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[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

I wouldn't be opposed to more funding but there would still have to be some way to decide who to fund and making a good case that one's research is worthwhile is always going to take a long time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Maybe pay people who's only job it is is to talk to the researchers and write the proposal for them? Someone smart enough to get stuff explained to them, but with the communication skills to boil that down into something the money people can understand?

It's a pretty common position in software engineering because programmers and business people are pretty bad at communicating with each other.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

No, it only takes a long time because there's so little to go around. Do you think defense funding takes months and years to award grants? No.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

There are literally decades-long proposals, initial R&D and prototyping for big defense contracts.

No, they aren't taking years to award a new contract for the paper provider, but they are for new weapons and vehicles.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah because they're so big. This guy is not asking for a grant for 2000ppl, multi-year project around nuclear fusion, it's just him and a couple students mucking around in a petri dish

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