Or, really, why can't we have an ad blocker that whitelists all websites by default and requires you to blacklist sites with offensive or jarring ads? If you don't want to look at ads, that's between you and your ethics, but I'd rather deal with advertisements by default on sites that I support and just turn them off…

But is it really "your" data if you review something? Not to split hairs, but we're not talking about some outside agent +1ing/liking/reviewing a company or product on your behalf and then putting it on the web. If you review a product on G+ (etc), I don't really think you get to cry foul when they appropriate that…

If you're willing to +1 Depends Adult Diapers, then presumably it's not that embarrassing to you.

Huh? The LACK end table is $8. So unless a few hooks and 4 very short legs are $70, I'm not sure where that figure is coming from. But I don't think that project would realistically set you back more than $20.

I certainly don't begrudge anyone their hobbies, and I like a good cup of espresso myself. But, honestly, in a typical American workplace, if you have too exotic of a (personal) setup just to drink coffee in the office, people are going to think of you as a dick. "Coffee snob" is emphatically not a compliment coming…

I honestly don't understand the big deal. You still have fine and granular control over what's public and what's not, so even if you're of the type to post stupid shit to Facebook, you can get away with only offending people who are nominally your friends.

Yes, that is true, but the practical reality is that tipped employees who fail to earn state minimum tend to self-select out of the job or get fired (since restaurants don't like to have to make up that difference).

I don't see how I was being optimistic. If tips are done away with and minimum wage is instituted for tipped employees, servers would go from making $12-20 an hour inclusive of the $2.13, to $7.25 (state minimums apply as well, of course), unless you have faith that restaurants are going to pay more than they need to.…

Generally speaking, they err on the side of the customer's benefit (i.e., the interpretation that results in the lowest total)

How many servers do you think actually make minimum wage? The vast majority of them wouldn't get out of bed for $7.25/hr. Tips represent the majority of their wage, and for the most part, they work for it.

Why don't you want to make the world a better place by listening to the highest fidelity sound possible?

Tipping is indeed assumed, even with sub-standard service (8-10% in that case -terrible service, not so much, but if it was bad enough to not tip it was bad enough to complain to a manager).

Because in most states, tipped employees are on a separate tier for minimum wage. Even in states where the minimum wage isn't tiered, restaurant servers command higher incomes than statutory minimum, especially outside of the low-end diners and chains. The restaurant isn't paying the bulk of a server's pay, the guests…

I have no doubt that you prefer your safety razor, but let's not act as though if the 100-year-old technology was universally superior it wouldn't be in use. I have a safety razor and a Gillette Fusion razor which I use with a high-quality shave soap. The Fusion shaves me closer, quicker, and there's a considerable…

You're missing the point. You claim that because restaurant workers are guaranteed minimum wage, they don't rely on tips. At no point did I say I or anyone else wasn't paid enough, just that minimum wage is a stupid yardstick to use for being paid "enough."

People in the service industry don't really have a single tear to shed for people who think they deserve high wages solely because they have a bachelor's degree, either.

"Restaurant workers don't rely on tips"

"I'm against tipping because I don't always get service above what I've already paid for in the price of the service."

I'm happy to stipulate that Gabe was wrong, though I would point out that he's apologized about as comprehensively as is possible.

And yet we still have no method of specifying third-party default apps, Nitro JavaScript for third-party apps, widgets, and so on...