That's exactly the kind of existential crisis I was looking for on a Saturday night.
I know, right? Apparently I'm at 54% completion of my life...
Haha, some of us have a lot less. :)
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#172I built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the…
I'm sure you're aware, but there's an episode of the great show The IT Crowd whose plot revolves around your website
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#173With enough biometrics it could estimate the remaining lifetime pretty well. From time to time, it could ask naive users to answer a couple more questions, like whether their dad had asthma, and improve the estimate, but the business model would be to sell personal profiles to whoever pays, including criminals.
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#174I'm very conscious of this. Every few months I divide the value of my portfolio by a guesstimate of how many months I have left to pace my spending. Currently if I keep my monthly expenses below $5k I should be good.
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#175I’d say lower your expectations even further to reach true happiness: always expect to die tomorrow and adjust your lifestyle and the way you treat your loved ones accordingly. Or in Montaigne’s words: to philosophize is to learn to die http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rvr5407/3140readings/That%20to%2...
The real trick: expect to die in a minute . No joke. The Buddhist perspective gets into that. The idea of dying tomorrow sets you up to worry about making the most of the future of the rest of the day, and you're still not really present. When we consider that these few breaths or bites or moments might be our last, we can release all the clinging and aversion because it's too late to do anything but be profoundly aw…
Huh. If this is my last minute, I'm definitely not doing the dishes.
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#176This is so depressing, and I am left with just over 60%.I can't imagine how someone would feel with just 10% or even less..
My 83 year old mother is probably negative. She's healthy and happy though she's saddened that most of her friends are dead or sick.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I appreciate the idea, but what about preparing for the future? Money spent now doesn’t compound for later. I’m concerned about not being a burden later or leaving my wife without enough. There is surely a balance but without a crystal ball I wonder how to find it.
There's life insurance.
I guess that helps the wife, but not if we both live into old age and hope to be comfortable.
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#178The date selector has an odd bug in leap years. My birthday is in February in a leap year. If I click Feb 9, it highlights Feb 9. But if I click Feb 10, it highlights Feb 9; if I click Feb 11, it highlights Feb 10, and so on. For all dates between Feb 10 and Feb 29, it highlights the preceding day instead of the day I clicked.
I would guess this is due to a disagreement between some part of the code that thinks there are 28 days in every February and another part that is aware that there are 29 days in a leap year. But it's odd that the bug shows up one-third of the way through February, instead of halfway through February, as I would expect if it were rounding to the nearest day. Quite a strange bug; it suggests that date calculations must have been done ad-hoc instead of using a well-tested date library.
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#179This calculates my age incorrectly. The diagram shows the number of years I've lived as about 3 years less than my true age. It's kinda disappointing when the site literally has one job — to calculate my age — and it doesn't get it right.
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