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> This is such a cooler solution, one that doesn't depend on a parallel development of infrastructure, one that would presumably take lots of bureaucratic steps
by saraid216 14y ago
> This is such a cooler solution, one that doesn't depend on a parallel development of infrastructure, one that would presumably take lots of bureaucratic steps that are naturally associated with usage decisions on publicly owned land (which makes sense).
And taxes. Google isn't being funded by our dollars, except through a series of indirections.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI wonder if they get a tax credit for this kind of research? Seems possible, and certain kinds of tax credit may as well be subsidies. All speculation on my part, though. I wonder if anyone knows?
- charlieok 14y agoA tax credit for a research project which until very recently was known only to a small group of people in Google's super-secret "project X" labs?
- waterlesscloud 14y agoSo secret it sprang from the government-funded and highly-publicized DARPA challenge?