I don’t understand why it’s normal procedure to fly over an active airport with a helicopter.

That seems destined to have issues

Can’t they just fly around it?

Where are you shopping? Only having a 5lb bag of jasmine rice is weird.

Just use powdered instead of the fresh herbs. I would consider doubling up on most spices if you are using powdered.

Garlic and ginger both can be frozen. They also last a good while, so you can keep them in your fridge

You can always ask the butcher to get you a smaller piece of meat. You can also separate pieces of meat and freeze part.

If produce is by weight, you can break the package to be smaller. Even things like squash can be cut in half (ask the produce people, places like Aldis will not do this).

Buy canned and frozen veggies as much as possible, they last longer. They won’t be as tasty, but will reduce your food waste.

Cook larger portions and freeze the leftovers and eat them in a week or two.

As far as spices, dishes, etc. look at them as “investments” cause you won’t be using them all on one meal…

Fun fact, there wasn’t a year zero!

It went from 1 BCE to 1 CE

Adequately is a difficult determination.

Is it adequate if there are state maintained dirt roads? In some states, the state or county chooses not to pave all of their roads.

Is it adequately funded if they have potholes? Due to weather conditions, some states are notorious for potholes.

Is it adequately funded if the road gets washed out or carried away by flooding? California gets mudslides that take out sections of roads, other states get sinkholes or hurricanes/tornados destroying their roads

How long can one of these issues plague a road before we consider them underfunded?

My opinion is that the US has too many roads. Most roads are maintained by county or municipalities, and are funded through infinite growth model.

When a developer creates a new subdivision, they pave the roads. Once done, they usually relinquish these roads to the county/city who are responsible for maintaining the roads.

Typically maintenance is low until they require replacing. The cities and counties don’t save money or plan well for replacing these roads and rely on new tax revenue to fund replacing them.

It builds a slowly ballooning road maintenance cost that someone will have to pay. I believe someone made a video about this very fact. I don’t have the link handy

Salary is one part of the cost for an employee.

Benefits and perks cost money, plus you have the additional overhead of legal, HR, accounting which can scale based on headcount.

Most of my employers used a 2.5x multiplier to account for this.

Another place I worked every employee cost 250k regardless of salary.

GDP is not taxed revenue or availability of funds.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all finished goods and services produced within a country during a specific period. (I used gen AI for this paragraph).

According to the CBO, they expect to collect $4.864 trillion in taxes in 2025 (source: https://www.cbo.gov/topics/taxes ).

Unless you are going to forcibly steal assets from companies (which would lead to amass exodus from the US economy and cause a massive depression) you’d never get 20 trillion.

This idea is a nice thought, but impossible and not how the economy works.

The really unfortunate thing is that this transformation will “taint” degrees from there

I don’t think “good” was the point. I think the point GP was making was that they are uniquely American chains.

Anyone actually got an email? I have signed up and haven’t gotten one all week :(

You do know the cartels mostly deal in USD?

In order to deal in pesos they would import their USD from the US, then convert it into pesos?

That makes no sense.

Sometimes bribery isn’t about the money, but the prestige.

Other way around, I believe. The boys was originally just a comic and stormfront is a character in the comics.

All of them?

The CEO can change any policy

Has Microsoft publicly commented on Google’s WEI?

When you are spending billions of dollars on programs, 1m is peanuts.

If you can speed up a billion dollar program by 1%/improve by 1%, you got your money’s worth.

But people of that tier usually make a much bigger impact.

Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of C# and typescript is a great example.

He created two major modern languages, take typescript alone, there are tens of thousands of developers who work on just the tooling for typescript between eslint, webpack, react, angular, etc.

900k total comp is huge, but not astronomical in my opinion.

If you look at levels.fyi, it seems to match up with very high level engineers at most FAANG companies.

If you were to bring in someone to head up all of your AI for writing, you’d want to bring someone really good in.

These people are few and far between and money is a strong lure.

While this total comp is probably beyond you or I, there are definitely a lot of people in that ballpark.

900k base salary would be nuts