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by tyrust 6y ago
>has he even heard of John Stewart Mill I read On Liberty recently in the hopes of shining some light on the moderation debate. Unfortunately it came up short. I think Mill either ignored or did not anticipate just how dangerous a vira
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by tyrust 6y ago
I'm guessing that it was down-voted for the vitriol and personal attacks which aren't relevant to the arguments.
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by tyrust 6y ago
I remember hearing about this, but I think they fixed it last year [0]. Or do I not understand? [0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/nyregion/doordash-tip-pol...
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by tyrust 6y ago
That's true, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052955 I shouldn't have said "always".
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They do, but in many states it goes towards your minimum wage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage The most extreme example is in a state like Alabama where the minimum wage is $7.25 and the minimum tipped wage
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by tyrust 6y ago
With this practice, your total pay is always equal to the minimum wage. You get minimum wage even if you earn no tips. In other words, the tips are worth zero to you, they just save your employer money.
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I'd rank service workers' tips counting towards their minimum wage a worse practice.
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Link to the HN thread referenced in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817 Pour one out for the bottom comment that actually noticed it was written by GPT-3.
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There are a lot of good options for finding music. Some take more work than others. Some things I've done with success: * go to the wikipedia page for an artist or album you like and look for * reviews and ratings that line up wi
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by tyrust 6y ago
I think you're confusing conservative views with hateful ones. Zuckerberg makes the same mistake and it's discussed in the article: >“He [Zuckerberg] uses ‘diverse perspective’ as essentially a cover for right-wing thinking wh
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by tyrust 6y ago
The article provides several examples in which many employees have flagged certain content but that Zuck, who was the final decision maker, did not agree or follow through on those flags. As long as he's the one making the final call,
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Facebook moderation and education reform are not mutually exclusive.
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Baiting the line isn't always free.
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From the article: >This name change has been a long time in the making. As we explained when we announced the rebrand a few weeks ago, we’ve had major issues with a certain gigantic games company which has blocked us from being able to t
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by tyrust 6y ago
Sure, people don't always ship. Companies and investors pay to throw things at the wall and see what sticks. It doesn't all stick, but if they threw nothing, nothing would. The individual may not provide 100k, but N developers
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>as most of them dont provide any value to anyone except themselves How do you explain software devs getting paid without providing any value?
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Or they could read the OP from which you copied.
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It takes about 10 minutes to read and I was able to comprehend it as a layman. I do suggest reading the referenced section U.S. Code 230 [0] beforehand and having it available for reference. >genderfluid attack helicopterkins Please avo
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>After all, this is not the only case where they will run into this issue. The AP exam is taken by high school kids. This very likely is the first time they have run into this issue. Blaming them for not knowing how to deal with it i
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>Simple tech literacy was missing in the 1% of students that failed this test through their HEIC submissions. Even though I acknowledge the panic of a weird circumstance during an important test, editing the extension in file explorer is
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by tyrust 6y ago
Neither do I, but does it have to? Like any business, Reddit has ways that it makes money and ways that it spends money. This could be considered valuable [0] enough to the site that they continue to cover the costs of running it. [0] - B
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by tyrust 6y ago
It's a token, not ETH. Basically it's a made up ledger that is stored in the Ethereum blockchain. The only way money comes into the picture is that moving tokens around in the ledger costs Gas (think of Gas like mining fees for
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by tyrust 6y ago
Provisioning for 2.5x of peak load would be pretty expensive and, in most cases, overly cautious (good luck selling 10x to your financers!). For a large service that wants to be able to handle unexpected spikes, I'd expect something
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The prerequisites for all OSes are documented here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-... >Linux: >· Zoom Desktop Client for Linux, version 2.0.91373.0502 or higher >· Dual
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by tyrust 6y ago
Sorry, my question wasn't clear, what does the alleged feudalistic structure of the project have to do with Nazis?
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Supposing that that is the case, what does that have to do with Nazis?
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I'm not a fan of Yarvin or anything, but I don't think a project is inherently bad because of a bad founder (who is no longer involved [0]). What makes you say that Urbit is for Nazis? From my research of the project, it seems i
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My original point was that a benefactor that stays within moral and written rules is not avoiding taxes, as kemiller2002 suggested. Breaking those rules is tangential to that point. It's a common mistake that bothers me because it o
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A DAF is just donating to a charity with an extra step, so let's put that aside. They can't further "any" goal they want, it must be a charitable goal. Bill Gates can't take money from the B&M Foundation to buy
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That doesn't sound legal.

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