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Given that her family inherited the Murphy Oil fortune (Tulane's Department of Medicine is named after them), it's not that surprising she would have exemplary

• agentdrtran 6y ago
  This seems like an important piece of information!
• 1123581321 6y ago
  She doesn’t describe anything expensive or exclusive. Homeschooling typically does not have a cost beyond materials. What struck you as exemplary?
  • specrux 6y ago
    Moving from New Zealand to UCSF to work in a lab is relatively exemplary...
  • morelisp 6y ago
    Come off it, she had access to a research lab at age 12! Even she said it's extraordinary. > I really felt like I got a cheat code to life early on. It was like being Ben Franklin’s daughter or something... When I first met Cynthia Kenyon... I was 12. She very kindly offered for me to just work in her lab as a normal intern,
    • earthscienceman 6y ago
      No wonder she's obsessed with longevity. If everything I ever wanted or was interested in was handed to me on a silver platter, I'd want to live forever too. How can people like Peter Thiel et al not feel disgusting spending a fortune on personal longevity when there is still starvation and hunger killing children every day? I would love to see the wealthy/privileged hackernews crowd try to justify this. I have less caustic words for Laura Deming. She's young and she's at least investigating the world.
      • nmfisher 6y ago
        > How can people like Peter Thiel et al not feel disgusting spending a fortune on personal longevity when there is still starvation and hunger killing children every day? Probably because starvation is almost never an economic problem solvable with money.
        • morelisp 6y ago
          Child malnutrition in Thiel's home countries (Germany, US, or New Zealand) is 100% solvable with money, maybe even entirely with his personal money.
          • TomMarius 6y ago
            Why is he responsible? I thought we pay taxes to the government for that.
            • morelisp 6y ago
              Indeed, are there no more prisons or workhouses?
    • 1123581321 6y ago
      That opportunity is certainly extraordinary. We probably disagree on whether it’s normal for wealthy homeschooled children or should even be thought of as part of a school cirriculum.
  • newfeatureok 6y ago
    Homeschooling also generally has cost of lost potential income for the one doing it.
    • 1123581321 6y ago
      Certainly the biggest expense.
  • Barrin92 6y ago
    >Homeschooling typically does not have a cost beyond materials who do you think does the homeschooling?
    • 1123581321 6y ago
      One parent who does not work. This is typically achievable for middle class and up, depending on cost of living, of course.
      • Barrin92 6y ago
        Single income households are quite rare these days. In the US and Europe about 30%. In addition to that the parent needs the qualification and resources and time to actually teach. This practically excludes all but the affluent upper-middle-class (the exception being extremely religious people who want to keep kids out of society for ideological reasons). This family is pretty much the perfect example. She comes from oil money and her parents had the resources and connections to send her to a university lab at age 12.
        • 1123581321 6y ago
          Typically a homeschooling family (about 1% of households in the US) plan their lives around it, which makes it available to lower economic tiers within middle class, and occasionally lower class. It is not something that incidentally happens as income rises. A typical homeschool co-op will have a mix of blue-collar and white-collar careers among the parents who provide income.
  • corpMaverick 6y ago
    She is sounds very young and she is already a venture capitalist.