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mk_stjames 3y ago
I'm a materials scientist and mechanical/aerospace engineer, and I've worked on projects and have colleagues still working on things like developing better sustainable urban transport systems, new recycling plant technologies, EV battery and powertrain research involving lower cost composite materials that use less energy to have less cradle-to-grave environmental impacts for various industries. Projects where people really want to build things to change things for the better, real physical things. And they struggle like hell to even get funding for the engineers/scientist salaries let alone money to keep the lights on in the labs or shops.... And I see this story, and these guys get 10 million dollars to make... some pixel art things that run in a browser and do... something, whatever... $10M. I think I might go jump off a bridge.
- NickNaraghi 3y ago
  I understand how you feel. I tried to help academics commercialize inventions for a while. Investment isn’t based on technical merit or impact, it’s based on ROI. They might overlap sometimes but they are not the same thing.
  - yunohn 3y ago
    > it’s based on ROI I’m pretty sure rooms.xyz will not have significantly more ROI than green-tech hardware R&D. The primary reason here is a16z idiocy.
- iamapot 3y ago
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