ryosuke

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by ryosuke 2y ago
I don't think we know this - Alphabet publishes YouTube revenue, but not profit. Though I assume they are and have been for a while
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by ryosuke 2y ago
Last I checked, Alphabet still doesn't break down profit/operating costs for YouTube.
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by ryosuke 5y ago
I've had the same exact experience. You lose connection once and there's no way to get back to your music without restarting the app. The iOS version is better but still not amazing.
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by ryosuke 5y ago
I dunno, giving people who might not be able to afford a masters otherwise or aren’t able to move away for two years an opportunity to get half a masters degree from home seems like a pretty big deal to me.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
And? That's what should've happened yesterday too.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
I don't think the reason for their ineptitude was lack of funding.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
Given that this was an entirely predictable series of events, I think it's pretty damning in itself that there was no playbook to deal with this sort of uprising. While at the individual level it probably makes sense to err on the side
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by ryosuke 6y ago
Of course there's plenty of reason to be skeptical, but given that the CCP have taken down ByteDance's apps in the past leads to me to believe that they're less willing to cooperate, whereas companies like Tencent seem fully
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by ryosuke 6y ago
Ah, thanks. I was under the impression that this was something that each contact tracing app set up separately, but I guess not.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
I wonder how you would register a positive case, since every public health authority has a different system for doing that part. I suppose you just have to download the app in that case?
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by ryosuke 6y ago
I'm not sure who this article is meant for. If the idea is to convince non-technical people of the importance of privacy, the article should have just stuck to that. Parts like the free vs. open source discussion seem unnecessary.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
Indeed. Though given this administration's history I'm more inclined to believe there is no grand strategy, I'm sure such a play would be effective.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
If that's the case, then they should just say so, instead of pretending that this is about national security.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
Why does this need to be compared to coronavirus lockdowns? It's a completely unrelated matter.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
Exactly. My understanding is that ByteDance has tried to maintain some distance with the Chinese government in the past, but this pressure from the US essentially forces it to reverse course. It's antithetical to the US's purporte
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by ryosuke 6y ago
I didn't know we had apps back in the days of the Cold War.
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by ryosuke 6y ago
I don't think anyone's arguing that it's not legitimate for a country to ban a company on national security grounds, but that this is stretching the definition of what constitutes a national security threat. Which companies c
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by ryosuke 6y ago
This article set off a number of red flags for me, and by the end I found it very hard to believe that this was done by a group of impartial researchers. And sure enough, Phillip Thomas, the lead researcher for this study, comes from a 20+
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by ryosuke 6y ago
I can confirm that the Japanese article does indeed say that the ship went closer to land so that it could connect to Wi-Fi. Not sure how common satellite internet is on ships of this kind.