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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by skykooler »

skydhash wrote: post #453
dkarl wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was in Europe as a student, everybody wanted to know what state I was from, so I got used to answering that way. Surprisingly, everybody seemed to know all the U.S. states, and had pretty strong mental associations with a lot of them. I'm from Texas, and to them, that meant horses and cowboys and George Strait and "howdy, y'all!"

A few I have from watching TV and games (probably incorrect). Vermont -> green hills Dakota -> hard deserts and Amerindians Nevada -> sand desert Texas -> ranches. Arizona -> Lots of sun and hot. Florida -> beach and spaces. Kansas -> Big corn farms. Massachusetts -> US version of Europe. Missouri -> Rivers.

> Massachusetts -> US version of Europe.

Really, that's all of New England - New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, maybe parts of Pennsylvania depending on who you talk to.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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skykooler wrote: post #471
skydhash wrote: post #453

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few I have from watching TV and games (probably incorrect). Vermont -> green hills Dakota -> hard deserts and Amerindians Nevada -> sand desert Texas -> ranches. Arizona -> Lots of sun and hot. Florida -> beach and spaces. Kansas -> Big corn farms. Massachusetts -> US version of Europe. Missouri -> Rivers.

> Massachusetts -> US version of Europe. Really, that's all of New England - New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, maybe parts of Pennsylvania depending on who you talk to.

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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by robjan »

croes wrote: post #105
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.

By that logic China or Russia should also be listed with each single province or state

Should have at least listed the Special Administrative Regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau which have their own passports and currencies. I'm not going to vote for China since I am not allowed to enter 95% of it without a visa.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by namelosw »

baron816 wrote: post #465

I never thought about it before, but HN must be blocked in China, right? I wonder how it’s impacted their engineering culture to not have access to forums like these where people can freely share knowledge.

> HN must be blocked in China

It was only blocked in recent years. As far as I can recall it's around 2019. They usually only block things that are influential enough.

And most engineers do have VPN. I'm actually surprised there are so few votes from China since many people I know do check out HN frequently. My guess is they're mostly lurking and don't have enough karma.

> I wonder how it’s impacted their engineering culture to not have access to forums like these where people can freely share knowledge.

There are many engineering forums and communities - as long as they don't get political it's perfectly fine. IMO the engineering culture is very strong in China (not as strong as in the US, but far above the world average). But I'm yet to see something great and big like HN as many high-quality contents are limited in private WeChat groups. The bigger problem is not that people cannot express themselves freely, but rather communities tend to get deteriorated over time like Quora and Medium.

Maybe a close approximation to HN would be V2EX [0] (Interesting it's also blocked in China. So in fact, many communities outside GFW still target the Chinese audience).

The barrier for people to participate in English communities like HN is still the language. People use Stackoverflow daily because they could skim through the code. But the majority still prefer reading and writing Chinese.

[0] https://v2ex.com/

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

namelosw wrote: post #475
baron816 wrote: post #465

I never thought about it before, but HN must be blocked in China, right? I wonder how it’s impacted their engineering culture to not have access to forums like these where people can freely share knowledge.

> HN must be blocked in China It was only blocked in recent years. As far as I can recall it's around 2019. They usually only block things that are influential enough. And most engineers do have VPN. I'm actually surprised there are so few votes from China since many people I know do check out HN frequently. My guess is they're mostly lurking and don't have enough karma. > I wonder how it’s impacted their engineering…

VPNs are finicky: they come and go and while usually you can find one that will work, it’s a constant struggle with the GFW because the one you used last month is not working this month. I just relied on my connection at work (a direct line out of China) because everything else was too much trouble.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by aunty_helen »

austinjp wrote: post #438
xtracto wrote: post #351

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…

When someone says they're from America I'm occasionally tempted to ask, "which, north or south?"

This is a very very common retort if you call the USA “America” whilst in South America.

Of course you can double down if you really want to get eyes rolling by following up with something like “the good one”, “el primer mundo”, or “the rich one”

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by aunty_helen »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #6

I mean we're geographically dispersed. But if you had to pick our capital, it would be silicon valley, surely. (Living in a village in rural NZ here)

Says the Ranfurlian coming from a country that has a geographic center as its capital instead of the most populous city -.-

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by shafkathullah »

newaccount74 wrote: post #225
toqy wrote: post #36

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This is begging for a console.table console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)))

I wanted a total for the US: console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.replace(/:.*/,'').trim(), parseInt(el.nextSibling.textContent.trim())]).reduce((d, [k,v]) => {d[k]=v + (d[k] || 0); return d}, {})) I can't figure out how to sort that, though...

Just click on 'Value' in console to sort by value
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