Viewing profile — spacelamb

I don't disagree, but the former set up AMC to green-light Halt and Catch Fire and the latter resulted in Better Call Saul.

On Instagram, I've seen VSCO links as the "link in bio" (the url in the user's profile) for a few acquaintances I follow. Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon [0] at play; I believed I never…

That's correct! Thanks for your comment; I wrote the original to practice logical thinking, and your feedback is helpful for learning.

Paul Graham's assertion that 'parents send their kids to private schools to improve university admission standards' does not guarantee that 'kids from public schools are smarter th…

>I feel like this is one of those instances where it feels intuitively correct but probably isn't. I get this feeling reading a lot of 'insightful' Tweets, especially written by Pa…

This Tweet is on HN because its founder, Paul Graham, wrote it. I would contend that if anyone else wrote these assertions (even if a celebrity), it wouldn't receive as much engage…

As a counter-point, I don't see this as worrisome. Your friend who is a public servant sounds professionally and intellectually fulfilled, and far better off and stable than others…

Another anecdote: an undergraduate at a top university I knew, with publications, leadership positions, and strong research experience at the time, was also into reality television…

As a counter-point, IG recently made it much easier to upload content directly from a desktop operating system. It finally added a button for users upload posts from a web browser …

Even shorter for branding: "FaceApp" and "Facebook Rift"

Probably objects that make you imagine about what day-to-day living was like in the past. If VR becomes widespread, perhaps the first VR headset. Or perhaps niche, quaint items wit…

That observation is incorrect (as of November 30, 8:46 pm ET, about two hours after your comment). It doesn't appear in the top five "most read" stories, which are: 1. Moderna chie…

A lot of journalists are financially poor, or at least don't make much income from their jobs. $1000/yr is a lot of money for journalists, especially at local newspapers. Quite a f…

Yes; among these political groups, "blue check" is a pejorative as belonging to the member of the "liberal elite" [0]. [0] https://theoutline.com/post/1323/verified-blue-checkmark-…

You're correct, though I have to say as someone who reads the Financial Times and The Economist, I haven't seen any headlines today; this is the first time I've heard of the news. …

The current official W.H.O. rationale, reported by the NYTimes [0]: "Some other variants with Greek letters do not reach those classification levels, and the W.H.O. also skipped tw…

Thanks for the recs, though Google has caused unexpected design problems in my usage. Sometimes it unpredictably switches to dark mode, then light mode on Firefox and Safari. Googl…

I had it even worse only 5 hours of battery life in my first week of usage. It turned out OneDrive had a bug with syncing; after reinstalling (then keeping it on overnight for the …

I agree with your side notes, though I would add that depressive realism is a hypothesis in psychology that is challenged by other academics, rather than a settled fact. From your …

You can also stay realistic, while being neither too negative nor too positive. You can step back and identify the negatives and the positives of a circumstance or plan, weigh them…

Here are my views to try and answer in good faith, "How can you not be negative?" as someone who feels positively: >"Plus some people have made loads of money while we watch front …

I don't think it's a nightmare because he has choice and a fair amount of power. He could quietly retire comfortably if he wanted to, but instead he's making the play to reorient h…

Another pen and paper method I used for a while was inspired by a previous HN submission (Using Paper for Everyday Tasks) [0]. I used it for a solid couple of months (filling up tw…

The Daily Activity Schedule by psychiatrist Dr. David Burns in his book Feeling Good is the main technique I use, and the current software I use to type it out is OneNote. The main…