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New comment by jfdbcv in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

jfdbcv — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:18:45 +0000

You know they did that with video games too.. Should we do that here?

https://apnews.com/article/gaming-business-children-00db669d...

New comment by jfdbcv in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

jfdbcv — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:42:37 +0000

Isn't this comment quite reductive?

There are many reasons why there are two separate apps and not necessarily related to how addictive the algorithm is. The "source" you linked gives one such reason:

> Like other social media services in China, Douyin follows the censorship rules of the Chinese Communist Party. It conscientiously removes video pertaining to topics deemed sensitive or inflammatory by the party, although it has proved a little harder than text-based social media to control.

Also have you used Douyin? It's really feels like basically the same thing.

New comment by jfdbcv in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

jfdbcv — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:45:33 +0000

Personally I inject probes into my brain to measure the exact dopamine response every time I need to make a new purchase

...idk I think people just like premium phones, it's not that deep

New comment by jfdbcv in "Cancer rates are rising in young people"

jfdbcv — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:15:52 +0000

> Secondly, I became convinced Trump had to be using some type of an advanced intuitive capacity, as, based on the information that would have been available to Trump at the time the decisions were made, I could not see any other way to explain how he’d made some of the choices he made. [0]

Why are you reading an unironic Donald Trump mega glazer?

[0]: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/catalyst-events-and-the-t...

New comment by jfdbcv in "When do we stop finding new music?"

jfdbcv — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:19:10 +0000

I think humans have a natural instinct to share what they find cool / interesting.

Before this was mostly done through in person communicate, now this is primarily done through smart phones.

New comment by jfdbcv in "TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out"

jfdbcv — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:02:43 +0000

You realize that it will only be replaced with something MORE addicting? People won't exactly start reading newspapers when Tik Tok dies..

New comment by jfdbcv in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"

jfdbcv — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:11:53 +0000

Define learn.

New comment by jfdbcv in "500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)"

jfdbcv — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:42:24 +0000

Equity data usually represents a big part of compensation and is basically impossible to value objectively as there are too many factors at play.

New comment by jfdbcv in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

jfdbcv — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:08:51 +0000

> Yes, because YouTube is changing their stance between when a large part of the data was uploaded and now.

This is untrue. As there was significantly less users on Youtube early on, it's highly likely that most of their total content consists of recently uploaded videos. This becomes more and more true as time goes on.

New comment by jfdbcv in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

jfdbcv — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:05:30 +0000

> YouTube is practically holding an incredible amount of knowledge and information hostage to feed Google’s insatiable desire for profits.

Free storage of data uploaded by willing users = hosting the data hostage?

New comment by jfdbcv in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

jfdbcv — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:01:03 +0000

Huh?! You can sell your car, or take a loan against it. You can convert US dollars into your local currency.

Your individual data is worthless. Data is only worth something in aggregate.

New comment by jfdbcv in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

jfdbcv — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:45:08 +0000

TikTok absolutely is a competitor. I'm not sure why it has to host long form content for it to be considered a competitor.

If more people get their video entertainment from TikTok, then they watch YouTube less.

Most blatantly, YouTube literally launched shorts recently - an exact TikTok competitor clone.

New comment by jfdbcv in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

jfdbcv — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:34:42 +0000

TikTok.

Also - just because it doesn't have the content that you, personally, watch, does not make it not a competitor.

New comment by jfdbcv in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

jfdbcv — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:26:50 +0000

> A huge amount of videos on YouTube are created for their own sake, with no expectation of going viral or making money off them.

It's estimated that there are 1 billion YouTube videos, compared to 600k videos hosted by PeerTube. Thats a 4 order of magnitude difference. Saying that PeerTube can "fill this role" is an outrageous assumption about scaling.

New comment by jfdbcv in "The importance of cash in a technological society"

jfdbcv — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:10:57 +0000

tradeoff is harder access to liquidity -- would banks be willing to give as much credit without credibility?

New comment by jfdbcv in "The importance of cash in a technological society"

jfdbcv — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:06:58 +0000

Luckily, they can learn about it all for free, right here!

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-macr...

New comment by jfdbcv in "The importance of cash in a technological society"

jfdbcv — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:16:17 +0000

Statements like these make it hard not to discount the whole article:

> By their nature, fiat currencies are manipulatable.

Like it's some kind of big revelation, when it's basic AP macroeconomics monetary policy.

New comment by jfdbcv in "The importance of cash in a technological society"

jfdbcv — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:07:30 +0000

In the US, not having a credit card is horrible financial advice.

You're paying an additional 3% on all transactions, as that's the standard credit card processing fee.

You're also failing to build up your credit score, which is pretty important if you're ever looking to rent or buy a home.

New comment by jfdbcv in "YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers"

jfdbcv — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:49:40 +0000

Sorry, I realized I was wrong with my initial comment. It's actually a 4 party system: the content consumers + ad companies on one side, with the platform and content creators on the other.

But yes, I think we are in agreement overall. If the money can't flow in through ads, the consumers need to pay the platforms and creators directly.

New comment by jfdbcv in "YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers"

jfdbcv — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:51:18 +0000

Patreon = video consumer pays

Sponsers = another word for advertisers

Nebula = consumer pays again (similar to yt premium)

The only exceptions are merch and book sales, which only a small amount of big YouTubers have access to.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could pay a monthly subscription, and any video you viewed gave the creators a small fraction?