Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
I've seen this in academia, for-profit, and non-profit sectors as well. It's what happens when responsibility is not married with reward, or worse, is punished by those above you. Why take responsibility when all responsibility
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> More realistically, a man who is 35 years old has a life expectancy of another 43 years, so not quite there yet. It's crazy how much this can vary. I'm 34, but I'm female and from a family where multiple people have live
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And the wisdom for deciding what is worth learning. Don't underestimate that effectiveness multiplier.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I learned this full speed into a brick wall via an MS relapse in my last semester of graduate school. There are always things that you can't control. It's best to adjust your worldview to accommodate that, or if the unexpected doe
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Well, the big one is college debt, obviously. But another example that comes to mind (as someone who lives in that income bracket about half by choice and half not) are car repairs (you HAVE to pony up or you lose your job, so the question
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Also can confirm as an accountant's kid. It's kind of like being given a cheat code.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I wish I could be on Ocrelizumab, but it's hard to get it covered because (ironically) I've been lucky and had next to no disease progression in the 6 years since I was diagnosed (8 since triggering relapse). I'd like to keep
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yes and no. I think you're right about the number of people who could effectively do those things. I think you're missing a key skill that a CEO can have that can make them effective if they're lacking in one or two key areas
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by Mezzie 4y ago
My favorite was the giant university who flew me across the country for an evening + 8 hour interview for a tenure-track position and then ghosted me. Bullet dodged, in my opinion.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I left my political communications related job and now I work in a specialized lingerie/bra-fitting shop to stretch my savings while I figure out what I want to do next. It's far more satisfying, and I don't hate humanity aft
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Fukuyama's filter bubble is SO obvious reading this piece. > "The path out of polarization needs to be a political one, given the nature of our democratic system: that is, a realigning election in which one party decisively win
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> only being able to go where my parents take me and finally growing into driving age so that I can go from parking lot to parking lot. Part of this is because we hover over kids and let them do less. I'm from middle America, and wh
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I miss Dogpile . Comparing everybody's results was fascinating.
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- Monitor your emotional state and take breaks. Also accept that it is normal to be emotionally affected by people writing/saying terrible things to you. There is nothing wrong with you. - Take a systems view. This helps you remember t
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I can see some value in it for scammers, hackers, and businesses that pray on the poor. (For example the 'buy now, pay later' Aaron's Rent-A-Center type businesses). Or for identity theft.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
That's fair, that would be a decent read on the comment assuming average HN demographics. I am a librarian who was raised by hackers, so I was programming and playing around online for years before starting library work and eventuall
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And given that a lot of the staff working those desks aren't librarians + are working part time, it's also great incentive for bad actors to get jobs in libraries specifically to start stealing that data.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And I think she's wrong, as another librarian who's worked in public services. I think Google's poor implementation of 2FA is a result of misaligned incentives, unknown unknowns in the product development cycle (because she&#
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I think the cause may be wanting a way to opt out of the pressure cooker that modern life is. I'm disabled (I have MS), and the one benefit to it is that I have a 'get out of social expectations free' button I can push if t
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by Mezzie 4y ago
So we disagree on the best tactics to take here. In particular, I think the embarrassing tech companies in public works when it's done by either other tech people OR it gets into the media where the bottom line could be impacted. This
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm a colleague of Shelley's, loosely: I've been working in libraries since 2004, a fair amount of it in public service, and my first job was literally teaching people basic technological skills in a public library. I don&#x2
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I honestly can't remember who implemented 2FA in this case first , but it's not only a Google problem. People also end up locked out of their Yahoo and AOL accounts fairly regularly. > The solution is so poorly delivered libra
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's a small proportion of the served population, not a small population in absolute numbers.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Maybe I should have mentioned I'm a programmer and a librarian, and my suggestion is one of tactics/strategy. I care more about getting the problem fixed than the writer's feelings not being hurt, and I think that things woul
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Oh yeah, it was just an example of how this population stays with familiar products far beyond their usual lifespan. So they often want support for products and services that are old or unsupported. And why changes really screw them over: A
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I wish that Shelley had co-written this letter with either a tech employee or a more tech-focused librarian. The problem that she mentions is real: I've worked in her position and can confirm. But the way the letter is written makes it
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I think something like this could work iff the accounts were required to be set up by said civic authorities with confirmable paperwork. Otherwise, librarians are stuck awkwardly trying to decide if 'John Doe' really owns the em
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And this is more likely to happen to the poor since they're going to have Lifeline Assistance phones, which are all shitty Android phones. (I had a couple and keep them as burners but they're crap.)
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by Mezzie 4y ago
This has been an issue for years. (I've worked in libraries, including public ones, on and off since 2004). It's not just a GOOG problem. In fact, Yahoo makes me want to show up and yell at some business people: They lock people o
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by Mezzie 4y ago
To give a sense of the level of tech literacy samsa is talking about, I've had to teach multiple people how to use a mouse and keyboard + had to explain to dozens of people that the icon called 'Internet' on the library compu

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