Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Use practice sessions to remind yourself to make eye contact. Practice on the television. Try watching video blogs. Try video chatting. Practice looking into your own eyes in the mirror. Learn to fake eye contact if you have a disability or condition that makes it hard. Take it slow.

Answer: A big part of making eye-contact is just remembering that you're supposed to. If your natural inclination is to stare down at your shoes, try to practice when you're alone to realign your natural response to gaze down by focusing your eyes on faces. This can be done on television, in the mirror, or in a variety of other ways. One of the most readily available ways of practicing your eye-contact is to do it when you're alone, watching television. Focus on making eye contact with the characters on the screen and practicing the same skills to transfer them to your real-life conversations. Obviously eye-contact with faces on television will feel very different than making eye contact with real people. The point of the exercise is to practice the skill, not to approximate the feeling. If you don't have a television, try looking up YouTube vlogs and other videos in which people make eye-contact with the screen. This can make the eye-contact feel a lot more real. These videos are widely available and free, and are actually somewhat better at approximating what it's like to make eye contact during a conversation. If you have a close friend who you enjoy talking to, try using Skype or use another type of video chat to practice your eye contact. This is usually somewhat easier than in person, since you've got a computer screen between you. Again, it won't feel the same as making eye contact with another person, but you can practice training your eyes to drift toward the eyes you see back in the mirror, rather than deflecting them, if you practice looking at your gaze in the mirror. Just taking a few minutes before or after a shower can help you train yourself to make eye-contact, rather than avert your eyes. Autistic people, people with anxiety disorders, and others may find eye contact frightening or overwhelming. Don't sacrifice your ability to have a pleasant conversation. Look at an area near their eyes, such as their nose, mouth, or chin. If they notice that you aren't making eye contact (which is unlikely), say something like "Eye contact is difficult for me. I find that I can listen to you better if I don't have to look directly into your eyes." You don't have to transition from feeling awkward and as if you've got shifty eye contact to suddenly drilling eye-lasers into the people you're having conversation lists. In fact, this can actually be somewhat disconcerting. You're probably already making some degree of eye-contact, but if it's something that you're trying to work on, take it slowly. If you make one extra effort to lock eyes during a conversation each day, call it a success. You don't have to sit through extra-long conversations made up entirely of locked eyes to feel like you're making progress.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Never sign a contract without double-checking. Don't buy unnecessary extras. Don't get cajoled by four-square worksheets. Don't focus solely on the monthly payment. Don't let a car salesperson make you feel bad.

Answer: If you don't understand a part of the contract you're signing, don't sign it. Ask the dealer to explain. If they consciously mislead you about a part of the contract, they could be subject to major fines and even jail time. Take your time to go through any contract or worksheet the dealer sends you and double-check that it doesn't contain any funny stuff. Unscrupulous dealers will sometimes increase an agreed-upon interest or add a warranty to your car without telling you. This is illegal, and it's called "packing payments." It's easy for the dealer to change your monthly payment from $347 to $357 because it's difficult to spot and it's "only" $10. But that $10, over the life of a 48-month loan, becomes almost $500 for the dealer. Don't get scammed by packed payments. Like soda at a fast-food chain, extras are where the car dealerships make a lot of extra profit. Ask yourself what is truly necessary and what is merely satisfactory. At the end of the day, do you really need rustproofing or LED lights on your brand new car, or are you just too tired to put up a fight? If you see your salesperson brandishing a four-square worksheet, tell him you'll walk away unless he puts it away. Four-square worksheets are pieces of paper that salespeople whip out in desperate attempts to fool the buyer. Essentially, here's how they work: The sheet in divided up into four quadrants: Trade-in value; purchase price; down payment; and monthly payment. The salesperson keys in on what you're most concerned about (maybe it's lowering your monthly payment), and reduces the payment in one square while increasing the payment in another. The worksheet looks logical, but it's more like a three-card monte trick. The dealer uses this piece of paper principally to confuse you. Shrewd salespeople will come up to you and ask you how much you want to pay a month for a car. Agreeing to a monthly payment before you've agreed on a final price of the car is a certain recipe for paying way more than you need to. Think about it. If a salesperson gets you locked into a monthly payment first, he can massage the final price of the vehicle depending on how many months he uses. That's not good. Always agree on a final price before talking monthly payments. People who sell cars are a different breed of salespeople. They can be very adept at manipulating emotion in order to close a sale. It's a good idea to try not to let emotion get in the way of making a huge financial purchase, especially when that emotion is being staged by a salesperson. For example, don't let them harass with something like: "You don't haggle with the cashier at the supermarket for a gallon of milk do you?" They are simply trying to guilt you into doing things their way. Respond by saying that in the grocery store, you don't have to worry about paying more for milk than the person before you did. Tell them that no-one has ever financed a gallon of milk.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Calculate mining profitability with an online mining calculator. Buy your mining hardware. Join a mining pool. Run your mining rig constantly to maximize profit. Pick a cloud mining contract package if you don't want to build your own rig.

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If you're thinking about mining Bitcoin with your own hardware, you need to understand exactly how much of an investment you're going to make and how long it will likely be before you turn a profit. Online mining calculators can help you determine if it's really worth it for you to invest in your own rig. Bitcoin is mined by networks of computers that solve difficult numeric problems to verify Bitcoin blocks of transactions. A block of transactions is made up of a reward subsidy and transaction fees. As of 2020 the block reward subsidy is 12.5 bitcoin, but the amount halves every four years with the amount scheduled to halve to 6.25 bitcoin around the 12th of May 2020. To be competitive as a miner, you will either need an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) unit connected to a computer or several GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) which would be better suited to mining alternative crypto currencies which could be traded for bitcoins. Go to https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/ to get an idea of how much you would have to spend in hardware and electricity costs before you turned a profit mining Bitcoin. Keep in mind that for most individual miners, the reality is that they will spend thousands before they mine enough Bitcoin to put them over the top. If you're set on trying to mine Bitcoin despite the cost, you'll need an ASIC miner and a power supply to run it, as well as several GPUs. ASIC miners vary in price depending on their power and efficiency, but you can expect to spend between $1500 and $2000. Once you buy your hardware, you need to be able to set it up. If you don't know your way around circuit boards and computer hardware, this might not be the best hobby for you. A mining pool, such as BitMinter, CK Pool, or Slush Pool, allows you to pool your mining resources with other miners to increase your power and efficiency. Without a mining pool, you would likely mine for years before you managed to get any Bitcoin at all. When you register with a mining pool, you'll receive configuration settings you can use to add your mining rig to the pool as a worker. Your mining rig will start working as soon as you save these settings in your rig. You can control electricity costs by only running your mining rig a few hours a day. However, you're not likely to mine very much Bitcoin this way. Even in a pool, you're only going to get Bitcoin that your rig actually played a part in mining. Because mining rigs generate a lot of heat, keeping it in a basement or garage, where it may be naturally cooler, can be a good option. Not everybody has thousands of dollars to invest in a mining rig, or the tech savvy to keep it up and running that's where cloud mining comes in. Cloud mining companies own massive server farms of mining rigs and offer contracts that essentially allow you to lease the power of their miner farms for a limited period of time. There are a lot of cloud-mining scams out there. Go to https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/#/ to research the company's reputation before you buy a contract. Smaller contracts (typically around $100) may never mine enough Bitcoin to turn a profit. Even larger contracts (several thousand dollars) may take years to mine enough Bitcoin for you to break even.