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dangusyesterday at 9:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

Sounds like some lame ass tech founder bullshit if I’ll be honest.

If I had cancer the last think I’d be thinking would be to make a slide deck about it.

Can these robot people come back down to earth and have a genuine human experience for a chance? Not everything has to be framed in the view of a startup company or a data analysis exercise.

Maybe focus on spending time with your family and friends? If they still like you after years of being an insufferable tech bro.


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arjieyesterday at 11:20 PM

He’s been public that he’s ten months clear now. Some prefer to accept undesirable circumstances. Others prefer to oppose them. He’s one of the latter. A little paraphrase of Dylan Thomas’ work here is something I’m fond of:

Do not go gentle into that good night

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

And if he’s successful, which hopefully now he has a much better chance of, there are all these new medical results out that are useful.

As an example, a close friend is using one of the personalized medicine companies that sytse’s “CEO of care” has invested in to diagnose a persistent debilitating condition with no specific cause.

Or to quote someone else: All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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z0rtoday at 2:55 AM

If you can cure a cancer by framing it as a data analysis exercise that doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

justinyesterday at 10:19 PM

Who hurt you?

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