asciilifeform: 11:50 <+mircea_popescu> so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ? << i pay ~2k (if you count electric, gas, etc) for <1k sq ft.
asciilifeform: <+phf> i know nhi couple ... but there's literally nothing within 20 minute drive << my parents live in a place like this.
asciilifeform: 11:41 <+mircea_popescu> $750 gets you a house in iowa. << aha and iowa shaves a zero off the salary.
asciilifeform: i could not in a million years afford to live in the dc city walls.
asciilifeform: phf: i live in the 'cheap' suburbs next to umd.
asciilifeform: nfi, just pointing out that not everything the schmuck did was a work of evil
asciilifeform: Apr 01 10:22:12 <mircea_popescu>god damned it. so half hour's research has produced not the article i was looking for, and the knowledge that decimation actually introduced lafond to the chan. << decimation introduced the thread about atomic clocks also. so cesium clock is a sc4m?!
asciilifeform: i would, in fact, like some handle on the factz
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu tells me that the mit proclamation is a lie - i will believe him
asciilifeform: running free, shitting everywhere it wants.
asciilifeform: he might be cow, but not at a farm, but in india.
asciilifeform: he is not an employee, does not clock hours or report to a boss, and is not - in as far as i can surmise - accountable to anyone, for anything he does.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: link appears to be dead
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo et al: from where did you get the notion that he leased a car, or knew what it is like to be denied even parking space, etc. ?
asciilifeform: he sits pretty in his nice house and collects payolade.
asciilifeform: at any rate, unless the mit link is enemy propaganda and wholly fictitious, gavin doesn't even ~need~ a car
asciilifeform: even the quasi-legal mexican janitors at every place i ever worked, got to park.
asciilifeform: having never met these folk in any capacity.
