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US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
- simianstyle 19y agoI'm sorry, but i really am tired of this reddit content making the front page of Hacker News.
- rms 19y agoUsually I'm strongly in favor of things that fall outside the bounds of hackerism, but this is a little much. Fidel Castro was fine though, it doesn't bother me to see truly major news make it here, even if I suspect many of us had already seen it on another site.
- jraines 19y agoWhile I agree, I'm surprised that there was more defense of the Castro post than this one. I know there are some fans of the visual display of quantitative information among us here . . .
- pg 19y agoI thought this was fascinating. I know there have been a lot of new users lately, and a lot of us are concerned that the site will go downhill, but this is very interesting to me. I've never seen a more graphic demonstration of the huge size of the US economy. To think, for example, that I grew up in fear of being nuked by New Jersey...
- Dauntless 19y agoThat's exactly why I would downvote this if I could. It's a misleading article that he stolen from someone else (because I've seen this many times on different blogs) and has tons of bogus data that no one checks. About Russia: In 1987 the GDP was: USA : 5,093,396 USSR: 1,965,457 P.S. nukes don't care about GDP. P.P.S. In 2007 EU had a GDP of $16,574 trillion and USA: $13.794 trillion. So it would be easier to make a map the other way around.
- pg 19y agoWhere's the map stolen from? We can switch the link to the original source.
- Dauntless 19y agoI don't know what is the original source... http://www.google.com/search?q=US+States+Renamed+For+Countries+With+Similar+GDPs http://www.google.com/search?q=US+States+Renamed+For+Countri... I may have been too fast to judge that it isn't the original, because it's very popular and being just another blog didn't seem extremely accurate... I can't edit that out now anyway.
- mdemare 19y agoHere's the data: countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) us states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_(nominal) It doesn't seem extremely inaccurate. I'd compare California with Italy, not France, and Texas with Brazil, not Canada. And Russia's economy is more New York than New Jersey.
- ivankirigin 19y agoShouldn't you have been _more_ worried to know that a country with thousands of nukes was also relatively poor?
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- imsteve 19y agoI'm sorry if you don't understand how this relates to startups. It does. I know of very few founders who didn't move to a new place for their startup. Understanding how the qualities of a region affect the prosperity of its companies will aide you greatly when weighing the costs and benefits of moving for your startup and where to move to. Prior to what I have learned through HN, I may have moved back to Europe without giving it a second thought. Pull your head out of the compiler for a minute to see how location will affect your hacking career. Reddit content is funny pictures, useless politics, inflammatory youtube, and misleading headlines. This is none of those.
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- DocSavage 19y agoI'm sorry, but the way a portion of the YCNews community has handled this news article really gets to me. First, it's clear that a large number of people think the news item is relevant. See the upmods. The map shows a technique for data visualization. It also relates to economics, which many of us would like to learn more of. Second, just because you think this article isn't YC-worthy, don't go downmodding everyone's comment on the map and upmodding every negative comment. If you're going to do that, have the spine to downmod pg's comment.
- run4yourlives 19y ago10 points for anyone who can find the 3 G8 countries on the map...
- run4yourlives 19y agoHoly crap mods... bad mood or something? It was just a joke...
- kingnothing 19y agoLeave it at reddit.
- DocSavage 19y agoThis mapping surprised me: "Tennessee – Saudi Arabia (GDP #25 at $286 billion)" I probably magnify the oil economy in my mind. You hear about the vast wealth, the oil sheiks, the buying of US assets, etc. Either my intuition on relative economies is very off (likely)... or GDP doesn't cover some things that impact our perception. Wonder how that map would look if we used GDP per capita.
- breily 19y agoThat surprised me too - but I'm guessing its because their GDP is almost entirely from oil, whereas the US economy is very distributed. Edit: Guess I was wrong.
- DocSavage 19y agoFrom Wikipedia (probably taken from CIA factbook): "The petroleum sector accounts for roughly 75% of budget revenues, 45% of GDP, and 90% of export earnings."
- Xichekolas 19y agoYou also have to keep in mind that most of Saudi Arabia's GDP is concentrated in the hands of a very few, whereas Tennessee's is more spread out.
- Xichekolas 19y agoMaybe I should clarify... I meant that most of the oil income in SA is concentrated in the monarchy. I guess, as another comment pointed out, that oil income is only like 45% of GDP, but I still maintain that national income is much more concentrated in SA than it is in Tennessee, leading to the perception of untold riches of some and the reality of poverty for many. Tennessee doesn't have such concentration of wealth was my point.
- gms 19y agoRe: vast wealth, just want to point out that there is a lot of poverty in Saudi Arabia that westerners don't realise, and that unemployment is estimated to be at 20% or so.
- streblo 19y agothis is not the right place...
- hobbs 19y agoIt would be interesting to redo the map using GDP per square mile, or GDP per capita. For instance Georgia has the equivalent GDP of Switzerland, but it is much larger than Switzerland, geographically speaking. On the other hand, New Jersey has the same GDP as Russia, but is a fraction of the size, both geographically and in population.