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by mikeehun 3731 days ago
that sounds like hungary to me
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Do you have any anecdotes you can share? I'd be interested.
Our government bought two $1M+ websites in the past years. It's not that the websites would pose as a security risk, or store any valuable information, it's just plain corruption ...

500k only for the planing and teaching how to use $1,2M total, for a site what is essentially a video sharing website: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korm%C3%A1nysz%C3%B3viv%C5%91....

$1,7M for the new site of the chamber of agriculture http://index.hu/gazdasag/2016/02/03/agrarkamara/

fun fact in general, the corruption consumes 50% of the eu funded government investment in Hungary according to Transparency International, which means 11.6 billion euro currently