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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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