Maybe because it led to a bunch of USA-is-great chest-beating, and a bunch of Europe-is-great chest-beating, and very little discussion of the actual content of

Maybe because it led to a bunch of USA-is-great chest-beating, and a bunch of Europe-is-great chest-beating, and very little discussion of the actual content of the article. I was 80% of the way through the comments before I saw any mention of the article's point. (Though I did see two comments claiming that they didn't understand it, which seems hard to believe, given that it was both simple and stated about three times.) So: Flagged because it led to a lousy discussion, not because it was a lousy article. But that actually seems to be on HN rather than on the article, at least in my humble opinion...