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The "tips as compensation for your low salary" system exists only in the US and neighboring countries (Canada, Mexico) as far as I know.

Now that they have started abusing it, it's even less defensible.

> [...] there are zero specialized jobs in Pontevedra. Either you are a public state worker, for which you need to pass an exam to lock a lifelong job with no possibility of being fired regardless of how incompetent you are, or you work in hospitality.

Alas, this is basically how it works in most of southern Europe, including my home country Italy. I don't know how much a small-town mayor can do to reverse years of bad political choices at the national level.

Audiences are increasingly distracted when watching movies and TV shows: the scripts have to be literal.

They are not discounting the possibility that sociocultural factors play a role:

> What explains the GAP? While evolutionary frameworks have traditionally been the dominant lens through which the GAP has been viewed— assuming its existence without direct empirical evidence—these theories focus exclusively on opposite-sex attraction, mate selection, and reproductive success. Within these theoretical boundaries, explaining the variation in same-sex ratings and the cultural differences in the GAP becomes challenging, suggesting that factors beyond biological predispositions also play a role. Given these limitations, sociocultural factors and norms merit further consideration. As noted earlier, female beauty is idealized in many cultures and reinforced by media, advertising, and societal expectations. Internalized beauty standards may foster unconscious biases, leading to, or amplifying, the observed difference.

But the study is mainly concerned with verifying the existence of the gap.

Btw, a lot of animal hierarchies are also male-dominated.

I was initially puzzled by the title of this article because a "sycophant" in my native language (Italian) is a "snitch" or a "slanderer", usually one paid to be so. I am just finding out that the English meaning is different, interesting!

> Betting on Python a decade ago was a good use of my time.

Would you make the same bet today? Or if not, what other language/technology would you bet on?

Well, I'm also European and I am disgusted by our leaders as well.

What have they been doing? Why are our soldiers not defending Ukraine already? Why do you assume that we are any better?

> That should be "considered innocent by the legal system"

Which is what matters when determining sentences.

> People are still free to come to their own conclusions--and act on them

People are definitely not free to act on their conclusions. That's vigilantism, what the comment above was referring to.

Teens don't get addicted to Hacker News

It is perhaps a narrow view, but not an incorrect one.

You mention state funded projects, but the funding has to come from somewhere else. What the author is saying is this: it takes money to run a gallery (or a museum, for that matter), therefore even if it is not the primary objective, we should strive to keep the money flowing so that we can make have better galleries/museums.

If you include enough opinion pieces on highly controversial subjects and always from the same perspective your readers will start noticing. Just because they are opinions it doesn't mean that people can't deem them ridiculous.

> Its not like I can take a holiday in europe and still collect.

Last year I was vacationing in Sicily and I met a French girl who was doing just that: traveling Europe while collecting unemployment from her home country. I am in favor of generous unemployment welfare, but there should be controls in place.

Adjust the wages by inflation every year, it's pretty simple.

I'm not against higher corporate tax rates, but that's a separate problem.

A simpler solution to #2 would be to raise minimum wages.

I don't know how it works in the US (and I assume it might be different state by state), but in many countries in Europe this is already the case.

For example: if you get fired today you are entitled to a benefit if you have worked at least X months out of the last Y months. X and Y must be chosen carefully of course.

You could have cited a hundred valid examples to make your point. You picked a stupid one.

To some extent, I imagine that moderate alcohol consumption is an almost necessary consequence of having an active social life. If a couple tells you that they both drink, it's likely that they do so together and with friends, which is a good thing. There are myriads of exceptions, I am sure.

They like money just like everyone else does. And you can't build AGI without a lot of money.

The board screwed up. They could have negotiated with MS on another CEO. Instead they went behind everyone's backs and thought themselves omnipotent. Well, guess what.

Kind of ironic of them to mention "improved transparency" while writing in the most possible opaque way. Just say it as it is.

There are lots of places where you can work illegally without a contract and therefore without declaring an income.

> Also, yes, sex practices have changed widely in regard to oral sex, many men considered it to be emasculating to go down on a woman and sex was pretty much just PIV until the man finishes and then done.

It's always felt normal to me. I learned that it might not had always been like that from the Sopranos.

He was specifically talking about physical money (cash) vs digital money only.

Wow, I did not expect that to happen basically overnight. I guess FINMA and the Swiss government were really fed up with the CS shenanigans.

Yep, I'd very angry at Yellen right now if I was a shareholder of a small bank.

You could print that statement and hang it on the front door, cause it's been true almost every day of the past few months

Or the opposite could happen. Bias works in both directions.

Reminds of that part in the Three-Body Problem novel where the emperor of the videogame builds a CPU with soldiers as bits

It's like noticing that McDonald's execs don't take their kids to eat fast food every day. Too much screen time can be dangerous for anyone.

Best weather you can find in Switzerland

"It's a fact...that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market'...Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society."

Taken from Houellebecq novel Whatever. I agree with the general idea, which is also one of the reasons why I think prostitution should be legal.