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  • {{comicsrow|917|2011-06-27|Hofstadter}} {{comicsrow|639|2009-09-21|Lincoln-Douglas|lincoln_douglas.png}}
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  • | titletext = I love the idea here, though of course it's not a great-quality drawing or scan.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://w ...n invariably belongs to one of the two groups. The character with a hat is not [[Black Hat]], as Randall hadn't standardized his character designs yet. Th
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  • The campaign from the {{w|Discovery Channel}} was not called "Boom De Yada," but "I Love the World". The title "xkcd Loves the Di Most of the panels are references to previous xkcd strips, but a few are not.
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  • | titletext = If you actually do this, what really happens is Douglas Hofstadter appears and talks to you for eight hours about strange loops. ...finite number of spirits who jump from the mirror towards each other. It's not clear if they simply collide, or pass into the opposing mirror. Megan may b
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  • ...out irrelevancies. This morning, the results are in, and I'm no worse for not having endured the conjectural drivel... -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([ ...ways the best predictors of what was going to happen in this election. So not only could numbers retroactively tell us who won (based on actual votes) bu
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  • ...s.com/product/65mm-rubber-wheel-blue/ It looks like a decent wheel, albeit probably a bit small for most uses [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.11|141.101.99. ...r self-driving cars? It is true that tires are made by outside suppliers (not by the auto companies) so in terms of software development tires could be c
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  • ...tadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2018 (UTC) Toys often don't have a long lifetime, in particular children tend to act not much carefully and sometimes they even destroy them deliberately as a part
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  • ...outing these instructions are typically trivial (e.g. perhaps the form may not be processed correctly). However, Cueball's disregard for the rules prompts ...ontains the words "This space intentionally left blank", then the space is not, in fact, left blank. In sufficiently pedantic organizations the phrase has
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  • ...aphical Genetics], which are featured in {{w|Gödel, Escher, Bach}}. While Hofstadter's typographical systems are designed to model aspects of real genetics and ...mbol "O", has no leaf vertices, and according to the comic's theory should not bond to anything, and is therefore inert.
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  • :Wow, you're right! [[User:Nk22|The Twenty-second. The Not So Only. The Nathan/Nk22]] ([[User talk:Nk22|talk]]) 14:08, 19 June 2015 (U ...d have a blinking background akin to annoying internet banner ads. So it's not about html sanitation, the html is visible so you can see the word count, i
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  • ...Every minute you spend thinking about Hofstadter's Law is a minute you're NOT WORKING AND WILL NEVER FINISH! PAAAAAANIIIIIIC! ...''It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.''
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  • When did any tablet with a browser not support <tt><nowiki><frame></nowiki></tt>s and <tt><nowiki><iframe></nowiki ...tadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 23:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
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  • :You're not seeing things. It's a bigger Cueball, and its colors are colors like F9F9F9 ...he right size. I also note the head's circle is more casual, with the ends not meeting, like most people would draw a circle. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] (
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  • It seems Randall thinks an astronomer is about as bright as a light bulb, probably due to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram itself! [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbib While wattage is used as an informal proxy for bulb brightness, there is not a 1-to-1 relationship between power consumption and light output. Incandesc
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  • ...l with straight face that those tables were computed from the formulae and not the other way around. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) ...tadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 15:46, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
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  • How on earth this refers to incest if persons are only legally, not genetically related??? It's just that Randall doesn't know how to call new ...y interpretation of that text, based on the "a reason why these two should not be wed." Unless there is a different issue with this, also involving marria
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  • ...ret sin as the product of s, i, n by multiplying both sides by c/s. It is not valid to just "swap" two letters in one equation that is part of a system o ...\ \theta=\frac{o}{c}</math> allows you to conclude <math>a^2 = o^2</math>, not <math>a=o</math>. {{unsigned ip|162.158.146.10}}
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  • ...at there might be some point of maximum ballistic coefficient. (Note: I am not a rocket scientist, and this is clearly rocket science, so take this with a ...ith high ballistic coefficients tend to fly through the air easily and are not influenced very much by wind (such as rocks or bullets), whereas low-beta o
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  • Oncology, the study of cancer, should probably be in the diagram, probably not far behind gerontology. What's the name for the study of traffic accidents? ...in his thirties catching something fatal from a geriatric patient, thereby not being killed by what he was studying. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.143.24
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  • :Is that because in the netherlands you do not have any experience with the effects of high altitude? --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ...urther? I'd assume it's due to lower air density and therefore resistance, not weaker gravity as someone else had written. [[User:Cgrimes85|Cgrimes85]] ([
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  • ...the comic is released at midnight EST/EDT sometimes. Not that rarely, but not that commonly either. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk ....B. (whichever ;-) was more than just a "children's book author". Probably not worth it.[[User:Afbach|Afbach]] ([[User talk:Afbach|talk]])
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  • ...than about 3 meters. And when your at the higher latitudes you're probably not getting that. [[User:Palmpje|Palmpje]] ([[User talk:Palmpje|talk]]) 20:52, ...checked and it was pointing to a small patch of ground next to the rocket, not the tip of the rocket itself. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Her
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  • ...g the definition of adult is 18, they both qualify for the adult part, but not the after 2000 part. I also loved Star Wars Episode I, but sure enough, it :My immediate search was also for Water World. Would it also not count when you didn't watch it until after 2000? [[Special:Contributions/17
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  • ...use dark matter can't interact with feeders at all! Especially since it's not to the squirrels' advantage to set them off. Unless, of course, the dark m ::Not with that attitude. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.126.4|162.158.126.4]] 1
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  • ...ames - he was born in 1984 so these games here are ''before his time'' and not really games he would gravitate towards when making a list of just '''13''' ...ongs to the explanation, as it is only speculation about something that is NOT in the comic. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:27, 14 Augu
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  • ...e than one? I wish I knew what the storyline was even supposed to be; it's not like the minigames where if you ask enough NPCs you can find one to clue yo ...text is alluding to controlling things like climate warming and the like, not learning to walk. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbib
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  • ...e didn't immediately grant it in response to "my wish is," either (1) it's not possible (see other folks' comments below), (2) like Alex Trebec, he requir ...actually a fly in costume, (6) Jeff Goldblum from "The Fly" i.e. fly head not Jeff Goldblum head - in costume, (7) Cthulhu - in costume. (The last and w
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  • ...keyboard while he reads this message. The caption is a note to programers not to leave this kind of message to users by writing them when tired. I will c This comic is not about "a problem that the programmers did not anticipate", but rather a situation that the programmer rules out as imposs
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  • ...tadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 01:23, 13 February 2020 (UTC) ...n't know what blockhains are, why they can be problematic and why they are not THE default solution to implement. So I'd vote for removing the incomplete
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  • ...el. Up, down, charmed and strange. It may 'because I'm dumb', but even I'm not that dumb. :I agree that this is not about genetics. The usual Mendelian diagram has the same traits in both dim
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  • This is easily one of the worst XKCD comics, period. Not funny, nor clever. Just seems like noise. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68 :I relate to certain mathematical facts not sounding right, like how 54 intuitively feels like it's divisible by 4. Non
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  • ...esults are often a product of the work of different mathematicians who are not necessarily close associates. Perelman reportedly believed that his work wa ...tadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 03:59, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
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  • : It's not verified but it appears likely. The nozzle of the CPS 2000 was 2.5x larger ...tadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 05:05, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
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  • ...t and most useful features in GTA V. Unfortunately, depositing money would not duplicate it. Presumably the characters in the game are very honest and tru ...ts to banks during the pandemic - also the money thing, which of course is not realistic irl. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:19, 21
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  • ...tadter|Probably not Douglas Hofstadter]] ([[User talk:Probably not Douglas Hofstadter|talk]]) 06:25, 23 July 2020 (UTC) According to my research, not all campfires possess a habitable zone. A few are too small to roast marshm
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  • I went to high school and didn't party once at college. So...I guess not? 23:06, 4 September 2020 (UTC) ::Well, some college students go to a lot of parites, but others don't. It's probably a lot less common among students who spend a lot of time on computers or wh
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  • :I'm not entirely sure of the parallels but I'd love them to be in the article--[[Us :I tried doing it, but it says I'm not allowed--[[User:FrankHightower|FrankHightower]] ([[User talk:FrankHightower
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  • ...e fondly recall Aunt Hillary in {{w|Gödel, Escher, Bach}}, where she does not control or particularly care for her ants and they don't pull ''her'' strin ...not outside thus not affected by the trails left by her workers. So it is not actually so with ants, wasps, bees and termites that they are actually mind
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