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If I would live in Switzerland or Japan I would buy a yearly unlimited first class pass and find circular connections so I can work from the train throughout the day
why Switzerland? I would think its a bit too small for this kind of travel.
If I would live in Switzerland or Japan I would buy a yearly unlimited first class pass and find circular connections so I can work from the train throughout the day
I don't think you'd be able to find a real equivalent in Japan. * Rail passes do exist, but they are mostly for tourists. They are short-duration, can be relatively expensive, and often specifically exclude Japan residents. * Night trains have mostly disappeared. Buses and airplanes have proven to be more competitive options. [1] https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2357.html [2] https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2356.html
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> digital nomad > NAS I think that is cheating on the nomad thing a lot a bit.
No more than using cloud services.
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Is it a wrong? There's a lot of externalities around transit that aren't directly priced into costs vs ticket revenue. If France decides "We want high speed national rail connectivity between cities", I'd look at it more of an entitlement / service than a profitable enterprise. Nobody expects national healthcare services to be profitable. (Also, both France and Germany's relatively recent experience with their nation…
They want it so much that they're unwilling to pay the actual cost of a ticket lol. They have to launder the money through an intermediary and offload the cost to people who don't use the train that everybody supposedly wants Germany and France were on the verge of collapse or being conquered but government trains saved them? Do tell. But also, they're maybe not very sovereign when a foreign body drafts, ratifies, an…
Public libraries don't run as profit centers, and yet everyone generally agrees they provide a social benefit and are worth funding.
Ref: world wars, part I and II.
> You know how it is with trains. Even the unsurprisingly much more efficient German rail system. Efficient and German Rail systems are not words that go together. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-november-train-punctuality-wor...
There are lines in Switzerland where some of the trains doing it are DB trains transiting through CH and going from or to Germany. These trains also pickup and drop off passengers in CH, doing the same stops as the national trains.
I’ve learnt to avoid these German trains like the plague: they’re often late, crowded, dirty, or even canceled at the last minute.
Even if they (in theory) offer a shorter travel time, I know by now it’s mostly fictional because of the issues above. I prefer to take the SBB train that I’m sure will show up even if it means the trip will be 30 min longer.
Good on him, I guess? I'm happy we have a somewhat functioning high speed rail system here but I can't say I'm in a hurry to be in the ICE 24/7 for the same price as renting a flat.
He's not in an ICE 24/7 though, if you read the article he goes hiking in the alps or to the beach. The train is for sleeping.
So he have nothing, no home, no more belongings that a suitcase and a laptop, the ideal SLAVE of the modern time, someone who exists until he can produce for someone else, who effectively own him, then can only die since he have no more option to live. And the article seems to be a spot for this kind of existence "hey, it's cheap"... I'm actually curious how many really have stopped a minute to imaging what does it m…
It's likely just a phase. Young people have been doing this since time immemorial. I think you are overreacting a tad.
The train could go around the country (or even, say in Europe, multiple countries) picking up the attendees, stopping at various places to eat or whatever, then drop everyone off after a couple days.
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No more than using cloud services.
Cloud services are precisely the kind of thing that enable being a digital nomad. Having a permanent home so that you can keep your own NAS is almost the exact opposite of that.
It's no different than paying to use the servers your shit is stored on in some cloud service.
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They want it so much that they're unwilling to pay the actual cost of a ticket lol. They have to launder the money through an intermediary and offload the cost to people who don't use the train that everybody supposedly wants Germany and France were on the verge of collapse or being conquered but government trains saved them? Do tell. But also, they're maybe not very sovereign when a foreign body drafts, ratifies, an…
That's the way all government services work. Public libraries don't run as profit centers, and yet everyone generally agrees they provide a social benefit and are worth funding. Ref: world wars, part I and II.
So you're saying that if the Nazis didn't have subsidized train rides for tourists they would not have been able to collapse the Soviet Union in 1991 and regain East Germany? Interesting. Very interesting, sir.