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by falcolas 3y ago
The head office - leadership - is in Singapore, not China. Bytedance does have an office in China, but they also have one in the US (and most other countries they operate in).
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by falcolas 3y ago
Again, China owns a minority share at 20%. And data for US citizens is stored on US soil, managed by a US company: Oracle. Come back when there’s a verified threat that Facebook doesn’t already pose to US citizens.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Why should the US lower itself to China’s standards? Or to use a proverb: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
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by falcolas 3y ago
China doesn’t have total control, they have 20%. And they’ve indicated they are completely unwilling to sell that 20%. And given how small the US install base is compared to the rest of the world, it’s not an unreasonable stance to take.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Whelp, there goes TikTok (unless the first amendment challenges succeed, which there is precedent for (thanks, Montana)), as China has already clearly indicated they are unwilling to sell their 20% share. Nothing quite like congress ignorin
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by falcolas 3y ago
Masking/distancing doesn't have to be workplace mandated to be a good idea. Especially indoors. At this point, it's personal choice to protect yourself against Covid (and the flu, colds, et.al.).
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by falcolas 3y ago
The answer has been shown to be "no", as an aside. i.e. there are several videos on multiple platforms of a CT shutting down mid-puddle.
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by falcolas 3y ago
...This isn't a bad economy. Nor volatile. Nor uncertain. This is, for businesses, the best economy we've had for years . Why are they being forced to raise their prices again? As for 25% not being unreasonable, it's about 1
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by falcolas 3y ago
Modern machines, especially those that Starbucks uses, effectively does make foam (and the shots) with no intervention by the baristas save refilling the milk. Yes, there's a cost to the machine, but latte prices are completely divorce
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Their Net[1] doesn't paint as rosy of a picture as you described. Your "not a rosy picture" feels like a weird take on a steady 25% YOY (where not higher, see 2020's 300%) increase in profits (net, not gross). The o
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by falcolas 3y ago
FWIW, command and control are distinct, and are both still used (especially if you use the terminal at all). I also tend to just remap capslock to control universally.
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by falcolas 3y ago
In this specific case, some good Samaritans came around and fixed the lawn for him while he was imprisoned. Had they not... I don't know how it would have been possible.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> We very much DO have debtor prisons. They're just through a judge who signs off. Yup. I'm always reminded of the gentleman (Joseph Prudente of Florida) who was put in jail without bail for failing to upkeep their lawn to thei
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by falcolas 3y ago
> So much is based on case studies in aggregate instead of individuals. Isn't this a good thing? Insurance is about spreading individual risk across a group. Hyper targeting the premiums of individuals according to their individual
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by falcolas 3y ago
I know. But I also know that if NSFW content makes up the majority of your store and/or sales, it behooves you to find a payment processor who accepts that risk (albeit at a higher cost).
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by falcolas 3y ago
I'm sure this will end well for them. I guess if you go out of business, you don't have to worry about running afoul of your choice of payment provider's requirements. So far as I know, Gumroad is basically the artists'
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by falcolas 3y ago
At the expense of its own citizens? Not in my opinion.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Texas. At least for US users. As part of the last TikTok ban attempt, ByteDance spent a billion and change moving all US user data to Oracle owned and managed servers.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Well, without even leaving China, you have all the various videogames and other apps owned by Tencent and other such entities. There's some language that attempts to limit the bill to social media apps, but any multiplayer game would e
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by falcolas 3y ago
> start a completely new profile and see what is recommended. That just speaks to what people in general find interesting. Instagram and YouTube shorts do the same thing. Use the app for more than two minutes, and you're out of the
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by falcolas 3y ago
> American version is basically all ages softcore porn and ragebait. My own experience, as well as my partner's, disputes this. My content is generally creators in the neurodivergant, LGTBQIA+, power generation for Alaska towns, wil
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by falcolas 3y ago
The fines end up being in the billions of dollars - $5,000 per user per day. Even Google can't absorb that for long.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Are folks using it to distribute propaganda? Yes. Is there evidence - any evidence whatsoever - that CCP or bytedance is using tiktok to push a particular flavor of propaganda? No. That said, TikTok's moderation is quite unfriendly to
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by falcolas 3y ago
Except it's a lie. The modal did show up for some people, but it was closable via an 'X'.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Was that really true, that they basically forced their users to call? I don't use TikTok. No. It was a closable modal. Didn't even show up for me.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Damn. Screwed that 2022 one up. My bad.
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by falcolas 3y ago
It's not only TikTok prompting people, it's also the content creators whose livelihoods exist on TikTok who are prompting people. The speed and stealth with which congress is moving this through adds a certain sense of urgency to
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by falcolas 3y ago
True, but any US ban will have effects beyond just the US. It's also important to remind folks that what TikTok is doing is no different than what Meta (et.al.) is doing.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Oracle is currently hosting the databases for TikTok's American customers, FWIW.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Democrats are polling ahead of Republicans in most states which have enacted abortion bans. They also won a majority of congress seats which were up in 2022. They're doing so because 80% of all Americans support abortion as health care

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