spacelamb

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by spacelamb 5y ago
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.
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 heard of VSCO before, but just saw a li
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by spacelamb 5y ago
That's correct! Thanks for your comment; I wrote the original to practice logical thinking, and your feedback is helpful for learning.
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 than kids from private schools.' Some
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by spacelamb 5y ago
>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 Paul Graham. His essays have been influentia
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 engagement.
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 who've "failed to launch"/have unf
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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, and specifically avoided dramas/prestige television (
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 from a desktop OS (before, you had to switch the browser&#x2
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by spacelamb 5y ago
Even shorter for branding: "FaceApp" and "Facebook Rift"
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 with great craftsmanship (no longer used at all in the future),
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle wi
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 few accounts I follow also don't have a Blue C
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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-der...
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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. I don't expect conspiracy, though; it&#x
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 two letters just before Omicron — “Nu” and “Xi” — leading
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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. Google's answer box also sometimes displays wrong informatio
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 sync to finish), the battery jumped to ~8-10 hours with fair
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 link, "Depressive realism is the hypothesis [...] that
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 (quite literally in a table for anything complex, it really
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 line workers basically dying doing their j
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 his company around a virtual-reality space. Th
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 two notebooks with about 30 sheets/60 pages, one per mont
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by spacelamb 5y ago
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 idea is to create a three-column table with the time of day