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I recently wrote an article about moving to Austin.

"Once hub of global innovation, SF Bay Area now represents status quo"

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2020/10/09/sahin-boy...

sahin-boydason CBS reality shows must now have 50% non-White casts, network says

Great news.

sahin-boydason 90k people told to evacuate because of wildfires in Southern California

A wildfire that nearly quadrupled in size Monday, prompted tens of thousands of people to evacuate and caused two firefighters to suffer critical injuries may have been started by a power company's equipment.

Southern California Edison said a power line may have played a role in the ignition of the Silverado Fire -- which has burned 7,200 acres near Irvine -- a report filed with California Public Utilities Commission shows

sahin-boydason Bayer announces resolution of U.S. Essure claims

The company will pay approximately 1.6 billion U.S. dollars (1.35 billion euros) to resolve these claims, including an allowance for outstanding claims,

sahin-boydason Gardasil Lawsuit – Deaths and Serious Injuries Linked to HPV Vaccine

Disclaimer: i am for vaccinations. Science can always make better safer vaccinations.

And this is from the law firm:

There is currently a great deal of controversy surrounding vaccines. Our firm wishes to stress that we are not against vaccines. They have the potential to eradicate disease and save millions of lives. We are, however, against intentional efforts to mislead consumers about the safety and effectiveness of a drug or vaccine.

sahin-boydason Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college tracks its students with a flawed app

I can see that many institution will require this..

sahin-boydason Ask HN: Is it legal for US companies to hire remote non-US contractors?

I am Sahin founder&CEO RemoteTeam.com.

In RemoteTeam.com we can help you to pay and manage contractors very easily. We have a solid payments platform (fastest, cheapest and dollar transfers for most popular countries). Also we help you to do in a more compliant way. (W8ben forms and contractor aggrements with specific sections for each countries). Our in house lawyer works with 40+ lawyers globally.

We have hundreds of companies with team sizes of 20-40 and they are mostly remote and non-US contractors.

sahin-boydason Vehicle Safety Report

In the 2nd quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.53 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.27 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.56 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.

sahin-boydason New Scam? Chamath Palihapitiya Live 5000 BTC Giveaway

it has 70k live viewers. it seems it is scam.

The channel has 3 videos, the channel name is Live News but it has a cnbc logo. And the video is old.

sahin-boydason New Scam? Chamath Palihapitiya Live 5000 BTC Giveaway

is this a another hack? i think we will need scam fact check like news fact check :)

sahin-boydason California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

I heard way worse stories than this.

sahin-boydason Apple Silicone - Apple is building its own processors for future Macs

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/apple-is-building-its-own-...

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23603897

sahin-boydason Apple Silicone - Apple is building its own processors for future Macs

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” is Alan Kay's famous words.

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sahin-boydason FBI obtained data from Senator Richard Burr’s iCloud account via Apple warrant

I thought Apple didnt have the key to encrypt the data.

sahin-boydason Nobel Prize winner who discovered HIV says covid19 is from Wuhan lab,has HIV DNA

It is in French, can anyone do the fact-checking?

sahin-boydason CDC adds 6 new possible symptoms of coronavirus to its list

And the oscar goes too:

The new symptoms, which were added on Sunday, include:

Chills

Repeated shaking with chills

Muscle pain

Headache

Sore throat

New loss of taste or smell

sahin-boydason OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

This will give so many opportunities to people who can pay their 10x monthly income to a buy 2-year-old mac :))

I think Apple had a stupid idea to become more luxurious and hire Angela Jean Ahrendts for 100M. God bless they realize, if they go for volume and price aggressive (as Steve Jobs said), more people can benefit.

I want hackintosh to work so well that indirectly, it will force Apple to develop way cheaper computers for the whole world.

sahin-boydason China Just Admitted Coronavirus Death Toll In Wuhan Was 50% Higher Than Reported

China Just Admitted Coronavirus Death Toll In Wuhan Was 50% Higher Than Reported

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/04/17/china-ju...

Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began in late 2019, has revised its coronavirus death toll by 50%, admitting a further 1,290 people have died after contracting the virus, but China denies that it covered up the figures.

It was probably a decimal error and human error.

sahin-boydason US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab

That will be a good one but if it is case , they must know and find and prove this easily. Then one possible result from this apporach, some group of people might hide this, another group of people like WHO got misinformed. It is still bad result and damaging the trust & reputation of some Chinese government officals and WHO.

sahin-boydason US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab

Maybe

sahin-boydason US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab

Misinformation of course. (I want to believe that this will be not be true)

China will never do that. And this is real virus from bats it is proven by respectful scientists and also WHO is supporting the idea that it cannot be labmade...

Upsss? If this misinformation,racists, conspiracy theory true, then what?

I sort don't want this to true otherwise so many respectful organzition and scientists will be wrong. Then many people will have no place to believe.

HN people can be smart, read and go deeper but 90% of the people dont want to research, they just want to believe.

If we don't trust Mr President (his truth changes weekly basis), government, we dont trust scientists, WHO, CNN or other outlets then what?

sahin-boydason Adding Trump's Name to Checks Will Delay Them. IRS Says They're on Schedule

This is funny.

sahin-boydason WHO haunted by old tweet saying China found no human transmission of coronavirus

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳.

sahin-boydason Senior WHO official dodges questions about Taiwan’s WHO membership;praises China

I am not sure about the policy about Taiwan in hacker news. Are we allowed post this or will it get flagged?

sahin-boydason We shrunk our DNN 30X to run inside Chrome

This article will inspire a lot of new types of chrome extensions.