Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

Post by dkersten » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 8:49 PM UTC

willvarfar wrote: post #318

dkersten wrote: post #292

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Only countries that qualify for the eurovision contest count ;-)

Israel then?

Post by johanjessen » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 9:29 PM UTC

Post by mahyarm » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 10:10 PM UTC

nekojima wrote: post #389

kingsley_20 wrote: post #342

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"We" don't need a startup visa, "the USA" might. I'd prefer that Indian entrepreneurs capitalized on the excellent opportunities available at home. I support the startup visa in the spirit of supporting choice, but I resent the implication that the whole world should send its talents to the valley.

I'd like it if India and other Asian countries had a 'start-up visa'. Currently its usually too difficult to start-up a company using business or tourist visas for most Asian countries, let alone the police registration issues for even short-term residency and the actual legal registration of a local business (which can take longer than the longest available visas), if that's pursued at all. I have tried start-ups in…

Post by swah » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 10:26 PM UTC

cfontes wrote: post #75

swah wrote: post #62

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We're not that few.

That's great to hear... I said that because I tried to pull a Brazilian Hacker News meeting in Campinas or São Paulo and go 0 answers... :(

Post by davidhollander » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 10:29 PM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #294

Even if the poll is posted for many hours on HN's front page, we shouldn't rely on it for an inference of where HN participants live, in the level of detail shown in the poll. Just three days ago HN had a good thread about gaps in statistics knowledge even among persons with a university education, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285742 and polls like this on HN are a good illustration (in the comments) about wh…