Even on the simple site like this, even the contentious topic of implementation of dates pops up. :-).
The dates are a pain to do well and agreeable to everyone.
It doesn't have to be contentious, an international resource should favor the agreed international date format. The contentiousness usually comes from ethnocentrism.
I'm surprised and sad that 15% of my cohort is dead already. 8(
It says a dollar in the year I was born (1963) is the same as $8.4 today
As a reminder to myself about the meaning of hard money... I carry around a 1901 dollar... minted in New Orleans, that you might have got as change in 1963.... that's worth $19.20 melt value today. More than twice the $8.4 amount.
Not in my wallet is a 1852 dollar... worth $84.48 today in melt value. It's too soft, and too darned tiny.
For me (1981) it's already 9%. That would mean that approx. 1 in 10 friends would already have died. I don't think thats remotely true for me. Most likely the global distribution of deaths is really uneven.
Seems true for me at least (1980 birth). One of my first friends died of a cat allergy at 12, another shot himself the next year at 13, my sister's best friend was murdered by her mom's boyfriend right after I graduated, my best friend from high school died from alcohol withdrawals in 2016, and it seemed like for a few years after high school, at least 1 or 2 people were dead from car accidents that I'd known from school every summer I came back from college. A guy I worked with in college broke his neck and died in basketball practice. Probably not fair to count people I met in my 20s since I was in the Army during the Iraq/Afghanistan years, but deaths were pretty regular. I wanna say my 20 year reunion had 12 deaths out of a graduating class of about 200? That isn't quite 9%, but doesn't count those who died before we graduated.
And yeah, clearly the rate is likely to be much higher for people living in Bangladesh or Djibouti or something. I grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs.
I'll start to worry when the rich and famous of my cohort start dying. They usually have the best medical care you can buy, and when they start dying, it would mean my time is probably near too.
That population increase statistic was a little shocking (+2.7B in our lifetimes). I suppose I knew it already, but it hadn’t clicked how crazy that is.
It’s hard to give an exact answer without more granular data than I can find given that it changes year to year. However, very approximately:
0.5 percentage points (pp) infant deaths (birth defects, delivery complications, neonatal death, etc.)
6.5 pp deaths under 5 from infectious disease (primarily pneumonia and diarrheal diseases)
0.5 pp injuries (fairly evenly split among homicide, suicide, drowning, road accidents, other accidents, but with the last two taking somewhat larger shares)
Over the next decades most in your cohort will die from heart disease, stroke, or COPD.
And that’s -only- the red blood cells. Consider how that’s only a tiny portion of your body. Think of all the other cells everywhere else. Constantly dying and being born. Isn’t it every 7 years or so that pretty much every cell in our body’s rotated out?
This is super interesting. But, if anything, it had the opposite effect on me to what was intended.
I'm 25, and I've been a bit stressed recently about how I've been working in the same company since I was 19 (took a year out and graduated uni when I was 21). I've started to feel like I've been wasting my 20s not taking enough opportunities or not seeking a more exciting job, just settling for one that's relaxing and good enough for now.
Seeing just how tiny my career has been so far, in comparison to retirement age, really made me reflect how things aren't that bad. I've got plenty of time to enjoy a comfy job and make some money before I go off taking crazy risks.
> just settling for one that's relaxing and good enough for now.
There's nothing wrong with that! I think it's okay to enjoy life for a few years without looking for anything "better" (whether that is in terms of career, how exciting the job is)..
I was planning on doing my masters soon (I'm 23) but figured my mental health is finally tolerably stable, I live with people I enjoy being around, have a circle of friends, enjoy work.. i could do this for another 1-2 years and just try to be happy for once, instead of looking for what the future will bring.
Lot of US-built tools use this format and it is very annoying. From Photoshop to Googlesheets to WhatsApp, Month always comes first. I tried for around 15 mins to change to date-first format in Google Sheets and failed.
If you look at the life expectancy statistics there's usually one chart based on your current age, and incidentally I looked this up just two days ago. I am close to 40 and have an average of ~40 years to live. If I was 40y old at the time I was born, it was only about ~30 years left. At least that's my interpretation of this sentence in there.
One improvement I'd suggest is using an international date format (yyyy / mm / dd) or perhaps a dropdown for months.
Even with the date placeholder text I managed to mess up the date!