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Re:Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracin... by polycaster on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:21AM (#23537820)
You're right of course. My point was rather that you cannot simply say it's worth a single effort because the total net benefit of all measures is positive. Thanks for doing the math. Quite interesting result.
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Re:Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracin... by neuronic on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:41AM (#23537962)
The worst case is that this app has negligible impact and even if it did, trying it as a strategy that helps fight Corona is still worth €20m.

Paying students €500 a month as emergency help will cost hundreds of millions and this is a single miniscule effort in a package of several hundred BILLION Euros.

Discussing the cost of this app with the given circumstances is a complete waste of time. It's a literal rounding error in the overall Corona bill for Germany alone.

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Re:Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracin... by IfOnlyYouKnew on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:39AM (#23537952)
Ah, then I may have misunderstood the sentiment. In that case, please excuse the (passive-?)aggressive tone of my post.

And yes, the link is just the result of some hyperactive copy&paste.

I'll now try to enjoy the thought that the Germans are bickering about the price of this on HN. It's sort of a return to normalcy: the luxury of caring about pointless details precisely because the government isn't quite as incompetent as always assumed, at least compared to some others.

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