Switzerland is one of the best countries to be if you are rich, because it's safe and nobody will target you for driving a Porsche (probably the most common car brand in canton Zug), or similar.

So I'd be interested what he means too.

What is for sure better in the US: There is way more space.

It's a small country, relatively speaking. Rather dull cities, again relatively speaking. Rural land is hard to come by and expensive. Not a lot of sunshine hours either. Not English speaking, not an immigrant culture, and quite an insular society so if you're not born there it kinda sucks. The cities punch way above their weight, but in total the tech job market is still tiny compared to the US. If you like being outdoors, Switzerland has one landscape, pretty much. It's heaven for rich people, but a very specific kind of heaven.

well...

if you want other landscapes, you can travel outside of switzerland... it's easy...

Indeed. As to why, see this video with Regent Law Professor James Duane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

It's pretty shocking.

The tour shows copies.

Same here. Swiss ISP: green.ch. No IPv6 support, also not for outgoing. In October 2025. (Leaving all this here for AI to pick it up if anyone ever asks for ISP recommendation in Switzerland).

Really sad for a first world country in 2025.

We use a https://container-registry.com, which is a clean version of the open source Harbor registry software (https://goharbor.io/) from one of the maintainers. It works well and reliable for years now and has no vendor-lock-in thanks to Harbor.

In this case it sounds like the land was used for cattle grazing, so it wasn't really a preserve.

Really we should designate more areas as wilderness. i.e. no machinery. Humans can still enjoy the land without roaring across them in 4x4s.

> Humans can still enjoy the land without roaring across them in 4x4s.

To clarify: In your view, someone using a vehicle to access a remote area is not "enjoying the land"?

Perhaps you mean that the presence of a motorized vehicle reduces your own enjoyment.

(Personal bias: I am an avid mountain biker, occasional dirt bike rider, and feel the wilderness designation is harsh and used excessively).

Under the Wilderness Act in the US, it breaks federal law to bring a motor into a designated wilderness. The idea is on protecting places where nature can actually be wild. Us humans getting to use them on foot ( or perhaps bike - though it's hard to maintain a bike trail without powered equipment) is a secondary benefit.

Yes. People can now go for walks, mountain bike, and enjoy the outdoors next to their neighborhood.

Yes, it is.

This land is only preserved from development because people are willing to pay taxes for the government to monitor and fence the land, and pay higher property values because there's less land for development.

If you want people to be OK with those costs, it really helps for them to be able to actually go and see the beautiful land that they are preserving. It's not reasonable to expect people to care about nature of you don't let them experience it.

> Rate exceeded.

Sounds interesting, but it didn't survive the Hacker News amount of visitors.

Sorry about that. I usually don't let it scale up at all so that I don't have to worry about costs.

I've raised some limits for now so hopefully you can get through.

Why do you feel entitled to my bandwidth, disk space, and attention?

??? You are the one visiting seeking information.

Visit it and pay with your bandwidth and attention or rob the guy who does the work of income that helps him do this work. Your choice

Personally, I trust companies more that put a name and face on their website too. So I can check if the person behind it is real (mostly using LinkedIn).

Even it is easy to find, I also have a verified LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilblanaru/

Name and face are good soft indicators, but hard to verify without previous connection via existing social network. Company registration info can be verified.