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The atomic bomb was built by Jewish scientists from Europe who fled from the Nazis. Rockets were built by German scientists who were (voluntarily) picked up by
by jrtaml 3y ago
The atomic bomb was built by Jewish scientists from Europe who fled from the Nazis.
Rockets were built by German scientists who were (voluntarily) picked up by the U.S.forces after WW2.
Let's take a look at Sun Microsystems. Bechtolsheim is German, Khosla is from India (if I'm not mistaken).
The Google founders are children of immigrants.
ChatGPT was built by a guy with a Russian name. If Altman takes credit, that's just very American.
Most open source contributions come from Asia, Russia and Europe. Americans commercialize them, take credit and start bullying the original contributors.
I'll give you Hollywood and Bernays. Americans are great at reality distortion.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agomuch of Hollywood was made by immigrants of various sorts, which picked up during the 30s when lots of people fled Nazi Germany and settled there and helped make the great movies of the next few decades - case in point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wilder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wilder