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A survey of 18,000 Americans released in March pointed to flexible work schedules helping mental health.

It's almost like the work force actually values the quality of their lives more than ... umm, honestly I've never been able to figure out a positive side for companies pushing RTO. Report after report show remote work improves productivity, employee retention, is perceived as a significant perk to attract new talent, and reduces corporate overhead (that last one is just an assumption on my part).

Seriously, what is the attraction for RTO?

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Are you kidding? China has some of the strongest censorship laws in the world which includes filtering internet content and blocking access to apps. North Korea is the only country that has more repressed access to free information.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

The Chinese government has banned, among others, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, BBC, Wikipedia and ... are you ready for this ... TIKTOK. The Chinese government agrees that TikTok should be banned (though for different reasons).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China

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How is banning TikTok "limiting technological advancements"?

Would you agree that I was able to provide examples of "China doing the same" which you stated that you "did not see"?

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In 2020, so-called "AI agents" defeated human pilots in simulations in all five of their match-ups - but the technology needed to be run for real in the air.

It did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

I'm gonna guess the AI won.

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Some refrigerators can dispense cold filtered water.

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The difference is the US government believes that TikTok is beholden to the Chinese government. When a corporation acts this way it is an invasion of privacy. When a foreign government acts this way it is espionage.

If TikTok is sold to an entity the US government thinks is sufficiently independent from a foreign government, then they can continue spying on users.

Alternatively, they may be able to registers under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. I don't know how that would impact TikTok's ability to operate though.

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The general take away is "Surveillance is oppression and it is the responsibility of the people to stand up against oppression".

A few other quotes I like that fit the theme.

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."

— V (V for Vendetta)

"Without privacy, you can't have anything for yourself. Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

— Edward Snowden

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There are 54 pages of risk factors, which, after reading many S-1 filings over the years, seems pretty long. One of the most notable is the sentence, “We have incurred substantial losses during our history and may never achieve profitability.”

Well that doesn't sound very promising for them.

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I've got my Plex server running on an Intel NUC 8 with 2 USB 2TB solid state drives serving as local storage for my media.

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