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Time Doesn’t Scale(seths.blog)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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Man updates a tandem bike to make it more interesting(old.reddit.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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The policy that's being implemented is one in which no discussion is allowed(twitter.com)
5 points by stanrivers 5y ago|3 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
I laughed at your comment about "few (if any) friends of the same gender" I have noticed the same problem. Interesting to hear someone else say that, too. I always thought it was a "native male" thing... women could make
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Not to be depressing, but you could speak fluent Japanese and you will always be "my foreign friend" or "our foreign coworker" or "the white guy with really good Japanese" to, by and large, even your closest fr
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Honestly, if your brain is still being bothered by those experiences, I have found it means that I have not dealt with those experiences enough. There is something "unfinished" with that experience that my brain can't figure
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Dataroma Superinvestor Portfolio Updates(dataroma.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison(historyofyesterday.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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The Essence of the Web(refind.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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Habits Maketh the Man(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Feynman's fascination with basically everything is always so fun. Here is another, where he is talking about trying to figure out why ice is slippery... https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-richard.
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Oh, interesting - from wiki - "The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, employing 21 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the Mediterranean Se
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Oh - interesting, I never knew that was a claimed levied against him - that his history wasn't necessarily accurate. That is a bummer. Still like what he is doing for getting the concept out there that history is worth studying and sho
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Agreed on whether or not the Japanese would have come up with their own strategy like this; it seems like the Japanese admiral was focused on air superiority anyway / if anyone studied the island for an extended period of time, the dir
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We only talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
177 points by stanrivers 5y ago|177 comments
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Discover great newsletters outside your bubble(thesample.ai)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Good luck to your friend - sometimes it is not worth it, but the chances he has been taking and the suffering he has been going through in those trials where it is worth it is hopefully helping others in the future with the same disease. Ca
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Habits Maketh the Man, and Un-Maketh Him, Too(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual(historyofyesterday.com)
3 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots (2020)(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
172 points by stanrivers 5y ago|123 comments
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A Man in the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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Richard Feynman Technique(medium.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison(historyofyesterday.com)
3 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Love this story; random how we can know so much about a random set of people from so long ago
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The Murder of Omie Wise(historyofyesterday.com)
9 points by stanrivers 5y ago|3 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
> ...for Yamamoto was a brilliant strategist who was flatly opposed to war with the United States. He had seen America's industrial might at first hand when he had studied at Harvard University, and later when he served as a naval a
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Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor(butwhatfor.substack.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|1 comments
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What the Hell Is Water?(butwhatfor.substack.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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What Do Engineers Think About Technical Debt?(hackernoon.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments

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