meowing

45 karma · joined July 5, 2020

meowing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)

Hi, just some feedback that your links result in a 404 error

meowing··on Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide

I took a course on this, and part of it was just arriving at a definition. One way to think about it is literally the name - genocide is anything that prevents future generations of that culture or population

meowing··on Finding new species in the Western Ghats

This website is gorgeous. Haven't felt that in a while.

meowing··on Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake

Just reading how he wants to all of a sudden improve his legacy makes me so mad. How many thousands of peoples' legacies has he impacted?

meowing··on Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake

Koch has spent a fortune on destabilizing public infrastructure in midwest cities. If he "believed in people", he could show it by not tearing down public transit systems which disenfranchises poorer people.

meowing··on Ask HN: Are you depressed?

I want to jump on and suggest a CBT book - Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns. It is the single biggest factor for helping me out of depression.

meowing··on A Pretty Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism

I know, right? I had the same reaction to the article, makes me miss fun intellectual conversations in college.

meowing··on The Time-Block Planner

I have ADHD so time-blocking is fantastic when I can get on a roll with it. I love the pen and paper approach because I can get distracted easily by apps. Daily planning felt too granular for me at first, but I use it to complement my longer term planning.

meowing··on UN actively passing names of Uighur dissidents to Chinese regime

It's hard to not think that way some times, especially when institutions like the UN seem to be corrupted