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Re:What’s Driving Google’s Wild Moonshots? Desperation by im3w1l on Thursday April 17, 2014 @09:22PM (#7607517)
I am reminded of PG's essay on black swan farming http://paulgraham.com/swan.html

They are probably playing the same game with these moon shots.

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Re:What’s Driving Google’s Wild Moonshots? Desperation by coldtea on Thursday April 17, 2014 @10:48PM (#7607730)
We used to call it "throw some shit to a wall and see what sticks" back in my day.

Doesn't have any better chances when you do it with billions.

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