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adg001 • today at 6:19 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

The cuckoo clock was intended to be a contemporary reference to the Renaissance period, not an exhaustive assessment of what Switzerland contributed to the present day.


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defrost • today at 6:42 AM

In the flow of comments;

   and nothing of note has happened in any of them since World War II.
the timeframe does not appear to be pinned to the Renaissance period. Further, the quote I replied to was from The Third Man a movie made and released in 1949 that was set in post world war II Vienna.

Further again, that quote appears to address present era Switzerland 500 years after the infamous time of the House of Borgia.