TIL: Swaziland was officially renamed Eswatini [1] in 2018. The country has always been eSwatini (“land of the Swazis”) in the Swazi language, and now its English name matches.
Poll: Where do you live?
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Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Put a Georgian (US) and California in the same room and they will not have much in common.
What? If they're both from major cities in the two states, they have way, way more in common than a Belgian and a Slovenian in the same room.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#493Earlier 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.
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.
Not that weird. There are much more popular local websites in Russia at least.
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#494I 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 -.-
To be totally fair, the capital should be Nelson which is the true geographic center of NZ!
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#495Is HN easily accessible in China?
Noticed how small the representation is in comparison to India and Japan and was curious if this is the local market's choice, or the great firewall in action.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#496Is HN easily accessible in China? Noticed how small the representation is in comparison to India and Japan and was curious if this is the local market's choice, or the great firewall in action.
I cannot access it without a VPN at the moment, and language is also a big factor.
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#497Pasting 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)
I think for a ranking the data should be normalized by population. If I calculate it for seven leading regions manually, the current numbers are as follows:
US: California 535 / 39.51 Mil. = 13.54 / Mil.
Canada 244 / 38.01 Mil. = 6.42 / Mil.
Germany 232 / 83.24 Mil. = 2.79 / Mil.
UK 220 / 67.22 Mil. = 3.27 / Mil.
US: New York 206 / 39.52 Mil. = 5.21 / Mil.
US: Washington 199 / 7.71 Mil. = 25.81 / Mil.
US: Texas 122 / 29.15 Mil. = 4.19 / Mil.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#498Hong Kong & Macau are missed. Counting them as China would be quite a stretch.
Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#499~vietnam~