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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by snow_mac on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:25PM (#18717350)
This is a crap response. I went to Shanghai about 3 summers ago right when Denver was finishing up the "A Line" train from Downtown to the Airport. This project cost over a billion dollars and the damn thing can't run smoothly or stay operational. Tons of issues. Meanwhile we took the Maglev train from the Pudong Airport to the Shanghai City Center. The Maglev cost $1.2 billion dollars [1]. The train can travel up to 270 MPH [1]; it takes about 15 minutes to get from the Airport to the city. The Denver train? 45 minutes, goes somewhere around 45 MPH for $1.1 billion dollars [2]. The train in China goes 6x faster then the Denver train.

So, tell me again how the Chinese infrastructure is not good?

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/go_east_young_man/2005/03...

[2] https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2016/05/31/otoole-takin...

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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by floren on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:34PM (#18717468)
Remember when they crashed a high speed train and buried all the evidence the next day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision
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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by taobility on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:41PM (#18718101)
you remind me of this incident as a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailme...
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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by floren on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:42PM (#18718767)
Hmm yes, this is exactly the same sort of situation:

> WSDOT announced on December 21 that it would not resume Amtrak service on the Point Defiance Bypass until positive train control is implemented in 2018.

"But America has also had train crashes" is a typical response in this sort of situation, but also typically irrelevant.

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Re:Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of invest... by taobility on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:34PM (#18727647)
As a software engineer, I knew the bug in every software is inevitable. What we should do is learning from each bug and try to find a solution to avoid repeat the mistake, either by some engineering process, or more tests. And blindly blame the engineer who wrote the codes is stupid.
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