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This is an absolutely paltry change in light of other avenues to recoup revenue. And even if it were not, the way to change these systems is not to delete them
by the_sleaze_ 2y ago
This is an absolutely paltry change in light of other avenues to recoup revenue. And even if it were not, the way to change these systems is not to delete them but to restructure their incentives.
However.
Let's not kid ourselves that this program probably cost upwards of several million dollars.
- Wired cut my access just before I was able to cite, but someone said the program cost "just tens of thousands of dollars a year, because equipment had already been purchased". The cost of procure install and maintenance I would imagine was wildly excessive.
- lurk2 2y agoI don't disagree that cutting the program seems shortsighted. The issue I took with the grandparent comment is that it was simply uninformed. > Let's not kid ourselves that this program probably cost upwards of several million dollars. That's completely within the realm of possibility. I'd be surprised if you could set up any program at a federal level with less funding than that. 2 million dollars is a 25 man team if salaries and overhead are $80,000 per head. I really have no insight into what these kinds of programs cost, but I guarantee there is no way you're standing up servers in 100+ embassies for $10 a day. > Wired cut my access just before I was able to cite This is the same as not citing a source at all. Another user commented [0] that each of these servers cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $180,000 to $250,000 just to set up. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276805
- the_sleaze_ 2y ago> This is the same as not citing a source at all Maybe. I churn out solutions and designs based on fragmented tickets and hearsay user feedback all day long.