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by sukruh 10y ago
That's correct - the 1982 constitution was far from being truly democratic - but it did have some oversight mechanisms over the executive branch. Now, one guy can rule by decree and renew elections at will.
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by sukruh 10y ago
One crucial difference is that the military juntas of the past always gave the power back to the civilians after setting the country back to its “factory settings." The most brutal of the coups, the one in 1980 in which about 50,000 pe
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Turkey is sliding into dictatorship(economist.com)
82 points by sukruh 10y ago|113 comments
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by sukruh 10y ago
As far as I can see, the religious and other "post-thruth" people live in a portion of the economy where i. The standard of living is low, ii. The feedback loop of improving one's skills to attain a better income level is bro
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by sukruh 10y ago
In Turkey, a big referendum on a set of constitutional amendments, unambiguously aiming to legalize one-man rule, is coming this April [1]. What surprises me the most is that about half of the population is either supportive or indifferent.
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by sukruh 10y ago
It is tragic to see millions of people denied a basic understanding of the world and themselves.
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by sukruh 10y ago
It would be cool if someone did a similar thing for the Apache Big Data projects.
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by sukruh 10y ago
SEEKING WORK (Remote, or on-site in Istanbul/Turkey) Data Engineer/Scientist offering both scalable data infrastructure development and Data Science (Statistics/Machine Learning/Optimization) consulting and development s
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SparkNet: Training Deep Networks in Spark(arxiv.org)
3 points by sukruh 11y ago|0 comments
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Netflix Profits Drop 50%(theatlantic.com)
1 points by sukruh 11y ago|0 comments
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by sukruh 11y ago
Psychopaths with incentives. Like as you said, people normally don't kill others, even when heavily incentivised to do so. In this case, the laws provided perverse incentives, and in a country with so many people, it is not surprising
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by sukruh 11y ago
getshutdownhq.io?
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by sukruh 11y ago
Intel isn't implementing EUV for 10nm. They plan to use it for 7nm, though. http://www.anandtech.com/show/9447/intel-10nm-and-kaby-lake
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by sukruh 11y ago
It helps employees slack better. /s
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by sukruh 11y ago
This reminds me of Agar.io.
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by sukruh 11y ago
Any reasonable definition of computer includes things that can do arithmetic, and since brains can do that, brains are computers. The distinction between analog and digital computers doesn’t seem to be so important to me. Any computation th
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by sukruh 11y ago
Having professionals negotiate for the team doesn't necessarily mean the pay will be equal among the team. Actors, who also work in a creative field and also have vast differences in talent, use many kinds of intermediaries.
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by sukruh 12y ago
> Simulating an entire Universe with sufficient detail to include conscious minds will be complex, even if the fundamental rules underlying the program are simple. It seems needlessly baroque to programme something as complicated as that
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An introduction to quantum machine learning(arxiv.org)
3 points by sukruh 12y ago|0 comments
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Chomsky: How the bin Laden raid could have led to nuclear annihilation(salon.com)
1 points by sukruh 12y ago|0 comments
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by sukruh 12y ago
I think this method of measuring the performance of retargeting is wrong. When your visitors later see your ads and convert, the value may not all be attributable to the ad. I would expect some visitors would have later converted even if th
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What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group?(forbes.com)
1 points by sukruh 12y ago|0 comments
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by sukruh 13y ago
>Twitter's global policy team said it withholds content only "after due process", such as after having received a court order, and in a tweet said it would not do so "at the mere request of a gov't official"
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Chomsky Q&A at Google(youtube.com)
3 points by sukruh 13y ago|1 comments