Obligatory. [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1138/
Why are xkcd mentions on HN always prefixed with Obligatory?
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#12A 100% increase in searches for "voter intimidation" in my city (Seattle) is interesting. I'd love additional context on who is searching for that (i.e. is it the intimidators or the fearful?) Nonetheless, this seems like the beginning of an interesting tool. What would it take to do some sort of fuzzy matching on related searches, like broken voting machines for voting machine problems? I suppose you could wait for…
It could also be people who had a /wonderful/ easy voting experience, and heard from some guy who reads HN that 'voter intimidation' was a trending search term, so decided to search and see what the fuss was about...
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#13I wish this were normalized by electoral college size, it would go part-way to normalizing by population but also be normalized with respect to impact on outcome.
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#14Obligatory. [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1138/
Why are xkcd mentions on HN always prefixed with Obligatory?
Because it's one of the Laws of the Internet that there is a relevant XKCD for every topic. The prefix "obligatory" means "it obviously should be here already, but for some reason it isn't".
XKCDs are also sometimes prefixed with "relevant", for obvious reasons.
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#16Obligatory. [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1138/
Why are xkcd mentions on HN always prefixed with Obligatory?
It's not so much about HN, it's a meme that's been around nearly as long as xkcd has. I recall seeing "Obligatory xkcd" on Fark.com as far back as 2007 or so. I've also seen it on Reddit and similar forums over the years; hell I've even seen it in Usenet discussions.
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#18A 100% increase in searches for "voter intimidation" in my city (Seattle) is interesting. I'd love additional context on who is searching for that (i.e. is it the intimidators or the fearful?) Nonetheless, this seems like the beginning of an interesting tool. What would it take to do some sort of fuzzy matching on related searches, like broken voting machines for voting machine problems? I suppose you could wait for…
Burlington, PA has been the biggest red dot on the map for the past 20 minutes or so. That's another story I'd like to learn about.
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#19I'm a bit peeved polls didn't open until 9AM in New Rockford ND when the state (and a fair number of farmers) said they would open at 7AM. Wonder what that would be on Google's chart.
"Long Wait Times"?