• ch00f
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      I’m currently reading Where the Wizards Stay Up Late. According to the book, Eisenhower was annoyed at how much the military branches jumped on projects to secure funding, so he made a non-military department called ARPA. And ARPA invented the internet.

      Let’s do more of that.

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        And then ARPA became DARPA.

        A military department.

        It’s murder and mass destruction for fun and profit all the way down.