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State of the Onion 7

Posted by michael on from the cry-cry-cry dept.

chromatic writes "One of the highlights of every OSCON is Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion address, covering Perl, philosophy, linguistics, music, theology, science, and usually a few other things thrown in for good measure. His talk from OSCON 2003, State of the Onion 7, is now online."

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  1. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's actually the original "in Soviet Russia" joke, from long before Yaakov Smirnoff made it a tiresome catchphrase. It was something that cynical Russians used to say: "Under capitalism, the Party tells us, man oppresses man. Under communism, it's the other way around."

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.