The other detail not mentioned is the 5/15/40/40 vesting schedule. Given how stock heavy the total comp is, the first two years you get a "sign-on bonus" to offset the late vesting schedule. At higher levels, this sign-on bonus can be substantial.

Just to make the numbers easier, let's say your total comp was $200k and your base salary was $100k. Your sign-on bonus during the first year would be ($200k - $100k) * 0.95 = $95k. For the 2nd year, it would be $85k.

There's a bit more to the formula used, but that gets you in the right ballpark. With the salary cap, at higher levels, you are getting beefy RSU grants and a LOT of cash during the first couple of years. After that, the total comp is still there, but up to you how much of your RSUs you sell off vs. keep.

That was his total comp, which includes RSUs, not his salary. The $160K salary cap was real ($185K in SF and NYC).

Yep. I just installed an L2 charger in my garage and had an electrician put in a dedicated 50A, 240V circuit (NEMA 14-50 outlet) last year. Relatively short run (6' roughly) since the main panel was close. Total for both was about $1600.

That's a little higher than it should have been, but prices on L2 chargers jumped significantly last year. Presumably due to parts shortages from COVID, but who knows?

I will say, this is one I didn't expect when I bought my e-tron last year. In addition to being on the edge of mall or big-box parking lots, they generally aren't covered either. It was loads of fun trying to charge my car up on the way to Houston in the middle of a big storm in the pouring rain!

The situation will be much better when Buc-ee's gets their charging stations installed. Endless clean bathrooms, loads of good food and plenty of things to see while you charge up!

Not in my experience it doesn't. I have a 2021 Audi e-tron Sportback. At 80%, the charge rate starts dropping fairly quickly. By the time it's up to 100%, the charge rate is typically down to around 60kW. Still a lot faster than a level 2 charger, but it's definitely not charging full rate to 100%.

On the range question, you've got to give the spec a haircut, even when the car is new. At 75 mph (fairly typical highway speed in Texas), you aren't getting anywhere near the 220'ish mile range the e-tron is rated at.

Love my e-tron, but for me personally, I'd be happier if the range was about 300 miles to account. No need for that day-to-day, but it would certainly be more flexible around Texas.

That's not true at all. Current gen insulin pumps have feedback loops from continuous glucose monitoring systems and they dynamically adjust the basal rate based on that data, including predictively stopping the basal insulin if you are going to get too low.

Yes, you still have to enter estimated carbs when you eat, but that's why they are called hybrid systems vs. a full-on artificial pancreas.

Interestingly, there is a non-commercial, open-source, DIY system that gives full auto-mode without having to enter your carbs. The commercial insulin pumps are a few years behind them.

Have you seen what's been happening in Hong Kong?? What makes you think that China is going to take any special care not to harm the environment that has helped make TSMC so successful?

Can confirm. The modem on my TI-99/4A (same era) was 300 baud, but there were multiple BBS sites that I'd connect to at 110. You could watch the letters as they slowly streamed out on the text menus...

Not this time. This time it's over the YouTube app itself. The previous flare up between Google and Roku was over the YouTube TV app.

Surely I'm not the only one that read his last name as "Ferengi"...

You mean the loans you chose to take out? They weren't forced on you...

Oh wow. Will these books you haven't provided any citations for show me the power of healing crystals?

The only cure for T1 diabetes currently is a pancreas transplant, which comes with lifelong side-effects that can be more serious than the side-effects from well-managed diabetes. There are some experimental studies involving beta cell transplants that are promising, but nothing that is close to being a reality outside of a study. Are there other studies? Always. That's a long way from having a cure.

If there was a cure for T1, it would be all over the news, not to mention all the various diabetes blogs. Every endocrinologist would be talking to their T1 patients about during their quarterly endo visits.

You are a bigger idiot than I thought...

Not sure where the anger is coming from, but here's another one from the Joslin Diabetes Center: Can Type 2 Diabetes Be Reversed?.

From the article: According to recent research, type 2 diabetes cannot be cured

Loosing weight, adjusting your diet and exercise can put your blood sugar levels back to normal, but that is just managing the condition. You are still a T2 diabetic and if you stop doing those things, all of the negative symptoms and effects kick right back in. That's not a cure.

There are ways to manage T2 diabetes, but there are no cures for it.