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> What would a break-up of Facebook look like?

An interesting question. The network effect - the requirement that users can interact with each other - obviously complicates it. Here are a few ideas, which could also be combined in some ways:

A. Eliminate the vertical integration: Infrastructure, UI, advertising, etc. I'm not sure that resolution, by itself, would sufficiently address the problems mentioned in the article.

B. Break it up horizontally, whether geographically or some other arbitrary way, and require they all follow open standards that allow interoperability. If you think of it, that's no different than the Bell breakup - they remained interoperable; people using one post-AT&T company could call someone on another.

C. Both A & B: Different companies could create different UIs, as one example, competing to provide different kinds of user experiences to different markets - one-size-fits-all probably isn't the best solution anyway, especially for an industry selling to every subculture on the globe. The same could apply to other layers, such as advertising: B2B analytics companies would compete to sell differentiated services to advertisers. (It would be essential, IMHO, that the new social network system provide users with opt-out, complete privacy - maybe they could sell their personal info to competing buyers of it.)

The more I think about it, the better it sounds. From this perspective Facebook seems like an awkward monopoly - trying to be all things, on so many layers, to all people and businesses, profiting from monopolistic control, and preventing what seems like (at first impression) the vast innovations that competition would bring if it was opened up.

My realization is this: There's no reason one company must run the entire social network for users to benefit from network effects. Plenty of systems provide network effect benefits without central control - the entire Internet and its protocol stacks, the web, email ...
Not only that, but undergrad college is slowly turning into what late high school was.

Soon if not already, jobs for once high school graduates are now for college grads for the simple degradation of education.
I dont trust NYTIMES to regulate itself either, or any other major news outlet there. Or any oil company, or big food corporation, or any militar company. Or the department of defense.
I just dont know what is the ideal solution ,but state regulation is not the answer. It looks very dangerous.
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> didn't spend even 10 minutes ... just decided to believe a conspiracy theory.

Isn't this what the Internet is all about?
He turns his personal flaws into a collective bias. His first paragraph tries to shift responsibility from the individual to a larger category of people.

> "...the negative impact of my tweets was amplified by the fact that I, a white, Western, male CEO of a key company in the Maker community, publicly questioned a young, female, self-employed Chinese maker."
Clearly they should’ve enforced English education. Spain is at the bottom when it comes to that, as parent shows.
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> a distributed open-source p2p alternative

Like talking to people, in real life: face to face?

They're making a dent in that.
The US and UK governments especially have been sponsoring great architectures for security that are described in enough detail for hardware engineers to implement or straight-up open source. CHERI at Cambridge is one of the latter which already runs FreeBSD. All Google has to do is pay a good team/company to build one that's reusable for their various products and services. Then, they can start targeting those to it at software level for better efficiency.

The project would cost money that Google has. There's not much new to invent, though. They just have to apply what's there. The performance penalties and ASIC costs are even much lower than they were in the past. Google refuses to do these things because either (a) they don't know about them or (b) more likely their management doesn't want to commit that much money to secure hardware. Typical of the big companies with the smartcard market the only exception far as stuff non-enterprises could afford.

For a quick example, they did retool software to support OpenPOWER architecture but could've also funded Raptor Workstation in a desktop or esp server form themselves. It would've been to their budget like pennies are to ours. Not even that. At least they did the Chromebooks, though, which are good for a lot of non-technical folks.
It’s amazing the degree to which “our business model is treating people like garbage by way of tech” has become a justification in and of itself.
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Jeremy Lin, the NBA player, talked about getting his teammates to play Clash Royale with him. He was shocked that everyone had better troops than him after two days. Apparently they all dropped thousands.
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Is there an emulator that can run this version of Unix and ideally has the software available?
I mentioned SLC for a good reason, and it has little to do with mainland China since they don’t allow missionaries. If you go to Taiwan, you’ll find, compared to the population, more foreigners speaking mandarin.

China has no problem finding foreigners who speak good Chinese like they did in the 90s. Likewise, they are a bit unnerved when the American ambassador speaks fluent mandarin like Huntsman did, or like various prime ministers of austrailia are ought to these days. They definitely exist, and if some random white (or black or Indian, etc...) guy/gal breaks out mandarin in some random context, well, it really isn’t amazing anymore.

If you visit a tier 88 city in china, the fact that you are a foreigner at all is amazing, this has little to do with your mandarin skills. Now hit the bath house with them and it’s double amazing.
> Hindsight

I disagree. Failure analysis does not start with "assume the seawall will never fail." It starts with "assume the seawall fails. What are the consequences?"

Given the location of those generators, it was obvious that a breach would take out CRITICAL generators, and it would have been cheap to remove that vulnerability.

Another cheap remedy would have moved the hydrogen vent pipe to vent outside, rather than INSIDE AN ENCLOSED SPACE FILLED WITH SPARKING ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.
Interesting. I wonder if that's a data cleanliness issue?

eg; one year a Dentist says they're a Physician (maybe they didn't see the "Dentist" category) and the next year they say they're a Dentist.
I upvoted yours and the gp's comments, because they ask reasonable questions and consider different viewpoints in a respectful manner.

(The idea above seems not unlike the notion that one cannot observe a thing without affecting it.)
This is terrible. The app definitely says, "100% goes to your dasher".
This. A dream of mine is to study developmental economics, go back to my birth country and join an NGO.

But how.
The problem is that people trust their friends on facebook. How do you protect the people who can't use critical thinking to get answers?

Using your reasoning, you might ask why it's bad to let vulnerable elderly individuals be hoodwinked out of their savings. What happened to their responsibility?

It seems to me that the people as a body are incapable of managing themselves and so they need safeguards. (Wow, that makes me sound like a dictator.)
Do people in London and Toronto care enough to pressure their leaders about this? In my experience it's hard to find people in the U.S. who even bother to pay attention to who has oversight when it comes to transportation (and not just transportation, this is true for a lot of local issues).
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MSNP was a neat little protocol. Messages were sent as mime messages. They did have a max message size, but the official client would ignore any headers it didn't know about and any mimetypes it wasn't expecting. This gave third-party clients a lot of ability to extend the protocol. For instance, I hacked in avatar support in Gaim (aka Pidgin) when I was maintaining that support.

MSNP8 is when all the terrible MSNSLP (MSN SLP-Like Protocol) stuff began, with the binary packets. Spent a couple months figuring out the content of those packets... And while avatars were part of the protocol at this point, custom content was no longer as viable. I can understand some of the reasons they wanted to change it, but in the end, I think they ruined a decent (if imperfect) protocol.
as far as i know, most kagglers are not students, but honestly i havent seen any data on that.

I'll speak for myself, I do it because I love trying to solve interesting problems and I love data science.

thus far every competition I joined I learned something new and expanded my ds code base. I also really love the fact people post kernels and discussions I can learn from as well.
The parent company for Marchon eyeware is VSP insurance company. Fact is I like their Flexon 623 frames. But I’ll never pay a dime for VSP again. Vision insurance is like free phone plans. They cost more not less.
I agree, I think that the language barrier is not a problem when you see those generators sitting right behind the seawall.

It's like in New Orleans, where the emergency generators were located in the basements below sea level. There's nothing subtle about that. Sorry, but how daft can one get?
Linked in is way more brutal than Facebook. I(and all my friends)can take fb or leave it, put any kind of random info / pictures. LinkedIn though.. I am stuck!
"Make government programs work": An issue politicians seem incapable of prioritizing over giving the government dominion over more areas of American life.
If that's the case then I'd be surprised if it weren't classed as fraud.
Ok, I'll try.

Ethical divestment quietly, by regular individuals: mostly useless.

Ethical divestment loudly (publicized), by respected institutions or famous investors can be useful if done correctly.

The utility of divestment comes in its' signaling power. A large, well-respected university divesting signals that the university expects the future value of oil to be less than it is today. The expectation is backed up by putting it's money where it's mouth is (see: http://longbets.org/).

If I'm an unscrupulous investor and see powerful institutions signaling that they believe society will change in some way such that an investment in oil is less valuable, I should probably believe them. They are, after all, powerful institutions for a reason (partially b/c they are good at surviving), and their divestment ensures that those institutions will welcome carbon taxes or other measures that reduce the value of oil.

Lastly, divestment can start to signal social stigma against the industry, making that industry less attractive to skilled talent.
I live in the same area and agree with your complaints.

You may have already accounted for this in your $10k figure, but keep in mind that because property taxes are pretty much the only funding for school districts in Texas a percentage of rich school district's budgets are recaptured for redistribution among poor school districts. I paid $3300 for the school district portion of my property taxes this year, and about $800 goes to the state (which I don't have a problem with for the record).
Those patriotic Republicans, always putting country before ideology:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/11/18/under-gop-plan-...
> MTA police make 130k+

Do you actually know a real person who makes that much, or are you just parroting?
Why do you care/how do you know about their salaries in the first place?
Trying to finish your linked page was very uncomfortable. Interesting read tho.
I'm not sure that this is any different from the West (at least considering the many places in which I have lived).

Pay more, get more.
It's not just funding transportation though, it's also the oversight of projects. Few people take transportation funding into account when they vote; almost no one seems to take transportation oversight into account.

I think also looking at it simply as a party problem hurts things, because there can be a lot of difference within the party, but people tend to overlook these things (and again, not just in terms of the amount of money that's spent, but also in terms of how it's spent).
$35B divestment out of trillions in oil businesses market caps is a rounding errror.
> Using your reasoning, you might ask why it's bad to let vulnerable elderly individuals be hoodwinked out of their savings. What happened to their responsibility?

It's a bit different because in your case, we're actively reducing harm. You can't just say "censorship will fix it" or "oversight will fix it" unless we're talking about specific scenarios. Which is why, in general censorship and oversight doesn't really fix anything.

This is also why laws are very detailed and specific. It would be nice to say "be good to one another" and be done with it.
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They're actually pretty simple if you're mostly trying to defeat software/firmware attacks. You just add some part to run in parallel with the processor, which can be arbitrarily simple or complex, that checks certain things about the data such as length or data type. The first one was implemented in 1961 hardware with it being secure from code injection until the invention of ROP. That's a long time. I'll add a modern take on that which led to a flexible mechanism that can do a dozen or maybe more policies.

http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burr...

http://www.crash-safe.org/papers.html

A more complex one is below that was also designed by one person for his dissertation. Knocks out all kinds of issues without modifying the processor. It has stuff to improve for sure but it think it proves the point pretty well. The stuff corporate teams were designing comes nowhere near this because they don't know much about high-security design. A critical part of that isn't features so much as a balancing act between what protection mechanisms do and don't that tries to minimize complexity to low as is possible.

https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10112006-2048...

And one open-source one on MIPS for capability-based security that runs FreeBSD:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

A company or group of hardware volunteers could develop this into something at least as usable as a multi-core ARM CPU on RISC-V or OpenSPARC. It wouldn't take tons of money esp if they worked their way up in complexity. The hard stuff is already done. People just need to apply it. They could even pay these academics to do it for them with open-sourced results. They even get a huge discount on the EDA tools that can be six digits a seat.

You're right that Intel is screwing up and playing catchup cobbling together features. There was stuff in the available literature better than most of what they're doing. They even have a separation kernel from Wind River they're not employing. Managers without security expertise must be pushing a lot of this stuff.
i wd40'd the @#$& out of it and it only got worse lol.. i think the design or QC is a bit wanting; looking at the bottom there are clearly several points of the hinge that are rubbing metal on metal
> AFAICT only two companies actually cover all tax jurisdictions, FastSpring and Paddle. Gumroad only does some.

Can you elaborate more on what Gumroad are missing out on?
Why do we need to break up FB? That makes no sense to me. In previous antitrust cases, there was always the economic argument (to help out up-and-coming competitors or to prevent price gouging). But Snapchat clearly showed that new players can compete.

Are we breaking them up because they have "too much information"? What does that even mean? A move like that would be beyond unprecedented.
I really wonder if the NYT does this piece to bargain a deal with facebook of some sort. Which kind of company calls for regulation on another company? The nerve!

However, I do sympathize on how much facebook is getting from its network effected position. It looks impossible to dethrone. Same for google.

I think the change has to come from how users deal with their own data. If you as a consumer had unlimited access to your data, you could potentially resell it to someone else, forcing facebook and the likes to compete on price. The key here is that the data has to be owned by the consumer, not by facebook itself.
What's the gain over discrete GPUs in a desktop, where space and power are not at a premium the way they are in a laptop?
The article says they’ve built a $100 million research center for the purpose of building radiation hardened robots for this environment.

I’m sure as they learn techniques and technology for building these robots it will progress quicker. A small robot with a camera is the first step.
Nowhere in the piece does he apologize for being a white, western, male. You are arguing against or being grated by a straw man that's not there, he didn't do that.

He did say that "the negative impact of my tweets was amplified" by his social position, including being a white, western, male. I guess you disagree that this amplified the negative impact of those tweets? And this disagreement about assessment of negative impact bothers you for some reason?

He also, I agree, suggests, by the 'actions' they are taking that this social position probably made it more likely for him to have made this mistake. I guess you disagree? And are inflamed by this disagreement for some reason? Except you did write "fair point" about unconscious bias going on here.

I'm not quite sure what is irritating you so.
They are attacking a weak interpretation of his argument. It's a pretty good tactic (that might have some merit), but it's pretty uncharitable.
Sunday is pretty much the worst day of the week to use metro because it has the lowest number of people trying to get places, so the metro is frequently running degraded service to allow for extra maintenance, and there is much less traffic to slow down an Uber.

I would pretty much never consider taking an Uber over taking the metro from 7am-7pm on weekdays because it would invariably be slower and more expensive.
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A least around a year ago, Purism shipped computers with Qubes and claimed to be the "only approved hardware vendor".

EDIT: See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15735911
I think it has a lot to do with the way government in the US is structured, specifically the focus on local representatives. Because US legislators are beholden to voters in a particular locality, any time there's an infrastructure project which receives state and/or federal funding there is tremendous pressure to make it draw as much money as possible into the local economy. This is the classic "bringing home the bacon" which is expected of pretty much every US politician. This has increasingly become accepted as the norm in the US, despite occasional lip service from politicians. The truth is they are all too happy to accept spending lavishly on local projects, as long as it benefits members of their party.

Other developed countries tend to have parliamentary systems where policy making requires multi-party coalitions. When you need to get three or more parties on board there is less opportunity to get park-barrel spending passed without _someone_ crying foul.
There's nothing more on this earth that Google would want than to split up Facebook. Essentially destroying its biggest digital advertising competition.

I don't trust Facebook or Google...but I also don't trust the government to regulate them (in the regard to the topic of this piece); or for government to be unduly influenced by either company's competitors trying to stifle the companies, or the possibility of limiting speech. There are so many things that can go wrong in getting government involved in this aspect.
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Regulation is a form of consumer protection that provides where corporate policies fail. The data the FB owns is vastly more rich and personally identifiable than what NYT owns on its users. Hard to accept a comparison to NYT.
With that kind of bounty you aim to attract someone who has already solved the problem and has the solution sitting in his drawer. Eli Lilly pioneered the crowdsourcing approach in 2001 with their spinout Innocentive, and they raised eyebrows even then because they were perceived as cheap.
> Public services are for the working poor

This doesn’t really work in New York City, where most people are exposed to the subway directly or through the crowding of our shitty roads.
I think this largely describes the considerations of "enterprise architecture" (versus dude-builds-an-app-with-Rails).

Different communication coordination patterns and levels of complexity.

Look at specifics to determine appropriate solutions (which will still have particular benefits and drawbacks).
Normally, I also reject companies that have bad interviewers - it means that the rest of the people they actually hire are likely below average as well. Which also means poor growth, poor salary growth for you, and likelihood that you'll have to lift some of your colleagues' weight as well.

Sometimes it's just the recruiting dept that's bad. I've interviewed with one company, where the recruiters were quite incompetent and insecure. Forms were extremely long, including personal things like t-shirt size and education level of siblings.

But the company was quite good. It was just a side effect of a rapidly growing company not hiring the right people for those slots. People who filled in those forms just treated it as another hurdle and the tech team still remains awesome.
>IRC is IMHO an example of a good text-based protocol design

Though it would have been nice if there was an actual text encoding specification. Right now, various networks, especially in Asia, have all kinds of funny encodings going on. Meanwhile in US and European contexts, UTF-8 isn't standardized, so you have to expect other encodings as well.
I think "maker"/DIY go hand in hand - and are probably most useful as umbrella terms for people who genuinely enjoy tinkering and enjoy experiencing learning and experimenting with new physical skills.

So, yeah, "DIY dinner" does sound a bit silly. But, as someone who has done amateur shoe modification - I would never call myself a cobbler. A maker? Sure.

I sympathize a bit with your criticism of the term, because I've thought long and hard about whether or not some new terminology is coined or supported by men when they get into a hobby which is traditionally practiced by women.

eg, "crafting" is a well established word, but seems avoided by men, and DIY is an easy substitute, eg "DIY foam halloween costume"

I first noticed this when I got a sewing machine, and started to frequent DIY camping gear/hammock forums. There's an obnoxious habit around those parts to not even call a sewing machine a sewing machine - it's a "thread injector." It drives me up the wall, it seems so blatantly sexist.