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by _yb2s 4y ago
Despite what the article says, this is only for RWD cars with no front axles.
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I agree this must be a typo! The demo car in the video (BMW i3) is a rear wheel drive car. Given that, this whole thing doesn't make any sense to me as a supposed advance. RWD cars have always had tighter turning raidii. Many of them a
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I'd say the Japanese figured out how to make this happen on a cheap car. Almost all high end european cars (including Volvos) had great rustproofing for a long time but cost far more than Japanese cars. The Japanese made the first reli
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I came here to mention this about Volvos. Starting with the 7xx series (1982 on) they have been virtually rustproof. Old 7xx volvos are crazy cheap because they last forever, and there just isn't enough demand for the huge numbers of t
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I didn't literally mean that people don't ever make it to 100, just that it seems plausible that incorrect reports (fraud, error, etc.) are orders of magnitude more common on a global level. Imagine trying to study longevity with
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by _yb2s 4y ago
Your posted article highlights a really great statistical principle that I also discovered on my own owning a really rare car: if someone (company) claims to have parts in stock, it was most likely due to a database error, not the actual pa
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I had the same experience... I ended up wanting to make sure my locale isn't using this software, and not sympathizing at all with this professor.
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by _yb2s 4y ago
Your WRX makes 265hp from a 4 cylinder engine, that's as much power as Porsche was getting out of their 6 cylinder 2.7 engines at the time, in cars that cost far more... The WRX is a really cheap family car with a small 4 cylinder engi
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by _yb2s 4y ago
You have to have virtually unlimited money to play, but money doesn't solve the engineering problems themselves... you still have to design and build a superior vehicle than the other teams that also have virtually unlimited funds. Hav
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by _yb2s 4y ago
> As to your knowledge these claims about fructose and ethanol being "metabolic cousins" are false? Do you have any references for this? Ethanol is metabolized ethanol->acetaldehyde->acetate->acetyl CoA whereas fructos
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by _yb2s 4y ago
High fructose corn syrup and sucrose (table sugar, which is a combination of fructose and glucose) have roughly the same amount of fructose- 50%. Also, what Lustig says is nonsense and isn't backed by any plausible mechanism or observa
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by _yb2s 4y ago
Very insightful comment... however, I'd argue that there are still people out there that aren't social media users, and you can find these communities and regain this as an individual, even though it is massively less available th
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I will second this. I am a late-30s recently divorced man, that got back on the dating 'market' about a year and a half ago after nearly two decades into a frustrating sexless marriage. I have a history of shyness/social anxi
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I think I saw this on here recently but not findingly the link right now... it was an article arguing pretty convincingly that the Romans did know about lead poisoning, and it was most likely very rare rather than widespread.
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by _yb2s 4y ago
> predict the presence, make, model & operational schedule of someone's washing machine just by observing how fast their power meter spins over time I think this is a really excellent analogy that explains the situation well. Ho
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by _yb2s 4y ago
From the names it seems reasonable to me that "New York" and "New Jersey" should be parts of "New England." As a Californian, I thought of all of the NE as New England and am surprised that they aren't. Wi
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by _yb2s 4y ago
Your post is really reassuring... I have all of these problems with touchscreens and find them almost unusable... yet I thought I was alone, because people seem to love them.
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by _yb2s 4y ago
I inherited a high quality NiCd cordless drill from my late grandfather. I was able to cheaply buy some new cells online, solder them in, and it's good as new! It has a multi-speed gearbox with a ton of torque... useful, but not a comm
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by _yb2s 4y ago
Lead is still everywhere, not just aviation fuel. About 35% of homes in the USA still have lead paint, which creates lead dust when doors and windows open/close, and lead in the soil where kids play outside. A large fraction of homes s
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by _yb2s 4y ago
VW e-golf... you can find them for ~10k used and they are just a regular basic (but high quality) car that happens to have an electric drivetrain. The downside is they have slightly less range than newer EVs. I leased one and was really imp
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by _yb2s 4y ago
Yeah, liver is really high in a lot of nutrients hard to get elsewhere... it's hard to say what is causing the effect I notice.
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by _yb2s 4y ago
Kidneys are a "filter" organ, liver really isn't. The liver contains p450 enzymes which chemically modify toxins from the blood as they flow through so that they can easily be filtered by the kidneys... I don't see any
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by _yb2s 5y ago
Vegetables don't contain retinol (e.g. real vitamin A) but beta-carotine, which isn't very efficiently converted to vitamin A by the body, and the ability to convert it varies as much as tenfold [0] from person to person. It'
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by _yb2s 5y ago
Actually aspirin totally does have a powerful effect on sunburns... the aspirin probably doesn't actually protect your skin from damage, but it reduces the painful inflammation afterwards, which is the part we actually feel and conside