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Having set up a similar goal many years ago - to stay/live in a big number of countries - it's interesting to see that we both settled for Singapore.

Yes, I'm observing the same. The duplicate entries differ by their number of points it seems.

A loosely related anecdote:

I was registering a general purpose domain name a couple of years back and asked a friend if he had any input on a good short name. He replied "nope", and being a Swede I registered nope.se.

There was a time I still forwarded all nope [at] nope [dot] se emails to my primary email, but as it turned out (not that unexpected), this was an address frequently used by Swedes to register "anonymously".

Anyway, it was an interesting/alternative way of keeping track of popularity of new communities etc. Clearly not all users expected that they had to verify their email addresses.

Primarily Google Ads (or equivalent).

If HN has reached some critical mass of readers I'd (in a craigslist-fashion) charge small fees for certain types of commercial posts (job postings, review my startup/webservice etc).

Okay, it's always a question of definition when it comes to "one's". :)

I do get your point however, and since you got more up-votes than me here I wont argue with it. I'm still a newbie at HN. :)

OK, webpagetest confirms the observation in this test (which loads this particular page): http://www.webpagetest.org/result/101215_3AQ4/1/details/

Based on my brief testing it is mainly the submit and discuss-pages that are slow, not the main-page.

I don't really see how this is relevant at HN.

I think it would be more fair to rank based on per capita or percentage of GNI. Maybe I'm just Swedish.

Below is my favorite math joke (copied it from http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/math-jokes-calculus.html as I didn't remember the exact wording). It's a bit long for a T-shirt, but a simple comic strip version could be made.

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A constant function and e^x are walking on Broadway. Then suddenly the constant function sees a differential operator approaching and runs away. So e^x follows him and asks why the hurry. "Well, you see, there's this differential operator coming this way, and when we meet, he'll differentiate me and nothing will be left of me...!" "Ah," says ex, "he won't bother ME, I'm e to the x!" and he walks on. Of course he meets the differential operator after a short distance.

e^x: "Hi, I'm e^x"

diff.op.: "Hi, I'm d/dy"

It would be interesting to see more startups in the genetic programming area (or related). Once/if reaching singularity I'm sure there's gonna be more than bread and circuses.