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I'm the near-random assignment of decision, circumstance and result icons to each item.
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This one is amazing. It's not actually doing anything wrong, but that's a very odd selection of metrics to show in a single graph and a very unusual way of presenting each of them. It's perfectly readable if you make the effort. I can tell, for example, that the vast majority of bowling is done after noon, with a peak of about 7pm, and that bowling's popularity has remained constant. But still... 
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Aug 10, 2017 07:27
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Besesoth posted:But the screenshot clearly shows Australia. But the name "Australia" would make no sense now that it's in the northern hemisphere, so clearly it was assigned the new name Ghana to fix that. Now, fortunately this is only a what-if map. Imagine if they actually plopped the whole continent down on top of Europe like that. They'd have to redo all the stamps and money and stuff to say Ghana.
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Sep 12, 2017 01:04
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I like this.
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Sep 21, 2017 17:53
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Platystemon posted:
Not going to disagree on the ugliness factor, but that's actually a map, not a graph. It looks to be a straight-up equirectangular projection. 
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Sep 26, 2017 18:11
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Dragonwagon posted:I wonder if theres a great circle you can go around and only cross one country, or even none at all. I've heard this one described as the longest great circle sea-only voyage possible, Pakistan to Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpQwuGueeoA
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Dec 27, 2017 06:50
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So according to this, file-level encryption will be in decline in 3-5 years. Meanwhile, "secure communications" have been invented, but it will be 3-5 years before it starts growing. Checks out.
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Jan 2, 2018 21:51
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Incoming politically-loaded infographic: I'm the moral upbringing being instilled by the leftist parents, even though an inch above that we're explicitly told that leftists base community on ethics instead of morals, whatever they mean by that. Oh, and I'm also the 91% of rightists that are in favor of war. Just, you know, "war" in general. If there's a war on somewhere, I think that's great!
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Apr 24, 2018 19:50
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A nice simple awful graph from the cursed images thread.
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May 3, 2018 02:10
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Garrand posted:lol, looks like a bad crop job It's bitcoins, just thank your lucky stars it didn't use a log scale for no reason. Accidentally using modulo-10-million arithmetic is pretty low on the list of bitcoiner data visualization sins.
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May 6, 2018 22:06
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I want to ask Angela Lansbury about Hufferin.
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May 8, 2018 20:24
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Zereth posted:Also I'm not sure how people decided a currency which keeps a log of every transaction ever made with the currency is good for illegal poo poo like buying drugs. Well you see, unlike a bank, there's no one in charge of it to kick them out when they start doing stupid illegal things, so merrily onward they go.
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May 8, 2018 22:38
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Theris posted:This sounds reasonable. The peak takes off during the early smartphone era when everyone started having a lovely camera on them, then the drop kicks in around the time that even cheap phones were getting decent cameras.  https://xkcd.com/1235/
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Jul 1, 2018 06:08
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Aug 19, 2018 05:14
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C.M. Kruger posted:https://twitter.com/CombatCavScout/status/1032276519161192448 Vincent Van Goatse posted:God help me but I easily comprehended this chart. I can't, but then I've been educated stupid. 
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Aug 24, 2018 05:22
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
Today I learned it's possible to plagiarize yourself.
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Sep 15, 2018 21:30
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If the humans are eating turkeys, we might get one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equations I think I once ran across a paper where someone did a rigorous mathematical analysis of the predator-prey dynamics among vampires and humans as shown in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If I recall correctly, the town was a pretty feasible ecosystem, mathematically speaking.
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Sep 24, 2018 20:36
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Randomly encountered while on a Wikipedia binge of Cold War espionage stories: Source.
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Sep 25, 2018 17:13
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Red Metal posted:The scale is logarithmic, so a -2 is about 2.5 times brighter than a -1, and 6.26 times brighter than a 0 I grew up as a space nerd so I ran across this concept long before the more usual definition of an "order of magnitude". In sixth grade or so, when the math teacher tried to tell us that an order of magnitude was a factor of ten, I straight-up argued with him that no, that's wrong, it's a factor of 2.5. He'd never heard of astronomical magnitudes and had no idea what I was talking about, so we left class that day with each of us thinking the other was crazy. 
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Sep 29, 2018 18:31
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It Came From C-SPAM:
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Oct 3, 2018 13:34
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First Law of Auto-robotics: A self driving car must not injure a dog or cat, or through inaction allow a dog or cat to come to harm. Second Law: Save the humans, I guess, if you feel like it. (But it's fun to watch the fat ones ricochet off the hood. Just sayin'.) Third Law: Strollers are worth extra points, aim for them.
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Nov 5, 2018 23:34
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CannonFodder posted:That's the only way SC becomes a purple state. 
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Dec 8, 2018 02:26
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TinTower posted:You get a partridge on all twelve days. And also assorted cruft that comes with all of it, like 12 trees and sufficient cows* to occupy all 40 maids. * Note: the cows might actually be goats, or some other milk-producer. It's barely possible they're almonds.
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Dec 27, 2018 21:41
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Zogo posted:The Moon should be a state. I propose that it be named Up Dakota.
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Jan 26, 2019 02:57
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Shockingly, a full 97% of survey respondents have taken this survey (margin of error ±5%).
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Jan 27, 2019 19:54
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One of my favorite flag confusion anecdotes is now more than ten years old. During Obama's first year in office, he gave a speech: Certain elements of the right-wing media looked at this and went nuts. Bob Grant posted:I don't know the answer to this one, but what is that flag that Obama's been standing in front of that looks like an American flag, but instead of having the field of 50 stars representing the 50 states, there's a circle? Would someone please tell me what that is? Is the circle -- The flag in question is the state flag of Ohio. Obama happened to be giving the speech in Toledo. https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2008/10/16/radio-host-bob-grant-asserted-that-obama-create/145712
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Jan 29, 2019 19:21
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HardDiskD posted:I'm the mirrored text. Quoth Wiki: Illinois Secretary of State Sharon Tyndale spearheaded the drive to create a third state seal for Illinois. In 1867, he asked State Senator Allen C. Fuller to introduce legislation requiring a new seal, and suggested to Fuller that the words of the state motto be reversed, from "State Sovereignty, National Union", to "National Union, State Sovereignty". However, the bill passed by the legislature on March 7, 1867 kept the original wording. Despite declining his suggestion, the legislature nonetheless entrusted Tyndale with designing the new seal. And Tyndale managed to (literally) twist the legislature's intent; he kept the words in the correct order on the banner, but the banner twists, so the word "Sovereignty" is upside down, arguably making it less readable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_and_seal_of_Illinois
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Jan 29, 2019 22:52
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Aleph Null posted:From a vendor presentation. Neat, it's self-redacting. What is the offending IP address? No one knows...
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Jan 30, 2019 00:05
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Tag yourself, I'm the guy standing directly behind a horse that's about to be startled by an incredibly loud noise.
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Feb 4, 2019 21:23
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Memento posted:"Continents" is an arbitrary word with zero agreed-upon definition. Depending on where you went to school, there are four, five, six or seven continents. PNG either is or isn't part of Australasia, and New Zealand either is or isn't part of Australasia as well. North and South America are a single continent in some school systems. It's a shambles, but it's never been hammered out because the term isn't super useful to geologists and geographers. Quoting myself from way back in the mists of time... Powered Descent posted:"Continent" is a social construct rooted in nineteenth-century thinking. In fact there is greater variation within the so-called continents than there is between them. The more enlightened among us prefer to use less emotionally-charged terms, such as "geological community" or "cratonicity".
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Feb 19, 2019 23:23
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I've always hated those arbitrary, unit-less numeric scales. Rate my experience from one to ten? Well, it was perfectly ordinary, just like every other time I've made a similar [call, purchase, whatever], so I'll say five, I guess? Oops, turns out the people collecting the numbers think that means you hated it with burning passion. I've never understood that ten-point "pain scale" either. I get that bigger number = more ouch, but what distinguishes, say, a six from a seven? Can people really quantify it with that level of precision (scaled to some maximum "ten" that's going to be different for everyone anyway) while they're in agony?
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Apr 6, 2019 21:00
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Spoeank posted:We use NPS scores for our customer service surveys and they're dumb as hell because ours is: What happens if you get a 0 in the denominator? 
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Apr 7, 2019 04:44
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Armacham posted:or escaping, so they can get more food Or shooting down the Red Baron in their Sopwith Camel.
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Apr 11, 2019 17:20
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I sometimes wish polls would ask for which candidate you dislike the most. An option for "Anyone but _____." Or perhaps a less forceful "Well, I could live with any of them but I really hope _____ doesn't come out on top because they're the worst of the lot."
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May 2, 2019 18:08
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This is why all dates should be in ISO 8601 format. YYYY-MM-DD for the win.
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May 28, 2019 17:28
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Trabant posted:I name all my file revisions by including the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00.000 January 1st, 1904. Same except 1970.
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May 28, 2019 22:52
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Other field: Wow, we do strange things to a graph axis. Astronomy: hold my beer. 
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Ran across a page with some hideously bad information about password strength, but the real crime here is the presentation of the (laughably wrong) data. https://www.betterbuys.com/estimating-password-cracking-times/ Context: computers have gotten faster as the years go by, so the amount of time it would take to brute-force a particular password has correspondingly dropped. Let's see, how best to convey that to the reader...  I'm speechless.
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