Interesting timing on this article given how EVs are really starting to grow in a large way. Reminds me of the articles a few months back about how demand for EVs wasn’t “as high as expected” (who is setting these expectations?) even though demand is still growing at breakneck pace. Sounds to me like dinosaurs trying to throttle the growth of EVs so they can keep up sales of internal combustion vehicles, to which I say that maybe they should’ve invested more into the EV space to reap the rewards instead of dragging their heels at every opportunity. Not to mention the human rights abuses and wars fought to keep the internal combustion vehicle industry going.

Would’ve probably turned out different if Valve was beholden to shareholders and the never-ending hunger for a higher stock price. The push to drive “shareholder value” is one of the most destructive forces if not the most destructive force we’re dealing with these days.

This is a prime example of why the “code is law” selling point for smart contracts is a disaster waiting to happen. Proponents claim you won’t need lawyers, arbitrators, courts, etc, but in reality you’ll need all those and on top of that programmers to write and verify smart contracts.

Grocery prices dropping by half would be amazing. I would be interested in learning what he has done for grocery prices and why congress feels the need to ask him to do something about it if he has supposedly done so much already.

If the vehicles are so low quality and dangerous, then it wouldn’t be the job of tariffs but of bans, since there are minimum safety standards that still apply.

BYD doesn’t sell their cars abroad for $10-$15k.

Meanwhile the US doesn’t subsidize (or even bail out) its too-big-to-fail auto companies, right? If you consider affordable products a deliberate economic attack, what do you call the extreme price gouging that the American auto companies are carrying out?

If these Chinese vehicles suck so much, why are US car companies so afraid of them?

I wonder if it’s possible to get a post about technology coming out of China without a “hurr durr they r spy!!1” comment. I don’t see the same every time there’s an article on a new Intel processor, for example.