...the first panel of this comic. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] is demonstrating the problem with making such statements, many of which simply come down to coin
...ecome more and more nested and complicated, and then brought by Randall to the point of absurdity by pointing out very trivial things, such as "No Democra
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...xt = This was an actual mock conversation between me and a friend at TGIF. The waitress walked up around panel 5 and was somewhat put off.
...dness of the end conversation, with both characters standing awkwardly for the last 2 panels.
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| titletext = You can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback.
...ie=UTF8&ASIN=0544272994&nodeID=283155&store=books a popular Amazon review] for Randall Munroe's book, What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypoth
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...of his attempted courtship. It turns out in the fifth and last panel that the first four panels was just one large thought bubble on how Cueball fantasiz
...n to her. Therefore, Cueball's fears are unfounded and are even preventing the two from meeting and possibly forming a relationship. Megan could of course
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...seem. But I've been realizing lately that there's an easier way to handle these situations, and it involves zero internet arguments.
...f you take this feeling away, many people stop donating, which is shown on the third panel.
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...ins roughly the stored energy of a hand grenade, and if shorted it... hey! You can't arrest me if I prove your rules inconsistent!
...operties of lithium ion is not common knowledge, this instead simply makes the security team additionally suspicious why he would know that.
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| titletext = Guys? The Town is supposed to be good, and I thou--' 'PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING DECLA
...bolic tones, vastly exaggerating and misinterpreting his actual intent. In the final panel, Hawking is shown hanging his head in sadness since all he want
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| titletext = Of course, the assert doesn't work.
...f how {{w|String literal|string literals}} are treated by the interpreter, the assertion will be true.
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| titletext = And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co--
...sulted in an arms race of sorts between spammers and communities, in which the spammers try to bypass increasingly difficult spam-prevention methods.
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| titletext = The misguided search for a perpetual motion machine has run substantially longer than any attempted
...would contradict the laws of thermodynamics, so perpetual motion machines are known to be impossible.
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| titletext = <nowiki>RFC 1149.5</nowiki> specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.
...rent, i.e., random, results). In other words, the results over time would not be random at all, but completely predictable and deterministic.
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...' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphic design.
...e to describe the collective of blogs. This comic proposes a new structure for defining all blogs by a {{w|fractal}} of blogs.
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...d social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.
...cd.com/802_large/ larger version] of this picture can be found by clicking the comic on xkcd.
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This comic deals with two linked themes, which both come under the umbrella of {{w|Existentialism|existentialism}}, a branch of philosophy.
...sts that, rather than continuously worrying, we should enjoy the thrill of the unknown.
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...ge, for better or for worse. Technology's going to be so cool. All in all, the future will be okay! Except climate; we fucked that one up.
...ts a character who 'misinterprets' this, to say that those with a lower IQ are believed to be more likely to reproduce thus more readily pass on their gen
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...into account the energy imparted by orbital motion (or gravity assists or the Oberth effect), all of which can make it easier to reach outer planets.
* The xkcd page links to [http://xkcd.com/681_large/ a much larger version].
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| titletext = Hurricane forums are full of excited comments about central pressure and wind speed and comparisons to Camille and 1931 a
...ated by the spectacle, most people also feel a sense of shame and guilt at the same time, unsure of whether it is morally wrong to be entertained by other
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...andall. Randall is therefore annoyed with the common terms "the West" and "the East" referring to locations east and west of him respectively.
...ties to make a {{w|sextant}} work as a tool to calculate accurate position for map making.
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...o the details as you wake up. With TCMP you can bring back any information you want.
...age from inside his dream, but his friends, [[Megan]] and another Cueball, are disappointed when that first message is a {{w|troll (Internet)|trollish}} "
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...it should be set at 25,000 mph, which would likely have prevented 1,000 of the intersection's 3,000 serious accidents last month.'
...opinionated diatribe compounding all the many sore-points that have turned the relationship sour, or at least have been perceived as such.
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