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Digital sobriety

Everteam

It was the GreenIT association, created in 2004, that first mentioned “digital sobriety” in 2008. Exploitation of heavy materials : cobalt, lithium, rare earths, graphite… Needs are exploding for the manufacture of our computers, smartphones and tablets. Well, not really. Collective awareness is therefore necessary.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I would never want to live in any of our properties we bought as investments.

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