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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by berti on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:16AM (#17372048)
It's a little sad when you have to divert your best and brightest away from advancing the state of civilization, to merely defending what you already have.

Obviously that will still advance the state of the art in some areas.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by manigandham on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:17AM (#17372055)
The military has been behind most of the technological advances in society, and is directly behind the birth of Silicon Valley itself.
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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by codeisawesome on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:50AM (#17372251)
I don’t have facts on hand to back this up, but I think even the space race which advanced everyone so much, was a result of militaristic competition
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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by manigandham on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:51AM (#17372255)
Yes, that is well known now. The cold-war is the only reason we went to the moon and we are still benefiting from that technology today.
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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by FearOfReprisal on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:31AM (#17372143)
's/defending what you already have/stealing what others have/g'
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