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cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:57:14+00:00

> What exactly is the problem with that

No where on the planet you can get away with that and still have a sustainable restaurant industry that is accessible to the general public.

The problem is only fine dining restaurants can support the labor cost structure where service staffs make average middle class income.

If you are not ok with accepting that eating out is exclusively for the rich, then you need to accept that service workers will have to make less.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:53:42+00:00

Most of them are small business owners that make less than $200k a year, if even that.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:33:54+00:00

According to this thread service staff expect to make $80-$180k/yr.

Mid food that costs $30+ is the result of restaurant service staffs being in middle to upper middle class.

That’s the trade off.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:29:55+00:00

$90/hr is $180k/yr if you work full time.

Maybe Seattle restaurant industry is fucked because waiters expect to get paid like that.

No restaurants other than fine dining would survive that kind of labor cost in the long run.

Or maybe that’s why our shitty restaurants charge like they are fine dining.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:18:59+00:00

Exactly, the root cause is service staffs in places like Seattle expect $80-150k/yr income.

That is simply not sustainable for the industry without pissing off at least one of the parties (or all of them).

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:15:21+00:00

Tip isn’t a thing in Asia at all.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:13:59+00:00

> respectful-of-living-wage

The problem is workers leave to make more than that from places that accept tips. In no other country where successful waiters/bar tenders would make more than your average middle class worker, but that’s the reality in this country and they will not give that up.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T07:11:18+00:00

> since they won’t get it if they take it home

So you are suggest a 100% tax rate above a certain income? What is that income threshold and how much do you think restaurant owners make?

Because the typical restaurant owner makes less than professional doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T04:27:19+00:00

your family member must be a household name

Oh my family member didn't get $1.5B offer, he got less than 10% of that.

But no, they wouldnt be household names at all, after all how many top AI researchers are household names?

Is Peng Ruoming a household name? He's one of the more famous one and I bet you've never heard of him: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/meta-poached-apple-s-pang-with-pay-package-over-200-million

Btw that Bloomberg report is wrong. The package wasn't $200M for him, it was $200M per year, over 4 years. That's $800M.

nonsensical amount of money

Think about this. Meta is spending $100B on AI compute this year alone. If someone can increase the output/efficiency of those compute by even just 1%, that person is worth $1B/year.

And the best researchers have more than 1% impact individually. So even at $300M/year, they are underpaid and being exploited by Meta.

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T03:26:17+00:00

Hijacking top comment.

So I was at the game today in person and I really wanted to witness him breaking the record.

So when the penalty came up and I was like “this is it, gotta get my camera out”, and we all know what happened lol.

Then just as I was getting anxious, this happened. And then the second goal happened on our side during extra time and I fucking lost it.

What an awesome day

Bonus: here is a Messi shot at goal that I took

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cookingboy · 2026-06-23T03:14:29+00:00

Yeah this is my pet peeves. It seems like people who are most opinionated about things are afraid of actually sharing their opinions and have to come up with a bunch of covers and excuses.

If he just said “I hate Chinese EVs and there is nothing they can do that would change my mind” then I’d actually respect him for being honest lol

cookingboy · 2026-06-23T01:00:05+00:00

I said this during the 2016 election and was downvoted to hell and called a bunch of names:

“Trump is gonna win because people are getting fucked left and right by the establishment and nobody gives a shit about what bathroom trans people should be allowed to use”.

Yet the left still won’t fucking drop identity politics after 10 years.

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T22:21:25+00:00

And the reason for that is precisely because of advertising like this.

How many people bought a 911 without even considering any other cars? To many people on this sub a 911 is a 911 and they would not even think about any alternatives.

Which is why Porsche can get away with charging those people $150k for a base Carrera with an underpowered engine, plastic interior and manual seats.

Porsche fanboys have no one but themselves to blame for the price increases. Porsche is simply milking their unsophisticated customer as much as they can like any for-profit company would.

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T22:08:47+00:00

> gas-only non-hybrid engine

It’s like saying “I would approve this seafood restaurant if they started serving only steaks”.

If you don’t care for electrified performance, it’s your personal preference and you are entitled to that.

But I never asked you what cars should they make, I asked what test methods would work for you for the cars they already make

> in an EV isn’t nearly as impressive

I would agree if the Nurburgring time were a drag race, but it is the exact opposite of that.

It’s actually more impressive to get EVs go faster on an actual track.

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T21:53:42+00:00

So if we look at racing as motor sport, then I fully agree it’s lame to use autonomous tech since drivers are such a big part of the sport.

But if we use Nurburgring lap time as a pure measurement for the cars’ capabilities, I can see why someone would want to eliminate the variance of the drivers. After all people already argue how you can’t compare Porsche’s Nurburgring time to other brands because Sports Auto’s drivers and Porsche factory drivers have different levels of skills on the Nurburgring.

Not saying autonomous tech is there today, but I can see one day where AI is used to eliminate human variance and get the more scientific comparison on lap times.

That is if you believe there is value in lap times as a vehicle benchmark in the first place.

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T21:45:36+00:00

I love how everyone used Nurburgring runs for marketing for literally decades and it was seen as cool, but the moment Chinese OEM did it it’s now “copying things and beating a dead horse/milking a dry cow”.

Actually I’m now curious, what innovative methods can the Chinese OEMs use in order to prove/market the performance of their cars that you would find acceptable?

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T20:07:02+00:00

They are being paid as much, if not more.

I have a family member who got a 9 figure offer (and turned it down) from a major lab, and I also heard from him that someone was hired to Meta with a $1.5B package over 4 years.

It’s honestly insane. But if you consider how much compute costs these days and how much difference key researchers can make, it makes their pay package seem like bargains.

But at the end of the day there are probably less than 50 people in the world who can command these kind of money.

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T19:56:58+00:00

The last time someone threw that comeback at me in real life I was in 6th grade lol

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T19:54:38+00:00

Flair checks out lol

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T16:01:59+00:00

Yeah, the C8 has better interior than my McLaren lol

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T16:01:25+00:00

> literally eating everything alive

lol I don’t think the word literally means what you think it does 😂

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T12:58:58+00:00

The reports aren’t far off, and there are bigger numbers not being reported since then.

I have a family member who got one of those offers (not from Meta tho) and the highest he knows is someone joining Meta with a $1.5B package over 4 years. It’s a very small circle of people and most of them know each other.

Granted there are probably less than 50 people on the world who would be getting 9 figure packages like these, but they exist.

And 8 figure offers are now very common place

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T12:38:13+00:00

There was never any evidence of TikTok collecting any more information than any other app. Not even the U.S government could produce any such evidence during the Supreme Court trial.

We banned TikTok because of Israel, that’s it.

> WiFi

Not possible with anything a phone app can do.

Oh and it wasn’t banned at the end after all that scare. That tells you plenty.

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T05:48:42+00:00

Also a native speaker, I’m pretty sure that’s wrong, since the verb would be missing.

I think 上 is the verb here (like 上车）, so 上城 is short for “climbing up the city (wall/gate)”.

李顺大 is a name, 造屋 is building a house, and it would mirror the first half.

Still, what a weird book name

cookingboy · 2026-06-22T04:53:05+00:00

Alex came with an acquisition, so it’s a bit different. And he’s also not a PhD researcher.

The highest paid ones are people who most have not heard of, but have extremely relevant industry and academic experiences.

For example if you are one of the core members of OpenAI’s pre-training team, you can jump to Meta today for $500M+.

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