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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by wyager on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:58PM (#42923821)
> And life SUCKED then

More than 100% of the net improvement is from tech and medical R&D, not the bloated military-welfare apparatus.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by kristjansson on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:23PM (#42924835)
What created the conditions for that R&D to take place in relative security, and to be realize its return in a global marketplace?
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by jepj57 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:21PM (#42942789)
And Silicon Valley was originally majority weapons/ tech r&d for the military.

Bletchly Park? Military.

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