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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by usspybotnum3644 on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:45PM (#36639751)
Frankly, that sounds awful. Like a honeypot for the smoothest bullshitters ever.
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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by AustinDev on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:58PM (#36640247)
You're more wrong than almost any poster I've ever seen on Hacker News. At least you got a throw away before you posted this ignorant comment.
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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by explorer83 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:34AM (#36641627)
Source: I said so.
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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by _Microft on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:54AM (#36641715)
GP wrote in a different comment that they worked with DARPA in the past, so I would assume that they know more about the processes than other people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637805

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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by bozhark on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:07PM (#36640302)
So, government?
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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by zzz95 on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:49PM (#36640909)
Maybe. Even when a PM is very technical in their field, they are not expected to know the nitty gritty of the broad area they tackle in a program. To come up with realistic programs and execute them successfully, a PM needs to know where are the boundaries of current knowledge, how much $$ is required to push research to transition to real tech... and sniff out bullshit being sold by research labs. Bullshitters or not, they need to be really good at sniffing bullshit!
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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by di456 on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:44PM (#36641182)
No, that's crypto. And some parts of AI.
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Re:DARPA Seeks to Shield Blood from Fungal and Bacterial Pat... by scrps on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:07AM (#36641508)
I think you are thinking more of defense contracting than darpa.

Also, darpa has real use-cases and those use-cases tend to be hard to solve ones, they aren't VCs looking for the next trend to vampire like a national security version of the TV show shark tank.

Granted, it is 2023, it is the govt, and it is tech/eng/sci holy trinty of profit so I wouldn't be shocked if I am off the mark with my assessment.

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