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		merpnderp on Aug 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can we wean Elon Musk off government support alrea... I'm not saying the government subsidies are wrong, but a counter case might be what if the government subsidized scientifc GPU's at the turn of the century over gaming GPU's? Would gaming have grown as big as it is without modern GPU's targeted at gaming? Would we have gotten such cheap GPU compute power without the massive investment in gaming? Would the government subsidy have ended up hurting long term advancement in GPU's?

sp332 on Aug 7, 2017 | [–]

There's always a chance of unintended consequences. But of course doing nothing isn't always the right answer.

AbstractCache on Aug 7, 2017 | [–]

Do you have any historical examples of where government subsidies were "wrong"? It might present a stronger argument than one based on a "what-if".

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