This 'boring company' is one of the worst ideas ever.
The intelligent criticisms I have read of this concept don't claim that it "won't work" or that it isn't possible.
Its just a really bad solution to a problem we have at least a dozen other, easier, cheaper, simpler solutions for already.
Imagine we wanted to go to the moon, but the shuttle and all its parts had to be made of platinum. We also have to make sure all the astronauts have at least a 40 BMI and will bring everything they currently own with them. It might still be possible, but its stupid.
>From what I see, there are two Turkeys - the liberal Turkey which resides in cities like Izmir and the conservative ones which come from places like Bursa or Gaziantep. Currently, there are fewer liberal Turks than the conservative ones.
The people you think are liberal are anything but. They used military might to maintain control since the founding of the Republic. They have never won a single election. Every free election has gone to the conservative/Islamist parties. Until AKP in 2002, those parties were all removed by the military. Sometimes their leaders got executed in the process.
So if you want to know why the PEOPLE support Erdogan, its because the alternative to an Islamic Democrat isn't a Western Liberal Democrat. It's a secular Dictator like Assad/Saddam/Al-Sisi
If you think (half-halfheartedly) blocking random websites and a few dozen journalists in prison is bad, why don't you do some research on what life was like when the secular Turks ruled (CHP) Here's a few fun facts:
-Calling yourself a Kurd got you jailed.
-Speaking Kurdish was a crime.
-Having foreign currency in your pocket landed you in jail.
-Standard Old Socialist Econ Policies: Price Controls, High Tariffs, long lines for Butter, coupons for food, etc.
-Couldn't wear headscarf to school/court/etc.
-A female MP who wore her headscarf to parliament was arrested, stripped of her Turkish Citizenship, and exiled.
I could go on, but the point is: Zero freedom of expression or religion in Turkey when the 'liberal' Turks were in charge.
Crime went down becausr wr locked up all the Urban Youth scum. Now theres chatter of letting em out and going soft on crime. If that happens, crime will back up.
Do people not have a right to defend themselves? You just want to wait around as you're robbed? How about you save me some time and just paypal me $800?
I would arguea HN thread about home security systems that shoot intruders upon home invasion would be tolerated on HN.
So self-defense / death alone are not enough to flag a comment. Political movements like ELF (Earth Liberation Front) used arguments similar to mine on why, for example, coal plants are legitimate targets in self defense.
My goal with the term 'population removal' was not to be uncivil or inflammatory. Killing people is wrong, but forecfully moving large groups of people is something practiced by every nation, including democratic liberal ones like the USA. Its a policy, not an evil act in and of itself.
I can respect that HN isn't the place for this sort of discussion, but I do not accept that my comment was uncivil or inflammatory.
As a Turk, I think the identity issue is not that the Armenian/Assyrian/etc genocides didn't occur. Its that the exact same sorts of mass executions/population removals had occurred to the Muslims of the Balkans in the decades preceding WW1.
Turkish nationalism, of the genocidal ethnocentric variant, was a direct result of what Turkish leaders at the time personally experienced in the Balkans. The lesson learned was 100s of years of residence in a land didn't entitle you to anything. Just as Turkish reformists copied European concepts in warfare, education, parliamentary reform, they also copied population removal policies.
My only regret today is my ancestors didn't finish the job of population removal when they had the shot. Turkey would be that much closer to Caspian Sea access today.
Having recently finished The Rise and Fall of American Growth myself, I reached the opposite conclusion.
Yes, the decrease from 12+ -> 8 hour workdays helped health and thus productivity and growth as the author persuasively states. But in the final few chapters which look forward rather than back in time, it was my interpretation that the author sees trends in declining hours & labor force participation as headwinds to TFP growth.
It is naturally more inefficient to have more shifts and thus more people commuting, etc. The diminishing health returns from 8 - > 6 hour work days not being enough to make up for this loss in efficiency.
Really? There are people like this on HN? You think these companies are spending billions to extract these resources them hording them in their vaults? No. They're help all of us buy the things we need, including the device you used to type your nonsense.
Do you really think the audio jack was removed because of thinness?
Have you seen the inside of a smartphone? Its not just about thinness. There is very little space for anything besides the battery.
Also, removable batteries and the audio jack get in the way of dust/water proofing.
You may think shrinkage is pointless, but that's clearly not what the market or the top designers think. Why do you want a giant, useless, 100+ year old analog port on your 2017 device? I don't. Its ugly.
Even dual 1080 GTX cards can't max out settings on the VR games currently available for Oculus / HTC Vive.
As for traditional usecases, I have a 3x monitor setup ( 2K@144Hz/4K@60Hz/2K@144Hz) and my 1080 GTX can't max out everything smoothly while I stream/record high-end games.
I would love it if all this was just vanity, but its my job. This stuff is an expense I'd happily avoid if possible. I don't own any nonsensical RGB lighted cases or non-essential peripherals.
Any cursory reading of history will reveal that cities are and always have been where humans go to die.
In the past, this was because of disease caused by pre-sanitation density. Today, it is due to below-replacement fertility rates caused by impossible to afford living costs.
So if you consider extinction a form of human suffering, 'traditional walkable cities' fit the bill.
They don't have their shit together because the stock has barely moved in a decade. If you think Wal-Mart has their shit together, you've either been living under a rock for the past 10 years or you're not very intelligent.
Here's a fun chart from Google Finance: 10-Year Wal-Mart vs Amazon stock performance:
As someone who grew up in a neighborhood where Western Union/Money Gram were commonly used -- Only criminals use it. Full Stop.
Now, not all these criminals are violent or into drugs. Many were illegals sending money home. I get WHY they would use it, but it makes no sense for the US Government to even allow these services to exist.
That's like saying you don't understand why the government just sending Altay a $1billion check with the pre-condition that he spends it all gets a bad rap.
There's no reason to favor home ownership -- look at home ownership rates in Germany vs S. Europe. Then look at the health of their economies and living conditions.
The intelligent criticisms I have read of this concept don't claim that it "won't work" or that it isn't possible.
Its just a really bad solution to a problem we have at least a dozen other, easier, cheaper, simpler solutions for already.
Imagine we wanted to go to the moon, but the shuttle and all its parts had to be made of platinum. We also have to make sure all the astronauts have at least a 40 BMI and will bring everything they currently own with them. It might still be possible, but its stupid.