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by warner25 2y ago
I don't think so... I vividly remember Nissan running commercials for the Versa in late 2008 during the darkest depths of the recession because it was one of the last models selling in the US for under $10k (like $9,990 if you got the
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by warner25 2y ago
Right. I've been saying for a while that if you need four seats or fewer, there's no good reason to buy anything more expensive than an entry-level Versa, Soul, Corolla, Civic, etc. (If you need five or more seats, especially with
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by warner25 2y ago
> And brakes. My brake pads rarely touch my rotors. I still have the original brake pads on my 2008 Prius with 150k miles. (And yes, I have them measured periodically to see if they're still good.) This is typical.
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by warner25 2y ago
> I bet the subset of buyers looking for a bare bones no frills brand-new car is quite small. I think you're correct; we're probably talking about a portion of the weirdly minimalist and frugal crowd pursuing FIRE. Also, most f
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by warner25 2y ago
The Nissan Versa currently starts around $17k, and I see a lot of those on the road. The Mitsubishi Mirage is similarly priced but I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild. I rented a Kia Soul a few years ago and thought it wa
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, I think the pendulum swings back and forth. My recollection of the 2007-2009 recession, with $4 gas and the failure of GM, was that it spurred a lot of interest and innovation in smaller, more efficient, economy cars after many years
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by warner25 2y ago
My wife and I both got the original model from 2021, and we've been using them every day since then. Mine is a beefier DIY edition running Linux. My wife's is the cheapest pre-built edition running Windows. Like you, our previous
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by warner25 2y ago
> ...4 or 5 players only... brought in a lot of help along the way. Right, but at least it was that many. One could watch those same few anchors play together year-after-year for a decade or even longer, which is more than you could say
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by warner25 2y ago
If they only wore it on Patriots' Day, fine, but they wore it 50 times in the last four years.
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by warner25 2y ago
I think for a lot of us it's not a practical issue of determining which team is which, it's that sports are wrapped up in a lot of nostalgia. One grows up watching their team(s) as a kid and can continue to do so through the seaso
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by warner25 2y ago
Thanks for sharing; I haven't heard that clip before, and I love it. I was a Braves fan from the mid-1990s into the 2000s not just because they were winners but because they did it largely with the same core group of guys, whose playin
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by warner25 2y ago
True, I'm OK with an alternate, including the City Connect uniform for a few teams, that's basically a throwback uniform. Milwaukee's is kind of like that, at least with the colors. Also Atlanta's, Pittsburgh's, and
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by warner25 2y ago
My favorite fun fact is that, sandwiched between his revolutionary work on circuits and information theory, his actual PhD dissertation was on genetics; like something kind of unrelated to the rest of his life's work and largely forgot
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by warner25 2y ago
It's the same story in Major League Baseball. The proliferation of alternate uniforms got so out-of-hand that the league imposed a limit of five different uniforms per team last year. Unfortunately, one of those uniforms is the City Co
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Shannon Sharpe was doing a lot more than one hour per day of training when he was playing competitively. It's my observation that two workouts or practices per day is typical for collegiate athletics,
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by warner25 2y ago
The original experimental protocol was "only" four days per week, so it was never suggested to be an everyday thing. The extreme thinking among runners is probably three days per week of short intervals or repeats. The more conven
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by warner25 2y ago
The original experiment was four days per week of the "exhaustive intermittent training" and a fifth day was 30 minutes of zone 2. That's what I followed. It does seem like that fifth day has been forgotten when people talk a
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by warner25 2y ago
> I can see a future where humans are barred from driving. 40k deaths a year in the USA from humans driving and a fear of rightfully using the road for non driving activities due to poor human behaviour. I’m actually pretty hopeful we ge
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by warner25 2y ago
Right. I once experimented with organizing my running workouts according to the original Tabata protocol, as closely as possible, for about six weeks[1]. I wasn't an elite athlete by any means, but I was a 21 year-old Army cadet in the
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by warner25 2y ago
Tabata et al.[1] found in the mid-1990s that just 2-4 minutes of "high-intensity intermittent training may improve both anaerobic and aerobic energy supplying systems significantly." This was popularized as "Tabata training&q
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by warner25 2y ago
> Gen Z young men are all voting for Trump. From the exit poll data, I see a 2 point lead for Trump among men age 18-29. That's interesting, but probably also within the margin of error. (For women in that range it's an overwhe
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by warner25 2y ago
> Highly educated ≠ intelligent. I didn't necessarily intend to say that it was. I'm just saying that support for Trump has been inversely correlated with education level, so I ended up in a bubble by virtue of working alongsid
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by warner25 2y ago
Fair point about the trend, yes. And thanks for pointing out that Harris actually made gains with Boomers; I've verified that and updated my mental model.
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by warner25 2y ago
I've seen no data showing Gen Z support for Trump, and I'm interested if you have some. I'm seeing[1] an 11 point lead for Harris among the age 18-29 group. That's much more narrow, of course, than the margins in 2016 an
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by warner25 2y ago
You appear to be correct; thanks for pointing it out. I'm now seeing[1] a 10 point lead for Trump among ages 45-64, and a tie among ages 65+. My mental model was still based on the 2016 and 2020 numbers. [1] https://www.nbcn
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by warner25 2y ago
Interesting, and that's a shame. When I lived in Seoul as an American 10 years ago[1], I loved it. Everything there seemed nicer, more functional, and safer than in any city that I've ever experienced in America. It had an attract
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by warner25 2y ago
Yeah, "surrounded by enemies" comes to mind for South Korea. I served there as an American in defense of the ROK, as generations of American troops have done since WWII, and I think it's ironic that in 100 years they might ce
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by warner25 2y ago
I'm not a Reddit user (or any social media user unless you count this) but one of my big takeaways from this election is how out-of-touch I am, apparently, with the majority of Americans; I've been shocked for months (years?) that
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by warner25 2y ago
I'm fascinated by declining birth rates, especially where it's sharpest like in Japan and South Korea. Trying to imagine all the long-term consequences of it, or how it ends, is mind-bending. I do hope that it ultimately leads to
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by warner25 2y ago
I like the long-term thinking, but what about other trends? Texas was quietly (it seems to me) getting less red up until this election. America is getting more diverse and more educated, and Boomers are slowly dying off while younger people

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