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Re:A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW... by fjdlwlv on Monday May 29, 2017 @02:54AM (#14437796)
Seems like the "organic" fad was the problem
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Re:A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW... by mikeash on Monday May 29, 2017 @11:37AM (#14439609)
The problem was substituting an unsuitable material because of mistakes when revising procedures and insufficient review of the revisions. The fact that the mistake involved an "organic" product is coincidental.
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