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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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| date | Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:57:43 +0000 |
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858) <shachaf> Bike: Your client colours people? <Bike> it would be pretty boring to see everyone as white, i get that enough in real life 861) <Bike> "damn, my port of ghc to php isn't properly taking javascript booleans into account" 881) <kmc> i bet a blog post complaining about ");});});" syntax in JavaScript and comparing it unfavorably to Lisp would get approximately one billion comments on hacker news <Bike> but at what cost? your very soul, kmc! 886) [on Diplomacy] <Bike> man, that doesn't even mention greece at all [...] <Bike> oh, this is about a game, not world war i. 891) <Bike> i don't even know anything about feather and i'm getting sick of the time travel jokes 900) <Bike> so, i'm readng chaitin's book on the diophantine thing, and he uses lisp with single-character variable names, in APL's character set. is there a reliable test to see if i'm actually in some caricatured hell? 908) <Bike> the idea is that you can get the information you need from reading the other players, isn't it [...] <Bike> and of course, reading isn't limited to facial expressions [...] <fizzie> That's true, you can read e.g. books. 911) <zzo38> What is your opinion on the Catholic doctrine and tradition and so on? <Bike> i give it 7/10. 915) <Bike> I've heard the manga of Das Kapital is actually pretty good. 919) <Bike> Usually I'd use Rankine, but the fucking weather doesn't support it. 920) <elliott> okay so <elliott> i went to wikimapia per Bike <elliott> and found a tiny little nowhere that looked like it might be it <elliott> zoomed in <elliott> thought aw yeah this looks remote maybe it's it <elliott> turns out it's hawaii <elliott> i am not very good at this 921) <shachaf> Taneb: STOP TRYING TO GET LENS INTO EVERYTHING <shachaf> Bike: You should use lens! <Taneb> NEVER <Bike> shachaf: i'm getting mixed messages here 925) <Bike> back in high school a guy printed out the entire script of portal 1 and was reading it out during a field trip. it's possible i'm mentally scarred 937) <Bike> well he could register the new tld for just a few thousand fucks 938) <fungot> Bike: the best acid? where is it?