jack-r-abbit

The check box in the Calendar Settings page is grayed out for me too as it seems. But I just toggle it off in my actual calendar view so none of the dates show up. Sure it still is in the list of calendars but it is not like it really effects anything just being in the list.

Right. After skimming the article I went to my Calendar to see what had changed. Nothing. That calendar was still there and turned off like it always has been. Not sure what everyone is talking about.

That is illegal. Google it. A group of tipped employees (ie. servers and bartenders) may pool tips. But it is illegal to force them to include non-tipped employees (ie cooks, dishwashers, etc) in the pool. Servers may tip the cooks, etc themselves if they want. But they can't be required to.

This was posted a few months ago but it was pointing to the domain (http://batsh.org/) not the github page.

A lengthy discussion took place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8254532

I did acknowledge that the minimum wage sucks. But it sucks the same for all minimum wage jobs... the ones that don't even have the chance at getting tips. How much it costs to live is a much broader topic than this and should include all jobs that get low wages. I think tips fall into the same rough category as bonuses and commissions. People who get bonuses have to accept that they are not guaranteed. If you take a job expecting a bonus and you don't get it then you expected too much. You still get your guaranteed salary. Same with commission jobs. They usually have a base salary and then commissions are paid on top of that based on sales or what ever the metric is for that job. But if you don't perform very well one month and commissions are down... well... better luck next month. Bottom line, don't go in expecting the highest possible outcome. Expect the lowest. If you can't live off that then you take a risk taking the job. If you do end up higher than lowest possible outcome then your risk paid off.

There is a lot of talk about how people who get tips generally get a very low wage to start and if they don't get good tips they make a lot less.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour (effective July 24, 2009).[1] Furthermore, the federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees that receive at least $30 per month in tips. If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any pay period, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate.[2]

So while it may be true that servers might get a base pay of something stupid like $2.13, they are guaranteed that they will make at least the federal minimum wage (which still sucks but that is a different topic). And... many states go above and beyond what the federal government requires[3]. I'm getting a little tired of the whole "but they live off tips" rhetoric. Tip what you want and don't let society pressure you into tipping more than you desire. For me, since sales tax is hovering in the 9% level where I am, I usually just double that and adjust accordingly (based on service quality, etc). That also makes it easy to not tip based on the bill+tax amount that they give you on the "sub total" line.

[1] http://www.dol.gov/whd/minimumwage.htm [2] http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm [3] http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

Knowing that some eggs come out bloody and birds die is one thing. Handling those bloody eggs and dead birds every weekend is an entirely different thing. I moved on from that job and after a while just knowing was not as "traumatic" and eggs/chicken was no longer repulsive to me.

In other (not) news:

-Land O Lakes butter is not hand delivered by pretty Native American ladies.[1]

-Tigers don't actually eat Frosted Flakes and you should not let them play baseball with your children.[2]

-Many, many, many other examples of the gap between marketing and reality.

[1] http://static.atlantablackstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cXF3KyLdhc

But strictly speaking, the [size|style|color] of the barn has little to do with anything if you put too many birds in it.

Not sure if it is any consolation but at least "their entire life" is not that long. When I worked at an egg farm (25 years ago), we replaced the flock each year. If I recall correctly, the outbound birds were used to make dog food and such.

My first real job (25 years ago... at age 15) was collecting eggs at a medium-sized commercial egg farm. Maybe I didn't care about "organic" or "cage-free" at age 15 or nobody cared 25 year ago, but we were one of those "battery cage" farms. It was long buildings with 5 rows of double stacked cages. The floor of the cage was slanted so that the eggs rolled out into a trough in the front. We'd push a narrow cart down the row and collect the eggs into trays. It was brutal for both humans and chickens. I didn't eat eggs or chicken for awhile after that.

It is not like they are showing only their lyrics block and not a list of links right below it. With or without their lyrics block, they still show 10 results, so their lyrics block isn't bumping other sites off the first page. If you still have endless love for AZLyrics, fine... click their link. You still have that choice. I'll choose to take advantage of the much cleaner UI at Google Play.

I think people are incorrectly reacting to you questioning "does [gender] really [matter]?" It appears to me that you are questioning "does [the AMA] really [show]?"

I think you made sound questions in a civil way. I don't see why you should be downvoted. But HN is fickle at times.

Ah... I knew I had to be missing something. That makes sense. Also seeing that coins last for about 25 years makes the cost to produce not seem as bad.

The first bar chart shows how many cents it costs to make one of each of the coins and a dollar bill. The second bar chart shows how much it costs to make a dollar's worth of each coin and a dollar bill. Shouldn't both charts have the same cost for the dollar bill? Am I missing something?

My thoughts exactly. It is not like this umbrella is going to be enhanced by integrating the tech. You aren't going to "deploy" the umbrella from your phone. Simple add-on tags (which are already trying to take off) would suffice for a lot of things.

Then this article is a poorly written piece. It makes no mention of that. I'm not in WA so I've no clue what was in that initiative. But the article sure does make it sound like it was just for reduced class sizes. I feel like the author is against it and her bias is seeping through.

But over the years, teachers have been expected to supply more and more of their class materials at their own expense. I'm not saying that puts them at "fast food" level wages... but it does need to be taken into account when we talk about how much teachers make. They spend a non-trivial amount of their income to support their job.

I agree with both of you. Fire some administrators... but not the good principals. :) There appears to be some room for improvement at a level higher than school principal.

Since opening a new school has far more cost than just hiring more teachers, it didn't even occur to me that it would have been the route they would take. But I do realize that a new school facility is going to need a full set of faculty to support it. That includes principals, janitors, admins, etc. I just assumed they'd be expanding existing schools with "portables" and such.

> it needs to hire thousands of new teachers, counselors, teaching assistants and librarians.

More teachers and assistants I get. Same number of students in smaller classes means more classes which means more teachers (and their assistants). But more counselors and librarians? Those people generally don't have a dedicated class. The librarians are in charge of the library. The smaller class size isn't going to mean more students. So why would you suddenly need more librarians to serve the same books to the same students? Same with counselors. Why would you suddenly need more counselors to counsel the same number of students?

Using the more general (non-computer) verb "prompt", it just means to "encourage" someone. So saying that Yahoo is prompting (or encouraging) people to switch is by no means an exaggeration.

Edit: removed "upgrade" and replaced it with "switch" as to not imply one is an upgrade over the other. Browser choice is very much a personal preference.

That was my thinking too. I don't think this K2.0 scheme really fits into the typical DRM scenarios. I'm trying to compare the main components of this set up and other DRM set ups. I can't quite make them match up logically. But something just doesn't add up for me.

That depends. Does Keurig even consider this to be DRM and protected under the DMCA? Or is that just what we call it because that is what we talk about on HN.

Doh! I totally forgot about that part. LOL

It might be a turn off to ship your coffee with instructions on how to cut the top off a 2.0 K-cup. But if your K-cups just needed an "adapter"[1] then many consumers would probably not think twice about it. We use adapters all the time to make one thing work with another.

[1] https://www.gourmet-coffee.com/Keurig-DRM-Freedom-Clip.html

Instead of starting with each machine having the entire list of numbers, wouldn't it just be easier to read each number it encounters, store it and then check future numbers against the stored list? There are sooo many more numbers my machine will never see. Why keep them all stored in all machines? And if they are concerned about running out of numbers and repeating them, there could be a timestamp attached to each locally stored number and have them expire from the list after X months. The chances that a person would save a bunch of K-cup tops to use to bypass the DRM 6 months later is pretty slim.

When I was drinking coffee, I would usually brew through a K-cup twice in a row to get a larger cup of coffee. My v1.0 machine makes me open the lid and close it again to brew the second time. I guess that method would not work with your idea. That would anger me even more than this DRM already would.

K-cup® is their official name. I've never heard anyone use "Keurig cup" before. Is that a thing where you are?

This video took me on a little YouTube adventure which led me to this site[1] giving away a little thing to clip onto your K2.0 machine for a nicer looking bypass. I don't have a K2.0 machine so I can't verify that it works. But it appears to be free so what have you got to lose?

[1] https://www.gourmet-coffee.com/Keurig-DRM-Freedom-Clip.html