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Russia's Attack on Japan During World War II Guaranteed U.S. Victory (2019)(nationalinterest.org)
12 points by thg 5y ago|1 comments
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by thg 5y ago
Japan didn't surrender because of anything the US did, but because Russia declared war on them (two days after Hiroshima and a day before Nagasaki). The US may just as well have dropped 10 more nukes and it wouldn't have changed a
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by thg 5y ago
Using the anonymized login function, you're limited to free ones only. You have to login with your Google account to be able to download apps you've bought. Although I think that doesn't work for all apps, since apparently so
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by thg 5y ago
Poland comes to mind.. Don't know about the population, but their current government really does not like us. Although they're geographically between Russia and us, so there's that.
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by thg 5y ago
Gazprom fulfilled their contractual obligations. Putin being responsible for our MBAs gambling on falling prices and not making long-term contracts just so he has an easier time invading Ukraine? That's stretching it so thin that it&#x
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by thg 5y ago
My go-to backup solution, that can also manage rsync over ssh (among plenty other things), is synbak[0]. Short wrapper script to automatically mount the backup medium and it's really simple to (automatically) run a backup job. I use en
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by thg 5y ago
Have a look at OpenSnitch: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch Never used it myself, only remembering it from my thesis days about essentially the same topic. I see they made the jump away from Python to Go and I&
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by thg 5y ago
The 2nd last FAQ explicitly states something different: -- Q. Bungie has future games in development, will they now become PlayStation exclusives? No. We want the worlds we are creating to extend to anywhere people play games. We will conti
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by thg 5y ago
> Intel could have gotten into higher-end GPUs They're supposedly working on it with Xe-HPG DG2. But knowing Intel and their shenanigans, I'll believe it when I see independent coverage and benchmarks.
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by thg 5y ago
That's maybe true for Sony shooters obsessed with their spec sheets, but bodies have usually been ageing fairly well for the past few years. The Nikon D850, for example, has been out for over 4 years now and it's still among the b
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by thg 5y ago
It's been around the 35% mark for at least a decade. We also import from Norway (~30%) and the Netherlands (~20%), along with about 6-8% from domestic sources and some imports from the United Kingdom. The middle east is another potenti
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by thg 5y ago
Russian gas makes up only 1/3rd of Germany's total amount of imported gas and only because it's cheap. If the Russians really were to turn off the valve, the amount could be made up for with other sources. By far not instantl
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Before-and-After Photos Reveal the Destruction of Ancient Forests(petapixel.com)
5 points by thg 5y ago|0 comments
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by thg 5y ago
Shelter does the same thing, with the added bonus of both being FOSS and available on FDroid. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
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Microsoft Edge will now warn users about the dangers of downloading Chrome(arstechnica.com)
15 points by thg 5y ago|5 comments
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by thg 5y ago
Nobody would go to prison over this. At most it'd be a fine and if the value gained is bigger than the fine they estimate they'll have to pay, they sure as hell would take that chance. Happens all the time. Even more so, since it&
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Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?(schneier.com)
202 points by thg 5y ago|81 comments
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by thg 5y ago
Apparently there was, and probably still is (process groups): https://www.anandtech.com/show/15483/amd-threadripper-3990x-... And here's a table about hardware restrictions for Windows 10: https://
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by thg 5y ago
Afaik, Windows "Home" is limited to 1, "Professional" to 2 and "Pro for Workstations" to 4 CPUs. Can be nicely tested with virtualization (e.g. KVM). Just assign multiple CPUs with one core each and Windows wil
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NASA's Juno offers the first 3D view of Jupiter's complicated atmosphere(dpreview.com)
3 points by thg 5y ago|0 comments
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Lawmakers want to strip legal protections from the Facebook News Feed(theverge.com)
2 points by thg 5y ago|1 comments
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There will soon be no more ads denying climate change on Google(arstechnica.com)
5 points by thg 5y ago|0 comments
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Facebook is an addiction treadmill most may never be able to quit(petapixel.com)
321 points by thg 5y ago|264 comments
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Photographer Sheds Light on Plastic Pollution with a Giant Floating Faucet(petapixel.com)
1 points by thg 5y ago|0 comments
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by thg 5y ago
> I forget which Scandinavian country this is true for but I think there exists a country where compensation is a matter of public record. It's Sweden.
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Synbak – Universal Backup System(github.com)
2 points by thg 5y ago|0 comments
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by thg 5y ago
Of course they do.. I sincerely hope the CDU* doesn't get that through before the election and that they also end up in the opposition and never get to "govern" again. *The C stands for Christianity, but it might just as well
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by thg 5y ago
Toshiba.
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UMG Seems to Think It Copyrighted the Moon(petapixel.com)
3 points by thg 5y ago|0 comments
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AMD Launches the Infinity Hub as Its Newest Open-Source Portal(phoronix.com)
1 points by thg 5y ago|0 comments

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