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Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by thaumasiotes on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:44AM (#16665217)
> Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from mosquito-borne illnes[s], about 5,000,000,000 human lives.

Your math doesn't work.

The current population of the world is between 7 and 8 billion.

If half of all humans who have ever lived were 5 billion, the total number of people who have ever lived would be 10 billion, of which at least 7 billion are still alive.

That leaves less than 5 billion who could possibly have ever died for any reason, much less mosquito-borne illnesses.

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Re:Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona C... by user5994461 on Saturday March 24, 2018 @06:24AM (#16665874)
“Modern” Homo sapiens (that is, people who were roughly like we are now) first walked the Earth about 50,000 years ago. Since then, more than 108 billion members of our species have ever been born, according to estimates by Population Reference Bureau (PRB).

Source: https://www.prb.org/howmanypeoplehaveeverlivedonearth/

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