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Wed Feb 25 16:44:43 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> it won't work.. why?
Wed Feb 25 16:44:24 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel that's the plan. it won't work, but anyway.
Wed Feb 25 16:44:02 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> they don't have the same sensibilities, being a different people (*gasp*).
Wed Feb 25 16:43:32 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> it seems to me that if the west would just fuck off and let China have Africa everything will go swimmingly.
Wed Feb 25 16:42:50 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ;; google chinese eat dogs, cats
Wed Feb 25 16:42:47 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ty
Wed Feb 25 16:42:45 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> !up gabriel_laddel
Tue Feb 24 20:14:59 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> what, the burning of the great library of Alexandria was just a blip?
Tue Feb 24 20:14:43 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> to say that "we" have not been set back is nonsense.
Tue Feb 24 20:14:26 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> On that timescale, sure. when it comes down to Schwartz and Stan having years of their lives wasted...
Tue Feb 24 20:13:22 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel i specifically dispute the stance that we're trying "again". it's still the same one try, and it's still going oin magnificently.
Tue Feb 24 20:13:10 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> lolyeah
Tue Feb 24 20:12:59 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> trying again.
Tue Feb 24 20:12:56 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> and here we are.
Tue Feb 24 20:12:36 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> "You don't need to take my proposal seriously because it is so ridiculous that I am obviously completely out of touch with the real world. But that kite won't fly, for I know the real world only too well: the problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions. So, let us try again."
Tue Feb 24 20:11:25 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> - EWD1063
Tue Feb 24 20:11:09 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> "So, if I look into my foggy crystal ball at the future of computing science education, I overwhelmingly see the depressing picture of "Business as usual". The universities will continue to lack the courage to teach hard science, they will continue to misguide the students, and each next stage of infantilization of the curriculum will be hailed as educational progress.
Tue Feb 24 20:11:09 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty."
Tue Feb 24 20:02:16 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Yep. It takes a while for people to figure this out though - especially when there are the remnants of actual intellects (von n., ulam) hanging around.
Tue Feb 24 20:00:45 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ;; google Henry Kissinger "the battles are so vicious because the stakes are so small"