Thanks, that's a great link. There was some other research posted to HN recently on the claims about violent deaths too: http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/rese

Thanks, that's a great link. There was some other research posted to HN recently on the claims about violent deaths too: http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/the-focustat-blog%21/krigogfred.html http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat... I think it's easy for the likes of HN readers, most probably sitting in their comfortable western strongholds to feel like we are bringing progress in the world with our fancy tech. I believe the reality feels very different to a lot of people in a lot of other places - where things as basic as even food or clean water might still be hard to come by - and it's kind of insulting for fussy old rich men living in comparative luxury to be telling these people otherwise.