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

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's relevant: if you open your service to EU users you have to comply to GDPR as far as their data is concerned. Am I missing something here?

That Netflix has offices in the EU[1] where GDPR can easily be enforced, while YC does not. Supposedly, the EU will try to enforce its own law on all the nations of the world, but I've yet to hear of a case where it does enforce GDPR outside of the EU.

EDIT: I remember there's also had the "requirement" for worldwide businesses to setup physical offices in the EU before accepting EU citizens as clients. I put "requirement" in scare-quotes, because I find that equally difficult for the EU to enforce throughout the world. Maybe, the GDPR will either apply only to those companies that have set-up physical offices in the EU and not the ones that haven't, or cause the creation of The Great Firewall of Europe to block out businesses that haven't set-up physical offices. I do wonder if some nations will allow this enforcement of foreign law by treaty.

EDIT 2: s/Realistically speaking/Maybe/. Realistically speaking, I have no clue how GDPR enforcement will play out.

[1] https://jobs.netflix.com/locations/amsterdam-netherlands

That sounds like deadly accidents should be happening every week.

See my other comment, but a) it encrypts more of the packets, b) helps with validating correct server, c) encrypts even if you end up authenticating without Kerberos somehow.

When using HTTP for remoting, headers are not encrypted. But body is always encrypted when using NTLM, CredSSP or Kerberos - the GSSAPI supported protocols. If user doesn't want to use these and opts for basic auth or some other protocol that doesn't have encryption specified, https is useful.

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.

This is basically client-side validation.

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

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

Well I don't think in their case it had much to do with democracy. But a better example might be a country like India or Japan even, where they have a ton of bureaucracy in place that makes it super hard to make any headway when trying to form a company. A lot of these were well-intentioned regulations that people would've voted in support of, but then this ends up stopping the average joe from starting a lemonade stand. An example of this in America is the requirements to become a hairdresser in New Jersey, where you have to go through hundreds of hours of training in things like chemical products when all you want to do is braid hair.

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

> 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.

Really?

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