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If you read the stories of self-made billionaires they strikingly have a lot in common. Also all the following billionaires had troubled times and if you read their stories, you will see how they overcame them.

From the books I've read about the following self-made billionaires so far (Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Yvon Chouinard, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger) the most important things I've found they have in common are that:

They avoid competition, think long-term, and don't copy others foolishly.

Longer explanation:

-They break down the world to the fundamentals, the essential, the Feynman method. When Musk wanted to build SpaceX everyone thought he was crazy. But when he broke it down to the raw costs for space shuttle manufacturing, the typical costs were too high and he saw opportunity. Many people tend to learn complex abstract concepts without truly understanding the building blocks or learning trees that it took to get there. There can be times when someone calculated incorrectly but everyone took it for granted and it became the status quo of knowledge. I believe these are one way to access the secrets in plain sight. Question everything.

- They focus on the long game like the power of compound interest. They operate with a vision of what the future might look like 10 years down the road, and then they work backwards to create that vision. Did they see the future, did they just build it before anyone else, or both?

- Most of the billionaires I've read about had humble beginnings. Yvon Chouinard used to sleep in his van. Elon Musk couch surfed during his worst times. Jeff Bezos started out in his garage and made tables from doors.

- All of them have very strong beliefs. They are not swayed by what everyone else is doing which is how most, even big companies fail. Peter Thiel mentions mimetic theory, basically that people copy each other, even companies, and that's how you get competition. Buffett indirectly talks about it too. ExxonMobil hires a fertilizer expert and then all the other oil companies start hiring a fertilizer expert even if they don't really know why Exxon hired one in the first place. Or how big companies (GEICO) can lose focus of their circle of competence by getting distracted by what everyone else is doing and creating inferior copycat products - which eventually leads to value loss of their core competency and what actually drives value for their customers.

I think that's one thing that makes them all special. They all took different routes to get where they are. To be tacky, they didn't follow someone else's road, they created their own.

- They didn't do it alone. All those people knew how to build and lead a great team. If they didn't, they found someone who could.

Books I'm getting this info from:

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard

Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
That doesn't mean it's fun.
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Because looking into it takes time and effort? Even if he looks into it and finds ambiguity then, if he cares enough, he'd need to talk to lawyer, which may cost money.

> This isn't a newsworthy event or "proof the GDPR ruins businesses".

It is anecdote that complying to a far reaching and ambiguous law has real consequence.
Yes, it was in the US. I’m not American but unbeknownst to me I moved to the same US state she lived in shortly before she decided to sue me.

Even in the case where fees are awarded, there is absolutely zero upside in being sued. The best possible outcome is to tie up tens of thousands of your own money in legal fees, and invest huge amounts of time and energy in a court battle. And of course there is always a risk you could lose the case.

For a passion project that is a big investment. I cut my losses, and I’m glad I did.
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> 3 reasons to keep the IP: statistics, analytics

That's exactly why GDPR is a good thing. It prevents anybody from doing statistics and keeping analytics about the users. Want to collect this information in order to profile your users and offer them a better product (ndr. better ads)? Well tough luck. You either anonymize and stop profiling and tracking your users or you close shop in Europe. I don't see how this is a bad thing in any possible way. You say it costs money? I guess then some of the money they made by targeting users and selling their personal data so far can be put to good use.
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It's not clear if a space elevator on earth is physically possible.

On tiny scales, carbon bonds have sufficient strength/weight ratio so that the elevator might support it's own weight, but there's not that much margin left. As the macrostructure likely requires a multiple of weight, to account for the fact that a kilometers-long string can't be manufactured perfect to the single atom, and that damage can and will occur (e.g. any radiation), etc, etc - according to our current knowledge of physics it might as well be that a sufficiently strong macroscale material for an Earth-sized space elevator cannot exist. Moon or Mars is a different issue, though.
Try using Scala :)

Is that minutes for every compile, or for an (infrequent) full compile?
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I think Medium premium stories should be at least marked as such in the title.

I also think it's quite absurd marking personal articles as 'pay to read'.
> stop blindly downvoting facts.

The point is that those facts are irrelevant, in much the same way that it's irrelevant to bring up that tomatoes are botanically a fruit when discussing fruit salad.

Nowhere does the article say sleep deprivation isn't bad for you in myriad ways. Rather, it's making the point that, for people who are sleep deprived due to insomnia, stressing out about your lack of sleep compounds the problem, by making it even harder to fall asleep. So one way to solve insomnia-related sleep deprivation is precisely to not make a big deal of it, and remove the anxiety component.
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> I'll take a well-informed, nuanced opinion of Dyson, a colleague of Einstein and Feynman ...

I'm sorry, but being a colleague of Einstein and Feynman is not a qualification.

Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics because he felt that God would not create a world where it can be true. Feynman (a personal hero of mine) did not brush his teeth because he thought there was not sufficient scientific evidence that it helps keep them healthy.

History is full of brilliant people who make mistakes.

Freeman Dyson has not done sufficient research to reach the conclusion that he has, and he certainly hasn't gone back to look at how the predictions have panned out (both from the climate change camp and other one). He is a charlatan when it comes to climate science.

It is not wise to worship any single person and accept their claims uncritically, and an appeal to an authority is usually a weak argument.
I'm always able to fall asleep pretty well in familiar environments but in new environments I can rarely sleep.

The whole "lay down with your eyes closed but not actually sleep" thing does work. I survived like this for 5 nights in a row with a maximum of 2 hours of REM sleep in the last few nights. I don't know how but I was quite functional during those days too.
For reference, Lake Michigan has 1.3e15 gallons of water.
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People should check out the free, open source sky atlas/planetarium software Stellarium:

http://stellarium.org

A sort of Google maps for the heavens. You can download star catalogs with over 150 million stars.

It's amazing what you can do with it. Here's a little movie I made of the 2-day long transit of Uranus across the Sun as viewed from Neptune in the yer 46915: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU9yzUUMhqU
I don't think that people like you and people like me will ever agree in these discussions because you look at statistics and I look at possibilities.

What @megaman22 is saying fully matches my experience as an Eastern European -- piss off the wrong people and the law will fall on you with its full might. Some people would really love to make an example out of you if you give them the chance. And I don't think that only applies to E.E. but have no data either way, it's just an observation from news and hearsay from affected people around here.

I fully support the GDPR and I'll do my utmost to comply with it even for hobby projects.

That was never something I disputed in my root comment that spawned this big sub-thread.

What I said and will continue saying is -- laws like these open even more doors for legal trolls, big players and nasty competitors to exhaust you out of business. The fact that it doesn't happen on a massive scale in my eyes means nothing; or rather, it means that agents used as an example to scare off others isn't something that's done often because usually just a few lawsuits and their aftermath are plenty enough for those many others to get the message.

So IMO using statistics here is not a strong enough argument. I am not trying to alter your thinking. We actually agree on most points but I simply can't agree that past statistics are a good proof that the new law won't be used in a more heavy-handed manner than originally intended.

To me, that remains to be seen yet and none of us can claim with certainty that what seems likely to them will materialize.
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What are you talking about? Competitors cannot sue you over GDPR, this is not the US.
I was loose in introducing the word "capture", which blurred the distinction you're making. But the OC seems to be suggesting that IP blocking is likely to be a one stop solution for someone trying to avoid GDPR details, and your replies leave open that impression.

In fact, there are many ways someone might be profiling without knowing it. For example, precedent about when logging IP addresses constitutes PII is still evolving and seems to apply in cases that would be unintuitive to many US businesses: https://www.whitecase.com/people/tim-hickman. And there have been arguments that geolocating based on IP might itself be data enrichment that contributes to an argument that you are profiling!

Similarly, I haven't seen a clean interpretation of what constitutes offering (or clearly not offering) services to EU users, which determines application to a data processor. For example, if I offer a Portuguese translation of my site for Brazilian users, have I offered service to continental Portuguese?

IANAL but nobody knows exactly where GDPR will apply yet. I think the better takeaway for someone who is trying to respond with minimum effort is: IP blocking might help you build a defense, but it might matter how you implement it and it might not be sufficient.
There's always a choice. Even assuming that "We either do that or it's possible that somebody is alive today who will see the collapse of human civilization." is literally true (it's debatable - even the worst case scenarios stop at major population reduction, but quite a few areas would do no worse than the aftermath of a major war), choosing not to take major action and accept that the destruction will happen is not only possible, but actually very, very plausible for all kinds of political reasons. I'd be willing to bet with more than 50% odds that those who can do that will choose not to do actions like this and that plans like this won't actually be done.
OIDC is definitely my preferred approach, but that's kind of the point of the article. Big orgs & governments, today, are generally going to be using SAML, if you're lucky (other times they're going to ask you to integrate directly with their 2-decade-old Active Directory).

SAML's kind of quirky, but the handful of integrations I've done so far haven't been that bad. Most of the pain comes from all of the half-baked implementations. I used to get riled up when a customer would ask "can you please not use signed or encrypted assertions? Our side doesn't support that"... now I just mostly shrug, make sure we're doing it over HTTPS, and... meh.
I think this highlights the EU vs US perspective on Government nicely

In the EU you tend to trust your bureaucrats to make a "Fair and Just" application of the law

In the US we tend to expect our bureaucrats to be vindictive, corrupt, petty, and generally impose fines and penalties not based on the law but based on their personal feelings about the target of their "legal action"

Thus such open ended wording like you posted being classified as a "rule" scares the shit out of most Americans
Cool. I bet it will be quite the feat of mid-scale engineering. So, less than 3 Olympic sized pools at 2.5 MM gallons.
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Which means that banks, get to loan money they don't have in the fractional reserve bank system. So banks are levered up like you wouldn't believe, which is a huge weakness of the financial system.

And what happens to all the profits from money printing ? Why, that goes to the banks, of course.

This proposal seems to simply be to only allow the central bank to lever up, and force Swiss banks to become old-US-style "investment banks".

The issue with that is simple: if some banks are allowed to print money (with profits going to the richest, and everyone or "the taxpayer" guaranteeing the loans, of course), and others are not, the banks that are allowed to print money are going to marketshare, profits, ... and counterintuitively, when the economy is expanding, historically even the people they lend to.

It is looking more and more like the economy is reconfiguring to the way it worked in the middle ages.
Yes. YES. YES!
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It never really occurred to me but I wonder how much of twinkling is due to the light wobbling around a small set of individual rods/cones/etc.

(Also might explain why some photos show a bunch of stars that are deep blue/red)
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Especially when Streetlends is literally already operating at a loss.

I can't imagine it's a cost less than five figures.
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The goal of GDPR is compliance not punishment. So long as you are eventually following the rules it’s all ok.
I'm just in the process of setting that up right now! We're on the SP side, and the IdP lives inside an enterprise network and is not externally accessible. The only problem is that it's a bit tricky to debug, since they won't give us VPN access at all. Debugging involves picking up the phone, asking our contact to do a login, and watching the log messages. Slow, but it works and it's a big enough contract that it's clearly worth it.
"Never" is a long time.
That would have been great 20 or 30 years ago. As the article mentions, even if we went zero emission right in this instant, it is unlikely that the feedback loop we have started will stop (some models predict an ice age or a delay as the heat exchange between equator and poles stops)
A house seems like a good analogy... if the owner isn't willing to do maintenance, he'll probably fence it of to avoid fines and liability. A local group might loose their meeting spot, but we still usually consider it worth it.

Our dependency on services that will go away is a problem, but I'd prefer we'd search for different ways to preserve software once unmaintained. Government requires authors to send a few copies of books&newspapers to libraries... maybe something like that with source code?
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Style guides are usually per company or at least per department. Leaving them behind isn't usually in the cards without severe other consequences.

I usually write a python program that doesn't complain about style violations, it just fixes them, like autopep8, but with much more stuff, like correctly capitalizing function names, variables, making strings consistent, making or taking away long-quotes, putting conditions in ifs, even renames shadowed variables (built it in last week after what feels like the 100th time I hit a bug due to shadowing) ... Makes people wonder how I can possibly program so fast under such onerous rules. On the downside: I work here now for 6+ years, and still don't know (or care) about most of the style guide, and frequently get confused when people ask questions "because you have written the most code, you must know, right ? Capitalize functions or not ? ... Ehm, well ...". Also, people ignore these things, so I must run it on any file I edit and submit a "style fixes" cl before doing anything else. But since git became an option, not much of a problem.

That's the trouble with style guides: 95% of what they do COULD have been implemented in editors if we demanded that style guide authors weren't "architects" and policy-makers, but programmers that really know what they're doing. Very little they do requires a policy, it can just be described as a parse-tree-transform. Instead, they're just people who feel they can just push their opinion on a large group of people, just because it makes them feel a bit better. That they can't actually program a fix, but instead just create another problem, doesn't seem to bother any of them, ever.

And we actually reward people for this. I don't get that. These people CREATE a problem, then somehow negotiate this style with a department, slowing everyone down for no good reason other than that they don't know how to do it automatically, and they usually actually get rewarded for providing a bad solution. Like they "introduce standards". Even just providing a style-guide-checker with a consistent interface (so IDE integration would be easy) is too much to ask at every place I've ever worked.

No, they substitute 10% of the all labor in this company for the job a simple perl script COULD do.
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Washing and polishing the glass prior to attaching the polarization plate.

Washing the product to remove toxic compounds from the surfaces is where there is a bit of concern. https://phys.org/news/2014-12-toxic-effects-chemicals-tft-lc...
Yes. It SAYS that. However it’s about enforcement.

Dumb example: Blasphemy is illegal in Ireland but Irish Gov can’t enforce that law in France.
You recognize the real problem. It's the incentives and time horizon that dooms us. It has never been the case that we don't have a solution. There is always a technical solution but it does not matter. We had several solutions decades ago, we have several solutions now, we have even more in the future.

Our incentive structure means that we can only modulate the intensity of hell for the future generations with our electric cars, next 30-50 years is already locked in.

We are not willing to invest enough. Economic analysis puts the current cost of timely and sufficient corrective action around 0.5 to 1 percent of global GDP. That would be a real cost and money out of other things. Even concerned voters don't want to hear that. They want to hear green jobs and green growth. You can't sell actions as a net cost and sacrifice.

When the effects really hit it's too late. The idea that people take an action when it really hurts does not apply to climate change. If the global GDP stats decrease and we are constantly in recession and conflicts survival values take precedence. Investments go to military, food security and welfare and climate actions get little or no attention. Many developed countries will be at least 'okayish'. If the price of wheat and rice increases 500% they still make it. It's the others who die. We could develop carbon capture and suck the CO2 out of air but nobody wants to invest trillions into something extra that has noticeable effect 30-40 years from now when there is constant downturn.
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Original article: https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-will-drain-7-million-gallons-of-...
Here is the article linked to by Slashdot: https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-will-drain-7-million-gallons-of-...

The article by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: https://dnr.wi.gov/news/releases/article/?id=4513

According to the DNR article, the non consumed water will be returned:

> As part of the diversion approval, the city of Racine must ensure that the diverted water is returned to Lake Michigan minus consumptive use such as evaporation. The water returned to Lake Michigan will be treated at the Racine Wastewater Treatment Plant to meet all applicable state and federal water quality discharge standards. Any industrial customers, such as Foxconn, will work with the City of Racine to meet pretreatment requirements for wastewater.

It's not immediately clear how much of that water will be returned, but at least it won't be consuming 7M gallons daily. I'm not sure what impacts this might have, and neither article really goes into it.
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Well, when your code has a lifetime of five hours max, readable doesn't matter, correct does.
Better source that doesn't break the back button: https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-will-drain-7-million-gallons-of-...
We won't limit the temperature rise to 2 degrees, and we won't stop emitting any carbon dioxide any time soon, that's not likely to happen.

The question is how do we adapt to living in a warmer world, and what actions we might take, say, 30 years later when we'll have actually moved away from fossil fuels, to reduce the damage further on.

While it'd be preferable to take a large action now instead of much, much larger corrective actions in the future; the former is so extremely unlikely that we should plan for the latter.
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Which is why that water has to be evaporated, so the toxic solids can be put in a landfill?
With my old job I would often get really frustrated as I saw the potential hours of sleep disappear to insomnia. And I bet it was a feedback loop.

With my new job I work from home. So I no longer fear having to drive or be socially present on terribly little sleep. As a result I'm so much more relaxed when I go to bed and the times I lose sleep are becoming quite rare.

When I was young I thought that a job fitting my lifestyle was maybe 5% of the perk. But today I believe it's probably 50% of my compensation.
The really good competitors won't make that sort of mistake...
Title is missleading:

"His actual crime, which he pleaded guilty to, was counterfeiting the packaging to make the discs pass for Dell-branded ones."

He misled his customers in order to make money.

This isnt really different than selling knock off gucci handbags. Sure they probably work & look the same, but it does damage to the legitimate brand.