Top 5 Regrets People Make on their Deathbed

Post by martincmartin » Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 1:18 PM UTC

andrewcooke wrote: post #34

isn't there a kind of statistical / informational bias here? you can simplify the trade-off between work and pleasure as one where you need to work enough, earlier in life, to survive for some some unpredictable amount, later in life. so when you're making the decision about how much to work, and how much to play, you have incomplete data - you don't know when you will die. but when you are dying, you do have that da…

Post by fecklessyouth » Fri, Jun 03, 2011, 1:27 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #52

jaysonelliot wrote: post #28

I'd like to say that I'm surprised by the lack of introspection and thoughtfulness that I'm reading in these comments, but instead I'm just disappointed. Perhaps most people here are just too busy living in the hubristic stage of their life to imagine that there's anything to be gained by occasionally listening to the wisdom of those who've gone before us.

Agreed. 9/10 posters are intent on disproving the article in one way or another, rather than actually learning something from it. "Critiquing articles on HN" likely isn't something they'll look favorably upon years from now.