stevenwoo

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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
No, I tried to express with the word “might” and the phrase “come to mind” as indications of what people could come up with on the spur of the moment without delving into research. I did not intend what you wrote.
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
Has it? My impression is in the USA the start was the normalization of "on our side or the enemy" polarization started with Newt Gingrich into ordinary sedate (for the time period) political debate and was weaponized in the afterm
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
In addition to other comments, Windows 95 came more than a decade after the Commodore 64. The IBM PC at that time cost roughly three -four times as much in my memory, Apple II was almost as much. The Commodore quickly got a large game libra
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
The political challenge of funding a laser program just for research for centuries seems just as daunting - lacking the capability for some self repairing, self healing devices, the automated or (lobster-ai) probe going to stars is just as
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
This matches what was lampooned in Erasure(2001) by Percival Everett and adapted into the movie American Fiction.
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
Some audiobooks can add to the experience - for instance in both Flowers for Algernon and Stranger in a Strange Land the main character evolves in ways the performer encapsulates in their voice that most readers probably did not do as well
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
I’m doing something similar though some of these 100 classics are going to be a bit difficult for those with shorter attention spans, Austen and Dickens come to mind as requiring a high level of attention from me to keep track of all the se
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
I’m only surprised it does not mention the road rage most drivers might only have in their mind but a few let it get the better of themselves and make the news -that’s always been present for most adult Americans daily lives.
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
Automobile manufacturers still use it for some new models in development - occasionally see photos on social media from passersby https://gizmodo.com/how-automakers-use-a-wwi-era-camo-techni...
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
I posted this in another reply, but this is relevant to your point about the market place (deeper in article) and for the hacker news audience - the current Defense Minister for Ukraine is a 35 year old from the tech industry, Mykhailo Fedo
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
It appears that Ukraine is executing on this (after building up its internal defense production), and Russia is not adjusting well, yet. https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/09/ukraine-russia-war-theo...
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
It's sarcasm, a bit, because the last published deal revealed the USA was going to pay Iran 300 billion to end the shooting war that Israel and the USA started. https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-586657
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
Swear I recognized location/trees from TV show The Magicians in the latest adaptation of Shogun(standing in for Japan).
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
I used to encounter maybe one person who did not have a head of gray hair, i.e. obviously retired, in a variety of mid peninsula parks in Silicon Valley on weekdays pre covid during the work day and nowadays I run into a dozen or more in a
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by stevenwoo 3mo ago
This study and most similar do not take into account bone density, this is a concern for women who have to actively build this up early in life to have a reserve (to account for the continual decline after about age 25 that is worse for wom
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
Unless one is a right wing protestor like Kyle Rittenhouse.
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
Many of the subplots have been reused for entire romance movies, and lots of the mini adventures would not be out of place in something like Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as odd as that sounds.
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
I swear it took me six retries to make it past the start. But if you have six hours the BBC adaptation is pretty good IMHO and captures many of the essentials of the book if not all the details. The show made me cry and the book did not hav
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
One thing is a lot of common television/movie tropes are instantly recognizable in one form or another in there, the murder in Crime and Punishment is a series of coincidences and lucky timing for him to initially get away with it that
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
Two of those people were not involved in any of the planning and discussion of weapons via Signal and still got 30 year sentences, for the magazines bit. The shooter claimed he only shot because he saw the officer shooting at the back of fl
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
Motorcycle licensing is a bit specific( at least in California ) even if one has an automobile license, I only looked at it casually, have to buy special clothes for the training class and pass before getting learners permit to get practice
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
The sewing machine stays in that library so I’m going to make the assumption they have a bit of in house expertise for advice and counsel - they have a photo of the anecdote in question and it’s only a starting point on how Finland is tryin
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
I’m surprised this does not mention humans can grow back the tips of their fingers (past the white part of cuticle) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854... Supposed to be onl
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
I had trouble finishing Zen and the Art because my recollection is he drones on and on about the philosophy after the initial set up. The story disappeared. I felt kind of being had because I remember being intrigued by the title in a used
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
Using Marxist as a denunciation feels like a shibboleth considering how often it comes out of the mouths of conservative politicians in the USA when talking about stuff that is not remotely related to it.
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
I went to the Electrical Engineering ceremony, the only speakers were from the faculty and one newly minted B.S.E.E. I biked there and saw there were a lot of smaller ceremonies across the campus outside of the stadium the photo captures.
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Tactical means battlefield, attacking cities and infrastructure means strategic. Tactical nuclear weapons took a while to develop after 1945 - they have never been used.
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
There’s one bright spot, the Los Angeles mayoral race eliminated the MAGA candidate so it’s a corporate Dem versus more left Dem.
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
Up to five cases diagnosed so far through today, https://www.chron.com/texas/article/usda-texas-dog-calf-scre... All livestock and pets are vulnerable ICYMI as the latest two cases are someone's pet dog and a
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by stevenwoo 4mo ago
I haven’t gotten to Bleak House, yet, but find I have to read Dickens with certain level of focus, and there are often so many characters that I had to reread to memorize them and picture them in my mind, for instance the party of friends

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