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The US government's National Science Foundation has handed out $20m in funding for two big new cloud computing research projects. The funding has been allocated because the foundation feels commercial clouds are built with a particular purpose in mind, leaving them rather good at particular jobs but not the best possible …

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  1. Goat Jam

    Don't he US Grubbermint have better things to do with their (borrowed) money than interfere with free markets by trying to pick a winner. Like, say, paying off their debt?

    Governments have a piss poor track record of picking winners. Markets are much better at deciding where investments are best made.

    I wouldn't be surprised if you looked into the whos and whats of this and discovered this is just Obama handing out some cash to his some of cronies.

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      Yes, but the Markets are moving away from the 'States

      Obama probably doesnt want that to happen.

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    2. ecofeco Silver badge
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      "Governments have a piss poor track record of picking winners."

      Oh?

      • Aircraft industry
      • Rural electricity
      • Rural phones
      • Hydroelectric power
      • The moonshot
      • Space industry in general
      • Interstate highways
      • Transportation standards
      • Safety standards of every nature
      • Weights and measures standards and enforcement
      • Pollution standards
      • Hygiene standard
      • Vaccinations
      • Physics research and applied physics
      • High end engineering research and applied engineering
      • DARPAnet (irony right here. you haz it)

      Maybe you've heard of these things?

      Shall I continue? The list is long.

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  2. ecofeco Silver badge

    Day late and a dollar short

    Why, why, why do we only hear of these giveaways AFTER the fact?

    Rhetorical question, of course.

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