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I think it is jealousy, not rules or company contracts that make bosses sue their employees. I say that because at one of my previous job, founder actively encouraged side projects and entrepreneurship.

But that company still end up shutting down side projects of two of its employees.

One was a simple site that documented company's API and had a few sample code snippets. It got popular. The guy running it even received recognition on company's newsletter. Next thing I know is that company forced the guy to handover site and domain to them. Apparently, he worked on it during work hours. He said he never did but who knows.

Then another guy's completely unrelated app got shut down due to same reasons. But the guy claims he never even opened app on his personal cell phone while on company property. Everyone in the company had some sort of app but this app got popular & profitable. Jealousy set in. One of his teammate claimed he saw the guys working on the app. He was forced to handover the code. Then company did nothing with the app and removed it from marketplace. Rumor is that he has another app but he tells no one about it.

I believe same thing happens in big companies. AFAIK, they don't hire any team to monitor web to make sure their employees haven't released anything on their own. But someone who works with an employee learns about a successful app, gets jelous and tip legal department.

Lesson is even if your company is pro side projects, don't tell anyone about it. Humans are jealous creatures and they will find a way to hurt your project.

Freelancing

IANAL but yes anyone can own a company or start LLC, even foreigners outside of the US.

However, on H1B you cannot work for such LLC, you will be in violation of your visa status. But I am not sure if non-income generating, administrative task such as filing annual reports count as working for your own company. You should check with a lawyer on this.

Finally, owning an LLC may create future issues with immigration. Even if you don't violate your visa, immigration officers may assume that you did. It might be easy to clear up with additional documentation but I would not risk it.

Home cleaning. I was reluctant to let a stranger clean my home but it is totally worth it. My maid cleans home better than I ever did, and she is faster.

I used to use laundry service, that was amazing.

Agreed, this is just part of business for hospitals. We as honest people feel ashamed if we cannot pay bills. But I make an exception medical bills and other unpredictable broken industries (if any).

If someone bought a car or house, they knew their obligations exactly. If they declare bankruptcy, I would lay some fault with them, if not all.

But with medical billing, you cannot get a straight answer. If they cannot tell you what a simple procedure would cost you, then you don't owe them anything.

Also hopefully if enough people don't pay surprise bills, then medical industry would have motivation to simplify their systems.

I don't have advice but my personal experience is that lifting weights is easy but cardio is almost impossible.

I don't really fast on purpose but I mostly eat one large meal a day (dinner). I workout in evenings before dinner.

I do snack if I get hungry maybe around 4PM. My snacks are usually Lay's chips. Sometimes, I get a Gatorade for gym.

I can lift about as heavy as if I had a big lunch but cardio is different story. If push myself as hard as one days when I had lunch or a lot snacks, I will start to see stars. I go a lot slower with cardio then. (Seeing stars or vision going white is sign of sudden drop in blood sugar level).

I am one of those people who never get hungry. I don't fast, but don't eat breakfast, skip lunches once in a while. Usually have a large dinner. I am not skinny but slightly overweight, according to BMI (25.1).

But when I purposefully eat as much as possible on vacations (trying out all of the famous places, you know), then for next week or two I get hungry all the time. It takes a lot of time before I could get back to my normal eating schedule. I really don't care one way or other but my busy schedule just get in the way of regular lunches.

Also I have been going to same doctor for last decade and he says my health is as great as of someone 15 years younger than me.

Too many companies have eroded employees trust by lying that something is anonymous when it is not.

I personally will never trust any such survey at work.

In my professional experience, every time higher ups made a decision without input from worker bees, the project failed, delayed, or cancelled.

I personally love it when higher-ups make a decision without consulting me. Because then I have zero skin in the game. I don't work ridiculous hours. When I am involved in decision making, then I make sure project succeeds. Sometimes that means working late hours, taking pro-active steps to remove blockers etc.

But if I am told what to do without consulting me, then I don't care. There is a lot less stress on me. If it appears decision was stupid and project will not meet deadline, I make sure everyone knows and rarely ever put in more than 40 hours on such projects.

I used to camp out at various coffeeshops near my university back in mid-2000s. As poor student, I was not only trying to use free wifi but also save on power by not staying in my apartment a whole lot.

I used to rotate between various coffee shops. Many of those were independent. Starbucks was corporate evil coffeeshop where I rarely bought anything but camped out for hours.

The problem was Starbucks was the most welcoming. In some of independent coffeeshops, owners or managers would hint indirectly that I needed to buy something or they hate people on laptops.

Eventually, I would go to Starbucks by default unless I had enough money to get something more than a coffee. Hey gotta support independent coffeeshops.

Here is the funny thing now I am professional who loves coffeeshops. Starbucks is my default option still. I don't work from Starbuck anymore but easily spend about $150 there a month.

(It is kind of sad because I am sure there are independent coffeeshops that would have tolerate broke students but then those are probably near campuses and students graduate and new broke students move in. So they will never get customers for life if they are not a chain.)

This has been useful for me: https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/posture-power-how-to-co...

I know a real estate guy who hires drone pilots to shoot videos of McMansions. Most of those drone guys are hobbyist and business is not scalable though. Could be fun way to checkout different neighborhoods and pay for expensive hobby.

Thanks but it still didn't explain why it is legal. It just said it was standard procedure. Sure there are laws covering overbooking situation but that doesn't mean the actual idea of overbooking has gone through legal scrutiny.

I never knew that they overbooked flights until recently. From my perspective, it appeared obviously wrong and immoral. So never imagined that an ethical company would do this.

You cannot just make up one sided terms and conditions, it would be thrown out in court.

When I buy something, I should not need an hour to read a contract.

Airlines are able to get away with this cause they haven't been challenged in courts. But once challenged, it will be deemed illegal.

It will make it harder for smaller and startups to compete with established players.

You can think of it as if phone companies grouping businesses in different buckets and then charging extra for better service. Small businesses will have to pay phone companies extra if they want their customers to call them.

> I've tried all kinds of things, except professional help, which I can't really do right now because of reasons: vitamins, caffeine, no caffeine, exercise, meditation, not eating carbs, getting more sunlight. None of it works.

I am just assuming but perhaps you didn't try some of these long enough? I have read somewhere that it takes at least six months before benefits of meditation are appear. Probably same thing with exercise or vitamins too.

I had run into focus issues too, went to doctor and described it just like how you are describing. He told me to take vitamin D. And then recommended to take ADHD test & lift heavy (to increase testosterone as I was on low end). Only thing, I really did semi-consistently is taking Vitamin D almost daily. I do seem to have better focus now, but still it could be improved a lot.

There are cases of people going to jail because they donated money to charities claiming to help orphans. Government argument in those cases was that they should have "known better."

Only reason executives are not charged with treason is because they are white Christians not brown Muslims.

Amazing, I don't see any outrage from conservatives on funding ISIS by Hobby Lobby. There are some even defending Hobby Lobby because according to them Hobby Lobby saved important artifacts from destruction.

Back in days we rented servers and created our env, it was not really that hard. And it was super easy to move from one provider to another.

Isn't that how everything works? For each employee, my company makes x10 the average salary.

What's your goal?

If it is someone you know in real life and were just curious then don't mention it first ever.

I prefer to buy. But whenever I buy toys, I assume one day I will get bored with them. So I estimate resale value. If resale value is too low, then I prefer to rent.

For example, when I bought my DSLR, I looked at various camera rental sites and used prices of year old models. It showed me that I should buy the camera because even if I sell it after couple of years, my overall cost of camera would be only couple of weekends rent.

So generally I buy cars, books, video games, furniture, music CD (yes still buy CDs) etc. Selling is really easy. (Lately, books have no resale value but there is no book rental service other than library. Also I like to gift books so it evens out.)

Only thing I rent because of above math is movies.

Then there are a few things I rent just because it is convenient to rent or cost too much to own for short time period. So I pay for gym because I don't want gym equipment at home. Or rent cars when traveling.