Wow, the HN filter ignored my advice completely, refusing to post my comment. It was a shorter version of engaging more in the recreational form of reproductive activity, while your body is in its prime.
Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age
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#112I love the idea, I guess the form will change when there will be more content.
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#113Wow, the HN filter ignored my advice completely, refusing to post my comment. It was a shorter version of engaging more in the recreational form of reproductive activity, while your body is in its prime.
And don't waste decades thinking you're not that smart.
Some people have prodigious technical skills. They'll use absolutely all of their abilities to try to lift the truck off the baby, and the wall of equations they produce while failing will make you feel like you don't belong.
Don't confuse this with intelligence. It's not. The best answers are simple.
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#114It is shocking how much of this advice assumes that the world will be a similar place even a few years from now. There is a constant set of themes, for each of the years I scanned but especially my age which is 23, to travel, invest for the future, and start businesses and I am increasingly skeptical of each. I am just starting out, and I am here because I used to think that my future involved travel and startups, bu…
I realize this post may come off as abrasive, but here it goes. > but recent news has made it clear to me that travel is one of the human obsessions that is destroying this world and that the future will not happen: If you think that impending climate change (/climate catastrophe) is significantly impacted by the "human obsession" of travel, you are drinking someone else's kool-aid and pulling wool over your eyes as…
Fair enough, but tourism is estimated to account for a tenth of global carbon emissions which is not insignificant: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/tourism-climate-ch...
People have been espousing that we are doomed for decades, but many of them were actually right: we have not meaningfully deviated from the predictions made by the 1972 report The Limits of Growth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth) for example. Reality has continued tracking along with our climate models, which were used to predict doom decades ago. Some doomsday scenarios have a preponderance of evidence that they are happening, and I feel that understanding that is not pessimism but realism.
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#115Wow, the HN filter ignored my advice completely, refusing to post my comment. It was a shorter version of engaging more in the recreational form of reproductive activity, while your body is in its prime.
> the recreational form of reproductive activity
Aren't there at least two, the key distinction being the necessity of including other people?
Hmm actually my younger self was already familiar with half of this set. I'm guessing you are talking about the other half.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
One does not have to retire to a first world country. Seriously, why would you even want to retire to USA? Health care, which old people tend to use, is stupid expensive.
I'm Canadian, so I have no desire to retire to a place with awful health care. How does health care in second/third world countries work? Are you instantly granted all rights to health care if you retire to another nation?
>> are you instantly granted all rights to health care if you retire to another nation?
Yes, those rights being the sole right to purchase health care. Which can be very good if you have money and doesn't exist if you do not.
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#117It is shocking how much of this advice assumes that the world will be a similar place even a few years from now. There is a constant set of themes, for each of the years I scanned but especially my age which is 23, to travel, invest for the future, and start businesses and I am increasingly skeptical of each. I am just starting out, and I am here because I used to think that my future involved travel and startups, bu…
> my age which is 23
My advice to you, as someone who's older than you and used to think exactly like you: climate impact can be an excuse to stay in one's comfort zone. Try to go out of your way to do things you're not comfortable with, or you may come to regret wasting your youth in front of the computer.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm Canadian, so I have no desire to retire to a place with awful health care. How does health care in second/third world countries work? Are you instantly granted all rights to health care if you retire to another nation?
>> are you instantly granted all rights to health care if you retire to another nation? Yes, those rights being the sole right to purchase health care. Which can be very good if you have money and doesn't exist if you do not.
> Yes, those rights being the sole right to purchase health care.
But do all nations actually have that?
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
>It's all about your priorities/tradeoffs and how much work you're willing to put into it. They lead a very no-frills budget-restricted life, keep very minimal possessions, put effort into finding overseas teaching jobs in low cost-of-living areas, finding dirt-cheap travel deals... So how is their retirement plans coming along? >...and honestly I think the kids getting all this early travel and cultural exposure is…
> So how is their retirement plans coming along? Someone has been watching too many financial planning commercials. And is assuming life expectancy will continue to outpace retirement age a few decades out. And struggling with the close-minded back home after travel isn't a good reason not to do it.
Well life expectancy depending on variations is well past 80, especially once you make it into your late 60's and i don't imagine much of the working public wants to be heading into work Monday morning at that age, so yes - it is reasonable to assume life expectancy will outpace retirement for several decades.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't sound like you're enjoying anything.
I'm not. I'm still grieving. I think most people when they realize the extent of climate change, soil depletion, and ocean acidification will have to go through some stage of grief before they can accept the future they thought they had is going to be cut short.
Instead of grieving for what might have been, how about start working towards what might still be?
The environment has suffered damage, and it is likely to suffer further damage in the short term, but the time to start fixing that is now.