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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by friedman23 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:29PM (#16756297)
haha, USSR research flourished? Do you mean how the USSR crushed any research into computing because it contradicted their ideology? And "Chinese chips" are all foreign designs.
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by mantas on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:31PM (#16758114)
I'm sure Soviet times joke that "our microschemes are biggest!" came out of nowhere.. I wonder why all the consumer tech in USSR was so backwards if research was so flourishing :)
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by jbros on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:25PM (#16759283)
It seems like their we're ideological reasons at first. But you are leaving out crucial details afterwards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_in_the_...

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