This makes you appreciate what we have and how much has changed since the mid
1960's https://www.gwern.net/Improvements
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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s ·
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Progress is usually debated in terms of the big things like lifting the Third
World out of poverty, eliminating child mortality 1 , or science & tech:
discovering gravitational waves, creating world champion AIs, turning AIDS into
a treatable rather than terminal disease, conquering hepatitis C or, curing
deadly cancers with genetically-engineered T-cells.
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Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring
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When it comes to bad luck, there are few superstitions as pervasive in Western
culture as that of Friday the 13th. Here's why.
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Rick
