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As long as you pay lip service to the right politics you can innovate as much as you want in science and technologies. You are free to use tabs for indentation
by im3w1l 6y ago
As long as you pay lip service to the right politics you can innovate as much as you want in science and technologies. You are free to use tabs for indentation or write your webservice in brainfuck if you want.
What can be a drag on innovation is if there is nepotism. If the leader appoints his good-for-nothing nephew to science minister. Or if there is corruption, and well connected incumbents throw up endless barriers for innovative upcomers. Or if organized crime steal too much value from the productive people.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIndeed. That's why the USSR has some really good scientific research sponsored by the state while a lot of the good art was underground.
- fsflover 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Sov...
- sudosysgen 6y agoIn this context I wouldn't really include the social sciences, which leaves Biology and Cybernetics that were indeed suppressed for 20-30 years.
- fsflover 6y agowhy wouldn't you include the societal sciences?
- sudosysgen 6y agoBecause the comment I was replying to was referring to hard sciences and technological fields, where you can pay lip service to the ideology and go do your research.
- fsflover 6y ago> As long as you pay lip service to the right politics you can innovate as much as you want in science and technologies. Unless you innovate in some field detrimental to the government, e.g. education, anonymity, freedom etc.
- im3w1l 6y agoCryptography is two-sided. It includes both attacking existing ciphers and inventing new ones which withstand attacks. I would think they will welcome your contributions but keep them secret.