I'm the guy who submitted this, and I can't even explain why it's at the top. I mean, I'm not saying it shouldn't be.. I wouldn't have submitted it if I didn't think it were of interest. But I didn't expect so much of a reaction.

Anyway, I don't think anything has "changed" I think it as just a case of somebody taking the initiative to post this, and it just happening to be somewhat timely (there was another thread discussing stoicism earlier) and being of interest to a broad cross-section of HN readers. shrug