<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>adwf</author><text>Seems to be a lot of complaining about the City of London&amp;#x27;s semi-autonomous status, without actually explaining why this is a bad thing.  I&amp;#x27;ve always thought it was just an odd historical quirk.  They&amp;#x27;re still subject to the general laws of the country, still subject to the same taxes and regulations.&lt;p&gt;The articles main complaint seems to be about banks and other financial bodies using offshore tax havens, but that has nothing to do with the City&amp;#x27;s odd status.  That could happen - and does happen - anywhere in the world...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011)</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcRIPster</author><text>For more background, these two videos are amazingly informative.&lt;p&gt;The City of London Explained (pt 1 and 2)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqs5ohhass_QScZFYoQX-7376-Zp654mH&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;playlist?list=PLqs5ohhass_QScZFYoQX-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011)</title><url>http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporation-city</url></story>