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by SECProto 5y ago
Those prices seem overly dramatic. Avocados (certainly not native to the "few acres of snow" that is Canada) is 5 for ~$6 at the moment. Bread is sometimes $4 for a crunchy loaf I like, or maybe $1 in flour when I make my own. I d
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by SECProto 5y ago
From that link: > AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is an image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF file format.
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by SECProto 5y ago
> And given the distances and terrain between major Canadian cities, trains will just never win out against air travel. With a pretty major possible exception on the Windsor-Quebec City corridor. Large fraction of Canada's populatio
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by SECProto 5y ago
Addressing climate change is a wide problem, every branch needs to be addressed: - switching to EV will eliminate tailpipe emissions (up to 50% per your number, grid dependent) - greening the grid will reduce more (reduce per-km emissions,
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by SECProto 5y ago
Right, but the article is about greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 and equiv), so I was offering clarity. Particulate emissions don't have global warming potential aren't terribly relevant in the context.
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by SECProto 5y ago
A stat like that would be referring to particulate emissions, not CO2 emissions
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by SECProto 5y ago
> If your oldest Facebook post is from 2015, how likely is it that you've been using the internet before 2005?! My Facebook account dates back to 2015, but I have been using the internet since the mid 90s. (As far as I'm aware,
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by SECProto 5y ago
> it seems to make a lot more sense to just use the existing lever and raise gas taxes, instead of trying to circumvent them by applying pressure to the market directly. Note that the "fuel economy penalties" and regulations th
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by SECProto 5y ago
Yes, 'beg buttons' are awful (as are the 'red-revert' signal designs you allude to).
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by SECProto 5y ago
Most North American road infrastructure has been rebuilt over the last century to be automobile-centric. "We" deem that conflict to be acceptable because the alternative is more complicated phasing - most of which results in delay
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by SECProto 5y ago
I've lived a few different places, also working in transportation engineering. I personally care a great deal about accessibility, and would much rather delay cars slightly than pedestrians (for numerous reasons). For example, when rev
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by SECProto 5y ago
I've definitely heard it used, but only in the urban planning & public consultation context
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by SECProto 5y ago
If you don't know whether you learned anything, you shouldn't state definitively "I did not learn anything in highschool (or college)"
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by SECProto 5y ago
Yeah, I dunno - I had a 13 year old Daihatsu with >200,00km (which is a damn lot for japan)... Never had to do any maintenance. Had several friends with similar age keis who also had no issues.
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by SECProto 5y ago
As said, they have no problem going 80, so they're fine on everything except expressways.
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by SECProto 5y ago
> In reality....they are unreliable little shitboxes, and I hate being stuck behind them on a hill, or on the expressway, or saddled with one as a loaner when my daily driver is in a shop for maintenance. They are often geared such that
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by SECProto 5y ago
uh... I go to www.reddit.com not old.reddit.com - I don't actively do anything at all, other than change a flag in my user settings. Looking at old.reddit.com in an incognito window looks the exact same as what i see at www.reddit.com.
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by SECProto 5y ago
> The problem with old.reddit.com (as opposed to teddit) is that numerous links on Reddit will redirect you to the New experience. Absent DNS hacks, you'll find yourself consistently frustrated by this. I have found that keeping the
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Is this a well known thing not to wash small items Front loaders specifically - though usually to protect the objects being washed, not the machine itself. The joint around the door tends to pinch small objects. I put masks in a mesh b
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Passenger trains, trucks and ships are a different story. In some countries, sure. But most rail in Japan is already electrified - 70% of the system [1]. The remainder would be low ridership routes, many of which the rail companies wan
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Simply mentioning the name of a product I use is not advertising. Sorry, I actually meant to refer to Birken's comment above. Advertising might not have been the best word - astroturfing? If you read their comment but replace &quo
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by SECProto 5y ago
It sounds like you're advertising it. "The future can be yours, today. For the introductory monthly price of 79.99. Sign up here[1]"
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by SECProto 5y ago
> What I wanted to get at with my questions was "what's the ratio of bad stuff produced per kilometer driven for hydrogen and for batteries?" Right. When comparing objects of similar complexity, cost of the object is gener
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> What's the environmenal impact of a hydrogen fuel cell versus a rechargeable battery with a comparable range? Battery-electric vehicles are about 2-3 times more energy efficient than hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, according to VW [0
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by SECProto 5y ago
If everyone buys for a month at a time, it would be spread out over that month. With lockdowns, people bought more than usual, and everyone was trying to buy it at the same time rather than spread out. And then people heard about shortages
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by SECProto 5y ago
These persons still have the right to choose what goes in their body, be it alcohol or vaccine. The choice just has certain consequences on available transportation methods.
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by SECProto 5y ago
"You have the privilege to drive a personal car, but if you make yourself a danger to others by drinking and driving, the privilege will be revoked" is a more apt comparison.
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by SECProto 5y ago
Your comment uses too many acronyms to understand, I'm sure others here feel the same. I know that CIA is the US Central Intelligence Agency, and KIA means killed in action ... by context I'm pretty sure AQ is Al-Qaeda and AFG is
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by SECProto 5y ago
> To be fair saying "One of... is..." is a tautology and doesn't make sense to disagree with. I disagree pretty strongly and can provide as many examples as you would like: - One of the biggest health problems in America i
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by SECProto 5y ago
I'd be happy to retrofit my good-condition Yaris to be a BEV with ~80km range (similar to first gen leaf). Is there actually a practical way to do this?

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