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frognumberyesterday at 3:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

Makes me sick.

MIT is so very, very overcapitalized.

These things don't lead to anything other than a rich guy getting his name on a building, and more corruption in academia. By far the best thing which could happen to MIT would be for 95% of the endowment to go up in a poof of smoke, bringing it back to nineties levels. That's the end of the period when the Institute did high-integrity research.


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frognumbertoday at 5:17 AM

FWIW: I see this pattern each time I discuss MIT (drifting from the Institutional Propaganda partyline) on HN:

1. Upvotes

2. Time passes

3. Downvotes

I'm starting to suspect Institutional astroturf.

jacobolusyesterday at 4:00 PM

It sounds like you want a return to a time before a lot of the government research money coming to institutions like MIT was gutted.

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