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Chinese investors own ~20% of ByteDance. Mostly own by large funds (State Street BlackRock, Sequoia, etc)

"They could simply have divested" What an odd thing to say. Why should a company that started the biggest social media app in a decade "divest" it to US oligarchic interests when i…

When the electrical grid begins to collapse under the weight of "migrating to EV," people will be quite happy these legacy companies didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. T…

does this work in the background or do you need to run the backup task? I'm setting up a home server atm and curious about this for iCloud

This is amazing. I can't wait to play with it

To be fair, I did leave during COVID and it was actually impossible to get a Uhaul (September 2020). Moving back to SF in the next month for a new gig (after the startup I was work…

So it's the girth that matters?

We use it at https://tandem.chat . I work on the AV stack. WebRTC is pretty awesome.

I also believe that it is flawed, but it is the model that most of valley is built on. It's frustrating. I wish more companies would just focus on building value and becoming profi…

I'm also incredibly bearish on CA and left for good last year. The quality of life per dollar is just so incredibly skewed, and the monoparty culture perpetuates terrible policies …

LOL if you can't get your own employees to want to you use your product you might have a problem .

I grew up in Metro Detroit. Moved to California in 2015, and while it's been fun... I'm moving back to Michigan (Downtown Detroit/Brush Park) next week. I certainly used to feel th…

I think in general people don't understand counter party risk

LOL I built the first version of their android app back in the day. Can't speak to why they've been going after modders, but it's likely from a liability / legal standpoint. At the…

CPI is almost certainly gamed. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

It always blows my mind seeing the things people who work at google/fb are willing to "walk out" / "protest" over, and then these insidious things they're willing to just sit back …

"wE cAnT eVeR lEt tHis HaPpEn AgAiN"

Pretty much haven't listened at all since his move to spotify. I don't blame him for selling out at all, but spotify is garbage for podcasts. If he went back to youtube I'd probabl…

I like to say a full rewrite is technical bankruptcy

windows 10 does a decent job at this

This change was actually what got me to switch back to iOS from Android. Google can fuck right off with that bullshit

i was really hoping that'd be in the cards for this wwdc announcement. It'd easily become my main machine overnight.

Also moved, don’t see myself going back