Poll: HN readers, where's your residence? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by patrickaljord » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

davedx wrote: post #319

m0th87 wrote: post #311

Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…

Conversely, not being based in the US comes with lots of disadvantages, such as terrible payment gateways, unfriendly tax and small business legislation, and smaller networks of entrepreneurs. Here in Ede, the Netherlands, I feel pretty isolated, and I imagine a lot of people in Europe also do unless they live somewhere like London or Amsterdam.

I live in Peru but created my corporation in the US in Delaware just to get the gateways and other US services.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by elboru » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:14 PM UTC

alvivar wrote: post #290

What about Central America? I guess we are few in HN, but if it's not part of poll, we never know :( This happen in almost all the demographics polls here... Can you add this option sasvari?

Los gringos normalmente consideran Sudamérica a todo lo que esta por debajo de EE.UU. inluso México como en este caso.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by itmag » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:17 PM UTC

aurelianito wrote: post #330

itmag wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different ways to look at work ethic: Mercenary (sneaky): "They're getting the exact amount of work from me that they manage to extract." Mercenary (quid pro quo): "They're getting what they're paying for. If they want increased work ethic, they have to increase their pay ethic." Mercenary (clever): "I will go above and beyond the call of duty in ways that get noticed by my boss." Work ethic (intrinsic/weberian): "Wo…

Wow! Great list!

I find that in a discussion it's best to avoid the trench warfare of "you vs me" and instead try to understand as many perspectives as possible.

Intelligence: understanding a given perspective.

Knowledge: knowing of many different perspectives.

Wisdom: choosing the perspective that is most right under the circumstances.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by elboru » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:19 PM UTC

chalst wrote: post #191

huherto wrote: post #67

Mexico

Which is, along with the Carribean and much of Central America, not a possible response option to this quiz.

Let me ask, why is not a possible response option?

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by itmag » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:21 PM UTC

Kliment wrote: post #90

Cologne, Germany. I'm running a 3d printing workshop on the weekend here. If you're interested, have a look at http://dingfabrik.de/2011/11/24/3d-drucker-an-einem-wochenen... (same info in English at http://blog.reprap.org/2011/11/reprap-prusa-iteration-2-buil... ). There's only a couple spots left though.

An e-buddy of mine that would probably be interested in meeting you: http://www.richardspindler.com/ (he runs his own hackerspace)

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by eliben » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:23 PM UTC

quizbiz wrote: post #169

eliben wrote: post #153

Israel, which makes it (Rest of) Asia/Pacific

Would you mind updating your entry with how many upvotes you have? I would take it to represent roughly how many others are from Israel as well.

Not sure it will work, since I've seen at least 3 other mentions of Israel, /before/ I posted mine.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by lupatus » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

Alaska

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by bbx » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:29 PM UTC

davedx wrote: post #319

m0th87 wrote: post #311

Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…

Conversely, not being based in the US comes with lots of disadvantages, such as terrible payment gateways, unfriendly tax and small business legislation, and smaller networks of entrepreneurs. Here in Ede, the Netherlands, I feel pretty isolated, and I imagine a lot of people in Europe also do unless they live somewhere like London or Amsterdam.

You're not that isolated. My brother was born in Ede and I still have family there.

Here in France, the web is highly concentrated in Paris (I'd say 80% of all the activity), so it's not uncommon to have geographical disparities.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by runjake » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:38 PM UTC

I would have preferred to see more options for the US. It's a big country. The Pacific Northwest region in particular, seems to be gaining some entrepreneurial fire, but maybe I'm just biased.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by superted » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 6:39 PM UTC

itmag wrote: post #73

Sweden here. Anyone else? :)

Aye!