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A Self-Made Billionaire Uses This Easy Trick for Decisions

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Re: A Self-Made Billionaire Uses This Easy Trick for Decisions

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Post by jacquesm »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #12
ColinWright wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is that under some interpretations of recently still valid EU regulations it's legally required to have some sort of explicit cookie notification and consent. I'm willing to be corrected, and specific references would be especially valuable.

I don't think it's as important any more. They relaxed the rules a bit.

I ignored them from day 1 and I'm fairly confident in that this will not lead to any trouble on my part. The best ones are the websites that block access until you've clicked the 'I agree' button without an 'I disagree' option (that still allows you to view the content).

Shift-ctrl-P should be the default anyway.

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Post by morganvachon »

jacquesm wrote: post #18
morganvachon wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In a restaurant he'll just tell the waiter to bring him something good. I've seen people do this, and my first thought is "what happens when the waiter brings him something he's allergic to?" The patron didn't make the conscious decision to order that specific food, which makes me think the restaurant is now open to a lawsuit. If I were the waiter in that scenario, I'd ask the patron if he's allergic to any of the…

If you're allergic to something and you tell a waiter to just bring you anything I think you have about 100% of the responsibility all by your lonesome and if you sue the restaurant from that situation I sincerely hope that you not only lose but will be forced to cough up the legal fees for the defending party.

I'd like to think you are correct, but (at least here in the United States) I can see the lawsuits piling up. People here sue over spilled coffee, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

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Post by UserRights »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #12
ColinWright wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is that under some interpretations of recently still valid EU regulations it's legally required to have some sort of explicit cookie notification and consent. I'm willing to be corrected, and specific references would be especially valuable.

I don't think it's as important any more. They relaxed the rules a bit.

Please give a source about that perceived relaxation.

Please always give a source when writing about things on the internet.

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Post by Kliment »

TickleSteve wrote: post #15
hanspeter wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See the "Cookie Consent"? Don't do that.

The UK requires a cookie-consent to be accepted before any tracking is performed. Caused a bit of an uproar a year or two ago but nobody seems to mind now.

The simple and correct response to this is to not track people.

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Post by howlingfantods »

I usually just flip a coin. If I have considered a problem for a significant amount of time and still have not come to a conclusion, it probably means that the two sides of an argument probably has equal weight and it doesn't matter which I choose. On the other hand, if I see the coin has landed on heads and I suddenly don't want to go through with the coin's choice, it probably means that I knew all along which was the better choice for me.

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Post by silverbax88 »

onion2k wrote: post #9

A chap I know uses a 'trick' to help him make decisions - he doesn't make them unless they're important. In a restaurant he'll just tell the waiter to bring him something good. In a bar he'll go for whatever is closest. And so on. The theory, called ego depletion[1], says that you have a limited amount of energy for making decisions and once you use it up you'll find it much harder to make good choices. My friend sol…

I'm not sure how looking at a menu for 30 seconds makes a massive difference in your life. I'm definitely a person who tries to look at the big picture and not get bogged down in details, but this just seems like laziness.

Meanwhile, the book being touted on the article does not have a Kindle version. Not really great for a book touted for quick decision makers on the go.

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Post by dspillett »

onion2k wrote: post #9

A chap I know uses a 'trick' to help him make decisions - he doesn't make them unless they're important. In a restaurant he'll just tell the waiter to bring him something good. In a bar he'll go for whatever is closest. And so on. The theory, called ego depletion[1], says that you have a limited amount of energy for making decisions and once you use it up you'll find it much harder to make good choices. My friend sol…

A similar trick I've sometimes used to pull myself out of analysis paralysis (or "death by choice") is to toss a coin or roll a die - then often I find I either just go with the random choice or suddenly have a specific preference for the other. Either that or soon down the randomly chosen path I find an issue and restart on another path - but starting at random highlighted that key decision making point I was previously not seeing.

It sounds glib, and doesn't always work, but sometimes it is surprisingly effective. When it doesn't work you are in no worse position than you started.

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