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Re:Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract by beginningguava on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:24PM (#18556652)
>Take self-driving vehicles. Every single piece of technology used in its development could be used with some minor tweaking in a military application

You do realize DARPA funded the competitions that kicked off self-driving cars right? Silicon valley wouldn't exist without the military

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Re:Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract by lawrenceyan on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:41PM (#18556759)
How does that change anything? It’s like saying because NASA was funded primarily due to the advent of the Cold War, that NASA should only work on researching and building ICBMs because that’s the type of stuff they originated from. The logic doesn’t make any sense.
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