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by umvi 1513 days ago
Quick googling reveals JAG = Judge Advocate General aka a military lawyer
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kshacker 1513 days ago
If you have seen JAG or NCIS (tv shows), you probably know some of these and with NCIS being a top (broadcast) show for a few years, it is quite likely a lot of (dare I say older) people have heard of these
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imwillofficial 1512 days ago
I was Navy for 5 years and a navy contractor for 10 and I’ve never seen URL in my life. (Besides, you know, the web meaning)
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Sebb767 1512 days ago
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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password4321 1512 days ago
> 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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Sebb767 1512 days ago
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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jhgb 1512 days ago
> 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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rvba 1512 days ago
People dont own TVs anymore?
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