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Re:Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threa... by ideamotor on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:07AM (#36617159)
They have enough highly paid engineers they should be able to write an entirely new authorization system in binary in ten minutes.
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Re:Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threa... by JohnFen on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:30AM (#36617555)
> have enough highly paid engineers

Throw enough highly paid engineers at it and it will take 10 months.

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Re:Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threa... by cvhashim04 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:03PM (#36618084)
Yes because of all the red tape and scalability issues
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Re:Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threa... by Gordonjcp on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:31AM (#36628891)
Oh I could tell you a "throw enough engineers" at it story...
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Re:Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threa... by ideamotor on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:49AM (#36654430)
Have ten of them do it independently and then they rank everyone else’s work.

Also, note the word “should”.

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