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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Love the Golf, but honestly, the hatchback versa's space efficiency impressed me more than the golf. It's significantly smaller than the golf, but its tall, has a smaller engine bay and very thin doors. It was easier to pack my fi
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
They were great. Especially in college with chill friends
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Putting the seat there is easy. The trick is making it safe when it's on or behind the rear axle. Everyone else in the car is in a cocoon.
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Most mid sized SUV (the most popular ones) are minivans dressed up as SUVs. Unless you're looking at an expedition or the like, they're all unibody, front wheel drive, and turbo charged inline fours. Just like a minivan. The SUVs
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
1. Where's the reverse facing seat for infants? Ive had one installed in my car since '16 and Ill continue to have one for another three years (legally anyway. I hate them and Ill probably chuck it in two). 2. There are tons of ca
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Yup. I can squeeze the kids in the Golf... if my eldest doesn't use her booster. I can put them in the Sorrento.... But I have to buckle her into her seat belt while shes standing holding the boosted. Then I have to lift them both to g
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
The Earth doesn't feel anything because it is not sentient. Anthropomorphizing topics causes us to treat them emotionally. The OP has an excellent point which you didn't address them: most methane in the atmosphere is from natural
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
"Nuclear waste (the kind we eukaryotes all make) " That threw me off for a sec.
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
At what frequency does the signal travel between traces and not on it? Is it a feature size thing, the macroscopic size of the traces that are effectively transmission lines (that cant be, most pcbs are smaller than \lambda?). Or is it a sk
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
I was referring to smoke specifically the visually imposing clouds car produce which forms our image of car emissions. Of what you listed, only particulates add to the smokiness of a modern engine and then only when its cold. Unless its br
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
It is bogus, because the OP talks about "efficiency" therefore implying CO2 emissions (since energy is the product of making CO2). The OP has confounded the CO2 emissions and volatiles. Where leaf blowers' emission fall apart
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Pretty darn close! It should be well within 90% of the right answer. For a car probably about 99.9%
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Or 5 in LA
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Naw, volatile organics. Compression ratio isn't great on these things since half the time the gas is terrible -> no pressure, no NOx But they are two stroke so a little but of gas and oil leak out on every stroke.
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
NOT CO2 emissions Its worse in volatile organics, particulates and NOx. Mostly volatile organics due to the two stroke cycle. But not because a chainsaw is particularly bad, but because a Camry is exceptionally good. Why is the Camry good
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
A lot of Italian olive oil isnt from olives. There was a huge scandal a few years ago of local producers adulterating olive oil (right around the time the dioxin laced mozzarella happened) Thats why I buy Californian or Greek olive oil. Not
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
I don't get this. The whole (western) world is sinking, including my country x but I cant notice or complain that my country x is sinking if I'm conservative and every other western country is sinking? Could every sinking coun
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
NP "very conservative"? Milquetoast, wanna-lose conservative is how I would describe them. Half their webpage is dedicated to weed smoking and its lifestyle.
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Social media purposely targets kids knowing that the vast majority of parents are technically incapable of cutting their kids off.
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
The constitutional best alternative to banning social media. My only concern is its implication for anonymity... which Big Tech has already shredded anyway.
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Manual tranny - blip the throttle before downshifting Auto tranny - downshift on the crest of the hill (Inlive in a very hilly area. Otherwise I don't bother)
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
A hybrid takes care of the brakes. What are the next big consumable in an ICE vs EV? Oil changes? Hardly a deal breaker. Air filters? $10 and often easier to instal than the cabin air filter. With fuel injection, spark plugs can easily go 1
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Hehe, when I got my brakes done the mechanic assumed I was getting my third set. I told him they were my second set. He chuckled and said: "I guess you know how to use the down-shifter"
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
In the face of civilizational collapse due to taking the wrong strategy vis a vis carbon emissions, my iPhone's battery life seems inconsequential.
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
This is an excellent question but a massive one to answer. Probably the length of a scientific paper. It'd involve thermo, engineering economics, etc. To keep it short, yes there is a return to scale, but it's a diminishing one. G
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Look, what follows is my opinion and why Im against EVs for the short to mid term future. Im not a domain expert, but I am a physicist and an engineer whose worked in energy and for the DOE on sustainable energy sources. Again, Im not a car
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
Its a regulatory bet, not an engineering one. The West is making a civilizational bet on EVs so it's not Ford that loses the bet, its the entire West. From a technical POV, I disagree with the bet. I think hybridization of ICE while
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by sbaiddn 3y ago
I thought it was for home contractors and figured I should read it to better deal with them.
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
multiple socket multi-cpus solve this, right?
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by sbaiddn 4y ago
... so she lost the elections, but most Fins support the ascension.

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