Notion.so looks great, thanks for the discovery!

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And still, our right-wing politics (in France) still think euthanasia shouldn't be allowed.

Screw this world if you want, but at least let me die before you kill us all.

I think it's time for us to question the belief that everyone in the world can put aside their differences and share the same values.

If I had to guess, I'd say that most of the fear that underlies prediction of catastrophe is fear that we'll never get to that ideal world. Can we imagine a different future, where groups of people form their own local cultural norms and value sets, and we still manage to all live and thrive? I think it's important that we do because that may be the world that we live in.

It seems like you are replying to an idea about what I said rather than what I said.

You can jump from a cliff if you're tired from this world, but don't ask doctors to do it for you.

I don't ask doctors to do it for me, but I'd love my government to have enough humanity to allow me to die without pain.

Why?

Im honestly curious why you don't think that's a service the medical industry should provide. (In particular, to elderly or terminally-ill people.)

What if you are too sick to jump off that proverbial cliff?

I created a personal list, but half of the install is manually made: https://framagit.org/briced/conffiles/raw/master/INSTALL.md

Love that "Wake up" is 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30 precisely. So regular, so predictible.

We really need to learn to listen to our natural sleep cycles.

Well, it's a survey; the vast majority of the time I wake up 'unaided' between 06:40-07:20 (I have my alarm clock set to 7:30 as a fail-safe), but if you'd ask me what time I wake up, I'd say "around 7am", which then would be recorded as a precise value.

I was more impacted by the fact that every hour, on the hour, there's a pretty significant shift. Of course, 5pm is the big explosion, but pretty much we live our lives based on the clock.

YNAB (and surely other apps) works that way. Your money is affected to the budget you want, not "free to spend". They have a nice 9 day course about managing your budget (Email: https://www.youneedabudget.com/method/nine-day-course, PDF: http://www.youneedabudget.com/downloads/9DayCourse.pdf)

I may be a bit biased because I really love this app, but it helped me a lot to stop throwing money on useless things.

Side note: Jesse (founder of YNAB) is an amazing speaker with a great sense of humor. His story about bootstrapping YNAB is hugely inspiring to me. I highly recommend his 2014 Microconf talk (https://vimeo.com/95653848) if anyone is interested.

Beautiful story. Not very relative to HN I think, but it's good to see the world throught other points of view, sometimes.

Thanks for this post.

There's an idea by the writer, almost lost in the article, that I thought is brilliant:

"When he was in hospital without any documents or ID I came up with the idea of medical bracelets for homeless people. I bought about 100 waterproof USB wristbands which can hold important information and I've given away about 60 so far."

There are any number of people made homeless through mental illness. They are often lost in the system when they become critically ill, and such an identifier would help medical professionals to reunite these people with their families.

Couldn't the same thing be done by a wristband with just a shortened weblink. The advantage is you could update the website and the link could be engraved on the wristband.

I'd have thought a wristband would be too easy to damage/remove - especially if they become indicators of people in that kind of situation. Similarly I think things like tattoos or embedded chips are spectacularly bad ideas - for all manner of reasons.

Maybe retina scans or something like that?

You could make the wristband hard to accidentally remove, but if it is made out of a decent metal and engraved then it would not be hard to ensure that it survived.

Something like this needs to be voluntary - we really don’t want to be forcing vulnerable people to start wearing something they don’t want to.

My thoughts exactly. Also, less to go wrong with engraved metal vs USB bracelet.

tatoo a url ;-)

Well not to Godwin the thread I think that might be taking things a bit too far.

The government tattooing people who have an illness that increases paranoia seems sub-optimal.

You'd definitely have people cutting the tattoos off.

I work with homeless people, people in precarious situations, people without ID, immigrants without papers, etc.

I've discussed this very concept multiple times, from multiple angles, with a few organisations.

This issue becomes a real issue of when the person becomes gravely ill, or dies. Most of the time, it's impossible to trace the person's history - contacting next of kin, working out their path until their demise.

This is a real problem to solve.

However, the practical aspects are that this device needs to be non-identifying, and needs also to be non-exploitable by third parties (in particular: police).

Many people without papers are already in a situation that's difficult enough as it is, but this would be made even more difficult by giving police / other authorities a tool to trace, track, and punish.

Likewise, many people in these situations do not WANT to be found, or do not WANT to carry papers.

The conclusion that I had come to would be that these devices are completely encrypted, and provide no form of external data (ID, etc); and a 'read only' industry facing interface would be exposed.

Services, such as hospitals, or indeed police, etc - could lodge requests to a system with this data. The system would register this information, but give nothing back.

The organisation trusted with this information (could be a recognised charity that works with homeless etc) - would be able to, if requested, or required, or at the person's death, be able to access this information.

The end result being, a person holding one of these cards would be able to have a medical history, and be able to build up a map of their lives.

Such things already exist: social security card, etc.

It's a tough problem to crack, once you start to consider the human element.

These are very real and very serious concerns for some homeless individuals. For others, not so much. I think it would be great if the system you describe were available. But I also see nothing wrong with trying to find something simple and easy that works in the here and now for some portion of the homeless population.

I was about to comment about the same thing, it's really brilliant since the medical professionals could also access their medical history in case they land up at a hospital, so that could potentially save lives for a few dollars.

I applaud your effort.

Sticking a usb anything of unknown origin into a most computers is not a good idea tho

As for relevance, the HN "on topic" guidelines say:

>anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I think this article counts :)

Anxiety and depression are pretty common in the entrepreneur crowd -- these conditions can drive a desire to find independence, some relevance and self-worth.

What makes the entrepreneur different from the homeless person is simply a fighting spirit, but sometimes even those with the spirit give up. I guess the point is, we're all people, and we should all get the same help and respect, whether we're the power-driven entrepreneur or the homeless person who just can't deal with it anymore.

"Beautiful story. Not very relative to HN I think..."

I've been noticing a number of mental health related things on HN. Perhaps it's because these things hit closer to home among this demographic - weather it be personal experience, or that guy we worked with who eventually broke down. For whatever reason these do get voted up here.

Wobbling plates from autism one week, demonstrating the fully armed and operational self-guided self-medicating death-optional star the next. Sure it's not hard dystopian adventure, but if you sit down and write design rules in one mode only, your clone army's going to let you know about the code smell.

Got a LG Gpad 8" last year. Used it for reading comics and playing strategy/RPG games (unplayable on my 5" nexus due to screen size).

However, I hadn't used it long, and I'm thinking about selling it. A good device for consumption, but I always have a computer near me (at home or work), so useless for productive work. And I can read on my computer too. And play games.

if you’re an adult and making a decision based solely on your health"

Not infecting the Earth seems like a pretty big benefit. Can we stop beeing so selfish?

And also:

"They did not find strong evidence that organic foods are more nutritious or carry fewer health risks than conventional alternatives, though consumption of organic foods can reduce the risk of pesticide exposure."

Limiting pesticide exposure seems to be the exact reason to buy organic to me.

Something like kibo.js? https://github.com/marquete/kibo