NYC is adding a $2.75 "surcharge" fee for all rides south of 96th street. Effects Lyft and Uber only, not yellow cabs and other car services, who will now become the cheaper option. "Your surcharge will go directly to the state to support public transportation. It won't go to drivers or to Lyft. " This is a form of direct taxation. There are a few issues with this. We already pay the highest taxes in the country for living in new york city. and now new yorkers are again being charged yet another form of tax to support the state (note these proceeds go to the state, not to the city). Let's do some quick math.. if you take uber to and from work, and use it twice on weekends, that works out to 2.75*2*7=$38.50 per person per week, or $2002 per year in increased tax. For someone making 100k a year, that's a 2% tax increase. For someone making $1M a year, that's 0.2%. How liberal of new york to add this new form or taxation of the lower an...
This report is an analysis on hurricanes, surprisingly I am not seeing the explosive growth that documentaries show. I took the raw list of hurricanes from wikipedia to make landfall in US 1850-2018 and did an analysis. This is a “strength” study. Each hurricane gets points which is the square of its category, so cat 5 = 25 points, cat 2 = 4 points. It’s an annual study where we sum up the points of all hurricanes happening within one calendar year. There is no clear pattern of exponential growth in strength. In fact in 2005 strength appears to be all time low. This is the same study b y decade where we sum up the points of all hurricanes happening in 10 year periods. You may think the exponential scoring is unfair, so we can try a linear. Here, the points assigned to each hurricane is equal to its category. So two cat 3 hurricanes in one year = 6 points. This is a color coded study showing counts by hurricane category. Here I added a polynomial trend line. Over 20...