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"for unclassified research" with public funds?
by fithisux 2y ago
"for unclassified research"
with public funds?
- rsfern 2y agoYes - this isn’t some new or controversial phenomenon, DoD has funded all kinds of academic research for a long time through organizations like the Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, etc. The article says one of the programs that was cut studied how drug cartels operate, organize, and recruit, which seems quite in line with global security and US priorities on fighting narcotics trafficking
- typeofhuman 2y agoHow many other programs were studying the same subject? That's what we don't know. Insiders have reported for decades about redundant research, programs, etc.
- crummy 2y agoHopefully some!
- rscho 2y agoRedundancy in research is necessary. It's a good thing.
- ashoeafoot 2y agoBut then you dont cut with non insiders. You instead reward the reporting of bogus science and corruption bx handling a reward grant worth half the cut grand to the reporter. Make experts clean the house, instead of idiots tearing the house down , becsuse they can not tell apart a load bearing beam from drywall .
- ben_w 2y agoThat question is a general problem with anything secret. Or rather, potential problem, because "can this research be reproduced?" is also a useful question, which means random replication of such work is genuinely desirable. In any case, this specific program wasn't one of the secret ones.
- derbOac 2y agoThis is not the way to come to know. Regardless, much of this was known already if you would just look. The idea that Elon is discovering anything other than for himself, to say the least of being in a position to decide what to do about what is "found", is laughable. They can't even tell the difference between millions and billions of dollars, or who is vital to nuclear safety. It's like Chesterton's fence, but where the fence turns out to be vital, where you could find out what the fence is for by just asking the farmer, and where the person tearing down the fence knows nothing about fences or farming, and happens to run an animal and wildlife control company.
- VWWHFSfQ 2y agoWhat funds should government research (classified or otherwise), use?
- typeofhuman 2y ago[flagged]
- azinman2 2y agoSo, you’re advocating for taxes just shifted in source? Basically instead of income tax, sales tax?
- typeofhuman 2y agoI'm not advocating. I just answered the question.
- VWWHFSfQ 2y agoTariffs are just taxes on poor people. Everything becomes more expensive. You want to spend $3 on a plastic spatula at Target? Well now that costs $7.
- typeofhuman 2y agoMaybe things are artificially less expensive because of the exploitation of critically poor people (slaves in China)? Maybe the thing that costs $7 is really $7 because humane labor requires it; makes it economical.
- VWWHFSfQ 2y agoNobody in America cares about the slaves in China, or Vietnam. They only care whether their spatula costs $3 or $7.
- acdha 2y agoIf that was your goal, you’d need to use a mechanism which actually targets it such as a tariff based on reliable audits of factory conditions. A tariff applied to a country does nothing to improve working conditions until prices rise above the alternatives, and then businesses are going to pick the next cheapest option. None of this is speculative or something we need to study ancient history to understand, either. When Trump enacted tariffs during his first term prices for American consumers went up 10-30%, tens of thousands of American jobs were lost due to rising prices on intermediate goods and retaliatory tariffs, and manufacturing shifted to countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh where working conditions are not notably better. If you want to improve working conditions, you have to make that the best business choice.
- kube-system 2y agoGuess where the internet came from.
- dralley 2y agoWould you prefer all of the research was classified and nonpublic?
- fithisux 2y agoOr public and unclassified?