Can we have another black bar at the top of hackernews? Feel free to delete this comment, dang, et. al. She’s just obviously had an outsized effect on us all whether we realize it or not.
I love all of these ironic black bar request posts.
Susan Wojcicki has died
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This has nothing to do with business or entrepreneurship. It's cancer, it's a bitch. It can take a 10 year old boy, or an elite athlete.
I took that to be OPs point in a way. Death comes to us all, rich and poor. True wealth is your good health and the relationships it lets you foster.
Absolutely this.
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By and large overdose is a result of irrational thinking, or misguided attempts to apply logic. So it doesn’t make sense to make judgements about or apply ration to the drugs someone ODs on. Also, it doesn’t seem so weird for someone to try and mix uppers and downers. And those are all commonly abused drugs. For those reasons, I can only assume this comment was a poor attempt at sarcasm and/or humor.
Cocaine and Xanax is a strange combination. I have never heard of their mixing before.
It depends, taking caffeine and alprazolam together does not make much sense, but it can reduce the jittery feeling of caffeine, for example. It may not have been mixed either, it is common to take benzos when coming down.
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#315I'm not a Googler, but would still ask commenters to show some respect for the person who died, and save your opinions about youtube for another day.
I’d take it as a time to reflect that no matter how much profit you make, people will remember you for what you’ve accomplished. Think about that when you get to your coveted position of power in the industry.
Those people won’t matter. Your loved ones do and will though, and they won’t measure you by your accomplishments and net worth.
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Cure aging? We could relieve a lot of pain in the world by just curing cancer(s), or at least make them treatable like HIV. Jake died yesterday. I don’t even think he was 40 years old. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41201555 Susan was only 56. Let’s at least give everyone a chance at a full life.
Yeah, but magnitude wise it doesn't seem like a huge difference of 56 vs 90. 56 to me now looks way early, but I assume when I get 70 then I start to think that 90 looks way too early. When I was 10 years old, 56 seemed miles away though. So there's always going to be this problem. Especially since supposedly the older you get the faster time seems to go. So the fact that I and we are all going to die at some point n…
Sure, I’m all for living to 1000. Curing cancer(s) likely needs to happen first. The war on cancer started in 1971.
We’d likely need trillions of dollars of investment, and a lot more people working on it, to increase our lifespan/healthspan.
But hey, we can hope together, for what that’s worth.
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#317I'm not a Googler, but would still ask commenters to show some respect for the person who died, and save your opinions about youtube for another day.
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Maybe I am a callous person, but I have never agreed to this "don't speak ill of the dead" thing. People live and die. It is inevitable. To the grieving family, I can understand why refraining from insulting the dearly departed is necessary. They are grieving and can be irrational. No need to make things worse for them. But between unrelated people? Why can't I discuss the legacy of the dead? We are defined by our de…
>But between unrelated people? Why can't I discuss the legacy of the dead? We are defined by our deeds in life. It is only natural that in death, people will talk and opine about what we have done. Nothing wrong with it. unless you have a magical way to make your comment here invisible to her family and friends, posting it to the internet is not keeping the comment exclusively "between unrelated people." Many of thos…
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Have you read the book?
tl;dr: wealth + connections = successful children
I know many cases of no wealth, no connections, South American(s) and success. You should deep dive in hard work that helps the well prepared. Also culture plays. The world is not static. It sounds resentment to not follow the thread and argue more sustanciously.
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What’s your specific beef with Moderna’s three-phase clinical trials? The New England Journal of Medicine in February 2021 published Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy. Further studies confirmed it. If you know better than the reviewers at a leading medical journal, it would be interesting to know why you’re so qualified.
>Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy Yet strangely every person I know vaccinated or not still got COVID. YouTube banned people for even simple observation like this.
Every person you know.
Anecdotes are worthless in a scientific setting, or literally any setting with the slightest amount of rigor. More often than not, we do not have anywhere near a representative sample in the people we know or hang around.