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I'm curious, why were people interested in these .name domains? john.smith.name is weird. Why not just get Johnsmith.me or net or whatever?

Were they charging a fractional rate since you were getting a fractional domain? If it was $3 USD per year, I could see the appeal for some.

This is a rentals response because we don't know if you live in a traditionally non-tipping society or if you meant that literally, including situations where tipping is a historical part of the job and priced into the income of the labor.

But if you are in the US, that's not an ethical response. Sure, don't add a tip at the register for a random interaction that wasn't a tipped exchange a few years ago. But if you aren't tipping at restaurants, bars, and the like of traditionally tip-based services, you aren't protesting, you're just being an @*. Society has set up the economic conditions of those jobs and those transactions to be reliant on tips. Everybody involved knows it. If you want to protest that arrangement ethically, the way to do it is to abstain from engaging with those services. If you want to protest tipping of restaurant servers, don't go to restaurants that engage that traditional relationship. Using the service but then refusing to tip is just not paying for the service provided. There's a word for that.

Fear! The answer is fear.

Fear by tipped labor that price adjustments in response to loss of tips will not make up for the tip income - maybe taken in part by the employer or just process not raised to the commensurate level.

Fear that higher wages that are fully taxed will be less than tips that are partially or fully undeclared and go untaxed.

Fear of posted prices. Customers subconsciously Fear the $20 entree becoming a $30 entree even if they consciously know they already pay $30 for it in the end.

And I suspect a subconscious societal Fear that if the burden of low traffic staffing is shifted from restaurant servers to restaurant owners, many won't survive and the restaurant industry will drastically shrink.

Someone Memento tips in terms of originally being intended as an extra bonus. Doubtful. Tips are a way of shifting risk away from restaurant owners and onto labor. An employee at a restaurant earning only a wage needs to be paid that wage for every hour they are present, regardless of whether their are diners paying to be served. In modern times, tipped staff have been paid an extremely low hourly wage and rely on tips to make up the difference. But when customer traffic is low, they make little in tops while the business loses little in labor costs for having them there, such that those tipped staff assume a chunk of the business risk. I imagine that this is a tradition that dates back a long time, and perhaps the work was all tips and no wage.

The spread of tipping is essentially an outgrowth of that original sin, a shift of business risk to desperate employees dressed up as higher income.

It sucks but it's hard to conquer a mad fear.

Core i, 4GB RAM is old? Naw dawg.

Is life not a "dead end" itself?

And still no love for Bing. That maps team

Meritocracy looks good on paper but the real world implementation fails abysmally. - see Pete Hegseth

If it's all imperfect failures, I personally prefer the failure that doesn't result in raising up white supremacists.

I recently watched a snazzy labs video of him trying or Tesla's most recent full self driving and finding that it could get stuck in infinite decision loops that required the user to take control - namely circular parking lots.

I can't wait until this becomes a game for riders, requesting drop offs at locations that force these things into loops after disembarking. With no starting wheel, and at that point no driver, getting to the next pickup could take a while.

The problem isn't the word cheap, it's just that'd you've attached it to the food, and not the diner.

Food4thecheap Good food on the cheap Cheapo's meal map Bums' Guides

Per the write-up, that's where the AI comes in - it's got confidence for days!

Turn your low confidence into high confidence by handing off diagnostics to an AI.

"We either need to operate right now so you don't die or the AI is hallucinating again and you're actually totally fine. You're the patient though, so it's your call in the end; what do you want to do?"

This sends like a more-info-requiered situation. Per this article, the LEOs seemed to be fishing, so they presumably couldn't claim as a matter of fact that evidence had been destroyed. Also, claiming destruction of property seems unreasonable since the phone, the property, still exists as before. If I sell my phone, I'm going to wipe it. I think we all understand that it would be ludicrous for the buyer to claim I was destroying the phone, the property they've been sold, by doing so.

Even if the accelerated executive capture of the judiciary is largely ruled back post Trump (big IF), I fear the government will be unwilling to pay with much of the convenience of rule-by-law that it's been given a taste for.

It's solving the 'meatsack labor costs are really cramping my profitability' problem.

It's an inconveniently located valet service. But oh, you keep your keys. So it's really an inconvenient tow-truck valet service - or two guys with fork lifts.

I've wondered for a while what value is assigned if a user ignores or dismisses (when possible) a cookie banner without actively selecting accept or decline. Anyone know?