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by xp84 2mo ago
Well, a quarter pounder with cheese meal here in California costs $13.79. Combo meals at most fast food range from $13-17. But most of that happened right after the $20 special fast food minimum wage law. So they’re spending more on labor t
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by xp84 2mo ago
Well, they almost always need to be hiring due to turnover. But they’re not trying to increase their number of people scheduled at once. Also, in California, that’s now the minimum wage allowed by law for fast food. Fast food is a special,
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by xp84 2mo ago
They have reopened them in most (but not all) places. But you also see more new builds designed with no seating, or extremely minimal, uncomfortable seating (e.g. a single high ‘bar’ with a few metal stools against a wall or window. Or even
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by xp84 2mo ago
How is it "adding no value"? It's not crazy to prefer a package manager package to a curl|bash YOLO. OP is stating that preference, which various people have agreed with. If you posted "I love curl|bash install method -
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by xp84 2mo ago
> [Owners] can buy some kind of "missed the playoffs" insurance I suppose with Kalshi etc. they can today but "insurance" is just another word for 'betting whatever bad thing will happen.' So if an owner bou
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by xp84 2mo ago
We agree mostly. I'm sure they would never "give back" the labor spend they've already 'learned to live without.' Though if you cut minimum wage, it'd suddenly become possible for a new entrant to open a r
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by xp84 2mo ago
Yes and no. Businesses like these succeed and fail at the margins. If McDonalds declines in popularity too much, franchisees start folding and the whole operation could absolutely collapse. All their competitors are looking for ways to expl
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by xp84 2mo ago
> burger I see what you did there I agree, and when you boil it down, "keeping a log of what each customer orders, and doing math and statistics to guess what they'll do in the future"... that describes how every e-commerc
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by xp84 2mo ago
I was thinking this exact same thing. A mom-and-pop shopkeeper or diner owner knows this level of detail about all their regular customers, and did 50 years ago as well. They could predict "Steve always comes in about 3 times a week, o
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by xp84 2mo ago
In-N-Out is a low-margin, high-volume business, kind of like how Walmart is. They literally can't cut staff because they only make money due to the incredibly high number of meals they serve per hour. So they have to serve as efficient
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by xp84 2mo ago
In some ways, it feels like cosmic balance that DT gets priority. Hear me out: In the DT you are placing yourself at the mercy of every order before you. A delay to the front order at the DT in a peak time delays every car that's enter
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by xp84 2mo ago
Sure. It's definitely in the "a little." But given how slow the kiosks and apps are to operate, due to all the animations and cross-platform frameworks, getting that order done before you get in the car to go means the order
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by xp84 2mo ago
It keeps getting worse, too, because everyone in the store is heavily evaluated on the KPI of 'time to serve an order.' But except for drive-thru, the staff control the timer. If you delete the order off the screen, the computer t
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by xp84 2mo ago
I've seen the same changes. The most noticeable is, now that they are no longer required to be visible at the front counter in case someone comes in to order, because of kiosks, the workers usually specifically hide anywhere else, to m
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by xp84 2mo ago
I picked (for some reason) a random example of a made-up put option position, and most of the above response seems centered around the special qualities of short positions and put options. But there's just as much stock market gambling
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by xp84 2mo ago
But chefs and developers both need to eat their own meals every day, which they need to pay for. An "App" isn't like a book or an album that you make once and it remains unchanged forever. We have the word "abandonware&q
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by xp84 2mo ago
This is where I get to with a lot of non-crazy people (the crazy ones just won't pay for software). Since you are fine paying $20 for a useful app, a $7 a year subscription can be better than a $20 one-time purchase in meaningful ways.
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by xp84 2mo ago
ELI5 why it's better for you to place a $10,000 bet that, say, GOOG falls below $300 by February 2028, than to bet the same that the Pats win the Super Bowl? They're both gambling.
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by xp84 2mo ago
What a silly strawman though. I wouldn't have enough time in the day (or month) to use 30 apps, or even 10, once you subtract all the first-party ones and ones that are just interfaces for things that are monetized separately (grocery
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by xp84 2mo ago
It was never more virtuous to be options-trading GME shares on Robinhood than gambling at the dog track or betting on basketball games. The only reason some regulators are going after Kalshi or Polymarket is that the casino owners are linin
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by xp84 2mo ago
Especially when they say they'll let you use their tool to detect it, this just seems like a cat and mouse game. Have Claude write a long passage, then run it through another model with instructions to slightly paraphrase it. Ensure wi
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by xp84 2mo ago
IDK. At my job it seems like it's expected you'll use it in that way. In academia they've got their own concerns of 'purity,' (not least of which is justifying their continued existence which is in my opinion hard t
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by xp84 2mo ago
> Who expects 'nice new features' from an app they already decided to buy? I was just listing one more thing a developer who wasn't slacking might spend his time doing, that's all. > Keeping the app compatible with
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by xp84 2mo ago
It's strange to me that in your bubble you think the police in the UK are mainly there to hassle the "Palestine" protestors and interrupt their peaceful "From the river to the sea" chants. I would say it's a lo
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by xp84 2mo ago
There are almost certainly more cameras to catch the stealing on tape too. But when the camera or even a person sees you swipe something, they are gonna want to have a pic of your face to be able to know who you are, especially so they can
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by xp84 2mo ago
Given that the whole wi-fi systems on planes are all very old unless the planes have Starlink, I wouldn't assume it's even remotely new. Note: Not that it wouldn't be possible to have even SOTA wi-fi 7 and still use the same
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by xp84 2mo ago
Agreed, and it seems to lack the hacker spirit I'd expect out of someone attending DEFCON. The only intentions I can figure out would be... 1. Just to screw with fellow passengers - dick move, how do you know someone wasn't workin
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by xp84 2mo ago
Even that's not really true. Most software that ran on Windows 95 could be run without modification or even a single update on both Windows 98 and Windows ME. Even XP preserved compatibility for most programs, adding explicit compatibi
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by xp84 2mo ago
A restaurant can do just fine by making you a good meal every week, knowing you'll come back and pay them for each meal. An engineer with an app can come to work 365 days a year, fix bugs, add nice new features, unbreak the app every
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by xp84 2mo ago
In 1995 or even 2001, this was a completely reasonable line. Most software was written for Windows, and Microsoft clearly considered it taboo to break old software, whether their own or third-party. You could install Office 95 on Windows XP

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