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Putting that money into buying up surplus commercial systems and shipping them out to disadvantaged places could have been much, much better in terms of results
by h2odragon 5y ago
Putting that money into buying up surplus commercial systems and shipping them out to disadvantaged places could have been much, much better in terms of results. It wouldn't have been near as sexy a subject for feelgood reporting.
- nitrogen 5y agoOnce in a whole someone has to take on projects to try to explore the solution space and break out of local optima. It doesn't always work, but when it does, the gains are orders of magnitude. One example is the nascent reusable rocket industry vs. the existing space shuttle and converted ICBMs.