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Pasting this in dev console will give you a quick and dirty rundown. It sorts locations by points. [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)).map(a => a.join(' - ')) As of this post, California is leading, followed by other places w/ large tech hubs (Germany, UK, Canada, NY, Washington)
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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.
This isn't an experience unique to people from the US (see other comments). Would you consider saying "State Name, USA"?
Visualization (updates every few seconds): https://ae.studio/random/where-does-hacker-news-live
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China and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.
China also has relatively few people that simultaneously speak English well enough to read/post here while also having easy access to VPNs. If I had to take a guess I would bet there are more people that are Chinese first generation emigrants that live outside of China on HN than there are Chinese citizens that live inside China on HN.
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If you asked someone where they were from and without context they said "Molise", that would be a bit odd, no?
Molise has a population of 300k. The smallest state in the US is Wyoming at almost twice the size (580k). That also doesn't address the parent's observation that US states view themselves as having very distinct identities. A better example from Italy might be Naples, which has a population big enough to be a US state and which does have a very distinct identity. And I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear someone int…
A useful poll! But the very-literal should be reminded: the linguistic mechanisms of synechdoche & metonymy often result in a fuzzy use of parts, or regions, or emblematic examples, or associated items to mean some other closely-related more-amorphous entity. For example, "the White House" for the entire elected president's policy team, no matter which part (or if it's operating from some other place). "Wall Street"…
Otherwise, out of 1000 people, there'd be at least 200 that are from North Korea, maybe another 100 that lives in Antarctica.
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This isn't an experience unique to people from the US (see other comments). Would you consider saying "State Name, USA"?
My mistake, I see now the person I responded to may have meant that Americans say just the state. In the videos I've watched, and at least for myself, I usually hear it like you suggested: state + USA.
Visualization (updates every few seconds): https://ae.studio/random/where-does-hacker-news-live