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0 pointshnarn3y ago0 comments

According to Gizmodo, Meta put $13.6 billion dollars into “Reality Labs” (VR) in 2022. Simply eye-watering. It’s almost half of Iceland’s GDP.

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oblio3y ago

As impressive as that sounds, Iceland has less than 400k people, it's about the same size as Cluj, a city in Romania probably 0.1% of HN ever heard about :-)

varispeed3y ago

Couple of years ago I happened to work with a dev from Cluj. Awesome guy and very talented.

hnarnOP3y ago

The reason I took the example is because Iceland is a developed western country that most people have heard about that happened to match the number.

Sure, Iceland has a small population but their GDP per capita is almost 5x that of Romania.

varispeed3y ago

and how much of that will "trickle down" to the workers?

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0 pointshnarn3y ago0 comments

According to Gizmodo, Meta put $13.6 billion dollars into “Reality Labs” (VR) in 2022. Simply eye-watering. It’s almost half of Iceland’s GDP.

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oblio3y ago

As impressive as that sounds, Iceland has less than 400k people, it's about the same size as Cluj, a city in Romania probably 0.1% of HN ever heard about :-)

varispeed3y ago

Couple of years ago I happened to work with a dev from Cluj. Awesome guy and very talented.

hnarnOP3y ago

The reason I took the example is because Iceland is a developed western country that most people have heard about that happened to match the number.

Sure, Iceland has a small population but their GDP per capita is almost 5x that of Romania.

varispeed3y ago

and how much of that will "trickle down" to the workers?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse