Ask HN: What's the Point of Life?

Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by mcot2 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:53PM (#28866752)

I have no idea what the point is but the answer is 42.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by jgwil2 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:21PM (#28867174)

I saw a post the other day claiming that, since 42 corresponds to "*" in ASCII, and "*" is often used to represent a wildcard value, the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by thaw211014 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:11PM (#28867026)

"To always have your towel with you" is part of the answer.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Point of Life? by godDLL on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:20AM (#28885518)

"To be ready to jump in and swim" is what it would probably be in common English, without the British wink.

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