This sentence is so powerful. I am very sorry to hear this. In these situations, I can't help but feel it's so unfair.
I'm not talking about unfair as in people dying young. Unfair as in there is a particular combination of alterations to physical matter that is going to solve this problem. It's out there. We just haven't found it.
I know it's not this easy but I grind my teeth thinking that if someone, somewhere has an epiphany today, this person can be back to fill health in no time. today was not that day.
Your are correct, and I understand the feeling. Not a great consolation, but we are that close to fixing these diseases because of everything else we have accomplished. Automation. Research on biology. Computing and all its many, many branches of research. Even AI. Humanity has been busy killing God since the dawn of time. We just need to wrap our pain as best we can, hoist that heavy burden onto our shoulders, and keep going.
Journalists are constantly given opportunities to be a bit more friendly to those in power to get more access, to accept some free samples so you can write an 'unbiased' review, to decide that advertiser's dirty laundry really isn't particularly newsworthy. The only protection against this is the strength of character of the owners and editors.
I couldn’t agree more. Sometimes I wonder whether it actually is a loss that people are less Christian. Especially protestantism which places a high emphasis on always doing the right thing even if nobody is watching (because God is always watching and you can’t just pay your way out of sins like in Catholicism). I’m not saying religions are perfect. They often hinder innovation which I think is a problem, but there is definitely something to say in favor of it.
Relatedly, Buffett learned from his father (biological; not holy) to keep an “inner scorecard”. So don’t do things you think other people want think is best (external scorecard), but do things you think are best. I suspect Buffett’s inner scorecard has helped him a lot in his career. And probably also helped him sleep good too.
And don't tell me Protestantism is better. King Henry VIII began converting England to Protestantism so that he could divorce and decapitate his wife after the Pope refused to let him do it. All of these historic religious institutions ultimately exist in order to accumulate power and influence.
I am somehow surprised and not surprised at the same time, the HK people I know are very diligent, dedicated, hard working individuals. It's always a pleasure to visit hong kong or work with someone from hong kong.
Curious, if anybody ever thought that it would be a good idea not to have that dataset about hk and presumably a lot of china in hong kong but outside. The influence from the central party is getting bigger in hk and if it really tracks that many overspendings (?) ("I deciphered the pseudo-disclosure on who received over HK$90bn of hand-outs under the so-called Employment Support Scheme, draining a substantial portion of HK's fiscal reserves") some might not be happy and want to remove or alter the data. Isn't that a concern?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Webb_(Hong_Kong_activist...
Born 1965
Commercial Computer Games c. 1981 - 1985
Investment Banker London c. 1986 - 1991
Investment Banker Hong Kong c. 1991 - 1998
So at 33 he's effectively done and dusted but he goes on to be:
Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's Takeover and Mergers Panel c. 2013
Member of the Vice Chancellor's Circle, University of Oxford
etc etc....
Mr Webb graduated in mathematics from Exeter College, Oxford University in 1986 and prior to that was a computer geek, authoring "Supercharge Your Spectrum" (1983) and "Advanced Spectrum Machine Language" (1984), both books on the subject of machine language programming for the Z-80 based Sinclair Spectrum computer. He also wrote a number of best-selling games for the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, which were in the first generation of 8-bit home computers, including the space-time epic Starion (1985).
His catchphrase 'most die with prostate cancer, not of it. What is there to lose?'