stevenwoo

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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
one of the main drivers of deforestation of Amazon is turning it into land suitable for crops to feed livestock. Most other places can’t use that as a model for growing crops that need irrigation. Two of the main areas in California and the
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
Recency bias probably colors my perception but I really enjoyed Stephen Fry's audiobook performance of his four book series on Greek and Roman myths, mostly dramatized by him but asides with etymology, history and other source referenc
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
I think to read the comment in best possible interpretation- they meant private health insurance in the USA.
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I enjoyed this one digitally but it took me a really long time to grok the rules, maybe my first standalone deckbuilding game outside of the Witcher 3 in game card collecting quest. The expansions didn't make the game more fun IMHO out
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After you watch the entire season if you are into the behind the scenes there were some pretty good interviews with the creators and performers talking about it - stop reading now and come back cause even the text in the links is spoilery I
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
There’s a small mention of beef bones having been customarily thrown away and I have doubts that that could be true at all levels of society - unless there was some Vietnamese cultural thing against it that no longer exists.
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
Thought this was going to be about “Jessica Foster” but it was about another one they traced to source. It reads like bad satire, it’s so on the nose about how AI enabled all of the creation process and lax enforcement of rules on social me
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
It seems like if one is not an insider, one is the sucker on these prediction markets, though it’s difficult to parse the stat he gave about Polymarket’s two million users with 740 making 2/3 of winning bets - how many of the users are
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
TLDR in case the original headline is unhelpful - This talks about a company that recovers data lost from digital devices like phones, hard drives from computers and vehicles and several customer stories.
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When Your Digital Life Vanishes(newyorker.com)
2 points by stevenwoo 6mo ago|2 comments
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Ukraine is using old school propeller trainer craft to shoot down some of the slower Russian drones. https://theaviationist.com/2024/06/26/ukrainian-yak-52-kill-... There's usually new footage of this ev
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
This was kind of the scam in season four of Industry which was loosely based on Wirecard scandal. Obligatory New Yorker story: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/how-the-bigges...
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
ICYMI - This is an attempt to mimic a secret Vietnamese American restaurant recipe but interesting use of fish sauce with spaghetti https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/san-francisco-style-viet...
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The revelation of secret bombing campaigns was one of the main reveals of The Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg. This arguably turned American public opinion against the war decisively as it revealed the USA had no cohesive strategy for wi
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It kind of fits with the behavior he exhibited as reported by Farrow in New Yorker article.
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Ministry of the Future beat you to the punch with victims of human driven climate change shooting down thousands of private planes with drones as protest.
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
Trump got 48 percent of Hispanic American vote in 2024, a historic high for the GOP. The anti women and anti immigrant parts (in spite of what appears to be cognitive dissonance) of the GOP platform are very popular in that community from w
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
What’s a solution to this that does not overly punish/reward the homeowners in this situation?
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Why some California homeowners feel trapped in houses they want to leave(sfgate.com)
4 points by stevenwoo 6mo ago|2 comments
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Cut and paste from New Yorker: The human body produces thousands of peptides. Many are portions of proteins which send messages or regulate systems in the body, often in ways that scientists don’t fully understand. Researchers have known ab
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
It’s also available via public libraries in USA via Libby if your local library system pays for a subscription, so it’s a way to support the magazine indirectly, since your local taxes pays for your library. The downside for weekly is you h
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
The analysis of 1960 trends leading to belief that religion and racism divides would diminish is laughable but the post hoc analysis in Jacques Ellul’s book Propaganda makes several compelling arguments that propaganda is omnipresent and di
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
I think you are only right on gender and race issues. That might have lost Sanders some voters in primaries. Unfortunately neoliberalism was adapted wholeheartedly by Bill Clinton and Blair and kinda inherited by Hillary, is not remotely le
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Like most off the cuff Trump remarks - it made headlines for a while but nothing came of it, it’s not in Project 2025 and Musk fell out of favor with Trump for whatever reason. The combo of Musk and Trump was just dry kindling for the for
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
I’m pretty sure Trump thought or heard mention of Minchin (first Trump Treasury Secretary) visit to Fort Knox in 2017 recent to that comment and just blurted out the first thing that came to his mind - like most of his off the cuff remarks,
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by stevenwoo 6mo ago
Daylight hours even in winter for outdoor things, we would ride bicycles together but they also played golf and rode off road motorcycles, it’s possible to do these activities at night in some fashion but during day on weekdays is less crow
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For manual labor I thought the guys I know who do garbage pickup have a great job - their hours are shifted so they work from 4am to noon so they have plenty of time for hobbies and family outside of that. All the time sitting and driving t
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I live near Palo Alto and a transformer blew at the closest PG&E substation and it took six days to ship in a replacement and they cut electricity to the whole area for that time, I want to say last year or the year prior. So it’s not l
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The prosecution and the judges and the law enforcement and probation officers and law enforcement who protect the judge and the prison system and the jail system are in quite a cozy and self perpetuating cycle. Prosecutors in USA get such h
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Germany got a new type of government. The 2/3 required in USA for significant change will be insurmountable short of a disaster on order of second Great Depression since plurality of American voters can’t see past next paycheck, no Dem

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