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gorkemyurton A Map Showing Every Cargo Ship

Wow Singapore, Istanbul and which I believe is Rotterdam has crazy traffic. And basically all of Japan and China :)

but didn't Otto employees end up making a ton of money, way more than what they would have at Uber? given that otto was pretty young?

gorkemyurton Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat?

you don't like sports?

gorkemyurton Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all

Yep exactly ! Erdogan and Gulen were close allies until 3 years ago.

A stadium full of Gulen supporters cheering for Erdogan, just 4 years ago.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP7r0U8mfg

Erdogan's speech; "I wish Gulen was here with us today"

gorkemyurton Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all

“Battles have been won against greater odds” John Snow.

Jokes aside, most of these generals were already getting arrested or getting kicked out of the military in the following weeks, they just decided to actually do the crime they are getting arrested for

gorkemyurton Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all

Best explanation I have about what happened is this;

The attempt was real. It was actually planned pretty well. Their plans were exposed. They panicked, couldn't really follow through with all their plans. Generals that weren't part of the coup took the chain of command pretty fast to stop the attempt.

1) Parliament building was not empty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM_Qt55kJVk

2) Apparently there were other jets that were actually following Erdogan's plane

3) They kidnapped almost all high ranked military personnel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--bCuv6G5I0. The ones that escaped actually took back the chain of command and was able to stop the attempt.

4) Does anything look staged in these videos; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTEbX7kvZ6E or this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkfIbfnZt_Y. Some of these people on the floor are 50-60 year old generals. What is their role in your scenario?

gorkemyurton Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all

Zero indication at all. None. Exactly the opposite actually. Not sure about the exact numbers but a lot of the the generals that were promoted after the Ergenekon and Balyoz cases were behind the coup. A lot of secular Generals were put to jail after those cases and West didn't seem to care at all.

gorkemyurton Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

And there is the supply chain argument.. A Drone is basically a flying smartphone. Every new hardware product uses the smartphone supply chain. Imagine the effects of electric car/battery supply chain, one obvious effect is that everything else is going to be electric from buses to boats. We can also see the effects of the battery tech on solar power. Once people can efficiently store the solar energy they produce themselves for days, and even sell it to their neighbors through blockchain.

gorkemyurton Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

Yep! Even some of Amazon and Microsoft's high profile teams are based in SV..

gorkemyurton Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

What people seem to miss when they project about Silicon Valley's future is that how existing tech monopolies are becoming increasingly profitable. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Netflix are all literally killing it! If you want to grow your career in any of these big tech companies you have to be in the Bay Area (Seattle for Microsoft or Amazon depending on what part of the company).

gorkemyurton Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing their luster

I would say Tesla is on its way to make an iPhone-like impact, along with other self driving car technologies. I would consider the Tesla's Autopilot to be a blockbuster feature.

gorkemyurton These 2 Forces Will Crush the San Francisco Housing Bubble

"And this crushed the SF housing market."

As far as I know even in the previous dotcom burst the housing market went down just a little, something around 10%. In some neighborhoods rents have been increasing more than that per year in the last 3 years. So even if there is a tech burst the size of the 2000 dotcom burst, I don't expect real estate prices to suffer that much.

edit: here is a good analysis; http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby

gorkemyurton End of Cycle?

uber being not profitable doesn't really tell us anything. They are not profitable by design.. if they cut their growth budget today, I am sure they are insanely profitable, they just prefer to spend all the money in growth.. Even in SF they try to launch new products all the time, Pool, UberEats, delivery API.. it costs money to grow these businesses. Hopefully they did the math so when the time comes, they can turn the switch and basically print money (and they probably spend a ton of money on driverless car R&D)

gorkemyurton Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed

So you are saying NYC is much less expensive than Bay Area?

gorkemyurton Voters may be asked to tax SF tech companies

Aaron Peskin is doing everything to fuel hatred against tech workers in the city; he reminds me of populist Latin American leaders who antagonize the population against a certain group to grab media attention and get votes..

How do you decide if a company is a tech company? They use computers, they must be a tech company..

gorkemyurton Voters may be asked to tax SF tech companies

No, tax breaks were given to the mid market area not to specific companies, so even the restaurants and gyms get tax breaks in the area

gorkemyurton Airbnb Is Suing San Francisco to Block Rental Rules

how about something like Getaround? https://www.getaround.com

gorkemyurton New Cities

Another good option! I've always wondered why NW Pacific US coast is very underutilized. How is the climate like there? Pretty much the same as Portland?

I agree with you that there needs to be a University to create a tech hub, but I think that's the easiest to take care of if YC and big tech companies are behind this plan.. You can easily convince big name universities to start satellite campuses or even better you can start your own! UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay is a perfect example that you can build a world class research center if you pump enough money to it.

gorkemyurton New Cities

Location suggestions anyone?

my 3 priorities would be;

- close to Silicon Valley and California High Speed Rail

- no one should really be living there (no status quo)

- has to be close to a body of water (better climate)

I think I found the perfect location! Link to Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/gnzquv3

The exact point where the couple is drinking wine in the picture can be the Dolares park of the new city :)

gorkemyurton New Cities

If anything I prefer more companies to move to SF and Oakland from SV and create more awareness around solving homelessness and transit first development. I am really happy how Twitter & co transformed Tenderloin. Western Waterfront and Oakland is SF's future, Central Subway (if its extended to F.Warf) is going make it pretty easy to get to Mission Bay/Dogpatch from other parts of the city.. We need a big tech company in Hunters Point and extend the T line all the way down to HP.. More companies need to move to Oakland and push for the second BART tube..

gorkemyurton Twilio opens trading at $23.99 per share

They are investing heavily on video conferencing as well.. https://www.twilio.com/webrtc

gorkemyurton Show HN: New calendar app idea

well in this case I think it does.. Animating this many DOM elements in a performant way would be really hard. Looks like the webapp is rendered in a <canvas/> element. I think its a better discussion than 'which js framework should I use?'

gorkemyurton Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud

Some say its Prop. 13 http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-birgenau-prop-13-...

gorkemyurton Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud

Yea lot of them are founded by immigrants..

gorkemyurton Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud

That's one way of doing it.

But most of the people use a regional center [1] to park the $500k is a big real estate project like Hunter's Point Shipyard in SF or Hudson Yards in New York with no additional yearly cost.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-worker...

gorkemyurton Uber Turns to Saudi Arabia for $3.5B Cash Infusion

guess who is Saudi's biggest trade partner?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia#List_o...

or who actually sells them guns?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_Army

gorkemyurton Housing in the Bay Area

154 Ellis Act evictions last year. I know its sucks but I wouldn't say it happens all the time

http://sfist.com/2016/03/29/report_evictions_continue_to_inc...

gorkemyurton Housing in the Bay Area

If they end up implementing all their plans its a major capacity expansion for cal train, and part of a sister plan that would connect oakland to downtown SF via second transbay tube.

gorkemyurton Housing in the Bay Area

http://www.vancouver-downtown-condo.ca/details.php?id=31618&...

$300k (USD) 1 bd room apartment in Yaletown, equivalent of this in SF is at least $750k. Plus property taxes in SF are around %1.15 for a $750k condo that comes down to 10k a year, just on property taxes. Not sure about the rules in Vancouver but the link I posted above claims $1,008 in property taxes. So yea I think Vancouver is affordable.