the_rosentotter

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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
The details were in a memo from the president's Chief of Staff, detailing McArthur's accounts of five separate surrender offers. This article gives more details and a lot of sources: http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
> It's fine to say that Japan would have surrendered without invasion, but such a strong assertion needs to be backed by equally strong evidence. This was shown by post-war inquiries. Japan had already offered a complete surrender,
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
Japan had already offered a complete surrender, conditional only on the protection of the emperor. They were looking for a way to surrender since at least April, according to the post-war inquiries.
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
He was clearly writing this for posterity. Japan was beaten. They had already offered a complete surrender, conditional only on keeping the emperor, which was rejected by the U.S. Their utter defeat and the hopeless state of their armed for
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
"You may not think about politics, but politics think about you."
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
"You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." -- William Randolph Hearst Every war in recent history has been preceded by massive, concerted media propaganda. World War I was extreme in this regard. The monopoly situatio
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
I just came back from a month in the subcontinent. Practically everyone has a modern smartphone from some Chinese company or other. Good ones with modern specs, running Android 4.4. Many children had better phones than mine. And I am talkin
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by the_rosentotter 12y ago
"Modded", not voted.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
An unrelated nitpick (this is HN after all): The white-on-black text really bothered me. I am seeing ghosting a few minutes after reading the piece (which I read in its entirety because it was pretty good).
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
Not to be a dick but... Those things are new to Ruby developers? It blows my mind how anyone could enjoy programming without the basest tool support.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
> is indicative that the visitor has children or siblings ... or parents.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
I just barfed a little watching that.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
This was in response to: >> Islam encourages freeing slaves, but only in one circumstance : after they have completed a successful military campaign > Missing a day of fasting must be atoned for by freeing a slave. As an example.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
Ugh, that was at once an impressive and disgusting array of not just wrong but ill-willed information, basically from start to finish. You don't deserve a full rebuttal, but just in case anyone should be in doubt. For just one example,
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
The problem is not sports but the undue attention given to school sports teams. In Europe every school has sports teams but nobody cares or even knows who is on the team, nor are matches given any attention or even known about outside the s
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
I fail to see how fluid dynamics factor into the issue.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
I have lived in Copenhagen my entire life. I know of one homeless person that I see regularly in the street. During the course of a year, I see a person sleeping rough probably five times, same for meeting a street beggar. If you are a le
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
Well, I'm from Denmark and we don't have homeless people. (Excluding those who choose to be because of mental issues.) There are many things I admire about the US and SV but please don't get complacent.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
> right now people's behavior is driven by the pattern of charging the phone at night. Exactly. With e-Ink the screeen would always be on, showing the time, messages, inbox or whatever, no need to "pick up phone -> click pow
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
Not to mention trying to read the directions while the screen goes to sleep every 30 seconds.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
It seems most commenters here are missing the fact that somebody had been in his home . Without notifying him of the fact, he just noticed that things were slightly off, picture missing, etc. Is this legal in America? I mean, don't th
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
"No, I don't want to not link my Google+ account to YouTube"
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
If it makes you feel any better this was on the front page of reddit too.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
Somehow civilizations and empires flourished before modern financial instruments.
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
Note that we hardly have poor people (by American standards) because of the welfare state, which is partly funded by these extremely high taxes, but it is difficult for low income people to afford a car (gasoline is heavily taxed too). If t
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
The 180% is for private cars. They give breaks for vehicles with special registration (commercial, foreigners etc.), I guess to not stifle business / foreign workers too much. I think the rationale for the high fee is (a) Denmark likes taxe
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by the_rosentotter 13y ago
> vehicle licensing fee from 2% of a car's worth to 0.65% In Denmark the fee is 180% of the car's worth... (sorry for OT)
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by the_rosentotter 14y ago
Even so it still seems apparent that modern Latin alphabets have been adapted for typesetting, whereas even contemporary written Arabic seems to remain optimized for handwriting. It seems reading Arabic is a lot more difficult than reading