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It's an interesting scenario and very likely, but I suppose FB engineers and shareholders are not too concerned about Facebook becoming a digital graveyard in 5
by pier0 14y ago
It's an interesting scenario and very likely, but I suppose FB engineers and shareholders are not too concerned about Facebook becoming a digital graveyard in 50 years because they will be dead themselves.
- ColinWright 14y agoYou're kidding, right? The FB engineers are probably mostly under 30 - you're assuming they'll die before they're 80? Added in edit: Well, I guess from the downvote(s) that people do assume the FB engineers will die before they're 80. Added in further edit: It's been suggested that my comment lowered the tone. If that's the case then I apologize, it wasn't intended to. It's been further pointed out that from 27 years of age onwards, the male life expectancy in the USA is indeed 50 years or less. So I was wrong anyway. I've learned something, for which I am not sorry. I was wrong, for which I am not sorry, because it afforded me the opportunity to learn. I may have lowered the tone, for which I am sorry.
- erikpukinskis 14y agoIf you are a 27 year old male in the U.S., your life expectancy is just under 50 years. http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
- momotomo 14y agoErm, sorry chap that's a period life table, not an expectancy table. It's remaining years, not total. If you scroll down eventually years remaining < age. Unless you count reincarnation no 80 year old is dying before their first birthday.
- CWIZO 14y agoI think you have to sum the age and expectancy. Otherwise that table makes no sense.
- ColinWright 14y agoAssuming you mean the expected remaining life, then yes. And you must mean that, because the other "obvious" meaning makes no sense.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoDeath probability is the lowest for 10 years old kids: 0.01% in that year.
- rdl 14y agoI suspect FB engineers are going to live longer than average for US population, too, since they have higher income, education, etc.