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by ornel 8y ago
It happened with water. Who would have thought 15 years ago how much bottled water is sold today?
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by ornel 8y ago
Google Maps, last time I checked, is extra bad in third-world rural areas. Next to useless when the pavement disappears and it's all dirt roads, which is a lot of the world in poor countries. I guess there are no Starbucks, i.e. not en
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Linux Mint 19 “Tara” beta released(blog.linuxmint.com)
2 points by ornel 8y ago|0 comments
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Nasdaq Stockholm's servers knocked out by loud noise(qz.com)
2 points by ornel 8y ago|0 comments
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by ornel 9y ago
James C. Scott (in "Against the Grain: a deep history of the earliest states [2017]) has a bit of perspective on "collapse": "Why deplore “collapse,” when the situation it depicts is most often the disaggregation of a c
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by ornel 9y ago
Why all the fuzzy love for Barnes and Noble? They intentionally destroyed independent bookstores in many places with their superstores. Good riddance!
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by ornel 9y ago
Controlling enourmous amounts of assets makes humans extremely powerful, and that's the problem. Being good at making money is not a particularily wise way of assigning power to people, who not atypically go on using it to accumulate a
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by ornel 9y ago
Doesn't reprocessing produce a lot of high level waste as a byproduct, thereby worsening the waste problem? And I understand the Japanese had an experimental breeder reactor for a long time and never achieved actually producing any com
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by ornel 9y ago
It's a never ending source of confusion and bad translations. We (I'm from Panama) definitely consider ourselves "americanos" and the continent is for sure called América. It is clearly geographically a continent. Nobody
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Panama drops diplomatic ties with Taiwan, switches to China(bbc.com)
1 points by ornel 9y ago|1 comments
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Generating holograms from WiFi radiation(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by ornel 9y ago|0 comments