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terminalcommand
4y ago
Yes I do, I answered in the first thread.
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4y ago
Please refer to my answer above, Siemens is involved in a huge corruption scandal. As it involves the minister there is a press ban. The court proceedings are handled in secrecy due to alleged threat to public order. I have provided links a
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terminalcommand
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This is horrifying but true. We actually have an active court case against Siemens for corruption. Unfortunately, the court case was deemed as confidential because of national security and public order. No journalists are allowed in, protoc
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Fun fact, due to corruption Turkey's newly built suburban rail system called Marmaray does not have signalization. They accepted the project without it. For years, we did not know when the next train would arrive. Now we have tables bu
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terminalcommand
4y ago
They also increase prices if competition sells them for a higher price. This happens automatically.
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terminalcommand
4y ago
I think the popularity of pascal has something to with Modula-2 (the successor of Pascal invented by Wirth) having been recently included as an officially supported language in gcc alongside Rust. I tried lazarus again, I was amazed. It is
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4y ago
For example I know that some e-commerce sites adjust their prices by using web scrapers. They scrape their competitors' sites and always offer products to 1 USD less than the competitor to make more sales. I think this should violate c
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terminalcommand
4y ago
What about Squeak?
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Opposition will fight from within, they will resist appointing the mayor. They'll lose blood and it will cause turmoil.
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terminalcommand
4y ago
The polls point out to such outcome.
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He will probably run unless Erdogan can influence the court of cassation. But he would not have run if not sentenced, because he is not the president of the opposition party (CHP). Some say government pulled this off (courts follow the orde
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terminalcommand
4y ago
The biggest hurdle I think is still the GIL. Does anyone know if any progress is being made there? https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Didn't he operate in Germany? The country that allowed the fraud was Germany.
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Don't forget about the Wirecard scandal as well.
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Seriously, if you have the money go and travel. Visit family if you are on good terms with them?
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terminalcommand
4y ago
4. Somebody somewhere will still find a legitimate use case to code in assembly and blow everyone's mind.
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Yeah buying a car is not possible for many. The minimum wage is around 5500 try. An entry level car costs around 850k try now. More than 60% of the population works at minimum wage. So you have to work for 154 months without having any expe
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terminalcommand
4y ago
To be blunt I never thought of this. We can invest in US equities but US government bonds, I never thought of this. We can buy eurobonds of Turkish Republic if we don't care about liquidity in short to mid term. However usd is another
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4y ago
We lower our standards, lots of middle class families don't eat red meat anymore for example. We don't eat out. We sell assets, take on debt. Young people don't move out in the first place. Lots of people move back in. We got
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4y ago
That's a good idea, real estate investment funds accepting investment from retail investors don't really exist in my country. There are real estate investment companies which I can buy shares in. I am afraid of buying stocks, but
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Another perspective, we have 83.45 %/year CPI inflation in Turkey. This is the official number an independent research group of academics claim it is nearing 200%. The official interest rate is 10.5%/year. You get maximum 20-25%&#
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4y ago
Yes, I agree, but the underlying IP is top secret. No one in the world can replicate it. I believe the leading forces want it to remain this way. (China shouldn't get its hand on high tech UEV machines because they might reverse engine
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I know I might seem like a flat-earther with this, but I don't understand the chip crisis either. The explanation that many chipmakers went bankrupt after the automobile industry scaled down their orders seemed logical to me. But now t
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They are not young :). I live outside of US so technology might have come a bit later to us. And law is an industry that does not like change that much.
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This is a convincing argument.
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That's true, but this is one of the most important techs we have. From the recent news, I see that TSMC wants ASML to scale up as well. TSMC announced that it will cut its capital expenditure by 10% due to supply problems. This announc
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Why can't ASML scale up? I don't understand this. I think because they are a monopoly they can work slower, they don't need the extra profits.
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I am a lawyer, my boss uses an ipad pro heavily for work. He usually does not have much time to work on stuff, we mail him the contracts, documents etc., he marks them up with digital pen with his comments and sends it to us to revise. He f
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Thank you for your detailed answer and the links!
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terminalcommand
4y ago
Or just like or retweet a tweet that says Turkish economic policy is bad.
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