Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

Utoko t1_j8x123v wrote

but your suggestions to split it up in multiple graphs is far worse or only show data from 2017 and 2018.

Than everyone would wonder how ho wit developed after 2018.

You can make the same claims about every stock market chart which is displayed in log scale. "These movements don't matter because 96% of the growth was in the past."

but the recent development is very important too. In this case that it still continues to go.

It is still down 35% in the last year, which lets you see we are not even close to the end of the read.

One might argue the 98.92% decrease says a lot less because when something is not done in scale it is always at first extreme expensive. So I don't agree that they make it look less impressive than it is.

So as long as your point is people don't understand how to read log charts I still disagree with you.

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slimetraveler t1_j8x0low wrote

Where do their residential tractors fit in? I figured they were a small part but they are probably what is most recognizable about the company.

Also I've heard some some grumbling from farmers about not being able to do basic repairs themselves and service contracts being kindof forced on them as subscription services. Would that fall under financial products?

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apathyEndsNow OP t1_j8x027p wrote

I used the web-based interface to generate this model (using NOAA's servers). You can run it yourself here or install the software locally on your computer. https://www.ready.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT.php

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Exoplasmic t1_j8x00iv wrote

You don’t need to know exactly what it is. You need a mass emission rate. Granted there’s some guess work. You know the mass leaked. You can guess % burned. But you still have to know % combined with oxygen. Still whatever compounds produced by burning are going to be really nasty. The were some fixed site monitors upwind that measured pretty high polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). I beg there were some chlorinated ones too. The just like regular PAHs, chlorinated PAHs are going to be around for a long time but longer. And Cl-PAHs are going to more toxic and there’s not a lot of good data to derive health benchmarks. We’re going to have to see what diseases pop up for people and ecosystems.

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BrandenburgForevor t1_j8wyrj5 wrote

I think you're mixing "conservationist" and "conservative".

The reason conservative is used is partially historical naming and partially because they typically want to "conserve" the status quo.

Lately however they have become more and more regressive so there are certainly some who could go in the fascist bucket imo

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BrandenburgForevor t1_j8wy8i7 wrote

You can't just listen to what a liar says, then beleive the opposite. That's makes absolutely no sense.

You just need to understand their motivations as to why they would (or wouldn't) lie

SBF has little reason to lie here and what he's saying makes perfect sense.

He just wanted his "business" to be legitimate in the eyes of the law and be regulated he wanted it to, and to achieve the most legitimacy he tried to buy out both parties. Makes perfect sense.

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vonstubbins t1_j8wxt2h wrote

That's debateable. Friedman had deeply liberal beliefs and openely talked about donating to groups with very liberal values.

The chart don't represent political parties at all, just the ideological leanings of the groups they donated to.

Edit: in fact, I'm pretty certain most people are misunderstanding what this shows. They're trying to make it sound like the money either went to the Democrats or the Republicans. That data will be in there, but they'll be in there alongside organisations like the ACLU.

Groups like this. https://www.startguide.org/orgs/orgs00.html

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viridiformica t1_j8wx27r wrote

If this were in a scientific publication where seeing the actual numbers in each year was important, I might agree. But this is a data visualisation purporting to show the trend in costs over 5 years, and it is failing to show the main trend clearly. It's the difference between 'showing the data' and 'showing the story'

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