Sometimes they just want to justify their budget and show off.
The billionaire's way to die: 12K feet underwater
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Sometimes they just want to justify their budget and show off.
And then there's the matter of training and practice in real-world conditions.
To be honest I can think of one place I was happiest in a kind of the good/he's getting into it parts of Castaway and it was living in a submerged in sand except for the doors cargo container in the Namibian desert with the most absolute silence imaginable. I thought of it as my shell
This topic probably should have its own thread, but anyway...
I thought I would explain my philosophy in more depth. (no pun intended) First I looked it up, life expectancy through the ages:
"Until the middle of the 20th century, infant mortality was approximately 40–60% of the total mortality. Excluding child mortality, the average life expectancy during the 12th–19th centuries was approximately 55 years. If a person survived childhood, they had about a 50% chance of living 50–55 years, instead of only 25–40 years."
So in the last 800 years, (excluding the last 100 when science improved a lot) most people lived up to early 50s. Thus I making it over the half century part could or should make me satisfied, because I am doing at least as good than most people in the previous millenium.
Second, I am the glass is half full kinda guy. Instead of saying, hey, I am already X old, I say, I am just X old! But I think this statement has to come with a certain life achievement/satisfaction. Once you reached X, are you happy with how your life turned out to be? How is your bucket list, is it getting full? If so, you are not afraid to die and you can enjoy the rest of your life kinda worry free, no matter how short or long it will be.
That doesn't mean I want to die tomorrow, just that I got plenty from life and I look at the rest of the coming years as bonus.
Third, I don't think the world is going to be a better, nicer place. So I am not sure I would want to hang around when the Mad Max world fully kicks in.
I thought I would explain my philosophy in more depth. (no pun intended) First I looked it up, life expectancy through the ages:
"Until the middle of the 20th century, infant mortality was approximately 40–60% of the total mortality. Excluding child mortality, the average life expectancy during the 12th–19th centuries was approximately 55 years. If a person survived childhood, they had about a 50% chance of living 50–55 years, instead of only 25–40 years."
So in the last 800 years, (excluding the last 100 when science improved a lot) most people lived up to early 50s. Thus I making it over the half century part could or should make me satisfied, because I am doing at least as good than most people in the previous millenium.
Second, I am the glass is half full kinda guy. Instead of saying, hey, I am already X old, I say, I am just X old! But I think this statement has to come with a certain life achievement/satisfaction. Once you reached X, are you happy with how your life turned out to be? How is your bucket list, is it getting full? If so, you are not afraid to die and you can enjoy the rest of your life kinda worry free, no matter how short or long it will be.
That doesn't mean I want to die tomorrow, just that I got plenty from life and I look at the rest of the coming years as bonus.
Third, I don't think the world is going to be a better, nicer place. So I am not sure I would want to hang around when the Mad Max world fully kicks in.
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A fortune teller told me that I would die on June or July 4th 2245. I decided to prove her wrong but have so far been unsuccessful.
Sounds like a joke but actually happened, as she predicted by girlfriend at the time had little time left. Of course I don't believe in it, crazy, but a little part of me does. Kind of helps me have a relaxed attitude to fear sometimes.
But also as @Pekelo says, I worked and lived in places where life expectancy was as low as 30 and had been even lower so I consider anything past 40 a bonus except for the extraordinarily lucky few in our own history.
Sounds like a joke but actually happened, as she predicted by girlfriend at the time had little time left. Of course I don't believe in it, crazy, but a little part of me does. Kind of helps me have a relaxed attitude to fear sometimes.
But also as @Pekelo says, I worked and lived in places where life expectancy was as low as 30 and had been even lower so I consider anything past 40 a bonus except for the extraordinarily lucky few in our own history.
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2245? Any relation to Methuselah?
So what you're saying is that you're going by an outdated benchmark. Whatever works, I guess. But I wouldn't be too quick to discount your remaining years by assigning them a lesser value than what preceded them.
2245? Any relation to Methuselah?
Nope, every time I see Futurama heads in a jar it worries me.
However... I can't imagine why I'd have a brain implant at my age but I'm wealthy enough to afford exotic stuff. Who is to say that while this mind of jelly will perish my quantum system self won't still be telling LacesOut he/she is an idiot the day some cosmic mercy kills me.
Would it be me? Probably, in the same ship of Theseus way I am me though likely don't have many atoms in common with my young self.
Or.. Hibernation? Getting close to that as a reality even now. Get bored enough to sleep fifty years away and start again with bad knee a thing of the past? Then live what is then a normal lifespan? Futurama again.. Well it's Fryday..
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No, what I am saying is that you should go out and enjoy life to its fullest while you can instead of watching stupid numbers on your screen all day. Swing trading >>> daytrading
Okay, but that seems a bit of a departure from your earlier sentiment.
As for swing trading vs intraday, that's how I started because I didn't even have intraday data back then. But it just never really clicked for me. I will admit that the glamor of staring at the screen all day wears off. Maybe one day...
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