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by hx87 10y ago
Cheesecake =/= all sugary foods. It's not even a plurality.
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by hx87 10y ago
How many of those are sold in the US?
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by hx87 10y ago
It is cheaper than premium gas in most places though, and given the cars diesel engines are offered in, diesel tends to compete with premium, not regular. The obvious exception are 1/2-1 ton trucks, but in those, diesel engines serve a
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by hx87 10y ago
> But for diesels, it seems that there is trade-off between fuel efficiency and NOx emissions Correction: there is a trade-off between fuel efficiency, NOx emissions, particulate emissions, and cost. Urea injection + diesel oxidation cat
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by hx87 10y ago
> Vehicles from the early 70s often had similar gas mileage to smaller lighter vehicles from the late 90s-early 2000s but the newer cars had much better emissions. Source? Electronic fuel injection with closed-loop fuel/air control
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by hx87 10y ago
Gasoline TDI comes pretty close in terms of performance and low-end torque, although fuel economy isn't as good. I wish OEMs would implement water injection as a standard feature in those engines, which would significantly close the ga
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by hx87 10y ago
Advanced Auto Parts sells 2.5 gallons, which would last you 10k miles at least, for $12.
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by hx87 10y ago
Maybe bluead just doesn't want to deal with people? I go out of my way to avoid full service for that reason too.
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by hx87 10y ago
Still can't beat turbodiesel fuel economy, especially on the highway. Chevrolet Cruze diesels routinely get >60mpg on the highway, and that's the last generation, which unlike VW diesels were fully emissions compliant.
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by hx87 10y ago
Anywhere from forever (towing heavy trailers on long-distance highway trips, urea injection to reduce NOx) to less than 10K (heavy pickup truck, no load, frequent short trips, exhaust gas recirculation to reduce NOx).
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by hx87 10y ago
> Larger engines are almost always more efficient, compare for example a gas boiler in a house vs a CCGT in a powerplant. Not necessarily true--gas boilers can be up to 97% efficient, whereas CCGTs top out at the mid-60s. CCGTs can be
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by hx87 10y ago
AdBlue is the same as truck DEF, which can be purchased at most auto supply stores and fuel stations. In my experience, pretty much every car that comes with an urea system can be refilled by the user. That makes sense--it's not like y
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by hx87 10y ago
If things get dicey enough that they start taxing Roths, you can bet that they'll tax traditional accounts enough to claw back the original tax deduction plus interest.
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by hx87 10y ago
If you expect taxes to be higher in the future, then the obvious answer would be to borrow utility from your future self and consume more in the present.
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by hx87 10y ago
> It scares me so much that I'd rather pay the taxes now, and invest as I please. If government is desperate enough to tax retirement funds at 2x the previous rates, they're desperate enough to tax everything at higher rates,
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by hx87 10y ago
> but not really true as long as campaigns themselves are funded by private capital As long as funding correlates strongly with winning, or at least appears to correlate strongly with winning. If that ever goes away, legislators are go
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by hx87 10y ago
> sacred cows in this country, particularly housing That sacred cow needs to be slaughtered, the sooner the better, and its flesh distributed.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's also because they consistently cut taxes and public investment in infrastructure while passing legislation to inflate the costs of basic life necessities such as housing.
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by hx87 10y ago
Grandfathering would be unjust though.
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by hx87 10y ago
Metadevil's advocate: Immigration to the United States (and to other ex-settler colonies) is fantastically effective at improving the portion of humanity that lives in high-trust societies. Why would a bunch of Central American immigra
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by hx87 10y ago
> The fed becomes just another bondholder that needs paying by the treasury dept. The Fed does not get paid. It doesn't need to get paid, since the Federal Reserve by law has infinite liquidity.
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by hx87 10y ago
So, shout but prepare not to be heard? That meshes pretty well with OP's comment.
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by hx87 10y ago
> I think people doing altruistic things do enjoy them, but they don't do them because they enjoy them. They do them because they need to be done, and the enjoyment is a side effect. What is the difference between the two conditions
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by hx87 10y ago
> Or maybe they should just get rid of the subsidies. Oh we in the cities would love to get rid of the subsidies, but rural areas are overrepresented under our political systems. Clawing back the subsidies is the second-best option. >
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by hx87 10y ago
Probably because jet engines operate smoothly at constant RPM so the sound is monotonous and gets tuned out quickly, whereas car engines operate roughly at low and wildly varying RPMs. It also depends on the car--a Toyota Yaris with a 4 spe
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by hx87 10y ago
How much of that is the perception of anonymous assholes vs the real thing? American passenger trains used to have open sleeper cars, but not anymore, which is kinda sad because I don't want to have to choose between coach (uncomfortab
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by hx87 10y ago
> In the end everyone wants to make money, but at certain point it starts bordering on unethical, this squeezing of money out of customers. Is unbundling + keeping the base price constant any more unethical than increasing the bundled pr
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by hx87 10y ago
> It costs essentially nothing for the airline to let me pick a seat If someone is willing to pay the airline $20 more than you to pick a given seat, free seat picking costs them $20.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Having strong opinions about what is good and what sucks will quickly get the ire of others. Expressing said opinion might get the ire of other. Besides, Americans seem to enjoy ire, so that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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by hx87 10y ago
Just exclude countries that have harsh drug smuggling penalties from the program.

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