Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016)

Re:Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016) by jholman on Monday July 30, 2018 @02:59PM (#17647008)

I think Google's total cost is more than $100-200 billion. It's a bit hard to pin down what "total cost" means in this context, though. But their 2017 operating expenses were $82 billion. Each year is higher than the last, but if you add up the last four years, they're over $250 billion.

Facebook is about an order of magnitude less, so the Apollo program fits nicely between them.

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Re:Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016) by jacques_chester on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:36PM (#17659205)

> It's a bit hard to pin down what "total cost" means in this context, though.

I realise looking back that comparing a company to a project/program isn't really correct. One kind ends, the other tries very hard not to end.

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