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Funny how HN contributors can be simultaneously in favor of not "socializing losses", and something like this where the taxpayer would pay for someone else's gleam in the eye (often a multi-billion dollar gleam) and there would be no accountability whatsoever if it doesn't pan out or runs over budget by a factor of like 5x (see just about any large, complex government project as an example). That 20 year deathmarch often ends in an FDA not approving your thing.