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		cellularmitosis on July 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hetzner mail to customers: 1 megawatt more power d... /standard rant about the Y-axis not being anchored at zero, which will cause most people to be mislead. UPDATE: here's an illustration. compare this: http://i.imgur.com/f3m25.png to this: http://i.imgur.com/6z2cS.png (those two graphs represent the same data)

Dylan16807 on July 4, 2012 [–]

Really? Who is both going to understand leap seconds, and also look at that graph and think power consumption went up tenfold.

I'd much rather see the detail that zoom gives.

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