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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by TeMPOraL on Monday February 16, 2015 @11:31AM (#9057604)
> VCs are doing the same, and it seems to be working (for the VCs).

Well, you don't want that in science. The point of startups (from VC's point of view) is to make money for VC - startups themselves and their survival is irrelevant. The point of research is to gain knowledge and not to make money. That's two completely different kinds of thinking.

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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by _almosnow on Monday February 16, 2015 @03:39PM (#9058859)
>The point of research is to gain knowledge and not to make money.

Hahahahahahaha.

Joke aside, I haven't seen "science just for the sake of science" ever.

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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @04:42PM (#9065257)
Go to your local university then, talk to an older physics professor.
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