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> "Pat & Mat" is silent-duo home-improvement slapstic comedy that we kinda like :)

Did you know that Pat and Mat became a very popular export product of the Czech Republic? You might be surprised to learn that most Dutchmen know who Pat and Mat are (though not their names).

Something odd happened when it got imported into the Netherlands in the eighties: a soundtrack with spoken voices was added, and it gradually became a cult hit. Blasphemous as this may sound, the dialogue is as silly as the episodes themselves, and actually works.

The popularity of the show in the Netherlands actually helped create the demand for the new episodes made in this century.

Have a look at 'Buurman en Buurman' (neighbour and neighbour) on Youtube to see the Dutch rendition of Pat and Mat.
ACH and CC networks shoulder the burden of maintaining the system, fraud checks, chargebacks, etc. They provide a convenience function that lets me avoid having to carry cash around everyone, and lets the vendor minimize their cash-related costs. It's all worth the 2-5% they charge (and if you're paying more than that you've got bad negotiating skills). Cash isn't cheap--after security-related expenses, it costs just as much if not more than accepting credit cards, but the expenses aren't as easily traced back to individual transactions.

A guy bringing me a plate someone else cooked has not earned 20% of the bill.
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Sometimes I take a 20 minute nap at lunch time.

Other times I'll go to sleep right after dinner, awaken around 11 PM, do stuff until 2, and then sleep until 7.

I always feel well rested on days like either of those.
Still can't figure out what space they are looking to occupy.

The Pixel phones have staked out the expensive-but-good market for "pure" Android snobs.

Samsung has staked out the best-hardware-early market with deep ties to cell providers.

OnePlus has staked out the cheaper-but-surprisingly-good market previously held by the Nexus line.

Where does Essential fit? Rubin never answered this question. Outside of a few tech people, no one knows Essential exists...even OnePlus runs ads.

I suspect Rubin thought he could just build some brand buzz and flip the whole company?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. His post is awful. It's simply barking "wrong" without explaining anything.
I appreciate the clarification. Apologies for my misunderstanding.
I should actually say:

"Because Bloomberg articles are for <some company's> investors, not <some company's> customers"
Since we're talking about coffee shops: the Starbucks app allows to add a tip for a certain period of time after a a mobile order (something like an hour)
I've never had to use a physical book for any of the papers I got an A on in college, except in the few cases an overzealous English professor made it part of the requirements that you cite a physical book, in which case I had to find some token fact in one just to satisfy it.

In addition to all the great content you can find free online, libraries get free access to EBSCO databases.

I've also never needed the help of a librarian, ever.

Having the old books around will remain useful only up until the point we find a way to fully digitize all of it and make "borrowing" solutions more widespread/work around the copyright issues. For now for 99% of cases you don't need a physical book.
Video Chat Is Terrible and About to Get Much Worse
The post says 64 KB of RAM which is presumably on-chip.
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So the typical sieve of Eratosthenes is O(N log log N). Perhaps surprisingly, you can actually write a sieve that's O(N).
What type of Android phone is that? It seemed to differ from other Android devices only in trivial details; there was no significant differentiation or innovation.
Hi graybolt, I'm Dirk, co-founder and CTO at Helm. Each Helm Personal Server is assigned their own IP address. We make sure to only use IP addresses that haven't been put on blacklists. If people abuse the service by sending spam it will only affect the reputation of their assigned IP and won't cause harm to the reputation of other Helms.
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Just say No.

We can recycle that old campaign and put it to good use.
You can still be extremely happy while being poor. It just means that they are happy in spite of being poor. That does not mean that a poor person will choose to not become rich if given the chance.
As somebody from a state with a high minimum cash wage I am astounded that servers still expect 15-20% tip because of the cultural influence from states that have a cash wage set at federal minimum. I am curious how you feel about tipping 20% to a server you know is making $9-15/hr.
I blindly tip 20% at restaurants irrespective if I sit down, buy take out, or have something delivered with one exception: if I buy take out, but I am just buying drinks that I took out from the fridge, then I don't tip at all.

My hope is that there will be sufficient political and societal will to expect employers to pay their employees a comfortable wage, and for everyone irrespective of whether or not they are an employer, employee, or self-employed to pay 100% of the taxes they owe without resorting to de jure or de facto loopholes or having an unreasonably high tax burden.
Just tried it, it takes a bit of time:

Thank you. We are preparing your data.
When your data is ready we will notify you at XXXXXXXXX@XXX.com

As a reminder, this process can take up to seven days. To ensure the security of your data, we use this time to verify that the request was made by you.
Google has had "Google Takeout" for a fairly long time I think (I heard it started as someone's 20% project a long time ago but is a legitimate team there now but that's just hearsay)
You jest but chances are high that if brothels are ever legalized nationally, the government will control it.
The author of this paper, Tara Smith, did an interview on the subject of "Achieving Happiness". It has a lot of additional concrete advice for making decisions in life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eok34BJwIm4
The neat thing about science is that it admits when it's wrong and changes direction.
Why do nerds have this thing where they think they got it all figured out. Like everything is a mathematical system where you can prove that A+B=C.
Also factor into the car cost the time lost driving there and back. That could easily be a couple of hours a week. Say 6 hours a month. What’s that worth? Could be $120 to $1200 a month.
"being able to slice-and-dice is quite important for a dashboard. There's so many angles from which the data can be looked at"

You make the fundamental mistake of confusing a dashboard with an analytics tool. The former must function without interaction because it must deliver its value without the user working for it. The minute they have to "slice and dice" to get an answer then it's not a dashboard. Dashboards exist (as their name implies) to be glanced at in order to establish whether any action should be taken.
>Why do you expect they do?

Because they almost always do and it's illegal for the owners to keep it?
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May sound entirely unrelated but I'm really curious. What kind of job (which area of expertise) do you think would satisfy you most? Excuse my ageism but I think I would be intimidated if I interviewed you as a hiring manager. That could cloud my judgement in the end.
The same can be said of private industry. True in my experience.
To add to this, if you don't know how your product is sold, your first salesperson is going to have a much harder time doing it since you won't be able to share anything about what resonates with customers and what doesn't. Most of the good salespeople you'd want to hire as your first won't go anywhere that the founder isn't already doing sales.
I don't imagine they count AngelList as a fund, or AL would easily be at the top of the list. (If they counted each company that had an AL series LLC on its cap table.)
Getting more sleep enhances every aspect of my day to day life. I snack less, drink less coke, eat better, spend much less time lazing around rewatching crap on netflix because I'm too exhausted to do anything else. I've been to the gym more simply because I can be bothered.
You could be correct, but "wrong" with no explanation doesn't do much to convince people. Can you say why you think these are wrong?
Those wage growth numbers discussed are an average. It would be very strange to have someone not have any significant raises between year 0 of their career and year 10.
Back in my VAR days the money was always in moving to that trusted advisor role. You move from quoting parts to actually helping design and architect solutions, also helps that when you're involved at projects at that stage the deal reg is almost guaranteed.
You can be the person who doesn't tip the counter-service worker if you like. The iPad didn't create that tipping expectation; before there were iPads, there were glass jars full of cash. People probably won't judge you for not tipping at a coffee shop. Like I said, I find it's easier to go through life just tipping wherever it's asked, and not worrying whether I'm being an asshole to service workers. I'm not saying you would be; I'm saying, that's one conundrum I like never having on my mind.

(20% on a muffin is like 80 cents, by the way).
I'm super interested in the rumors that Essential is working on "an anti-smartphone with a small screen that relies primarily on voice commands."[1] The world needs more sub-5" phones now that Sony isn't making the Compact phones, and Apple isn't making a successor to the iPhone SE.

1. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/10/essential-ai-phone-...
I have the same experience, provided it's early in the day. However, swimming a couple of km does it for me too, maybe even better!
It seems to be as a measure of safety, not because it takes 7 days. They’re giving time for the user to notice an unauthorized export attempt.
> If everyone just stopped tipping, the tips would be included in the prices, everybody would be paying taxes, and the tipping issue would just cease to exist.

That is not my understanding of how the world works.
If I host a Quake 3 server I’m in violation of the TOS.

It can be argued that using a browser or any other client violates that language by sending responses to requests.

The ISP won’t do squat if it’s encrypted; they have no idea who is being connected to and what’s being sent.

A TOS is as broad and vague as they can make it. A good lawyer could undermine such language if it went to court.
In the middle of this book right now, it's eye opening. I've never really prioritized sleep until now, and the difference in how I feel is very noticeable. I may have less waking time, but I'd say the difference in the integral of hours-enjoyment is a big net win.
> In a capitalist society (such as we live in, like it or not), we express value in money. IF your company isn't making money, is it adding value?

Yes, but it's a very imperfect way to capture value.

Without legal support, it doesn't account for negative externalities - eg, if your factory saves money by dumping waste into a stream, making people sick (but you don't pay for that). Or your site gets visitors by sending spam, wasting the time of the recipients and everyone who works trying to filter spam (but you don't pay for that).

It doesn't account for things consumers don't have the foresight to care about, or don't have options to choose between. Eg companies that manufacture a fridge that will last 10 years and be unrepairable may make more profit than those who would make one that lasts 50 years and be repairable, because they'll sell more product. Planned obsolescence wastes resources, but is profitable.

It also doesn't account for the value of things like raising children. If I play for my own children for 2 hours, that's not part of GDP, but if I pay someone else to, it is.

And it doesn't account for the fact that people's desires and priorities are warped. Child pimps generate revenue, whereas the social workers rescuing kids from them do not.
In the US "tip" is a misnomer. Minimum wages for jobs where you can be tipped drop from $8 or so otherwise to something like $2.

It's not a "tip". It's an expected (and the expectation is in law, as evidenced by the lower minimum wage) part of the employee's salary.

This is a really bad system, (as David MItchell would say, it's a tax on conscience), but it's the system the US has. It's very different from almost all of the rest of the world where a tip really is a tip intended to reward good service.
>employers will often slowly push you out by only offering you unfavorable shifts, or outright fire you in states with poor labor protections.

In other words; if you're bad at your job, you probably won't have it for very long. Yeah, well no crap.
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If I leave my car in a garage for repairing, I still own the car, even the garage can access it.

That means, even google can scan my emails, I still own the emails. The topic is about privacy while the title makes it to ownership. That's the misleading part.
"Web browsers render justified text very poorly. They don’t have the necessary algorithms to properly set the spacing between words and even individual letters (which is what proper text editors do). That’s why justified texts come with patches of space between the words: rivers of white between the black of text. This makes it very hard to read so justifying text on the web should be avoided at all costs. Web browsers are getting better in supporting hyphenation, though. If you do use justified text, complement it with hyphenation. For now, I recommend not using justified alignment at all."

It's not like a good algorithm hasn't been around since the '70s.
Thank you for being very constructive.
I sold my Apple IIGS around the year 2000 for $600 on eBay. Buyer spent an additional $600 for shipping from Canada to California. The buyer was getting it as a gift for a friend who was retiring from Apple and worked on the Apple IIGS.

A quick scan of eBay today is showing $1,200 to $1,800 for an complete functioning Apple IIGS. If he has 1,100 computers, I can see him getting to $23,000-35,000 pretty easily.
I USED ONLY BING FOR THREE MONTHS. HERE'S WHAT I FOUND–AND WHAT I DIDN'T
Likewise, I would suggest that it's more valuable for someone coming from a lower income/social status background to go to a good school than for someone who comes from higher - those people either already know influential people, or have the financial resources necessary to do things like attend conferences or just up and move to where those people are.
Almost never, and only when you know exactly what you are doing: https://eagereyes.org/pie-charts
Remember that Android, Inc was purchased by Google in less than 2 years after being founded, and before it even launched a product.
I've been struggling with this for a while and you put it really well.

However it frustrates me to no end, that customers are expected to do compensation sharing with the employer. The nefarious thing about this is that the employer has put the negotiating for fair wages between the customer and employees instead of between the employees and the employer.

End of the day its manageable as you say, just price in the tip - however I prefer places that have it priced in (same goes for tax).
That's true in restaurants but not as much in the context of the article.
I think this is most likely a fallacy. A positive action by me to increase wages shouldn't be blamed for the negative actions of others (mostly business owners) to suppress wages.

I could see taking responsibility though for not choosing to eat at more expensive restaurants that generally pay their staff better.

Probably what it comes down to is that restaurants are entertainment so aren't needed by society the way that grocery stores are. Then again, so is just about everything else in our economy. 10% of our labor could supply all our basic needs, the rest is just wasted keeping up with the Joneses. What I'm saying is that there may be no free market solution to the service industry being underpaid, which is why I support a $15 minimum wage and universal basic income, among other things.
Hi certainstartup. Please reach out to me if you want to have a deeper discussion. Notes:

1. Be certain that you want to raise capital. By raising you're irrecoverably giving up leverage to investors. You will always be beholden to investor expectations going forward. If you're a mission-motivated founder, you will inevitably reach a point where investor motivations will be at odds with your motivations. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's important for you to go into this eyes wide open.

2. If this is your first round, this will likely be the point where CEO, board, shareholder rights get defined (e.g. what needs to happen to approve an acquisition? fire the CEO? issue more shares?). Make sure you have a good legal team that can help walk you through all of the minor consequences of the structure.

3. Make sure you're educated regarding share classes and different treatment for classes. Make sure you understand "preference" and "participation". Make sure you're getting favorable terms on these points. Having a good legal team helps a ton here.

4. The best way to create leverage is to increase demand. Optimize your process so that it culminates in an auction dynamic - where multiple interested parties are bidding to win. This requires intentionally shepherding parties through a gated process, pulling back people who are trying to move too fast and pulling forward laggards.

Having been through this several times, I've been bitten by all of the above. I'm happy to have a deeper discussion if you would like. Please reach out to me at advait at goguardian dot com.
They abuse it routinely. Almost any Canadian who crosses regularly has seen it or experienced it. Especially since 9/11. It's just part of life being next to an aggressive large imperial power.
Wait .. your supermarket did that? That’s .. pretty impressive, but now I want to know what exactly your supermarket had on you (assuming you had some sort of loyalty card they tracked you with).
You could choose to ditch the credit cards and just go cash only. Of course, you'd have to deal with your customers spending significantly less money. Plus you'd have to deal with the extra security costs of collecting, storing, and moving that money to the bank.

The reason that vendors accept credit cards is because it's usually worth the additional costs. If you don't think your credit card processor is worth the cost, try dropping them and seeing how it affects your sales. In some instances, vendors have dropped processors entirely (like Amex and Discover) without noticeably impacting their bottom line.
deliverability is actually incredibly complicated. Every mailbox provider (gmail, yahoo, hotmail/office365, comcast, etc... being the main ones) has their own algorithm for determining what is or isn't spam and includes things from user interaction to IP sending reputation to domain reputation to various types of authentication techniques (dmarc, dkim, spf, etc...)
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> I suspect Rubin thought he could just build some brand buzz and flip the whole company?

That's what happened last time (Android Inc was sold in less than 2 years, and hadn't even launched a phone yet)
Just to add, you can do strength training just fine without a gym membership, and exercise every muscle group. There is an endless sea of web content to teach weightless workouts.

Simple examples..

Back: pullups. Too easy? Use one arm.

Chest: pushups. Too easy? Vary your arms position, or just use one arm.

Legs: squats. Too easy? Use one leg.

Abs: sit ups. Too easy? Hold something heavy against your chest. Too easy? Hold something heavier.

It's not rocket science :) Motivation is the only ingredient you need for all the exercise you can tolerate.
I personally think it's because employers choose to lower wages and prices, and externalize it to their customers. Also, the government chooses to set low minimum wage boundaries. If people did not need tips, I doubt we would see tip jars everywhere.
Liked your writeup on balancing trees :-)

My biggest issue: The amount! You can do more algorithm and datastructres! Greedy, Divide and Conquer etc.
"If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it!" - Weird Al, This is The Life
> US tipping is not complicated. [...] just always tip. Anywhere there's a tip line.

Well, it's been too complicated for me because the comments in this thread show I've been doing it wrong.

For example, I sometimes picked up "to go" orders from Chili's restaurant[1]. In my mind, if I sat down to eat, I tipped the server. On the other hand, if I phoned in an order and picked it up, I didn't tip. Yes, I noticed that for pickup orders, the credit-card slip had an extra line to write in a "tip" but I just ignored it because my programming brain just assumed that tipping line is printed by the point-of-sale software regardless of sit down or take out service. (The POS programmer didn't bother to code the conditional IF(ORDER_TYPE==DINE_IN) PRINT "tip: ___")

A few decades ago when I worked in a restaurant and manned the cash register for take out orders, I did not expect tips when handing a customer a bag of food. That is the experience and decision tree I used when I myself became a customer for pick up orders. Therefore, the logical tip amount for takeout orders was $0.00.

However, this thread says I've been "stiffing" workers. I think times have changed!

EDIT ADD: The replies that further refined this specific restaurant example and I appreciate that but that's not really what I was trying to discuss. Let me try state my conundrum another way: I was exploring the generalized philosophical point about where the genesis of a particular tipping expectation comes from. The question is... do _new_ valid tipping scenarios legitimately come from software programmers modifying point-of-sale software to add a line that says "TIP:____"?

To make up an example, today when we go to get eyeglasses, the optician (or salesperson) will help pick out different frames, adjust and bend the frame for fit, clean it with a cloth, etc. Basically a bunch of "service" type of actions for the customer. Today, we do not tip this worker. However, if the POS software at Pearle Vision or Eyemasters starts printing out "TIP:___" on the credit-card receipts, does this, in itself, begin a new social more that compels us tip opticians? Would we then be debating in 5 years that we're "stiffing" opticians if we don't tip them even if some of us grew up without ever tipping opticians? Those are genuine questions and I don't know the answer.

I didn't tip the takeout cashier because I thought life experience with proper tipping etiquette was the proper guide and therefore, it's not dictated by the "TIP:___" text on a credit-card receipt. Many in this thread say that's wrong so I to re-evaluate this.

[1] https://www.chilis.com/
It happens all the time. Connie Schultz won a Pulitzer for writing about this, among other things: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/connie-schultz

I can understand why you might think it never happens if you are completely ignorant of the facts on the ground but nevertheless familiar with the criminal and civil sanctions involved. It's about lack of enforcement.
See K. C. Constantine's Rocksburg series of murder mysteries. They're set in a small city in the western Rust Belt of Pennsylvania, featuring a police chief who has many runins with the rest of the municapal government.

Then again, my kid brother, a liberal Democrat, spent 20 years in his local government in the most Republican congressional district in New Jersey, serving on the planning commission(20 years), the school board(13 years), and a regional board of education. So cats and dogs can occasionally co-exist peacefully.
No. Here's the full Y Combinator funded companies list: https://yclist.com/
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