Only have been on in for like 3 seconds before crashing, the game definitely gave me early RuneScape vibes. Tbt to RuneScape in the school library in like 2006

I can't imagine any jurisdiction that tried this would see anything other than large companies prohibiting their software from being used in that jurisdiction. Any company that then grew large would quickly exit. Every iOS update requires 1B+ to sit in escrow?

thank you beltalowda

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Sometimes HN warms my heart.

I know HN is more serious that humorous, but I love his interviews

There is always an underlying truthful critique to his stuff.

This is an unfair parallel, but it's like worrying about businesses who advertise on pornographic sites or on cigarette boxes. Allowing visibility to businesses who advertise on a certain platform could be judged (by society, law, and voters) to be outweighed by the need to restrict youth access to social media. There is a variety of precedent in society and law in restricting youth access to something that is otherwise deemed legal. Just because businesses advertise on social media (in my opinion), the decision to restrict access should not be altered by that advertising strategy.

They don't advertise on FB, they host their main web presence on FB.

That's like saying you go to Pornhub to buy Manscaped Hair Trimmers. You don't. They _advertise_ on PH, but that's not where you buy them at.

Why is everyone replying to me about ads? Who said anything about ads?

it's very tough to say why, but the countries being referenced by this article as having improved the gender gap certainly have lower rates of reproduction. Whose to say good, bad, or why, but the correlation is present.

What about policies that aid the labor force participation of people that already have kids? Subsidized abundant childcare, for example, both lowers the cost of being a parent and makes it easier for parents to go back to work. Like, I get that the _gap reduction_ is correlated with lower birth rates, but presumably we have finer-grained data than that?

I can tell you that better childcare correlates with higher economic output just by looking at my home - both of us work from home and the timing of our child's engagements pretty much dictates when we can schedule meetings.

it's hard to say if that's causative though, because there are so many other confounding factors. wealth also is correlated with fewer kids, and since more working produces more wealth that's also a factor, in addition to lots of other little things.

and hotdogs

TikTok is a Chinese company, how is that an instance of Western Values being pushed?

TikTok hosts "Western" content, doesn't it? China has Douyin (same app, different content) afaik.

TikTok is full of Asian content that it promotes: there is still so much Chinese, Korean, Japanese, even some Indian content on tiktok even in an average westerner's feed. Some of this is straight taken form Douyin (by content creators in those country who want to earn money on tiktok).

> Some of this is straight taken form Douyin (by content creators in those country who want to earn money on tiktok).

Having helped a Chinese friend taking down a couple of impersonating/infringing TikTok accounts, I believe the overwhelming majority of the content taken straight from Douyin is unauthorized, by people who think the original creators won’t notice and/or won’t do anything about it. It’s not like you can easily earn a meaningful amount from TikTok’s Creator Fund, so better focus on streaming or getting sponsorship deals for the Douyin market which is a lot larger and culturally aligned.

A lot of the cultural movement on TikTok is Korean driven, or multi cultural, like the popularity of that Vietnamese See Tinh in Korea via a TikTok remix. TikTok is incredibly Asian, and gets lots of air from non-PRC Chinese communities (like mainland Douyin content on TikTok with traditional Chinese comments).

India was the first country to ban TikTok iirc. Their situation was bad though

What was particularly bad about India's situation?

I believe children were killing other children /themselves based on TikTok trends (don’t remember full details)

Does "children are killing each other because of what they saw online" sound more like a real thing or more like a moral panic to you?

India had a military exchange with China and banned TikTok alongside several other Chinese apps in retaliation. Their official justification was "national security concerns". preciousoo is, charitably, just making things up for no reason.

I very much remember reading such an article around the time they banned TT, but maybe said article was fake news, as it's hard to find any mentions of it now.

Well National security isn't wrong considering the huge amount of data being siphoned off to the communist party.

This isn't the 1990s. The majority of kids with access to smartphones are online now.

that's a pretty bold statement, can we get a link backing that up?

The western value being a liberal media market, not the contents of the consumed media itself.

Is most of the content Chinese?

I agree that much is changing in cancer therapy, most promisingly around immunotherapies and other immune related strategies, but the 5 year survival rate change over decades is often attributed to earlier detection as opposed to improved treatments.

Ed Witten is uncharacteristically brilliant and yet he (in my opinion) fell prey to the “masses” of physicists who clung to String theory despite its inability to yield results. Imo, that’s a counter example to your point. Thinking differently than other people and outside the masses doesn’t make one smart, take any non Ted Kasinski serial killer