Comment by ujkhsjkdhf234
2 days ago
Trump just added 4 trillion more in debt funding tax cuts for billionaire. The amount of money science research gets in the US is pennies compared to that. Investments in science always returns on investment in the form of technology. The internet was a research project mind you.
A research project from Cern in Switzerland mind you. And a English guy who created all the protocols there
HTTP is an Internet protocol; it is not the Internet. Moreover, it relies on other protocols such as TCP, which itself uses UDP.
TCP was invented in the US 20 years before HTTP.
That's like saying whoever invented the wheel also invented the car (For reference likely Iran & Germany)
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That doesn't defeat the point. It makes the point that research benefits all. That research can't happen in vacuum. It needs to be funded and culture and institutions build around it.
For a technology forum, the sheer volume of pettiness and anti-science and technology attitude is confounding.
People here sounds like the most mediocre managers I've ever worked with in my life.