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broheeyesterday at 5:46 AM1 replyview on HN

Yeah and some of the figures often quoted like consuming 14% of the electricity produced in the US are wrong, it was below 1%. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011APS..APRH13004R/abstra...


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bitexploderyesterday at 12:56 PM

It was like 0.5% GDP. It wasn’t insane, but still, you are right.

It was very focused. What do we get out of the F-35 program? By comparison, it has eaten (projected total lifetime cost) 2 trillion dollars. It is 4.5% of the GDP. I had no idea. This is just a military and government contractor subsidy. What are we doing…

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