I'd also be interested to see a poll that asks what the population is in the locality where the responder resides.
Poll: Where do you live?
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#392This thread would be way more useful if one of the HN mods were willing to share (a maybe obfuscated) traffic snapshot of the site. As it stands we're gonna get: who on HN bothers to comment on a poll. :)
..and is browsing HN while the poll is active. Right now Israel is in Shabbat and many people won't be anywhere near a computer. And I suppose that India is sleeping!
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
China and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.
On the other hand, as of right now, China has 1 point and India 9. That combined is less than Poland, which has 15. It makes sense to have finer granularity for the poll options people will actually choose.
Is HN even accessible behind the great firewall?
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#3954 Vatican City is probably people on wifi in the library/museum? I know a decade back our IPv6 measurement consistently picked up 1-2 people from a v4 /24 and associated v6 /32 which I think were the Vatican library. There's said to be a transient population down in the low thousands and a far smaller low hundred resident overnight. Wikipedia says pop. 829 but I think the census night may be a bit different. (If I wa…
Probably 2-3 people trying to be funny... (remember: it starts counting at 1 without any vote yet)
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outside the UK, "country" usually means "independent state". The UK usage is more local than anything else, because if you're going to call Wales a country you'd really need to call things like Bavaria or Texas countries.
To be fair, there’s a lot of Texans who would like to call Texas a country as well.
Right and you've illustrated my point - outside the UK country means "independent state".
Inside the UK it seems to mean "Independent state + Wales + Scotland".
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#397North Korea has more HN users than I'd expect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#398Canada
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#399To see the sorted results:
https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpoll.html?id=30210378
Source: https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's only 3 hours old and it's currently #14 on /best, so there is probably a good chance everyone will see it.
Chiming in here from the Netherlands at 12 in the night. My guess would be most people check HN during business hours and on weekdays. Based on that guess, my next guess would be that Europe is underrepresented in this poll :-)
Chiming in from Finland at 1:42 AM. But I may be an outlier :D