--- /dev/null
+---
+postid: '054'
+title: Deșteaptă-te, române!
+excerpt: The dissection of a national anthem
+date: November 26, 2016
+author: Lucian Mogoșanu
+tags: asphalt
+---
+
+Nationalism, especially of the [utterly retarded][dumb-nationalism]
+type, is a dying faith[^1]. It may have been born out of legitimate
+causes and may even have addressed some legitimate issues at its time,
+but as much as it may upset some historians, the fact is that it was
+only a fad. However, unlike the typical fad that lasts a generation or
+two at most, this one somehow managed to seemingly outlive its fad
+status by remaining in the collective memory for almost two
+centuries. One may hypothesize that most of its existence was due to
+pure inertia, but truth be told, we don't know; nationalism seems alive
+for now, but it smells funny.
+
+Given this rather bleak context, Romania's National-fad Liberal-fad
+Party-fad[^2] entered this summer's race for local elections with a
+rather shitty paraphrase of the country's national anthem as a
+slogan. This, plus the fact that Romanian parliamentary elections are
+nigh and that Romania's national day is even nearer, gives us the
+opportunity to (re)read, (re)analyze and give a hopefully accurate[^3]
+translation of said anthem for those who don't understand the
+language. So without further ado, let us proceed:
+
+> *Awaken thee[^4], O Romanian, from that slumber of death,*
+> (Deșteaptă-te, române, din somnul cel de moarte,)
+> *Into which have buried you the barbaric tyrants*
+> (În care te-adânciră barbarii de tirani)
+> *Now or never make for thyself[^5] another fate,*
+> (Acum ori niciodată croiește-ți altă soarte,)
+> *To which shall bow even your cruel foes.*
+> (La care să se-nchine și cruzii tăi dușmani.)
+>
+> *Now or never let us give proof to the world[^6]*
+> (Acum ori niciodată să dăm dovezi la lume)
+> *That through these hands still courses a Roman[^7] blood,*
+> (Că-n aste mâini mai curge un sânge de roman,)
+> *And that in our chests we preserve with pride a name*
+> (Și că-n a noastre piepturi păstrăm cu fală-un nume)
+> *Triumphant in battles, a name of Trajan[^8].*
+> (Triumfător în lupte, un nume de Traian.)
+>
+> *Behold, great shadows[^9], Mihai[^10], Ștefan[^11], Corvinus[^12],*
+> (Priviți, mărețe umbre, Mihai, Ștefan, Corvine,)
+> *The Romanian nation, your great-grandchildren[^13],*
+> (Româna națiune, ai voștri strănepoți,)
+> *With their arms armed[^14], with your fire in their veins,*
+> (Cu brațele armate, cu focul vostru-n vine,)
+> *"Life in freedom or death"[^15] all shout.*
+> ("Viața-n libertate ori moarte" strigă toți.)
+>
+> *Priests, lead with your crosses for the host is Christian[^16],*
+> (Preoți, cu crucea-n frunte căci oastea e creștină,)
+> *The slogan is liberty and its purpose all-holy.*
+> (Deviza-i libertate și scopul ei preasfânt.)
+> *We better die in battle, in wholesome glory,*
+> (Murim mai bine-n luptă, cu glorie deplină,)
+> *Than being slaves again upon our ancient land.*
+> (Decât să fim sclavi iarăși în vechiul nost' pământ.)
+
+I skipped a few verses, but that's mostly it. Now, let's state a few
+simple facts about 2016's Romania in relation to Andrei Mureșanu's poem.
+
+One. Romanian speakers in Maramureș are very different people from the
+ones in Olt; not necessarily ethnically and not necessarily in the
+language they speak, but in the way they freely govern themselves.
+
+Two. Urban Romania, especially the one from Bucharest, and rural Romania
+are essentially two different countries. We leave aside details such as
+the fact that a big part of the so-called cities are in fact villages in
+disguise[^17], we lean on the fact that city dwellers are increasingly
+alienated from villagers.
+
+Three. A significant part of Romanians are functionally illiterate (and
+numbers are growing, I might add), and quite a few of them are
+completely illiterate (and probably growing). The National Liberal
+Party, like any other party in Romania, is currently unable to handle
+this issue.
+
+Four. These aspects considered, a fall back to an agrarian society might
+not be such a bad outcome. Sadly, an evolution to a post-Romanian
+society might be inevitable.
+
+So if there was an awakening, I must have missed it.
+
+[^1]: While some of the alarmist media outlets would have you believe
+ the exact opposite, you'll be wondering yourself: how come
+ nationalism is dying?
+
+ Well, there was a time when people used to learn the principles upon
+ which their nation was built. Knowing their national anthem wasn't
+ an option, uttering it daily was quite a common thing, while
+ studying the struggle of the people who founded the nation was an
+ obligatory step towards education -- that is,
+ [being human][humanity].
+
+ Well, no more! Nowadays' kids are entitled, they are empowered, they
+ are the future. They have rights, they have smartphones, so who the
+ fuck is supposed to educate them anymore.
+
+ In other words, the cultural fundament of nation-states is eroding,
+ and with immigrants coming to a city near you it's eroding *fast*;
+ and one day it's going to crack; not today, not tomorrow, maybe not
+ even the day after that, but *one day* it will, and you might be
+ unlucky enough to live to be part of the show; and if not, then your
+ children will be. And no so-called nationalist party will be able to
+ stop that.
+
+[^2]: National-fad because, as we mentioned, the dumb nationalism
+ promoted by the so-called party is a fad. Looking at Romanians'
+ trust in politicians, we can firmly state that 2016's older (born
+ and raised communist) people are disappointed, while a large portion
+ of the 25-something-to-35 citizens are highly skeptical that
+ anything good can come out of "Romania". For all we know and care,
+ the regions inside the Carpathian arc would after all these decades
+ be better off separated from the pile of shit that is Bucharest's
+ central "leadership".
+
+ Liberal-fad because [liberalism][liberalism-conservatism] is going
+ through its own death for one, and on the other hand because today's
+ Romanian liberalism has nothing to do with (the now traditional, go
+ figure!) pre and interbellum liberalism.
+
+ Party-fad because Romania has started* the trend that's now followed
+ by the entire Western "politics", namely that of utter idiocracy.
+
+ \-\-\-
+ \* Or has it, now? at least the Western politics of the late '80s
+ seemed more or less sane looking from this part of the world,
+ although I'd guess they only seemed that way. From many points of
+ view that's when it also started going into a rot, given that this
+ is when the sexually liberated pot consumers of the '60s were
+ starting to gain power.
+
+[^3]: Semantically rather than poetically. For the record, this is a
+ very good exercise in understanding both languages. Who knows, I may
+ even revisit it from time to time to remake it and/or polish it.
+
+[^4]: The awakening mentioned in the text is supposed to evoke the image
+ of opening eyes. So the persona is impelling the reader to take a
+ good look around them and in the mirror, and to *realize* what's
+ going on.
+
+ While I admit that it's a very good nationalist message, this is
+ also quite ironically what Romanians haven't been doing for the
+ last, oh, half a century or more. Is it because the anthem's song
+ sounds so fuckin' depressing? I have no idea.
+
+[^5]: Literally "tailor for thyself", which has the connotation of
+ taking one's destiny into their own hands.
+
+ This is entirely different from *choosing* another fate for
+ oneself, which is how we figure out that the so-called NLP's slogan
+ is only targeted at mediocre sheeple.
+
+[^6]: Romanian speakers of those times were as far as I can tell eager
+ to show the world their to-be nationality, more so that the
+ Transylvania that was then part of the decaying Austrian Empire
+ harbored establishment-hating "revolutionaries" such as the poem's
+ author.
+
+ Or maybe not so much establishment-hating as desperately in need to
+ be recognized. I guess history is pretty vague here?
+
+[^7]: Romanian speakers of those times were also keen to emphasize that
+ the so-called Romanians are rightful descendants of Rome ("De la Rîm
+ ne tragem"), despite the fact that there was no real mention of
+ "Romania" before then.
+
+ Although they did make a very valid point stating the fact that the
+ language's preservation, or at least its grammar's preservation --
+ including in Transylvania -- is somewhat mysterious. Genetically
+ speaking Romanians aren't Romans more than they are Slavs or Cumans
+ or Pechenegs, not unlike other peoples in the geographical
+ area. Even so, the Latin spoken in said area was and is *the* vulgar
+ Latin, closely related to Sardinian and to some degree with Romansh.
+
+[^8]: Y'know, the guy who brought back home to Rome a darn good amount
+ of his times' [bitcoins][bitcoin] after kicking Decebalus' ass.
+
+[^9]: I.e. ghosts of the past, inextricably tied to the nation's present
+ state of affairs, etc.
+
+[^10]: Michael the Brave, first leader to rule Wallachia, Moldavia and
+ Ardeal simultaneously, for a very brief while before his murder.
+
+[^11]: Stephen the Great, longest-living ruler of a Romanian
+ Principality, namely Moldavia. Historical anecdotes say he was
+ actually a small fellow who founded a lot of churches, killed a
+ shitload of Ottomans and fucked at least as many women. Historical
+ jokes say most of the people from the historical region* are
+ descendants of Stephen.
+
+ \-\-\-
+ \* Including my mother's side of the family tree, for the record.
+
+[^12]: Hunyadi Mátyás, also known as Matthias Corvinus, one of the
+ greatest kings of Hungary, plus a couple of other joints. He had bit
+ of a love-hate relationship with rulers from the Romanian
+ Principalities, but most importantly, he beat the shit out of
+ Ottoman armies on several occasions.
+
+ Generally speaking though, the Hunyadis had quite an impact on
+ Transylvania.
+
+[^13]: Here the author either makes an enumeration of the two entities,
+ i.e. the abstract entity named "the Romanian nation" and the
+ entirety of its people, or he downright confuses the two. I can't
+ tell.
+
+[^14]: Clearly "with their arms weaponized" doesn't work too well in
+ terms of poetry and it's not too precise in terms of meaning, while
+ "with weapons in their arms" puts emphasis on the weapons rather
+ than the people. So "arms armed" it is, no matter how funny and
+ pleonastic it sounds.
+
+[^15]: Awww, you thought Mel Gibson was the first to say that? How cute!
+
+[^16]: The author seems to be deliberately vague here. On one hand he
+ mentions the noble goal of fighting for freedom*, on the other he
+ puts priests, who are supposed to be peaceful and all, in the first
+ line.
+
+ This means two things. The first, priests aren't exactly all that
+ peaceful, since it's a tradition for Romanian soldiers to be blessed
+ by priests, e.g. when they're going to fight abroad; in fact the
+ church and the army were for a long while the two most trusted
+ institutions in Romania. The second, the Romanian army rarely (if
+ ever) fought to conquer, it almost always fought either in defense
+ or as subordinate to higher powers.
+
+ This is all accurate up to the present moment. You might think
+ Tolkien was original and all, until you find out that Gandalf's
+ famous Balrog phrase was (anecdotally) uttered by Romanian soldiers
+ during the WWI Battle of Mărășești... only in that broken Latin we
+ previously mentioned.
+
+ \-\-\-
+ \* Yes, the very same noble goal those Middle-Eastern guys
+ have... from their point of view, at least.
+
+[^17]: Because, oh heck, I have to say it. Because socialism, especially
+ the flavour practiced by Romanians -- not Ceaușescu, not the
+ Communist Party, but the entire fucking mass of Romanians -- before
+ December '89 had to work under the pretense that we're scientific,
+ and developed, and words!
+
+[humanity]: /posts/y01/032-your-worth-to-humanity.html
+[dumb-nationalism]: /posts/y00/00b-romania-s-dumb-nationalism.html
+[liberalism-conservatism]: /posts/y01/03b-conservatism-liberalism.html
+[bitcoin]: /posts/y00/01f-bitcoin-as-infrastructure-i.html#fn2
--- /dev/null
+---
+postid: '055'
+title: Let's find out why most educational institutions yield graduates that make dumb (or otherwise unknowledgeable) people
+excerpt: A companion piece to Grade Inflation and La ce imi serveste mie radicalurile?
+date: January 3, 2017
+author: Lucian Mogoșanu
+tags: cogitatio
+---
+
+The (now-)traditional Romanian educational system can be traced back to
+communist roots, where course matters in humanities consisted mostly of
+useless Marxist shit dictated by the [Well-Doer][we], while the rather
+difficult matter in sciences was dictated by Party politics in order to
+raise scientists and engineers to compete with the guys in the West --
+the ones who made the latest and greatest stuff and went into space and
+all that. The result of this failed attempt at "progressive"
+philo-socio-politics[^1] was the dumb political class of the '90s,
+followed by the even dumber political class of the late 2000s and
+2010s. But at least Romanians continue to have generations upon
+generations of math olympics winners, at least until the few remaining
+competent teachers die, like everything and everyone eventually does.
+
+This phenomenon is not limited to Eastern Europe nor to a particular
+level of scholarship, as demonstrated by the vast amounts of
+bleeding-edge [academic hogwash][academic-hogwash] published throughout
+the Western world. Moreover the subject is amply discussed in The Last
+Psychiatrist's [Grade Inflation][grade-inflation]. "The system" has
+failed because it forces little monkeys -- either through social
+pressure or directly through the state's own machinery -- to waste their
+time going through the we don't need no education system, getting those
+As and ending up being awarded with a piece of paper that doesn't matter
+anyway. And as Ballas points out, it's not the monkeys' fault:
+
+> Which brings me to the main point, the other cause of grade inflation
+> that no one ever talks about: in order for a grade to be inflated, a
+> professor has to inflate it. In other words, grade inflation isn't the
+> student's fault, it is the professor's fault. A kid can complain and
+> whine/wine all he wants, but unless that professor buckles, there's no
+> grade inflation. So the starting point has to be: why does a professor
+> inflate a grade?
+>
+> Yikes. Now that shudder you're feeling is not only why you never
+> thought it, but how it is possible no one else ever brought it up?
+> The answer is: every discussion about grade inflation has been
+> dominated by educators.
+>
+> The "college is a scam" train is one on which I'm all aboard, but that
+> doesn't mean each individual professor has to be scamming students;
+> there's no reason why he can't do a good job and teach his students
+> something that they aren't going to get simply by reading the text. If
+> a student can skip class and still ace the class, the kid is either
+> very bright or the professor is utterly useless. Right? Either way,
+> the kid's wasting his money.
+>
+> And I know every generation thinks the one coming up after it is
+> weaker and stupider, that's normal. But why would a professor who
+> thinks college kids are dumb turn around and reward the King Of Beers
+> with an A?
+>
+> The answer is right in the chart and in a book by Allan Bloom that
+> most college professors have read about. When that professor who was
+> 40 in 1986 was back in college in 1966, he was part of a culture that
+> believed there are no "wrong answers, only wrong questions", like "you
+> really think we should we stop shaving?" or "should we listen to
+> something other than CCR?" And meanwhile the rate of As doubled. So
+> now you have to put up your money: if you believe that grade inflation
+> *at that time* masks/causes a real shallowness of intellect and
+> education, then those students, now professors, simply aren't as smart
+> as they think they are. Unless you also believe that bad 60s music and
+> even worse pot somehow augmented their intellect.
+
+So grade inflation is all "teachers' fault", and it's an important
+factor contributing to "the system"'s degradation. There is however
+another factor, that uncoincidentally is also "teachers' fault" at least
+up to some degree, that is at least as important, namely those damned
+curricula™.
+
+<p style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">⁂</p>
+
+Curricula have been the center of public debates on education in Romania
+for a few decades now. I remember being in gymnasium and hearing people
+whining that "kids nowadays aren't being taught practical stuff" and
+"why do they have to study integrals, *they don't use them for nuthin'
+anyway*"[^2]. It seemed like a big deal for Romanian idiots at the
+time[^3], but what they didn't know was that the new "progressive"
+politics imported from the West was no different from the old
+"progressive" bullshit. Not only engineers had to be made, but they had
+to be made faster.
+
+An example of this curricula quackery -- but merely an example, for
+worry not, the same quackery is nowadays abundant throughout the Western
+world -- is what Europeans have called the Bologna Process. In Romania
+this called for a shorter undergraduate academic cycle and faster
+integration of to-be graduates in the industry, which led to faster
+specialization, which is what everyone wanted anyway; "IT companies"
+want more engineers while kids out of high-school wanna become
+programmers-with-a-diploma[^4]. Meanwhile, square roots are considered
+useless by the average high schooler, which is how Popescu came to write
+his [La ce imi serveste mie radicalurile ?][radicalurili][^5]:
+
+> Cam cel mai abundent loc comun in discutia publica romaneasca, imediat
+> dupa prostia cu "vinde si muta-te la tara", e prostia din titlu.
+>
+> Cite un nauc nedemn, in sensul cel mai propriu, de-a fi absolvit
+> examenul de maturitate (cel putin daca-l dadea cu mine) simte nevoia
+> sa exprime ideile lui reformist-luminate asupra educatiei : problema
+> cu scoala (in Alejd, in Prahova, in Romania si la rigoare pe Planeta
+> si in Cosmos) este ca nu se studiaza ce trebuie. Se studiaza ce nu
+> trebuie. Nu se studiaza chestii practice, dom'le, chestii care saț fie
+> de folos in viata. La ce imi serveste mie radicalurile ?!
+>
+> [...]
+>
+> Pina una alta, fiecare chestie pe care-o inveti iti serveste la aia
+> c-ai invatat-o. Serviciu mai mare nu-ti poate face, daca ajungi sa
+> recunosti c-ai aplicat-o in fapt intr-o circumstanta anumita sau nu
+> foarte putin conteaza : ceea ce inveti te modeleaza, si atita timp cit
+> nu inveti timpenii, chestii inexistente, ca de exemplu "cum sa crezi
+> in Dumnezeu" sau "cum sa-ti faci prieteni" sau "cum sa scrii articole
+> mai bune in cinci pasi simpli" sau "stiintele educatiei" sau "studii
+> feministe" etc scl, atita timp cit nu te indobitocesti cu ideologii,
+> ci inveti, stiinte, nu ai cum sa pagubesti. Si nici nu conteaza pe ce
+> pista alergi, atita timp cit alergi, nu conteaza in care sectiune a
+> bibliotecii sezi, atita timp cit citesti.
+
+And because Romanian Computer Science students generally find control
+theory to be a difficult subject, and because they mistake difficulty
+for uselessness, I wrote a slightly controversed piece
+[on the old blog][aplicabilitatea-practica] which has the same ring to
+it. I'll note that I am probably one of the very few young people who
+even bother considering the more conservative point of view of with
+respect to this issue, while we've established a few paragraphs above
+that the older conservatives are soon going to suffer literal rot
+anyway. So what does this leave me with?
+
+<p style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">⁂</p>
+
+Basically what Popescu is saying is that knowing stuff, preferably stuff
+written by people smarter than you on a topic that *may or may not* be
+of direct interest to you enables you to think and do things that you
+might otherwise be unable to, for example by giving you access to the
+more secure, that is, the [less permeable][on-security] aspects of life.
+
+By contrapositive, what I am stating is that one cannot in general
+discuss a particular subject matter without first gnawing at its
+fundaments, which is why Latin, control theory and lambda calculi are
+not just important, but absolutely necessary for linguists, electrical
+engineers and computer science graduates respectively, but more
+generally for humans.
+
+In case you're the CEO of an IT company and you're wondering why your
+job candidates are more and more lacking in basic skills, consider the
+possibility that it is at least partly your fault. While fungible
+employees constitute a tempting proposition, hiring people while they're
+still students will eat up their attention and distract them from
+understanding the fundamental problems in the very same field as
+you. Practical skills are necessary, but they're nothing next to the
+power of force, which is the theoretical bullshit that you don't give a
+fuck about. If all you want are meșters who cannot think for themselves,
+then you're doing a pretty job at that. But also venture to guess the
+long-term costs of hiring idiots instead of letting them finish their
+studies in order to become less-overspecialized less-idiots.
+
+You might think for example that studying the philosophical meaning of
+computing is useless, since your employees know what a computer is since
+we're all using them in our smartwatches and "they don't use them
+theoretical thingamajiggs for nuthin' anyway". What you, as TLP's profs
+and the profs that taught them, fail to see is that the notion of
+computer is in fact rather vague. On one hand we have physical computers
+which flip bits that are stored as electrical signals, while on the
+other we have mathematical models which are disconnected from the
+former, and heavens forbid you try to build a system that tries to break
+the laws of physics.
+
+I've been looking a lot at [operating systems][operating-systems] during
+my master's and PhD studies, so I take some time to look at the OS
+courses in my department and talk with the people giving the
+lectures. "Systems" people are generally very pragmatic, but this
+pragmatism is uncoincidentally also why Systems Software Research Is
+Irrelevant[^6]. We define operating system processes as abstractions
+involving "threads of execution" and "memory", while the notion of
+process predates operating systems by a few centuries; computer programs
+are running on physical computers, so why not view them as the set of
+states that the computer-as-a-physical-system goes through? I guess
+computer scientists are too keen on reinventing the universe.
+
+<p style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">⁂</p>
+
+Since we're discussing semantics, let us consider as an example the
+meaning of the word "engineer". The word has the same roots as the
+French "ingénieur"[^7], i.e. the Latin "ingenium", which describes the
+notion of intelligence and, quite obviously, ingenuity. Thus engineers
+are expected to be a sort of elites, highly intelligent who build upon
+nature to innovate.
+
+This etymological definition is however quite different from today's
+circular definition of an engineer. People who aspired to the profession
+of engineer needed to be trained in this sense, so engineering schools
+were created, so somehow the initial meaning of engineer was perverted
+to "person who graduates an engineering school".
+
+In other words, the goals and purposes of today's engineering schools
+are to form individuals who are graduates of engineering schools. I am
+sure that other professions are nowadays being taught only for their own
+sake, which is how academia became "a place where papers are published"
+and the goal of software was reduced to
+[writing more software][software-engineering-ii].
+
+Can we thus state that education has become that proverbial snake
+swallowing its own tail?
+
+<p style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">⁂</p>
+
+The ouroboros is also a metaphor for fields becoming some sort of
+bubbles, more akin to [(post)-religion][post-religion] than to the
+earthly trades that we sane humans are used to. While the classical
+education used a holistic approach where the human was required to grasp
+philosophy as well as mathematics, theology as well as chemistry,
+physics as well as music, nowadays' "inter-disciplinary" approaches are
+seen as some kind of hocus-pocus. If anything else isn't, it is clear
+that overspecialized curricula are ruining "the system" as we know it.
+
+Consider that many breakthroughs in physics, which in turned spawned
+breakthroughs in engineering and brought you the computer in front of
+which sits the average Facebookian on his fat ass, these breakthroughs
+came about by changes in the underlying mathematics-as-philosophy. You
+may laugh at Newton for theorizing that photons are spawned by God or
+some other weird theory, but you most probably have troubles
+conceptualizing simple particles such as electrons, which are a
+fundamental part of the fabric of the universe.
+
+Consider also that the DNA that is used by agricultors to serve you
+food, and not to the next plague of insects, and to keep you from making
+malformed babies, was discovered after many decades of studying biology
+and chemistry, and that they essentially represent the computer code
+which programs you to eat, fuck and learn.
+
+Consider all of this and much, much more before uttering the
+mind-boggingly stupid "they don't use them for nuthin' anyway". You
+ain't got much time left [to become human][worth-to-humanity] before you
+die, like everything and everyone eventually does.
+
+[^1]: Because the old partisans educated either by the meanwhile failed
+ Romanian monarchy or by the Soviets eventually died, like everything
+ and everyone eventually does.
+
+[^2]: "They don't use them for nuthin' anyway", a slightly fancier
+ version of "ain't nobody got time fo' that" and a slightly accurate
+ paraphrase of "la ce-mi servește mie radicalurili", is going to be
+ the leitmotif of this essay. I bet you don't know what a leitmotif
+ is; go bingle it, you fuckin' idiot.
+
+[^3]: Including yours truly -- but hey, at least I was a *young idiot*
+ back then, which is sort of an excuse, as people are known to be
+ dumb by nature and in some cases become humans by means of
+ <del>nurture</del> <del>beating</del> hard work. Not everyone
+ survives this particular tar pit.
+
+[^4]: As opposed to programmers without a diploma, which means more or
+ less the same thing, only without the diploma. A shitty
+ (un)professional remains a shitty (un)professional regardless of the
+ titles given to him by insert random institution here. In other
+ words, your CS degree is useless, news at eleven.
+
+[^5]: Translation from broken Latin to retarded Newspeak is left as an
+ exercise for the reader.
+
+[^6]: This is the title of a famous talk ([pdf][pike]) given by Rob Pike
+ quite a while before [Android][android] was a thing.
+
+[^7]: From which the Romanian "inginer" was also born.
+
+[we]: /posts/y02/04b-we.html
+[academic-hogwash]: /posts/y02/045-academic-hogwash.html
+[grade-inflation]: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/08/grade_inflation.html
+[radicalurili]: http://trilema.com/2011/la-ce-imi-serveste-mie-radicalurile/
+[aplicabilitatea-practica]: http://lucian.mogosanu.ro/bricks/facultatea-fa%C8%9Ba-cu-aplicabilitatea-practica/
+[on-security]: /posts/y02/04a-on-security.html
+[operating-systems]: /posts/y01/03a-the-linguistic-barrier-of-os-design.html
+[pike]: /uploads/2017/01/utah2000.pdf
+[android]: /posts/y02/03f-android-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html
+[software-engineering-ii]: /posts/y02/049-the-myth-of-software-engineering-ii.html
+[post-religion]: /posts/y00/018-on-post-religion.html
+[worth-to-humanity]: /posts/y01/032-your-worth-to-humanity.html
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