rydre

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by rydre 6y ago
This has been debunked, look it up.
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by rydre 6y ago
> I'm sorry, did you just allude to America being more corrupt than China? I'm saying that America is relatively in my opinion more corrupt than the America of the past. I'm not comparing it to China, China has a differe
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by rydre 6y ago
> Maybe we are seeing the effect of monopolies stifling innovation. American's will only wake up when it's too late. Zuck will bribe the government in the meanwhile. Corrupt countries become less competitive over time. Americ
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ByteDance founder defends TikTok's U.S. strategy in staff letter(reuters.com)
1 points by rydre 6y ago|0 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
> As pollution mounts and industrial input into agriculture falls, food production per capita falls. Health and education services are cut back, and that combines to bring about a rise in the death rate from about 2020. Global populatio
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Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse (2014)(theguardian.com)
3 points by rydre 6y ago|2 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
> This is at least partly false. First, you need to be Mirandized before being interviewed. You do not need to be Mirandized at the moment you are being arrested. > because they didn’t put a decal on their vehicle. Dude do you rea
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by rydre 6y ago
> It’s probably easier to buy the whole thing than to buy 30% of it. ‘Cause I say how do you do 30%? Who’s going to get the name? The name is hot, the brand is hot. And who’s going to get the name? How do you do that if it’s owned by tw
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Trump Demands Microsoft Pay Off the U.S. Treasury to Secure TikTok Deal(gizmodo.com)
6 points by rydre 6y ago|3 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
American social media app's dominate my country. Google 99% market share. Facebook/Instagram 95% market share in social. 5eyes/PRISM (they're not gonna forgive snowden, he ruined their reputation) monitors my country (no
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by rydre 6y ago
All media is propaganda. I like consuming the American and CCP kool aid at the same time tho... am I a sinner?
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China Blocks Access to Twitter, Facebook After Riots (2009)(techcrunch.com)
4 points by rydre 6y ago|0 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
4chan. He wrote it there, afaik from a Twitter comment with screenshot posted many days ago before the Feds announced the kid. Then bragged about it and went for more accounts. His friends left him when he went for the high profile accounts
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TikTok – How the White House Helped U.S. Investors to Raid a Chinese Company(moonofalabama.org)
4 points by rydre 6y ago|1 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
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ByteDance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch U.S. deal(reuters.com)
4 points by rydre 6y ago|0 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
If there is any rule of law in the country, this should be against the constitution. If the US does this, they'll be losing a lot of goodwill founders from other countries have about the US. The US is uniquely thought of as a part of e
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Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources(twitter.com)
179 points by rydre 6y ago|2 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
It would bring up opportunity for alternative models for news instead of being tied to search/feed.
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by rydre 6y ago
YouTube will be difficult to replicate. The long tail channel are too many and useful.
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by rydre 6y ago
Yeah, I have built a proof of concept for this, but without GPT-3. Works well except for the edge cases. Aka not fully automatable yet so I never showed it to anyone.
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Urged on by central bank, China weighs antitrust probe into Alipay, WeChat Pay(reuters.com)
4 points by rydre 6y ago|0 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
> Does Apple treat other video streamers differently than Amazon? Apple changed it's rules for everyone in this category to get Amazon onboard with their video service. Why should it take another Amazon in another industry to chan
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by rydre 6y ago
Context for those who missed yesterday's anti-trust hearings: Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple said that Apple treats developers equally - under oath. The problem is that Amazon got a special deal. Baidu (the Chinese Google) got a special de
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Senators urge U.S. Justice Department to probe TikTok, Zoom(reuters.com)
3 points by rydre 6y ago|0 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
> (do you mean "didn't really happen"?) I messed up (just edited the comment to correct), what I mean is in a hypothetical scenario where Apple really did this, why would you defend them?
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by rydre 6y ago
> What is really amusing in hindsight was the number of people willing to pile on and argue that this was in fact totally reasonable of Apple to be doing and that we shouldn't be surprised or upset at all about it. Exactly, while
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Don’t Get Distracted by the Spectacle of Tech’s Big Antitrust Hearing(onezero.medium.com)
2 points by rydre 6y ago|0 comments
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Tech CEOs Testify at House Hearing on Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon(youtube.com)
10 points by rydre 6y ago|1 comments
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by rydre 6y ago
Projected revenue for 2021 is $6b. $50B valuation is robbery at day sight by investors. TikTok's China sibling Douyin is projected to make $28 billion this year in China.

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