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There’s an accidental beauty to it, Darin has to admit — like a child’s drawing, a crude approximation made all the more powerful by its artlessness. It spills from every corner of the web, sent from server to server, scrolling past on a thousand million screens. A throw-away suffix; a statement of all that we are. The digital currency of care and kindness.

That, and he likes the math:
1 + 1 = less-than-three
1 + 1 = more-than-two