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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: not even sort of old power, Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 19:49:44 +0000
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John Levine wrote:

> According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:
>>So, you (and her) will have to pass over 10,000 of the others to end
>>up with a compatible partner. 

> For most of human history most people lived in communities of a few
> hundred or a few thousand, with little option to travel very far, and
> nonetheless most people managed to find someone to marry. I gather
> that until the advent of railways in the 1800s, it was common for
> second cousins to marry because that was as genetically far away as
> you could get.

In the later stages of the Roman Empire, the average (non-slave)
person traveled more than 100 miles from where they were born/living
many times in their rather short lives.

After the fall of Rome, few people ventured much beyond their own
city/town.

From "A world lit only by Fire", Manchester.

> It's also a question of expectations. If you expect to find someone
> who exactly matches everything you're looking for, you'll probably be
> out of luck.  But if you are looking for someone who matches on the
> issues that are important, and you're willing to work out the details
> as you go along, well, that's worked for me for the past 30 years.

> (Perhaps we can find somewhere other than comp.arch to discuss this.
> In my original message in which I reported about grad student wives
> holding their husbands' places in line to use an IBM 650, I didn't
> hear anything about how that did or did not affect their marriage. But
> I would expect in that era, the wives said, yeah, whatever, grabbed
> their blankets, and groused with each other about what a stupid setup
> it was.)