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The Allied involvement in WW2 never was about the holocaust. In fact, the full extent of the holocaust only became apparent after WW2 as Allied soldiers had liberated the concentration camps and discovered the paperwork.

Also don't think that anybody in WW2 cared about the Jews. There are enough stories about Jewish refugees being rejected at borders and sent back to face certain death because nobody believed them or cared about them. Hating Jews was socially acceptable everywhere until the Nazis showed what that kind of thinking can lead to in a modern society (with the technical and political means to actually round up and murder people at scale).

The US only got directly involved in WW2 when it had no other choice (technically, Germany declared war on them after the US declared war on Japan). Britain only declared war on Germany because it had a pact with Poland which Germany invaded -- Germany had already annexed Austria and occupied Czechoslovakia at that point.

Heck, Italy and Hungary were allied with Germany for a significant part of the war. Not to mention various countries like Spain and Finland that fought alongside or at least supported Nazi Germany.

WW2 was a world war. It's called that because it involved so many countries that were at war with each other throughout the entire world at once over an extended amount of time. There were many reasons for each individual conflict and WW2 itself is just the aggregate of all of these (with the two major ones of course being the attempted domination of Europe by Nazi Germany and the attempted domination of East Asia by Japan).

It wasn't about ideals or principles. It was about power and territory. And for the Allies it was mostly about survival: a German victory would have meant vassalage for Western Europe and annihilation for most of Eastern Europe (because the Nazis wanted that territory as "lebensraum", i.e. living space, meaning the existing population had to go).

TL;DR: While halting the genocides was a nice side-effect of defeating Germany, the Allies weren't in it to save the Jews.
> Is there evidence to suggest otherwise?

Totally. Although that's the indoctrination that the USA wants to spread, unbiased authors always point that the war was about to finish for the Japanese and if the USA didn't want to invade them China would take care of it soon anyway.

Therefore, it's generally accepted outside the USA that the bombs were just a warning to a rising URSS that the USA now had the upper hand.
What's really weird is being aware of all of this and being at the age where the transition is happening- the systems really don't work as well any more. I can still fake it, and I take care of myself so I do really well for my age, but it's there and I know it....
Arnis / Escrima / Kali can be useful for this.

One of the unfortunate lessons I learned early on in real life, is that "self defense" systems which only cover one-on-one fighting (eg the Tae Kwon Do schools I've seen) are close to useless in real life. eg in a bar fight, or a group of drunks decides to pick on you when you walk past. I'd studied Tae Kwon Do for about fours years before discovering this (the hard way doh!). :/

With Ninjutsu and Arnis (at least some schools), training for combat against multiple opponents is a core part of it. So, less likely to suck in real world situations.
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You shouldn't compare your KBB right now, after the scandal, to its September 2015 KBB value, before the scandal was started. The values took a huge hit. I don't know what the Sept 2015 value was, so I used 20% since that's what Google told me when I searched "how much does a car depreciate in the first year".

I think your math is pretty similar. A virtually free car for 1 year less ownership time.
Actually, I wonder if de Tocqueville has anything to say about Trump.
Libreoffice calc is the only bit of libre software I've ever found inferior to the non-libre version. Excel is just that good, and most people use it as "Microsoft Grid Paper 2016"
http://web.archive.org/web/20160625124824/http://cacm.acm.or...
Killing someone because they killed someone is an infinite loop.
C'mon, "Dunning-Kruger" by itself sounds awesome enough to refer to occassionally :)

Another example would be Hofstadter's law, btw.
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WTO rules would be completely disastrous. WTO only deals with goods, and the UK is overwhelmingly a service economy, and even in goods you have significant tariffs (10% on cars for instance, which is a major UK industry). Projections I read in the FT for a return to WTO trading are for a 3-7% fall in GDP, which is not far off the scale of the 2008 recession. Thank god it won't be nearly as bad as that. I'd actually say comparing to WTO was an element of the genuine scaremongering of the remain campaign, because almost certainly there will be some bilateral deals done regardless, to protect existing supply chains integrated into European companies.
Salaries will be lower, but so will cost of living.
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> But your generalizations based on that are wonky as hell..

Apologies if my experience does not reflect the reality of the situation but That's all I have to go by as that is what I experienced. The "national pride" thing is something you might be able to challenge as you yourself do not feel it or see it. But I could see it as clear as the sun. It might not be as apparent as when Americans yell out loud "USA USA USA", but it is definitely there!

I am not exaggerating at all when I say that I spent 6 months in Germany and the only people I met who could speak English well are the foreigners. In fact, I could not even get a single contract (bank acct, phone, housing, insurance, etc) to be translated into English without using a lawyer or a cousin. Even my employment contract was written in German. Heck once a week I still get emails like this because when I contact the customer support for these companies they cannot speak English to terminate my contract... :D

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A) The parts of England that voted to exit were already in recession and nobody noticed.

B) Actually they'll stand to do better because:

* There will be less competition for jobs, meaning a rise in wages.

* Westminster is more likely to direct funding their way in order to avoid another repeat of Thursday.

* The low pound will be good for export industries.
Surely the Cauchy distribution you're replying to doesn't have any steradians going on, right? It's a 1D distribution and the gun described would point towards a random point on a circle, not on a sphere.
Unfortunately, you're not going to find real money in Berlin either.
Thanks for linking the talk. It was much more descriptive than the article.
> but with multiple repos someone can commit a breaking change and a dependent repo won't know about about it until days, weeks or even months later; the person responsible for fixing it has no idea what really changed or why; and he has a broken build until he does figure it out.

Isn't that the whole point of versioning? If there is a breaking change only the repo's using the latest version will see it. At which point they can submit a bug report before any of that code enters production.

I still agree that avoiding all of that is preferred.
So many times this. I've seen some university projects where every coder used eclipse, but no one used its auto format function.
This article is a mix of good advice, terrible advice, and conflicting advice. Statements like "Avoid using language extensions and libraries that do not play well with your IDE." are foolish. Pick your language primarily on the best fit of the language for the problem space, second, pick a language that you're comfortable with and knowledgeable about. Picking the wrong tool simply because it works well with another tool, is horrible advice.
haha stalking done right I see :D
Oh AFAIK there is only one and you get to see quite too much of it considering you cannot really fight it, and the running from hiding place to hiding place...
Oh you're right,

I read upwards at that poem and looked at the ending words of the sentences. Decided that the combination "tripping" / "dripping" wasn't very poetic. -> machine.
That doesn't matter and totally misses the point.
Ha, yeah I know. On rereading my comment, it does come across as somewhat defensive but I definitely wasn't meaning it to be that way. Actually I was smiling as I wrote it.

See my other comments on this thread about sigma, for instance.
The jargon in the type world is a tad different from what's being used here, it bothers me immensely. E.g. a font (file, lead type, etc.) and a typeface (design) are two different things. Type design and typography aren't synonymous either.

I know it's an experiment but I doubt it's likely that the EULA states that the fonts can be manipulated, e.g. you need written consent of Grilli Type if you wish to do this. I'm unaware of the policy in other foundries.

Neat experiment but I don't really see a use for this.
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Of course it's a valid argument - you have to consider the costs and benefits of switching whenever you propose a change in a broadly accepted convention.

For example, one could make an argument that oral and written communication in the United States would be more efficient if everyone was forced to communicate in Klingon. But the switching cost would be so astronomically high that any possible gains pale in comparison.

(I'm not saying the pi/tau cost/benefit is comparable to English/Klingon, I'm just pointing out that "that's the way we've always done it" is in fact a perfectly legitimate argument. The onus is on the person proposing a change to show that the change is worth it.)
Has nothing to do with my point.
"Almost every time I check some thing in the news or public opinion, it's either wrong, misinterpreted or too simplified"

I'd attribute that to the decline of real (read professional) journalism, not an actual decline of society. People have been talking from their asses probably for as long as they can speak, but Internet allowed them to bypass usual bullshit meters.
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Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
> sound quality is flawless;

I have a headset that supports Bluetooth 3 only and audio quality is bad (especially while making calls where it chooses the HFP profile which is the only one where the mic is available).

I vouched to never again buy any Bluetooth audio devices. Are you saying Bluetooth 4 would actually solve my problem? Should I still have hope?
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Accepted. Definitely pinch of salt.
Helium in the atmosphere could not be depleted but its' extraction is still expensive while a rig where you can extract it from the rocks might be cheaper. It's all about extraction and processing engineering, let's see what would happen in the next few years. I remember about the soviets that were drilling in the Kola peninsula and the mud they get from it literally boiled hydrogen and helium, but that was too expensive.
In San Francisco, your friend likely manages a sweatshop. The engineers on the floor are the high-tech equivalent of the immigrant women working the rows of sewing machines in a Chinatown clothing factory. The manager is the guy who sits in the little room on the side watching the floor to make sure no one takes too long of a pee break. Today's high-tech sweatshops are clean and have toys in them, but the essential economic relations are the same.
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Bluetooth has made me feel happy about the existence of cords. Ahhhhhhh, I think to myself: it will definitely work, when I plug this thing into that other thing.
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Daimler seems to be doing quite fine financially. I guess the workers are fine too, given that they are probably earning a good wage.

What seems to be the problem?
And when the twin towers fell in NYC, were there any innocents involved?
> Why doesn't it make sense?

Because it is a treaty that was implemented after a World War? Circumstances of implementation matter. It is also a great example of a treaty that backfired and led to another war due to its sanctions end results. I'll also say you're stretching the analogy of a treaty as a way for a foreign citizen to have a say in another nations affairs. Technically correct but I don't think that really gets at "foreign citizen not of the ruling class of another country influencing another countries military programs (note no espionage examples)" Unless you're looking at a vassal state I don't see it happening.

The non proliferation treaty is similarly a poor example as it was multiple nations deciding in their interests to stay on top with nuclear weapons and not allow more. What would better convince people would be another country impacting another countries military program negatively, not for mutual gain.

The grandparent comment was referring to influencing the NSA surveillance of foreign countries. Guess what, as an American I have no say over the spy agencies of France, or any multitude of agencies either. The NSA just has been doing a better job at it for numerous historical reasons. I'm not condoning it but so far you've not really provided a convincing argument that foreign citizens can influence other countries espionage agencies.
Excel is one of the best, and most misused tools in the world. I know one, maybe two people besides myself that do anything beyond using it as grid paper or to render graphs, and that's a shame. The MS office classes around here, from what I know, don't even mention functions beyond adding numbers.

Hell, Excel was basically the first thing I ever programmed in. Just playing with it to see what I could make it do. Nowadays I see people spending an hour making a python script to parse a file, when I can just drop it in excel use a couple functions and maybe a macro, and have it parsed in 10 minutes.

It's a real shame. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of things in companies could get a lot better if everyone learned excel overnight. Some people's job basically amounts to doing something a spreadsheet and a little macroing can do.
Video game consoles used to do this with modchips and sometimes design flaws, this might be a good starting point for your research.
The suggested implications that arise from leaving have been heavily based on the perceived damage to the economy. The basis for those implications has always been the volume of trade the UK does with the EU. Even if people aren't outright suggesting that trade will drop to zero, there's a reason that no indications are given to how much trade is likely to drop, and instead the volume of current trade is provided in its place.

This all comes back to media manipulation. Sometimes the media doesn't lie to you directly, they lie through omission. For example, take a look at this comedy sketch from The Guardian about the European Court of Human Rights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA

This video was brought out at the time when the EU referendum was being publicly discussed. It seems to make a good case for staying in the EU, right? However, there's one key bit of information that is omitted from the video, the European Convention on Human Rights which forms the legal underpinnings of the European Court of Human Rights was negotiated outside the EU through the Council of Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe

Do you see how, in the context when it was released, that the video could be misleading, even when there weren't any direct lies in the video (that I'm aware of)? I'd suggest it'd be easy to assume after watching the video that giving up the EU also means giving up the European Convention on Human Rights, even when that's not the case.
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It would be really interesting to have a list of good BT stacks and devices using them. That way maybe we could avoid the bad ones. As a consumer I have no idea which devices will actually work properly (and I assume Bluetooth as a whole sucks).
Most commonly you can find either a RS232 port (not the regular one, a 3.3v one!) or a JTAG port through which you might be able to influence the software running on it.

For example, I managed to flash OpenWRT on my otherwise unflashable router that way.

Another (even more hardware-y) approach is to dump flash chips containing ROMs. With those roms in hand you might be able to find a vulnerability to exploit, or you could replace the rom chip with a socket in which you can place your own modified roms.

Bunnie famously broke the Xbox classic security by building his own hardware to sniff the (until then thought to be unsniffable) HyperTransport bus.
He wrote a very interesting book about it and it's free nowadays: http://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf
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Has nothing to do with my point. Quit pretending the Russians don't have a spy agency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_production_in_the_Unite...

I found those interesting reads as well. I did not know the US had the largest supply of Helium.
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The "Left Leave" movement believes the EU is antidemocratic, and designed to maintain price stability, not benefit the social good.

Quoting http://www.leftleave.org/seven-more-myths-about-the-eu/ :

> Those fundamental treaties severely limit the ability of EU member state governments to fund public investment, rescue failing companies and industries, save jobs or use public ownership for wider economic, social and environmental purposes. Should Britain elect a left or progressive government, the treaties will act as a strait-jacket on its policies, which could only be removed if every other EU member state government agrees to treaty change.

While it's true that this still concerns "economics, immigration and some nebulous freedom", the argument is that the EU policies aren't left enough, and, for example, restrict the right of refugees. Quoting from http://www.leftleave.org/the-eu-ratcheting-up-racism/ :

> ... the fact that is that the biggest ratcheting up of the attack on migrants has just been pushed through by the European Union; the treaty arranged by Angela Merkel between the EU and Turkey. That ripped up long established rights of refugees fleeing war and means those in Greece will face deportation back to Turkey, itself becoming less stable, and new arrivals will now be put in detention camps unlike before. The corruption behind all this, with the EU bribing the Turks to sign, speaks volumes about the undemocratic nature of the EU. And yet there are those who think Farage is the main driver of anti-migrant racism, not noticing he’s been sidelined and could only dream of doing something as despicable as fixing that treaty with Turkey.

Here is an interview (with transcript) of people for a "Left Exit", http://www.democracynow.org/2016/6/24/debate_after_shocking_... .

Leftist parties in other countries have a similar anti-EU positions.

However, they are, as far as I can tell, quite the minority.
> Where's the real pressure to also include the writing quality as a way to judge a paper.

I think it's really a thing between necessary complexity and unnecessary complexity. Unnecessary complexity makes papers harder to read. I'll hypothesize being harder to read makes you harder to cite. A final, due-diligence editing pass to simplify statements and catch errors should not take very long.

> Then, yes, there are people who write that way because they believe that stilted and opaque language is the correct style.

That is what I'm getting at. Some of the papers sounded like they were written to hit a page-count (well, i assume college does train that style). They were organized well, but the writing seemed like there was actual effort put in to jumble things up. Lists of similar statements ("A1 does A2, B1 does B2, C1 does C2") jumbled up to provide variety ("It is shown that A1 does A2, B2 is done by B1, C1 does C2"). It is harder to write and read.

Redundant statements are like unsimplified fractions. They bother me.

> It's also hard to write well.

It is. Not asking for a gripping paper.

Thing is, imagining the paper to be a hierarchy, the top level structure is usually fine, but at the sentence level, things break down. There are needless permutations and additions. Unnecessary permutations can be resolved by looking at statement relations (similar things should look similar). Unnecessary additions can be removed by examining whether words are necessary, once their context is known.

It's just rubbing my min-maxer heart the wrong way. It makes taking notes harder due to parsing difficulties.
>> "Because that's the way we've always done is" is never a valid argument.

But it is. For the pi/tau thing, it's better if the whole world uses one set of formulas. For the guy who pointed to which side of the road we drive on, it's best if we all agree to drive on the same side. And for units, it's best if we all agree to measure things using the same units - otherwise probes crash into mars and such. All of those are arbitrary decisions and we're better of just sticking with them - except the units one, by using SI units a lot of formulas simplify and arbitrary constants go away. I'm not so sure tau/pi have a similar advantage. If you do change, you'll put the world in a weird transition phase until the change is widespread and that causes problems until it's resolve. Also, with mathematics you have existing and historical papers that use pi, so what to do about those? The legacy of pi would be around a long long time.
No, King was trading at super low multiples. Like steel mills that are about to go bust. My point is that King is a MUCH better business that a steal mill about to go bust, so financial markets were dead wrong.
You mean like the 3000 in the World Trade Center?
I'd love to see some of those converted to old fashioned markets like you see in Latin American countries. Let all the small town entrepreneurs set up shop inside the skeletal remains of the business that tried to put them away.
> but it is never specified _what_ exactly should be reformed

It's pretty clear that the EU, more specifically the Euro Zone, as currently run, can't go on. We either need a Federal government (i.e. fiscal + monetary union), or to disintegrate the Euro. Simply said, it's unthinkable that the US government would install capital controls in Alabama, whereas the EU government can do that in Greece.

That's the main issue; there are many smaller ones as well, but they exist in almost any political system and aren't specific to the EU.