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  1. ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜€๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ฌ๐—ข๐—จ๐—ฅ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜† ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ. ๐Ÿงต

    Airlines, hospitals, emergency hotlines, supermarkets, banks, railways, broadcast services... we experienced a worldwide outage in multiple industries this week. Many of you were affected by the tech choices of CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs... They have chosen "safe bets", "big brands", "well-known, reliable players".

    Pic source: "" (R. ), xkcd.com/2347/ (CC BY-NC 2.5)

  2. "Are there more grains of sand than stars in the sky?" is a popular question that has been tackled by many people.
    The short answer to that question is that there are probably more stars in the visible universe than grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches.

    #whatif #randall #munroe #book

  3. I would like to suggest to #Randall #Munroe who makes the #XKCD comic to write "International Editions" of the boos and comics... It pains me to have to convert pounds, stones and feets to SI units...

    Maybe an ebook plugin?