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If 10% are located in and around one location and the rest are spread around the world, then that would definitely count as 'heavily concentrated' in my book

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Sure, you can interpret it that way! But the original complaint seemed to imply that a majority (ie more that 50%) of content/discussion here is about/by Silicon Valley topics/ people.

If 90% of usage is outside SV, that leaves plenty of room for content/discussion that is not focused on SV, which is exactly what we see.

But let’s not get into a debate about the meaning of vague terms like “heavily” :)

If you think content about your local patch of land on this ball of mud is more interesting to hackers than ideas then you're doing it wrong. I live in California, but one thing I love about night owl Hacker News is that stories about low-level assembly hacks are more likely to reach the front page, because the Russians and Eastern Europeans are online, and they have an appreciation for assembly like it's poetry, and that's simply an attitude that's hard to find around here in California where your colleagues will look at you like you're green if you're not using the latest new-fangled online framework tool created by the startup next door.

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