sektabox

sektabox t1_iy63g28 wrote

I have been watching the for a few years now. All are good though some presentation styles are not the same as others, so YMMV. I haven't come across any with shockingly great multimedia presentation, but then, these are for those who don't fall for fancy cartoons with swooshing sounds every 5 seconds.

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sektabox t1_iti9twf wrote

Ha! Pynchon was the writer of my very serious interest when I was working on my master's thesis back in Poland, with a special focus on the concept of entropy in the English literature.

After I got my degree (in Canada), I gave up literature and I have to say, without much pride or shame, I've never read a single novel or any work of fiction since then. That was over 25 years ago, when I switched to computer science and that's been my field all that time.

Cool post. Brought back some memories.

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sektabox t1_irbymzt wrote

That is not true and the data in this article is bogus.

Using the article's data - US rail network is slightly longer, by about 20,000 km when compared to European Union. In this case it's 200,161 km vs 360,000 km. But the World Bank estimates the US rail system at 150K km.

But EU is not Europe. Countries that are not in EU are Ukraine, Russia, Norway, Switzerland, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan [ (European parts), UK and a few Balkan countries.

I'm too lazy to do the research on all those individual countries, but nah, clearly not twice as long as in Europe.

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