This is still going to be done. It just won't be done by Google and it'll cost 20x the original estimate.https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/1005020056324067328 …
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There's an entire world full of engineers and programmers who you'll never see at your JavaScript meetings and never engage with the web-space tech industry and are experts in taking defense dollars.
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I worked for a defense contractor as recently as 2 years ago. One of the proposals we sent out was to develop a Java Applet. AN APPLET.
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When I challenged this, I got "well how else will you run dynamic code in the browser?"
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The point of this is that the only option is to never approach this space. Once the Pentagon knows they want something, they go for it. There is an entire industry of weapons developers and they're not going to unionize or organize out of a sense of ethics.
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To be clear, I'm not arguing or contradicting
@histoftech, who is lovely and brilliant. I just think that, as a former gov't contractor who has crossed over, there's a lot of dialog on this topic worth having.Show this thread
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I don't think many of us believe otherwise. But we don't think "so it may as well be us" is right, either. *shrug*
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Who might then very well run the result on Google's Cloud Platform, because Google got their FedRAMP certification fast-tracked as part of this, and Google will happily take their money. As for power, well ... history suggests they'll use it once, just for their own problem
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Then there's that weird feeling when you're blocked by someone you've never heard of but who seems nice on Twitter. Huh.
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Oh yeah, there are people that will practically piss their pants with excitement to put this fascist shit into practice and roll in the money they get for it with no thought whatsoever for the ethics.
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