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But there are many reasons to write a book:

A legacy for your descendants. I would love if I could read a book written by my great-great-great grandfather describing what his life was like. What’s the audience for that book? Just his descendants. But that’s a decent reason.

Getting to talk about something you are passionate about.

Often people write a book to get speaking or consulting opportunities that are very lucrative. If a company is trying to decide between consultant A and consultant B, they will pick the person who has written a book. I know this to be true.

Practice. Many people write several books before they manage to produce their big bestseller that changes their lives completely. Book writing is a craft and, like any craft, takes time to build the skill set.

You aren’t limited by genre. You can write a book that YOU want to write as opposed to fitting a specific marketplace.

To complement your business. A friend of mine makes a special kind of makeup and moisturizer catered to women going through menopause. So she wrote a small book about menopause that explains in detail the chemical and hormonal reactions in the body and how certain chemicals can help. This complements her product sales.

Find more reasons here: https://jamesaltucher.com/2018/08/ten-reasons-why-i-self-publish/?utm_source=email&utm_source=email&utm_medium=website-link&utm_term=08082018&utm_content=&utm_campaign=ten-reasons-self-publish&r=ATC



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OK ooo. Thanks for this.



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That's natural disaster for you.




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sulakishop:
It's a normal thing with women

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Yes ooo. It has become a way of life with women.

Why are people wasting their time on the useless thing, called birthday?




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What is prison like in the United Arab Emirates?


I have been put in Jail 3 times for 3 reasons:

I was taken to jail for honking my vehicle horn at a powerful and influential local. (15 years ago).

I was taken to jail after a woman falsely accused me of ruining her name (Without evidence) and was told if she went ahead, I would be jailed indefinitely without evidence.

I was jailed also for being tattooed as someone complained that I was the Anti-Christ, the evil spirit and the devil.

However, to my luck, I didn’t have any evidence against me and the jails that I was put in - the Policemen were kind and humane. Before anything - let me be the first to say - whomsoever I met in Dubai Police or Sharjah Police - they have been nothing but kind and nice to me. And as you go higher up - the Arab Locals who are educated - are really amazing human beings. They are very kind, very nice and very loving people.

And it is ironical that my mentor for 16 years was the Head of a Section in the Police. I love him, respect him and will forever respect him.

So I can honestly tell you - the Arab Locals I interacted with - they have been amazing human beings with me and my experience has been nothing but positive. You can literally say that I felt I was talking to a Father Figure - someone with deep love, compassion and kindness.

However, just as it takes all kinds of people to make this world - I can say in some cases I have been treated like trash for looking the way I look - but that is normal. There are exceptions to the rule. However, I cannot say the same for the others whom I know. This is what they have shared with me. And I cannot name them as they requested for anonymity out of fear. So while some prisons are like VIP hotel rooms – designed for the rich, famous and powerful, I am pretty sure those are not the stories you want to hear about.

Here are the stories you do not hear about in the news or media.

There are some prisons camps which are kept in absolute secrecy where those who are a threat to National Security are kept. No one who has been there has come out alive. And legend has it - once you are put there - its over. You don’t exist anymore.

You can be jailed for any reason – from having a false complaint registered in your name to the worst – having someone influential and powerful angry with you.

My friends have been jailed in Sharjah for being a man and having ear-rings. While in RAK if you are pregnant out of wedlock - the woman will be jailed until she gives birth and after birth the child is taken away from her and given to a Muslim Orphanage to be raised as a Muslim until some Muslim couple adopts this child. While the mother is deported back to her country (this is common only for Asians as their governments do not support their citizens but never for Western Passport Holders).

There are people who have been kept in prison without trial because they have messed with the wrong or powerful people. One such person apparently was in jail for 35 years without knowing what he did wrong.

Some prisons are absolutely racist. Bangladeshis are treated the worst.
There are gangs in prison and if you are unlucky and get into a wrong prison, you can get raped and you cannot do anything about it.

Depending where you are (Dubai or Sharjah or RAK) you can have anywhere from 7 people in one room to 50 people in one tiny room with you.
In some prisons there is total corruption. Money is being taken by prison guards if you want normal human rights to be given to your relative or friend in prison.

There are temporary detention centers in all public places (Dubai Metro, Airport) where you are kept for time being until you are transferred to the actual prison.
The Airport Detention Center is like a 3-Star Prison.

There is a hierarchy of power – Arabs get better benefits (better cells, cigarettes) and better treatment.

Nationalities that endure the worst treatment Asians, Filipino, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Palestinians etc

Lots of bullying takes place inside prison camps where you can be beaten or disciplined if you fall out of line.
You can buy food in certain prisons. Some of them have canteens. However some prisons are absolutely horrifying where you will lose half your body weight.

The prisons shown on Social Media are the ones where they offer the best facilities to keep in line with the Human Rights.

Hygiene in some prisons is horrifying as in some prisons people stink for not having had bath. Some places there are rats.

Toilet facilities in some prisons – you are not allowed to clean yourself with anything and in some places the toilet is a commode kept open in front of everyone with 50 people in one place.
End of the day, a prison is a prison and I would never recommend you to do anything to land there. And if you do land there, apologize, beg and do whatever you can do to get out. It is not worth being there.

And at the same time keep this in mind - UAE is much more humane than most of the other Middle East countries. There the horror stories jump from ending up with your hands and legs being chopped off to being treated so inhumane that you would wish for death than anything else.

I truly hope you never go to prison.

And in a strange ironical way, I want to thank the UAE for treating me well and not bad even when I was taken to prison. But I have to post this because - I want others to not only be afraid of going to Prison but know - if they assume that breaking the UAE law will give them 5-star treatment - well please wake up. This is not your country and you must respect its rules.

Loy Machedo


Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-prison-like-in-the-United-Arab-Emirates





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That's his own opinion.




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Thanks for going straight to the point... Hitting the nail on head.

Execute the asshole!




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It may be true and it may be false.





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Abraham Lincoln, if he were alive and brought up to speed. However, here and now we get to choose between Trump and Clinton. There are no other choices, and if you are able to vote, whatever you do—vote, don’t vote, vote for a splinter party candidates, or write in someone—will help either Trump or Clinton win, given your own situation.

This time around we’re in an unusual situation because the best candidate of the two for liberals is Clinton, but the best candidate for conservatives is also Clinton, who’s also the best candidate for moderates.

This is because the Republican candidate lacks both the preparation and the temperament required of a President. Whatever you think of Clinton, you know she can do the job. There probably has never been a candidate for the American presidency who understands exactly what the job entails as well as she does.

For moderates it’s a no-brainer, because she’s a moderate.

For liberals Trump is an abomination—a swindler and con artist and thin-skinned bully who’d be the bull in the china shop, so for them it should also be a no-brainer.

For small-c conservatives it’s painful. Their rational choice among this year’s Republican candidates would probably have been Jon Kasich, but he’s not available.

And for them I’d say Clinton is a more conservative choice than Trump. I mean, face it—she’d be presiding while the House remains firmly in Republican control, so not one of her policies will be implemented if it needs legislation or new funding. But at the same time she’d prevent the runaway spending that happened the last time a Republican President had a Republican Congress and Supreme Court.

In terms of social policy, remember that we’re electing a President, not a monarch. No President can pass laws single-handedly. Or appoint judges. Even if the Senate goes Democratic, it won’t have a filibuster-proof Democratic majority, so Supreme Court nominations wouldn’t fly unless they as moderate as someone like Judge Garland, who even Chief Justice Roberts approves of, and he’s certainly a conservative.

And from a small-c conservative viewpoint, you know that Clinton wouldn’t do anything startling. She’s a steady-as-she-goes type of politician. Whereas Trump seems capable of anything, as his mercurial moods strike him. It’s not surprising that he admires Putin, who’s a similar personality type.

I’ve never seen so many conservatives—from grassroots up into Washington DC Republicans—who are as opposed to the Republican nominee as they are to Trump, and it’s centered on nonpartisan things. His temperament. His grasp of the job. The likelihood that he would damage the Republican brand severely if he won.

I have not in my lifetime—and I’m old—seen a presidential candidate of either party who seemed so unsuited to the job, and whose background outside politics gave so little “outside” source of confidence in him either.

Clinton is imperfect but she’s in the ballpark. Trump isn’t in the ballpark.

That’s what it boils down to.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Who-do-you-think-should-be-next-president



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NASDRA, a useless agency.







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It's a sad story.




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Neteller and Skrill have the same business models and styles.

They have some similarities. They both require verifications.

They are both regulated and they stick to the same high levels of business standards.

Neteller and Skrill are owned by PaySafe. It’s the same company with different manifestations.

So the answer to the question above is: YES.




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The person may be essential to you... But not to others. That's reality.





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Do you regret moving to Canada?

I did and I left.

My background is somewhat different. I was born in the States, but my father is Canadian and my mother is from Europe, so I already had Canadian citizenship. My family moved to Canada when I was eight and I stayed until about a year after finishing university, then moved to the States after getting a job. A few years later, after working and going to grad school, some family issues came up and I had to move back. I wasn’t eager to leave, but I thought I would give it a shot and I was told that there would be plenty of jobs for me in my field, even though I did a ton of research and saw it would be tough. But I was fairly young at the time and I wanted to be closer to my family.

The move did not work out well at all and I soon regretted it. I had great difficulty getting any notice for jobs in my field. I knew I’d probably have to go down a few notches and prepared for it, but the only things I could find were call center and basic admin work. It was humiliating, especially after grad school and working some good jobs at some good organizations in NYC, a place from where my skills should have been transferable or recognized. In the few interviews I was able to get, I was told that I lacked “Canadian experience”, which has apparently become a cliche. At my last interview, the interviewer brought this up and I responded by telling him that I was way more qualified than he was to do his own job. I just didn’t care at that point and didn’t hold back. He agreed and said that I would have a tough time finding good work because lots of Canadian employers are biased against those who went straight to the States after college.

After that, I figured it was time to go and I moved back to NY.

Other reasons why I left:

I couldn’t stand the extreme cold.
My friends, whom I had grown up with, were all married and I was the only single person, so my social life sucked. It was tough to meet new people and I didn’t find the few people I did meet to be all that interesting.
Bad dating scene.
Even if I did end up getting a decent job, my career prospects would have been limited and there would be little chance for growth, so I wanted more diverse opportunities.

Taxes.
The anti-Americanism was a pain in the ass to hear. Canadians have a global reputation of being extremely tolerant and polite…except when it comes to Americans. A lot of it was just nonsensical and it’s a form of prejudice, full stop. It was annoying because I was born in the States and I hated hearing others slag on my place of birth. It’s also incredibly hypocritical to boast about tolerance (even defending intolerant acts by other, non-American cultures!) when practicing the opposite.

Political correctness overdrive. Now, I’m not in favor of insulting others, but the PC environment in Canada is stifling. I remember being told in school that we were to refer to “janitors” as “sanitation engineers”. What the Bleep?! I can imagine it being worse now under Trudeau.

Lack of traveling options and I wanted to travel more. Canada is extremely expensive to travel from.

There are other reasons, but these come to mind right now.

Granted, I do think Canada is a good country and I don’t have any regrets about growing up there. For sure, it was a good place to grow up. It just didn’t work out for me as an adult.



Source: https://www.quora.com/Do-you-regret-moving-to-Canada


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There is no big deal in this. But it would alert those who're concerned.





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Can I register more than one bank account?

Answer: Only one bank account can be registered to a NETELLER Account at a time. You can change your bank account information if you no longer use your original bank account.


How to change only a part of your bank account information?

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They have started again oooo.



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If you have enough resources and time, I would say "YES."

What is he going to give other States? Is that not discrimination?



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What's the ideal age to start a business?


There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, but recent research suggests that 40 may be the magic number.

Despite media speculation about the entrepreneurial spirit of the younger generation, the average age of an entrepreneur in the UK is 47 (46 for men and 48 for women). US research puts the figure a little lower, saying 40 is the average age to start your first business.

This makes sense. For many, being a twenty-something is characterized by career uncertainty and debt, while a lack of experience working for other companies could make starting your own a risky business.

Your 30s is the era of children and mortgages: a combined responsibility that could rule out taking a leap into the unknown.

Your 40s, on the other hand, represents an attractive combination of financial security and business experience.

Those entrepreneurs were 35, 35, 37, 42, and 42, respectively, when they founded those companies.

I’ve seen a study that says a business with a founder aged 39 is the most likely to succeed. And according to the Kaufman Foundation the average and median age of US-born tech founders was 39, and twice as many were older than 50 as were younger than 25.

There are outliers, and these outliers seem to get most of the attention - Zuckerberg, Spiegel, Gates, etc… These guys came up with original ideas probably because of their lack of conditioning in the work place, and they were damn smart guys. And these outliers have really distorted everyone’s perception of founders’ ages, mine included up to a few months ago.

Now at LaunchPad I’ve been working with entrepreneurs aged 20 to 45. My initial plan was to hire young kids, give them equity, they do 80% of the work, I give direction, money and support.

I wasn’t that keen on working with the guys in their 40’s - not enough energy, not big enough dreamers - but I kind of went along with them.

Here’s a picture of me with one of my ‘middle-aged’ co-founders! Since this photo was taken a year ago, Clay has gone nuts on the exercise and is in amazing shape. Anyway!

I learned some lessons. The tech startups with the 40+ year old founders have done way better than the ones with the guys in their 20’s (we have none in their 30’s), with one exception. It's not only that the startups performed better, but I could see the older guys knew what they were doing, they managed better, executed better.

The guys in their 20’s need a lot of hand-holding - and that's fine - they'll gain experience and get there one day.

Pre-Zuckerberg, everything I've just said was common sense. It still is.

In fact in one startup we had 3 different founders try it out, all in their 20’s. All of them couldn’t make it happen - they all gave up on the idea.

I was convinced the idea should have worked. Two months ago a 40 year old guy decides he’d give it a go. Within 2 weeks we’re profitable, we have 17 staff 7 weeks after launch, and I see this as a US$20m+ business within 5 years. I could see how this older guy could manage so much better - not surprising given he has plenty of management experience.

If you’re in your late 30’s to late 50’s don’t let age put you off even slightly - you’re probably in your prime and you can’t waste it.

And if you’re in your 20’s and 30’s go for it too - you have a lot more upside from a successful venture.


Source: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-ideal-age-to-start-a-business


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May God continue to protect us ooo.



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Some scientific experiments are horrific indeed!

There must be a reason for his resignation.





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What is the dark side of PhD?



Here are some dark sides of PhDs.

Impostor syndrome. You feel that you are not good enough. You always question yourself.
Tunnel vision. PhDs are trained to become expert in their fields. With such intense focus, PhDs may end up being experts but not know much about other things. For me, I used to have lot more interests before the PhD but after PhD, well, I just really like my research.

Mental illness. There is depression and other kinds of mental illness. Lot of PhDs are super stressed! It is not good for them or their loved ones.

Health issues. Many PhDs sacrifice their health. Many just work with not much exercise, rest, or good diet. That leads to pretty bad health outcomes.


Overly critical. As a PhD, we are taught to analyze and break things down. That is good for research but not so good for real life. I have seen friends argue over simple things just because they could not take a joke but instead had to systematically break it down. In spousal relationships, I have heard a PhD student tell his wife why he is absolutely right by breaking down the argument and doing something like a full presentation. That did not go well for him.
Bias! Most schools teach their PhD students in certain ways. This creates lot of bias. For instance, market efficiency people will literally think that market irrationality people are not smart and even crazy. Because of training, PhD students may have certain strong biases.

Opportunity cost. Many people forego lot of income and fun because of PhD. I know people that could have been VP if they did not do a PhD. They literally give up a lot of money and fun.
Despite all these negative issues, I still enjoyed my PhD. I learned a lot. I learned how little I know. I became more humble. I also learned how to question things and do my best to answer interesting question.


Along the way, I made good friends and I got good life lessons from professors and staff.


So although the PhD was quite intense for me, it was worth it for me.


Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-dark-side-of-PhD-1




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That is their life.


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In Nigeria, many women think they can sell their body for money, gifs, etc. Nollywood is not helping the matter either, especially Yoruba movies.

It’s not uncommon for Yoruba movies to depict handsome man buying or renting a resplendent house/apartment for a strange woman. It’s not uncommon for a man to buy a car as a gift (or a birthday gift) for a woman he just meets. He can take her for shopping at Dubai, and then give her millions to start business.

Many a girl will watch the movies and think the situation is just like that in real life. But only life experiences will teach them the realities.

When a girl comes across a man who loves her, and the man showers her, her friends and family with gifts and money, the girl is lucky indeed.

But in reality, such girls have nothing to offer the man, save the so-called honeypot, which sometimes stinks.

Even most girls cheat on their generous lovers.

Now, what does the man stand to gain in such relationships? The answer is NOTHING. If you go broke, they have no help to render to you, except to jilt you and move on with another man.

That’s when they will tell you: “Calculate all the money you’ve spent on me, and I’ll refund you.”

That’s the most ungrateful thing a woman can say to a man.

He’s done to you, what your daddy cannot do. Yet you say you can refund all he has spent on you. In reality, most girls or their newly-found boyfriends don’t have the ability or intention to refund anything. They’re just bluffing.

No wonder, some girls are suffering in spite of their beauty. Nemesis will catch up with those who end up making their benefactors appear like fools.

No wonder most men don’t want to spend heavily on women again. Ki lo se lo n gbehin ale. Ija lo n gbehin ale. (Meaning, it’s common for a concubine to end up saving to you: What’s the big deal in the help you’ve rendered to me? Splitting is usually the end of love relationships).




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If they change their name, they'll go further down under.







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Although women need to be respected... There is more that meets the eye.

Am I crazy to leave a six figure salary to get a PhD in computer science?

While you are not necessarily crazy, this does not sound like a great decision to make. I am not even thinking about whether this makes economic sense, which it probably doesn't, but rather, what can you expect to get from a PhD experience at this point in time.

Let me start by saying that getting a PhD in CS makes perfect sense for a lot of people. Hell, I even got one! But those people are usually in a different situation than yours, as a matter of fact, the PhD will allow them to get to where you are (see Xavier Amatriain's answer to Knowing what you know now, would you still get a PhD if you had the chance to go back and do it over again? Why or why not?).

So, why would someone like you want to get into a PhD? Whenever I talk to people in your same situation (yes, there are many), I hear things like:

I want to do "pure" research.

If I do a PhD I will be able to gain more understanding on topic X

If I get a PhD I will have access to better jobs

I want to publish

I want to eventually become like Yoshua Bengio or one of these other famous Professors/Researchers

They are all ok reasons, but, honestly, they don't stand on their own and they respond mostly to a romantic view of what PhD is than to the harsh reality of PhD life.

As Sean Gerrish pointeed out in his answer, chances that you become that very famous researcher/professor are very slim. You might as well take on baseball, and try to make it to the Major League, for what is worth.

Also, a PhD is very unlikely going to unlock access to better jobs. There are very few places where having a PhD is going to be a requirement (mostly academia). Having a research publication track record might matter to have access to some kind of jobs. Not that I would particularly recommend those jobs. But, if that is your dream, having a few good publications could be a good investment. That said, investing 4+ years of your life for getting a few good publications seems very low ROI to me. It is probably much better to carve some time on the side to collaborate with a research lab or professor you know, take a sabbatical, or even try to publish something you are working on.

Finally, while a PhD is likely to increase your knowledge on a very narrow topic, this is hardly ever useful. I can't tell you how many PhD's I have interviewed who could only talk about one particular aspect, but had forgotten even the most basic things in their knowledge area. Being super knowledgeable about, say, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) while not knowing anything at all about Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) or more basic ML models (e.g. Logistic Regression ) will make you more employable for a very, very small number of jobs.

Also, it is important to note that many people that I have known who want to go back to college to do a PhD they suffer some version of the Impostor syndrome. They feel like they don’t know enough about a given topic, and they feel they will improve by doing a PhD. However, most likely they know as much as any PhD student on the topic, and going through this will not increase their knowledge significantly. Besides, there are probably much more efficient ways to increase knowledge on the topic if that person really needs it.

So, unless you are ok with ending up with adding 4+ years of ok experience just to end up more or less where you are in terms of employment (or worse, taking on a mediocre academic position), my advice would be to keep learning while on the job. I am sure you will have many opportunities to grow in many different directions.


Source: https://www.quora.com/Am-I-crazy-to-leave-a-six-figure-salary-to-get-a-PhD-in-computer-science




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