Yeah, I've noticed this as well. They not only slowly close old stations, but they almost stopped building new ones since about 2007.
I don't understand why people downvote your comment. It isn't like you're forcing them to have babies and do something about the world by stating the fact about Japan's decline
Great, they finally started mass-producing 19th century technology, let's cheer that! Nowadays, while Chinese and Americans are producing GPUs, AI and li-ion batteries, German high-tech is an engine invented by Faraday
TBH, I cannot stand the snobbery of this article. The phenomenon of creating your own dull terms like "Dophamine Fracking" that cover all aspects of life should be added to the list of pathologies in DCM-11 section of personal disorders, this is a form of narcissism.
While quietly implying his personal superiority and deep understanding of things, this German sets up a premise that everything deteriorates because of CAPITALISM and now also AI, listing numerous completely distinct areas of human life. For such bold claim he gives only one wrecked example: strawberry flavor substitutes real berries. How did he come to this conclusion? Did he look up any data? To me, personally, this is not a common knowledge. I know a bunch of people who really like and enjoy real strawberries. At the same time, I am personally not interested in neither.
OK, he has some sort of a premise, but what is the conclusion? Did he just write his own opinion to highlight how smart he is? Apparently so. I guess we could assume that what comes out of all this, is that "we're having less and less experiences".
I like that Americans, and particularly New Yorkers, are so self-centered that they don't even bother to specify which city's train lines are on the map (New York is only in the HN title). Of course, a Ukrainian frontend developer will be familiar enough with the city's contours to instantly recognize the shape of Manhattan from the train lines.
When my ex-wife just moved to Germany, she was extremely anxious about waste sorting. She spent an hour sorting trash according to video guides on YouTube. Regardless doing everything perfectly, some German neighbor snitched on her to her landlady. Then some other old neighbor was watching through her windows with binoculars (privacy my ass!). Germany is a terrible country, the sick man of Europe once again
> two of them (HIPPA and FDA approvals) are American
I specified all three via comma to highlight that we had quite some history in compliance, in different jurisdictions.
HIPPA covers only medical devices, GDPR covers everything. FDA approval process is convoluted and expensive, especially for new types of devices, but it's still much easier than European MDR.
Also, I mentioned FDA because we didn't even try to get a proper compliance in the EU, because it's impossible for a startup without huge support.
> Those things are all necessary anyway
It's a bold statement. Have you ever actually been working on any compliance yourself? 80% of everything is just senseless bureaucracy. I've worked in a medical startup and we had it all: GDPR, HIPPA, FDA approvals etc. The requirements are completely detached from reality and are usually written for some X-Ray producing firms from 20th century, not an health-tech AI startup. And they're trying to regulate everything, even how your organizational structure should look like, how you should create tickets in Jira (or any other _compliant_ products). Developers had to take useless trainings on how a medical organization should operate, which were essentially the courses of Aesopian language of medical bureaucracy. And legal expenses, boy o boy, the company had to spend twice as much on compliance staff than it did on developers. And what was the result? Rich American competitors with a ton of VC money were getting approvals while our company was struggling with all this idiocy despite having a much more superior product.
I cannot stand reading these comments left by people clearly detached from reality.
I used to work in a medical AI company myself, over the years we had a few requests for deletion, all from some crazy old German people. Moreover, we couldn't train our models on European data, which is absurd.