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gizmo686last Saturday at 10:47 PM1 replyview on HN

The bottleneck on research is funding. We have a glut of students wanting to go into research who don't because of how competitive the field is. We then have researchers constantly leaving the field for the same reason.


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kelipsoyesterday at 12:49 AM

The thing is the people who do get the funding should be the smartest of the smartest. That funnel needs to be there and this nonsense is destroying it.