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		vidarh on Sept 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) Entirely off topic to this post, but given the HN audience, this is one of my all time favorite long form articles: "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson. Wired. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html It's about FLAG - Fibre Optic Link Around the Globe. 40k+ words.

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