The trick is to avoid picking winners by backing *development* of multiple technologies. See DARPA When I was younger and more stupid, I used to advocate a U.K. DARPA, to various politicians. They al… (View Post)

Germany is in a continuing recession/near recession caused by a collapse in their export led manufacturing. Doing better than Germany is a very low bar at the moment. (View Post)

As someone who voted remain, I am always interested in the belief that by putting off a vote and ignoring the issue, it would just go away. The sane thing would have been to have a referendum *earlie… (View Post)

Best summation of the Middle East war - (View Post)

Hmmm. Solid fuel, 2 stages. Yes, children, it's a baby ICBM. (View Post)