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by patmcc 2y ago
The reporting I found (from the Verge) was that an employee of TikTok (in America) would email spreadsheets to executives in China, and other similar cases of US employees having the actual access to data and passing it along to other folks
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>mainly that they are HQ'd in that government's jurisdiction ByteDance is; TikTok is not. TikTok is headquartered in USA and Taiwan. Why is that not part of the analysis? The CCP can control/influence ByteDance, th
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by patmcc 2y ago
Ok, replace my sentence with "The New York Times must shut down unless all Chinese foreign owners divest"; does that change the analysis?
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by patmcc 2y ago
The argument is that China has a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_share in Bytedance; that despite only owning (on paper) 1% or whatever, they still have effective control over the whole company, if they so desire.
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by patmcc 2y ago
What if Congress passed a law that said "The New York Times must shut down unless all foreign owners divest"? That's effectively impossible for a publicly traded corporation. Is that just a ban, in practice?
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>Mandated government "insurance" is a form of welfare. Yes? Of course? That doesn't make it a bad idea.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Except if insurance company A does that, insurance company B will call the full-cinderblock home and say "hey, we can save you $20". If it's a product you actually want everyone to carry (like health insurance) it should prob
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by patmcc 2y ago
Senators have to be at minimum 30, more commonly 50+. Anyone that's going to be a senator in the next 12 years (at minimum) is already on Grindr if they were ever going to be.
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by patmcc 2y ago
I think this is untrue. The government wanted to shut down TikTok, but it can't just outright ban it because that's a clear violation of the first amendment, so it came up with a way to ban it indirectly. That was their intention
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by patmcc 2y ago
Canola was also originally a trademark (name comes from "Canada oil low acid") - it's made from rapeseed that was specifically bred for low erucic acid. It definitely made it easier to market.
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>How about the idea that it serves absolutely zero purpose, and could cause cancer? I'm not going to bat for Red Dye specifically (I'd be perfectly happy for it to never be added to food), but I generally like a society
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>Yes, Google knows this is a new Google Workspace account using the same domain as the old one. I agree it knows that, but it doesn't know: >>>It's a different bob@DankStartup.com, and in fact a completely diff
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by patmcc 2y ago
So why isn't it on Slack to address this (or not use OAuth, if it can't)? Google doesn't verify the actual legal person behind an email address, whether it's through gmail or google workspace, nor would we want/expe
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by patmcc 2y ago
Probably sue the failed startup owners for negligence? If DankStartup left all your HR files lying around in their office and the guy who bought it five years later found them, well, DankStartup should have shredded them. It'd sure be
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>It's a different bob@DankStartup.com, and in fact a completely different DankStartup.com. Google shouldn't conflate the two. Does Google have any reliable way of knowing that? >>>There are exactly 0 situations
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>The problem is that the original DankStartup has a Google account that they create in #1, and Google goes around telling other sites (via Auth) "this is user X from company Y". Google is telling other sites that it&#x2
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>Good, a job that cannot support biological needs should not exist. It’s not a viable business. >>Why should I pay a stealth subsidy to whatever business it is. I think a lot of the argument around minimum wage is a disagreemen
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by patmcc 2y ago
Colourblindness is <10% of the population. But yes, quite right it's not a good idea to rely on colour as the sole indication of something important.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Sorry, I was imprecise (and not meaning that it was due to the size of the debt alone). There are 3 sets of creditors that have potential claims in these proceedings, based on what I can find. The two groups of plaintiffs from the different
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by patmcc 2y ago
The two groups of families are the only two creditors. The Connecticut families are owed ~$1bil, the Texas families are owed ~$50mil. Nobody else is getting any money. The bid that was accepted would give the Texas families more than they w
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by patmcc 2y ago
The escalation (eventually) is to have a lawyer send a "FU, pay me" letter. edit: as you've said elsewhere - the goal of this isn't to take them to court, it's so whoever is waiting for whatever to cut the check can
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>You're oversimplifying this. If someone owes you $1B and they owe me $2B, and they've got an asset worth $500M, I can't just pledge $2B of bad debt to buy the asset. The only fair way is to sell it for $500M in actual
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by patmcc 2y ago
Yah, that's a mistake (or lie) by the article; from your CNN article, she was initially put on the transplant list on Feb 2, and ended up approved by mid-May (it's after May 2, but before Mother's Day, on May 13). She was del
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by patmcc 2y ago
A lot of this data is open: https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/state-indicator/averag... That shows the gross margin of insurance companies (based on premiums vs paid claims). Note that it's negative in
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by patmcc 2y ago
Did you even read the article you posted? 1. It's explicitly stated, including by the doctor involved, that this is a "groundbreaking" (read: experimental) procedure, having been performed exactly twice in the US this centur
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by patmcc 2y ago
We don't have enough livers for every transplant case; someone needs to say no to some of them. If you think that's necessarily an evil act, you need to think harder. The issue I see with all this is the anger isn't because
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by patmcc 2y ago
I think this is a tough problem, partly due to the post-paid nature of most cloud services, partly due to the impact to other customers. If you had a bunch of retailers in a shared space (like a market), and one of them was setting off fire
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>The best middle ground is some kind of solution that allows the security team to "manage" personal devices in some way. No thanks. I'm not compromising the security of my personal devices to save my employer a cou
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by patmcc 2y ago
I had a prof who would say "there's no such thing as software; it's all just hardware in different states" and I think about that a lot.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Intelligence is knowing what you can lose, and losing that and no more.

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