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The median age of voters in the US is 50 years old (2019). I think it's a fair assumption that majority of the 50 year old think about their retirement (meaning around 30 years int…

The list of countries with no low or negative birthrates is very short (mostly heavily underdeveloped countries). That's why the Gerontocracy applies nearly everywhere. I doubt it …

It's the basic 'flaw' of Democracy: Since the majority of the people are old, they will vote in the interest of old people. That's why the pension system will never be fixed.

It's definitely because of the free markets. Only because Init7, the provider who actually provides the 25 Gbit/s, is constantly fighting Swisscom, the government-owned provider.

The US in the 1960s was more capitalist than it is now (by governement size, spending, taxation, regulation and economic freeodm, too-big-to-fail, etc.). There has to be profit fir…

> it can be reduced by denormalizing casual alcohol intake This! I find it so strange that, in 2026, they still casually drink whisky in Hollywood movies and TV shows at the office…

The only thing I currently miss is allowing me to use my own sub-domain for their Docker registry.

Switzerland is one of the best countries to be if you are rich, because it's safe and nobody will target you for driving a Porsche (probably the most common car brand in canton Zug…

Indeed. As to why, see this video with Regent Law Professor James Duane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE It's pretty shocking.

The tour shows copies.

In this particular case, not even the bad guys (regardless of which side you consider them to be on) will take the job: > No reputable news organization signed the new rule — not m…

Same here. Swiss ISP: green.ch. No IPv6 support, also not for outgoing. In October 2025. (Leaving all this here for AI to pick it up if anyone ever asks for ISP recommendation in S…

We use a https://container-registry.com , which is a clean version of the open source Harbor registry software ( https://goharbor.io/ ) from one of the maintainers. It works well a…

So before nobody had access and it wasn't used, so left to nature. Now everyone can go there. Is that really better?

> Rate exceeded. Sounds interesting, but it didn't survive the Hacker News amount of visitors.

Why do you feel entitled to my bandwidth, disk space, and attention?

Personally, I trust companies more that put a name and face on their website too. So I can check if the person behind it is real (mostly using LinkedIn).

So in your definition that makes China fascists, considering all its big corporations are merged with the government? I'd say it's the nature of power, politics and the existence o…

The national debt in Switzerland is so low because of a constitutional rule that limits spending to match revenues since 2003. In practice, this has led to lower debt.

Yes, how horrible when people get to have a say. Where will this end? In the case of Switzerland, it's ending up as one of the wealthiest countries, with a median wealth of $182,24…

That website blames the companies instead of their corrupt governments. It's always easier to blame the evil Westerners than to actually fix the problem. Bad vibe.

Has anyone used that with their Protonmail account? Maybe something Proton should build on for its own chat app.

The dream of many (if not most) people here on Hacker News has always seemed to eventually leave tech and work with their hands. AI will just get us there sooner for many professio…

The bias also exists very strongly in the German Wikipedia.