lazystar

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by lazystar 1y ago
why would you tip a pizza delivery driver or a bartender, when youre already paying their employer for a pizza/drink? over time, your experiences with any company will vary, due to the cycle of new workers joining the company and exper
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by lazystar 1y ago
sure, it is a different approach than the old model - but i think it's only a guess when you visit a place for the first time. personally, i tip high on my first visit to a new place, any tips i give on my followup visits are based on
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by lazystar 1y ago
personally id love to see something like tipping implemented in frontline support. kpi's that focus on monthly case resolve goals and TTR are incentives that reduce quality, and 5 star kpi's are easily gamed. if customers could t
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by lazystar 1y ago
there's been attempts to do just that, but it doesnt work because tipping is engrained in the surrounding culture, which exists outside of the pizza place's control. a single store cannot fix the tipping problem on their own; it
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by lazystar 1y ago
> 2. Only people working front get tips. If you have a lazy busboy working front for the most talented chef in the world, the chef pockets $0.00/hr in tips. im not saying that the current tipping system is a good design - your examp
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by lazystar 1y ago
as someone who survived on tips for 2 1/2 years while studying comp sci, you're missing one key detail. tips introduce a situation where harder/faster-paced workers get a higher pay per hour than workers with average producti
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by lazystar 1y ago
oh, woops. thanks for correcting me, will edit my comment.
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by lazystar 1y ago
edit - i read it wrong, removing my comment.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> How can one tell if medication is working better than they realize or not at all? in my case, if i still have a job, then its working lol
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Do less arithmetic. We have calculators so arithmetic matters less. would you also posit that, since we have AI auto gen tools, we no longer need to teach spelling/grammar to children?
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by lazystar 1y ago
Provide a link to the source, please. Can't believe this has to be asked on a front page article. edit: thank you, mods, for changing the link.
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by lazystar 1y ago
No, this needs to be added before you post to sites like hacker news. how can anyone trust that this audio isn't a 100% fabrication from an AI? Flagging this post, hoping the mods remove this. edit: thank you, mods, for changing the
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by lazystar 1y ago
the amount isn't relevant to the argument; the point is that the amount - whatever that may be - is applied equally to all companies, which means the competitive balance will stay the same. its a great build tool, but you still need b
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by lazystar 1y ago
> it’s going to eliminate jobs. that's the part i'm not sold on yet. it's a tool that allows you to do a year's work in a week - but every dev in every company will be able to use that tool, thus it will increase the
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by lazystar 1y ago
hmm. theres a theory that the faulty entertainment/AC power bus could have played a role in a cascading power failure if a rare known edge case called a FADEC reboot were to occur. https://old.reddit.com/r/aviatio
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by lazystar 1y ago
pro tip from an internet addict - r/aviation has a great community of pilots and aviation techs with insightful comments. https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1l9hqzp/air_india...
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by lazystar 1y ago
lol. not sure what age1s6cz86s99unkfm2sqy045w5w79n8lyyulwu9qy3gkaeydmexwv5qvkh2pp means, but if youre in the greater seattle area and want to teach me how to be an adult, shoot me a text. 360-624-3791
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by lazystar 1y ago
hmm ok. its mainly ryegrass, though, so i dont think itd be a problem to cut through. i just think its really pretty, plus the birds/squirrels/chipmunks seem to like it a lot.
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by lazystar 1y ago
just anxious. i live pretty remote; if i get hurt and cant get to a phone, no one will find me until my lease expires. one of the downsides of auto payments i think.
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by lazystar 1y ago
I've got a great example of this. I'm renting a house that provides a gas powered lawnmower for tenants to use, and I've elected to just let the grass grow because I have no idea how to use the thing
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by lazystar 1y ago
these two are masters of social media. occams razor suggests that they planned this in advance for some other purpose. my guess is theyre hoping this will cause tesla stock to rise.
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by lazystar 1y ago
these two are masters of social media. occams razor suggests that they planned this in advance for some other purpose. my guess is theyre hoping this will cause tesla stock to rise.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> It ... starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. this is a billion dollar idea. i wish i had the capital to get it off the ground, sigh. > in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore. "Somehow, Palpatine retur
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that
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by lazystar 1y ago
its hard to provide the best customer experience when i have to sell stock in order to pay rent in the GSA, and have to pay out the ass for prescriptions because our garbage health insurance doesnt cover anything.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Amazon pays really well maybe 10 years ago. HR is like a rabid dog, fighting for every dollar.
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by lazystar 1y ago
and im sure someone from the 90's would say the same about '97. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by lazystar 1y ago
thats a management problem. if management treats someone like a rock star, the team takes notice and reacts accordingly.
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by lazystar 1y ago
this was my take as well. absent a tweet from the head bird himself, it's the occam's razor of possible reasons.
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by lazystar 1y ago
to be more... or less? exact, its likely "everyone who knew the person while they were alive is also deceased"

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