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_gopz | 10 years ago | on: The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-8FB6k8jik

_gopz | 10 years ago | on: The Most Important Thing: Decline in poverty, illiteracy and disease

> 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?

_gopz | 10 years ago | on: How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012)

> Since these URLs are private, Google does not want to store them anywhere permanently in the Google servers.