so many of these now. it is so sad and scary.
been thinking about prenuvo all the time now but not sure if thats going to help or make me more paranoid.
Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
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#32When it comes to cancer, there is an awful lot of legacy thinking and "way things are done" taking lives. Starting with the so called "standard of care", which makes patient lose precious treatment windows while they wait for a possible miracle from "first-line drugs" from thirty and forty years ago which frankly are not that good. But it's hard to reform because the fraction of people who ever think about cancer as…
I'm pretty much a pessimest when it comes to fighting cancer. I think it's just one of the bugs in our genetic code that evolution didn't shake out. I say that not as a biologist or anyone who has done any work in the field. But I've seen people close to me die of cancer and it seems like the treatement is almost worse than the disease. I agree that the standard first attacks are very crude and have broad systemic side effects and the attitude seems to be "you'll die without this so that doesn't matter."
I read some stuff about mRNA treatment a while ago that seemed like it might be promising.
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#33Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550016
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#34The linked post about his treatment is basically a vanity article; low in useful information, but high in vague assertions and platitudes. There's also a link to a post griping about the red tape someone experienced while trying to self-treat their dog's cancer that's weird. I clearly live in a different world than these people.
Here is a video if you want more detail.
https://forum.openai.com/public/videos/event-replay-from-ter...
"Event Replay: From Terminal to Turnaround: How GitLab’s Co-Founder Leveraged ChatGPT in His Cancer Fight"
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s entry-level billionaires club. The top 10 each hold $100B–$300B+, so the wealth distribution is extraordinarily skewed even within billionaires themselves. Musk is hundreds of times richer. Hardly obscenely rich.
I must be talking to AI
This AI recommends you visualize inequality at scale and see the difference between 1B vs 300B. https://youtu.be/c7sr46hxVM4
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...but none of this would have been possible without his unfathomable wealth and access. ? What's that supposed to mean? Is that bad? You can do the same thing as he did, what's stopping you?
wealth and access that is merely fathomable
You can literally apply to YC, just like Sid and now you are reading his story.
He did not come from any of those backgrounds.
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#37so many of these now. it is so sad and scary. been thinking about prenuvo all the time now but not sure if thats going to help or make me more paranoid.
Not really. Osteosarcoma rates have remained very stable for decades. Some young people are getting diagnosed with colon/breast cancer at increasing rates, but most of that comes down to better diagnostics and imagining, catching things at earlier ages.
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Friend, $3B is unfathomable wealth for an individual.
I can fathom 3B, I can’t fathom 300B
Yes, big number better, everyone gets it.
The point is that you’re deluding yourself if you think that there is any difference in terms of relative “unfathomability” between 3 billion and 300 billion.
3 billion generates more in interest per day than 99.99% of people make in a year. That’s unfathomable volumes of wealth for even the very rich.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...but none of this would have been possible without his unfathomable wealth and access. ? What's that supposed to mean? Is that bad? You can do the same thing as he did, what's stopping you?
Wealth is mostly based on either luck and more often heritage.
Not only Sid didn't come from any of those backgrounds, neither did the founder of Freshworks who literally started his company based on reading a hacker news comment. [0]
So I only see more excuses here.
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#40This is the most supremely motivating post I've seen in a long time. I know what it is to be diagnosed with cancer, being rushed to surgery - it's amazing how quickly the medical-industrial complex can move once you've got a diagnosis (at least in Australia). I had a short period of contemplating terminally, because cancer claimed the life of most of my family. Thankfully, after surgery it was gone.
To see Sid use his motivation and resources to solve his own problem is the core message (IMHO) of the hacker community.
It makes me look at my own problem (Peyronies) in a different light; a disease which has affected my life in ways which cannot be overstated. Yet, all the money in the world right now can't fix Peyronies - yet in reading his journey my mind has been changed about this.
His slide title: "I'll talk to anyone, I'll go anywhere, and I can be there anytime" is certainly the mindset!
Thanks for posting this - I'm inspired to take similar action for Peyronie's. Anything is possible.