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Only Americans want to defend their country? I'm Swedish, did my military service, and generally agree that I would want our defence forces to have the best weapons available.

When I fainted on a crowded bus i Buenos Aires (as a tourist from Sweden) the bus driver stoped to check on me. When I wanted to get off and rest a while, two other passengers got off the bus with me to make sure I was okay.

I'm sure there must be more instances, but that's the first one I can think of.

I would guess that it's probably aspirational to some degree. People hope to work with larger systems.

Personally I think it looks interesting and I work at a small web agency. We usually only work with a few parts of these kinds of systems, but occasionally we have clients like a large sports ticket vendor, where a few more of these patterns are helpful.

And the counter argument that Dawkins himself he is an atheist because he was born in the UK in the 20th century just proves Dawkins point. I think Dawkins himself would agree that the likelihood of him being atheist would have been far lower if he would have been born in Pakistan or in 17th century England.

Ok, I just suffered through the 13 minutes of nonsens from this "expert".

One problem is that he doesn't understand what he is arguing against. Dawkins doesn't argue that, because people tend to have similar beliefs as those around them, he has disproved those beliefs. He just uses it to illustrate the close minded way some people take the supremacy of their particular religion for granted. The question "What if you are wrong?" comes with a lot of assumptions.

It's also laughable for an expert (for a number of reasons) to claim that C.S. Lewis has disproved atheism.

Well, this is is not guidelines for an app or a website. This is guidelines for how the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, the Ministry of Culture, the Swedish Institute, Business Sweden and Visit Sweden and the different agencies they use, should use typography when representing Sweden abroad.

I don't think the type section is unusually large, but I worked at a company for two years that exclusively made design manuals, and the well made ones tend to look like this.

I know they are a right-wing think tank, that is why I referenced them when it comes to rank "market economy" factors that people who believe in and want to have "free markets" care about.

In what way is it a political propaganda piece? From what I can tell it's a pretty transparent ranking of countries by factors that the organisation cares about.

While the Scandinavian countries have high taxes and regulated labour markets, they have deregulated markets, strong property protections and are very simple to do business in.

Yes! Maybe we can start caring about stuff that actually matters now instead of obsessing over IP-addresses maybe touching US soil when loading a font from a CDN.

Rereading it now seems like "companies" in the heading only refers to the three fined companies and that the decision may be applicable to other companies.

The heading seems very strong considering this is a governmental agency and since they audited a "version of Google Analytics from 14th of August 2020" and presumably not GA4 that works differently.

I would almost always go with what the team or someone on it was most familiar with and can setup in less than a day. I think it should include an easy way to scale at least for a few months to come, a reasonable way to provision more capacity, a managed database, a CDN, backups, access and error logging and a simple but automatic deployment pipeline.

At work we use ECS Fargate, Aurora MySQL and Bitbucket pipelines to host a little over 100 client web applications. It takes about an hour to configure a new AWS account and staging/production environments for a new client using Cloudformation (and a number manual steps) and the monthly AWS cost is around $100. There are cheaper ways and probably easier ways, but we feel like we have reached a good balance between stability, ease of use, cost and features. And we are not that worried about being tied to AWS.