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 done with a knife while drunk. (The…
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 could do it at the same time. - Most…
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.youtube.com/watch?v=w4jq4frE5v4
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 personality traits."…
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 afterthought. That's why I like xrp.…
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) considered harmful in C++ community.…
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 done with a knife while drunk. (The…
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 could do it at the same time. - Most…
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.youtube.com/watch?v=w4jq4frE5v4
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 personality traits."…
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 afterthought. That's why I like xrp.…
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) considered harmful in C++ community.…