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Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by Aeolun »

I’m thankful that I have a fantastic little boy, who’s growing up healthy and happy.

Before I had one I just couldn’t imagine how much joy a child can bring to your life (and pain, and stress, and a lot of other bad things, but it’s all worth it).

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by mrleinad »

WomanCanCode wrote: post #22

I'm thankful for my family. And for not living in one of those mafia run country where you don't have any freedom of speech. I'm thankful not to have religion force on me. I'm thankful for having well stocked supermarkets so I can easily feed my family. I'm thankful that our police and sheriffs are not our enemy or used as a tool of suppression. I'm thankful that when our news organizations get disgusted with corrupt…

And you never said where you live

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by MegaDeKay »

eucryphia wrote: post #40

Winning the lottery of life, being born in Australia after world war 2 where everyone born is in the global top 1%.

Lottery of life indeed. I have been to many places in this world, and have seen many things that make me thankful I was born in a place where there is the opportunity to have a good and comfortable life if I make the effort to make it happen. A lot of people in a lot of places have been dealt such a shitty hand that their opportunities for a life similar to mine are near zero, no matter what they do in life.

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Post by snagglegaggle »

Aeolun wrote: post #38
vageli wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That's amazing! I'm super happy for you and your family! > Your comment gave me pause because it reminded me that it is opt-in not opt-out. It is an election cycle, I wonder if we could convince one of the candidates to switch us to opt-out rather than opt-in for organ donation. While I am personally an organ donor, I don't believe the state should be the defacto owner of my organs post mortem.

So who do they belong to? The earth that they’re eventually going back to? I think emotionally I agree with you, but rationally I just cannot explain it.

Ostensibly they should belong to the estate of the deceased. As it is now, in the US (as I understand it) organs and body tissue is in this weird limbo of not being considered property. The original case law around this seems to exist to: 1) make it hard to go after doctors who do things you don't like with your discarded tissue (either destroying it, or giving it to the state for evidence), and 2) prevent trafficking in humans and their organs.

The second part seems to mean that only certain types of nonprofits can accept organs. From there they may or may not be able to profit off of the sale of the organ but instead the services to transport and maintain it. Then at a certain point, you've turned penises into lip filler, and then you can sell the lip filler (at a huge profit).

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by blhack »

Thankful I get to live where I do, and mostly get to work on passion projects all the time. I have an amazingly talented and supportive wife (hey honey wanna go sleep in your minivan and compete in this hackathon with me?! I’ll do backend you do front end!), and amazingly supportive, ideologically aligned friends with whom I get to work on the aforementioned passion projects with.

I’m really, really lucky, and I try not to ever let myself forget it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?

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Post by roberson87 »

arcboii92 wrote: post #34
roberson87 wrote: post #13

I am thankful for being born white.

Being born brown, I'm thankful for my white names that get me into interviews where I can prove I'm a good developer.

Some of my non-white friends who haven't been blessed with forward-thinking parents such as yours, who give their children civilized names nonetheless use Western names on their resume when job seeking. So I don't think having a government 'white name' is all the beneficiary for job seeking purposes.

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

muzani wrote: post #8

I'm thankful for my mental health. Seems like these days half my friends are on anti-anxiety and depression medication. I'm thankful for my physical health too. I may be a little overweight but it's still above average for my friend group. I get sick maybe twice a year, certainly beats being on dialysis or whatever. I'm thankful for having a family, someone I belong to, and who belongs to me. I'm thankful for having…

ME TOO. I somehow seem to have a well of emotional and mental energy to work on hobbies and nearly everyone I know struggles with motivation.
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