In Canada, there's no exemption from minimum wage, and there's typically a payscale that goes up from there with experience. I don't know any servers well, at the moment, but I would guess 23 CAD/hour is typical if it's your career (so about 17 USD).
And then tips are added on top of that, which are traditionally 10% or so, but are higher now thanks to digital terminals that make it hard to refuse. I wouldn't be surprised if we're up to 20% fairly regularely.
I haven't ever noticed different service standards vs. the US. Except maybe that staff seem surprised if you clean up your own messes in America. In Europe, etiquette is already so different that it's hard to tell.
He basically was a random guy from a wealthy-ish family until his 30s, then got involved with Zip2, which ended up getting acquired, and he made 20 million or so. Then he took that, and got in PayPal on the ground floor, which took him to ~200 million. Finally he bought a major stake in Tesla and founded SpaceX, which both went gangbusters, and now here we are.
Most billionaires make it big in one shot, while he had like three. If you wanted, you could spin that as him being a genius, but honestly he proves that he's not fairly often and publicly. It's still luck.
The only ones that are in the running are Gulf royal families, which go back maybe a century. Well okay, maybe Putin. (The UK's monarchs are worth well under a billion at this point)
Maybe aliens or the Illuminati are where you're going with this, though, and then it doesn't matter what anyone says.
For one thing, nobody owns, like, General Motors, or Apple. Or rather, they're publicly traded, and I probably own some of it indirectly, and you could buy some of it for a few dollars, yourself. Lot's of people don't seem to get this - a company owned by one guy, or even mostly by one guy, happens, but it's not really the main part of the Western economy, anymore.
Bill Gates was in the lead for a long time, and it's true Microsoft is how he made is money, but he's down to holding 0.5% of it at this point. The biggest individual owner is Steve Ballmer, at ~5%.
Someone else more qualified would have to answer in detail why Elon Musk's stake in several companies are worth more than another guy's stake in several companies, but that's the gist. It got that way, because he got lucky a few times in a row. That's how inequality is made, in general.
Massive flammability of the foam. If it starts in one place, and it's ordinary, non-flame-retardant foam, the whole ceiling will be burning aggressively within seconds. (Flammable claddings have caused other issues, like the Grenfell tower fire, but bar ceiling + small flame specifically happens over and over again)
It happened in Thailand at the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao bar this summer, set off by a failing AC unit, ~30 dead ~70 injured. And in Switzerland at the Crans-Montana bar this winter, set off by a sparkler lifted too high up, 41 dead 115 injured.
If it was just this year, maybe it's a coincidence, but it was huge news back in 2003, when it was one of the first disasters widely filmed. That was in America at The Station nightclub, set off by band pyrotechnics, 100 people dead 230 injured.
As long as it's not across the whole ceiling of a bar.
It's a bit off topic, but damn. If you got a nickle for every time a double digit number of people were killed by that exact scenario, you'd have more than one nickle, which is ridiculous.
One thing that can happen: If your current friends demand something from you other than hanging out, kindness and maybe occasional favours, they're not really your friends.
I mean, maybe you still want to be in whatever tribe, but be aware that a cult or gang or industry network is a different thing.
That's true, if you had no GUI for an extended period, it'd be worth learning something that could do that. Although, other people are saying there's a way in nano.
If you're using a GUI, and working in an emulator, who cares if it's not "proper"?
There's lots of history you can look at to see how this works. The same thing does get invented more than once, but sometimes there's different technologies that could each become dominant, and then there's a real first mover advantage.
In Russia, they don't really have highways. Everything is built around rail lines. In the Inca empire, they had highways, but highways with stairs because there was no widespread wheel usage (which itself might be down to limited available wagon pullers and rough terrain).
There's totally open source models out there if you want to check what I'm saying, and lots of information on the training process, too. In mathematical terms, it's not complicated process.
People have tried to figure out what's going on inside, of course, and failed. Last I checked, the big advancement in interpretability was that someone figured out a tiny net that just adds two numbers.
In Canada, there's no exemption from minimum wage, and there's typically a payscale that goes up from there with experience. I don't know any servers well, at the moment, but I would guess 23 CAD/hour is typical if it's your career (so about 17 USD).
And then tips are added on top of that, which are traditionally 10% or so, but are higher now thanks to digital terminals that make it hard to refuse. I wouldn't be surprised if we're up to 20% fairly regularely.
I haven't ever noticed different service standards vs. the US. Except maybe that staff seem surprised if you clean up your own messes in America. In Europe, etiquette is already so different that it's hard to tell.