February 2009
3 posts
Playing With Numbers, Health Care Edition.
In the United States, a shocking number of people have no health insurance and poor access to health care. Many go bankrupt because of medical bills. We desperately need reform. What we don’t need, however, is bad charts.
For example:
There are some major problems with this chart.
It’s got two different units superimposed. On the left hand side, there is the number of...
Disk Permissions Database Read Failure in OS X...
This blog entry is not for the feint of heart. You need to be the type of person who feels comfortable in Terminal and knows what rsync is. I DON’T REP and WARRANT that this will work on your machine. For all I know it might make things worse. I am ONLY reporting what worked on MY MACHINE. Having said that, I wish this blog entry had been around for me, it would have saved me a couple...
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Don't forget your squares.
recovery.gov launched today.
Its mission is to provide transparency into how the US government is spending the money from the stimulus act that President Obama signed on February 17, 2009.
They have a chart showing the big buckets of where the money is going:
(as of now, you can see it here)
The “Other” dot represents $8 billion. The area of it should therefore be 1/36...