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"Lifesaving" is a pretty nebulous concept. Does a plow which enables higher crop yields and thus less starvation constitute as life saving? Or a weather satellite, which allows prediction of rain patterns and more efficient irrigation usage? Modern technology is all interconnected, and only a few extreme leaf nodes could be unambiguously declared non-life saving.


I'd consider those examples as life-saving, yes. I was thinking more of yet another 'social' website that receives millions of dollars of funding.




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