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0 pointsindividualcell7y ago0 comments

Look, we have state police, army and then see how disastrous private healthcare turned out to be.

Maybe DARPA should step up their game then, as instead of nationalising the Intel they could nationalise their IP and work on affordable and _fast_ CPU for the people as Intel fails to deliver.

We are yet to see a private company landing human on the moon. Imagine what CPU we could have today if state really took over.

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dgacmu7y ago

I'm not trying to argue with you, because you still sound like you're trolling. I'm providing some information about this topic for others so they have a better grounding for reasoning about the issue. Semiconductors are one of the most interesting grounds for discussing the role of private industry and the state in advancing the state of the art in technology. See, for example:

http://mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/ods/documents/?DocumentID=461...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-017-0005-9

and

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1545155

[Full disclosure, I'm married to one of the authors.]

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