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I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
"Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted — in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in the strict sense of the word." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Is this intended to invalidate the quote in the parent comment? Does "cancel culture" apply to long-dead philosophers now?
Perhaps I'm reading too much into it!
I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?
I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?
I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zero chance of living VS non zero chance of living. I thought that was a coders forum.
Which one is that forum you're talking about? If you meant this one, it should be obvious that it's not exclusively about coders. Even if it was, your argument is quite weak if you don't qualify the non zero part a bit more. Zero chance of living how much longer than you would have otherwise? under what conditions? At what cost?
I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?
computer technology (and related) news?
I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?
"Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted — in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in the strict sense of the word." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I'd like someone to explain to me why this is on the front page of HN. Personally, I didn't find any remarkable insight in the article and the author seems like quite an average person with average advice. My best guess is that people have upvoted this out of sympathy for a dying man, or perhaps they want to make space for discussing premature death. Which for me begs the question, exactly what is HN all about?
I think a lot of people here have an anxiety about the regrets they may have if their life were to suddenly become very finite. The article is the testament of a man coming to these realizations, and we are here to discuss the themes involved.