logoalt Hacker News

pfdietzyesterday at 9:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

What a nonsense argument. Spending like this has to be justified on its own merits, not because there is some other bad spending. The argument you are trying to make would justify spending on almost anything.


Replies

micromacrofootyesterday at 9:47 PM

The point is that there's so much bad spending that by comparison this is practically nothing to shake a stick at, and it produces actual science.

show 1 reply