You gotta admit it is very elegant. Let’s assume it was constructible, given that Romans perfected temporary construction scaffolding for archways.

Buying the on-ride video for him was honestly the perfect way of saying thanks.

That escalated quickly

I don’t know, “loop” seems kind of silly. Maybe they should try something else. Do you think “circle” would work? 

Ever tried 2 spend a hundred-dollar bill. most places won’t even take it like it’s not legal tender some Walmart’s won’t take it most gas stations won’t take it some fast food restaurants won’t take it. it should be illegal to not take legal tender bills just because they’re slightly bigger than normal.

If you’re ever in Owens Valley (and the drive along the Sierra range front under the deepest blue sky is well worth it); you can still see part of the fault scarp created by the colossal 1872 Lone Pine earthquake which was at least 7.8 to 7.9 and possibly larger since it was felt strongly in Sacramento and San Diego. U…

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Someone’s listening to me...well hear this.

They see you when you’re sleeping. They know when you’re awake. They don’t care if you’ve been bad or good. But they’ll come for you if you resist.

“Now we just need to get rid of hard currency and have every transaction be electronic and auditable”

that’s why people like you are causing more problems in the world.. good or bad .. even morality it self is becoming subjective.. allowing yourself and others to be grabbed hard by giant tech companies is just the beginning.. one day what you believed is right will become wrong for them.. and you will be punished for…

They see you when you’re sleeping. They know when you’re awake. They know when you’ve been bad or good, so be good, for goodness sake.

Socially auditable too. . . .

Facebook is trying that with their new currency.

Researchers of the 1970s brainstormed the perfect surveillance technology for a totalitarian state just as a hypothetical exercise. They came up with debit cards.

Anecdotal story that I can’t prove anything with but *feels* true: My wife and I were driving back home after 5 days in the countryside visiting family. We’d discussed someday, hypothetically looking at buying a lakehouse (we absolutely cannot afford to do this, but it’s nice to dream) while using Google’s GPS, as our…

Ah, good ol’ ray tracing.

The practice of private equity law is the most profitable practice there is. Except maybe defending an oil company after a major oil spill or doing the fine print for a petro state’s oil business IPO.