Oh, I’m not advocating that people with bad credit get into long-term car loans with 10%+ interest; I’m saying that interest rates go way up for people with bad credit. I used to volunteer with a group offering financial advice to low-income people, and I’d see stuff that was really infuriating, since it was often…

Maybe you were just doing it wrong.  Next time, try to relax and you might have a better time.

That’s the problem with the current-gen H-RV: It’s less functional space than the Fit for thousands more. I wish the H-RV was replaced by something closer to what the Element was, which *did* have significantly more space than the Fit, and still had the cool seat-folding features, etc.  (I shopped for a used Element a…

The argument against continuing to build them is that the capital demands are huge (money out with no money back), the potential that some customers might cancel orders (has happened once, but I think is somewhat unlikely outside of a stunt, given that you can’t just get an A320 on the same schedule instead), but,…

... if you’ve got good credit. 5, 7... longer loans for someone with bad credit are not likely to come cheap, in particular, since the vehicle is likely to be significantly underwater for the length of the loan, further reducing the ability for a company to recover losses through reposession.

This! And even if you thought they were a good idea, why limit the incentive to a certain # of vehicles by automaker? Fast forward say, 5-10 years, if the subsidy is extended that long: Any manufacturer that gave a damn about electrification is past the phase out, but say, Mazda (which doesn’t currently have an EV for…

It’s an odd construction, but my read was “I will buy this, and I will buy the PS Classic, if you can easily hack it to add ROMs. BTW, guys, can you easily hack the PS Classic to load new ROMs?”

Well, FedEx and UPS have done purchases of a handful of electric vans, but F-150s are used for everything under the sun.

That’s certainly true, but you’d think that Ghosn’s defense would be easier if he could show other examples of how people in situations like his were treated. He can’t really say “well, here’s some other perks that foreign CEOs of major publicly-traded Japanese companies get,” because AFAIK, he’s the only one (at…

Again, not suitable for every case, but a lot of vehicles never tow nearly anything close to their max weight. I was thinking more of delivery vans, which tend to be based on truck platforms (think Ford E-series).

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.