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I googled a bit. Officially Finland has 1.5 million firearms. Mainly for hunting and sport. Handguns make up only 0.2 million, which is about 13%. Most all murders in Finland are d…

Other quirkiness: - Finland has 45 firearms per 100 people (3rd highest in the world) yet is was ranked the safest country in the world. - Enough saunas that the whole population c…

Jordan Peterson has some good advice on this (not sure if he is liked around here). "Be Friends With Those Who Want Best For You" and "Be careful who you share good news with". Som…

Ripple is decentralized, in the technical sense. If you are a programmer you will appreciate this. It explains the consensus protocol in detail. I found it fascinating: https://www…

As nice of a theory it is, birth order has not been shown to affect personality at all. > "Contemporary empirical research shows that birth order does not influence the Big Five pe…

I think for a cryptocoin to be useful in the real world, scaling and quick transaction times has to be a priority from the start of the design. Its not something you can fix, as an…

Jane Austen's "magnificent opening sentence of Persuasion" was 102 words long. I found it confusing. Replacing all the semicolons with periods, made it easy and enjoyable reading. …

Sutters proposal on "static exceptions" looks like a clean solution, rather than a hack. As far as i can tell it addresses all of the issues with using C++ and STL in embedded or k…

Chimps defend territory and go to war. Its not just human nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

People often think of C++ as a Object Oriented Language. That's understandable, as it was the key feature back in the earliest days. OOP got hyped and over used. Now OOP is (almost…

IQ is the last taboo. We don't want it to matter for socioeconomic success in life. We don't want it to be inherited to such a high degree that environmental factors like parenting…