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Driving is a privilege not a right. You have a right to free movement, not a right to drive an automobile. Use your feet or ask someone to carry you to exercise your rights.

DoorDash provides auto insurance for Dashers, but this insurance applies only to accidents while using a motor vehicle on an active delivery (from order acceptance heading to the Merchant or from Merchant to the Customer). This insurance applies only after the Dasher goes through their own auto insurance policy first.

For the coverage to apply, the below conditions must be met:

You are liable for damages or injuries to another party while on an ACTIVE delivery;

Your personal auto policy has denied your claim.

What is an active delivery?

You are considered on active delivery from the time you accept a delivery request until the time your customer receives their order, or the order is canceled. If you are online but you didn't accept a delivery request, your personal insurance is still your insurance policy.

Note: Damages sustained to your vehicle in an auto accident are your responsibility and should be addressed directly by your auto insurance carrier. DoorDash requires all Dashers to maintain an up-to-date auto insurance policy. If you fail to maintain your own insurance, DoorDash's coverage may not apply.

So, what do you do when the people you give UBI to, take and spend all that money on drugs or anything else NOT Basic needs?

Conversely the government could also learn to be more fiscal in its spending.

I know that when a family takes a financial hit in income, they are expected to make appropriate adjustments.

If that means no more trips and fancy vacations for a while, thats whst you do. You certainly dont expect to continue to go to Monte Carlos after losing 30% in income.

Why is the government not expected to do the same? There are plenty of luxury things they can trim in a time of need.

AC how is that gov health care working in France, Italy and Spain?

Not a single person under that age in Canada, you dopey fucking muppet.

Ah, memories...of soldering 512MB DIP into my Atari STF to get a full 1024MB! Then having Atari come out weeks later with the STE with snap in SIMMs.

Interesting estimate, but you're missing a key idea or two.

How fast is energy coming in? You need to pull energy out at that rate or faster to keep temperature static or cooling. What's that power level? W, not Wh. You don't need to cool all that rock, you just have to keep it from heating it up more to the point where it blows.

Well, and even this might be oversimplified. At issue might be where the heat is. If you cool enough at the surface so that the rock is strong enough to keep the stuff below contained, the artificially "cold cap" may keep the hotter stuff tamped indefinitely. It may be that the failure mechanism is that the surface eventually heats up and becomes weak, releasing what is below. If the surface rock is cooled artificially quickly, it may be much more effective at keeping the hot stuff below contained, and that heat may dissipate more broadly and non-destructively indefinitely.

Maybe. So the actual scale of an effective project might be far lower than your numbers seem to indicate, I simply don't know, I doubt anyone knows right now.

What's more, the cost equation may be more favorable than you think. Remember the power extracted has value, possibly justifying hundreds of billions or trillions of investment especially when balanced against worldwide destruction as a consequence. Again, not known.

--PeterM

Aww crap. I misconverted km^3 to 1,000 m^3 when it should be 1,000,000,000 m^3 (250 billion cubic km of molten rock from the article)

According to analysis of earthquake data in 2013, the magma chamber is 80 km (50 mi) long and 20 km (12 mi) wide. It also has 4,000 km3 (960 cu mi) underground mass, of which 6–8% is filled with molten rock. This is about 2.5 times bigger than scientists had previously imagined it to be; however, scientists believe that the proportion of molten rock in the chamber is much too low to allow another supereruption.

Those were cup holders, you dolt!