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Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies by BobbyJo on Saturday March 28, 2026 @03:22PM (#47557454)
You can't compare the output of small teams driven by a fanatic with a single output metric with government funded research. NIH invests about 40 billion in research a year in the US as it is I believe.
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Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies by melling on Saturday March 28, 2026 @03:27PM (#47557489)
I asked Gemini AI and it says the NIH spent $7.3 billion last year.

Would it be a big deal to double that?

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Re:Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies by BobbyJo on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:04AM (#47636626)
Do we just keep increasing spending until the marginal value of further spending goes to zero so long as the next incremental dollar "isn't a big deal?"
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