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Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by PeterisP »

sampo wrote: post #247
Strom wrote: post #220

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I'm from Estonia and I had to vote 'Other'. I don't identify myself as an eastern european nor as a scandinavian. I'm from northern europe, as also classified by your linked UN geoscheme. [1] There is no northern europe poll option however. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme

I wonder if mostly anyone from "cold war Eastern Europe" countries identify as an Eastern European any more? Estonians and other Baltic states don't, Poland doesn't. Czech Republic probably doesn't. What about Slovenia, or Croatia, or Macedonia? Or Hungary? Also maybe Russians identify as Russians and not Eastern Europeans.

I could put all the countries in the Eastern European Timezone as Eastern Europe, but it would put Finland in there as well which would be wierd.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by D9u »

derrida wrote: post #23
Widdershin wrote: post #4

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I'm from New Zealand, I just picked South East Asia, because that's where our game servers are. Would've appreciated an Oceanic option, OP. Edit: Nevermind, it's Australia and New Zealand now. You can just replace that with Australasia, for the record.

As an Australian, now we can call any famous NZ ex-patriots, "Aussies". Cheers :-) ps. In school we are taught either that Australia is the continent or Oceania is the continent, encompassing Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Polynesia (of which NZ is sometimes considered a part of) & Melanesia. It used to be this way until I suppose FIFA started considering Australia part of Asia. Now it's just confusing. If there…

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is most definitely within Polynesia, being one of the three corners of the Polynesian triangle, the other two being Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Hawai'i.

I chose US on the poll, but feel that Oceania is more appropriate in a geographical sense, especially since so many Americans don't consider Hawai'i to be a part of "the states." (until it comes to war)

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by MrZongle2 »

thmcmahon wrote: post #248
wattson12 wrote: post #238

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The poll says Australasia, which includes Papua New Guinea (pop 7.4M), the rest would be from the smaller island nations I guess

Ridiculous to include PNG.

Hey, man....it's been an ISO/IEC standard since 2004.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by AYBABTME »

AYBABTME wrote: post #223
sjwright wrote: post #211

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Hacker News voters# per million: pop/mil votes density -------------------------------------- Canada 35.1 284 8.09 Australia/NZ 35.6* 283 7.95 Scandinavia 25.7 151 5.88 USA 316.8 1817 5.74 UK 62.2 190 3.05 Western Europe 278.7 363 1.30 Eastern Europe 176.7 155 0.88 Southern Europe 153.5 65 0.42 Japan 126.6 34 0.27 South America 387.4 71^ 0.18 Russia 142.2 26 0.18 South East Asia 610.0 110 0.18 India 1210.2 196 0.16 S…

I wonder if this high density of Canadian is a new thing. If so, it would correlate will recent feeling that HN's quality has been dropping. And we all know that correlation is causality.

For the records; This was meant as a joke, I'm canadian myself. Arguably it was not very clear or funny.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by lucideer »

igravious wrote: post #253
sjwright wrote: post #226

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How about this as a proposed breakdown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmufGoZ--XWedHF...

If you mean the British Isles (Ireland and the UK) then say the British Isles. UK is not shorthand for British Isles. Clue is in the name: United _Kingdom_ = monarchy, Ireland is a republic.

Even that might be controversial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by lucideer »

sjwright wrote: post #226
danmaz74 wrote: post #214

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Ok, thanks for the answer. So "Western Europe excl UK" is actually "Western Europe excl UK and Southern Europe" :)

How about this as a proposed breakdown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmufGoZ--XWedHF...

What's the rationale for breaking UK out from the rest? Population? Size? France and Germany are both larger.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by sjwright »

workhere-io wrote: post #276
lwinkler wrote: post #262

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Please don't put Switzerland in Scandinavia. It is not the same as Sweden.

Also, please don't put Finland and Iceland in Scandinavia. Scandinavia = Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Nordic Countries = Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroes, Greenland, Svalbard and Åland Islands.

I agree with you! But read the original poll choice:

  Scandinavia (incl. Finland and Iceland)

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

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Post by cstrat »

madeofpalk wrote: post #75
cstrat wrote: post #72

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It would be neat if HN automatically provided something like this embedded at the top.

Like this? http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=6582647

I checked this at home - awesome, should be added to HN as a little widget with polls.
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