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> Best refrain from reading the Guardian, it's what they do best. Despite the fact that nobody alive today had anything to do at all with the horrors from our colonial pasts. I don…

Most wealth in most European nations depends on local production and expertise. Why is e.g. the Norwegian fisherman richer than the Bangladeshi fisherman? It is not because he gets…

Some people seem to somehow wish that us Europeans are furious that we don't have colonies anymore and that we are deeply nostalgic about it. Now I am not from a European country t…

No, but most nations have progressed faster technologically by being invaded or influenced by other more advance nations. Without the roman empire, Britain, France, Spain, Germany …

I think you are reading things between the lines which are not there. It was never my intention to suggest that Europeans are inherently superior to others and that we have some un…

I agree, I don't think Europeans have been worse than others would have been, we simply had the means to do it. However I find it problematic that so much of the brutality gets swe…

Interesting read, but I want to raise some objections: 1) I don't like that one keep talking about the whole west as one unit and tainting everybody. It creates a simplified pictur…

Cool stuff, I have a thing for reliable, low tech solutions. Anyone see a problem with this approach?

I think there is an enormous danger in abuse of this knowledge. People simply don't understand the concepts and statistics very well. The part about how heritability varies between…

I think you are missing the point. I don't read this article as an argument AGAINST going to the gym, rather as a comment on the fact that if you want a healthy population, it is n…

This is not just about personal choices though but also about how society is structured. E.g. when I lived in the US I found it hard to be healthy other than going to the gym becau…

That is a natural outcome of the hyper capitalist world we currently live in. I have a mother who has been a journalist for over 40 years. I've heard for years about the pressure s…

I down voted because this is (1) whataboutism, (2) I can't see the analogy. That increased CO2 emissions should cause a temperature increase has been proposed over 100 years ago. T…

I am only vaguely familiar with Rust ownership model and last I programmed Swift was version 3.x. Does anyone have any thoughts on where Swift is going with ownership models in rel…

Definitely. That is the best way to deal with stuff like this. Without a union individual employees have a too weak position to complain. Although I hope the US adopts a more Nordi…

I am a big Tesla fan but if this is true and does not improve shortly, then screw this company. I’ve dreamt of buying a Tesla but I could not ethically rationalize that to myself i…

Not likely an accident when it fits a pattern of high sports achievement in several areas for Norwegian women. How many high achieving female athletes are there from say muslim cou…

Which is irrelevant given that she was adopted and raised in Norway. Anyway she is just one example of Norwegian women punching above their weight. For a number of years Norwegian …

I did not suggest the gender paradox does not exist. What I am saying is that I am not 100% convinced it is caused by genders being more different in more gender equal societies. I…

I don’t necessarily reject that possibility. But I feel it does not capture the full extent of differences or similarities between genders. Can you really say genders are more simi…

I did not say it was wrong, merely that I was sceptical which is a good attitude in science. I am trying to understand how they did the study. Does not matter how many people took …

I am highly sceptical to this study. Does anyone have a list of what they measured as differences and how they did it? The reason I am a sceptic is because as a Scandinavian I noti…

Java is not really designed for a REPL though. I've used REPL like environments in Swift long before, this and it simply never feels right IMHO compared to a real dynamic language.…

I think most people don’t “feel” unfree even in most dictatorships. You don’t read or hear about the people locked up. As long as you live a notmal life you will feel free. The rea…

Both Japan and Switzerland are know to be very clean and much larger. But they seem to approach it very differently. I seem to remember Spain being quite clean too. People mopped t…