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janalsncmlast Monday at 6:33 PM1 replyview on HN

My comment was not limited to the U.S. government.

And the Manhattan Project cost $30B in today’s money. Compared with some of the numbers Congress has allocated recently, I’d call that a bargain.


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bitexploderlast Monday at 11:27 PM

I am skeptical you could do something of that scale for 30B today. That is just the dollar cost based on inflation. If you used CPI indexing probably hundreds of billions to a trillion dollars now.