for more like this, cal flyn's "islands of abandonment" is an interesting read featuring several surprising example of how ecosystems have adapted to varying levels of human destruction
Miami Vice has acquired a pretty substantial cult following in recent years, and among the people i know who are "into" Mann, it pretty commonly ranks as their favorite as well.
For me it's still Thief (or Heat) but MV is very close
I think it's completely reasonable to look at the country which they share an island with, Dominican Republic, and ask questions about why one has fared so much differently than the other. The countries share almost identical geographical attributes, yet the average Dominican is 10x richer than the average Haitian.
Central American colonial history is incredibly fascinating but also very tragic.
Obviously, and it's pretty juvenile and reddity to imply I hadn't even read the article, thanks. It might surprise you that there's actually a lot more to Haiti's post-colonial history than just the debt the French tried to call in.
30 years of rule under the Duvalier dynasty held Haiti back in the 20th century much, much more than the country's central debt, but I understand the urge to direct the blame the struggles to one specific cause instead.
And the Duvalier regime is entirely on the Haitian people? The history of Haiti in the 20th century is impossible to separate from the major world power next door. The US has been nearly constantly involved in controlling Haitian politics, including literal invasions, and absolutely not for the benefit of the Haitian people, but to ensure that no other powers grew in the Caribbean region that could threaten its power.
There are many possible suggestions, why did you pick that one?
Maybe the suggestion is that they would've eventually gained freedom, like all slaves in Western countries, and that in that alternate history, they would've fared better. After all, the black population in the USA is richer than the black population in Haiti.
They would have fared a lot better if … France didn’t saddle them with reparations for their independence … like what the entire article posted was about
Maybe, playing counterfactual history is just a game. Would they have fared better had they never been brought to Haiti as slaves and had they remained in Africa?
Maybe they would've been taken as slaves to the Middle East. By the way, where are the black descendants of the African slaves taken to the Middle East? How do we pay them reparations?
> This study was done before vaccination was widely available. Is there any indication that, for example, breakthrough infections would have a different result long term?
> Yes. We are [studying] this, but I think the jury is still out. We're certainly very interested in addressing that publicly as soon as we can.
neat! that first quoted line has css text-transform:uppercase in the article, so firefox copies as original, lowercase text, but chromium copies as all caps!
> P.P.S. The reason you don't need algos in your day to day is because you are not good enough at algos to get a funner, better paying, more impactful job where you do
there are a comically high number of jobs at "prestigious" companies where this is absolutely not true
Impactful how? If you want to believe you are not just a cog for some for profit enterprise, but are doing impactful work, cool. I likely disagree, not as a diss on you. I generally see cogs as cogs, myself included. OTOH, your wording wants to believe you and others good enough in algos are better than others.
pretty interesting that nowhere in the article does it mention that any of these CEOs have tried, say, offering higher compensation/better benefits compared to similar remote-friendly jobs.
when i see "at their wits' end" i take that to mean "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
I recall reading a few articles after the first year of the pandemic talking about this very thing and how once employees realised how much unpaid time they pissed away each day getting to work that it would be impossible to get them back.
The only case for people going back to the office are people who want to be in an office environment. And I think those people are disappearing rapidly. My partner was one of those people who wanted to get back to the office and has had a pretty significant change of mind in the last year.
What I want to know is who are these CEOs that they are only just dealing with this issue two years into this pandemic when lots of people were already discussing this?
If these folks are so behind the curve on this issue then why are they even CEOs in the first place?
The CEOs are trying to convince their existing workers to return to the office, not attract new ones. Maybe I'm not typical here, but I'd be pretty uncomfortable if my company announced a raise that only office attendees are eligible for with the explicit goal of pressuring people to go in.
I was talking about this with my partner and that was her first response. Clearly enhanced wage packages are something that only work for C suite 'employees'
> "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
