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Re:Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships by Sebb767 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:17PM (#31217093)
Only ~30% of people on HN are from the US and I'd assume that the number of non-US people who watched NCIS in the original language are comparatively low.
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Re:Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships by password4321 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:46PM (#31217307)
> Only ~30% of people on HN are from the US

Does anyone have time to cite a source for this? I was thinking this number was a lot higher.

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Re:Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships by Sebb767 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @02:16PM (#31217963)
Sure! There are no definitive numbers, but we have a few data points:

Dang mentions quite often that HN has a very international readership, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363430 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438403 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052434

An old poll with 32% US (probably the number I remembered): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13819771

There's also a recent poll w/ 47% (2346 of 4891), although this might be timing related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378

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Re:Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships by jhgb on Sunday May 01, 2022 @03:47AM (#31223004)
> An old poll with 32% US

> There's also a recent poll w/ 47%

Clearly you need one more poll to decide this, as per XKCD 927.

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