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Innovator's dilemma & Innovator's solution- why big companies almost always get beaten by startups and how to overcome this

10x Rule by Grant Cardone - you must take 10x more action than you think to get success

Awaken the Giant Within - you can motivate yourself to do anything via the "Pain Pleasure Principle"

Bold: How to go big, make wealth, and change the world - some strategies from Musk, Bezos, Diamandis/Singularity U

The Art of Profitability - Coca-cola from a 2-Liter costs $.02/oz , Coca-cola from a restaurant costs $.20/oz

my full list here: https://goo.gl/9SD8b6
STARTUP MAKE FRIENDS COFFE
STARTUP MAKE CODE
STARTUP SLEEP DREAM
STARTUP STAY SAME PERSON FOREVER
STARTUP MUST BECOME ELON MUSK

honestly, no news. TLDR: another guy trying to sell his own story to himself.
Yes, just barely but in actual assets. Meaning, if you take a complete accounting of my net worth, subtract out debts and ignore options etc and count retirement accounts and stocks and so on. I make out to just above that number by a little bit.

Not terribly impressive if you make over $100k/yr for 15-20 years, live below your means, pay off all your debts and own where you live. But I guess I've managed not to squander too much of it either. I'd have a bit more if I traveled for pleasure less I guess. But I look at that as an investment in myself while I'm young enough to enjoy it.

I pay off debts as fast as possible as well. I own my house and cars free and clear for example and have zero student debt. So nobody is getting money from me "for free". I paid them off as rapidly as I could so I could have lots of liquid cash to spend or invest as I wish. Some people would rather spend smaller to service their debts and invest the difference -- that's probably fine as well.

Housing is most people's biggest expense and it's really nice not to be burning most of my take home income in a furnace on rent or interest.

I've been a larger millionaire twice in paper options, but the companies didn't work out and the options became worthless. Oh well. I've learned the lesson to never accept lesser pay in exchange for options or RSUs no matter the promise of an upside.
Yes - I have an hour every Saturday I put aside for a weekly mentoring meeting. I have a lot of people reach out to me for advice, but as a founder I don't have time to meet every request. Instead, I have my Saturday afternoon hold each week for a call or coffee with people who reach out for guidance on hiring engineers, fundraising, starting a startup so there is a controlled time slot for mentoring meetings. Being a founder is really hard, we're a startup that is post revenue, post seed venture, post product market fit - but everything just seems more complex as we get bigger and there are more failures all the time with bigger consequences. These mentor meetings with founders just starting out give me a healthy pause to realize how far we've come and I feel better knowing I can help other new founders not feel so alone in the early stage process.
Relationship Hero (YC S17) is hiring Relationship Experts
There are plenty of instances where someone may want to avoid regulation for purely legitimate reasons. Regulation is an added cost. Sometimes that cost is justified, sometimes it's not. But whether or not it is justified, the cost is present. So, it is perfectly possible and reasonable for a company to want to avoid being regulated without having malicious intent.
A PSoC-focused design trades flexibility for price, power, and performance. Hard sell.
This isn't about the lack of competition on the search engine market as it is about a single entity holding as much financial and political power to undermine every single one of your suggestions with ease.
No, like this: https://vgy.me/VBLBYH.jpg
And when the FF window is not focused, the title bar is grey. Like it's supposed to be.

It's not part of a plugin, though, I had to patch something manually (I never remember what and have to re-google it every time).
You should have started looking after they reneged on their 6 month promise (which for the record is BS usually anyway, as you've discovered).
Great. Thanks for the recommendation.
What I mean by mathematical background is at or above undergraduate level (so definitely covers calculus, linear algebra, intermediate statistics). A background that can read Elements of Statistical Learning (ESL) comfortably.

What I found is that many "data science" books cover how to use R or Pandas at a very introductory level. Books like ESL focus on core theories (which is great) but do not focus on how to tackle a tough real-world data.

I suppose much of data insight come from experience, but I was wondering whether there are sources to help me jump start.
I'm totally cool with dropping legacy stuff that has a proper replacement.
Imagine a 60 year old lady with stock in a company that has had its value destroy by anti-monopoly laws...

Imagine how much money flows out of investors' pockets and into the pockets of government insiders and lawyers during a big antitrust lawsuit..
Finite and Infinite Games blew my mind. I re-read it every couple of years and it recalibrates me every time.
Good article by the creator [0] on how Lyft's relatively new L4-7 proxy called Envoy [1] handles multi-threading at https://medium.com/@mattklein123/envoy-threading-model-a8d44.... There are now more people at Google contributing to Envoy than Lyft.

0. https://twitter.com/mattklein123/

1. https://lyft.github.io/envoy/
Regulation is not always beneficial.
It would be nice if I didn't have to abandon my privacy - reveal my personal extensions to some third party server - in order to use my own extensions without too much hassle.

Now, I have to patch omni.ja every single time I get update to Firefox from Arch Linux, to disable signature verification. I can automate it a bit, although it's not a robust solution, because I'm patching some JS code that can change at any time.

Beta is not an option, because I don't want it for regular use and it is not in Arch Linux repositories anyway, so I can't get it either.

I don't get it. It's still possible to disable signature verification with little effort (one line change) programmatically from outside of Firefox, yet power users have to jump through stupid hoops in order to continue using their browser the way they want.

I wish fight against malware/malicious extensions was not also inconveniencing power users.
Well, Eric Schmidt/Google could of course stop funding of their own volition and simply go their own way, as you note.

Perhaps it's more important to control institutions and the conversation.
Save $1500 per month, invest in index funds, such as QQQ. If you are lucky and your investments grow 15% every year then in 15 years you will be a millionaire. More realistically, if you assume 9% growth then in 20 years you will be a millionaire. Use this compound interest calculator to run your own simulations: https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/free-financial...
The core of COM is simple, elegant, and definitely "reachable". Don Box's "Essential COM" is a great book on the topic that clears away all the cobwebs that you fear are there. The more advanced topics do indeed become a bit more complicated.

The core idea of COM is that you have objects that you solely interact with as a client by using interfaces. An interface is just a set of methods (under the hood, it's an array of function pointers, in the form of C++ vtables). An object can implement multiple interfaces.

So, for example, in the context of a videogame, you might have a player object that you can send joystick input to, you can render, and and you can persist to JSON. That object would have something like IInput, IRender, and IPersistence interfaces. If you have a reference to any of these interfaces, you can ask that interface for any of the other interfaces (QueryInterface).

At the heart of COM, that's really all there is to it. Method dispatch is as fast as C++ virtual functions because that's exactly what they are under the hood.

There are layers on top of COM which start to add complexity, particularly when you want interface/method discoverability. But you often don't need that, particularly when working with C/C++. I've worked with code (long ago) where just the core of COM was used, and it's really quite straightforward.
> I really don't understand why Google should fund this research.

No. They didn't directly fund any research. Google funds the New America think thank, which houses a group that researches about monopolies. However, it seems that the problem started when one of the researchers wrote a press release celebrating a major antitrust loss for Google on Europe.
I think he's referencing

>If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

-Eric Schmidt

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/
(Reactivating my long-term throwaway for this. Salary history is in past comments.)

5 years at Google, plus living cheaply (at least as much as possible in Silicon Valley).
They obviously meant to write "On the one hand" Those if you downvoting me -- grammer is sexy.
Agree, when I go for a vacation, its my hard earned vacation. I wont and I dont have time to deal with a myriad of AirBnB problems. Hotels are predictable and guaranteed. Another upcoming is Turo. I used it once and discontinued. The owner cancelled my reservation 4 days before my vacation. So I went back to my old faithful Enterprise. The gist of my experience is, if you value your vacation & time, do yourself a favor and go old school. Let AirBnB and Turo make money for their investors, but they can count me out. The only service that I never had a bad experience is Uber.
Data Breach Exposes Thousands of Job Seekers Citing Top Secret Government Work
What's with the evil looking octopus?
Nanomsg postmortem and other stories (2016)
> The contractor hired and trained about 200 Navajos to build the plant, said Deenise Becenti, a spokeswoman for the tribal utility, leaving a qualified workforce for other projects.

This will be interesting to see how it plays out in future projects. I also wonder what they received for training / certifications. It was probably a requirement of their TERO.
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I'll give that a try. How did you link the icon? Or was that automatic too?
Accepting funding from donors with congruent philosophies opens them up to the criticism that they are paid activists and not academic researches.
> a Google-funded think tank

This is why Google isn't going to fund this.

Let Open Markets find another think-tank to get funding from.

Remember kids, think-tanks are where corporations go to produce research reports supporting their position. They're not independent academic institutions.
Likely real estate.
>The most sure way, so far

FTFY
when you link out to another website, that tells google that the site is probably kind of important. The more links you have, especially from important high traffic domains like bbc.com, the more likely it is that your site will rank for search terms. This is how it works by default.

Because lots of the web involves users being the content creators (comment sections and whatnot), Google created a "nofollow" tag that basically nullifies the above effect.

If you go to an article on bbc.com and post a comment with a link, I'm 99% certain without checking that it will have the nofollow link attached. It'd hurt bbc's own rankings as well as make their comments section unusable if not because it'd be spammed to hell by SEO people. So what you want is for your link to appear in the article or main body of content where they wont apply the nofollow tag usually (particularly if you pay for it), and google will think your site is hot shit.
I very much hope to one day be wealthy enough to not have to tell people what I want to eat all the time.

"What do you want for dinner tonight?" Not to have to decide.
Isn't this effectively the wrong strategy though? For a portion of my loans I would earn more investing and paying the minimum amount than I would paying them off sooner.
You could make the same argument about any company breaking laws and regulations or at least operating in grey (eg. AirBnb, Uber,...)
Back during the whole Apple v. FBI thing last year:

A New York lawmaker proposed mandating backdoors or face a $2,500 fine per device.[0 §1(C)]

Senators Burr (R-NC) and Feinstein (D-CA) tried to introduce the "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016".[1 §3]

Thankfully, neither made it anywhere, but the fact that many politicians are so clueless about modern technology is scary.

[0]: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/a8093

[1]: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2797124/Burr-Fein...
I have participated several times to the counting operations in elections in France. Here is how you set it up:

- Open the ballot box.
- Separate the ballots in packs of 100.
- Make tables of 4 volunteers. Each gets a pack.
- One person opens the envelop
- One person reads the ballot
- Two persons tally the score on a sheet
- Compare both tallies at the end. If they are not in sync, do over.
- Compare the sums to the envelopes in the pack. If it is not 100, do over.

All of these tasks are really easy, so you don't have to be smart of even literate to participate. Also, everybody can check what everybody is doing. The person reading the ballot shows it, so they can't change the name. The person opening the envelope sees the names and you can easily follow the counting too.

If people come as a group to volunteer they are typically spread around several tables.

That way, you have triple check of the count, and actually in the end I think the people responsible for the voting station also compare the voting registers (you sign next to your name after voting) to the tallied total of envelopes and votes. So that would be quadrupled checked in the end.

We typically get official results the evening of the day the voting stations closed.

To this day I don't see any practical reason to switch to electronic voting unless someone wants to fraud.
I'd rather see a beautiful, minimalist Calculus textbook for that price. However, Spivak's Calculus is hard to beat.
I would be really interested in hearing your story and pearls of wisdom. Have you been interviewed or would you do an interview for a site such as indieshackers.com?
Your arguments may convince Mozilla not to port these features to WebExtensions, but what are you trying to tell me? To go fuck myself? What you're missing is there are many niches like these, and many people using many niches. It might still be a small percentage of users overall, but we're the geeks and we sit right in the center of the culture. Get rid of us, and the care-about-Mozilla temperature goes down significantly.

Mozilla should find a way of moving forward while keeping the code open enough to modding. AFAIK, features offered by these extensions that I use are not implementable in WebExtensions even in principle, and that is the main problem. Break the compatibility if you must, but make it possible for someone who cares enough to step in and rewrite these extensions to the new architecture.
> if you want to check a single function's behavior with 10 different sets of primitive arguments, using integration tests to test it may mean you end up setting-up and tearing-down an application process 10 times: a slow and and wasteful use of your compute resources

This is only true if the test is run in process and there it is stateful. Performing out of process tests on stateless units are very effective.
Footprint find on Crete may push back date humans walked upright
Often time the devil is in the detail.
It sounds like a token is not a utility token if it ever trades on any exchange, which essentially defeats the purpose of the entire ICO concept.
It pisses me off to no end when software uses keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+anything, unless it's using ASCII control characters (e.g. vi, emacs). Every *nix GUI toolkit knew this until the year-of-desktop-Linux crowd insisted on slavishly imitating every Windows mistake.
From where do you get your information on personal finance and investing?
Interesting. It does for me. It's not only disabling it, The "Recommended by Pocket" doesn't even show up in the about:home sidebar.

Can you try restarting the browser, and if it doesn't help, file a bug pls?
Silly use of persuasive words on the part of the OP. Barbarians don't have corporations nor anti-trust regulation. All of the "market forces" remedies that the OP suggest are just the sort of thing that monopoly power makes ineffective. If Google is a utility like the phone system circa 1970, then the solutions suggested are analogous to addressing AT&T's monopoly by forcing government employees to use ham radios one week and carrier pigeons the next. Monopoly power means that consumer choice has been reduced to the choice to take it or leave it and all the suggestions are simply that; take it or leave it.
20 years of hard work and saving.
I think the idea that Google would be opposed to this idea is in direct conflict with Google's past public image.

That they are deciding that this is not the type of research that they wanted to fund is pretty clear step into the "evil" category of common corporate that they in the past have been admired for avoiding.

This isn't news to me but it's probably news for a lot of people.
i love your channel! It contains just enough technical details to be interesting, but isn't made too overly dense so as to be boring or snooze inducing.

I m glad that you made such good videos for me to enjoy!
Please join my campaign at http://www.oss4gov.org/manifesto - this is exactly why we want all government software to be open source

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Re-entrant is basically what you said, self-contained functions that don't depend on external state. The "re-entrant" part just means that, basically, the function can be "re-entered." If it gets interrupted in the middle of execution, it will still produce the same output no matter what, no matter how long it sleeps for.
Do you think this is still possible or is the market totally oversatured at this point?
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Achieved twice, by two separate means. Raised by single mom, no family member ever attended college. Public exam result delivered full private school scholarship. Graduated Oxford and Harvard. At 35, (1) married wealthy family’s only daughter and (2) founded VC-backed startup that paid out some years later. After growing up poor, have no interest in big spending or additional risk. Live simply in a warm state, happily retired. Most valued assets: wife and kids. An exceptionally fortunate life.
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This book is great. I've read it twice.
books, research reports, personal experience.

The last is vital, as an investor's emotional composure is at times even more important than the rational side of investing.
only if you live to 300!
I thought breaking into systems they don't own for profit was something done by large nation-states and their proxies?
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No it's not the brightness per se. What you perceive as "brightness" is the intensity of the part of the spectrum that is visible to you. But plenty of the non-visible spectrum has physiological effects, the infrared and UV spectrum. Most of the acute damage from the eclipse and the sun to eyes is not from UV as commonly believed but from the intensity of infrared that your eyes don't detect as "bright" but will cook them right well.

This is also why even relativlity low intensity infrared lasers are so dangerous.
United States Government Censorship of Fuck Nazis Virtual Lapel Pin
It's fine for a monospaced font to contain an "fi" ligature (to represent Unicode U+FB01), but it absolutely should not contain a "liga" feature to form it from "f" and "i". I'd personally not even create a "dlig" (discretionary ligature).

Not surprising to see this, because the rules are quite different for non-monospaced fonts (almost all fonts should have a liga feature for fi, and all modern text layout engines should respect it).

Source: I've worked in this space.
The LHCb experiment
Here's a solution to the "bad name" problem.

Let's call it the Debian "Words of Encouragement" messaging app. Its purpose is to allow Debian members to send short, pithy words of encouragement to each other to spread goodwill through the universe.

Here's how to build it:

1. Fork Bitmessage.

2. Have the client fetch the Debian strong set at startup. Only those keyholders may send and receive messages.

3. Limit it to one fixed-size message per day, to be sent at a pre-determined time.

4. If no message is in the queue, either send an acknowledgment of receipt for the last message or a randomly generated message.

5. Repeat forever.

Now you've got a private information retrieval system that has no scaling problems, no Sybil attacks, and essentially no bad actors. (Or if a bad actor happen to materialize, well, they just signed their bad act with a key that someone in the Debian ecosystem should be able to tie to a human identity if it came to that.)

And you don't have to worry about giving it an approachable UX because Debian devs don't care about that shit.

Boom-- state-of-the-art decentralized messaging service that whose anonymity and metadata-mining resistance scales with Debian's own interest in granting its developerbase anonymity.
Depends on the spread between the interest on your loans, the expected returns on your investments, and the risk of said investments.

A 1% spread vs a portfolio of 100% equities might mean that the volatility compels you to opt to pay back your loans.
This is just theoretical pontification, but I think there is a respect in which size matters: heat dissipation. Suppose you have a sensor laminated to a heat sink. If you apply some flux density (power per unit area) to a very small area (as would happen with a phone camera), you can dissipate heat in three dimensions: back toward the heat sink and to the sides through the rest of the sensor. If, in contrast, you apply the same flux density to a large area, the edge effects matter less and you approach the limit where heat only dissipates straight back. This could have a dramatic effect on the temperature.

A similar effect happens in the kitchen. It's very easy to burn yourself by touching a large hot surface, but it's much harder to burn yourself by touching a hot pointy thing.
That is truly paper "wealth". Unless you cash out, a stock market crash will greatly reduce the value of your shares.
Octopuses have a long tradition of representing monopoly.

They're a natural analogy for the way a monopoly's reach impacts different areas of life.

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/48508d5f59aa4bcaa900cb7da0d1c29f/p...