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Comment by yeahwhatever10 | Hacker News Reader

Like most things on HN it's only ever a moral panic when the U.S. (or U.K.) does it.

The US and the UK have the unique situation of backing themselves into national ID requirements without ever actually issuing national ID, which makes for stupid outcomes.

Was just reading that headline the other day. Economic darling Japan emerges from the Lost Decades with perfect banking policy.

Compared to the effect of Plaza Accords the influence of banking policy on economic development is within statistical error.

It seems predictable that people on a mostly English-speaking forum will be most concerned with stuff that the US and UK are doing.

Most HN users aren't even posting during Anglophone hours though [0]. Based on the style of English as well as the type of post content, HN engagement seems to be increasingly filled with DACH and CEE residents during American mornings (which is ironic as YC doesn't follow GDPR and retains full rights to use HN comments as they so wish in perpetuity).

[0] - https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news

> during Anglophone hours though

I suspect I mostly post outside American working hours because I am (a) working then and (b) a night owl.

Maybe, but most HNers didn't work in high finance which messes with your sleep cycle :').

I'm still processing the dataset but there is a significant shift in HN usage from aligning with average American hours to non-American hours over the past few years.

And most HN users bashing the practice will defend the practice when another country does it.

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