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What country is it, mind sharing the name?

• wrnr 5y ago
  Belgium, Flanders
  • smaug7 5y ago
    Curious - what's your profession? Depending on your skills, you could, ironically given the nature of this article, apply to come to the US and it would be valued.
  • TMWNN 5y ago
    >Belgium, Flanders Does pillarization help or hurt here? I'd have thought that having multiple universities when there might otherwise be just one (University of Leuven being one obvious example), for example, might encourage competition. Or does it just take away potential advantage of scale without compensating benefits?
    • wrnr 5y ago
      Pillarization isn't a thing anymore, politics is still a thing but doesn't revolve on party lines, if that makes any sense. More like hyper-politics, it isn't politics until it is. For research IMEC is huge, the people working their are generally good, mix tungsten with silicon and get better chips due to quantum effects. Non semiconductor stuff is a lot weaker, some stuff bordering on academic fraud. Semantic web this and that, sir Tim Burners Lee saving the internet again. Bureaucrats just love how consensus focused that stuff is, like catnip. When I have meetings with government officials they are lead by consultants from PwC that talk about the need for more competition. I'm better off working for EY that just gets the contract.