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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Do they? Yes, they do. The old Eurostars (e300) are the Alstom TGV TMST, and the new ones (e320) are the Siemens Velaro. The e320 have an interior configuration very similar to the ICE-3s in Germany, although I believe that the seat pi
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yep, France's TGV serves the same purpose as the original railroads in France: exerting control from Paris over the provinces. It is a centralization mechanism built for the Parisian elites.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Eurostar trains include both TGV and Siemens Velaro rolling stock.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
In the railroad world, 10 years ago is lately. Different industries run on different timescales, you know...
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by ucaetano 8y ago
This is pretty much standard in the industry, isn't it? Nobody implements a feature from a competitor and says "hey, we copied this from X". Look at Android & iOS, with an eternal back-and-forth copying (notifications fro
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Actually, yes, the Velaro was exported to China, then built there too.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No, you can want it as much as you want. Won't make it good, but you're still free to want.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Cool story. Irrelevant, but a cool story.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> It all depends, some industries are just not working privately, the privatization of electricity in France was also a failure for example. The privatization of the post system was also a failure but it matters less since the postal sys
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> it doesn’t matter if my opinion is economically factually incorrect: the National morale does matter. I don't even know how to reply to that. Not only you're completely wrong, but you're a nationalist who would sink your
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I would prefer to keep the French train monopoly, at least it's cheap and it works. Sure you might prefer, but your personal preference doesn't change the fact that protectionism is bad in the long term, and illegal in the EU
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by ucaetano 8y ago
What does Venezuela has to do with the EU?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Nope, it is anti-competitive and bad for the economy, as it creates trade barriers and stifles innovation, as well as using your taxes badly. It essentially accounts to government subsidies for a certain company. And that's why it is i
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by ucaetano 8y ago
You're essentially advocating for tariffs and "buy local" requirements. Not only they are bad for the economy, they're also mostly illegal in the EU. > If I were French and our rolling stock were competitive Well, it
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Worth remembering that France hasn't fared very well in rail competition lately: the French-Government-controlled Eurostar chose the Velaro train sets from German Siemens to replace the existing TGV-derived train sets. It sparked a nat
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Lakes can't sue but people could. People can sue, for damages to the people, not to the lake.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
More than 42% of 9.5M people with cancer drained life's assets within 2 years in the US .
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Nope. The difference is that you had far more people living in the same dwelling units. The population of Manhattan peaked around 1910, at 2.3M, it is 1.6M today.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
"non-colluding entity" Colluding? What the heck are you talking about?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
What do you mean? Are you suggesting we force Google to offer a paid version? "Law number XXXX: Google must offer a paid version of its search engine to end users".
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Not really, it isn't a Bloomberg article. Sure, if you want to be pedantic and look up the definition of article, you'll disagree. But within the context of newspapers and op-eds, you need to treat them separately.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
It isn't an article, it is an op-ed. But I agree, it is low quality.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
How do you force someone to sell you a product they don't sell?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
It's an opinion piece, not a news article, keep that in mind.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I’ve shown that with simple changes to the definition we can make technical analysis a viable approach. Wow, someone give this guy a Nobel Prize...
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In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%–that was bogus(arstechnica.com)
40 points by ucaetano 8y ago|9 comments
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yeah, and charged $10B for it. Right...
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by ucaetano 8y ago
That's not what I meant. If Apple didn't want to push a search engine and take financial advantage of it, it could show a prompt the first time the user opens the browser, asking the user to select the search engine from a list. B
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Well, Google isn't the one putting it up for sale. Apple could easily add a user choice prompt, where users can pick from the top 3 search engines in a country. But I guess they like that $10B very much.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Nope, they're in an orbiting datacenter. You can't beat the dead cold vacuum of space. PS: You can, the vacuum of space is actually terrible for cooling, I was making a joke.

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