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random sampling is an effective method for inferring the same information about the larger population that is being measured in the smaller sample, to a certain degree of confidenc…

> Isnt that just a url shortener with more steps? URL shorteners came later, and solved the problem of people needing to deal with “more steps” in order to have short memorable url…

They should cover everything one needs to know to be a fully independent adult, such as: - personal and family finance - woodworking (cabinetry, furniture, carpentry) - nutrition a…

DNS solved vanity memorable URLs, and continues to do so if someone is not looking for a .com URL shorteners offering vanity urls solved people not needing to deal with the hassle …

your local news. Like local elections, the stories covered by local journalists are more likely to make an impact in your daily life. And they’d certainly value (and even need) you…

> Regardless of what they are working on, if it doesn't exist, the value of it is presently zero. That’s not true. Do you know how many multi-million-dollar companies have nothing …

I'd love to hear your long list of reasons why. This is coming from someone who has heard of Tik Tok but has never used it. I'm a late adopter to social platforms, joining Twitter …

> Imagine if someone could white out a section of a book and apply the changes instantaneously to every printed copy of that book in existence. Considering a fifteen year old YouTu…

Re: Github Pages - I've got several sites on gh-pages with custom domains and pay exactly $0 - I don't use Jekyll, I literally just `git push` a static repo

let me know how it turns out! Do you have a link to your fork?

agreed. on it =)

yep the upper fence for the vertical scale is derived from the vote totals statistics. If the set of vote totals is now in votes per square mile, then there would likely be a diffe…

Since electoral college votes are dispersed at a state level, it doesn't matter if those blue votes come from blue counties, so long as they go from a blue state to a red state. Un…

It’s kind of like the exposure on a photograph where there are some extremely bright spots, as bright as the sun. If you set the exposure to not clip those bright spots, you won’t …

I kind of see where an_opabinia is coming from. Being able to tell which candidate won more counties could be accomplished via a 2x2 table. But it would miss out on other informati…

I've got just the thing. An Ohio State economics student made this adaptation: https://tuttlepower.github.io/VotingMap/?fbclid=IwAR0McVXHOI...

something like votes per square mile may address this. Looks like there are some follow-up maps to be made =)