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   by baru 12y ago

   The Shanghai maglev is german technology (Transrapid). The development began around 1969. Siemens and ThyssenKrupp were mainly looking for a demonstration of the technological capabilities as there was no real world application, mainly due
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   by baru 14y ago

   Wouldn't MM mean 2000 in Roman numerals? Like in MMXII. http://xkcd.com/927/
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   by baru 15y ago

   This was already answered on quora by PJ Hyett, GitHub Co-Founder: "IO performance is essential to our business (handling an enormous amount of disk operations) and EBS wasn't nearly as fast as bare metal when we ran benchmarks prior to mov