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Comment by ampdepolymerase | Hacker News Reader

All the nihilistic HN are people downvoting because they are envious of having a faith.

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." - note also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please especially don't start religious flamewars. We can, and prefer to, avoid that hell here.

I think providing advice in Latin, a language almost no one on HN speaks, is a more likely reason. It started getting upvoted again after someone else provided a translation.

“I often feel that the American programmer would profit more from learning, say, Latin than from learning yet another programming language.” -- Edsger Dijkstra https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

I don’t know Latin, but the meaning of the quoted phrase was pretty obvious.

still dont know what it means in english

Having read the linked Bible passage, I think it probably means "A wise man is humble. We are all dust in the wind. Nothing you do matters anywhere near as much as most people like to imagine."

In a thousand years, the sun will still rise. The wind will still blow. Your name will probably not be remembered.

We have trouble coming up with solid info on historic kings. We know vastly less about historic commoners.

Even if you are relatively well off and important in the world today, in the grand scheme of things, you still don't really matter all that much. So check your ego at the door.

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