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19: 315,000 obsolete index cards

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Dimaxion Chronophile

There was a thing called the dimaxion chronophile, which is Buckminster Fuller. The idea that one would make sense to you and the other probably wouldn't doesn't depend on what language you speak. If you don't have the phrase dimaxionchronophile on that card, it's not that. Oh, 315,000 of them. It sounds like the Dewey decimal system, where you're referencing a bunch of books. There's a state which has really lacks business regulations. And so all the companies incorporate there - basically all in one building.

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