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Re:Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state,... by ryandrake on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:45PM (#42892516)
This seems like a pretty widely shared ethos in today's software engineering culture. "I'd happily build the Torment Nexus if you pay me enough!" No ethical baseline below which we refuse to pass. Simply a required $$$:EVIL ratio.
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Re:Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state,... by tgma on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:50PM (#42892577)
It's not always like that. Most of the team would be hired to move protobufs around for the Torment Nexus so it seems quite innocuous.
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Re:Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state,... by ryandrake on Friday January 31, 2025 @07:53PM (#42894445)
Yea, I think this is how a lot of engineers rationalize it. "Well, I'm not directly participating in my company's A/B experiment to see what types of content drive children to suicidal ideation! I'm just moving data from the project's logging side of the stack to the metrics side of the stack so that reports can be generated. Don't blame me!"
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