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Not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool(medium.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
So, do we know what they were doing with all that cash?
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Do you have a summary of the culture? I hear mixed things, but I wonder how much of that is just a requirement of the jobs that they do needing to be performed by certain personalities
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by stanrivers 5y ago
> might reasonably expect That part made me laugh too hard. I am stealing that quote now, though. It's so true - think of the effortlessness with which a musician does what they do. It's more or less magic. Same thing with most
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by stanrivers 5y ago
This is new information for me; very cool; I assumed there had to be a reason. What's your background in the subject matter? To the gentleman's post above, it does seem to me that Delta has a more negative public image as compared
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Interesting perspective / story; from a work-life perspective, it does seem that those that win, take a lot more low risk, low probability, high pay-off shots. It's all about how you can setup the odds to be in your favor if you a
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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O(butwhatfor.substack.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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The First Delta Force Trainee Class(historyofyesterday.com)
58 points by stanrivers 5y ago|52 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Agreed that was interesting; don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress; it’s a hard lesson to remember for me; often it is more comforting to just do nothing while thinking of doing something…
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A Man in the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic(butwhatfor.substack.com)
3 points by stanrivers 5y ago|2 comments
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It is not the critic who counts(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Was a little too theoretical for me, so I like something a little more simple about habits... >...habits are, simply, reliable solutions to recurring problems in our environment. - Jason Hreha [1] >Whenever you face a problem repeated
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by stanrivers 5y ago
> The moment I blame my situation on someone or something I cede control of the situation But it is oh so easy to do that; to his point, there is a sweetness to it; I find I have to remind myself of the idea of ownership and personal res
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The Sample: Add some variety to your information diet(sample.findka.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Wooow, I hate how that bot tricked me. That was like... too smart; eventually the entire internet is just going to be bots tricking each other into believing they are not bots...
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by stanrivers 5y ago
It's almost like the cold and wintry weather makes for a lot of time with oneself to think and build the skills needed to create beauty, no?
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by stanrivers 5y ago
1. I agree with what you just said... it is amazing how some people can treat one group of people as, well, people, and another as animals. 2. Why is there a link to a credit card?
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by stanrivers 5y ago
>Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim’s logo — the opposite of the V-sign and a synonym for surrender. This was powerful to me.
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Fidel Castro Survived 638 Assassination Attempts(historyofyesterday.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important(butwhatfor.substack.com)
118 points by stanrivers 5y ago|91 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
You mean the comment about moving to the bottom the torture description? I agree weird, but also get it if someone doesn't want to hear "knowing your upper-body blood circulation has been stopped, and feeling the evergrowing pain
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A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison (2020)(butwhatfor.com)
13 points by stanrivers 5y ago|4 comments
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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment(butwhatfor.substack.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
> At exactly 7:49 the air waves crackled… “To-To-To !” It was the first syllable of the Japanese word for “Charge,” and it meant that the first wave was now attacking. But it told nothing about the circumstances of that attack. > A fe
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Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor(butwhatfor.com)
3 points by stanrivers 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Why is fuzzing important for security?
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor: A desperate gamble(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
2 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 5y ago
Extra points for intelligence - thank you sir or madam, sounds like you are right
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by stanrivers 5y ago
>I did my PhD on Greenland? On what, specifically? That sounds interesting... history? culture? native populations? economy? Very curious as I have literally never heard anyone say "I did my PhD on Greenland" before
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Stoicism Saved a Prisoner of War(historyofyesterday.com)
1 points by stanrivers 5y ago|0 comments

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