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by bduerst 6y ago
*Subsidiaries. Bytedance has TaoTiao inside China, which shares TaoTaio user information with the CCP, the same way that Apple has Apple Guizhou, which shares iCloud data with the CCP. Neither Bytedance, or it's TikTok subsidiary, exis
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by bduerst 6y ago
Bytedance is not owned by the Chinese government. It's an independent company, as is TikTok.
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by bduerst 6y ago
>It's a Chinese company, they have privledges, not rights. Neither Bytedance nor TikTok are Chinese companies. It's true that Bytedance has buildings in Beijing, and a Chinese app (Taotiao) that is a Chinese subsidiary, but B
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by bduerst 6y ago
Yeah, a $30 CPA isn't anything suspicious when there's upsell to a $20/mo subscription.
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by bduerst 6y ago
I think you mean signatory required?
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by bduerst 6y ago
All entertainment is for dopamine and serotonin. Short form media has just made it more efficient.
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by bduerst 6y ago
Microsoft also mismanaged skype. They're an enterprise software company, not B2C.
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by bduerst 6y ago
The brand is dead, which is important for social network apps. Relaunching would peak interest for a few weeks before quickly becoming a second mistake.
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by bduerst 6y ago
Pretty Much - I seem to remember an Economist article talking about how the 2000's saw some of the largest gains for the middle class globally, with China's middle class being one of the contributing factors. But you're right
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by bduerst 6y ago
Yep, but Apple and Amazon would face major losses.
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by bduerst 6y ago
Yes - dunno what GP is talking about because there are tangible milestones for working self driving: https://www.synopsys.com/automotive/autonomous-driving-level...
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by bduerst 6y ago
Gerulf Rieger is controversial in this regard, I wouldn't take him too seriously: https://www.transgendermap.com/politics/psychology/gerulf-ri...
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by bduerst 6y ago
Devs made min/maxing solar panels per accumulators is intentionally tricky, as you can't move over them and they don't line up perfectly. And you can say, "You don't need to play the game that way," and you&#x2
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by bduerst 6y ago
Maybe. I took the liberty to look up their 990 form [1] and it looks like it's an empty non-profit (no assets or activity). Interestingly enough, Lior Ron (Otto co-founder) was appointed CEO of the church. 1 - https://990s.
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by bduerst 6y ago
That's survivor bias though, isn't it? Hard to see the world's best self-driving engineers when they're not getting caught stealing trade secrets and forced to reveal compensation.
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by bduerst 6y ago
Which doesn't matter, because Chinese National Intelligence law only applies to subsidiaries that are in-country, not buildings in Beijing and not parent companies in the Caymans. Bytedance has a CCP committee for Toutiao, their in-Ch
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by bduerst 6y ago
I think GP was mixing it up with the President's chief Campaign Manager, Paul Manafort, who was serving his 7.5 year sentence in prison and moved to home confinement for covid 19.
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by bduerst 6y ago
>Bringing his knowledge to uber doesn't mean google can't use it There were hundreds of engineers who worked on the technology that Levandowski stole. Let's not entertain this narrative that it's his work and talent
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by bduerst 6y ago
>bonuses in the millions Hundreds of millions. As part of breaching his employment agreement by stealing trade secrets, Levandowski had to pay back one of his bonuses, which was $120 million . I mean, part of paying this type of comp
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by bduerst 6y ago
It's likely Levandowski has narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), as is evident by his founding The Way of The Future , which is his own church to worship artificial intelligence.
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by bduerst 6y ago
Which, if passed, applies to all tech companies in China, including Apple and Amazon (who do comply with the Chinese National Intelligence law already).
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by bduerst 6y ago
>Bytedance itself is a Cayman company
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by bduerst 6y ago
- Bytedance's global TikTok app is based out of datacenters in Singapore. - Bytedance's Chinese Toutiao app is based out of datacenters in China. Bytedance itself is a Cayman company, so in regards to the Chinese National Intellig
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by bduerst 6y ago
There need to be better indexed shopify and big cartel sites. So many great online stores I've bought from use that as a web front.
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by bduerst 6y ago
Yeah, I didn't want to comment on it but "just changing the UI" did not work well for them. IME it has to be done slowly with gradual improvements.
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by bduerst 6y ago
This is the approach Salesforce took, isn't it?
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by bduerst 6y ago
Except you can do multiple colors, by introducing differently charged pigments inside the capsules: - https://www.eink.com/assets/img/technology/GIF_Cup_E.gif - https://www.eink.com/assets&#x2
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by bduerst 6y ago
Despite having it's own generic registrar service, Google uses MarkMonitor for most of it's domains, for reasons people have already outlined.
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The best response is simpler than that, that even encryption laymen can understand: "If I have nothing to hide, then you have no reason to look."
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by bduerst 6y ago
True, but the flash game era peaked ~15 years after the internet on desktops became normalized. IIRC it wasn't until about 2010 that app stores started, and now ten years later we're just starting to get standard languages/ra

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