Did it happen? I'd like to believe it but it's a lot of money even now and in Thomas Watson's time it was worth a great deal more.

Is anyone actually embarrassed by typos these days? It doesn't seem so judging by the quantity of them.

On the subject of SingleFile there is also WebScrapBook: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook

I prefer it because it can save without packing the assets into one HTML file. Then it's easy to delete or hardlink common assets.

I see that it gives three choices for saving the assets: single file, zip or folder. Is the zip version just zipping the folder?

Perhaps not but in the context of this discussion and legislation it is pertinent question to ask, perhaps not of you specifically but of the wider audience.

> ExampleCo's quality control does its job,

Then this will be the pressure that is needed for the company's quality assurance to be improved.

If the headache causes companies to improve their product pipelines so that there is less waste then surely there will be less recycling.

The sorting office for a postal service.

The correct calculation is what proportion of your profit margin will be saved by that one cent per unit. It gets more complicated if that control board was outsourced. If it costs 10 USD for the sub supplier to make and they sell it with a 10% markup then saving that one cent adds 1% to their profit.

I'm so glad that my ancient Moulinex microwave has no display at all and no keypad. Just a motorised dial to set the time and another dial that sets the duty cycle.

You can get a usable smartphone for well under 100 USD on AliExpress or a reasonable secondhand one from a reputable brand for about the same price here in Norway on online trading sites. Don't teenagers get pocket money or do weekend jobs any more? My sons were grown up by the time smartphones were affordable but No. 2 son bought his own Siemens C65 with saved up pocket money when he was in his early teens.