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amishadowbanned | 6 years ago

i wish i was a US Citizen so I could work on things like this. I assume you'd need TS-SCI....

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newguy1234|6 years ago

If you are smart enough to work on projects like that you should be putting your efforts to the benefits of humanity, not helping regimes build weapons of mass destruction. We need to end this madness we call the "arms race". This threat is greater than global warming.

taneq|6 years ago

Those who do not live by the sword can still die by it.

m0zg|6 years ago

The arms race was the main driver of progress in the 20th century, with countless civilian applications, including the Internet. We could use a good old fashioned arms race nowadays. It creates demand for top notch science and engineering like nothing else.

And you could argue this benefits humanity, too, even besides the technology transfer. There hasn't been a world war since 1945, and the only real reason for that is that it would end really badly for everyone involved.

philwelch|6 years ago

It’s too bad that such brilliant innovators as Turing and Von Neumann wasted their careers trying to compete in an arms race against Nazi Germany when they could have been designing better ways to deliver targeted advertising or something useful like that, isn’t it?

tehlike|6 years ago

You can work on plenty of stuff without citizenship, but at minimum greencard is helpful.