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Agreed. Our local and regional transit story is so poor right now. Improving that would drastically improve the lives of lower- and middle-income people who have to drive on our over-congested highways day after day.
Clicks. It's all about clicks with publications for the past two years or so.
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My experience of LinkedIn has declined from a marginally diverting way to follow career progress of former colleagues (2005-2009) through a pointless recruiter circle-jerk (2010-2014) to being an unremitting fountain of scam sales-lead invites from profiles of dubious credibility (2015-).

I disabled all notifications long ago.

It is possible that this is the unavoidable fate of any professional-oriented social networking service. Nonetheless the value of LinkedIn to me is now effectively zero. I don't know anyone who respects their brand, and I'm left wondering if there's a gap in the market; c.f. Facebook vs Myspace ca.2008.
Not a Trump supporter, but I don't see why he shouldn't. Apple probably wasn't going to do this unless that tax deal (or something similar) went through.
The politicians driving the change found that restaurant owners are better donors than waitstaff. Or they're ideologically committed to the freedom of the economically strong to wield their strength against the weak. Take your pick.
Sounds like a good reason to get rid of tipping entirely and pay reasonable wages to all employees.
RSS is the system he wants. There's no need to spam emails everyday, just provide an RSS feed and people can subscribe.

And yet there is no RSS link anywhere, not even under the RSS feeds heading in the sidebar.
Why are they wasting cycles buying land and dealing with right-of-way and safety issues? They could just buy 100,000 shipping containers for $2M (50,000 each way), stick them together, seal them up, and sink them off the coast.
I'm on the fence when it comes to corporal punishment.

Is it less ethical to cane someone for theft than it is to fine them, thus depriving them of money they probably can't afford to lose, or incarcerating them, thus stopping them from being productive members of society and allowing them to hang out with bad influences?
1. There can be multiple sets of satellite services an area. How many entities currently own satellites? Maybe 100. Reducing the cost will increase diversity in satellite ownership.

2. Satellites can, in theory, run a mesh network among themselves.

3. Decentralized doesn't mean you own one. Decentralized means there are multiple agents and none have a commanding control of the system. I don't need to be able to deploy my own internet balloon to belong to a decentralized system. Cheap internet balloons will allow smaller companies to work on the "last mile" problem, further decentralizing the network.

4. Decentralized doesn't mean free as in beer, free from commercial interests, or free from laws and regulations.
I can't find it now, but I recall an article from about a year ago that compared per-mile/km transit costs in the US and various cities in Europe. The costs in the US were ridiculously higher. I don't recall if there was a conclusion as to why. So comparing to a comparable project in Europe isn't really representative, unfortunately.
So tipping is just another word for what we might in other contexts describe as low-level corruption.

When I give a tip, it's a gift. I don't expect anything back from it.
I remember flickr said something like "offer support in a way you know won't scale"
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Tokaido is the most profitable Shinkansen, but most of the other Shinkansen's are in the black. The only unprofitable one is the new one toward Hokaido.
You kind of answered it yourself, restaurant owners have lobbyists and can donate big to political candidates/movements. The Papa John's pizza founder was pretty notable in the last election cycle and the Domino's pizza founder was pretty big money guy behind the scenes last time I looked. Employees at restaurants won't have lobbyists unless they are unionized.
BART has the highest farebox recovery ratio of any public transit system in the US

Source? This[0] one has it tied for 7th.

[0] http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/55CF12C9-9D4E-4762-A27A...

I suspect it's a lot worse now. Turnstile-jumping is rampant, and fare evasion has been decriminalized altogether for minors.
Keep in mind airline miles. I take the shuttle out of LGA to D.C. over the Amtrak. The shuttle is cheaper and I get the comfort of earning miles.

I've already invested into making flying comfortable. Lounge-access credit cards, Global Entry (which grants TSA Pre-check), upgrade-giving status, et cetera. I'd need trip time or cost cut in half relative to air travel to make switching worth it.

I'm not the median consumer. But weighted by likely usage, I'm closer to the average.
The FCC doesn't get to decide, it just isn't currently clear whether they are a common carrier under the laws given. So the FCC chooses what side to back, enacts regulations based on it, and waits for the courts to decide who is right.
You seem to ignore that even in desktop and mobile, HTML(ish)+CSS(ish)+JS is taking over.
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Yes, this so-called high-speed transit requires going to the airport 2 hours early, going through onerous security and checkin processes, plus 30-40 minute board times, airport runway/taxi delays, delays at the destination, deboarding, getting luggage, and getting from the airport to the destination.

Mythbusters already tried this experiment, and they were able drive from SF to LA door to door in the same time it took to fly, end to end, 5 - 6 hrs.

If you've ever traveled between cities in France or Japan on high speed rail you know its infinitely better than an airport. I can arrive at an Shinkansen 5 minutes before departure, travel a similar distance between SF->LA in 2.5hrs or less, in a super comfortable train, that I'm free to walk around it. At my destination, getting to/from the high speed rail is also super-convenient, hassle free, doesn't require driving, and overall, is cheap.

Short distance air travel is majorly annoying no matter the cost. I hate the airport in/out experience.
The headline reminds me ... "God says world to end tomorrow; women and minorities hardest hit."
Pure guess but probably to allow for proper taxing of tips. Cash tips are notoriously underreported. I’ve never met any who receives them who claims the full value as income. Most will claim some min to meet a “normal” amount for a work day and pocket the rest.

A law like this would shift that to be income received by the management which presumably they’d have to properly account for. Even if they give it all back immediately there would be a paper trail.

If that’s the case then I think this is stupid. I love the fact that I can tip someone in cash that’s predominantly off the books. Makes me feel like I’m giving them an extra X%.
I believe you can still put up legal challenges against eminent domain actions. Even if the HSR group wins those challenges, it costs time and money to deal with them.

There are also opportunities for legal challenges on environmental grounds and other things that can slow things down.
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I would be shocked if female waiters in the US are paid less than male ones. Got a source?
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Not yet.

But if you built a major infrastructure that could make SF or LA a morning commute, it'd sure do some interesting things to population distributions and land prices.
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IMHO, corporations don't create jobs any more than the workers and consumers do.
Expected this to be about Chydenius in part, but no:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Chydenius#Free_trade

"In 1765 Chydenius published a pamphlet called The National Gain (Den nationnale winsten), in which he proposes ideas of free trade and industry, explores the relationship between economy and society, and lays out the principles for liberalism, capitalism, and modern democracy.[5] In the book Chydenius published theories closely corresponding to Adam Smith's invisible hand, eleven years before Smith published his book, The Wealth of Nations."
As others have said, employers have a much lower minimum wage for tipped workers in most states. However, perhaps unintuitively, workers still usually prefer tipped over non-tipped jobs because you can usually bring home more money through tips than through the minimum wage
I'm not sure what your point is here?

I mean, we could all go and dig up links to base64 encoders and decoders, but the article you're commenting on is specifically about how fast they've been able to get using vector instructions on modern processors.
I do not think you can do a computer science Ph.D. without a strong quantitative undergraduate degree, ie computer science, math, physics. The Ph.D. application is a very clubby process, and it is more or less who you know, who you have worked for, where you interned (that is Google or Facebook). It is not really a five year school so much as a five year employment with minimal rights to the employee, and a lot of risk to the employer since your boss (advisor) has to commit to someone for 5 - 6 years without a prior internship relationship. Framed in this way, you see how difficult it is for you to get in a program now, it is basically impossible. Your best bet is to go through a post-bac computer science program (UPenn and Columbia both offer them), the program themselves are cash grabs for the university, but while in the program you can work for a professor and develop a relationship there, and then he/she will give you pointers. If you're in the program sometimes you can transfer to a related program that offers more math/theoretical comp-sci curriculum as well. You can become a "machine learning" scientist after this program, Ph.D. is not required. Honestly, I would say you're at least three years away from asking if you're qualified for a Ph.D.
But are they not themselves part of the problem they decry?
The percentage of unionized workers in the restaurant business I would estimate at less than one percent - maybe if we count employees of schools/universities there would be an uptick. What you say may be true about other findings from EPI but it's probably more accurate to call this pro rank and file employee.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/organized-labor-restaurant-in...
How is that an issue for you? Seems to me like there are more jobs than programmers out there. Where are you located?
Why would anybody tip if the tip doesn't go to the server? That's the only reason that I tip.
That kind of comment is called 'whataboutism'.
I wish these funds were being spent on improving the speed and quality of travel within the largest urban areas in California: SF Bay Area and Los Angeles.

Broader reach and faster travel times within those urban areas would go much farther to improve the quality of life of Californians than this high speed train project in the middle of nowhere.

I would really like California to have a high speed travel network from north to south at some point in the future - but I just don't think it's the right priority at this time - as air travel is good enough for now - and most people have to commute within their urban area every day. How often do you need to commute between SF and Los Angeles?
I'm not sure why you believe that is a counterexample - it is anything but. That interpreter can still run code written against the original DOM APIs in the original syntax, as defined 22 years ago - around time the <noscript> tag appeared in HTML!

Of course if mom and pop were using UUCP and an ADM-3A to fetch their mail, they couldn't view the images -- but all the infrastructure that allowed them to read mail at all could be repurposed without change, possibly including their modem (thanks, RS-232, introduced 1960), if they bought a 80386 desktop with a VGA card

These are all interoperability success stories! Meanwhile, I need 19 different IM apps on my phone to talk to 19 different people. That's what happens when you ignore interoperability
I made Go bindings for that library https://github.com/myfreeweb/go-base64-simd …

…to use in a mail indexer project…

…only to discover that half of my mail was not being decoded, because that decoder does not skip whitespace.
So now that we've looted the reserves of Apple to fix all our problems for 1-2 years, what will be the next golden goose we would choose to slaughter?
By Federal Law they have to be paid minimum wage. However, any waiter who can't clear more than minimum wage is doing it wrong.
True it seems we are getting the crumbs here falling between the cracks. But what is another realistic scenario? Tax them even more? Wouldn't they move to another tax haven. Why didn't that work so far, these tax tricks are not new.
The tip goes to the wait staff. The bill goes to the chief/ingredients/building upkeep/owner. Tipping won't improve the entire experience, but it can improve the service.
Though a nice sentiment, such a holiday would be unnecessary and too complicated to implement. As other commenters point out, mail balloting is much easier and already implemented in many precincts. The US is a very large country, and there are elections all the time. Would people need a day off for school board elections? What about the recent Alabama special senate election? Restricting it to only presidential elections, or once yearly elections, would be impractical for the day to day democracy of our nation.

Perhaps compulsory voting would be a better idea? Though groups like the Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses would be dead set against such an idea, compulsory voting has good track records in places like Australia where there was much hand wringing over a low 91% turnout. However, many Australians point to the compulsory vote as a reason why their parliaments are bad, as it forces people with little to no interest to make a choice in an election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Australia
Hex has lower information density, however it is more compressible, particularly if your data is byte aligned. For example the string "aaaaaa" is b64 encoded as "YWFhYWFh" but in hex is "616161616161". On a project I'm on, we switched from base64 to hex for some binary data embedded in JSON, and saw ~20% size reduction, since its always compressed by the web server.
Men's button down shirts are generally sized in 3 dimensions - collar, sleeve and fit (slim / normal)... which is more axes than most clothing items. If you're only seeing a handful of sizes, find a different brand.
> Comparing non-American infrastructure costs and benefits to American infrastructure is misguided because American infrastructure costs unreasonably more

Can you elaborate why you believe the comparison is misguided?

It costs more because it costs more is self evident, but doesn't suffice as an explanation in depth.
I hate tipping culture.
When I was young and a waitress in college, I noticed horrible racism from waiters who treated minorities badly due to tipping stereotypes.

Please just get rid of it for living wages.
There’s a really crappy place in a really crappy shopping centre near Springvale but, Jesus wept, their fried chicken variation on the bahn mi is out of this world.

Can’t tell you where it is, of course. a) I have no idea unless I’m driving and b) the hipsters will catch on and then it’s ruined!
Been reading lately that, in America, it got popular right after the civil war, so restaurant owners still wouldn't have to, you know, pay wages.
There are 7 million people who live in the Central Valley who do not have adequate and affordable air travel, the population centers of the stops Fresno, Merced, Kings/Tulare are justified, even more, if you account how much cheaper it would be for people to commute to urban areas, and how many people can move to these cheaper areas to live.
That's rather striking considering that the "flight" itself is, what, 50 minutes?
I am not sure how the price tag is relevant to you personally. If you build an effective network of High speed rail it ends up cheaper per trip which over time means the effective cost is ~0$.

I doubt they are going to succeed, but in other areas it has worked.
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As a counter counter point, there are places which don't take tips, and they offer some of the best customer service in the world.

Japan is a good example. In the food service industry, establishments will usually put their own service charge which they think is reasonable onto the bill (usually a small amount). They don't expect (many will refuse to take) further tips because they price the cost to serve into it.
So you like to facilitate tax evasion? So that tax that's not being paid gets paid by some other schmuck -- like the cooks or the busboys that don't generally work from tips?
> Look at the UK's railway lines, some of them have been operating for two hundred years and counting.

Good point. The government may not run all the trains[0], but the rail companies help with congestion and up-keep as well. And that is just the trains running on the National Rail, not including private rail lines.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_operating_tr...
"Therefore the client does not know if a site will require SNI or not."

The client that I use assumes no SNI required. (It intentionally does not support SNI.) If it fails because the website is on a shared host and requires SNI, then it retries via a local SNI-enabled proxy bound to localhost.

"Conclusion: browsers will continue to send SNI."

Some clients/browsers will continue to send the domainname in the clear for every https url, even when it is not required.

Some users might consider that as sacraficing their privacy even when it is not necessary.

But not the client I use. It assumes no SNI is required, by default. It never sends the domainname in the clear for https when it is not necessary.
If an employer is really intent on stealing their employees' tips, they could just

1. Increase their prices by 15-20% across the board

2. Instruct their waiters to tell all customers that tipping is not required, nor accepted

3. Pay the waiters only 0-10% of the bill, and keep the rest for themselves

If we're relying on leaky laws like these in order to protect the under-privileged, we really need to reconsider our social safety net.
I don't know the answer but in Israel election day is a holiday. The common stigma is that you vote in the morning and then have a barbeque in the afternoon. I don't know whether it would work the same way in the US, but that's how it is in one country.
I am wondering if "women" in the title still moves anyone these days? People are joking when they see titles like "10% of homeless are women" as if the remaining 90% were aliens from another planet.
Have you been in countries without tipping culture? Almost all of them have much worse service quality.
The FCC gets to apply the definition written into the law bases on the factual circumstances, and is entitled (under current case law) to significant deference in its application of the law, but it's decisions still need to be grounded in the facts and law.
Crisis? Unemployment is almost at all-time lows.
Enterprises have been able to distribute apps outside the Store since Windows 8.0 back in 2012.

With Windows 10 you can just distribute the .appx and install it with a double click (given you've installed its certificate or if its CA is already trusted, which is common in enterprise environments). No Store required.
Scratch 3.0 uses Google's Blockly in their new software, for those curious about the similarities. The tech is widely used in many different applications, as evidenced by Microsoft's use of it in MakeCode.

Though I'm not a part of the team and so can't provide much more information beyond an interested outsider, unfortunately. :)
I doubt that's going to be publicized.
> It costs more because it costs more is self evident, but doesn't suffice as an explanation in depth

I linked to a New York Times article [1] that analyses the issue well. For a shorter, bloggier read try this CityLab piece [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

[2] https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/04/7-reasons-us-infrastruc...