Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5y ago
Good TV is good TV!
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Many creators do a two-tier system where they release some free stuff and offer a paid Patreon or whatever. It's not any different than game demos.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I would argue that the ethical thing to do in this case is used Vanced/blockers and then support the content creators directly. (I happen to pay for YT Premium now, but I understand and sympathize with objections to it and used Vanced
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by Mezzie 5y ago
What you should have is the option to chose to only run software whose source code/documentation/etc meets your needs. Also that the devices' uses should be up to their owners, not their manufacturers. Devices are tools, no
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Yes, but he only can do that to American companies/companies that do business here. He can't tell, say, the Swiss to keep the Russians' money. There's a difference between "Money market funds, banks, stock exchanges
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Oh, thank you for that, I found it and read a couple of pages and it looks delightful. I agree on follow the money, though to make the adage work for more societies, I would say "follow the incentives".
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm pro cryptocurrency (the idea) and anti cryptocurrency (the practice). > Thankfully crypto isn't a democracy. Money market funds, banks, stock exchanges, and every other financial institution can be frozen instantaneously b
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Interesting, but the author makes a mistake that I think a lot of tech culture writers make: Assuming all the issues with technology stem from the technology and not the culture that developed it. What I mean by that is that while we can se
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It's more likely to be a reference to Goodnight Moon. The book has cats at the end saying 'Goodnight, Moon!' Also there is no point in the series where Luna and Artemis actually stare at the moon together in this fashion, and
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The first web pages I made I had to type into the OG Notepad. And there were no tools to help, and you had to support 3 resolutions + at least 2 browsers. This was before responsive design (or indeed any kind of HTML/CSS design practic
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by Mezzie 5y ago
What types of news do you follow? Some suggestions are: - SCOTUSBlog - Law 360 - Bloomberg Law - ABA Journal News - Courthouse News The primary benefit to using legal sources for your news is that the legal news cycle does not match up with
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> I also don't see these scams as "our industry". I'm not in bitcoin and NFTs. This is old fashioned scammers moving to the new medium that we created. It's not us. It doesn't look like us, and I doubt anyon
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Elon Musk is a performer. He's one of the few people in his generation that is, as you mentioned, fearless and with capital and that understands digital culture. He's like someone from the 50s who sees an Elvis Presley show and
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by Mezzie 5y ago
As a 'white-hat' marketer (I work for some place that's similar to Vote411/ The League of Women Voters and I initially started in library outreach; I don't think anybody would consider my work unethical), the issue
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Them and the credit reporting companies.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Examples (and this is why I'm so picky about giving apps Contacts access): * Friends that I went to graduate school with. Just based on our degrees (MLISes) and career titles, which are pretty public, and the fact that we keep in conta
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Are you tired of boring, old stress? Try new and improved META-stress: all the worrying and none of those pesky resolutions or good things!
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by Mezzie 5y ago
A Gavin who thinks he's a Peter Gregory. ;)
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by Mezzie 5y ago
FB's initial success relied on a lot of variables coming together, and Zuck is smart enough to know that. He's also smart enough to know that people are smelling weakness, and that's a bad time for him and Meta, because the p
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yup. If I design a UI and you have any feelings about it at all (other than maybe 'oh, I like this font' or 'that's a nice color choice'), I've done it wrong.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yup. I started web development when I was 5. There's a lot of very good, important things that you won't learn working as a kid (conflict resolution, dealing with bad business requests/requirements, etc), but at the same time
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The particularly shitty part is that often people are/were REQUIRED to test themselves for COVID and people were stuck with whatever tests were available. So governments demanded people buy goods from private companies, and then the pr
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yes, the years of experience metric greatly underestimates the value brought by rare synergies. I'm a decent programmer/developer, but that isn't my primary worth to a company. My primary worth to a company is that I'm a
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I used Larry as an example because we're from the same city, ironically. My grandparents (the ones I knew anyway) are from the class that repaired electronics; we're the mechanics to their automotive engineers. My grandfather (bor
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> I'm literally crying while writing this post, because it's so exhausting and it never ends. If it helps (?), I also broke down crying reading this, because I have MS and it is so true to my experience. I've never been ab
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by Mezzie 5y ago
A proper transition to those systems includes talking to each team that will be using it, breaking down all their workflows, and making sure that said system works with practices in place (a new system that causes everything to take 20% mor
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm in the process of creating an internal documentation wiki + system for my organization. You separate out them out into 2 related parts of documentation. My guess is that you want them in the same wiki page because that's how y
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I was a hyperlexic kid + a mental calculator who was a child programmer. At the age of 6, I was reading at the level of a college graduate, and I started coding in elementary school; I taught my first intro to programming class when I was 1
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm a person with MS who is the sole breadwinner for myself and my sister, who has bipolar that prevents her from holding down a job. I also come from poverty. Two people with chronic, lifelong health conditions and a lack of safety
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You shouldn't do this to prodigies either. I was one and honestly I'm really happy my parents were neglectful (in the legal sense); my peers at award dinners might have had their university and career plans set out by 12, but none

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