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You are taking him at his word when he has demonstrated time and time again that he should not be taken at his word.
I think I'm taking him at his incentives. 44 billion is a lot of incentive.
With facebook dying, twitter getting bought out, reddit's eutrophication, and tiktok on the rise, it seems like things have unsettled quite a bit The next couple years are going to be very interesting. Facebook will probably get bought out or something. For twitter, I can't really say. Reddit is probably going to become even more repulsive (and hopefully gets replaced). Hopefully tiktok goes away also :/ Also interes…
“Eutrophication is the process by which an entire body of water, or parts of it, becomes progressively enriched with minerals and nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. It has also been defined as "nutrient-induced increase in phytoplankton productivity" What is happening to Reddit?
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From advertisers perspective TikTok has already won in the social media space. It’s going to take another year or so for advertisers and TikTok to figure it all out but from talking to the guys who do focus on brands social media spends they can’t get on TikTok fast enough.
Through from what I have heard TikToks handling of ad money (how it goes to the creator) is bad and their handling of copyright is even worse. On the other hand YouTube shorts can already technically do most things TikTok can, and handles copyright okay (from the pov of the big copyright holders) and has licenses for a lot of music and stuff and created an ad model making it much more interesting for people to create…
That’s why I said there’s a lot they have to work out. They don’t want to fall into a model like Instagram where the bulk of ad revenues go to the largest influencers. But I would not be surprised to see them rework their payout scheme to something more predictable like YouTubes. The “big pot of money, split evenly” was a simple way to start but now is getting stretched.
One thing I find interesting about TikTok is they have one of the best, completely in App, ways of targeting users. The short format videos allows them to assemble a ton of data points very quickly on user interests and more and more product and recommendation searches are being done on their platform.
I could be wrong but I don’t see YouTube shorts catching up anytime soon TikTok has too much of the social Zeitgest going their way and it’s far easier for new creators to get noticed there as well.
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> At least on Apple if any Apple Music is playing that you don’t own the mp3 for, gets scrubbed out. Yeah. Next year I'll be reading about how the camera apps are detecting copyrighted content and refusing to take pictures too. > wish I could just go back to android Don't count on Android. Stakeholder lock down is increasing there too. Remote attestation is already a thing, soon we won't be able to run most apps if w…
> , soon we won't be able to run most apps if we "tamper" with the device by owning it. Do you have any evidence of this ? I think samsung has done something with knox, but that is the only case I know of.
Apps will insist that you run unmodified software. Bank apps will require attestation because of "fraud". WhatsApp will require attestation because of "terms of service". Streaming apps will require attestation because of "piracy". Games will require attestation because of "cheating". Every app in the Play Store will find a bullshit reason to require it and the result is we can't use their software if we own the machine, we have to let the corporation own it.
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What's wrong? Everything. Screenshots of text are popular because people don't seem to be able to copy and save data anymore. Social media apps don't let users download pictures anymore. I can only share intra-platform links to content. The Instagram app won't even let me select text. People get around this insanity by screenshotting the whole screen and saving a poor quality version of the data in image form. This i…
Also its terrible for accessibility. Text can be manipulated and rendered in all sorts of ways. Tim Berners Lee is rolling in his grave!!
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All categories are arbitrary distinctions that someone made up at some point, including the categories of biological sex, race, and your birth name. At the very least it would be bullying behavior for me to single you out and call you a different name or different racial group to what you actually are (as defined by the constructs that society has agreed upon).
You either have a Y chromosome or you don't
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"You cannot believe in Christianity" and "You cannot hold mass in my house" are two very different statements.
Twitter have almost 400 million users. It's not "your house" at this point, it's public space.
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On the contrary, LBO debt investors typically have clauses to be able to convert their debt to equity and basically force liquidation/sale etc to recover the money they put in if their debt is defaulted on. The 13 billion in loans are secured not complete junk. Of course if cash flows become too low to service the debt (I.e. default), musk can always inject[1] more capital and keep the debt serviced he can afford to…
None of that contradicts what I said. Yes, there may be various terms that take effect if he defaults on the debt and some of them may cause him to take on fiduciary obligations (although I find it hard to imagine converting to equity would be desirable in that case - normally in that scenario the equity is getting zeroed). But he has no such obligations unless and until he's getting close to default.
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That's already illegal, report it to the police
"Some guy in Russia told all the white men to rise up and kill all the jews and blacks" The police "again, that's the 23rd time today" This kinda breaks down at the global scale. I can call for violent acts at your front door from a continent away with impunity.