u/SunRev

I’m deciding between two models having a budget of up to ~$60k (I don't have to spend it all):  

Porsche 996 Turbo Tiptronic.  

Porsche Cayman 981 PDK.  

I’d drive it around 7000 per year for occasional weekend trips (e.g. Los Angeles to Big Sur, Las Vegas, San Diego) and once or twice per week commuting in SoCal. Zero track time. I already have practical daily drivers (minivan and plug-in hybrid Honda). I'm 50+ years old, it that matters; I grew up with manuals and have zero desire for one.  

Which would you choose?  

I’m deciding between two models having a budget of up to ~$60k (I don't have to spend it all):

Porsche 996 Turbo Tiptronic.

Porsche Cayman 981 PDK.

I’d drive it around 7000 per year for occasional weekend trips (e.g. Los Angeles to Big Sur, Las Vegas, San Diego) and once or twice per week commuting in SoCal. Zero track time. I already have practical daily drivers (minivan and plug-in hybrid Honda). I'm 50+ years old, it that matters; I grew up with manuals and have zero desire for one.

Which would you choose?

Randomness isn't one feature of reality. It's the whole of it. Where does freewill fit in?

Order isn't the opposite of randomness. Order is just what we call it when multiple instances of randomness happen to align for a moment. And higher orders of order? Those are lower-level alignments happening to line up with other lower-level alignments.

It's randomness all the way down.

Is there any consensus on what speaker feet are supposed to do? I can see two opposite extremes goals:

1. Directly coupled to the floor; maximum speaker cabinet vibration transmission to the floor.

2. Isolated from the floor; minimal speaker cabinet gets transferred to the floor.

My intuition would be 2 would be better. Don't vibrate the floor because the floor then becomes a massive sounding board.

But speaker spikes transfer the cabinet energy to the floor which tries to accomplish 1.

With modern engineering technology, could Porsche design an air-cooled flat-6 that is better than a previous generation (991) water-cooled flat-6 engine?

Hypothetical: Let's say there was a goal to make near audiophile grade proaudio speakers, something like the speakers you see at concerts. Who do you think would do a better job at creating them?: An audiophile speaker company or a proaudio speaker company?