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2021-05-24T13:17:00.005+05:30

well it happens in some countries but

usually not over here ha oh you're from

Italy yes I am and you're traveling to

Tokyo yes

well welcome to the top-notch travel agency

let me introduce you to my staff then

we'll talk about Tokyo Marie I'd like

you to meet yours young ready oh you

know him it's very nice to meet you

what's your name uh my name uh Mary yes

I'm really the posh very nice we meet

you Marie Marie is our receptionist

she's from Paris but Mr. Moretti is a

new client, he's from Italy George you

were ready Giorgio Moretti yes I know

he's a new client he's from Italy

introduce me oh yes this is

Cheryl yes Cheryl she's our office

manager Mr. Giorgio I mean Mr. Moretti

please call me shorty call him Giorgio

it's some tonight nice to meet you it's

nice to meet you too oh come meet

Georgie hey hey Giorgio Moretti

hey man how are you I'm Bob but everyone

calls me Roberto

bob is a travel agent who calls you

Roberto ready Paul is a tour guide

goodbye so long

it's nice to meet you somebody must be

fun it's nice to know you but I'm

traveling God

so Mr. Moretti what is your occupation

he's a singer everyone knows that

Mr. Moretti Murray has some questions

for you let's talk about Tokyo okay

let's see named Giorgio Moretti

occupation singer famous singer great

and famous singer nationality Italia age

married no single phone number this is

my information everything okay

come with me Mr. Moretti thank you, Mary

I have Giorgio Moretti's phone number

do you guys want to go out this weekend

there's a great movie playing at the

Glenwood a rock concert sounds better to

I'd love to see a play how about an

opera okay there's a rock concert

Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. blue city is

playing blue city I love them

sounds good not my style I don't like

rock okay

there's a play tonight at midnight at

the Second Avenue theater

it's called conversations with food

sounds great at midnight that's way past

my bedtime no thanks okay Carmen is

playing at the City Opera 8:00 p.m.

great

how much are the tickets you're kidding

whoa oh no way

great it's a movie then a time to run is

playing at the Glenwood at 7:00 p.m. a

time to run oh don't go to that it's

just awful

okay how about you only live once it's

playing at the Kendall also at 7:00 p.m.

it's terrible an actor's life, please

and it goes home the left side of the

On the street, I think there are no more tickets

so what's a good movie to see there's a

French film playing at the Bijou at 8

p.m. I'm not a French film fan it's a

a film about an opera singer perfect and a

rock star great who meet at a play

wonderful thank you yeah thanks a lot

Harry welcome

it'll be fun Bob but I'm not a French

film fan excuse me I'm looking for the

rose cinema the rose cinema let's see

that's on the corner of Market Street

and Park Street or is it 3rd and grand

no, I think it's on market between 1st

and 2nd Avenue ok so go around the

corner walk three blocks no 5 runs to

Harper Street turn left sorry

right no another two blocks no yes two

bought us to 4th Avenue take a right

yes walk about 5 blocks to Market Street

go right again

go straight two more blocks the cinema

is on your right I know so

Paul what you're looking for the Rose

cinema yes go across the street and it's

across the street

thank you in your tour guide

that's your cousin Teddy he's a waiter

he's single and he likes rock music it's

my brother Eddie he's a doctor he's got

a wife and two kids and he likes

classical music how about this one I

don't know a cousin no your brother

no, no cool it's my Aunt Judy sorry

listen Morris she looks like your uncle

tell me something about her

she's an architect artist married

divorce two kids three kids okay five

kids no kids only eight more there's an

ism I don't know it's my father I know

who your father is why are you showing

my photos of your father my family are

coming in one hour now pay attention why

do you have such a large family it's not

that large not that large you have six

brothers and sisters 14 aunts and uncles

who knows how many cousins nieces and

nephews, I'd say that's a large family

they're not all coming over no just 18

of them I just want them to like you

calm down it's okay you're doing fine

okay

I'm okay your cousin John Oh

that's your sister's husband Ernie they

live on Park Street two kids Elizabeth

is 12 years old and Katy is 8

Ernie's an architect he likes baseball

basketball and the movies Wow

one more your nephew

David his nickname is Dave

he lives on King Street he's single and

he's a student he loves to travel he

likes jazz and he doesn't like fish

you're amazing very nice oh it's almost

6:00

Bob, would you wipe off the counter?

I'll be in the bathroom for a while

hello everyone come on in

where are the tickets they're printing

okay, Mr. Evans needs them right now the

the client is coming in five minutes this

the printer is driving me crazy

so slow try blowing on it really

try it now tap the science just try it

now rub this side gently does this

really work where are the tickets

they're printing okay Mr. Evans needs

them now the client is coming in four

minutes easy there Jackie Chan we need a

new printer aren't we getting a new

the printer you're buying the new printer

aren't you

this is the new printer this piece of

junk is new well it's new to us

this is an old printer just a little old

what kind is it is it a comp right Mr?

Evans says always buy a comp right it's

a print okay a print okay

what're prints okay you know that brand

it's a good brand and very inexpensive

we need the tickets now do something

where are the tickets they're printing

okay the clients coming up in one minute

the printer is a little slow today

okay then I'll stop what doesn't come here

this printer what's the problem you know

machines don't work when you're around

that's not true

is your laptop working no won't turn on

is there some homework

no, it's 11 no but oh it's right away

we're printing the last ticket please do

not come near this printer the printer

won't stop working just because the

the client is here where are the tickets

right here sir thank you you're only

nine where's the last one right here sir

thank you what the printer isn't working

why go across the hall to Mr. Lee's

the office has to print one ticket on his

printer, not you you're sitting here

until all the tickets are printed

you

are you ready to order

we excuse me I have a question yes

I'm in the mood for lamb but the sauce

looks too fatty could I order the lamb

without the sauce sure what is it pum

with french fries

I don't like fried food could I have a

grilled vegetable instead I think we

have grilled peppers perfect would you

like to start with an appetizer is there

oil on the tomato salad there's a lot of

olive oil yes

could I get it without the oil mm-hmm

but it won't taste very good then I'll

just have a mixed green salad and you

I'm sorry I have another question is

their salt on the limb it's cooked with

salt and pepper yes I don't want a lot

of salt, I think I'll have the fish

instead what's in the sauce lemon butter

mill oh that's too much dairy maybe I'll

have a large salad for my entree a no

appetizer what's in the salad lettuce

carrots peppers onions egg oh no egg

please salad no egg anything to drink

just water, please

and for you, I'll have this special the

special that's special right but I ask

you another question

oh this is delicious amazing Cheryl

don't you want to try it no thanks too?

many calories and we need to go I'll ask

for the check I love dessert do you know

how many calories are in that cake no

and don't tell me or how much fat was in

your steak and your fried shrimp or how

much salt was on your french fries do

you want us to just eat more vegetables

vegetables are good

or how about smaller portions and no

dessert though dessert you need to take

care of your body eat healthy food have

vegetables for snacks instead of potato

chips and cookies you're right tomorrow

I'm eating lots of vegetables really for

snacks and I'm having potato chips

cookies for breakfast lunch and dinner

you are terrible

what are you doing I'm trying to get the

check

finally, do you want that

what are you I'm exercising don't you

have some work to do I am working I'm

working and exercising what work are you

doing I'm thinking about what about

ideas for Mrs. baby's vacation and what

are you thinking Beach vacation I have

to finish this when you go exercise

somewhere else no problem what are you

doing I'm getting in shape why are you

doing that here why don't you go to a

gym or the park or outside or home I

don't time to go to the gym I can't work

when you do that can you go over there

no problem

Bob what are you doing I'm working then

why are you running to get in shape?

running burns a lot of calories exercise

later work now please yes sir

I'm meeting a client at the cafe for

lunch Marie okay so what do you do to

stay in shape I generally go running in

the morning I do aerobics two nights a

the week I always play tennis or golf on the

weekends and I usually go bike riding

every Sunday so the weather is good you

don't lift weights no oh you have to

lift weights to really stay in shape I

don't like to go to a gym you don't have

to go to a gym to lift weights you can

lift weights anywhere like this for this

or even this maybe not that thanks for

the suggestions hey why don't we go

running together sometime okay where do

you run to the park and back Oh

where do you run to the park and then to

the market then to Symphony Hall then to

Harper Street then to the library then

to the theatre and then back oh so do

you want to go running after work today

got a mirror friend for dinner so those

are time then yeah sure

hey can you answer the phones for a

while I have to go to the post office

and you're the only one here no problem

that is so cute

thank you I love that color Bob what do

you think of our new clothes for the

party tomorrow there's a party tomorrow

it's Mr. Evans birthday remember all

right

am I going yes you are

okay so tell us what you think of our

new clothes all those clothes are for

one party no we have to decide what to

wear what do you think of these blouses

they're very flattering which one do you

like more what do you mean which one do

you prefer I like them both the same no

you don't you're just saying that you

need to have an opinion you have to

choose no no I'm not doing that

Bob, please help us decide what to wear

okay which skirts do you like the red

one great that's not so hard is it which

shoes look better Oh

which sweater do you prefer I like the

purple one Bob you like Maurice clothes

more than mine no I don't that's not

true then which dress do you prefer that

one

this is Murray's dress - what's wrong

with my clothes nothing I like

your clothes

I like Murray's clothes I like

everything I like all dresses and all

sweaters and all skirts and all shoes

who asked you anyway

so what are you going to wear to the

party tomorrow night uh t-shirt and

jeans a t-shirt and jeans no way you

have to wear something nicer I don't

have anything nicer you do now all

that's for me

what do you think of these do you have

anything looser yep too wild for me

anything else here you go

I don't know those look pretty warm

something cooler would be good why don't

we look at shirts not bad but it's

pretty conservative business

I love this one that doesn't look very

comfortable

try this that looks a little cheap do

you have anything more expensive that's

I'm taking it all back to the store

but what am I wearing tomorrow just wear

a t-shirt and jeans

hello, Mr. Rashi hi how are you fine

thank you how was your vacation it was

wonderful I'm so happy to hear that was

your flight okay no pretty bad actually

it was so bumpy it was very scary

that's too bad did you have nice weather

after you arrived no the weather was

terrible very rainy I actually never saw

the Sun that's awful so what did you do

I stayed inside the hotel was a hotel

room nice the room was fine but it was

right next to the cafe and the music was

very loud I didn't sleep much I'll bet

the food was great no it was too salty

for me and the waiters were very

unfriendly did you go shopping at all a

little bit until someone stole my wallet

after that, I stayed in the hotel and

read a book was the flight home okay

actually, they canceled my flight I had

to stay for two more days terrible but

Mr. Rashid, you said that your vacation

was wonderful yes I did and it was

wonderful I met a very nice persona

the woman actually her name is Basma she's

from Lebanon just like me but she lives

here I'm seeing her tonight so yes it

was a great and wonderful vacation

MR. Rashid yes

Mr. Rashid welcome back come tell me

about your vacation

what a terrible vacation Mr. Rashid had

oh you know on my vacation last year

someone stole my car that was a horrible

vacation I went on a cruise and there

was an outbreak of illness I was in my

room for a week that was a really bad

vacation I went to Disney World and

someone stole my map

that's your worst vacation it took ten

minutes to get another map alright what

was your favorite vacation I spent two

weeks in the Caribbean last year diving

snorkeling and swimming with dolphins it

was amazing

I went to China a few years ago it was

incredible the people there were so

friendly and everyone wanted to practice

their English with me I went to the

beach and ate shrimp that's your best

vacation I really like shrimp

to go on more exciting vacations

I don't like exciting vacations in fact

I don't like to travel very much then

why do you work in a travel agency it's

across the street from my apartment so I

don't have to travel far to go to work

so, Mrs. Beatty, we should talk about your

safari trip to Botswana I'm so excited

my first time in Africa you're going to

be flying into Johannesburg South

Africa would you like a window or an

aisle or window I want to see everything

in Johannesburg, you should take a taxi

or a limo to your hotel

the next day you could fly or you could

take a train to Francis town in Botswana

is it an express train yes I'll take the

the train I'd like to see the country great

then after you see Francis town you can

take a small plane or a bus to the

Okavango Delta how small is the airplane

it's pretty small I'll take the bus is

it an express bus I think so when you

get to Gemara you're going to be taking

a boat to your hotel a boat the hotel is

on an island when you get to the island

a man with a donkey can take your

luggage to the hotel

a donkey there are no cars on the island

is it an express donkey

I think it's probably a local donkey of

course if you don't want the donkey you

could take a small plane it goes

straight to the hotel, I think I should

take the donkey donkeys never have

mechanical problems right right

South Africa hello Mrs. baby why hello

Paul where are you traveling to now Mrs.

Beatty is going on a safari in the

Okavango Delta in Botswana nice are you

flying in are you taking the train bus

boat donkey listen I'm going to be

taking the donkey I did that once myself

you did was it very exciting oh it was

on the way there the plane had

mechanical problems that sound scary we

got in late and I missed the train to

Francis town so I decided to take a bus

but I got on the local bus - I don't

like local coffee then the bus had an

accident so I went to the car but it

broke down oh dear

I got to go Mari two days late then I

got seasick on the boat for the other oh

did you have any problems with the

donkey I got bumped from the dung you

mean they overbooked the donkey no I

mean the donkey bumped me off the road

to the hotel but it was a very exciting

the trip you'll love acid so it's any

questions Mrs. Beatty just one how much

is a ticket to Paris

Hey

here comes Bob yeah he wants to sell me

his digital camera hi how was dinner

great what do you have there the best

digital camera money can buy

oh that's the same camera you look why

are you selling it I have to Cheryl gave

me another one for my birthday it's not

bad how much do you want two hundred and

fifty dollars wow that's great that's

more than I want to pay but that's less

then I give you two hundred for it no I

need at least two forty-five sorry all I

have is two ten there's an ATM right

I could go as low as 230 but that's it

sorry thanks anyway

alright I'll sell it to somebody else

what are you doing you almost bought

that camera yesterday for $300 you don't

know how to bargain do you bargain of

course I know how to bargain you don't

know how to bargain you could buy that

camera for two hundred and thirty

dollars but now it's gone

alright you can have it for two twenty

five to twenty-two twenty-four to 21 to

23 to twenty-two, not a dollar more I'm

not selling this for less than two

hundred and twenty-three dollars here

here's one dollar now you both get what

you want it's a deal

I'll get some money from the ATM great

good idea

Thanks

thanks for dinner my pleasure

I saved a lot of money on the camera

should I leave the tip no I'll put it on

the credit card five dollars that's not

enough sure it is the bill was $50

that's only 10% so didn't you like the

food it was good was there a problem

with the service no then you need to

leave at least 15% no I don't home we

come here all the time

the waitress gives us great service

because we usually tip well I always

leave 10% to have a nice evening we're not

quite ready no problem

look I'm paying tonight so I get to

decide how much to tip oh all right hey

isn't that Mr. Evans over there where

nevermind it's someone else

shall we go

thank you very much you're welcome

are you a music fan depending on the

music yeah so what kinds of music do you

like I like a classic rock I like to see

what's new I like rock and roll and

hip-hop and things like that I like

classical and jazz when doing you usually

listen to music I use to listen to music

whenever I'm waking up in the morning

and getting ready and also whenever I'm

getting ready to go out in the evenings

I always listen to music so how often do

you listen to music

at least twice a day and where are you

when you listen to music in my office or in

the car do you go to concerts yes

sometimes what concerts do you like to

go to classical music and opera do you

have a lot of CDs or cassettes yes quite

a lot could you tell me a little bit

about the types of music you well I like

you know boqueron music and my neck

American music as a matter of fact I

don't own very many CDs but my husband

owns lots of CDs and so I listened to

his instead approximately how many CDs

do you have a few hundred wow that's a

lot how would you compare yourself with

your sister how are you alike and how

are you different for example do you

like the same kind of music or the same

kind of food well we do look alike but

apart from that, we're very different

she likes the arts and I'm more

interested in sports well I would say

first of all that my sister is much

better with money than I am she you know

she can save whereas I like to spend me

and my brother is quite different I'm

much more

talkative and he's much shyer but

other than that I mean we grew up in the

the same house so we love the same food and

we listen to the same music pretty much

and we like the same movies we whenever

I go back home I was watching movies

with him and Satsang in general which do

you think is better a small family or a

large family what speaking from personal

the experience I would prefer to have a

small family but like I do I feel that

parents have more time to spend with

their children there are more funds for

each child at the same time I can see

how a large family could be fun having a

a lot of brothers and sisters and large

family occasions so what are the

disadvantages of a big family um it's

very hectic it's very noisy it's like a

the train station is obvious people going in

and out so you can never have time alone

and you know when I do one time alone

I'll have to go out out of the house the

jog do something it's very very crowded

noisy in and out in your opinion what is

healthy food I think like a lot of

green things like salad and vegetables

and fruits are very healthy what what

foods would you consider unhealthy um

those fast food potato chips sodas so do

you try to eat healthy foods I try any

healthy foods yes I don't always succeed

but I try and eat healthy foods what's

an ideal diet in your

I would say like potato vegetable

chicken so for example what might you

recommend for a good breakfast good

breakfast would probably be an egg no

butter little salt and pepper and maybe

a piece of white toast

all right wheat toast excuse me so

for example for dinner tonight what are

you thinking about dinner

can we do chicken broccoli or maybe?

stir-fry which consists of a lot of

vegetables like broccoli carrot pepper

being string beans those are the things

that I love to cook

okay how about spicy foods or spicy

foods okay to eat yes I'm not a big fan

of spicy foods but uh I think they're

okay to eat how about sweet food

sweet fruits you can eat sweet foods if

you don't eat too much are you an

exercise fan yes I love to run I run in

the morning before work can I run on

Saturdays and Sundays along the river

and to the park are you a fan of

exercise not really so Rita would you

consider yourself a couch potato no I'm

not a couch potato absolutely not I just

I hate to exercise so do you actually

have a routine that you follow every day

yes go out I go to the park and meet

people who are in my age group they're

80 60 70 we have quite a several 80s

and one 90 years old and we need to walk

we run for about three and a half miles

and I go would I go to the park when I'm

not no three days a week I go to the

pool and walk in the water and

the rest of the time I go to the park

and walk how often do you do Tai Chi

about once a week so do you feel

exercise is important yes I think it's

important but not enough to do it more

then once a week well to be honest I'm

going lazy that's why I wished I could

do more exercise

maybe I should be starting from today do

you fly frequently yes I fly maybe twice

a month do you fly frequently I do yes I

travel a lot with my job so I'm always

on an airplane what kind of a seat to

request when you fly I always want to

sit at the aisle so I can stretch my

legs I prefer to sit in the back of the

the plane you know window seats I always get

a window seat one I like to sleep and I

need something to lean up against so

have you had any problems with

traveling in terms of delayed flights

missing flights anything like yes I have

I've missed a flight

flights have been canceled they've been

delayed I've had to either go home or if

it's in a city that where I'm not from

I've had to get a hotel so could you

tell me your worst airplane travel

nightmare yes when I had to fly from

Austria to America I got stuck in London

Airport and had to wait 10 hours for a

the flight that got postponed first

canceled and postponed and all the

stores were closed and all we could do

was just sleep on benches and in the

front the floor and try to find food

that was not very good so it was not a

good experience

yeah that sounds awful yes it was awful

do you want to see a playtime does the

play begins it started a is that okay

love to go I see you then I heard got

some good reviews there's a plane watch

the show it's called one single life to

lose think about it I don't

Oh everything will be alright when you

and I go out tonight when Thomas Tobin

gives us dog the famous that's not

for me

doors open at nine o'clock there's a

the movie we could steal sniffing ii never

knew that's my favorite neighborhood i

can't wait to be with you I can't wait

to have some food

everything will be alright when I go out

tonight we're going to have a good time

don't keep me up past my bedtime

we'll make the day it starts today the

price is right

I'm a fan of rock and roll classical is

more my style

I like boozing I like so rocking my top

make me smile around the corner and down

the street that's the entrance to the

park there's a place where we could be I

wouldn't go there after God everything

will be alright when you and I go out

tonight everything will be alright when

you and I

is there something that you want

is there anything you

have you made up your mind about what you want?

to eat place your order

or do you need more time?

why not start with some juice lemon

orange or lime some like it hot some

like it's sweet some like it really

spicy

you may not

everything you eat

but I think we're doing nicely I can't

understand

or you say

tonight we're speaking English at the

world cafe

I'll take the main course now I think

I'll have a fish

does it come with a choice of another

dish excuse me waiter please I think I'm

for a little dessert and the cake looks

good do you know are there any low-fat

desserts that we could try now

I feel like I'm

a bowl of fruit do you have to say

goodbye

I can't understand

every word you say

tonight

English at the world cafe

apple oranges cheese and ham coffee

juice milk bread and jam rice and beans

meat

Oh's eggs and ice cream grilled tomatoes

that's the man

that's the list is there

I can't understand every word you say

tonight we're speaking English at the

world cafe

speaking English at the world cafe

the ride was bumpy and much too long it

was pretty boring it felt so wrong I

slept all night and it rained all-day

you left the road then you came alone

then you took my hand you whispered

words could understand on my dream

vacation

I'm dream of you I don't ever

oh my vacation as much is true the food

was Apple they stole a purse the whole

two weeks went from bad to worse they

canceled my ticket I missed my flight

they were so friendly it just wasn't

right so I called the taxi and I got

inside sitting by my side on that dream

vacation I dream of you I do never world

wake up on my dream vacation this much

is true I don't ever want it to

you sir

the day was so exciting I opened up my

eyes and you go

I waited for hours you never call i

watch TV and love that the walls where

did you go - why would you need did you

have a reason to disappear so I flew the

plane to the South of France and I heard

you say would you like to dance on my

dream vacation I dream of you I don't

ever wanna wake up on my dream vacation

this much is true I don't ever

to stuff

you

I recorded 10 picks up my cash from the

ATM here at the store it won't be too

hard to take out the check for a great time

the bank has a clear rate of exchange

and everything here is in my price range

part of this bargain hunt I travel

around I spend my money for shopping

for souvenirs helps me to

for the beauty, I see in this play to

get a great deal I can't be too nice the

candor to ask for better ground travel

No, I spend my money shopping for

souvenirs help me to be seen as it's

gorgeous loving it's the biggest and the

best though it might not be the cheapest

how much is it back to you when you're

in Rome do as the Romans do a 10% tip

for the taxi fare should be good

when you're saying whenever I travel

around the world, I spend my money for to

shopping for souvenirs helps me to be

you

HOW SHOPIFY'S SMALL NETWORK OF BUSINESS CAN TAKE ON AMAZON

2021-05-10T14:00:00.002+05:30

HOW SHOPIFY'S SMALL NETWORK OF BUSINESS CAN TAKE ON AMAZON

Shopify is one of those companies that makes the modern internet go that makes offers for businesses of all sizes to set up online stores. From there, you can handle everything from shipping orders to financing loans for expansion. The company went public in 2015 and it has been on a tear during this pandemic as has online commerce exploded. The first quarter posts revenue of $988 million which's a 110% increase from last year but all things are going extremely well for now. a lot of online shopping starts with targeted ads on Facebook, building out its own shopping platform. Facebook and Apple are fighting over how those ads are tracked and served well or as of this week are in midst of nasty travel of epic games about the cut it takes on digital purchases in iOS apps and of course, there is Amazon which dominates online retail. Shopify provides tools for businesses to compete with all of these business giants and that Shopify itself can sometimes act like a giant because it has so many customers to represent. The is a phrase used as 'being the empire vs arming the rebels' which. Shopify did ban Donald trump's store after the January 6 capital riot issue but Shopify doesn't really fit in the same category as of laws and norms like Twitter, Facebook, or other social media platforms. it has a different set of moderation challenges It is worth thinking of whether the enterprise offers the powers of an online store to meet the same standards as the ted talk or YouTube.

The history of the company was about 16 years ago the founders wanted to do something simple and sell snowboards on the internet and back in 2005 there were two ways to sell online, you either list it on the market place or at the time eBay was the big one and the advantages of that was it was inexpensive and fairly easy to get up and running. The other way was to spend a couple of grand to have one of these large eCommerce builds. SO they didn't like those options so they wrote a piece of software to sell their own snowboards and within a year like by 2006, it became obvious while the snowboard business was a good idea. So the first 6 or 7 years they focused on building the best, the easiest the most scalable way for anyone with the product to build an online store. and in 2012 they started realizing that a lot of our merchants wanted to also sell offline they either had a store or they wanted to set up a popup store or they wanted in-person cash n carry market deals and they came with those offers. So in 2012, they began to think about this idea of really moving from single-point solution eCommerce to begin multiple channel solution that could be used sell from anywhere you wanted. They went public in around 2015 on the stock exchange and what also happened at that time beyond just going public was some of those merchants that started on Shopify ran their mom's kitchen table. Till today Shopify has 1.7 million merchants they make about 9% of all eCommerce in the USA and in the last quarter they sold more than $30 billion worth of GMV and you are reading here every 28 seconds a brand new entrepreneur gets their first sale on Shopify.

Shopify earns from subscription fee that is 29$ a month to up to 2000$ and they also have a payments business known as Shopify payments powers majority of particularly. They have a fulfillment business and shipping business. If Shopify was considered a retailer then it would be the second-largest retailer in America after Amazon. Shopify's entire business model is predicated on small businesses, they do well Shopify does. So the future of retail is not going to be online nor it will be offline it is not going to be Instagram or TikTok or Facebook or Walmart.com, it is going to be everywhere and the future of retail is going to be about consumer choice. It has always been the retailer retailing to the consumer how to purchase. what Shopify's role in all that is to integrate all of it into a centralized online operating system. So think of a Shopify is the hub of where you run your business day to day.

A Future with Flying cars and Teleportation

2021-05-08T14:53:00.002+05:30

A Future with Flying cars and Teleportation

We know technically it is possible for a car to fly but is it possible to paint a picture for us of what a world with flying cars will actually look like. Consider that an ordinary car whose engine fails just slides over to the side of the road waiting for help, a flying car whose engine fails is a lethal projectile and for whoever happens to be underneath it. so it would be a disaster for the whole concept of this car. so here is the thing we already do have the flying cars they are called helicopters, now think of it as flying car but it just lifts up goes wherever it wants to and lands, where it wants to provided there, is space. Not many people know this I don't think that Langley Air force space was a pioneer in research on heavier air flight and it was working right up to the late 1800s to the early 1900s and what was available to them was a significant producer of energy. He was thinking we have got a steam engine so let us make an advanced steam engine that can produce enough power to fly. So he failed in all his attempts. He showed that you cant make a flying steam engine because the size of the engine you need to get the power you need weighs too much to actually lift the engine in the air. The physics and the engineering of that didn't work out. What helped is the internal combustion engine which was smaller and had much less weight for the power that it was generating. Comparing that what does a steam engine needed a fire and a cauldron and you need water and it got steam and dirt and turbine all of that energy it produces is not sufficient to lift it off the ground. So internal combustion engines helped but by then we had the wright brothers and they were clever and they did it in 1903. My point about Langley is we can elevate something as heavy as a car if we are allowed to do that. But the sound it will produce like a helicopter can be terrible to handle because that's the thrust necessary to lift the weight of something like a car is. So a helicopter is a flying car and we have all seen the video of drone cars. they are larger and they have got four blades but is it carrying your whole family? no. It is like one person in it. But we can also say maybe not today but in the future, an electric engine can be the future as they are small enough and powerful. the real bottleneck here is battery tech. as batteries are heavy they come to us from the 19th century so here we are in the 21st century. So there is this basic question why do we want an electric car basically? How is it the New York City can move billion people a year in mass transit because we are moving in a third dimension, we have underground flying cars and they are the subway? the subway moves in the same direction as the traffic does except in a third dimension underground. So flying cars are nothing more than the access to the third dimension in your movement and we kind of already have that explicitly in the design of our transportation systems and you don't need to be in full 3 dimensions if you don't have to be in three dimensions that's why there is not a continuous overpass over you, you just need an overpass where that other road is. So flying car is access to higher dimensions.

Even If in theory, we solve the piloting difficulty issue with automatically flying cars then we solve the noise issue with these incredibly efficient propellers that have amazing energy density in these future batteries and we solve every logistical physical problem it still isn't necessary to have flying cars. So where did that obsession came from? I think we always wanted to go faster and faster and what happens we go from propeller airplanes to jet airplanes and in some way their we break the sound barrier and then we have rockets to go to the moon. So the idea that in the future we would be moving faster and faster to get to our destination was built into the fabric of our understanding of the future that we were approaching. And one of the things we got wrong was the expectation that our access to energy would continue to ascend in lockstep with access to our imagination. you take a look in the 2001 space oddessy the ship that went to Jupiter with all energy. Energy is expensive, it is hard to produce, and it is hard to transport to bring it where you want it. all of these pose challenges and no one saw the rise of information technology. So now I don't have to go from A to B to bring information I can send it and so need to travel fast to be somewhere that got little reduced but also if have access to information technologies I can get on an airplane today that's flying slower then the airplanes of '90s. So the urge to go fast is probably faded in the face of other amenities that we have access to by traveling slowly. flying cars are not such a great logistical idea. Now talking about hoverboards, that electrically driven skateboard called hoverboards. The hoverboard stays within 6 inches of the ground. it quite convenient than walking at twice the speed. There are still people thinking about innovative ways of transportation. There is a newer type of actual teleportation being worked on, research called quantum teleportation. With quantum physics, there is something called tunneling which is a fascinating fact. So if you think of a hill sliding down then it gets to the bottom of it and vice versa it will be like a roller-coaster.

Things you should know

2021-05-07T15:55:00.005+05:30

THING YOU SHOULD KNOW

Uranium

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Welcome to my blog. Today this blog is about the stuff we should know. so today I am talking about uranium mining. Uranium mining is like its own thing, it is particularly heavy and regulated. the stuff that it produces uranium appropriately enough is a really regulated substance because it can produce some pretty powerful stuff and it's just kind of interesting especially considering the history of uranium in humans. fairly recent history. if you are talking about during 50,s cold war, you can only think about uranium in nuclear war and a nuclear bomb. if you fast forward to the '70s you think about the kind of gentler uranium still radioactive but one that would be used for energy production. A 7-gram pellet of uranium fuel produces as much energy as almost 1800 pounds of coal.

if you took about 75kg of enriched uranium fuel, it would produce the same amount of energy as almost 2 million pounds of coal. That's because uranium is radioactive. it decays spontaneously over time and when it does, it releases gamma radiation and energy in the form of heat and if you can contain and encourage this decay these reactions will neutrons will bombard uranium atoms and create all source of energy release and it happens like trillions of times a second, you can generate enough heat to boil water to spin a turbine. Using nuclear fuel to generate steam to turn a turbine to produce electricity is an amazing process. Typically the nuclear fuel enriched uranium that we use in a nuclear reactor to create electricity is about 5% of uranium 235 that's the many isotopes when you are creating nuclear power. If you are using it for military purposes like nuclear bomb it's like 90% so you can get a lot of nuclear fuel out of uranium that was enriched for a nuclear bomb and reusing it for nuclear fuel.

It can also be used for other stuff and not just for making power. There is something called MOLYBDENUM. This is a decay product of uranium and it is really useful for medical imaging like to see if your heart is pumping correctly or to see if your cancer is metastasized. There are nuclear reactors that produce electricity that doesn't have to use enriched uranium, they can actually use natural uranium ore and still generate electricity. If we can get away from nuclear enrichment and not to that anymore, it would save a lot of problems because nuclear in itself is problematic. there is a lot of problems with by-products and the enrichment process. Another fact about uranium when it was first discovered as well as radium for early uses, Radium was used to make glow paint, and uranium was used as a decorative glaze.

There is another thing called vaseline glass which is a collector's item but it has a radioactive glow to it because it has uranium in it. So uranium was discovered in 1789 by a subject of the kingdom of Bohemia, which is presently in the Czech Republic. His name was Martin Heinrich Klaproth. He was a German Chemist, he renamed it after the name of planet Uranus which was discovered 8 years earlier than uranium. There are different kinds of Uranium, it has different kinds of isotopes which basically are the different forms with different numbers of neutrons depending on how stable the isotope is. Some are more radioactive and some are more likely to produce nuclear fission some are less likely. Uranium 235 and uranium 238 are called primordial elements, so the uranium around on earth is is way older than earth. If you take a half gram of uranium 238 and store it in a container and you come back and check on it, in 4.5 billion years only half of it would be decayed. It is quite ancient stuff.

If you want to mine uranium. Australia is number 1 in the world because about 30% of the uranium in the world is present in Australia. Kazakistan is on number second, number 3 in Russia, and number 4 in Canada. Canada has got the number 1 producing mine called Cigar Lake mine, it produces like 13% of the world's uranium singlehandedly in 2019. Canada's uranium is so rich that they have to use robots to mine it because the humans can't get near to it because it is too dangerous. The US doesn't have the ton of it. There are probably 6 states in the US that have mining operations Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah have the bulk of it and there is also Arizona, Nebraska, and Texas and Arizona is interesting because there is a Grand Canyon Natural Park, there is Uranium.

The United States and Russia were really moving fast to get as much Uranium as possible during the world war. At that time every country was looking whether they had uranium deposits or not. Uranium 235 was as well used as the nuclear core for the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. It takes few people to mine but it's also a very big process which takes upto10-15 years of time. If you are a uranium miner then you are not just an ordinary miner because you will be specially trained to recognize uranium. Open-pit and strip mining are two types of mining processes out of many others. Then there is also underground mining which goes deeper than the other two, it is way more labor extensive and much more costly, and also a bit more dangerous and higher health risks.

So, this was some information about uranium that you should know if you are into nuclear power and other kinds of stuff like it. If you found this article helpful then kindly share it with others and drop a comment if there are any suggestions. See you with a new article on a new thing which I think you should know about.

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