CO2 levels need to be above/around 50k ppm, or 5%, before it starts becoming a real danger. You'll know something is up long before that, around 1-2%. Ammonia, on the other hand, is considered lethal at 500 ppm, or 0.05%
I'm going to go with 'CO2 is at least 1/100th as toxic as Ammonia'. The CO2 displacing the O2 is a bigger concern, but still 'solvable' by getting out of the room.
well, if someone is working, then they are earning some money, so then they can afford to pay more in rent. This just sets the floor price. No reason to go lower because everybody's got it.
It depends. Most will have it - but I wouldn't be paying it to illegals. I'd probably even restrict it to actual citizens in good standing. The legal immigrants just have to deal with a big non-refundable tax deduction.
You're assuming that renters restricted to just the UBI would be willing to pay '90-95%' of their income to the landlord. At, say, $800/month, I'd say that the limit is more likely going to be $400 for rent(which is still possible in many areas of the country). Landlords try to charge above that, those on the UBI simply shack up more in 'unofficial' relationships.
Then there is the question of how much a UBI would cost. Let's see, there are something like 245 million adults and 50 million children. That's $7.4 trillion basic income for adults and $400 billion for children.
Here's a question, why are you assuming about $30k per adult? Going by what other posters have mentioned, that's actually closer to $12-18k in US terms if you go by cost of living.
So, first up, divide the $8T by about 3. Then, to pay for it, you 'simply' get rid of most other forms of welfare - no need for food stamps, housing assistance, all those need based schemes that are expensive to administrate and present welfare cliffs. In the more general sense, you get rid of things like the standard exemptions and the lower tax brackets - the UBI takes care of making the system 'progressive'.
I know there's research involved in say running a major investment fund like Warren Buffet does, but he doesn't do the majority of it. 95% is delegated out to subordinates who do the legwork and write up the analyst reports, Buffet himself just goes over those reports and makes the final decisions. It's something only he can do, but he's not spending 40 hours a week nailed down to a desk poring over corporate reports and newspaper articles and stock trade data, running spreadsheet calculations to figure out what's behind the stock movements and what's likely to happen in the future.
Early in his career, he probably spent a whole lot more than 40 hours a week doing that stuff. Consider the story about various professionals: "$10 to bang it with a hammer, $100 to know WHERE, precisely, to bang it to actually fix the problem".
He still has to know enough to recognize good professionals, cut through bullshit and scams, etc...
As for the Trumps and Buffets of the world - if they're doing their job correctly, it's ensuring that capital gets to where it can be most useful.
We already have test cases for a universal basic income - some of the United Arab Emirates and to a lesser degree Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
I'd hardly call those "basic income" though when they're busting $100k per individual per year. I'd say a UBI would be closer to $6-12k/year. Enough to cover the basics, yet leave them hungry for more.
I'd imagine that you'd see areas that have cheap cost of living right now getting or keeping a lot more people. With more people will come services for said people, which means service job availability, and that includes doctors and such.
Sort of like Florida retirement communities. Warmth, cheap COL(for the most part), etc... Good for people who made their wealth elsewhere to make the most of their limited reserves.
That being said, I think you'd also see a push for housing affordable to those on the UBI.
Whatever the 'basic income' level is set at, rent at the cheapest, crappiest, bug-infested dump will go to 90-95% of this number. And you won't be able to save by splitting the rent, as they will write it into your rental agreement that every recipient of the basic income living there will have to pay the full amount.
You know, I've heard of this fairly often, but it's not entirely true. As a libertarian supporter of a BIG/UBI, I've studied the issue a fair amount.
First, you should probably realize that the vast majority of people receiving a BIG won't be living alone. Indeed, odds are you'll have somebody working in each household Second, all it takes for this to not be true is for an owner of said dump to offer a better deal than this in order to get better customers. Not all UBI people will be as bad as others, for example. They can write that everybody living there has to pay the full amount, but it's not something they can enforce, you know?
NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY FOR a high-quality hearing aid
This is a HUGE concern. I have multiple grandparents who needed but didn't have hearing aids precisely because of the expense.
I think that the 'professional' hearing aids are stuck in a niche where they're so expensive that only those of means can afford them, because they're treated like glasses, optional, where if 'everybody' who needed one got one, they would have the volume to be far cheaper.
They probably spent more money doing the tear-down itself. $200k is the cost of one average employee for one year.
As they say, knowledge is power, and time is money. The faster they get hold of the vehicle, the more quickly they can utilize the information. Possibly getting the technology or their response to the technology into their product line a year sooner, for example.
How often did you though? A potential sale, as slashdot loves to point out to the music industry is NOT a sale.
No, it more that a download/viewing isn't necessarily a potential sale.
for example, I might look at google or amazon's showing of a $1000 book, but I'm not going to be buying it, whether I can see it or not.
In all actuality, consider it closer to the original bookstore model - unless I'm ordering in something special, I can flip open nearly any book in the store and look at any page I want to. No limits.
Some systems are fundamentally unpredictable because their long-term behaviour depends on arbitrarily small differences in the initial state of the system.
Bingo. I'd liken it to looking at one of those toothpick/balsa bridges built by students, then trying to predict, down to the second, when the bridge is going to collapse.
If coal is replaced by natural gas, that is "cleaner", in the sense that per KWh of power, you do emit less CO2, it isn't exactly a switch to green power.
Natural gas is cleaner than coal in a lot of ways other than CO2. It's still a net positive change for the environment.
You might want to try the same statistics removing the poorest 10-20% of the population.
I would, but the FBI statistics I used weren't broken up by income level. Besides, I suspect that you'd want to use the income class they grew up in, rather than what they became.
I also couldn't create a map by cutting out the worst neighborhoods for the same reason - I don't have access to that data.
I think you're not picturing the module correctly. It's like a balloon, which you work inside. It' doesn't have air chambers other than the main one they would operate in. There's no wall bladders to fill.
Other than that, the bulletproof foam isn't dispensed out of a can. It's created by a method of casting in a mold.
Not all blacks were so poor, and there were a lot of poor white people too. Many of whom weren't repulsed by blacks using the same facilities, so something for the businesses of the time to figure out.
Whatever happened to good old titatium? Are we running out of?
Titanium is hard to work with, not as strong as kevlar fibers in this sort of application, suffers damage from radiation and temperature swings, and eventually cracks and shatters.
At a pressure differential approaching 1 atm, the inflated module will be approximately as stiff as a hard side structure at a fraction of the weight, and will actually be stronger in most respects. Should also last longer, but that's what testing is for!
Think less 'tent' and more 'bouncy castle' that's intended to have kids bounce all over it, except even stronger.
The inflatable module is rated to be as or more penetration resistant as the non-inflatable modules already up there, and at the pressure differential it will have, it will be roughly as stiff as well.
Indeed. I had a 'secret word' as a kid - if any adult tried to pick me up who didn't have the code, that meant that they were a bad adult and I was to raise hell and escape by any means possible. Never needed it, but I still remember it even today.
Note: I predate the helicopter parent era, I was allowed to walk to elementary school with my brother.
I figure that the idea is that since the service isn't using livery marked cars, you need a way to verify that the driver(and passenger) are who they say they are.
As for 'patent pending', they'd have a hard time, I think, showing that there isn't prior art with the military, which has a code/counter-code system.
One thing that taxi drivers don't want getting out is that for the most part: 1. Assaults by taxi drivers are fairly common as well. 2. Taxi drivers are often vetted about as well as Uber drivers - many of the companies use the same background check service Uber does.
Now, I can't make universal statements because there's thousands of taxi companies, but I think Uber is getting a bad rap from sheer size and being a good target for news articles.
A quick scan of local on-line arrest records shows a majority of blacks committing violent crimes even though the black population is a minority. So the next logical step will be a white only version of Uber. Just for safety purposes, of course.
I'd rephrase that - "a majority of blacks committing violent crimes" implies that MOST blacks commit violent crime. Our violence crime rate might be high, but it's not that high. I'd suggest 'a majority of violent crime is committed by blacks' instead.
I once worked out that if you removed blacks from the US population, our murder rate dropped down to the high end of Europe's. IE it would still be 'problematic' by European standards, but no longer an outlier.
Of course, the statistics even then don't show the whole picture - we have a few inner-city neighborhoods where the expected cause of death for a newborn black male is violence and the murder rate is worse than Somalia and such.
Indeed. While some businesses would still discriminate, I'm sure, it's expensive to have 4 sets of bathrooms vs 2, 2 counters instead of 1, and to do without the business that blacks could bring.
The battery management is going to take care of the battery charging, and thats a set amount of loss (it doesnt care how the power gets to it..)
Actually, like computer power supplies providing DC, that depends on how much power they're using - efficiency varies depending on the load. For example, I've read that Teslas are about 70-80% efficient with a 120V 15A connection, but reach ~90% with a 240V 50A connection.
The losses aren't solely in the wiring, but also in the DC conversion system.
You don't know what you are talking about. Its that simple.
Then prove him wrong. As he said, it was his work phone, left at the office. They destroyed, physically, their personal phones. The recent bombers in Belgium used frequently disposed of burner phones.
He listed out his reasoning, two which you only respond with 'bullshit' and the personal attack of him not knowing what he's talking about.
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CO2 levels need to be above/around 50k ppm, or 5%, before it starts becoming a real danger. You'll know something is up long before that, around 1-2%.
Ammonia, on the other hand, is considered lethal at 500 ppm, or 0.05%
I'm going to go with 'CO2 is at least 1/100th as toxic as Ammonia'. The CO2 displacing the O2 is a bigger concern, but still 'solvable' by getting out of the room.
Looking through it, It's basically a new variation on a heat pump that's capable of higher efficiency at a higher temperature differential.
well, if someone is working, then they are earning some money, so then they can afford to pay more in rent. This just sets the floor price. No reason to go lower because everybody's got it.
It depends. Most will have it - but I wouldn't be paying it to illegals. I'd probably even restrict it to actual citizens in good standing. The legal immigrants just have to deal with a big non-refundable tax deduction.
You're assuming that renters restricted to just the UBI would be willing to pay '90-95%' of their income to the landlord. At, say, $800/month, I'd say that the limit is more likely going to be $400 for rent(which is still possible in many areas of the country). Landlords try to charge above that, those on the UBI simply shack up more in 'unofficial' relationships.
Why? $200 for food, $200 for other stuff.
Then there is the question of how much a UBI would cost. Let's see, there are something like 245 million adults and 50 million children. That's $7.4 trillion basic income for adults and $400 billion for children.
Here's a question, why are you assuming about $30k per adult? Going by what other posters have mentioned, that's actually closer to $12-18k in US terms if you go by cost of living.
So, first up, divide the $8T by about 3. Then, to pay for it, you 'simply' get rid of most other forms of welfare - no need for food stamps, housing assistance, all those need based schemes that are expensive to administrate and present welfare cliffs. In the more general sense, you get rid of things like the standard exemptions and the lower tax brackets - the UBI takes care of making the system 'progressive'.
I know there's research involved in say running a major investment fund like Warren Buffet does, but he doesn't do the majority of it. 95% is delegated out to subordinates who do the legwork and write up the analyst reports, Buffet himself just goes over those reports and makes the final decisions. It's something only he can do, but he's not spending 40 hours a week nailed down to a desk poring over corporate reports and newspaper articles and stock trade data, running spreadsheet calculations to figure out what's behind the stock movements and what's likely to happen in the future.
Early in his career, he probably spent a whole lot more than 40 hours a week doing that stuff. Consider the story about various professionals: "$10 to bang it with a hammer, $100 to know WHERE, precisely, to bang it to actually fix the problem".
He still has to know enough to recognize good professionals, cut through bullshit and scams, etc...
As for the Trumps and Buffets of the world - if they're doing their job correctly, it's ensuring that capital gets to where it can be most useful.
We already have test cases for a universal basic income - some of the United Arab Emirates and to a lesser degree Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
I'd hardly call those "basic income" though when they're busting $100k per individual per year. I'd say a UBI would be closer to $6-12k/year. Enough to cover the basics, yet leave them hungry for more.
Also, citation on the UAE and diabetes?
I'd imagine that you'd see areas that have cheap cost of living right now getting or keeping a lot more people. With more people will come services for said people, which means service job availability, and that includes doctors and such.
Sort of like Florida retirement communities. Warmth, cheap COL(for the most part), etc... Good for people who made their wealth elsewhere to make the most of their limited reserves.
That being said, I think you'd also see a push for housing affordable to those on the UBI.
Whatever the 'basic income' level is set at, rent at the cheapest, crappiest, bug-infested dump will go to 90-95% of this number. And you won't be able to save by splitting the rent, as they will write it into your rental agreement that every recipient of the basic income living there will have to pay the full amount.
You know, I've heard of this fairly often, but it's not entirely true. As a libertarian supporter of a BIG/UBI, I've studied the issue a fair amount.
First, you should probably realize that the vast majority of people receiving a BIG won't be living alone. Indeed, odds are you'll have somebody working in each household
Second, all it takes for this to not be true is for an owner of said dump to offer a better deal than this in order to get better customers. Not all UBI people will be as bad as others, for example.
They can write that everybody living there has to pay the full amount, but it's not something they can enforce, you know?
NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY FOR a high-quality hearing aid
This is a HUGE concern. I have multiple grandparents who needed but didn't have hearing aids precisely because of the expense.
I think that the 'professional' hearing aids are stuck in a niche where they're so expensive that only those of means can afford them, because they're treated like glasses, optional, where if 'everybody' who needed one got one, they would have the volume to be far cheaper.
They probably spent more money doing the tear-down itself. $200k is the cost of one average employee for one year.
As they say, knowledge is power, and time is money. The faster they get hold of the vehicle, the more quickly they can utilize the information. Possibly getting the technology or their response to the technology into their product line a year sooner, for example.
How often did you though? A potential sale, as slashdot loves to point out to the music industry is NOT a sale.
No, it more that a download/viewing isn't necessarily a potential sale.
for example, I might look at google or amazon's showing of a $1000 book, but I'm not going to be buying it, whether I can see it or not.
In all actuality, consider it closer to the original bookstore model - unless I'm ordering in something special, I can flip open nearly any book in the store and look at any page I want to. No limits.
Are they scared we'll decide their book is crap?
Some systems are fundamentally unpredictable because their long-term behaviour depends on arbitrarily small differences in the initial state of the system.
Bingo. I'd liken it to looking at one of those toothpick/balsa bridges built by students, then trying to predict, down to the second, when the bridge is going to collapse.
There's just too many variables.
If coal is replaced by natural gas, that is "cleaner", in the sense that per KWh of power, you do emit less CO2, it isn't exactly a switch to green power.
Natural gas is cleaner than coal in a lot of ways other than CO2. It's still a net positive change for the environment.
The FBI statistics I used didn't break out Hispanics, so that would require me getting my hands on a more broken down dataset.
You might want to try the same statistics removing the poorest 10-20% of the population.
I would, but the FBI statistics I used weren't broken up by income level. Besides, I suspect that you'd want to use the income class they grew up in, rather than what they became.
I also couldn't create a map by cutting out the worst neighborhoods for the same reason - I don't have access to that data.
I think you're not picturing the module correctly. It's like a balloon, which you work inside. It' doesn't have air chambers other than the main one they would operate in. There's no wall bladders to fill.
Other than that, the bulletproof foam isn't dispensed out of a can. It's created by a method of casting in a mold.
Not all blacks were so poor, and there were a lot of poor white people too. Many of whom weren't repulsed by blacks using the same facilities, so something for the businesses of the time to figure out.
Whatever happened to good old titatium? Are we running out of?
Titanium is hard to work with, not as strong as kevlar fibers in this sort of application, suffers damage from radiation and temperature swings, and eventually cracks and shatters.
At a pressure differential approaching 1 atm, the inflated module will be approximately as stiff as a hard side structure at a fraction of the weight, and will actually be stronger in most respects. Should also last longer, but that's what testing is for!
Think less 'tent' and more 'bouncy castle' that's intended to have kids bounce all over it, except even stronger.
The inflatable module is rated to be as or more penetration resistant as the non-inflatable modules already up there, and at the pressure differential it will have, it will be roughly as stiff as well.
Indeed. I had a 'secret word' as a kid - if any adult tried to pick me up who didn't have the code, that meant that they were a bad adult and I was to raise hell and escape by any means possible. Never needed it, but I still remember it even today.
Note: I predate the helicopter parent era, I was allowed to walk to elementary school with my brother.
I figure that the idea is that since the service isn't using livery marked cars, you need a way to verify that the driver(and passenger) are who they say they are.
As for 'patent pending', they'd have a hard time, I think, showing that there isn't prior art with the military, which has a code/counter-code system.
One thing that taxi drivers don't want getting out is that for the most part:
1. Assaults by taxi drivers are fairly common as well.
2. Taxi drivers are often vetted about as well as Uber drivers - many of the companies use the same background check service Uber does.
Now, I can't make universal statements because there's thousands of taxi companies, but I think Uber is getting a bad rap from sheer size and being a good target for news articles.
A quick scan of local on-line arrest records shows a majority of blacks committing violent crimes even though the black population is a minority. So the next logical step will be a white only version of Uber. Just for safety purposes, of course.
I'd rephrase that - "a majority of blacks committing violent crimes" implies that MOST blacks commit violent crime. Our violence crime rate might be high, but it's not that high. I'd suggest 'a majority of violent crime is committed by blacks' instead.
I once worked out that if you removed blacks from the US population, our murder rate dropped down to the high end of Europe's. IE it would still be 'problematic' by European standards, but no longer an outlier.
Of course, the statistics even then don't show the whole picture - we have a few inner-city neighborhoods where the expected cause of death for a newborn black male is violence and the murder rate is worse than Somalia and such.
Indeed. While some businesses would still discriminate, I'm sure, it's expensive to have 4 sets of bathrooms vs 2, 2 counters instead of 1, and to do without the business that blacks could bring.
Greed uber alles.
The battery management is going to take care of the battery charging, and thats a set amount of loss (it doesnt care how the power gets to it..)
Actually, like computer power supplies providing DC, that depends on how much power they're using - efficiency varies depending on the load. For example, I've read that Teslas are about 70-80% efficient with a 120V 15A connection, but reach ~90% with a 240V 50A connection.
The losses aren't solely in the wiring, but also in the DC conversion system.
You don't know what you are talking about. Its that simple.
Then prove him wrong. As he said, it was his work phone, left at the office. They destroyed, physically, their personal phones. The recent bombers in Belgium used frequently disposed of burner phones.
He listed out his reasoning, two which you only respond with 'bullshit' and the personal attack of him not knowing what he's talking about.
Well fine. Provide reasoning, evidence, whatever.