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Comment by lacoolj

5 days ago

I wonder how much is spent refining oil and how much that industry has evolved.

Or mass transit.

Or food.

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sib  5 days ago

Or on "a cure for cancer" (according to Gemini, $2.2T 2024 US dollars...)

  • philipwhiuk  5 days ago

    10 year survival is 50% in 2024 in the UK. It was 25% in the 1970s.

    Age-standardised deaths in the US are down by a third since the 1990s.

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