If you’re doing that you have to avoid the base of the onion.

First the right then the left.

It depends is the tree puts on pants before or after being populated.

I would miss the camera the most

I do have a nice camera but it’s a lot to carry around

I don’t think you’ve visited enough Canadian online communities.

If you ask the internet, specifically Reddit, Galen Loblaw will arrest you for buying 30% off stewing beef at the self scan, and while you’re shopping your car will have been stolen and TFWs will have taken your job.

The IT guy who set up that backup deserves a hell of a bonus.

A lot of people would have been happy with their multi region resiliency and stopped there.

There were several months with people complaining their data was getting deleted and Google just ignored the whole thing until it blew up on hacker news.

The most surprising thing here is they got in contact with a human in Google cloud to resolve the issue.

I’m okay with more capybaras wandering into my feed, very cute little fellas

Yeah, kinda

You watch TikTok, someone shills a product, you buu it with a button that pops up, or you click into their store to buy their cosmetics line.

Yeah I think they’re angling for a reversal, if not they’ll sell and probably take some massive non voting share of the venture along with a bunch of billionaires.

5% of customers driving 25% of revenue is a market you want to invest in.

Amazon wasn’t profitable for how many years? It’s the exact same play. Take a loss to create something artificially desirable, strangle the competition and lock up your walled garden, then crank the prices.

I’ve talked with merchants TikTok Shop recruited, TikTok was paying them a ton to sell there, eating their processing fees, their shipping costs, and paying for massive discounts to customers so they could juice their metrics.

They’re starting to crank up their fees this spring and summer.

Same with advertising, advertisers want to go to TikTok, but I’m sure most of the actual spend is happening outside the app on influencers. TikTok wants that pie too.

Taking a loss means nothing in this context

I read it as a bluff too.

They’re between a rock and a hard place, their best position is to play hardball and rile up their users.

Yeah, it means nothing to us to leave. We’re losing money!

If that were really the case why are they in the US at all? Because they know they can make money and their market position is strong.

This means absolutely nothing.

How much of their advertising revenue comes from the US. They have shopping, I’ll bet the US buys the most.

China already has livestream shopping, it’s still relatively novel in the US. Bytedance has to compete with other local competitors in China, hating a nice external source of revenue in the US fuelling these Chinese battle is a huge boon.

I know the article says loss making app, but I bet a lot of money goes back to R&D creating the loss. They pay massive sums to get merchants to sell on their app for example.

Couple things bug me about this.

He’s composing there are still support roles instead of roles exploring high impact opportunities. But does he know the value of those support roles on keeping other teams focused?

Tech is so shitty lately. Get people to build something for you with massive revenue per employee. Pre IPO? Dilute their shares for another round of investment cash. Post IPO? Just fire ‘em, declare its the year of efficiency, and maybe say it’s your fault but not accept any responsibility or pay reductions or reduced rewards.

It’s an app for finding your dog.

Nope, it did initially but I think some Vulcan issues killed it.

Yeah, I always hope though.

macOS. Apple dropped all 32 bit support and it killed my steam library years ago

Is it coming back to macs?

Are we only now calling Iran antisemitic?