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4 years ago
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on: Audiblegate
The whole point he makes is, "Amazon is bad because everyone else says Amazon is bad, and I just piggyback the public opinion with my little opinion about seemingly unfair royalties Amazon takes." It might be I'm wrong, but the numbers this guy put up do sound like just whining. It takes a lot of effort to provide cloud-based services such as Audible.
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4 years ago
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on: Lessons from Seoul's controversial privatized subway line
I was so confused of the flow of writing and one sentence made me understand what just happened.
"I grew up in Seoul in the 1990s before coming to the United States, so I missed all of Line 9’s construction and operations."
The media in South Korea have criticized any privatization of public service for so long time. Trust me I have lived in this country more than 25 years. Even though author asserted that "I will list all sourcing as best as I can, all from media outlets in South Korea (of both left and right political leanings) I have vetted and determined as legitimate."
Yes, the sources of articles are from both left and right leaning but the thesis of this post is villifing semi-privatization of Line 9.
To me, the cause of Line 9 chaos is not from privatization but from the intervention of political campaign in this problem. Conservatively expected passenger numbers can go wrong, but they must not make mistakes on back-up plans, and they just did make mistakes on purpose for the sake of winning election.
