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For us Europeans, this isn't a bug, it's a feature. There are bugs that we should fix, but this particular thing isn't one of them.

I work for an ex-EU (UK) startup, and I'm grateful for all the regulation. Yes, it means we innovate less, but we get to kill fewer people, which I really like.

Meanwhile, Teslas just run full-speed into barriers, and Tesla just goes "well, maybe you shouldn't have used our autopilot then, huh?".

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I don't think notaries reading documents aloud in person, instead of e-signatures, is what prevents people from being killed. Neither is having 27 different e-signature systems instead of a unified one.

Let's discriminate more.

The straw man has been thoroughly attacked, definitely.

I could have said the same after your comment. Unless the linked manifesto had a hidden paragraph where they recommended killing safety regulations and consumer rights, as opposed to harmonising the creation of legal entities.

>>I work for an ex-EU (UK) startup, and I'm grateful for all the regulation. Yes, it means we innovate less, but we get to kill fewer people, which I really like.

No machine developed in Europe ever killed a person?

You can both not kill people and have people engage in more risky economic activities. This is just a false dichotomy.

Yes it is, and that's why I didn't make it. I already said that there are problems that should be solved, but the fact that companies aren't free to do anything they want, unchecked, isn't one of them.

That's a false dichotomy. Labor laws can be made more lax in regards to certain areas (which might very well create problems) without removing any and all requirements on businesses, which certainly does not apply to the US, which als has some, state dependent, labor laws.

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