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This graph would probably be just fine if they swapped Reading with one of the other columns, since most of the countries have Reading either higher or lower than Science and Math.
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For anyone who doesn't understand the U.S. election stuff: The President is chosen by popular vote of the Electoral College, which is a small group of people. Each state gets to send the same number of people as they are allowed legislators in Congress (2 + however many representatives they have this decade), and D.C. also gets a few. Each state's legislator gets to choose how they select their Electors. Right now, every state has some form of popular election to choose the electors, but there is nothing in the federal law requiring that (except for D.C., which is run by Congress). Also, no federal law requires the electors to vote for a particular candidate. They just promise to vote a given way, and some states have laws requiring them to vote for who they say they will, but their vote still counts even if they break their promises and/or state laws.
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Feb 11, 2016 06:50
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Carbon dioxide posted:Are there laws saying an elector should be a citizen of their state? Or even an American at all? Not federally. The only federal requirements are that they can't be elected or appointed to a federal office, and they have to be able to meet in the state they're representing. The first rule is in Article II, Clause 2 of the Constitution, and the second is in both Article II, Clause 3 and the Twelfth Amendment. Since the Twelfth Amendment was written in 1803, this did restrict electors to be in or very close to the state at the time of elections, since they wouldn't be able to meet in time to cast the ballot otherwise. It does preclude criminals in other states and aliens who can't get a visa, but otherwise, states can pick whoever they want.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:13
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Spotted this in the Gay Marriage thread in D&D: What it looks like: Every state except California allows evil people to murder trans people and get away with it! What it actually means: In California, this defense will not work because the law says so and the judge will strike it from the record. Elsewhere in the US, this defense will not work because the prosecution isn't going to let psychopaths on the jury.
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Mar 21, 2016 15:46
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Dear every politician ever: Stop letting your staffers use Venn diagrams. There is never a situation you can use them that isn't dumb as gently caress.
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May 23, 2016 02:19
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Of course, people don't realize how much cheaper it would be to get a B&W laser printer and use a print shop for the rare times you actually need color.
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Jun 4, 2016 12:32
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mobby_6kl posted:This is pretty mild compared to some other poo poo here, but c'mon: All that's missing is a bar labeled, "Tendency to not set your computer on fire".
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Jul 2, 2016 00:36
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The Cheshire Cat posted:To be fair the American legal system does this too. Because of double jeopardy police generally won't charge people unless they're absolutely sure they can get a conviction, since if the person is acquitted at trial and later evidence turns up that 100% proves their guilt, oops, too late, you can't charge them again. The difference being that jurors still expect to see proof that the people are guilty, so the system works as intended (and gives us fun stuff like the FIFA RICO cases). But that really only applies to the feds.
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Jul 6, 2016 07:44
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Powered Descent posted:I really doubt it was Nintendo pulling rank on them. Niantic also makes Ingress, a similar augmented-reality game (which turns out to have pretty much been just their development sandbox / long-term beta test for Pokemon) and it's always been in metric. It has been for years, even back when Niantic was part of Google. It's not that hard if you just need rough estimates. 1 in ≈ 2.5 cm; 1 yd ≈ 1 m; 1 mi ≈ 1.5 km.
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Jul 12, 2016 18:47
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What? It's a well-known fact that the Earth is 6 light-months from the Sun. Just look at the to-scale graph! e:f,b
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Aug 24, 2016 23:06
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The difference between a "<insert breed here> Mix" and a "mix" is the first costs triple an <insert breed here>, and the second costs dog food and vaccinations. Both will probably have serious health issues a few years down the line.
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Aug 28, 2016 20:17
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Well, they should just invert all their results then.
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Nov 14, 2016 11:05
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Agile development is little more than saying, "Here's what we delivered to the users last sprint (development period). Here's their responses. Here's what we think they still want us to do. Here's what we plan on doing this sprint." All you need to do agile development is some basic spreadsheet software, a version control system, and some way to hold meetings, none of which costs any extra money. This is why it got popular in the first place.
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Jan 10, 2017 15:27
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So how does negative humor work? All Your Base and Teh Funney can be so unfunny that they make other jokes less funny? Yeah, that sounds about right.
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Feb 3, 2017 18:19
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Tenebrais posted:They put the Daily Mail as "skews slightly conservative". lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI (It belongs in the empty space below The Blaze.) Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_neSA7J92dw
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Nov 6, 2018 12:34
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mehall posted:Commenting on the substance of the actual map for a second, I'd be willing to bet it's just underdiagnosed, or missed entirely, in a lot of the poorer countries, rather than actually being at a lower frequency The map doesn’t even list actual frequencies. For all we know, the colors could be a better scale than the labels and be indicating that there is no significant difference. (For anyone who is actually colorblind, you’re not missing anything - that’s what the map looks like to everyone.)
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Apr 22, 2019 10:00
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:From an annual report of a pretty major company (50k+ employees). Somebody got the bright idea to combine a bar chart showing total sales with a bar chart showing % change in sales for each market area, but with the boxes scaled to show % change of the total sales caused by the changes in each market area (without actually labeling those percentages, because gently caress you).
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Jan 24, 2020 10:29
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah I see what they're going for. 2018 is the benchmark year, and then the bar chart sections are placed to be cumulative. Then if you add up all the components, you get to the 2019 sales number. Probably raw, pre-inflation numbers.
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Jan 24, 2020 23:06
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Don Gato posted:In traditional Chinese characters. Written into a word doc and no punctuation Traditional Chinese characters in a plain text file, except it’s one of those files that Notepad misdetects the encoding of and it shows up as something entirely different when you reopen it.
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May 29, 2020 11:59
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Antigravitas posted:Real pros only use weight in metric for cooking. No need for volume. I only measure my ingredients in Newtons. All the weights are customized for my altitude.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Taken from a twitter thread where some of the visuals are not very well thought out Can you guess this person’s agenda? Answer: Bitcoin
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