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lenitabinolon Why workers are calling BS on leaders about returning to the office

Every 16+ year old in the Bay Area has had access to a vaccine for 6 weeks.

lenitabinolon Stripe Payment Links

Glad I am long $PSTH

lenitabinolon Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says

This is what came to my mind. Sinister tactics but apparently very effective given airline policy.

lenitabinolon Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts

This topic generates so much negative discussion... I am still trying to wrap my head around it

lenitabinolon Tesla Car Hacked Remotely from Drone via Zero-Click Exploit

Changing the drive settings from "chill" to "sport" will increase the acceleration by 15% or so. This doesn't allow control of the steering wheel.

lenitabinolon Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder

This is amazing. As someone who has lived in conditions where safe water isn't freely available, this costing 3.5 cents and being manufactured in an emerging market is life changing.

lenitabinolon Big SPAC deals don’t need big SPACs

I am still super long PSTH. It's the biggest SPAC ever led by a reputable value investor. The target will be huge (Stripe, Starlink, etc.)

lenitabinolon I hope work from home continues

If I had to go back to the office I would simply work for big tech.

lenitabinolon Tony Hsieh bankrolled his followers, who enabled his risky lifestyle

What's the point in disparaging the dead.

lenitabinolon Losing faith in UX

I have to cancel my credit cards when a vendor makes it that difficult to unsubscribe

lenitabinolon Stripe bans Trump campaign

Trump wasn't banned for being a republican...

lenitabinolon The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death

Even neater feature in electric vehicles!

lenitabinolon Stripe Treasury

is Stripe merging with PSTH?

lenitabinolon Drinking coffee or tea from paper cups may be bad for your health

"Fluorescence microscopy indicated the release of approximately 25,000 micron-sized microplastic particles into one cup of hot water in 15 minutes" is directly from the article. They claim it's not just the ions.

lenitabinolon Drinking coffee or tea from paper cups may be bad for your health

Source: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

lenitabinolon DoorDash S-1

My toothbrush breaks even but its not worth $25B

lenitabinolon A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg

How so?

lenitabinolon Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots

Exactly, they literally didn't do anything but file a Facebook bug report.

lenitabinolon Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users

please elaborate

lenitabinolon VPN by Google One

I pay $3/month for NordVPN, but many IPs are blocked from making Google searches. I wonder if this will be compatible with Puppeteer/Playwright

lenitabinolon A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool

Is it hard to understand why people are disgusted by him? If you can't acknowledge that, it's hard to have a conversation at all.

His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. If you don't get it, I don't know what to say. It has nothing to do with his politics or policy stances, it has to do with his behavior.

lenitabinolon GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production

Preorder deposits are listed on their balance sheet every quarter...

lenitabinolon Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods [video]

I found a lot of value in your post, regardless of the Siri part. Manufacturing is hard.

lenitabinolon Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being

Wikipedia is a great filter.

lenitabinolon Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy

What is the 2020 production volumes for BMW/Mercedes electric vehicles?

lenitabinolon Covid Deaths

Wise words. Wish more people took this measured approach to complex issues.

lenitabinolon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Eh this doesn't apply in tons of modern cases.

lenitabinolon Twitter suspends accounts for posing as Black Trump supporters

It was getting quite ridiculous with the stock images and the over the top political messaging... should have been simple enough to set up a reverse image search to flag suspicious profiles.

lenitabinolon The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

This is the right answer.

Inflation metrics as reported by the Fed are entirely disconnected from what the average consumer is actually facing.

Higher education, housing, and healthcare costs are the biggest expenses one faces in their life and the Fed ignores these to justify money creation.

Fortunately for the 1%, that money is used to buy assets mostly owned by them.