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No matter what evidence is brought against it, the Stanford Prison Experiment is going to continue to be part of the psych 101 curriculum. It's going to be taught as a revealing experiment about human nature, or an example of poor experimental ethics, or both at the same time.

It's just so deeply ingrained in the way the subject is taught that it's going to stay there even if the conclusions are phony.
If someone can beat this one, I'll tip my hat to them.
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Guess what, you still don't have to tip if you don't want to. Your "guilt" is your problem, not a problem with the iPad. Anything that increases the takehome pay of low paid service workers in SF seems fine. It is entirely opt in.

An article featuring complaints about some of the lowest paid people in SF getting paid a little more because of a new technology lacks some self awareness.
>why Netflix doesn't buy some legacy entertainment companies

Now that you say that I wish they would have grabbed FOX away from Disney. That would have given them something better to compete with and not allowed Disney to be even larger than it already is.
I’ve been starving for most of the year, unable to eat much due to severe discomfort when I do. I’m about 10% below a healthy weight. At this point the idea of hunger doesn’t faze me at all - I barely feel it anymore.

Malnutrition is a slow process. It doesn’t feel very intense.

I’m basically starving while surrounded by food, like these people. What keeps me from eating it is that it causes greater pain to eat than not to.
Piece of anecdata for you. I take 2000iu of d3 daily, and live in Seattle. I've found when I stop taking d3 it's highly correlated to feelings of depression. Once I realize what's going on, if I start taking it again usually the depression starts to lift within days.

Now that said, it's not clear to me that it's causitive, since usually when I stop taking my dose, it's because I've run out, and it's very possible my not having time or interest to get more means I may have already started down the depressed path, and I may already be recovering when I finally start taking care of myself.

In any event I don't seem to get the really dark depressions I got before taking d3 and I don't dare stop taking it intentionally. Even if it's largely placebo the cost and risk seem very small conpared to my perceived benefits.
If you go in the website and look at the gallery you will see a U shaped staircase. That was fitted after the equipment was hoisted up there.
Replacement removal is possible but not without removing the staircase. Luckily the Technogym kit was only 4 months old. So we won’t be replacing anytime soon. Most of the kit upstairs are weight stacks anyway so require little maintenance.
I'm probably too late, and I am probably too far outside the core interest group (the US developer market) for this one. but anyway: What would you say, if I hypothesized a fairly narrow but structural pay grade for years of experience, qualifications and perhaps a more variable quality for domain specific knowledge or above-competent?

Seriously: if the entire industry moved to a different model, would the fact some of us were significantly worse off, but most of us on average were better off be acceptable?

Thats basically what Unions, and Unionized negotiating achieves. If (like me) you worked in the tertiary education sector as a researcher, this is how it worked.

Could any of you people go there? If not, why not?
Indeed.

Heck I have respect for places that send out just an AUTOMATED "Hey man we're not picking you but best of luck and keep an eye out for other jobs on our site." email at this point.

It's that bad...
I love the idea of this utility (I use TLDR myself) and wonder if there is a way that tldr could be integrated with your tooling https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.

I can see that there may be instances where you/your company would like to have internal docs that should not be public and this utility would would work for it
There is also this one, with lyrics that barely make any sense at all also by Max Martin I believe.
https://www.laweekly.com/music/what-the-hell-is-backstreet-b...
Just click no tip, problem solved.

Another reason to use cash. No awkwardness with tips.
Often times they take the script and put their sticker on it before even checking if it's in stock. I have had this happen numerous times. I then go to another pharmacy because the first was out of stock (and my time is worth nothing, so of course I can drive all over town and stand in line for 20 to 40 minutes at each place) and get interrogated by the pharmacy tech, "did you take this somewhere else to fill!!???" Because apparently only a criminal would fill a controlled substance. And with the DEA artificially limiting production, it's very normal for the first three pharmacies to be completely out of stock.
Worth noting that California pays a "fair" minimum wage to tipped workers (as opposed to states that pay as little as $2.13/hr to tipped workers)
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Where I am there are a lot of restaurants with the Square tablets on a pivot, and what I've noticed is that with fast-food-type places the worker will turn their head away while you enter the tip amount. Or they'll preselect, "no tip"

I too am annoyed by the ubiquity of these tip prompts, but the manners haven't changed. (It's been on credit card slips forever.) People shouldn't feel obligated to tip just because, say, it's the owner serving cold brew from his food truck.
I’ve been surprised at how many legitimate sites have those redirecting ‘sweepstakes’ ads these days - sites like politico that you wouldn’t expect to have spammy trick ads. I find it annoying enough - no idea how less technical users handle that.
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> ... [on online experience] ...it’s kind of like ice cream. Ice cream is not found in the natural world, and when you have it you just have to have more of it because it meets your needs almost too much.

There's a term for this, it's called a 'supernormal stimuli' [0], first popularized by Nikolaas Tinbergen, a Dutch biologist who explored the phenomenon when almost all species of animals he experimented with were drawn to hyper-attractive synthetic objects of interest (eggs, sexual mates) over natural ones. [1]

That's the essence of the present day clickbait infested web, imo -- Tech companies spending billions of dollars to sedate us with barrage of stimuli that our brains never evolved to cope with in the first place. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus#In_biolog...

[1] https://lifehacker.com/supernormal-stimuli-is-your-brain-bui...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphon...
I bought one recently too, and the folding mechanism is awfully loose, have you had the same problem?
Ah, I wasn’t calculating their other fees like invocations and networking costs. Crazy it’s almost an order-of-magnitude
I give credit to the few shops that default to "no tip" — presumably because so little service is involved in their transactions. Of course, it's fine to offer an option to add a tip, which is basically just the digital equivalent of a tip jar. But for the shops where service is minimal, it is appropriate to set the default to be no tip.
Aside from the fact that there is no evidence for that, what state actor would benefit from the existence of Bitcoin?
Can you point to some specific examples with the properties you suggest make Ruby unreadable?
"Oh but it's a dead format! Who would possibly want to write mp3s today?
I'm not saying that they should change their stack, I'm saying that they should consider that someone having extensive experience with related technologies probably knows the domain well and can come up to speed quickly on the team's shit.
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Another aspect which is often missed during thinking about own number, or discussing the offer with a recruiter is that even if one's skillset is worth X, it is not always the case company will need the whole set of skills applicant posses. Hence their market price for that position might be lower than what an applicant is looking for, yet still fair. This kind of mismatch of honest numbers is the case where things will just not work out. One thing is being underpaid, the totally different thing is doing something too simple for one.

When I was searching for a job, I used to ask straight their salary range, since I always assumed business is pricing job fairly and that number would tell me what kind of skillset their business need. (And no, one's extra skills are not gonna give an edge to business, and usually these extras worth nothing to the business, hence lower offer)
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> my lab, which is just a bunch of people with laptops.

OK, so it's something akin to Wikipedia's description of "dry lab".

> The situation I'm dreaming of, is, for example, it not being my problem when a grad student is having trouble getting software installed on the server. That would be something I'd love a lab manager or dedicated programmer to deal with

This sounds very much like IT/Helpdesk support, of the kind a programmer or a lab manager typically wouldn't want (and might not be qualified) to deal with, either.

Is there something unique to your lab environment that you couldn't use some kind of shared/general IT helpdesk service, perhaps focused on scientific software users?

If not, there may well be an unmet need that a startup could fill, especially if everyone in each lab needs identical support and they can combine it with some kind of cloud-based service with basics pre-installed. However, if you're looking for unlimited, individualized user support for a limited, flat fee, that's not sustainable.

> I don't have nearly that level of funding

For a service provider, the question then becomes, do you have enough funding for the amount of service you'd require (plus the provider's overhead/profit), even if it's not nearly enough for a full-time person (which can be remarkably expensive in popular tech hubs)?

Reasonable IT support to user ratios are somewhere in the 1:20-1:100 range, which is the same range (for a 3-person lab) as HappiLab's pricing.
It seems to me that tipping has evolved from an incentive and reward for good service to a form of voluntary workfare where those who have something to spare decide to share with those still struggling in the low end of the service economy.
I've yet to see someone kick a soccer ball such that it goes forwards and then comes back above their heads without wind assistance. Doing so with a frisbee isn't trivial, but it doesn't exactly take someone at the apex of skill either.
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Defaults matter.

If the 'default' tip on the app is 15% or 20%, then you need to make an affirmative choice to not tip. Yes, you can (usually) opt out, but the screen is telling you in no uncertain terms that tipping is probably a social norm here—if you choose to opt out, you are making the extra effort to break the norm.

Otherwise, why bother setting the default at all rather than force the user to enter an explicit amount every time, like on a restaurant bill?

Also, there's a whole subbranch of behavioral economics ('nudge' economics) that basically studies how to frame choices and set defaults to influence decision making [1]. Advertisers and politicians also take advantage of the power of framing and defaults.

So getting back to the ethics of the issue, it'd be interesting to see data on how much the default influences the actual tip paid, and how that incentivizes the actual business owner (e.g. set a higher tip rate, pay a lower wage?)

[1] http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/richard.thaler/research/pdf/...
By the way, there is a project to "Implement a front-end for CakeML that accepts OCaml or Haskell syntax"

> An involved version of this project would be to write a new verified parser for an alternative syntax. A simpler version would be to re-target the parser in the OCaml compiler to produce CakeML abstract syntax, and treat this as an executable specification. Similarly for any Haskell compiler that is amenable to such treatment.

https://cakeml.org/projects
The real question is wether the workers are being paid the tipped or no tips minimum wage. The former being much less than the later in much of the US
Should be in the sense that I don't recall the specific number, only that it was around $4k. Given the decreased consistency in the process (living things vs. mixing chemicals), I imagine a fairly good chunk of that 4k is also marginal cost to the manufacturer. Everything from research, to scaling up production, to storage and shipping (spoils at room temp) becomes more expensive.
In many cases the software magically selected 20%, vs a paper receipt which adds 0%
Thanks, this tool looks great. I am eagerly awaiting a version for Linux.
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Use referrals.

Ultimately, if you cannot identify critical staff and don’t know anyone who can, you’re screwed anyway.
> turning off wifi does nothing.

I tried turning off my wireless interface but that didn't accomplish the desired result because my computer uses Ethernet to connect to the network.

(Yes, I know, "wifi" is now a synonym for "any external network connection" but I also have the--possibly irrational--view that people who claim to understand "the Internet" should also know to make the distinction.)
Brilliant idea, but it is a bit of a pain for desktop users, no? I'm not sure how I feel about impairing the usability of the site for people whose primary network connection is an older desktop.

I wonder what their bounce rate is for links shared on different devices?
I’m not 100% sure, because I haven’t been to the US recently, but I think there’s a difference in terminology.

The scooters in the article are talking about the little folding things that you stand on, right? Like Razor scooters from the 90’s but electric. These are basically non-existent in Chinese cities. The main form of transport here is electric motorbikes, which people sometimes call scooters.
The dvd service is still around and actually the catalog looks far better than what is streaming. the issue of course is that instant gratification and convenience vs waiting for something to come in the mail.
That was literally the first thing that came to mind (I was going to make the same comment).

The change isn't that there has been an increase in demand, just that clearly nonsense "skilled workers" in the contracting companies have been blocked. Seriously, I don't see how a contracting firm could ever justify the kinds of "specialized experience", etc requirements of a - by definition - generic software developer.
One thing to keep in mind when paying individually is that many insurance providers won't count the payments toward your deductible or maximum out of pocket expenses, since it wasn't processed through your insurance.

If you're nowhere near hitting your deductible for the year, and don't anticipate hitting it, then looking for cash-only discounts make sense. But if you anticipate hitting your deductible anyway, sometimes it makes sense to pay the inflated price on that individual item, since you'll make up for it later when you hit your deductible and switch to only paying your coinsurance amount (or hitting your max OOP).
Though the experiment appears to have been rigged am I wrong when I say that Abu Ghraib, the torture sessions at Guantanamo and the CIA dark sites and Arizona's isolation units pretty much concur with the SPE results?

From wikipedia:

On August 20, 1971, Zimbardo announced the end of the experiment to the participants.

"... According to Zimbardo's interpretation of the SPE, it demonstrated that the simulated-prison situation , rather than individual personality traits, caused the participants' behavior. Using this situational attribution, the results are compatible with those of the Milgram experiment, where random participants complied with orders to administer seemingly dangerous and potentially lethal electric shocks to a shill.[21]..."

"... The experiment has also been used to illustrate cognitive dissonance theory and the power of authority...."
In the context when you're clearly referring to a person, it's clear the meaning is "Richard". It's common for words to have multiple meanings and it's easy to navigate those from the context. With "toots" as a verb describing what someone does "Joe tooted about his plans", for many people, the meaning of that word in such a context would normally mean that bodily function. So the difference is in the kind of context-sensitive meaning that comes to mind.
Certainly, but that doesn't mean the schema has to be a strict validation encoded into your storage format. It's a perfectly well-defined programming model to say "well, I'm reading query X with schema Y, and if some rows don't match Y give me nulls instead".
My experience is that it's more like 90% of the time. My "lessons learned" is: Talk to your pharmacist and see what options they have for cash payment and discount cards like GoodRx. It takes them a couple minutes to compare to your insurance, but for me it's cutting the cost of my prescriptions by around half.

My insurance has a $10 copay, but limits me to getting 30 day supplies. Currently they are moving to require you to get refills through them by mail, which would be fine except I'm skeptical that it would cost me significantly more.

I have 3 prescriptions, which with the monthly copay would add up to $90 a quarter. Using the "GoodRx" or other "discount card", those 3 prescriptions with a 90 day supply end up costing me around $40 a quarter.

The meds for my family's recent set of illnesses were cheaper with the GoodRx than the copay, but just barely.
I don't think her plan for Toronto would apply to a small town. A detached home anywhere near the core starts at about $1.3M, so "affordable" housing is relative. Adding 100k units will make the entire market more affordable, the challenge is where to put them. As the former chief planner, she's highly qualified to tackle this; she has been pushing plans for adding density in smart ways for years.
You'll want to find out what they are stuck on and help or show them how to remove the initial impediment (they might be waiting on someone else or having trouble breaking down the problem into smaller workable chunks.)
It's not in Australia. I have only heard it used as a word for a noise birds make.
> Anything that increases the takehome pay of low paid service workers in SF seems fine.

Anything?
North Korea comes to mind first
I sorta agree. A flawed study says nothing about any conclusions. Neither for nor against.

Is it an interesting question? I think so. But right now I see no evidence that I trust one way or the other. Instead, I see a ton of posturing.

This is akin to picking a movie like Shawshank Redemption and claiming it proves something of human nature. No. It doesn't. I feel it helps me relate to and accept some behaviors. But it proves nothing. As it is fiction.
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Why?

If it's about money laundering, they had no problem doing that with the many currencies that already existed before Bitcoin.
My wife and I purchased a pair of e-bikes (I haven't seen any for rent where we are except at bike shops, and I can bike to work which makes owning one make sense), and yeah, they are -insanely- fun. Even for exercise they're great; you can pedal without pedal assist...but hit a steep hill, or have to stop due to traffic, having a throttle to get you moving just makes everything so much smoother.
Started using it already! I love it :)
It's possible that the notion of moral plasticity has taken hold in part because of this flawed experiment that set out to prove it. That people feel moral plasticity to be a thing in the wake of being systematically lied to the tune of "moral plasticity is a thing!" should not be taken as evidence of moral plasticity. That is at best circular reasoning.

Indeed, by that line of reasoning every religion should be thought to be true simultaneously, as their respective adherents feel them to be true.

The only confirmation I see here is that of squishies being over-eager to fit facts to convenient and familiar narratives.
Not an expert in this space so my comment comes with a shovel full of ignorance...

So your comment implies that medicare/medicaid prices would go up? Is that true? Could the 'listed rate' drop 40%? I always hear listed rates are grossly inflated for those that dont have insurance and land in emergency etc

When you see some of the inflated prices a >40% drop seems distinctly possible if a truly competitive market is created. Would that be fair?
Lots of fast casual places now have a tip on their screens. I always choose 0.

I mean seriously the only interaction I'm having lasted 30 seconds, I'll never see this person again / they won't do anything more for me, no tip needed...

I hate tipping as it is (granted I do tip in non fast casual food situations). I'd rather just the cost be up front.
What do you mean? You can disable internet with one click on any device.
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Interesting project. I believe these two shell functions in the shell's initialization file (~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, etc.) can serve as a poor man's um:

umedit() { mkdir -p ~/notes; vim ~/notes/"$1.txt"; }
um() { less ~/notes/"$1.txt"; }
This is true of bicyclists as well.
Currently using dnote for this but this looks interesting as well.

I can see myself running `um git` literally before every invocation.
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yes! tipping is like a naturally occuring form of redistrbution of wealth in capitalist countries :) I personally view the evolution of tipping culture as positive on the whole.
and also, I think people tend to tip a bit higher if they feel good about the service, so it still incentivizes good service. When I visit Europe, I am reminded how nice the service industry in America is.
Not everything works in about:blank.

For example, if you go into devTools and try to build an SVG programmatically (or simply inject some innerHTML), the funcURLs won't pick up the ids in the <defs> section for things like gradients/patterns/etc.

I can't remember which part of which spec conflicts with the other on this. I just remember mentioning it on the SVG list and the Mozilla bug list. (It actually works in Chrome, which a Mozilla dev told me is a bug in Chrome. :)
The tip calculator on these is surprisingly broken in obvious ways. For example, if you order a cup of coffee and merchandise or a bag of beans, it calculates 15% on the entire order. Wtf!
Or you could just have a living minimum wage, lol.
I mean, my fav is NYC cabs where the options start at 20% and go 25%, 30% or custom. Great way to avoid getting 10% tips if that was set as the floor.
Another way to look at it is that companies are making it easier to underpay their workers by offloading the responsibility for seeing that they're fairly compensated to their customers.

Repeated studies have shown that tipping is inherently discriminatory, with people of color faring worse than, say, conventionally "pretty" blonde women.

In this case, the workers don't even get the one benefit of tipping that wait staff do, namely, cash that can go largely untaxed.

What's happening here is that companies are setting a new normal that lets them not only avoid the cost of employees by calling their workers "independent contractors," they're even avoiding the cost of paying them a fair wage at all.

This isn't about guilt, it's about service workers being hurt by basic concepts like fair and equitable pay, benefits and stability being replaced by a gig economy where their take-home pay is subject to the whims of patrons' moods.
> Your guilt is your problem

I'm sorry, who are you?
If you're on Firefox web browser: File-> Work Offline should do the trick. You can access the File menu by tapping once on your 'alt' key.