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Comment Re: Ihre Papiere (Score 0) 262

I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

That's not even vaguely what I said, so it's unclear if this is some kind of language issue or the result of a disability, but I'm just feeling worse and worse for you. You somehow believe the cold war was about communism?

Comment Lack of information.... (Score 2) 158

The worst threat to the US automotive industry is the US automotive industry.

In 2016, over a quarter million people put down $1000 for a Tesla Model 3, with no firm date for delivery from a company which wasn't producing even 100,000 cars a year. That should have told the US automotive industry something. Today, it's sibling, the Model Y, was the fourth best selling car in the USA in 2024. The US automotive industry has been completely incapable of building a similarly attractive vehicle, although it has made a couple of really good ones that just haven't caught on. The most exciting competitors to Tesla have been Kia and Hyundai, both South Korean companies (which, coincidentally, is where GM's 2017 Bolt EV was designed).

Why haven't the Detroit guys been successful? Answer that question, and you'll know why they're their worst threat.

Comment How it probably went down (Score 4, Insightful) 33

PHB1: "We have to do something AI-ish, everyone else is!"

PHB2: "Here's one, have bots compile podcasts from our news articles."

PHB1: "Brilliant! Make it so."

[months later]

PHB2: "Um, the podcast bot has been making silly errors. Should we keep it?"

PHB1: "How is our competition doing with their AI?"

PHB2: "They suck also."

PHB1: "Okay, let's keep it so we can have AI on our brochures and resumes."

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