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Re:Meaningness by myth_drannon on Friday December 09, 2016 @12:04PM (#13139922)
I think it is related to the many comments in "On Getting Older in Tech" thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136060

Our software development work is meaningless in the grand scheme of life.

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Re:Meaningness by gkya on Friday December 09, 2016 @01:13PM (#13140510)
> Our software development work is meaningless in the grand scheme of life.

This is a tool for presenting things meaningless. One can also say any sort of philanthropy and medicine as a whole are meaningless as we'll all die eventually.

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Re:Meaningness by randomsearch on Friday December 09, 2016 @01:33PM (#13140690)
Pessimism absolves the thinking classes of ideas...
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