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Re:Can France Create Its Own MIT? by DoofusOfDeath on Saturday June 30, 2018 @09:43PM (#17433637)
> Which is meaningless in the present. Just ask Greece how valuable to your present circumstances basking in the very, very distant past is.

Slightly off-topic, but for some reason I've run into a seemingly disproportionate (in terms of world population) number of good computer scientists who were born in Greece.

Re:Can France Create Its Own MIT? by tnecniv on Saturday June 30, 2018 @11:46PM (#17433957)
A Greek professor told me that when he started his PhD (in the US) his Greek advisor told him as a Greek in America his two options were to become a control theorist or open a diner.