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Sat Dec 21 16:24:52 UTC 2013 <knotwork> if so maybe we can later after inventing parachute put in an infinite number of parachutes, and even back when we built the first infinite-capacity airplane it would have all those parachutes that will eventually be invented?
Sat Dec 21 16:22:35 UTC 2013 <mircea_popescu> anyway, the parachute argument eschews the infinity problem.
Sat Dec 21 16:21:58 UTC 2013 <knotwork> yeah somewhere between thrown in the deep end to learn to swim and thrown out of an airplane to incentivise inventing a parachute there is a slope of some slipperiness or lack of slipperiness or nasty friction or razor blades or something
Sat Dec 21 16:20:13 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> one thing i occasionally try to convince people off is that: the time to invent the parachute is before, rather than after, being thrown out of the plane
Thu Dec 12 21:03:29 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> 'who do you sue when your parachute doesn't open'
Tue Dec 03 02:16:32 UTC 2013 <Vexual> a magnet and a parachute
Tue Dec 03 02:16:25 UTC 2013 <dub> cheaper yet, a parachute
Thu Sep 19 20:21:50 UTC 2013 <jcpham> gotta parachute those execs man
Tue Jun 04 16:29:26 UTC 2013 <thestringpuller> Success if like someone falling from a plane who has a parachute
Sun May 19 15:37:24 UTC 2013 <truffles> yea none wants to jump out of an airplane without a parachute
Sat May 18 20:45:21 UTC 2013 <deadweasel> death is a key part of my golden parachute
Tue May 14 03:05:05 UTC 2013 <asciilifeform> "who do you sue when your parachute doesn't open"