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x3rotoday at 1:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

I assure you, the rest of the world will be better off. Most of the worlds population (I think this is fair to say, at least in absolute numbers, not GDP) does not hold the US in very high regard. Many of the innovations of the last decade or two have not made most people’s life’s better, _especially_ from tech. I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions, but the world really does not need the US (my opinion).


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ChrisLTDtoday at 2:42 PM

U.S. government funding generates a lot of scientific and medical breakthroughs outside of what people on this forum would call “tech”.

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bix6today at 1:21 PM

Yes and no. I think the current Ebola outbreak would not be happening if the US was still committed to global health.

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