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Testy_McTesterton

$BAC, they arnt gonna let it fail, has liquidity to weather storm. Big Warren’s balls deep. $GOOG, cheap relative to big tech. Has been working on AI for years with resources only 3-5 other companies could even dream of. Theyll get it figured out $TCBI, regional bank in Texas. Well capitalized, dipped on drama. Buy when there’s blood in streets. $VWAPY, german engineering, Austrian austerity level valuations. Its cheap relative to peers. Their Porsche stake alone is almost current market cap $VFC, former dividend aristocrat that cut divi this year. Solid management team doing whats painful not whats popular to set up for continued future growth. $TSN, huge food producer. Not going anywhere, down on an execution blip. These things get resolved in long run. $NTDOY, down due to cyclical nature of consoles. Cash heavy with IP only Disney can rival. Is starting to branch out into other media, theme parks and has a new console next year. Does not push an agenda onto children Other than that. I would go commodities. Uranium, copper, oil.

ClarkFable

It’s drought with IP minefields and at the same time (ironically) crowded with competition. But it will take far too long for the market to realize it’s made a mistake by overestimating the potential.

Jeff__Skilling

>Profit per unit of real gross value added has blown up since 2000, from 5% to 16% of every dollar of value added (which is output value minus input costs, if I'm reading this right). Yep, as is the case with changes in technology (feel like something fundamentally changed right around Y2K..../r/hmmm). Tech companies are notoriously capex (and largely opex)-lite, so expanding margins makes total sense. >Corporate profits as a fraction of GDP are at near record levels, about 10%. The historical norm might be 6%, but it shot up around 2007, fell sharply, then recovered and went higher. See above. Greater profit per unit sold generally implies greater real dollar value profit for corporations across the board. Other things equal (in terms of government spending, net imports, etc), it makes mathematical sense that corporate profits would command a greater % of real GDP. Especially if you're using 2007 as your baseline year to compare against..... >Buybacks and dividends grew by a factor of about 2.5 from 2009 to 2019, and then shot up some more in 2020, with a lot of variation across industries. Yep, the formerly high growth tech companies with novel ideas / products that are also cheap to produce, especially with an IP moat or first mover advantage are eventually going to slow down and mature. That generally means that it's time to reward those patient equity holders with some return on their capital in the form of divvy or share repo. Good example of this is when Apple initiated their divvy around 10ish years ago (I think) Doesn't really have anything to do with low rates (why incur a greater cost of equity with increased buybacks and dividend hikes if baseline debt costs are basically 0%? And even cheaper when you think about tax deductibility of interest payments) or tax cuts (which have only been in effect for the last 4 - 5 years).

SpaceballsTheCritic

So consumer products are down, facing more competition, and demand is lowering because there are simply too few games and applications to support their latest/greatest. Not to mention crypto boom demand. All of this is cyclical or unique. My take thou, is the same as when i first invested. Chips are now oil. The have the IP to make the chips to do the exciting AI and have a huge lead. They have a first mover advantage.

wickedword

They're last to market with a marketplace and own no IP. Why would Nintendo license games to gme when they sell digital direct to consumer? C'mon guys...

SouthSeaBubbles

Love the watermark, wouldn't want anyone stealing this IP.

Humble_Increase7503

Ya I mean, if you’re talking ab valuation, the bull case is pretty much the growth they’ll see in the coming years via Disney plus et al. The parks are stable and reliable sources of income that just survived a black swan event As far as IP… they have a lot of IP. Some is old some is not. Not sure the older ip is really what’s bringing in the revenue for them

aeplus

50 P/E, 160B market cap. I think their IP is expiring. It's probably going lower unless laws change again.

Perfect_Agony

He has given a fraction of his unending supply of money to combat disease in impoverished countries. But, it is not because of altruism. The countries supplied with low cost vaccinations, mostly through NGOs, have to adopt IP laws including the WTO TRIPS that Microsoft itself lobbied for. You see Bill Gates, the third richest Oligarch, prints his astronomical sum of money through programs that a teenager in a little hut situated in Burundi could create. So our third richest Oligarch reaches over to Africa and makes a deal. A minuscule amount of his wealth on aid, and he does not have to worry about his IP being infringed upon. I do not understand how certain countries can stand let alone like a living monarchy, and I do not understand why people look favorably on Oligarchs.

roberrrrt11

They IP banned my account 2 years ago. Bunch of f’ing pu$$ies on that site

No_Reflection_5174

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo

MyPeePeeReversed

I feel like I can say anything here *(then Switch IP addresses)*

Initial-Willow3935

a sad story from my life is i made a google adsense account in 2010 with ad revenue from random youtube pokemon videos and i have long forgotten the password. i still get emails from google adsense every month saying "my statement is available to view" but when i try to log in it says IP Address not recognized because it was from my grandma's house when i was in high school. i dont even wanna know how much money is in there. back in 2010 it was making like 200 dollars a week on peak weeks tho

EmployerSpirited3665

Their IP is their moat.

Rolifant

Lol they're going to outlaw bytes and TCP/IP? That will be fun to watch.

ZeePirate

Toyota as a reference makes 9-million cars per year. That’s a massive 13% of all cars sold versus Tesla’s roughly 1 million is 1.5% of total market share (using 66 million total) You don’t think legacy companies that can no longer sell ICE’s won’t steal a massive amount of marketshare as people stay loyal to them once they produce EV’s? Either Tesla’s have a massive step up in quality while also stepping up production year after year. A task they have failed to do so far. They will become just another car company at best, they will be forced out of business at worst. They should switch to selling their IP’s like batteries and chargers soon while they still have the chance IMO. While still maintaining or integrating their car line into a legacy companies manufacturing. Trying to be a stand alone company with only one brand and only a handful of cars is not the way for them to go IMO

tcbraintrust

You know that the IP in RIP stands for "in peace" right?

DanielBox4

Yes every depositor has their funds guaranteed. So they can access them if they need to, even the Roku's who had in the hundreds of millions. It'd really a tough call. These are rich owners who kept a lot of their money in a bank, money they got from VC firms and from pandemic programs etc. That's partially why deposits grew so much at the bank. These companies are probably responsible for a lot of economic growth in the area. So it makes sense to want to keep them around. Now maybe one could argue they took on too much counterparty risk, having all or most of their funds with only one medium sized bank. But I don't know if I'd go that far. It's hard argue that these companies need to assess their bank's health. Who even does that? Now I guess if they didn't get protected, and the companies did fail. It would be terrible for sure. But the companies and IP would be available for purchase by bigger healthier companies who had their money at another bank. Is that something we wanted to have happen? Sounds like a nightmare scenario to me. All those bankruptcies and court cases, and ultimately it would have been the bigger conglomerates who end up buying assets at a discount. I think a bank run spreading would have been worst case scenario. Catastrophic. Whatever decisions were made, were made to keep that from happening.

Tersiv

permanent IP, facial, and DNA ban on future offspring as well.

Kriegprojekt

All leftover perks from when the US Gov was trying to make sure Tech was subsidized early on to make sure we maintained the best talent and IP. This shit and things like the subsidized meals, fitness centers, massage parlors, gaming rooms, laundry etc needs to stop. Theres no reason they still need to expense these perks to "build" tech so the US can monopolize the talent anymore. Scam.

VisualMod

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qabadai

Admittedly, I don't know much about the company and they were in pretty dire straits, but something about the chairman of the company (who has a sizeable stake in at least one major competitor) owning its debt and forgiving it in exchange for all of its value (the IP) seems wrong.

Style75

I’m comparing it to other entertainment companies. It is a titan compared to most of them. Netflix is at $300. I don’t see Netflix beating Disney+ in the long term. Disney’s catalogue of IP’s feels far more robust than that of Netflix or any other entertainment company. I also think the current political climate in Florida will stabilize once everyone realizes that hurting the heart of the central Florida economy is going to cause a lot of issues. There’s too many jobs at stake to really mess it up permanently.

MadManMorbo

Their market cap is now less than their cash on hand + assets & IP value. When do we start making bets on a hostile take over?

Federa1Farmer

Not just IPs. Mac addresses, Bluetooth macs, access point names and passwords of any APs you have ever connected to, any neighboring device Mac address, exact distance from each other, the IP, phone number, Mac, time & date of who visits you, where those visitors go after and before visiting you, how long they stayed.......I could have my own subreddit on this, but no one will listen.

86Pasta

And any other device on the same IP! Keep your stupid kids off tiktok

datcommentator

Undervalued, pays a dividend, extremely profitable, a trove of valuable IP…one could do worse.

PDX_mouse

My house used to be a grow house. Just rewired and upgraded all the BNC cameras to IP and ran Cat6. Got a nice 200A service panel as well.

SocialSuicideSquad

Careful there, admins have IP'd people for that level of skirting rules.

jacobdanja

Nintendo is also horrible with competitive games. They absolutely loathe their melee smash scene, they don’t support a lot of IP’s competitive scene. If anything Nintendo is missing out on a ton of cash because of the way they’ve been with competitive play.

ireddits

SVB are bankrupt meaning all depositors have lost their money outside of the insured amounts. The Fed protected all US accounts only. SVB UK only insures deposits up to £85k ($102k 15/3/23). The asset price is totally irrelevant to the buyout. If HSBC (or anyone else) didn’t buy the bank, customers would have lost out. They would have begged for a government bailout, or the BoE, or anyone really. What HSBC has done is say “we will use the strength of our balance sheet to ensure all depositors do not lose out, but in order to protect the money we want everything in return” By having a massive global institution buy the bank, there is no incentive for customer to withdraw funds, they effectively stopped any run on the bank. You can see in the news today that the Fed bailout fund hasn’t stopped regional banks being hammered. HSBC benefits from now owning the loan book, access to IP, access to talent, etc.

Inevitable-Ear-3189

Close, SNES Mini came out in 2017. Last/only Nintendo product this old console fan needs, and tbh only got it because I appreciated that it was NOT proprietary/monthly and could easily load external ROMs on it. IMHO, Nintendo should release all their IP on Steam and stop trying to laserdisc themselves. Nobody gets excited for new Nintendo hardware anymore, it's just a paywall for the new games and it gets old. We just want our Zelda, Smash and Mario, they can let me play it on PC or another console if they want me to buy it, otherwise I'll wait until it can be emulated. BotW works on PC/Steam Deck now :)

ThrillSeekingDoggo

I mean they operate very differently from some of the other big players in the space. There is a new Call of Duty every year, EA churns out a new terrible version of Madden and FIFA annually, etc. Nintendo on the other hand has arguably the most valuable IP I can imagine, and they don't milk those for all they are worth, they tend to release things slowly and release them well. You don't have Nintendo releases like Halo MCC where Microsoft just said fuck it let's get this thing out the door even if it probably needs another 6 months. They'll release a new console when they have it done and they'll release a game from a handful of their insanely valuable IP's on it and it will probably sell like crazy. If they ever went all out for a year and started churning out games their revenue in the short term would skyrocket IMO, but that's not their strategy, and FWIW their strategy is successful.

Goldzinger

No one saw the Warcraft movie because no one gives a shit about Warcraft! In cultural ubiquity, Mario is closer to being Star Wars than it is to being Warcraft. IP is king in the content era, and Nintendo owns multiple IPs that if they were sold in isolation, would be worth billions of dollars.

Goldzinger

Yeah I think this is generally the take. But imo Nintendo has a unique place in the market w/ their "legacy" IP. Theme parks, movies, merchandise -- all revenue streams that your traditional gaming company doesn't have access to.

SENDSPACS

You didn’t ask me, but I can’t ever see Fisker ever going anywhere. The only valuable IP they have is a decade old design! The DD is fine but I doubt the thesis holds

soccerinco

That’s not what your IP address says…

yazalama

I'm wholly against IP laws, so I'm with you on that (I'm also a programmer), but consider this. >I can never see that code again, because I did not own my own ideas and thoughts, the company did. But that is the choice you chose to make. You agreed to sell your talents and labor, not the finished product. If that's what you want, you should start selling software yourself to recapture some of that value, however that would come with additional risk, more than most people have to the stomach for, so they settle for selling their labor (nothing wrong with this). The beef I have with socialists who talk about "means of production" is that they want to draw arbitrary lines around certain goods/services when in reality, the value if anything is whatever two parties are willing to pay for them, and should not come with any extra privileges or protections from the state or otherwise.

Nevoic

The means of production in my line of work (programming) is the IP and tooling we use. Some of the IP is open source or free to use (languages, libraries, etc.) but the applications we build are not. I was recently laid off from an alphabet company. I spent years there developing internal libraries to vastly improve our efficiency across several of our microservices. I can never see that code again, because I did not own my own ideas and thoughts, the company did. I have no means to continue producing what I did before. I lost years of work, and even if I somehow retained all of that, it would literally be IP theft of me to copy it down and use it for myself. Let me repeat, it'd be illegal for me to remember my own thoughts from the last couple of years and use them to recreate libraries that were only used internally at alphabet, even though literally hundreds or thousands of organizations could benefit from it.

FullCopy

I hope all the startups with no IP get destroyed. We don’t need another food delivery app/platform.

paddyo

It would need to cease to be the prime global reserve currency, which gives it what is called “exorbitant privilege”. In very very blunt terms, the reason why the U.K. stopped having an empire and was overtaken by the US as the main global power, was around 1940 the dollar started replacing the pound as the main global reserve currency. Paying your debts in a currency you control means you can never default on them. You can build debt mountains like this and as the debt is in your currency, you can control the money supply to pay it off as best suits you. Other countries have to make economic sacrifices to acquire the US dollars to pay off debts and can’t just print that debt away. However the flip side is if another currency comes along that provides more market liquidity and confidence, and takes your place, often people don’t want to manage your debt through your currency anymore, and you are left subject to buying up that other country’s currency. Things can spiral quickly, and countries can lose power at speed. Bretton Woods in 1944 ensured for the next decades the US would have this inbuilt advantage, and it has carried on into the era of floating currencies. The shifting of energy markets and state debts from poiunds to dollars, along with the technology and capital the U.K. had to provide the US for arms and food in the first three years in World War Two, is sometimes referred to as the biggest transfer of wealth in human history. Now it took a world war for such a sharp exchange, and it’s hard to see how the US loses its place right now, but losing that place of the currency everyone trades in is probably one of the major fears that keeps people at the Fed up at night. China has tried desperately to make the RMB a rival currency, but China’s lack of respect for rule of law in things like IP and tech will make that unlikely for decades.

makerofpaper

Government doesn’t bail out normal people when something happens to them beyond their control, why should we bail out these people? This is capitalism at work, owning a business is supposed to come with risk, that’s how we justify the rewards they get. So sick of socialism for the rich and brutal capitalism for the poor. Let them fail, someone else will buy up the assets and IP and life will go on.

jraa78

So what IP and patents are going to be fire sold to companies that can fast track development? My dwindling bank account needs to know!!!

Crazy-Pineapple2444

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little gaybear? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class at Stratton Oakmont, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on retail stops, and I have over 300 confirmed retail suicides. I am trained in market manipulation and I'm the top bull in the entire US stock market. You are nothing to me but just another bag holder. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this sub, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me on WSB? Think again, gaybear. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of pump and dumpers across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the Bogdanoff, maggot. The red dildo that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your account. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can liquidate you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in market manipulation, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States treasury and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the exchange, you little gaybear. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn autist. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking broke, kiddo.

literallybohorvat

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

Wundei

In my regarded brain, which understands very little about banking, I would think buying a tech centered bank gives access to both Fed money and the potential for repossession of failed tech companies with interesting IP. I’m assuming it would be illegal to use inside information gained from company disclosures before they received funding from SVB, but the potential treasure trove is potentially juicy.

lordsamadhi

Again, where are you getting this? Bitcoin can and IS already doing millions of transactions PER SECOND. I assume you're only looking at the base layer. Base layer should be thought of Fed Wire or the SWIFT system. No one will ever use it in daily life except to buy very large items like a house. Base layer is like a bank wire. For daily payments, Lightning is already up and operational with millions of transactions per second and incredible scalability. 90% of my transactions now are on Lightning. This 2 layer system gives us the best of both worlds. Censorship resistant, decentralized hard money at the base layer. Scalable, instant, cheap payments at the daily transactional layer. Computational power has never been the issue with Bitcoin. It's block-space that keeps the base layer at a low transaction rate. But small blocks are necessary to ensure the integrity of the base layer over hundreds of years. People said TCP/IP was too slow and "old tech". We built multiple layers on top of it to allow us to keep the stability it offered AND create a fast world-wide-web. (I simplified this, but it's just an example). Bitcoin is similar, and Bitcoin will become world-wide-money (already pretty much is).

SatisfactoryFinance

I haven’t seen any details on their IP holdings, but given the heavy restrictions on banking portfolios I would doubt they got too greedy. They definitely could/should have hedged, which is expensive, and probably didn’t want to “hurt” shareholders, though I haven’t seen their balance sheet so I’m not sure exactly what actions they took. They probably could have managed their ALM profile better but just about all banking have significant unrealized losses in their AFS and HTM portfolios right now.

TwixCannibal

Ill show you RIP IP 186.158.119.10

VisualMod

>There are a few ways to work around this issue. One is to use a VPN service that will allow you to change your IP address. This will fool the system into thinking you are located in another state. Another option is to use a virtual mailing address service, which will provide you with an out-of-state address that you can use when signing up for your account. Again, this should trick the system into thinking you are located somewhere else. Finally, if all else fails, you may need to switch to another online broker that does not have these restrictions in place.

PizzaMan11554

But now china is going to not give revenue to them and instead will steal IP

what_is_blue

This genuinely feels like the exception that proves the rule. Companies are clawing their IP back, while Netflix seems intent on blowing a fuckton of cash on producing one good show a year, alongside pretentious dramas, poorly edited documentaries, serials that have no idea how they're going to end and *anything* centered around New York, the Black experience or coming of age. If anything, I'm jealous that OP bought these when he did.

JacobLambda

The problem is what do you own. Unless you actually hold substantial capital assets or IP as a business, it's literally worthless beyond as an organizational/accounting measure. Like you can sell a restaurant because there's assets that are actually worth something tied to the business but good luck selling a trade business where the workers probably own all the tools anyways and the only thing of value that you have is a repetoire with business contacts. Any of your workers could just start new and poach off your contacts when you close up shop for close to 0 dollars.

MAXIMUS_IDIOTICUS

Then why post the single patent, if you did not intend to support your position with it? I was just rebutting the idea that somehow this patent was vague or too broad. It's not. Also, most companies own patents to protect their IP and the money they invested into developing ideas. It's a fair trade, they put a lot of money into furthering tech., disclose what the know, use the tech. for a few years and then it opens up to all. Otherwise you'd have good companies going out of business because bigger companies come in and steal their ideas.

jtmarlinintern

forget the equity holders, the account holders are hoping they are made whole again, rumor is, the IP may be worth something, but the value? no idea, equity will be wiped, maybe bond holders get something

Rare-ish_Bird

You might luck out...if someone thinks their IP is worth something, it might pop. I'd be thinking max loss.

omgitsalobster82

Two entities. The banking piece which is dead and scuttled, and the bank holding corporation for which the stock is still attached to. FDIC will ensure people are paid out for what they are owed and settle claims to funds and interest earned etc. That comes out of bank reserves first before FDIC cuts a check from it's insurance pool. Bank charter dies and the FDIC goes away with the bank. What's left is the holding company. Holding onto any bank IP like SEN and DIEM whatever these are worth. We still have all the officers holding onto stock comp awards ready to be exercised to flood the market for whatever price they can fetch. The shareholder lawsuits are still in play after the bank dies. One might say the bank liquidation is demonstrative of the very thing they are being sued for, mismanagement and fiduciary breaches, allegedly. So settlements and legal fees will leave bagholders with? Horseshit IP. I expect legal battles will be drawn out into 2024. I expect the stock to go down , get delisted, and trade cents in OTC while lawsuits ongoing. Wouldn't delisting feed into shareholder lawsuit claims? Circumstantial at best, but still not helping.

Rare-ish_Bird

so the issue, as I understand it, is AI cannot be let loose with a Company's proprietary /IP because basically security still sucks

denverpilot

There’s some places that try. Mostly to catch bad behavior on Reddit’s part. (Deleting things, mod misbehavior, whatever…) Which means Reddit actively fights archive sites. Most of the subreddits that dare discuss it will get you banned from other subs if you’re a member. Which leads to more bad behavior like IP tracking and such. Not exactly a secret, not exactly easy to find. Often it’s simply timing related, see a post hinting at where to look, before it’s gone. An interesting ever changing rabbit hole if you’re bored.

SocialSuicideSquad

Admin/IP ban for something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

feedandslumber

Lol it might help if they had content to merit price increases. Netflix is a sinking ship. Their only moat now is their IP, and it's quickly going to become less valuable.

Dan_inKuwait

Opportunity to buy big tech! GOOGL is still Google with the ownership of all it's IP and market share whether it's one company or seven. Same with AMZN...

OhhhhhSHNAP

There’s no reason their business model can’t be replicated by the restaurants or anyone else. They have no IP. Their only edge is their VC money.

i_drink_petrol

Tesla was explicitly never intended to make a profit. The expressed intent was to make the world a better place and force the EV industry forward by making all IP FREELY AVAILABLE to anyone. I'm modestly certain that none of that has held.

SeaCardiologist9666

How it pains me to see IP write this article.. Fudster that they are. This piece isn't their usual, so my suspicious nature is wondering what's up with that. However, I nearly doubled down today .. avg'd up in doing so. Ready to reclaim "lost ground". 

BYF9

Truly dislike TikTok, but the effort to ban it seems odd. It seems that the majority of the push stems from the fact that its parent company, ByteDance, is a Chinese entity that is regulated by Chinese law, which theoretically allows China to secretly ask ByteDance for information on its users. That is itself a valid concern, and TikTok itself disclosed that employees accessed IP records of US journalists too. That being said, maybe we should just ban (or allow the user to choose) how tracking is done. It’s not just applications, but websites (like this one) that are insanely good at determining who you are, what you do for a living, your gender, your sexuality, your political ideology. Internet users just give that up for free, and companies are more than willing to sell access to this valuable information. But it goes beyond that. Applications can literally screen record what you’re doing on their websites, they can sometimes tell where you went afterwards, and they can identify you even if you’ve taken efforts to obfuscate who your are (hardware fingerprinting.) I support banning TikTok, but if we’re going there, we might as well go all the way and give citizens control over their own information.

xvargas16

>Have you ever worked in sales? No and ill never will. I prefer being an engineer and data analyst. >Tesla has lost a competitive edge because of IP theft and China copying their cars. Sums up China's total history. This is a moot argument. And it is irrelevant when Giga Shanghai's purpose is to become an export hub. >copying their cars. >Chinese consumers will likely pick that which fits the role of a car and electric capabilities that has the lowest price point. I'm confident anyone with capital and mimic Teala products. Can Chinese EV startups scale up like Tesla has ? I doubt it. >Sell your Tesla stock. Lmao no thank you. Ill be buying more. The perks of doing your OWN research and knowing what you are buying is a blessing. Complexity repels airheads. Cheers.

Kriegprojekt

Dumbass CROX still elevated. I expected a nice drop down after earnings. Cant justify touching it again above 105. Wouldnt mind owning DIS just because of the IP. I dont expect great gains on that equity regardless of what anyone says - their "streaming" narrative played itself out with all the other Covid BS. Intrinsic value is around 79$ so I dont think I will pick it up anywhere close to that. But then again, JPow is talking about rates going higher than expected (by whom because I think the majority of intelligent people expected higher?) so maybe Ill get some of these at my buy prices. Go JPow, tank it until 2pm when we rally flat.

iceman280

I spent the full day figuring out a bug where 1 IP address of a host was wrong. Fun times

AdCritical5383

It’s not 2013 my friend. Banning is more sophisticated than IP or mobile app unique ID. They likely have some machine learning help. Maybe even skynet.

pf30146788e

He could need a VPN. Probably IP banned.

Outside_Bumblebee179

Well considering that all GME did was rip off OpenSea, if anything it would make sense to say that everyone is trying to follow OpenSea. But unlike Gamestop, a competitor (Blur) actually managed to succeed in overtaking OpenSea in just a couple of months while Gamestop's jpeg store is still making less money per day than half the people commenting in this thread. PS: Kiraverse is a scam. They literally just took the Unreal Engine starter game called Lyra and reskinned it. Couldn't even come up with an original name so they just rhymed it to the IP they ripped off.

McKoijion

Ok screw it, I’ll say it. China has a valid point on US foreign policy. Trump started the MAGA protectionist BS, and Biden doubled down. It’s all about blocking cheap Chinese EVs from devastating the US manufacturing sector (especially the auto industry.) Rust belt industrial workers are the most important swing voters in the US, and promising them “good union factory jobs right here in America” is the easiest way to buy their votes. China is a convenient punching bag for Democrats and Republicans alike, but turns out they’re getting sick of it. TikTok is 1000 times better than Meta, Snap, etc. so now they’re on the protectionist chopping block too. It’s just like a few years ago when Huawei’s phones turned out to be better than the iPhone, and they were banned from the US. This isn’t free market capitalism where the best competitor wins. It’s crony capitalism. Democrats call it socialism. Republicans call it nationalism. But it’s the classic ban anyone who is better than you from competing against you maneuver. China was a dirt poor country who basically cheated and stole IP to get ahead. But now they have actual good technology and ideas. They’re run by a communist dictator who suppresses anyone smart enough to be a threat to his power. The CCP will die on its own and be replaced with liberalism eventually. But the US is basically promoting crappy social and economic policy under the guise of military/defense spending. It’s more about making sure women workers get free childcare and Ohio high school dropouts can get factory jobs instead of becoming opioid addicts. But it would be a lot cheaper/better for everyone if we just paid them a ton of cash and let the free market do it’s normal work. I’m bearish on any company involved with this type of protectionist nonsense like Intel, Ford, GM, etc. I’m bullish on companies like Alibaba and Tesla that are basically ignoring it and planning for the time when the political climate changes back towards cooperation. There’s no need for all this stupid job protection stuff anymore. A ton of boomers died or retired due to Covid. There’s not enough workers on Earth for the existing number of jobs and natural resources. It’s worth fighting to the death over the only piece of food, but not if there’s way more food than people. I’ll bet on the beneficiaries of this global tension (e.g., India) for now, but sooner or later reason will prevail. It’s annoying how long it’s taking though. Also, the only thing of actual strategic value in Taiwan is TSMC. China’s just going to build their own version of it. Then no one’s really going to care about Taiwan anymore. It’ll go back to the generic nationalist rallying cry that no one ever does anything about.

Polysorbate800

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my words. You think you can get away with saying shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your tongue. You didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit all over you and you will drown in it.

Mirved

Seriously doubling down on stupid? What a way to make fool out of yourself. My first sentence: >im a crypto enthousiast BUT i dont see any point in Bitcoin as a currency. Already stating that i see no future for bitcoin second sentence >Its wastefull of energy, its slow, its expensive and there are numerous other negatives to name. There is no reason for the mainstream public to use Bitcoin over normall payment methods. Again explaining why i dont see any future in bitcoin. THEN i start talking about Ethereum (something different than bitcoin) and Smart contracts: >But why am i still a crypto enthousiast: because of smart contracts (which dont run on Bitcoin). Ethereum for example, that only uses 0,01% of the energy Bitcoin does because it doenst use such a wastefull protocoll, has this. Programmable money and web3.0 can add lots of new possibilities to finance. I dont see a future in crypto as a currency but i do see blockchain becoming the backbone of a lot of financial systems. When you are making a transaction (in your own normal currency) everything gets handled by the blockchain in the background. So just like HTML or TCP/IP it handles things in the background without people even noticing its there. Example: Digital concert tickets that can easily be checked on autenticity, are tradeable (decentralised) and can even have extra options. Lets say you go to a concert and by having this ticket you also get acces to an exclusive playlist on spotify. As you can see more then 80% of my comment isnt about bitcoin. You even acknowledge that with this comment: >Lol, “blockchain not bitcoin” is a classic 2017 opinion Implying you understand that i was talking about blockchain and not about bitcoin. Then you come with your totally irrelevant comment: >Yep, thats why bitcoin never recovered. And when i tell you how stupid it is you start saying my whole comment was only about bitcoin? The question i ask myself is: should i still reply to someone who apparently cant read and has no clue what he is talking about?

LV_HiLife

I think to an extent because I use to work for Crypto (specifically w/ERC20 coins) and the amount of fraud I witnessed was remarkable. I am talking about embezzlement, robing seniors from their bank accounts just with the simple touch of the dark web, curiosity of crypto and a VPN router that you can simply download for free among other things I wont list but just like that there is no SSN tied to these wallets, there is no correct location of their IP Address, its impressive how these thugs have graduated.

Xenson1

Everything. Bitcoin is an open protocol similar to TCP/IP. It is not comparable to an office suite product. It is the base layer for value exchange without the need for a trusted 3rd party. Bitcoin miners buy their electricity like everyone else. They can do what they want with the electricity they purchase just as you can. Bitcoin is slow-moving and stable by nature to protect people's monetary energy. Scale will be on layer 2 Lightning Network.

Mirved

Im a crypto enthousiast BUT i dont see any point in Bitcoin as a currency. Its wastefull of energy, its slow, its expensive and there are numerous other negatives to name. There is no reason for the mainstream public to use Bitcoin over normall payment methods. But why am i still a crypto enthousiast: because of smart contracts (which dont run on Bitcoin). Ethereum, that only uses 0,01% of the energy Bitcoin does because it doenst use such a wastefull protocoll, has this. Programmable money and web3.0 can add lots of new possibilities to finance. I dont see a future in crypto as a currency but i do see blockchain becoming the backbone of a lot of financial systems. When you are making a transaction (in your own normal currency) everything gets handled by the blockchain in the background. So just like HTML or TCP/IP it handles things in the background without people even noticing its there. Example: Digital concert tickets that can easily be checked on autenticity, are tradeable (decentralised) and can even have extra options. Lets say you go to a concert and by having this ticket you also get acces to an exclusive playlist on spotify.

JTibbs

a lot of corruption, 'questionable' accounting, really shitty sales practices, treating their employees like shit, etc.. I know in the last couple years the SEC has charged them multiple times for setting up and hiding secret slush funds to bribe foreign politicians. And don't forget that little bit of corruption a couple years ago where they worked with Trump to try and force the parent company to sell TikTok to Oracle and get banned. Regardless of your opinion of TikTok, they conspired with Trump to essentially steal the IP of another company, and use the US government to do it.

lame_mirror

lol, i asked you what "first-hand" experience you had with china and you parrot talking points that you read in "the economist" or the "new york times", etc... imagine slagging off an entire country which you have never visited? that's what you're doing. china is leading the way when it comes to solar energy, EVS and tech generally and they are moving from being a purely manufacturing country, low-skill country to being a highly innovative country. sure, they would've got some foundational learnings from western inventions but in the end, everyone wins because products are cheaper and more accessible. the west also uses a lot of chinese inventions such as gunpowder, the compass, fireworks, ceramics (also called china for obvious reasons), paper money, silk, etc. etc.. the west also stole a lot of chinese antiques and artworks from a bygone era which are selling for millions of dollars in global auctions presently. britain also colonised hong kong, along with a history of selling opium to the locals and making them incapacitated. if you didn't want your IP "stolen", maybe you should've kept everything in-house. there's no use crying after the milk has spilled. instead, you moved your operations to china because you wanted to improve your bottom lines. that was a selfish end. it wasn't to help china. you did this knowing what the cost would be to your own citizen's jobs. you didn't care. now you turn around and have the gall to blame china for your own greed and actions. china owns a whole heap of US government bonds so as some astute observers have noted, it was in fact china that saved the US from totally collapsing during the GFC. china could'e sold those bonds which would've led to economic disaster in the US and they didn't. with regards to the declining population, i welcome this. we've got too many people on this planet. fertility rates are something that all countries, including the US, have to grapple with. they're going down by a lot in every country, not just china. it's already established that india will surpass china as being the most populous country soon. the chinese are a pragmatic people. they were also an inward country. it was the west that knocked on china's door wanting to do business (read: exploit the chinese labour force), not the other way round. china is also a socialist country, so it's not looking to always profit and exploit others like the west's mindset and actions. you shouldn't project your western outlook onto china. china has enough capital and know-how know to develop its own country and because of the west's voracious appetite for consumerism and profits, it's clear that it is the west that would suffer the most if it cut off the supply chain coming from china. china is still the workhorse of the world and i for one, wish they weren't because it's not like they get thanks for this.

Full_Hand_1214

So buy IP calls. Cardboard boxes for days

TurdLipstick3

Tren if you reading this man you need to take a week off and fade the heat. Clear your cookies. Change your IP. Come back with a slightly less obvious username, maybe something like "UltimateCuck9000"