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Netflix specifically targets EU users (e.g. by advertising in the EU and billing in Euros). HN does not.

That sounds like deadly accidents should be happening every week.

Then what's the point of using HTTPS? Heating the room?

If something is not free, it is not open source. The difference between free software and open source is one of ideology and philosophy. In practice, they're the same.

How about "it's the fallback system working for the people"?

This is basically client-side validation.

> Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. Sorry for that. > More importantly, please stop using HN primarily for political battle. That's destructive of the intellectual cu…

When will this dishonest company finally be shut down?

Try right-clicking the back button. Or complain to your browser maker -- they're responsible for its behaviour.

What kind of answer do you expect? "No I do not mean what I say, I'm just a markov chain."?

Democracy is not a system, it's a principle. The principle that the people rules. Today's representative democracies apply that principle very imperfectly. The rulers don't have to…

Are you implying that the Soviet Union was, well, the Soviet Union because of too much democracy ?

Democracy is not a solution looking for a problem, it's a basic right.

Nothing is a guarantee of competency. It's not a problem with monarchies, it's a problem with anything involving humans.

> The fact, right or wrong, is that the barrier of entry for menial labour does not command a high salary. This is merely a description of the current state of affairs. It is not r…

So you support a dictatorship as long as it permits emigration? Not that monarchies actually had anything to do with that, serfdom was abolished in most places long before them.

Democracies elect idiots "who wreck it all" all the time. That is not the problem with monarchies. The problem with monarchies is that a monarch will promote the interests of the m…

Post-tax income is an irrelevant metric because higher taxes are compensated by the services they pay for. Our level of defense spending is not insignificant, yours is offensive. W…

I meant that Marx did not advocate co determination, as in, leaving most control to the capitalists.

A life of comfort is very much an ideal we should aspire to. There will always be people who have the intrinsic motivation to accomplish grander things. People don't accomplish gre…

I don't think Germans are happier than Americans because we take more opiates. Your claim that productivity (or, for that matter anything else ) is more important than happiness is…

> I'm a big believer that a business must have an owner. Surely you are also a big believer that a country must have a king. If not, why not? > Words of my father: "a collective ow…

You must be talking about a different Europe than the one I live in.

By that logic, a monarch's subjects did not have a right to influence kingdom policies because they did not own it.

I'm sure you have a source for that?