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Church" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-2038726-50-Xk2EzyRZ4ENYqje6MFWWNwBD9jvFikmU.jpeg" class=" profile_photo_img"></a></div><div class="e_col info_col"><div class="row"><strong><div id="__w2_fdMdE3l_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu hidden hover_menu_wide"><div id="__w2_fdMdE3l_menu_contents"> </div></div><a id="__w2_fdMdE3l_link" routing="q://user/(2038726)" href="/Michael-O-Church" class="user">Michael O. Church</a></strong><span id="ld_eI3jx9_933"><span><a id="__w2_sIWrozQ_follow_user" href="#" class="follow_button">Follow</a></span><keyevent cid="sIWrozQ"></keyevent></span></div><div class="row"><div id="ld_eI3jx9_934"><div><span id="__w2_Ed2Xm0o_toggle_link" href="#"><div id="__w2_Ufk80JQ_truncated" class="inline truncated_q_text"><div id="ld_eI3jx9_935"><div class="truncated_thumbnail_holder"></div>I'm a functional programmer in New York. I designed the card game, Ambition: <a class="external_link" target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S7lsZKzHuuhoTb2Wj_L3zrhHZh5IEKBDf56ExgErv4o/edit">https://docs.google.com/d<wbr></wbr>ocument...</a></div></div></span><div id="__w2_Ufk80JQ_expanded" class=" hidden expanded_q_text"><div id="ld_eI3jx9_936"></div></div></div></div><div class="feed_item_activity row light_gray"><div id="ld_eI3jx9_937"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><a id="__w2_hAjJ1Dp_link" routing="q://user/(2038726)" href="/Michael-O-Church" class="user" target="_blank">Michael O. Church</a>, <div id="__w2_oxxDN4U_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu hidden hover_menu_wide"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_oxxDN4U_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents"> </div></div><a id="__w2_oxxDN4U_link" routing="q://user/(818654)" href="/Clinton-Wong" class="user" target="_blank">Clinton Wong</a>, <a id="__w2_FLYemDX_toggle_link" href="#" class="more_link">(more)</a><span id="__w2_kw9ztpV_toggle_indicator" class="hidden">Loading...</span></span></span></div></div><div id="__w2_qVPncRW_answer_content" class="answer_content"><div id="ld_MEzqvf_14166"><span id="ld_FgD58p_17256"><span class="hidden">7854</span><span id="ld_Sadpl0_7029"><div class="suggested"><div id="__w2_NeOrMpv_inline_editor_content" class="inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value"><div id="__w2_Fc4ILSH_outer"><div id="__w2_Fc4ILSH_container"><b>Confessions of a former investment banker</b> - I worked on several multi-billion transactions and this is what I've learned:<br><ul><li>'Investment' banking has little to do with investments. Your primary job is to advise corporations on equity/debt issuance and mergers & acquisitions. Heck, that's not even true, you are really a 'salesman', and your primary job is to maintain a relationship with corporations and <i>convince </i>them to hire you on financing and M&A activities.</li><li>Being a banker from Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley (or any bulge bracket bank) doesn't mean you know what's really going on in the markets or finance. You are just a cog in the wheel.</li><li>Investment bankers advise CEOs/CFOs on major corporate transactions on the premise that they are financial experts in the industries (tech, industrials, consumer, etc.). However, most of them are quite clueless about their own company/industry. Ask your Goldman Sachs investment banking buddy what's going on with Goldman Sachs. Try it! If they are honest, they will tell you they don't have a clue.</li><li>Heck, most investment bankers are not that capable of managing their own money. What they do with their own money is often very different from the advice they give others.</li><li>While presentation and advice appear sophisticated and precise, you really don't want to see how the sausage was made. Opinions range from educated guesses to made-up-stuff frequently masquerade as facts and well-researched advice. I've seen and performed my fair share of number fudging/massaging to justify a conclusion.</li><li>If you are a <i>junior</i> investment banker, you spend most of your time putting together powerpoint presentations/memos. And even more time making sure they look *pretty*. Junior bankers are the king of powerpoint/excel/word combo!</li><li>At the junior level, your workweek easily averages 80+hr/wk. During crunch time, it is not uncommon to work 120+hr/wk. That's 17+hr days, for 7 days a week! Sad thing is, most of that time is wasted on unproductive, wheel spinning tasks. (sidetracking a little here, but why so many ivy-league students want to go into investment banking is quite interesting, I have my own explanation here: <span class="qlink_container"><a href="/Harvard-College/Why-do-Harvard-undergraduates-head-to-Wall-Street/answer/Henry-Wong-7" target="_blank">Henry Wong's answer to Harvard College: Why do Harvard undergraduates head to Wall Street?</a></span>) (you may also want to see: <span class="qlink_container"><a href="/Investment-Banking/Why-do-investment-bankers-need-to-work-long-hours/answer/Henry-Wong-7" target="_blank">Henry Wong's answer to Investment Banking: Why do investment bankers need to work long hours?</a></span>)</li><li>Which brings me to my next point, investment bankers are pretty bad project/people managers. The working hours I mentioned above could be cut in half if someone slightly higher up just managed a little better. Some people justify this as a hazing ritual.</li><li>Confidential and private information are rarely treated as such. People can't help talking about what they are working on.</li><li>Most bankers know they are generally overpaid. But every banker thinks they are <i>underpaid </i>compared to other bankers. It is all relative.</li><li>It is a culture of greed and envy. Envy being the more toxic one, in my opinion.</li><li>The above is common knowledge to most seasoned investment bankers. They just accept it as is after some time.</li></ul><br>I'm just scratching the surface...<br><br>--<br>See also:<br><ul><li><span class="qlink_container"><a href="/Investment-Banking/Why-do-investment-bankers-need-to-work-long-hours/answer/Henry-Wong-7" target="_blank">Henry Wong's answer to Investment Banking: Why do investment bankers need to work long hours?</a></span></li><li><span class="qlink_container"><a href="/Harvard-College/Why-do-Harvard-undergraduates-head-to-Wall-Street/answer/Henry-Wong-7" target="_blank">Henry Wong's answer to Harvard College: Why do Harvard undergraduates head to Wall Street?</a></span></li></ul><div id="__w2_Fc4ILSH_container_boundary" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; height:0px; width:0px;" class="container_boundary"> </div></div><div id="__w2_bxbR4JF_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu quote-hover-menu hidden"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_bxbR4JF_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents quote-button"><a 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I am not sure whether these are company policies or laws, and they're probably a combination of both, but on a typical fast food shoot these rules apply.<br><br><ul><li><b>The meal must be prepared from actual store stock (</b>from the frozen patty to the bun to the seasonings). On a shoot, stylists would receive tons of product, which they would pore through to find the best-looking raw material.</li><li><b>The food must be cooked and assembled by an actual store employee</b>. Seriously, they'll bring in some kid who works the fry station to make the food for the shoot, because they have to. </li><li><b>The employee, however, is allowed to take his/her time, and gets as many tries as they want to get the food perfect. </b>Stylists get really involved here, going so far as to place individual strands of shredded cheese or whatever in strategic places. And remember, the cook starts out with preselected stock; it's not like he/she is throwing random fries in the fryer. It's not like the FDA is looking over anyone's shoulder, but the store employee does take the leading role in food prep for a commercial.</li><li><b>Stylists are allowed to brush oil and other edible substances on the thing to make it look nice for the camera, but they can't use lacquer or anything non-edible.</b> The exception is food like ice cream that wouldn't stand up to the conditions of the shoot. This rule is taken very seriously.</li></ul><br>So the TV commercial fast food is, in fact, real. Does that blow your mind? 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This is no joke.<br><br>I used to work at a top 2 food & beverage company in the U.S. as a brand manager. While there I was a part of or observed:<br><br><ol><li>National multi-million dollar product launches performed because 'it worked in another country'. Either 0 research was performed or the research pointed against it.</li><li>Multi-million dollar advertising campaigns performed (despite poor testing) because we didn't want to 'hurt the relationship with our ad agency'.</li><li>Legal decisions on product names, flavors, nutrition data etc. made by whoever you can find. If the first lawyer doesn't give you the answer you want, go find another.</li><li>Hiring based on economic trends. Some people just happen to be in charge when everything else is going right, and then get promoted way too far.</li><li>National marketing decisions made by people in engineering, sales, etc.</li><li>National engineering decisions (including purchases in the plant, what lines to run, when to have overtime, etc.) made by people in marketing (including myself).</li><li>International growth masking domestic failure. Sometimes you can't help but grow in new markets, which totally masked absurd amounts of failure at all levels domestically.</li><li>Total unfamiliarity with technology. At all levels of the organization, including marketing, we (still) use: Windows XP, IE6, and Microsoft Apps from a long time ago. I got in trouble for upgrading to IE9 and Chrome, and was forced to uninstall them. Facebook and Twitter are treated as though they are the most mysterious technology to ever exist.</li></ol><br>I could go on for a long, long time. 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Someone handmade them - probably an intern or junior member of the event team - but it wasn't the guy (or more accurately, the female visible minority or young person) holding the sign. Similarly, it's not just a coincidence that the messaging on the sign matches what's in the speech. Standard practice is to allow no signs of any type through the doors into an event venue, and then either have a table where people can pick up signs, or have event staff distribute them to strategically-placed guests. </li></ul><br><ul><li>From the same discipline (when staging a large event), there exists a role called the crowd designer. Before the doors open and the cameras do their technical load-in, this person will have gone to all the major camera positions in the room and mapped out exactly which seats/standing spots will be visible in "the shot" behind the Candidate. These positions will be blocked off, and as people are filing in the crowd designer will pick photogenic people of the right visual appearance/category to stand in those spots. They'll be briefed, and then instructed not to move, no matter what. It's no coincidence that the people you see behind a Candidate are always super-enthusiastic, good-looking, and cover all the appropriate age/gender/ethnic demographics. </li></ul><br><ul><li>This applies to most professional PR, but especially in politics - when you see a quote from someone in a press release, and it's not a verbatim quote from the person in a speech they just delivered, they almost certainly didn't say it. What would have happened is that the author of the release - a mid-tier position in a political office - would have made up a quote that sounds plausible, sent it to the Comms office of the person they're "quoting" for approval, and once that's received, both sides have deemed that quote "said", regardless of whether someone's ever said it in public. </li></ul><br><ul><li>This is more a holistic point about political events you see on TV, but nothing happens "by accident". Even for the most minor event or tour, someone's been in contact with the organizers for two weeks, and has been on-site for three days already briefing anyone and everyone. That spontaneous person coming forwards to give the Candidate flowers? Pre-approved and vetted. The safety signs on the wall the Candidate is walking by in a factory? Sanitized for possible negative angles. The everyman-esque ordering of a coffee while the tour bus has an impromptu stopped? The store manager knew the bus was coming, and what everyone would be ordering (how do you think there was parking for two buses and a security entourage?). The forklift that just happens to be blocking anyone from getting a photograph from an angle that would show how few people are present in a venue? Not parked there by accident. The four workshops located in a row that the Candidate just toured? They don't usually work there. The training class that the Candidate just visited? It doesn't usually happen on this day, and the last one ran two months ago. The local guy in jeans who's standing at the back and clapping enthusiastically, but maybe not staring at the stage? 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For this reason, professional musicians are trained to sight-read near-perfectly. <br><br>These rehearsals consist of:<br><ul><li>one sitzprobe, which is when only the major singing numbers are played (usually only once through, barring major catastrophes). 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So, here's some random facts from 1.5 km deep (that's about mile in ye olde units) underground mine.<br><br><b>Disclaimer:</b> These conditions refer to more traditional ore mines (copper, zinc, suphur etc). Coal, as well as gold in some cases, is bit trickier business as they both are deposited in low and long veins, so that there usually isn't as much space for high end equipment, whereas copper etc. is deposited in larger "clump", which is easier to mine. Also, as coal is low profit material, the mines are smaller and there usually isn't as much money to be burned to machinery, so it's more dangerous and messier business. Although, in bigger mines, I'd say it's still much more cleaner and safer than what the public usually thinks of. <br><br><br><b>Work conditions</b><br>Nowadays, in bigger mines, it's actually really safe and clean job. Down in 1.5km main level, everything's well lit, the walls are white (think of your basic underground garage), there are offices, repair and part shops, restaurant, sauna and even a cell "tower", so your cellphone works down there. Everything is done with big machines that have soundproof and air conditioned cabins, with MP3 players etc. The machines can also be operated remotely or even operate completely independently, by themselves. There are no big accidents.<br><br><div><img master_h="326" master_w="580" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4203a820a20ec73d12262925c27d4bf7" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-20fc148a200e2b8680366e40007c46ea" class="qtext_image zoomable_in zoomable_in_feed"></div><br><br><b>Drilling</b><br>When drilling, mine designer plots the holes in 3D software (that the whole mine is modeled in), the machine takes the hole designs and proceeds to drill them automatically. Basically, operator only needs to drive the drilling machine to the right place.<br><br><div><img master_h="375" master_w="500" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d3be75296891ae040f86d5612778e98c" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7293e7835cd6b14a09e6af27cede10c2" class="qtext_image zoomable_in zoomable_in_feed"></div><br><br><b>Loading</b><br>Loading machines, weighing up to 100 tons and completely filling the tunnel (3 meters high and wide, 10 meters long), operate independently and the operator, if they so choose, can even control them all the way from home. They fill the bucket remotely and sit back as the machine navigates to drop point by itself and comes back for refill. These babies cost over million euros a piece.<br><br><div><img master_h="273" master_w="400" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-bbe8e863ce98f5e8f78ebbd0e587c2ac" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-bbe8e863ce98f5e8f78ebbd0e587c2ac" class="qtext_image zoomable_in_feed"></div><br><br><b>Lift</b><br>The spool for the lift going all the way down has to be positioned in certain compass direction as the spin of the Earth affects ropes that long and thus would danger the lift itself if positioned the wrong way.<br><br><b>Moving</b><br>It takes about a minute to descend to the main level (1.5km) with the elevator or 45 minutes by car, driving down the spiral tunnel (in this picture, marked yellow as Decline, which I guess, it's the official name?).<br><br><div><img master_h="783" master_w="601" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-729a9647d00458d009fd62c95204df1e" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1d7fe7ef64ba73cb6b56260331e097ed" class="qtext_image zoomable_in zoomable_in_feed"></div><br><br><b>Automation</b><br>Everything's automated to the level that the whole factory can be run and operated by two men, both sitting comfortably up at the surface. Other operating and observing the factory while other operating the machinery (crushers, loaders the works) underground. In normal operations, the mine has about 250 employees.<br><br><b>Air</b><br>About 250 cubic meters of fresh air is pushed down to the mining levels every second.<br><br><b>Explosives</b><br>Average quarry (block of ore to be mined out) blast has up to 20 tons of high explosives and even though the blast takes place 1.5 km down in bedrock, it still can be heard and felt several kilometers out. In any given moment, there are hundreds of tons of high explosives underground.<br><br><b>Temperatures</b><br>There are no seasons that deep as the bedrock itself is actually so warm that the temperatures down there are the same (about +25C) wheter it's summer or even winter with -30 C outside.<br><br><b>Corrosion</b><br>Due the high corrosive environment, your basic lifespan of a car is about 12 months, at which point it's completely corroded through and has to be scrapped.<br><br><b>Environment</b><br>When done correctly, mining doesn't destroy nature. In this case, there is a big lake with clear water and lots of fish right next to the mine (just few hundred meters off). 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The strategies employed by the most advanced HFT firms are shockingly simple in terms of Maths or Stats: think exponential moving averages, with a handful of if statements and safety checks. If someone claims they’re running some crazy-advanced Simulated Annealing, they’re blowing smoke up your ass.<br><br>These firms aren’t shirking advanced methods because they think markets really are that simple or because they’re unable to do the math. They’re doing it because the best HFT firms are now around <b>2 microseconds</b> (context: sound takes sound 150ish Microseconds to travel from the back of your throat to your mouth) in signal to trade time, and doing advanced work takes a lot longer than that.<br><br>Two microseconds. Even at a computer’s level, that doesn’t leave very much time to actually do computations or even very reliable caching. A single cache miss costs 500 microseconds of latency. So, you can’t store too many values. Even computing a 10x10 matrix inverse in the fastest language would alone would blow past two microseconds. And using an OS or all of the great tools the c++ community has created over the years? Good luck with that. All the good things require complexity, and complexity requires non-negligible time when you’re in the nano and microsecond timeframe.<br><br>But on the flip side, being fast for some very very simple strategies has undeniable benefits. Every trading firm knows, via simple logic, when order flow at one exchange or in a dark pool represents an imbalance relative to the rest of the market. Taking advantage of that imbalance is what the best HFT firms do, and getting taken advantage of (picked off) by those HFT algorithms means you go out of business very quickly.<br><br>So, when faced with the decision to produce a reliable, stable strategy that provides good liquidity, or simply the fastest adequate one possible, speed wins every time. A lot like a sailor who’s throwing valuable merchandise off his boat in order to move faster, HFT firms are chucking every benefit computers have brought to finance in order to accommodate the basest and most useless part, since that’s what generates the most reliable PnL.<br><br>So, if you were thinking that HFT will get better and more stable as we learn more and build better programs, think again. 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I spent about 70% of my time playing online, with about 30% reserved for live tournaments (think WSOP, WPT, EPT, etc.) and cash games. These are some of the things I noticed that people find most interesting (note: these are just my observations):<br><br><b>Most live poker players have literally no clue what's truly going on at the table</b><br>This is a function of the evolution of poker. Back in the day, it took people years to acquire the same experience that it now takes months online.<br><br>Think about it like this: in live poker, one can only play 1 table at a time. Now a great live dealer might deal 20 hands/hour. That means if you play 10 hours a day, you've played 200 hands. If you play 300 days/year, that's 60,000 hands. Meanwhile, some online players can play somewhere between 10-20 tables at one time. Let's say an online player plays 10 tables at a time, at an average rate of 100 hands/hr/table. That's 1,000 hands/hour, 10,000 hands/day and 3,000,000 hands/year. It's not even close.*<br><br>NL Holdem' isn't a solved game, but online players have broken down the game to the minutia. There are great forums (2+2, Pocketfives, etc.) that give online players the ability the discuss any decision. There are awesome video sites (CardRunners, Leggo Poker, etc.) that give online players the ability to watch some of the best players play and discuss strategy in real-time. And online players can share hand histories via chat platforms to discuss small tweaks in strategy.<br><br><b>As a corollary, most "celebrity" poker players are relatively bad at poker</b><br>Most of the live players just didn't evolve with the game. Their fundamentals are considered "bad" and while they may have a great feel for the game, they make mathematically bankrupt decisions time-and-time again.<br><br>Phil Hellmuth is the poster child for this. He has won the most amount of bracelets, but his fundamentals (mathematically) are atrocious. The reason he wins: he gets people to punt stacks to him more than almost any other player because he is Phil Hellmuth and it's awesome to bluff him so you can tell your friends back home.<br><br><b>Most tournament poker players are "backed"</b><br>Most of the guys you see on TV are "horses," backed by other players. Typically backing deals are 50-50 but include make-up, which means that if you win a tournament for $1M, but your backer has put you in $500,000 of tournaments without a payout, the $500,000 comes out of the winnings (and gets paid back to the backer) before you split the profits. Then the cycle starts all over again.<br><br>What this means is that most tournament players do not have 100% of themselves in any tournament. Even the ones who back themselves swap percentages with other players to defend against variance.<br><br>The other product from this is that most players are playing from behind. Backing creates a vicious cycle; the only way to get out is to win a big tournament. So, you get people who are dead broke (because they haven't been paid out in forever) playing in high buy-in events chasing a big score. It's a recipe for disaster.<br><br><b>Most poker players are not John Nash</b><br>Most poker players do not see numbers floating around when they are making decisions. They know the math, but most are not going to recite 50+ digits of pi for you. Instead, they are doing quick multiples and fractions in their head. How much should you bet? It's a multiple of the blind or the last bet or a fraction of the pot or the last bet. Then, it's an understanding of pot-to-stack and what the sizing will be on later streets.<br><br><b>It doesn't take anything more than a buy-in to enter into most live tournaments</b><br>Want to play in the World Series of Poker Main Event? All it takes is $10K. It's not that special to play in live events. All you have to do is pony up the dough.<br><br><b>Most online players love to play while on drugs</b><br>The drug of choice is almost always weed. Online players say it calms their nerves, especially when they are playing a whole host of tables. They also look to smoke when they play live because they are so used to it.<br><br>I will try to think of more - these are just the first that come to my mind.<br><br>*note: I may have over-estimated here. Most online players are playing 60-80 hands/hour, not 100. Most probably play 5 hours/day and most play more like 5 tables/time. Still that's 1,750 hands/day x 300 days = 525,000 hands/year. The numbers are stil grossly different between live and online. 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Lavimodiere</a>, <a id="__w2_pYSGb1f_toggle_link" href="#" class="more_link">(more)</a><span id="__w2_mMX8TFZ_toggle_indicator" class="hidden">Loading...</span></span></span></div></div><div id="__w2_nbfeGuY_answer_content" class="answer_content"><div id="ld_cDNf88_2992"><span id="ld_cDNf88_3092"><span class="hidden">1647</span><span id="ld_cDNf88_3101"><div class="suggested"><div id="__w2_IYfv7H9_inline_editor_content" class="inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value"><div id="__w2_VVSp83H_outer"><div id="__w2_VVSp83H_container">I worked in a Congressional office on Capitol Hill and I think most people outside of Washington, DC would be surprised how those offices are run.<br><br>You have interns who do the grunt work of making copies and such. Same as everywhere. <br><br>You have Staff Assistants (and sometimes interns) who answer the phones. People typically call to either make a complaint (why did the Congressman vote this way!? etc) or they want to talk to someone about a legislative issue (what is the Congressman's position on X? etc). If they want to do the second they get passed on to a Legislative Assistant (see below). When people call to complain the Staff Assistant patiently listens and then says "Ok, we'll pass that on to the Congressman." Then, they hang up the phone and go back to their business. If tons and tons of people start calling on a certain issue the Staff Assistant lets everyone else in the office know and the Chief of Staff decides whether a statement should be issued.<br><br>You have Legislative Correspondents that respond to all the email and snail mail that come into the office. Form letters have been created on each issue that could come up so when you get an email about gun control, for example, they would just tailor the gun control form letter to send to the constituent. <br><br>You then have Legislative Assistants (LA) who do all the research on each bill that is to be voted on. So if you have a bill on reinvesting in NASA, for example, you would have a 26 year old kid (LA's are typically 25 - 28 years old) do research on it to figure out how the Congressman should vote. They then pass that research on to the Legislate Director and the Chief of Staff who review it and then send the final recommendation on to the Congressman. The LAs are also the ones who meet with people when they stop by the office. People of all stripes stop by to share their concerns (We are here from X group and we think the Congressman should do Y about issue Z). The LA listens patiently and once they leave they throw away all the materials the group gave them and they go back to their business.<br><br>You have the Communications Director or Press Secretary who does all the social media, website posting, fielding calls from reporters, writing press releases, op-eds, and speeches. There is practically nothing written that comes out of the office that is actually written by the Congressman. I was in a GOP office and the RNC sent us an email everyday with talking points about what was going on in the news. Everything is copied and pasted from there.<br><br>The "District Office" is the small office back in the county that the Congressman represents. They get all the ridiculous local stuff. I once had a lady call the DC office to complain about a kid who drove his car into her living room and she wanted the Congressman to do something about it. I had her call the District Office.<br><br>The Legislative Director and the Chief of Staff oversee the staff.<br><br>Another funny issue is faxes. Every morning the interns go to the fax machine and there are over 200 faxes sitting there. Lots of them are duplicates because non-profits and advocacy firms have figured out how to set their websites up so constituents can fax an office by filling out a form. The intern isn't paid and doesn't really care so he just throws them in a recycle bin never to be looked at again.<br><br>When Congress isn't in session the staff still have to come in to work but there isn't much to do. So everyone comes in in jeans and checks Facebook all day. Some offices throw parties with kegs and beer pong.<br><br>There you have it. 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class="inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value"><div id="__w2_j2Moafk_outer"><div id="__w2_j2Moafk_container">I talked with a guy outside the software industry today and he was surprised about all of this, so apparently it qualifies.<br><br>I work with a couple hundred other people on a pretty well-known piece of software.<br><br>Every release has had hundreds of <u>known</u> bugs (as in, we knew about them before we shipped), and probably another hundred unknown bugs (as in, our customers will discover them after we ship).<br><br>Writing software is <i>hard</i>, and working on a large product - one that has been growing and morphing for over a decade - is insanely hard. Every change you make has the potential to break something - or hundreds of things. So we employ really smart people to make changes. And they test their changes. And if the change appears risky, they hand it off to another really smart person, who also tests it. And before the change is incorporated into the product, it has to pass tens of thousands of automated tests (a half-dozen servers run for about ten hours to validate a typical change, or a dozen might run for 24 hours for an atypical change). And even after all of that, it's not unusual to later find <i>bugs</i> that were caused by the change - side-effects that weren't predicted and aren't desirable.<br><br>So while we're developing, we sort through the bug reports every week and decide which reports are nonsense (this happens more than you might think), which ones are actually the intended behavior (when something change, even if it changes deliberately, people complain), and which are <i>really </i>bugs. Of those that are really bugs, we decide how important they are - how many customers are likely to notice? How unhappy will they be? What are the <i>predicted </i>side-effects, and how will customers feel about those? How much risk is there of <i>unpredictable </i>side-effects? If it "meets the bar," then the bug is assigned to someone. If it doesn't, we ship with it.<br><br>In the last several months before a release, the bar gets higher. More bugs get punted to the next release, due to risk or due to a high likelihood that hardly anyone will notice. Fewer bugs get fixed. We do this because we need to stabilize the product - we need to get the rate-of-change low, so that we can spend <i>weeks </i>just<i> </i>testing something that's very much like what we'll ship.<br><br>As the bar goes up and the rate-of-change goes down, we spend more and more time looking over the bugs that were postponed, and we ask ourselves the same questions again. Is this bug still worth fixing? Some bugs get resolved as "we are not going to fix this" (unless of course a customer complains - we're always willing to reconsider) and others get assigned to people who will get started on them - but their fixes will be included not in the upcoming release, but in the one after that.<br><br>And then we ship.<br><br>And then we start incorporating the fixes in that backlog of bugs, and adding the features that we wished we could have already shipped but didn't have time to implement, and the whole process starts over.<br><br>This is how things have been done at many software companies for many years.<br><br>There's a growing trend of keeping product quality <i>very </i>high all the way through the developement process, so that at any point in time (or at least, once a month) you can ship what you have. I've been agitating for a switch to that model, and I am sure it will happen eventually, because it's the right thing to do.<br><br>But even in that model, there will be bugs that don't get fixed, because we will still choose to invest most of our time adding features that <i>customers are begging for</i>, instead of fixing bugs that <i>probably won't get noticed. </i>It's tough to balance those two forces.<br><br>If you have 100 bugs that only affect 1 customer in 100, you have a product that is <i>eventually </i>going to annoy 100% of your customers at some point. That makes me sad. But at the same time, I also have no doubt that if we took a year off and fixed a ton of those rarely-encountered bugs, we'd lose market share to a competitor who shipped more cool new features than we did that year. 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I've also worked in the department that cleans and sterilizes instruments for surgery. Here are some of the things I think the general public would find mind blowing:<br><br><i>1. Reusing Instrumentation</i><br>Almost all instruments (even a basic one like a scissor) are washed and sterilized for re-use. I thought most people understood this, but throughout my career I've been astonished at how many in the general public think surgical instruments are one-time use. There are <i><u>very</u></i> few instruments that are thrown away after being used on someone. The exception to re-use are things like needles, suture, etc. Almost everything else is washed and sterilized for re-use.<br><br><i>2. Complex Instruments Not Properly Cleaned</i><br>Some instrumentation is so complex that it is not taken apart and properly cleaned between patients. This is usually due to poor training (see #6 below). For example, instruments for total hip or knee replacement can get quite loaded with debris during surgery, but they are so complex that the folks responsible for cleaning and sterilizing them have no idea how they are used. As a result, they have no idea how to take them apart and clean them thoroughly. This results in lots of debris (deep inside the complex instruments) being left behind, and used again on future patients. Over time, this lack of proper cleaning builds up and can be quite gross and shocking. I've taken apart some instruments for repair that have had built up debris of old dried blood, fat, etc. From the outside view of the instrument, it looks clean but inside it's very dirty. These instruments which are thought to be sterile are used on patients over and over. <br><br><i>3. Electronic/Complex Instruments Not Completely Cleaned</i><br>Due to their delicate nature, many electronic instruments can't be put through the typical high heat washer/disinfector machines that regular metal instruments go through (scissors, clamps, needleholders). These electronic/complex items are just wiped off with alcohol and then sent through low-heat sterilization. However, if an item isn't thoroughly clean, it's technically not considered sterile. I've seen some of these electronic items opened for repair and there is a shocking amount of debris in cracks and crevices which is built up over hundreds of uses.<br><br><i>4. "Loaner" Instruments</i><br>For large orthopedic surgeries, hospitals often trial a system of instrumentation from a manufacturer before deciding to buy the system. This means that a hip or knee system of 10-30 surigcal trays of instruments are shuttled between several different hospitals in a city or region. This is concerning because the vendors who transport these instruments are usually under high sales pressure and logistical pressure to get the instruments to the next hospital as quickly as possible (either to another city or even another state). These vendors are usually just salespeople and have very little respect for the importance of making sure all of the instruments are cleaned properly before taking them to the next hospital. I've seen instrument vendor salespeople take bloody instruments directly from a surgery and put them in their car to take to the next hospital. Then, being pressured to have them ready for surgery at the next hospital, they take the instruments through a "quick" wash and rapid sterilization. Fortunately, many hospitals are starting to crack down on this, but it is still very common.<br><br><i>5. Logistical Errors</i><br>While not terribly common, it's also not unheard of to have a completely unsterile set of instruments be used on a patient. This often happens due to logistical and communication problems. While at a hospital in a major U.S. city, we had more than one occasion when our hospital had to send letters to patients letting them know that the instruments which were used on them were not sterile. In more severe cases, the unsterile instruments have actually resulted in people contracting various diseases.<br><br><i>6. No Formal Education/Certification Required For Technicians</i><br>The folks that wash and sterilize instruments for surgery (called Sterile Processing Technicians) are not required by law (except for about 2 U.S. states) to have any specialized certification for what they do. In fact, in most hospitals, technicians who are responsible for cleaning and sterilization are often very poorly educated. In healthcare, they tend to be put in the same classification as house keepers. In fact, I've seen those in house keeping move into Sterile Processing roles without any formal education. I've worked with many Sterile Processing Technicians who have no high school diploma and who don't even know how to open an e-mail. This ends up being a huge issue because without basic education microbiology and sterilization, they aren't able to grasp concepts of making sure things get properly cleaned and prepared for surgery. Besides the basics of microbiology, they don't have the faintest idea about how the instruments which they clean are used in surgery (and therefore don't know how to take them apart to clean them). Fortunately there is a big push to change this, but the dangers were highlighted in a study (which was reported by NBC).<br><br>REPORT FROM NBC:<br><a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46505476#46505476">http://video.msnbc.msn.co<wbr></wbr>m/night...</a><br><br>EXAMPLES (some quick examples I threw together...nothing too gross, so don't worry. 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id="__w2_x4maJSa_answer_content" class="answer_content"><div id="ld_aJs2rr_357"><span id="ld_aJs2rr_463"><span class="hidden">2755</span><span id="ld_aJs2rr_475"><div class="suggested"><div id="__w2_P0Uozj1_inline_editor_content" class="inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value"><div id="__w2_LNEGpup_outer"><div id="__w2_LNEGpup_container">Don't know that it would be mind-blowing, but given Hollywood's depiction of this, it may be for some:<br><br>Tracing a call to the originator does NOT take any amount of time. The phone company switches know who called whom and when at all times. It is very important for billing purposes. What you see in the movies with the police telling the victims to keep the bad guy on the phone long enough to trace the call is simply baloney. When someone is the victim of extortion and law enforcement is involved, their numbers are put in a special state and every call is immediately traced and reported to the police.<br><br>Some caveats:<br><br>Public phones in the US used to have numbers that you could call (maybe they still do). Those numbers were not necessarily different from regular business or home phone numbers. A call could be traced but figuring out whether it was a public phone or not and where it was located was tricky for some local phone companies.<br><br>Cell phones are a nightmare for the same reason. The US does not have a particular set of numbers dedicated exclusively to this service. 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It's built by BAE Systems, and it's based on the Motorola PowerPC 750, the same processor used in the Apple iBook. It runs at 200 MHz, about a factor of ten slower than the computer you are probably reading this answer on. 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investigators find that if there are eyewitnesses to an aircraft crash, they <i>nearly always report having seen an explosion or fire</i> immediately before the aircraft hit the ground. After comprehensive investigation, it's <i>nearly always found that there wasn't any explosion or fire</i>. (My personal theory is that it's possibly due to the small time lapse between seeing and hearing the impact confusing our minds.)<br><br><b><u>High-speed or high-angle aircraft accidents don't leave large debris</u></b><br>Many crashes occur at take-off and landing - the most dangerous phases of flight - and are thus low-speed, low-angle incidents. Even very severe incidents usually end up looking "recognisably plane-like":<br><br><div><img master_h="167" master_w="302" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7f13f8fd447313d2183f3955ac28200d" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7f13f8fd447313d2183f3955ac28200d" class="qtext_image zoomable_in_feed"></div><br>Incidents from altitude and/or at high speed and/or at an acute angle tend to look far more like this:<br><br><div><img master_h="192" master_w="262" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-87e6fe6564b136b9575c35198de947ec" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-87e6fe6564b136b9575c35198de947ec" class="qtext_image zoomable_in_feed"></div><br>(Which is why conspiracy theorists re 9/11 Flight 93 debris don't have a valid point with regard to "lack of debris"; you wouldn't <i>expect</i> any significantly-sized debris, except perhaps the engines.)<br><br><b><u>Aircraft documentation is incredibly voluminous</u></b><br>The amount of documentation associated with every aircraft - descriptions of what the aircraft is, how to repair it, emergency procedures, etc - are phenomenally extensive. Each aircraft type would be delivered to purchasers accompanied by hundreds of thousands of pages of technical documentation.<br><br><b><u>Configuration management is phenomenally meticulous</u></b><br>For each individual aircraft, a "type record" is maintained, which describes in minute detail exactly what state every aircraft in the fleet is in. Every time a part is replaced, it's recorded. But even in a fleet of "identical" aircraft, there will be tiny differences. For example, a particular wire - and every single wire is identified, described, and labelled, and its exact routing minutely described - might be of a different type in some of the fleet than in others, as older type wires are changed to newer ones as they cycle through maintenance. <i>Every single difference</i> is meticulously recorded.<br><br>As an example of the scale of the documentation, when Australia retired its relatively small fleet of less than 30 F-111 aircraft, here is the documentation that was archived:<br><br><div><img master_h="350" master_w="662" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3a8da311c8fc4df88ce4114cba66edda" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6c71fa5ba5c1628ec4ab1c57cf0a0518" class="qtext_image zoomable_in zoomable_in_feed"></div><br><b><u>Pilot error doesn't mean "bad pilot"</u></b><br>Nearly all aircraft crashes are attributed at least in part to "pilot error", usually amongst numerous other factors. Particularly if the pilot has been killed, families can find this very difficult to accept, and feel that their deceased family member is being "blamed" or disrespected. People in the aviation field know and accept that <i>everybody</i> makes errors; <i>systems are supposed to be designed to be robust enough to withstand human errors within the normal range</i>, eg fatigue, inattention, forgetfulness, etc. Aircraft investigations are - rightly - uncompromising in identifying the causes, and "pilot error" will nearly always be one of the contributors, even if only a minor contributor. That doesn't mean that the pilot was a bad pilot, or even that they had a bad day. It means that their particular oversight wasn't one that they got away with on that particular occasion, usually because of a combination of other systemic issues. 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class="user">Caroline Zelonka</a>, <a id="__w2_OVylluK_toggle_link" href="#" class="more_link">(more)</a><span id="__w2_zUNsPp7_toggle_indicator" class="hidden">Loading...</span></span></span></div></div><div id="__w2_cBw1dlE_answer_content" class="answer_content"><div id="ld_KhhITh_1629"><span id="ld_KhhITh_1734"><span class="hidden">9014</span><span id="ld_KhhITh_1746"><div class="suggested"><div id="__w2_JsQfBVF_inline_editor_content" class="inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value"><div id="__w2_VDSxfJ4_outer"><div id="__w2_VDSxfJ4_container">Many Peace Corps Volunteers are actually placed in urban settings, though I'm not one of them. Many PCVs are surprised when they get their site placement because everyone expects to be way out in the middle of nowhere, but it makes sense to have people serving in more populated areas because you get more bang for your buck than if you work in a tiny remote village.<br><br>Consequently, many PCVs live in houses that are bigger and sometimes nicer in some respects that the little apartments most people rented in the States. A seasoned PCV explained it to me very well during my training, "Our government doesn't pay all that money for us to come down here and live in squalor, they pay for us to come do development work. We're an investment and Peace Corps knows that we're not productive if we're miserable." Peace Corps' goal when placing volunteers is to ensure that we live at the same level as the average person in our community. In a sense, if we have a relatively nice house (e.g. running water, consistent electricity for at least part of the day, clean and safe environment, cell phone signal) that means the country is developing and we're doing our job.<br><br>The budget to support the 9,095 PCVs and trainees currently serving is $375 million per year. I think it's interesting to contrast that with the budget for the US military bands, which was $320 million until 2011 budget cuts.<br><br>When our service ends we're given a readjustment stipend of roughly $7,000 to help us get back on our feet after having no income for 2 years and moving back to the States. Before we even see that money 15% is taken out for taxes.<br><br>Married people can serve together. I am one :)<br><br>Africa only accounts for 39% of site placements for PCVs. The rest are spread throughout Latin America (24%), Eastern Europe/Central Asia (18%), Asia (9%), the Caribbean (4%), North Africa/Middle East (3%), and the Pacific Islands (3%)<br><br>When you think "Peace Corps", people usually think hippy-chíc is how we all dress. The fact is that PCVs in every country are expected (even required) to dress in clothes that are considered business casual for work in that culture. Where I work (which does happen to be in a remote jungle-type setting) we have a dress code that is strictly enforced and posted outside every administrative building. Apparently Americans have a reputation outside the States for dressing too casually, and this stereotype is greatly reinforced by tourists who typically dress like they're going camping when they travel to developing areas (safari hats, pants that zip into shorts, open-toed shoes like Chacos, etc). The perception in many developing countries is that we have lots of money and should consequently dress to the 9s all the time. People in my community consistently struggle to understand how our president would ever be seen without a tie and sleeves rolled up. To us, that style of dress conveys a sense of "the common man" which our culture values, but to many people in the developing world they would feel insulted if a top ranking public official came to their community dressed like that. They would interpret it as if she or he didn't care enough about them to dress "properly". 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Even for the most mundane and average commercials, teams of people agonized and argued over the most minute details. <br><br>The companies involved:<br><br><b>1. Advertising Agency</b> - Ideates and pitches a concept to a client. This is the only company that ever deals directly with the advertiser themselves.<br><br><b>2. Production Company</b> - Agency hires a production company to physically execute the shoot. They manage everything from casting, location, art direction, set design, etc etc. Commercial directors are tied to production companies so the production company is often chosen based on a particular director the agency would like to work with.<br><br><b>3. Dailies/Lab Company</b> - After the shoot the footage is sent to a lab/dailies house. Digital camera files are huge and require tons of storage space. The company responsible for editing doesn't want to work with such large/heavy files so they are made smaller for the purpose of editing. 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It could be as simple as product shot (bottle, pill, etc) or as complex as a photorealistic computer generated world.<br><br><b>7.</b> <b>Color Correction Company</b> - This is typically a specialized company that has very expensive equipment for the sole purposes of color correcting large moving images. Now that the edit is done, the color grading company can go back to the high quality source footage and color only what was used in the edit. This process is charged by the hour and is one of the most expensive steps in the process (on an hourly basis) costing $500 - $2000/hour. A 30 second commercial will usually require 2-4 hours of color correction.<br><br><b>8.</b> <b>Online/Finishing Company</b> - This will usually be the same company that's responsible for the visual effects but not always. This the last step in the process as far as the video side is concerned. All the color corrected footage is re-assembled to re-create the edit along with all the elements created by the other companies (visual effects, motion graphics, etc). This is also typically the stage where any final clean-up may take place. Beautifying people's skin, removing stray or objectionable objects from the footage and overall making sure everything is perfect.<br><br><b>9.</b> <b>Music Composer</b> - Some commercials have original music that is composed for them. Others use stock music.<br><br><b>10. Audio Mix</b> - As soon as the edit was finished, the audio mix was probably started. The audio mix takes the composed music or stock music and mixes it perfectly with the dialogue as well as ads other sound effects. <br><br><b>11. 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Comments say nothing about any particular job and are about the industry and career in general. <br><br>1. <b>It's almost impossible to tell a good engineer from a bad one.</b> If you're not a software engineer, it probably <i>is</i> impossible. Even for us, though, it's pretty difficult. Taste and code competence both matter. The former is easy to measure; the latter requires looking at a lot of a person's code. <br><br>2. <b>Most legacy source code is completely unreadable.</b> Bugs are (usually) no big deal. All software has bugs, and most are easy to fix and of relatively low consequence: just embarrassing. However, many technical assets that are generated in the enterprise have no documentation, and the code is (or falls to) such low quality that people can no longer comprehend it. In the long term, that's more of a problem, because it results in systems where fixing one bug causes another. Worse yet, this is the usual endpoint of code if complexity and code cleanliness aren't aggressively managed. <br><br>3. <b>Competence of engineers varies widely, and is also heavily influenced by context. </b>Software's very specialized. We have back-end and front-end, DBAs and C++ optimizers. It's a lot of fun to work "full stack" on a small project, but few of us get this opportunity. The competence ordering of a set of engineers changes radically as the underlying technologies change (which is the economic motivation behind the so-called "religious wars" around technical infrastructure). <br><br>4. <b>Bad engineers have a political advantage.</b> Sadly, industry "best practices" (such as those ungodly design patterns and the Java culture) development has been dictated by mediocre engineers for the last 20 years. Software's a pyramid, and there are just a lot more mediocre and bad engineers who've learned bad tastes, and they have the advantage. It's not necessarily an IQ thing; some of them are plenty smart and quite capable of convincing upper management that they actually have a clue, when they don't. <br><br>5. <b>Politics in our industry can be vicious.</b> Software is very performance-based but far from meritocratic. See (3) and (4) above. The people who make infrastructural choices have a huge advantage over those who are downstream of them. They set the performance measure and the processes, and they tend to choose tools with which they're already comfortable. There's a huge benefit to having the credibility with upper management that enables them to make the rules (what languages are used, what practices are followed, how to manage legacy) and a lot of people will do just about anything to get it. <br><br>6. <b>We "job hop" because we have to.</b> If you're doing the same thing for 4 years in software, you can end up way behind the times. This doesn't necessarily require changing companies, but in practice, usually it does. Also, productivity and the quality of available work tend to decline as a codebase and company grow, and the average-case scenario is for programmers to be seen as "IT" by the business and just get pigeonholed deeper into the grunt work, rather than progressively more interesting projects. Individual software jobs are rarely meritocratic, but the long-term career tends to be, and people readjust to their value by finding new jobs. (Unfortunately, this creates a lot of legacy code.)<br><br>7. <b>We live in urban "superhubs" because we have to</b>. We don't all necessarily want to live in New York, Boston, or the Bay Area. These places are so expensive that even a good programmer's salary makes you second-rate (in New York, third-rate). We live in such places because (see 6) we need a liquid job market. Yes, there are great engineers and companies all over the place, but the market is liquid/continuous in the superhubs and illiquid/discrete in the rest of the country. <br><br>8.<b> For a non-programmer, it's impossible to tell if our work is interesting.</b> Business types tend to think of our work as boring, because they conflate "detail-oriented" with "boring grunt work". Not so. It's not for everyone, but a lot of us find the detail-oriented stuff fascinating. In programming, you can really <i>know</i> things. That's what details buy you. It's very hard for a non-programmer to look at a project and determine what's an interesting project. A lot of work that business people find boring we actually find really fun (and vice versa). <br><br>9. <b>Most of us don't get to spend more than 20% of our time writing code, and most of our jobs aren't creative.</b> A lot of software engineers end up in the bowels of rusting legacy systems and spend most of their time on difficult but unrewarding maintenance slogs, lucky to log 200 lines of source code per month. 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Why? Well, let’s do the math:<br><b>The 2011 recruiting statistics were on average 400 applicants per job, per week.</b> However, Recruiters don't just recruit for one job, so let’s do simple math:<br><b>400 applicants per week x 10 jobs = 4000 Resumes to review per week</b><br>Companies don't want their Recruiters wasting time reviewing 4000+ resumes that might not even lead them to the "needle in a haystack" (ideal candidates). From the company's perspective, it's better to have the Recruiter focus on searching for the right candidates than sifting through 4000+ resumes. 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Of course, I grew up in the midwest with very little exposure to the industry.<br><br>No one actually says "Lights, Camera, Action". This is a hold over from when film was much less sensitive, and it was costly/dangerous to leave studio lights on for long periods of time. Also notice that there's nothing in there about sound. What they actually say is more like this: "Quiet please! Ready? Roll sound..." (someone says "Sound speed", then someone else says the name of the shot and take, eg "Scene 21-Echo, take 2") "...Roll camera..." (someone else says "Camera speed", someone else says "Mark" and claps the slate) "...Action!" Also, depending on the set/director, most of this may be said by the 1st assistant director.<br><br>Related to that, no one ever, EVER says "check the gate, we're moving on". The reason for this is that, if it is a bad gate (meaning that a small hair or shred of celluloid got stuck between the film and the lens), they have to reshoot the scene since that take would be unusable. <br><br>Everything, and I mean <i>everything</i> has a special name on set. Extension cords are "stingers", food is "crafty", tape is "gaff" (I should point out that "Gaff" is actually a specific brand of tape, but rarely is any other type of tape used on set), and actors are "talent".<br><br>Set teachers aren't just there to teach. They are responsible for making sure that the crew follows all of the nit-picky rules for working with minors on set. Depending on the age of the child actor, the set teacher can even require that certain lights must be turned off because they're too bright.<br><br>Most things that film theory teachers would have you believe are intentional and symbolic are actually accidental or not thought out. A great example of this is the scene from "In Cold Blood" where rain on a window is projecting on an actors face and making it look like he's crying. This was a total accident.<br><br>The vast majority of the time spent on making a film is not spent on the filming, or even the post-production. It is the pre-production, starts with a bunch of people getting together and saying "Let's make a movie!" and ends the night before the first day of shooting. This process can take years, or even decades. The script for "John Carter" was floating around Disney way back in the early nineties.<br><br>It's really not that unusual for a large film to shoot first, and get a permit to film later.<br><br>I've filmed with everything from a Sony DV Handycam to 35mm black and white stock to a RED Scarlet. While the quality of the camera certainly makes a difference in the quality of the footage, a well-lit and carefully thought-through scene from a $500 camera can look wayyyy better than a shot from a $50,000 camera pointed at something poorly lit and lacking composition.<br><br>Green / Blue screen almost always causes more problems than it solves. Mainly because of the film "Forrest Gump", people think that if you wrap something in green cloth, it just magically disappears. It doesn't work like that. Even worse, very few directors have a good understanding of how visual effects work, and all too often assume that someone can just "fix it in post".<br><br>Directors rarely wear a light meter around their neck. Light meters are usually handled by the director of photography or the gaffer, or the best boy electric.<br><br>When you go to the theater (assuming that it is not a digital theater), you're not actually seeing 24 frames per second. Most people can detect flickering at that frame rate, so each frame is projected twice, making it 48 frames per second.<br><br>Most people tout digital as being a lossless format that doesn't degrade when you make copies. This is only partly accurate. Each time a digital video file is transcoded from one codec to another, some data is lost. From camera to editing to visual effects to color correction to final output, digital footage ends up being transcoded up to four times, each time losing a small amount of quality.<br><br>When you go to the theater, you'd expect to see something in a ridiculously high resolution. If it is a digital theater, what you are actually seeing is almost certainly 2K resolution, which is only about 15% higher resolution than the 1080p flatscreen in your living room.<br><br>MOS, a term used to denote shooting something without audio, does NOT actually stand for "Mit out sound". This is a cute story that audio people like to tell each other, but is almost certainly false.<br><br>THX is not a format for audio, neither is it a type of audio system. It actually is a standards system used for certifying a sound setup (ie the placement of the speakers, etc.). When you see the THX logo at the start of a movie on DVD, all it means is that the movie's audio was mixed on a mixing stage with the THX certification. When you see a movie at the theater, and the theater promotes the movie as THX, there's actually no guarantee that it really is. Because the certification process is expensive, most theaters only have one or two screens that are THX certified, and since the same print of a film is usually used on multiple screens, there's a decent chance that the screen you're watching it in isn't the one with the THX cert. What's more, theaters have to pay an annual fee to use the THX logo, so a theater that meets THX certification may not advertise it if they don't want to pay for the right to use the THX logo.<br><br>While a film set is a very busy place, most of the crew spend more than 50% of their time waiting around, doing nothing. Most scenes take place in smallish rooms, so each department must wait for the previous department to finish before they can do their job, i.e. while the art department is dressing the set, the grip and electrics department are waiting to set up lights, and after them comes the camera department, the director and the actors for rehearsal, and usually the art department again to fix whatever the other departments messed up. The sound team is just kind of expected to sneak in there whenever they can. For some reason, no one really likes the sound department.<br><br>A surprising amount of dialog that you hear in a movie was re-recorded after the film was done shooting. On a romantic comedy, it is around 40% of the dialog. On an action/adventure movie, it is between 60% and 80% that is re-recorded. On a film like Transformers, it is probably between 90% and 95%. All other sounds, including footsteps, clothing rustles, cars, background babble (called walla), background music in a restaurant or business, and general ambient sounds like city noise or jungle noise are recorded separately and added in to the mix during post-production. The on-set sound team's only goal is to get dialog and nothing else.<br><br>Most film studios aren't located in Hollywood anymore.<br><br>Film (celluloid) is not dead. Yet.<br><br>Once a camera starts rolling, the zoom is never adjusted. Most lenses don't even let you adjust the zoom. Next time you watch a movie, try to find a place where the camera zooms (not to be confused with the camera physically moving forward or backward). Chances are you won't see one.<br><br>The best film makers in the world aren't in Hollywood. They're in film schools, on Vimeo and Youtube, at independent festivals, or that teenager down the street. 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There are 7 nationally accredited personal training certifications that one can obtain. Some of these certifications are easier to obtain than others. In regards to those, an Ivy-League caliber student that does not even have a relevant major towards health/fitness/biology can likely pass one of these exams with just <b>one week</b> or less of intense studying. <br><br>- For several large chain gyms, the orientation or training program that new personal trainers receive consists of nearly 80%-90% sales tactics with very little devoted to on-the-job performance.<br><br>- Personal trainers aren't <b>really</b> that necessary for most people beyond 5-6 sessions. Personal trainers will often give clients different exercises to perform during each session in at attempt to "mix things up" and so the client does not get bored. In reality, you can learn proper technique for just 6-8 exercises, some stretches to help correct muscle imbalances, and warm up/cool down routines in about 5-6 sessions. (They obviously won't tell you or necessarily show you this; they want you to keep buying sessions.) This applies to anyone that is overweight and looking to just "get into good shape", which applies to about 95% of most people. If you are training for a particular important sporting event/photo shoot/movie scene, having an expert around all the time obviously becomes a lot more important. Additionally, if your biggest problem is motivation, then having a personal trainer is in fact quite helpful to hold you accountable.<br><br>- <b>You are not a special snowflake.</b> The idea of having a "completely customized" program for your goals is quite misleading. Pretty much every client being trained at our gym that was not training for a specific sport followed a very similar circuit-style total body workout routine. There are plenty of ways to dress up exercises that hit the same muscle group to the point where it seems like everyone is doing their own special thing. Well... you're not.<br><br>- My favorite analogy for diet and exercise that helps put weight lifting in a better perspective for women is that, <b>your workouts are the equivalent to the engine in your car and your diet is the steering wheel.</b> Women tend to think if they do any exercises remotely similar to that of a muscular guy, they will immediately have their shirts begin to tear as they transform into the Hulk. I trained a female model who did some glamour shoots. Her workout was very similar to mine (a guy). The difference was I pounded steak and pasta after my workouts while she ate salads and cottage cheese. 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Most often it is determined by the actuarial needs of the Insurance company or, if it's private pay, by the amount of money available. Treatment success skyrockets at about 90-180 days and levels off around a year. Often half a persons stay in rehab will be spent trying to get them to agree to a longer stay. This is a broken system and seriously limits the help people get in rehab.<br> <br>There are no real "outcome based" results for treatment modalities either clinically or academically because there is no common or universal idea of what constitutes success.<br> <br>The cost of inpatient treatment is roughly the same as inpatient treatment for any medical procedure.<br> <br>The patient follow-through of medical advice is about the same as the rest of the medical profession: %30.<br> <br>Addiction is a brain disease and its treatment involves the "power of choice", no more than any other treatment that depends on the regular intervention of a medication. That is, the only choice needed is the minor choice to accept the treatment regularly.<br> <br>Addiction is most likely NOT caused by childhood trauma; many people suffer trauma and dont become addicts and many addicts have not suffered trauma.<br> <br>The incidence of sexual trauma perpetrated against female using addicts and drinking alcoholics is close to %100, around %40 for men, Close to %75 of men have perpetrated sexually and/or violently against women. This is well know among treatment professionals and early treatment is not the time to address this. This is one main reason why longer term care is almost always needed.<br> <br>The price of treatment is almost always negotiable if you are paying privately, If you have insurance, co-pays and the like are also usually negotiable.<br> <br> <br> <br><br> <br>(more to follow when I have more time)<div id="__w2_WTwDSJL_container_boundary" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; height:0px; width:0px;" class="container_boundary"> </div></div><div id="__w2_wEIx7AW_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu quote-hover-menu hidden"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_wEIx7AW_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents quote-button"><a id="__w2_nZ3k2cb_quote_button" href="#" style="white-space: nowrap;" class="action_button"><strong>Embed Quote</strong></a></div></div><div id="__w2_wEIx7AW_link_wrapper" class="hidden"><span id="__w2_wEIx7AW_link"></span></div></div></span><span id="__w2_scUv6PB_toggle_link" href="#"><div class="edit_link_divider"></div><a href="#" class="edit inline_editor_edit suggested_edits"><span>Suggest Edits</span></a></span><span id="__w2_RUUsoUj_toggle_indicator" class="hidden"><span class="small light">Loading...</span></span></div></div></span></span><div id="__w2_QZtd7V4_nfr"><span id="ld_X8DV0i_947"></span></div><div id="__w2_QZtd7V4_disclaimer"></div><div id="__w2_QZtd7V4_answer_attribution"></div></div><div class="row"></div></div><div id="ld_X8DV0i_884"><div id="__w2_zIr72vB_view_tag" style="display: none"></div></div><div class="row item_action_bar"><span id="__w2_Ejy9SuY_switch_link" href="#"><span id="ld_X8DV0i_844"><a id="__w2_soh3isw_view_comment_link" href="#" class="view_comments supp ">1 Comment</a></span><span id="__w2_HtMMrWg_switch_indicator" class="light hidden"> Loading...</span><span class="bullet"> • </span></span><a id="__w2_R1CpmFw_share" href="#" class="share_link">Share</a><span id="ld_X8DV0i_962"></span><span class="bullet"> • </span><a id="__w2_UACCPO1_link" href="#" class="#">Embed</a><span class="bullet"> • </span><span id="__w2_bTb5md2_actions_list"><span id="ld_X8DV0i_885"><a id="__w2_PgsbWB1_thanks_link" href="#">Thank</a></span><span class="bullet"> • </span><span id="ld_X8DV0i_886"></span><span id="ld_X8DV0i_887"></span><span id="ld_X8DV0i_888"></span></span><span id="ld_X8DV0i_889"><a id="__w2_RAZaqu0_link" href="/Jobs-1/Whats-something-that-is-common-knowledge-at-your-work-place-that-will-be-mind-blowing-to-the-rest-of-us/answer/Andrew-Brin" class=" answer_permalink">26 Dec</a></span></div></div><div id="ld_X8DV0i_843"><div id="__w2_riLvePD_comments" class="threaded_comments hidden"></div></div><div id="__w2_aXAa8ot_trackbacks" class="trackbacks_list hidden"><div style="overflow:hidden;" class="comment_list"><div id="__w2_aXAa8ot_trackback_list"> </div></div></div></div><div id="ld_X8DV0i_890"><div class="e_col w0_5 p1"><div class="answer_user_pic"><div id="ld_X8DV0i_932"><a id="__w2_hPAutIP_link" routing="q://user/(2204941)" href="/Andrew-Brin"><img width="25" height="25" alt="Andrew Brin" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-2204941-25-imgujYaJ5r73rkIJEHCysz4UTOUBCRtV.jpeg" class=" profile_photo_img"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div id="ld_X8DV0i_818" tabindex="-1" class="pagedlist_item" style="display: block;"><div id="ld_X8DV0i_825"><div id="__w2_E5Z4VQp_actionable" style=""><div id="ld_X8DV0i_831"><div id="ld_X8DV0i_846"><span id="__w2_EeFvZ2p_toggle_link" href="#"><a name="answer_1417572"></a><div id="__w2_NKbXHR0_answer" class="row" style=""><div class="col w1 p1 answer_rating"><div class="rating"><div id="ld_X8DV0i_891"><div class=" rating_buttons"><div id="__w2_JSHEMLV_buttons" class="rating_options"><a id="__w2_JSHEMLV_answer_vote_up_link" action_click="AnswerUpvote" action_target="{'aid': 1417572L, 'type': 'answer'}" href="#" class="lil_button rate_up"> </a><a id="__w2_JSHEMLV_answer_vote_down_link" action_click="AnswerDownvote" action_target="{'aid': 1417572L, 'type': 'answer'}" href="#" class="lil_button rate_down"> </a></div></div></div></div></div><div id="ans1417572" class="e_col w5 answer_border"><div class="e_col w4_5 p1 answer_text"><div id="__w2_NKbXHR0_answer_wrapper"><div id="ld_X8DV0i_892"></div><div id="__w2_NKbXHR0_answer_user" class="answer_user"><span id="ld_X8DV0i_893"><div id="__w2_fl5fNgR_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu hidden hover_menu_wide"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_fl5fNgR_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents"> </div></div><a id="__w2_fl5fNgR_link" routing="q://user/(483346)" href="/Mark-A-Mandel" class="user">Mark A. Mandel</a><span class="rep">, </span><span id="__w2_OWYsMMn_link"><span id="__w2_OWYsMMn_sig" class="rep"><span id="__w2_sDwNQcd_text_snip" class="inline expandable_qtext"><span id="__w2_sDwNQcd_text_snip_content">linguist (i.e., language scientist an...</span> <a id="__w2_sDwNQcd_more_link" href="#" class="more_link">(more)</a> </span><span id="__w2_sDwNQcd_full_text" class="hidden"><span id="__w2_sDwNQcd_full_text_content">linguist (i.e., language scientist and researcher)</span></span></span></span></span><div id="ld_X8DV0i_894"><span class="answer_voters"><span class="answer_voter_callout"><span id="ld_X8DV0i_933"><strong class="voter_count">24</strong> votes</span></span> by <span id="ld_X8DV0i_934"><div id="__w2_eVdobX8_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu hidden hover_menu_wide"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_eVdobX8_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents"> </div></div><a id="__w2_eVdobX8_link" routing="q://user/(18661)" href="/Christopher-VanLang" class="user">Christopher VanLang</a>, <div id="__w2_BIh1jbZ_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu hidden hover_menu_wide"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_BIh1jbZ_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents"> </div></div><a id="__w2_BIh1jbZ_link" routing="q://user/(321758)" href="/Kyle-Pennell" class="user">Kyle Pennell</a>, <div id="__w2_fd2kwNV_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu hidden hover_menu_wide"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_fd2kwNV_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents"> </div></div><a id="__w2_fd2kwNV_link" routing="q://user/(2693138)" href="/Tracey-Bryan" class="user">Tracey Bryan</a>, <a id="__w2_AJUzlY7_toggle_link" href="#" class="more_link">(more)</a><span id="__w2_F0TX6qQ_toggle_indicator" class="hidden">Loading...</span></span></span></div></div><div id="__w2_NKbXHR0_answer_content" class="answer_content"><div id="ld_X8DV0i_849"><span id="ld_X8DV0i_948"><span class="hidden">9256</span><span id="ld_X8DV0i_957"><div class="suggested"><div id="__w2_KTsjMQY_inline_editor_content" class="inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value"><div id="__w2_bZoMsnL_outer"><div id="__w2_bZoMsnL_container">I don't know how many people <i>here</i> will be surprised at this, but anyway:There are literally thousands of languages in the world, and their structures and grammars are wildly various. Not randomly -- there <i>are</i> patterns -- but there is huge variety in, among other things,<br><ul><li>the kinds of sounds* that are used<br></li><li>the complexity and structure of a word<br></li><li>the structure and word order of a sentence<br></li><li>the things that the language distinguishes, such as </li><li><ul><li>tense (time of the event relative to <i>now</i>)</li><li>aspect (the structure of the event itself with respect to time: continuing, complete, repeated, ....)</li><li>social level (whether you're talking to an equal or someone above or below you socially, and how different they are)</li><li>intimacy (family, friend, co-worker, stranger...)</li><li>direction (left/right/front/back, north/south/east/west, inland/seaward/...)</li><li>gender (masculine/feminine/neute<wbr></wbr>r, masculine-or-feminine/neu<wbr></wbr>ter, no distinction) and where it is marked (on the noun, on modifiers, on verbs [and in what persons, e.g., Hebrew and Arabic verbs distinguish masculine/feminine in the 2nd and 3rd persons -- you and he/she]</li><li>evidentiality (you have personal knowledge of the event, you've seen evidence of it, you heard about it from someone you trust, you heard about it at random ...)</li><li>place (indoors, in the open, in the forest...)</li><li>and a couple zillion more that are known of</li></ul></li></ul>... so don't expect a foreign language to be like English.** <br><br>** And there are many, many families of languages. The "close relatives" of English, such as German (a "sister") and French (a "cousin" that we've been very close to for centuries), have more similarities to English than the more distant relatives, like Russian, Hindi, Greek, and Welsh. And unrelated languages, such as Finnish, Chinese, Dyirbal (an Australian Aboriginal language), Cherokee, Quechua, !Kung, Uzbek, Georgian, and Mongolian, can seem totally off the wall.<br><br>* Another thing: Sign languages are languages, not just pantomime or acting or "English on the hands", with their own rich vocabularies and grammars, which generally very different from the regional spoken languages. For example, American Sign Language is historically related to French Sign Language, but it is totally unrelated to and different from British Sign Language. 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Books for teachers are always cookbooks of tips for classroom use or methods, and never about how students learn.<br><br>Of course, every teacher has a personal, implicit model of learning, that informs every move he or she makes, but there is no model presented to trainee teachers which they can test against their own experience and then accept or reject. They just have to work with their own intuitions, and – if they are committed, conscientious and aware – they gradually discover what is effective over a career in the classroom.<br><br>It’s beyond astonishing! There are ‘subject gurus’, of course, in every discipline, who say that you should do this or that, but no one presents an overarching theory of how humans learn which is adapted to use in a classroom or training environment. The last person who attempted something like this was Dewey.<br><br>Actually, someone subsequent to Dewey has produced such a model, but Caleb Gattegno is not widely known, despite having applied his model with great success in various disciplines. In mathematics teaching he was responsible for the spread of the use of Cuisenaire rods, in language teaching, for the Silent Way approach, in literacy, for Words in Color, and so on, but most readers will likely not have heard about these.<br><br>I’ve co-authored a book about Gattegno’s model: How We Learn and How We Should be Taught. 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First, the professors did not grade any papers or exams in large classes (say, over 150 students). So, unless you sat in the front row of a large lecture hall and were particularly memorable (usually because of persistent question asking) or regularly showed up to office hours, it would be rare that a professor would be familiar with the quality of your work. Typically, the only time a professor would be familiar with a student's work was if there was a grade dispute.<br> <br>As far as TAs go, we were usually responsible for between 50-120 students (sometimes more). When you are grading 100 exams or papers over a weekend or few days, it is very hard to be consistent unless you have drawn up specific grading criteria (which was infrequent). In the worst cases I saw, a TA would stay up all night grading, forgoing sleep and I can guarantee that papers graded at 7 pm had a different level of examination than a paper graded at 4:30 am. 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In comparison, in Europe it would cost two dollars at most. </li><li>Shipping companies all over the US turn a blind eye to shipping barely legal products and flat out illegal products due to the sheer amount of business it generates.</li><li>There is only one network of pharmacies that is actually working from inside the US; anything that is not a part of that network is shipping from abroad, despite its advertisements.</li></ul><div id="__w2_r3IwTXq_container_boundary" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; height:0px; width:0px;" class="container_boundary"> </div></div><div id="__w2_xqfS0cg_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu quote-hover-menu hidden"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_xqfS0cg_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents quote-button"><a id="__w2_fwCQBGZ_quote_button" href="#" style="white-space: nowrap;" class="action_button"><strong>Embed Quote</strong></a></div></div><div id="__w2_xqfS0cg_link_wrapper" class="hidden"><span id="__w2_xqfS0cg_link"></span></div></div><a id="__w2_FHms3cE_view_suggestion" href="#" class="edit suggested_edits suggested_edits_pending"><span>Suggestions Pending</span></a></div><div id="__w2_FHms3cE_suggestion_diff" class="hidden"><div class="suggested_answer_bar br5"><div class="suggested_answer_diff br5"><div id="ld_iLq4vF_1636"><strong class="suggested_answer_bar_header"><div id="__w2_zfDvHCB_menu" style="display: none" class="hover_menu hidden hover_menu_wide"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div id="__w2_zfDvHCB_menu_contents" class="hover_menu_contents"> </div></div><a id="__w2_zfDvHCB_link" routing="q://user/(36101)" href="/Shweta-Karwa" class="user">Shweta Karwa</a> suggested edits to this answer:</strong></div><div class="suggested"><div id="__w2_VPL3lTI_inline_editor_content" class=" inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value">I reluctantly work in the online pharmacy business, US territory only, but live in a country with socialized medicine. For me it's daily figures but most Americans will be shocked to learn that:<br><br><ul><li>The cost of the medication is a tiny fragment of its price. Many big (and small) pharmaceuticals will wring their hands in front of Congress citing high costs as a reason for high prices, but they are flat out lying. For instance, Elavil costs a minimum of 65 dollars a month, while the cost is about one dollar. In comparison, in Europe it would <span class="diffdelete">cost </span><span class="diffinsert">be priced at </span>two dollars at most. </li><li>Shipping companies all over the US turn a blind eye to shipping barely legal products and flat out illegal products due to the sheer amount of business it generates.</li><li>There is only one network of pharmacies that is actually working from inside the US; anything that is not a part of that network is shipping from abroad, despite its advertisements.</li></ul></span><div class="edit_link_divider"></div><a id="__w2_VPL3lTI_inline_editor_link" href="#" class="edit inline_editor_edit suggested_edits suggested_edits_pending"><span id="__w2_VPL3lTI_inline_editor_link_text">Edit Suggestion</span></a></div><div id="__w2_VPL3lTI_inline_editor_form" class="rteditor inline_editor_content hidden"><div class="inline_editor_form"><div class="instruction_text"><strong>Suggest edits to the author of this answer:</strong></div><div id="__w2_flN2TWA_editor_outer" class=" qtext_editor" style=""><div id="__w2_flN2TWA_qtext_editor_buttons_wrapper" class="qtext_editor_buttons_wrapper row"><ul id="__w2_flN2TWA_qtext_editor_buttons" class="qtext_editor_buttons" style=""><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_bold"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_cmd_bold" href="#">B</a></li><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_italic"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_cmd_italic" href="#">I</a></li><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_underline"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_cmd_underline" href="#">U</a></li><li class="qtext_editor_sep"> </li><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_blockquote"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_cmd_blockquote" href="#"> </a></li><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_insertorderedlist"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_cmd_insertorderedlist" href="#"> </a></li><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_insertunorderedlist"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_cmd_insertunorderedlist" href="#"> </a></li><li class="qtext_editor_sep"> </li><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_qlink"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_add_qlink" href="#">@</a></li><li class="qtext_editor_button qtext_button_qimg"><a id="__w2_flN2TWA_cmd_qimg" href="#"> </a></li></ul></div><div id="__w2_flN2TWA_editor_wrapper" class="editor_wrapper"><div contenteditable="true" id="__w2_flN2TWA_editor" w2cid="flN2TWA" interactive="true" group="__w2_flN2TWA_interaction" class="qtext_editor_content qed_content" npdkey="hce1bg9g0.vev2u7a002r">I reluctantly work in the online pharmacy business, US territory only, but live in a country with socialized medicine. 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A single infraction can cause $10K or more. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.medicinenet.com/cocaine_hydrochloride-topical/article.htm">http://www.medicinenet.co<wbr></wbr>m/cocai...</a><br><br>Drug Rehabilitation: There is cocaine on every dollar bill in the USA. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-14/health/cocaine.traces.money_1_cocaine-dollar-bills-paper-bills?_s=PM:HEALTH">http://articles.cnn.com/2<wbr></wbr>009-08-...</a><br><br>Baggage Scanning: If a low level engineer wants to sneak a gun onto a plane, it's not impossible. 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This blew my mind when I found out. <br><br>Food Irradiation: I can extend the shelf life of strawberries by 21 days. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/irradiation/">http://www.extension.iast<wbr></wbr>ate.edu...</a><br><br>Poultry: Chicken in the USA has a different texture because it is salt- water plumped to increase weight and fetch more dollars at market. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.saynotoplumping.com/">http://www.saynotoplumpin<wbr></wbr>g.com/</a><br><br>Paper: There exists paper cutting algorithms for the paper industry that when <br>employed if they save a single inch on the way a ream of paper is cut, can equate to millions of dollars a year in savings. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/skiathos2002/papers/447-165.pdf">http://www.wseas.us/e-lib<wbr></wbr>rary/co...</a><br><br>Textiles: It is possible to make anti-microbial fiber by lacing it with silver. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.infectionpreventiontextiles.com/">http://www.infectionpreve<wbr></wbr>ntionte...</a><br><br>Telecom: Anytime a new wireless product is released to telecom providers, there are about 7 teams that look at and evaluate the technology. One of those teams is dedicated to wiretapping. This fact is well known in telecom. <br><br>Pharmaceuticals: It doesn't cost billions of dollars to develop a drug. It is actually much less. Anyone in the industry knows this based on lab equipment costs and the IRR etc.... <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110329/02440013670/drug-companies-overestimate-cost-developing-new-drug-merely-126-billion.shtml">http://www.techdirt.com/a<wbr></wbr>rticles...</a><br><br>Elevators: There exists a whole science behind the optimal dispatching of elevators meant to maximize the efficiency of loads called "elevator dispatch algorithms." <br><br>Cartography: The mercator map should be taken in stride with the fact that it is a certain angle/projection. Was working with a geologist who does mapping and surveying when I learned about this fact.This fact was released in the US TV Show the West Wing. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://bl.ocks.org/3711652">http://bl.ocks.org/371165<wbr></wbr>2</a> is also a good source to see the difference between projections on the map. <br><div style="background: url('http://img.youtube.com/vi/n8zBC2dvERM/hqdefault.jpg') center center no-repeat;" data-yt-id="n8zBC2dvERM" data-embed="<iframe width="100%" height="100%" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/n8zBC2dvERM?wmode=opaque&amp;autoplay=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" class="qtext_embed thumbnail"></div><br><br>Drug & Alcohol Rehab: There are three roots to any evaluation of a poison. Dosage. Potency. and Root of Exposure. DDT in the first half of the 20th century is a good example. <br><br>Security/Hanging out with White Hat Hackers: NFC tags are incredibly insecure. <a class="external_link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.themobileindian.com/news/7781_Hackers-find-hole-in-NFC-Chrome-browser-for-Android">http://www.themobileindia<wbr></wbr>n.com/n...</a><br><br>Pharmaceutical Cold Storage: Temperature sensitive drugs that are biologics are super expensive. Snake Antivenom can cost as much as $120K for 13 treatments and it has to be temperature controlled. 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Because I worked with children for some years and met various parents, I can say that many mistakes parents make result from: <b>becoming a parent before being ready to be a parent</b>. There is a lot of psychology and child development studies which many parents and nannies don't go through, because many believe that being a couple, or being a woman, is enough to raise a child or to care for another child. Parenting and raising a child is a long term role. Maybe this answer will provide hints about the root of many problems in society. 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Understandably, few reading this will take what I am about to say seriously or even notice this comment, but here goes: After over a decade of deep thinking and planning, at my place of work we are developing 'something' that will obsolete at least one major product category and a whole industry - almost instantaneously. 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Jalota</a></span></span></div></div><div id="__w2_w7jz0ba_answer_content" class="answer_content"><div id="ld_RBorkh_1257"><span id="ld_RBorkh_1306"><span class="hidden">8560</span><span id="ld_RBorkh_1310"><div class="suggested"><div id="__w2_O4G4jM3_inline_editor_content" class="inline_editor_content"><span class="inline_editor_value"><div><img master_h="284" master_w="511" master_src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-08a3e3638dcfb6ddcfbcc3d1e259d069" src="http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0696a90cdfee7bb4cf9061005a85112e" class="qtext_image zoomable_in zoomable_in_feed"></div>I work at Logitech UE or Ultimate Ears and we make Custom In-Ear Monitors.<br><br>There are a couple of mind-blowing aspects, I am not doing any justice because I am not explaining all of reasons why its mind-blowing but these are the ones I can think of now:<br><br>1. 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