Silicon Valley's 'start-up culture' depends on the incremental advances produced by more traditional companies. A lot of this has been exported to large state-supported East Asian conglomerates. This tends to be forgotten in arguments over top-down vs. bottom-up innovation.
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Certainly the likes of newton were. I agree that the term 'hobbyist' may have the unintended implication of everyman or pauper
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A small nation in like 1700s currency is tinier than most major corporations in all honesty
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it’s hard to do financial comparisons but eg I think it’s reasonable to say Tycho Brahe’s research used more of his nation’s tax revenue than NASA during the space race
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Not a bad comparison, but I dont know what the figures are in terms of raw spending (in gold?) Or per capitahttps://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/financing-tychos-little-piece-of-heaven/amp/ …
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I can find the % of nat’l income figure for you if you rly want it and you can do calcs from there that post is right about tycho’s close ties to royal family but quite wrong on some large issues
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i assume you understand military importance of astronomy and general “blue sky” research quality of much Ren science
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Hven a sizeable fraction of national budget, flat out impossible for fiefs bestowed on a courtier to be a multiple of that (and anyway they still needed chamberlains so it wasn’t a cost-savings not to appt Tycho)
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yeah the cost savings thing was obvious bullshit. I was posting since someone else had the same analogy in mind.
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there'e ppl with research budgets the size of a small nation who faff around for decades and never get anything done, & big corp and gov R & D depts with an admin process of stunning scale and sophistication who never get anything done either. not sure this is the axis to look on
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idk exactly what you’re saying, but from Boyle to Babbage funding was a major permissive condition
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really all I'm saying is it's necessary but not sufficient
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sure. but there is also an element of uncertainty in *all* science programs. eg one goal of Tycho’s research was to put astrology on a firmer footing, and that... didn’t happen
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