Nice move. Regulating competitors away while screaming about free markets. Not a meme country at all..

The U.S. is not really a free market. The textbooks used in high school have said that the U.S. is a "mixed economy" for many decades.

This move shouts “you win China, your products are superior than ours”. We hate losing at our own game don’t we?

As China bans TikTok too, this move shouts “We don’t want this app either.”

Because neither government wants a well-educated, knowledgeable population. Carlin was trying to teach us that for decades and it still rings true.

Yes, the math understanding is not here at scale. It's strip mining a vulnerable populace. Of course it should be banned.

Tattoos?

Tattoos can be extremely expensive; I personally know many people who struggle financially and spend what's left on tattoos.

It sounds ridiculous, but so does blowing lots of money on sports betting.

OK, thank you for your response, I learned something today.

Who is fighting against this veritable scourge? I'd love to join in!

Hey, any chance you would be into connecting and talking about healing trough playing games?

Thank you for asking. Apologies, but I enjoy the anonymity here and am not looking to connect outside HN. Hope what I shared has been useful.

I respect that. If you change your mind, feel free to comment here. Am infantry vet studying psychology and super interested in the topic!

It's been tough finding a role as a UX designer who is self-taught and has experience despite a lack of degree. Most of what I can find is hourly or small fee gigs that are devoid of any real value (You cannot hire a 1099 to whip up your UX in a week, sorry.)

It's disheartening, and I'm about to stop looking for work for 4yrs while I use my education benefits to go to school. I can get paid $2k/mo to study, so I think I'll put together a team and spend 4yrs building micro-SaaS products while studying art history, instead of siphoning my energy and soul applying to tinder-algorithm-powered-job-onboardings.

A goddamn waste if you ask me.

A product/UX designer who has worked almost 100% remotely as of yet.

Replicants/AI systems, they are everywhere.

You should check out the Bitcoin whitepaper.

"Don't you guys have laptops". Maybe it's about your customers and the devices they use!

If you care more about land-grabbing users to aggregate demand (https://stratechery.com/aggregation-theory/) then you can develop what users wants, get them onboard, and then start squeezing profits out of that. That is what Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Facebook et al did. Here we are with ads on freemium products, and now the data we generate are more valuable to feed to train AIs.

If you're trying to sustainably develop features to support users, even if the pace of the feature development is very slow, I think that is what we are seeing with Zoho.

Just don't bother making things if you cant get it to work properly.

They split the students to take away their power. They kicked people off Slack, wiping the incriminating message history, and then re-adding students (woopsie), they allowed rampant racism to be posted in the channels. They did so many shady things with arbitration, it was absolutely harmful.