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Re:The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease
on Monday October 05, 2015 @09:38PM (#10336274)
I disagree. I think that qualifying every single news report with statement about how it fits into larger global/national trends would be annoying at best. It's assumed that journalists report on things that are out of the ordinary. Of course this creates a generally macabre view of reality, but on the other hand do you want everything to sound like this:
Re:The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease
on Monday October 05, 2015 @09:30PM (#10336249)
> The number of extremely poor people (defined as those earning less than $1 or $1.25 a day, depending on who’s counting) rose inexorably until the middle of the 20th century, then roughly stabilized for a few decades. Since the 1990s, the number of poor has plummeted.
I assume this is adjusted for inflation, but I didn't see anything in the link. Does anyone know?
Re:How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @07:24PM (#10268946)
> Since these URLs are private, Google does not want to store them anywhere permanently in the Google servers.