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<wob_jonas> learn Aristotle said that every illness can be cured by balancing the four vitreous humors, and everyone believed him for two thousand years, even though people still died of illnesses. It wasn\'t until the 20th century that Szent-Gy\xc3\xb6rgyi Albert realized that Aristotle didn\'t find fifth kind of vitreous humor, vitamin C, because the Greek alphabet
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2012-05-09.txt:06:41:43: <kmc> "look at this shit essay i wrote, and it's super popular now, I guess that invalidates everyone else working in this field"
2012-08-19.txt:13:57:30: <Sgeo> kmc, more or less the same thing http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
2013-01-23.txt:16:31:52: <kmc> shachaf: wow, that essay :(
2013-01-30.txt:19:51:06: <kmc> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/PianoTuning
2013-05-13.txt:22:01:06: <kmc> i'm no fan of paul graham as you all know, but he does know this world and i thought http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html was a pretty good essay
2013-06-13.txt:08:36:25: <kmc> one of DFW's essay collections is named after this essay
2013-07-23.txt:20:12:01: <Bike> kmc: have you read "Losing the War" (it's an essay about WWII and being insane)
2013-08-07.txt:05:00:14: <kmc> https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/a1ebd2b4a0e5 is a good essay.  bruce fucking sterling
2013-08-07.txt:18:31:02: <Bike> `pastelog kmc.*essay