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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by [deleted] »

rvense wrote: post #144
phkahler wrote: post #85

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>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's one of the things that always comes up in polls of what surprised Europeans about the US when they visited - just how big it is.

It's... still one country, though. And while I understand that Americans are very preoccupied with the difference between California and New Jersey, please understand that it's not that important (or obvious) to the rest of us.

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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by Apocryphon »

munk-a wrote: post #108
schlopper wrote: post #50

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Now now... You'd just be pandering to the separatists.

I think now a days most of those are in Calgary if we're being honest... they want an "independent western canada" which some how manages to ignore that British Columbia even exists.

Sad no one remembers that Newfoundland was the most recently sovereign polity.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by culi »

paxys wrote: post #98
culi wrote: post #57

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I'd like to see these votes divided by the total population of each place

If the goal of the poll is to determine where HN users/the tech industry is concentrated, whether the overall population in those areas is high or not doesn't really matter.

Sure, if that's the goal. What if my goal was to understand just how over-represented English-speaking regions of the world were in the HN demographics? Nothing wrong with having multiple goals

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by geocrasher »

jeromegv wrote: post #88
culi wrote: post #53

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Now we need to divide the votes by the population of each place

Yes, hilarious to see "South Dakota" as a specific region, but Canada as a whole.

The answers to the poll are so the OP knows where we are from.

The questions in the poll are so we know where the OP is from.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by dgellow »

qnsi wrote: post #46
tluyben2 wrote: post #4

Not sure if this post still ranks in the morning as it's evening in the EU so probably not many people will answer, while the Americas will. I know there are a lot of people from the EU here.

Im off to a party, see you later HN

Have a great time!

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by dgellow »

tluyben2 wrote: post #141
qnsi wrote: post #46

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Im off to a party, see you later HN

I remember vaguely being young and friday nights meaning something different than other nights... Meanwhile I'm (in Portugal) trying to fix a dependent type tutorial that bit rotted.

Idris?

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by lucb1e »

Might the timezone have a significant influence on the poll outcome, like during which hours of the day per place it is at #1? (How many polls would we need at different times of day to see what the effect of that is, just two?) Alternatively we could plan this, pin it at #5 for 24/48 hours on working days AoE, and then lock voting or something.

Or someone pulls up access logs, since I frankly doubt that it's a sizable percentage of users that use a VPN compared to the error bars of this poll. Countries with low English rates might just participate less, thus have fewer accounts, thus fewer people bother logging in or creating an account for this poll...

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