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Strangely enough, I was just compiling a list of "good things that happened this decade" in an adjoining window for a different purpose. Here's what I got so fa
by hliyan 7y ago
Strangely enough, I was just compiling a list of "good things that happened this decade" in an adjoining window for a different purpose. Here's what I got so far:
Cheap solar energy
Electric cars
CRISPR gene editing
Real world machine learning applications
Commercial space vehicles
Ebola vaccine
Heightened public awareness of: plastics, climate change, inequality, sexual harrassment
We fixed the Ozone hole
Extreme poverty down by half
Higgs boson and gravitational waves discovered
- wallace_f 7y agoEverything has to do with science and innovation. What about mass surveilance, rising suicides and homelessness, or never-ending wars, among other things?
- IshKebab 7y agoThose aren't good things?
- wallace_f 7y agoI know that, but the topic we are discussing is that this is the greatest decade. My response is in that context.
- nyolfen 7y agoto be fair to gp, i probably wouldn't include those in a list of the best parts of the last decade either
- mbostleman 7y agoSince they aren't good things they don't belong on the list.
- sbuk 7y agoI was just compiling a list of "good things that happened this decade"...
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoSuicide rates have been falling around the world: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-death-rates-by-sex https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-death-rates-by-se...
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