• andyburke@fedia.io
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    23 hours ago

    $16M for 3 scientists for 3 years? I hope those scientists are bringing their whole labs with them?

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      19 hours ago

      Top level scientists/professors are like famous sports players. Recruiting them is a prestige boost which attracts students and employees, but also can have very direct results if they manage some breakthrough or novel solution.

      Talking about labs. Building, organizing and running those is far harder than spending money on equipment usually.

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      22 hours ago

      Why not? That’s ~1.77 million per year per scientist. Yes, that is a lot of money. But if you think about it, those scientists might be able to start multibillion dollar economies. They can train hundreds of experts in their field. And some lousy CEO of some stupid company gets paid more

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      22 hours ago

      i hope they are engineers or doctors. not the “science” of gender studies. lol