Not so much ‘get rid of’, but you won’t need a bank account to use the digital euro.

I mean, they’re excluded from SEPA (except for euro-denominated bank accounts).

Huh? I mean if anything the problem here was privatisation of local transport (and too much faith in said privatised transport by the national authorities), which doesn’t seem _particularly_ socialist.

I mean, this might be a case where it’s actually sort of credible. It was a _very_ deep cut (basically half the workforce), the salesforce guy is a particularly over-the-top ai true believer, and if they are now reversing course and re-hiring, well, nothing has happened to the economy in the last couple months that would suggest that, if it was related to the economy. If anything, things are looking even more uncertain/ominous.

I mean, there was a time when what ultimately became Windows Vista was going to have a largely .net userspace. They also had a project to produce a .net _kernel_. Microsoft doing some weird thing that obviously won’t work out isn’t _that_ hard to believe.

> but I can’t help but be frustrated by the constant lack of understanding of the core value proposition of framework both in this post and in many comments here on hn.

The thing is, it doesn’t _really_ excuse many of the issues they had. For a 2000 euro laptop, you should not be cheaping out on, say, speakers. Acceptable laptop speakers are not expensive. And coil whine, while a common problem with expensive laptops, is not IMO acceptable at this price point. Neither of these issues are even vaguely inherent to it being modular.

Surprised how quickly the Thinkpad died; they used to pretty much last forever.

I mean, this isn’t going to actually happen. It’s just ego-stroking for mad king Donald.

But yep. Really they died before that; the last battleship ever built was competed in 1946, and scrapped in 1960. It was aircraft carriers that killed them off, really, not missiles and drones.

The key issue is that cars have _vastly_ lower capacity per meter than mass transit. For most large cities, there is simply not enough road for that to work, nevermind parking.

Ireland is going to use a particularly unusual one for the Dublin-Belfast intercity route. It will have batteries, _and_ diesel generators, _and_ will run off overhead lines, in two voltages. The context is that parts of the line will take a while to electrify; it will initially run on overhead, battery, and diesel, then just overhead and battery as the lines are built out, and then hopefully finally just overhead.