Varoufakis told it like it is. That's not being an asshole, that's being honest.

It makes all the difference in the world. The creditors want regime change. They've just been shown they can't have it.

On the other hand living for a while in a foreign country can be a fantastic experience. I had a 2 of the best years of my life when I did it.

Being unemployed in Greece, then either they would be unemployed in Germany/France which doesn't require knowing the language. Or they'll get a get a job which doesn't require knowing the language.

Or, get this, they already know German or French. Some people speak foreign languages you know.

Unemployment is high in Greece. How about encouraging unemployed Greeks to move to Germany or France. Then they will have to pay the welfare, not the Greek government.

You're missing something. By saying how is actually is, rather than how the Germans and French ministers wanted to portray it, Varoufakis won the referendum with a landslide victory. He's more popular with the people of Greece than any finance minister has ever been!

That's given Greece a much stronger hand. They are still going to be arguing for the same, regardless of whether Varoufakis is at the table or not.

I thought that the meme was that Hipsters buy Apple products. Yet they are usually outstanding successes.

If you're looking for harbingers of failure in the tech world, I imagine it's probably neckbeards who call you people "hipsters" and keep on believing that this will be the year of Linux on the desktop.

On economics qualifications of course. From wikipedia:

"In 1982, Varoufakis decided to pursue a MSc in mathematical statistics at the University of Birmingham and a PhD in economics (Essex).[11][12]

"Varoufakis was inspired to study economics after he met Andreas Papandreou, an academic economist who founded PASOK and became Greeceâ(TM)s first socialist prime minister.[7] After training in mathematics and statistics, he received his PhD in economics in 1987 at the University of Essex.

"University of Essex & University of East Anglia[edit]
Before that he had already begun teaching economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia. In 1988, he spent a year as a Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

"University of Sydney[edit]
From 1989 until 2000 he taught as senior lecturer in economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Sydney.

"University of Athens[edit]
In 2000, he accepted the offer of Yannis Stournaras to become Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens.[7] In 2002, Varoufakis established The University of Athens Doctoral Program in Economics (UADPhilEcon), which he directed until 2008."

You're not your own special cornflake. Your brain works the same way as everyone else's.

When you think this is about "dumbing down" you're being quite dumb about UI design yourself.

How many ways does your car offer to do something? Or your TV?

Choice is not necessarily a good thing. Read The Paradox of Choice. Some choices are worth having, most are not. Extra UI always comes at a cost, and repeating functionality with various different UI methods is adding extra UI. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it's not. OSX strikes a good balance. "As many way's as possible" isn't a balance at all, and is a recipe for UI hell.

Right click on a folder on OSX gives you "open in a new tab". With the alt modifier, you get "open in new window". 5 seconds of experimentation just found me that option that I've never wanted. Not much of a power user are you?

No we're not. You've not actually used a Mac have you.

There's no such tipping point. Technology adoption looks like the the following chart. It's been demonstrated time and time again.

http://ondigitalmarketing.com/...

People may mention particular models as breakthroughs, but if you look at the sales of those models you'll see that they too ramp up as part of the sinusoidal curve. Look at the iPhone - it's seen as a breakthrough smartphone, but previous Nokia, Pocket PC and PalmOS smartphones brought the initial growth, and iPhones initial sales are nothing compared to iPhones later sales. They are still growing year on year. No tipping point happened, just the normal technology adoption curve.

For EVs we're still in the innovators segment of the curve. They'll keep ramping up till one day you realise that most people now have them. No particular breakthrough, functionality level or price required. Just continual improvement.

What?! Ha! Yanis Varoufakis is the most economically qualified finance minister in Europe. Probably in the world.

And choice? The Greeks have just given an overwhelming vote of confidence to their government in the referendum, giving an overwhelming no to accepting the creditors offer.

And class warfare? That's what the creditors were attempting by making the poor pay, whilst insisting on keeping tax concessions for the rich. That's both stupid and evil.

"I'm simply pointing out why EVs aren't taking off. They are expensive, limited in range, and generally not very appealing to most buyers."

Says the guy who likes helicopters. ;-)

That's not how product adoption curves work. They are typically sigmoidal. Everyone's entry-point is different. It takes a different level of functionality, price, and perception of individuality/ubiquity for every person. All this says is that you're preconceived notion of the point you'll start thinking of it is X. Although you probably can't predict even your own entry point.

People talk about price and range all the time. My own particular bar to entry is far bigger. I live in an apartment, and I don't have off-road parking. I can't own one until either I move somewhere more conducive, or recharging stations have expended to the individual street level. Which means although I'm enthusiastic about the technology I'll probably be a fairly late adopter.

Long term though the outcome is clear. Everyone will have EVs, with fossil fuel powered cars being museum pieces. They just need to keep chipping away at the things that prevent people moving on.