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criddell
on May 11, 2017
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America has become too anti-innovation
Isn't military spending a type of government funding of innovation?
fivestar
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It is, but I am ethically bound to not work on any project that has military funding. In general, engineers and software developers need to make better ethical choices.
criddell
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How much flexibility do you give yourself?
For example, if a project uses a GPS receiver or GPS data, is that ok?
geogra4
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limited in scope and application.
criddell
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In the book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari makes a pretty strong argument that military spending has a very broad impact.
JackFr
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It always blows my mind that all of the Lambda-the-Ultimate papers were sponsored the Office of Naval Research.
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