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ranyumeyesterday at 3:47 AM1 replyview on HN

>Restrictions can both help and hinder innovation

I'm not sure innovation is really impacted when restricting the private sector. Traditionally, innovation happens in public (e.g, universities) or military spaces.


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throw10920yesterday at 4:03 AM

This is extremely dubious. There are hundreds (thousands?) of examples of innovation happening in the private sector - I could name the blue LED off the top of my head, and got personal computers, search engines, smartphones, cloud computing, and integrated circuits with less than a minute of searching.