Why is the dark web not banned, blocked and illegal?

Alexander Mattick, Student of Computer Science at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2018-present)

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What are 10 things that are normal among the poor, but weird among the rich and wealthy?

Howard Galt, Editor at A Conscious Conservative www.conservativeconscious.blogspot.com

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I'm 22 years old and I want to become a millionaire by 35. How do I do this?

John Smith, personal finance nerd

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Why are immigrants leaving Australia?

Ehsan Jahanandish, Director/Principal Migration Agent at Smart Migration Group (2016-present)

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Most people think that the main part of staying in shape is doing a lot of working out, but this is simply not true. If you want to stay in shape, you must first adhere to a good nutritionally clean diet. That is the real secret they don’t tell you, so they can hawk their Ab-Cruncher 500s and all of their weight loss pills.

If people knew staying fit was as simple as getting enough sleep, eating clean and staying hydrated, the weight loss industries would lose tons of money, so they try to blind you with their gadgets and pills and workouts.

No need, simply eat a clean diet, stay moderately active, sleep well and stay hydrated and you will remain fit.

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If the best investments only get you 10-15% returns a year, how do people become rich from investing?

Satvik Beri, Data Scientist (2010-present)

I’m going to teach you a useful trick called the rule of 72.

Without a calculator, if you invest $100 for 40 years at a 10% interest rate, which of these is closer to how much money you’d end up with?

$500

$1,000

$5,000

$10,000

The answer is 3 – you’ll have made nearly 50x your investment (45.3x to be precise.) And furthermore, there’s an easy way to estimate this in your head: if you have an X% interest rate, then your investment will double approximately every 72/X years. So a 10% interest rate will double about every 7.2 years, while a 12% interest rate will double roughly every 6 years.

That means 40 years is 5–6 doublings at 10%, which gives you somewhere in between 32x and 64x your original investment. Not bad at all!

And that’s how people make money off of returns – a reasonable return, combined with a lot of time, is a pretty good vehicle for significantly increasing your wealth.

Why do good employees quit in almost every job?

Kyle Cooper, Semiconductor Service Company Chief @kylecoop.com

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David Gutzman

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Underperforming employees have something to lose.

Employment.

Income.

Position.

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An employee that grows expertise and knowledge increases his or her value.

That is a threat to the levels immediately above (future) and a threat to the same level (compete for the same bonus and salary increase).

A big company is accumulating bad and underperforming employees by nature.

(source: viral posts on Linkedin with some blablabla and some other blabla but still I wish I posted the image)

Today, your knowledge is your value. If you believed in yourself that you could graduate from college and you did, it means commitment. Most people’s lives end there. Biologically they live on.

If you believe in yourself, that you can acquire more knowledge and skills.

If you believe you can become an expert in various fields.

If you believe in yourself like you believed in yourself starting in college.

Then you know it doesn’t end at graduation.

Don’t put your faith in a company that uses shady tax evasion strategies, tries to cover up problems, lies about career opportunities and performance based pay, fires employees because the profit was the same as the last quarter and the CEO’s stock value drops because the analysts of Wall Street expected more. Employees are so expensive but still they pay the consultants double of what you make. Does that really make sense to you? Does this match fair pay in your book?

Put your faith in yourself.

You can select employment by solely focussing on important skills you need.

Change jobs even companies if you cannot learn more.

So much better than leaving your faith and that of your family in the hands of an overweight and way too rich CEO.

Any employee with more than one braincell walks away from fixed employment.

The only protection against unemployment is expertise.

And if you are playing above your capabilities, you stay, no matter what. If you become more valuable, you are losing by staying. Simple as that.

Oh, and don’t listen to recruiters. Very important. They have a financial intrest in keeping up appearances. I don’t.

Which profession causes the most amount of depression in people?

Jonathan Schnapp, Psychotherapist at Private Practice of Psychotherapy

Which profession causes the most amount of depression in people?

Full transparency I googled this question because I was curious. I got mixed results although it seems that doctors and dentists lead with the highest rates of suicide, followed by police officers, Vets and those in financial services. As for depression it seemed caregivers (nurses, etc), teachers, social workers, farm workers, lawyers and construction workers, were listed among those mentioned above. However, people who are unemployed had the highest rates of depression.

What did this tell me? Not a whole lot. People experience depression across the spectrum of professions. While some very stressful jobs may lead to increased rates of depression, I think the goodness of fit between the individual and the job is a far more significant factor. There are those who love, hate and everything in between, in every profession. The trick is finding something that works for you, as opposed to doing a job that you think you should do because someone else thinks it makes sense, or because of the respect or status or money you think it will earn you.

I’m not suggesting you should ignore the fact that we need money to pay our bills. This is a part of reality that cannot be ignored without serious consequence, but so few people actually pursue jobs or careers that they are passionate about because they assume that working is not supposed to feel good. It’s one of the most unfortunate myths in modern society.

“It’s work.”

“It’s just a job.”

“Work isn’t supposed to be fun.”

Well, I’m telling you that this is not true. There is a lot of pleasure and gratification that can be gotten from any job, whether you are washing dishes, teaching, doing surgery or fixing someone’s pipes. You just have to find the one or ones that work for you at the current point in your life.

I add the variable of time, because these things change, and what you enjoy or feel passionate about today might not be what floats your boat 5 or 10 or 20 years from now. Know yourself and know what works for you. It’s not always easy to figure this out, because first you need to recognize that your needs are not necessarily what everyone around you has been telling you.

Found out (by accident) that my boss is seeking to replace me. Am I doing the right thing by resigning asap?

Neel Kumar, Have had many bosses, am one too.

There is a great line someone told me years ago. I have begun to appreciate it only in the last few years:

Communication is not what you say, it is what the others hear.

There are many possibilities:

The boss is NOT replacing you but getting an additional headcount. Not bad.

The boss is replacing you because:

The boss thinks you are a lousy employee. If the first indication of this impression is to replace you, the boss is pathetic. You would be better off with a smarter boss.

The boss is afraid that you will replace her and hence wants to get rid of you. Not as uncommon as you think. If you are able to, reach out to your boss’ peers to see if you can switch groups.

The boss is afraid you are going to leave him and is preparing for that contingency. This is sheer idiocy on part of your boss. There are far smarter ways of dealing with this situation.

Your boss’ peer wants you and your boss wants to be a dick and is creating an environment where you will leave and your boss’ peer would not get you. Such people are toxic and you should stay away from such people.

The person you heard the news from or someone upstream is spreading false information for their own personal benefit.

Leaving gives the boss an easy out. And resigning without another job in hand makes your life difficult. Why do something that hurts you AND helps the person you don’t like?

Continue working, put up a brave face and see what all is happening. Make connections. See if someone else also sees the situation the same way and warns you. In times of trouble, you really get to know who is looking out for you. :)

Maybe you will discover that things are far more complicated. Maybe your boss is being railroaded into hiring your replacement. Who knows!

To summarize, do NOT resign unless you have a better job offer in hand. See if you can get the boss to talk more about your performance. See who else is interested in working with you. Best of luck!

How much salary bump is "normal" when moving jobs?

John L. Miller, Worked and recruited at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle. 25 yrs industry. PhD.

I’ve moved between companies several times. The first time or two, I didn’t have a good handle on what to expect. I was moving primarily because of life circumstances. For example, I took a job at the university my then-girlfriend was going to for her PhD, so I could be in the same town. They gave me a raise from my Microsoft wages (which were lousy back then), but I just took what they offered, not knowing better. Loved the job & city, but that’s a “and-by-the-way…”

Years later I was back at Microsoft, feeling trapped. The thing that originally had me feel trapped at Microsoft was stock which had yet to vest. I didn’t realize that it is customary for the big companies to look at your outstanding stock at your old company, and offer you similar stock in THEIR company. For example, when moving from Microsoft to Amazon, They gave me a stock award and hiring bonus schedule that year-on-year was better than the stock I was waiting to vest at Microsoft. When I moved to Google, a similar situation. To Oracle, a similar situation.

Likewise, I hadn’t realized that it’s customary for someone hiring you away to ensure your total compensation is higher. In my experience (and from talking to other people), it’s 10–20%, everything being equal. That’s a hard precondition to meet in computing, though, and is heavily flavored by the company you’re moving from and to, and their relative locations.

I’ve had the opposite possibility as well. One big employer Who Shall Remain Nameless had a job I wanted, but their first question when salary came up was “how much of a pay cut are you prepared to take to work here?” They could only offer me about 60% of the total compensation I was already making elsewhere. It took some thought, but I figured I would be resentful if I came, so I said no.

Summing up - if you are working in a competitive industry and area - at least in computing - shoot for 10–20% bump to move. If you’re not able to get that, think VERY carefully about whether you should make that switch. If you’re not getting a money bump, you need to make sure you’re getting other compensating factors: an easier lifestyle, a much better commute, what have you.