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by perardi 6y ago
I don’t think professional athletes are a good population sample to map onto the general population. Athletes are highly incentivized to burn bright and flare out. Take NFL players. Yes, an obviously aggressive sport that lends itself to sh
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by perardi 6y ago
Does anyone have a link to the actual study? Whatever study they’re referencing is behind the story’s paywall. I ask because newspaper summaries of nutrition and exercise research studies are, to put it generously, utter horseshit.
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by perardi 6y ago
Well up until the last few years there were hardly Then why was the peak year for sales in 2013? https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10301 Consistently absent was anything on the higher end but now BMW, Lexus, and others,
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by perardi 6y ago
I dunno about Germany, but in the US, I think it’s fair to say customers don’t care about hybrids. They're less than 3% of the market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_vehicles_in_th... I suspect stra
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by perardi 6y ago
Oh, yes, I think EVs are going to be “a thing” soon, especially when it comes to delivery vehicles. (More opportunities for centralized charging, less range anxiety as you’re just trawling down city blocks, extremely obvious environmental b
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by perardi 6y ago
And I’m sure the CO2 taxes and fuel taxes in Europe weight the equation as well. But yeah, quite the price difference at the sticker.
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by perardi 6y ago
They claim it will be profitable. And it may be right now… …given they are only selling the most expensive model, at $42,000. (Before tax credits.) That’s a fair bit more expensive than a gas Golf. https://www.caranddriver.com&
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by perardi 6y ago
Yeah, building out high-speed chargers on every block cannot possibly be cheap. You could have an extra fee on top of vehicle stickers for EVs…and even as I type that, I can imagine the pitched screaming, from both sides of the aisle. “Why
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by perardi 6y ago
Pfff, no, not judging from the number of bicycles I know have been stolen. This is a slightly decrepit stretch of the east side of the city, so, don’t assume “trust” when you can assume “too high to think this through”.
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by perardi 6y ago
Sort of? https://www.thedrive.com/news/25299/volkswagen-says-its-last... The gasoline engines that debut in 2026 will be the “last generation” of internal combustion engines. Given the lifespan of these models,
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by perardi 6y ago
You can go full Toronto on it and string an extension cord out your window. https://imgur.com/a/w3y7ow5 (Not a meme. This is down the street from me.)
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by perardi 6y ago
“These steps are mentioned in a portrait of Duesmann, who has been at the helm of the VW subsidiary in Ingolstadt for three quarters of a year, in the German publication Manager Magazin. Specifically, it says that new versions of the A4 an
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by perardi 6y ago
Some useful backstory on the government regulation to allow low-volume cars like this on the road: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a34673012/where-is-the... And some history on DeLorean overall: https:&#x2F
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by perardi 6y ago
Just going to go ahead and drop the EFF’s position on Section 230 into here… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-230-good-actua...
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by perardi 6y ago
So, COVID vaccines will be free in the US. As for other vaccines, it’s highly variable. But at least, for once, for medical stuff, there’s a price list! https://www.walgreens.com/topic/pharmacy/healthcare-clinic&#x
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by perardi 6y ago
Define “soon”. It seems like February will have a bit of a vaccine supply drought. But Pfizer and Moderna are scaling up, and hopefully the Johnson & Johnson vaccine gets approval and gets past initial production hiccups. So, maybe hope
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by perardi 6y ago
Europe is very far north compared to other countries. Today I learned: Europe is a country. Half of people in Canada leave as close or closer to equator than Croatia Well I be damned, Toronto is actually closer to the equator. Though To
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by perardi 6y ago
Nah, we already had a brief Vitamin E fad, and that went nowhere. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578028/ https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.99.4.591?url_..
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by perardi 6y ago
Define terrible. Oh, I’ll grant you the UI of these clients can be terrible. Facebook Messenger takes a shocking amount of resources. But what’s the job to be done for most people? Chatting with friends. FB Messenger has the network effect
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by perardi 6y ago
Most people profoundly do not understand or care about the vagaries of how their messaging is encrypted. They do care about SMS fees, especially across international borders. They do care about sending group texts between Android and iOS an
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by perardi 6y ago
Oh, Americans actually like vehicles that happen to have a large hatch in the back, but they do not like cars that are shaped like hatchbacks. The Model S is shaped like a sports sedan. It does not look like a hatchback.
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by perardi 6y ago
Yeah, it reads like a compliance vehicle. They know they’ll lose money hand over fist, so they made it as much of a nerd pod as possible. (And there’s a market for nerd pods. See: Prius. But that ain’t Chevy’s market, no sir.)
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by perardi 6y ago
I have no idea what GM was thinking in regards to the design of the Bolt. “You know what Americans hate? Hatchbacks. So let’s go for that for our big re-entry into the EV market.”
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by perardi 6y ago
I have to think the budget, even with the megabudgets TV shows have today, would be tough to manage. There is a lot that takes place in zero G, and that is not cheap to fake.
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by perardi 6y ago
* Certain things were not as rigid as I’d like * Really dry skin * Night sweats like you would not believe * Urinating a lot * Depression and fatigue
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by perardi 6y ago
I’m not sure about optimal, but normal depends on age. 600 ng/dL would be a reasonable average for a normal level. https://www.mayocliniclabs.com/test-catalog/Clinical+and+Int...
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by perardi 6y ago
Cisgender male here, but, uh, let’s say enhanced with a little more testosterone. Tanking your estrogen levels, or having them too high, suuuuuuucks. And the surprise to me was having estrogen come in too low from taking too much aromat
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by perardi 6y ago
Per Wikipedia, and other sources I’ve read, it seems heavily correlated with BMI. Which…makes a naïve sort of evolutionary sense. You need some percentage of body fat for your body to kick into reproduction mode.
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by perardi 6y ago
I am a very average American, born in 1983, and I’ll admit that I have only the vaguest idea of The Troubles. My first real concrete memory of hearing of Ireland’s issues was the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. If you were born after 1990 in
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by perardi 6y ago
I’m skeptical. Apple’s bread and butter, as far as Macs go, is the MacBook Air. And by all accounts, they sell a lot of those, and will presumably sell even more, with better margins, now that they’ve gone ARM. Do they really want to unde

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