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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by throwaway27448 on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:27PM (#47654995)
What is this supposed to imply? us states are also a poor representation of humanity. This matters a great deal: switzerland is notoriously ethnically homogenous and unable to get along with anyone. Life on easy mode!
Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by ceejayoz on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:28PM (#47655010)
It implies that Switzerland is by no means so tiny their lessons learned can't apply to other multi-million human sized regions.

Switzerland gets along with others just fine, to the point where Italy and France used to handle their air defense on the weekends (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702).

> The Swiss Air Force did not respond because the incident occurred outside normal office hours; a Swiss Air Force spokesman stated: "Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend. It's a question of budget and staffing." Switzerland relies on neighboring countries to police its airspace outside of regular business hours; the French and Italian Air Forces have permission to escort suspicious flights into Swiss airspace, but do not have authority to shoot down an aircraft over Switzerland.

Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by throwaway27448 on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:29PM (#47655020)
Try 500 mil and you'll see china is the only interesting sample.

If the swiss were able to get along with others, they wouldn't have such a reputation as racist nazis

Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by ceejayoz on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:30PM (#47655032)
China is, as the EU (450M), US (340M), and Switzerland are, broken into smaller subunits for local and regional government.
Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by ginko on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:42PM (#47655136)
There's only two countries with over 500 million people and they're complete freak outliers.
Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by Liftyee on Sunday April 05, 2026 @08:53PM (#47655637)
"unable to get along with anyone" is an interesting claim given that the last armed conflict in Switzerland was in 1847 (Sonderbund War).
Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by Ray20 on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:14AM (#47659397)
I mean, it's hard to start wars when you don't get along with anyone and can't find a single ally.
Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by ceejayoz on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:25AM (#47673007)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702

> Switzerland relies on neighboring countries to police its airspace outside of regular business hours; the French and Italian Air Forces have permission to escort suspicious flights into Swiss airspace, but do not have authority to shoot down an aircraft over Switzerland.

They were friendly enough with their neighbors to let their own Air Force have the nights and weekends off.

Passport control when I went from France to Switzerland was someone coming onto the train and yelling “anyone not allowed in Switzerland? No? Good!”

I think they’re fine.

Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by khalic on Monday April 06, 2026 @01:36AM (#47657336)
Ethnically homogeneous, you guys really just spew nonsense without doing _any_research? Swiss here, you’re very, very wrong
Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by input_sh on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:54AM (#47658095)
My god, Switzerland is literally the least ethnically homogenous country on the continent (if we ignore tiny nations like Luxembourg, Lichtenstein and Malta), with a third of its population being foreign-born, which is percentage-wise double that of the US.