metafrag

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   by metafrag 9y ago

   Chile was exporting saltpeter to Europe by steamship to fertilize local fields before the Haber process was invented. Nowadays it's a little bit like, "Well, the entire world is connected by kinetic prisms and half the food is alm
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   by metafrag 9y ago

   Data sharing technologies disrupted the media market in the same way that ride sharing technologies disrupted the taxi market. Its piratical uses are secondary to the fact that analog information had been largely outmoded by digital informa
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   by metafrag 9y ago

   It would be awesome if people stopped talking about the alleviation of societal ills by saying that people will "go to war" on them. Poverty isn't something you war on. Poverty's something people are lifted out of.