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The market is “getting from Rome to Milan” not “getting from Rome to Milan on a train.”
Europe should be pushing more cross-border consolidation of vertically integrated railroads, not separating infrastructure from ops and pushing open access.
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There’s a roughly parallel issue in the US where some people want to treat freight railroads as monopolies rather than recognizing the basic reality that they compete with trucks.
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BREAKING:
Turns out the Polish-S. Korean weapons deal is much larger than thought.
The spokesperson of the Polish Armaments Agency @krzysztof_atek confirmed today that Poland is buying:
1000 K2PL MBTs
672 K9 self-propelled howitzers
Up to 1400 Borsuk IFVs
48 FA50 fighter jets
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3 theories:
1) Americans live in bigger houses and have more space for WFH.
2) Toxic Japanese work culture.
3) American offices are more centrally located and harder to access than Europe's.
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Toby Muresianu 🇺🇦 @tobyhardtospell
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Nationwide crime wave
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SCOTUS-mandated universal open/concealed carry laws
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Fox News telling everyone that the police have been defunded
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Libertarian dystopia and loss of government's monopoly on the use of force
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Did a baby write this? https://t.co/xUPHoZAEeR
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BBC Future @BBC_Future
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U.S. isn't even close to the worst country in terms of falling housing affordability.
Naturally Japan and South Korea are doing great.
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The City of Los Altos has a truly terrible housing approval process. I wrote a letter, with the receipts:
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A reason that NASA continues to seem so impressive is that many missions consistently crush goals: Opportunity was a 90 day mission that lasted 16 years. Hubble was supposed to last 15 years & will do 45.
Anyone know if this a policy of under-promising? Genuine over-performance?
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How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today
[Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910 - full text pdf: bit.ly/2pThkf1 or with the table of contents: calculusmadeeasy.org]
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