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		xp84 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visualizing All ISBNs Let’s say there are ten billion such marginally-useful books published by the time the next few decades. Many epub books are like a couple MB. So 30 petabytes total. That’s something you could fit in one room. One rich guy could buy enough hard drives to do that today. Why not?

Over2Chars 11 months ago [–]

The ability to do less than worthwhile things, at reasonable cost and effort, hardly implies the necessity or justification for it.

There are lots of worthless things we can do, quite practically. Let's not do them and say we did.

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