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throw0101c • today at 6:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> 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)?


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iugtmkbdfil834 • today at 7:12 PM

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.

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