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Seems pretty sensationalist to me. HN, please help debunk :)

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• hugh3 16y ago
  It's true, but only in the sense that everything is killing you. What kind of non-desk job would you rather have? Perhaps a travelling salesman or delivery driver, spending hours every day on a dangerous road? A lumberjack, waiting for a horrendous chainsaw accident? Maybe a farmer or construction worker, out there in the sun all day acquiring skin cancer? A doctor in a hospital surrounded by infectious diseases? I suppose if you were rich enough to not have to work, like Howard Hughes, you could lock yourself away from anything that might kill you, like Howard Hughes. He died at 70.
• dasil003 16y ago
  There's real research here with counterintuitive results that deserve honest attention. Given the amount of brainpower here and the typical hacker lifestyle, I'd say the risk of unwarranted rationalization is very high.