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The deliberate part is so often overlooked since most people only know training with a teacher, where they give the responsibility for the deliberate part to the teacher without even knowing.

If you start learning by yourself from every 10 hours of practice maybe only 1-2 might count as deliberate. If that efficiency is tracked as well, one could argue that even a motivated learner might take up to 20k hours to get to his 10k hours of deliberate practice.

If you do it right. I think there is no book or study that says you can just improve from random activities. You need to study, focus on a topic, experiment, repeat the good stuff until you got it, find a new detailed area where you can improve.

Does this strategy still work in a world with highest possibility of migration we ever had? If I live in a consumption repressed country and can see through the internet that the consumption rate is much better in other countries, I will also use my talent and resources to move to that country.

Since I can build a network online, since I can investigate laws online, even of other countries, since I can book and prepay for different steps to take in migration I have a much easier time than ever before to simply go somewhere else.

At the same time the psychological bonding between people and nations is lower than ever since the creation of nation states. If someone tells you they live at 20% the value they would want to live, just because they want to support their country, you would laugh about them.

And last but not least, more and more succeeding in the competition of production talent and creativity is more important than anything else. E.g. a soldier with low IQ and lots of muscles might have been great 500 years ago. But nowadays he simply gets shredded by a drone that was constructed by a nerd with technical talents and zero muscles.

Altogether it doesn't seem very logical to me that such a move can really improve China's situation, if it makes them lose talent quicker.

I don't understand why people don't learn the rules of the game called "business" at least a little bit. If you have the right to cancel something within 14 days there are rules to how to do this. Don't expect cooperation from the other side of the table. Just follow the rules.

I'm quite sure the rules say something like this, but I'm not a lawyer and have not looked it up again:

1. Find out the business address of that company, preferably one in your country if there are multiple options.

2. Write a letter in Word where you say you want to revert the orders <list of date, object, price>.

3. Print, sign, then photograph that letter with your phone (which adds a date to the photo).

4. Go to your town's post office and tell them you want to send this letter in a way that the receiver needs to sign for that and you want to get back that signature.

5. Wait for the signature.

6. If nothing happens besides the signature, write them an email adding all the details and the photos of the signature and the letter.

7. If still nothing happens on your bank account, and the sum is over 500€ or similar go with all the documents to a court and request they help you get the money back. Not sure if other countries but in my country for 45€ they will send a specially colored letter to the company claiming the payment and threatening a lawsuit.

8. Check the times here, but when they are up and nothing happened go with all these things to a lawyer and he will probably sue for you. In most countries losing such a lawsuit is path that might end up bringing the CEO into jail (not directly, but it certainly is on the table as possibility at this point), so the chances are super high that at this point they will send the money or declare bankruptcy. In case of bankruptcy your lawyer knows how to continue.

There's no need for reminders, warnings, etc. All that might end up you being behind your deadlines. Print a paper letter, sign it, and send it in a way that can prove reception.

A professional company with good intent will also not feel threatened by you doing the right thing according to law. So don't be afraid to be perceived as unfriendly. The only people who will claim unfriendliness here either have no idea what they are doing or are using your shame against you in the hopes that you do mistakes.

If you use google instead of github search you can find it even if it's on a self-hosted gitlab, though. And since both use git as API nobody is stopped from forking from gitlab to github either.

Well, well, well.

Does a high tech community need Youtube as a video platform though?

The famous German hacker community "chaos computer club" simply uses their own platform to begin with: https://media.ccc.de/