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Michael O. Church a troll? Please. The guy had an odd view of himself but I always found he provided excellent well thought out analysis and arguments. I'm not
by ones_and_zeros 10y ago
Michael O. Church a troll? Please.
The guy had an odd view of himself but I always found he provided excellent well thought out analysis and arguments. I'm not saying he is always right, but he wasn't a troll.
- oh_sigh 10y agoThanks Michael.
- tptacek 10y agoAre we sure "pensive_returns" isn't Michael O. Church? Serious question: commenters on HN that write in an idiosyncratic fashion about Church have turned out to be him before. Every time I read a comment about Church, I find myself asking, "is this how a normal person would write about someone best known for commenting on message boards?"
- ones_and_zeros 10y agoCould be, kinda weird he got banned from all of those places, though I'm not familiar with Quora or autoadmit.
- jpatokal 10y agoHe certainly appears to have joined Hacker News for the sole purpose of sharing this pearl of wisdom with us: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pensive_returns https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pensive_returns
- gadders 10y agoI think they should let him back in. He was an entertaining read.
- ones_and_zeros 10y agoThis was actually news to me that he got banned. Can't imagine what he did to deserve that.
- wglb 10y agoIt was this thread that finally did it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538