awesome plot! I like this style of visualization!

How does this neural map get made? It seems to get data from Twitter, which I imagine is discoverable. But what is the visualization system? And is there a timeline version?

https://twitter.com/loquesigue_/status/1608375996276789248?s=21

Of course they built them for a purpose, for the purpose of military use. It just happened that they were also incredibly useful for civilian use unlike many other DoD projects, but these projects weren't funded with that in mind.

I fixed the blurriness of my previous post (https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/100141q/oc_improved_growing_interactive_visualization_of/)

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http://academicsalaries.github.io/
Check out the growing database/visualization at the link above, that is helping promote academic salary transparency.
The visualization uses D3 and the source-code and dataset are free at: https://github.com/academicsalaries/academicsalaries.github.io

I need to improve my screen-capture skills -- check out the website instead: http://academicsalaries.github.io/

Graph looks blurry. Hard to read :(

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Yup, and it's not like all of it just goes into making a shit ton of bombs either. A good third of the budget is just for salaries and maintenance of existing equipment. We could legitimately cut half of the budget and still be the largest, best-maintained, and most modern military on the planet.

The real money waster is bullshit blank cheque contracting(over 400B in 2021) and outright money laundering/theft. There's a reason the pentagon has never passed an audit. Over half of its assets are just straight-up unaccounted for.

The modern U.S. military is a money sink for the corrupt and greedy, and every single politician that votes for yearly budget increases are complicit.

The inflation correction is used to re-adjust submitted salary data all to 2022 values. Most of the data I collected is from 2022, so the effect is small. But there is some data going back to 2010. What is interesting to visualize is: "inflation-corrected salary" vs "year (salary awarded)" and see if pay is keeping up with inflation

Ngl that made me sad when you switched it for inflation

Wow, Covid affected aviation????. never heard this before, genius you should publish a paper or two, ground breaking scientific research going on here.

Yes, you are right about the pallet wraps.

Costco still sells PVC food cling wrap.

https://www.costco.com/polyvinyl-films-all-purpose-food-wrap%2C-18-in-x-3000-ft.product.100447235.html

http://academicsalaries.github.io/

Check out the growing database/visualization at the link above, that is helping promote academic salary transparency.

The visualization uses D3 and the source-code and dataset are free at: https://github.com/academicsalaries/academicsalaries.github.io

That’s bullshit of you to combine Europe and Central Asia. Not distinguishing between Western Europe and the rest of it is one, but this?

You said that "missiles are not that effective for defense". If Ukraine is being invaded using e. g. lots of armored vehicles and you claim that missiles are not effective, what should they use instead? You only mentioned your "100 million bullets".

Adressing the current situation on the ground: So what? Infantry needs to be supported by vehicles, artillery and missiles to be properly effective. Zelensky was specifically asking for more Patriot systems (AA missiles!) just a week ago, they need them to shoot down Russian cruise missiles which are targeting Ukrainian infrastructure - yet you claim sending missiles is not effective for defense - huh?

If you're so convinced, please give me a concrete example of what missile that the US is sending to Ukraine is not effective or a waste of money.

^(And I don't think sending 100 million bullets would be worth it instead, Ukraine isn't actually short on mags. What they will need a lot of is AA missiles and artillery munition such as shells or GMLRS missiles.)

Wait a second, is that Europe spending money on military? Who could've thought

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Those aren’t “unintended side effects” they were purposeful research projects. Do you realize how much money and planning and coordination went into projects like ARPANET, in conjunction with universities and the corporate world? To act as though these were accidents as if the DoD just stumbled into making GPS or ARPANET is just incredibly naive, to the point of sounding purposely facetious. You’re just making these claims that have no basis in reality and completely ignore the history of these projects and defense spending because you don’t want to admit that it has resulted in some pretty innovative projects.

These are all unintended side effects, inverse of collateral damage really. Imagine if the same sums that go to military would have been put towards R&D with a goal of civilian use to begin with.

We are in the US. Our carryout containers are made out of polystyrene. There are alternatives but they are just made out of PP and there are some fibrous alternatives but they tend to be 3x the price while being an inferior quality. If it were up to me I'd switch but running the place with my elder brother so there is more that one person involved when making decisions :(

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No. There was a 'pledge' for 2% back in 2006, but it is non-binding.

W Niemczech wymarły 150 lat temu. Obecnie są prowadzone przymiarki do reintrodukcji, ale nie ma ostatecznej decyzji co do kształtu tych działań.

It’s bizarre you’d claim defense spending isn’t productive when defense spending in the US alone gave the world GPS, the internet (ARPANET), EpiPens, BugSpray, Duct Tape, Computers via the Army Research Laboratory, Nuclear Energy, Walkie-Talkies, and more.

I would consider quite a few of those inventions to be instrumental in our building of a “better, more capable” society.

I didn't say it's not big, I just said that it's smaller compared to some other cities. You'd expect Las Angeles' LAX to be at the top, or close. Above Atlanta at least