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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by robocat on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:43PM (#34571238)
> Considering Facebook paid a lot of $ for the service they can't let it slide into obscurity.

Fallacy: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

It is hard to learn to avoid biased thinking in our own lives! I think that cutting one’s losses is a very important skill to learn.

Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by dividedbyzero on Sunday January 29, 2023 @10:08PM (#34575379)
You don't "cut losses" by axing a wildly successful acquisition while swimming in money. That sort of thing isn't unbiased but asinine and you "can't" do that because making asinine decisions tends to be received badly.