_6fmb | 4 years ago | on: What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
Nah I'll take the cheaper Chinese alternative, this is exploitation.
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_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: Slack is down
It was an executive purposefully brought in for legal compliance with that country's requirements. That he was fired is a huge signal in how seriously aggressive zoom is about protecting data that they would even be willing to go up against national governments. I feel like the firing is a huge part of the story.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: Slack is down
What an overwrought headline, the employee in question has already been fired.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: Amazon’s Alexa for landlords is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen
Former NSA chief joins Amazon's Board of Directors.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429635/amazon-keith-alex...
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%
If you read the article, it says the numerator grew faster than the denominator, and analysts think progress is good and not meeting the target this year is not a problem.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%
If you actually read the article we already outspend them on R&D. We spent 2.8% of GDP vs their 2.2% of GDP. They failed to meet their target of 2.5% of GDP despite steadily increasing.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
Luckily we don't live in a cyberpunk world where corporations are above the state. TikTok is obedient to the state and is still getting banned, the US has no excuses.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
Oh please like we need a formal ban to shut things down, it's like America not banning tiktok right?
There were hearings and calls by US politicians to stop Dragonfly, after which it was stopped.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
No they didn't, both Facebook and Google decided to quit themselves. Remember Dragonfly? Google just tried to get back into China THIS YEAR and was blocked by the US government. It's the US that's closing access to China not the other way around.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid
The follow mode is secondary as others said. But aside from that it figures out what stuff you like by tracking things like time spent on videos and dozens of other micro creative analytics that I'm sure would piss off privacy advocates. The end result is a very fine tuned recommendations algorithm that's really adept on its task.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid
Yeah, it's one of the ones that's doing well and don't seem to suffer much from people getting bored and leaving for fresher networks.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid
Disingenuous silliness to compare TikTok to a "shitty app". I googled and found this page (not sure how correct it is). https://wallaroomedia.com/blog/social-media/tiktok-statistic...
USA 20 Million MAU in 2018, estimated 70 million in 2020?
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid
As said in some other comments, TikTok does not use a "follow" model, new content is algorithmically recommended to you. Therefore there is no problem with the content creators you're following burning out or your follow list getting stale. For example my highschool friends are no longer that active on facebook, and in 2020 I'm no longer asking random people to add me to FB, therefore facebook is now kind of dead to me. My youtube follows like Ryan Higa etc are burned out, hence youtube is less useful for me. That'll never happen with TikTok because my follows list is irrelevant. I see pretty much only fresh faces with content I'm interested in.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid
Way undervalued. One chart to explain why the US is doing this:
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
There are a lot of valid usecases for clipboard saving, I don't have an iOS app but I run CopyClip which would be kinda ruined by this "feature".
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
Hopefully we can turn this off, this is going to destroy usability be very annoying.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
Wait, but China is also doing the same. Have you watched any of the press conferences in China? They were frank and forthcoming with information, there were many reddit threads applauding it until everything got politicized around March.
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
Is anyone going to cry forced tech transfer?
_6fmb | 5 years ago | on: James Damore and three others end Google suit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23125450 This comment explains it very well. Biological differences used to explain keeping people in lower status is a traditional idea and long wielded by conservatives. Explaining that lower status with oppression that needs to be changed is a liberal idea.
_6fmb | 6 years ago | on: Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
Just buy Zoom dude.
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