anime/Games/Technology) and it seems people who have the same interests as mine just come flocking in to support yours truly lol
So yeah I guess that pretty much is my greatest accomplishment online. :)
I did an electric train for my kids!
I built a 2.40m over 1.20m flap that rested on a table the whole folded was 15 cm thick.
On the wall, I placed shelves to store locomotives, cars and wagons.
I realized a circuit with turnaround loop and a station with four synchronized switches to avoid a stopped train.
I dressed the decoration of small houses all lighted at will, street lights working on the tracks, a church with a removable bell tower.
I also realized a mountain with a tunnel and a pond represented by a small ice cream; There were fishermen and dozens of characters: travelers, loggers, mechanics, and even repairing the road ...
The set was controlled by a double detachable board of the circuit with two outlets.
All locomotives were equipped with lighting, as well as passenger cars. All the lights, I tinkered them myself.
My only disappointment: people often questioned that I could realize all this set myself! I spent maybe a thousand hours there.
My great satisfaction: to see my children play with and also my grandchildren. But finally, I sold it on "the good corner" and yet I was assured that it was impossible to negotiate!
Yes I believe but I'm still wary of the paranormal programs that manage to make us swallow anything or pictures of "pseudo ghosts" which of course most of them are certainly still special effects (by the way I think that the one that you posted is a fake XD)
I know a person who would have seen (and who also cried on it at that time), another who feels presences around her (so reassuring) and another who would be in contact with his guardian angel (because it seems that we have guardian angels).
In my family we are pretty connected to the mystical stuff (except my father, it's a scientific mind too much rational lol) and we happen to "turn the tables" if you know what I mean (we take a pedestal, we put our hands on it in a certain way, our fluid (which is the electricity of our body in a way) will 'heat' the table that will begin to move, move and then we will ask questions that she will answer yes or no) and I swear it works.
My mother already had a strange experience when she was young. She was alone at home, in the office, and heard distinct footsteps on the stairs and the door of her room slamming. She went out, called, but no one answered. (since she was alone) There was no draft, it could not be an animal (she did not have any), mystery ..
I do not know too much, but it's true that sometimes I feel like I'm feeling a presence. Perhaps the dead, the dead, are watching us through our shadows, in spectral forms, through invisible presence.
Indeed, it seems they protect us even! Hence the notion of guardian angel. My mother (yes she still) has a work colleague who is a shaman (outside of her profession) and i explained to her that we can ask for help from these "guardian angels" and that they will answer you by signs that are quite difficult to distinguish (like you'll read a magazine and in there is the answer)
I tested this thing and it paid off .. (I'm serious). I explain .. My father has a serious eye disease for fifteen years and in short I spend the details, after fifteen years when we see that the results of treatments are still low is pretty depressing .. So with my mother (return youhou) even if we are atheists, we went to put a few candles in some churches hoping that it works but it failed. One night I tried the thing to call the angels and a few days later we went to Saintes Maries de la Mer (do you know?) Quite touristy place with a pretty old church that we visited and we put a candle. Except that at one point the guardian (of the church) fired us because there was to be a show in a short time. Interrupted, we were a little upset. A lady next to us noticed him and said, "Do not worry, he heard you." Nied? In short, we left, a few days after my father goes to the hospital to pass an exam, miracle, his illness has improved (and not a little). So according to my mother the angels spoke through the lady. I do not know what you think about it, but I want to tell you that no I'm not crazy (nor my mother) and that we are very well psychologically> <
I do not know if this story is part of the ghosts but it is still quite strange ..
* Are you afraid of ghosts
YES!!!! Like you, I think the worst thing that could happen to me would be to see one. But at the same time this mystic side attracts me and is so exciting! The problem is that I'm a big scary, that is to say, if I watch a horror movie or a show on the paranormal (all stupid) and well I do not sleep a week. And what would be the most frightening is that the ghost in question is a hitter, like a big old ghost very bad (I do not know if it exists but I hope not TT)
Yes as I have answered this one before. I have experienced it and know what happens in a ghost house as such. We had bought a house in England and it was an old house that had been modernized.
It started with my parrot jumping on to the side of his cage and would be talking as if there was someone there. We noticed noises when we would be sitting down at the table for meal times. Footsteps upstairs and I would sneak up but they would run away. We had wooden floors so you could clearly hear it.
My daughter screamed the one day as her dustbin in her room was moving blocking her exit. I think it was just playing but not overly sure. We used to lie in bed and hear footsteps and the bed used to move as though someone had just crawled under it. The bed was solid with drawers in the base so a little strange.
The one day my son was playing with my Polaroid Instamatic camera and was popping out photos of himself. He had complained before that something had been bashing him whilst he was in the bed. Kids you know have a good imagination so I thought nothing of it. I looked at his photos and there was someone sitting next to him, actually more behind him and it was a face and neck that was showing. The reflection of the lights from outside with the glass had picked up an image of a ghost.
It wasn't very pretty and the guy in the photo had the olden style mesh from like the days of suit and armor times. I was a little shocked as I was expecting a child ghost with all the playing that had been happening.
We were in the process of moving and every time someone came for a viewing in the night the light bulbs used to play up. There was nothing wrong with the wiring or the bulb as they worked when people left. i was more than happy to leave the house in the end and hope whoever lives there now is happy.
A cool story that i couldn't make up and need to find the photo as I kept it. haven't seen it for a while since we have moved a few times since but it will pop out one day.
First of all, I have to say, brilliant question. This is one of those questions I look at with excitement, wondering what I could decipher in my mind from trying to provide an answer to it.
I've had the tab open and I'd been mulling it over in my mind now for a while.
The first thing that came to my mind was companionship. But at the same time I realized that is not entirely true. That the real answer, in my opinion, lies in first examining the exact opposite; the opposite of companionship, which is solitude and the opposite of being in a relationship- -which is being alone.
Solitude is known to have a lot of advantage. A lot of writers have made it the major theme of their numerous books, but perhaps no writer has written so searchingly into the question of solitide like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Latin American Nobel Laaurete, in his book Hundred years of Solitude.
Here it might seem that solitude is a confinement, but still a lot of people prefer solitude to companionship at times. When alone you get centred, you can think and be present and really enjoy some things which you can't in the presence of others. Also most of us are at our truest self when we're with ourselves. Knowing all these then, we can wonder why then do we require relationships?
Allow me to offer a few suggestions regarding the things most people seek:
1. Fulfillment
The truth is whether we like it or not, we are all a part of society. We might yearn for solitude once in a while, but the urge to socialize will always be present. And the society is set up in such a way that to find fulfillment for an individual mostly depends on his or her relations with other.
John Donne said it better, He said No man is island, entire of itself. There will always be people who know better and have seen and learn more than you do. Most of the times we make mistakes and the way our subjective senses percieve things might not actually be the way things are (of course there are people who argue there is no objective reality at all). Either way, to be certain of some things, you must look for validations from others.
Are you trying to be rich and successful? You must go through other people in a way. Are you trying amass knowledge? You must learn from others. Are you trying to learn how to find peace alone? Ironically you must also relate with people in some way or another to get this..It is mostly ineveitable.
2. Joy and Happiness
Even though there is a joy in solitude, there are perhaps even more joy in relationships. Most of us know the absolute indescribable joy of having a partner whom you love with all your heart. A person who you can share your sorrows with and tell everything to.
Most of the times we're never happy without this person and when they arrive their presence is like a rainbow and our joy knows no bound. You feel alive, more alive than you can ever be alone.
Some lucky ones even experience this with ordinary people they come across everyday, with friends and families and colleagues at work.
3. A Sense of Belonging and Purpose
Two heads are better than one. When a collection of men comes together, history has proven, there is very little they can't achieve. A man might think he has a cause or purpose on his own, but when he comes together with people of similar reasoning the cause becomes stronger.
We all yearn to be a part of something greater than ourselves. Something to which we can point and say proudly, Yes, I am a part of THAT. It's fun to say yes I did that. I did this. But it is even more fun and more fulfilling to say Yes, WE did this. Yes WE did that.
Also - sometimes we have breakthroughs on our own, but it never means anything without people to share it with. (Which is why the internet craze of sharing every moment of life is so paramount. But that is a question for another day.)
4. Moderation
Finally I would like to end with a note of caution. Yes no man is an island and no man knows it all, yes there is a great joy to be gotten from getting along with your fellow man. Yes we need validation from people, yes without people sometimes success have no meaning. But doing everything in excess is terrible.
There is no easier way to secure the greatest sadness for yourself than by always seeking validation from people for everything you do; to never be content with yourself or your success until you've shared it with the whole world.
Sometimes it is just better to sit alone and enjoy your success over a cup of wine while you ruminate to yourself.
As I said, like most endeavors in human life, moderation is the most paramount. Knowing the middle way; doing just enough without going overboard! Thanks for reading. Cheers.
Well relationship depend, a lot of people do not really know what it means to be in a relationship, that's why for me I think being in a relationship is more than just love, as a person if I ever want to be in a relationship I'll choose someone that will be a WORTHY COMPANION this will entail having someone that Will help me in my decision making, help me encounter my ups and down, accompany me through my steps and journey in reaching my goals and aims while I do same for her as well.
I Want someone that'll be a FRIEND this entails having someone that can hold my secrets and I hers, vice versa, someone that will tell me soothing words when I seem to be drifting away, someone that could hold my hands and encourage me to go further in life, someone I can confide in, talk to and share my pain, sadness and joy with.
I want someone that'll be A PROSPECTIVE SOULMATE, this is having a person that'll be ready to give herself to me, walk down the altar with me, accept me and all my imperfections as well, agree and acept to stay with me no matter the circumstances as well. Someone that's ready and willing to go to the next level with me.
I have, the truth is as a human being I try to maintain a constant balance in my life always having to smile and act normal at my working place and all is certainly not well. Most times I have psycological problems which involves me being afraid of the future, afraid that I may continue to be be poor or not have enough money to raise a family or that my present condition will only get worse and worst.
In life most people do not care if you have a problem neither do they care if you are in pain or not, so the best thing to do will be to act normal, because if you don't people will pity you and the irony is that they won't even help you.
I've always tried to stay cheerful and smile even in the most terrible times in my life just because being sad, crying and being broody will not help infact it will attract the pity of people. That's why when I get to my working place, I act normal and cheerful even when I'm sad, because I want to be strong and maintain a certain equilibrium in my life at all Cost, even when it seems very difficult
Unlimited supply of money interesting.. If, this is the case for 24 hours than I would love the solve many problems and they are as follows:-
1. Try eradicating poverty. As, poverty leads to many problems and some of them are illiteracy, robbery, killing and many more troubles. So, would like to solve the problem of poverty as much as I could with the unlimited supply of money.
2. Donate it to the NGOs, "Non-governmental Organization ", who are actually trying to solve the problems in the society it could be child education, build old age home any such projects which is going to help the society and make this world a better place.
3. Finally, I did like to use the money collected to solve the problem of odd ratio that exists between rich and poor. By, this I mean in a country if there are rich people than they very rich and if there are poor people than they are too many. In more simple words the ratio of rich is to poor is not equally distribute. Hence, with this cash generating machine would love to solve this rich is to poor ratio and bring both rich and poor people together.
Lol, actually I was writing something earlier and it was all about me and my dreams too. I don't think there's nothing wrong with thinking about that first then others second. Initially of course our first thoughts will be for ourselves anyway.
Unfortunately while I was thinking for real about what to add I got sidetracked so the things I wrote are all gone now. Haven't been able to submit before the page went poof! Will rewrite my answer later. Haha.
It is becoming easier to get steem and sbd, with sites like musing.io with the exit of several social networks that pay you to create content and do not need to have many followers.
As weku webtallk pivot gese minds and like 100 more.
These are becoming popular and at the end of the hadfork I have seen many new ones withdraw from steemit as they can not make more than 2 publications per day until downloading their RC
No I don't i think it is going to be one of the main internet sites in the world in the next few years.
With all the Dapps taking value from Steem the sky is the limit. I can see the Steem block chain being full of all different sites offering everyone something. The whole family will be using steem in one way or another.
Gaming.live streaming,musing,blogging the list is endless and god knows what will be added next. I can see all the other blogging sites that popped up folding and losing everyone that was on here to come back.
The SMT's will start launching in March and there are exciting times ahead for everyone who is already on here.
Ok I don't think steemit will fail or close for any reason. Steemit is just getting started and just look at how much traction the site has already and it's ace in the whole which is the SMTs hasn't even been launched yet.
Have you taken a look at the number of Dapps that are available on the steem Blockchain?? Everything from dtube to musing and all the others are so good that they could even give sites like YouTube and Quora a run for their money.
The world is gradually moving to the blockchain and seeing how accommodative the steem Blockchain is I'm pretty sure when the SMTs are released the whole world will want a piece of steemit. These new sites like weku and the others are simply just imitations of the real thing and although they're on the right track, they still have a long way to go.
Steemit isn't going anywhere except for to the moon!!!!
For the sake of words lets say even if Steemit goes down, there will be Steem dapps. and Steem will be running on the track and we will seeing some major run as we speak.
Like Musing many are rushing into it and yes it is getting hard for the new users but in the long run it sure is helpful and by gaining SP they can do their usual work in here and if not then there are ways like Musing, Steemhunt.
The hardfork brought quite some unfortunate things but it was to be done for the launch of SMT and those will change the course of Steem.
Well first things first your post has got to have content that's worth reading. Nobody wants to go through a post that would make them question whether it was a kindergarten student that wrote it.
When you have that very important part down, next thing is to pay for upvotes, there's no shame in doing it, alot of people do it, not to make money, but to give their posts a little more visibility. You might write an epistle worthy of only the eyes of the gods, but if nobody with substantial SP upvotes it then best believe that even the gods of promotedpost, hottopic and huge-whale won't see it.
Finally, you could solicit some help from someone who's already recognised in steemit, that way if they share your post then alot of people are going to want to know why someone so prominent saw it fit to grace his page with your post.
If you check all these boxes and the post still doesn't go viral then maybe it's time to hit the drawing board again.
* the obvious way , use your money (Steem/Sbd) and send them to bidbots and they will give you upvotes which will rank the post to the Trending Page
* the Second one : If you have Whale friends who will give you Upvotes and by that you will see your post in the trending page (It is highly unlikely though)
By luck not many users have gone to trending page while if your content is original and you have worked for it using bidbots could work fine and many users will find your content useful and they will like it as well for the quality of it.
Well as time is passing by it is kind of getting hard to stay bored in here. With all the things going on now it is really hard to get bored now.
But yeah sometimes it gets boring when there is no new interaction between users because of the posts and yes it happened in the past but now as all the things going on if you mind is fresh and you are not worried in your real life than it is kind of hard to get board in here.
With all the dapps and all the things and the Discord Groups it is kind of hard to bring out time.
Think about Musing, we are helping each other and learning in that process, give some time to other dapps and you will find your time going very nicely indeed without you even realize it.
Sometimes I do get bored of using Steemit, as it happens with every thing that I use too much or too little. The first case scenario when I get bored is when I don't have too much interaction on it. I like to write articles, I like to read, but if I not get in touch with people too much I am taking distance from the platform. I always come back the next day though. Except for when it was the hardfork and a day or two after when I couldn't use the platform. Another case is when I am having personally a bad mood and a lack of inspiration and that reflects to my activity on Steemit also. Or when I see very low payouts for my posts and some garbage ones getting more. I do find tens of reasons to get back to Steem every time. It's my most used social media platform along with some of its DApps.
You can go cold turkey: remove the software from your mobile and computer or you can reduce the time you spend with social media little by little. Use a kitchen timer or something like that - it should be loud to "wake you up".
You could set yourself small rewards for keeping this promise to yourself.
But at least as important: look for something else to spend you time. Take up knitting or gardening or riding a bike or reading a book (you know, these things made from paper with these quaint little signs in them) or use you mobile as a phone and talk to people. Keep yourself entertained :)
I have to ask, by disconnect do you mean totally remove yourself from social media? or just a temporary disconnection, or perhaps you just want to get to a point where you're not totally dependent?
Disconnecting entirely is a very hard and sometimes impossible thing to do. I say this because this is the 21st century. The whole world is moving to the internet. Most people even have their workplaces here now. Companies use social media to communicate directives and valuable news and informations to their employees. All in all there really is a great deal of advanatage to be obtained, but obsession with anything is bad. And truly social media can be really addicting.
Thankfully though there are ways to reduce our social media obsession drastically. I list some of them below:
1. DELETING APPS AND STICKING TO BROWSERS:
Most social media platforms can be accesed via web browsers as well as via mobile applications. A cause of addiction for most people is the easy availability of these apps on their mobile phones. It is there with them every single time. All you have to do is open your phone and the app icon flashes at you right from your screensaver.
Deleting the application and only sticking to accesing the page on your web browser will give you the space to withdraw. Also the experiences on most mobile web browsers are mostly not as satisfactory as having the applications. Perhaps this not so good experience might inspire deterence in the future.
Also related to this point is:
-- Timing yourself after.
You can set a time by which you get the necessary things done. The amount of time/duration you're to spend per day and etc.
-- Turning off push notifications.
If you don't want to delete the app entirely, yiu can choose to turn off the push notifications. This way you won't have the app buzzing you every second. Trust me this goes a long way. Out of sight out of mind, like they say.
2. GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL
Like I said, a complete withdrawal might be too difficult and unfeasible, but gradually reducing the amount of time spent, even if by a few minutes or hours each day, might go a long way in securing total independence.
3. FINDING NEW HOBBIES
This is probably the best method. Some say the best way to get rid of an unhealthy addiction is to replace it with a healthy one.
Go out, take a walk, go swimming. Take programming lessons, blog on steemit--or wait, that's a social media too lol. My point is, find something that would keep you occupied, this way you won't have to feel the urge to go back too deeply.
4. STAY CONNECTED
Yes yes, I know, this may seem a bit contradictory; okay a lot contradictory, but hear me out.
A mistake most people trying to withdraw make is trying for a total absolute withdrawal at once. This may be the worst step to take. You might even lose your mind this way, really. This is after all something you have been doing for a really long while. Trust me the urge is not going to away overnight.
So give yourself some moment to stay connected, time yourself, and after that way you can apply the principle of gradual withdrawal. I wish you the best of luck.
Once you get to like something it is really hard to stay away from it. While it is the virtual world that you need to come out of and be with the reality.
While you can do few things that will help you
Take some time off away from your daily life. Take a vacation which will improve your mind and soul and do not take any gadgets with you on the trip
Use your time wisely, make a routine and engage with actual people. Make conversation with them, make plans with them and make them happen.
Be with your family as they are your close ones and spend time with them it will help you both mentally and improve your relation with them.
It all depends if you have enough Resource Credits. If you have enough for 5 comments then it then that is all you can do. However there is no limit by musing.io as such and are allowed to ask and answer as many questions as possible.
I have been fortunate enough to only be limited last week when the HF20 was happening and the patch was put in place. At that point I was only allowed to do roughly 28 questions and answers per day and now since then I have had no issues.
Well there isn't any limit placed on the number of questions you can ask or answer on musing per say, but the amount of RCs that you have plays a vital role in determining just how many times you can comment on steemit or any steem related Dapp.
If you have up to 100sp then you'll be able to answer and ask up to at least 100 questions before your RC has finished and that's more than enough if you ask me, besides, RCs take about 4 days to fully recharge so you'll be fine even if they finish.
I've probably answered far more than 100 questions on musing and I haven't had any issues whatsoever so I'm pretty sure there isn't any limit. If you really want to be sure then you can go to the musing blog page on steemit(steemit.com/@musing), There you'll find a link to their discord server. You can join and ask the admins there yourself, they're quite friendly and will attend to you quickly.
The only limit is based on how many RC you have available.
I will copy my usual RC post below to explain (boy this is getting a lot of airtime)
Your steempower affects how many RC you have and that is what controls how often you can post and vote, etc.
What are RC and where did they come from?
RC = Resource Credit. RC is an estimation of cost, which includes:
- CPU (mega)cycles
- State memory
- History size
It is a feature implemented in HF20 to replace the old bandwidth system.
Every action taken on the blockchain has a "cost" associated with it to perform. The larger, the more complex the action, the more space it requires on the blockchain, etc, the larger the cost. In the past that was monitored by the bandwidth number.
As each of us performed actions our available bandwidth decreased. However it was determined that bandwidth was not an accurate measure of the cost of these operations and also was not scaleable in the future. A new solution was devised.... enter Resource Credits.
This is supposed to be a more true and accurate calculation of what resources are needed to perform each action. The longer your post/comment, the more pictures included, etc the more storage it takes on the blockchain, the higher the "cost" to the user.It recharges over a 5 day so you will always go from 0% RC to 100% if you do nothing for 5 days. Personally I just won't use more then 20% or so a day and that way I won't have to worry about running out.
When HF20 was first implemented there were MANY issues with resource credits. There was a bug where initially any action you had taken at all since you first started here was counted against your RC and so most people had a HUGE negative debt and were unable to post, comment, upvote, or even power up since they had no RC to do those actions.
Patches have been implemented over the last few week to correct most of the issues found during the initial launch. There was a patch last week that increased the available resource pool for each block by a factor of 10. This had the impact of allowing most users to regain most of their RC right away as now suddenly supply outweighed demand and costs of operations were essentially lowered.
Another stated reason for the implementation of RC was to combat the number of spam bots out there. These bots were using an unfairly high amount of resources on the old system and not being charged directly for it. Under RC each account must have enough resource credits to pay for its own actions.It is hopeful that this will reduce (not eliminate) the amount of spam comment bots plaguing the system.
RC is also a learning system that will attempt to find a balance. This means costs of operations will continually be changing. This allows flexibility and scalability moving forward when such features as communities and SMT's (Smart Media Tokens) are implemented in the future.
So overall RC was a necessary and needed upgrade to Steem for future growth and scalability but I do not think in any way its implementation can be considered smooth or uneventful. New users or those with low SP (and therefore low RC) will need to change their habits and be more conscious of how they spend their resource credits. You can get a general estimate of how many actions you can undertake by visiting www.beempy.com/power/@yourusername. You will be shown a page similar to:
From this information you can a more accurate sense of how many comments you can make, how much each will cost, how long it will take to recharge and other items. Remember it will take 5 days to recharge from 0 to 100%.
Hi. What exactly do you need to know? I've been a huge fan and user of Publisher for over 20 years and still think its the simplest page layout program that produces pro results there is. Nothing compares.
Even back in the mid 90s people used to thumb their nose up at it, but it always did what I wanted it to do so for me, simple and straightforward and got the job done!
Basically you start with a blank page, then you can add text, picture, word art or table boxes to the blank page. Use borders and assorted tools to make it look prettier or use one of their templates. Its all drop and drag so you can experiment to get the design you want. There are of course multiple page sizes and templates for everything from a booklet to a business card to a birthday card, all manner of menus and leaflets. Full control over the page and the text and diagrams on it.
Back in the day, I even used it to lay out web pages and always used it as word processor. I could get the result I wanted without using complicated programs like Word!
If you need professional print, printers marks can be added for alignment, you can even print using 4 colour separations ready for a litho printer.
So, I recommend it still to this day to anyone. If you need specific help with a project then feel free to reach out and I will share my tips learnt over the years.
Great question and glad people still mention a great and under appreciated piece of software :-)
Why is Football the number 1 Sport in the World?
Why is it preferred by a lot of countries.
I think it is a very simple answer for this one.
Football doesn't need loads of equipment, all you need is a ball and to make some goals or posts. This means it is open to the poor communities as well. They are not restricted by having to buy things in order to play. Young children can play barefoot and dream of being a star.
The sport is so commercialized and is on Television in every country. Thee is a big marketing budget which FIFA handle and it reaches all corners of the globe. When the world cup is played it is the most viewed sport in the world attracting huge audiences.
Football (not American)/Soccer is #1 sport because, football is actually one of the simple games around, even though there are a long list of rules and regulations. The game is available on almost every platform like TV, Internet streams, or even radio. The immense popularity of the game means that a football fan is often a few clicks from catching the game that would be taking place on the other side of the globe. At the same time, they can also drop in to watch a local game between local teams. A fan can take the interest in the sport even further by taking to the game – even in the local streets – with a few friends.
Football happens to be an intense and action packed game. The results are mostly decided within 90 minutes. The excitement value is further increased by the presence of top quality players. Apart from being a great spectacle to watch, football also presents the opportunity to earn money by betting on different markets regarding each game. Betting on football is incredibly popular in several parts of the world that some fans even regard this to be more exciting than the game itself. The popularity of the sport results in the availability of several sites providing tips on betting.
Football has become part of the culture with fans often seen crying if their team loses an important match. Football evolved as a game for the local community. The game is extremely cost-effective compared to some of the sports, This cost effectiveness is a huge reason for its popularity.
It's the number one sport in the world because you need nearly nothing to start playing it, practicing it, and becoming really good at it. And once you are really good at it, you have a chance to be discovered by a big team, and start earning a lot of money.
Basicaly, it is an accessible way out of poverty for many people, all over the world. Even the poorest people can start playing it, with an empty sodacan, or even a rock. You don't need no expensive gear, no expensive to keep animals, no access to specific places...
What would you do If you were being bullied At work?
We all hear about bullies at elementary, middle, and high school. What about at the workplace? We are seeing more and more of this bad behavior. How would you handle the situation? What if the person had power?
What are the top three things you want to accomplish before you die? How close are you to accomplishing them?
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What are the most amazing contributions of Leonardo Da Vinci to science and inventions?
Leonardo da Vinci known for his popular drawing of the portrait of Mona Lisa is also a major contributor to science but unfortunately most of his works are not known and even celebrated.
I'd like to know his amazing contributions to science and his inventions.
Leonardo Da Vinci made some important contribution in both science and art. As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the parachute, an improved version of the helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, the use of concentrated solar power, a calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics and the double hull. In practice, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics).
Leonardo's most famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science in a single work that has come to represent Renaissance Humanism.
You can find out more about him by visiting this link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_inventions_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci
There is a famous saying - Where there is good there is bad. Can you point out the bad part of Decentralization?
Drug trafficking
Black money transfer
The bad part of decentralization is:
1. An organ from the government that is getting bigger and bigger until the structure of the government becomes more complex.
2. Conformity and Balance will be increasingly disrupted between the various interests of local governments.
3. Decentralization of territories that will encourage the emergence of a regional understanding.
4. Because it is used a lot to negotiate, the time needed is increasingly.
I assume you're talking exclusively about cryptocurrencies, since you added that tag to your question.
I would say that one perceived downside of decentralization is a lack of a central organization behind the cryptocurrency. Meaning that it could be more difficult to properly organize marketing & user support for that cryptocurrency.
There is not one single company people can go to when they are experiencing, that's confusing for people. I can almost guarantee that a lot of novice Bitcoin users must have been in panic mode when they made a mistake with a transaction and there was no official entity to ask support.
How often should one change a job?
This highly depends on your skill and intention for working and also the happiness/salary you get from working.
If you are quite talented with your job and your intention for working is mostly for the money, career and experience then 5 years would probably a good timeframe for it.
If you work as a developer specializing in one area, then after 5 years you would have gained enough experience to try and switch out to other fields. A field more advance where a lot of new things to be learned and by extension an increase in salary. The more advance your knowledge and expertise is, the more you will be paid. And 5 years is a good amount of time to accumulate that knowledge and experience before switching to other field or company.
However if you are lazy and want consistency, then being loyal to the company pays very well. One could get promoted to a managerial position in which he/she literally have people to do most of his job. Managing is hard, but you get to boss people which is very enticing to lazy people.
It is also worth to note that if you are no longer happy with your work and the environment of your workplace, if you can find another work then do so. However if you have a family that needs to be fed and your salary is more than okay, then just do it for your family. Around 85% of people hate their jobs and would quit it immediately if it wasn't for their family. :)
Fixed work and for life. If possible with 14 annual payments and holidays in August. This has been the holy grail for years in our society. To achieve this, starting as an apprentice in a company and moving up to the top three decades later was the usual modus operandi. To change to the competition or to look for another job supposed a risky movement from the professional and personal point of view.
A combination of the economic conjuncture and the education that younger workers have received has given rise to a new mentality. Now it is difficult to find a company and workers willing to form a well-matched marriage until the end of their (work) days.
The profile of a mobile, restless professional is gaining space, but at the same time he is capable of taking on challenges in a short time and efficiently. A survey published by the English newspaper The Guardian indicates that 90% of the youth of Generation Y or millennials (born between 1982 and 2004) would not stay more than five years in the same job. One third of the respondents do not intend to keep it for two years.
But does this continuous change of work bring benefits? In the opinion of Nacho Somalo, dean of the Impact Business School of the European University of Madrid, it is highly positive. "Enriches the professional much to carry out tasks of responsibility in different areas," he explains. But it qualifies: "Ojo, changing jobs is not the same as changing companies, you can change jobs within the same company or, on the contrary, change your company and not work". And both modifications are interesting.
Even for businesses, this tendency to mobility may be a requirement. "Today everything varies at a speed of vertigo and companies need new air, so the tendency to perpetuate in a position is negative, even for them," says the economist. The expert assures that it can be advantageous even at the economic level, because the expenses in training are compensated with the greater business performance that is obtained by having in staff a professional inaccessible to boredom.
And you will ask yourself: how often should you change your job? Unfortunately, there is no conclusive answer, since it will depend on the needs and expectations of the individual. Professor Somalo talks about 'exhausting a cycle': "The time to define labor changes depends a lot on the type of work and person, so it is good to talk about cycles and these are not all the same". When a worker perceives that he can not contribute more to the company or that this is the one that no longer enriches him, it is that the time has come. But if you want the opinion of the expert, "the best thing would be between 2 and 5 years to opt for the move [if you have options for it, of course]".
People who opt for this busy work life are known, in the Anglo-Saxon world, as job hoppers (skip jobs). It moves them to acquire new experiences, learn and obtain better salary conditions. For Roberto Esparza, specialist in Attraction and Talent Assignment, this profile becomes a problem if the jumper moves from offer to offer without clear objectives or obtaining benefits. "This supposes a negative rotation for the person and can become a problem in a job interview," he explains.
If you are thinking of changing jobs, Somalo advises not to get carried away by anxiety and honestly analyze the range of options available. Before a job interview, says that it is better to show to the recruiter with transparency, and if it is a job hopper, defend it and show why that data plays in your favor. "It is more important to understand why work has been changed than how often it should be done," the expert concludes.
If you want to have an extensive and colorful and splendid curriculum in experiences, according to the specialists, you should not doubt it, because the thoughtful transformation always adds up. There is no formula, no fixed calendar. That decision, however difficult it may be, you will only know ... and your pillow.
What do you think about the use of animals to try certain beauty products?
I think that's a complete disgrace to the natural laws that have been here for way longer than our bodies exist
You see, GAIA (mother nature) gives you everything you need for a happy & fulfilled, healthy life, on the contrary - all it asks from ourselves is to protect her
Yet we fail at that every single day. What majority of people don't understand, GAIA is not just trees, plants, air, etc. GAIA is every single animal there is. Every single living being, including you & me
therefore, every living being in GAIA plays a certain role & contributes to the perfect ecosystem of nature, the system was even way more advanced but since humans are actively engaged in destroying it, it now looks a bit different
The point is, every living being inside of GAIA contributes his role to make this perfect orchestra of the universe, even the ants & mosquitoes, even the beings you can't see without a microscope - all of them are of equal importance to GAIA
Meanwhile, humans propagate themselves as the most advanced civilization there is & was, but that's a huge lie when you look precisely - there was much more civilizations that were way more connected to nature & therefore understood the laws of life better
We are lost & slowly but safely are losing our true nature. By testing artificial "beauty products" that shouldn't exist at first place, on inhabitants of GAIA that have their particular assignments here, we are not only insulting GAIA that is our mother but at the same time we are putting ourselves above the animals that in reality worth exactly the same like us
Don't believe me? Go close your eyes, mouth & put 2 fingers on your nose. After 2 or so minutes, everything you regarded "as you" will disappear and you'll realize you are no different than any other inhabitant of GAIA
And the CREATOR, who am I not gonna classify as "God" or anything similar (West terminology), put equal amount of thoughts in ant as he did in you & me. Don't believe me, go out and observe ants, you shall realize the longer you observe
I feel strongly against the use of animals in beauty products as They must suffer immensely.
I make my family look for the BWC badge which stands for Beauty Without Cruelty. This organisation make everyone aware of what is actually happening in the industry and supports members and manufacturers who don't use animals in testing.
There are a few countries now that are joining the campaign which is good namely Brazil,Israel,South Africa,India and the European Union. The more the better and I am hoping it will eventually happen worldwide.
Animals are routinely tested and are injected ,gassed, forced fed and killed. They suffer so that we can look and feel beautiful.
I can remember a few years ago a manufacturer testing shampoos on rabbits to see what it would to if it went into your eyes. The rabbits that suffered had huge infections in their eyes and some went blind all in the name of science and testing shampoos.
I love animals and can't think of doing anything cruel so I would benefit. I know this practice has gone on for years but surely they know enough now to stop.
Barbaric!!😾
What changes the woman suffers in her fertile period?
Menstruation is a natural thing for every woman when they are fertile. maybe that's an unpleasant thing for the most fertile woman
What is the single greatest factor that leads you to follow someone on Steemit?
Is it their content? Their comments? Something else?
For me its the content, plain and simple. This can include an original post or a comment they made.
It needs to be insightful, relevant, thought provoking. It doesn't necessarily need to be my way of thinking, in fact giving me pause and making me consider different viewpoints is something I really look for in people I follow. I already know what and how I think, why follow someone saying the same things I do?
I like to learn things so I tend to follow people who post new and interesting things, not just cat memes or pic of flower with no description, I can google those if I want.
People who make me think, engage me in philosophical discussion or debate. The ones that can help expand my horizons so to speak.
These are the individuals I tend to follow the most
Nice insight! Thank you!
Has to be the content that they are writing and posting. I will follow them if i enjoyed it and would like to read more of their work.
Sometimes it could be someone following you and commenting and voting on you regularly. It is more out of good manners sometimes to show a thank you for their support. It all depends really and it is about engaging and getting on with everyone.
I have never chased a whale as I reckon you would be wasting your time but if they were a good entertaining writer then I would probably follow them. Account size should have nothing to do with it is what I am really trying to say.
Thanks for the honest answer! I appreciate it.
The quality of their content.
And how do I define the quality of their content? It depends... it can be how friendly they are, how beautiful their pictures are, how interesting the content is that they write, or how good the content is that they resteem.
Fair enough! Thanks for the reply!
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It depends. If their content is the cream de la creme for that user then definitely I will follow him/her because of the posts, but if his posts are not that interesting for me, and I have such people following, but I am enjoying communicating with then I will follow the person just for communication. Sometimes it happens that I am writing articles that trigger the person and we start the interaction, but generally I find both posts and comments as important factors to follow someone. At the beginning I was following lots of users who have big amounts of SP in hope of some upvotes from them, but after a while I quit that strategy and I only kept in my list persons that I like to read and interact with. I don't like people who resteem a lot by the way.
Good to know! Thanks for the input!
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The thing that is prioritized when following someone is that if they are interesting and they are posting contents from which I get to learn something and it should be a little interesting as well.
Each user has their own criteria and after following few of them it really attracts to go through the posts of the selected ones.
The way of presenting a content, really maters.
The users who engages with the people who comments in their posts is another attraction that leads to a nice communication to build up.
How many hours a day do you spend in front of a PC? Have you ever felt that it has affected your health in any way?
I'm pretty sure I spend about 8 hours daily staring at one screen or the other and believe me when I say it's done a lot of harm.
I'm basically the only one in my entire family who doesn't have any problems with my sight but lately I've noticed that it's been deteriorating. On some days I'm at 100% and I feel like my eye sight is on superman's level, on other days it gets so bad that I can barely see what I'm typing on my phone and laptop.
Next up is my new found buddy, back aches, well sitting down all day and pushing buttons on a computer will most definitely take its toll on you and if you come from a family like mine where you start seeing signs of arthritis before you even get anywhere near 40 then you'll know that it's not a one time thing. My backs been hurting for days and until I lie down flat on my belly, the pain doesn't stop.
So I'll end things here, my backs hurting again, let me go and lie down.
10-12 hours a day
When I was working and much younger, 18-20 hours a day
That's not a joke or exaggeration either,
I would work in front of one for 8 to 10 hours a day, go home do a couple more hours work, get online and game. I actually met my wife through an online game 20 years ago, so you can imagine the time I put in on that game (we lived in different countries at the time).
Out of all the health issues I currently have decades later (I've been using computers for over 40 years on a daily basis) I can honestly say not one of them has come from extended PC use.
wow. 20 hours a day. that's something. thanks for the reply.
Yeah I was a heavy gamer back in the day.
Plus I was young, had lots of energy, didn't need that much sleep and enjoyed online gaming immensely
At the present condition as I am giving much more time in here (Steem Blockchain ) So I am spending quite a lot of time in front of the PC.
Few problems that I have been noticing is that I am having problems in Sleeping due to the routine messed up But as it seems it is not because of the usage of the PC.
And currently I am spending around 12 hours everyday in here and sometimes more even.
I have not faced any issues till now over being in front of the PC yet.
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Should I Keep Renting or Buy My First Home?
Well no matter the decision you need to make you'll definitely have to consider the cost of housing and property like in places like the United States I thinking renting will be more convinent because it's mostly a developed country and buying of landed property may be very expensive, and may also be very impossible if the country is practising a communist or socialist system of government.
However in a capitalist democratic country such as Nigeria which happens to be a developing country it'll be more advisable to buy a landed property and build your own home.
For example the cost of renting in 5 years in an urban area in Nigeria Is around 800,000 Naira (Nigerian currency) for a year, and if you multiply that by five years, that will be 4, 000,000 (4 million naira Nigerian currency) which will be enough to buy like 10 acres of a landed property in an Urban area or let's say A dream duplex with nice garden, space and parking lot in a semi rural area in Nigeria with constant electricity as well.
Like I said it depends on the country you are, check the system of government your country is practising, check the Cost of landed property and compare it to renting in the long term then you will know which is definitely the best decision. In some countries renting is better and affordable, in some buying will be better in the long run and save money. Make your research and make your choice.
Buying a home is one of the dreams that the community wants to realize. Home ownership is considered as one of the best investments and an important milestone towards a better life. Which is more appropriate for us, is it owning a house or is it better to rent / contract first?
Buying a house is often done by many people with two methods, namely in direct cash or through installments. If you have enough capital, then many people suggest to buy directly in cash. What if our capital is mediocre? Some recommend buying credit / installments instead of rent / contract.
Buying a home is still an important financial goal, and this can be a great way to build wealth over time. But this does not mean that it is always the best investment choice. You need to consider the goals for your long-term and current financial situation.
Taking into account the following things will help you decide whether this is the right time to buy a house or better to rent / contract it first.
Are You Ready to Settle?
Many people decide to buy a house because they are tired of "throwing money" just to pay rent. However, when viewed from another perspective, renting / contracting provides flexibility and freedom compared to you must be 'imprisoned' if you buy a house in installments for a period of 10-15 years.
On the one hand, the rental price / contract costs may increase, but on the other hand for those who choose to own a house, there is a possibility of a property tax increase and home maintenance costs.
Then, what is the best decision? It depends on you. If you don't plan to stay in the same home and neighborhood / area for at least three years or more, it is usually more reasonable to rent.
It takes a long time for the value of a home property to be able to cover transaction costs associated with buying and selling home property.
Are You Skilled in Caring for Home?
If you have a home, you have the freedom to conceptualize it yourself. You can install hardwood floors and build a deck in the backyard. It is true, we can hire someone to do many things to remodel your home, but that requires quite a lot of money.
Depending on the age and condition of your home, handling care and repairs can be time consuming, stressful and expensive.
Meanwhile, if we rent a house, it can be handled by the homeowner.
Consider Property Taxes and Other Fees
It is true that owning a house can give you additional tax deductions that are not available to tenants, but not always.
You usually have the option to reduce mortgage interest along with property taxes that must be paid, but you must specify this deduction to get the tax benefits.
Also, keep in mind that certain costs associated with home ownership cannot be deducted such as repair costs, homeowner insurance and homeowner association fees.
I think if you have a corpus collected than it is always good to buy your first home. Buying your first home is like everyone's dream. People, tend to dream about their home and have a lot of things to do and flaunt about when they buy their first home. Believe me its kinda different feeling when you have your own home may it be big or small but at the end of the day its your own home and you can do whatever you want with it. Like you can decorate it or have interiors as per your choice but whereas in a rented home or an apartment you will not want to shed out those extra dollars or money in renovating the house as per your taste. Also, having your own first home is like a big achievement in life at-least it was for me. I, was very happy to buy my first home and it felt like a great achievement. Here, I would also like to list down some quick benefits of buying you first home.
Benefits of buying your first Home:-
1. Take advantage of the tax rebate given by income tax department of the country
2. Home loans at subsidized interest rates, so you do not feel the pinch while paying your EMIs
3. You have something to flaunt about and a very good feeling that you are the owner of a property
4. Land is limited so there are chances you could make good amount of money from your home if the prices in future shoots up.
5. I, could just go on and on but so as to conclude Your First Home attaches a lot of memories to it that you will cherish all your life. So, in-order to gain all the advantages listed above and have the memorable feeling, I would recommend for buying your First Home wrt. to renting out again and again. Go for it and buy your first Home.
How can someone prevent hand pain from excessive writing?
You should buy (choose) a pen which perfectly fits your hands and before buying it you should try writing with it, to get a feeling for the pen.
Keep the pen loose. Do not cling your fingers too tightly around it. You do not have to strangle it!
And most important: Take breaks! And if you do not write...put the pen down :)
I hope this will help! :)
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What do a person need to do in other to start a nightclub business?
What are the biggest scientific accidents of all time?
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Is it better for bitcoin price to stay stagnant like this? Or would you prefer more volatility and excitement?
It's better, period. However, there are explanations behind why it's better if it stays quiet, lemme explain:
I'm sure you know of gold, the store of value?, well, gold is nice, dandy and everything but it's certainly worth several times more than some years ago, why? INFLATION, that and market movements. As the markets and the commodities become more volatile people SUFFER, and I mean it, losing 10, 20 or 30% overnight is enough to cause serious health problems. So when things start getting hectic, like in 2008, or with the QE we had a few years back people need the SAFETY.
So, what happens when there is fear and crisis worldwide? People buy the safest things out there, which are: Gold, Swiss Francs, Japanese yen and real estate at times.
However, Gold can still be mined, Francs and yens can be printed and real estate can be built... Bitcoin is FINITE and extremely secure. By keeping the value stable instead of volatile it will slowly move up due to demand as a SAFE asset.
So, it's actually better for bitcoin prices to be stable and move less than 1% per day, allowing for flow of money and stability. As years pass, if cryptos are still used (which is becoming increasingly likely) then Bitcoin will be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, as people just keep buying it for safety and stability.
Most of the most valued and better stocks out there move less than 1% per day, often gaining just 10 or 12% in a year... but it adds up. Look at bitcoin, 6500$, next year it would be 7100$, the next 7800$, the next 8550$, the next 9350$, the next 10400$ and so forth... in twenty years we would be over 20k and that's assuming lack of interest and low growth perspective.
On the opposite side of the coin, bigger volatility means lack of stability which means lack of safety which means it will lose all value on the first world crisis we hit, which should come soon enough, we're already near the date predicted by many analysts, BTW.
There is a simple proof of what I explained in the market... when there is indecision or news of a hack, all alts lose 50 or 60% of their value while BTC loses only 5 or 4%, and that's why BTC dominance is over 50% ATM, everyone knows that a random coin can suddenly die, but BTC can fall at most 10% during critical times which means people sell their alts for BTC, for safety.
If you remove that stability then people would move the alts to USDT, effectively killing the whole market and the value of Bitcoin in general.
Long explanation, but I hope it helps.
Thanks... it’s a really great and clear explanations.
Great question!!! In my opinion I think it depends on just exactly what you do with the blockchain as a whole. If you're a trader then you'll definitely prefer it if the price of BTC is dancing around, but if you're a blogger on steemit and you don't appreciate fluctuations in the value of your upvotes and payouts then you're probably going to prefer it if the price of bitcoin remains stagnant.
Besides there's nothing exciting about seeing BTC hit the 5k region, I literally lost my appetite for days until it came back up to the 6k region.
I really prefer it to go down below 1k for at least one last time and then survive and go to wherever it wants to 😎 , the reason being, if it dies, then all alts will go down, and then many people will be able to buy lot of steem. So that will bring equilibrium to this platform, and then steem will have a balanced price feed.
Right now I think stagnation for the rest of 2018 is both where the crypto market should be and where the market is heading for the remainder of 2018. It would really test the resolve of the bitcoin speculators who got in between $10000-$19500 USD during the last year while also giving the opportunity for newcomers to participate for the first time.
What kind of content do you think the majority of people are looking for on Steemit?
Travel? Crypto? Food? Technology?
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I think they are looking for various topics. Something that is interesting and well written.
I look for real life true stories which I can relate to and get to know the author. A bit of humor helps as it makes it more real.
I am not into something that has been copied from another website because I could read that myself.
Good to know! I am a pretty funny guy, just saying... Just kidding, thanks for the great answer!
Actually stats may not matter when it comes to steemit, I think travel, cryto and food are contents that people love, because before you do or produce these contents you'll have to had put in a whole lot of work in other for these kind of content to be worthwhile.
However from my time on steemit, I've found out that TUTORIALS are the kind of contents that people are more interested in. When I talk of tutorials I mean HOWTO that is tutorials on on kinds of topic that actually shows people how some particular things are done for example @gringalicious does tutorials on how to make different kinds of food @edgsart makes tutorial showing people how to draw various kinds of animal.
To show you that this content is actually sought after @curie takes time to UPVOTE tutorials that are very educative as well.
So I think tutorials top the list of the contents that majority of people wants to see because of it's timeliness and value, in my opinion
Good to know, Thank you!
Well it basically depends on the user who is searching.
* Few people wants to learn tips on how to improve in here,
* Some are looking for photography related posts,
* The supportive contents that are helping users to grow a little in here.
* Informative posts the gives out information on the desired subjects.
And there are other Dapps that users are reaching out to :
while some wants tech related stuff for them to go on and as many dapps are introduced as time is passing by people are just choosing their own criteria from all those.
Like those who liked blogs they are going through Steemit, busy.org
While those who likes Videos and wants to make one they are just getting into Dtube and making their way through it.
While as Steemhunt is there users are rushing through the product that they are good for searching
As time is passing By MUSING is getting to its glory as well and the users getting the the answers that they are seeking for and the users who have those answers are sharing them as well. Which is a great interaction as well.
So basically this is all.
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Cost vs convenience: is it worth having your own printer? ?
I think it's definitely worth it to have your own printer.
The cost of getting a personal printer is actually cheaper than most people think and having one in your house would definitely make work so much easier for you. There are printers that go for as low as 30 dollars these days and aside from purchasing ink and paper, you probably won't spend a dime on anything else.
How bout we take a look at things with both a short term mindset and a long term mindset.
**SHORT TERM**
You'll probably spend less money if you go to a cyber café where you can simply pay next to nothing to print out or scan any document. If you're the type of person that doesn't print/scan/photocopy things often then you probably don't need to get your own personal printer because you'd rarely use it. If you're the type of person that actually does alot with a printer then going to a cyber cafe will definitely be cheaper initially because you won't be thinking of how to change ink or buy new paper.
**LONG TERM**
The thing with having your own personal printer is that first off, it's more convenient, secondly on the long run it's cheaper. If you spend on average about a dollar each time you go to a cyber cafe to print/photocopy/scan documents then you're going to equal the capital cost of getting a personal printer I'm no time. The amount of money that you'll pay for using a printer at a cyber cafe may be small, but over time it adds up. You also have to take into consideration the money you may spend on transportation to wherever the cyber cafe is, as opposed to just having one in your home.
Your best bet would be to get yourself a private printer. It's a much better investment than continuously going to a cyber cafe.
I hope this helps.
You couldn't combine this with your other question here: https://musing.io/q/luueetang/fk559np7x?
Was this really worth a separate question minutes later?
Well I'll be lazy too I guess
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Any question that involves cost needs to consider TCO - Total Cost of Ownership.
This means you do not look at just the price of something, but all the costs needed to run it and use it over long periods of time.
First for the copy shop
What do they charge per page? What do they charge for colour pages? Do you print in colour? How far is the copy shop from you? How often do you need to go? Are they open 24/7? Can you get there anytime you need to? How much does it cost you to go? (gas, bus pass, subway, taxi, etc). How much time do you need to go there and back home? How convenient is it?
All of the above questions have a value assigned to them. Especially the time and convenience type questions.
Now for an in-home printer you would calculate things like initial cost of the printer (this will vary on your requirements, do you need colour? do you need scan/fax capability?, etc), how much does replacement ink/toner cost? How fast will you need to replace ink/toner? What is the cost of paper? How fast will you need to buy more? Even something as small as what is your electrical cost to run this printer and where can I put it (this is a bit overkill for most people since electrical is miniscule for most printers and home users really aren't worried about giving up space for a printer and what that "costs" them).
All of these factors (and more) play a part in TCO.
For me, I always buy a home printer simply because I hate the inconvenience of having to go to copy shop, having to go when they are open (so its on their schedule not mine) and the drive there and back and gas and everything else lol.
For me those factors weigh heavily as a cost analysis and so I always end up putting more money up front and buying my own printer.
If your printer lasts a few years (so you can't buy the ones on sale for $29 USD) you will definitely save money in the long run over a copy shop, plus your time and convenience.
How does Bitshares work?
Bitshares is a decentralised exchange founded by Dan Larimer.
They also have their Cryptocurrency with the ticket BTS.
Can apple be grown in African countries ?
Of course, Apples can grow on tropical climates, the top african producer of apples is Uganda and their Fuji apple variant.
Lol. Yes of course they can. The Western cape in South Africa has a huge area for deciduous fruit. They grow all varieties of apples and pears. I know the soft drink Appletiser comes from this region.
Apples need a moderate climate that will grow in all temperate zones.They grow best if there is a cold winter and a warm summer with average humidity. I can see why you are asking this question as Africa is seen as very hot. The Elgin/Ceres area in the Western Cape is in a valley called the Hex River valley and this is mainly deciduous fruit farming with apple orchards.
If you could turn any activity into an Olympic sport, what would you have a good chance at winning medal for?
First of all I think the Olympics have a lot of sports which is not even recognised and for me if I have a chance to include any activity I like in the Olympics it's definitely going to be racing walking.
How is walk racing done? It's done by usually walking, but you'll have to increase your pace on the walk so that it will actually look like you're walking, but actually you're doing a walk race.
This is an activity that is very healthy I do it every morning, however since I don't have much energy to burn by running let's say 10 kilometers I race walk,
To understand race walking again, it is done by actually walking however you will need to increase your pace by walking very fast, so it'll look like you're exactly running, and however reaches the finishing line first, wins the race walk
Mathematics
Specifically multiplication or the times tables up to 10X10
When I was I kid I rocked at that.
Sad to say almost 50 years later, thats probably nmy best hope for an Olympic Medal
Oh or sarcastic answers. I could probably give most people a run for their money in that activity (read some of my previous answers and judge for yourself, that's a bronze medal at least)
Well if I could pick any activity that I'm good at and turn it into an Olympic sport then it would have to be eating.
It's not an Olympic sport but competitive eating or speed eating is actually a real thing but it's not recognized by the Olympics. I've actually taken part in one or two eating contests with a couple of friends and believe me when I say I've got talent!!!
The whole idea behind competitive eating or speed eating is to finish whatever dish is placed in front of you in a particular amount of time, or to finish it before the other people who are competing with you do.
There could be rules that govern what you can and can do like how many times you can take a drink or what happens if you vomit some of the food you eat. It's generally a very fun and enjoyable sport especially for someone like me who absolutely loves food.
I'm pretty sure I'd get at least a bronze medal in this. Hopefully the Olympics committee will add it to one of the Olympic events one day.
Is "climate change" a hoax?
Since I'm witnessing myself year by year how planet is cooling down, instead of warming up - the BS they are selling us
No, it's not a hoax.
Climate change is real and has been going on since the earth first formed.
There are of course natural cycles and rhythms that the Earth goes through. It heats up, it cools down. This is why there have been multiple ice ages (the last one approx 10,000 to 13,000 years ago) and then the Earth heats up and the ice melts.
This is simply the natural cycle that the planet goes through. The question about whether humans are CAUSING global warming is absurd when looked at over a great time period. We are not causing it because it was already occuring. We are however greatly hastening the effects and in essence shortening the cycle. This will have the additional effect of throwing more things out of balance and could cause greater unknown problems down the road that the Earth has not experienced before.
I would agree it is natural but not exactly when there was so much man interference in the nature
Just observe the climate engineering projects going all over the world and you shall realize my point
By the way american Gov is filled with them, you name it they'll have it
I think that saying climate change is a hoax is a hoax. Climate change is a fact. The majority of people who reject facts do it simply because their interests are at stake.
The truth is that only a small research about the earth for 5 minutes is enough to prove that climate change is real, and it is very visible.
Climate is not something that describes daily conditions. What is defined by climate is the atmospheric conditions in a given place for a long time, typically 30 years. That means, claiming that climate change does not exist simply because last year today was hotter than today is a fallacy.
There is another term that we have to talk about, which is "climate variability." Climate variability is the short term fluctuations of conditions in a given place. If you remember that last year today there was rain, and today there is no rain, that is exactly climate variability. The fact that we are wearing a coat today while last year we were going around with shorts does not show that climate change is a hoax. It simply shows that climate variability exists.
Who was speaking about last year? I'm speaking about the Earth cooling down instead of warming up, what elites are trying to sell us. Therefore, I didn't negate the reality of climate change but rather asked is the climate change they are selling us throughout the media outlets real?
I am sorry then, perhaps I didn't get the question exactly right. The only reason I talked about last year was just to give you an example simply because you said that you are witnessing it yourself.
I think you have a point there. Not everything they say about climate change is true. There is a significant amount of wrong information that we are exposed to.
I will try to explain it a bit in a more detailed manner, and you decide if what it is told by the elites is a hoax or not. Climate change is actually something that has existed in the world for thousands of years. It is a part of a cycle. It cools down, then it warms, and then cools down. We all know about the ice ages. An ice age is the cold stage of the cycle. We are not in an ice age now; in fact, scientists often describe the period we are in as an interglacier period. However, the problem here is that when we analyze the present data, there are several unusual numbers that has never been witnessed throughout the history of the world. In other words, we are stepping out of that cycle. Since, for example, the carbon dioxide levels have never been higher, it is certain that humans have caused this. And the high levels of carbon dioxide are one of the reasons that cause the global warming effect, which is one aspect of the "human made" climate change.
Nevertheless, it is hard to predict what will happen in the future. The earth is actually smarter than we think, it can perhaps influence things more than we do.
Back to your question, I don't know where you live, but in Turkey the climate change they are selling us throughout the media outlets is more than often not real. So, it would be better not to believe everything and do the research yourself, you would definitely have more accurate information.
Once again I apologize for misunderstanding the question.
Hello, answering your question. Climate change is not a hoax, it is an overwhelming reality that is killing us faster than we think.
Climate change is a global challenge that has no borders and to combat it requires coordinated work by all countries.
There is a great ignorance of what climate change really is, either due to excess information, inaccuracy in sources or due to misinformation, which gives rise to a series of false myths about climate change. In this space we will approach from an objective and scientific point of view what climate change is, what are its causes, its consequences and how it can be fought. In short, how climate change affects us.
In the first place, it is necessary to clarify two concepts that, although closely related, are often mistakenly taken as synonyms: climate change and global warming. There is an important difference, and that is that global warming is the cause of climate change, that is, the increase in the temperature of the planet caused by emissions into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases derived from the activity of the human being, are causing variations in climate that would not naturally occur.
The Earth has already warmed and cooled on other occasions in a natural way, but the truth is that these cycles have always been much slower, needing millions of years, whereas now and as a consequence of human activity, we are reaching levels that in other times they brought extinctions in barely two hundred years.
The causes of climate change are diverse, but all point to a single culprit THE MAN and his lack of consciousness in thinking that the land belongs to him.
The different causes are the greenhouse effect from the emission of toxic gases into the atmosphere, pollution of marine ecosystems, deforestation, excessive population increase, land pollution.
This global increase in temperature has disastrous consequences that endanger the survival of the flora and fauna of the Earth, including humans. Among the impacts of climate change are the melting of the ice mass at the poles, which in turn causes sea level rise, which produces floods and threatens the coastal littorals -even small island states are at risk of disappearing -.
Climate change also increases the occurrence of more violent weather events, droughts, fires, the death of animal and plant species, the overflowing of rivers and lakes, the appearance of climate refugees and the destruction of livelihoods and economic resources , especially in developing countries.
Great answer, even though I won't agree on the part : killing us faster than we think
Nothing can kill us, we are the creators here & how we act towards us, nature & everyone else will eventually decide what will kill us & won't
Therefore, there is lot of things we can do to extend our life-span than just sit around & speak how climate change is killing us
It is not a hoax. It is actually felt by Countries under Pacific Ring of Fire. We've been experiencing stronger types of typhoons. Our county Philippines has faced a lot of "Super Typhoons" when in fact for a couple of decades, we have not experienced such. Japan has hit so much Typhoon and even Hongkong.
We can see how much destroyed our nature is and as a result, Climate change occurs.
You think that's just climate, and humans have nothing to do with it?
What is a "digital nomad"?
Digital nomads are a type of people who use telecommunications technologies to earn a living and, more generally, conduct their life in a nomadic manner. Such workers often work remotely from foreign countries, coffee shops, public libraries, co-working spaces, or recreational vehicles.
This is often accomplished through the use of devices that have wireless Internet capabilities such as smartphones or mobile hotspots. Successful digital nomads typically have a financial cushion. The digital nomad community has had various events established to host members of it, such as the Nomad Cruise. Digital nomads may vary depending on status; common types of digital nomads include refugees, affluent people, younger people, and entrepreneurs.
People who become digital nomads often do so due to positive reasons, such as financial independence and a career that allows for location independence. Negative factors for why people become digital nomads include a reduced amount of full-time employment, political unrest, and a high cost of living in their country of origin.
You can read more about it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_nomad
Nice answer, thanks ;)
Digital nomads are people who are using the internet to perform their work location indepently. They're living a nomadic life of traveling, and they use their location indepent way of working to earn money to be able to travel more. A decent internet connection is basically all they need to be able to work, so they can work from nearly every place, such as their own home (some nomads stay in a particular country for several months), but also internet cafes, libraries, coworking spaces, friendly people they meet, hotel rooms,...
The type of work they mostly perform can be something like photography (selling their pictures), blogging, writing, webmaster, coding (development), ...
True that, Digital nomad myself :P
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Do I need a licence to fly a drone?
A lot of it depends on what you are using it for. If you are using it for commercial purposes then yes you absolutely need a license. There is a test you have to take and I think there is even a small fee that needs to be paid to get the license in the state I live in.
If you are using it for personal reasons, I think the laws are a little more gray, but you are still encouraged to register your drone.
We have a couple of them at the school I work for and I had to give the teacher that runs the program information on how to get them licensed. I am not sure if she ever followed through as I haven't seen much footage from them using them.
Yes more and more regulations are coming into place and I know in South Africa now you have to do a course to obtain a licence.
Over the last few years as drones have become more and more popular there have been a few incidents especially around airports. Because of the dangers imposed by the drones in this regard licences have to be issued now.
Where is the most relaxing place you’ve ever been?
relaxing places are hard to find these days so anywhere there is no cell phone signal would help.
I often go to the game reserve for a safari which is about 4 or 5 days long. There is a cell phone signal there but you have to walk quite far to find it. Having your phone with you and just catching up on messages once per day allows your brain to switch off away from the every day hustle and bustle.'
No television and computer just the beauty of nature. It is like a detox for your brain and body as it is the total opposite of what you normally do. There is nothing to do but relax and it is so easy to do.
I think more people should do this as it relieves stress and recharges your batteries. Being able to think and have the time and space to let your thoughts wonder.
The most relaxing place I've ever been in is a church, my church to be precise. I dont know why but there's always this sense of belonging that I don't even get in my home.
Don't get it wrong. My parents are christians but their doctrine differs so much from mine. Theirs tends to impose actions and put pressure on their members but mine invites people to come to Christ and put the demand on him. It makes you free and here there is no one judging you and no one expecting you to be be what you are not.
In my church, I feel safe and secure, the way I never feel even when at home. My parents would almost always drum it into our ears that's you are supposed to do this, supposed to act like this and this sometimes makes living with them an uncomfortable experience. This however is not the case without the church. My church is gives everyone room to learn and grow and most importantly, to express yourself.
Well, mine is not very aesthetic or anything but it is very dear to me. There is a little spot in my university campus and it's pretty far away from all the other buildings. It's a beautiful place with lots of trees and laid back chars under them and there is a little cafeteria on one side so you can order some snacks too.
The best thing about that place is that nobody goes to that place that often. It's very quite and relaxing there. whenever I'm fed with all those hour long lectures and lab sessions I go to that place and just sit there for hours and just think about nothing and worry about nothing. No one is there to disturb you and I just love it.
The most relaxing place I have ever been is my home. I love my home, it is furnished to my taste and has everything I need to feel relaxed. Once I get home from work everyday, I'm already in a relaxation mood. I just take a shower , turn on the tv, bring out my dinner and eat while watching soap opera.
I don't feel comfy in clothes and in my house I can walk around in my immaculate form without any disturbing knock on my door. I can meditate peacefully because it is quiet and I can fall asleep if I feel like. My home is the most relaxing place for me.
After all no place like home.
Why are old people not afraid of dying?
First of all I think the question, phrased like this, assumes and generalizes. Yes, some old people are not afraid of dying, but some are just as afraid. Life is precious, and you'd be surprised to know just how deep the human urge for self preservation goes. In fact according to some researches it is equal only to sexual desires, which itself aims at a sort of preservation, the preservation of one's species. Which follows that by preserving your specie you preserve a part of yourself in them. Which brings me to the first point in answering your amazing question.
For those old people who aren't mortified by death, what exactly drives their confidence in the face of death?
1. MAKING PEACE WITH MORTALITY
We all know life is short and no one lives forever. That is the beauty of life. In fact, according to Toni Morrisson, that IS the meaning of life. From childhood we've learnt about this. We've had our whole lives to prepare for it.
Life has its viccisitudes. At a point life's great and everything's rainbows and unicorns, then it isn't. All the ups and downs are there to teach us just how feeble life is. We make friends, we lose friends. We make enemies, we lose enemies. We lose familiy members and loved ones and in the end at one point or another you start to contemplate your own mortality.
It might seem distasteful at first. You might rage against it, like Dylan Thomas said in his poem, but in the end you start to make peace with it. You start to content yourself with thoughts of enjoying the moments. And when you grow old you can look back on those moments you've had and be thankful for them.
2. PRESERVATION
Second, as i mentioned in the introduction, is preservation. As a kid, self preservation is paramount. As we grow old however and start to contemplate our mortality; start to wonder what will become of us in the future years to come, we start to think of ways by which we can preserve our legacies. First among them, like I said, is through our sexual urges; subliminating this into the preservation of the specie via our offsprings.
Much joy can be derived from this at old age, where you feel satisfied by the fact that you have preserved a copy or copies of you on earth to carry on your legacies.
Another way of posthumous preservation might be through deeds. Deeds of great men are honored and remembered. We still talk about and study men who lived thousand years ago. A man or woman who has done deeds s/he feels proud of also tend to feel less fear at the thought of death.
3. RELIGION
Various religions have different beliefs for what haopens after death. That is in fact the basis for most religion. A man or woman who feels his or her life has been lived according to the spiritual tenets of his religion might feel less afraid at the thought of death.
S/he would feel that since their lives on earth had been spent judiciously and piously, there is nothing to fear in the afterlife.
It should be worth noting that some religions don't believe in the afterlife and for these the consequence is neutral..
5. VAPIDITY
Pleasure palls. Life becomes boring. It is true that at the point where you seem to no longer be capable of having a thing you start to value that thing the more, and that is why most of people at their death beds pray for a second chance.
But also most people who have gotten old stay content with the fact that THEY have lived. Death would seem easier for those who have lived and loved to the fullest. Which is why we are always being admonished to not live our lives not for anybody but ourselves, life's too short. YOLO.
4. MORTIFICATION
By mortification I mean genuine mortification/disattachment of the body--which some people do in fact attain. These "mystics" have attained a complete disjunction from eartly things; pleasures, pain, thrills, anything that may have caused them to feverishly cling to life
To them life, the body, isn't the absolute, but the soul. And it is in the preservation of one's soul that true bliss lies. And that can still be achieved even in death.
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So there you have it; depending on your beliefs and dispositions, these are ways by which you can assure you're not afraid when the time comes. Cheers.
Also I'll reccomend reading Ursula le Guinn's take on growing old happily here: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/21/ursula-le-guin-dogs-cats-dancers-beauty/
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I don't think are that afraid of dying. Most of have lived full lives themselves and have lost loved ones along the way. Their health may be failing or their minds might be going. They might miss their deceased spouse or they might just be in so much pain they are wishing it to end.
I think young people are much more afraid of dying than the elderly.
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After living for so much time, losing your friends, family and others to old age and disease, people start to long for an end... at least thats what my grandma told me, whats the point of being alive past 80 when most of your friends are death and you can barely recognize the world at that point?
I once had a grandmum who will always wake up every morning angry that she didn't die in her sleep. I always wondered why someone would want to die. Sometimes she asks us to help kill her that she really wants to die. She was very old and frail. She later died at 104 years old.
I discovered that people tend to come to terms with death as they age. They have seen it all. Nothing amazes them anymore. They see at least two people they know die every year, they are tormented with old age sickness and have to go through excruciating pain. They have their children go away start a family and they are all alone with no one to care for them and sometimes sent to a nursing school where they only get perhaps weekly or monthly visits. The pleasures of this world do not entice them anymore. They become very dependant on others to do simple activities like walk, eat, pee etc and if they think back to the younger years, all they want is to just end it all.
Because they already had done so much in their life. They had achieved what they want to achieve. They had lived their life the way they wanted to be. They had contentment of the things that happened, and most importantly they had accepted that the last stage of life is dying.
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If you could create your own blockchain network and cryptocurrency what it would be about and how valuable do you think it would be for every one of us?
If I could create my own blockchain network I think I'd follow the trend and create something that's meant to be a blockchain version of an already existing app or service.
I think I'd create blockchain that would be specifically designed for voting. I don't know if something like that exists but if it doesn't then I'd be the first person to make it. The blockchain would be set up in such a way that people would be able to do things like simple class rep elections or nationwide elections and since everything would be recorded on the blockchain, there'd be no chance of rigging.
I'd create it specifically for Nigeria because free and fair elections don't exist over here. The blockchain would of course be usable by any one, be it government or high school student. Considering the fact that in the last US elections, I saw on the news that some Russians apparently hacked the voting register and helped Donald Trump win(Not entirely sure how true this was) but then again it shows how unreliable present day voting systems can be.
Every person would be required to register themselves along with their passports and social security numbers or in nigeria it would be your national identification number. Votes will be casted from the comfort of your own home, simply by going online, providing the relevant information and clicking on who you want to vote for.
I'd also try to throw in a feature for extra security where the fingerprint scanners from people's phones or the face/retina scanners as well would double as a means of verification before the vote will be cast.
Since everybody's details will be recorded on the blockchain, there won't be anything like excess votes and seeing as people's biometric and personal data would be saved on the blockchain, it would be impossible to cast a vote using someone else's account.
For the sake of those who don't have smartphones, voting centers would be set up with biometric scanners for fingerprints, eyes and faces so that no matter what, if you don't pass the verification, your vote will not be registered.
As far as how important it will be to the world, I think it would be the perfect way to completely eradicate rigged elections and be a bold step in the right direction for democracy.
I would create a football blockchain, since it is one of the markets that moves the most money in the world.
I would develop it to make transactions from the stalls, tickets for matches and have a greater control of fans, to purchase passes and sale of football players.
Also do not forget the future stars who have not yet discovered create a site to discover new talents linked to blockchain.
What are the three things that make your life 100 times better?
Number one would have to be my faith. That is something that gets me through the good and bad times. I may not know what is going to happen and it may not provide me all the answers to life's questions, but it is something I lean on as a source of encouragement.
The second thing would have to be my wife, hands down. She is my rock and my life would be pretty miserable without her. No question in my mind she makes my life 100 times better if not more.
Finally I have to pick my dog. She is just about the best. She has her quirks and goofy habits, sometimes she drives me crazy, but I love her to death. I can't imagine the "joy void" I would have if something were to happen to her.
Resilience. Life is complicated in the simplest way, everything changes. But sometimes life takes a turn that doesn't brings us joy. Resilience is what drives us to adapt, in the most positive way, to life; Take the pain and use it to be better; Build our own happiness.
Love. Because loving yourself always means loving the other. Joy should always be shared with everything that draws breath. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together, says the african proverb. Love is everything that connects us.
Gratefulness. Once you reach true happiness you become a positive influence on the universe. You began to spread love, empathy, hope and dreams. You motivate everyone around you to be better.
These are 3 things that I deem worthy of a life of plenitude.
What do you think will be the key to $10 per Steem price?
Please give us some valid features/news/updates/key additions what will be the key to achieve that $10 per steem.
The main Key is time and patience.
Because Crypto in general and Steem in particular has still lot of potential in it. Especially if someone is targeting it for a longer period.
If someone intends to invest in this business, one should be very careful and have proper study of the crypto currencies, which he/she intend to buy.
One should also be very clear which type of investment he/she wants to make i.e short term or day trading, medium term and long term.
It seems that prices are at the lower side and eventually will go up if invested for the longer period. The point here is one should invest only that much of amount which he can afford to hold for a longer period.
If the value of Steem is not increased, it is still profitable as we can earn by investing it in Steemit platform.
To me, Steem has a great future.
What I would like to see that would increase steem price is if YouTube had another "Adpocalypse" and fumbled with its public relations like last time. If a few of the major YouTubers coordinated, announced publicly that YouTube cares more about advertisers than creators and left YouTube for the steem platform. A few large YouTube creators leaving and being successful on DTube and steemit would inspire others to switch to decentralized media creation and thus create a large demand for steem.
I think that any cryptocurrency token needs a real world use case if it is to succeed in future. This means that the people investing in it are doing so for more than just speculative profit. Steem blockchain defines the very meaning of real world use by bringing platforms like musing,io and steemit.com to our fingertips. These are all reasons that will make the price of Steem rise in the near future.
Getting paid for content creation is not ground breaking but what is ground breaking is the fact that the Steem ecosystem is incentivized in manner that a user has a stake in the system (Vested SP). Therefore most of the users are financially invested in the platform. This increases user retention and loyalty to the Steem blockchain, since users are invested to see the platform succeed.
All the above points are something that we all know about Steem in general but there are several key points that are worth mentioning separately. Here are the things that will be a key in taking Steem to $10 and beyond:
1. The HF20 is geared towards making dapps the kings on the Steem blockchain. It will effectively make sure that you can make Steem accounts on the dapp itself (this feature will soon go live). Dapps will become free from having to go to steemit.com to register new user account.
2. Platforms like musing.io will grow, gathering and collecting the SP for their needs and this will create a shortage of Steem in the market and thus raise the Steem prices.
3. SMT's will soon follow in January and will allow dapps to issue their own tokens based on the native token Steem. To issue tokens they will need to collect more Steem to back their tokens and thus create further shortage of Steem tokens in the market. This in turn will further raise the price of Steem.
4. The HF20, the SMT's and several other things that have been done to provide more scalability to the blockchain will make sure that Dapps would overtake all other projects on the blockchain. Steemit.com would be there as always but it would be dapps that would propel us towards a higher value of Steem token in the market.
Well the main key is more users of course. There is a rule about the value of a social media company that says if the amount of users grows by 10x the value does grow by 100x. Steem is still very small compared to big social media platforms. So there is a lot of space to grow.
Also it's important to have new Dapps like Musing.io , DTube , Steemmonsters ....
A other thing that will boost the price will me the launch of SMTs next year. In my opinion this does add a lot of value to Steem.
How many jobs will the average person have in his or her lifetime?
When I was a senior in high school back in 1998 a counselor told me seven jobs during life was the average. I just did a Google search and the Bureau of Labor Statistics now states that the average worker currently holds ten different jobs during their lifetime on average and this number is expected to grow over the next few decades.
How do we encourage people with niche interests to blog and use Steem please?
I'm totally bored with looking at my feed on Steemit and seeing nothing but posts about Steem and Crypto. There are one or two niche communities such as #needleworkmonday but they are few and far between. I want to see more people come and show off their hobbies and passions instead of blockchain full of people writing and earning huge rewards about and from Steem. Any great suggestions please ?
There are actually plenty of sub communities on Steemit, the hardest part is finding them. You are correct in saying that the majority of our feeds are probably filled up with crypto stories. Those are still a big deal right now and they probably aren't going away. Especially since Steemit is built on the STEEM blockchain.
I have said this as answer in a lot of my posts, but it really is what I believe is the most helpful. Get a Discord account. I feel like that should be the second most important thing you do after you get your Steemit account.
Once you are on Discord and you start joining some of the servers, you will start to meet people that share the same niche interests as you. From there you can build the community that you want. It can be a huge thing.
I am a fan of alternative music. A person I met on Discord is also a fan of alternative music. He started a challenge that has people posting their favorite alternative bands on the weekend. It has come to be a huge following that many people are posting to now. The Metalweekend tag is another example of a person that had a passion for a specific topic and turned it into something huge.
That would be my second piece of advice. Besides creating a Discord account and meeting people on there, try to turn the topic into a challenge or even a contest. As you start to get people responding to it, you will then make those connections with the group of people that you want to target and read from in the future.
It doesn't happen overnight, but if you put a little time, effort, and thought into it, you can build that niche community that you are looking for.
Good luck!
There are many people doing vlogs and blogs about different things, it is likely that you do not follow them and for that reason you can not see the material of that type.
I think the only way is to create a community in which the different categories are rewarded, most of the people publish about crypto in general and steemit because it is what is most sought after.
In steemit the majorityc of people came for cryptocurrencies.
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Would Your Relationship with Your Sibling Change After You Get Married ?
What a brilliant question there, thank you, actually people would definitely say no to this question and this is because they hardly notice any change themselves, because it happens very slowly
As much as I'll hate to admit it, I'll say everybody's relationship changes with their siblings immediately they get married. I'm not trying to say marriage is a bad thing, but the truth is when one us married priorities will definitely change, the attention that one will show to their siblings will be shifted just slightly to their wives/husband and their children because they now have a new redefined responsibility to their children and their husband which will in turn reduce the relationship they share with their sibling.
At first they'll try to juggle both their nuclear family with their immediate sibling but as the years goes by the load of family commitments and family needs and responsibilities will bring changes no matter how small it may seem or look like.
So definitely I'll change because my commitment and responsibilities will be a challenge for me to match the relationship I once shared with my siblings because the commitments will have to be shared and my immediate family which is my wife and children will get the better attention because I'm now responsible for them.
It can and many times it does. For example if you are very close with your sibling and you share everything with them, there will likely be shift from them being your main confidant to your spouse being that person. It isn't something that you purposely do, but it is just something that happens over time. Likewise as they find someone that they want to spend the rest of their life with, that will shift as well.
You are still siblings and you still love each other, but that closeness that you once shared will probably be gone to a certain degree. It may make you sad, but you shouldn't necessarily see it as a bad thing. It is just the way things happen.
In the end it doesn't have to change it any more than you want it to. As I stated, there will be changes, but you can mitigate those changes by still reaching out to your sibling. Try to talk to them frequently. Continue to share with them the way you have in the past. You can both appreciate and respect each other by understanding and respecting the new relationship that they have started.
My relationship with my siblings will not change after I get married because they are family and that is for life. We didn't choose who our siblings are going to be. It was a choice our parents made and must be respected.
The only thing that would change when I get married in the context of my relationship with my siblings is priority. Yes my priorities would move from them to my immediate family. I expect them to do same, because when a person gets married, he begins a new generation.
I would like to give my new family my primary focus and attention. I wouldn't want my relationship with my siblings to suffer but I will try as much as possible to strike a balance. I will call them as often as I can, visit the when I can, give them any form of assistance I can possibly render but not to the detriment of the new family I'm trying to build.
When one gets married, it's like planting a seed. You need to water that seed and give it the right conditions for proper growth. Marriage is that seed. If you don't give it the time, attention, focus and care that it requires, it's sure to crumble. That's one of the reasons some marriages end in divorce courts even before the journey begins. I can't take the risk. This is my life, I've got to live it and I expect my siblings to do same.
Regularly it's not supposed to. They are your siblings and they are important but when you get married, new responsibilities come up. You have a job, you'll have kids and you'll have bills to pay. It's easy to get wrapped up in all of it and most people do and eventually they don't have time for their siblings anymore. It doesn't mean they don't love each other. It just means they are responsible to much more that each other at that point. But every once in a while a call or a visit would be appreciated and when your siblings are in need, never fail to help them. Because they'd do the same for you in a heart beat
Do banks invest in Bitcoin?
The answer may surprise you but it's Yes, banks invest heavily in bitcoin.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of banks that invested in bitcoin in 2017: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, CityBank, Barclay's.
By investing in bitcoin, I mean either bought directly from bitcoin or established partnerships with bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem companies.
In particular, 2017 saw futures trading on bitcoin (more info) on the Chicago Stock Exchange, where investment funds and banks rushed.
Why are banks investing in bitcoin? Simply because they understood that it had become a phenomenon too big to ignore and that bitcoin would take a significant place on global finance.
For the anecdote, JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon publicly stated in October 2017 that bitcoin was "stupid", a scam and would fire any of its employees who traded bitcoin. The impact of the case was global, relayed in the media and bitcoin immediately dropped by 20%.
What did JP Morgan do in the wake? The same day, the bank took the opportunity to buy several million dollars of bitcoin. It was only a manipulation of prices to buy bitcoin, which proves that he did not think a word about what he said about bitcoin. Funny, no!
Bitcoin No, Blockchain Yes!
When we talk about the banks' investments, we usually talk about investing in the bank's own funds. Otherwise called own account investment. Banks can not yet invest to my knowledge in Bitcoin in accordance with the current regulations and compliance with the liquidity and security ratios of the funds of the bank.
However, according to CoinBase, some Hedge Funds have been the experts in investing in Bitcoins since 2014. Here is the list 6 New Hedge Funds Seeking Bitcoin Returns. Therefore, through its hedge funds, banks may have taken positions on Bitcoins and / or offered to some very wealthy clients.
Julien Boyer is right the banks have, his last years, heavily invested in the underlying technology of Bitcoin: BlockChain, or French block chain. To make it simple Blockchain is a secure and distributed database. Basically, we can exchange, validate, and store information, in a completely transparent way. By extension, a blockchain is a database that contains the history of all the exchanges made between its users since its creation.
The profits of the blockchain are both perceived as a threat and an opportunity for the banks. A telling example is the investments that large numbers of banks have made in Ripple technology. Ripple is the new technology that will allow us to make our transfer and replace Swift! As a payment and settlement protocol, large banks like Santander saw Ripple's potential early enough for a bank. In a final fundraising for 55 million, a large Asian Standard Chartered Bank was in the game. Of course, Ripple is an example among others to tell you that yes the banks invert in the Blockchain.
Good day and long live the Blockchain;)
How can I deal with the phobia of speaking in public to a larger audience?
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I think it really depends on how severe your phobia is. I can definitely give you some tips that might help you, but keep it in the back of your mind that you might need professional help with this if you're really not able to overcome your fears.
Firstly, it's very important that you know your topic. Practice, practice & practice some more! Make sure that you read your text out loud in front of a mirror or a small audience of friends and/or family. Get more adept at speaking that way, it also helps to record yourself.
It's important that you're able to tackle any nervousness when you're finally giving your talk in public. There are some breathing exercises that you can look up, they might help you out in the moment. Believe in yourself, if you know your topic, that's already less reason to be nervous.
If these things fail, you can join a training course for public speaking. There are probably classes for that where you live, it's not that uncommon. A lot of people have a fear of speaking in public.
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Many people have this problem of speaking in public in front of a larger audience. I'll, share some tips based on my experience to overcome this phobia problem.
**Simple tips to overcome the phobia problem while speaking in-front to larger audience**
1. Practice makes the man perfect. So, the trick is to first practice speaking in-front of a mirror. This will give you some confidence and slowly while rehearsing you will get better at it.
2. Do not try memorizing the topic which you intent to present or talk about. Generally, speaking people who are memorizing the topic will fear a bit if they are lost in between. The best practice is to know your subject well and the fear will just disappear.
3. Start with small conversations. Instead of choosing to speak for an hour choose topics that require short talks. This, will help you to build the confidence in you. Smaller talks and knowing your subject well will give you the opportunity to engage with the people and you yourself will not know how the time flew away.
4. Be relaxed. This is the key to getting rid of the phobia while speaking to larger audience. When your mind is tensed you will not feel that confident and you than tend to build that phobia up. Instead of that just be relaxed and concentrate.
5. Talk to people before you start speaking on the stage. Introduce yourself to a few members of the audience in the front row. During your talk look these people in the eye to ease your nerves and connect with your audience.
Which is better for weight loss: Green tea or Black tea?
THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS TO LOSE WEIGHT IS TO DO EXERCISE AND A GOOD DIET.
You can drink any of the two tea without sugar, these are very low in calories.
Eat more
Yes, you read it right. What your metabolism needs to stay active is that you do not put yourself in "restrictive mode", the more you deprive it of food, the more it will retain the little you give it. YES. Make five meals a day that start with a good breakfast, two healthy snacks, a smart meal (depending on the physical activity you are going to do later) and a light dinner. Each digestion spends energy, so if you control the rations, your body will begin to burn more calories. DO NOT. You skip meals, the only thing you will get is to accumulate hunger, slow down your metabolism and boost the rebound effect if you diet.
Have breakfast like a queen
The nutritionists do not stop insisting on the importance of the first meal of the day, which is what starts the metabolism, which gives you energy and helps you regulate the appetite until the meal. Of everything. Your breakfast should contain healthy carbohydrates (bread, cereals or whole grain crackers and better organic, without added sugars or fats); natural juice or fresh fruit (better at the beginning to make digestion better); a skimmed milk or vegetable (if you have lactose intolerance or want to reduce even more calories), coffee or green tea (your first dose of antioxidants); healthy proteins (Iberian ham, turkey, egg) to take away your hunger; some healthy fat (virgin olive oil!) and something sweet if you fancy a lot (it's the best time to take it, you have all day to burn it), like jam without added sugar.
Pica between hours
In addition to helping you keep your metabolism active and consuming energy, it is the only way to control your appetite and not arrive with a wolf hunger for food or dinner. Of course, this pecking must be healthy. Psychologically, it will be a "rush" of endorphins to be able to eat when you are hungry. YES. Natural nuts, unroasted, such as nuts, cashews, almonds or sunflower seeds; a piece of fresh fruit or a handful of red fruits (second antioxidant ration); a skimmed yogurt; an inflated rice pancake; a can of natural tuna or low-fat cold cuts; a couple of oatmeal cookies or a couple of ounces of dark chocolate if you have a sweet attack.
Do not suppress hydrates
The pulses, the cereals, the bread or the integral pasta are not the culprits of your extra kilos. Your enemies are industrial sweets, sliced
bread, salty snacks (stay away from the work machine), sugary cereals and refined foods. This type of fast-digesting carbohydrates are those that control your GI, that is, your glycemic index or blood insulin level. YES. Always take hydrates at breakfast and eat them at noon (a plate of pasta, rice or vegetables) if you are going to exercise in the afternoon. Take legumes at least three times a week (your fiber is great for your intestines and you get hungry for hours) and the rest of the best hydrates, as they slowly pour into the bloodstream, do not produce insulin spikes and do not cumulate in the form of fat as refined ones. DO NOT. At carbohydrates at night. Everything that comes packaged and looks like fast food, forget it.
Discover the hidden sugar
Do you eat a little, try to make it healthy and still not lose weight? The class can be in white sugar, a chemical that does not provide any nutrients to the body and many calories. Do not you drink sugar? You may not add it to the coffee but you are taking it through the mold bread, the packaged vegetables, the soups or tetrabrick purees, the cold cuts, the smoked salmon, the yogurts, the precooked foods ... you just have to start reading the labels of what you buy to take your hands to your head and realize the amount of sugar you inadvertently eat. Less energy All that sugar is what causes insulin spikes, that you're always hungry and that you're low on energy.
Is It Cheaper to Buy a Printer or Go to the Copy Shop??
Any question that involves cost needs to consider TCO - Total Cost of Ownership.
This means you do not look at just the price of something, but all the costs needed to run it and use it over long periods of time.
First for the copy shop
What do they charge per page? What do they charge for colour pages? Do you print in colour? How far is the copy shop from you? How often do you need to go? Are they open 24/7? Can you get there anytime you need to? How much does it cost you to go? (gas, bus pass, subway, taxi, etc). How much time do you need to go there and back home? How convenient is it?
All of the above questions have a value assigned to them. Especially the time and convenience type questions.
Now for an in-home printer you would calculate things like initial cost of the printer (this will vary on your requirements, do you need colour? do you need scan/fax capability?, etc), how much does replacement ink/toner cost? How fast will you need to replace ink/toner? What is the cost of paper? How fast will you need to buy more? Even something as small as what is your electrical cost to run this printer and where can I put it (this is a bit overkill for most people since electrical is miniscule for most printers and home users really aren't worried about giving up space for a printer and what that "costs" them).
All of these factors (and more) play a part in TCO.
For me, I always buy a home printer simply because I hate the inconvenience of having to go to copy shop, having to go when they are open (so its on their schedule not mine) and the drive there and back and gas and everything else lol.
For me those factors weigh heavily as a cost analysis and so I always end up putting more money up front and buying my own printer.
If your printer lasts a few years (so you can't buy the ones on sale for $29 USD) you will definitely save money in the long run over a copy shop, plus your time and convenience.
How often do you print? And whats the prices? If you print a lot and do it frequently, it would be cheaper to buy a printer as you save time going to the shop and can use that time to earn money elsewhere, but you will also pay less for your printing needs. Calculate your spendings at the shop in one year and see how much it adds up to. See if you can find a printer at less than that and can buy enough ink for it to last you the year at less than the amount you spend at the shop. It'll probably be cheaper to buy a printer if you print a lot.
It actually depends on the quantity, frequency and how much you need the printer. I mean if you wish to print loads of documents (and frequently along the days), buying a printer is a good catch. It also maximize your time and effort as you don't need to the copy shop anymore just to copy your documents. Another advantage of it will be very cost efficient. You only need a paper and a small ink that will surely cut the copy price to only by 10% of the cost especially when you are printing huge number of copies and using it along the days.
If you're just printing small amount of documents and not frequently, it is advisable to just go to printing shop as it doesn't need much to buy one.
What motivates you to answer a question on musing.io platfrom?
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In the beginning it was research. A friend of mine had intrdouced me to musing and I had checked out the platform and liked it greatly. But I was busy at the time so I didn't have a chance to really explore as much as I would have liked to. I promised myself I'd be back soon as I had the chance, but a thing or two seized my attention again and I never really got to it.
Recently, however, sndbox--of which I recently became a part--came up with the brilliant idea of having its members explore various DApps on the steem blockchain and write a detailed analysis of their experience. Due to my prior impression and earlier promises, naturally I chose musing.io. So for the last couple of days Id been asking questions regarding the mechanics of musing and also answering a few questions to get the full scope of it.
It's amazing now that I think about it--and this is one of the many beauties of musing.io; Imagine having to carry out reasearch on a subject, and using nothing but that same subject as the tool for your research. Mind bowing right? And that's exactly what happened to me. Here I was trying to carry out some research on musing.io and all I had to do was ask and answer questions on the same platform. No need for visiting external sites, sifting the giant internet for tiny pieces of information, or even bothering people in real life and in for scanty information. (Though i admit I did get some tips from my fellow sndbro @jassennessaj.)
Anyway I began to really enjoy the platform and consequently what began as a curiosity became something I'd fallen in love with.
In the report I wrote for sndbox--spoiler alert--I made mention of the beauty of musing being predominantly that you get rewarded for your curiosity, which is as natural a thing for any human as breathing. Imagine getting rewarded for breathing, then? There is no single day I wake up without some questions burning in my mind. All I have to then is post it on musing, and I not only have my questions answered--which is a reward in itself--but I get rewarded even monetarily. There's no greater compensation.
And even though the beauty and potential of musing is amazing, to be extremely sincere, I really doubt I would have become as enthusiastic as I did without the joy of seeing those generous rewards on your questions and answers. There's no joy like seeing your effort get rewarded.
But the MOST IMPORTANT thing, and this is why I really try my best to engage with as much questions as possible, is the intellctual stimulation and creative boost I get.
Being able to analyse what seems like a simple inmocous question, dissect this question, understand it and produce a coincise but exhaustive answer, is as fulfilling for a writer as the writing itself. This in fact is a form of creativity. Because when you really think of it, what is creativity, but the the ability to find a problem in the world, a question asked by the universe so to speak, and analyse it and come up with a unique answer of your own in form on a finished created piece.
It's a great joy when your curiosity gets rewarded. It's a brilliant feeling when you have a burning question and find someone who gives you a satisfactory answer. It's almost like being terribly hungry and getting offered a remarkable meal garnished with all sort of delicious toppings and a cold wine to booth.
Which is another reason I get motivated to answer questions. I've been lucky enough to have a few of my questions get brilliant answers, so when I come across a question I seem to know a thing or two about I try to do my best to give that question as good an answer that I can to the best of my ability.
So these are definitely the things that motivate me--so far. I hope the platform grows and I get even more excuse to spent the whole of my day here XD.
Cheers!
Good question! If I feel like I know the answer to a question, I'll generally do some quick research, unless I am absolutely sure I know the answer, and if the user asking the question seems genuine , it motivates me to leave an answer.
You seem genuinely curious, and I didn't need to perform research to give you an answer, so there you have it :)
Well few things that does motivates me to answer the questions in here
The type of question - It should be logical.
Have value and my answer will help that person who asks it.
How the user presents the questions that matters as well (is it serious question that has any kind of value or just ask a random question out of nowhere)
I answer most of those questions, that I have encountered in my life and will help the user learn something from it.
Steem related questions gets priority in my answering list as well.
Those Bonus UPVotes from Muisng does really work more too.
And overall the connection we do make with each other that is what matters.
There are few factors which motivates to answer a question on Musing Platform.
First one is the question itself. Sometime I feel that I know about the question asked and should contribute towards it.
Second factor is the topic. If some topic interest me than I will also do some research to answer that.
Feeling of Help, If it is in your mind that by answering the question you are helping someone then you would be automatically get motivation.
Another factor is encouragement. if your efforts are encouraged in form of comments , replies or upvotes then you will to motivated .
Then it comes to Upvotes, If someone is getting good upvote , he/she will automatically motivated towards answering the more and more question.
My biggest motivation to answer a question on musing is that I myself get to learn more about the questions that I answer.
I came to musing around two months ago and since then I have answered hundreds of questions and had a ton of engagement here. In these past few weeks for me, it has become a habit and a pleasure to work on answering questions here on musing. This habit has grown to the point that I have spent hundreds of hours, answering hundreds of questions. And all I can think of is - 'where was I on the day musing.io was launched?'
The fact is that musing has been a great learning experience for me. For this the reason is simple - To effectively answer a question, I need to first read and research about it. This has helped me improve my knowledge in just the past few weeks alone. I wonder how much more knowledge I would gain, if I stay here even longer.
I should also mention that musing.io has been very generous to me with their upvotes. Obviously, I try to do my best to create 'question-answer' content here, but musing has been a great place get rewarded for my efforts as well.
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What has been your greatest acomplishment?
My greatest accomplishment so far has been graduating from the university. It isn't supposed to be a big deal to go to a university but it is for me because of what it took me to have a university degree.
I finished high school at a quite tender age but I wasn't allowed to write my first exam that would qualify me to get admission into the university until I was nineteen. I eventually did but for several reasons I couldn't get admission for the course I wanted to study. I had wanted to study medicine with the fire and energy still burning inside me in my teens. It was either I had two marks below the required cut-off marks for my choice course or I was given a different course of study.
I was hell bent on studying medicine and before I could say Jack Robinson, it was six years already since I left high school. My friends we left high school together were either graduates from different disciplines or in their penultimate year in the university. Some were married already and some had kids. Gradually, my self-confidence started to diminish. This time, I wanted admission into any field of discipline because I couldn't stand the pressures from home anymore.
Finally, I was offered admission to read a course entirely different from what I had in mind. I accepted this offer and went to the university.
Going through the walls of the University was the greatest test of my self confidence and patience. It was tough for me especially since it wasn't what I wanted to study. I really didn't give much attention to my studies in my first two years and I had three more years to go.
The battle became intense. It was a fight not to have an extra year or worse still graduate with a very bad result. Putting into consideration the support I received from parents, family and friends. I wasn't about letting them down. They had made so much sacrifices. I couldn't afford an extra year. Eventually, I graduated. Luckily for me, there was no extra year and no bad result. It still is my biggest accomplishment so far.
Gaining over 1070 Steem Power on this platform in only 9months without investing any real money on Steem and/or bugging anyone to upvote my posts.
Yeah I'm quite proud of that. I often see people who joined the same time as me and they are still struggling. I honestly still don't know what I did differently. I just post what I am passionate about (Anime/Games/Technology) and it seems people who have the same interests as mine just come flocking in to support yours truly lol
So yeah I guess that pretty much is my greatest accomplishment online. :)
I did an electric train for my kids!
I built a 2.40m over 1.20m flap that rested on a table the whole folded was 15 cm thick.
On the wall, I placed shelves to store locomotives, cars and wagons.
I realized a circuit with turnaround loop and a station with four synchronized switches to avoid a stopped train.
I dressed the decoration of small houses all lighted at will, street lights working on the tracks, a church with a removable bell tower.
I also realized a mountain with a tunnel and a pond represented by a small ice cream; There were fishermen and dozens of characters: travelers, loggers, mechanics, and even repairing the road ...
The set was controlled by a double detachable board of the circuit with two outlets.
All locomotives were equipped with lighting, as well as passenger cars. All the lights, I tinkered them myself.
My only disappointment: people often questioned that I could realize all this set myself! I spent maybe a thousand hours there.
My great satisfaction: to see my children play with and also my grandchildren. But finally, I sold it on "the good corner" and yet I was assured that it was impossible to negotiate!
Would life be better without video games?
Heck, no!
You must be enjoying the game time...
You must be enjoying the game time...
Do you believe in ghosts?
Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes I believe but I'm still wary of the paranormal programs that manage to make us swallow anything or pictures of "pseudo ghosts" which of course most of them are certainly still special effects (by the way I think that the one that you posted is a fake XD)
I know a person who would have seen (and who also cried on it at that time), another who feels presences around her (so reassuring) and another who would be in contact with his guardian angel (because it seems that we have guardian angels).
In my family we are pretty connected to the mystical stuff (except my father, it's a scientific mind too much rational lol) and we happen to "turn the tables" if you know what I mean (we take a pedestal, we put our hands on it in a certain way, our fluid (which is the electricity of our body in a way) will 'heat' the table that will begin to move, move and then we will ask questions that she will answer yes or no) and I swear it works.
My mother already had a strange experience when she was young. She was alone at home, in the office, and heard distinct footsteps on the stairs and the door of her room slamming. She went out, called, but no one answered. (since she was alone) There was no draft, it could not be an animal (she did not have any), mystery ..
I do not know too much, but it's true that sometimes I feel like I'm feeling a presence. Perhaps the dead, the dead, are watching us through our shadows, in spectral forms, through invisible presence.
Indeed, it seems they protect us even! Hence the notion of guardian angel. My mother (yes she still) has a work colleague who is a shaman (outside of her profession) and i explained to her that we can ask for help from these "guardian angels" and that they will answer you by signs that are quite difficult to distinguish (like you'll read a magazine and in there is the answer)
I tested this thing and it paid off .. (I'm serious). I explain .. My father has a serious eye disease for fifteen years and in short I spend the details, after fifteen years when we see that the results of treatments are still low is pretty depressing .. So with my mother (return youhou) even if we are atheists, we went to put a few candles in some churches hoping that it works but it failed. One night I tried the thing to call the angels and a few days later we went to Saintes Maries de la Mer (do you know?) Quite touristy place with a pretty old church that we visited and we put a candle. Except that at one point the guardian (of the church) fired us because there was to be a show in a short time. Interrupted, we were a little upset. A lady next to us noticed him and said, "Do not worry, he heard you." Nied? In short, we left, a few days after my father goes to the hospital to pass an exam, miracle, his illness has improved (and not a little). So according to my mother the angels spoke through the lady. I do not know what you think about it, but I want to tell you that no I'm not crazy (nor my mother) and that we are very well psychologically> <
I do not know if this story is part of the ghosts but it is still quite strange ..
* Are you afraid of ghosts
YES!!!! Like you, I think the worst thing that could happen to me would be to see one. But at the same time this mystic side attracts me and is so exciting! The problem is that I'm a big scary, that is to say, if I watch a horror movie or a show on the paranormal (all stupid) and well I do not sleep a week. And what would be the most frightening is that the ghost in question is a hitter, like a big old ghost very bad (I do not know if it exists but I hope not TT)
Oh... I’m believing in ghost as my friends and family had encounter that before. But I’m not afraid of it...
Yes as I have answered this one before. I have experienced it and know what happens in a ghost house as such. We had bought a house in England and it was an old house that had been modernized.
It started with my parrot jumping on to the side of his cage and would be talking as if there was someone there. We noticed noises when we would be sitting down at the table for meal times. Footsteps upstairs and I would sneak up but they would run away. We had wooden floors so you could clearly hear it.
My daughter screamed the one day as her dustbin in her room was moving blocking her exit. I think it was just playing but not overly sure. We used to lie in bed and hear footsteps and the bed used to move as though someone had just crawled under it. The bed was solid with drawers in the base so a little strange.
The one day my son was playing with my Polaroid Instamatic camera and was popping out photos of himself. He had complained before that something had been bashing him whilst he was in the bed. Kids you know have a good imagination so I thought nothing of it. I looked at his photos and there was someone sitting next to him, actually more behind him and it was a face and neck that was showing. The reflection of the lights from outside with the glass had picked up an image of a ghost.
It wasn't very pretty and the guy in the photo had the olden style mesh from like the days of suit and armor times. I was a little shocked as I was expecting a child ghost with all the playing that had been happening.
We were in the process of moving and every time someone came for a viewing in the night the light bulbs used to play up. There was nothing wrong with the wiring or the bulb as they worked when people left. i was more than happy to leave the house in the end and hope whoever lives there now is happy.
A cool story that i couldn't make up and need to find the photo as I kept it. haven't seen it for a while since we have moved a few times since but it will pop out one day.
Wow... what a scary story. Thanks for sharing...
What do we REALLY want from relationships?
First of all, I have to say, brilliant question. This is one of those questions I look at with excitement, wondering what I could decipher in my mind from trying to provide an answer to it.
I've had the tab open and I'd been mulling it over in my mind now for a while.
The first thing that came to my mind was companionship. But at the same time I realized that is not entirely true. That the real answer, in my opinion, lies in first examining the exact opposite; the opposite of companionship, which is solitude and the opposite of being in a relationship- -which is being alone.
Solitude is known to have a lot of advantage. A lot of writers have made it the major theme of their numerous books, but perhaps no writer has written so searchingly into the question of solitide like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Latin American Nobel Laaurete, in his book Hundred years of Solitude.
Here it might seem that solitude is a confinement, but still a lot of people prefer solitude to companionship at times. When alone you get centred, you can think and be present and really enjoy some things which you can't in the presence of others. Also most of us are at our truest self when we're with ourselves. Knowing all these then, we can wonder why then do we require relationships?
Allow me to offer a few suggestions regarding the things most people seek:
1. Fulfillment
The truth is whether we like it or not, we are all a part of society. We might yearn for solitude once in a while, but the urge to socialize will always be present. And the society is set up in such a way that to find fulfillment for an individual mostly depends on his or her relations with other.
John Donne said it better, He said No man is island, entire of itself. There will always be people who know better and have seen and learn more than you do. Most of the times we make mistakes and the way our subjective senses percieve things might not actually be the way things are (of course there are people who argue there is no objective reality at all). Either way, to be certain of some things, you must look for validations from others.
Are you trying to be rich and successful? You must go through other people in a way. Are you trying amass knowledge? You must learn from others. Are you trying to learn how to find peace alone? Ironically you must also relate with people in some way or another to get this..It is mostly ineveitable.
2. Joy and Happiness
Even though there is a joy in solitude, there are perhaps even more joy in relationships. Most of us know the absolute indescribable joy of having a partner whom you love with all your heart. A person who you can share your sorrows with and tell everything to.
Most of the times we're never happy without this person and when they arrive their presence is like a rainbow and our joy knows no bound. You feel alive, more alive than you can ever be alone.
Some lucky ones even experience this with ordinary people they come across everyday, with friends and families and colleagues at work.
3. A Sense of Belonging and Purpose
Two heads are better than one. When a collection of men comes together, history has proven, there is very little they can't achieve. A man might think he has a cause or purpose on his own, but when he comes together with people of similar reasoning the cause becomes stronger.
We all yearn to be a part of something greater than ourselves. Something to which we can point and say proudly, Yes, I am a part of THAT. It's fun to say yes I did that. I did this. But it is even more fun and more fulfilling to say Yes, WE did this. Yes WE did that.
Also - sometimes we have breakthroughs on our own, but it never means anything without people to share it with. (Which is why the internet craze of sharing every moment of life is so paramount. But that is a question for another day.)
4. Moderation
Finally I would like to end with a note of caution. Yes no man is an island and no man knows it all, yes there is a great joy to be gotten from getting along with your fellow man. Yes we need validation from people, yes without people sometimes success have no meaning. But doing everything in excess is terrible.
There is no easier way to secure the greatest sadness for yourself than by always seeking validation from people for everything you do; to never be content with yourself or your success until you've shared it with the whole world.
Sometimes it is just better to sit alone and enjoy your success over a cup of wine while you ruminate to yourself.
As I said, like most endeavors in human life, moderation is the most paramount. Knowing the middle way; doing just enough without going overboard! Thanks for reading. Cheers.
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Well relationship depend, a lot of people do not really know what it means to be in a relationship, that's why for me I think being in a relationship is more than just love, as a person if I ever want to be in a relationship I'll choose someone that will be a WORTHY COMPANION this will entail having someone that Will help me in my decision making, help me encounter my ups and down, accompany me through my steps and journey in reaching my goals and aims while I do same for her as well.
I Want someone that'll be a FRIEND this entails having someone that can hold my secrets and I hers, vice versa, someone that will tell me soothing words when I seem to be drifting away, someone that could hold my hands and encourage me to go further in life, someone I can confide in, talk to and share my pain, sadness and joy with.
I want someone that'll be A PROSPECTIVE SOULMATE, this is having a person that'll be ready to give herself to me, walk down the altar with me, accept me and all my imperfections as well, agree and acept to stay with me no matter the circumstances as well. Someone that's ready and willing to go to the next level with me.
These are the things I want in a relationship.
Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?
I have, the truth is as a human being I try to maintain a constant balance in my life always having to smile and act normal at my working place and all is certainly not well. Most times I have psycological problems which involves me being afraid of the future, afraid that I may continue to be be poor or not have enough money to raise a family or that my present condition will only get worse and worst.
In life most people do not care if you have a problem neither do they care if you are in pain or not, so the best thing to do will be to act normal, because if you don't people will pity you and the irony is that they won't even help you.
I've always tried to stay cheerful and smile even in the most terrible times in my life just because being sad, crying and being broody will not help infact it will attract the pity of people. That's why when I get to my working place, I act normal and cheerful even when I'm sad, because I want to be strong and maintain a certain equilibrium in my life at all Cost, even when it seems very difficult
Yeah.. that’s me!!! Peoples always remember be for my laughter and smiles.
You have 24 hours and an unlimited supply of money, what would you do?
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Unlimited supply of money interesting.. If, this is the case for 24 hours than I would love the solve many problems and they are as follows:-
1. Try eradicating poverty. As, poverty leads to many problems and some of them are illiteracy, robbery, killing and many more troubles. So, would like to solve the problem of poverty as much as I could with the unlimited supply of money.
2. Donate it to the NGOs, "Non-governmental Organization ", who are actually trying to solve the problems in the society it could be child education, build old age home any such projects which is going to help the society and make this world a better place.
3. Finally, I did like to use the money collected to solve the problem of odd ratio that exists between rich and poor. By, this I mean in a country if there are rich people than they very rich and if there are poor people than they are too many. In more simple words the ratio of rich is to poor is not equally distribute. Hence, with this cash generating machine would love to solve this rich is to poor ratio and bring both rich and poor people together.
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1. Rent a God of Fortune costume
2. Rent a lorry with driver
3. Load up all the cash on the lorry
4. Wear the God of Fortune costume
5. Drive through the city, throwing cash into the crowds and shout "Huat ah!"
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If I am rich I will donate my money to people in need, that's what I was imagining and laughing.
That’s good. I hope I can have it too.
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Lol, actually I was writing something earlier and it was all about me and my dreams too. I don't think there's nothing wrong with thinking about that first then others second. Initially of course our first thoughts will be for ourselves anyway.
Unfortunately while I was thinking for real about what to add I got sidetracked so the things I wrote are all gone now. Haven't been able to submit before the page went poof! Will rewrite my answer later. Haha.
Do you think steemit will fail or close?
It is becoming easier to get steem and sbd, with sites like musing.io with the exit of several social networks that pay you to create content and do not need to have many followers.
As weku webtallk pivot gese minds and like 100 more.
These are becoming popular and at the end of the hadfork I have seen many new ones withdraw from steemit as they can not make more than 2 publications per day until downloading their RC
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No I don't i think it is going to be one of the main internet sites in the world in the next few years.
With all the Dapps taking value from Steem the sky is the limit. I can see the Steem block chain being full of all different sites offering everyone something. The whole family will be using steem in one way or another.
Gaming.live streaming,musing,blogging the list is endless and god knows what will be added next. I can see all the other blogging sites that popped up folding and losing everyone that was on here to come back.
The SMT's will start launching in March and there are exciting times ahead for everyone who is already on here.
Ok I don't think steemit will fail or close for any reason. Steemit is just getting started and just look at how much traction the site has already and it's ace in the whole which is the SMTs hasn't even been launched yet.
Have you taken a look at the number of Dapps that are available on the steem Blockchain?? Everything from dtube to musing and all the others are so good that they could even give sites like YouTube and Quora a run for their money.
The world is gradually moving to the blockchain and seeing how accommodative the steem Blockchain is I'm pretty sure when the SMTs are released the whole world will want a piece of steemit. These new sites like weku and the others are simply just imitations of the real thing and although they're on the right track, they still have a long way to go.
Steemit isn't going anywhere except for to the moon!!!!
For the sake of words lets say even if Steemit goes down, there will be Steem dapps. and Steem will be running on the track and we will seeing some major run as we speak.
Like Musing many are rushing into it and yes it is getting hard for the new users but in the long run it sure is helpful and by gaining SP they can do their usual work in here and if not then there are ways like Musing, Steemhunt.
The hardfork brought quite some unfortunate things but it was to be done for the launch of SMT and those will change the course of Steem.
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What's the best way to make posts go viral on Steemit?
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Well first things first your post has got to have content that's worth reading. Nobody wants to go through a post that would make them question whether it was a kindergarten student that wrote it.
When you have that very important part down, next thing is to pay for upvotes, there's no shame in doing it, alot of people do it, not to make money, but to give their posts a little more visibility. You might write an epistle worthy of only the eyes of the gods, but if nobody with substantial SP upvotes it then best believe that even the gods of promotedpost, hottopic and huge-whale won't see it.
Finally, you could solicit some help from someone who's already recognised in steemit, that way if they share your post then alot of people are going to want to know why someone so prominent saw it fit to grace his page with your post.
If you check all these boxes and the post still doesn't go viral then maybe it's time to hit the drawing board again.
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Why should you want that? Most posts that go viral
Get yourself noticed in your fields of interest with good comments, good posts and every post of you will go viral there where it counts.
Really the ONLY way to make your post go viral is by paying for it to do so.
If you spend enough money, buy enough votes you can hit trending or hot or promoted pages.
Most people quickly realize however that doesn't mean the post is quality or worth reading, simply that enough money was thrown at it.
Two things can be done
* the obvious way , use your money (Steem/Sbd) and send them to bidbots and they will give you upvotes which will rank the post to the Trending Page
* the Second one : If you have Whale friends who will give you Upvotes and by that you will see your post in the trending page (It is highly unlikely though)
By luck not many users have gone to trending page while if your content is original and you have worked for it using bidbots could work fine and many users will find your content useful and they will like it as well for the quality of it.
So basically this are the two ways for now.
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Have you ever get bored of steemit in a certain way and why?
Well as time is passing by it is kind of getting hard to stay bored in here. With all the things going on now it is really hard to get bored now.
But yeah sometimes it gets boring when there is no new interaction between users because of the posts and yes it happened in the past but now as all the things going on if you mind is fresh and you are not worried in your real life than it is kind of hard to get board in here.
With all the dapps and all the things and the Discord Groups it is kind of hard to bring out time.
Think about Musing, we are helping each other and learning in that process, give some time to other dapps and you will find your time going very nicely indeed without you even realize it.
Sometimes I do get bored of using Steemit, as it happens with every thing that I use too much or too little. The first case scenario when I get bored is when I don't have too much interaction on it. I like to write articles, I like to read, but if I not get in touch with people too much I am taking distance from the platform. I always come back the next day though. Except for when it was the hardfork and a day or two after when I couldn't use the platform. Another case is when I am having personally a bad mood and a lack of inspiration and that reflects to my activity on Steemit also. Or when I see very low payouts for my posts and some garbage ones getting more. I do find tens of reasons to get back to Steem every time. It's my most used social media platform along with some of its DApps.
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How can i disconnect myself from social media addiction?
Several possibilities:
You can go cold turkey: remove the software from your mobile and computer or you can reduce the time you spend with social media little by little. Use a kitchen timer or something like that - it should be loud to "wake you up".
You could set yourself small rewards for keeping this promise to yourself.
But at least as important: look for something else to spend you time. Take up knitting or gardening or riding a bike or reading a book (you know, these things made from paper with these quaint little signs in them) or use you mobile as a phone and talk to people. Keep yourself entertained :)
I have to ask, by disconnect do you mean totally remove yourself from social media? or just a temporary disconnection, or perhaps you just want to get to a point where you're not totally dependent?
Disconnecting entirely is a very hard and sometimes impossible thing to do. I say this because this is the 21st century. The whole world is moving to the internet. Most people even have their workplaces here now. Companies use social media to communicate directives and valuable news and informations to their employees. All in all there really is a great deal of advanatage to be obtained, but obsession with anything is bad. And truly social media can be really addicting.
Thankfully though there are ways to reduce our social media obsession drastically. I list some of them below:
1. DELETING APPS AND STICKING TO BROWSERS:
Most social media platforms can be accesed via web browsers as well as via mobile applications. A cause of addiction for most people is the easy availability of these apps on their mobile phones. It is there with them every single time. All you have to do is open your phone and the app icon flashes at you right from your screensaver.
Deleting the application and only sticking to accesing the page on your web browser will give you the space to withdraw. Also the experiences on most mobile web browsers are mostly not as satisfactory as having the applications. Perhaps this not so good experience might inspire deterence in the future.
Also related to this point is:
-- Timing yourself after.
You can set a time by which you get the necessary things done. The amount of time/duration you're to spend per day and etc.
-- Turning off push notifications.
If you don't want to delete the app entirely, yiu can choose to turn off the push notifications. This way you won't have the app buzzing you every second. Trust me this goes a long way. Out of sight out of mind, like they say.
2. GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL
Like I said, a complete withdrawal might be too difficult and unfeasible, but gradually reducing the amount of time spent, even if by a few minutes or hours each day, might go a long way in securing total independence.
3. FINDING NEW HOBBIES
This is probably the best method. Some say the best way to get rid of an unhealthy addiction is to replace it with a healthy one.
Go out, take a walk, go swimming. Take programming lessons, blog on steemit--or wait, that's a social media too lol. My point is, find something that would keep you occupied, this way you won't have to feel the urge to go back too deeply.
4. STAY CONNECTED
Yes yes, I know, this may seem a bit contradictory; okay a lot contradictory, but hear me out.
A mistake most people trying to withdraw make is trying for a total absolute withdrawal at once. This may be the worst step to take. You might even lose your mind this way, really. This is after all something you have been doing for a really long while. Trust me the urge is not going to away overnight.
So give yourself some moment to stay connected, time yourself, and after that way you can apply the principle of gradual withdrawal. I wish you the best of luck.
Cheers.
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Once you get to like something it is really hard to stay away from it. While it is the virtual world that you need to come out of and be with the reality.
While you can do few things that will help you
Take some time off away from your daily life. Take a vacation which will improve your mind and soul and do not take any gadgets with you on the trip
Use your time wisely, make a routine and engage with actual people. Make conversation with them, make plans with them and make them happen.
Be with your family as they are your close ones and spend time with them it will help you both mentally and improve your relation with them.
There are a number of tools that can help you with that. I would suggest looking for tools that block certain websites for certain times.
StayFocusd for example is a Chrome extension that blocks websites for you, on which you spend too much time.
[Freedom](https://freedom.to/?utm_source=frdmblg) is an app that blocks websites and apps that you use too much. It's available for Windows & Mac.
There are more tools, you can easily find them yourself, but I think this should already get you started.
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Is there any limit set on asking questions or answering them on musing.io platform?
This question can better be answered by the Musing owners/ admins.
However, what I feel is that there should not be any such limitation.
As long as someone is asking some quality question/ answers. He/She should ask as many as they want to clear their doubts.
Before asking questions following should be kept in mind.
Question should be relevant.
Avoid asking repeated question.
Question asked should be clear and properly described.
Following should be kept in mind while answering:
Answer given should be relevant to the question asked.
Given complete explanation of answer for better understanding.
Avoid coping others content. Otherwise you will be flagged.
It all depends if you have enough Resource Credits. If you have enough for 5 comments then it then that is all you can do. However there is no limit by musing.io as such and are allowed to ask and answer as many questions as possible.
I have been fortunate enough to only be limited last week when the HF20 was happening and the patch was put in place. At that point I was only allowed to do roughly 28 questions and answers per day and now since then I have had no issues.
Well there isn't any limit placed on the number of questions you can ask or answer on musing per say, but the amount of RCs that you have plays a vital role in determining just how many times you can comment on steemit or any steem related Dapp.
If you have up to 100sp then you'll be able to answer and ask up to at least 100 questions before your RC has finished and that's more than enough if you ask me, besides, RCs take about 4 days to fully recharge so you'll be fine even if they finish.
I've probably answered far more than 100 questions on musing and I haven't had any issues whatsoever so I'm pretty sure there isn't any limit. If you really want to be sure then you can go to the musing blog page on steemit(steemit.com/@musing), There you'll find a link to their discord server. You can join and ask the admins there yourself, they're quite friendly and will attend to you quickly.
The only limit is based on how many RC you have available.
I will copy my usual RC post below to explain (boy this is getting a lot of airtime)
Your steempower affects how many RC you have and that is what controls how often you can post and vote, etc.
What are RC and where did they come from?
RC = Resource Credit. RC is an estimation of cost, which includes:
- CPU (mega)cycles - State memory - History sizeIt is a feature implemented in HF20 to replace the old bandwidth system.
Every action taken on the blockchain has a "cost" associated with it to perform. The larger, the more complex the action, the more space it requires on the blockchain, etc, the larger the cost. In the past that was monitored by the bandwidth number.
As each of us performed actions our available bandwidth decreased. However it was determined that bandwidth was not an accurate measure of the cost of these operations and also was not scaleable in the future. A new solution was devised.... enter Resource Credits.
This is supposed to be a more true and accurate calculation of what resources are needed to perform each action. The longer your post/comment, the more pictures included, etc the more storage it takes on the blockchain, the higher the "cost" to the user.It recharges over a 5 day so you will always go from 0% RC to 100% if you do nothing for 5 days. Personally I just won't use more then 20% or so a day and that way I won't have to worry about running out.
When HF20 was first implemented there were MANY issues with resource credits. There was a bug where initially any action you had taken at all since you first started here was counted against your RC and so most people had a HUGE negative debt and were unable to post, comment, upvote, or even power up since they had no RC to do those actions.
Patches have been implemented over the last few week to correct most of the issues found during the initial launch. There was a patch last week that increased the available resource pool for each block by a factor of 10. This had the impact of allowing most users to regain most of their RC right away as now suddenly supply outweighed demand and costs of operations were essentially lowered.
Another stated reason for the implementation of RC was to combat the number of spam bots out there. These bots were using an unfairly high amount of resources on the old system and not being charged directly for it. Under RC each account must have enough resource credits to pay for its own actions.It is hopeful that this will reduce (not eliminate) the amount of spam comment bots plaguing the system.
RC is also a learning system that will attempt to find a balance. This means costs of operations will continually be changing. This allows flexibility and scalability moving forward when such features as communities and SMT's (Smart Media Tokens) are implemented in the future.
So overall RC was a necessary and needed upgrade to Steem for future growth and scalability but I do not think in any way its implementation can be considered smooth or uneventful. New users or those with low SP (and therefore low RC) will need to change their habits and be more conscious of how they spend their resource credits. You can get a general estimate of how many actions you can undertake by visiting www.beempy.com/power/@yourusername. You will be shown a page similar to:
From this information you can a more accurate sense of how many comments you can make, how much each will cost, how long it will take to recharge and other items. Remember it will take 5 days to recharge from 0 to 100%.
How can someone use a microsoft publisher?
Hi. What exactly do you need to know? I've been a huge fan and user of Publisher for over 20 years and still think its the simplest page layout program that produces pro results there is. Nothing compares.
Even back in the mid 90s people used to thumb their nose up at it, but it always did what I wanted it to do so for me, simple and straightforward and got the job done!
Basically you start with a blank page, then you can add text, picture, word art or table boxes to the blank page. Use borders and assorted tools to make it look prettier or use one of their templates. Its all drop and drag so you can experiment to get the design you want. There are of course multiple page sizes and templates for everything from a booklet to a business card to a birthday card, all manner of menus and leaflets. Full control over the page and the text and diagrams on it.
Back in the day, I even used it to lay out web pages and always used it as word processor. I could get the result I wanted without using complicated programs like Word!
If you need professional print, printers marks can be added for alignment, you can even print using 4 colour separations ready for a litho printer.
So, I recommend it still to this day to anyone. If you need specific help with a project then feel free to reach out and I will share my tips learnt over the years.
Great question and glad people still mention a great and under appreciated piece of software :-)