Please don't take HN threads on generic nationalistic flamewar tangents. I'm sure you didn't intend it, but that's what this leads to, in the statistical case.
He was drawing a pretty reasonable comparison between economic incentives in the respective countries and how it has downstream affects for regulatory response. Don't make it something it isn't.
You make a good point, enough for me to realize that I misunderstood the comment. Still, the last sentence of the GP comment veered into nationalistic putdown.
Flamebait in a comment has to do with the most inflammatory thing it contains, not the most interesting thing. When a house is on fire, people don't admire the décor.
I can see how what I said would be construed that way.