ryosuke

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

Last I checked, Alphabet still doesn't break down profit/operating costs for YouTube.

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.

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.

And? That's what should've happened yesterday too.

I don't think the reason for their ineptitude was lack of funding.

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 of inaction, at the organizational level this is a massive failure.

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 aligned with the CCP.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bytedance/china-ord...

Ah, thanks. I was under the impression that this was something that each contact tracing app set up separately, but I guess not.

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?

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.

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.

If that's the case, then they should just say so, instead of pretending that this is about national security.

Why does this need to be compared to coronavirus lockdowns? It's a completely unrelated matter.

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 purported objective of promoting a more liberalized market economy in China (though I suppose that was never something this administration really cared about).

I didn't know we had apps back in the days of the Cold War.

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 currently banned in the US would you say are comparable to TikTok in terms of the threat they could potentially pose?

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+ year career with the chemical and nuclear industries. I would take everything in this article with a grain of salt.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/people/philip-j-thomas/...

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.