Alex
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@AlexMedia @alper If you go to Frankfurt from Amsterdam the train also does not stop at a border station…
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@alper Welcome to Germany... :-)
In all seriousness, changing the systems here will be a big job. And it's the railway and this is safety critical stuff, very expensive. For a dozen of trains a day probably not value for money.
Details about what happens:
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@ConnorAllenEU To be fair, this is a Paris specific oddity (no, I don't get why either). In Lyon you can get around with just your bank card - and the system does capping, too.
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Anyone who has (tried to) buy a metro ticket in Paris knows that the French must be kept from 'developing the European Amazon/Google' at all costs.
In every advanced country, you just tap with your card. In France, you download 2 apps and sign a contract with a state authority.
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@nemefungus @rezztroalt Here in Europe that's the standard way of doing things though.
The only way a termination would be with immediate effect is for stuff like grave misconduct. A reorganization needs to go through proper termination processes and just can't be done like at Epic.
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@rezztroalt imagine you get an email saying "we are laying you off in 2 weeks" you wouldnt want to work for these 2 weeks knowing you would get fired
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I literally do not understand why they didn’t even give the employees a week or two week notice about the layoffs so things could be figured out
They just immediately dropped everyone and cut them off
Such an incredibly poor job, shame on all of HR, Tim, & the higher ups
Tim Sweeney@TimSweeneyEpic
@BackersGamesF Epic is in contact with the family and will solve the insurance for them. There is high confidentiality around medical information and it was not a factor in this layoff decision. Sorry to everyone for not recognizing this terribly painful situation and handling it in advance.
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@liz_love_lace The railway still runs on these principles!
A lot of modernisation and automation has gone into it, but the basic principle of "the railway is divided into blocks, and only one train can be in a block at the same time" is still in place.
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oh my god block signalling is actual 1800s tech that used the telegraph to coordinate trains sharing the same set of rails, i thought that was only in factorio
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@NoelDolphin RTV Noord write that the province had a lot of demands for these 4 trains, which I guess played into the decision to not bid.
rtvnoord.nl/politiek/11195…
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@AlexMedia OK - also the IRJ had a different take from the Hydrogen magazine. IRJ said they didn't have bids within budget. Which is very different from having no bids. railjournal.com/passenger/main…
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Trying to understand what happened here. No one bid for their Hydrogen train tender.... including the people who did the trail on the line?
hydrogeninsight.com/transport/dutc…
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@ZacksJerryRig And look at the amount of staff! At some point in the video, I can see 11 people in hi-viz jackets. Extrapolate that to all stations and you're easily looking at 100 people.
At $36k/year (median) that's $3.6M in personnel costs! Bonkers.
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Besides the fact that a normal subway could move more people more efficiently..... each one of these cars has a driver inside - driving in a straight line with no traffic.
Elon promised this closed loop would have automated self driving cars back in 2019. (Six years ago!) FSD is nowhere close to being 'solved'.
He definitely deserves that $1,000,000,000,000 though.
The Boring Company@boringcompany
One-hour timelapse (60x speed) of Central Station during @SEMASHOW. This is one of eight (soon to be 14!) Loop Stations which operated at this awesome @LVCVA event. On the day shown, Vegas Loop safely transported 29,755 passengers.
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@firemonkey Mini season about to be "Nuclear" We're gonna have to save the island from Homer accidentally starting a Nuclear Meltdown after eating too many donuts and falling asleep at the controls.
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It appears we will have a "Night Night" / Downtime right after for the upcoming Lime Rock event, as a new event flag has been added relating to it!
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@FrankMenger € 3,20 voor een enkeltje met het OV binnen Wenen (of € 3 als je een digitaal kaartje gebruikt), koekoek...
Geef mij het Nederlandse systeem maar. Veel eerlijker.
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@RexKram55112378 They show white when the signal they're repeating is showing caution.
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Can these BRs show anything other than green when in the OFF position?
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@AlexMedia Hi Alex,
For a journey from Lille to Brussels in Eurostar Plus, meals are not included as part of your journey. Our onboard staff are available at our Eurostar Café if you want something to eat or drink. See you son on board!
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@AlexMedia Hello Alex, it's scheduled to be one of our newer E320 trains. However this is subject to change so please understand that it's not guaranteed to remain the same.
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@Dauragon The EU has a fairly good, privacy preserving, proposal for this;
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu…
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ID verification for websites is flawed because when you have to show ID in real life it tends to just involve a person looking at it for 2 seconds with their own eyeballs before it goes right back into your wallet, instead of being scanned and uploaded to god knows where.
Bunney ✝️🐇🩷 VTuber@StardustBunney
I will die on the hill that I.D. verification should be 100% necessary for 18+ spaces. The amount of times I lied on the internet to gain access to spaces I shouldn't have been in as a kid is immeasurable. Unless you want helicopter parents, there is no avoiding kids lying online
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@ZeHiroFr @TissotSacha1 @DrumSlayers @Doudou_TrainDoc En Belgique, la coexistence de la signalisation lumineuse avec l'ETCS L1/L2 est temporaire, ces les protections conventionelle (Memor, TBL1+) sont toujours en place.
À l’avenir (apres 2027) Memor/TBL1+ sera progressivement supprimé, ainsi que les signaux.
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@TissotSacha1 @DrumSlayers @Doudou_TrainDoc Sur 1/3 du réseau classique. Ça a été un bon challenge pour que ça marche. Pour la sécu, je vois pas ce que tu crains, pour la regul, aucune idée
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Question aux spécialistes : qui paie pour l'installation de la signalisation TVM430 en parallèle d'ERTMS sur la ligne nouvelle Roissy - Picardie, SNCF Voyageurs ?
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@pyrobom18196090 @JasperRuiken @chrisklomp In vergelijking met de peilingen van kort ervoor lijkt krimp van PVV+VVD aan te sluiten bij groei JA21. Vergeleken met de verkiezingen van 2023 PVV -7 JA21 +7.
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@JasperRuiken @chrisklomp Teleurgestelde PVV-stemmers die een nieuw thuis zoeken?
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