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		janalsncm 53 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum c... 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.

bitexploder 53 days ago [–]

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.

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