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Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by xenihn on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:48PM (#13111326)
>Whoever isn't fascinated by the modern power grid is slightly dead inside. The same applies to a ton of other "mundane" things, like road and rail networks, sewage systems, garbage disposal and recycling, and so on.

I feel like the vast majority of people have absolutely no interest in learning about these things, even in a calamitous context.

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Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by will_hughes on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:48AM (#13112543)
> I feel like the vast majority of people have absolutely no interest in learning about these things

True, but shows like How It's Made are incredibly popular, even if they give a very very surface view of the details.

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Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by Cyph0n on Monday December 05, 2016 @09:20PM (#13111746)
Definitely, but how does that relate to the power grid being a mundane system?

Are you saying that we're supposed to take the word of the majority when deciding if something is "mundane"? In that case, almost everything we're discussing and upvoting here on HN is "mundane", because <90% (just a guess) of humans actually give a shit.

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Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by mememachine on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:12PM (#13111447)
how unfortunate for them
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Re:My Favorite Books of 2016 by GavinMcG on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:35PM (#13111563)
I agree, but I down voted the comment for now because it doesn't really contribute anything to the conversation and doesn't seem like it means to.
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