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Yeah and I'm totally missing Norrland in Sweden. Bummer ..
And someone has added imaginary places like Finland, as a joke.
There is no down vote, IDK how Austrians will vote.
Poll: Where do you live?
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#502HN is definitely not SV only, but I often observe discussions where folks involved write something country-specific, do not state where they live, and assume implicitly everyone in discussion lives in the same country, they understand the context, and the way things work in their country is the only possible way.
That's usually Americans, expecting everybody else to be American as well or they should know how the US works if they don't.
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#503This makes me want to create a house-swap service for HN users. Take a two week vacation in someones home (and them in yours) with the social contract established by your HN profiles
With the assumption that HN-goers are more trustworthy than average.
I will make no guarantee to be a trustworthy person.
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#504It would be great if we could see the voters of our country. I would like to contact thinking alike people from Greece :)
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#505HN crowd is usually mixed, better than Reddit or anything where the US clearly dominates.
I can tell by reactions to some more critical answers, and how they change depending on the time of the day :)
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#506Pasting 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 /…
Nordic countries also get high numbers:
Sweden 74 / 10.35 Mil. = 7.15 / Mil.
Denmark 40 / 5.83 Mil. = 6.86 / Mil.
Finland 33 / 5.53 Mil. = 5.97 / Mil.
Norway 31 / 5.38 Mil. = 5.76 / Mil.
Vatican City 6 / 825 = 7273 / Mil.Re: Poll: Where do you live?
#507Great 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?"
The geographic version of "PC or Mac" perhaps?
Honduras, Guatemala and the other countries in Central America would be the Linux equivalent, being left out.
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#508Wow, big surprises here so far. Africa and Middle East almost totally unrepresented with 0s everywhere? That's crazy for the size of population? And the Marshall Islands ranking higher than Wyoming, USA?
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#509Hong Kong & Macau are missed. Counting them as China would be quite a stretch.
Please remain in your designated living space. A reeducation officer is being dispatched.
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#510Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Since when does the population size of a nation (especially in comparison to a region in another country) have anything to do with its status as a nation? Should Andorra be on this list, or just merged into France, perhaps?