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hx87 on Nov 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The mathematics of science’s broken reward system

> Who gets to be a scientist, and who gets to become a person with a lot of useless knowledge and an incurable sense of failure.

And who goes into finance, software engineering, or some other tangentially related field where the skillset is very useful.

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