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Life Stats
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#42I'm surprised and sad that 15% of my cohort is dead already. 8( It says a dollar in the year I was born (1963) is the same as $8.4 today As a reminder to myself about the meaning of hard money... I carry around a 1901 dollar... minted in New Orleans, that you might have got as change in 1963.... that's worth $19.20 melt value today. More than twice the $8.4 amount. Not in my wallet is a 1852 dollar... worth $84.48 to…
For me (1981) it's already 9%. That would mean that approx. 1 in 10 friends would already have died. I don't think thats remotely true for me. Most likely the global distribution of deaths is really uneven.
Fellow 1981 here too. Maybe I balance that statistic as unfortunately a couple of my fiends died.
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#43This is cool, simple but fun. One improvement I'd suggest is using an international date format (yyyy / mm / dd) or perhaps a dropdown for months. Even with the date placeholder text I managed to mess up the date!
Don't feel bad, you are not alone.
At least the width of the YYYY entry box could be twice that of the MM and the DD boxes.
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#44> Life expectancy went up 10 years for all people. This is strangely misleading.
If you look at the life expectancy statistics there's usually one chart based on your current age, and incidentally I looked this up just two days ago. I am close to 40 and have an average of ~40 years to live. If I was 40y old at the time I was born, it was only about ~30 years left. At least that's my interpretation of this sentence in there.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
That population increase statistic was a little shocking (+2.7B in our lifetimes). I suppose I knew it already, but it hadn’t clicked how crazy that is.
I just realized we're less than 1 year away from reaching 8 billion people on Earth. A bit scary.
It would be much scarier if it was decreasing or staying flat, though.
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#46This is cool, simple but fun. One improvement I'd suggest is using an international date format (yyyy / mm / dd) or perhaps a dropdown for months. Even with the date placeholder text I managed to mess up the date!
Even on the simple site like this, even the contentious topic of implementation of dates pops up. :-).
The dates are a pain to do well and agreeable to everyone.
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#47I'm surprised and sad that 15% of my cohort is dead already. 8( It says a dollar in the year I was born (1963) is the same as $8.4 today As a reminder to myself about the meaning of hard money... I carry around a 1901 dollar... minted in New Orleans, that you might have got as change in 1963.... that's worth $19.20 melt value today. More than twice the $8.4 amount. Not in my wallet is a 1852 dollar... worth $84.48 to…
For me (1981) it's already 9%. That would mean that approx. 1 in 10 friends would already have died. I don't think thats remotely true for me. Most likely the global distribution of deaths is really uneven.
Most died before you knew them, since under 5 mortality is the most significant component at this age, especially globally.
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#48I'm surprised and sad that 15% of my cohort is dead already. 8( It says a dollar in the year I was born (1963) is the same as $8.4 today As a reminder to myself about the meaning of hard money... I carry around a 1901 dollar... minted in New Orleans, that you might have got as change in 1963.... that's worth $19.20 melt value today. More than twice the $8.4 amount. Not in my wallet is a 1852 dollar... worth $84.48 to…
For me (1981) it's already 9%. That would mean that approx. 1 in 10 friends would already have died. I don't think thats remotely true for me. Most likely the global distribution of deaths is really uneven.
Seems true for me at least (1980 birth). One of my first friends died of a cat allergy at 12, another shot himself the next year at 13, my sister's best friend was murdered by her mom's boyfriend right after I graduated, my best friend from high school died from alcohol withdrawals in 2016, and it seemed like for a few years after high school, at least 1 or 2 people were dead from car accidents that I'd known from school every summer I came back from college. A guy I worked with in college broke his neck and died in basketball practice. Probably not fair to count people I met in my 20s since I was in the Army during the Iraq/Afghanistan years, but deaths were pretty regular. I wanna say my 20 year reunion had 12 deaths out of a graduating class of about 200? That isn't quite 9%, but doesn't count those who died before we graduated.
And yeah, clearly the rate is likely to be much higher for people living in Bangladesh or Djibouti or something. I grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs.
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#50This is cool, simple but fun. One improvement I'd suggest is using an international date format (yyyy / mm / dd) or perhaps a dropdown for months. Even with the date placeholder text I managed to mess up the date!
Yeah, I messed up the date as well. drop down would be perfect :)