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>taxes. Research into developing jet engines is a pretty stable income stream in the US that has persisted for decades. Taxes can fund what you want, you just
by noobermin 6y ago
>taxes.
Research into developing jet engines is a pretty stable income stream in the US that has persisted for decades. Taxes can fund what you want, you just need to create the political will for governments to value it and fund it.
- kragen 6y agoTaxes won't fund what I want. Taxes fund what is wanted by the people with the power to create political will. That is, as I said, a matter of a high-school-style popularity contest, except that the stakes are life and death. Do you really think the voters whose political will elected Donald Trump and Scott Morrison — or the mass media who directed that political will — should be in charge of whether we get secure operating systems, public libraries, or ICBMs? Should that political will determine whose research gets funded? The idea is absurd.
- sanxiyn 6y agoI think the point is that F-35 seems to get funded no matter how popularity contest goes. It is not completely beyond imagination that seL4 could be funded similarly, since both do serve military need. In fact, DARPA already funded some seL4 work.
- carapace 6y agoGeneral Dynamics bought OK Labs.
- deathgrips 6y agoDo you really think voters are in charge?
- imtringued 6y agoNo he doesn't because he already said that the mass media is directing the voters. Read his comment again.