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by robaato 8y ago
Shades of: It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. Pope John XXIII
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Trump is a useless negotiator, and Kim Jong-un will know that(theguardian.com)
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LA Times website not available to European subscribers
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by robaato 8y ago
It's a key factor - if you are fighting more than one person then you don't want to go to ground!
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by robaato 8y ago
Maybe it will never help YOU in a fight. I don't get into fights, but have had a couple of physical confrontations where instinctive reactions based on my aikido training, have helped me change the dynamic. So my view is different to y
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by robaato 8y ago
Try a different class/teacher - there are a whole host of ways to approach/practice aikido, and taking care of health should always be paramount according to my line of teaching. I am still not very flexible - but with lots of pra
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by robaato 8y ago
Aikido covers a rather wide spectrum of practitioners/practices - with widely varying levels of "effectiveness in real life". The key is to understand what you want and then work out if the way you are studying it (and/o
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by robaato 9y ago
I participated in half a dozen lectures with a Shinto priest and another Japanese participant (who was like me martial arts practitioner). One interesting thing was when the priest asked the other guy (who professed to be a Shinto practitio
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Ask HN: What hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts help navigate HN?
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Dealing with teenagers as a parent(bbc.co.uk)
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by robaato 9y ago
Shades of the level Heston Blumenthal was prepared to go in terms of experimentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Cooked_Chips Various programmes showing the results of his experiments around.
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by robaato 9y ago
For related explanations: Esther Gokhale worth looking up, and also Kelly Starrett - lots of videos
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by robaato 9y ago
In UK we have supermarkets like Waitrose which do this (QuickCheck) and it works pretty well. You get a random rescan - though haven't been done for a long time (hopefully proved trustworthy in the past!). The smartphone app works, but
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by robaato 9y ago
I remember a presentation by Martin Fowler which was without slides - talking extempore about his latest thinking on software development - and very engaging it was too!
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by robaato 9y ago
Worth reading Josh Waitzkin, and also listening to pod casts with Tim Ferris. This article mentions Josh's advice on end games teaching principles: http://chessimprover.com/spending-more-time-on-endgames/
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by robaato 9y ago
I think already discussed on HN, but here's one link: https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2016/apr/11/when-it-c...
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by robaato 9y ago
Same in UK. We don't need to carry passport or visual ID with us. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/589/in-uk-is-it-a-re... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral&
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by robaato 9y ago
I did a home exchange with a family in Pays Beaujolais several years ago. We tried the local Vin Cooperative and for 4 (eur) got some very ordinary wine - I was expecting much better. Then our exchange family told us to go direct to a local
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by robaato 9y ago
Amen brother. I often ring to get a taxi to meet me at the arrival - with current design I have to look it up separately as opposed to on boarding pass... Also an indication of predicted flight time is really useful (even if subject to chan
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Personal details of 200M US citizens exposed(bbc.co.uk)
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Could digital detectives solve an ancient puzzle?(bbc.co.uk)
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by robaato 10y ago
Tim Ferris has done quite a few episodes on meditation. I like the podcast with Tara Brach. But he also recommends Headspace and you can easily find quite a few references with a quick search.
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by robaato 10y ago
There are grades of fluency. I learnt Italian in Italy (while working there with English colleagues so speaking English at work during the week), in 9 months to a level I could hold a good conversation one-to-one. I had studied Latin, Frenc
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by robaato 10y ago
In the military, a warehouse fire or equivalent suddenly generates a ton of "backdated transfer requests" showing that various stock had been sent to the warehouse just previously!
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by robaato 10y ago
So what do you think? http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-g... It had never been his ambition to be a ghostwriter, and he had been glad to move on. But, as he watched a replay of t
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by robaato 10y ago
Learnt that lesson the hard way - as an independent consultant working with local businesses, did some work with a seemingly successful guy who boasted about how he always got a good deal/complained about service and got money back etc
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by robaato 10y ago
Lovely typo - I am sure such code might show a "poisson" distribution :)
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A decade or two back I met the daughter of a friend in Italy. She was English and studying Italian as part of her university degree in Wales. She complained that she wasn't really learning that much. One part was hard for her to change
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The mail server may be insecure, but it's a beautiful firewall(theregister.co.uk)
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Nano tech and health(theguardian.com)
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