As an illustration of how power and speed relate. My neighbor buried a truck and trailer down to the axles in a mud bog. His truck was 300+ hp. My 70 hp tractor easily pulled them out but at a speed of about 2mph. Another example we've seen lately is Ukrainian 200 - 300 hp tractors towing 800 hp Russian tanks.

While you aren’t wrong about them serving a lot of people, a whole city is vastly overstating it. In my area, there are 4 grocery stores within a 5 minute drive. 2 from the same chain so it’s not even strictly a competition thing. I don’t live in a super dense area either. Pretty typical suburban outskirts of a medium sized city.

Dude, that's just not how businesses work. Merchants see unsold stock as failure and they cry about it. That shit costs money.

Like really, math that in your head and see if you can balance wasting 30% of stock with another 2, 3 pts (maybe) net.

In the US, a university is a collection of colleges and graduate programs. It might have a general arts & sciences college (where one would major in things like literature, political science, psychology, chemistry, art history, etc.), some other specialize undergrad colleges/schools in programs like engineering, architecture, nursing, as well as graduate masters and PhD programs, law school, medical school, business school, and such. Smaller institutions that don't offer all the specialized schools and/or professional schools may call themselves colleges but issue bachelors degrees and perhaps Masters and PhD is arts & sciences type subjects.

Going to college in the US means a 4-year bachelors degree program, typically from roughly 18-22 years old. High school is the highest level of universal education, grades 9-12 (ages 14-18).

The other interesting thing that I learned from someone in the business is that a healthy grocery store will have its inventory turns shorter than its credit terms (i.e. by the time they have to pay for their inventory, they've already sold it).

I’m aware of some programs that are specifically 2 year associate degrees. It seems like those are more or less part of the higher education past, but if you have an associates it doesn’t mean you didn’t graduate, it’s just a different degree

Correct. I meant more from the perspective that you sort of earn a hidden masters in the course of a doctorate program.

A graduate degree is a degree in which you must have previous experience or a previous degree in order to take. Most Masters or PhD courses are graduate degrees.

An undergraduate degree is usually the first degree people will get in college. It is a degree that requires no prior college experience. Basically an undergraduate is the degree type most people do after high school. Undergraduate degree include Bachelors in Arts BA, Bachelor of Science BSc etc.

While many people do an undergraduate degree people will usually only do graduate degrees if they are interested in research or their job requires it. Many teachers are required to have a masters in education for example.

(I am speaking in general there will probably be some exception to what I say especially depending on where you are from)

Here's the ELI5 explanation (not 100% accurate but pretty close)

Elementary school: years 1-5

Middle school: years 6-8

High school: years 9-12

Bachelor's degree: years 13-16

Master's degree (graduate degree because you've graduated from college): years 17-18

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (also graduate degree): years 17-20

Once you're in college schedules get flexible so those times are approximate. There is also post-doctorate study. Because graduate work is entirely subject-specific it's possible for people to get multiple master's or PhD degrees. Medical practice requires on-the-job training after you get your M.D. degree, roughly years 21-22. Psychiatry also requires additional training after your M.D.

Something to look forward to!

Yes but they’re inverse examples. It’s not unusual to go for an AA and parlay that in to a BS later. It’s unusual in nearly all fields I’m aware of to take a Master’s and then go for a PhD. In most cases a masters isn’t offered in the same discipline as the PhD (the big exception I can think of is public health). For example, my graduate program in Microbiology was a doctoral program - the way to earn a masters from that was either to decide to leave the program after the coursework was completed or to fail the qualifying exam. The masters wasn’t a program for which you could apply.

To add to the differences in study:

Undergraduate, for the most part, teachers you how to study and recognize good sources, take information from those sources, and then apply it. Most of undergrad is learning higher level ideas and working with them.

Graduate school's main difference is you are critiquing experts rather than just understanding what they say. It's often a lot more reading, think around 100 pages per class per week. You're expected to skim material and be able to act as an expert, criticizing the work and applying it to what you are learning to do.

This is a phrase that was popularized by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower during his farewell address. In it, he warned to beware the dangers of the "military-industrial complex". The initial drafts of this speech actually include the wording of "military-industrial-congressional complex," which is really more what he was talking about, but the congressional portion was removed to not upset politicians. This is an important point to make, as congress is an important player in the complex.

Anyway, the idea is that the way these three things interact creates huge conflicts of interest between them and it generates a feedback loop of corruption and wasteful spending. So you have politicians in congress that want to continue to be voted in - the easiest thing they can do to pad their resume is point to jobs that they've generated for their constituents. Since they're in the government, they can vote for bills that will award big contracts to companies that are based in their districts. Since the US military is so huge, most major contracts are defense related. This generates jobs for the citizens of that district, generates big money for the company that gets awarded the contract, and helps the politician get re-elected. So everyone wins, right? Well, not really. When this starts happening, there's a feedback loop that occurs that starts to inflate the prices of everything because everyone wants a piece of the pie - corporate lobbyists spend a ton of money on politicians, politicians want to spread out the jobs so it becomes difficult to effectively build things, and the military likes fancy expensive things. But the really big issue is that it promotes extremely wasteful spending; when it's in everyone's best interest to just fund a ton of military projects, things that get funded are not actually beneficial to the military capabilities of the country and instead it starts focusing on whatever benefits corporations and politicians the most, because the military stops actually being the main beneficiary of military spending. And once we have all this bloated military spending and equipment, suddenly using it in conflicts to justify its existence becomes in the best interest of politicians and corporations that benefit the most from it.

For engine braking to be most effective, you need to put the vehicle in low gear well ahead of the time you need to stop or slow down.

There's a little song about this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGldNpngDws

Really?

Because quitting your job without another one lined up only makes sense if you know with absolute certainty that you’ll be able to find another job at all.

But of course there is no real way to know that with absolutely certainty, nor is there any guarantee that you will be able to find a job within a short enough span of time to avoid serious hardship and damage to your personal finances.

Quitting a job before you have another one lined up may be doable if you’re working as a part-time barista or you’re working a minimum-wage summer job without a mortgage and a family to feed, but it’s pretty damn stupid when you’re an attorney at a law firm or an engineer whose job supports a lifestyle that cannot be sustained without a similar job.

I am not familiar with the way a person can file for bankrupcy but I found the article from Croatia that describes it. Same policy is, I believe, in all ex-Yu countres. You can translate it, sinc I'm not to "financial lliterate", to translate it in my own words. https://www.tportal.hr/biznis/clanak/zaglibili-ste-ovo-morate-znati-o-osobnom-bankrotu-20160812 I know that if company files for the bancrupcy, the founder of the company can not open new company on his/her name for next 5 years.

As I understand, when signing the contract with the bank for loan, both parties have to present evidence they have something to back up the loan. For bank that is not hard to present, and for person, in my case, is apartment we live in. The bigger the loan you ask for, the richer you have to be in order to support it. I don't know how it goes with a non-purpose loan. The bank will probably foreclose if you don't pay, or in the case of a loan with a guarantor, if you don't pay - the guarantor is obliged to repay your loan.

Yep - I have. PhD without a masters. But it started as a masters and “rolled into” a PhD. For research-based graduate degrees (masters and PhD), the difference is the depth of the research and the conclusions that can be inferred. PhD is usually about 4 years full-time depending on the project, while a masters is about half of that.

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Good answer. Also 99.9% of manual drivers cannot heel-toe or rev match, period.

When I was in grad school for chemistry, it was a doctoral program. That said, doctoral candidates were awarded master's degrees at about half way to one's PhD.

Many of the PhD candidates that washed out were granted master's to reflect their study beyond a BS.

You didn't really answer the question imo. You are just repeating what they said, it doesn't go up or down. Not explaining why.

Not nearly as dangerous as a farm tractor in the red. If/when it fails, all the chains, cables, equipment it's pulling against is going to go flying

Also want to add on to this that there are other doctoral programs that do not end in PhD. For example you could get a PhD in Psychology where you do a ton of research. Or a PsyD where it is less research and moreso you learning more real world clinical skills

>couldn’t they just pick someone else

They are. You over the other guy lmao

It is random selection though & there are ways to get out of it. That said, just because you attend the detection process, doesn’t mean they’ll choose you anyways.

The longer any gaps are in your employment history, the more questions a potential employer may have about your judgment, your priorities, your desirability, and your skills stagnating. As long as quitting is not strictly necessary--like if you have an abusive boss or an unsafe working environment--it's better to search for a job while you are still employed and can prove that an employer sees you as valuable enough to keep on the payroll.

Where I am, most colleges don't offer degrees, they offer diplomas or certificates, to get a degree you need to go to a university, not a college. But from what I can tell, in the states they call college "college" and they call university "college" as well, which doesn't really make sense but okay.