Uhm, I'm in Mexico and Mexico is in North America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America See?
Same here, from Baja.
Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
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#392In Prague, Czech Republic, after abandoning the UK last year.
Same here, out of the UK a couple of years earlier
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Nice .. Im going to chile in a couple of weeks and i was thinking about opening in deláware to .. Can you please add me to skype: j_camarena to chat a little?
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#394What 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.
I'm from Mexico to .. Please use english. HN's standard.
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#395Israel
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#396Uhm, I'm in Mexico and Mexico is in North America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America See?
My first thought when I read the poll was, "What about everything between the US and South America?". I think the way these polls are written tells more about the person writing the poll than anything else. I can't imagine the usefulness of splitting the US into NYC/SF and everything else. Likewise with splitting the UK and the rest of Europe.
The UK is definitely a special case cf. the rest of Europe. For one, there is common language to consider. Secondly, it appears the UK makes up the next largest userbase after the USA. It is as if to say 'why separate Canada from the US'. Similarly, NYC and SF are the prominent start up areas. Knowing who is in and out of these has uses.
My take was that the OP would like to do every country, but obviously must limit numbers to something sensible.
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#397I voted Africa, being from South Africa. When I clicked on the up-arrow, the number of points did not increment immediately. I had to refresh the page to see the new number of points. Poor user experience.
I'm in Douala, Cameroon... So, when's the Africa HN Meetup? ;)
Big continent.... :-)
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#398Another data point... This is a snapshot of our ( http://feefighters.com ) google analytics visitors page for this year (~70k visits), filtered for news.ycombinator.com: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/Screenshots/bc.png US: 65%, CA: 7.4%, UK: 6.1%, Germany: 2.2%, Australia: 2.1%, India: 1.7%, Netherlands: 1%, France: 1% Drilling down within the US: New York: 8.8%, SF: 8.6%, Chicago: 4.6%, Seattle: 2.5%, Austin, LA,…
Does FeeFighters work outside of the United States?
FeeFighters is able to help businesses in the United States and Canada. (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam and US Commonwealths are excluded, sorry!)
Does that skew your visitors towards USA? Totally.
I'm from New Zealand. I've learnt not to click on links to payment processors or risk disappointment.
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#399Being 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…
In this regard I love what Chile is doing with Startup Chile. You guys seriously need something like that, where you just grant visas to smart founders.
I still wouldn't like to live in the US, but I totally support that you become more open :)