So one of his examples is that he bought stolen goods and when they were returned to the original owner he felt he deserved them as well? If he didn’t submit a charge back he’s complicit in supporting this fraud. The vendor should have offered to sell him a copy for the price he paid to the scammer instead.

I tried Jellyfin out on my most recent build - don’t think it’s quite as good as Plex so far. Still using it though - I think either is perfectly fine for a simple home media server.

Good luck getting getting them to pay for a trans operation.

Servers make the same federal minimum everyone else does, their employer just gets to claim ~$5.50 an hour from tips in order to pay it. More in states with a higher minimum.

If no one tips the employer has to pay the full minimum wage themselves, not just $2.

I don’t understand how this is any different to just not tipping? Both situations lead to the worker needing to look for another job, right?

This is just wrong. If tips stopped tomorrow you’d still get whatever your state minimum wage is (or at least the $7.50 federal minimum).

The standard federal minimum wage still applies. If tips aren’t enough to get you there then the employer has to make up the difference.

Tips are literally a subsidy paid to your employer so that they don’t have to pay you (just the $2.13 federal tipped minimum wage).

Your advice would require people to drastically change their lives right now. Everything’s tipped.

Telling people to stop tipping requires almost nothing from them.

And yes, it will make things worse for the exploited workers - they’ll have to find new jobs if they’re not happy with their agreed-upon remuneration. But it’s this that will convince the employer to pay more - if they can’t attract staff they’ll have to offer more

Stopping tipping also puts the burden where it should be. You are the one saying your pay isn’t enough (and thus need tipping) - you fight for it yourself.

It’s so much nicer travelling in places where service workers are valued by their employers.

I still support the anti-tipping people though - it’s the single best option they have to effect change. It’s something small, concrete, and moves things to the desired end-state.

Stop tipping and donate the amount to community organizations fighting poverty instead.

I’m not sure they’d want the legal hassle.

As long as Steam allows skins trading these sites will exist. I can’t see them removing this feature from their community because of activity off their platform.

Locking a trading account and nuking the inventory just means that one site will shut down - the operator will likely just set up a new one and a while bunch of users will be angry at Valve.

If enough money is at stake Valve might even find themselves sued by the site operators. “Tortious Interference” is what it’s called here.

If consenting adults enter into agreements outside of Steam, what business is it of Valve’s to interfere?

I’d say the explosion of gaming in general through the 00s helped make PC gaming more mainstream. Consoles with online gaming helped blur the lines between platforms.

Then there was also World of Warcraft. It may have only reached ~10 million people then, but it seemed to reach well beyond those who were part of the traditional PC gaming culture.

Why not? He was personally seeing to their security.

If you outsource your work, you outsource your reputation. BYD is absolutely responsible for the conditions of the workers.

Thanks. That helps. I guess I’m just used to less precise usage, whether something is linear, greater than linear (exponential) or less than linear (logarithmic). I don’t often hear people talk about polynomial growth.

What do you think exponential means?

Any possibility, no matter how small, becomes a certainty when dealing with infinity. You seem to fundamentally misunderstand this.

Why would you need to buy your own crypto? The only purpose of these trades is to mislead others.

Seems like he’s saying they are. If they see something criminal on the phone then it’s not an unreasonable seizure.

More likely to be Chinese Yuan. The symbol is similar. About 6 Yuan to the dollar I think.