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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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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/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident

As proven earlier with Operation Ten-Go / The Battle of the East China Sea, many in the Japanese military preferred spiteful suicidal attacks to surrender, even when the hopelessness of their situation was abundantly clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ten-Go

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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 happened on the night of 14–15 August 1945, just before the announcement of Japan's surrender to the Allies. The coup was attempted by the Staff Office of the Ministry of War of Japan and many from the Imperial Guard to stop the move to surrender.

> The officers murdered Lieutenant General Takeshi Mori of the First Imperial Guards Division and attempted to counterfeit an order to the effect of occupying the Tokyo Imperial Palace (Kyūjō). They attempted to place the Emperor under house arrest, using the 2nd Brigade Imperial Guard Infantry. They failed to persuade the Eastern District Army and the high command of the Imperial Japanese Army to move forward with the action. Due to their failure to convince the remaining army to oust the Imperial House of Japan, they performed ritual suicide. As a result, the communiqué of the intent for a Japanese surrender continued as planned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident

Would resistance to surrender have found more support if only a single bomb had been dropped? We will never know.

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> 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 result would be inherently "actually" superior by virtue of being under the thumb of EU regulation to a degree that American corporations aren't. I'm not talking about technical superiority, which I don't care about. Having locally regulated technically inferior clones is preferable to the status quo.

> I also believe that consumer rights laws etc can help.

And such laws are best enforced against local companies, not foreign companies with foreign values. That's why it's a good idea for the EU to hobble, if not outright ban, American internet companies.

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> 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 really do have much less to fear. I think some Olympic-level contortionism is needed to come to any other conclusion.

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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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> 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: 225 deaths

The curve continues from there, peaking at 45,845 for 85 years or older. So yes, some kids do die, or at least they had covid when they died. But if this were all covid was, we certainly wouldn't have closed schools for the kids' sake over this. Clearly schools are closed due to the threat posed to teachers.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-...

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> 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 show symptoms only have mild symptoms.

So yes, basically immune. Kids don't have much to fear themselves, the concern is that they'll infect adults who actually do have something to fear.

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...Are they not?

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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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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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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 them is probably safer for the elderly or generally those with dexterity problems.

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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-completion feature is orthogonal to the noob/power user axis, except insofar as the user is expected to know how to circumvent this behavior if/when they need to.

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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? The people she scammed didn't do any due diligence, but that doesn't make her scam any less a scam.

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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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All Features are Biased?

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> 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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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, intuiting everything there was to know about the program in their first minute of using it.

The result is a rich deep program that users can grow into, rather than a shallow trivial program that optimizes for the noob experience and leaves power users out in the cold.

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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. One person carrying the weapon package would parachute from an aircraft and place the device in a harbor or other strategic location that was accessible from the sea. Another parachutist without a weapon package would follow the first to provide support as needed. The two-man team would place the weapon package in the target location, set the timer, and swim out into the ocean, where they would be retrieved by a submarine or a high-speed surface water craft.

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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 from third party cookies being deleted, because there basically are none.

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