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Every medication developed in the last 30 years, for starters. I mean, you're basically asking for a list of every invention derived from government-funded basic research (also known as "all basic research"). It might make more sense to ask what you could use.

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I find it telling you can't name one.

I find it telling that you think it's challenging to name an invention that depends on any of the last 30 years of basic research, so we're at an impasse.

You're the one you said to stop using technology invented by the government.

Then I said I would be happy to if you could name a single one in the past 30 years.

And you can't.

Off the top of my head...

- Soft-white LEDs

- Data-over-headphone-jack

- ZK-SNARKs

- Tor

- Energy-harvesting power monitors

- TCP congestion control

These all had government funding or were invented in government labs.

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