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When it's really cold outside, staying inside and hacking on stuff is probably preferable to working outside. Somebody told me that's why there's so many Russi
by qop 8y ago
When it's really cold outside, staying inside and hacking on stuff is probably preferable to working outside.
Somebody told me that's why there's so many Russian hackers even though Russian compsci education is basically third world.
- matte_black 8y agoAre there a lot of hackers in regions where it's too hot and sunny to be working outside?
- adventured 8y agoHumans adapt to living in and working in eg tropical, very hot zones dramatically easier than the coldest regions. That's why there's a vast population in the hot tropical areas, whereas there's nobody in Canada's frozen north, or vast stretches of frozen Russia. Even in the more temperate parts of cold Canada & Russia, the population density is extraordinarily low. Compare that to numerous high population density hot tropical regions. Mexico for example is one of the hottest countries on earth, it has 127 million people with a population density seven times that of Russia. Its population will soon surpass Russia. India is even hotter than Mexico. Iran and Iraq are even hotter than India (120 million people in those two countries, they'll combined surpass Russia in population very soon).
- garmaine 8y agoI suspect it also has something to do with information markets being global and internet tech being a way to get western levels of income while living with Eastern European costs.