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Expensive in comparison to what exactly? The only other science that's cheaper is math. Now I know plenty of human endeavours that bring absolutely nothing of
by alexashka 9y ago
Expensive in comparison to what exactly?
The only other science that's cheaper is math. Now I know plenty of human endeavours that bring absolutely nothing of value, and only serve to concentrate wealth, and cost everyone worldwide billions of dollars.
Are you aware of the military budget of the greatest country on Earth?
Ruinously expensive - what an apt description, just not for computer science.
- AlotOfReading 9y agoIn comparison to virtually any other design work. The most expensive commercial buildings ever constructed are in the neighborhood of 5-15 billion USD. Developing a Linux distribution from scratch would probably exceed $10 billion in developer costs [1]. Just think about that. Linux, not even the largest codebase known, compares with the most expensive civil engineering projects in history. Code is phenomenally expensive. [1] https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-linux-distribution https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-lin...
- icebraining 9y agoThat sounds extraordinarily cheap, actually. The most visited mall in the world has something like 80M visitors/year. Linux has literally billions of daily users, and it powers everything from their phone to the public transport network they use.
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