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Investing for the Long Slump
Steve300

Given that Munroe has solved the problem of Friendly AI in today's xkcd, I think we can rest assured that concepts like "economy" have a near 100% chance of being moot by 2039.

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3Luke_A_Somers
So you don't need to hunt around (xkcd doesn't make searching by date perfectly easy): http://xkcd.com/534/
Affective Death Spirals
Steve380

I personally prefer The Law of Fives: "ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5."

With the corollary: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

cf. Foucault's Pendulum; the entire novel.

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1Dojan
Ever since reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy I've seen the number 42 pop up at an alarming rate... Though I guess people use that number more than average for that very same reason. (I know I do!)