alt Hacker NewsConversely, without the 80% the 20% might be unencumbered.
Imagine 2 Earths : one with 10 million researchers and the other with 2 million, but the latter is so cut-throat that the 2 million are Science Spartans.
Conversely, without the 80% the 20% might be unencumbered.
Imagine 2 Earths : one with 10 million researchers and the other with 2 million, but the latter is so cut-throat that the 2 million are Science Spartans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony
> Due to their mistrust of others, Spartans discouraged the creation of records about their internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans.
A good example, but perhaps not the point you wanted to make.