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Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by lukan »

baxtr wrote: post #18

I love xkcd. Most of them resonate with me. However, for some reason #1053 (number three on this list) does not feel right. Maybe it’s oversimplified. I don’t think linear interpolation works in this case. Most things are learned in bursts at certain ages. Then again: maybe I’m wrong and need to learn this! https://xkcd.com/1053/

Maybe you never heard of

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053

I think it is funny and amazing, that there is a whole dedicated wiki about xkcd.

(I do not know, whether your concern is adressed there in detail, but probably it is indeed just oversimplification)

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by mikhailfranco »

I expected 435 Purity to be in the list, but glad to see it in the author's picks:

https://xkcd.com/435/

Fantastic to see the Chess Coaster examples, hilarious, thank you:

https://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/

I had never seen 162 Angular Momentum so well deserved mention for this geek physicist:

https://xkcd.com/162/

Nice honoring of the XKCD byline by mixing romance and physics.

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by growingkittens »

One way to find an answer on the Internet is to be wrong on the Internet: unless there's a voting system involved.

Click to disagree anonymously, the whole thing is automatic and effortless. You don't have to organize your thoughts when you have a button to express your feelings.

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by ysavir »

baxtr wrote: post #18

I love xkcd. Most of them resonate with me. However, for some reason #1053 (number three on this list) does not feel right. Maybe it’s oversimplified. I don’t think linear interpolation works in this case. Most things are learned in bursts at certain ages. Then again: maybe I’m wrong and need to learn this! https://xkcd.com/1053/

I'm pretty sure your right. The math here assumes an equal amount of people learn it each day, but in reality it's weight towards infants, toddlers, children, teens, etc that haven't come across that info yet.

But that doesn't change the validity of the conclusion: When someone doesn't know about something, it's always best to excitedly show them the information than to mock them for not knowing it.

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by mikhailfranco »

mikhailfranco wrote: post #22

I expected 435 Purity to be in the list, but glad to see it in the author's picks: https://xkcd.com/435/ Fantastic to see the Chess Coaster examples, hilarious, thank you: https://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/ I had never seen 162 Angular Momentum so well deserved mention for this geek physicist: https://xkcd.com/162/ Nice honoring of the XKCD byline by mixing romance and physics.

P.S. Is there an XKCD poking fun of the fact that 99% of HN edits are replacing '_' with '*' ?

No, well there should be.

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by ekianjo »

freshchilled wrote: post #12
ekianjo wrote: post #10

> https://xkcd.com/1357/ This aged very poorly in light of what happened in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic.

OK, I'll bite: What happened to the first amendment in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic?

The government colluding with private companies to censor people.

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by sam_goody »

PoignardAzur wrote: post #4
fouronnes3 wrote: post #2

I knew 927 was gonna be the top one. It's so useful I sometimes refer to it verbally at work during meetings to great effect.

Yeah, it's kind of funny that "xkcd 927" is almost a verb now.

It's not a verb, it's a standard ;)

Implied. Eg. A new standard for MarkDown!? Will it meet standard of XKCD 927

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by mikhailfranco »

growingkittens wrote: post #23

One way to find an answer on the Internet is to be wrong on the Internet: unless there's a voting system involved. Click to disagree anonymously, the whole thing is automatic and effortless. You don't have to organize your thoughts when you have a button to express your feelings.

If you are just wrong, and do not actually ask a question, then the responses may be interesting, or not, but they might not answer your original question, which only exists in your own mind, unexpressed, and perhaps not even posed to yourself.

No disagreements with an absence of opinions. Automatic.

No answers to an absence of questions. Effortless.

Re: Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by lukan »

ekianjo wrote: post #27
freshchilled wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, I'll bite: What happened to the first amendment in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic?

The government colluding with private companies to censor people.

"Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say."

Where were people arrested? Or their talk declared illegal?

Visibility on some plattforms was reduced and you can argue, that it is a slippery slope, if government intervention with cooperations that host those plattforms, happens in a nontranparent way. (I do think this was bad, opening ways for secret manipulation)

But people could (and did) continiue to talk about their alternative theories for ages.

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