[HN Gopher] There's a place for everyone
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       There's a place for everyone
        
       Author : yboulkaid
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-09-01 11:34 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | grosjona wrote:
       | I thought I'd found my place when I got into open source
       | distributed pub/sub over WebSockets. I worked in this area for
       | over 10 years but you won't find my project in the first 100
       | results on Google for those niche 7 keywords.
       | 
       | Surprising considering that almost none of these terms even
       | existed 20 years ago.
        
       | whack wrote:
       | > _every person has a purpose, nobody is superfluous or
       | redundant._
       | 
       | > _That's a tragedy not just for Nicky, but for the rest of us,
       | too. There's a hole in the ecosystem where Nicky should be:
       | there's a hospital she should be running, or seventh-graders she
       | should be teaching, or pizzas she should be delivering
       | underwater. Wherever that hole is, everything else will be a
       | little off-balance until Nicky fills it._
       | 
       | Some interesting implications of this:
       | 
       | 1. Any children you have, would be fulfilling a purpose in the
       | world
       | 
       | 2. If you decide not to have that child, you are depriving the
       | world and everyone else of a person who would otherwise fulfill
       | that purpose
       | 
       | 3. Recall that no one is superfluous or redundant. So by
       | depriving the world of a person who can fulfill that purpose, you
       | are guaranteeing that the purpose will never be adequately
       | fulfilled
       | 
       | 4. The above applies no matter how many children you've already
       | had. Already had 10 children and decided not to have a 11th?
       | Many, you just created a Nicky-sized hole in the ecosystem. Now
       | the whole world will be off-balance because of your tragic
       | decision
       | 
       | 5. So yeah, if you don't want the world to be off-balance, you
       | better get out there and have as many kids as humanly possible
        
       | the_real_cher wrote:
       | Well my place in the job world was just outsourced overseas to
       | one of the billions of unique people over there.
        
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