> Zstd is worth a lot of other's people's pain.
"Amnesty report finds Facebook amplified hate ahead of Rohingya massacre in Myanmar":
* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-report-finds-face...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Facebook_con...
What is your point? That zstd cannot exist? That it shouldn't? I can't read minds you know.
A lot of people have died horribly, millions, perhaps billions of lives have been affected negatively, democracies have been subverted, but at least we got a nice compression algorithm?
And React, although the jury remains out on whether that's a transformative technology or... not.
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> What is your point? That zstd cannot exist? That it shouldn't? I can't read minds you know.
Would it be better that:
* zstd exists because Meta exists (net benefiting over other people's pain — including possibly the 'pain' of genocide), or
* a genocide did not happen (or was not as bad) because Meta did not exist (but we never got zstd)?
Friend, there is no better. There is just this. I know it is hard for you to hear me, but hear me for I do have something to tell you.
We do not live in a perfect world. That is a simple fact, but I need you to accept that fact before we have a chance to communicate. I don't mean me reading, you responding ad infinitum. No. I mean communicating.
Can you do that for me? Because if you are gonna give me tired binary choices along the lines of:
1) would you rather have a cookie 2) would you rather go to work
It is not much of a choice. It is a cute rhetoric, but it is not the reality in which we live.
Fucking qed.
> Friend, there is no better. There is just this. I know it is hard for you to hear me, but hear me for I do have something to tell you.
This sub-thread started with:
> Zstd is worth a lot of other's people's pain.
The (philosophical/theoretical) debate/discussion is about the 'quantity' of "people's pain", and how much of it is it worth for having Zstd (and other things that have come out of Meta/FB). What is the 'trade-off' (if any) between getting good and accepting evil? (Assuming "good" and "evil" even exist.)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...
First, it started with grandparent stating:
"none of those contributions are worth the pain that they have caused."
Which a little excessive and I take personal issue with never, all, and none when someone writes that -- out of principle.
Second, are we talking about its quantity or quality, because I posit that big numbers aint everything.
I prefer a world where we have to live with zlib, lz4, and xz but have less genocide. I get that I didn't get a vote in which world we have, but I do have an opinion. And you do, too.