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by impulser_ 929 days ago
We are talking about 8.2 billion dollars from a 6.5 trillion dollar budget. The US brings in 5 trillion dollars in revenue yearly.

This is like someone making 100k a year complaining about spending 16 cents on something because they have a loan to pay off.

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Mind the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Stop wasting the money of other people. Rail sucks. Leave it for cargo.

But Rust and Ruby target completely different use cases.
Nah trains rule.
This is like someone making 100k a year but spending 115k a year saying "ehh, 16 more cents doesn't matter".