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“Real estate (then, now, and probably forevermore) was a prime source of speculative frenzy. Taylor wrote that “a friend of mine, who wished to find a place for a law practice, was shown a cellar in the earth about twelve feet square and six deep, which he could have for $250 a month.”
― A Short History of San Francisco
― A Short History of San Francisco
“And it’s the act of our observing the cat that kills it—or lets it live. And then it gets mind-fuckingly weird. Because those kinds of observations happen all the time. So if the world really splits whenever something is observed, that means there’s an unimaginably massive, infinite number of universes—a multiverse—where everything that can happen will happen.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
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