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Relevant comment of mine from a previous, mostly unrelated thread (context was "Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel"): > The r
by cxr 4y ago
Relevant comment of mine from a previous, mostly unrelated thread (context was "Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel"):
> The rich get richer. I remember filling out school and early job applications. I was struck by how my list of awards and recognitions was kind of a sham—most of them were each a consequence of some earlier achievement, and so on. It felt like getting a check and being able to cash it more than once.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24760101 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24760101
- a9h74j 4y agoThis might be called the Matthew effect, IIRC. Parking space? In the old days they built Seaborg a stairway up to LBL, so I heard.