miobrien

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   “Titanic” Disaster: Report of the Committee on Commerce, US Senate (1918) [pdf](senate.gov)

   2 points by miobrien 4y ago|0 comments
2. 62.▲
   by miobrien 4y ago

   Saw this somewhere else. Anyone more information on it?
3. 63.▲
   The Cracked Wisdom of Dril(newyorker.com)

   76 points by miobrien 4y ago|62 comments
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   by miobrien 4y ago

   I've wondered this as well - specifically regarding Fridman but also other people who have become popular through social media. (As to the latter, it never ceases to shock me how various YouTube channels can amass hundreds of thousands
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   I like unusual books. Here’s what I’d read – if I had time(washingtonpost.com)

   66 points by miobrien 5y ago|18 comments
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   Hacker interview – Gummo (2020) [video](youtube.com)

   79 points by miobrien 5y ago|32 comments
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   The New Neurasthenia: How burnout became the buzzword of the moment(thebaffler.com)

   62 points by miobrien 5y ago|88 comments
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   Venting doesn’t work(slate.com)

   254 points by miobrien 5y ago|174 comments
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   by miobrien 5y ago

   Wow. What a site!
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    Algorand Governance Rewards Period 2(algorand.foundation)

    1 points by miobrien 5y ago|0 comments
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    by miobrien 5y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Songs?wprov=sfti1 The Dream Songs are a collection of poems with characters, etc. Henry bears somewhat of resemblance to Berryman.
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    by miobrien 5y ago

    Nice poem. Haven’t read it before. Berryman’s Dream Song 14 is one of my favorites. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47534/dream-song-14
13. 73.▲
    by miobrien 5y ago

    Interesting read. I recently came across idle games and started playing Melvor Idle on iOS.
14. 74.▲
    Grim Finance – REKT(rekt.news)

    3 points by miobrien 5y ago|0 comments
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    Iron Fish Whitepaper(ironfish.network)

    1 points by miobrien 5y ago|0 comments
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    Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf](nature.com)

    292 points by miobrien 5y ago|239 comments
17. 77.▲
    by miobrien 5y ago

    I remember coming across his essay on Newton. Very interesting. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4521
18. 78.▲
    Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Mind on Fire(newstatesman.com)

    156 points by miobrien 5y ago|99 comments
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    Teletransportation Paradox(wikipedia.org)

    42 points by miobrien 5y ago|118 comments
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    Cybin Becomes First Psychedelics Company on the NYSE(yahoo.com)

    2 points by miobrien 5y ago|0 comments
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    by miobrien 5y ago

    How exactly is the SEC "bought and paid for by the banks"?
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    by miobrien 5y ago

    Fascinating read. Thanks for sharing. Great quote: “Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and a
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    How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics (2014) [pdf](salahlibrary.files.wordpress.com)

    31 points by miobrien 5y ago|2 comments
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    The Right Angle: On Izaak Walton’s “The Compleat Angler”(newcriterion.com)

    28 points by miobrien 5y ago|4 comments
25. 85.▲
    by miobrien 5y ago

    It's weird to read an "essay" about "nerds" from a 56 year old. It's like he never got over the high school caste system of cliques.
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    The Rise of the Thielists(newyorker.com)

    2 points by miobrien 5y ago|0 comments
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    Venture Firms Bask in a Surge of Blockbuster Profits(wsj.com)

    2 points by miobrien 5y ago|0 comments
28. 88.▲
    by miobrien 6y ago

    Examples of his awful opinions and ego? I’ve watched him occasionally over the years but haven’t noticed this.
29. 89.▲
    The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking(prospectmagazine.co.uk)

    48 points by miobrien 6y ago|82 comments
30. 90.▲
    Antikythera Mechanism(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by miobrien 6y ago|0 comments