These rules are great but “landmark” seems like puffery, as California has had such rules for quite a while.
Ironically that has meant it’s hard to unsubscribe from the New York Times except in California.
aczerepinski•33m ago
I once wrote code that checks location before hiding/showing the cancel button. It’s really absurd that the nice experience exists on all subscription sites by now but you only get to see it if your state demands it.
Larrikin•29m ago
Congrats on using your education to make the world a worse place
Rebelgecko•27m ago
Same with websites like Airbnb. Last I checked, their search results only showed the 'real' prices (eg including fees) for certain states and countries. In some states you have to click into the listing before learning that there's an extra $500 cleaning fee on top of the nightly rate :)
IshKebab•27m ago
How does it feel to be at the epicentre of arseholery?
Genuine question. Not sure how I'd feel.
qmr•9m ago
Why would you do something so immoral?
jvanderbot•7m ago
To get paid, obviously. We're all self interested actors here.
ubertaco•3m ago
Same reason people lobby for fracking or sell mass surveillance software.
nashashmi•5m ago
[delayed]
ar_lan•4m ago
I have no context of who you are/your position here, but the responses you're getting seem absurd to me.
I just don't understand people placing the blame on you when it should be on your company. Most people in the world are just trying to keep their job - you did it. It wasn't something illegal, it was something that if you didn't do, you would have risked your job and then someone else would have done it anyway.
browski•22m ago
Outsiders need to append a "for NYC".
They didn't here because for them as representatives of NYC that's all they are speaking to.
Technical pedantry like this just displays poor language and social skills.
woodruffw•3m ago
I think you, as the reader, are expected to mentally append “in NYC” when a link comes from nyc.gov. It seems very silly for a given municipality to need to qualify every sentence on its own website.
> When the Biden administration introduced a junk fee rule in 2024, the US Chamber of Commerce argued it was “an attempt to micromanage businesses’ pricing structures”, and apartment fees were cut from that federal rule after lobbying by the real-estate industry.
This drives me nuts to read, because it’s usually the same pattern.
Rule -> lobbyists descend -> politicians cave -> carve out that takes away the whole point of the rule -> everyone declares victory
tamimio•20m ago
Should ban the tips if it’s not included in “hidden fees”, and force restaurants to pay proper wages like other workers.
seattle_spring•16m ago
The "and" is very important here. Places like Seattle now mandate servers get a real wage. It inexplicably hasn't changed tip culture at all, so now they get regular wages and still complain when someone doesn't tip 20%+ for a takeout order.
bijowo1676•10m ago
for service workers, up to 25k in tips can be deducted from taxable income ("no tax on tips")
dmboyd•8m ago
Why should customers need to care about a store’s employees tax bracket
IncreasePosts•8m ago
Is there something about serving people food that means you should get a tax break? Or is that just a holdover of cash tipping to kindly get servers to actually declare the full value if their tips as wages instead of just saying they magically weren't tipped all year
rafram•3m ago
From 2025 to 2028, in a specific list of qualified occupations, as long as your AGI is below $150,000.
gumby•1h ago
Ironically that has meant it’s hard to unsubscribe from the New York Times except in California.
aczerepinski•33m ago
Larrikin•29m ago
Rebelgecko•27m ago
IshKebab•27m ago
Genuine question. Not sure how I'd feel.
qmr•9m ago
jvanderbot•7m ago
ubertaco•3m ago
nashashmi•5m ago
ar_lan•4m ago
I just don't understand people placing the blame on you when it should be on your company. Most people in the world are just trying to keep their job - you did it. It wasn't something illegal, it was something that if you didn't do, you would have risked your job and then someone else would have done it anyway.
browski•22m ago
They didn't here because for them as representatives of NYC that's all they are speaking to.
Technical pedantry like this just displays poor language and social skills.
woodruffw•3m ago