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Re:Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address by sandworm101 on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @05:55PM (#12264996)
Iqaluit is Canada. It isn't third world, by either the original definition or the new. There is certainly poverty and deprivation there as in much of the north, but it isn't the same as a true "third world" nation. Each and every person in Iqaluit is free to move within Canada however they wish, vote for who they wish and exercise all the rights and freedoms of any other Canadian, including education and health care.
Re:Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address by Myrmornis on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @08:48PM (#12265675)
> Each and every person in Iqaluit is free to move within Canada however they wish, vote for who they wish and exercise all the rights and freedoms of any other Canadian

The absence of those abilities is not a defining character of the Third World by any definition I'm familiar with.

Re:Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address by herbst on Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:22AM (#12267317)
Switzerland is a Third World country by definition and has all this too.