If I were going for optimization, I wouldn’t be suggesting food, I would be suggesting supplements and powders. Odd that you seem to have a problem with optimization in your first sentence, then you promote cereal because it’s non-perishable, easy, and predictable, which all sound like optimizations to me. Just so you know, beans, chickpeas, and lentils all fall under those categories as well.

Most of the nutritional value I’ve seen in cereals have been through supplemental ingredients. For example, a lot of the vitamins and minerals are added in as if you crushed supplements and put them in your bowl. There are better ways of getting those nutrients, including fiber: beans, chickpeas, lentils, peanuts, flax seeds, chia seeds, various vegetables, etc. None of those require milk to be palatable and they’re much cheaper than the ultra-processed cereals. When it comes to fiber, you’ll want a variety, cereals largely just rely on bran.

I stopped buying cereal years before covid. A recent trip to the grocery store took me through the cereal aisle and I happened to stop to pay closer attention. The shrunken boxes and jacked up prices were very apparent. Yet another reason not to buy that unhealthy trash.

As long as it doesn’t become expected, but seeing how tips already work, it’ll become expected no matter what. I’d probably see reviews complaining about the food tasting like shit but the reviewer leaving the chef “just the standard 20%” and vowing never to eat from there again.

Just need to sign a few more multi-billion contracts of massive data centers that will totally get built out.

Thank you for buying the cracked eggs.

That’s true, but after that point the capacity is there and it will be harder to constrain supply in this way after that. After China establishes a major memory player, I assume they wouldn’t want to fall behind after that point either.

I’m sure they’ll try to ban Chinese memory for “national security reasons” but the differences here are that memory is much easier to smuggle in, and even if not, them flooding other markets would free up more supply of other manufacturers enough that we should see major price drops anyway. They recently tried banning imports of foreign-made routers and that didn’t seem to actually work out.

I hope China floods the market with cheap RAM and absolutely destroys these scumbag memory companies.

This “top democrat” should be ousted too.

The internet is experiencing a sloppy death.

The tipping system is precisely what has built this shit show. Remove tipping and make ALL restaurants post the honest prices on the menu. If the restaurant industry has to rely on price tricks to sustain itself then it’s not really sustainable. Tell me, if tipping is so essential to the industry, how do other countries manage to have restaurants without tipping?

At first you seem to be downplaying feeling of social pressure by saying you don’t see the need to legislate it away, but then you go on to state that the pressure is part of an exploitation scheme. You could claim that blackmail is mere social pressure and that there is no need to legislate it away, yet there are laws against blackmail.

In the last paragraph, you state that eliminating tipping would hurt those industries because they would have to increase prices, but the prices are already increased through the use of tipping and social pressure. Eliminating tipping simply makes pays more consistent so that one employee isn’t greatly out-earning their coworker just because they’re a pretty young white woman.

What’s really short sighted is not seeing how tipping develops into a bribery culture. We’ve already seen companies happily turning on the tipping option for the payment processor in situations where people used to never tip. Today you bribe your waiter to not shit in your food and berate you. Eventually you’ll have to bribe government workers to expedite (i.e. bother at all with) your paperwork. Gotta hustle and get that bag above all else, right?

Ignoring that possibility, it’s not like it’s a just practice in any way. Tipping amount is largely detached from level of service and factors such as attractiveness, race, how the person is feeling that day, etc make a greater impact.

Most transactions are handled by card, it would be quite easy to enforce. At a minimum, payment processors could be legislated to not have the option for tipping. Banning the tipped minimum wage has already been done in a number of states and so they make minimum wage + tips, with that tip not actually being any more optional.

This could be solved by banning all tipping, then all restaurants would have to display the honest price upfront.

There’s no way in hell that a small business owner could afford to pay a wage even close to what I make in tips.

Sure they could. All they’d have to do is set the prices to include what would’ve been your tip.

The market can remain irrational until the bag can be safely passed onto retail and/or bailouts are secured.

$185 is still way above the already ridiculous IPO price of $135. If this market made any sense, it wouldn’t have gotten this high in the first place, but since we’re here, it should really continue dropping. However, knowing how this market is, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just a momentary dip before going back up for some dumb made-up reason.

Neither can AI, unless you want a garbage heap of a codebase.