It's weird how many tools treat Puerto Rico as if it's not part of the U.S.
Demographics of Hacker News by country
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#42An 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.
Indeed, as a French I find many Americans are lacking basic English skills.
/s
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#43An 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.
It's quite an interesting defaultism though, it gives us some insight into what people think.
There's this strange asymmetry: ask a non-American to name a US Supreme Court justice, a famous American businessman, an entertainer, a politician, and maybe some other categories that I haven't listed. We all know one, even though it might actually be hard to name the same for neighboring countries like Ireland or France.
Ask someone if they know the subdivisions of the USA, and if they know the subdivisions of their own neighbors. Do I know the mayor of anywhere in Ireland or France? I know the mayor of San Francisco.
The culture of what country is in the cinema, or the radio? Everywhere you go, it's the US, plus a little bit of the local. Check the top-10 lists of any country in Europe to see what I mean.
It's so strangely dominating.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#44Percentage of visitors relative to each country's population, top 20
Switzerland 2.30
Sweden 1.73
Ireland 1.63
Denmark 1.55
Norway 1.48
Netherlands 1.43
Canada 1.26
Finland 1.25
United Kingdom 1.25
United States 1.24
Singapore 1.23
Australia 1.13
Austria 1.01
Slovenia 0.95
Lithuania 0.79
Croatia 0.73
Germany 0.70
Portugal 0.68
Israel 0.53
Hong Kong 0.53
I didn't include countries that had less than 0.2% of the visitors because of the error margin caused by the low number of significant digits. Iceland at 0.1% and a population of 370k, for example...
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#45You should filter out IP of VPN and hosting providers(VPS) https://github.com/X4BNet/lists_vpn/ and
then account for day/night cycle around the world.
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#46Interesting to see UK and Germany taking the 2nd and 3rd spots. Is there any easy explanation for why UK and Germany are at the next two spots? Is UK the next hotspot for IT after US? Is Germany too? What about China and India? Does it not have more IT crowd than UK or Germany? Or most of them don't visit HN? Interested in understanding these trends better.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#47An 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 used to be bothered by people assuming America as a default, but I've actually changed my opinion on this after doing an online political science course through the University of Nottingham.
The thing I found shocking while attending this course, was that even in a UK university, America was still the most frequent subject of discussion and reference, with the UK playing second fiddle. And then I would read comments as a part of the course from other places in the anglosphere where for instance, they are asked to name the first things that come to mind when they think of 'banal nationalism' and you read things like America's heavy use of bald eagle imagery, the American pledge of allegiance at sporting events, etc.
I've decided that since it seems nearly universal that English speaking countries give America primacy (even in the context of a non-American university focusing on a heavily European oriented subject), that there's no point fighting it. America's cultural hegemony has complete dominance over the English language.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#48An 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.
But US-based website of a US-based company, right?
I'm a Brit, so yes, the defaultism rankles, but at this point I've just learned to accept that people write from their own perspective and to not accept that is pedantry.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#49An 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.
It's quite an interesting defaultism though, it gives us some insight into what people think. There's this strange asymmetry: ask a non-American to name a US Supreme Court justice, a famous American businessman, an entertainer, a politician, and maybe some other categories that I haven't listed. We all know one, even though it might actually be hard to name the same for neighboring countries like Ireland or France. A…
I'm a Brit and still describe pricing when discussing online as USD because that's seemingly the "currency of the internet" that everybody seems to understand the value of.
Re: Demographics of Hacker News by country
#50An 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.
It's quite an interesting defaultism though, it gives us some insight into what people think. There's this strange asymmetry: ask a non-American to name a US Supreme Court justice, a famous American businessman, an entertainer, a politician, and maybe some other categories that I haven't listed. We all know one, even though it might actually be hard to name the same for neighboring countries like Ireland or France. A…
Well put. Lines up with my comment ITT and my observations on the American side of things as well. There's a strange dynamic where a massive amount of people across the world have some cursory knowledge about the state I live in, whereas vice-versa I'd probably have to look up if their country even has states, provinces, districts, counties or what have you.