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by chvid 6y ago
You have posted the reason why this and the TikTok ban is most likely a bluff. This (ordering companies such as Apple and Google to sever all business with TikTok and WeChat's owners and by extension removing them from all app stores)
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by chvid 6y ago
You can be sure that "war games" are being played out routinely. The problem here is that this is an obvious escalation with US as the aggressor and not all US allies are willing to follow the US into war as the current administra
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by chvid 6y ago
So it is fraud?! Pretending you have a profitable business by hiding spiraling debt and other cost in a separate entity.
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by chvid 6y ago
What is - in your opinion - a good English language source for getting a grasp of what is going on in Xinjiang? And how is the western concern for human rights abuses in Xinjiang being covered by the Chinese media?
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by chvid 6y ago
Try downloading it and just play with it for a bit without signing up. Compare that with Instagram.
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by chvid 6y ago
The point is not media format (short video clips) but the "sorting hat". That it breaks the traditional social media model with a news feed, discussions, a social graph of friends. I think it is completely meaningful to call it ne
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by chvid 6y ago
TikTok really is next-generation social media. Interesting that this should come out of China and not the west. Maybe we are seeing the effect of monopolies stifling innovation.
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by chvid 6y ago
Hey ... we can print money too ...
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by chvid 6y ago
Something like that. Plus remember when Zoom was a national security threat? You know with that Chinese guy in charge, the Chinese servers, the censoring on behalf of the CCP ... Funny how that all disappeared when Zoom got in bed with Orac
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by chvid 6y ago
Where is EU in this embarrassment? Suppose Margrethe Vestager called and said TikTok, you are banned unless you let a "very european" company take over your business? And by the way. We would like a cut. And would the US still bei
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by chvid 6y ago
Great policy. The EU needs to do the same with American big tech.
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by chvid 6y ago
One of the things that "scholars" Martin Jacques (China-friendly academic commentator) and Steve Bannon (crazy Trump guy) agree on is that 2008 was the pivotal event. A wave of nationalism has swept the western world. From Trump i
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by chvid 6y ago
So many IT-professionals here; only very few actually sitting down and trying to understand the appeal of this thing. And so strange to see that everyone assumes that TikTok can be taken apart by a competitor (Triller) paying top creators t
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by chvid 6y ago
That the US president is essentially threatening to nationalise TikTok shows just how far the US is willing to go to preserve their absolute dominance in social media. "National security". Well of course it is. All American social
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by chvid 6y ago
This is from Bloomberg's coverage of the story: "President Donald Trump plans to announce a decision ordering Bytedance to divest its U.S. ownership of TikTok, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. has been invest
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by chvid 6y ago
So now the US is nationalising a foreign company because they are communist ...
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by chvid 6y ago
This is not a vue app is it? As far as I can see this classic JavaScript with jquery.
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by chvid 6y ago
Network effects ... same way the old folks ain’t moving away from fb ...
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by chvid 6y ago
That sounds like a good deal. I will ask my higher ups.
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by chvid 6y ago
Full thread: Talks abt ban on Tiktok subsiding a bit because Tiktok in talks with General Atlantic and Sequoia to sell to a US shell company. US demanding that Tiktok technical staff be completely changed, AI algorithm be based in the US ..
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by chvid 6y ago
50B is low; only meaningful because the US government is holding a gun to TikTok's head.
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by chvid 6y ago
If you look at the graphs in this article on the use and explosive popularity of TikTok you can see that TiKTok currently dwarfs all other social media in the US market wrt. downloads, time spent in app pr user, user growth. https:/&#
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by chvid 6y ago
This is from Twitter and might be a hyperbole or conspiracy: Overheard on current US war on Tiktok. A thread: Talks abt ban on Tiktok subsiding a bit because Tiktok in talks with General Atlantic and Sequoia to sell to a US shell company. U
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by chvid 6y ago
The real threat to intel comes from arm not amd. Amd is also threatened by arm. If you compare with intels numbers. Then amd is a dwarf. And the growth figures are loosely following intels: https://www.intc.com/investor-rela
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by chvid 6y ago
This might be a hyperbole or conspiracy but there is a certain logic to it: Overheard on current US war on Tiktok. A thread: Talks abt ban on Tiktok subsiding a bit because Tiktok in talks with General Atlantic and Sequoia to sell to a US s
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US investors try to buy TikTok from Chinese owner(ft.com)
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TikTok’s rampant growth strikes wrong note with US(ft.com)
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by chvid 6y ago
This was posted elsewhere in this thread: https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories To me the biggest problem is the hype and massive salesmanship used to sells extreme complexity to gullible companies &#x2
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by chvid 6y ago
The same stuff that makes it unfit for smaller organisations.
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by chvid 6y ago
K8 is also unfit for the largest organizations. They just have the advantage that they can throw any number of people after it and pretend that everything is alright.

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