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senordevnycyesterday at 8:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

Substantive.

Try this, I'm genuinely curious: if you were going to be born as a random human somewhere on earth, what year would you prefer that to happen?


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cleversomethingyesterday at 9:48 PM

If I can choose the US specifically, then sometime in the 1950s. I think Baby Boomers in the US will go down as the single luckiest generation on earth in terms of socioeconomic opportunity.

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gazebo2yesterday at 10:08 PM

oh god are we really doing this? just ignore the accelerated decline of virtually the entire world because we have medicine and Netflix?

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MiguelX413yesterday at 11:41 PM

1700s Okinawa

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