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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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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