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Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp... by georgemcbay on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:36PM (#43167051)
> Everyone whose funding is cut/questioned says it's wrong

Everyone who made billions off the internet is too busy smelling their own farts to recognize that none of this waves hand in the general direction of basically all modern technology would exist without the sustained government funding that built ARPAnet and NSFNET.

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Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp... by CobaltFire on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:41PM (#43167090)
I think you miss a critical fact:

They absolutely understand that. They also see money/power as a finite resource and absolutely do not want any new competition to emerge via anything that could be created or funded by anything they do not control.

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Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp... by bagels on Monday February 24, 2025 @10:20PM (#43167729)
It's shortsighted because they are asking China to take over.
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Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp... by georgemcbay on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:46PM (#43167123)
You're certainly right in some cases, though I do think its a mix of truths.

Some of them do realize the actual situation and are ladder pulling, but mixed in with that there's also a pervasive offshoot of hyper narcissistic survivorship bias that in my experience a lot of modern tech entrepreneurs suffer from where they really are actually shockingly blind to the build-up of everything that they then built on.

Like the Internet existing for them is taken as just a given like the earth and the seas being here, but "taxi cabs you hail through the internet"... that's the real invention!

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