It's worth noting that quite a few politicians hold facebook stock, most notably Nancy Pelosi. I believe most of her current personal wealth is from facebook stock.
My point is not to be skeptical of Pelosi from some partisan perspective; I have never voted Republican. I merely aim to cast doubt on whether anything will fundamentally change.
Make it easy to ship code? C++ compilation is a nightmare & it's extremely expensive language to teach. JVM tuning is a nightmare and takes a while to setup (at which point it does run well relatively unattended, barring security fixes). With go, you practically need to work to avoid shipping an binary that can copy and run. You can learn the entire language in like two days and it can easily compile as you type with a decent latency to feedback (<1 second, in my experience). Its FFI is about as usable as JNI, maybe a little better once you get past the awkwardness of using a separate stack. Its GC is good enough with reasonable bounds.
Keep in mind, I use rust and c++, primarily. I just look over the fence at go and can appreciate what it does well.
Not to mention, the scientific method is itself a culmination of a type of epistemic nihilism. I'm not sure why you'd abandon it at the funding level—in this context, having epistemic values is just called "bias".
Certainly, I'd hope the phrase "We can't ever know who or what will be successful" is a trivially true phrase for a trained scientist. If not, they better read some damn Hume and justify their semantics.
This same article could have been published in 2011 with different headings. In fact, it almost seems like they intended to publish an informational article and some editor came in to write some headings likely to inspire some hot takes in response.
When was the last time you heard someone seriously say that "NoSQL"—that's right, don't even name a database or name any characteristic of its operation, how it scales, how it's queried, its consistency guarantees, its maintenance overhead—is easily comparable to a vertically-scaling SQL engine? The whole rhetoric of tables turning implies that you'd choose a database for cultural reasons outside of hiring ability.... who thinks like that?
Ironically, the FBI has a history of not investigating police abuse of power.