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		mackman on May 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S. The cost of setting up additional data centers in Europe and re-architecting your application with a different replication strategy is probably 10x-50x the fine. It would also take years and a sizable fraction of the engineering team to make it happen and there will be significant performance and reliability issues throughout the process. Easier to pay the fine and lobby for rules changes for a decade.

avianlyric on May 22, 2023 [–]

$1.3bil is a huge sum of money. To put that into perspective you could pay 260 engineers $500k a year for 10 years with that money.

Or 260 engineers $1mil a year for 5 years with that money.

You honestly think it would take it would 2600-13000 engineers 10 years to do the work needed for compliance?

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