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You're right of course. My point was rather that you cannot simply say it's worth a single effort because the total net benefit of all measures is positive. Tha
by polycaster 6y ago
You're right of course. My point was rather that you cannot simply say it's worth a single effort because the total net benefit of all measures is positive. Thanks for doing the math. Quite interesting result.
- neuronic 6y agoThe worst case is that this app has negligible impact and even if it did, trying it as a strategy that helps fight Corona is still worth €20m. Paying students €500 a month as emergency help will cost hundreds of millions and this is a single miniscule effort in a package of several hundred BILLION Euros. Discussing the cost of this app with the given circumstances is a complete waste of time. It's a literal rounding error in the overall Corona bill for Germany alone.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoAh, then I may have misunderstood the sentiment. In that case, please excuse the (passive-?)aggressive tone of my post. And yes, the link is just the result of some hyperactive copy&paste. I'll now try to enjoy the thought that the Germans are bickering about the price of this on HN. It's sort of a return to normalcy: the luxury of caring about pointless details precisely because the government isn't quite as incompetent as always assumed, at least compared to some others.