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epicureanideal · on March 17, 2015

I heard about this before, but I am not familiar with exactly what went wrong. I'd imagine a bunch of things could be learned from this so it wouldn't happen again.

bronson · on March 17, 2015

It's still there, and it still has the features you claim you're looking for. You don't sound very eager to check it out though...?

As for your edit: "the US government essentially provided this sort of start to Silicon Valley"

No. Re-read your first paragraph. The US government provided none of that. Watch Steve Blank again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo