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Post by elboru »

kinduff wrote: post #371
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…

I was very glad too, and I'm pretty sure not everybody has answered yet since it's "viernes godín". I'm from Michoacan, and reading or seeing the clueless expression when I answer gives me some sort of joy and proudness.

I’m from Chihuahua, I always explain the dog comes after the state, not the other way around XD

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Post by renewiltord »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #15

Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?

Because American states are more significant than British regions. UC Berkeley alone has more Nobel laureates than Wales+Scotland+NorthernIreland. Think of it as Huffman coding on significance.

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Post by namelosw »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #476
namelosw wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I agree. I was struggling with this many years ago. And I was concerned about the security and privacy of VPN providers.

Eventually, I ended up spinning my own VPN with Algo [0] like four years ago and it worked really well for me for these years. I use VMs in Hong Kong for connection speed, and use VMs in California for country specific stuff (ADs and news for Hong Kong are super annoying XD).

[0] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

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Post by muzani »

capableweb wrote: post #95
phkahler wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> 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.

China and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.

There's less people from China and say, Russia, on this site than Minnesota. I think it's a bit weird but the detail works.

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Post by xeromal »

amilios wrote: post #454
burlesona wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The US is still far more culturally homogenous than the EU, so this comparison falls kind of flat. Even if the US began as you say, with large cultural differences, it isn't really the case anymore. You could make the argument that there is a cultural divide between cities and the countryside for sure (in the sense that someone from Austin and someone from Boston are more similar than someone from Austin and someone…

You can be culturally homogenous and still have different identities. Put a Georgian (US) and California in the same room and they will not have much in common.

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Post by divbzero »

Are there really (as of now) 7 North Koreans among us? If so I’m curious how you discovered HN.

I find it especially surprising because that’s more than the 6 South Koreans who have responded to this poll.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by divbzero »

> Edit: Sorry about the randomized ordering (I forgot HN does that for polls). Thanks ahead of time for using cmd+f or the equivalent to find and vote for your state or country. Also, each US state is included as "US: {state name}".

I also noticed the arbitrary ordering earlier but it now appears alphabetized. Thank you HN mods for implementing sort for this outlier of a use case.

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