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The program might be a minor league failure. Approximately 90% of research spending consists of minor league failures. Drawing a comparison to fascism, obliqu

• anamax 16y ago
  > Approximately 90% of research spending consists of minor league failures. The program in question isn't research. It's startup funding. > Drawing a comparison to fascism, oblique or not, is ridiculous. Surely you're not arguing that if it isn't fascism, it's good? While you're vehemently insisting that it isn't fascism, you haven't responded to the fact that it is a close cousin, corporatism.... > The DARPA comment was serious. There's a huge military component to getting green energy moving. So what? The military does lots of dumb spending. It also has different needs. So, even if green energy makes sense for certain military applications, that doesn't imply that funding it for general applications is a good idea.