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I don't know if it needs funding but I think a good contender for the project referenced in the comic is NTP the Network Time Protocol. It's used in almost every computer in existence. Syncing up times over an unreliable network is an incredibly hard problem and basically only one person on the planet knows exactly how it works. And he's set to retire. Or maybe he's already retired. Been a while since I've read about that.
David Mills is dead, but there are other people.