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Don't forget all of Germany.

Absolutely, but in the context of HN's "silicon valley hacker" culture, that seems pretty unlikely here.

assume the best of a fellow engineer

Quit calling yourselves that: you're all web developers, not engineers. At the end of the day, 95% of what people on HN do revolves around making pretty websites for the internet.

You have not taken the FE exam, you did not study engineering, you are not certified as an engineer. This is just the latest way that CS graduates are trying to self aggrandize and de-trivialize their profession.