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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by brianshaler on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:34AM (#35053788)
It's easy with the benefit of hindsight to say a bold investment that didn't pan out was a crazy move.

In this case, it was also easy to say it was a dumb idea contemporaneously.

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by qwytw on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:10AM (#35056162)
Unless you were the one of the people saying that this was a dumb idea from the beginning. IIRC there were quite a few people who thought that.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by isk517 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:04PM (#35057803)
I think you missed the joke, the first line says it was a bad idea in hindsight, the second line says it was also a pretty bad idea in foresight.
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