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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…

> [...] 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 …

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 th…

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 find…

> 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 …

> 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 th…

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 tak…

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…

> 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 colle…

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 tod…

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 lik…

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 …

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…

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