<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: scarby2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scarby2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:47:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scarby2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scarby2 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reason we have licencing for barbers is that existing barbers wanted it and persued regulatory solutions to protect their market.<p>Existing police officers do not want this.</p>
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<p>On a corporate level it doesn't really matter as you're only taxed on your profits/losses. If we do a service swap ultimately it's just adding a revenue item with a matching loss, and these are infact quantified.<p>As an individual interestingly it does matter because services received for free are considered taxable income (but businesses are not taxed on their income).</p>
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<p>This isn't a good take.<p>> If you do the work but undervalue it, it's likely tax fraud.<p>A company can value it's services as it chooses. If the work is performed for $1 or $5000 the government doesn't get a say in that.<p>> you do the work but overvalue it, it's likely investor fraud.<p>Quite possibly. Assuming this was done with the intention of misrepresenting your revenue and gaining investment.<p>>The vendor may have been chosen not by merit, but by its willingness to accept an exchange of services. Saying you have $X in revenue implies you won that revenue by merit.<p>Vendors are chosen all the time because of their willingness to accept specific payment terms and a whole bunch of non-merit pipelines via family, via golf course deals etc.</p>
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<p>Many people live on sail yachts. They are a very economical way to live.</p>
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<p>> I don't know any Europeans who'd prefer to have American healthcare.<p>Selfishly I think my American healthcare is better than anything I ever had in the UK. I can see a doctor within 2 weeks even a specialist, I can actually get a sleep study, my doctor will actually listen to me rather than tell me I'm just getting old, go home and take an ibuprofen.</p>
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<p>I'd take issue with your price point but agree with the sentiment<p>I've seen victorinox fibrox knives in Michelin Star kitchens, they get the job done and are very reasonably priced ($60 for a chef's knife).<p>Admittedly the knives I have at home are significantly more expensive largely because the knives I have at home are on display so I want something that looks good and I actually enjoy using them.<p>On one level it's a little silly but then on another level people spend thousands on art/sculptures which has no useful purpose.</p>
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<p>> There's no substitute for experience here. It's also a very transferable skill so it's one that used to be taught in schools but no longer is.<p>This 100% should be taught in school, it would have been one of the most useful things I could have learned.</p>
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<p>I never tip before receiving the service. Always hit zero. It feels a bit weird to begin with but you get used to it and i've not been treated any differently. A tip is generally not required for coffee or to-go/counter service.</p>
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<p>as the other commenters didn't answer the question:<p>No, it is not true for California</p>
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<p>> In America, at least in restaurants, employers are allowed to pay a lower minimum wage to tipped employees. So tips are an essential part of a servers compensation and should not be considered optional.<p>This actually varies state by state. In Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington the minimum wage does not change tipped vs non-tipped. Also in other states if the pay after tips do not meet the state minimum wage the employer is required to make up this difference.<p>If you actually look at the data tipped employees make significantly more vs median income in countries with tipping than without.<p>>  If you can't afford that, then you can't afford to eat out, choose a different option.<p>I think this works if we're talking about a full restaurant, If we're talking about a mostly empty restaurant then even a 5% tip is money that the server would have not otherwise had, pretty certain they'd choose more money over less.</p>
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<p>i suppose we have come to expect 4 states:
- off: no power, no activity
- hibernate: no power, no activity session state saved to non-volatile storage
- sleep: Minimal power, RAM remains powered with the session state, can be resumed quickly
- on<p>now we essentially have sleep++ and no option to set it back to vanilla sleep.</p>
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<p>> Thier max output is only 9.6kW so it can’t do a whole home backup and the car can only run in backup mode when the grid is out.<p>9.6kW should be enough to backup your entire house, that's 87A... Lots of people only have a 100A supply in general. Depending on your setup you may have to limit what you use at one time but even in a large house that will be more than enough for AC, lights and electronic devices.</p>
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<p>> unless I can find a non-competing job that pays me at least 70% plus whatever pay bump I’d expect for career advancement.<p>This clearly depends on your role and industry. I can write code in a bunch of industries I've actually never had 2 jobs in the same industry. If I were an oil pipeline engineer it would be different.</p>
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<p>With my current close friends I get included in far more gossip than I care to be and know the intimate details of past partners, kinks, fantasies etc.</p>
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<p>It's broadly true though. It doesn't apply to all of us but as a group it's a thing.<p>Personally it's not for me, I'm a heterosexual male but I get on far better with women and find men's spaces intimidating.</p>
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<p>> the enablers and puppet masters are already planning and laying groundwork for when Cheeto Jesus drops dead. We've already lost the battle, let's not lose the war.<p>Their success in some way is tied to trump right now. Nobody else seems to captivate his base in the same way, and they've made most of this about a man and less about a movement. So it's entirely possible this dies when he does.</p>
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<p>works great until a group of space bats get in the way.</p>
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<p>You mean people vocalize the QL part?<p>I don't think I've ever said anything other than postgres</p>
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<p>Because we have wider goals as a society that go beyond absolute freedom. However things like EV incentives don't make you less free, you can still buy whatever you want.</p>
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<p>genocide is an intentional act. Smallpox did 90% of the work and nobody lifted a finger, at the time nobody could have forseen the effect of smallpox on the native population.<p>After smallpox when the population of the Americas had been reduced by something like 90% they most certainly didn't need all the land.</p>
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