Facebook threatens to leave Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’(9to5mac.com)
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Facebook threatens to leave Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’
https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/07/meta-pull-facebook-instagram-from-europe/
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Thing is, you can learn from their Open Source without supporting their cash cow product. Also, maybe the German startup ecosystem would be better off with Facebook's engineering talent being spread out over 100 small start-ups (all of which would pay taxes) instead of bundled in one huge entity (which doesn't pay taxes).
And if I remember correctly, "fairseq" (the foundation of Facebook's recent wav2vec2 ASR breakthrough) and the foundation of Microsoft Translator were both designed by PhDs at the University of Edinburgh. (EU Grant 688139 initially funded what became Microsoft Translator). I applaud Facebook and Microsoft for hiring promising PhDs and giving them the resources to succeed, but I'm not convinced that European countries are better off with these people working at FAANGs - as opposed to local competitors.
And if I remember correctly, "fairseq" (the foundation of Facebook's recent wav2vec2 ASR breakthrough) and the foundation of Microsoft Translator were both designed by PhDs at the University of Edinburgh. (EU Grant 688139 initially funded what became Microsoft Translator). I applaud Facebook and Microsoft for hiring promising PhDs and giving them the resources to succeed, but I'm not convinced that European countries are better off with these people working at FAANGs - as opposed to local competitors.
Facebook threatening us with a good time. Too bad they'll never go through with it.
Not only old news, but fake news. There was no "threat", and the same risk had been disclosed in their security forms for years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303585
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303585
I actually get a lot of value from facebooks products, especially react, jest and graphql. I also use WhatsApp a lot.
I believe the net value of Meta is positive, since there work a lot of smart guys and they have awesome open source products. I’m always impressed by the architecture of react, I could probably never design something that smart.
To Godwin it straight away, Nazi germany also built the Autobahn, expanded the German railway, and progressed rocket technology. You seem to be saying we have to take the good and the bad of Meta and add them all up. And hey, at least it's positive for you!
codesternews(1)
"American propaganda machine, go fuck yourself"
(cue to footage of facebook being towed back to port)
(cue to footage of facebook being towed back to port)
EU: Go Zuck yourself!
Zuck: f*ck
Zuck: f*ck
Looks like we were on similar threads. I posted before I saw this =)
Their openstack hardware standard was a quite a good step. Datacenter hardware & designs will get standardized eventually by such ventures. React and graphQL are very innovative software designs. The FAIR team regularly publishes excellent ML papers (IMPO they are second place after Google Brain, and slightly ahead of MSR in ML research). They pay well and retain quite a good pool of talent. If you're interested please have a look at the Facebook OpenSource channel. That's a pretty good source of learning cutting edge stuff working on scale - and unlike G-Brain, its genuinely open 99% of the time.
Again, I dont like their business product(s). But the team that works on them is pretty marvelous