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xkcd #2892: Banana Prices (xkcd.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's definitely talented and intelligent but as always people vastly underestimate skill. Humour is a skill that you can learn and he's been doing this comic for ages now. When you've been doing something almost every other day nonstop for years, your brain allocates a ton of cycles to that skill. You start applying that skill all the time, sort of like the Tetris Effect. I bet he gets multiple comic ideas daily reading all sorts of research and memes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Beautiful, an actual answer! Well reasoned!