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Seriously. Reddit has struggled for years under Conde Naste to get adequate funding, and they have already built the community and technology to do exactly thi
by keypusher 15y ago
Seriously. Reddit has struggled for years under Conde Naste to get adequate funding, and they have already built the community and technology to do exactly this. Then DARPA comes in ready to drop $40+ million, I doubt their project will ever get off the ground, community-wise. Meanwhile Reddit continues to scrounge up a living off advertising.
- philwelch 15y agoI'm pretty sure Reddit's userbase would immediately quit as soon as the site was sold to DARPA.
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- mkramlich 15y agoAgreed. I was only half-serious. I do think that what this DARPA project could do, for much less than $40 million, is write software that scrapes a bunch of existing websites and newsfeeds, looking for common patterns that could constitute memes. And that Reddit.com would be one obvious site to have in their list. I would gladly write such a system for a mere -- (pinky in mouth) -- one million dollars, however.