Comment by iugtmkbdfil834

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.

> 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)?

I was editing when your reply came out. Nope. Luckily it's a family of technologies.

If it took you pulling the trigger, how many people would you murder to make a slightly better compression algorithm?

If you outsourced the murder to someone else, how many people would you be OK with murdering?

Wouldn't it be better if we didn't continue to support corporations who enable genocide around the world?

Now, ultimately I'll still end up using zstd. I'm not happy about it's ties to Facebook. But it's code that exists out there now, I don't see the reason to not use it. But I'll still try and avoid giving Facebook any money or praise. I don't give praise to Facebook engineers, at least not ones recently working there. They're massively paid in blood money, and they should already understand that by now. Their products hurt societies around the world, and they don't actually change.