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gowldyesterday at 4:47 PM1 replyview on HN

What if you don't grow intellectually and just slap together a PhD thesis that no one reads?


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bombcaryesterday at 5:33 PM

Then you've benefited nothing beyond the paper and the letters.

It's really the "cheat yourself" problem, except we put some value on that paper and those letters.