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by caconym_ 3mo ago
100%. And to be clear I have no problem with BEVs or boring cars (there is some overlap). I own an extremely boring car, a CR-V hybrid, and it's a fantastic family hauler. Thinking about it now, I suppose I didn't feel any need fo
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
TBH most of the mods that really make people point and laugh won't fare very well on a track or rally stage either.
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
Land Cruisers are great! If this guy wants a Land Cruiser then he should get one. His interest in Land Cruisers is not my issue with his comment.
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
> I'm not sure why you'd suggest that the weird judgement and smugness is directed only at guys driving gas cars. Because that's what's happening in this thread? I have no problem with EVs or NPC style cars, or really
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
I mean, engagement aside, you are really just showing your ignorance here if you think skid pad max G is a useful metric to capture real world cornering performance except in extremely broad strokes. If you want an objective measurement tha
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
> I'm not not just "posting numbers from the Tesla spec sheets", my Model Y is my daily driver. Yeah? You measure those 0-60 and max g numbers yourself?
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
The comments I've replied to in this subthread have nothing to do with the aftermarket exhaust issue. It's just people who've never driven a real sports car (at any price point) posting numbers from the Tesla spec sheets.
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924505
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
If people want to roast this guy for installing annoying aftermarket noisemakers then I will not try to stop them. I mean to address the (plenty of) more generic comments like this one: --- A GR Corolla goes 0-60 in 4.9 - 5.4sec. My unexoti
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
Who cares? Static skidpad performance has very little to do with how engaging a car is to drive, and engagement is what somebody buying a GRC (or a GR86, or a Miata, etc.) is looking for.
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
More spec sheet flexing, more assumptions that for owners of internal combustion sports cars it's all about the noise. More projection. Another person who just doesn't get it. I'm sorry to be harsh in this thread, but it&#x27
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
Lots of weird judgment and smugness in this thread. This guy bought a fun car that he's excited about? Well obviously he's POOR and IMMATURE because if he was RICH and OLD he would buy an ELECTRIC CAR that's WAY FASTER (in a
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
Your "unexotic stock electric" is boring as shit to drive and corners like a boat. Stomping on the throttle and going very fast in a straight line is a big marketing point for modern EVs with an excess of power (and usually weight
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
> I won't buy games built on Unreal Engine. You're in an extreme minority. Also, unfortunately, Unreal is popular with indies who probably have (in general, relatively) more ethical staffing practices.
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
I think another big issue they have is their insistence that most (ideally all?) of the people working on their games should be temporary employees. When your most valuable studios get out of the business of providing secure and sustainable
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
> I did read the entire article. One point you may have missed is the same increase in frontal height happened in other countries, but didn’t result in the same increases in pedestrian fatalities. It’s likely that other factors are in pl
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by caconym_ 3mo ago
Trucks and guns pose outsized risks to bystanders, and if you don't agree with that, you are either being grossly disingenuous or you're just extremely stupid. In the case of trucks, you can literally just go read OP's articl
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
Trucks and guns have a free pass to cause thousands of deaths yearly. It's that simple. Anybody else doing anything that might be viewed by certain hand wringing hysterical persons as dangerous will be smothered in onerous regulation,
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
I'll believe it when I see it, but I would love to see it.
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
Fair enough. I'm afraid my adversariality heuristic sometimes yields false positives...
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> If you were to anticipate a failure for a soon to launch product, it is entirely appropriate to say “dead on arrival”. A similar metaphor might be calling the product “stillborn”. Okay, but the commenter I replied to said neither of th
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> This one is exclusively for unreleased products. What? This is so obviously incorrect that I'm not even sure how to respond to it.
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
That doesn't sound like escaping scrutiny to me! Sounds like it's getting pretty thoroughly scrutinized, in fact. > This is as stromg (sic) as precedent gets, short of a SCOTUS decision. Another egregious misrepresentation. The
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> No, the fact that it's recording people in public does make it escape scrutiny moving forward. In public you can be filmed by anyone - be they government or private citizens. This is false. While there is no strongly established p
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
> killed this product on arrival sadly. Rather odd to talk about an as yet unreleased product failing in the past tense.
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
I assume scalpers are often much better at getting through a heavily contested purchase flow (eg the recent steam controller release) due to tools like bots, general experience, and being able to dedicate 20 minutes or more to sitting at a
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
praying hands emoji
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
How would you explain it? It seems either entirely ideological on the part of its architects, cynically designed to appeal to a political base that has been inculcated with that ideology, or cynically designed to enrich its architects'
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
Russel Vought. Look him up.
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by caconym_ 4mo ago
I think the bump since IPO can be explained at least partially by low float not meeting demand. I've seen a lot of accounts from retail investors who entered the lotteries saying they only got a small fraction of what they wanted, henc

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