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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by justsomehnguy on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:09AM (#39023542)
> Also, recently I have been thinking how come the US is pioneering so many tech but fail to implement any

> Estonia

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    Population
    • 2024 estimate
        1,373,101[2]
    • 2021 census
        1,331,824[3]
You can do most of projects in Estonia in a week or two, just because their popcount is low.
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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by kalleboo on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:14AM (#39023893)
China is also way ahead of the US in all the same stuff
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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by ffgjgf1 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:57AM (#39024673)
You can say the same about individual US states more or less. Rolling out every innovation nation wide is not necessarily the optimal goal..

Of course comparing the entire US with tiny individual European countries is always silly.

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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by workfromspace on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:17PM (#39050849)
Japan, India, China has a big population and yet better on this.
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