jernfrost

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by jernfrost 8y ago
> 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't think their writing is bad. My issue is not
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 more money for each fish he sells. It is because the usage
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 that had colonies, but I think it is pretty universal in
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 etc would have taken far longer to modernize. I not saying t
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 unique ability of innovations. Of course European advancements
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 swept under the rug. E.g. it is typical of political propa
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 picture of oppressor and the oppressed. It should not be forg
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Cool stuff, I have a thing for reliable, low tech solutions. Anyone see a problem with this approach?
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 countries is very important observation. A country suc
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 not gym membership which is the primary solution. For m
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 because there was little opportunity for natural exercise as all
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 sell. Article titles often get changed against the will
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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. They did not look at climate change recently and suddenl
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 relation to Rust? What sort of different priorities will these
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 Nordic/German style union system which is less adversarial.
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 if this article is true. It also shows the problem of measuri
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 countries?
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 women were the best soccer players in the world. There are m
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 think it is perfectly possible for women to be more feminin
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 similar because they have more similar jobs? Also I would cautio
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 the study if the study is flawed: are the metrics they use s
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 notice easily how much more macho men are in less gender equal s
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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. And Swift is a much better designed language for this
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 real test of freedom is when something goes wrong or you challe
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by jernfrost 8y ago
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 the pavements in one of the towns I visited every morning.
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Is not Japan similarly clean and they do it without lots of fines and cheap Labour. They do it through the upbringing and linking cleanliness to morality. I have not been either place but maybe somebody who have can compare to cleanliness o
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I honestly think the mess the US is getting into here is just another example of failure of capitalism just like the health care system. Now everybody struggles to get education and health care right but few places in the west does it seem
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by jernfrost 8y ago
I think it is too easy to blame students. I dunno how it is in the US but the advice I got in Norway before studying was terrible. When you are 18-19 you don’t know that much about the world. Grownups have to do a lot better job guiding you
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Thanks for the insight. I don't think all societies can be all things to all people, but I don't 100% agree with your final conclusion. Europe has a great safety-net which allows people to take on risks that would be nuts to do el
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Without reading your comment I had already read from the article just by skimming it that the US was not declining it absolute terms, but rather the rest of the world was catching up. So I think you may have jumped the gun there.

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