stevenwoo

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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
It feels like a generation of transportation alternatives is going to bypass the USA.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
Was reading book by Sue Black on forensic anthropology , Written in Bone, and she recalled incident where she was an expert witness for commission in Qatar, she confirmed the veracity of eyewitness and photo evidence of Assad Syrian regime
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
I’m only surprised how deliberately he avoided using the term alienation - I guess he was just afraid of invoking Marx but not Debord or Graeber.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
This is no different than any other law enforcement agency in the USA historically - it’s a curated source of positive PR that they get taxpayers to fund - it’s never used willingly as a source of truth when law enforcement is in the wrong.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
IIRC in “Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman” he recalls being asked during Manhattan Project (?) for ideas to commercialize atomic energy and they patented whatever the scientists brainstormed up.
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The argument echoes similar speculation about the USA's 20 years in Vietnam, the "military was held back" despite killing more than a million southeast Asians in the attempt.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
Re: sausage party - Based on the salary of these guys, if they wanted they could easily afford nightly visits at something like the now closed strip club, the Mitchell Brothers theater in San Francisco. I went for a bachelor party in early
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
One of the sources for John Hersey’s book Hiroshima is being published as a separate book. The daughter of the writer of the book survived in the ruins of the church seen in some of the photos of the aftermath.
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'Everywhere there were pitifully injured people':how a newly unearthed memoir '(theguardian.com)
4 points by stevenwoo 2mo ago|1 comments
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
That is what the one expert quoted said but others thought it might still come back over a longer time period - I interpreted it to mean that method as being more accurate than the one season refill rate.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
Toward the end it briefly discusses a possible solution - expensive injection of water into aquifers that might have the side effect of triggering earthquakes like fracking for petroleum or some types of geothermal - there’s no winning.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
It can also cause adaptations to go haywire like temperature dependent sex determination where the ratio of male to females in eggs is set by ambient temperatures, skewing breeding population gender too much in one direction.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
For those unaware - the most famous experiment to measure this(both high school and university physics classes have drilled this into my brain): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper... a long hi
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
I have the same experience with eggplant. I wonder if this is one of those tiny taste differences that is some sort of genetic/epigenetic in origin (not quite supertaster but atypical) since there’s several different experiences expres
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
Good points - it does point a way for other actors like Iran or Russia under sanctions though they could be doing it already since those two are pretty close lipped and Ukraine is relatively open about its methods by comparison.
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
In this case they have carbon dated wooden equipment for fish farming and know due to geological factors when the lake could support fish, though of course the fish might have gotten there first somehow. I thought this was interesting becau
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
Just from the specs in second paragraph - did they just build a better and cheaper alternative to Tomahawk missiles?
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Why a Ukrainian cruise missile is flying with hobby drone hardware(newscientist.com)
8 points by stevenwoo 3mo ago|3 comments
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Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago(newscientist.com)
160 points by stevenwoo 3mo ago|119 comments
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
I take a little solace in the certainty he didn’t comprehend those books very much at all considering how fluid human sexuality is in the series - although it’s possible he somehow sympathized with one of the AI factions instead of the huma
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
The car market seems tiny in Laos and Ethiopia (the other nation noted in the comments with a similar ban). It doesn’t seem large enough for an in country industry (maybe one factory if that) if this data is accurate and sales trends contin
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
What I meant was I was permanently banned so I can still login and get notifications of responses to my commments, just could not vote or change any of my subscriptions.
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
It was really bothering me that this guy was upset about the American research funding model up to 2024 - what is he doing about Canadian research?!
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
To take what is an official pronouncement from the White House as a semblance of truth is a political stance as indicated by all actions heretofore by said administration being exposed as rationalizations for desired outcome. Maybe next tim
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
We are “Amusing Ourselves to Death”.
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
It doesn’t match my experience either and I’m in the USA. The father of a friend of mine in high school had one of the early IBM PC with 5 1/4 disk drive at home - the father worked at IBM - this was a luxury at the time. I think only
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
I liked the anime discussions because I don't speak Japanese and there's often stuff that is not translated well (at least in the first official subs) that people will go out of their way to explain the language (or reasons for ch
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
I got suspended for criticizing the state of Israel’s treatment of civilians in occupied territories, but they didn’t delete my account, though I stopped logging in after a week. (Logging in retains your subscriptions). I've seen plent
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Approximately 60 percent of Americans have unfavorable view on Israel. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-... However there are national executive pressures and state mandates ag
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
Mr. Robot and Person of Interest(iirc) got a lot of details right.

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