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Re:Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask duri... by sillypog on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:46PM (#15910995)
Having put in their time at UCSF, this person has most likely already made a decent contribution to the field, at the very least enabling their PI to continue their work. And who knows what they will go on to do now that they have escaped the crushing grind of academia?
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Re:Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask duri... by username223 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:17PM (#15911183)
I know that "crushing grind" all too well, but it looks like this person has escaped only to play the dot-com lottery, which in its current incarnation "disrupts" while generating no real value. Is underpaying maids (Homejoy) worth more than brain research?
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