It would be nice to divide the total users by the country population to see the hacker news impact per country.
Demographics of Hacker News by country
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#12An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.
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#13Gonna have to sample more than just 1 post I think
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#15An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.
Not really. Unless specified the poster being US based is kind of assumed.
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#16Would be interesting to use this post's analytics as a check against that data ;)
Yes it would wouldn't it. :D I can imagine a slightly different representation for this thread Vs one where many couldn't care less if google is being google once more.
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#17>The data suggests that the majority of users come from the United States 41.2% is not the majority… Interesting data though, thanks for it. At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board?
Somewhere Between 10-14 UTC
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#18An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.
Also don't assume all users are on the same planet or speak English as native language.
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#19An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.
I try to avoid doing that, but come on, you can just choose not to be irritated by something so minor.
(Somewhat off-topic, but in case anyone cares: we in the US call it the Congress, not parliament.)
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#20An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.
Not really. Unless specified the poster being US based is kind of assumed.
What would make you say that? IMO that's a potentially harmful assumption, I agree the demographics point to that but doesn't help when this isn't a real-time chat where things like these can be cleared up quickly