A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA

Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by BlackVanilla on Sunday June 06, 2021 @07:27PM (#27417336)

Relevant recent discussion: DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359269)

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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by ethbr0 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:42PM (#27418109)

mRNA technology will never go anywhere or develop anything useful. ;)

This is a prime example of wasteful government spending, when a free market could have better allocated investment!

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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by bassman9000 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @10:43PM (#27418450)

A bit unfair. This is not a public agency allocation to a publicly executed project.

This is a private, for-profit enterprise with a public (_as in owned by the State_) customer.

Vastly different incentives when the customer and the one executing are not the same.

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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by bregma on Monday June 07, 2021 @07:06AM (#27421162)

OK. Insulin, then. Some academics got to play with puppy dogs and get paid by the public purse, then then went and donated their patents to a non-profit. What a waste!

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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by trynumber9 on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:54PM (#27418156)

what an interesting take. traditional capital invested in Moderna's mRNA research too. https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

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Re:A growing number of governments hope to clone DARPA by nafizh on Sunday June 06, 2021 @10:16PM (#27418295)

I think it was sarcasm.

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