From a consumer perspective, ideally it’d be clothing retailer adjacent: find outfit online, you become the model.
However, not sure if desirable for the industry as many people might buy and not return items online with the aspiration they’ll eventually look good in them — compared to clothes the physically try on?
I tend to try to pay in advance when I order so I don’t have to wait 5-10 minutes to get a bill, then have them run off as I grab my payment method of choice, to wait another 5-10 minutes to actually pay.
I was a little confused how my requests to pay early seemed to slightly irritate waitstaff. So I asked some restraint owner friends of mine and they mentioned how, depending on the POS configuration, the act of requesting or paying the check (forgot which one) automatically queues up your table availability to the next guest.
So I guess, convenience workflow feature for the restaurant host impacts creates an annoyingly rigid behavioral pattern that unexpectedly passes “waiting frustration” on to diners.
Is there any kind of usb device that you can put between your usb port and a usb stick that would limit the device to charging or just reading the usb device (but not writing to the computer)?
Or was the digital condom idea just for sh*ts and giggles?
(For charging only I guess being struck about using a usb charger and not a device would be safer? In multi-port chargers can devices use the multiport as a hub to connect to other devices that are charging?)
Why do I feel like we put more effort into vetting/interviewing employees than political candidates in the US?
Say we had to choose candidates like we choose employees, we should have:
- individual tests for the employee (actual aptitude in things like strategy, diplomacy, math & statistics, science)
- behavioral tests (how likely to lie/take risks)
- etc.
Instead it all seems to boil down to statistics-backed popularity contests half-a-step up from elementary school class elections.
I think the proper first place to look is Hernando De Alto’s class Mystery of Capital… most entrepreneurs are small gray market businesses. They can’t grow because they lack access to capital because of the extra-legal nature of the business or people. Building easy access bridges to turn your gray market business into a white market business would unlock these entrepreneurs.
It’s kind cool in that it:
- removes/neutralizes words that tends to flavor articles toward any particular position and focuses mainly on factual non-emotional type language.
- sends blurbs out in a daily email (arguably editorial) - but generally tends to be well rounded important stories to keep you in the know about what’s going on
It’s pretty cool, because unlike most new sources you don’t get a feeling anyone’s trying to railroad you down a particular way of thinking, but you feel like you’re just being presented with (more or less) statements about what is going on in the world.
The ultimate beneficiary is the owner since his business model makes an assumption on tipping to employ waitstaff and run a "viable" business.
Business models that rely on tipping to cover basic business model costs should be reconsidered.
For the business owner, they have to consider the tradeoffs if they want to maintain the current waitstaff: quantity of staff, hours, variety of menu options, decor, desired profitability, amount of automation, quality of food, etc.
The immediate beneficiary is the waitstaff, which will no have to reconsider their employment or their demands of the business owner.
For the waitstaff, they will move on to other companies that either figure out a business model to pay a livable wage or consider alternative types of positions. Eventually the surviving restaurants will adjust pricing and hourly rates/salaries like every other normal business. There will be positions available for entry level waitstaff and more experienced waitstaff.
TLDR: The beneficiaries of tipping overreached — don't be surprised by a backlash.
I’ve heard it said on some podcast that race cropped up as an intentional structure to obfuscate class distinctions:
- post slavery, many formerly enslaved people had better skills than poor white people
- to prevent poor white people from joining forces with these formerly enslaved people as a large class of “the poor” vs. small class of “the wealthy” racial distinctions began to be used more frequently
- this had the effect of basically allowing the “poor white man” to side with “wealthy whites” (regardless of if something was in their best interests or not) because he could console himself with “I may be poor but at least I’m white” — even though the rich whites often advanced laws and regulations that were generally detrimental to the poor as a “class group”.
Is there any hard data on this or is it just heresay/opinion?
Regarding some of the conversations about programming something to obey the law or obey human convention:
- it’s tricky because the people on the roads expect human convention and drive for that
- as long as there is a mix of humans that drive by convention, it’s probably best to err on the side of following human convention to some degree
Case in point: center lane
When I first started using autopilot on two lane roads the car would stay dead center in the lane. If a car was coming towards my in the opposite lane, it began to notice humans would veer away from center to provide more buffer between themselves and the oncoming car.
Because I didn’t want to piss other drivers off, I would often disengage and drift to the right of my lane while the oncoming car approached me. If I didn’t do that, there was always a last minute extra drift away from me by the other car.. the conventionally expected buffer distance wasn’t enough to make them feel comfortable due to unexpected (lack of) behavior.
It’s not a law / no law issue above. But I have similar experiences navigation into roundabouts with crosswalks in front of them (autopilot stops at empty crosswalk where normal driver would cruise through until the stop line to check for cars in the roundabout — and if none were there might pass through with a rolling stop/check.
However, not sure if desirable for the industry as many people might buy and not return items online with the aspiration they’ll eventually look good in them — compared to clothes the physically try on?
Just my gut reaction.