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>> "It creates a slight public subsidy for broadband" Maybe it's me, but $3 billion is not a small amount of money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941
by saycheese 10y ago
>> "It creates a slight public subsidy for broadband"
Maybe it's me, but $3 billion is not a small amount of money:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941757
- jmcdiesel 10y ago$3B is pretty small on the large scale. Especially when you consider the cost of adding them later (while it may not be paid for up front by the government, costs of doing construction, like closures, do add to gov't costs)
- late2part 10y agoAccording to some sensationalist stories I've read, it's only ~10X what we're spending to protect/transport President Trump on his weekend vacations.
- indolering 10y agoWhat does this contribute to the conversation?
- late2part 10y agoSomeone said it's not a lot of money. Someone else said it was. I provided a relative reference. Not the most monumental - but my intention was to add perspective.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoContext. Reasoning about government budget-size numbers is difficult for most people.
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- oh_sigh 10y agoIn normal human terms, yes, but 3B is only .08% of the federal budget. Also, there is some economic gain from this activity...paying construction workers to install it, and whatever the end users decide to do with it. Is that gain > 3B? I don't know.
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