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I'm starting to wonder how many Canadians are on Hacker News. This after seeing the BC Time Zone story as well as this one. Just curious, really. I'm wondering

I'm starting to wonder how many Canadians are on Hacker News. This after seeing the BC Time Zone story as well as this one. Just curious, really. I'm wondering what the country breakdown is for Hacker News users.

nubinetwork 7mo ago
Not a ham, or else I probably would have seen it sooner.
gregdeon 7mo ago
Canadian checking in!
Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
Canada has an educated population, large online presence, and many folks operate within both the US/Canada under dual citizenship. One can find them in every field from medicine to high energy physics. If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned, but most are type C thanks to the great work by AMCHAM attracting global investment. Notably, most science is done on UTC time... because politicians were always functionally ignorant about the collateral costs of arbitrary technology policy changes. Evey village usually has at least one idiot. =3
- technothrasher 7mo ago
  > If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned Purely US resident owned, not US citizen owned. Resident aliens, who are not citizens, can have ownership in an S corp.
  - Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
    Out of an abundance of caution, please talk with AMCHAM, and a local tax lawyer first. In most cases, founders almost always want to form a type C corporate entity within their largest trading state. People often do whatever they like, but whether it is locally legal is not a YOLO/LLM matter. Best of luck =3
consumer451 7mo ago
Based on my own lived bias and HN addiction... The leading demographic has to be West Coast of the USA, then the multinational PNW as the most active HN users. Again, I am biased, but as far as HN bias goes, that ain't bad. These are amazing places chock-full of the coolest people. After decades of the West Coast life I now live in rest of world, and wish that rest of world could be so lucky.
adamgordonbell 7mo ago
Canadian here. AM almost A. I think the HN population is more distributed geographically then you'd initially think
beloch 7mo ago
The breakdown probably varies according to the time of day. In the middle of the night (for North America) I'd expect to see a higher proportion of international users, although I'd also expect the numbers aren't quite so high since HN is U.S.-centric and predominantly English only. The number of Canadians is relatively easy to estimate though, since the geographic distribution is similar and the majority do speak English. I'd expect a roughly 8.5:1 ratio of Americans to Canadians based solely on population.
- bch 7mo ago
  Maybe @dang can setup a roll-call for entertainments sake.
  - dang 7mo ago
    I measured it 3 different ways and came up with an average of 8.9:1.
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opengrass 7mo ago
Like 60% work for the government, the rest is $18 an hour or your own hustle.
- doubled112 7mo ago
  This is a surprisingly accurate feeling when you talk to people or go job hunting in major cities. I say that as a Canadian that doesn’t fit into any of those categories.

nubinetwork 7mo ago

Not a ham, or else I probably would have seen it sooner.

gregdeon 7mo ago

Canadian checking in!

Joel_Mckay 7mo ago

Canada has an educated population, large online presence, and many folks operate within both the US/Canada under dual citizenship. One can find them in every field from medicine to high energy physics. If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned, but most are type C thanks to the great work by AMCHAM attracting global investment. Notably, most science is done on UTC time... because politicians were always functionally ignorant about the collateral costs of arbitrary technology policy changes. Evey village usually has at least one idiot. =3

technothrasher 7mo ago
> If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned Purely US resident owned, not US citizen owned. Resident aliens, who are not citizens, can have ownership in an S corp.
- Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
  Out of an abundance of caution, please talk with AMCHAM, and a local tax lawyer first. In most cases, founders almost always want to form a type C corporate entity within their largest trading state. People often do whatever they like, but whether it is locally legal is not a YOLO/LLM matter. Best of luck =3

consumer451 7mo ago

Based on my own lived bias and HN addiction... The leading demographic has to be West Coast of the USA, then the multinational PNW as the most active HN users. Again, I am biased, but as far as HN bias goes, that ain't bad. These are amazing places chock-full of the coolest people. After decades of the West Coast life I now live in rest of world, and wish that rest of world could be so lucky.

adamgordonbell 7mo ago

Canadian here. AM almost A. I think the HN population is more distributed geographically then you'd initially think

beloch 7mo ago

The breakdown probably varies according to the time of day. In the middle of the night (for North America) I'd expect to see a higher proportion of international users, although I'd also expect the numbers aren't quite so high since HN is U.S.-centric and predominantly English only. The number of Canadians is relatively easy to estimate though, since the geographic distribution is similar and the majority do speak English. I'd expect a roughly 8.5:1 ratio of Americans to Canadians based solely on population.

bch 7mo ago
Maybe @dang can setup a roll-call for entertainments sake.
- dang 7mo ago
  I measured it 3 different ways and came up with an average of 8.9:1.

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opengrass 7mo ago

Like 60% work for the government, the rest is $18 an hour or your own hustle.

doubled112 7mo ago
This is a surprisingly accurate feeling when you talk to people or go job hunting in major cities. I say that as a Canadian that doesn’t fit into any of those categories.