Mezzie

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811.
by Mezzie 5y ago
I'll go one further: I have child porn of myself online and I don't support the Earn-IT Act. Then again, having my online presence wiped out after 7.5 years at the age of 12 when COPPA went into effect made me really cynical. As
812.
by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm DIYing it for now with most things because staffing quality and levels for most service industries make it not worth what I'd pay to get stuff done (particularly the routine things; last two places I tried managed to screw up
813.
by Mezzie 5y ago
It is. So is investing in the stock market when I can't choose when to pull out. Working for another year or two to wait out a bad marekt and planning when to retire and therefore when/how to shift my investments from riskier as
814.
by Mezzie 5y ago
It's kind of similar to building a traditional portfolio in that you want to diversify; basically the overall 'goal' is to make it so that in the future when I need help, there will be enough people around with good memorie
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I can't speak to history, but I'm converting my cash into social capital. It won't directly get me more money, but I have a disability (MS) and therefore a variable-length career. (i.e. I can't plan on working until 60&#
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I know some of the supply side difficulties come down to electronics supply issues: We had a bunch of new, built cars just sitting in parking lots here (MI) that were complete except for some of their electronic components. It was bizarre
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I feel like what differs is what type of unethical behaviors different systems encourage. Capitalism encourages screwing over other people, being cutthroat in business, etc. Communism encourages different faults, such as passivity, mob me
818.
by Mezzie 5y ago
As an archivist/librarian-programmer, I'm totally here for calling myself a tech priestess.
819.
by Mezzie 5y ago
I actually sent it to them both ways (I just consider it basic good practice since I have a background in accessibility; presentation + some form of 'just text' is my default)! Which is fun, because there's notes and then Tru
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Shhh, if you point that out, people will start questioning whether they need a slide presentation at all. I tend to view 'no aids' as the default; unless I can come up with a specific use for a slide deck, why make one?
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Very much so. I just designed a presentation for a Zoom talk I'm doing, and its intended use case is not only that I'll be going through it during the talk, but that printouts will be available, and the handout/resource will
822.
by Mezzie 5y ago
There is at least one valid reason to do what GP suggested regarding 1:1s in my experience: If an employee is having an issue that they don't want to put in writing (or you sense this), oftentimes a one-on-one is the only way to coax i
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Couch it in how you want to contribute to your team. Instead of "I don't want interesting work", say you want to help support members of the team who are looking for new opportunities, or something like that. There's X w
824.
by Mezzie 5y ago
I work in communications for a non-partisan civic/political non-evil organization (Think like the Congressional Research Service or parts of NARA, nothing sexy or cool) and my graduate focus was on filter bubbles/social media algo
825.
by Mezzie 5y ago
It's not my only news source given I work in politics/civics, but HN is what I use for understanding the way the conflict is impacting the Internet on a technical level and the discussions of tech politics. For example, the reques
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'd consider an intact culture to be one that's capable of transmitting its knowledge and traditions to the next generation, and one that permits some kind of social learning [1]: It should be possible for a child or novice in the
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I've realized I'm mostly likely going to be one of those living archives, and I have very weird feelings about it. I'm 33 years old and I might be the youngest person/in the very last group of people who remember the ear
828.
by Mezzie 5y ago
I do and I don't. Maxis has stolen many more hours of my life than any Big Tech company; mobile Maxis games are dangerous.
829.
by Mezzie 5y ago
> I mean, who would support translations of a language where you're software almost 100% gets pirated. Language nerds can be as weird/passionate as tech nerds. Plenty of people who will translate things for either language poli
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think I have a strange answer: The only things that work for me are spite and a desire to not be a dick. I will not overcome perfectionism for my own sake, but wanting to model handling mistakes gracefully for junior colleagues/kid
831.
by Mezzie 5y ago
Sim Ant was the first game I bought with my own money, back in the day, as my start to collect ALL the Maxis games after getting my hands on SimCity + SimEarth. This was an excellent thing to wake up to.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It's SO task dependent. I'm happy to work this way when I'm doing UI/UX or end-user touching work; so much of that boils down to 'predicting the ways in which the chaos apes will behave' that having another per
833.
by Mezzie 5y ago
I go back and forth on the question. I definitely think we need to get rid of the two-tier system that's functionally 'pay to play', but I don't think just public schooling is going to solve the issue, because the proble
834.
by Mezzie 5y ago
I think you're both right. Social justice INSTEAD of one's primary mission is a terrible idea. This happens when social justice initiatives are put in place to help the careers of people running them instead of the organization. T
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I just always find it funny that 'Eurocentricity' is one of the problems, given the whole movement is AMERICA-CENTRIC as hell. We've even co-opted what being 'Eurocentric' means! Talk about arrogance!
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Or small women. My maternal family is full of fully grown adults less than 5'2" who weigh less than 90 lbs. My mom, grandma, and even my uncles would not have a good time.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
You're thinking of this with a modern viewpoint, which holds that tech is inherently useful and a socially-worthy pursuit. This is a very recent cultural ideal: Even when I was growing up (in the 90s), it was way more the 'weird
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The irony here is that we got both: Since grandpa's day job was as a factory worker at Oldsmobile, well.... We're Michiganders.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Well, in my case, when I bumped arms with the rich and well off was mostly back before I was 25. There's some occasional intermixing between the talented peasants and the kids of the wealthy at things like prestigious scholarship trips
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The main difference to me is that 'banned in X country' implies availability outside of that country. The Parler situation was about the viability of the site as a whole. 'Weibo banned in the USA' is very different.

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