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More evidence as to why tipping culture needs to die. Tipping fundamentally takes away the responsibility of paying someone for their work from the employer to the customer. In what other business context do I pay an employee of a company I deal with directly outside of the service industry where tipping is common? Wages are a cost of doing business. Pay the worker enough. If you want to still provide them an incentive to work hard, offer them incentive plans! Bring up your prices to reflect the true cost of your product or service. It's time to abolish tips.
What are the poor legitimately at fault for then?

I'm tired of this implication that the poor can never be at fault for anything, because they are so poor. It is an overly simplified sympathy that doesn't always reflect reality.
Yeah, but, like the parent points out, that's not the rationale for having a tipping culture in the first place. It's just a well-intentioned attempt by people who live in a tipping culture to try and make it a bit less crappy for the people who have to suffer getting paid that way.

And/or a craven attempt by employers to further deflect any responsibility for responsibility for paying their employees. I noticed that the Curb app bumped the default tip rate to 25% at some point. I'm guessing that's somehow, directly or indirectly, leading to them or taxi companies getting to keep a larger cut of the fares.
Sure, nobody has to do anything. In this case I think doing some of his own inner work would make his current stance of moral outrage more credible. People in glass houses, etc. Otherwise it’s way too easy to dismiss his (valid) concerns by attacking his own credibility.

I’m not arguing whether this type of “ad hominem” is right or wrong. I’m not even convinced that this is a true ad hominem, but let’s leave that aside. I’m saying that credibility matters. I deeply believe in the message he is trying to spread about bringing ethics and morality into facebook, but we need our morality prophets to practice what they preach. Otherwise the message gets lost.
That depends on how you design it. OP said “super simple” so assuming a very basic feature set and maintainable code.
Thanks for your feedback. Honestly, I was just being sassy. It probably is like comparing apples to oranges. This technique does not concern itself with a cross-platform interface. It only makes it possible to keep the logic cross-platform so that the "only" difference is the UI implementation, which can be done using native SDKs.
They will, by being force to pay a correct minimum wage (or lose the worker)
Instacart is AWFUL.

They're paying shit wages and thus offering shit quality, because they're offering a service that literally is unscalable. The logistics of laser-guided-bomb-type delivery of groceries from store to fridge is asinine.

Yo, grocery store shopping doesn't suck bad enough to pay someone else to do both the shopping and delivering! I'll pick up the pre-picked-up/bought groceries. I don't need you to delivery them directly to my fridge; I think I can handle that part. Just bring them out to my car when I pull up.

Problem solved, wages go up, quality goes up, I get my groceries. Everybody wins.
The difference here is that those mainframes aren't used by people to interface with the internet as a whole.

People shouldn't be building things in web technologies if they aren't willing to keep up with them, which isn't that hard. Unless your web app is poorly designed (i.e. reliant on browser-specific bugs or proprietary features), then an evergreen browser shouldn't be a major concern. If your crap is so mission critical that this is still a concern, then web technologies are entirely the wrong stack to be working in.
Only the root user can put such an invalid unit file into a directory where systemd will read it - what is the security impact exactly?
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Or increase the cost of your product or service and offer incentives to employees after you've already raised their wages.
Because values are something you live, and if you write a book about values which you don't appear to practice, well, you kinda come across as selling horseshit.

You know, that whole "actions speak louder than words" thing.

I don't really know much about McNamee so please inform me if he's spent his facebook wealth on something to counter the dystopia that he invested in. I might buy his book if you compare him to someone like Bill Gates, who also was a ruthless monopolist who created a dystopia of talking paperclips but now when he talks about the existential threat of climate change or various humanitarian issues, you know that he's pledged most of his fortune to fund people working on those things.

That's a case when you should buy the horseshit because you can see the horse is at least shitting what he purports to believe.
Practice without learning, and learning without practice are both dead ends. The two go hand in hand.
> Our definition of autism, like many psychological conditions, is based on symptoms--behavior and development--not causes.

That's also true of many physical conditions with unknown causes, hence the comparison to pre-knowledge-of-HIV AIDS as a more apt comparison than a rash.

> But right now, if you have a large number of autistic symptoms, you most likely meet the diagnostic criteria for ASD.

By DSM 5 criteria, you need either two or three symptoms (depending on exactly where you bound así for symptom) symptoms, manifesting by a particular time, with specific social impact, and all the potential symptoms (and the impact) are defined in a way that even an intelligent
layman in a position to be objective rather than applying a bias from their own position is likely to have trouble applying them well.
This isn't wage theft since they are independent contractors. It's more like a company stiffing a supplier. More of a civil than criminal matter. Of course, these folks wouldn't have the resources to sue anyway, even if they weren't bound by binding arbitration.
> I hope this was a mistake on the part of instacart.

According to the screenshot of Instacart's email, they confirmed this is accurate and was most definitely not a mistake. And according to the article, Instacart has doubled-down instead of apologizing.
Instacart is not the only one of these apps doing this. Amazon Flex/Prime Now also does the same thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/66zkx7/w...

There is some back-and-forth in that thread, but the gist of it seems to be the same as here, where Amazon takes tips into account when they calculate the base wage, which can result in getting a low base wage if there's a large tip.
I actually withdrew from college to accept a job in 2000 for exactly this reason. The writing was on the wall for those who knew how to read it, and I knew if I didn't get an offer right away I probably wouldn't get one for years.
When workers are thieving from their employer there is a very real prospect of jail. There seems to be no prospect of jail for managers thieving from workers. Why is that?
I’m confused and hoping someone can clear it up. My understanding is you are allowed to pay well below minimum wage to employees that receive tips. If the sum of those tips plus what you pay them does not equal or exceed minimum wage the employer is required to pay them more money until they reach minimum wage. This isn’t often an issue because tipped employees will beat minimum wage significantly.

Is this not Instacart doing the same thing where your wage is .82 plus tips as long as that amount is above x wage. If it’s below x they will pay you x.

However in this instance it’s an issue because the tipped employees are not often making more than x even with tips therefore the consumer is misled about who their tip money is going to.
who's -> whose

(ducks)
Normally, I don't like it when people correct silly mistakes like this. Maybe this kind of feedback is useful when publishing a book or sending an important email, but we all knew what word they had in mind. I didn't even notice until you brought it up.

That being said, I can't help but feel some sense of poetic justice that someone complaining about everyone making stupid mistakes that could have been avoided if only they had spent some time thinking, made this stupid mistake.

Although to be fair, they do seem like they feel like there is something incorrect about this behavior ... perhaps it could have been put in a better way, though.
“the customer can decide how much he wants to pay everybody in the supply chain” sounds a bit to too much like a possible pitch for a startup.
Tangential, but has anyone here figured out how to get menu copy and paste working in Firefox on webapps such as Google Docs?

I've tried suggestions such as changing the dom.clipboard settings in about:config, but that doesn't help.
If an employee who earns tips does not make the equivalent of minimum wage pay his or her hours worked, then the employer is required to pay difference (i.e., employees will be paid at least minimum wage for their work)
They suffer because we made it socially mandatory to tip, allowing at the same time the businesses to pay under minimum wage for workers.
You are right about this, it is exactly what is hard to do!
it is possible to do some form of this, where you have well behaved "macros" that create diagrams of particular shape "at runtime" (forall n. the diagram with n copies of n)
What makes you think these other jobs haven't adopted, or won't adopt the same 'business model'?
I want the worker to receive 100% of the tip as much as anyone.

But does anyone else find it obnoxious that all these digital services exist, often starting out with no tip straight pricing, then tipping re-appears, and then you suddenly need physical cash to morally use the service at all?

Obviously workers should get fairly compensated. The problem is tipping culture itself, just set a price that customers are willing to pay and workers can enjoy a reasonable standard of living.

Plus the whole tipping thing is extremely inconsistent. Floral delivery? No tip. Pizza delivery? Tip. Some brands support credit card tipping, others don't, and even the ones that do you have to research how much using it hurts the employee...

The US needs law changes that outlaw tipping. It will be culturally painful while we adapt but once we do both workers and customers will be better for it.
The status page reads as below (I've copied the text here as it a) may not be accessible to everyone and b) often has old information removed / edited, c) this status page / information is usually pay-walled and only available once you've authenticated):

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Microsoft 365 Service health status

Title: Unable to access Microsoft 365 services

User impact: Affected users are unable to authenticate to and access Microsoft 365 services.

Current status: We've received reports of an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 services. We've identified a degraded portion of infrastructure that manages authentication requests and have restarted that infrastructure to mitigate impact.

Scope of impact: This issue may potentially affect any of your users attempting to access Microsoft 365 services.

Start time: Tuesday, January 29, 2019, at 9:15 PM UTC

Preliminary root cause: A portion of infrastructure that manages authentication requests is degraded, affecting access to one or more Microsoft 365 services.
It's funny (to me, anyway) that this sort of things affects only America (and I guess Canada?)
This odd culture you have there of tipping and how it's so tightly integrated into your society.

As a non-American I had to read the article a few times to understand what the problem was - I thought this was just how tipping worked in the US.

I always read of service workers who only manage to "stay afloat" by the tips they earn, this seems to be almost the same thing, but reading it again I can see it isn't.

Here in NZ there is sometimes a "tip jar" at the counter of a cafe where you might throw in a coin or two (say $1 or $2) as a way of thanking the staff overall. High end restaurants will also offer a place for you to add a tip if you feel you got exceptional service, but there's also no hard feeling or death stares if you don't put anything there.

I hope tipping dies in the US and people get paid fairly regardless. But then you have bigger problems to solve first of all :)
Have you tried recording with ffmpeg (using pulse or even alsa), or even OBS studio?

Those drop outs are exactly what I think is happening here, even though I never looked at the waveform in Audacity, that's exactly what it sounds like. If it happened mid-word, it was like that section of the word was removed from the face of the Earth. The problem is I'm using a very new kernel (4.19) hmm.

I was using 44.1k too by the way (also tried 48k too) and set it exactly how you did in daemon.conf.

Thanks, that is a handy line to have in case I can get all of this to work. Sure beats mixing it back to mono in post-production for every recording. Although isn't that resetting the rate back to 96000 when you want it to be 44100?
Why is 'service' seen as a separately billed item, paid for by the tip, in a restaurant in the US? Why isn't it included in the bill for the food, like everything else is?
HR's lack of competence in this area is one reason why engineering referrals are the best way to get quality candidates.
That's complete and utter nonsense. Capitalism works on slave labor plain and simple. The reason everything is made in third world countries is because they have no worker protections. Your clothing is made by some kids in Pakistan, your phone parts are made by suicidal workers at Foxconn, and so on. This is slavery in anything but name. Any countries that don't want to play in this system are systematically destroyed by US interventions. Just look at the history of South America as an example. It's a continuous stream of brutal coups and dictatorships instigated by CIA. Even domestically US now has a huge prison labor force that's become its own economy. You likely never experienced any of this personally, and never really wondered about the human cost of your lifestyle.

A rational person would understand that a system where 1% of the population owns 99% of the wealth is not working for the common people around the world.
I guess this is how you actually disrupt a labour-intensive industry. You lower costs, or provide a much better service that somehow established companies haven't been able to provide profitably.

Sure, you can try to use technology and innovation to reduce overhead. That's the pitch usually, I think. If you can provide a service with a lower headcount, you can be much more cost-efficient. But it seems a lot of the companies aiming for disruption aren't able to actually do that, so instead they reduce payroll costs by simply refusing to take on the responsibilities employers are traditionally expected to take.

It'll be interesting to see how long this model of "disruption" can be sustained.
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The worst thing about this is when stuff goes down, it does so at the least convenient time. Back in 2003 I was on a customer site who had a RH server and there was no internet connection available (as it was routed through the box) and my phone was a Treo 180G which had precisely fuck all useful internet on it. The company still exists and is in the middle of nowhere on the end of a shonky ADSL line and no mobile phone reception so the story hasn't improved.

If this happened to me today with systemd I'd be up shit creek without a paddle.
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Thank you for the response. I do typically try out some of the more obscure distros just to see what they are like, but it is a different story to actually switch my main OS for a while. I really like Fedora and have used it for years. I think I will take your suggestion and install Debian proper or maybe even Kali Linux.
> That's weird. Economists regularly find that more supply decreases prices, and that this holds true for the labor market as well.

You seem to be suggesting that immigrants aren't also consumers.
My brain finally remembered. I preferred to not look search engine , otherwise my brain get used of never remembering things.

But finally remembered. His name is Peter Dinklage, Master of smart intelligent humor. A GrandMaster or even GreatMaster, actually.
So far I have not seen any proof of harm caused by publishing HIV information. The talks about ostracizing are purely hypothetical at this point.

Here's a 1 death + 1 sentence example of the harm having this information not easily available: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-kills-hiv-positiv...

Interestingly, I found this while searching for people killed for having HIV, which was suggested as a real threat by some other person in this thread to counter my point. I looked for "killed HIV" with DuckDuckGo.
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Collective action is essentially impossible among consumers though. Boycotts essentially never work. Not only that, but who are you going to use instead of instacart: Amazon Fresh? Uber? Or will you drive yourself to the store and buy it from minimum wage employees who work unstable hours? Also, what do you think the working conditions were like for whoever picked that asparagus?
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No, this is why you have regulation, and need unions.

Consumers have enough parameters to optimize for: price of groceries, cost of delivery, fair trade, availability of products, delivery speed, convenience, availability of delivery slots, the list is long.

Consumers are relatively good at optimizing for cost, not perfect -- but asking for more than that is unrealistic.
To each his own. You are developing this by yourself (AFAICT) and are the only one working on it. Don't let people tell you the right/wrong way to do it, do what works FOR YOU.

Me? I like frameworks, I use them daily at work, I'm familiar with them, and I'm comfortable with the tradeoffs. I think in a multiple-developer environment you need to standardize things and a framework is ONE approach to that. I think it's the best approach in a shared environment but I'm not going to be so cocky as to tell you what the best approach is for you.

I mean reading about your experience with modals made me cringe a little (at how long it took) but hey, you didn't have to lean Angular/React/etc so you probably came out ahead so who am I to judge? Focus on what makes your business successful, for you that is clearly NOT the web UI (not meant as a dig) so don't waste your time using the New Hotness (tm). Instead work on making your API servers rock solid and adding features.

A User is NEVER going to come to you and say "I'd use your product but you used vanilla JS so I went somewhere else" they will say "your site doesn't work in X browser", "Your site is ugly/inconsistent" (I don't think this about your site), "Your API is slow", "I need to be able to filter my time series on X but you only allow for Y". NONE of these problems are fixed with a framework alone and fixing them with a framework brings it's own set of issues.

You do what works for you and clearly this seems to work. Keep it up!

PS: I'll have to keep Pushdata in mind for future side projects, looks pretty cool, this is the first I've heard of it.
It means that:
1. The employee doesn't come to work sick because that is not considerate.
2. The employer provides a reasonable amount of sick time which is compatible with her staying in business.
3. The employee uses the sick time when she is sick.
4. When the employee is sick for longer than she has sick time, she can ask the employer for some accommodation which the employer can grant at her discretion.

This may seem like a description of some quaint and fantastical world in which people are considerate of their coworkers and they don't dishonestly use sick time for vacation, but there's your answer.
That's a shame. I wonder if customers have any recourse? I'd feel absolutely defrauded if I found out a tip I made through a service like this was (effectively) going to the operator rather than the person who the app represented it as going to.

I don't think "oh the tip went to the contractor we just lowered their wages by the same amount" sounds convincing in a court room.
>Workers will not accept to work for low wages anymore.

Right, because most service workers have a plethora of options, right? Tipping is a social construct that I'm fine with. I'm also open to the argument against it. I don't think it should give employers a pass on paying minimum wage.

The reality is that you are never going to convince enough people to stop tipping and, even if you did, you'd simply drive down the wages of people who already don't make much money.
I had a similar thought about that “geometry TA” line, even though it made me laugh at first.

I do think bringing up Zuck’s personality can be valid. But the issue isn’t that he has a “lack of charisma”, which I agree sounds petty. Like the author is picking on a nerd. If you’re going to mention personality, you need to go all the way and explore antisocial or controlling tendencies, then connect that to the platform he built.
Not tipping still makes the workers still suffer, though, because with tips, many of many of them make above minimum wage.

Honestly, in the general case, I don't understand how anyone can manage to live on minimum wage, unless they live in a barracks, their mother's basement, or under a bridge.
Hmm, but you could compress text to an equally random sequence. I.e. all minimal programs are by definition Kolmogorov random.

Also, what about crystalline forms, which are very orderly and require minimal computation to reproduce, but are equally insignificant for the average receiver?
Consumers pay a tip, expecting it to go to staff members directly. This steals the tip back from the staff members, directly contrary to the customer’s expectation.

If you change what’s essentially the dictionary definition of the product being sold, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Except it’s really just a rock.
Has been 30 years since I first read this... it’s so hard to out think your “box”

“The present is always invisible because it’s environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone but the artist, the man of integral awareness, is alive in an earlier day. In the midst of the electronic age of software, of instant information movement, we still believe we’re living in the mechanical age of hardware. At the height of the mechanical age, man turned back to earlier centuries in search of “pastoral” values. The Renaissance and the Middle Ages were completely oriented toward Rome; Rome was oriented toward Greece, and the Greeks were oriented toward the pre-Homeric primitives. We reverse the old educational dictum of learning by proceeding from the familiar to the unfamiliar by going from the unfamiliar to the familiar, which is nothing more or less than the numbing mechanism that takes place whenever new media drastically extend our senses“
No problem, honestly I was just a bit lazy with my first comment, you pushed me to stop being lazy, so thanks. :-)
Could someone with more context compare and contrast this with typical OLAP stuff?
I thought the labor market was actually very strong right now?
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FWIW, I found that we can develop a "business process" with a client and get very valuable feedback from the domain expert, who might know very little about computers. I don't really see myself live coding with a non technical client
Oh, I assure you, the poetic justice is not lost on me. :) Serves me right, I guess.

Although, to clarify, I do not mind people making stupid mistakes. Not in the least. I mind them not trying!