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Re: U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement

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This sounds super interesting but my knowledge in this area is too limited to fully get what you're saying. they're the intellectual equivalent of buying mining rights for $5/acre ... The key is prospecting. You want to look around, get a good idea of how big a particular reserve is, and go for something big. Could you elaborate on this a little or give an example? As far as I understand CRADA is "cooperative R&D", s…

> So if the govt already gets a license to the patents, and the tech has been developed with defense purposes in mind, how am I going to profit as a private company? Let's break that down a bit... So the government has patent rights. They'd have to exercise them, which requires product development. Are you aware of the government selling many widgets to citizens? They sell road maintenance, insurance, and security se…

Ok, I get the patent part. But what I was mostly interested in is how you see CRADAs help companies make money.

To me CRADAs just sound like a vehicle to share R&D costs, which, in most companies, aren't dominating the budget. So they can be a nice help but no game-changer.

However you mentioned "mining rights" and "going for something big", so it sounded like there's another way to look at this, which I was interested to hear about.

Re: U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement

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Not in a two party system. Voting for anyone that deviates from the status quo is throwing away your vote.

It's throwing away your vote until it isn't. As recent as 1992 a third candidate got above 18%, and led in the polls just a few months before the election. Either way, voting for reformist candidates (for either way you support) in senate, house and local elections goes a long way.

The US's last third party president was George Washington.
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