Re Abi@45:
If you send me a personal email with the address you'd like the invite sent to, I could be persuaded to give you one (provided other folks don't get to me first! Even as a Google engineer, I only got 8 invites, and three are already gone.)
Patrick and Theresa:
If you haven't gotten a Wave invite, please let me know. I've got a few to hand out.
I live in one of the northern suburbs of NYC.
Raw tax rate: about 35%, state + local (but excluding property tax)
With medical costs: about 38%.
(To clarify a tad, my wife and I make a *lot* of money between us. It might only be 3%, but in cash terms, it's a lot of money. If it weren't for the fact that we both have generous employers, we'd be in deep, deep trouble.)
My favorite example of this is from Hebrew, where there's a word "Tzedakah".
Tzedakah can mean "charity"; it can mean "justice";
it can mean "the right thing"; and it can mean something close to "saintly".
Personally, after getting some advice from a chef named Susannah Foo (she's a friend of my wife's family), I *never* buy pre-ground meat at the store. The store-ground stuff is ground too fine, which makes it much more prone to drying out.
Just buy a nice fatty steak, like chuck. Cut it into cubes, and then throw it into a food processor, and pulse until it's ground to your desired texture.
It takes under a minute from fridge to ready to cook, it costs less, and it tastes better. And the food processor can be thrown into the dishwasher, so it's not even more work to clean up!
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