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by eesmith 1y ago
Of those nearly 8 in 10 workers, how many are in tipped positions?
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by eesmith 1y ago
Point taken. Please tell me where these minimum wage food preparation and serving-related workers are working then. I can tell you don't live in California, where McDonalds pays a minimum of $20/hr. I can tell you don't live
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by eesmith 1y ago
That's not 80%. Food preparation doesn't get tips. Fast food employees rarely get tips. Federal minimum wage for tipped workers starts at $2.13/hr. Only if tips aren't at least $5.12 does the employer have to pay more.
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by eesmith 1y ago
I did read it, but the books I read when I was a teen still learning the world sit deeper in me than something I read in my 30s. I don't think the last-name-is-the-company adapts well to the so-called "gig economy" where empl
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by eesmith 1y ago
You sound like a 20th-century cigarette company representative using the fear of communism to keep the US government from restricting cigarette ads. Edit: Now, I don't know if an ad exec actually said it, but I can find examples like:
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by eesmith 1y ago
Pohl and Kornbluth in 1952 wrote "The Space Merchants" - "a novel of the future when advertising agencies take over." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
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by eesmith 1y ago
I assume Dr Jenny Wagner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Wagner . I'm a bit confused about her affiliations as that doesn't mention the Sinica Institute, but it could be out of date. Her most recent pr
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by eesmith 1y ago
I understood that's what Handmer means. I pointed out he can't be on the list simply "Because [he's] a dual citizen", as almost no dual citizens are on the list.
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by eesmith 1y ago
quoting me: "I presume it will be imported under license."
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I believe that is addressed in the sentence after the one I quoted. "Nuclear material means any source or any special fissionable material as defined in Article XX of the Statute. The term source material shall not be interpreted as a
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by eesmith 1y ago
The legislation doesn't include americium, and even if it did‚ I presume it will be imported under license. https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A03417/latest/text says "Nuclear material means any source
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by eesmith 1y ago
"I engaged Marque Lawyers to formalize the documentation trail and establish a formal record of governmental non-responsiveness. ... FOIA process ... What did we discover in the documents that were finally released? I am on the Movemen
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by eesmith 1y ago
That alone cannot be it: "According to the ABF website, the MAL is for non-citizens. According to a 2013 audit, there were only 172 Australian citizens on the list at that time. What accords me this rare honour, I do not know." Th
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by eesmith 1y ago
Yes, and ...? Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s comment from the despicable case Schenck v. United States, while pithy enough for you to repeat it over a century later, has not been valid since 1969. Remember, this is the case which
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by eesmith 1y ago
> You can’t falsely yell “fire” in a crowded space. Yes, you can, and I've seen people do it to prove that point. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the... .
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by eesmith 1y ago
I'm saying that <1% is not the right way to look at things, but the real point is "You can both pay for a service and be the product." You won't call them an ad company until it's 50% of revenue. I understand t
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by eesmith 1y ago
In the US, some laws specifically exclude small companies. For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 requires 15 employees, and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 requires 4 employees.
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by eesmith 1y ago
$4 billion in an Oct 20, 2022 article, with evidence that it's increased noticeably since then (because the 10-Q says so). I don't think dividing the pre-Oct 2022 ad income by the 2024 revenue is all that meaningful.
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by eesmith 1y ago
What number are you using for advertising revenue? If "Investment bank Evercore ISI estimates Apple will have a $30 billion ad business by 2026" is correct, then $30 billion/$391 Billion is over 7%. If we go by the 2022 publi
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by eesmith 1y ago
I think you are using gross sales? We can see from Apple's 2024Q4 10-Q that "Revenue" is described as "Net sales", and that Q4 had $8 billion for the IPad, so about $32 billion for the year - comparable to the predi
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by eesmith 1y ago
It would be nice if the AI-generated image at the top of the page were the "precise" attributed the distinctly German approach. The "fl" ligature jumped out at me, followed by the 'Enlianced', the high hyphen b
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by eesmith 1y ago
It was not obvious. You can both pay for a service and be the product, while I read your comment as dismissing the second possibility. FWIW, from the 2022 Wired article: > Insider Intelligence, a market research firm, estimates that Ap
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by eesmith 1y ago
> data and AI have become fundamental building blocks with which we create the digital tools we all use everyday. FWIW, I moved to LibreWolf because ... > How do we build AI into the browser in a way that balances privacy, trust and c
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by eesmith 1y ago
Thanks for the pointer to pcbasic! I experienced nostalgia from doing play "cdefgab>c<bagfedc" and have it simply work.
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Apple is too an advertising company. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/ > Oct 20, 2022 - Apple Is an Ad Company Now > There’s a side to Apple most iPhone owners don’t know. There's
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by eesmith 2y ago
What would be the point of ret-conning some other decision?
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by eesmith 2y ago
The Wikipedia editors know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Communications#Early_year... : > In May 2012, the company changed its name to Zoom, influenced by Thacher Hurd's children's book Zoom City. It
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by eesmith 2y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yassify > 1. (transitive, Internet slang) To apply several beauty filters to (a picture or video of someone), typically making the subject look more made-up, potentially more feminine,
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by eesmith 2y ago
Sure. While lowering the recharge rate on the aquifer, the river flow, etc. Instead of being re-used downstream, it's re-used downwind. Snow melt original destined for the over-allocated Colorado might instead end up in the Mississippi
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by eesmith 2y ago
> He signaled his intent for the group to contain sensitive info by turning on disappearing messages. This product reviewer has elided what "sensitive info" means. The participants are required by law (the Federal Records Act o

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