On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 04:16:58PM -0800, Cian Witherspoon wrote:
> I'm about to get real snarky here:

I can tell.

> Way to not get the point of the model.

I got it, but disagreed that your analogy was useful.  Adding
completely arbitrary distance ratios to it doesn't help at all.

If you're going to try to quantify it, use the fact that in your
analogy, New York stands for some system that doesn't manufacture the
high-tech goods.  Beijing stands for a star system that does
manufacture the goods.  Almost all systems in the OTU have TL C+
systems of decent population within at most ten jumps, so making a
56-jump analogy is ridiculous, bordering on disingenuous.

- Tim