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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 curiosity this site exists for, and we ban accounts that do it.

Unless you assume that writing something political always means engaging in a battle, I don't think I'm doing that.

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 be particularily benevolent to promote the people's interests if their interests and the people's interests are the same.

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 relevant in a debate about the desired state of affairs.