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Looks like my SF market street studio. We sure have come a long way...
by uap 5y ago
Looks like my SF market street studio. We sure have come a long way...
- Jupe 5y agoAre you being sarcastic?
- t8e56vd4ih 5y agohomework assignment: watch two Monty Python movies and three flying circus episodes.
- Jupe 5y agoYes, I've seen them all... and "Oh, look, there's some lovely muck over here." But, I don't see the connection?
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoYour parent comment assumes the OP comment was made in jest.
- Jupe 5y agoWow - apparently asking questions is a bad thing on HN? The fact that a "slave's" room from 1,942 years ag, resembles the room of a presumably well-educated, skilled and/or technically-focused contributor (as I perceive nearly all contributors to HN), seems rather odd. So, my question still stands... Is the comment meant to be sarcastic? Can the the comment be interpreted as: 1. "They didn't have it as bad as we might think"? 2. "My life is little different from a slave of ~2000 years ago"? 3. "I feel a connection with the people/person who lived in that room"? 4. Something else?
- DenisM 5y agoPer HN guidelines: Assume good faith https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you can't, just don't reply at all.
- ardit33 5y agoFirst thing I thought: They look like modern student dorm rooms / living arrangements, but without windows, like that new Munger hall that is being built.
- willvarfar 5y ago> The room was lit by a small upper window
- masklinn 5y agoOn the other hand, extremely limited artificial light, so this would have been penumbral the entire day, with the possible exception of the moments where the sun really faced the window. According to the plan at the bottom, the window would have been east-north-east and thus really only useful early morning, if at all.
- kingcharles 5y agoI just spent 5 years locked in a room with no window and 24x7 artificial lighting, so they have it way better than some modern folks.
- Iv 5y agoLet's not be ridiculous. This room has no artificial light and almost no natural light, minimal ventilation, no water, no electricity, which is the norm nowadays even for cheap apartments.
- hourislate 5y agoIn Toronto you could get $1800 a month for that or sell it for $600k.
- ant6n 5y ago...but not prisons
- kingcharles 5y agoIt's way bigger and nicer than the jail cell I just spent several years in.
- bserge 5y agoWhat'd they get you for?
- easytiger 5y agoWhat did you do?
- ohyeshedid 5y agoWhat did you do and what did they get you for can be wildly different questions and realities. Unsolicited personal advice: The latter opens more doors of meaningful conversation, the former can slam those doors before you can walk through them.
- kingcharles 5y agoAmen, brother. This is very true. What you did or didn't do, and what they arrested you for, or prosecuted you for, are often wildly different things.
- easytiger 5y agooh, you were innocent?
- kingcharles 5y agoTwo criminal cases. One was dismissed after 5 years in a windowless room. On the way out of the jail I was arrested with a fake warrant made by the prosecutor and spent another 3 years in a room with a window. I am out now.
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