My parents are deeaaaaaaad!
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#162Please understand I don't mean to discredit your site in any way and what I'm about to say below is no reflection in your commitment. But this is a good opportunity for me to make an important point regards a discussion that took place here a few days ago. You see - This website serves no purpose in the East or Eastern ethnic minorities. It's not part of our culture to lose contact with our parents. I saw my parents…
I'm 33 yrs old. I've never not spoken to my parents for more than 14 days ever in my life.
From the link, I gather that you feel under societal pressure to stay in constant touch with your parents, even when you don't wish to.
Is someone physically holding a gun to your head? If not ... you, and only you, are responsible for the conduct of your own life.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had to upvote this as this is something I've been saying for years. The amount of things a college grad can do with a million dollars is vastly bigger than the choice an octogenarian has. A dollar simply doesn't have the same value to a young person and an old person. The potential of what you can do with your money greatly diminishes as you age and at some point money even becomes a non-factor. When you're pissing…
> When you're pissing your diapers in an old people's home, what good is your retirement money? As I've understood, the point is to blow all your retirement money between the age of 65(standard retirement age), and as you so eloquently put it, the age when you are pissing yourself in an old folks home. With a little luck, you've got about 30 years there.
More than a little luck. It'd take quite a bit of luck just to live that long, much less be healthy till 95.
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#164If you are 25 this is how many weeks you have left to live: http://i.imgur.com/MA3YeuX.jpg
If you like that you may find this interesting: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3568125/clock.html
Arf! That can't handle people older than the Unix epoch. Unsure whether to consider this a bug in the code or in me.
Never mind, I'll just head for the Carrousel.
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#165This erroneously uses the life expectancy at birth rather than the life expectancy at - a common mistake. If my parents are 80, I don't expect them to die in 1 year just because life expectancy at birth is 81. I expect them to live about another 8 years. Use a table like http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Yes, I came here to say the same thing. They tried to correct for it by stating how far past life expectancy they are if you enter an age older that life expectancy at birth, but if you enter, say, one year less than life expectancy, you get an estimate of one year's worth of visits, which is not correct (or even close, really).
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's strange to me how some people seem to obsess so much over retirement. Is your intertemporal discount rate negative (i.e. do you value a dollar 50 years more than you value a dollar today)? That's awfully counterintuitive if you do. There is a risk that the utility will drop to zero if you die before then, and even if it doesn't there is every reason to believe that you will be able to wring more enjoyment out of…
I had to upvote this as this is something I've been saying for years. The amount of things a college grad can do with a million dollars is vastly bigger than the choice an octogenarian has. A dollar simply doesn't have the same value to a young person and an old person. The potential of what you can do with your money greatly diminishes as you age and at some point money even becomes a non-factor. When you're pissing…
If you're in the US, that money is always for keeping you off the street, at any age. It's funny you mention retirement homes. Those cost more than my current lifestyle does. Medicaid, you say? Ok, but first you need money for a lawyer to help you get on Medicaid, because the state will seek to deny you no matter your situation, as a matter of policy. We've been going through this pathetically broken process with my grandfather for a year. Just in case any young people out there are under the impression that 'the system' just sort of kicks in and takes care of things at a certain age, it doesn't. So you don't save for retirement so you can go jet-skiing in the tropics at 90. You save so you don't end up stuck, suffering alone for years in bad conditions, because you can't afford a roof and humane care.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Soooo, what are you going to do about those facts?
Well, being aware is the 1st step I guess :) . I'm treating the money and job ones first, after that I'll tackle my weight (I did manage to lose 40 pounds a few years ago, but got them back compensating for the shitty job and money troubles). Thanks for the prod :)
I'll second what mahyarm said about being aware of calories.
Download Myfitnesspal (or bookmark the website) and use it for one week.
I'll disagree with mahyarm about needing anything fancly like liquid egg whites. For most people substituting water for softdrinks will make a substantial difference to the calories. Carrot sticks do make a good snack though (they have a high satability index). Pears are also good if you prefer something sweeter.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you like that you may find this interesting: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3568125/clock.html
Arf! That can't handle people older than the Unix epoch. Unsure whether to consider this a bug in the code or in me. Never mind, I'll just head for the Carrousel.
Good find, in what browser?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you like that you may find this interesting: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3568125/clock.html
That's really wonderful! Is it yours? Have you considered hosting it somewhere? Dropbox seems so ephemeral...
Thanks, it is, and now that you point it out I suppose I could put it up somewhere.
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#170Effective site, but I hope the people who found it depressing reconsider their response. The site didn't tell you anything you didn't already know, it only clarified it. Instead of denying information to keep yourself happy, why not use the information? My 69-year-old mother remarked earlier this year that if she didn't get around to some of her life goals soon she wouldn't be able to. Did she say that out of depress…
I don't want to nitpick but 100 kilometers a day for a 70 year old, sounds pretty impossible...thats about 7 hours of non stop riding every day at a modest speed, even a fit college student won't be able to bike for 7 hours straight. Edit: I do agree that a fit student can do a 7 hour bike tour, but i still staand by my opinion that for 70 year old it seems to be impossible.
do you know many 70 year olds? My father-in-law runs 100 meter dashes with other old folks. He is 70 and can probably outrun me at 41 - and I exercise regularly.