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Yes. I hope they acquire TikTok.
by MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
Yes. I hope they acquire TikTok.
- jacquesm 6y agoHehe. Agreed. In fact I have a list of companies that I would like Oracle to acquire.
- majewsky 6y agoIs Oracle on that list?
- kube-system 6y agoORA-01476 divisor is equal to zero
- jacquesm 6y agoThere is a Rust linked list joke in here somewhere but I'm stuck in a loop so I can't find it.
- boring_twenties 6y agoIt would be only honorable thing for Oracle to do.
- norin 6y agohahahahaha
- XaspR8d 6y agoI don't understand the hate for TikTok I frequently see on HN. Is it just ordinary ageism/curmudgeonliness? I'm not in its core audience myself, but it seems to me to be a very smartly put together app, both in its core features (practically the only video remixing/editing app for mobile that retains tolerable levels of both accessibility and expressiveness) and in its platform (particularly the recommendation engine which seems to drive pretty solid engagement).
- krspykrm 6y agoIt's cognitive dissonance. America is supposed to be the good guys, but on American social media everyone is toxic and hates each other and it's all full of political and corporate AstroTurfing; China is supposed to be the bad guys, but on TikTok everyone's happy and enjoying themselves and the content is organic and largely apolitical. The easiest way to get rid of the cognitive dissonance is not to fix US social media, but to get rid of TikTok.
- garmaine 6y agoOr it could be that we just don’t like apps that exist to Hoover up personal information and/or be state sponsored spying endpoints, no matter who makes them.
- MrBuddyCasino 6y agoCorrect answer, downvoted of course since this is HN. I personally don’t care about privacy too much, but the way TikTok operates and its ties with the Chinese government is more than a little concerning. The videos are fun, too bad about the content.
- trasz 6y agoIt would be correct if it didn’t ignore the fact that US-based companies do the exact same thing.
- garmaine 6y agoAnd I'm angry about that too.
- impassionedrule 6y agoAs someone that uses Keepass on Android, I find it extremely disturbing that it was reading my clipboard without permission. Thankfully I only had TikTok for a day (ironically copied my TikTok password to the clipboard).