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Ah, I'm not sure I understand your last point. What about selling a "new high priced" item to the government because the engineering team spent some cycles fixing up the known vulnerabilities and re-released the product with those issues fixed. This seems like it would be more secure than a new untested product.

We have a couple different phone numbers exclusively for advertising campaigns. We can note the line it came on when receiving the call. We're a small-mid business, so I assume larger businesses have budgets for a lot more ways to track printed media advertising that isn't too obtrusive.

"Feel free to make a PR."

This makes me cringe. Sure, encourage us to make a PR to implement a tri-state radio button if it doesn't exist. Don't encourage us to make a pull request to reduce a 10 second documentation page load time.

I'm in my mid 30's. There are a few hikes that I do repeatedly. One to a peak, one to a riverbed. I've done them dozens of time. Sitting by the rushing water, no cars, no people, no industrial sounds, trees everywhere. Rejuvenates me every time.

Yea, there are typically trees, bushes, rocks and dirt on every trail. But, they're different. Even the same trail changes over time. Trees fall, views change. Sometimes you see a deer. Sometimes you find a crazy looking flower, or bug, or plant. Sometimes it's just exhilarating to hike quickly and elevate your heartrate in the crisp cold mountain air.

I know what you're saying though. I have been on a trail, where it was the first time on that trail, and I though, geez, same ol' same ol'. But, I quickly forgot that a few minutes later as I left the highway, and got deeper in the wilderness.

I love it. As I mentioned earlier, I work a full time. Sitting at a desk. So, these times on the trail are so refreshing.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Obviously, I'd like to maintain my body and will. When I was in Maryland for a year, my landlady was 104 years old, and quite sharp. Her daughter was 80 and crazy spry. Every day my landlady would be out on the porch, cleaning and organizing. She couldn't run around, and she was probably past the point where I'd enjoy spending eternity, but the point is that her bloodline was amazing. I could certainly spend an eternity with the health that her 80 year old daughter had. She could pick up her grandson, and get around the yard just fine.

Part of the whole agelessness thing is that some of the mechanics of how our cells breakdown and begin to fail would need to be cured. At which point, our bones, and muscles, if cured of that deterioration, would lead to curing death, but it would also lead to the ability to maintain your health and body. As long as you continue to exercise, and eat well, you'd probably have a body similar to an average fit modern 40 year old I'd expect. Or somewhere between the crazy metabolism of 20 year olds, and the deterioration of 70 year olds.

I don't know any of the science though, so just speculating based on what I've read, and my opinions.

The items were not listed in order. I've had a couple spins of playing WoW and DotA, and often times the reason I quit are because there are so many other things I want to do. I work full time, I have a rental property, I have a small business (with my wife), 1 dog, 3 cats, no kids yet, but soon hopefully. We get outdoors, go camping, visit family. Probably getting into sailing next summer. Life's great. Don't get me wrong. But, dang. With "forever" I could get so much done. I'm also fairly patient, and conservative, so with time on my side, the safest investments will pay off well. But, then again, if you have time to work, why not jump into the risky investments. If you lose everything, you can just rebuild. Maybe a hybrid of both approaches. However, if death were cured, then money, investing, and finance would probably change quite radically as well.

I love thinking about this concept. I hope that over the next 20 years, they figure out how to extend life to 125 years, so that then in the following 20-40 years they can extend life indefinitely. Here's to hoping.

At first I thought the article was going to explain why it isn't worth pursuing agelessness, but I'm impressed at how well it wrapped everything up. Great article, thanks.

Hah, yea, good point. Honestly though, I live in northern California, and I have climbed a good handful of the 10k peaks around here, but there are just so many more I have not had the time to visit. So many parts of the Pacific Crest Trail that I havn't been able to hike. And that's just stuff in a 2 hour drive. I've climbed a few dozen of the Tahoe peaks, but there are so many more to do. Over the past few years, I've probably gotten to a mountain top once every 4 weeks. Some months I go every weekend, other months I get busy with other things. I never want to do Everest. But, there are some 14k in Denver that might be fun. Believe me, I'll hike more trails and mountains than most people, but there are just so many hikes, and not enough weekends.

I sometimes talk about wanting to live forever and get weird stares. Are you joking me?? I want to hike every trail in the world. I want to climb every mountain. I want to play every video game. I want to beat the hardest raids in every expansion of WoW. I want to learn multiple langauges. I want to spend several years living in every biome. I want to learn all of the programming languages. I want to go back to school for more degrees. I want to build several businesses. I want to write computer games from scratch. I want to travel to the stars. I want to live on the moon. I want to live on Mars. I want to get a doctorate degree. Or two or three? Gah, not enough time.

The laws of physics say we can't accelerate through the speed of light, but it doesn't say we can't travel faster than light, nor does it say time travel is impossible. Particles traveling faster than light can travel back in time. Communicating with those particles has proven to be difficult. Also, traveling faster than light is pretty difficult. But, the main law is that you can't accelerate through the speed of light. Another possibility is compressing space so that you're not traveling faster than light, but you're covering more space.

It's probably more likely that we could colonize Mars before we will have a vessel capable of compressing space and traveling through it in an efficient manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Actually, I thought this was great. One tube for the morning with caffeine, one tube at night with fluoride.

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Thanks, I reloaded the page and was very confused.

I'm still on less. Is there a memo somewhere to switch to sass?

I also find it faster when a coworker requests I shift an image down, to add style="position:relative;top:10px;" to adjust an image or div down a few pixels, than to find the style sheet (one of dozens nestled in various locations) and add it where it belongs.

I think the ability to copy/paste a URL to show exactly the state I'm looking at (I.E. #dropdown to see the dropdown.) Is great! But, after I scroll through a dozen, I want to hit back to go back to HN.

Agreed, when I hit back once or twice I was like crap. (I had just scrolled through every one.) So I just opened a new tab to HN, and closed that tab. Poor tab.

And, that imgur link is also a broken lock? ;)

I suspect even if it were a compiled Java binary with lost source code, this could still be solved with one line of code. Sigh.

I had already bookmarked this post because I love the idea. But your response is incredibly thought provoking.

I love the idea of moving to Alaska or Canada in the wilderness, and figuring out how to survive and stay connected.

I'm thinking on the fly, but I think I would be contributing to society. My specialty is web programming and software architecture. I'd even go so far as to call it an art form.

I encounter a problem. Sleep on it for a few days, then bam, things settle into place and I spend a couple days solid programming. Those days that I'm "sleeping on it" if I'm at work, I'm often distracted by day-to-day tasks that usually could have been handled by someone else.

I'm not sold on the concept one way or the other. I do like the idea of a middle-ground solution.

I really appreciate your counter-argument. Good to think about at least.

That's a list of most popular, not most used.

I searched for cat collars and had a bunch of ads.