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lol, Silicon Valley has always been evil.

• LastTrain 1y ago
  /Almost/ always
  • coldtea 1y ago
    I'll give you Xerox. The rest ...
    • LastTrain 1y ago
      I was thinking back even farther: Whole Earth Catalog, The Well, Community Memory, etc.
• themafia 1y ago
  Silicon valley is a place. Government contracting is an activity. The two should be very far apart and yet somehow they're joined at the hip.
  • scottyah 1y ago
    Government contracting is the only reason silicon valley exists. It'd just be another valley.
  • bruckie 1y ago
    Always have been. In large part, government contracting is what created Silicon Valley. https://steveblank.substack.com/p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-kill-you https://steveblank.substack.com/p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-k...
• brianbest101 1y ago
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• hn_acc1 1y ago
  For certain values of "always". I feel many of the original tech startups were genuinely interested in research, pushing limits, etc. Intel/AMD weren't "evil" as far as I can tell - nor the EDA infrastructure. The social media era (Fbook) is when it started feeling like "majority of new companies are evil". Of course, if Palantir is Sauron, Oracle is Morgoth..