US is not lacking in CPU design. I agree OpenRISC (and RISC-V) is worthy of support, but they benefit China more than US, and it would be poor use of US tax money to benefit China more than US.

I'm a 'government using funding to improve the world' vs 'govt using funding to control people' libertarian.

Scientific r and d falls strongly into the former category.

DEA, FBI, NSA, CIA, TSA, ATF, DoD, state police, county police, municipal police, neighborhood police, and other organizations used to control people. Plus the literally uncountable number of criminal and regulatory laws on the books that keep growing exponentially without congress taking time to go back and review old laws...

May be similar along my lines. I am for doing something for the silicon industry, I am just not into dumping into established giants. I’d love to see us throw money at people with novel ideas, new and interesting designs not though of before. The problem is, that is playing the long game when all we care about is winning the short game.

This is the what I meant with my post.

Yeah my take is not that he's hypocritical but that like most people he's not an actual libertarian. To be libertarian is to know there are things that government intervention can do that will benefit you but still know to forgo those things because their costs are higher to society as a whole. What he is is just a republican.

Libertarianism, like any other political ideology, can contain moderate stances.

It is not odd to be Libertarian and support government intervention that benefits one’s self. Hypocritical, maybe, but a common sentiment.

That is how I see it. I often drift into hypocrisy: I am 100% anti-war except if my country was directly attacked, but in the financial interests of me and my family, I do own “defense” stocks.

Also in my own self interest: I am for our government massively supporting poor kids with meals at schools, special tutoring, etc. in order for us to have a larger and better educated work force in the future.

Anyway sorry for the rant.

fwiw it didn't come through as a rant. Most of us if we are honest with ourselves have internal contradictions. It's important to be aware.

My wife is fundamentally a socialist (we are in Canada so it's not a misunderstood bad scary word :-). But she is also a home depot manager, where she is the voice of capitalist market forces. What she wishes the system should be, and the system she is daily a part of, are frequently at odds.

I personally find extremes of any given philosophy to be impractical and untenable. I respect more people who, like it appears yourself, say "this is my general leaning,and these are my pragmatical exceptions".

In today's world you can't really follow any ideology in a clean way. If you want to live you have to make compromises somewhere and basically be a hypocrite. I only have a problem with people that don't admit that (of which there are many and they are very loud).