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Would you not try to do something similar in working as minimally as possible for the pay? Does that make someone a bad person? Everyone tries to min-max life. Doesn’t make them enemies or bad people, it just makes them…people.

I think stating that something is self-evident is not a helpful argument. First, it seemingly isn’t or else parent would not have posted as such. And secondly, something being self evident is only used when you want to describe an axiom because you cannot prove otherwise.

I feel as if this is putting the cart before the horse. If a brexit is a net benefit to countries, then they should leave the EU. There is no problem unless the country is ideologically attached to the EU.

The current energy density of their batteries is pretty much at the theoretical limit of the “lithium-ion” chemistry. Unless they are sitting on a new battery chemistry, which I doubt, they would need to develop a new one.

Fair enough I guess? From the comment it sounded like it was arguing that repealing the jones act would only make sense if foreign ships could navigate internal waters ways. It was more aimed at clearing up misunderstanding than creating a strawman.

AFAIK, internal waterways does not literally mean inside the US. Internal means routes between US ports. A foreign vessel could still sail between two deep water ports for example, if the act were repealed.

I think the issue though is that one can not look at money in this situation. A higher paying job means you are more productive, at least to whoever is employing you. It maybe, imo will be, the case that the few people who remain cannot increase the amount of goods and services they produce to provide for the rest of the population.

For example, if before UBI a worker on average was producing one car, and assuming that after UBI half the working population quits their job, that worker now needs to produce two cars for everyone to maintain their standard of living. Except since that additional car must go to the UBI recipient, in other words his income was taxed, his quality of life does not go up despite becoming more productive. So either he needs to become more productive through than one more car so that he can raise his own standard of living, or he just won’t do it.

Low sesimic activity. You want the FAB to run 24/7 even if that means trucking in expensive water. Any down time will absolutely wipe out any cost savings from cheaper water. Probably even easier still to invest some extra capital to recycle more water.

>More than zero is too many.

I don’t think this is the correct way to look at it. That may seem harsh but humans certainly never have nor ever will think that way. For example, what is the risk of death associated with climbing up the tree to get the apple. How much are people willing to pay to buy a safer car? There will always be a tail risk. Mitigating the risk will eventually not be worth the cost, either it terms of resources or human years spent on reducing the risk. A much more recent salient example is that most societies on earth have decided that the risk from dying from COVID is worth it to continue living a normal life. If we applied your standard, we should never leave our house and do anything constituting a normal life.

The nearly free electron gas model is the standard introduction to explaining conduction in solids. In other words, no he didn’t invent it. Interestingly enough, the first model for explaining conduction was naively assumed to be a simple gas model. After quantum mechanics was introduced into the modeling, it was discovered that while not quite correct, it was not very far off either.

Social and cultural benefits are entirely subjective and difficult to see how any large group of people would agree on what constitutes such benefits. I don’t think many people would be okay with subsiding the supposed benefits that theologists percisely because they disagree about the benefits. Economic benefits are much more likely to be widely accepted and understood.

Do you live in europe? I do and it being europe does not mean I haven’t seen homeless in public transport.

This is no longer true. Vishay and Nichia[1] for example, produce leds in the UVC range.

[1]https://led-ld.nichia.co.jp/en/product/uv_uvc.html

Zeiss-makes all the highly complicated mirrors that go into asmls machines

XFAB-specialty fab in germany