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It’s a bit extreme to say putting projects on GitHub is worthless when it comes to generating job opportunities. In my experience, if you’ve got a project that delivers a ton of value to a suffiently large set of people, somebody usually will reach out.

Sample size of one: my company tends to ding candidates from Google if they have any whiff of the kind of status- or compensation-driven thinking displayed in this comment section. Can sometimes indicate limited independent thinking and low concern for others. Definitely can close doors.

Maybe I’m misreading, but the strawman seems to be that research can be done in a vacuum without collaborating.

The parent commenter seems to be suggesting that a PhD isn’t a requirement to work successfully on interesting research problems. It’s possible to go online and read the same papers everyone’s reading. You can still talk to people to get guidance and find out known things that are not published.

Doesn’t the French government have some leverage via pharmaceutical intellectual property rights? I’m no expert, but I don’t think it’s as simple as “everyone should just buy in bulk like we do.”

Don’t companies need to be publicly traded to have nonzero market cap by definition?

Shipping gets you power and influence. Outside of personal conviction and judgement, there’s not incentive to do much else.

How cold is it where you live? What happens if you keep your phone at room temp for a few days?