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It's so sad when people die suddenly. SurveyMonkey itself hasn't even updated their team page [1]. I wonder what happened? Heart attack? I feel for Sheryl Sandberg...she seems like an exceptionally decent and grounded person, which in my experience is rare among obscenely wealthy people. [1] https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/aboutus/management/
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This questions often pops up whenever there's a thread about someone passing away on the front page. I think it's problematic since it will be up to the admins to decide whether a person was "important" enough to have a black bar. A very hard task where each consideration will be controversial. Therefore I don't think they should do it all.
They've done it for people particularly important to the community...Steve Jobs and Aaron Swartz (I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845 ). I think it's a difficult task in that you can't include everyone...but I think it'd be fine if the admins did it by personal consensus...I imagine who they think would be noteworthy would be in line with what most users think.
Dave was an excellent CEO and the nicest guy - everyone at SurveyMonkey liked him and liked working for him. This is just devastating news. I saw someone say on Twitter "Dave defined the word 'mensch'" - very true.
Dave was an excellent CEO and the nicest guy - everyone at SurveyMonkey liked him and liked working for him. This is just devastating news. I saw someone say on Twitter "Dave defined the word 'mensch'" - very true.
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Mo Koyfman, a VC, tweeted that it is likely a heart attack. https://twitter.com/mokoyfman/status/594549389340876801
I know of 2 guys who had a case of "sudden death" in the valley, both from heart attack, both were using stimulants and working very long hours in their startups. I know from previous threads that a lot of folks in the valley use stimulants to get through nights without sleep, to work with high focus, but guys you have to be careful. Stimulant use aside, keep in mind cardiovascular diseases is one of _the_ bigger kil…
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Mo Koyfman, a VC, tweeted that it is likely a heart attack. https://twitter.com/mokoyfman/status/594549389340876801
I know of 2 guys who had a case of "sudden death" in the valley, both from heart attack, both were using stimulants and working very long hours in their startups. I know from previous threads that a lot of folks in the valley use stimulants to get through nights without sleep, to work with high focus, but guys you have to be careful. Stimulant use aside, keep in mind cardiovascular diseases is one of _the_ bigger kil…
I wont try to speculate what actually happened out of respect for him and his family but I can assure you that he was not the standard silicon valley go hard all night type of CEO.
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I'm a retired radiologist with a huge experience performing coronary CT angiography (CCTA). This is an amazingly accurate exam, superior to cardiac catheterization and stress tests. Radiation dose from this exam has been dramatically reduced in recent years, Having seen thousands of these studies I can state that many people have severe coronary artery disease at young ages (in their thirties). They are at risk for s…
Presumably the ~5 mSv radiation exposure is worth the benefits?
Cool video with Dave about startups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtnSgQL-Bg
Heart attacks can be induced, and usually there is someone around who knows CPR. People don't usually die from Heart attacks these days, especially not people who Have enough money to get excellent healthcare.
Was there anything Goldberg was doing that was in any way connected to the spooks? He did once work for Bain.
Or could the US government have killed him in order to ensure compliance from someone close to Goldberg like the Facebook CEO?
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Some of these aren't even up to date. Lets stop acting like we're health experts here. If your doctor is still making you do "turn and cough", then your doctor is using out of date practices (source: my GF is a doctor). Similar to another person's post above, she cringes at posts like this. You SHOULD go to the doctor to get check up each year, but you should not just go get every test under the sun just in case. The…
Could we also stop acting like our girlfriend being a doctor makes us qualified to give medical advice? What evidence in particular, aside from your girlfriend, do you have for the claim that the groin exam for inguinal hernias is outdated? Is this subject in your girlfriend's field? What publications does she cite?
http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Topic/reco...
I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327 In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant. Looking back there were so many telltale sign…