Volkswagen's U.S. diesel emissions settlement to cost $15B
I lament the days where HN was a place for intelligent discussion. Today the top post to submissions like this is an idiotic populist gut feeling, complete with dubious metaphors, calls for violence, a complete lack of any understanding of why things are the way the are and how we got there, as well as a blissful ignorance of proposed and&#x2F;or tried solutions to age-old problems.<p>There must be something in the water these days that spurs these insults on sane discourse, I have a vague feeling of recognition when going over current events in politics across the world the last few weeks...