Partly for openly and tactlessly disagreeing with company hiring policies! Still, he found rather widespread dissemination and some amount of support for his views. Is that silencing? And can “women are naturally uninterested in/poorer at science” really, over the recent course of human history, be regarded as NOT a common or mainstream opinion? I remember a Feynman quote where he was amazed that women could understand graphs in sewing patterns!
Nice anecdote. I have one, the conservative billionaire Koch brothers use donations to force conservative curriculum and the hiring of conservative professors at several universities.
The largest internet forum Reddit is ridiculously left leaning and the mods actively suppress conservative opinions. (1)
HN is left leaning, but I haven't seen any moderator action against right wing opinions. 2nd amendment rights posts used to eat a dozen downvotes each though.
First, Boomers will probably be mostly dead before all this anti-aging research can benefit them.
Second, even if that's not the case, people are constantly getting killed off thanks to our addiction to the automobile (and in America, the gun). Eventually these Boomers are going to get knocked off. Maybe if we restrict guns and get better public transit the Boomers can live for centuries, but I don't foresee this; these changes are going to take centuries.
I feel like I've read similar comments on HN about cars and guns over and over. Seems odd to be preoccupied with cars and guns when most people don't die of either. What about chainsaws and bathtubs? Cigarettes, trampolines, etc?
Pneumonia, heart disease, stroke, COPD, pneumonia and lung cancer each kill more than cars in the first world.
In the third world, top causes of death are HIV, pneumonia, heart disease, diarrhea, stroke, malaria, TB, COPD, and measles - cars don't even make the top ten.
>I feel like I've read similar comments on HN about cars and guns over and over. Seems odd to be preoccupied with cars and guns when most people don't die of either.
Cars are the #1 killer for people less than middle-aged (where age-related diseases take over). 30,000 people a year die in the US alone from cars, and it's even worse in other countries.
>Pneumonia, heart disease, stroke, COPD, pneumonia and lung cancer each kill more than cars in the first world.
Only for old people. For young people, the ones who really matter more for the future of society and the economy, cars are easily the #1 killer.
"While the most common cause of death of young people aged 5 to 40 is injury and poisoning in the developed world, because relatively few young people die, the principal causes of lost years remain cardiovascular disease and cancer.[4]"
[Regarding Australia:]
"When disability adjusted life years are considered, cancer (25.1/1,000), cardiovascular disease (23.8/1,000), mental health issues (17.6/1,000), neurological disorders (15.7/1,000), chronic respiratory disease (9.4/1,000) and diabetes (7.2/1,000) are the main causes of good years of expected life lost to disease or premature death.[7]"
Agreed. Add crushing student loans, credit card debt and lack of affordable housing near the few sources of middle class work and you have yourself the ultimate depression cocktail.
This and [0] is also why I support the idea of a universal basic income; letting people detach themselves from the rat race and still have a comfortable life, so more of them can explore, discover, invent and create at their own leisure.
