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Posted by bob_theslob646 3 hours ago

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies(sytse.com)
217 points | 55 commentspage 2
ashwinnair99 2 hours ago|
Most people slow down when something like this hits. Starting companies is a very specific way of refusing to.
grokcodec 2 hours ago||
https://time.com/7213490/why-are-young-people-getting-cancer...
Axoncode 2 hours ago||
I hope he will feel better.
moralestapia 1 hour ago||
"maximum diagnostics"

Love this! This is the way! And he proved it correct.

I remember one time I mentioned this in a casual conversation only to get back very low IQ responses with some fatuous arguments that the tests caused the disease or something.

There was this one guy Tomas something (can't remember the last name, a weird one), doesn't matter, what I do remember is how he was desperately trying to explain how more tests led to more diagnoses and that was ... somehow bad? Lmao.

Something I've observed, I've lived in Canada/US and Latin America, in the former you have to wait months for a CT scan, in the latter you can get it the same day you need it. If the "third-world" can do it, there's no excuse.

universa1 1 hour ago||
I am fully on your side, but tests are not 100%: False positives and false negatives.

The way out is obviously better tests and not less tests :-)

AlBugdy 42 minutes ago||
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dominotw 2 hours ago||
so many of these now. it is so sad and scary.

been thinking about prenuvo all the time now but not sure if thats going to help or make me more paranoid.

TaupeRanger 2 hours ago|
Not really. Osteosarcoma rates have remained very stable for decades. Some young people are getting diagnosed with colon/breast cancer at increasing rates, but most of that comes down to better diagnostics and imagining, catching things at earlier ages.
twostorytower 2 hours ago|
Really awesome that he was able to do this and give back, but none of this would have been possible without his unfathomable wealth and access.
Noumenon72 2 hours ago||
That's not a "but". Because he developed wealth and access, this is possible for one person when before it wasn't possible for anyone. This is how societies developed everything from refined sugar to rockets, as they passed various thresholds where individuals could afford to try things out.
fragmede 2 hours ago|||
And all of a sudden, I was bestowed with the greed to acquire more money than I can spend in a single lifetime. If I get cancer, I'd rather be rich and be able to do stuff like that, rather than die quietly.
perch56 2 hours ago|||
According to some online sources his total wealth is under $3B. Hardly ‘unfathomable wealth’ IMO. Sure, billionaire territory but nowhere near the ultra-wealthy.
amazingamazing 2 hours ago|||
3 billion is ultra wealthy, you can't be serious.
perch56 2 hours ago||
It’s entry-level billionaires club. The top 10 each hold $100B–$300B+, so the wealth distribution is extraordinarily skewed even within billionaires themselves. Musk is hundreds of times richer. Hardly obscenely rich.
tock 2 hours ago|||
It's entry-level obscenely rich club.
amazingamazing 2 hours ago|||
I must be talking to AI
perch56 2 hours ago||
This AI recommends you visualize inequality at scale and see the difference between 1B vs 300B. https://youtu.be/c7sr46hxVM4
amazingamazing 1 hour ago||
The percentile ranking increase is greater between median human and 1B compared to 1B and 300B. Bad AI
chaps 2 hours ago||||
Friend, $3B is unfathomable wealth for an individual.
perch56 2 hours ago||
I can fathom 3B, I can’t fathom 300B
crote 33 minutes ago|||
Quick, without doing any kind of Googling or calculation: if I asked you to count 3B grains of rice by hand, how long would that take you? How big would that pile of rice be? How long would it take you to eat it?

A billion is already unfathomably large. If you think it isn't, you just haven't tried imagining what a billion of anything would be like.

orf 2 hours ago|||
Yes, big number better, everyone gets it.

The point is that you’re deluding yourself if you think that there is any difference in terms of relative “unfathomability” between 3 billion and 300 billion.

3 billion generates more in interest per day than 99.99% of people make in a year. That’s unfathomable volumes of wealth for even the very rich.

dudul 1 hour ago|||
This comment left me speechless... There are just a bit over 3000 billionaires in the world, 900 in the USA. If $3B isn't "unfathomable wealth" I don't know what is.
esafak 2 hours ago|||
This is an excellent use of his wealth and skills. Much better than Steve Jobs' response.

I remember reading a similar article about a (cancer?) patient who used 3D printing for his personalized cure.

peyton 2 hours ago|||
There are grad students babying organoids right now. Saturday morning. If you can work a pipette you can do this.
yieldcrv 2 hours ago|||
Feeling inspired?
croes 2 hours ago||
It’s more like I hope more bad things happen to rich and powerful people so they start doing something against it. As long as it happens to ordinary people most of then hardly care.

Reminds me of the GOP who was against stem cell treatments until Reagan got Alzheimer‘s

rvz 2 hours ago||
> ...but none of this would have been possible without his unfathomable wealth and access.

?

What's that supposed to mean? Is that bad?

You can do the same thing as he did, what's stopping you?

TobTobXX 2 hours ago|||
wealth and access that is merely fathomable
rvz 2 hours ago||
You can literally apply to YC, just like Sid and now you are reading his story.

He did not come from any of those backgrounds.

croes 2 hours ago|||
Wealth is mostly based on either luck and more often heritage.
rvz 2 hours ago||
Not only Sid didn't come from any of those backgrounds, neither did the founder of Freshworks who literally started his company based on reading a hacker news comment. [0]

So I only see more excuses here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28336815

croes 1 hour ago||
So it was luck
rvz 1 hour ago||
Nope. He applied to YC and took that risk and already knew how to make money.

You miss 100% of the shots if you do. not. try.

croes 1 hour ago||
But you don’t hit 100% if you try. That’s where the luck part comes into play.

Right time, right place