Why does America get states and UK doesn't get England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
I mean by that logic India is the most hard done by here - (perhaps) the worlds most populated country reduced to a single data point.
Poll: Where do you live?
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#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's... still one country, though. And while I understand that Americans are very preoccupied with the difference between California and New Jersey, please understand that it's not that important (or obvious) to the rest of us.
Fun fact: there's a program in Japan that interviews and follows foreigners. One of the first questions is "where do you come from". Most Americans answer with a state name.
I've watched some YouTubers do that. For the people that say "United States," a common very follow-up question is "where in the United states"?
That tracks with my own personal experience internationally: if I just say "the US," people ask for more specifics. So I now just respond with more specificity to start.
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#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wanted a total for the US: console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.replace(/:.*/,'').trim(), parseInt(el.nextSibling.textContent.trim())]).reduce((d, [k,v]) => {d[k]=v + (d[k] || 0); return d}, {})) I can't figure out how to sort that, though...
Object.entries https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Oh, I need to type Object.entries(x) instead of x.entries()
Makes sense, otherwise entries would contain itself.
Thank you!
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#384Visualization (updates every few seconds): https://ae.studio/random/where-does-hacker-news-live
Now that is awesome!
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#385Next time, keep it in alphabetical order but randomize the starting letter?
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wales and Scotland are countries...
Outside the UK, "country" usually means "independent state". The UK usage is more local than anything else, because if you're going to call Wales a country you'd really need to call things like Bavaria or Texas countries.
To be fair, there’s a lot of Texans who would like to call Texas a country as well.
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#387Who are the 4 people in Vatican City? Are you the Churches tech core?
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#3884 Vatican City is probably people on wifi in the library/museum? I know a decade back our IPv6 measurement consistently picked up 1-2 people from a v4 /24 and associated v6 /32 which I think were the Vatican library. There's said to be a transient population down in the low thousands and a far smaller low hundred resident overnight. Wikipedia says pop. 829 but I think the census night may be a bit different. (If I wa…
Or it could be people lying
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#389Looks like half the population of Vatican City voted on this poll.
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#390Why isn't Canada broken out...