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In all honesty, couldn't this be a question to Amazon for anything that ever runs on any EC2 instance? What makes you not distrust any cloud vendor when they manage every bit of your information including keys.
Same here.

My father and his family came from the east (they got thrown out one day) and my mother from the west. I was only 4 years old when the wall fell and didn't have any interest in the topic until I was 13 or something.
I definitely got graph questions at google, facebook and two other smaller startups.
It is not that, he knows that 1Km=1000m and 1m=100 cm,
the issue is when you want to transform Km in cm or reverse,
I assume he memorized how to do it in school but it was not natural, did not understand it and at home it applied the things he learned but in reverse. What surprised me was that he could not realize how absurd the results are.

A thing I learned by doing the homeworks with my son is that is also easy to think that the child learned/understood your nice explanations/graphics/examples he does all the exercises/problems correct and then 1 week later he won't be able to do the exercises again, so I will repeat them again after 1 or 2 weeks to make sure he still knows how to do it. This may be different with other children or different teachers
One strange phenomenon I've noticed (while trying to teach myself perfect pitch) is that, when trying to reproduce (say) middle C, if I'm off, I'm only ever off by multiples of a half-step. That is to say, I'm singing exactly a B or C# (or on a bad day, Bb or D). My ear is sharp enough to detect if I were, say, a quarter step off.

This ability seems to fall somewhere in between relative and absolute pitch, and I'm sure I'm not the only one it is true for.
I don't trust Shopify (or any other merchant) to run the online Ontario Cannabis store in a way that won't ultimately lead to an American federal policing agency demanding records and the names of all customers ending up on some list that Homeland security can peruse during border crossings.

So I won't be partaking for that reason, among others.
As I get older I find myself worrying more about having enough time than I worry about having enough money, being productive enough, or even having pristine health. Time feels more and more important to optimize, having spent most of my youth wasting time and optimizing for those other things.
if your company folds and the cloud service goes offline, does that render my helm useless? that wouldn't make me feel like i "own [my] email".
Money can buy stuff that makes you happy.
Agreed. I feel like they are all trying to hard to invent something new instead of just listening and talking to users. Small format phone practically doesn't exist. Palm concept is nice for example but way to expensive for second phone. Also, not nearly as much focused on essential services you would use this phone for.
>I'm also not sure how a community center is supposed to be easily replaced without tax revenue.

Any of the various other places that happen to be around where you can congregate, like a park with a gazebo.

The value of publicly accessible computers and printers is obvious, I'm just not so sure about all the other things that a library does. I'm curious exactly how this study quantifies all this.
I can't ever recall a single professor giving me or any other student any sort of positive reinforcement about "special" job opportunities upon graduation. Students might tell these lies to each other, but I doubt there are many universities where professors are willing to blow that kind of smoke up their students' collective asses.
also of note, there was an economic crisis in 2009, which is also the year with the highest current market cap (it was super hard to raise a round of any size at that time)
Why would anyone want to spoil the books for themselves?
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If you're ever wondering what a good use for the term "virtue signaling" is, this comment would be it: advocacy of something impractical for the typical person but which makes you look good.

"Just give money in every transaction that labels it a tip at PoS. What's the problem? Why do you have to think about whether the demand is merited? I can afford it, and I find it worthwhile to know I didn't break any rules."
As mentioned down-thread, this is a supply/demand issue. The government loans effectively create an infinite supply of money, so of course tuition goes up to capture all that money.

I have a radical proposition: End student loans.

Get rid of the program outright; don't issue any more loans. Take the money being spent on issuing student loans and instead earmark it to issuing to the states to fund their colleges with the condition that tuition costs lower proportionally. End bankruptcy protection for private student loans, and authorize banks to factor the degree/major into their underwriting.

I'm fully aware that this will take an act of Congress, both figuratively and literally, not to mention likely be politically unpopular. But student loans didn't arrive out of thin air, one or more of acts of Congress created the mess we're in today. It will take them acting again to begin the process of cleaning up.

In the spirit of debate, let's hear why this cannot possibly work or what the problems with it are.
Interestingly (?), courts disagree about the legal nature of the CSG/CRDS (see [0] for some information):

- According to the Cour de Cassation, it is both a tax and a social contribution
- According to the Conseil Constitutionnel, it is a tax
- According to the Conseil d'Etat and the EUCJ, it is a social contribution

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contribution_sociale_g%C3%A9n%...

Slightly off topic but for foreigners who are interested, the welfare state (called Social Security, the word thus a much broader sense than in the US context) in France has been created as a separate entity from the Government.

It is managed by workers' representatives and employers' representatives. Since, in the end, it is the Governement (the Parliament, to be exact) that make laws, including those related to the Social Security, it has as much power over this sytem as it wants.

Nonetheless, this leads France to have technically two different budgets - the Government one and the Social Security one - with their own bills and two systems of taxation - social contributions, which go to the Social Security budget; and taxes, which go to the Government budget.

OVertime, social contributions - which are computed on labor income - have been cut, especially for low wage earners. The shortfall in financing has been partly compensated by transferring tax revenues to the Social Security.

This leads to weird public accounting and public debate: for instance, there is much talk about the Social Security deficit or even specific branches of the Social Security (since they are all financed by their social contribution), missing the fact that it reflects completely arbitrary ways to earmarked specific taxes to different part of the Government.

Another example of weirdness in the public debate because of this is the enormous importance of the "income tax" in the public debate, and especially that few households pay it and most of the money comes from a minority of household ... but the "income tax" actually brings _less_ money than the CSG, which is a tax on income that is different thatn "the income tax" (impôt sur le revenu). Because of the names and the arbitrary accounting practices, the vast majority of income taxation is completely out of the public debate radar.
That's not a very robust moral imperative and hinges on what you mean by "afford". It also ignores the case that some people don't want your help because it would cheapen the feeling of overcoming their problems on their own.
I actually think you're completely wrong about the first point, at the very least.

>Happiness is the psychological condition that results from the achievement of one’s vales

If I value my family then more family time is going to make me happy. If I value buying nice things then more money is going to make me happy. If I value helping other people then volunteering is going to make me happy.

How exactly is this hypothesis wrong?
> McDonalds doesn't need my subsidy.

No, but the person to makes and hands over your coffee does.

> I'm old enough to remember a time that giving extra money to someone for handing you a cup of coffee would be thought absurd.

Then you're probably also old enough to remember when wage increases tracked with productivity increases, or when minimum wage kept up with inflation and the cost of living.
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Another way to look at it is that tipping lubricates the market pricing interface between customers and vendors. If they didn't allow tipping, restaurants would charge more to make up the difference (margins in service work are almost always very low). In a tipping system, when things are going well, everyone tips; if things aren't going so well, not so much. There's some wiggle room between the list price and the actual price, which might offset price stickiness.

Either way, tipping is not an elaborate conspiracy. It might have been long ago, but today, it's just the way service work in the US is organized. If you want to crusade against the injustice of it, that's fine! But make sure your crusade is orthogonal to whether or not you actually tip. :)
All these comments, and not one word about automated HR screenings that drop your resume unless you have an "advanced degree" or from a "top school". It's all fine and good to tell people they don't need something, but let's be honest about what you're doing: preventing those people from being as competitive as you when they apply to the same jobs.

As long as jobs require degrees, people will keep chasing them because at the end of the day it's not about knowledge or ability (as the automated algorithms seems to prove), but about the stamp of degree.

And notice how the post talks about degrees after college? Because that's the reality of the job market right now, you need more than a college degree or else you are shit out of luck.
> until voters turned down a tax increase that would have kept the library system open

Is anyone else wondering why a tax increase is needed to keep the library open? Does that mean it wasn't sustainable? Could it be due to rising minimum wage? Is it reasonable to blame the voters?

I grew up on generational property in rural southern Oregon, and it's true that there's plenty of anti-tax sentiment, including from Myself.

A small town near where I grew up ceased it's police force, and is instead patrolled by county sheriffs stationed in nearby towns. The truth is there are many people out here who just want to live their private country lives, many of who have small income, and spend their year fishing and hunting for food.
A smartwatch?
Also, consider the language especially non-technical jargon you use on your resume. I suspect many companies are screening their resumes using ML and likely their "ideal" candidate uses non technical language like, "I crushed my project goals, or I dominated the blah blah..." You get the idea, every new-gen of business updates their non-technical (and technical) keywords. Try to figure out how these people are talking and try a few submissions with those empty lame-brained phrases these people use.
You sound like you're in your twenties. I think you're setting up a false dichotomy, but it's your life. YOLO!
> US tipping is not complicated.

I'd actually say it wasn't complicated, until technology like this made the experience awful. Before this tech existed, I don't ever recall being verbally asked for a tip, and if I had I would have thought it to be the height of rudeness. I certainly don't ever recall being asked for a tip while the machine then broadcasts your tipped amount to everyone else in line behind you.

I get your overall point that tipping is a way to make extremely low-wage jobs slightly more bearable, but I'm fine with people pointing out how this technology is ridiculous and not a good thing.

Don't even get me started on the fact that the purpose of tipping is to reward service after you have received it.
>businesses are losing some amount of money because of tipping culture

Only in the most trivial sense that people know that, between sales tax and tipping, they're going to be paying a price that's 25-30% more than what's printed on the menu. And most people have some degree of price elasticity.

But I honestly can't imagine it matters much whether those adders are folded into the price up-front or you just know that you're going to be paying more than the printed price when you get the bill.
Sure, but that algorithm is O(n^2) which is fine for an offline program that spends a minute turning a TeX file into a PDF, but not OK for a 90s web browser that needs to reflow text in milliseconds while the user is resizing the window or a script is changing the DOM.
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>>However it frustrates me to no end, that customers are expected to do compensation sharing with the employer

A debate, perhaps worth having. Meanwhile your server makes less than minimum wage because tips are expected to fill in the gap. A while back it was $2.13 an hour. Not giving him a tip is only going to ruin his day, not start a revolution. As of right now, the chicken dish cost $16 plus an unofficial but expected 15-20% tip. Do you have the roughly $20? if not, grab a few slices of pizza.

Edit: I don't tip 20% when I grab a coffee at Dunkin. Oh no. Maybe leave them the loose change.
This is almost exactly what TempleOS was/is billed to do; you'd need to provide the hardware, but once you've installed it, you end up with a machine that boots into a REPL/shell using the same language (HolyC) used to write the whole OS itself (and all the applications thereof).
> A very easy, relatively pleasant way to get through life in the US if you're well-off enough that you routinely buy coffee in expensive coffee shops: just always tip. Anywhere there's a tip line. You never have to figure anything out, and sometimes people really appreciate it.

Well, unless you are the next person in line who hadn't planned on leaving a tip and now feels guilty/obligated because the person in front of them put down a large tip right in front of the cashier.
Beat me to it: I was going to post a link to the 8-Bit Guy's video as well.

There are, I believe, various versions available and if you just want something to learn and write BASIC programs on it's difficult to imagine a better place to start because it boots directly into a BASIC prompt, just like 8-bit microcomputers from the 80s.
I'd like to see malls made more friendly to kids once again, yes.
That was a very rude way to make the point that you think some people can't afford to tip for their coffee shop muffin.
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Life is tough.
Money might not buy happiness, but it's a huge stress reducer. Not having to worry about bills or checking finances before making purchases feels amazing.
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Or maybe their phone sucked. Which, apparently, it did. Especially the camera.
I’m not sure the Pixel phones are expensive but good. They have been notorious for hardware problems, and the hardware quality has been ok, but not quite like a Samsung or Apple device.

I’d say that Google don’t know how to make a fantastic Android phone, they know how to make a Googly phone, and I’m not convinced that’s what hardcore Android users want. Historically that meant “stock Android”, but now it means it’s more and more Googly.

I think it may no longer be possible for a new entrant into the market to compete on quality. Samsung and Apple are operating at such a high economies of scale that no one else can match them at a price point anywhere near.
Do you think in a real workplace people are going to constantly bring this up with their managers?
>> You press the middle button so you don’t look cheap to the people behind you in line

The reasoning is "so you don't look cheap". If "looking cheap" matters to you, shame will rule your life and your actions. What other people think generally does not matter - assuming "other people" are not your boss, spouse, or someone in a direct position to affect you. Not trying to make a case for becoming a sociopath, but they definitely don't experience that guilt described in the article.
>Even though I’m a hands on engineer people didn’t want to consider me for roles because I had management experience and they thought the engineering role would be too boring, and vice versa.

I found this to be true a lot of the time. Great idea to tailor your resume to the type of position you're applying for.
This was on the app.
Never tipped when buying a coffee, never had any problem with service. I don't think they really expect you to tip either, it's just the program they use has the tipping option built in.
I have used a vertical grid in a couple of fairly complex web designs. It's a lot of work to compensate for things like borders and padding and keep all of the text on the baselines. For most paying gigs, it's probably not worth the time.

But it's not impossible. You just gotta to the work.
> not worrying whether I'm being an asshole to service workers

I feel like tipping is perpetuating the asshole behavior of owners underpaying employees. I actually feel like I'm making the world a slightly worse place when I tip out of guilt or fear of judgment from those around me. But I clearly know I'm in the small minority with this view.

(Purely in the circumstances discussed here. For traditional full service settings, I'd call myself a generous tipper.)
You think you had it rough, at 15 I taught myself C/C++ Win32 programming with COM and early DirectX versions from textbooks and online tutorials. I'm thankful now though, as most modern frameworks are a breeze to learn by comparison. Looking back it was a bit like learning to swim by jumping in the deep end of the pool. It certainly gave me the confidence that I can figure stuff out, even in a new domain. And it's given me some valuable lessons in what makes a good vs bad API design.
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No, the old 15% is not 20% (it’s a percentage so it’s automatically inflation adjusted with the price of food), and you definitely don't need to tip everyone. I don't even mind not tipping waiters, it's not the customer's job to fix stupid minimum wage laws.
You want to feel real great? Here's a question: do you always tip your hotel housekeeping? It's gotten harder over the last 10 years since we're carrying so much less cash, and there's no tip line on the hotel bill. But you are hella expected to tip housekeeping: that is a rough job, and a very poorly treated workforce.
How would you ever know if you "have" perfect pitch without training? I don't even know what a C or B is[0]. Are there any tests online that don't require prior knowledge?

[0] I do realize they denote some frequencies
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That's really cool honestly. Which supermarket was this?
State to state comparisons would probably work better.
It's not really confusing. Basically, don't tip anywhere except restaurants with table service where you pay at the table after the food. Then it is 10% (unless they did particularly good or bad service).

Pay at the bar before receiving food? Don't tip.

Buying drinks at a bar? Don't tip.

Ordering an Uber? Don't tip.

Etc.
I agree with the tenor of your post but there has been tipping creep. A line must be drawn! It wasn't too long ago that coffee shops did not have tips. I'm old enough that it's been ingrained into me that I don't need to tip if I'm placing the order and waiting for it to be fulfilled. I don't tip in fast food places and I certainly never tip in coffee shops.
That's honestly the most amazing business model I've ever seen. How is it unethical to sell cheats for your own game? Just include some ToS loopholes.
Then go to Japan on your next trip, and you will realize that no, tips are not necessary at allow for excellent service. Not only that, but you will also realize that service in the United States is nothing to boast about.
And that was a rude way to strawman my point that your "rule" is not about 80 cents, but about conceding to every such demand, and is therefore impractical as actionable advice for everyday life. (Making you look generous, and me unable to afford the tip on one coffee shop muffin, on the other hand...)

Edit: I would say it is indeed unreasonable to expect people to increase payment on any good by 20% merely on the chance that they might be expected to -- few people can afford 20% slack on every purchase. Also, I only brought up VS because I'd seen you question the utility of the concept and this seemed illustrative.
I agree with your statement, but we're discussing physics reporting in the news. They are aiming for eyeballs and ad clicks, not for emanating understanding of the topic.
A few years ago I came across a comic[0] that stated "Serotonin and Dopamine are technically the only two things that you enjoy," which had an surprising impact on the way I look at happiness. I'm still processing the idea that on a fundamental level, joy is just a chemical response.

Long story short, I'm trying to focus on fulfillment, scaling the Maslow pyramid[1], and accept that happiness may or may not be a byproduct.

Money seems almost always necessary for the journey, but I have no idea if it gets you past the first few levels of the hierarchy of needs. Direct observation shows me that it can help a person acquire the trappings of all five, but I'm not convinced about the authenticity of self-actualization or esteem based on materialism.

[0] http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=013111
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
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Well US companies don't ask for details that could give away your age. I mean removing the date of your graduation and only including the last 10 ("relevant") years of your experience is not a crime in any sense. I don't feel my age is as much a problem as raising my rates. That definitely makes things a bit more challenging.

I have two experiences in the last year that were a bit strange. One was a guy that kind of already hired me and casually asked my age to never reply again after I disclosed it. OK. The other one was a company that had two early twenties co-founders I worked for remotely for more than half a year and were genuinely surprised about my age when I stepped in their offices for the first time. Still working for them though.

In Europe a lot of companies (I think it happened with a German and a Swiss company) straight ask for your age, which somewhat shocked me when seeing it for the first time after mostly dealing with US companies.

On the other hand some US companies asked me if my "race"* is "Latino" whatever the hell that means. Sometimes I feel like it I guess? Depends on the music? Me and most of the other people I see in my country look pretty caucasian to me though. Must even be more confusing to black people from Latin-American countries. Do I get a double race bonus or should I pick the one that gives me most benefits? If so which one?

* they asked it in a very PC way and made it an optional field
> it comes across as selfish

this is how voting is supposed to work - you vote YOUR interests.

libraries are one of these things nerds get excited about but don't use. I would be surprised if 5% of HN readers have checked a book out of the library in the last five years.

I fund, like and visit my local library but wouldn't see its closure as a sign of the end-times.
I'm a manager in a US restaurant. I've run the numbers and, given the maximum price increases our market could bear, the upper 3/4ths of our wait staff would make ~$1-2 less an hour than they do now.

I was also a waiter in the restaurant. I hated the stress, but could find no jobs with comparable schedule flexibility/required qualifications that paid as well.