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In the railroad world, 10 years ago is lately.

Different industries run on different timescales, you know...

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 from Android->iOS, permissions from iOS->Android, etc.)

And coming up with the idea doesn't have to mean inventing the idea, it can simply be "why don't we implement this cool feature that someone else is using?".

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Actually, yes, the Velaro was exported to China, then built there too.

No, you can want it as much as you want.

Won't make it good, but you're still free to want.

Cool story. Irrelevant, but a cool story.

> 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 system is less important nowadays.

That doesn't have anything to do with protectionism. Are you confusing protectionism with state-owned companies?

> For the trains, the core issue here is that the network has a value has a whole

I'm talking about train sets, not rail networks.

Rail networks in the EU are becoming open as well (which is the point of the article, in case you didn't read it), so SNCF is having, due to competition, to buy more efficient train sets to be able to compete with potential new entrants.

Which is good for society.

What does Venezuela has to do with the EU?

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 illegal in the EU.

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 just wasn't as competitive as the German one.

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 national outrage (because a company controlled by the French government should, in their opinion, only buy French) and a lawsuit from Alston (who makes the TGV).

> Lakes can't sue but people could.

People can sue, for damages to the people, not to the lake.

More than 42% of 9.5M people with cancer drained life's assets within 2 years in the US.

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.

"non-colluding entity"

Colluding? What the heck are you talking about?

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".

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.

It isn't an article, it is an op-ed. But I agree, it is low quality.

How do you force someone to sell you a product they don't sell?

It's an opinion piece, not a news article, keep that in mind.

> 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...

Yeah, and charged $10B for it.

Right...

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.

But I guess Apple just loves that nice shiny pile of cash too much to give it up!

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.

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.

> But let's not forget there's a good reason why data centres full of computer servers are often built inside icy mountains or under oceans. Electronics get hot.

Gell-Mann amnesia effect applies here. This is pretty bad reporting.

TL;DR: Blogger with a low-readership blog (for internet standards) wants to be included in news carousel at the top of Google results but is rejected.

So Google News is broken.

The core point of the book, that 40% of jobs are bullshit, is pure bullshit, and Graeber is a know bullshitter.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/-er-is-een-ongeloof...

He based his assertion "on the basis of a YouGov survey among 843 Britons, in which 37 percent of the respondents said that their job 'did not make a meaningful contribution to the world', and one from HR and organizational consultant Schouten & Nelissen among 1,900 Dutch citizens, who 40 percent came out."

Both surveys are very low-quality, and are contradicted by other massive surveys, which he decides to ignore because "Since then, there has been a poll that came out at 10 percent. But I'm a bit skeptical about that, because the other two polls matched."

Yep, people don't realize that Grarber is just a refresh of the fashionable nonsense trend, particularly in economics.

From the article:

""Those two British and Dutch polls were the only ones I knew when I wrote the book. Since then, there has been a poll that came out at 10 percent. But I'm a bit skeptical about that, because the other two polls matched. It depends very much on what questions you ask people. In any case, I think that more detailed work is needed. '"

The part I highlighted in Italic seals the deal: the guy is either blissfully ignorant, or wildly dishonest.

The issue is that recording without consent is illegal in many jurisdictions.

Auto-transcribing likely falls in a grey zone, because you could argue that it is being recorded before transcription (which is true).

> At home, I use Duck Duck Go. It gives good enough results but comes with a better reputation with regards to privacy.

The fact that you do so, with no additional effort needed, kinda breaks the entire trust/monopoly argument, doesn't it?