= within 15 cents of $20,000/7
= NT$88,661, by Google’s current
exchange rate
= 739 hours of Taiwan’s hourly minimum wage or 4.43 months of
Taiwan’s monthly minimum wage
= 317 hours of Massachusetts’s
minimum wage (7.94 weeks or 1.85 months assuming a 40-hour work
week)
= 1.2~1.7 weeks of
a
list of high tech internship salaries as
featured
on Slate
= 2,955 plates of Sushi Express
= 1,478 cheap boxed lunches (at
NT$60 each), which would last one person 1.35 years at 3 per day
=
1,122 Big
Macs, price in Taiwan, or 596 Big Macs, average price in U.S.
(January 2015)
= 956 copies of Blackbar
= 573 copies of
Hadean Lands
= 286 copies of
Spacechem
= 181 nanoblock Charizards
= 95 years of reddit gold
= 56 copies of everything by Pentatonix
on iTunes (U.S. pricing)
= 28 years of a minimal WebFaction
server
= 24 years of a minimal Linode server
= 12
unicorns
=
4.5-ish copies of the
entire
set of Pokémon games (I just Googled this; I hope it’s accurate) =
1.8 MacBook Pros (256GB) (educational price with 3-year warranty)
= 1.08 standard Individual Licenses for MATLAB ($2,650. What. I can’t
even.)
= 3.6 dead children, original figure
quoted on
raikoth.net
= 0.86 dead children, 2015 estimate from
GiveWell’s
assessment of Against Malaria Foundation
= 88% of an APMO gold medal
= 44% of an IMO gold medal
= 0.0000016% of Taiwan’s national debt = 39% of debt per person
= 0.000000016% of U.S. national debt = 5% of debt per person
This is going to be dwarfed by the airplane tickets and meals anyway, so I don’t know what I’m doing.
Well, no, I do know what I’m doing: making filler posts for the streak.
Also, I’m sorry for the arbitrariness of the sigfigs.