I’ve really wondered why plug-in hybrids haven’t become standard for say, delivery and service (e.g. used by contractors) vans, and usually built on truck platforms.  Lots of stop-and-go, time spent idling, etc.

And as long as that’s say, less than 300 miles a day, an EV will work perfectly well. That’s not everyone, but that’s a lot of people.  

In my mind, it’s actually the other way around: What’s remarkable about Varsity Blues is that there’s that many kids that couldn’t get in despite all the advantages they had.

There’s nothing unusual about tuition reimbursement for employees, or for K-12 tuition as part of an expat package, but I haven’t seen university education for children covered. Not that that makes it illegal or wrong, but it does raise some questions about what, why and how it came about.

The real “deal killer” is this: outside of app store purchases (which obviously have to go through Apple), how often does Apple offer the best deals on its own products? (And how many are Apple-store exclusives?)

The last part isn’t obvious to a lot of people - even, for say, a fund that tracks the S&P 500, -they don’t just buy shares in the companies in the index and call it a day, instead, they have to track the percent value of each share in the index to match. So if a company’s value goes up or down, they may actually have…

I’m not even sure that it’s going to be about “feature” adds. My money is on premium materials on the Pro, with a glass 1080p screen, and slightly more powerful hardware to enable the machine to do 1080p on the go without killing the battery.  (Possibly some upscaling options, but I doubt it).  The Lite will probably…

I don’t think Nintendo will do anything to break compatibility, though. It’ll be more like the DS family (or possibly the GBA family), where the games played are the same, just the hardware is a little different on the inside/out. I can’t see them doing anything to break compatibility with Joycons, so it’l llikely be…

There’s a difference between a system add-on and a different system, though.  

This isn’t that crazy of a rumor, particularly since so many Switch parts are essentially off-the-shelf phone/tablet parts.

yes, it’s not technically a visa and there’s a visa waiver program that’s still in place - but the EU wants to know who US passport holders are before they show up

I mean, sure, but don’t most buyers have an idea of a few makes/models they want before trying to find a vehicle? A Toyota Avalon and a Ford Fiesta both have five seats, but that’s different than them “seating five.”

Totally concur. Navy Pier was intentionally (re-)designed as a tourist trap, and that’s all it is. It’s not that there’s nothing there that’s worthwhile (the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre is great, but, c’mon, you accidentally walk in to The Tempest from the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.), just that, as a destination with no…

That’s probably true most of the time, but I can see there being say, a game or a movie where there’s important content that goes right where the hole is - in that case, you’d want to “shrink” the screen past the hole punch so you can use it.

Point taken, but the downside is you have less space for things where the bezel used to be. Apple had to remove the home button, Samsung had to take out the iris scanner (not a huge loss to me) and the notification LED (seriously, there’s a cult of people on Android forums who are assembling pitchforks and torches…

There’s a really perverse logic to this. Conversations like this - “locker room talk,” just to banalize what’s actually going on - are structured this way to remove culpability from those involved:

I totally agree with you, and from the time that Trump’s candidacy started gaining steam, I kept having flashbacks to the things I’d heard about Erdogan from people in Istanbul, in particular, the secular ones associated with universities that I spent the most time with.

Yeah, I think that’s actually pretty likely, even if not “officially” sanctioned from Ankara, given that there’s some pretty long-standing ties between various parts of the US government and the Turkish government. Even though post-coup attempt Erdogan has removed a lot of the old guard, it isn’t feasible to do so…

That’s certainly true to a degree, but I think Erdogan is certainly playing to the crowds somewhat with some of these things.

Well, in some areas, there’s actually fairly good logic behind that thinking - the process behind bank repossession of homes is neither fast nor cheap, and it’s an even longer time before the bank can get its money back, which gives borrowers some leeway to get caught up if it’s a short-term issue.