Some decent reporting courtesy of Steve Ballmer.   I'll have to follow https://usafacts.org/the-big-picture?return_to=%2Freport-slides%3Fpage%3D131&view=spending

I've been living the carless lifestyle since August 2015.  Here's a full year of Uber and Lyft spend. For me this is a no-brainer compared to what I was spending on car ownership between monthly payments, insurance, gas, speeding tickets, and parking tickets.  This includes living and traveling in Los Angeles, Florida, Connecticut,  New York, Virginia, Georgia. Summary: $5300 for the whole year, averaging $440 a month.   The full spreadsheet for your curiosity: Transaction Details - Platinum Card® / January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 Platinum Card® / January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 Date Description $5,286.33 $440.53 1/2/2016 UBER UBER - 866-576-1039, CA $4.31 1/2/2016 UBER UBER - 866-576-1039, CA $5.75 1/2/2016 UBER UBER - 866-576-1039, CA $6.00 1/6/2016 UBER UBER - 866-576-1039, CA $5.75

I made a quick table of reference lengths in meters to figure out if I ever made a data visualization tool for the entire universe, how many zoom levels would it have to support? One zoom level is one power of ten.  reference length power is there anything meaningful that's smaller than planck length? planck length 1.62E-35 meters nanometer 1.00E-09 meter 1.00E+00 kilometer 1.00E+03 light year 9.46E+15 meter diameter of known universe 4.40E+26 So the total zoom levels of the Entire Universe are: 61.00 61 zoom levels is way more than Farmville or Warcraft So 61 zoom levels. How do these zoom levels compare to the Big Data Explosion.   reference quantity of data bytes bit 1.25E-01 1 or 0 and that's it. byte 1.00E+00 base unit for most data types in programming languages kb 1.00E+03 Starting number for web optimized images and javascript libraries mb 1.00E+06 Starting number for a song gigabytes GB 1.00E+09 This is base unit of $10 USB sticks terab...

Google just went 100% renewable energy.   I didn't know the US D.O.D. was such a proponent of renewable energy. Full post: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/values-in-action/renewable/

Kill sugar and flour intake. Eat lots of leafy greens and water. Workout very intensely 3 times a week or more.   Meditate on breath for 5 minutes or for 200 breaths. Adderall very light dose so it doesn’t cause anxiety. Do something actually related to your life purpose.

I watched this last night, while plausible it's hard to digest that a simple accounting technique caused so much mayhem. The real truth about the 2008 financial crisis | Brian S. Wesbury ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrFSO62p0jk Dec 3, 2014 - Uploaded by TEDx Talks This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The Great ...

It's not the main point of the article, but I see in the middle of this essay another signal that it's time to end all income discriminating social programs and replace it with a flat guaranteed income system. https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class