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.

If you have any evidence for the claim that "many parts of DoD" are being exploded/defunded, it would be really interesting to see that. As far as I can see, just the opposite is true; the military industrial complex looks like it's increasing in size and scope.

	▲	Spooky23 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The recent budget cut about 5% from the DoD research budget. 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.

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dreamcompiler 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Remember what finally happened to Mussolini?

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benreesman 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

We've had crime season gilded ages before. We've had trusts and corruption before. I agree that on present course and heading we are not going to make it out of this one in anything like the position we're accustomed to, but it's not impossible and frankly it wouldn't even take that much.

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.