I think there's a bug, if you put in a birth date in the 1930s for the USA, it says you have negative time remaining.
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#92I built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the…
I remember that site and it was actually what I was expecting to see when I clicked on the OP! I feel like the version I remember stumbling across had smoking but no BMI but I can't corroborate it on archive.org It hasn't changed much in 20 years, eh. https://web.archive.org/web/20000520091843/http://www.deathc... Really cool to see it's still up.
Smoking and BMI and other stuff came after I sold it. I used to have hardware models too - I forget who I partnered with. It never did earn any real $$.
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#93Do anything for Dethklok.
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#94not impressed:
YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING
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#95Are you people getting NAN going to fight for the ultimate prize? There can be only one...
Yes and it’s giving me Logan’s Run vibes. I will be at the Carousel if anybody needs me.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let me take a try why you feel that way. (I might be wrong). Stoicism is very easily repurposed, because it is divorced from a religious praxis, and therefore easily assimilated. It is pithy and vague enough too, its maxims can fit on a bumper sticker. "Life is short!", honk if you agree. The appeal for stoicism today is because it is aspirational; we no longer recognize the stoic hero in ourselves and our neighbors.…
Exactly right. Essentially the consumerist, "fast food for the brain" idea is what I was struggling to point out. Having read a little of this thread though, I'm more open to the idea that even what seems to me as fluff is pretty useful as a regular centering mechanism so I'm just moderately indifferent instead of annoyed now.
All the old ideas, everything good, is always rediscovered and repackaged over and over again. Don't let others yuck your yum.
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#97As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably sto…
Unfortunately html input type=date rarely works in mobile browsers.
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#99For those who don't know:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
So many people are saving up their happiness for a day when they feel like they can finally be allowed to truly be happy. Sometimes, the day never comes, and the happiness has expired.
About 10 years ago I moved onto a wonderfully quiet street that has only old people. All three of my immediate neighbors (either side plus straight across the street) were couples that had just retired and had been saving for a long time in order to go traveling. Two of the men got too sick to travel and died within a year. The remaining man got sick and almost died, but he’s hanging on. He and his wife both too sick…
I appreciate the idea, but what about preparing for the future? Money spent now doesn’t compound for later. I’m concerned about not being a burden later or leaving my wife without enough. There is surely a balance but without a crystal ball I wonder how to find it.