Aloisius

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by Aloisius 9mo ago
That Shah died in 1980.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
What's considered a "large crowd" or a "small crowd"? Given there are only three categories, I'd expect large to be on the order of hundreds of thousands, but I don't think that is the case here?
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Depends on what we're talking about. A PS5 is sold globally and subject to arbitrage. If someone from Monaco can easily purchase a PS5 from India for $4500 less, they or a reseller, likely will, preventing that level of price discrimin
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I believe that was the point they were making. While I don't think they're right that Iran is ignored because Iranian protesters and the Iranian government are both perceived as white by Americans (or both non-white, depending on
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I looked at this a couple days ago and my thoughts were basically the same as Cloudflare's. It looks like a misconfiguration - one that's easy to make and isn't terribly uncommon. I can't rule out it wasn't an attac
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I used to eat there regularly. It had been $4.99 for years and jumped to to $5.50 in 2014. $5.50 - dated March 14, 2014: https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/taqueria-cancun-san-francisc... $5.50 - dated February 28, 2014:
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
And what about price increases because people can now afford to pay more for the same product?
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
After inflation, is it a livable wage?
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Chinese tomatoes? The US doesn't import fresh tomatoes from China and never has. Nor does Mexico. Frankly, the amount of food imported from China has always been relatively small. For instance, it made up just 1% of US food supplies in
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Speech is not action regardless of speaker. I don't care if the almighty comes down, waves their tentacle and says "let there be light" - if it's still dark after their pronouncement, then anyone who bet a light would ap
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Why would speech count as action? Am I running if I say "I'm running now" while I sit in my chair?
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Don't forget pension fraud and identity theft.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Sigh. The paper couldn't make it through peer review because of methodology errors. Specifically, the sample groups had vastly different demographics and sizes which make meaningful comparisons between them impossible due to confoundi
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Case and point, the EU Data Protection Board has a cookie consent banner and only uses a first-party cookie for analytics. https://www.edpb.europa.eu/concernant-le-cepd/mentions-legal...
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I just looked. In this case, it is just string translations. In the version I'm looking at there are 27,470 .strings files totaling 69 MiB, but they take up 155.9 MiB of disk space due to the 4 KiB filesystem block size. The keys for t
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
The version I'm looking at has 27,470 strings files, mostly of them less than 4 KB each. Since the iOS filesystem uses 4 KB blocks, it looks like about half the space is just wasted.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Not even movie advertisements like trailers? Or job ads? Housing ads? I've definitely investigated and eventually purchased things I first learned about through an advertisement. Mind, usually that was from print ads in things like mag
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
My mistake! You're absolutely right. Rimac is in Croatia.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Eh. There are at least a half dozen other companies with working solid state batteries outside China like Rimac in Estonia (with ProLogium in Taiwan and Mitsubishi), Solid Power in Colorado (with Samsung SDI) and QuantumScape in California
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
No company involved in lithium ion batteries just popped up out of nowhere. Whittingham worked for ExxonMobil . Akira Yoshino worked at a joint venture of Toshiba and Asahi Kasei . And Yoshio Nishi worked at Sony . They were all giant
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
The effect of this would be traffic from GlobeNet destined for Dayco would transit over CANTV's network for a period. I'm not sure why the author singled out Telecom Italia Sparkle.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> When BGP traffic is being sent from point A to point B, it can be rerouted through a point C. If you control point C, even for a few hours, you can theoretically collect vast amounts of intelligence that would be very useful for gover
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
They are a third party. The EU isn't a country, it's an association and it's clear that solitary between member countries only goes so far. We saw what happened when France triggered the mutual defense clause in the EU charte
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> So did Britain argue this was to fight commmunism? Yes. Was it really? No. It was about Britain's oil interests and colonial ambition. It was no more about fighting communism than invading Iraq in 2003 was about spreading democra
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
To describe the Soviet-Nazi discussions to join the Axis as the Soviets refusing because of Nazi demands is certainly an odd view of history especially given how Stalin's proposal, one he personally drafted, was received. Perhaps this
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Em. After Molotov-Ribbentrop, the Soviet Union tried to formally join the Axis as the fourth Axis power. It's hard to argue that was to buy time, especially given they had spent more effort conquering their neighbors and helping the Na
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
It limits both sides involved in a conflict from using nuclear weapons first . As history has clearly shown, it doesn't do much to prevent conventional wars, especially involving third parties. I don't think anyone in power truly
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> Oh and let's not forget Iran, who had their democratically elected government deposed to install yet another brutal dicator, the Shah, in 1953, again for oil. It was about the Soviet Union. The British convinced the US that Mosa
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Mutually assured destruction is still a thing. These hypotheticals aren't helpful though.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Sucks a whole lot less for users though. I remember when people argued that because the time spent running an app was so much greater than the time spent developing it that one should be more conscientious about a user's time than a de

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