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by yohui 13y ago
If you're seeking serious responses to the claim that the Soviet invasion was paramount and the atomic bombings irrelevant, /r/AskHistorians has had several threads on the subject: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/wwii#wiki_jap
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by yohui 13y ago
The two examples given were of a singular leader responding to something that called for immediate action. The Japanese were hardly in a position to strike back against the atomic bomb. In the absence of an obvious response, it's not surpri
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by yohui 13y ago
No, I think this looks vacuous as well. I also wonder why claims 14 and 15 appear to repeat claims 12 and 13 verbatim, except for one comma. Does that change the meaning somehow?
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by yohui 13y ago
Similes are a subset of metaphors, anyways.
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by yohui 13y ago
It seems to me that this whole legal struggle would have been unnecessary if Monsanto had not been pressured into abandoning genetic use restriction technology [1], aka "terminator genes". I am aware though not fully acquainted with the con
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by yohui 14y ago
So, by moving to Blink, Opera loses <blink>. I guess those nostalgic for the 90s shall have to rely on Firefox, inheritor of Netscape's mantle.
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by yohui 14y ago
Regarding YouTube on Chrome, have you tried the "YouTube Options" extension? Among other things, it can set the default resolution and size of videos. The version on the developer's site can also add links to download videos (the Chrome Web
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by yohui 14y ago
> Far Cry 3 and Assassin's Creed III Could EA give away Ubisoft title? I expect they'd have to pay Ubisoft for each redemption if they did.
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by yohui 14y ago
Enter each binary output by clicking I/O to get an Easter egg (e.g. click "I" 3 times, "O" twice, and "I" thrice more to for some cats).
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by yohui 14y ago
I didn't buy HBA5 for Solar 2, but I can already tell it's going to be one of my favorites from this bundle, along with Beat Hazard Ultra (the PC version of which I had already played and enjoyed). Simply flying around as an asteroid is alr
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by yohui 14y ago
> bare ipa installation You mean APK? Since you can install a 3rd-party app store on Android simply using an APK (e.g. Amazon Appstore on non-Kindle devices), I don't see how Amazon could allow apps but not app stores.
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by yohui 14y ago
Took me a couple tries to get Thailand, too, as it didn't snap to the map the first time I placed it. A version with all countries would be an interesting teaching tool, to learn about geography and cartography. Would need to option to disp
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by yohui 14y ago
Circa 2010, and a list composed of Democrats in what proved to be a dismal election for liberals overall. As events since have shown, awareness is still spreading.
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by yohui 14y ago
Because I support prosecuting animal poachers, I do not approve of hunting them like animals themselves.
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by yohui 14y ago
First, I don't feel this answers angersock's question concerning concrete applications of cognitive neuroscience to artificial intelligence. Second, despite running into it time and again over the years, Searle's Chinese room argument sti
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by yohui 14y ago
> Currently a search for GTA vice city [2] places the actual game in third place behind other related apps. Looks like that's already changed in the last 3 hours. Now shows up in first place for me. Third place is currently some ripoff
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by yohui 14y ago
It was a bit unclear from the initial reporting what Google had in mind. But given time to reflect, I think the changes were made so that Google can focus better on giving users what they want, pornographic or otherwise. Same as with any ot
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by yohui 14y ago
YouTube doesn't seem to be interested in becoming a streaming music service. (I suppose that's Google Music.)
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by yohui 14y ago
That seems reasonable. But it explains "Google" more than "Play". (Why not "Google Market"?) I assume Google decided on "Play" over "Market" for other reasons.
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by yohui 14y ago
We do have thumbs up/down. ("Helpful"/"Unhelpful/"Spam") If nothing else, it feels good to give a thumb down to asinine reviews.
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by yohui 14y ago
Doesn't that review affirm the core of danudey's statement? > "As always we test across multiple air interfaces (3G, 4G LTE, WiFi), but due to the increased network load we actually find that on a given process technology we see an incr
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by yohui 14y ago
That's curious. 8 or 16GB? I haven't run into it myself, but I've heard that low free space will slow down the Nexus 7. Stuff like better animations for the app switcher made my own Nexus 7 feel faster after the 4.2 update. Of course, that'
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by yohui 14y ago
Downloading the Source Tree: https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html android Git repositories: https://android.googlesource.com/ Submitting Patches: https://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html View Patches: https
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by yohui 14y ago
Agreed. I would add that really big (large textbook size) PDFs occasionally hang Adobe Reader. ezPDF tends to handle those better.
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by yohui 14y ago
Status bar up top is probably fine. I would think though that sticking the navigation buttons in the center while in landscape mode would be aggravating. I would rather have the buttons rotate while the bar stays on the narrow end. That wou
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by yohui 14y ago
I wouldn't assume that was Samsung's choice. Isn't that a legacy of old disagreements between Google and the PRC? I know that Asus Transformer Primes sold in China did not come with Google services, either, though buyers quickly learned tha
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by yohui 14y ago
Conversely, if you actually find yourself looking something up multiple times, won't you naturally start to remember it? Our tests hark back to the days when to "look up" something meant going to the library and flipping through an index. I
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by yohui 14y ago
If we're comparing their latest tablet products, shouldn't Google's be the Nexus 7? (Or, probably within a week, the all-but-inevitable Nexus 10.) The Nexus series represent the only devices that Google directly supports, after all. In whic
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by yohui 14y ago
That's relevant to a holistic discussion about Amazon's strategy vs. Apple's, but beyond the narrow topic of display resolution. Apple plainly chose the iPad mini's resolution to ease app compatibility. That this leaves it with a lower-dens
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by yohui 14y ago
Do you mean the article, or the non-asian voices in it? I felt the article itself presented a fair picture of the sentiments from each corner, though I'm not particularly sensitive to bias. As for the complaints about test-centrism, I felt

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