I'd trust the durability of every other part more than the durability of the screen itself.

Rumored to be plagiarized off a low-budget '70s film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

That was just an excuse. They had years to cut the prices before the tariffs happened. And cutting prices quickly used to be the standard.

"Did you really think we want those laws observed? We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against. We're after power and we mean it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

There's the old story of a newb typing in all caps, someone replies telling him to press caps lock, and the newb says, THANK YOU, NOW I DON'T HAVE TO KEEP HOLDING SHIFT!

They are the first step toward a slippery slope toward a ban on anonymity.

Because privacy is something only Bad Guys(tm) want. You're not a Bad Guy(tm), are you?

I suspect it forces them to consider that you could apply that same logic to the US if gas prices were to rise. The country has cheap ubiquitous gasoline and electricity, but one of them is a lot more prone to market shocks

But a lot of the time these companies do already run some systems.

My employer runs mostly it's own in-house coded system that's been built over 25 years. I'm effectively one of two developers maintaining it and for a long time that was patching critical bugs and adding a few key features each year. I had the question raised a year ago if we could added asset tracking capabilities - since we already had records for employees and a location based inventory system it seemed like a really natural fit but we didn't have the resources to develop it so operations picked some random saas project and i think it works fine.

However if someone brought me that question today, i could spend 30 minutes and outline a really solid project definition for claude and have it back the next morning. It's still a lot more challenging to get claude to work on the highly specialized tasks that are deeply tied to our data but for cloning a $10/user/month saas app, it really hits the ball out of the park.

They are going to have a hard time expanding into scotland https://www.urbandictionary.co...

Also this is pretty rational government behavior. You've got a country that produces copious green energy (and has the potential for much more) and where oil is expensive. It's exactly the right thing to do.

There are lots of them in Colorado. Here's a report from Kremmling, CO which is one of the coldest places in the state which has been running electric buses for years.

From the story "A lot of the winter days will start off 20 or 30 below zero and bus drivers say at those temperatures, it's hard to get diesel buses running, but their electric buses are ready to roll right out the door." also they note that they have a significantly lower operating cost than diesel.

Certainly you have to design EVs to work well in the cold, and they definitely have reduced range which you have to plan for. But this sounds more like a case of in-ept government choosing the wrong vehicles and not any particular issue with EVs.

Cue.

> Now would I want to do this for salary and long term, no....but often that old saying "make hay while the sun is shining " is apt advice!!

Yeah I'd have jumped at that when i was younger. If there was a chance to pull in several times my then-salary (+stock options i presume) by working double the hours then I'd totally do it. Honestly at 45 I'd probably still do it for a year for triple my current salary - that'd be enough to pay off my mortgage.

I have my doubts about the efficiency of it all - in the rare instances where I've put in a 70 hour week I notice the precipitous drop in my productivity much about 50, but as the employee that wouldn't be my problem.

Reminds me of something I've read: boxing with gloves is massively more dangerous than bare-knuckle boxing. Normally, punching someone's face with full power will also wreck your hand. Gloves remove this drawback, and thus lead to many more cases of severe brain damage.