mikem170

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by mikem170 6y ago
I wondered about Stalin, also. Sorry, I ended up passing along what I remembered reading, and didn't think enough about your comment. Maybe I misremembered, or it would have been more accurate to say populism, without the left/rig
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by mikem170 6y ago
So are you saying the 1968 flu was worse, because per capita across the world it killed as many, or up to three times as many, people in a younger world? (so far, covid19 is not gone yet) It was pretty bad. The flu has all the long term com
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by mikem170 6y ago
>Is it only right wing? That's what it said. I assumed they were talking about how bad economies led to people like Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, and since then maybe Thatcher and Reagan, also Putin, and more recently Brexit, Le May, O
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by mikem170 6y ago
It was the great recession. I remember reading at the time that it is typical for there to be populist right wing movements after economic calamities, same as happened after the great depression.
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by mikem170 6y ago
Agreed. The 1968 hong-kong flu killed between 1 and 4 million people. Nobody talks about that now. They didn't talk about it much then, either. Woodstock, which happened during that flu season, gets talked about more. With this latest
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by mikem170 6y ago
There's many ways the same support can be given. Why should employees have to support each other in that fashion? There's things like short-term disability that handle absences longer than whatever specific number of normal time o
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by mikem170 6y ago
Big companies make seem more into making inflexible processes and eliminating the variability of trust. The people who do follow the rules are left feeling shorted by those that don't. That doesn't seem right. I think this happens
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by mikem170 6y ago
Point taken, I understand what you're saying and that plays into the mix. My next thought is that having the separate sick days with the expectation that people will only use them when needed introduces several less-than-optimal proble
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm not sure if I follow. In some jobs workers are given 20 PTO days to use as sick or vacation as they please. In other jobs workers are give 10 vacation days and 10 sick days. I was saying that it seems better to have the PTO days to
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by mikem170 6y ago
Who are we punishing here, though? If we gave everyone all their days off in one pool then all the days could be used. Having the extra rules about sick vs personal just benefits the company. EDIT: I guess we are saying that the company ben
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by mikem170 6y ago
Keeping them separate as you mention benefits the company for every day of sick time someone can't justify as a day off for something they'd like to do. That doesn't make sense to me. It's better and more flexible to ha
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by mikem170 6y ago
At this point in the conversation I don't understand why any employee would want them to be separate. Doesn't that just work to the company's benefit? They want you to be there as many days as possible Why wouldn't you w
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by mikem170 6y ago
I imagine that trust can come and go as decades turn into centuries. It seems that social trust is decreasing in a number of places...
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by mikem170 6y ago
When you said "trust" I wondered who benefits, and my first thought was that the company that doesn't have to deal with the sick days is the winner. The company is trusting to come to work as many days as we physically can? H
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by mikem170 6y ago
Do people pretend to be sick to use up their X days? Many people want to have as many days off as they can. If so, you could be in the same situation, call in saying your sick to use all your days then really get sick at the end of the year
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by mikem170 6y ago
I wrote a scraper for myself only to keep an eye on several used truck websites. I was able to do this for craigslist, so I could run it every couple days and check the nearest 75 cities, the list of truck ads, filtering on/out certain
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by mikem170 6y ago
Right! Maybe they are cutting email because it is not as profitable. I agree with the other poster who brought up storage costs not keeping up with growth of stuff to store. I wonder what this means for youtube...
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'll try to clarify/refine where I'm coming from: Systemically we as a culture care more about our quick cheese than we do about the hundred of years of trash. Ideally the price of the fancy cheese and everything else should
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm an optimist, I assume we'll get there eventually.
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by mikem170 6y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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by mikem170 6y ago
So how about we add the cost of proper disposal to that cheese? It is inefficient and unfair to pass the cost of someone's cheese to everyone else now and for three hundred years. Then if you have the money you don't have to wait
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by mikem170 6y ago
> Capitalism tells us that if we're not making money, we're worthless as humans. I agree that pure capitalism thinks that way, and some cultures are closer to that than others.
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by mikem170 6y ago
Is this a catch-22 though? Would it be a less busy world if we the price of cheese packaging included the externalities of disposal? Some people would choose the cheaper of more time consuming alternative, and what is wrong with that? Do we
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by mikem170 6y ago
There's also nothing virtuous or efficient about the typical modern middle-class American lifestyle, double the house size of fifty years ago, three cars, college as status symbol, etc. I think most people would say that all this new e
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by mikem170 6y ago
But what is the goal of all these new efficiencies? Many of the efficiencies the modern age brought us have been in service of "more" - more house, more car, more entertainment, more clothes, more disposable technology, more statu
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by mikem170 6y ago
Does it need to be a big deal to wait a few minutes at the deli counter? In our rush to maximize everything for efficiency we are causing numerous small problems that are adding up, a tragedy of the commons and loss of our humanity. Our cul
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by mikem170 6y ago
But is it fair to pass the externalities onto someone else - you get your prosciutto and someone else gets the mess? That's doesn't seem right to me. As opposed to an arbitrary tax discourage something I would whole-heartedly supp
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by mikem170 6y ago
I agree. And I'd add that it seems like in our modern more complicated/interconnected world that nation-state decisions that are implemented have vastly more far ranging consequences than in the past and are not as easy to predict
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by mikem170 6y ago
Ok, how about governing ourselves? Are we doing a good job? The U.S. sits atop the world economy, and politically we've been divided over issues like gay marriage and walling off Mexicans. Nobody trusts congress, yet the federal govern
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by mikem170 6y ago
The problem isn't that the average person can't understand all of the modern world, the problem is that them and the politicians they elect and the experts they count on can't understand it well enough to avoid really large m

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