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HTML
617 lines
28 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en" charset="utf-8">
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<head>
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<meta name="generator" content="Zola v.0.13.0 - getzola.org" />
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<title>A Better Solution for Our Planet • ThreeFold</title>
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<meta property="og:title" content="A Better Solution for Our Planet • ThreeFold" />
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<!-- Required meta categories -->
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<meta charset="utf-8" />
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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<!-- **** BEGINNING, favicons **** -->
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<!-- generics -->
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<!-- iOS -->
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<!-- Android -->
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<!-- Windows 8, IE 10 -->
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<!-- Windows 8.1 and up, IE 11 -->
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<!-- **** CONCLUSION, favicons **** -->
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<!-- CSS/SCSS -->
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.ourworld.tf/css/index.css?h=c3802690f633e31c633045bfdbdd4cac4750b75dffadff6ee1eadc09c21c1467" /> <style>@-moz-document url-prefix() {.lazy:-moz-loading {visibility:hidden;}}.ieOnly {display: none;}@media all and (-ms-high-contrast: none), (-ms-high-contrast: active) {.ieOnly {display: block;}}</style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<!--
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Tailwind UI components require Tailwind CSS v1.8 and the @tailwindcss/ui plugin.
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Read the documentation to get started: https://tailwindui.com/documentation
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--><!-- This example requires Tailwind CSS v1.4.0+ -->
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<script type="text/javascript">
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var displayedMenu = "";
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var hamburgerShown = false;
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let width = screen.width;
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var isMobile = width < 1024;
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function toggleMenu(button) {
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if (displayedMenu === button.id.split("-")[0]) {
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button.className = button.className.replace(" text-blue-500 bg-stone-200 sm:bg-transparent", " text-gray-900");
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hideMenu(button.id.split("-")[0]);
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button.lastElementChild.className = button.lastElementChild.className.replace("rotate-0", "-rotate-90")
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displayedMenu = "";
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}
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else {
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showMenu(button.id.split("-")[0]);
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button.lastElementChild.className = button.lastElementChild.className.replace("-rotate-90", "rotate-0")
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button.className = button.className.replace(" text-gray-900", " text-blue-500 bg-stone-200 sm:bg-transparent");
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displayedMenu = button.id.split("-")[0]
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}
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}
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function handleClick(button) {
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if (button.id === "hamburger-btn" || button.id === "close-hamburger-btn") { toggleHamburger() }
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if (button.id.indexOf("menu") !== -1 ) {
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toggleMenu(button)
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}
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}
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function toggleHamburger() {
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if (hamburgerShown) {
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hideHamburger();
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hamburgerShown = false;
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}
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else {
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showHamburger();
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hamburgerShown = true;
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}
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}
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function showMenu(menuName) {
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var menuId = menuName + (isMobile ? '-mobile-menu' : '-menu');
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var menuBtnId = menuName + (isMobile ? '-mobile-menu' : '-menu');
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var menuElement = document.getElementById(menuId)
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menuElement.className = menuElement.className.replace(" hidden" , "");
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setTimeout(function() { menuElement.className = menuElement.className.replace("duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1", "duration-150 ease-out opacity-1 -translate-y-0"); }, 10);
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}
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function hideMenu(menuName) {
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var menuId = menuName + (isMobile ? '-mobile-menu' : '-menu');
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var menuElement = document.getElementById(menuId)
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menuElement.className = menuElement.className.replace("duration-150 ease-out opacity-1 -translate-y-0", "duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1");
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setTimeout(function() { menuElement.className = menuElement.className + " hidden" }, 300);
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}
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function showHamburger() {
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document.getElementById('header-container').className = "overflow-hidden";
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document.getElementById('hamburger').className = "fixed mt-16 z-20 top-0 inset-x-0 transition transform origin-top-right";
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document.getElementById('hamburger-btn').className = "hidden lg:hidden inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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document.getElementById('close-hamburger-btn').className = "inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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}
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function hideHamburger() {
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document.getElementById('header-container').className = "";
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document.getElementById('hamburger').className = "hidden absolute z-20 top-0 inset-x-0 transition transform origin-top-right lg:hidden";
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document.getElementById('hamburger-btn').className = "inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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document.getElementById('close-hamburger-btn').className = "hidden lg:hidden inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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if (displayedMenu !== "") { hideMenu(displayedMenu); }
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}
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window.onload = function(){
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let elements = document.getElementsByTagName("button");
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let buttons = [...elements]
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buttons.forEach((button) => {
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button.addEventListener( 'click', function() { handleClick(button) });
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})
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document.getElementById("mobile-learn-btn").addEventListener( 'click', toggleMenu);
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}
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</script>
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<!-- set variables used for header template -->
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<!--
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Tailwind UI components require Tailwind CSS v1.8 and the @tailwindcss/ui plugin.
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Read the documentation to get started: https://tailwindui.com/documentation
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--><!-- This example requires Tailwind CSS v1.4.0+ -->
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<script type="text/javascript">
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var displayedMenu = "";
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var hamburgerShown = false;
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let width = screen.width;
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var isMobile = width < 1024;
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function toggleMenu(button) {
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if (displayedMenu === button.id.split("-")[0]) {
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button.className = button.className.replace(" text-blue-500 bg-stone-200 sm:bg-transparent", " text-gray-900");
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hideMenu(button.id.split("-")[0]);
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button.lastElementChild.className = button.lastElementChild.className.replace("rotate-0", "-rotate-90")
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displayedMenu = "";
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}
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else {
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showMenu(button.id.split("-")[0]);
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button.lastElementChild.className = button.lastElementChild.className.replace("-rotate-90", "rotate-0")
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button.className = button.className.replace(" text-gray-900", " text-blue-500 bg-stone-200 sm:bg-transparent");
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displayedMenu = button.id.split("-")[0]
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}
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}
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function handleClick(button) {
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if (button.id === "hamburger-btn" || button.id === "close-hamburger-btn") { toggleHamburger() }
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if (button.id.indexOf("menu") !== -1 ) {
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toggleMenu(button)
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}
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}
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function toggleHamburger() {
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if (hamburgerShown) {
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hideHamburger();
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hamburgerShown = false;
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}
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else {
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showHamburger();
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hamburgerShown = true;
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}
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}
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function showMenu(menuName) {
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var menuId = menuName + (isMobile ? '-mobile-menu' : '-menu');
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var menuBtnId = menuName + (isMobile ? '-mobile-menu' : '-menu');
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var menuElement = document.getElementById(menuId)
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menuElement.className = menuElement.className.replace(" hidden" , "");
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setTimeout(function() { menuElement.className = menuElement.className.replace("duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1", "duration-150 ease-out opacity-1 -translate-y-0"); }, 10);
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}
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function hideMenu(menuName) {
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var menuId = menuName + (isMobile ? '-mobile-menu' : '-menu');
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var menuElement = document.getElementById(menuId)
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menuElement.className = menuElement.className.replace("duration-150 ease-out opacity-1 -translate-y-0", "duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1");
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setTimeout(function() { menuElement.className = menuElement.className + " hidden" }, 300);
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}
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function showHamburger() {
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document.getElementById('header-container').className = "overflow-hidden";
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document.getElementById('hamburger').className = "fixed mt-16 z-20 top-0 inset-x-0 transition transform origin-top-right";
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document.getElementById('hamburger-btn').className = "hidden lg:hidden inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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document.getElementById('close-hamburger-btn').className = "inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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}
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function hideHamburger() {
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document.getElementById('header-container').className = "";
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document.getElementById('hamburger').className = "hidden absolute z-20 top-0 inset-x-0 transition transform origin-top-right lg:hidden";
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document.getElementById('hamburger-btn').className = "inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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document.getElementById('close-hamburger-btn').className = "hidden lg:hidden inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2";
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if (displayedMenu !== "") { hideMenu(displayedMenu); }
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}
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window.onload = function(){
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let elements = document.getElementsByTagName("button");
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let buttons = [...elements]
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buttons.forEach((button) => {
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button.addEventListener( 'click', function() { handleClick(button) });
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})
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document.getElementById("mobile-learn-btn").addEventListener( 'click', toggleMenu);
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}
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</script>
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<header id="header-container">
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<div class="z-10 bg-white fixed w-screen">
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<div class="relative z-50 shadow">
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<div class="mx-auto flex z-50 shadow justify-between items-center pl-6 pr-2 md:pl-0 md:pr-0 lg:py-5 sm:px-8 md:px-12 py-2 lg:px-20 lg:justify-start lg:space-x-20">
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<div>
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<a href="/" class="flex">
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<img class="w-48 h-auto sm:w-15" src="/images/OW_Logo.png" alt="Ourworld Logo" />
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</a>
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</div>
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<div class="-mr-2 -my-2 lg:hidden">
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<button id="hamburger-btn" type="button" class="inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2">
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<!-- Heroicon name: menu -->
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<svg class="h-6 w-6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke="currentColor">
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<path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M4 6h16M4 12h16M4 18h16" />
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</svg>
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</button>
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<button id="close-hamburger-btn" type="button" class="hidden lg:hidden inline-flex items-center justify-center p-2 rounded-md text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-500 hover:bg-gray-100 focus:outline-none focus:bg-gray-100 focus:text-gray-500 transition duration-150 ease-in-out my-2">
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<!-- Heroicon name: x -->
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<svg class="h-6 w-6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke="currentColor">
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<path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M6 18L18 6M6 6l12 12" />
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</svg>
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</button>
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</div>
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<div class="hidden lg:flex-1 lg:flex lg:items-center lg:justify-end lg:space-x-12">
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<nav class="flex space-x-10">
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<a href="/creator-zones" class="text-lg leading-6 font-medium text-gray-900 focus:outline-none focus:text-gray-900 transition ease-in-out duration-150 mt-0">
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CREATOR ZONES
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</a>
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<a href="platform" class="text-lg leading-6 font-medium text-gray-900 focus:outline-none focus:text-gray-900 transition ease-in-out duration-150 mt-0">
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PLATFORM
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</a>
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<a href="/experiences" class="text-lg leading-6 font-medium text-gray-900 focus:outline-none focus:text-gray-900 transition ease-in-out duration-150 mt-0">
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EXPERIENCES
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</a>
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<a href="/blog" class="text-lg leading-6 font-medium text-gray-900 focus:outline-none focus:text-gray-900 transition ease-in-out duration-150 mt-0">
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BLOGS
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</a>
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<a href="mailto:info@ourworld.tf" class="text-lg leading-6 font-medium text-gray-900 focus:outline-none focus:text-gray-900 transition ease-in-out duration-150 mt-0">
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CONTACT
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</a>
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</nav>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<nav>
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<div id="a-href-22-creator-zones-22-creator-zones-a-menu" class="mt-16 sm:mt-0 md:mt-0 lg:mt-0 xl:mt-0 2xl:mt-0 z-30 absolute inset-x-0 transform shadow-lg lg:backdrop-blur xl:backdrop-blur transition duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1 hidden">
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<div class="bg-white lg:bg-semi-white md:bg-semi-white xl:bg-semi-white">
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<div class="mx-8 lg:mx-20 xl:mx-20 px-6 py-4 sm:p-6 md:p-8 lg:p-12 xl:p-12">
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</nav>
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<nav>
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<div id="a-href-22platform-22-platform-a-menu" class="mt-16 sm:mt-0 md:mt-0 lg:mt-0 xl:mt-0 2xl:mt-0 z-30 absolute inset-x-0 transform shadow-lg lg:backdrop-blur xl:backdrop-blur transition duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1 hidden">
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<div class="bg-white lg:bg-semi-white md:bg-semi-white xl:bg-semi-white">
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<div class="mx-8 lg:mx-20 xl:mx-20 px-6 py-4 sm:p-6 md:p-8 lg:p-12 xl:p-12">
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</nav>
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<nav>
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<div id="a-href-22-experiences-22-experiences-a-menu" class="mt-16 sm:mt-0 md:mt-0 lg:mt-0 xl:mt-0 2xl:mt-0 z-30 absolute inset-x-0 transform shadow-lg lg:backdrop-blur xl:backdrop-blur transition duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1 hidden">
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<div class="bg-white lg:bg-semi-white md:bg-semi-white xl:bg-semi-white">
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<div class="mx-8 lg:mx-20 xl:mx-20 px-6 py-4 sm:p-6 md:p-8 lg:p-12 xl:p-12">
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</nav>
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<nav>
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<div id="a-href-22-blog-22-blogs-a-menu" class="mt-16 sm:mt-0 md:mt-0 lg:mt-0 xl:mt-0 2xl:mt-0 z-30 absolute inset-x-0 transform shadow-lg lg:backdrop-blur xl:backdrop-blur transition duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1 hidden">
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<div class="bg-white lg:bg-semi-white md:bg-semi-white xl:bg-semi-white">
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<div class="mx-8 lg:mx-20 xl:mx-20 px-6 py-4 sm:p-6 md:p-8 lg:p-12 xl:p-12">
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</nav>
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<nav>
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<div id="a-href-22mailto-info-ourworld-tf-22-contact-a-menu" class="mt-16 sm:mt-0 md:mt-0 lg:mt-0 xl:mt-0 2xl:mt-0 z-30 absolute inset-x-0 transform shadow-lg lg:backdrop-blur xl:backdrop-blur transition duration-200 ease-in opacity-0 -translate-y-1 hidden">
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<div class="bg-white lg:bg-semi-white md:bg-semi-white xl:bg-semi-white">
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<div class="mx-8 lg:mx-20 xl:mx-20 px-6 py-4 sm:p-6 md:p-8 lg:p-12 xl:p-12">
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</ul>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</nav>
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<!--
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Mobile menu, show/hide based on mobile menu state.
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Entering: "duration-200 ease-out"
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From: "opacity-0 scale-95"
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To: "opacity-100 scale-100"
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Leaving: "duration-100 ease-in"
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From: "opacity-100 scale-100"
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To: "opacity-0 scale-95"
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-->
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<div id="hamburger" class="hidden fixed mt-16 z-20 top-0 inset-x-0 transition transform origin-top-right lg:hidden">
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<div>
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<div class="shadow-xs h-screen bg-white divide-y-2 divide-gray-50">
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<div class="pb-6 sm:px-12 md:px-16 lg:px-20 space-y-6 sm:space-y-8 sm:pb-8 max-h-screen overflow-y-auto">
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<nav class="flex flex-col justify-around pb-12">
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<a href="/creator-zones" class="text-lg px-8 py-3 leading-6 font-normal text-gray-900 hover:text-gray-900 focus:outline-none focus:text-gray-900 transition ease-in-out duration-150">
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CREATOR ZONES
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</a>
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<hr/>
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Today, the global Internet and IT infrastructure requires enormous amounts of energy, responsible for about 10% of annual global energy consumption. This makes the IT industry amongst the most pollutive industries in the world (along with the often-discussed airline industry, for comparison).
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We believe IT can be sustainable. Actually, it should be! That's why energy efficiency has always been a key focus of ours. With climate change and sustainability as some of the most pressing issues of our times, new green solutions need to be our priority. It has been key to ThreeFold since the very beginning of its story to enable a technological infrastructure that can reduce the Internet’s carbon footprint drastically.
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ThreeFold reworked the whole approach to IT architectures and eliminated the layers of complexity. The result is a cloud stack that presents minimal overhead and that requires less hardware – reducing heat generation and eventually cooling requirements. By reducing the need for power, the net result is an energy-efficient Internet grid.</p>
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Creating a self-healing environment requires only minimal manual intervention to replace broken hardware components. Broken hardware components are inevitable, and the Zero-OS distributed node architecture deals with such failures by turning off broken components and provisioning unused capacity. By removing the need to ship broken parts back and forth, and linking to the corresponding installation knowledge (engineers), a lower carbon footprint can be achieved.</p>
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Currently, most storage vendors follow the path of least resistance when trying to improve on performance. Their solution for meeting performance targets is to use faster components (CPU, memory, network card, proprietary acceleration) rather than looking at the core algorithms that drive the utilization of those components. Swapping components for faster ones perpetuates a cycle of cutting corners and focuses reliance on innovation from hardware component providers rather than solving the more fundamental and underlying issues. That's a "painkiller" approach.
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Zero-OS was designed to solve root problem issues by design. While still using high-performance hardware components on the ThreeFold Grid, the algorithm of Zero-OS maximizes utilization possibilities. This enables greater performance and sustainability. Some key examples how this is achieved:</p>
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<p>Virtualization adds a layer of software between the actual end-user workload and physical hardware. It also allows for multiple workloads to run on the same hardware by using excess capacity. There is definitely merit in building a virtualization solution. Building an effective virtualization solution that does not require abundant context switching is key and this is why Zero-OS has been developed. Zero-OS uses a minimal Linux kernel that allows for a number of user spaces to co-exist. In these user spaces, containerized versions of software can be run, eliminating the need for hypervisors, virtual OS to fuel the virtual machines, and guest operating systems. This also minimizes the required overhead for the host OS.</p>
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<p>Supercomputing delivered many new technologies. But, not all of them are usable solutions for everyday workloads. One technology invented to make supercomputers performant is the use of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). RDMA allowed physical CPU boards (containing both CPUs and memory) to access other CPU boards in memory stored data over a dedicated channel. This eliminated the need to transport data between CPU nodes over network connections (or other mainstream means to exchange data). The result was a considerable reduction in overhead created when allowing distributed end user workloads to operate over multiple physical cores. The leading server and storage solutions brands have never considered nor implemented such mechanisms. This resulted in an increased need for faster networks - increasing complexity, costs, efforts and resources needed to operate solutions.
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<p>The storage solution uses slow and big (the bigger the better) HDD disks which drive in rack density. As they spin slower they consume less power and need less cooling. But then, how can you deal with read/write intensive workloads? The storage algorithm uses a SSD cache to acknowledge Inputs/Outputs coming from the applications, fills the erasure coded data blocks in large (up to 64MB) storage containers and writes the big chunks of data on the big and slow HHDs. If you are familiar with HDD disks, you know they like to be streamed on instead of having a lot of small bits written in a scratchy way.
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