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superwayneon As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)

I don't think that this is necessarily true. In Europe we have night trains running between countries which of course also take 8 or 10 hours or more and they are more or less profitable.

However an average speed of 200 miles (320 km) per hour is still a lot. Especially because you will have stops in between which of course means that the v_max must be even higher.

superwayneon Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry

Tetrapaks are collected and recycled in my country (Austria) so I do think that it's possible.

superwayneon Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’

While I do agree that the high taxes on labor are harmful, I really don't want to live in a country where "pensions are phased out", one has to work until 70 at least and public welfare is non-existant for young people. Luckily, I don't have to and to be honest, I prefer paying 50% taxes but also getting a lot in return. World class public transport (in my city), free university education (including master), pretty good health care, pension which amounts to 80% or inflated life income, lot's of art and culture...

superwayneon Owning your own home doesn’t make you rich. Owning somebody else’s does

It's interesting to see my home country, Austria, on the top of the chart even before the US (https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/2nySN0wYiI6lVROh3aQr-...). Considering the strong tenant protection laws in Austria and the relatively low rents (in comparison to buying an apartment) I am curious to see how the statistics work out if only business owners are considered.

superwayneon RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything

Link to GitHub: https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub

superwayneon Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

If you don't mind writing a bit of Python glue code, you can also use https://github.com/nblock/feeds (I'm one of the authors). It uses Scrapy under the hood and is supposed to run as a cronjob. It will create full text Atom feeds of whatever data you will feed to it. Spiders (plugins) are usually quite small, especially when there is no login (paywall) involved: https://github.com/nblock/feeds/tree/master/feeds/spiders

superwayneon RSS: there's nothing better

A friend and I made a tool/framework to easily create RSS feeds for websites that don't offer one. It's written in Python and uses Scrapy for scraping the website. Maybe it could be helpful to somebody. Out of the box mostly Austrian sites are supported but adding a new site usually involves only a few lines of code.

http://github.com/nblock/feeds

superwayneon Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for techs in fight for talent

Funny enough, I do own one of their orange suits. The quality is really shitty, though, and they are cut for surprisingly tall and skinny people.