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Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by rlt »

silisili wrote: post #78
seibelj wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also extremely strange is he received a liver transplant much quicker than average, in a state far from where he lived, which later received a $40mil anonymous donation https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/11/12/hospital-where-jobs-rece...

I'm honestly not sure why this was never more complained about. He ignored medical advice, that's fine I guess, his right. But he effectively stole a liver from someone and essentially wasted it. Must be nice to have FU money.

Given something like 40% of liver transplants go to people with alcohol related diseases this doesn’t bother me too much.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

markdown wrote: post #24
pkdpic wrote: post #9

>>> From: Steve Jobs To: Steve Jobs Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am mo…

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> because I knew better.

It's not because he knew better, but because he didn't like it. And frankly, who can blame him? The survival rate from pancreatic cancer is quite low, as is the median life expectancy. Moreover, he had the misfortune of getting a more aggressive variant. And the treatment is quite heavy.

Nevertheless, if it was me, everything considered, I'd still try to take my chances. And I believe most people would do the same. It's a pity, because there is still some chance he could still be around.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by samstave »

HatchedLake721 wrote: post #113
samstave wrote: post #95

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Yeah, but you still made the trillion pounds of e-waste from everything you did do, and profitted off of jony's shitty fucking life-cycle understanding of anything plastic... Fuck Jobs worship. He DID CREATE a ton of shit that the world doesnt need in the environment and by claiming that appl is some beacon of the most amazing design - nope. If appl was the bastion for thought on product design, I wouldnt have ~20 br…

When some weird hate blinds your rationality and you start talking about missing lanyards on an iPhone. lol Is that satire?

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Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #76
c0nducktr wrote: post #70

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How is your relationship with your father?

> How is your relationship with your father? Great. And yes, I'd resent him had he traded the weekends we spent making balsa-wood gliders, filming Star Trek home videos (paper maché + sugar against a black t-shirt + handycam) and taking desert hikes for face time in the office. But we are inarguably better off for Jobs--and countless others--having prioritised their professions over conventional needs. It simply seem…

> we are inarguably better off for Jobs--and countless others--having prioritised their professions over conventional needs

You don’t know the alternate reality where jobs did not do that. Perhaps another company would have done similar things or even something completely different than also improved our lives.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by sigmoid10 »

abdabab wrote: post #116
pkdpic wrote: post #9

>>> From: Steve Jobs To: Steve Jobs Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am mo…

> I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being. This almost sounds like a Buddhist vow.

Wasn't he a Buddhist?

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by chongli »

silisili wrote: post #78
seibelj wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also extremely strange is he received a liver transplant much quicker than average, in a state far from where he lived, which later received a $40mil anonymous donation https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/11/12/hospital-where-jobs-rece...

I'm honestly not sure why this was never more complained about. He ignored medical advice, that's fine I guess, his right. But he effectively stole a liver from someone and essentially wasted it. Must be nice to have FU money.

I’d rather be alive, living my non-rich, non-famous life than to have FU money and be dead.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by archi42 »

empraptor wrote: post #119
raydiatian wrote: post #91

"Sent from my iPad" fucking poetic lol

i've always wondered why "Sent from my xxxxx" lines are tacked on. are those intended to blame poorly composed messages and typos on bad typing experience provided by mobile devices?

Or it's just a cheap ad or for the user to show off; after all they bought an expensive iDevice and not sime cheap Android. Or a little bit of everything's.

Sent from my Oh-MeGaphone SE with the official Firefox app

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

laumars wrote: post #72
mandeepj wrote: post #50

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You think they did not have competition while IBM was the gorilla in front of them?

IBM were a mainframe company back then. Both Apple and Microsoft were already household names in the personal micro computer world before IBM entered the market. Source: I lived through that era writing software for micro computers.

IBM was a household name in the 80s. I’m not sure which era you’re talking about, though.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by willyt »

ekianjo wrote: post #84
seibelj wrote: post #35

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Also extremely strange is he received a liver transplant much quicker than average, in a state far from where he lived, which later received a $40mil anonymous donation https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2015/11/12/hospital-where-jobs-rece...

Let's not pretend rich people don't skip the line. I mean, it's so obvious it would happen, and no amount of regulation will prevent that because whoever is involved can easily be corrupted with FU money.

For sure. That’s the whole basis of healthcare in the US; the more money you have the better it is. I don’t agree with it and I’m glad my country does this differently up to a point but I don’t see why this particular incident is surprising or unfair if that’s the system Americans have decided to live with.
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