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Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by reaperducer »

noncoml wrote: post #34
the-dude wrote: post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Why curious? Is there anything to make you believe there is foul play?

Why curious?

People naturally find coincidences curious. It's how we find causality.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by reaperducer »

smt88 wrote: post #37
kevlawrence wrote: post #36

This gives me a lot of confidence in their crypto currency.

1) Cryptocurrency ops are so vastly different from running a social website that I can't even think of any overlap. 2) I hate Facebook as a company, but as a builder/scaler of web apps for many years, I'm continually blown away by the speed and reliability of their website. Their operations are mind-blowing. The only comparable apps (in terms of scale) are Gmail and YouTube, and Gmail is simpler in certain key areas…

Cryptocurrency ops are so vastly different from running a social website that I can't even think of any overlap

I know nothing about how cryptocurrency works, but wouldn't social media outage sources like multiple server failures, hurricane, tornado, sliced fiber line, etc... affect the kind of cryptocurrency that Facebook is embarking on?

Or is there something in the "distributed" nature of cryptocurrency that makes it more resilient? Is Facebook using that model, too?

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by dopamean »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #51
kache_ wrote: post #15

I wonder what kind of economic damage all these recent outages add up to. How much harm are they causing, in terms of productivity and value. Facebook's social networks I'd imagine are less impactful than the slack outages, which could completely cripple a company if they were primarily remote.

Ad content (images and video) seems to be loading fine on the iOS App. So the damage is likely minimal.

If the reason people are on the site is down then maybe people will come back less frequently which surely would have an impact on the ads no?

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by jeromegv »

thrusong wrote: post #56
kofisarfo wrote: post #46

Imagine if this meant not being able to send or receive currency.

I would say cash is used much less often in Canada than it used to be and most people just tap or swipe their Interac debit cards. Outages happen from time to time, usually during the mad Christmas shopping season, but life goes on.

Anecdata is always funny because I hardly know anyone that uses debit. Credit all the way.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by lovecg »

samstave wrote: post #60
the-dude wrote: post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

So the options are: 1) a secret cyber-war is going on... 2) Some entity is installing new spying slurps 3) An (critical) IX that we werent aware of is having major issues... and we dont know who to blame on that one...

4) People love to find patterns where none exist

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by Spearchucker »

dlphn___xyz wrote: post #59
the-dude wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In NL cash transactions of 10k+ already needed to be reported to the authorities. But a new law will forbid any cash transactions higher than 3k.

whats the reasoning behind the new law?

The revenue service is unaware of cash payments/purchases made by private parties and so cannot tax such transactions. Unless those private parties volunteer the information.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by i_cant_speel »

dlphn___xyz wrote: post #59
the-dude wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In NL cash transactions of 10k+ already needed to be reported to the authorities. But a new law will forbid any cash transactions higher than 3k.

whats the reasoning behind the new law?

It looks like an attempt to prevent money laundering

https://nltimes.nl/2019/07/01/dutch-govt-ban-cash-payments-e...

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