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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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