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Something to think about:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2010/12/your-simulated-reality/

I think this took place in my apartment back when I was in college:

I was doing something like throwing a ball out the door of my room so that it bounced around and wound up bouncing down the stairwell. Some sort of thing that I could tell what the ball was doing by the sounds of what it was bouncing against.

After spending so much time studying physics, it was pretty amazing to me how the ball managed to figure out its own path without needing to solve any complex equations or even be visually observed by anyone. The ball, hallway, stairs, etc. all did their own parts without even needing a calculator (much less a supercomputer).

I said to my roomate, Jay, “Isn’t it amazing how reality interacts with itself?”

He replied, “It’s almost as if it has its own existence outside of our minds.”

Reread:

Print "A man walks into a bar and says ouch."

REM: I had to read the title of this post

REM: several times even while knowing it's a joke.

If ("LAUGH") THEN Continue: ELSE Reread:

Continue:

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Google thinks the web should be fast, and that’s kinda the final word. Here’s some (older but still useful) info on site speed as a ranking factor.

I recently found a useful website for testing your website’s speed – it checks the website by accessing it from multiple locations (in multiple countries) and thus gives a better test than just checking the speed in your own browser.

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