6 ms·
These sums of money are so pathetically small. We routinely drop similar sums on seemingly random stuff, none of which ever returns even a small amount of aweso
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
These sums of money are so pathetically small. We routinely drop similar sums on seemingly random stuff, none of which ever returns even a small amount of awesome.
- renewiltord 3y agoI'm sure they will accept more money for the same thing, if you'd like. I live in San Francisco, where locals constantly complained that there wasn't enough funding for essential things. As a result, we funded the things and it turns out that if you want to buy a thing that costs X, the person selling it to you will happily accept 10X if you want to spend that much on it.
- reaperman 3y agoI don't think the only possible takeaway should be “whatever the project is, you’ll always get the same result no matter how much or how little you spend”. That seems fallacious. I think there were other forces at work in the SF allegory, that probably don't apply to all projects.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI don't think that was the proposition.
- reaperman 3y agoWhat do you think it was?
- robertlagrant 3y agoSpending more doesn't guarantee a better result. You misinterpreted that as spending more never gives a better result.
- reaperman 3y agoAh okay. I didn't see any language where they gave an indication that it was possible to spend more and get a better result.
- robertlagrant 3y agoThere wasn't any. But just as I can say "having owned one, I can say buying a BMW is no guarantee of quality", I'm not implying that all BMWs are low quality, and don't need to explicitly say that stop people inferring it. It's not a logical inference.
- otteromkram 3y agoWhich "stuff" are you referring to?
- rqtwteye 3y agoFootball stadiums, defense.
- dopidopHN 3y agoSocial network. See : twitter
- bratwurst3000 3y agoOne Fusion reactor costs what musk did invest in twitter. -.- Would be way more awesome than people talking shit all day.
- dopidopHN 3y agoIIRC, the cost of mapping human genome was a small fraction of Twitter cost.
- NegativeLatency 3y agoWar
- 3y ago