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InCityDreams
on Oct 29, 2022
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Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?
Think of all the people alive 200 years ago. I would say that, for the overwhelmingly vast majority, nothing they said or did matters now.
zaik
on Oct 29, 2022
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At the very least they had children, but also a lot of small things probably have a very long lasting effect.
Bakary
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The point is more that it doesn't matter in the way the person wanting to be remembered would want it to be, or in the way the person wanting to be forgotten fears it to be.
bombcar
on Oct 29, 2022
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The most memorable thing most normal people could do is change their last name before having children.
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