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Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

In the early days of laser development, it was seen as a solution seeking a problem. A few decades later, it actually turned out to be really handy, but it would have been tough to sell this idea to anyone before that. Imagine how hard it is to find funding for research that solves a problem that doesn’t exist.