catalogia

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by catalogia 6y ago
Words which almost weren't heard at all because some parts of the Japanese military attempted to prevent the surrender from being published.
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by catalogia 6y ago
Not to everybody it wasn't. Some Japanese officers wanted to keep fighting even after two cities were wiped out. (Three if you count the firebombing of Tokyo, which you probably should...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by catalogia 6y ago
Even after the second bomb, some Japan's military leadership wanted to keep fighting. > The Kyūjō incident (宮城事件, Kyūjō Jiken) was an attempted military coup d'état in the Empire of Japan at the end of the Second World War. It
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by catalogia 6y ago
> If the goal is to simply clone google or Facebook in Europe for reasons of politics then I agree - hobbling them would facilitate that. If the goal is to actually produce something better, I think the opposite is true. I think the r
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by catalogia 6y ago
> it may be the case we've simply successfully kept the disease away from places children frequent. That might be true to a degree, however the discrepancy is so huge , 2-3 orders of magnitude, that it should be pretty clear kids
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by catalogia 6y ago
Why do you think that? If those companies are hobbled, that will give any EU competitor to them some breathing room.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> and children are dying from this disease, even if at a lower rate than adults (how much lower is a really important question). The data I've found is: Under 1: 15 deaths 1-4: 10 deaths 5-14: 20 deaths 15-24: 2
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by catalogia 6y ago
> Basically immune That link doesn't really contradict that. It contradicts actually immune, since kids can obviously catch it. However most, particularly young children, don't show symptoms. And most of those that do sh
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by catalogia 6y ago
...Are they not?
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by catalogia 6y ago
I think we'd all be better off in the long run if the EU did more to hobble American tech companies operating in the EU. Well, all except shareholders of those companies.
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by catalogia 6y ago
That doesn't sound like a recipe for disaster to me. It sounds like a great plan, the EU should do exactly that.
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by catalogia 6y ago
I like the middle-ground; safety razors. They're exceptionally cheap and idiot proof. Mine really doesn't clog like cartridge razors either. Cartridge razors seem like a scam in nearly all respects, although I concede loading
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by catalogia 6y ago
Treating SEPT1 as a date is behavior that will be correct for the vast majority of users, be they noob or experienced, and only incorrect for a very tiny minority of users who are doing things related to genetics. This sort of auto-comple
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by catalogia 6y ago
Be that as it may, I was addressing the curious "if it was my fault, then it wasn't a scam" logic. If scamming isn't scamming when you to it to clueless investors, does that mean Elizabeth Holmes should be a free woman
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by catalogia 6y ago
Maybe it's your responsibility to not get scammed, but if you get scammed the fact remains that there was scamming going on, regardless of whether or not you were to blame.
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by catalogia 6y ago
All Features are Biased?
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by catalogia 6y ago
> Why in the world is excel the application of choice? Because if it weren't for Excel, most Excel users would have to hire programmers. (And Gnumeric is very obscure, how many non-programmers have heard of it?)
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by catalogia 6y ago
Excel is from an era when programs still catered to power users. Tools were made to have learning curves, ideally not particularly steep curves, but curves nevertheless. It wasn't expected that users would hit the app running, intuit
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by catalogia 6y ago
Also these "backpack bombs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni... > It was also intended that the munition could be used against targets in coastal and near-coastal locations. O
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by catalogia 6y ago
Disable it then, just because you're apathetic to such matters doesn't mean the application should assume everybody is. >inconvenience It's seriously doubtful you or any other user will notice any negative ramifications fr
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by catalogia 6y ago
You've got it completely backwards. Invert your questions: What cookies shouldn't be deleted, and why shouldn't they be deleted? The continued existence of a cookie requires justification, not the deletion of a cookie.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> Not to mention Firefox is usually brought to its knees when trying to delete large segments of History/Cookies at once. Nine year old bug related to this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734643 The
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by catalogia 6y ago
Ah yes, I recall something about this. They tried to pretend the fans were a safety feature to keep kids/dogs safe in parked cars, except the fans didn't automatically turn on until the car was already hot enough to be lethal.
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by catalogia 6y ago
I agree, national security and privacy are both great reasons for the EU to take action against American megatech corps. Honestly I see little downside at all and I even think Americans citizens would also benefit from having these corpor
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by catalogia 6y ago
To easily solve this problem, uninstall all Facebook-owned applications. I know this probably seems absurd and impossible. I promise you that facebook may seem necessary when you're addicted to it but after you break that addiction
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by catalogia 6y ago
The 'excuse' I've heard is that cheap touch screens are cheaper for manufacturers than the old style of dashboard that had 10k little small plastic parts for all the buttons, sliders, and whatnot. However this makes me wonder
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by catalogia 6y ago
I'm sensing some sarcasm, but would this not earnestly be a good development for everybody except current FANNG shareholders? Bringing internet firms operating in the EU into a position where they could be more effectively regulated b
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by catalogia 6y ago
CRTs did need a moment to stabilize the image, but they showed signs of life virtually instantly. At the least they'd make a little noise and had buttons with tactile feedback so you knew something was happening. Many screens today
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by catalogia 6y ago
There is also the matter of modern screens needing 5-30 seconds to "boot" when old TVs and monitors turned on in less than a second.
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by catalogia 6y ago
> Do these tech companies sit on research to suggest that these algorithms can induce behavior-changing tactics through trial-and-error? Facebook was running mood-manipulation experiments years ago and thought it was worth bragging abo

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