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I just can't believe figures like $100bn. How? On what? Spending $100bn is _hard_. For comparison, the Mars Science Laboratory project had a $2.5bn budget and
by sho_hn 4y ago
I just can't believe figures like $100bn. How? On what? Spending $100bn is _hard_.
For comparison, the Mars Science Laboratory project had a $2.5bn budget and sent a spacecraft that landed a rover on another planet. Yes, the MSC built on existing NASA infra and previous rover R&D ... but so did Meta's VR division.
- hotpotamus 4y agoI saw a post here yesterday praising Meta for drastically raising salaries for devs. Perhaps that has something to do with it?
- eclipxe 4y agoLots of fundamental investment in hardware and tech that is multiple years out. Displays, chipsets, input devices, etc. multiple lines of hardware beyond what you see today. Multiple OSes, lots of application teams, middleware, services, frameworks, etc etc.