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>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's o
by phkahler 5y ago
>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed.
Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's one of the things that always comes up in polls of what surprised Europeans about the US when they visited - just how big it is.
- capableweb 5y agoChina and India has a bigger population, and China has a similar landmass as the US yet is just one option in this poll.
- tasuki 5y agoOn the other hand, as of right now, China has 1 point and India 9. That combined is less than Poland, which has 15. It makes sense to have finer granularity for the poll options people will actually choose.
- capableweb 5y agoIt's 04:33 in the morning in China (in one of the timezones at least), makes sense.
- Jcampuzano2 5y agoChina uses one timezone as far as I understand, so it's 5am for all of China atm.
- numpad0 5y agoChina is currently has 7 points, 19 hours later. India is 72, Russia is 23, Vietnam 7, UK is 242. hmmm
- jogjayr 5y agoPeople in India are asleep right now.
- Macha 5y agoIs HN even accessible behind the great firewall?
- mlindner 5y agoChina also has relatively few people that simultaneously speak English well enough to read/post here while also having easy access to VPNs. If I had to take a guess I would bet there are more people that are Chinese first generation emigrants that live outside of China on HN than there are Chinese citizens that live inside China on HN.
- presentation 5y agoPretty much anyone who speaks English well enough to read/post here would have easy access to a VPN. Firewall is easy to hop, you just need to know that you want to.
- sexy_seedbox 5y agoNo choices for Hong Kong or Macao.
- muzani 5y agoThere's less people from China and say, Russia, on this site than Minnesota. I think it's a bit weird but the detail works.
- sedan_baklazhan 5y agoNot that weird. There are much more popular local websites in Russia at least.
- capableweb 5y agoYou mind sharing any of them if they are similar to Hacker News in terms of content, comments and audience? I love browsing websites in languages I don't yet understand fully.
- sedan_baklazhan 5y agohabr.com (habr.com/ru has much more content than English version).
- croes 5y agoBy that logic China or Russia should also be listed with each single province or state
- robjan 5y agoShould have at least listed the Special Administrative Regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau which have their own passports and currencies. I'm not going to vote for China since I am not allowed to enter 95% of it without a visa.
- blueflow 5y ago... especially India
- tazjin 5y agoYep. Russia's largest federal subject (Yakutiya) is a third the size of the entire US, and it's one of 85 subjects)
- rvense 5y agoIt'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.
- qeternity 5y agoThe same can be said for England vs UK (or London vs England for that matter). I say that as an expat in London…
- rossdavidh 5y agoI suppose it's because the main issue is whether or not HN is "Silicon Valley", and so if you're in the UK (for example) you are not Silicon Valley regardless of if you are in NI, Scotland, Wales, or England.
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- spiderice 5y agoThen make your own poll that is split up how you like it. I see no problem splitting up large countries in polls like this. If only this poll did more of it. I'm not sure you have the knowledge to speak for "the rest of us" about how polls should be split up.
- vetinari 5y agoBig, but relatively unpopulated. Even California would rank together with Poland.
- dools 5y agoIf you’re going by geographic area Australia should definitely be split up by state.