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Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
Also, in IT or CS, a state like TX or CA are more prominent than any European one. CA is probably more important by itself than all of Europe. Even PA or GA are heavy hitters that would smoke most similarly sized EU countries.
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California doesn't have to be the center for tech anymore as the world has shifted to a distributed workforce. The US doesn't, for that matter, and you can tell it's happening due to all of the new international investments. Edit with some sources: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-vc-funding-unicorns-... https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/Venture-c... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
I have heard the hypothesis that the main reason Silicon Valley was able to grow is because non compete clauses are invalid in California. So people can start a side business competing with their employer, and only risk being fired (as long as they dont steal IP) They could also freely hop from company to company without waiting in between.
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.
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As percent of total responses, as of right now: 'US: California', '10.87%' 'Canada', '5.79%' 'United Kingdom', '4.51%' 'US: Washington', '4.45%' 'Germany', '4.45%' 'US: New York', '4.32%' 'US: Colorado', '2.10%' 'US: Texas', '1.97%' 'US: Massachusetts', '1.84%' 'France', '1.78%' The US in total makes up 49% of responses so far (even though it is nearly 10pm in most of Europe) Edit: quick and dirty one-liner to get th…
Is there are reasonable way to do this on a mobile browser?
Anyways, here's the current result in a pastebin: https://pastebin.com/fR89qMKk
Great to see several people from Mexico! BTW, the fact that only the US country has options separated by state reminds me of when I lived in Europe, and sometimes we got together with a bunch of international. Invariably the "where are you from" question would pop up, to which almost everyone would answer with their country... except Americans, who would answer with their state haha. Once, I asked someone where they…
US states and EU countries are generally similar in size. If you ask an Italian where they are from it would be a bit odd if they said “Europe” wouldn’t it? I think it also speaks to the degree of autonomy and identity among the states. The US originally thought of itself more like the EU is now, a collection of sovereign nations that agreed to a very strong alliance (first confederation, then federation). The differ…
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And someone has added imaginary places like Finland, as a joke.
Some people in central Canada I have spoken with actually don't know that where I live is a Canadian province. They've never heard of it. Plus time zones too they said they thought it ended at Eastern time but there are two more time zones past that.
And I prefer to say it’s one and half time zones past EST ;) gotta respect that half hour time slot. I just love Newfies.
Great to see several people from Mexico! BTW, the fact that only the US country has options separated by state reminds me of when I lived in Europe, and sometimes we got together with a bunch of international. Invariably the "where are you from" question would pop up, to which almost everyone would answer with their country... except Americans, who would answer with their state haha. Once, I asked someone where they…
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Fun fact: there's a program in Japan that interviews and follows foreigners. One of the first questions is "where do you come from". Most Americans answer with a state name.
I've watched some YouTubers do that. For the people that say "United States," a common very follow-up question is "where in the United states"? That tracks with my own personal experience internationally: if I just say "the US," people ask for more specifics. So I now just respond with more specificity to start.
I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.
https://wheredohnuserslive.vercel.app/ Visualized it by countries and us states. Should update every 30 seconds.