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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by muzani on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:56PM (#29356884)
Coming from a developing country, I was very impressed that you could get drinking water straight from the tap in some countries. My wife, a civil engineer, couldn't believe it either. There's just so much complexity involved in it, including storage, which can have rats and rust.

Normally we just filter the stuff between the tap and cup. And as a kid, we had to boil and store it, and just learned to tolerate the metallic/dirt taste at times. This was when soda peaked.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by mortenjorck on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:16PM (#29357023)
> This was when soda peaked.

Somehow I never put the international explosion of Coke and Pepsi in this context. The things late-20th century Americans took for granted!

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by noduerme on Saturday November 27, 2021 @12:44AM (#29357804)
A local I knew in Mexico told me that the water in his town was safe to drink, and that the theory of unsafe tap water was a disinformation campaign by gringos/Coca-Cola. Spoiler: Was not safe to drink the water.
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