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Thu Mar 10 16:55:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> looky, lashing at me is not liable to do much. the point remains that this "i could do except alas" line is a total waste of time and utterly broken in so many parts it's not worth fixing.
Thu Mar 10 16:54:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not the line contemplated here.
Thu Mar 10 16:53:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> where he lives, that's middle class.
Thu Mar 10 16:53:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> he is actually in one of those god forsaken places, doesn't matter which.
Thu Mar 10 16:49:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so you're on the space station now, with your 4ton, ie, 200k volume library ?
Thu Mar 10 16:48:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> 3 km VERTICALLY.
Thu Mar 10 16:48:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform that's an interesting datapoint, because 100 gallons of gas provide enough energy to haul 100 * 1.2 * 10^8 / 3000 = 4 tons of stuff
Thu Mar 10 16:47:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> also, health at 1k a month is RIDICULOUS. pretty much all over the world, cancer treatment runs you 1k/mo.
Thu Mar 10 16:46:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> he is a very good lawyer, and a hardworking fellow too.
Thu Mar 10 16:46:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i have a lawyer whose yearly budget for family is ~8k.
Thu Mar 10 16:45:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> uhaul will take half a btc to haul your library.
Thu Mar 10 16:45:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform> ick << what, this is an argument now ?
Thu Mar 10 16:33:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> lol
Thu Mar 10 16:32:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i was talking in the general!
Thu Mar 10 16:31:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> by this logic, the gardener who is free needs a garden, but the movie director who is free needs his own studio. the cost of their respective freedoms, many degrees of magnitude apart.
Thu Mar 10 16:31:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but hey, as a heuristic, works fine.
Thu Mar 10 16:30:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i can readily see a definition of freedom as "one has enough resources to protect himself from the outside world". this definition is impractical, however, belonging to the sphere chicken world.
Thu Mar 10 16:26:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> moving on.
Thu Mar 10 16:26:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> sure, you gave.
Thu Mar 10 16:26:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> they are the things you say to protect from change, or w/e.