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Try to think of the tip as less of a "service charge for a job well done" and more of a tax to benefit those who aren't as well paid as you are.
Employers have to make up the difference if tipped employees don't make enough tips to meet the minimum wage. However, minimum wage is often not a living wage.
Sometimes I pay cash to avoid the awkwardness of the whole tipping thing with the iPad. This allows me to choose to tip what I want rather than default to 20%.
> There's also a stigma in the US about "blue collar" jobs, which is absolutely pathetic. Plenty of people in America support their families (quite well) working in blue collar industries.

While I agree with this, I think part of the stigma is that "blue collar" jobs tend to be the ones that get outsourced, automated, or made irrelevant due to technology and internationalization.

And there's really not much empathy when that happens. I remember some of the elitist attitudes taken toward the out-of-work coal mining communities that were a hot topic during the last election cycle. I'm not trying to make a statement about which side is right/wrong, but it makes sense that people in general prefer to avoid "blue collar" work, with that sort of a national attitude towards it.

With a college degree being the de facto minimum bar to fields with some semblance of lifelong job security, it makes sense that people will attempt to acquire one, no matter the cost.
In my first class in college for a music theory course, the first assignment was "memorize A" (440Hz). Surprisingly, after several weeks of playing the tone and matching it verbally, I did learn A. Everything else from there is knowing intervals relative to A (like, C is a minor 3rd above A, or 3 half steps).

Edit: there are tricks you can use for memorizing the intervals, too, like "Here Comes the Bride" is a perfect 4th, "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" is a major 6th, and so on. There's a whole list at https://www.earmaster.com/products/free-tools/interval-song-....
You replied to a comment saying that people should pay cash, someone says that they don't carry around cash, so now you're moving the goalposts and saying the person is privileged and doesn't know how to press the "No Tip" button. If you stop changing the subject every other comment, maybe you won't be so confused with people's responses.
When I work out in the morning I sleep like a rock and can fall asleep as early in the evening as I would like.

When I work out at night I usually feel energized afterwards and tend to stay up later.
Then they would have access to my iTunes account anyway...
If you have a job, you are adding value.
Which is funny because many people in tech who are fighting against/for regulations tout how tech is creating so many jobs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's not the curved edge that is causing the problem. The bullets are actually partly off the actual edge of the screen and are being clipped.

If I rotate the device to landscape mode, then the page adds some margin and the bullets aren't clipped any more. I didn't look at the page source in detail - perhaps it is using some kind of media query on the width and reducing the left margin on a narrow screen.

I think the real lesson here is that many of these tricks to achieve some kind of "typographical correctness" are simply a bad idea. Users don't expect it, and it's very likely to break on some device you haven't tested.

People who view your page aren't looking for typographical correctness. They are looking for something easy to read that is familiar and comfortable and works on whatever device they happen to be using. The more tricks you put in, the less likely you are to achieve that.

And honestly, some of this just seems weird, even for print. I don't read much on paper any more, it's all phone/PC/Kindle. But I just thumbed through a bunch of my old books, and none of them follow the "correct" conventions. Bullet lists, (a) (b) (c) lists, and 1. 2. 3. lists are all indented much like the default web formatting. They don't outdent a quote mark at the beginning of a paragraph, the quote mark just appears in the first column like any other character.

I don't know where the author got these ideas about "correctness", because I sure don't see it in my professionally typeset books.
For me, weight lifting improves my sleep far more than cardio.
I have heard a subtly different explanation: it is considered rude to judge and tipping is in fact judging. Also, it implies that a business could deliver a substandard service, which is also judgemental.
I worked my way through college as a waiter and bartender. My first job was as a golf caddie. I've dried cars at car washes and operated a rickshaw. In all of those cases, there is an understanding that a tip is part of the purchase. More importantly, there is some actual work being done or service rendered for the tip (less so for bartenders, which do get paid above minimum wage).

Buying a muffin at a coffee shop and not paying a premium on top of the asking price is not sadistic. It's a normal commercial transaction. Based on your logic, why don't we tip fast-food workers, grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, etc...
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Jesus christ, just tip and don't worry about it.

You goddamn nerds.
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That's largely what a lot of modern town libraries are now. They have a bunch of computers for people who don't own their own, and a bunch of books that they've had for decades.
I wonder if HolyC has been ported to other platforms.
That quote is peachy and all, but do understand that that attitude is exactly why America has awful education and healthcare systems, right?

I plan to go child-free, but I still vote for tax increases to fund my local schools, because I care about children in general, not just the ones related to me.
I tend to tip more than average, though I usually consider small counter transactions (like a $3 coffee) to be worth a 15% tip max. I don't like when the kiosks are configured to either not have 15% as an option, or make it look like the bare minimum. I do feel that social pressure from the people behind me or the cashier to tip at least 20% which is the middle option on some of these, or on some even 25%. Those I feel are often quite high for the level of service.
In my country, ISPs block SMTP outbound traffic by default but you can toggle it yourself. I thought it was pretty universal behavior. I mean, if you're using your actual domestic line to send spam, it'll be reported to your ISP pretty fast.
almost never, unless an exceptional event
Or https://www.iredmail.org/ or https://cloudron.io and https://mailcow.email/
I grab an ice cream about once a week. It's normal Sysco ice cream, nothing fancy, but the location is always popular with a line. The cashier aggressively points out the tipping buttons and watches closely while you make the selection. I watch nearly every person ahead of me tip a dollar for a 4 dollar ice cream. A dollar every thirty seconds. I'm quite jealous of that hourly rate.
The requests for tips.
if i ever ran retail, no matter what, i would always have a tip line. Even self service gas stations, it's instant +20% margin.
I feel that the tips should be calculated based on the exchange I had with the establishment/person

You're free to calculate the tip however you like. Just because some junior programmer took the easy way out to make the math easier doesn't mean you have to along with it. I don't recall a digitized tip screen that didn't let me enter a custom amount.
Both actually work in improving the quality of your sleep and whether you should exercise in the morning or in the evening depends on your chronotype. However if you decide to exercise in the evening you should aim to be done with it at least 2 hours before your normal bedtime.
Interestingly, with floats you can also binary search on the binary representation. That narrows down the answer to the most precise answer representable in floating point in at most 64 steps for 64 bit floats. If you bisect the interval in the middle at each step, then it could take more steps (possibly more than 1000).

It turns out that doing this is pretty much equivalent to what you suggest, if you narrow down the initial range [-2^k, 2^k] by binary searching on k, because that's just binary searching on the exponent in the binary representation.
Why can't the kids just hang out somewhere else?
But still, it seems that the choice to "suffer to repay student loans, but work in the US" is better than "obtain a free/cheap education abroad and miss your relatives if you can't find a job in the US after it"

edit: "suffer to repay student loans and probably doom your children for even worse circumstances"
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This happens every year, and in every single company that you know of. People who remain employed are given retention grants, diluting the people who are no longer employed and receive no such grants. Do you think that's unethical?
You missed the top 2.
It is like learning a language: just as kids can acquire a new language, they can also acquire absolute pitch. So, send your kids for early musical training, if they like music, in order to acquire absolute pitch.
I can't find any info on recommended ages for Pico-8? What age range do you think it works for?
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Frightening to see this downvoted here.
I'd recommend the reddit sales community [0] as a good place to start, and specifically the best of thread.

They'll go over everything you need to know about sales. The first thing to learn is that sales is an umbrella term for a lot of different activities many of which won't be relevant to the type of sales you do.

The first two questions you should answer is what type of sale are you making and to who. Selling a $5/month consumer product is very different from selling $300,000/yr product to the CFO of a fortune 500.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/3y1jb9/the_best_thre...
I think it's more so baffling this is only happening now (likely due to GDPR) considering how other big players have been doing this for quite some time.

What I mean is it's innovation.
Every local government tax bill here in Auckland, New Zealand comes with a breakdown of where each dollar goes. It comes every 3 months. They also publish it on their site. I’ve probably read it before but certainly haven’t in the last few years.
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Yeah, and for a really capitalistic reason: you can compare a night at the restaurant with a night at the movie to allocate your budget, wheras in the US you have to know the tax on movie tickets, the tax on food (good luck, theses are defined by town), and the tip you will leave.

Capitalism only work if both side of the transaction have the same information, that's how Stiglitz got his Nobel prize. (another US trope: collecting the Nobel prizes and never reading the papers)
Apple had this in the EU since May~ish. It's now available in the US though.
I don't know about these libraries specifically but all of the libraries by where I live serve many more purposes than just a warehouse for physical books. Free internet access, community gardens, 3d printers, audio books, some even run classes for kids on various topics like personal finance and how to put together a resume.
What I would love is to use tech to be able to split the tips. In a restaurant I'd love to tip the guys in the kitchen who went to culinary school, the guy who worked in the fields to grow and collect the vegetables, the people who cleaned the restaurant. As for the person that wrote down your order and asked if "everything is OK", they can go jump.
It has opposite effect on me - after a strenuous strength training session I usually can't sleep well, often being in a half-zombie state until 3am then having some shallow sleep until morning.
Take that frustration, increase at least by an order of magnitude and that's your experience implementing native apps.

Still Loving it, though!
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1. The sort of beans used in the $3 cup of coffee are probably quite expensive. E.g., the espresso beans that my local coffee shop uses retail at about $1 per espresso drink ($20/lb of beans with 20 or so double shots in a pound). Plus electricity, amortized cost of the espresso machine, and cost of milk. In the end, a home-made cappuccino of equivalent quality costs about $1.20 - $1.25 to make at home.

2. It takes me about 10 minutes to make a cappuccino and clean up the mess. And I'm pretty experienced with a nice setup. I am paid a lot more than $6/hour. Hell, my college side gig paid a lot more than $6/hour.

3. Coffee shops are a nice place to get work down outside of work (eg side projects or self-learning). Especially relevant for those with kids at home.

So for a $3 drink, he's paying $1-$2 for an hour or more of shared work space and 10 minutes of saved labor time.

That seems like a fair deal.

And this is assuming that it's even possible for him to make the drink he wants when he wants it. If he works in an office without an espresso machine, it might just be straight up impossible for him to make the coffee he wants when he wants it.

Now, maybe Folgers from a drip machine should be good enough. But if we're going to be pragmatic robots, we should really just buy super cheap caffeine powder in bulk and mix it into our free water.... Folgers is for snobby suckers. Plus, I bet you have some hobbies/mini-luxuries I don't care about and could scoff at ;-)
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In your story cycle, there is this sort of promotion of learned helplessness of the citizen which can only end in pulling the plug. Perhaps I mistook that focus on the tax aspect instead of the benefit aspect of governing as being generically anti-governement.

In general if you want more efficient use of money, I think it's better payoff to focus on the actual uses and how to get to the benefits more efficiently instead of concentrating on reducing costs. I feel that's true for businesses as well as governments.
Yes, but none of that is irreducible the way cow methane production is. If we solve clean electricity somehow (fusion?) and switch to electric tractors and split water to get the hydrogen for Haber-Bosch then cows methane emissions would remain, which I think was Bill Gate's point in bringing them up.
Part of it is the waitstaff avoiding tax on tips, the other part is that it allows the business to avoid payroll tax on the majority of waitstaff's earnings. In order to get a waiter to an effective $10/hr after-tax income you'd have to pay $15-16/hr versus $2+$8 in tips.
They should have used Plasma Mobile and Qt. Not Gnome/GTK.
2 thoughts. #1 - I feel you are assuming requirements about the optionality of tipping. The gratuity is optional for whatever reason, regardless of social expectations. So in my opinion one can be moral and ethical without disclosing why they don't tip.

#2 - I waited tables, and a very good waiter once told me that he gives every table the same service whether they do or don't tip, and no matter how much they tip. I feel many servers lack this mentality; which leads to more people tipping less. When I waited tables, 10% was an okay tip, 15% was stellar. Now it seems like 20% is assumed and folks have a social signalling competition to tip 25-30%. Doesn't make sense.
Parent post didn't use the word wrong, the statement was that they're killing their communities out of ignorance. It sounds from your post that you whole heartedly agree it is ignorance.

So, I definitely see a problem with it!
I've heard anecdotal reports that absolute pitch training kind of works as an adult, but not as well. If you practice enough you can start to identify notes correctly, but if you don't keep up with training, the ability goes away.
As a very wise Frenchman once wrote, "every nation gets the government it deserves".

Yes, but we can still castigate them for it.
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best is something thats very difficult to quantify really, i guess it depends entirely on the application and setting. I have had vast experience which psychoactives, a lot substances more than most people could even name however i have never had anything that id consider a meaningful or spiritual experience.

Thats not to say i havent had fun, there are a lot of interesting and enjoyable experiences to be had and i can honestly say that despite having experimented with well over 100 unique chemicals i have never had a single bad experience
I really liked it when Uber started up and tips were not part of the experience. That was always an annoying part of taxis.

Now that it's standard for Uber and similar companies, well, it sucks but there we are. It's always been customary to tip taxi drivers, so it's not weird, just an unfortunate failure to change the culture.
I've been using the Titan, my main feature request is to require a delay on pressing the large button to activate the beacon. Any time I pull it out of my pocket or bump it, it lights up and starts broadcasting. Yubico had this problem, there are images online of random keys showing up in tweets/social status updates etc. I just got their new usb-c nano, and they added a delay that helps out when you accidentally bump it.
...tips are taxable income: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/are-tips-taxable-irs-offers-tip... .

They're just hugely underreported because the kinds of people that work off tips are people making $2.15/hr instead of actual minimum wage (which is still criminally low). That's what needs to change in this equation - paying workers what they are due.
Apparently I also answered my own question a year ago as a comment on the associated blog post:

Reagents do generalise CML. The main difference is that CML only allows you to combine operations with select (op1 OR op2) while Reagents also allow you to combine operations into a transaction (op1 AND op2 for independent operations and op1 THEN op2 for dependent ones). Reagents are lightweight in that the library analyses the combined operation and then figures out an efficient CAS scheme to execute it. Reagents also include some more low level operations, such as CAS as a reagent. -- https://wingolog.org/archives/2017/06/29/a-new-concurrent-ml...

I hope that's correct...

> Reagents are more comparable to STM I would say, even though it is slightly less expressive in some areas, but on the other hand is always lock-free.

What is the difference in expressiveness between STM and Reagents? Is it that STM provides monadic bind, whereas Reagents only provide applicative, i.e. Reagents cannot dynamically decide to update different locations based on values read in the transaction?
And these bans are just people who use actual software to hack the code. How about people who abuse mouse/keyboard macros to perform super human feats in game. It can be pretty frustrating because it's not so obvious unless you look at replay footage carefully.

The worst offenders are definitely in China since a lot of these cheaters simply do it for status and can jump from cafe to cafe with different accounts.
Tipping on a digital device (iPad register) also doesn't make sense because the tip money is going straight to the bank account the owner connected to the point of sale software.
It seems to me like the real value in a library these days is in the computers. Somewhere you can go to use one if you don't own one, or if you need to print or fax something. I'd be fine with all the books being digitized and libraries being more like just community cybercafes with no cost overhead for the skills of a librarian or keeping around books.
Nope, my daughter is very social, an avid reader, and can program minecraft too. The fact that friends have toys doesn't solve the learning/boredom drive at home.

Also, playing with an iphone or x-box, is not computer-literate.
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> - $4.15/hr * 7 hour shift (5pm open to 12pm close): 29.05

Shouldn't you compare to the minimum wage at least? Or you could compare to a standard wage similar to what would be paid in other countries.
And that's why you don't tip in the supermarket. Fresh food service is a bit different from that.
> If your job gave you an untaxed 400% bonus at the end of every day, would you vote against it?

I'd be rather more worried about getting caught by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
Can anybody explain why the chart stops at 3 AU? All our bigger planets are off the chart.
It used to be this way. But American tourism has spread tipping to many countries.
I don't think any ISP has any control (or terms) about it. It's just that law enforcement agencies can ask them for logs on that basis. Whether or not hate speech laws can/are abused is a different thing. But it's a general legislation problem, not a net neutrality one.
Many of us had the experience of working for a nontechnical manager. It's always been surprising that companies think technical work can be managed by an average non-technical manager. I had one great non-technical manager, he just wanted me to explain what was going on and then let me do it, made suggestions, kept me apprised of priorities. It's disastrous for beginning devs.
As the father of a current bartender/waitress and the husband of a former I'd like to say: please don't use the servers as a lever to change this thing, because if they couldn't rely on tips they couldn't do the job. And then I thought about it a bit. The question I don't have an answer to: if people stopped tipping tomorrow, and the average tip was distributed somehow into the price of the food, would establishments be able to pay a living wage? If they can't, then that only heaps additional condemnation on the system imo.
Why the hell are the options always “someone support me” or “shred/bulldoze it?” Does he not realize he could probably pay the rent and retire by parting his collection out?
tell me this kind stranger, what is it I do tip for? 'cause I've never figured this out, is the muffin supposed to land itself in my hand or is the plate supposed to walk itself from the cook to me. these are the basics of any restaurant. why should I have to pay 'extra' for this? and who decided 20% is the right tip amount for the right way to deliver your food to you. OTOH if it is optional then why frown when I decide to exercise my options.

As I see it its just a way for restaurants to punt the responsibility of providing livable wages to workers and externalizing every nickle and dime to me the consumer. its just a way to put you on the spot and shame you into paying extra.
Even if this wasn't a great tool for networking, it's at the very least a great tool for being happy. I love catching up with old coworkers and I'm only 27-- I'm excited to see how many I have when I'm older. Coincidentally, I just got a drink with an old VP of eng. last night and spent a good portion of the time asking about all my other former coworkers. It's wonderful to hear all the crazy, interesting things people are doing after they leave your personal bubble of perception.
> At least until three years ago, it hasn't passed funding on a single billion dollar company (1).

It also has invested in more than 1200 companies, more than any other seed investor that I'm aware of.
I'd guess this is related to the general tendency towards hearing loss with age? There's presumably an intermediate period between "not hearing things as well as you used to" and "your hearing is so reduced that you can tell" (I know at least one person currently in that gap, though it might just be that he's stubborn about it).

Having absolute pitch would then make it easier to realize when your hearing's going, because you're used to it being more precise?
My body really dislikes 8 or more hours of sleep. I've found the magic number for me is 7 hours of sleep. With this I wake up feeling good. 8 hours of sleep makes me tired all day. 6 hours is also better than 8 hours for me.