Bad news. We’re exploding NSF, NASA and many parts of DoD. Universities are uncertain as those acts are digested.
That era of American history has passed. Innovation gives way to consolidation and cronyism. Think Mussolini’s Italy.
That era of American history has passed. Innovation gives way to consolidation and cronyism. Think Mussolini’s Italy.
A lot of cash is going to be redeployed towards tilting at the windmill of domestic ballistic missile defense… while we’re watching a war in Ukraine where cheap drones are demonstrating that most major weapons platforms are functionally obsolete.
Forums like HN full of senior technologists and future founders are disproportionately high impact. If the tone around here shifted a little to stop excusing what YC has become and start embracing how it all started?
Shit like that adds up. geohotz had that post a few weeks ago about this late capitalism internet shit, he was pretty deep in with the Effective Altruists and he got it together. I said at the time and I'll say again, you get a few more people like that to sober up? pmarca and lex and people? Maybe even pg?
Real change happens that way.