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Banking in general and international banking, predate the US London, Glasgow, Budapest and Paris all have metro systems that predate the New York Subway There
by pacaro 6y ago
Banking in general and international banking, predate the US
London, Glasgow, Budapest and Paris all have metro systems that predate the New York Subway
There are multiple bridges that are still in use that predate European colonization of North America
While the oldest airport is in the US, (College Park), Hamburg, Bucharest, Bremen, Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, Sydney all follow very shortly after
AFAICT Skyscrapers is really the only example you give where the US canonically built the v1.0
I think that there are probably other reasons, my suspicion is primarily rent seeking
- alasdair_ 6y agoI’m from Glasgow. Completely random fact ahead: The underground in Glasgow was comprised of orange trains. They “ran like clockwork” and had the nickname “the clockwork orange”, which is where the Stanley Kubrick movie title came from. Allegedly.
- mayankkaizen 6y agoHoly shit! Never thought I'd get to know what Clockwork Orange actually means through a random comment on HN.
- dboreham 6y agoExcept the comment is incorrect. The underground nickname came from the movie not vice versa.
- e2e8 6y agoBased on a quick search, that does not seem to be true. The title of the movie comes from the title of the book it is based on. The book's author has given some explanations for the origin of the title that do not involve Glasgow trains. [0] It seems the name for the subway comes from the movie. There also seems to be some dispute about the usage of that name for the Glasgow subway. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(novel)#Title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(novel)#Tit... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Subway#Nicknames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Subway#Nicknames
- madamelic 6y agoI have always been under the impression it is because the US wasn't bombed to bits during WWII and didn't basically get to re-think infrastructure.
- Jommi 6y agoMaybe now that its getting bombed to bits because of COVID, something good might end up happening?
- riffraff 6y agoI am not sure this is true, tho it sounds interesting. Before WW2 there wasn't much infrastructure to begin with, the big highways have been built after. The metro lines from before are still there and the bridges that were built before the war have just been rebuilt in the same places (i.e. were the roads arrived and the river was narrow). Most of the big cities also still have medieval and older city centers, and we're still using roman-era routes for roads.
- issa 6y agoBased on things like the Chicago Fire and the SF Quake, it seems (at least anecdotally) clear that massive destruction has a positive effect on infrastructure down the road.
- pacaro 6y agoThe Great Fire of London (CE 1666) did this for London too
- zxcvbn4038 6y agoIn the case of banking you have to realize that US bank accounts here are often completely free, but they will charge you a penalty for anything and everything that is a result of action or inaction on your part (its always your fault). Everything is designed to maximize the chance of your making a mistake so they can charge you a fee.
- Bayart 6y ago>There are multiple bridges that are still in use that predate European colonization of North America There are bridges in use that predate Christianity.