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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by henrik_w on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:07PM (#11307620)
Taxes (in Sweden at least). Works pretty well.
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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by randyrand on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:02PM (#11315962)
That's not free though. You still have to have people working in order to pay for it.

Point being, lets call a spade a spade. They're tax-funded education, tax-funded healthcare. This is what we should be calling it. Because that is what it is.

Thats not to say I'm opposed to those things.

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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by webXL on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:18PM (#11307690)
Where do the taxpayers get their money from?
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