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ninetyfurr

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ninetyfurr··on “Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately”
This inversion has been years in the making. I understand Silicon Valley is quite the Disneyland of tech, but you realize the rest of California is a third world country, and people and companies are fleeing in droves.
ninetyfurr··on Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
Sunlight as a treatment for COVID-19? Where did I hear about this before.
ninetyfurr··on Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses
Oh a guy with $77,000 in his day trading account didn't know futures can go negative. I'm shocked.

Ironically this is the same guy who will sell you a gym contract without a cancellation option and blame you for not doing your research when you owe him $1100.

ninetyfurr··on Books I recommend to my software engineering students
Clean Coder is great for developers just starting their career.
ninetyfurr··on YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
YouTube is headquartered in the US, so it should follow CDC advice, rather than a global counterpart.
ninetyfurr··on U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests
>Twitter has argued it free speech rights are violated

That's rich coming from a company famous for censorship.

ninetyfurr··on Jewish Problems (2011) [pdf]
I cannot solve any of them.
ninetyfurr··on L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’
I wonder why nobody pays for newspapers, yet podcasts and talk radio shows pull in millions of dollars annually.
ninetyfurr··on California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
They should quit padding the numbers if they're so concerned about minimizing fatalities.

A man gets hit by a bus and tests positive for Coronavirus, I don't care what the science has to say about it, that is not a Coronavirus death and you can't change my mind.

ninetyfurr··on Fear of an impending car-price collapse grips auto industry
Consumer Reports coined the phrase decades ago. That purchasing a new car is the worst financial decision anyone can possibly make.
ninetyfurr··on China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
Ironically in censorsed domains, the absence of information is a very clear indicator of truth. It happens everywhere - there are many true things you are not allowed to post on the internet.

You know the old saying, "Just because you read it on the internet, doesn't mean it's true"? Consider the inverse: Just because you haven't read it on the internet, doesn't mean it's not true.

ninetyfurr··on I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too
All of a sudden my unsexy junior dev job at shitcorp isn't so bad.