- Baidu
- Alibaba
- Tencent
- Xiaomi
- Huawei
You can see how their offering compare in this Big Tech Spreadsheet [2].
ByteDance might become the most valuable company in the world, not just in China.
[1] https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak/status/1394704798591590401?s...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/01/chinas-aging-population-is-b...
That makes it nimble, and powerful, that means the system itself almost always wins, as for the people, well, good luck.
Oh, really? Let's look at one metric: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_....
overall incarceration rate in the US is 639 per 100,000
The incarceration rate of the People's Republic of China varies depending on sources and measures. According to the World Prison Brief, the rate for only sentenced prisoners is 118 per 100,000 (as of 2015)
WTH is going on here?
But irrespective of all these stories, I am firmly in your camp about my opinion. I see no reason to present my opinion without myself setting foot on the region.
Speaking truly and frankly. You are expressing a lot of opinions.
I indeed reserve my judgement on CCP, as I know that I know very little about the entity.
You may or may not interpret that as complicit to them, or whatever. But please do calm your mind, and see into the facts, and the reasoning behind the emotions.
I am not asking anyone to be correct. I am asking rationale.
I am more and more direct nowadays to point out the ridiculousness of comments like this:
This type of comments do not square with the facts in even the slightest sense.
China runs the world's largest and most successful poverty elimination program. How can a government doing this not care about you in the loser pack? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/27/asia...
In essence, a lot of such comments treat CCP as some kind of bizarre imaginary entity that automatically possess any negative traits for the topic being discussed.
Of course, the distribution of positive & negative comments are certainly always mixed.
But boy, oh boy, I never seen a single comment actually showing a decent understanding of CCP's functioning nowadays, in my 10+ years on hackernews.
Not a single comment.
Wow
Ever look at the TikTok channels for prominent celebrities? The content is horrible. It's embarrassing to look at their channels. It's inherent to the format. The sole thing propping up TikTok in the US - which is already beginning to fade - is the popularity of young people cloning mediocre dance routines. There is only so far for that one trick pony to go, it becomes increasingly boring with time.
Facebook persists as the telephone that every house has, along with its protective moat in Instagram. TikTok has no persistence reason to exist long-term. It's far easier to build the next fad social network than it is to replace something perma entrenched like Facebook. The over 30 crowd is the majority of social media users in the US, they aren't going to abandon Facebook, it's set (exactly the same way Google is in search); young people however will abandon TikTok for the next cool trinket social media app as they get increasingly bored with TikTok and desperate for something new and cool to play with.
for the first 15 minutes, sure.
once TikTok starts to understand what kind of content you're interested in (and it does this quite quickly), this problem disappears. i can't remember the last time i saw content like that.
it's almost like the difference between YouTube signed out vs signed in.
(I know "X of China" is never actually true but work with me)
Also, around 2016-2017 most of my engineer friends who are great at their job left Baidu for, surprise, ByteDance.
2. Is Meituan that big?
3. I have never heard of PDD.
4. What about Xiaomi and Huawei?
Being a grey beard, their episode on Tencent and the freemium business model kinda blew my mind.
I propose X-BATH
BatxH where H = Human, x = multiplier sign