But the prices are already too high because of the expected tipping? Are you counting on people to eat at the restaurant because they didn’t expect to pay more and you can secretly price gouge them at the exit?

If anything the total expected price for a meal will come down because servers will be paid the fair market rate for their labour and not the current guilt trip percentages… the rise in prices won’t exceed the savings from not tipping.

I still don’t understand your point at all.

If a meal is priced $50 + a 15% tip is expected, you expect customers to pay $57.50 for the meal.

If you instead eliminate tipping and increase the prices by 15%, your customers will still pay the same $57.50 for the meal. You still have the extra money to pay your servers. How does that lead to fewer customers? They still see the same final price at the end of the day.

The rest of the world operates perfectly fine without tipping and in fact has better service.

No it’s not. The only one taking advantage of workers is the restaurant owner.

If tipping is optional, why the hell would anyone “choose” to pay more? Imagine if I sold you a phone and said you can buy this phone for $500 or you can optionally pay an extra $100 and get literally exactly the same product. That’s tipping.

If tipping is mandatory, then make it clear beforehand that there is a mandatory fee and how much it is.

In New York, which the article is about, the hourly wage for tipped employees is only $2.70 less than usual. So if a server waits on 5 tables an hour, each table only needs to tip $0.54 per hour to make up for the "lost" wage. Anything extra is just voluntarily financing the server's fancy new handbag or iPhone. And in New York, like most places now, the employer is required to make up the difference in their pay if they didn't get enough tips, so even if you don't tip you're not taking anything for free... the employer has to cover it.

Wait staff are assholes thinking they can guilt trip people to hand over extra money for free when they're simply doing their job. Doubly so when they aren't even sharing the tips with the kitchen staff who are doing the real work.

He did say he’s anti-woke

100% written by an LLM. They always use this tone and it’s infuriating.

Stop using Adblock Plus and start using Firefox with uBlock Origin.

If you’re on iOS, swallow your pride and install Brave and just turn off the crypto features. You’ll thank me later.

Ontario also has this law in place just waiting for Quebec and New York to make the move too.

Canada is very welcoming and people are friendly. After living abroad for a decade I can say it pretty confidently. Nowhere is perfect but the level of racism in Canada is very low compared to the things I’ve seen in Europe and Asia.

Not sure how it is where you’re from but don’t get caught thinking because Canada is safe that you can be careless with your stuff, don’t let your guard down with personal belongings. Don’t leave your things unattended in cafes or shops, don’t leave your mobile phone on the table, and especially don’t leave anything in your car if rent a car. Canada is safe but there is still a lot of petty theft... you won’t get mugged but someone might try to swipe your backpack at a cafe when you aren’t looking.

Honestly, in a denser city focused on transit and not cars, and without shit zoning laws, these aren’t really problems for most people.

You should have a supermarket, school and other essentials within walking distance of your home. Even the vet, hairdresser, etc. That’s what a human, livable city is like.

Mass transit can get you close enough. Walking 10-15 minutes to your destination is good for your health. Especially for seniors. We wouldn’t have such an obesity crisis if people got up and moved more. Humans are built for walking.

Who the heck is hauling lumber every day/week? It’s cheaper to rent a van/truck for the couple days a year than it is to own and maintain a car. I bet the lumber yard has a delivery service.

If you have 5 kids and need a car to take them places, great, cars still exist. If you have mobility issues, cars still exist. If you live in the countryside, cars still exist. But I think these cases should be exceptions to the rule. Most of those 50k people who are just commuting to work every day could be taking public transit and contributing to a more livable city.

Even worse, the ones I’ve evaluated (like Claude) constantly fail to even compile because, for example, they mix usages of different SDK versions. When instructed to use version 3 of some package, it will add the right version as a dependency but then still code with missing or deprecated APIs from the previous version that are obviously unavailable.

More time (and money, and electricity) is wasted trying to prompt it towards correct code than simply writing it yourself and then at the end of the day you have a smoking turd that no one even understands.

LLMs are a dead end.

My past few employers have all had similar policies, it’s common in tech. I cannot take any company equipment over the Chinese border and we are strongly discouraged against bringing any personal equipment. The company has special burner laptops and phones for the few cases where we actually need a business trip to China.

The main question is how is their security?

I don’t think so - the only time citizenship can be revoked is if it was fraudulently acquired, as far as I know.

We can revoke citizenship if parliament changes the Citizenship Act as part of a secession negotiation. The supreme court will put constitutional guardrails on it but it's absolutely possible.

The boring answer is that if a province is going to seceed, it will require a negotiated settlement between the said province and Canada, and such a settlement will absolutely contain agreements around what happens with the citizenships of that province's residents.

There is no real legal mechanism for revocation.

There is. Parliament has the right to control how citizenship is obtained and lost, it's governed by federal law. If Alberta actually passes a referendum and gets it past the clarity act, you can expect that Canada will be looking into updating the Citizenship Act. They can create whatever legal mechanism they want as long as they don't leave people stateless or apply it in a way that is unjust (according to the supreme court and constitution).

It would be a huge legal battle but it's something that the federal government will hold over the province in a secession negotiation, and the final settlement between Canada and Alberta would include an agreement about how to handle citizenships.

This is pretty much how Canadian regulations and regulators work in general. Weak, ineffective, toothless. Canada won't do anything if it would inconvenience business and land owners. And Canadians, despite saying how much they care, won't vote for anything that actually costs money.

100%. I always ask people to look at their tax return. Does your money come from your labour/work, or from the things you own? If you aren’t living off of the things you own, then you are working class.

If you’ve ever tried to drive across London (UK)… it takes 1 hour to get across the city by tube. 2 hours by car. Transit isn’t always slow!

The new REM in Montreal can go highway speeds, too, and usually crosses the bridge faster than the cars especially during peak times.

What, does everyone need to be a mobile security researcher to care about security?

Most people can’t. But they can still choose options that are vetted by security experts in the community, and in the case of GrapheneOS also backed up by leaks from internal docs from Cellebrite, etc.

Who said his mind changed? This "news" is just Ford advising Carney he should do something.