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The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
Kara Swisher, writing for The New York Times: I kept pressing Mr. Zuckerberg on how he personally felt about the damage his creation had done. [Editor's note: Ms. Swisher is referring to her recent interview with Mark Zuckerberg.] Was he beginning to understand the power that he held, and that the world that he controlled was not such a rosy place? Facebook was "probably," he admitted, "too focused on just the positives and not focused enough on some of the negatives." Fair enough. But it was impossible to get him to acknowledge any personal pain as both the creator and the destroyer. "I mean, my emotion is feeling a deep sense of responsibility to try to fix the problem," said Mr. Zuckerberg. "In running a company, if you want to be innovative and advance things forward, I think you have to be willing to get some things wrong. But I don't think it is acceptable to get the same things wrong over and over again."
It was a classic Silicon Valley engineer's roll-up-your-sleeves answer, which leaves many cold when it comes to, say, the manipulation of democracy. Fending off bad actors like the Russians has been and will be increasingly expensive; it may even be impossible. But Facebook could have done much more than it did, and it certainly needs to do more than it's doing. Mr. Zuckerberg is now trying to fend off talk in Washington of regulating his company like the thing he once told me it was: a utility. He has also spent the last month meeting over dinners with a range of academic experts on free speech, propaganda and more to try to understand where to go from here. Call it the education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley, but on the world's dime. How much that has -- and will -- cost is probably immeasurable.
It was a classic Silicon Valley engineer's roll-up-your-sleeves answer, which leaves many cold when it comes to, say, the manipulation of democracy. Fending off bad actors like the Russians has been and will be increasingly expensive; it may even be impossible. But Facebook could have done much more than it did, and it certainly needs to do more than it's doing. Mr. Zuckerberg is now trying to fend off talk in Washington of regulating his company like the thing he once told me it was: a utility. He has also spent the last month meeting over dinners with a range of academic experts on free speech, propaganda and more to try to understand where to go from here. Call it the education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley, but on the world's dime. How much that has -- and will -- cost is probably immeasurable.
Never had a job offer where you're supposed to send your resume through Facebook?
Yes. I've never had to submit my resume through Facebook. Always through email. I don't know anyone who has had to submit their resume through Facebook.
Or seen companies offer certain deal only via Facebook, or only accept logins by Facebook (or Twitter, yeah, great alternative)?
I've never seen Facebook only deals. I've seen email offers that are duplicated on Facebook, but never the other way around.
Every website I've seen that has had the option to log in using Facebook (or Twitter, or Google) has also had the option to create a local account, which is what I do.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Funny how this had been going on for literal years, everyone knew about it and everyone was ok with it.
Then one person wrote an article about how a company MIGHT have used it to help get Trump get elected, now its a complete shit show for Facebook?
Meanwhile, Donna Brazile says the DNC rigged their primary and no one gives a shit. People are upset that Facebook "might" have been used to help elect Trump, but actual election rigging is perfectly ok.
When you meet Trump supporters that don't agree with you and you can't figure it out, the above is a big hint for you.
Fact checker: Bethania Palma. The far left failed journalist that rushed to MSNBC's Malcom Nance's defense when he called on ISIS to bomb Trump properties. She called the tweet 'poorly worded' and reworded it to 'prove' he never meant that. Because ISIS was actually backing Trump.
Yes, Bethania Palma, bastion of factualness and objectivity, and the reason not to trust Snopes all that much anymore with politics.
a fluke in our electoral system
It's not a fluke. It's deliberate design. The system is intentionally biased against large states. Rhode Island has two senators, for example. All the deliberate rounding errors, from the distribution of representatives to the structure of the electoral college, have this same bias. The superhuman wisdom of our founders is why NY and CA don't yet have tyrannical control over this country.
It's not about large states, it's about culture, specifically urban/city culture vs. rural/farm culture. Nations are built on their ability to produce as much food as possible with the fewest people, as it then frees up people to focus on other things like building Facebook. If votes were proportional to individuals, then eventually as the wealth of the nation increases the backbone of every nation, it's agrarian sector, would get it's voice diminished more and more. This is how nations fall, when the balance of power between the urban class and the rural class falls out.
The system is designed to continue to give a voice to the important but ever diminishing minority of the rural class, and that major cities like LA and New York, who's life and culture are very different than the mid-West breadbasket, cannot completely dominate the nation's political structure.