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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by dylan604 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:10PM (#29336791)
And what does that say about society? If all of the companies in FAANG were to suddenly disappear, I think society would be better for it*.

Sure, people "depend" on FB for comms etc blah blah, but the world functioned fine before them if not maybe slightly less convenient. Netflix, come on. It's just entertainment. Nothing more. Google? Maybe search could be built to work again. Amazon? Maybe people actually buy local again. Apple? So we don't have luxury devices that cost more than some people make in a year.

*Obviously excluding the sudden loss of jobs. It's just a thought exercise.

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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by jolux on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:36PM (#29336957)
It says that we haven’t seriously needed to actually defend ourselves in an extremely long time.
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by dylan604 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @08:13PM (#29337196)
I don't think that's true. It's more like we value people to spam other people with ads and other trivial minutia more than other things.
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by jolux on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:23PM (#29337927)
when was the last time there was a credible threat against the United States that the defense industry was helpful in neutralizing?
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by dylan604 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:46PM (#29338046)
Perhaps the reason for that is just having that defense industry.
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by jolux on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:33PM (#29338249)
Sounds like they don't need any help from FAANG engineers then.
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by dylan604 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @01:36AM (#29338776)
Imagine if all of the FAANG engineers took their resources to make the place a better world <snark>. All of that energy on delivering the better ad could be so much better spent on <insert cause of choice here> instead of delivering ads and building the better big brother.
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by jolux on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:28AM (#29341179)
Sure, I agree. I just think defense is a weird thing to pick. Our governments need a lot of help with tech, I think the DoD actually needs less help than most other parts.
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by scns on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:38AM (#29340094)
https://earthshotprize.org/
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Re:British F-35B crash possibly caused by 'rain cover' left ... by bottled_poe on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @08:32PM (#29337308)
These companies exist because the market demands they do. If they disappear something else would fill the gap, swiftly. “Just” entertainment? That seems to me to be a better investment of effort than creation of war machines without a cause.
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