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afsina··on What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them?
Siri was an inferior product comparing to others not funded by government (even after Apple took over). So that is not a glorious example of Government funding. Government is extremely ineffective, and most funds are waste. But sure some stuff will appear from all that loot.
afsina··on Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?
It is mandatory. Maybe they don't need that much schooling.
afsina··on The Social Transformation of Trust in Government (2005) [pdf]
Wish I could say "Because more people read anatomy of state?"
afsina··on 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
Some entrepreneur or company in silicon valley would have invented stg better and cheaper.
afsina··on 94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery
Governments cannot invent or develop technology, they only hinder it.
afsina··on “Proof” that Fuchsia will replace Linux for Google
Coders are not idiots, they know that possibility and still use the license for their open source code. So, "danger" is a silly word to describe this.
afsina··on Google’s not-so-secret new OS
Google has decided not to put Dart VM in Chrome long ago. Of course Dart tools has very strong web development support and JS conversion.
afsina··on Google’s not-so-secret new OS
AFAIK, Angular Dart is used heavily within Google.

https://webdev.dartlang.org/angular

afsina··on Google’s not-so-secret new OS
This may answer your question:

https://flutter.io/faq/#how-does-flutter-run-my-code-on-ios

and

https://flutter.io/faq/#can-i-interop-with-my-mobile-platfor...

afsina··on Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5
Unions.. please.
afsina··on A short critique of Stallmanism
Actually IMO majority of hacker news commenters are left leaning, and I try avoiding political news here because their rethoric is tiring (to me).
afsina··on Big Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril
Capitalism, as free markets are anti-state.
afsina··on A Few Billionaires Are Turning Medical Philanthropy on Its Head
They are not on the driver seat. They fund and observe. This system is better than state or academia.
afsina··on Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
Search for Flutter and Dart. I do not think they will use .Net
afsina··on Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
Many of those patents are directly targeting Linux and all are BS. Samsung earns enough money so that they chose not to enter multi billion dollar gambit where law protects BS software patents.
afsina··on Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
Well, MS is still extorting money from android vendors using os related patents.
afsina··on Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
One thing about Chrome spell checking; it uses a form of stem-ending dictionary for Turkish and does not perform actual morphological analysis. So sometimes legit words will be marked as mistakes. Such as the one in your example "yuvarlamaktır"
afsina··on Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election?
Who is defending fake news? Fake news are loathsome. Besides, I care less about elections. My beef is with the timing and promoters of the issue.
afsina··on Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election?
Wow. This was almost a non issue like two weeks ago. It is pathetic that the very media who tried so hard to distort perceptions is trying to blame fake news.
afsina··on President Obama Should Shut Down the NSA’s Mass Spying Before It’s Too Late
Perhaps they did not create the beast, but they wholeheartedly wanted federal government to be bigger.
afsina··on Is democracy a failure? (1861)
According "Democracy, god that failed" from Hans Herman Hoppe, it is failed miserably. He sees it even inferior to aristocratic monarchies with good reasons.
afsina··on Dart Developer Summit 2016 Videos
I would strongly recommend flutter keynote.
afsina··on Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks
Ok I will bite.

This was the rebuttal against the claim. And, it was so obvious to conservative speakers or old timers like me. I was actually baffled that people misunderstood this.

Also, If you are a native speaker, it is obvious (listen it first if you want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UPIF2ql7pw ).

He says "Benim için mesela neler söylediler, çıktı bir tanesi aynı zihniyet Gürcüdür diyen oldu. Çıktı bir tanesi afedersin çok daha çirkin şeylerle Ermeni diyen oldu.." "then one another came out and told, excuse me, with much more uglier things, Armenian."

Grammatically you would not use the term "şeylerle - with..things" there to got the other meaning. Prosody and stops also would be weird to get that meaning. Use of "excuse me" before telling an inappropriate word is also very well known (not for a word like Armenian). It is common that in Turkey many politicians were smeared with slurs like "Armenian dölü-seed" or "Yunan dölü" and he was called with that. He is defining the adjective used frequently. Besides, he is known as the person who tries to break the ice with Armenians state level, do you think he would insult Armenians so calmly like that?

Your second link is based on a racist speech claim. However I cannot find the original Turkish speech to make more comments. But it is a well known fact that there is no black-white racism in Turkey. But please provide a better source to dig further.

afsina··on Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks
Google is not paying taxes here. Those e-mails are as empty as recent Wikileaks AKP e-mails.
afsina··on Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks
For what it is worth, that quote was totally misunderstood and turned into a smear campaign.

Context is this, some people in Turkey loves to attack people/politicians for their ethnicity. And I guess some people called him Georgian or Armenian descendant. However, some said it as "Ermeni dölü" - a little hard to translate - "from Armenian seed (or semen)". During his speech he says exactly this: "They called me Georgian. They called me, excuse me, in a very ugly way, Armenian". This is a typical conservative way of talking. He refrained himself using the term "döl-semen" and terms "excuse me" and "very ugly way" was for that word, not for "Armenian".

Of course, to me correct way of talking about this issue could be "they call me this and that.. who cares!"

afsina··on Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks
Well, No. This is the culture here. Youtube was closed for years because of Ataturk related videos. One goes another comes.

Besides, those leaks are really BS by the way. Those so called Redhack hackers are as idiot as the people who shuts down whole sites for nothing.

afsina··on Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
This is just my theory based on my previous encounters, call it generalization if you will. Sure, I cannot prove it as I cannot make a poll in HN about it.
afsina··on Bug 1283585 – Fix Intel's AES-GCM code to not depend on AVX
And Firefox.
afsina··on Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
To me, reason for this is that most of those HN posters are people with progressive-left tendencies. They will never like the idea that a capitalist will be the one doing this kind of job far better than the collective (state).
afsina··on Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff
No. Just do not buy stuff from companies that make hard to repair goods. Or make campaigns about it.
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