Canada's 100-Foot Freight Railway To Nowhere
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends the channel for short, wry videos on obscure topics, and this one is cited as an example of gaming rules via a loophole.
What it is
A short, sarcastic Half as Interesting video about a tiny freight railway in Canada built to exploit a shipping regulation loophole. It explains how a track just 100 feet long counted as a railway.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends krallja · 2022-02 · on “200-foot-long railway to nowhere is a brilliant shipping loophole”
There was a video earlier this month on Half As Interesting about this railway: [this video] HAI makes interesting, short, sarcastic videos about obscure topics that HNers will probably enjoy.
Recommends AntonyGarand · 2023-05 · on “Absurd 200-Foot ‘Railway’ Demolished After Court Closes Shipping Loophole”
I liked this short video from "Half as interesting" on Youtube on the railway itself if you're looking for a video on the subject. [0] [this video]
Cites bombcar · 2022-12 · on “Europe Makes Shipping Vessels Pay for Carbon Emissions”
It'll be interesting to see how it's gamed, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try - you will get things like this: [this video] but they can be corrected for later. One solution would be to switch the tax to a tariff on goods that can be avoided if you prove reduced carbon travel. So if your goods are from China, you get the 100% whatever it is, but if you can show that they travelled from China on whatever is considered acceptable, it drops to 20% or 0% or similar.