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by read_if_gay_ 2023 days ago
> convincing the European Commission in 2014 that there is no technical way to integrate Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp user accounts.

What was the argument there? It's not like that's solving the halting problem.

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I think “technical” here just means something like: one uses phone numbers and the other uses emails. The current technical solution doesn’t make it straightforward to merge. Evolving the technical solution would require product and user facing changes. And probably a lot of edge cases
That sounds like a tech interview question