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New comment by ardacinar in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

ardacinar — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:51:07 +0000

You real solution is literally the workers controlling the means of production.

New comment by ardacinar in "A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses"

ardacinar — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:06:21 +0000

Well, you can just treat them like they are anybody else. So, $1000 fine plus a point on the license of Waymo. And as suggested by another commenter in the thread, if the cars in the fleet (collectively) accumulate more than 4 points within 12 months, Waymo loses its license. As in, all cars operated by Waymo.

New comment by ardacinar in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

ardacinar — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:12:43 +0000

Practically; yes. MMOs have been doing this kind of thing (Preventing alteration / automation of the client) for ages now.

New comment by ardacinar in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

ardacinar — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:47:55 +0000

GraphQL and SQL are about as related as Java and Javascript

New comment by ardacinar in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

ardacinar — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:04:25 +0000

Are we sure that the things listed here will not go away in a few years if Google continues to exist?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by ardacinar in "Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)"

ardacinar — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:15:09 +0000

Expected Value

New comment by ardacinar in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

ardacinar — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:00:38 +0000

By the way, acquisitions are easier to defend IMO. There are definitely cases of "Business X acquires business Y" that have no anti-competitive intent or anti-competitive consequences. But at least anecdotally, I can say mergers that do not lead to anti-competitive behavior are quite rare.

New comment by ardacinar in "Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software"

ardacinar — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:34:48 +0000

It is called something like chai in half of the word and something like tea in the other half :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_...

New comment by ardacinar in "Finnish as a world language?"

ardacinar — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:38:17 +0000

Not Finnish, but in Turkish (another language without gendered pronouns) I'd use something like "o ne dedi bu ne dedi" (what did that say, what did this say)

I'd guess Finnish has more than one demonstrative pronoun, too :)

New comment by ardacinar in "What will a Chromium-only Web look like?"

ardacinar — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:46:24 +0000

A blockchain-free protocol is not a protocol with "no you can't do anything blockchain related on this" restriction. A blockchain-free protocol is one where the protocol itself does not involve a blockchain. Like HTTP, or FTP, or Gopher, or IRC, SMTP etc.

New comment by ardacinar in "Turkey's Financial Crisis"

ardacinar — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 18:32:29 +0000

I remember there was an instance of a soldier being beheaded on the Bosphorus bridge. Not sure about the plural though

New comment by ardacinar in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

ardacinar — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:25:33 +0000

It is y/y (comparing Nov 2021 to Nov 2020). m/m 7% inflation is generally something more catastrophic.

New comment by ardacinar in "Apple stopped sales in Turkey after the lira crashed 15% in a day"

ardacinar — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:56:16 +0000

More like two thirds of it, by the way.

New comment by ardacinar in "The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (2005)"

ardacinar — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:03:25 +0000

Isn't that just erlang?

Snarkiness aside, that would be interesting. Not just as an educational tool, but it might be useful in the same way as erlang is (large, fault-tolerant, massively parallel systems). But with OOP instead of FP (Elixir attempts to be the "friendly"/more conventional version of erlang, but it is still very much a functional language).

New comment by ardacinar in "Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo"

ardacinar — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:19:01 +0000

Kind of. I mean, that's pretty much the reason it stayed there after being the provisional capital.

Why was it the provisional capital? Well, the major cities (Istanbul, Izmir) were occupied. Ankara was * Controlled by Ataturk's government * Centrally Located * Decently Large (i.e. not a village)

New comment by ardacinar in "Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys"

ardacinar — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 12:12:19 +0000

> There needs to be some sort of institution that can verify these claims that these companies can use.

A government?

New comment by ardacinar in "YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them"

ardacinar — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:15:51 +0000

I guess the solution here is to not use your main Google account with youtube vanced?

New comment by ardacinar in "How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub"

ardacinar — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 13:00:52 +0000

What about I randomly generate a number, add it to the illegal number to get a result. Is the resulting number illegal or not? (Thinking about it mathematically, the resulting number's distribution isn't really affected by the illegal number - Maybe we can practically find something by taking a lot of generated numbers and analyzing the apparent distribution)

Another idea is to generate a random number and multiply it with an illegal prime. If the illegal prime is a sufficiently large number; we can extract the original illegal prime with very high confidence by just finding its prime factors and picking the shortest one.

New comment by ardacinar in "Turkish Ultranationalist Group on the “Hunt for Armenians” in France"

ardacinar — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:27:46 +0000

Well, not as much of an organization. Ulku ocaklari is the successor organization. Although it shares the same ideology as with its historical counterpart, it is considered mostly harmless. Generally due to the sheer incompetence of the organization).

However, there are far too many individuals/groups (Equivalent to Mafia in Turkey, ultranationalist gangs in Europe) that sympathize/share views with said organization. And those guys are definitely not "mostly harmless".

New comment by ardacinar in "Evolving Reddit’s Workforce"

ardacinar — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 05:13:03 +0000

For me in Turkey: Having my tied to a foreign country is kind of inconvenient (paying fees and having to wait for a swift transfer). Having it tied to an exchange rate has benefits that far outweigh the inconveniences of the transfer (With the way exchange rates have been going for the last few years, it feels more like* you get automatic raises throughout the year tied to inflation in addition to your yearly raise)

* I know it is not that, but it feels like that. Also thankfully not tied to the officially reported inflation rate in Turkey