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> Who decides what kinds of inefficiency are admitted? Sounds utterly dystopian to me too if some (small) group gets to decide what inefficiencies the society should pay for to satisfy their personal vanities.

Oh, absolutely. I would struggle to think of a worse way to do things. :)

"Acceptable inefficiency" is a coordination problem, which are nominally solved via protected markets.

To provide an example: let's say that you want all battery factories to operate cradle-to-grave with zero pollution. This is way more expensive than just dumping manufacturing byproducts into the nearest river.

No one manufacturer is going to do this on their own, because it'll put them at a substantial disadvantage compared to their peers.

However, if the market imposes that cost as an entry requirement -- to sell batteries, you must be certified pollution-free -- now you've leveled the playing field. Every player has the same requirements.

This isn't a trivial thing, of course.

You can't allow the shortcut of "move manufacturing to a place where we can fill the rivers with lithium and nobody in power is going to care".

This also introduces two new problems: regulatory capture and corruption.

If it's all-in cheaper to bribe, blackmail, or infiltrate the regulators, then that'll happen. And regulation is often used as a weapon against smaller or newer players.

But I'd wager those are easier problems to solve.
Not rare, and outside of Lugosi's performance, is considered the better film. Think about it, the Spanish language crew could watch the English dailies and improve on their work.
The argument there is that America has sufficiently exported enough culture via traditional means that using American products is not that strange.

Japan has a lot of cultural exporting, but certainly has its differences. And is not exactly known for being internet-forward. Korea is internet forward but is similarly culturally niche; kpop stans are pretty much in their own bubble, one that’s big enough to cause havoc in international music charts but still a bubble. And China’s Internet is double different because of the insulation of the Great Firewall.

Of course, how much stock one actually should put into this is up to the reader.
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Team Meat's Tommy Refenes explains the duo's split (2017)
Interesting! I didn't think about things this way, but I suspect you are right.
The demos run live in the browser. You can download and edit them. The code is pretty straightforward and well commented.
I don't understand your objection.

Disclaiming the rights is a matter of clarification for those who might consume the works in the repo. The archiver is making it explicit that they cannot publish the works under $YOUR_FAVORITE_LICENSE because the works aren't theirs to license.

Disclaiming the rights doesn't grant any license nor does it protect the archiver from infringement claims. I don't think there was any suggestion that was the case.
The later for both, yes, and the line is when you make a judgment for what is likely to happen as a result of current events. If you have the power to make a better outcome happen 90 percent of the time versus 80 percent of the time, you choose 90 percent even if you are wrong some of the time. No ones has perfect information, yet we still make decisions that alter things despite perfect information. We just do the best we can, and sometimes that means we get ot wrong but should be moving in the better direction whenever possible.
Tips are fundamentally broken. If you didn't know about tips, and someone offered you a job and said, "I'll pay you crap wages, but you can ask the customers for more money. Don't worry, they'll pay or their friends won't like them," you'd think it was a scam because it's such an obviously terrible deal.

Tips are an awful way to incentivize good service.

I'm neither qualified to judge my server's performance, and I've got very limited and potentially misleading information about what a reasonable expectation is. I've got no idea what small crises my server had to deal with, or how other customers are treating him.

And because tips are everywhere now, nobody knows the going rate for most tips. Obviously tourists have no idea how much to tip.

If I reduce the tip, the waiter is only finding out that I was unsatisfied after it's too late to fix anything. But tipping up front makes the exercise entirely pointless.

And the moralizing of tips is stupid.

Many moral arguments paint people in the service industry as paupers or victims, but a basic level of respsect has to assume they're competent professionals who chose this line of work.

A tip is not an act of generosity, either, you're paying a fee for a service rendered. And that's why, as a system, the morality of tipping is entirely backwards: it rewards people who rip off their servers.

The thing that really bothers me are the awful motivations behind tipping: being control freaks, conspicuous consumption and all the slimy business incentives to push their payroll onto their customers.
People volunteer for military service even during wars, but you're right. Challenge trials won't be brimming with 75-year olds, the same way 75-year olds don't enlist. You'd learn that the vaccine works on healthy 20-somethings though, and that might have been enough for approval.
San Francisco’s political culture and governance is a joke, and it has deeply corrupted their schooling system, alongside union influence. It was bad enough that they recently tried erasing historical figures like Abraham Lincoln by renaming schools (https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/us/san-francisco-school-name-...). Now they’re also out to destroy the only good school they have because its race-neutral admissions process is viewed as racist in the BLM era (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/san_francisco_i...). They have even renamed the arts department because acronyms are viewed as a symptom of white supremacy (https://reason.com/2021/02/02/san-francisco-schools-acronyms...).

With lunatics and ideologies running the city into ground on all fronts, and these headlines indiscernible from headlines at The Onion, is anyone surprised that the city is suing itself?
Bryan Cranston taught me that storytelling can increase a product’s value
If the vm is going to die, why bother killing it at all? Just “make it safe” and let gce kill it.

Could you not just send a signal to the running process that it’s going to die and to hang up or save state or whatever is needed? If an Ephemeral vm ends in a bad state does anyone care?
Because you included a third-party project into your build which is not compatible with your build system and you don't want to rewrite all their ninjafiles into makefiles to match.

Someone should really formalize a standard for declaring dependencies which build systems can share between each other.
Newdream is a great memory! The exploding of new media/design zines of in the late 1990s was really something. Newdream of course, but Lockjaw, K10K, Kiiroi, Newstoday, Uploading...man, that was a cool time.

I loved that ethos. It just seemed like it was group after group of really talented teenagers with pirated copies of Photoshop putting together these elaborate projects and releases, sort of like the demo scene in Europe or the elite ANSI group artpacks from the BBS days.

I haven’t thought about it or them in forever, but Lockjaw was my favorite. Whenever they’d have a release, it may as well have been my favorite band releasing a new album. You could just see how quickly the modern aesthetics (and what people figured out they could do with JavaScript) were changing.

I worked part-time for a design studio back then (eventually bought by Razorfish, which should really date my story to a specific era!) and it was just so visibly obvious that the print designers weren’t going to be able to catch up. The new wave took over so fast, and it was all these cool punk kids who could design it and code it at the same time.

I hesitate to call it “better” because there was nothing even close to frameworks or version control or anything back then. But it was certainly more original.
Agreed. Tidyverse is a totally different language, even. And it's one that is consistent, easy to use and most importantly, it feels designed

Huge props to Hadley Wickham and whoever helps bring programming niceties to R's otherwise mostly non-programmer userbase
I don't think it fixes i would say, but more likely people wouldn't waitress for very long then, just like they don't stay at stores or other service positions for every long. Part of the reason tips work is that those restaurants wouldn't pay close to what the servers make otherwise. They'd end up giving them $10 an hour with a 25 cent or 35 cent raise every year.

It's really low. I've worked in a place where people will literally throw away money equalling an hours worth of the wages of a service person into a pool of water for good luck.
Exactly how redefining what most people take to mean free will and changing the definition of it is poor wording?
People are by and large terrible. They are stupid, incompetent, their own worst enemy, rude, degenerates.

They expect to behave like assholes and expect customer service to kiss their asses.

Furthermore they are regularly in a semi adversarial relationship with staff because empowerment to help out creates the power to give customers things that may contextually make sense situationally one off but be profit destroying if used broadly.

This means that I can corruptly earn more by giving away the store for example.

You may be nice and courtesious but making everyone in every case dependent upon assholes for their daily bread will work only if you can reform the human race first.
> The people who steal the difference between a living wage and a tip-subsidized wage?

The people who could "steal the difference" are usually the owners, right? Not sure why GP put the owners and kitchen staff in the same bucket.

From my experience as a client in bars (without actual kitchens) in Paris, France, where tipping "isn't expected but kinda is" [0], most of the time tips are split between wait staff. So I kind of get the issue that if some waiter is going above and beyond and is nice / helpful / quick to serve / etc, whereas a colleague will do the bare minimum, when someone tips, this is diluted.

As a client, I'm tipping X for the service, but this particular waiter will only get a fraction of that, the same as his low-effort colleague. I'm not really OK with that.

Most places I usually go are rather small and the waiters seem comparable, so I guess it's not usually an issue I have in practice.

However, there are other, usually larger places where quality of service varies much more, and I'm usually much less inclined to tip in those places. I've also heard from bar staff having worked in such places that there indeed is more tension between staff, along the lines of "so and so just waits around / doesn't do anything". Wouldn't be surprised that the complainer wouldn't be all too happy to split their tips in such a case.

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[0] Technically, in France, prices are "all-inclusive", that means service is already included in the price, so you don't have to tip. However, at least in bars around Paris, I've noticed that it's somewhat expected to get a tip, especially when clients are considered "difficult" (though I'm unable to exactly quantify that).
>monkey.org is happy to host sites for our users. but not you.

interesting!
True conservatives don't like giving tax money to mismanaged corporations either.
What does "outstrip" even mean? Physically ripping the silicon out from the servers in your garage?
https://archive.is/4pzY9
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Hmm. It appears that my memory is faulty.
So forcing them to do everything else is fine, just as long as no one touches the brain. Removing a foot ok though? What about the death penalty? That can be done without rearranging the brain.
Thank you for the list, it could be useful.
You don't really need to couch your statement with "Maybe this is just my cynicism" considering the daily news stories for years about the sociopathic behavior of many companies including google. It's absurd that anyone even defends these monstrosities let alone attacks anyone that suggests they are not trustworthy.
If you don't have a story about your product no one else will either.

This is so important and really what half of good marketing comes down to. Figuring out the best story to tell then polishing it until it shines.
That is not what "openly calling" means.
Chipmaker Xilinx says car supply crunch goes beyond semiconductors
It's most likely a WebGL error: see if these instructions help if this is the case (https://www.interplaylearning.com/help/how-to-enable-webgl-i...)
It isn't sophistry, it's showing that your own reasoning fails to hold because a word like choice is meaningless when you really analyze it. If free will doesn't exist, then there are no choices, only the illusion that you made a choice.
> some soulless machine that can murder you all without so much as a blink if it goes awry.

I believe this is called a "Porsche".
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you know that the actual minimum wage of someone who makes $30 or more in tips a month is $2.13 right? By law, if they don't make enough tips in a week to earn an effective wage of $7.25 an hour, the employer has to pay them that much.

this is all the employer actually has to pay. Everything else is the customer. Now imagine the employer has to pay $15 an hour. Thats 6+ times what they pay now if its a decently busy place.

You still think it's going to be baked into the price?
Not true.

Australia does not have tipping in it's culture. We pay our wait staff fair and reasonable rates (legally mandated btw).

I don't really think our food costs are too much higher than the USA. And people eat out ALOT here.

Food tastes good, service is good. People want to come back.

Please expand your horizons.
Undercurrent is a definite favorite, what a brilliant musician.
Although I agree in general, direnv is pretty transparent. For example, you need to approve any change in .envrc and it's pretty verbose. It also solves another big issue for me - I no longer have to install globals like with "npm i -g"and I can use "pip install --user" without trading off convenience and using weird relative bin paths!
So you agree, capitalism has been responsible for slavery and mass murder?
The biggest part of the story to me is that Amazon is not paying a single cent in fines. They are only paying the amount owed to the drivers. It's a shame a company can get away with this without facing a penalty.
It's been tried in multiple countries with success.
We moved cross country from GA to CA last summer and that's how we did it. I drove a diesel box truck and my partner drove the Model 3. We took the same route but didn't explicitly stick together. We ended up pacing each other the entire way though because stops rarely include just filling up and going.
Is there an industry, any industry, that does not aim to "improve lives" (even if they do not state it explicitly)?

edit: Just to extend this thought, I see statements about "improving lives" as laziness or lack of clarity about the value they bring to users. If all you can say about your note-taking app is that it "improves lives", you need to dig deeper to explain how it improves things.
I stopped using Amazon a decade ago. So I cannot boycot the rotters
The question then is what to do when you can’t locate the other party, or the other party took the money and fled the country, or the other party declares bankruptcy. Who sucks the losses up in the end? (In the current system, due to T+2, it does not happen.) Please do not assume the other party acts in good faith—actually assume malice.
It's for tracking which chrome experiments are enabled, allowing chrome to check the impact of new chrome features by enabling them for only some populations and comparing the results. As it says in the white paper: "This header is used to evaluate the effect on Google servers - for example, a networking change may affect YouTube video load speed or an Omnibox ranking update may result in more helpful Google Search results."
Lol we didn't agree mate but way to try and take a quick win by "selectively" ignoring the parts you don't want to quote.
The most significant statement in the article seemed to me to be:

"Only 6% of Indians are older than 65."
> 1) They block you from watching outside of youtube, so you still need the site to watch

> 1a) Or do a unix'y combination with youtube-dl; file management; etc

> 1b) Or use a service or tool that comes, gets broken, goes; (podsync, youcast)

1c) Use mpv to stream the videos[0], you can even have picture-in-picture[1]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017660

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022835
It is not exactly the same. Being critical of Biden will not get you deplatformed. Supporting insurrections will. Those are not similar.

Please vocalize your argument if you disagree.
Sounds like the mission of Day Zero Diagnostics (dayzerodiagnostics.com). Are you working with them?
You did not have to wait long for another "Amazon is evil" article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/amazon-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26022159
> Not sure why GP put the owners and kitchen staff in the same bucket.

Because the parent was talking about rewarding good job. The kitchen staff and the owners are both a factor in your good time and invisible during that time. If that's a honest opinion about the purpose of tips, then I don't see why owners/managers shouldn't share the pool. They run the place, created the environment, hired the people interacting with you. Then there are managers who deal with day-to-day issues in the place, right?

But that's not true of course - it's about owners not paying people properly.
I do not want the wait staff who serve me to do a great, or even a good, job.

I want them to do a adequate job.

Good enough is good enough for me.
No tips = no theft and people actually get paid a wage that allows them to live well.
I wouldn’t be comfortable with “beginner shaming” a private blog. But they didn’t set out to create a blog, they set out to create a Twitter competitor. Their negligence is going to get their customers hurt and possibly jailed. I’m very comfortable condemning them for their incompetence.
When does one need to use reshim?
No, Australia.

As for cost of living, my first job was doing 20 hour weeks at a McDonald's as a teenager. It paid enough for me to live very comfortably just 5 minutes outside of a major city (>1mil population). Obviously that's not too relevant to the tipping discussion since fast food workers aren't typically going to get tipped anywhere, but it serves as a demonstration of the living conditions a developed country should be able to provide, and tipping is entirely non-existent here so it's clearly not necessary to ensure that those working in service industries are fairly compensated.

The amount of Americans I see casually mentioning that they need to work multiple jobs scares the crap out of me.
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I didn’t know tipping was a thing before going to the US so no, that’s not true in the rest of the world.

And I’d argue that people who would complain about that here are people who don’t tip and save a bunch of bucks thanks to us suckers.
Once they remove cookies, Google will still be able to track you... they'll just restrict the ability of others.

Personally, I think anonymizing the web and de-incentivizing companies from collection data is a good thing, but privacy sandbox itself is just a ploy to kill competition.
I think the issue in the US is that it has only been tried at a store level rather than at a state or country level.
"Its like google, but it only searches the twitter posts you've liked"
In my experience the facilities vary. A lot of stations are in hotel parking lots and the hotel lobby has sort of a convenience store setup and let you use the restroom.

There's a station outside of Chattanooga that's in a paid airport parking lot with no amenities. I stopped there numerous times and the charging time was always short enough to not have to pay a parking fee but sufficient to get me to Atlanta.

A lot of station are in the back of mall parking lots not really near to anything useful. We went out to dinner in Asheville for while visiting family and needed to charge. We had to hitch a ride over to the restaurant because the charging station was out of the way.
Whenever the discussion about Parler being a “free speech” platform comes up, I feel compelled to point out that they banned the DevinNunesCow parody account.

Parler was more than happy to moderate speech, even political speech, as is their right as the platform creator. Their breathless claims about being free speech absolutists is absolute nonsense.
I do not believe any private posts were archived by the security researcher. From my understanding they were able to access all public posts, including ones that had previously been deleted (which was the bad part).

The other security faux pas was that they did not scrub GPS metadata from images or videos at all.
Yeah I'm not usually a "hey there's another project with that name" kinda guy but, build manager and version manager?

Isn't there some other part of the keyboard they could have mashed?
RSS as branding - well, I've tried to sell people on it for years. I actually worked at an RSS aggregator startup for 7 years, so I spent a while pushing it. You say "RSS" to most people and their eyes glaze over.

>The subscription process is simplicity itself

You must've found some different sites than I have, because even sites that have a feed don't make it obvious how. For instance, check out Substack, ex: https://steady.substack.com/p/america-the-beautiful

Can I get an RSS feed, and if so how? The giant "Subscribe" button isn't it. So I guess grab the page URL and paste it into Feedly and see what I get. I don't mind this (much), but "mass market" it ain't. And this kind of process is very common in my experience. Back in the day sites would have the little "feed" icon sometimes and that helped, but it was still a 2-3 step process.
75 feet?! Sounds very risky. I would hire an arborist.

All my other ideas are pretty unworkable....drone....tethered weather balloon...

What about ViaSat? Why does it need to be LTE?
I'm glad you like it :)

The current implementation is naive, so it's just the time difference between when the slap is received and when the previous card was played.
Tree-topping? August Hunicke has a hilarious gallery of fails: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSSqc6uBFz_yx-LBrjyRrvw

(Also, questions about lightning safety and electrical grounding.)
I am thoroughly entertained.
And progress is being made. Like I said, I've personally seen most of my extensions that were initially disabled due to incompatibility, reenable themselves after update.
If Google were a book shop. You'd only see 10 books and usually the same ones. I guess that drive for more unique content comes from an older view of the net that was more ecsentric.

A bookstores a bad analogy. Maybe a fashion store.

If you're a heavy consumer of the net you probably hit the edges of your algorithmic fish bowl pretty regularly. I know I do and it's work to get out.

Actually, I'd so much like to see different things more often I'd consider turning ads back on if the service could be provided.
We had ultra fast HDDs as developers with sound proof housings because they were so loud. Glad for SSDs.
So you're saying every republican likes/agrees with Trump? That's easily falsifiable. If that's not your point, I'm not sure what is?